OFFICE OF THE DEAD:
Morning Prayer

The Invitatory and Psalter

Venite PSALM 95:1-7

Ant. The King, by whom and in whom all things live and move and have their being: * Come let us adore him.

Ant. The King, by whom and in whom all things live and move and have their being: * Come let us adore him.

The Psalm or Psalms Appointed

Ant 1. Make your way †, O LORD, * straight before me.

PSALM 23 Dominus regit me

Ant 1. Make your way, O LORD, * straight before me.

Ant 2. Turn, O LORD, † and deliver me: * for in death no one remembers you.

PSALM 25 Ad te, Domine, levavi

Ant 2. Turn, O LORD, and deliver me: * for in death no one remembers you.

Ant 3. I will walk † in the presence of the LORD * in the land of the living.

PSALM 27 Dominus illuminatio

Ant 3. I will walk in the presence of the LORD * in the land of the living.

The Lessons

A reading from Job 19:21-27 (NRSV)

AVE pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh? "O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book! O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

Here ends the Reading.

Ant. on Canticle. From the gates of the Grave † and the portals of hell * deliver my soul, O LORD.

Canticle of Hezekiah Ego dixi in dimidio
Is. 38:10-20