OFFICE OF THE DEAD

Evening Prayer I

(November 1)

L:God Come to my assistance,

P: O Lord make haste to help me

Glory....

Hymn:

All: May flights of angels lead you on your way to paradise,

And heaven’s eternal eternal day! May martyrs greet you after

Death’s dark night and bid you enter into Zion’s light

May choirs of angels sing you to your rest with once poor

Laz’rus, now forever blest

Or

Leader: I an the bread of light, he who comes to me shall not

hunger, he who shall believe in me shall not thirst.

No one can come to me unless the father draw him

Refrain:

And I will raise him up,

And I will raise him up

And I will raise him up on the last day

Refrain

Leader: yes, Lord I Believe that you are the Christ

The son of God

The son of god who came into the world

All: Refrain

Leader: I am the way and the truth; I am the life.

No one comes to the Father,

Except he come through me, except he come to me

PSALMODY

Leader: Ant. 1 The lord will keep you from evil. He will guard

your soul

Psalm 121

Leader: I lift up my eyes to the mountains:

From where shall come to my help

My help shall come from the Lord

Who made the heaven and the earth

All: May he never allow me to stumble!

Let him sleep not, your guards

No, he sleeps not nor slumbers

Israel’s guard.

Leader: The Lord is your guard and your shade;

At your right hand he stands:

By day the sun shall not smite you nor

The moon in the night

All: The lord will guard you from evil, He will guard you soul.

The lord will guard your going and coming

Both now and forever.

Leader: Glory be to the father to the son to the holy spirit

All: As it was in the beginning now and will be forever

Amen

All: Ant. 1: The lord will keep you from evil. He will guard your soul

Leader: Ant. 2 If you kept a record of our sins, Lord, who could escape condemnation?

PSALM 130

Leader: Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,

Lord hear my voice!

O let your ears be attentive

To the voice of my pleading

All: If you O Lord, should mark our guilt,

Lord who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness:

For this we revere you.

Leader: My soul is waiting for the Lord,

I count on his word.

My soul is longing for the lord

More than the watchman for daybreak

And Israel on the Lord

All: Because With the lord there is mercy

And fullness of redemption

Israel indeed he will redeem

From all its iniquity.

Leader: Glory to the Father to the Son to the Holy Spirit

All: As it was in the beginning is now and will be forever

Amen.

All: Ant. 2 If you kept a record of our sins who could escape condemnation?

Leader: As the father raises the dead and gives them life, so the son gives life to whom he wills.

Canticle Philippians 2:6-11

Leader: Though he was in a form of God,

Jesus did not deem equality with God

Something to be grasped at

All: Rather, he emptied himself

And took a form of a slave

Being born in the likeness of men.

Leader: He was known to be of human estate,

And it was thus that he humbled himself,

Obediently accepting even death, Death on a cross!

All: Because this,

God greatly exalted him

And bestowed on him the name

Above every other name

Leader: So that at Jesus’ name

Every knee must bend

In the heavens, on the earth,

And under the earth

All: and every tongue proclaim

To the glory of God the Father:

JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

READING: 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

Reader: A Reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians

O death where is your victory? O death where is your sting? But thanks to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The word of the Lord.

ALL: Thanks be to God!

Responsory

Leader: In you, Lord is our hope. We shall never hope in vain

ALL: -in you Lord is our hope we shall never hope in vain

Leader: We shall never dance and rejoice in your mercy

ALL: - we shall never hope in vain

Leader: Glory to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Spirit

-in you, Lord is our hope. We shall never hope in vain

OR

Leader: Lord in your steadfast love give them eternal rest

ALL: Lord in your steadfast love give them eternal rest

Leader: You will judge the living and the dead

All : -Give them eternal rest

Leader: Glory to the Father, to the Son to the Holy Spirit

All: - in your steadfast love give them eternal rest

Canticle of Mary

Leader: Ant. All that the father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I shall not turn away

MAGNIFICAT

Leader: + My soul proclaims the goodness of the Lord,

My spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked

With favor on lowly servant all generation will call me

Blessed: the almighty has done great things for me

Holy is his name

All: He has mercy on those who fear him in every

Generation

Leader: He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and

He has lifted up the lowly

All: He has filled the hungry with good things, the rich

He sent away empty

Leader: He has come to the help of his servant Israel

For he has remembered his promise of mercy,

The promise he made to our fathers

To Abraham and to his children forever

All: Glory to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Spirit

All: As it was in the beginning is now and will be forever

Amen

Intercessions

Leader: We acknowledge Christ the Lord through whom we hope

That our lowly bodies will be made like in his in glory,

And we say

Lord you are our life and resurrection

Leader: Christ Son of the living God, who raised up Lazarus,

Your friend from the dead

All: - raise up to life and glory of the dead whom you redeem

Precious blood

Leader: Christ consoler of those who mourn, you dried the

Tears of the family of Lazarus, of the widow’s son

And the daughter of Jairus,

All: comfort who mourn for the dead

Leader: Christ our savior, destroy the reign of sin in our earthly

Bodies, so that just as trough sin we deserve

Punishment

All : -so through you we may gain eternal life

Leader: Christ Redeemer, look on those who have no hope

Because they do not know you

All -may they receive faith in the resurrection and in the life to

Come

Leader: You reveled yourself to the blind man who begged for

The light of his eyes

All: -show you face to the dead who are deprived of your light

Leader: When at last our earthly home is dissolved

All: -give us a home, not earthly making but built of eternity in

Heaven

Our Father…….

Prayer

Leader: Let us pray

Lord hear our prayers.

By raising your Son from the dead, you have given

Us faith. Strengthen our hope that N., our brother

(sister) will share in his resurrection

We ask this through our lord and savior Jesus Christ

Who lives and reigns with the Holy Spirit one God

Forever and ever.

All: AMEN

OR

Leader: let us pray

Lord God,

You are the glory of the believers

And the life of the just your son redeemed us by dying

And rising to life again. Our brother (sister) N. was

Faithful and believe in our own resurrection give to

Him (her) the joys and blessings of the life to come

We ask this through our lord Jesus Christ who lives

And reign with you and the holy spirit one God forever

And ever.

All: AMEN