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Matins - The Monday Before Lent

In the Name of the Father and of + the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

The Invitatory and Psalter

Lord, open our lips.
And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

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 Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen

Praise the Lord;
The Lord’s name be praised

¶ Then follows the Invitatory Psalm with a Lenten antiphon. 

Lenten Antiphon
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy: Come let us adore him.

Venite

Come, let us sing to the Lord; *
 let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *
 and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God, *
 and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *
 and the heights of the hills are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it, *
 and his hands have molded the dry land.

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
 and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *
 Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

Harden not your hearts,
as your forebears did in the wilderness, *
at Meribah, and on that day at Massah,
when they tempted me.

They put me to the test, *
 though they had seen my works.

Forty years long I detested that generation and said, *

 "This people are wayward in their hearts;
they do not know my ways.”
So I swore in my wrath, *
 "They shall not enter into my rest.”

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

Lenten Antiphon
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy: Come let us adore him.

The Psalms

Antiphon 1

In the time of my trouble, I will call upon you, O Lord.

Psalm 86:6-17

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer,

 and attend to the voice of my supplications.

In the time of my trouble I will call upon you,

 for you will answer me.

Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord, 

 nor anything like your works.

All nations you have made will come and worship you, O Lord,

 and glorify your Name.

For you are great; 

you do wondrous things; 

 and you alone are God.

Teach me your way, O Lord, 

and I will walk in your truth; 

 knit my heart to you that I may fear your Name.

I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart, 

 and glorify your Name for evermore.

For great is your love toward me; 

 you have delivered me from the nethermost Pit.

The arrogant rise up against me, O God, 

and a band of violent men seeks my life; 

 they have not set you before their eyes.

But you, O Lord, are gracious and full of compassion, 

 slow to anger, and full of kindness and truth.

Turn to me and have mercy upon me; 

 give your strength to your servant; 

 and save the child of your handmaid.

Show me a sign of your favor, 

so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; 

 because you, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

Antiphon 1

In the time of my trouble, I will cal upon you, O Lord.

Antiphon 2

Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God, and worship him upon