Week II Saturday Liturgy of the Hour Leader: All: Lord open lips to praise your holy name.

Psalm 95 Ant: Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest. Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice, Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,[a] as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on me. My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes. The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him. Glory be Deuteronomy 32:1-12 Ant. 2 Extol the greatness of our God. Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation. Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you? Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the LORDs portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance. In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft. The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him. Glory be

For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways. So I declared on oath in my anger, They shall never enter my rest. Glory be Psalm92 Ant. 1 As morning breaks we sing of your mercy, Lord, and night will find us proclaiming your fidelity. It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done. How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts! Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand. That though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. But you, LORD, are forever exalted. For surely your enemies, LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high

Psalm 8 Ant. 3 How wonderful is your name, O Lord, in all creation. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory be to the Father

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: All flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swims the paths of the seas. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Glory be... Reading: Romans 12:13-21

Intercession Let us celebrate the kindness and wisdom of Christ. He offers his love and understanding to all men, especially to the suffering. Let us earnestly pray to him: Perfect us in love, Lord. 1. This morning we recall your resurrection, and we long for the benefits of your redemption. We pray 2. Grant that we bear witness to you today, Lord, and offer an acceptable gift to the Father through you. We pray 3. Enable us to see your image in all men, and to serve you in them. We pray 4. Lord Jesus, you are the true vine and we are the branches, allow us to remain in you, to bear much fruit, and to give glory to the Father. We pray

Responsory It is my joy, O God, to praise you with song. It is To sing as I ponder your goodness, - to praise Glory to the Father - it is
Canticle of Zechariah Luke 1:68-79

The Lords Prayer Sharing of Peace

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Lord, guide our feet into the way of peace.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy prophets he promised of old that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us. He promised to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant.

This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.

You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins.