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Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: S. Gregorii Papæ Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris
With the armour of justice * and in the power of God, let us prove ourselves in much patience.
We will praise thee, O God: * we will praise, and we will call upon thy name.
We will relate thy wondrous works: * when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: * I have established the pillars thereof.
I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: * and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
Lift not up your horn on high: * speak not iniquity against God.
For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: * for God is the judge.
One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up: * for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture.
And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: * all the sinners of the earth shall drink.
But I will declare for ever: * I will sing to the God of Jacob.
And I will break all the horns of sinners: * but the horns of the just shall be exalted.
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.
In Judea God is known: * his name is great in Israel.
And his place is in peace: * and his abode in Sion:
There hath he broken the powers of bows, * the shield, the sword, and the battle.
Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills. * All the foolish of heart were troubled.
They have slept their sleep; * and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, * they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
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.
Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? * from that time thy wrath.
Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: * the earth trembled and was still,
When God arose in judgment, * to save all the meek of the earth.
For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: * and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.
Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: * all you that are round about him bring presents.
To him that is terrible, even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: * to the terrible with the kings of 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.
With the armour of justice * and in the power of God, let us prove ourselves in much patience.
Frange esuriénti panem tuum, et egénos vagósque induc in domum tuam: cum víderis nudum, óperi eum, et carnem tuam ne despéxeris.
Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.
Orémus.
Magníficet te, Dómine, sanctórum tuórum Cosmæ et Damiáni beáta solémnitas: † qua et illis glóriam sempitérnam, et opem nobis ineffábili providéntia contulísti.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Praise be to thee, O Lord, for the blessed and solemn victory of thine holy servants Cosmas and Damian, whereby Thou, in thine unspeakable Providence, wast pleased to give unto them everlasting glory, and unto us a shield and succour.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.