Second Vespers of Mary Mag

                                   

                                     Psalm 30:2, 3b

   O 
  Lord, 
  my 
  God,
   I 
  cried 
  out 
   to you 

     and you restored me to health… 

            You restored my life as I

                was going down to the grave.  

Today the church remembers the slave Blandina and her companions, the martyrs of Leon, 177

                                    Matthew 14:16,17

Jesus 

said 

“You 

give 

them 

something 

to eat.”

They replied 
“We have nothing here but 5 loaves and 2 fish.’”  And he said “Bring them here to me.” 

Antiphon on the Benedictus: 

             The companions 

of Blandina, in their torment, 

looked upon her suspended 

on the stake;+ in the form 
of their sister,they beheld 
him who was crucified 
for them.