III. classis

S. Joannis Baptistæ de la Salle Confessoris

Tempora: Feria VI post Ascensionem

Ad Tertiam

Incipit

Hymnus

1. Come Holy Ghost who ever One Art with the Father and the Son, It is the hour, our souls possess With thy full flood of holiness. 2. Let flesh and heart and lips and mind Sound forth our witness to mankind; And love light up our mortal frame, Till others catch the living flame. 3. Almighty Father, hear our cry, Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High, Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee, Doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

Psalmus 79 (2,8)

Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: * thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.

  1. Qui sedes super Chérubim: * manifestáre coram Ephraim, Bénjamin, et Manásse.

    2. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, * shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.

  2. Excita poténtiam tuam, et veni: * ut salvos fácias nos.

    3. Stir up thy might, and come * to save us.

  3. Deus, convérte nos: * et osténde fáciem tuam, et salvi érimus.

    4. Convert us, O God: * and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

  4. Dómine, Deus virtútum, * quoúsque irascéris super oratiónem servi tui?

    5. O Lord God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

  5. Cibábis nos pane lacrimárum: * et potum dabis nobis in lácrimis in mensúra?

    6. How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: * and give us for our drink tears in measure?

  6. Posuísti nos in contradictiónem vicínis nostris: * et inimíci nostri subsannavérunt nos.

    7. Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: * and our enemies have scoffed at us.

  7. Deus virtútum, convérte nos: * et osténde fáciem tuam, et salvi érimus.

    8. O God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

  8. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

    9. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

  9. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

    10. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalmus 79 (9,20)

Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: * thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

  1. Dux itíneris fuísti in conspéctu ejus: * plantásti radíces ejus, et implévit terram.

    2. Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: * thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

  2. Opéruit montes umbra ejus: * et arbústa ejus cedros Dei.

    3. The shadow of it covered the hills: * and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

  3. Exténdit pálmites suos usque ad mare: * et usque ad flumen propágines ejus.

    4. It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, * and its boughs unto the river.

  4. Ut quid destruxísti macériam ejus: * et vindémiant eam omnes, qui prætergrediúntur viam?

    5. Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, * so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

  5. Exterminávit eam aper de silva: * et singuláris ferus depástus est eam.

    6. The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: * and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

  6. Deus virtútum, convértere: * réspice de cælo, et vide, et vísita víneam istam.

    7. Turn again, O God of hosts, * look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

  7. Et pérfice eam, quam plantávit déxtera tua: * et super fílium hóminis, quem confirmásti tibi.

    8. And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

  8. Incénsa igni, et suffóssa: * ab increpatióne vultus tui períbunt.

    9. Things set on fire and dug down * shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  9. Fiat manus tua super virum déxteræ tuæ: * et super fílium hóminis quem confirmásti tibi.

    10. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

  10. Et non discédimus a te, vivificábis nos: * et nomen tuum invocábimus.

    11. And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: * and we will call upon thy name.

  11. Dómine, Deus virtútum, convérte nos: * et osténde fáciem tuam, et salvi érimus.

    12. O Lord God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

  12. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

    13. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

  13. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

    14. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalmus 81

God hath stood in the congregation of gods: * and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

  1. Usquequo judicátis iniquitátem: * et fácies peccatórum súmitis?

    2. How long will you judge unjustly: * and accept the persons of the wicked?

  2. Judicáte egéno, et pupíllo: * húmilem, et páuperem justificáte.

    3. Judge for the needy and fatherless: * do justice to the humble and the poor.

  3. Erípite páuperem: * et egénum de manu peccatóris liberáte.

    4. Rescue the poor; * and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

  4. Nesciérunt, neque intellexérunt, in ténebris ámbulant: * movebúntur ómnia fundaménta terræ.

    5. They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: * all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

  5. Ego dixi: Dii estis, * et fílii Excélsi omnes.

    6. I have said: You are gods * and all of you the sons of the most High.

  6. Vos autem sicut hómines moriémini: * et sicut unus de princípibus cadétis.

    7. But you like men shall die: * and shall fall like one of the princes.

  7. Surge, Deus, júdica terram: * quóniam tu hereditábis in ómnibus Géntibus.

    8. Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: * for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

  8. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

    9. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

  9. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

    10. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Capitulum Responsorium Versus

Sir 31:8-9

Beátus vir, qui invéntus est sine mácula, et qui post aurum non ábiit, † nec sperávit in pecúnia et thesáuris. * Quis est hic, et laudábimus eum? fecit enim mirabília in vita sua.

Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life.



Oratio

Orémus.

Deus, qui, ad christiánam páuperum eruditiónem et ad iuvéntam in via veritátis firmándam, sanctum Ioánnem Baptístam Confessórem excitásti, et novam per eum in Ecclésia famíliam collegísti: † concéde propítius; ut eius intercessióne et exémplo, stúdio glóriæ tuæ in animárum salúte fervéntes, * eius in cælis corónæ partícipes fíeri valeámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

O God, who didst raise up the Confessor, St. John Baptist, to promote the Christian education of the poor and to strengthen the young in the way of truth, and, through him, didst gather together a new family within thy Church, mercifully grant through his intercession and example, that we may burn with zeal for thy glory, through the salvation of souls, and may share his crown in heaven.
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