Vespers - Evening Prayer II, 08-25-2024, Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

music ©2022, V.J. Tarantino
O blest Creator of the light,
Who makes the day with radiance bright,
And o’er the forming world didst call
The light from chaos first of all;
Whose wisdom joined in meet array
The morn and eve, and called them Day:
Night comes with all its darkling fears;
Look to your people’s prayers and tears:
Lest, sunk in sin and whelmed with strife,
They lose the gift of endless life;
While, thinking but the thoughts of time,
They weave new chains of woe and crime.
God grant them grace that they may strain
The heavenly gate and prize to gain:
Each harmful lure aside to cast,
And purge away each error at last.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son,
Who with the Holy Ghost and thee
Doth live and reign eternally. Amen.
Sacred Beauty common prayer: Sacred Beauty is an Approved Private Association of the Faithful in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, devoted to allowing the beauty and holiness of God to be made present in the world, first through Eucharistic contemplation, then through artistic and intellectual creativity and receptivity informed by and dedicated to Jesus in the Eucharist. We pray the Office of Readings and Evening Prayer daily on UA-cam; click “open transcript” to pray with us.
With gratitude to the administration of St. John XXIII Parish, West Haven, CT, for permitting us to record our prayer in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament in their beautiful church of St. John Vianney.