Invitatory Antiphon: Come, Let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and suffering.
Hymn
First Antiphon: I am worn out with crying, with longing for my God.
Psalm 69
Second Antiphon: I needed food and they gave me gall, parched with thirst and they gave me vinegar.
Psalm 69
Third Antiphon: Seek the Lord, and you will live.
Psalm 69
Verse: Turn back to the Lord your God.
Resp: He is kind and merciful
First Reading: Ex 35:30-36:1;37:1-9
Response: My heart and my flesh exult in the living God.
Second Reading: From the Moral Reflections on Job by St. Gregory the Great, pope
Response: Blessed the earth that drank in the blood of the Redeemer.
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