Reflection for Vespers for Thursday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Oath of Fidelity for Candidates for Diaconate Ordination
August 7, 2025
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Psalm 72
Psalm 72
Revelation 11:17-18; 12:10b-12a:3-4
1 Peter 1:22-23
Every time we pray vespers, we pray the Magnificat, the song of praise sung by Our Lady at the Visitation of her cousin Elizabeth. Her song is a song of hope in God’s triumphant intervention into human history, and it reveals her to be filled with God’s Grace, her trusting dependence and complete communion with God and calls us to our own reliance on His grace in our own vocations. Like so many other graces from God, we can take for granted the message of the Magnificat that we pray every day.
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Vespers for Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent
Seminarians of the Diocese of Fort Worth
December 20, 2021
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Luke 18:8
“When the Son of Man comes to earth, do you think that he will find faith in men’s hearts?” This is the antiphon for the Canticle from the Epistle to the Ephesians that we have just prayed in our vespers. This question is asked by Jesus of His disciples in the Gospel of Luke. It is recorded at the end of His parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge.
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