Vespers - Evening Prayer II, 04-06-2025, Fifth Sunday of Lent

The good we will, we do not do; what we abhor, embrace. We clothe our shame, deny our guilt, and flee our Maker’s face. Yet there is One who did not sin, who triumphed through his trials: he broke the Tempter’s tangling snares and saved us from his wiles. For in God’s word Christ shares the bread that feeds our hung’ring souls, and walks with us, God’s Faithful One, the guardian of our goals, till by the love of Love alone he heals what sin has rent. O Jesus, come and give us life these blessed days of Lent. Sacred Beauty common prayer: Sacred Beauty is an Approved Private Association of the Faithful in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, devoted to allowing the beauty and holiness of God to be made present in the world, first through Eucharistic contemplation, then through artistic and intellectual creativity and receptivity informed by and dedicated to Jesus in the Eucharist. We pray the Office of Readings and Evening Prayer daily on YouTube; click “open transcript” to pray with us. With gratitude to the administration of St. John XXIII Parish, West Haven, CT, for permitting us to record our prayer in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament in their beautiful church of St. John Vianney.