Wednesday at the Sixth Hour

The Office of Galillee: The Kingdom of God and its Citizens

O God, make speed to save us;
O Lord, make haste to help us.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

In Pre-Lent and Lent
Praise ye the Lord.
The Lord's Name be praised.

All other times.
Alleluia.

HYMN
The Church of God a kingdom is,
Where Christ in power doth reign,
Where spirits yearn till seen in bliss
Their Lord shall come again.

Glad companies of saints possess
This Church below, above ;
And God's perpetual calm doth bless
Their paradise of love.

An altar stands within the shrine
Whereon, once sacrificed,
Is set, immaculate, divine,
The Lamb of God, the Christ.

There rich and poor, from countless lands,
Praise Christ on mystic Rood ;
There nations reach forth holy hands
To take God's holy Food.

O King, O Christ, this endless grace
To us and all men bring,
To see the vision of thy face
In joy, O Christ, our King.

(The English Hymnal, 488)

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Antiphon. Ye are the light of the world : a city set on a hill.

PSALM XLVIII
Magnus Dominus.

GREAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised : in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.
2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the hoy of the whole earth : upon the north-side lieth the city of the great King ; God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge.
3 For lo, the kings of the earth : are gathered, and gone by together.
4 They marvelled to see such things : they were astonished, and suddenly cast down.
5 Fear came there upon them, and sorrow : as upon a woman in her travail.
6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea : through the east-wind.
7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God : God upholdeth the same for ever.
8 We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God : in the midst of thy temple.
9 O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the world's end ; thy right hand is full of righteousness.
10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad : because of thy judgements.
11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her : and tell the towers thereof.
12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses : that ye may tell them that come after.
13 For this God is our God for ever and ever : he shall be our guide unto death.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost :
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

Antiphon. Ye are the light of the world : a city set on a hill.

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CHAPTER. (ST. MATT. XXI.42)

JESUS said:
The stone which the builders rejected,
the same is become the head of the corner.

Thanks be to God.

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RESPONSORY
Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets : Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone :
Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets : Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.

Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house ;
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets : Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.

The city lieth four square ;
And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The Lord be with you ;
And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

O ALMIGHTY God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head corner stone ; Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

The Lord be with you
And with thy spirit.
Let us bless the Lord ;
Thanks be to God.

(Here shall follow the Intercessions.)

E. Milner-White & B.T.D. Smith
Cambridge Offices and Orisons
1921