Vespers I, Saturday Evening Prayer for the 1st Sunday of Advent, November 29, 2025.
(Note: Saturday evening Vespers is always Sunday Vespers I, and Sunday evening Vespers is Sunday Vespers II. Sundays get 2 Vespers, as in a Solemnity. This is the first office of Advent!)

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Latin/English Translation for the Benedictus and the Magnificat
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Deus in Adjutorium
Hymn: "Conditor alme siderum." 9th Century Latin Hymn
Psalm 141v1-9
Psalm 142
Canticle: Philippians 2v6-11
Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5v23-24
Responsory "Lord show us your mercy and love."
Magnificat (Canticle of Mary)
Intercessions: Come Lord, and do not delay!
Pater Noster (The Lord's Prayer)
Collect (Concluding Prayers)
Concluding Rite
Marian Devotion

The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes), ©1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Readings and Old and New Testament Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles) are from the New American Bible © 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C.