LITURGY OF THE HOURS, THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

 

First Evening Prayer

 

The Hymn is Audi, Benigne Conditor (Kind Maker of the World, Give Ear).

 

The Psalms are from Week IV, with the following antiphons:

           

1.  Let us go to God’s house with rejoicing.

            2.  Awake from your sleep, rise from the dead,

                 and Christ will give you life.

            3.  So great was God’s love for us

                 that when we were dead because of our sins,

                 he brought us to life in Christ Jesus.

 

The Reading is II Corinthians 6: 1-4a, which echoes what was proclaimed on Ash Wednesday.  This reading is used every Sunday at Evening Prayer I until Lent V.

 

The Responsory “Listen to us, O Lord, and have mercy,” is used every Sunday at

Evening Prayer until Lent V.

 

The Magnificat is sung with the antiphon:

            God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son

            to save all who have faith in him, and to give them eternal life.

 

The Intercessions and Prayer are proper to Lent IV.

 

Morning Prayer

 

The Hymn is Audi, Benigne Conditor (Kind Maker of the World, Give Ear).

 

The Psalms are from Week IV, with the following antiphons

           

            1.  God appointed Christ to be the judge of the living and the dead.

            2.  Happy the man who shows mercy for the Lord’s sake;

                 he will stand firm for ever.

            3.  Those things, which God foretold through his prophets

                 concerning the sufferings that Christ would endure,

                 have been fulfilled.

 

The Reading is I Corinthians 9: 24-27, urging us to do our Lenten discipline “for a wreath that will never wither.”  This reading is used every Sunday at Evening Prayer II until Lent V.

 

The Responsory “Listen to us, O Lord, and have mercy,” is used every Sunday at

Evening Prayer until Lent V.

 

The Magnificat is sung with this antiphon:

            My son, you have been with me all the time,

            and everything I have is yours.

            But we had to feast and rejoice,

            because your brother was dead and has come to life;

            he was lost to us and now has been found.

 

The Intercessions and Prayer are proper to Lent IV.