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Tempora: Sabbato post Ascensionem
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.
Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: * declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
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.
And he called a famine upon the land: * and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.
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.
He sent darkness, and made it obscure: * and grieved not his words.
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.
Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.
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.
And they provoked Moses in the camp, * Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
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 provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: * and Moses was afflicted for their sakes: because they exasperated his spirit.
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.
Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.
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.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, * and his wonderful works to the children of men.
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.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, * and his wonderful works to the children of men.
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.
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.
Hanc ecce vobis, caríssimi, secúndam scribo epístolam, in quibus vestram éxcito in commonitióne sincéram mentem: Ut mémores sitis eórum, quæ prædíxi, verbórum, a sanctis prophétis et apostolórum vestrórum, præceptórum Dómini et Salvatóris. Hoc primum sciéntes, quod vénient in novíssimis diébus in deceptióne illusóres, iuxta próprias concupiscéntias ambulántes, Dicéntes: Ubi est promíssio, aut advéntus eius? ex quo enim patres dormiérunt, ómnia sic perséverant ab inítio creatúræ. Latet enim eos hoc voléntes, quod cæli erant prius, et terra de aqua, et per aquam consístens Dei verbo: Per quæ, ille tunc mundus aqua inundátus, périit. Cæli autem, qui nunc sunt, et terra eódem verbo repósiti sunt, igni reserváti in diem iudícii, et perditiónis impiórum hóminum.
Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour. Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God. Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.
Cuius festum cólimus, ipse intercédat pro nobis ad Dóminum.
Unum vero hoc non láteat vos, caríssimi, quia unus dies apud Dóminum sicut mille anni, et mille anni sicut dies unus. Non tardat Dóminus promissiónem suam, sicut quidam exístimant: sed patiénter agit propter vos, nolens áliquos períre, sed omnes ad pœniténtiam revérti. Advéniet autem dies Dómini ut fur: in quo cæli magno ímpetu tránsient, eleménta vero calóre solvéntur, terra autem et quæ in ipsa sunt ópera, exuréntur. Cum ígitur hæc ómnia dissolvénda sunt, quales opórtet vos esse in sanctis conversatiónibus, et pietátibus, Exspectántes, et properántes in advéntum diéi Dómini, per quem cæli ardéntes solvéntur, et eleménta ignis ardóre tabéscent? Novos vero cælos, et novam terram secúndum promíssa ipsíus exspectámus, in quibus iustítia hábitat.
But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance. But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up. Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness? Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat? But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.
Propter quod, caríssimi, hæc exspectántes, satágite immaculáti, et invioláti ei inveníri in pace: Et Dómini nostri longanimitátem, salútem arbitrémini: sicut et caríssimus frater noster Paulus secúndum datam sibi sapiéntiam scripsit vobis, Sicut et in ómnibus epístolis, loquens in eis de his in quibus sunt quædam difficília intelléctu, quæ indócti et instábiles deprávant, sicut et céteras Scriptúras, ad suam ipsórum perditiónem. Vos ígitur fratres, præsciéntes custodíte, ne insipiéntium erróre tradúcti excidátis a própria firmitáte: Créscite vero in grátia, et in cognitióne Dómini nostri, et Salvatóris Iesu Christi. Ipsi glória et nunc, et in diem æternitátis. Amen.
Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
Ubáldus, Eugúbii in Umbria nóbili génere natus, a primis annis pietáte et lítteris egrégie est institútus; iamque adoléscens, ut uxórem dúceret, sæpe tentátus, nunquam tamen a propósito servándæ virginitátis recéssit. Sacérdos efféctus, patrimónium suum paupéribus et ecclésiis distríbuit. Canonicórum regulárium órdinis sancti Augustíni institútum suscípiens, illud in pátriam tránstulit. Ab Honório secúndo summo Pontífice ecclésiæ Eugubínæ invítus præfícitur, et episcopális consecratiónis múnere decorátur. Factus forma gregis ex ánimo, de consuéta vivéndi ratióne nihil ádmodum immutávit, et in omni virtútum génere enítuit. Diútius infirmitátibus afflíctus, Deo indesinénter grátias agébat. Cum multis annis ecclésiam sibi commíssam summa cum laude gubernásset, sanctis opéribus et miráculis clarus, quiévit in pace.
St. Ubald was born of a noble family at Gubbio in Umbria, and was well trained, from his earliest years, in devotion and in letters. As a young man, he was often urged to marry, but he never gave up his determination to preserve his virginity. When he was made a priest, he distributed his patrimony to the poor and to churches. He entered the Institute of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine and brought it to his own country. Against his will, he was put over the Church of Gubbio by Pope Honorius II and given episcopal consecration. Making himself with his whole heart a model for his flock, he changed nothing in his way of life and became illustrious for every kind of virtue. Although he suffered from various infirmities for a long time, he never ceased to give thanks to God. When he had governed the Church entrusted to him for many years in a way deserving of the highest praise, he fell asleep in peace, famous for his works and miracles.
Orémus.
Auxílium tuum nobis, Dómine, quǽsumus; placátus impénde: † et, intercessióne beáti Ubáldi Confessóris tui atque Pontíficis, contra omnes diáboli nequítias déxteram super nos tuæ propitiatiónis exténde.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Graciously help us, we beseech thee, O Lord, and at the petition of thy blessed Confessor and Bishop Ubald, stretch forth the right hand of thy mercy to shield us against all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.