Tuesday Divine Office: Lauds & Vespers

Audio for Tuesday in the First Week of Advent. Pray the Monastic Divine Office, featuring the daily Psalms and prayers for Lauds and Vespers, as prescribed by Saint Benedict of Nursia. 

Header image: Torah Scroll. 18th-century manuscript. National Library of Belarus, Minsk. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons, available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0.%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%96.jpg.

Video image, Lauds: Anonymous (Russian). "Praise the Lord from the Heavens." 17th century. Ivory carving, 9 × 6.4 cm. Accession no. 71.256, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons, available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_-%22Praise_the_Lord_from_the_Heavens%22-_Walters_71256.jpg.

Video image, Vespers: Codex Vaticanus (1 Esdras 1:55–2:5). 4th-century Greek uncial manuscript. Reproduced in The S.S. Teacher’s Edition: The Holy Bible, plate XII. New York: Henry Frowde, Publisher to the University of Oxford, 1896. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons, available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vaticanus_(1_Esdras_1-55_to_2-5)_(The_S.S._Teacher%27s_Edition-The_Holy_Bible).jpg.

Audio for Vespers, Tuesday, First Week of Advent: