1/22/2024 Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn: Invitatory + Office of Readings

Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn

Invitatory Antiphon: Let us approach the Lord with praise and thanksgiving.

Hymn

First Antiphon: Our God will be made manifest; he will not come in silence.

Psalm 50

Second Antiphon: Offer to God the sacrifice of praise.

Psalm 50

Third Antiphon: I want a loving heart more than sacrifice, knowledge of my ways more than holocausts.

Psalm 50

Verse: Listen, my people, and I will speak.

Resp: I am the Lord, your God.

First Reading: Dt 24:1-25:4

Response: To love our neighbor as ourselves is more than any holocaust or sacrifice.

Second Reading: From the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world of the Second Vatican Council

Response: Christ loved the Church, and gave himself up for her.

Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

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