Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Lord, how many are your works!
In wisdom, you have made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
There is the sea, great and wide,
in which live things without number.
There the ships go,
and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
These all wait for you,
that you may give them their food in due season.
You give to them; they gather.
You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
You hide your face; they are troubled.
You take away their breath;
they die and return to the dust.
You send out your Spirit and they are created.
You renew the face of the ground.
Let the Lord’s glory endure forever.
Let the Lord rejoice in his works.
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
— Psalm 104:24-31, 33†
Invitatory
Does not wisdom cry out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his work,
before his deeds of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
before the earth existed.
When there were no depths, I was born,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled in place,
before the hills, I was born;
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
When he established the heavens,
I was there.”
— Proverbs 8:1, 22-27a
Cruciform
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him.
Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life,
and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not overcome it.
— John 1:1-5†
Weeks
The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.
And we have seen his glory,
such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
— John 1:14†
Following the seventh bead:
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Dimissory
Christ is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth,
visible things and invisible things,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things have been created through him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things are held together.
— Colossians 1:15-17
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.