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1. O Three in One, and One in Three, Who rulest all things mightily: Bow down to hear the songs of praise Which, freed from bonds of sleep, we raise. 2. While lingers yet the peace of night, We rouse us from our slumbers light: That might of instant prayer may win The healing balm for wounds of sin. 3. If, by the wiles of Satan caught, This night-time we have sinned in aught, That sin Thy glorious power to-day, From heaven descending, cleanse away. 4. Let naught impure our bodies stain, No laggard sloth our souls detain, No taint of sin our spirits know, To chill the fervor of their glow. 5. Wherefore, Redeemer grant that we Fulfilled with thine own light may be: That, in our course, from day to day, By no misdeed we fall away. 6. Grant this, O Father ever One With Christ, thy sole-begotten Son, And Holy Ghost, whom all adore, Reigning and blest forevermore. 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:
Evangélica léctio sit nobis salus et protéctio.
In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus discípulis suis: Audístis quia dictum est: Díliges próximum tuum, et ódio habébis inimícum tuum. Et réliqua.
In that time, Jesus said to his disciples: You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy. And so on.
Ego autem dico vobis: Dilígite inimícos vestros; benefácite his qui odérunt vos. Multi præcépta Dei, imbecillitáte sua, non Sanctórum víribus æstimántes, putant esse impossibília quæ præcépta sunt: et dicunt suffícere virtútibus, non odísse inimícos: céterum dilígere, plus prǽcipi, quam humána natúra patiátur. Sciéndum est ergo, Christum non impossibília præcípere, sed perfécta. Quæ fecit David in Saul, et in Absalom: Stéphanus quoque Martyr pro inimícis lapidántibus deprecátus est: et Paulus anáthema cupit esse pro persecutóribus suis. Hæc autem Iesus et dócuit et fecit, dicens: Pater, ignósce illis: quod enim fáciunt, nésciunt.
But I say unto you: “Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you.” There are many who judge of the commandments of the Lord by their own weakness, and not by the strength of His Saints; and so deem Him to have commanded things impossible. These are they who think that not to hate their enemies is all that they are able to do; and that to command us to love them, is to command more than man's nature can bear. It behoveth them to know, that this which Christ commandeth is not impossible, albeit perfect. This is what David did in respect of Saul and Absalom; the martyr Stephen also prayed for his enemies, even while they were stoning him; and Paul could wish that himself were accursed from Christ for his persecutors. (Rom. ix. 3.) And this, Jesus Himself did, as well as taught, when He said: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” (Luke xxiii. 34.)
Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
Ut sitis fílii Patris vestri, qui in cælis est. Si Dei præcépta custódiens, fílius quis effícitur Dei: ergo non est natúra fílius, sed arbítrio suo. Cum ergo facis eleemósynam, noli tuba cánere ante te, sicut hypócritæ fáciunt in synagógis et in vicis, ut honorificéntur ab homínibus. Qui tuba canit, eleemósynam fáciens, hypócrita est. Qui ieiúnans demolítur fáciem suam, ut ventris inanitátem monstret in vultu, et hic hypócrita est. Qui in synagógis et in ángulis plateárum orat, ut videátur ab homínibus, hypócrita est.
That ye may be the children of your Father Which is in heaven. If he that doeth the commandments of God becometh a son of God, then is he not a son by nature, but by his own choice. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. He that soundeth a trumpet before him, when he doeth alms, is an hypocrite. He that disfigureth his face, when he fasteth, to the end that he may show the emptiness of his belly in his looks, he also is an hypocrite.
Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
Ex quibus ómnibus collígitur hypócritas esse, qui quódlibet fáciunt ut ab homínibus glorificéntur. Mihi vidétur et ille, qui dicit fratri suo: Dimítte ut tollam festúcam de óculo tuo: nam propter glóriam hoc fácere vidétur, ut ipse iustus esse videátur. Unde dícitur ei a Dómino: Hypócrita, éice primum trabem de óculo tuo. Non ítaque virtus, sed causa virtútis apud Deum mercédem habet. Et si a recta via páululum declináveris, non ínterest, utrum ad déxteram vadas, an ad sinístram, cum verum iter amíseris.
He that prayeth in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that he may be seen of men, is an hypocrite. From all which, we gather that an hypocrite is one which doeth anything that he may have glory of men. To me also it seemeth that he which saith unto his brother: “Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye”, (vii. 4) that he also is an hypocrite; for he proposeth to take upon him that office for vainglory's sake, that he himself may appear righteous. Therefore the Lord saith unto him: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye.” Thus we see that it is, not the doing good, but the motive which moveth us to do good, which will meet with reward from God; and, if thou stray but a little from the right way, it is of small moment whether thou wander to the right hand or to the left, when once thou hast lost the straight path.
Orémus.
Inchoáta ieiúnia, quǽsumus; Dómine, * benígno favóre proséquere: † ut observántiam, quam corporáliter exhibémus, méntibus étiam sincéris exercére valeámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Further with thy gracious favor, we beseech thee, O Lord, the fasts which we have begun, that we may be able to practice the bodily fasts which we keep, with sincere minds.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.