III. classis
Sabbato infra Hebdomadam II in Quadragesima
Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: S. Thomæ de Aquino Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris
Ad Matutinum
Incipit
Hymnus
1. The fast, as taught by holy lore, We keep in solemn course once more: The fast to all men known, and bound In forty days of yearly round. 2. The law and seers that were of old In diverse ways this Lent foretold, Which Christ, all seasons’ King and Guide, In after ages sanctified. 3. More sparing therefore let us make The words we speak, the food we take, Our sleep and mirth, —and closer barred Be every sense in holy guard. 4. Avoid the evil thoughts that roll Like waters o’er the heedless soul; Nor let the foe occasion find Our souls in slavery to bind. 5. In prayer together let us fall, And cry for mercy, one and all, And weep before the Judge’s feet, And his avenging wrath entreat. 6. Thy grace have we offended sore, By sins, O God, which we deplore; But pour upon us from on high, O pardoning One, thy clemency. 7. Remember thou, though frail we be, That yet thine handiwork are we; Nor let the honour of thy name Be by another put to shame. 8. Forgive the sin that we have wrought; Increase the good that we have sought: That we at length, our wanderings o'er, May please thee here and evermore. 9. Grant O thou Blessed Trinity, Grant, O Essential Unity, That this our fast of forty days May work our profit and thy praise. Amen.
Nocturnus I
Psalmus 104 (1,15)
The memory of thy testament * will live forever, O Lord our God.
Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: * declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
- Cantáte ei, et psállite ei: * narráte ómnia mirabília ejus.
- Laudámini in nómine sancto ejus: * lætétur cor quæréntium Dóminum.
- Quǽrite Dóminum, et confirmámini: * quǽrite fáciem ejus semper.
- Mementóte mirabílium ejus, quæ fecit: * prodígia ejus, et judícia oris ejus.
- Semen Abraham, servi ejus: * fílii Jacob, elécti ejus.
- Ipse Dóminus Deus noster: * in univérsa terra judícia ejus.
- Memor fuit in sǽculum testaménti sui: * verbi, quod mandávit in mille generatiónes:
- Quod dispósuit ad Abraham: * et juraménti sui ad Isaac:
- Et státuit illud Jacob in præcéptum: * et Israël in testaméntum ætérnum:
- Dicens: Tibi dabo terram Chánaan, * funículum hereditátis vestræ.
- Cum essent número brevi, * paucíssimi et íncolæ ejus:
- Et pertransiérunt de gente in gentem, * et de regno ad pópulum álterum.
- Non relíquit hóminem nocére eis: * et corrípuit pro eis reges.
- Nolíte tángere christos meos: * et in prophétis meis nolíte malignári.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: * relate all his wondrous works.
Glory ye in his holy name: * let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: * seek his face evermore.
Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; * his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
O ye seed of Abraham his servant; * ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
He is the Lord our God: * his judgments are in all the earth.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever: * the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Which he made to Abraham; * and his oath to Isaac:
And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, * and to Israel for an everlasting testament:
Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, * the lot of your inheritance.
When they were but a small number: * yea very few, and sojourners therein:
And they passed from nation to nation, * and from one kingdom to another people.
He suffered no man to hurt them: * and he reproved kings for their sakes.
Touch ye not my anointed: * and do no evil to my prophets.
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 memory of thy testament * will live forever, O Lord our God.
Psalmus 104 (16,27)
The Lord increased his people exceedingly * and strengthened them over their enemies.
And he called a famine upon the land: * and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.
- Misit ante eos virum: * in servum venúmdatus est Joseph.
- Humiliavérunt in compédibus pedes ejus, ferrum pertránsiit ánimam ejus * donec veníret verbum ejus.
- Elóquium Dómini inflammávit eum: * misit rex, et solvit eum; princeps populórum, et dimísit eum.
- Constítuit eum dóminum domus suæ: * et príncipem omnis possessiónis suæ:
- Ut erudíret príncipes ejus sicut semetípsum: * et senes ejus prudéntiam docéret.
- Et intrávit Israël in Ægýptum: * et Jacob áccola fuit in terra Cham.
- Et auxit pópulum suum veheménter: * et firmávit eum super inimícos ejus.
- Convértit cor eórum ut odírent pópulum ejus: * et dolum fácerent in servos ejus.
- Misit Móysen, servum suum: * Aaron, quem elégit ipsum.
- Pósuit in eis verba signórum suórum: * et prodigiórum in terra Cham.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
He sent a man before them: * Joseph, who was sold for a slave.
They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, * until his word came.
The word of the Lord inflamed him: * the king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.
He made him master of his house, * and ruler of all his possession.
That he might instruct his princes as himself, * and teach his ancients wisdom.
And Israel went into Egypt: * and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.
And he increased his people exceedingly: * and strengthened them over their enemies,
He turned their heart to hate his people: * and to deal deceitfully with his servants.
He sent Moses his servant: * Aaron the man whom he had chosen.
He gave them power to shew his signs, * and his wonders in the land of Cham.
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 increased his people exceedingly * and strengthened them over their enemies.
Psalmus 104 (28,45)
The Lord brought forth * his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.
He sent darkness, and made it obscure: * and grieved not his words.
- Convértit aquas eórum in sánguinem: * et occídit pisces eórum.
- Edidit terra eórum ranas: * in penetrálibus regum ipsórum.
- Dixit, et venit cœnomyía: * et cínifes in ómnibus fínibus eórum.
- Pósuit plúvias eórum grándinem: * ignem comburéntem in terra ipsórum.
- Et percússit víneas eórum, et ficúlneas eórum: * et contrívit lignum fínium eórum.
- Dixit, et venit locústa, et bruchus, * cujus non erat númerus:
- Et comédit omne fœnum in terra eórum: * et comédit omnem fructum terræ eórum.
- Et percússit omne primogénitum in terra eórum: * primítias omnis labóris eórum.
- Et edúxit eos cum argénto et auro: * et non erat in tríbubus eórum infírmus.
- Lætáta est Ægýptus in profectióne eórum: * quia incúbuit timor eórum super eos.
- Expándit nubem in protectiónem eórum: * et ignem ut lucéret eis per noctem.
- Petiérunt, et venit cotúrnix: * et pane cæli saturávit eos.
- Dirúpit petram et fluxérunt aquæ: * abiérunt in sicco flúmina;
- Quóniam memor fuit verbi sancti sui: * quod hábuit ad Abraham, púerum suum.
- Et edúxit pópulum suum in exsultatióne, * et eléctos suos in lætítia.
- Et dedit illis regiónes Géntium: * et labóres populórum possedérunt:
- Ut custódiant justificatiónes ejus, * et legem ejus requírant.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
He turned their waters into blood, * and destroyed their fish.
Their land brought forth frogs, * in the inner chambers of their kings.
He spoke, and there came diverse sorts of flies, * and sciniphs in all their coasts.
He gave them hail for rain, * a burning fire in the land.
And he destroyed their vineyards, and their fig trees: * and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.
He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, * of which there was no number.
And they devoured all the grass in their land, * and consumed all the fruit of their ground.
And he slew all the firstborn in their land: * the firstfruits of all their labour.
And he brought them out with silver and gold: * and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.
Egypt was glad when they departed: * for the fear of them lay upon them.
He spread a cloud for their protection, * and fire to give them light in the night.
They asked, and the quail came: * and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
He opened the rock, and waters flowed: * rivers ran down in the dry land.
Because he remembered his holy word, * which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.
And he brought forth his people with joy, * and his chosen with gladness.
And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: * and they possessed the labours of the people:
That they might observe his justifications, * and seek after his law.
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 brought forth * his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.
Psalmus 105 (1,15)
The Lord saved them * for his own name's sake.
Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Quis loquétur poténtias Dómini, * audítas fáciet omnes laudes ejus?
- Beáti, qui custódiunt judícium, * et fáciunt justítiam in omni témpore.
- Meménto nostri, Dómine, in beneplácito pópuli tui: * vísita nos in salutári tuo:
- Ad vidéndum in bonitáte electórum tuórum, ad lætándum in lætítia gentis tuæ: * ut laudéris cum hereditáte tua.
- Peccávimus cum pátribus nostris: * injúste égimus, iniquitátem fécimus.
- Patres nostri in Ægýpto non intellexérunt mirabília tua: * non fuérunt mémores multitúdinis misericórdiæ tuæ.
- Et irritavérunt ascendéntes in mare, * Mare Rubrum.
- Et salvávit eos propter nomen suum: * ut notam fáceret poténtiam suam.
- Et incrépuit Mare Rubrum, et exsiccátum est, * et dedúxit eos in abýssis sicut in desérto.
- Et salvávit eos de manu odiéntium: * et redémit eos de manu inimíci.
- Et opéruit aqua tribulántes eos: * unus ex eis non remánsit.
- Et credidérunt verbis ejus: * et laudavérunt laudem ejus.
- Cito fecérunt, oblíti sunt óperum ejus: * et non sustinuérunt consílium ejus.
- Et concupiérunt concupiscéntiam in desérto: * et tentavérunt Deum in inaquóso.
- Et dedit eis petitiónem ipsórum: * et misit saturitátem in ánimas eórum.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? * who shall set forth all his praises?
Blessed are they that keep judgment, * and do justice at all times.
Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: * visit us with thy salvation.
That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: * that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.
We have sinned with our fathers: * we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: * they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies:
And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, * even the Red Sea.
And he saved them for his own name’s sake: * that he might make his power known.
And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: * and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: * and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
And the water covered them that afflicted them: * there was not one of them left.
And they believed his words: * and they sang his praises.
They had quickly done, they forgot his works: * and they waited not for his counsels.
And they coveted their desire in the desert: * and they tempted God in the place without water.
And he gave them their request: * and sent fulness into their souls.
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 saved them * for his own name's sake.
Psalmus 105 (16,31)
They forgot God * who saved them.
And they provoked Moses in the camp, * Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
- Apérta est terra, et deglutívit Dathan: * et opéruit super congregatiónem Abiron.
- Et exársit ignis in synagóga eórum: * flamma combússit peccatóres.
- Et fecérunt vítulum in Horeb: * et adoravérunt scúlptile.
- Et mutavérunt glóriam suam * in similitúdinem vítuli comedéntis fœnum.
- Oblíti sunt Deum, qui salvávit eos, * qui fecit magnália in Ægýpto, mirabília in terra Cham: terribília in Mari Rubro.
- Et dixit ut dispérderet eos: * si non Móyses, eléctus ejus, stetísset in confractióne in conspéctu ejus:
- Ut avérteret iram ejus ne dispérderet eos: * et pro níhilo habuérunt terram desiderábilem:
- Non credidérunt verbo ejus, et murmuravérunt in tabernáculis suis: * non exaudiérunt vocem Dómini.
- Et elevávit manum suam super eos: * ut prostérneret eos in desérto:
- Et ut dejíceret semen eórum in natiónibus: * et dispérgeret eos in regiónibus.
- Et initiáti sunt Beélphegor: * et comedérunt sacrifícia mortuórum.
- Et irritavérunt eum in adinventiónibus suis: * et multiplicáta est in eis ruína.
- Et stetit Phínees, et placávit: * et cessávit quassátio.
- Et reputátum est ei in justítiam: * in generatiónem et generatiónem usque in sempitérnum.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: * and covered the congregation of Abiron.
And a fire was kindled in their congregation: * the flame burned the wicked.
They made also a calf in Horeb: * and they adored the graven thing.
And they changed their glory * into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.
They forgot God, who saved them, * who had done great things in Egypt, wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
And he said that he would destroy them: * had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach:
To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them; * and they set at nought the desirable land.
They believed not his word, and they murmured in their tents: * they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
And he lifted up his hand over them: * to overthrow them in the desert;
And to cast down their seed among the nations, * and to scatter them in the countries.
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: * and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
And they provoked him with their inventions: * and destruction was multiplied among them.
Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: * and the slaughter ceased.
And it was reputed to him unto justice, * to generation and generation for evermore.
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.
They forgot God * who saved them.
Psalmus 105 (32,48)
And he saw when they were in tribulation * and he heard their prayer.
They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: * and Moses was afflicted for their sakes: because they exasperated his spirit.
- Et distínxit in lábiis suis: * non disperdidérunt Gentes, quas dixit Dóminus illis.
- Et commísti sunt inter Gentes, et didicérunt ópera eórum: et serviérunt sculptílibus eórum: * et factum est illis in scándalum.
- Et immolavérunt fílios suos, * et fílias suas dæmóniis.
- Et effudérunt sánguinem innocéntem: * sánguinem filiórum suórum et filiárum suárum, quas sacrificavérunt sculptílibus Chánaan.
- Et infécta est terra in sanguínibus, et contamináta est in opéribus eórum: * et fornicáti sunt in adinventiónibus suis.
- Et irátus est furóre Dóminus in pópulum suum: * et abominátus est hereditátem suam.
- Et trádidit eos in manus Géntium: * et domináti sunt eórum qui odérunt eos.
- Et tribulavérunt eos inimíci eórum, et humiliáti sunt sub mánibus eórum: * sæpe liberávit eos.
- Ipsi autem exacerbavérunt eum in consílio suo: * et humiliáti sunt in iniquitátibus suis.
- Et vidit, cum tribularéntur: * et audívit oratiónem eórum.
- Et memor fuit testaménti sui: * et pœnítuit eum secúndum multitúdinem misericórdiæ suæ.
- Et dedit eos in misericórdias * in conspéctu ómnium qui céperant eos.
- Salvos nos fac, Dómine, Deus noster: * et cóngrega nos de natiónibus:
- Ut confiteámur nómini sancto tuo: * et gloriémur in laude tua.
- Benedíctus Dóminus, Deus Israël, a sǽculo et usque in sǽculum: * et dicet omnis pópulus: Fiat, fiat.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
And he distinguished with his lips; * they did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.
And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: and served their idols, * and it became a stumblingblock to them.
And they sacrificed their sons, * and their daughters to devils.
And they shed innocent blood: * the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan.
And the land was polluted with blood, and was defiled with their works: * and they went aside after their own inventions.
And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: * and he abhorred his inheritance.
And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: * and they that hated them had dominion over them.
And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands: * many times did he deliver them.
But they provoked him with their counsel: * and they were brought low by their iniquities.
And he saw when they were in tribulation: * and he heard their prayer.
And he was mindful of his covenant: * and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
And he gave them unto mercies, * in the sight of all those that had made them captives.
Save us, O Lord, our God: * and gather us from among nations:
That we may give thanks to thy holy name, * and may glory in thy praise.
Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: * and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.
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.
And he saw when they were in tribulation * and he heard their prayer.
Psalmus 106 (1,14)
Then they cried to the Lord * and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Dicant qui redémpti sunt a Dómino, quos redémit de manu inimíci: * et de regiónibus congregávit eos:
- A solis ortu, et occásu: * ab aquilóne, et mari.
- Erravérunt in solitúdine in inaquóso: * viam civitátis habitáculi non invenérunt.
- Esuriéntes, et sitiéntes: * ánima eórum in ipsis defécit.
- Et clamavérunt ad Dóminum cum tribularéntur: * et de necessitátibus eórum erípuit eos.
- Et dedúxit eos in viam rectam: * ut irent in civitátem habitatiónis.
- Confiteántur Dómino misericórdiæ ejus: * et mirabília ejus fíliis hóminum.
- Quia satiávit ánimam inánem: * et ánimam esuriéntem satiávit bonis.
- Sedéntes in ténebris, et umbra mortis: * vinctos in mendicitáte et ferro.
- Quia exacerbavérunt elóquia Dei: * et consílium Altíssimi irritavérunt.
- Et humiliátum est in labóribus cor eórum: * infirmáti sunt, nec fuit qui adjuváret.
- Et clamavérunt ad Dóminum cum tribularéntur: * et de necessitátibus eórum liberávit eos.
- Et edúxit eos de ténebris, et umbra mortis: * et víncula eórum disrúpit.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: * and gathered out of the countries.
From the rising and the setting of the sun, * from the north and from the sea.
They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: * they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
They were hungry and thirsty: * their soul fainted in them.
And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: * and he delivered them out of their distresses.
And he led them into the right way: * that they might go to a city of habitation.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: * and his wonderful works to the children of men.
For he hath satisfied the empty soul, * and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: * bound in want and in iron.
Because they had exasperated the words of God: * and provoked the counsel of the most High:
And their heart was humbled with labours: * they were weakened, and there was none to help them.
Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: * and he delivered them out of their distresses.
And he brought them out of darkness, * and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.
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.
Then they cried to the Lord * and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalmus 106 (15,30)
These have seen * the works of the Lord, and his wonders.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, * and his wonderful works to the children of men.
- Quia contrívit portas ǽreas: * et vectes férreos confrégit.
- Suscépit eos de via iniquitátis eórum: * propter injustítias enim suas humiliáti sunt.
- Omnem escam abomináta est ánima eórum: * et appropinquavérunt usque ad portas mortis.
- Et clamavérunt ad Dóminum cum tribularéntur: * et de necessitátibus eórum liberávit eos.
- Misit verbum suum, et sanávit eos: * et erípuit eos de interitiónibus eórum.
- Et sacríficent sacrifícium laudis: * et annúntient ópera ejus in exsultatióne.
- Qui descéndunt mare in návibus, * faciéntes operatiónem in aquis multis.
- Ipsi vidérunt ópera Dómini, * et mirabília ejus in profúndo.
- Dixit, et stetit spíritus procéllæ: * et exaltáti sunt fluctus ejus.
- Ascéndunt usque ad cælos, et descéndunt usque ad abýssos: * ánima eórum in malis tabescébat.
- Turbáti sunt, et moti sunt sicut ébrius: * et omnis sapiéntia eórum devoráta est.
- Et clamavérunt ad Dóminum cum tribularéntur: * et de necessitátibus eórum edúxit eos.
- Et státuit procéllam ejus in auram: * et siluérunt fluctus ejus.
- Et lætáti sunt quia siluérunt: * et dedúxit eos in portum voluntátis eórum.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Because he hath broken gates of brass, * and burst the iron bars.
He took them out of the way of their iniquity: * for they were brought low for their injustices.
Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: * and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.
And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: * and he delivered them out of their distresses.
He sent his word, and healed them: * and delivered them from their destructions.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: * and his wonderful works to the children of men
And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: * and declare his works with joy.
They that go down to the sea in ships, * doing business in the great waters:
These have seen the works of the Lord, * and his wonders in the deep.
He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: * and the waves thereof were lifted up.
They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: * their soul pined away with evils.
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; * and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: * and he brought them out of their distresses.
And he turned the storm into a breeze: * and its waves were still.
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.
These have seen * the works of the Lord, and his wonders.
Psalmus 106 (31,43)
The just see and rejoice * and understand the mercy of the Lord.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, * and his wonderful works to the children of men.
- Et exáltent eum in ecclésia plebis: * et in cáthedra seniórum laudent eum.
- Pósuit flúmina in desértum: * et éxitus aquárum in sitim.
- Terram fructíferam in salsúginem: * a malítia inhabitántium in ea.
- Pósuit desértum in stagna aquárum: * et terram sine aqua in éxitus aquárum.
- Et collocávit illic esuriéntes: * et constituérunt civitátem habitatiónis.
- Et seminavérunt agros, et plantavérunt víneas: * et fecérunt fructum nativitátis.
- Et benedíxit eis, et multiplicáti sunt nimis: * et juménta eórum non minorávit.
- Et pauci facti sunt: * et vexáti sunt a tribulatióne malórum, et dolóre.
- Effúsa est contémptio super príncipes: * et erráre fecit eos in ínvio, et non in via.
- Et adjúvit páuperem de inópia: * et pósuit sicut oves famílias.
- Vidébunt recti, et lætabúntur: * et omnis iníquitas oppilábit os suum.
- Quis sápiens et custódiet hæc? * et intélliget misericórdias Dómini.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
And let them exalt him in the church of the people: * and praise him in the chair of the ancients.
He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: * and the sources of water into dry ground:
A fruitful land into barrenness, * for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, * and a dry land into water springs.
And hath placed there the hungry; * and they made a city for their habitation.
And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: * and they yielded fruit of birth.
And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: * and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.
Then they were brought to be few: * and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: *and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.
And he helped the poor out of poverty: * and made him families like a flock of sheep.
The just shall see, and shall rejoice, * and all iniquity shall stop their mouth.
Who is wise, and will keep these things: * and will understand the mercies 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.
The just see and rejoice * and understand the mercy of the Lord.
Versus
Pater
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. Absolutio. A vínculis peccatórum nostrórum absólvat nos omnípotens et miséricors Dóminus.
℟. Amen.
Evangélica léctio sit nobis salus et protéctio.
Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam
Luc 15:11-32
In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus pharisǽis et scribis parábolam istam: Homo quidam hábuit duos fílios: et dixit adolescéntior ex illis patri: Pater, da mihi portiónem substántiæ, quæ me contíngit. Et réliqua.
In that time, Jesus said to the pharisees and scribes in parable: A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And so on.
Lib. 8 Comment. in cap. 15 Lucæ, post initium
Vides, quod divínum patrimónium peténtibus datur. Nec putes culpam patris, quod adolescentióri dedit. Nulla Dei regno infírma ætas: nec fides gravátur annis. Ipse certe se iudicávit idóneum, qui popóscit. Atque útinam non recessísset a patre, impediméntum nescísset ætátis. Sed posteáquam domum pátriam derelínquens péregre proféctus est, cœpit egére. Mérito ergo prodégit patrimónium, qui recéssit ab Ecclésia.
Thou seest how that the heavenly goods are given to such as seek them. Neither oughtest thou to think the father to blame, because he gave to his younger son. In the kingdom of God there is no age of weakness, neither doth faith wax infirm with years. He, surely, who asked, deemed himself of sufficient age. And would that he had not left his father! then had he been ignorant of the obstacle of his age! But after that he had left his father's house, and had gone into a far country, he began to be in want. Well is he said to have wasted his substance, who hath cut himself off from the Church!
Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
Péregre proféctus est in regiónem longínquam. Quid longínquius, quam a se recédere: nec regiónibus, sed móribus separári: stúdiis discrétum esse, non terris; et quasi interfúso luxúriæ sæculáris æstu, divórtia habére sanctórum? Etenim qui se a Christo séparat, exsul est pátriæ, civis est mundi. Sed nos non sumus ádvenæ atque peregríni, sed cives sumus Sanctórum, et doméstici Dei. Qui enim erámus longe, facti sumus prope in sánguine Christi. Non invideámus de longínqua regióne remeántibus: quia et nos fúimus in regióne longínqua, sicut Isaías docet. Sic enim habes: Qui sedébant in regióne umbræ mortis, lux orta est illis. Régio ergo longínqua, umbra est mortis.
He took his journey into a far country. No man can go farther than to abandon his own better self, to leave, not his country, but his morals, and, as it were, in an hideous fever of lust after the world, to divorce himself from the ties that bind him to holy things. Yea, he that turneth his back on Christ, banisheth himself from his Fatherland, and becometh a citizen of the world. But we are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God, since we who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the Blood of Christ. (Eph. ii. 19, 13.) Let us not envy the pleasures of them who remain in the far country. We too have once been there, but, as saith Isaiah, they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. (ix. 2.) And that far country is the land of the shadow of death.
Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
Nos autem, quibus spíritus ante fáciem Christus est Dóminus, in umbra vívimus Christi. Et ídeo dicit Ecclésia: In umbra eius concupívi, et sedi. Ille ígitur vivéndo luxurióse, consúmpsit ómnia ornaménta natúræ. Unde tu, qui accepísti imáginem Dei, qui habes similitúdinem eius, noli eam irrationábili fœditáte consúmere. Opus Dei es: noli ligno dícere, Pater meus es tu: ne accípias similitúdinem ligni, quia scriptum est: Símiles illis fiant qui fáciunt ea.
But we to whom the Lord Christ is the breath of life, are alive under the shadow of Christ. And therefore it is that the Church saith I sat down under His shadow with great delight. (Cant. ii. 3.) The prodigal son by riotous living wasted all the gifts of nature. Take warning, O thou who art made in the image and likeness of God, lest thou waste the same by brutish wallowing. Thou art the work of God; say not to a stock: Thou art my father, (Jeii. 27,) lest thou grow into the likeness of a stock, as it is written: They that make them are like unto them. (Ps. cxiii. 16.)
Oratio
Orémus.
Da, quǽsumus; Dómine, * nostris efféctum ieiúniis salutárem: † ut castigátio carnis assúmpta, ad nostrárum vegetatiónem tránseat animárum.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that our Fasts may bring forth their fruit unto salvation, that so the affliction which we lay upon our bodies may quicken our souls unto spiritual increase.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
Conclusio
