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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