III. classis
Tempora: Feria III infra Hebdomadam III post Epiphaniam
1. Come Holy Ghost who ever One Art with the Father and the Son, It is the hour, our souls possess With thy full flood of holiness. 2. Let flesh and heart and lips and mind Sound forth our witness to mankind; And love light up our mortal frame, Till others catch the living flame. 3. Almighty Father, hear our cry, Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High, Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee, Doth live and reign eternally. Amen.
The Lord hath heard * my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.
With expectation I have waited for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.
And he heard my prayers, * and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs.
And he set my feet upon a rock, * and directed my steps.
And he put a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.
Many shall see, and shall fear: * and they shall hope in the Lord.
Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; * and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: * and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee.
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 have declared and I have spoken * they are multiplied above number.
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; * but thou hast pierced ears for me.
Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: * then said I, Behold I come.
In the head of the book it is written of me that I should do thy will: * O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
I have declared thy justice in a great church, * lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
I have not hid thy justice within my heart: * I have declared thy truth and thy salvation.
I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth * from a great council.
Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: * thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
For evils without number have surrounded me; * my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see.
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: * and my heart hath forsaken me.
Be pleased, O Lord to deliver me: * look down, O Lord, to help me.
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 them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul * to take it away.
Let them be turned backward and be ashamed * that desire evils to me.
Let them immediately bear their confusion, * that say to me: ’T is well, ’t is well.
Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: * and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.
But I am a beggar and poor: * the Lord is careful for me.
Thou art my helper and my protector: * O my God, be not slack.
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 hath heard * my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.
Ecce sacérdos magnus, qui in diébus suis plácuit Deo, † et invéntus est iustus: * et in témpore iracúndiæ factus est reconciliátio.
Behold an high priest, who in his days pleased God, and was found righteous, and in the time of wrath he was made a propitiation.
Orémus.
Ecclésiam tuam, quǽsumus; Dómine, * grátia cæléstis amplíficet: † quam beáti Ioánnis Chrysóstomi Confessóris tui atque Pontíficis illustráre voluísti gloriósis méritis et doctrínis.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
May heavenly grace, we beseech thee, O Lord, prosper thy Church, which thou mercifully enlightened by the blessed virtues and teachings of glorious and blessed John Chrysostom, thy Confessor and Bishop.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.