Posted on 03/10/2011 6:15:46 PM PST by lastchance
Opening Sentence
Yours is the day, O God, yours also the night; you established the moon and the sun. You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter. Psalm 74:15,16
...O Gracious Light Phos hilaron
O gracious light, pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven, O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed! Now as we come to the setting of the sun, and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing your praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices, O Son of God, O Giver of Life, and to be glorified through all the worlds.
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Confession
"Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.
Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.
Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen."
Phos Hilaron Byzantine
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PRIEST: Let my prayer rise as incense before You, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
PRIEST: O Lord, I have cried out to You: hear me; hearken to the voice of my prayer as I cry out to You.
CANTOR: Let my prayer rise as incense before You, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
PRIEST: Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth, and a gate to contain my lips.
CANTOR: Let my prayer rise as incense before You, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
PRIEST: Let not my heart incline to evil deeds, to finding excuses for sinful doings, in the company of men who work iniquity, and I will not partake of their delicacies.
CANTOR: Let my prayer rise as incense before You, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
PRIEST: Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen.
CANTOR: Let my prayer rise as incense before You, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
That’s also used in the traditional Latin liturgy during the Offertory, as he incenses the altar and the offerings of bread and wine:
Through the intercession of Blessed Michael the Archangel, standing at the right hand of the altar of incense, and of all His elect may the Lord vouchsafe to bless + this incense and to receive it in the odor of sweetness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
May this incense blessed by You, arise before You, O Lord, and may Your mercy come down upon us.
Let my prayer, O Lord, like incense before You; the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice. O Lord, set a watch before my mouth, a guard at the door of my lips. Let not my heart incline to the evil of engaging in deeds of wickedness.
It is used by us almost exclusively at vespers, and especially during the Presanctified Liturgy in Great Lent.
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