by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
[The Divine Office, or Liturgy of the Hours, begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, interspersed with an antiphon. For Monday of Week III, such as Monday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time, the antiphon is “Let Us Approach the Lord With
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[The Divine Office, or Liturgy of the Hours, begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, led into by an antiphon. For the Memorial of the Guardian Angels on Oct. 2, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship the Lord, Whom the Angels Serve.“]
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[The Divine Office begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, led into by an antiphon. For Sunday of Week II in the Four-Week Psalter, such as the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sept. 30, 2018, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship
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“In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit O God, come to my Assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. 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. By the
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[The Divine Office begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, separated by an antiphon. For the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels, Sept. 29, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship the Lord in the Company of His Angels.“] [Prior to
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[The Divine Office begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, separated by an antiphon. For the Common of Several Martyrs, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship Christ, the King of Martyrs.” Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, is the Memorial of Saints Cosmas and
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[The Divine Office begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, separated by an antiphon. For the Common of Pastors, used on Feasts or Memorials of Saints such as Saint Lawrence of Brindisi on July 21, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship Christ,
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[The Divine Office begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, separated by an antiphon. For Sunday of Week III in the Four-Week Psalter the antiphon is “Come, let us sing to the Lord, and shout with joy to the Rock Who Saves Us”.]
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[The Divine Office begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, separated by an antiphon. For Monday of Week II in the Four-Week Psalter the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Sing Joyful Songs to the Lord”.] [Prior to the Psalm is an introductory phrase
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“Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants.
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