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Prayer for the Evening

In Christ is all our good:
come, let us adore him.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia!

HymnMeter: CMD

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!

Psalm 344-11

Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God. (1 Pt 2:16)

According to the Gospel, freedom is not achievement but gift. Freedom is not license but radical obedience to God’s liberating law of love. Let us give thanks for the gifts of freedom we have received and, trusting in God as did our nation’s founders, let us seek to share them as gifts with all who are still enslaved by political oppression, social or economic injustice, or personal sin.

Glorify the Lord with me.
Together let us praise his name.
I sought the Lord and he answered me;
from all my terrors he set me free.

Look towards him and be radiant;
let your faces not be abashed.
This poor man called; the Lord heard him
and rescued him from all his distress.

The angel of the Lord is encamped
around those who revere him, to rescue them.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
He is happy who seeks refuge in him.

Revere the Lord, you his saints.
They lack nothing, those who revere him.
Strong lions suffer want and go hungry
but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing.

Glory to the Father….

Word of God Galatians 5:13-14

You were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For freedom Christ set us free;
so stand firm and do not submit again
to the yoke of slavery. (Gal 5:1)

Canticle of Mary(Text, back cover A)

So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom. (Jas 2:12)

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.

He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.

He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.

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 his children for ever.

Glory to the Father…

Intercessions

In trust, we pray:

R/MFree your people, Lord!

For all who hold others under the yoke of political oppression and violence:
– grant them conversion of heart. R/

For all who serve themselves at the cost of injustice toward others:
– grant them conversion of heart. R/

For all who are enslaved by habits of sin:
– grant them conversion of heart. R/

Personal intentions

Our Father….

May the God of peace be with us all. Amen. (cf. Rom 15:33)

Marian Antiphon (page 10 or 11)

Antiphon for the Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
July 16

The glory of Lebanon has been given to her,
the beauty of Carmel and Sharon, alleluia.

Translated by James Monti

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy,
our life, our sweetness, and our hope.
To you do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve.
To you do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, O most gracious advocate,
your eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this our exile
show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

V/ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
R/ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.