IV. classis

Feria V infra Hebdomadam post Ascensionem

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Ad Nonam

Incipit

Hymnus

1. O strength and stay upholding all creation, Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide, Yet day by day the light in due gradation From hour to hour through all its changes guide: 2. Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending, An eve untouched by shadows of decay, The brightness of a holy death-bed blending With dawning glories of th’ eternal day. 3. Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving, And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word, Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living Now and to endless ages art adored. Amen.

Psalmus 74

We will praise thee, O God: * we will praise, and we will call upon thy name.

  1. Narrábimus mirabília tua: * cum accépero tempus, ego justítias judicábo.

    2. We will relate thy wondrous works: * when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

  2. Liquefácta est terra, et omnes qui hábitant in ea: * ego confirmávi colúmnas ejus.

    3. The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: * I have established the pillars thereof.

  3. Dixi iníquis: Nolíte iníque ágere: * et delinquéntibus: Nolíte exaltáre cornu:

    4. I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: * and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

  4. Nolíte extóllere in altum cornu vestrum: * nolíte loqui advérsus Deum iniquitátem.

    5. Lift not up your horn on high: * speak not iniquity against God.

  5. Quia neque ab Oriénte, neque ab Occidénte, neque a desértis móntibus: * quóniam Deus judex est.

    6. For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: * for God is the judge.

  6. Hunc humíliat, et hunc exáltat: * quia calix in manu Dómini vini meri plenus misto.

    7. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up: * for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture.

  7. Et inclinávit ex hoc in hoc: † verúmtamen fæx ejus non est exinaníta: * bibent omnes peccatóres terræ.

    8. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: * all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

  8. Ego autem annuntiábo in sǽculum: * cantábo Deo Jacob.

    9. But I will declare for ever: * I will sing to the God of Jacob.

  9. Et ómnia córnua peccatórum confríngam: * et exaltabúntur córnua justi.

    10. And I will break all the horns of sinners: * but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

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

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

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

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

Psalmus 75 (2,7)

In Judea God is known: * his name is great in Israel.

  1. Et factus est in pace locus ejus: * et habitátio ejus in Sion.

    2. And his place is in peace: * and his abode in Sion:

  2. Ibi confrégit poténtias árcuum: * scutum, gládium, et bellum.

    3. There hath he broken the powers of bows, * the shield, the sword, and the battle.

  3. Illúminans tu mirabíliter a móntibus ætérnis: * turbáti sunt omnes insipiéntes corde.

    4. Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills. * All the foolish of heart were troubled.

  4. Dormiérunt somnum suum: * et nihil invenérunt omnes viri divitiárum in mánibus suis.

    5. They have slept their sleep; * and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

  5. Ab increpatióne tua, Deus Jacob, * dormitavérunt qui ascendérunt equos.

    6. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, * they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

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

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

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

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

Psalmus 75 (8,13)

Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? * from that time thy wrath.

  1. De cælo audítum fecísti judícium: * terra trémuit et quiévit.

    2. Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: * the earth trembled and was still,

  2. Cum exsúrgeret in judícium Deus, * ut salvos fáceret omnes mansuétos terræ.

    3. When God arose in judgment, * to save all the meek of the earth.

  3. Quóniam cogitátio hóminis confitébitur tibi: * et relíquiæ cogitatiónis diem festum agent tibi.

    4. For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: * and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

  4. Vovéte, et réddite Dómino Deo vestro: * omnes, qui in circúitu ejus affértis múnera.

    5. Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: * all you that are round about him bring presents.

  5. Terríbili et ei qui aufert spíritum príncipum, * terríbili apud reges terræ.

    6. To him that is terrible, even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: * to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

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

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

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

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

Capitulum Responsorium Versus

Act. 1:11

Viri Galilǽi, quid statis aspiciéntes in cælum? † Hic Iesus qui assúmptus est a vobis in cælum, sic véniet, * quemádmodum vidístis eum eúntem in cælum.

Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven.



Oratio

Orémus.

Concéde, quǽsumus; omnípotens Deus: † ut, qui hodiérna die Unigénitum tuum, Redemptórem nostrum, ad cælos ascendísse crédimus; * ipsi quoque mente in cæléstibus habitémus.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that just as we do believe thine Only-Begotten Son, our Saviour, to have this day ascended into the heavens, so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with Him continually dwell.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

Conclusio