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Tempora: Feria II post Ascensionem
The fool hath said in his heart: * there is no God.
They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: * there is none that doth good, no not one.
The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, * to see if there be any that understand and seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: * there is none that doth good: no not one.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: * the poison of asps is under their lips.
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; * their feet are swift to shed blood.
Destruction and unhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: * there is no fear of God before their eyes.
Shall not all they know that work iniquity, * who devour my people as they eat bread?
They have not called upon the Lord: * there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.
For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; * but the Lord is his hope.
Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? * when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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.
Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? * or who shall rest in thy holy hill?
He that walketh without blemish, * and worketh justice:
He that speaketh truth in his heart, * who hath not used deceit in his tongue:
Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: * nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.
In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: * but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord:
He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not; * He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent:
He that doth these things, * shall not be moved for ever.
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.
Hear, O Lord, my justice: * attend to my supplication.
Give ear unto my prayer, * which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: * let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.
Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, * thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.
That my mouth may not speak the works of men: * for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.
Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: * that my footsteps be not moved.
I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: * O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words.
Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; * thou who savest them that trust in thee.
From them that resist thy right hand keep me, * as the apple of thy eye.
Protect me under the shadow of thy wings. * from the face of the wicked who have afflicted me.
My enemies have surrounded my soul: They have shut up their fat: * their mouth hath spoken proudly.
They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: * they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; * and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.
Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; * deliver my soul from the wicked one; thy sword from the enemies of thy hand.
O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: * their belly is filled from thy hidden stores.
They are full of children: * and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: * I shall be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.
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 will love thee, O Lord, my strength: * The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer.
My God is my helper, * and in him will I put my trust.
My protector, and the horn of my salvation, * and my support.
Praising, I will call upon the Lord: * and I shall be saved from my enemies.
The sorrows of death surrounded me: * and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: * and the snares of death prevented me.
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, * and I cried to my God:
And he heard my voice from his holy temple: * and my cry before him came into his ears.
The earth shook and trembled: * the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.
There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: * coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens, and came down, * and darkness was under his feet.
And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; * he flew upon the wings of the winds.
And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: * dark waters in the clouds of the air.
At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, * hail and coals of fire.
And the Lord thundered from heaven, * and the Highest gave his voice: * hail and coals of fire.
And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: * he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
Then the fountains of waters appeared, * and the foundations of the world were discovered:
At thy rebuke, O Lord, * at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.
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.
He sent from on high, and took me: * and received me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: * for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my affliction: * and the Lord became my protector.
And he brought me forth into a large place: * he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; * and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; * and have not done wickedly against my God.
For all his judgments are in my sight: * and his justices I have not put away from me.
And I shall be spotless with him: * and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: * and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.
With the holy thou wilt be holy; * and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:
And with the elect thou wilt be elect: * and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
For thou wilt save the humble people; * but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: * O my God, enlighten my darkness.
For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; * and through my God I shall go over a wall.
As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: * he is the protector of all that trust in him.
For who is God but the Lord? * or who is God but our God?
God, who hath girt me with strength; * and made my way blameless.
Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: * and who setteth me upon high places.
Who teacheth my hands to war: * and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.
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.
Thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: * and thy right hand hath held me up:
And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: * and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; * and my feet are not weakened.
I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: * and I will not turn again till they are consumed.
I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: * they shall fall under my feet.
And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; * and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.
And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, * and hast destroyed them that hated me.
They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: * but he heard them not.
And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; * I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.
Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; * thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
A people which I knew not, hath served me: * at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.
The children that are strangers have lied to me, * strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.
The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, * and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, * my deliverer from my enraged enemies.
And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: * from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.
Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, * and I will sing a psalm to thy name.
Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: * and to his seed for ever.
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.
May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: * may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.
May he send thee help from the sanctuary: * and defend thee out of Sion.
May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: * and may thy whole burnt offering be made fat.
May he give thee according to thy own heart; * and confirm all thy counsels.
We will rejoice in thy salvation; * and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.
The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: * now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed.
He will hear him from his holy heaven: * the salvation of his right hand is in powers.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: * but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God.
They are bound, and have fallen: * but we are risen, and are set upright.
O Lord, save the king: * and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.
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 king rejoices in thy strength, O Lord; * and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire: * and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips.
For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: * thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.
He asked life of thee: * and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.
His glory is great in thy salvation: * glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.
For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: * thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.
For the king hopeth in the Lord: * and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: * let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.
Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, * in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: * and their seed from among the children of men.
For they have intended evils against thee: * they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.
For thou shalt make them turn their back: * in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.
Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: * we will sing and praise thy power.
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 will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: * and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.
O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, * and thou hast healed me.
Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: * thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.
Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: * and give praise to the memory of his holiness.
For wrath is in his indignation; * and life in his good will.
In the evening weeping shall have place, * and in the morning gladness.
And in my abundance I said: * I shall never be moved.
O Lord, in thy favour, * thou gavest strength to my beauty.
Thou turnedst away thy face from me, * and I became troubled.
To thee, O Lord, will I cry: * and I will make supplication to my God.
What profit is there in my blood, * whilst I go down to corruption?
Shall dust confess to thee, * or declare thy truth?
The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: * the Lord became my helper.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: * thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:
To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: * O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.
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.
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:
Ille nos benedícat, qui sine fine vivit et regnat.
Vidéte qualem caritátem dedit nobis Pater, ut fílii Dei nominémur et simus. Propter hoc mundus non novit nos: quia non novit eum. Caríssimi, nunc fílii Dei sumus: et nondum appáruit quid érimus. Scimus quóniam cum apparúerit, símiles ei érimus: quóniam vidébimus eum sícuti est. Et omnis qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctíficat se, sicut et ille sanctus est. Omnis qui facit peccátum, et iniquitátem facit: et peccátum est iníquitas. Et scitis quia ille appáruit ut peccáta nostra tólleret: et peccátum in eo non est. Omnis qui in eo manet, non peccat: et omnis qui peccat, non vidit eum, nec cognóvit eum.
Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is. And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity; and sin is iniquity. And you know that he appeared to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not; and whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him.
Cuius festum cólimus, ipse intercédat pro nobis ad Dóminum.
Filíoli, nemo vos sedúcat. Qui facit iustítiam, iustus est, sicut et ille iustus est. Qui facit peccátum, ex diábolo est: quóniam ab inítio diábolus peccat. In hoc appáruit Fílius Dei, ut dissólvat ópera diáboli. Omnis qui natus est ex Deo, peccátum non facit: quóniam semen ipsíus in eo manet, et non potest peccáre, quóniam ex Deo natus est. In hoc manifésti sunt fílii Dei, et fílii diáboli. Omnis qui non est iustus, non est ex Deo, et qui non díligit fratrem suum: Quóniam hæc est annuntiátio, quam audístis ab inítio, ut diligátis altérutrum. Non sicut Cain, qui ex malígno erat, et occídit fratrem suum. Et propter quid occídit eum? Quóniam ópera eius malígna erant: fratris autem eius, iusta.
Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God, committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him, and he can not sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just, is not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother. For this is the declaration, which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just
Nolíte mirári, fratres, si odit vos mundus. Nos scimus quóniam transláti sumus de morte ad vitam, quóniam dilígimus fratres. Qui non díligit, manet in morte: Omnis qui odit fratrem suum, homicída est. Et scitis quóniam omnis homicída non habet vitam ætérnam in semetípso manéntem. In hoc cognóvimus caritátem Dei, quóniam ille ánimam suam pro nobis pósuit: et nos debémus pro frátribus ánimas pónere. Qui habúerit substántiam huius mundi, et víderit fratrem suum necessitátem habére, et cláuserit víscera sua ab eo: quómodo cáritas Dei manet in eo? Filíoli mei, non diligámus verbo neque lingua, sed ópere et veritáte:
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.
Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
Venántius Camers, quíndecim annos natus, christiánæ religiónis accusátus apud Antíochum, qui sub Décio imperatóre Cameríno prǽerat, in porta civitátis prǽsidi se óbtulit. Quem ille, pollicitatiónibus ac terróribus diu tentátum, flagris cædi et vínculis astríngi iussit; e quibus mirabíliter ab Angelo solútus, lampádibus póstea adúritur, atque invérso ore, fumo suppósito, suspénditur. Eídem, ad prǽsidem íterum addúcto, omnes contúsi sunt dentes maxillǽque confráctæ, atque ita cæsus in sterquilínium deícitur. Sed inde ab Angelo eréptus, rursus stetit ante iúdicem; qui, Venántio adhuc loquénte, e tribunáli cécidit et in ea voce, Verus est Venántii Deus, nostros deos destrúite, exclámans exspirávit. Demum, post nova et exquisíta torménta, una cum áliis decem gloriósi certáminis cursum cervícibus abscíssis implévit. Quorum córpora christiáni honorífico loco sepeliérunt, quæ Cameríni, in ecclésia Venántio dicáta, cóndita sunt.
At the age of fifteen, Venantius of Camerino was denounced for his Christian religion to Antiochus, who was Prefect of Camerino under the Emperor Decius. Venantius presented himself to the prefect at the city gates. For a long time the prefect tempted him by means of promises and threats, then commanded that he be beaten and chained. Miraculously freed by an angel, Venantius was then burned with torches and suspended face down over a smoking fire. Led back again to the governor, he had all his teeth and jaws broken and, thus mutilated, he was thrown into a pit of dung. Rescued from this pit by an Angel, he stood once more before the judge, who, even as Venantius was speaking to him, fell from his tribunal, crying out, “Venantius, his God is true, take away our gods!” and expired. At length, after new and exquisite torments, Venantius was beheaded, along with ten others, and so finished the course of his glorious struggle. The Christians gave honourable burial to the bodies of these martyrs, who now rest in Camerino, in the church dedicated to Venantius.
Orémus.
Deus, qui hunc diem beáti Venántii Mártyris tui triúmpho consecrásti: † exáudi preces pópuli tui et præsta: † ut, qui eius mérita venerámur, fídei constántiam imitémur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.