Vespers I, Saturday Evening Prayer for the 2nd Sunday in Advent, December 6, 2025.
(Note: Saturday evening Vespers is always Sunday Vespers I, and Sunday evening Vespers is Sunday Vespers II. Sundays get 2 Vespers, as in a Solemnity).

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00:06 Introductory Rite: "Deus in adjutorium..."
00:41 Hymn: "Conditor alme siderum."
02:39 Psalm 119:105-112
04:58 Psalm 16
07:45 Canticle: Philippians 2:6-11
09:46 Reading 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
10:10 Responsory: "O Lord show us your mercy and love."
11:06 Magnificat (Canticle of Mary)
13:45 Intercessions
14:48 Pater Noster (The Lord's Prayer)
15:30 Collect
15:55 Concluding Rite
16:06 Marian Devotion

The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes), ©1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Readings and Old and New Testament Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles) are from the New American Bible © 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C.