11.29.25 Vespers I, Saturday Evening Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours

Vespers I, Saturday Evening Prayer for the 1st Sunday of Advent, November 29, 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. This is the first office of Advent!) Made without AI. 100% human vocals, 100% real prayer. Thank you for praying with us. Help us keep Sing the Hours on the internet! With your monthly support, receive a gift of ad-free Lauds, Vespers, Compline, and chant tutorials. https://singthehours.org/members Other ways to help: Venmo: @singthehours PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UT522UGV68ANS Check By Mail Please make checks out to Paul Rose and mail to: Sing the Hours c/o Paul Rose 307 Orchard City Drive 1st Floor, Suite 116 Campbell, CA. 95008 Latin/English Translation for the Benedictus and the Magnificat https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLzxSsHz6aKXBKznoJxYjKztRLsoAxKDH7Q6eyCvKv4/edit?usp=sharing Deus in Adjutorium Hymn: "Conditor alme siderum." 9th Century Latin Hymn Psalm 141v1-9 Psalm 142 Canticle: Philippians 2v6-11 Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5v23-24 Responsory "Lord show us your mercy and love." Magnificat (Canticle of Mary) Intercessions: Come Lord, and do not delay! Pater Noster (The Lord's Prayer) Collect (Concluding Prayers) Concluding Rite 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.