From Today's Office

All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk!

From Isaiah 55:1 and from the reading for Lauds for Tuesday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, fill this night with your radiance. May we sleep in peace and rise with joy to welcome the light of a new day in your name.

The closing prayer for Tuesday’s Compline.

Truly I have set my soul in silence and peace. As a child has rest in its mother’s arms, even so my soul.

From Psalm 131 and from Vespers for the Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter.

Love has no room for fear; rather, perfect love casts out all fear.

From the first letter of the apostle John and from the first reading from the Office of Readings for the Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter.

God’s love was revealed in our midst in this way: he sent his only Son to the world that we might have life through him. Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God but that he has loved us and sent us his Son as an offering for our sins.

From the first letter of John and from the Office of Readings for Monday of the seventh week of Easter.

Hear our prayers, O Lord, so that what was promised by the sanctifying power of your Word may everywhere be accomplished through the working of the Gospel and that all your adopted children may attain what the testimony of truth has foretold.

For those of you who celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension on Sunday, this is the collect from the Mass of Friday for the Sixth Week of Easter and the closing prayer for Lauds and for Vespers.

See what love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called the children of God! Yet that is what we are.

For those who celebrated the Solemnity of the Ascension yesterday, this is from the first reading in today’s Office of Readings and from chapter 3 of the first letter of the apostle John.