3/22/2024 Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent: Invitatory + Office of Readings

Invitatory Antiphon: Come, let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and suffering.

Hymn

First Antiphon: Rise up, Lord, and come to my aid.

Psalm 35

Second Antiphon: All-powerful Lord, stand by me and defend me.

Psalm 35

Third Antiphon: My tongue will speak of your goodness all the day long.

Psalm 35

Verse: Turn back to the Lord your God.

Resp: He is kind and merciful

First Reading: Heb 7:11-28

Response: You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.

Second Reading: From a treatise on faith addressed to Peter by St Fulgentius of Ruspe, bishop

Response: God has reconciled you to himself, in order to welcome you into his presence as saints, without the slightest impurity or imperfection.

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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