Liturgy of the Hours

Morning, Evening and Night Prayer: a public-domain daily office based on the structure of the Liturgy of the Hours.

Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

This is not the official translation of the Liturgy of the Hours. Psalms and canticles come from public-domain Bibles; some prayers are editorial translations awaiting review.

Pray in Latin

Morning Prayer

Opening

O Lord, thou wilt open my lips. And my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

Invitatory

O come, let us adore the Lord.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Psalm 94 (95) Psalms 94

¹ Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.

² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

³ For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

⁴ For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.

⁵ For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.

⁷ For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

⁸ Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

⁹ As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

¹⁰ Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

¹¹ And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Hymn

Iam lucis orto sidere

Now that the star of light is risen, let us humbly pray to God, that in the deeds of this day he may keep us from all that does harm. May he bridle and temper our tongue, that no harsh sound of strife be heard; may he shelter and guard our sight, that it drink in no vanities. Let the depths of the heart be pure, and let folly depart; let sparing use of food and drink wear down the pride of the flesh; That when the day has gone and its course brings back the night, kept pure by self-denial, we may sing his glory. Glory be to God the Father, and to his only Son, with the Spirit, the Paraclete, now and through every age. Amen.

Ambrosian, c. 5th century. Latin: Breviarium Romanum (hymn at Prime), public domain. Editorial literal translation written for BibleForSI from the Latin (not an official translation). (prose)

Psalmody

Each psalm ends with the Glory be.

Psalm 91 (92) Psalms 91

¹ A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

² It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

³ To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

⁴ Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

⁵ For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

⁶ O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

⁷ The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

⁸ When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

⁹ But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

¹⁰ For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹¹ But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

¹² My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.

¹³ The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

¹⁴ They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

¹⁵ They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

¹⁶ That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 32:1–12

¹ Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.

² Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

³ Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.

⁴ The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

⁵ They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

⁶ Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

⁷ Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

⁸ When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹ But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹¹ As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

¹² The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Psalm 8 Psalms 8

¹ Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David.

² O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

³ Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

⁴ For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

⁵ What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest hi?

⁶ Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

⁷ And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

⁹ The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

¹⁰ O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Short reading

Romans Romans 12:14–16

¹⁴ Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

¹⁶ Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Responsory

Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us. Thou who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Canticle of Zechariah (Benedictus)

Luke Luke 1:68–79

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:

⁶⁹ And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant:

⁷⁰ As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning:

⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us:

⁷² To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament,

⁷³ The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us,

⁷⁴ That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear,

⁷⁵ In holiness and justice before him, all our days.

⁷⁶ And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:

⁷⁷ To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins:

⁷⁸ Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:

⁷⁹ To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Intercessions

Response: Lord, guide our steps in thy peace.

We thank thee for the light of this day: grant that all our work may please thee.
Keep thy Church, our Pope and bishops: make them faithful to the Gospel.
Look upon those who toil or suffer today: be their help and comfort.
Teach us to love our neighbour as ourselves: that we may see Christ in all.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Concluding prayer

O Lord God almighty, who hast brought us to the beginning of this day: save us today by thy power, that this day we may turn aside to no sin, but that our words may always proceed, and our thoughts and works be directed, to the doing of thy justice. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Collect of Prime, Breviarium Romanum (1911). Received Latin text of the Roman Breviary (Breviarium Romanum, 1568/1911). Public domain. English and Spanish: Editorial literal translation written for BibleForSI from the Latin (not an official translation).

Dismissal

Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Today

AI-generated illustration: a sister kneels at a prie-dieu with an open breviary for evening prayer as the sun sets through a tall chapel window and incense rises. Classical sacred-art style. — AI-generated

Evening Prayer · First Vespers of Sunday

Opening

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

Hymn

Lucis Creator optime

O best Creator of the light, who bringest forth the light of days, and with the first beginnings of new light didst prepare the origin of the world; Thou who biddest morning joined to evening to be called day: dark night is falling; hear our prayers and our tears. Lest the mind, weighed down by sin, be exiled from the gift of life, while it thinks of nothing eternal and binds itself with faults. May it knock at the gate of heaven and carry off the prize of life; let us shun all that harms, let us cleanse away all that is evil. Grant this, most loving Father, and thou, the only Son, equal to the Father, with the Spirit, the Paraclete, reigning through every age. Amen.

Attributed to St Gregory the Great (6th century). Latin: Breviarium Romanum (Sunday Vespers), public domain. Editorial literal translation written for BibleForSI from the Latin (not an official translation). (prose)

Psalmody

Each psalm ends with the Glory be.

Psalm 112 (113) Psalms 112

¹ Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.

² Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.

⁴ The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

⁶ And looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?

⁷ Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

⁸ That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.

⁹ Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Psalm 115 (116) Psalms 115:1–10

¹ I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.

² I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

³ What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things he hath rendered unto me?

⁴ I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

⁵ I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:

⁶ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

⁷ O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

⁸ I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

⁹ I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:

¹⁰ In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Philippians Philippians 2:6–11

⁶ Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

⁷ But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.

⁸ He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

⁹ For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names:

¹⁰ That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:

¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Short reading

Romans Romans 11:33–36

³³ O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

³⁵ Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

³⁶ For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Responsory

Let my prayer, O Lord, be directed. As incense in thy sight.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Canticle of Mary (Magnificat)

Luke Luke 1:46–55

⁴⁶ And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

⁴⁷ And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

⁴⁸ Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

⁴⁹ Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; and holy is his name.

⁵⁰ And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.

⁵¹ He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

⁵² He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.

⁵³ He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

⁵⁴ He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy:

⁵⁵ As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Intercessions

Response: Lord, hear our prayer.

For the gifts of this day we give thee thanks: forgive us what we have done amiss.
Give peace to the world and justice to the nations: turn the hearts of those who wage war.
Visit the sick, the lonely and the poor: let them feel thy care through us.
Grant eternal rest to the faithful departed: and let perpetual light shine upon them.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

The Lord's Prayer

Concluding prayer

O God, from whom are holy desires, right counsels and just works: give to thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that our hearts may be devoted to thy commandments and, the fear of enemies being taken away, our times may be peaceful under thy protection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Collect for peace (Missale Romanum 1962, Votive Mass for Peace; Vespers of the Little Office). Received Latin text of the Roman Breviary (Breviarium Romanum, 1568/1911). Public domain. English and Spanish: Editorial literal translation written for BibleForSI from the Latin (not an official translation).

Dismissal

Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Today

Night Prayer

Opening

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

Examination of conscience

Pause in silence to recall the day: give thanks for its gifts and ask pardon for your sins.

Hymn

Te lucis ante terminum

Before the ending of the day, Creator of the world, we pray That with thy wonted favour thou Wouldst be our guard and keeper now. From all ill dreams defend our eyes, From nightly fears and fantasies; Tread under foot our ghostly foe, That no pollution we may know. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee, Doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

Ambrosian, c. 7th century. Latin: Breviarium Romanum (Compline), public domain. English: John Mason Neale (1818–1866), translation of 1852 (Hymnal Noted) — public domain. Verified 2026-10-15 word for word against hymnary.org (New English Hymnal 1985 no. 241, credited to J. M. Neale; one punctuation difference) — still compare with an 1852 scan before approval.

Psalmody

Each psalm ends with the Glory be.

Psalm 4 Psalms 4

¹ Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.

² When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

³ O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

⁴ Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

⁵ Be angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

⁶ Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good things?

⁷ The light of thy countenance O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

⁸ By the fruit of their corn, their wine and oil, they are multiplied.

⁹ In peace in the selfsame I will sleep, and I will rest:

¹⁰ For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Psalm 133 (134) Psalms 133

¹ Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

² In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.

³ May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and earth.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Short reading

Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 6:4–7

⁴ Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

⁵ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

⁶ And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

⁷ And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Responsory

Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord, the God of truth.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Canticle of Simeon (Nunc dimittis)

Save us, O Lord, while we are awake, guard us while we sleep; that we may watch with Christ and rest in peace.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Luke Luke 2:29–32

²⁹ Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word in peace;

³⁰ Because my eyes have seen thy salvation,

³¹ Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples:

³² A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

DRA · Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.

Concluding prayer

Visit, we beseech thee, O Lord, this dwelling, and drive far from it all the snares of the enemy: let thy holy Angels dwell herein to keep us in peace; and may thy blessing be always upon us. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Collect of Compline, Breviarium Romanum (1911). Received Latin text of the Roman Breviary (Breviarium Romanum, 1568/1911). Public domain. English and Spanish: Editorial literal translation written for BibleForSI from the Latin (not an official translation).

Dismissal

May the almighty Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. Amen.

Editorial translation, awaiting review

Antiphon to Our Lady

Hail, Holy Queen

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Latin antiphon (11th c.). English: Baltimore Catechism (1885). Spanish: traditional catechism wording. Public domain.

Today

Saturday, October 31 · Psalter week II

Sources and notes

Psalm distribution: the four-week psalter of the Liturgia Horarum (1971). Simplified: no proper antiphons, one weekly cycle of short readings, and no proper offices for feasts. Every text names its source below it.