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Ideas from The Liturgy of the Hours:
The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
+ Morning Prayer +
Latin Hymn Fit porta Christi pervia
Psalmody
- Psalm 63:2-9
- Antiphon The Virgin has given birth to the Savior: a flower has sprung from Jesse's stock and a star has risen from Jacob. O God, we praise you.
- Daniel 3:57-88,56
- Antiphon Mary has given birth to our Savior. John the Baptist saw him and cried out: This is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, alleluia.
- Psalm 149
- Antiphon Mary has given birth to a King whose name is everlasting; hers the joy of motherhood, hers the virgin's glory. Never was the like seen before, never shall it be seen again, alleluia.
Reading Micah 5:2,3,4a
Responsory
[excerpt] The Lord has made known his saving power, alleluia, alleluia.
Benedictus Antiphon
Marvelous is the mystery proclaimed today:
man's nature is made new as God becomes man;
he remains what he was and becomes what he was not.
Yet each nature stays distinct and for ever undivided.
Intercessions
[response] Son of the Virgin Mary, have mercy on us.
+ Daytime Prayer +
Midmorning
- Antiphon: Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph were filled with wonder at all that was said of the child.
- Reading: Zephaniah 3:14,15b
- Response: The Lord has remembered his gracious promise; he has kept faith with his people Israel, alleluia.
Midday
- Antiphon: Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.
- Reading: Zechariah 9:9a
- Response: All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God, alleluia.
Midafternoon
- Antiphon: My own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people.
- Reading: Baruch 5:3-4
- Response: Mercy and truth have come together; justice and peace have kissed, alleluia.
+ Evening Prayer I +
Latin Hymn Corde natus ex Parentis
Psalmody
- Psalm 122
- Antiphon O marvelous exchange! Man's Creator has become man, born of a virgin. We have been made sharers in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.
- Psalm 127
- Antiphon By your miraculous birth of the Virgin you have fulfilled the Scriptures: like a gentle rain falling upon the earth you have come down to save your people. O God, we praise you.
- Ephesians 1:3-10
- Antiphon Your blessed and fruitful virginity is like the bush, flaming yet unburned, which Moses saw on Sinai. Pray for us, Mother of God.
Reading Galatians 4:4-5
Responsory
[excerpt] The Word was made man; he lived among us, alleluia, alleluia.
Magnificat Antiphon
Blessed is the womb which bore you, O Christ, and the breast that nursed you, Lord and Savior of the world, alleluia.
Intercessions
[response] Son of the Virgin Mary, hear us.
The English translation of the Antiphons, Responsories, and Intercession Responses are from: The Divine Office: The Liturgy of the Hours, © Copyright 1970, 1973, 1975 International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from the Readings are taken from the New American Standard Bible ® © Copyright 1973 The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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