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Tempora: Feria VI infra Hebdomadam II post Epiphaniam
1. This the confessor of the Lord, whose triumph Now all the faithful celebrate, with gladness On this feast day year by year receiveth Merited honors. 2. Saintly and prudent, modest in behaviour, Peaceful and sober, chaste was he, and lowly. While that life’s vigour, coursing through his members, Quickened his being. 3. Sick ones of old time, to his tomb resorting, Sorely by ailments manifold afflicted, Oft-times have welcomed health and strength returning, At his petition. 4. Whence we in chorus gladly do him honour, Chanting his praises with devout affection, That in his merits we may have a portion, Now and forever. 5. His be the glory, power and salvation, Who over all things reigneth in the highest, Earth’s mighty fabric ruling and directing, Onely and Trinal. Amen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
God built * his sanctuary in the earth.
God heard, and despised them, * and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
Si gloriári opórtet (non éxpedit quidem) véniam autem ad visiónes, et revelatiónes Dómini. Scio hóminem in Christo ante annos quatuórdecim (sive in córpore néscio, sive extra corpus, néscio, Deus scit:) raptum huiúsmodi usque ad tértium cælum. Et scio huiúsmodi hóminem, (sive in córpore, sive extra corpus, néscio, Deus scit:) Quóniam raptus est in paradísum: et audívit arcána verba, quæ non licet hómini loqui.
If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth): That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter.
Cuius festum cólimus, ipse intercédat pro nobis ad Dóminum.
Pro huiúsmodi gloriábor: pro me autem nihil gloriábor, nisi in infirmitátibus meis. Nam, et si volúero gloriári, non ero insípiens: veritátem enim dicam: parco autem, ne quis me exístimet supra id, quod videt in me, aut áliquid audit ex me. Et ne magnitúdo revelatiónum extóllat me, datus est mihi stímulus carnis meæ ángelus sátanæ, qui me colaphízet. Propter quod ter Dóminum rogávi, ut discéderet a me: Et dixit mihi: Súfficit tibi grátia mea: nam virtus in infirmitáte perfícitur.
For such an one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. For which thing thrice I besought the Lord, that it might depart from me. And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity.
Libénter ígitur gloriábor in infirmitátibus meis, ut inhábitet in me virtus Christi. Propter quod pláceo mihi in infirmitátibus meis, in contuméliis, in necessitátibus, in persecutiónibus, in angústiis pro Christo: Cum enim infírmor, tunc potens sum. Factus sum insípiens, vos me coëgístis. Ego enim a vobis débui commendári: nihil enim minus fui ab iis, qui sunt supra modum, Apóstoli: tamétsi nihil sum.
Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful. I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.
Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
Raymúndus Barcinonénsis, ex nóbili família de Péñafort, Bonóniæ pietátis offíciis ac pontifício civilíque iuri sédulo incúmbens ac doctóris láurea insignítus, ibídem sacros cánones magna cum laude est interpretátus. Mox Barcinonénsis ecclésiæ canonicátu et præpositúra ab antístite Berengário ornátus, virtúte, doctrína et morum suavitáte præfúlsit, ac Deíparæ Vírginis cultum pro víribus auxit. Annum agens quadragésimum quintum inter fratres Prædicatóres adscítus, auctor fuit, ut sanctus Petrus Noláscus (cuius ipse confessiónes audiébat) una cum Iacóbo primo Aragóniæ rege, órdinem beátæ Maríæ de mercéde redemptiónis captivórum fundáverit, cui ipse Raymúndus probatíssimas vivéndi leges præscrípsit. Iussu Gregórii noni Romæ summórum Pontíficum decréta in unum Decretálium volúmen redégit. Tarraconénsi archiepiscopátu constantíssime recusáto, et magistério generáli órdinis Prædicatórum, quod per biénnium sanctíssime administráverat, dimísso, prope centenárius obdormívit in Dómino, anno salútis millésimo ducentésimo septuagésimo quinto. Quem Clemens octávus in Sanctórum númerum rétulit.
Raymond of Barcelona, of the noble family of Pennafort, zealously applied himself at Bologna to works of charity and to the study of ecclesiastical and civil law. When he had received his doctorate, he taught there, gaining great praise for interpreting the sacred canons. Soon Bishop Berengarius honoured him with the offices of canon and provost of the church of Barcelona, and he gave a shining example by his virtue, teaching and gentle ways, also striving with all his power to promote the cult of the Virgin Mother of God. At the age of forty-five, he was professed in the Order of Friars Preachers. It was at his instigation that St. Peter Nolasco, who was his penitent, together with James I, King of Aragon, founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the Redemption of Captives, and Raymond himself drew up admirable rules for its way of life. At the command of Gregory IX, he was summoned to Rome to collect the decrees of the various popes into one volume, called the Decretals. He consistently refused the archbishopric of Tarragona, and he resigned the office of master general of the Order of Preachers after exercising it in a most holy manner for two years. He was nearly an hundred years old when he fell asleep in the Lord in 1275. Clement VIII enrolled his name among those of the Saints.
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Raymúndum pœniténtiæ sacraménti insígnem minístrum elegísti, et per maris undas mirabíliter traduxísti: † concéde; ut eius intercessióne dignos pœniténtiæ fructus fácere, * et ad ætérnæ salútis portum perveníre 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 choose the blessed Raymond to be an eminent minister of the Sacrament of Penance, and in a wonderful manner didst make him to pass over the waves of the sea, grant unto us, at his petition, the grace to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, and in the end to attain unto the harbour of eternal salvation.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.