III. classis

Feria Quarta infra Hebdomadam IV in Quadragesima

Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: S. Cyrilli Episcopi Hierosolymitani Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris

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 53

Behold now is the day * of repentance, to redeem sin, and to save the soul.

Save me, O God, by thy name, * and judge me in thy strength.

  1. Deus, exáudi oratiónem meam: * áuribus pércipe verba oris mei.

    2. O God, hear my prayer: * give ear to the words of my mouth.

  2. Quóniam aliéni insurrexérunt advérsum me, † et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam: * et non proposuérunt Deum ante conspéctum suum.

    3. For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: * and they have not set God before their eyes.

  3. Ecce enim Deus ádjuvat me: * et Dóminus suscéptor est ánimæ meæ.

    4. For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

  4. Avérte mala inimícis meis: * et in veritáte tua dispérde illos.

    5. Turn back the evils upon my enemies; * and cut them off in thy truth.

  5. Voluntárie sacrificábo tibi, * et confitébor nómini tuo, Dómine: quóniam bonum est:

    6. I will freely sacrifice to thee, * and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

  6. Quóniam ex omni tribulatióne eripuísti me: * et super inimícos meos despéxit óculus meus.

    7. For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: * and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.

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

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

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

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

Psalmus 54 (2,16)

Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: * be attentive to me and hear me.

  1. Contristátus sum in exercitatióne mea: * et conturbátus sum a voce inimíci, et a tribulatióne peccatóris.

    2. I am grieved in my exercise; * and am troubled, at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner.

  2. Quóniam declinavérunt in me iniquitátes: * et in ira molésti erant mihi.

    3. For they have cast iniquities upon me; * and in wrath they were troublesome to me.

  3. Cor meum conturbátum est in me: * et formído mortis cécidit super me.

    4. My heart is troubled within me: * and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

  4. Timor et tremor venérunt super me: * et contexérunt me ténebræ.

    5. Fear and trembling are come upon me: * and darkness hath covered me.

  5. Et dixi: Quis dabit mihi pennas sicut colúmbæ, * et volábo, et requiéscam?

    6. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, * and I will fly and be at rest?

  6. Ecce elongávi fúgiens: * et mansi in solitúdine.

    7. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; * and I abode in the wilderness.

  7. Exspectábam eum, qui salvum me fecit: * a pusillanimitáte spíritus et tempestáte.

    8. I waited for him that hath saved me * from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

  8. Præcípita, Dómine, dívide linguas eórum: * quóniam vidi iniquitátem et contradictiónem in civitáte.

    9. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; * for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

  9. Die ac nocte circúmdabit eam super muros ejus iníquitas: * et labor in médio ejus, et injustítia.

    10. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: * and in the midst thereof are labour, and injustice.

  10. Et non defécit de platéis ejus: * usúra, et dolus.

    11. And usury and deceit * have not departed from its streets.

  11. Quóniam si inimícus meus maledixísset mihi, * sustinuíssem útique.

    12. For if my enemy had reviled me, * I would verily have borne with it.

  12. Et si is, qui óderat me, super me magna locútus fuísset: * abscondíssem me fórsitan ab eo.

    13. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, * I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.

  13. Tu vero, homo unánimis: * dux meus, et notus meus.

    14. But thou a man of one mind, * my guide, and my familiar.

  14. Qui simul mecum dulces capiébas cibos: * in domo Dei ambulávimus cum consénsu.

    15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: * in the house of God we walked with consent.

  15. Véniat mors super illos: * et descéndant in inférnum vivéntes:

    16. Let death come upon them, * and let them go down alive into hell.

  16. Quóniam nequítiæ in habitáculis eórum: * in médio eórum.

    17. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: * in the midst of them.

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

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

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

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

Psalmus 54 (17,24)

But I have cried to God: * and the Lord will save me.

  1. Véspere, et mane, et merídie narrábo et annuntiábo: * et exáudiet vocem meam.

    2. Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: * and he shall hear my voice.

  2. Rédimet in pace ánimam meam ab his, qui appropínquant mihi: * quóniam inter multos erant mecum.

    3. He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: * for among many they were with me.

  3. Exáudiet Deus, et humiliábit illos: * qui est ante sǽcula.

    4. God shall hear, * and the Eternal shall humble them.

  4. Non enim est illis commutátio, et non timuérunt Deum: * exténdit manum suam in retribuéndo.

    5. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God: * he hath stretched forth his hand to repay.

  5. Contaminavérunt testaméntum ejus, divísi sunt ab ira vultus ejus: * et appropinquávit cor illíus.

    6. They have defiled his covenant, they are divided by the wrath of his countenance, * and his heart hath drawn near.

  6. Mollíti sunt sermónes ejus super óleum: * et ipsi sunt jácula.

    7. His words are smoother than oil, * and the same are darts.

  7. Jacta super Dóminum curam tuam, et ipse te enútriet: * non dabit in ætérnum fluctuatiónem justo.

    8. Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: * he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.

  8. Tu vero, Deus, dedúces eos, * in púteum intéritus

    9. But thou, O God, shalt bring them down * into the pit of destruction.

  9. Viri sánguinum, et dolósi non dimidiábunt dies suos: * ego autem sperábo in te, Dómine.

    10. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; * but I will trust in thee, O 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.

Behold now is the day * of repentance, to redeem sin, and to save the soul.

Capitulum Responsorium Versus

Ioël 2:12-13

Convertímini ad me in toto corde vestro, in ieiúnio, † et fletu, et planctu. * Et scíndite corda vestra, et non vestiménta vestra, ait Dóminus omnípotens.

Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning. And rend your hearts, and not your garments, said the almighty Lord.



Oratio

Orémus.

Deus, qui et iustis prǽmia meritórum, et peccatóribus per ieiúnium véniam præbes: † miserére supplícibus tuis; * ut reátus nostri conféssio indulgéntiam váleat percípere delictórum.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

O God, Who by mean of fasting dost give unto the righteous the reward of their good works, and unto sinners pardon; have mercy upon us, we beseech thee, and grant that we, humbly confessing our guiltiness, may so be enabled to obtain thy forgiveness.
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