"Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past"

Duccio di Buoninsegna

"Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in Scripture and the breaking of the bread."

"Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know you as you are revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread."

"Mane nobiscum, Domine Iesu, quoniam advesperascit et inclinata est iam dies, et nos comitans in via, refove corde, spem excita miseratus, ut te in Scripturis et in fractione panis cum nostris fratribus agnoscamus."

     Oratio for Vespers of the Fourth Monday in Ordinary Time, Liturgia horarum 3, p. 1019, as trans. on pp. 70 and 124 of the 1979 BCP, where it is called "A Collect for the Presence of Christ."  Hatchett (143) is thus right about its source in "the Roman breviary of Paul VI" (where, however, it occurs without the "et inclinata est iam dies" that I've struck out above; which, however, does occur with the whole of the incipit as the antiphon to the Magnificat for Year A at First Vespers to the Third Sunday of Easter (vol. 2, p. 570)).  Here is the collect in English at Liturgy of the hours 3 (1975), p. 1164:

"Stay with us, Lord Jesus, for evening draws near, and be our companion in the way to set our hearts on fire with new hope.  Help us to recognize your presence among us in the Scriptures we read, and in the breaking of bread, for you live and reign".

Next:  follow up on the presence of the much older V&R fragments of the incipit of this 20th-century (?) collect throughout Liturgia horarum 3 (and elsewhere), long antedated by its prominence historically in the CANTUS database from (as of 12 Feb 2026) c. 890 (Cantus Siglum F-AI 44 =Albi, Bibliothèque municipale Rochegude, 44).  Since the Cantus database doesn't yet link to that page, here is how it appears on p. 40 of the late 10th-century Sankt-Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 391 ("Hartker Antiphoner - Summer Volume"), Cantus Siglum CH SGs 391 ("Mane nobiscum quoniam advesperascit et inclinata est iam dies"):