III. classis
S. Martinæ Virginis et Martyris
Tempora: Feria VI infra Hebdomadam III post Epiphaniam
Ad Matutinum
Incipit
Nocturnus I
Psalmus 77 (1,8)
The Lord set up a testimony in Jacob: * and made a law in Israel.
Attend, O my people, to my law: * incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
- Apériam in parábolis os meum: * loquar propositiónes ab inítio.
- Quanta audívimus et cognóvimus ea: * et patres nostri narravérunt nobis.
- Non sunt occultáta a fíliis eórum: * in generatióne áltera.
- Narrántes laudes Dómini, et virtútes ejus: * et mirabília ejus, quæ fecit.
- Et suscitávit testimónium in Jacob: * et legem pósuit in Israël.
- Quanta mandávit pátribus nostris nota fácere ea fíliis suis: * ut cognóscat generátio áltera.
- Fílii qui nascéntur, et exsúrgent, * et narrábunt fíliis suis.
- Ut ponant in Deo spem suam, et non obliviscántur óperum Dei: * et mandáta ejus exquírant.
- Ne fiant sicut patres eórum: * generátio prava et exásperans.
- Generátio, quæ non diréxit cor suum: * et non est créditus cum Deo spíritus ejus.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
I will open my mouth in parables: * I will utter propositions from the beginning.
How great things have we heard and known, * and our fathers have told us.
They have not been hidden from their children, * in another generation.
Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, * and his wonders which he hath done.
And he set up a testimony in Jacob: * and made a law in Israel.
How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: * that another generation might know them.
The children that should be born and should rise up, * and declare them to their children.
That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: * and may seek his commandments.
That they may not become like their fathers, * a perverse and exasperating generation.
A generation that set not their heart aright: * and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Lord set up a testimony in Jacob: * and made a law in Israel.
Psalmus 77 (9,16)
The Lord did wonderful things * in the sight of their fathers.
The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: * they have turned back in the day of battle.
- Non custodiérunt testaméntum Dei: * et in lege ejus noluérunt ambuláre.
- Et oblíti sunt benefactórum ejus: * et mirabílium ejus quæ osténdit eis.
- Coram pátribus eórum fecit mirabília in terra Ægýpti: * in campo Táneos.
- Interrúpit mare, et perdúxit eos: * et státuit aquas quasi in utre.
- Et dedúxit eos in nube diéi: * et tota nocte in illuminatióne ignis.
- Interrúpit petram in erémo: * et adaquávit eos velut in abýsso multa.
- Et edúxit aquam de petra: * et dedúxit tamquam flúmina aquas.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
They kept not the covenant of God: * and in his law they would not walk.
And they forgot his benefits, * and his wonders that he had shewn them.
Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, * in the field of Tanis.
He divided the sea and brought them through: * and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.
And he conducted them with a cloud by day: * and all the night with a light of fire.
He struck the rock in the wilderness: * and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
He brought forth water out of the rock: * and made streams run down as rivers.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Lord did wonderful things * in the sight of their fathers.
Psalmus 77 (17,31)
The Lord opened * the doors of heaven and had rained down manna upon them to eat.
And they added yet more sin against him: * they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
- Et tentavérunt Deum in córdibus suis, * ut péterent escas animábus suis.
- Et male locúti sunt de Deo: * dixérunt: Numquid póterit Deus paráre mensam in desérto?
- Quóniam percússit petram, et fluxérunt aquæ: * et torréntes inundavérunt.
- Numquid et panem póterit dare, * aut paráre mensam pópulo suo?
- Ideo audívit Dóminus, et dístulit: * et ignis accénsus est in Jacob, et ira ascéndit in Israël.
- Quia non credidérunt in Deo: * nec speravérunt in salutári ejus:
- Et mandávit núbibus désuper: * et jánuas cæli apéruit.
- Et pluit illis manna ad manducándum: * et panem cæli dedit eis.
- Panem Angelórum manducávit homo, * cibária misit eis in abundántia.
- Tránstulit Austrum de cælo: * et indúxit in virtúte sua Africum.
- Et pluit super eos sicut púlverem carnes: * et sicut arénam maris volatília pennáta.
- Et cecidérunt in médio castrórum eórum: * circa tabernácula eórum.
- Et manducavérunt, et saturáti sunt nimis, et desidérium eórum áttulit eis: * non sunt fraudáti a desidério suo.
- Adhuc escæ eórum erant in ore ipsórum: * et ira Dei ascéndit super eos
- Et occídit pingues eórum, * et eléctos Israël impedívit.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
And they tempted God in their hearts, * by asking meat for their desires.
And they spoke ill of God: * they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, * and the streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread, * or provide a table for his people?
Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: * and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.
Because they believed not in God: * and trusted not in his salvation.
And he had commanded the clouds from above, * and had opened the doors of heaven.
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, * and had given them the bread of heaven.
Man ate the bread of angels: * he sent them provisions in abundance.
He removed the south wind from heaven: * and by his power brought in the southwest wind.
And he rained upon them flesh as dust: * and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
And they fell in the midst of their camp, * round about their pavilions.
So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire: * they were not defrauded of that which they craved.
As yet their meat was in their mouth: * and the wrath of God came upon them.
And he slew the fat ones amongst them, * and brought down the chosen men of Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Lord opened * the doors of heaven and had rained down manna upon them to eat.
Psalmus 77 (32,41)
God is their helper, * and the most high God their redeemer.
In all these things they sinned still: * and they believed not for his wondrous works.
- Et defecérunt in vanitáte dies eórum: * et anni eórum cum festinatióne.
- Cum occíderet eos, quærébant eum: * et revertebántur, et dilúculo veniébant ad eum.
- Et rememoráti sunt quia Deus adjútor est eórum: * et Deus excélsus redémptor eórum est.
- Et dilexérunt eum in ore suo, * et lingua sua mentíti sunt ei.
- Cor autem eórum non erat rectum cum eo: * nec fidéles hábiti sunt in testaménto ejus.
- Ipse autem est miséricors, et propítius fiet peccátis eórum: * et non dispérdet eos.
- Et abundávit ut avérteret iram suam: * et non accéndit omnem iram suam:
- Et recordátus est quia caro sunt: * spíritus vadens et non rédiens.
- Quóties exacerbavérunt eum in desérto, * in iram concitavérunt eum in inaquóso?
- Et convérsi sunt, et tentavérunt Deum: * et Sanctum Israël exacerbavérunt.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
And their days were consumed in vanity, * and their years in haste.
When he slew them, then they sought him: * and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.
And they remembered that God was their helper: * and the most high God their redeemer.
And they loved him with their mouth: * and with their tongue they lied unto him:
But their heart was not right with him: * nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.
But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: * and will not destroy them.
And many a time did he turn away his anger: * and did not kindle all his wrath.
And he remembered that they are flesh: * a wind that goeth and returneth not.
How often did they provoke him in the desert: * and move him to wrath in the place without water?
And they turned back and tempted God: * and grieved the holy one of Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
God is their helper, * and the most high God their redeemer.
Psalmus 77 (42,58)
The Lord redeemed them * from the hand of him that afflicted them.
They remembered not his hand, * in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:
- Sicut pósuit in Ægýpto signa sua, * et prodígia sua in campo Táneos.
- Et convértit in sánguinem flúmina eórum: * et imbres eórum, ne bíberent.
- Misit in eos cœnomyíam, et comédit eos: * et ranam, et dispérdidit eos.
- Et dedit ærúgini fructus eórum: * et labóres eórum locústæ.
- Et occídit in grándine víneas eórum: * et moros eórum in pruína.
- Et trádidit grándini juménta eórum: * et possessiónem eórum igni.
- Misit in eos iram indignatiónis suæ: * indignatiónem, et iram, et tribulatiónem: immissiónes per ángelos malos.
- Viam fecit sémitæ iræ suæ, non pepércit a morte animábus eórum: * et juménta eórum in morte conclúsit.
- Et percússit omne primogénitum in terra Ægýpti: * primítias omnis labóris eórum in tabernáculis Cham.
- Et ábstulit sicut oves pópulum suum: * et perdúxit eos tamquam gregem in desérto.
- Et dedúxit eos in spe, et non timuérunt: * et inimícos eórum opéruit mare.
- Et indúxit eos in montem sanctificatiónis suæ: * montem, quem acquisívit déxtera ejus.
- Et ejécit a fácie eórum Gentes: * et sorte divísit eis terram in funículo distributiónis.
- Et habitáre fecit in tabernáculis eórum: * tribus Israël.
- Et tentavérunt, et exacerbavérunt Deum excélsum: * et testimónia ejus non custodiérunt.
- Et avertérunt se, et non servavérunt pactum: * quemádmodum patres eórum convérsi sunt in arcum pravum.
- In iram concitavérunt eum in cóllibus suis: * et in sculptílibus suis ad æmulatiónem eum provocavérunt.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
How he wrought his signs in Egypt, * and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
And he turned their rivers into blood, * and their showers that they might, not drink.
He sent amongst them diverse sorts of flies, which devoured them: * and frogs which destroyed them.
And he gave up their fruits to the blast, * and their labours to the locust.
And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, * and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
And he gave up their cattle to the hail, * and their stock to the fire.
And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: * indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.
He made a way for a path to his anger: * he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.
And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: * the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.
And he took away his own people as sheep: * and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: * and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: * the mountain which his right hand had purchased.
And he cast out the Gentiles before them: * and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.
And he made the tribes of Israel * to dwell in their tabernacles.
Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: * and they kept not his testimonies.
And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: * even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.
They provoked him to anger on their hills: * and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Lord redeemed them * from the hand of him that afflicted them.
Psalmus 77 (59,72)
God built * his sanctuary in the earth.
God heard, and despised them, * and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
- Et répulit tabernáculum Silo: * tabernáculum suum, ubi habitávit in homínibus.
- Et trádidit in captivitátem virtútem eórum: * et pulchritúdinem eórum in manus inimíci.
- Et conclúsit in gládio pópulum suum: * et hereditátem suam sprevit.
- Júvenes eórum comédit ignis: * et vírgines eórum non sunt lamentátæ.
- Sacerdótes eórum in gládio cecidérunt: * et víduæ eórum non plorabántur.
- Et excitátus est tamquam dórmiens Dóminus: * tamquam potens crapulátus a vino.
- Et percússit inimícos suos in posterióra: * oppróbrium sempitérnum dedit illis.
- Et répulit tabernáculum Joseph: * et tribum Ephraim non elégit.
- Sed elégit tribum Juda, * montem Sion quem diléxit.
- Et ædificávit sicut unicórnium sanctifícium suum in terra, * quam fundávit in sǽcula.
- Et elégit David, servum suum, et sústulit eum de grégibus óvium: * de post fœtántes accépit eum,
- Páscere Jacob, servum suum, * et Israël, hereditátem suam:
- Et pavit eos in innocéntia cordis sui: * et in intelléctibus mánuum suárum dedúxit eos.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, * his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
And he delivered their strength into captivity: * and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
And he shut up his people under the sword: * and he despised his inheritance.
Fire consumed their young men: * and their maidens were not lamented.
Their priests fell by the sword: * and their widows did not mourn.
And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, * and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: * he put them to an everlasting reproach.
And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: * and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
But he chose the tribe of Juda, * mount Sion which he loved.
And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land * which he founded for ever.
And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: * he brought him from following the ewes great with young,
To feed Jacob his servant, * and Israel his inheritance.
And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: * and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
God built * his sanctuary in the earth.
Psalmus 78
Help us, O God, our Saviour, * deliver us: and forgive us our sins.
O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: * they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.
- Posuérunt morticína servórum tuórum, escas volatílibus cæli: * carnes sanctórum tuórum béstiis terræ.
- Effudérunt sánguinem eórum tamquam aquam in circúitu Jerúsalem: * et non erat qui sepelíret.
- Facti sumus oppróbrium vicínis nostris: * subsannátio et illúsio his, qui in circúitu nostro sunt.
- Usquequo, Dómine, irascéris in finem: * accendétur velut ignis zelus tuus?
- Effúnde iram tuam in Gentes, quæ te non novérunt: * et in regna quæ nomen tuum non invocavérunt:
- Quia comedérunt Jacob: * et locum ejus desolavérunt.
- Ne memíneris iniquitátum nostrárum antiquárum, cito antícipent nos misericórdiæ tuæ: * quia páuperes facti sumus nimis.
- Adjuva nos, Deus, salutáris noster: et propter glóriam nóminis tui, Dómine, líbera nos: * et propítius esto peccátis nostris, propter nomen tuum:
- Ne forte dicant in Géntibus: Ubi est Deus eórum? * et innotéscat in natiónibus coram óculis nostris.
- Ultio sánguinis servórum tuórum, qui effúsus est: * intróeat in conspéctu tuo gémitus compeditórum.
- Secúndum magnitúdinem bráchii tui, * pósside fílios mortificatórum.
- Et redde vicínis nostris séptuplum in sinu eórum: * impropérium ipsórum, quod exprobravérunt tibi, Dómine.
- Nos autem pópulus tuus, et oves páscuæ tuæ, * confitébimur tibi in sǽculum.
- In generatiónem et generatiónem * annuntiábimus laudem tuam.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: * the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.
They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem, * and there was none to bury them.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours: * a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: * shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: * and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Because they have devoured Jacob; * and have laid waste his place.
Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, * for we are become exceeding poor.
Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: * and forgive us our sins for thy name’s sake:
Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? * And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes,
By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: * let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee.
According to the greatness of thy arm, * take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: * the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, * will give thanks to thee for ever.
We will shew forth thy praise, * unto generation and generation.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Help us, O God, our Saviour, * deliver us: and forgive us our sins.
Psalmus 80
I am the Lord * God of Israel, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Rejoice, O God, our helper: * sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
- Súmite psalmum, et date týmpanum: * psaltérium jucúndum cum cíthara.
- Buccináte in Neoménia tuba, * in insígni die solemnitátis vestræ.
- Quia præcéptum in Israël est: * et judícium Deo Jacob.
- Testimónium in Joseph pósuit illud, cum exíret de terra Ægýpti: * linguam, quam non nóverat, audívit.
- Divértit ab onéribus dorsum ejus: * manus ejus in cóphino serviérunt.
- In tribulatióne invocásti me, et liberávi te: † exaudívi te in abscóndito tempestátis: * probávi te apud aquam contradictiónis.
- Audi, pópulus meus, et contestábor te: † Israël, si audíeris me, non erit in te deus recens, * neque adorábis deum aliénum.
- Ego enim sum Dóminus Deus tuus, qui edúxi te de terra Ægýpti: * diláta os tuum, et implébo illud.
- Et non audívit pópulus meus vocem meam: * et Israël non inténdit mihi.
- Et dimísi eos secúndum desidéria cordis eórum: * ibunt in adinventiónibus suis.
- Si pópulus meus audísset me: * Israël si in viis meis ambulásset:
- Pro níhilo fórsitan inimícos eórum humiliássem: * et super tribulántes eos misíssem manum meam.
- Inimíci Dómini mentíti sunt ei: * et erit tempus eórum in sǽcula.
- Et cibávit eos ex ádipe fruménti: * et de petra, melle saturávit eos.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: * the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, * on the noted day of your solemnity.
For it is a commandment in Israel, * and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: * he heard a tongue which he knew not.
He removed his back from the burdens: * his hands had served in baskets.
Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: * I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: * O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me; there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: * open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But my people heard not my voice: * and Israel hearkened not to me.
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: * they shall walk in their own inventions.
If my people had heard me: * if Israel had walked in my ways:
I should soon have humbled their enemies, * and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: * and their time shall be for ever.
And he fed them with the fat of wheat, * and filled them with honey out of the rock.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
I am the Lord * God of Israel, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Psalmus 82
Be not thou silent, O Lord, * for Thy enemies lifted up their head.
O God, who shall be like to thee? * Hold not thy peace, neither be O God, thou still,
- Quóniam ecce inimíci tui sonuérunt: * et qui odérunt te extulérunt caput.
- Super pópulum tuum malignavérunt consílium: * et cogitavérunt advérsus sanctos tuos.
- Dixérunt: Veníte, et disperdámus eos de gente: * et non memorétur nomen Israël ultra.
- Quóniam cogitavérunt unanímiter: * simul advérsum te testaméntum disposuérunt, tabernácula Idumæórum et Ismahelítæ:
- Moab, et Agaréni, Gebal, et Ammon, et Amalec: * alienígenæ cum habitántibus Tyrum.
- Etenim Assur venit cum illis: * facti sunt in adjutórium fíliis Lot.
- Fac illis sicut Mádian, et Sísaræ: * sicut Jabin in torrénte Cisson.
- Disperiérunt in Endor: * facti sunt ut stercus terræ.
- Pone príncipes eórum sicut Oreb, et Zeb, * et Zébee, et Sálmana:
- Omnes príncipes eórum: * qui dixérunt: Hereditáte possideámus Sanctuárium Dei.
- Deus meus, pone illos ut rotam: * et sicut stípulam ante fáciem venti.
- Sicut ignis, qui combúrit silvam: * et sicut flamma combúrens montes:
- Ita persequéris illos in tempestáte tua: * et in ira tua turbábis eos.
- Imple fácies eórum ignomínia: * et quærent nomen tuum, Dómine.
- Erubéscant, et conturbéntur in sǽculum sǽculi: * et confundántur, et péreant.
- Et cognóscant quia nomen tibi Dóminus: * tu solus Altíssimus in omni terra.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: * and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, * and have consulted against thy saints.
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, * so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
For they have contrived with one consent: * they have made a covenant together against thee; the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites:
Moab, and the Agarens, Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: * the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: * they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.
Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: * as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.
Who perished at Endor: * and became as dung for the earth.
Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, * and Zebee, and Salmana.
All their princes, * who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.
O my God, make them like a wheel; * and as stubble before the wind.
As fire which burneth the wood: * and as a flame burning mountains:
So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: * and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.
Fill their faces with shame; * and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.
Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: * and let them be confounded and perish.
And let them know that the Lord is thy name: * thou alone art the most High over all the earth.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Be not thou silent, O Lord, * for Thy enemies lifted up their head.
Versus
Pater
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris:
℣. Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:
℟. Sed líbera nos a malo. Absolutio. Ipsíus píetas et misericórdia nos ádiuvet, qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivit et regnat in sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
Ille nos benedícat, qui sine fine vivit et regnat.
De Epístola ad Ephésios
Eph 5:1-4
Estóte ergo imitatóres Dei, sicut fílii caríssimi, Et ambuláte in dilectióne, sicut et Christus diléxit nos, et trádidit semetípsum pro nobis, oblatiónem et hóstiam Deo in odórem suavitátis. Fornicátio autem, et omnis immundítia, aut avarítia, nec nominétur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos: Aut turpitúdo, aut stultilóquium, aut scurrílitas, quæ ad rem non pértinet: sed magis gratiárum áctio.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks.
Cuius festum cólimus, ipsa intercédat pro nobis ad Dóminum.
Eph 5:5-8
Hoc enim scitóte intellegéntes: quod omnis fornicátor, aut immúndus, aut avárus, quod est idolórum sérvitus, non habet hereditátem in regno Christi et Dei. Nemo vos sedúcat inánibus verbis: propter hæc enim venit ira Dei in fílios diffidéntiæ. Nolíte ergo éffici partícipes eórum. Erátis enim aliquándo ténebræ: nunc autem lux in Dómino. Ut fílii lucis ambuláte:
For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.
Fructus enim lucis est in omni bonitáte, et iustítia, et veritáte: Probántes quid sit beneplácitum Deo: Et nolíte communicáre opéribus infructuósis tenebrárum, magis autem redargúite. Quæ enim in occúlto fiunt ab ipsis, turpe est et dícere. Omnia autem, quæ arguúntur, a lúmine manifestántur: omne enim, quod manifestátur, lumen est. Propter quod dicit: Surge qui dormis, et exsúrge a mórtuis, et illuminábit te Christus.
For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and truth; Proving what is well pleasing to God: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. But all things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light; for all that is made manifest is light. Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.
Gloria adduntur:
Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
Martína virgo Romána, illústri génere nata, téneris adhuc annis orbáta paréntibus, ingéntes divítias lárgiter in páuperes distríbuit. Sub Alexándro príncipe iussa inánibus diis sacrificáre, immáne fácinus detestátur. Quare divérsis tormentórum genéribus cruciáta, demum in amphitheátro damnátur ad béstias; a quibus illǽsa divínitus evádens, in ardéntem rogum iniécta, incólumis páriter servátur. Nonnúlli ex eius tortóribus, capti novitáte miráculi, Christi fidem amplecténtes, palmam martýrii adépti sunt. Précibus Martínæ multa Deus prodígia patrávit, quibus iudex ácriter permótus et Vírginis constántiam demirátus, caput eídem amputári præcépit, sedénte sancto Urbáno Papa primo. Martínæ corpus, Urbáno octávo Pontífice máximo, in vetústa eiúsdem ecclésia ad Mamertínum cárcerem, cum sanctórum Mártyrum Concórdii, Epiphánii et Sociórum corpóribus repértum, eódem loco, decéntius ornáto, totíus Urbis lætítia solémniter repósitum fuit.
Martina, a Roman virgin of an illustrious family, lost her parents while she was still young and distributed her vast fortune lavishly to the poor. Under the emperor Alexander, she was commanded to sacrifice to the imaginary gods, and refused to commit this great crime. First she was subjected to many kinds of tortures and, finally condemned to the beasts in the amphitheater, was left unharmed by divine protection. Then she was thrown into a burning furnace, and again was preserved safe. Some of her tormentors moved by this unheard-of miracle embraced the faith of Christ and received the crown of martyrdom. At Martina's prayers, God worked many marvels. Angered by these and confounded by the Virgin's constancy, the judge ordered her beheaded. All this took place when St. Urban I was pope. Under Urban VIII, her body was found in the old church named after her at the Mamertine Prison together with the bodies of the holy Martyrs Concordius, Epiphanius and their companions. When the place had been renovated and decorated, her body was solemnly reburied, amid the rejoicing of the whole City.
Oratio
Orémus.
Deus, qui inter cétera poténtiæ tuæ mirácula étiam in sexu frágili victóriam martýrii contulísti: † concéde propítius; ut, qui beátæ Martínæ Vírginis et Mártyris tuæ natalícia cólimus, * per eius ad te exémpla gradiámur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
O God, Who among the other miracles of thy power have bestowed the victory of martyrdom even upon the weaker sex, graciously grant that we who commemorate the anniversary of the death of blessed Martina, thy Virgin and Martyr, may come to thee by the path of her example.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
Conclusio
