Today I offer readers the First Prayer for Sixth Hour from our Bookstore Publication, Hear Us, O Lord: Daily Prayers for the Laity, based upon an early Eastern Orthodox prayer. The format for Sixth Hour is: Invocation, First Prayer, General Confession, Lord’s Prayer, First Chapter (a Scripture reading), First Antiphon, Second Prayer, Second Antiphon, Third Prayer, Third Antiphon, Fourth Prayer, Psalm reading, Third Chapter, F0urth Antiphon, Fifth Prayer, Fifth Antiphon, Sixth Prayer, the Grace, a Benection.
ALMIGHTY Saviour, who at noonday called Thy servant Saint Paul to be an Apostle to the Gentiles: We pray Thee to illumine the world with the radiance of Thy glory that all nations shall come and worship Thee. Amen.
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