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Daily Evening Prayer:
Rite Two

*The Officiant begins the service with one or more of the following
sentences of Scripture, or of those on pages 75-78;* 

*or with the Service of Light on pages 109-112, and continuing with the
appointed Psalmody;* 

*or with the versicle "O God, make speed to save us" on page 117* 

Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as incense, the lifting
up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.  Psalm 141:2 

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.  Philippians 1:2 

Worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness; let the whole earth
tremble before him.  Psalm 96:9 

Yours is the day, O God, yours also the night; you established
the moon and the sun.  You fixed all the boundaries of the
earth; you made both summer and winter.  Psalm 74:15,16 

I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel; my heart teaches
me, night after night.  I have set the Lord always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not fall.  Psalm 16:7,8 

Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep
darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night;
who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon
the surface of the earth:  The Lord is his name.  Amos 5:8 



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