by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Loving, All-Present God, Please Defend Us in Battle. Please be our Safeguard Against the wickedness and snares of the devil. Please rebuke him, we humbly pray, and Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Loving, All-Present God, please thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits that prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. All Praise and Glory to
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God, our loving Father, You sent Your Son, Jesus Christ, into this world to counter all the forces of evil: sin, suffering and death, and to overcome evil with the force of good; hatred with the Power of Love, Your Great Love for us in Jesus. Help us never to curse the darkness, but to join with you in bringing
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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, interspersed with an antiphon. For the Common of Pastors, such as on the Memorial of Saint Anthony Claret on Oct. 24, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship
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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, interspersed with an antiphon. For the Common of Apostles, used for the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist on Oct. 18, the antiphon is “Come, Worship the Lord,
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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, interspersed with an antiphon. For Friday of Week III in the Four-Week Psalter, such as Friday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time, the antiphon is “Come, Let
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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, interspersed with an antiphon. For Thursday of Week III in the Four-Week Psalter, such as Thursday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time, the antiphon is “Come, Let
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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, 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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“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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