Like Burning Incense (Antiphon) =============================== w&m: Michael Joncas, 1985 [Refrain] Like burning incense, Lord, let my prayer rise up to you. [Verse 1] I have called to you, Lord; hasten to help me! Hear my voice when I cry to you. Let my prayer arise before you like incense, the raising of my hands like an evening oblation. [Refrain] [Verse 2] Set, O Lord, a guard over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips! Do not turn my heart to things that are wrong, to evil deeds with those who are sinners. [Refrain] [Verse 3] Never allow me to share in their feasting. If the good strike or reprove me it is kindness; but let the oil of the wicked not anoint my head. Let my prayer be ever against their malice. [Refrain] [Verse 4] To you, Lord God, my eyes are turned: in you I take my refuge; spare my soul! From the trap they have laid for me keep me safe: keep me from the snares of those who do evil. [Refrain] [Verse 5] Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. [Refrain]