III. classis

S. Joannis Bosco Confessoris

Tempora: Sabbato infra Hebdomadam III post Epiphaniam

Ad Tertiam

Incipit

Hymnus

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.

Psalmus 101 (2,13)

Let my cry reach unto thee, O Lord: * turn not away thy face from me.

Hear, O Lord, my prayer: * and let my cry come to thee.

  1. Non avértas fáciem tuam a me: * in quacúmque die tríbulor, inclína ad me aurem tuam.

    2. Turn not away thy face from me: * in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me.

  2. In quacúmque die invocávero te: * velóciter exáudi me.

    3. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * hear me speedily.

  3. Quia defecérunt sicut fumus dies mei: * et ossa mea sicut crémium aruérunt.

    4. For my days are vanished like smoke: * and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

  4. Percússus sum ut fœnum, et áruit cor meum: * quia oblítus sum comédere panem meum.

    5. I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: * because I forgot to eat my bread.

  5. A voce gémitus mei: * adhǽsit os meum carni meæ.

    6. Through the voice of my groaning, * my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

  6. Símilis factus sum pellicáno solitúdinis: * factus sum sicut nyctícorax in domicílio.

    7. I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: * I am like a night raven in the house.

  7. Vigilávi, * et factus sum sicut passer solitárius in tecto.

    8. I have watched, * and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

  8. Tota die exprobrábant mihi inimíci mei: * et qui laudábant me, advérsum me jurábant.

    9. All the day long my enemies reproached me: * and they that praised me did swear against me.

  9. Quia cínerem tamquam panem manducábam, * et potum meum cum fletu miscébam.

    10. For I did eat ashes like bread, * and mingled my drink with weeping.

  10. A fácie iræ et indignatiónis tuæ: * quia élevans allisísti me.

    11. Because of thy anger and indignation: * for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

  11. Dies mei sicut umbra declinavérunt: * et ego sicut fœnum árui.

    12. My days have declined like a shadow, * and I am withered like grass.

  12. Tu autem, Dómine, in ætérnum pérmanes: * et memoriále tuum in generatiónem et generatiónem.

    13. But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: * and thy memorial to all generations.

  13. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

    14. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

  14. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

    15. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalmus 101 (14,23)

Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: * for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

  1. Quóniam placuérunt servis tuis lápides ejus: * et terræ ejus miserebúntur.

    2. For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: * and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

  2. Et timébunt gentes nomen tuum, Dómine: * et omnes reges terræ glóriam tuam.

    3. And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, * and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

  3. Quia ædificávit Dóminus Sion: * et vidébitur in glória sua.

    4. For the Lord hath built up Sion: * and he shall be seen in his glory.

  4. Respéxit in oratiónem humílium: * et non sprevit precem eórum.

    5. He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: * and he hath not despised their petition.

  5. Scribántur hæc in generatióne áltera: * et pópulus qui creábitur, laudábit Dóminum.

    6. Let these things be written unto another generation: * and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

  6. Quia prospéxit de excélso sancto suo: * Dóminus de cælo in terram aspéxit:

    7. Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: * from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

  7. Ut audíret gémitus compeditórum: * ut sólveret fílios interemptórum.

    8. That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: * that he might release the children of the slain:

  8. Ut annúntient in Sion nomen Dómini: * et laudem ejus in Jerúsalem.

    9. That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: * and his praise in Jerusalem;

  9. In conveniéndo pópulos in unum: * et reges ut sérviant Dómino.

    10. When the people assemble together, * and kings, to serve the Lord.

  10. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

    11. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

  11. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

    12. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalmus 101 (24,29)

He answered him in the way of his strength: * Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

  1. Ne révoces me in dimídio diérum meórum: * in generatiónem et generatiónem anni tui.

    2. Call me not away in the midst of my days: * thy years are unto generation and generation.

  2. Inítio tu, Dómine, terram fundásti: * et ópera mánuum tuárum sunt cæli.

    3. In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: * and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

  3. Ipsi períbunt, tu autem pérmanes: * et omnes sicut vestiméntum veteráscent.

    4. They shall perish but thou remainest: * and all of them shall grow old like a garment:

  4. Et sicut opertórium mutábis eos, et mutabúntur: * tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non defícient.

    5. And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. * But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

  5. Fílii servórum tuórum habitábunt: * et semen eórum in sǽculum dirigétur.

    6. The children of thy servants shall continue: * and their seed shall be directed for ever.

  6. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

    7. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

  7. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

    8. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Let my cry reach unto thee, O Lord: * turn not away thy face from me.

Capitulum Responsorium Versus

Sir 31:8-9

Beátus vir, qui invéntus est sine mácula, et qui post aurum non ábiit, † nec sperávit in pecúnia et thesáuris. * Quis est hic, et laudábimus eum? fecit enim mirabília in vita sua.

Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life.



Oratio

Orémus.

Deus, qui sanctum Ioánnem Confessórem tuum adolescéntium patrem et magístrum excitásti, ac per eum, auxiliatríce Vírgine María, novas in Ecclésia tua famílias floréscere voluísti: † concéde, quǽsumus; ut eódem caritátis igne succénsi, ánimas quǽrere, * tibíque soli servíre valeámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

O God, who didst raise up thy blessed Confessor John, to be a father and teacher of youth, and didst will that through him, with the help of the Virgin Mary, new families should flourish in the Church, grant we pray that enkindled with the same fire of charity we may be strong to seek after souls and to serve thee alone.
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