Livestream LITURGY OF THE HOURS for Oblates

We welcome you to join the Community of Jesus daily via livestream as we pray the Liturgy of the Hours — Lauds and Vespers.  These services sung in Gregorian chant include psalms, hymns, readings, and prayers.

Lauds – January 18

Rubrics

Psalms for Lauds

Reading for Lauds

John says, “Behold the Lamb of God,” of whom the prophet Isaiah told us, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before his shearer, he opened not his mouth. Now the true lamb, the victim without blemish obscurely prefigured in former times, is led to the slaughter for all, to banish sin from the world, to overthrow the world’s destroyer, to abolish death by dying for the entire human race, and to release us from the curse.

He will become the second Adam, who is not of earth but of heaven, and will be for us the source of every blessing. He will deliver us from the corruptibility foreign to our nature; he will secure eternal life for us. One Lamb died for all to restore the whole flock on earth to God the Father.

Because our many sins had made us subject to death and corruption, the Father gave his son as our redemption, one for all. One died for all, so that all might live in him. Death swallowed the Lamb who was sacrificed for all, and then disgorging him, disgorged all of us in him and with him; for we were all in Christ who died and rose again for us.