HOLY THURSDAY

MORNING PRAYER
OPENING VERSES
Note: If the office is the first prayer of the day, the following verses is sung:

V: Lord, open my lips.

R: And my mouth will proclaim your praise

Invitatory Antiphon

Come let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and
suffering.

Psalm 95

a Come sing with joy to God

b shout to our savior, our rock.
c Enter God’s presence with praise,
d enter with shouting and song.

a A great God is the Lord,

b over the God’s like a king.
a God cradles the depth of the earth,
b holds fast the mountain peaks
c God shaped the ocean and own it.
d formed the earth by hand.

a Come bow and worship

b kneel to the Lord our maker.
c This is our God our shepherd,
d we are the flock led with care.

a Listen today to God’s voice:

b “ Harden no heart as at Meribah,
on that day in the desert at Massah.”
c There your people tried me,
d thought they had seen my work.

a “Forty years with that lot!

b I said: they are perverse,
they do not accept my ways.
c So I swear in my anger:
d “They shall not enter my rest.”

a Glory to the Father and to the Son

b and to the Holy Spirit.
c As it was in the beginning is now,
d and will be forever. Amen.

Ant. 1
Look, O Lord and see my suffering. Come quickly to aid me.

Psalm 80
Lord, come, take care of your vineyard
Come, Lord Jesus (Revelation 22:20)

a O shepherd of Israel, hear us,

b you who lead Joseph’s flock.
C shine forth from your cherubim throne
D upon Ephraim, Benjamin, Manasseh.

a O Lord, rouse up your might.

b O Lord, come to our help.
C God of hosts bring us back:
D let your face shine on us and we shall be
Saved.

a Lord God of hosts, how long

b will you frown on your people’s plea?
C You have fed them with tears for their bread,
D and abundance of tears for their drink.

a You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,

b our enemies laugh us to scorn
C God of hosts, bring us back;
D let your face shine on us and we shall be saved.

a You brought a vine out of Egypt

b to plant it you drove out the nations.
C Before it you cleared the ground;
D it took root and spread through the land.

a The mountains were covered with its shadow,

b the cedars of God with its boughs.
C It stretched out its branches to the sea,
D to the Great River it stretched out its shoots.

a Then why have you broken down its walls?

b It is plucked by all who pass by.
C It is ravaged by the boar of the forest,
D devoured by the beast of the field.

a God of hosts, turn again, we implore.

b look down from heaven and see
a Visit the vine and protect it,
b the vine your right hand has planted.
C they have burn it with fire and destroyed it.
D May they perish at the frown of your face.
a May your hand be on the one you have chosen,
b the one you have given your strength.
a And we shall never forsake you again:
b give us life that we may call upon your name.
C God of hosts, bring us back;
D let your face shine on us and we shall be saved

a Glory to the Father, and to the Son.

b and to the Holy Spirit:
C as it was in the beginning, is now
D and will be forever. Amen.

Isaiah 12: 1-6

Joy of God’s ransomed people
If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink (John 7: 37).

a I give you thanks. O Lord:

b though you have been angry with me, your
anger has abated, and you have consoled me.
C God indeed is my savior;
I am confident and unafraid
D My strength and my courage is the Lord,
and he has been my savior.
a With joy you will draw water
at the fountain of salvation, and say on that day:
b Give thanks to the Lord, acclaim his name;
C among the nations make known his deeds
D proclaim how exalted is his name.

a Sing praise to the Lord for his glorious achievements:

b let this be known throughout all the earth
C Shout with exultation, O city of Zion
D for great in your midst
Is the Holy One of Israel!

a Glory to the Father, and to the Son

b and to the Holy Spirit:
C as it was in the beginning, is now,
D and will be forever. Amen.

Psalm 81

Solemn renewal of the Covenant

 See that no one among you has a faithless heart (Hebrews 3: 12)

a Ring out your joy to God our strength,

b shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.
a Raise a song and sound the timbrel,
b the sweet-sounding harp and the lute;
C blow the trumpet at the new moon,
D when the moon is full, on our feast.

a For this is Israel’s law.

b a command of the God of Jacob.
C He imposed it as a rule on Joseph,
D when he went out against the land of Egypt

a A voice I did not know said to me:

b “I freed your shoulder from the burden;
C your hands were freed from the load
D You called in distress and I saved you

a I answered, concealed in the storm cloud

b at the waters of Meribah I tested you
C Listen, my people, to my warning .
D O Israel, if only you would heed!

a Let there be no foreign God among you.

no worship of an alien God.
b I am the Lord your God,
C who brought you from the land of Egypt
D Open wide your mouth and I will fil it.

a But my people did not heed my voice

b and Israel would not obey,
C so I left them in their stubbornness of heart
D to follow their own designs

a O that my people would heed me

b that Israel would walk in my ways!
C At once I would subdue their foes,
D turn my hand against their enemies.

a The Lord’s enemies would cringe at their feet