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 – July 5

Rubrics

Psalms for Lauds

Reading for Lauds

Come, learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart. What great condescension on the part of the Creator! The Master came to console his fallen servants. This is how Christ treats us. He shows pity when a sinner deserves punishment. God is humble, and we are proud! The judge is gentle, the criminal arrogant! The potter speaks in lowered voice,; the clay discourses in the tones of a king! Who would not marvel at a judge who beseeches a condemned criminal?

I am the Creator and I love my work. I am the sculpture and I care for what I have made. If I failed to treat its incurable sickness with fitting remedies, it would never recover its strength. If I did not console it, it would die. Compassionately I bend down very low in order to raise it up. No one standing erect can lift a fallen man. I am glorified on high, but because I am longsuffering, I am not angry with you, for I am gentle and humble in heart.

Vespers – July 5

Rubrics

Psalms for Vespers

Reading for Vespers

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the person in charge of the banquet.” So they took it. When the person in charge tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), that person called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Verbum Domini
John 2:1–11 NRSV