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O Lord, wash me * yet more from my iniquity.
Have mercy on me, O God, * according to thy great mercy.
And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies * blot out my iniquity.
Wash me yet more from my iniquity, * and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my iniquity, * and my sin is always before me.
To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: * that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
For behold I was conceived in iniquities; * and in sins did my mother conceive me.
For behold thou hast loved truth: * the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.
Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: * thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: * and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
Turn away thy face from my sins, * and blot out all my iniquities.
Create a clean heart in me, O God: * and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
Cast me not away from thy face; * and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, * and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.
I will teach the unjust thy ways: * and the wicked shall be converted to thee.
Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: * and my tongue shall extol thy justice.
O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: * and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: * with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.
A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: * a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; * that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: * then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.
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.
O Lord, wash me * yet more from my iniquity.
O Lord, * thou wilt pardon our transgressions.
A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: * and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem.
O hear my prayer: * all flesh shall come to thee.
The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: * and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.
Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: * he shall dwell in thy courts.
We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple, * wonderful in justice.
Hear us, O God our saviour, * who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.
Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power: * who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves.
The Gentiles shall be troubled, and they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: * thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.
Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; * thou hast many ways enriched it.
The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food; * for so is its preparation.
Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; * it shall spring up and rejoice in its showers.
Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: * and thy fields shall be filled with plenty.
The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: * and the hills shall be girded about with joy.
The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: * they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.
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.
O Lord, * thou wilt pardon our transgressions.
I walked in the innocence * of my heart, O Lord.
Mercy and judgment * I will sing to thee, O Lord:
I will sing, and I will understand in the unspotted way, * when thou shalt come to me.
I walked in the innocence of my heart, * in the midst of my house.
I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: * I hated the workers of iniquities.
The perverse heart did not cleave to me: * and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.
The man that in private detracted his neighbour, * him did I persecute.
With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, * I would not eat.
My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: * the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.
He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: * he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.
In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: * that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.
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 walked in the innocence * of my heart, O Lord.
My heart hath rejoiced * in the Lord, he humbleth and he exalteth.
My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, * and my horn is exalted in my God:
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies: * because I have joyed in thy salvation.
There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, * and there is none strong like our God.
Do not multiply to speak lofty things, * boasting:
Let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, * and to him are thoughts prepared.
The bow of the mighty is overcome, * and the weak are girt with strength.
They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: * and the hungry are filled,
So that the barren hath borne many: * and she that had many children is weakened.
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, * he bringeth down to hell and bringeth back again.
The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, * he humbleth and he exalteth.
He raiseth up the needy from the dust, * and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill:
That he may sit with princes, * and hold the throne of glory.
For the poles of the earth are the Lord’s, * and upon them he hath set the world.
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness, * because no man shall prevail by his own strength.
The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: * and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens.
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, * and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.
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.
My heart hath rejoiced * in the Lord, he humbleth and he exalteth.
Praise * the Lord my soul, he lifts up those who fall, and loves the just.
Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: * I will sing to my God as long as I shall be.
Put not your trust in princes: * in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.
His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: * in that day all their thoughts shall perish.
Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: * who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.
Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: * who giveth food to the hungry.
The Lord looseth them that are fettered: * the Lord enlighteneth the blind.
The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: * the Lord loveth the just.
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: * and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, * 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.
Praise * the Lord my soul, he lifts up those who fall, and loves the just.
Nox præcéssit, dies autem appropinquávit. † Abiciámus ergo ópera tenebrárum, et induámur arma lucis. * Sicut in die honéste ambulémus.
The night is passed, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day.
1. Day is breaking, dawn is bright: Hence, vain shadows of the night! Mists that dim our mortal sight, Christ is come! Depart! 2. Darkness routed lifts her wings As the radiance upwards springs: Through the world of wakened things Life and colour dart. 3. Thee, O Christ, alone we know: Singing even in our woe, With pure hearts to thee we go: On our senses shine! 4. In thy beams be purged away All that leads our thoughts astray! Through our spirits, King of day, Pour thy light divine! 5. Unto God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Three in One, One in Three, be glory done, Now and evermore. Amen.
When ye fast, * be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance.
Blessed be the Lord + God of Israel; * because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:
And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, * in the house of David his servant:
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, * who are from the beginning:
Salvation from our enemies, * and from the hand of all that hate us:
To perform mercy to our fathers, * and to remember his holy testament,
The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, * that he would grant to us,
That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, * we may serve him without fear,
In holiness and justice before him, * all our days.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: * for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, * unto the remission of their sins:
Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, * in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:
To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: * to direct our feet into the way of peace.
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.
When ye fast, * be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance.
« Pater Noster » dicitur totum secreto.
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. Amen.
Orémus.
Præsta, Dómine, fidélibus tuis: † ut ieiuniórum veneránda solémnia, et cóngrua pietáte suscípiant, et secúra devotióne percúrrant.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Grant, O Lord, to thy faithful people, that they may undertake with fitting piety the venerable solemnities of fasting, and complete them with steadfast devotion.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.