Die Secunda JanuariiThe Second Day of January

℣ O Lord, ✠ open my lips.

℟ And my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

℣ O God, ✠ come to my assistance.

℟ Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Alleluia.

Ant. Christ is born for us: * Come, let us adore.

Ant. Christ is born for us: * Come, let us adore.

Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior. Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms.

Ant. Christ is born for us: * Come, let us adore.

For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods. For the Lord will not drive away his people. For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and he beholds the heights of the mountains.

Ant. Come, let us adore.

For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands established the dry land. (kneel) Come, let us adore and fall prostrate before God, and let us weep before the Lord who made us. For he is the Lord our God, and we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Ant. Christ is born for us: * Come, let us adore.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested and saw my works.

Ant. Come, let us adore.

For forty years, I was near to that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart. But they have not known my ways. To them I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest.

Ant. Christ is born for us: * Come, let us adore.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. Come, let us adore.

Ant. Christ is born for us: * Come, let us adore.

Jesus, the Ransomer of man,

Who, ere created light began,

Didst from the sovereign Father spring,

His power and glory equalling.

The Father’s Light and Splendor Thou,

Their endless hope to Thee that bow;

Accept the prayers and praise to-day

That through the world Thy servants pay.

Salvation’s Author, call to mind

How, taking form of humankind,

Born of a Virgin undefiled,

Thou in man’s flesh becam’st a Child.

Thus testifies the present day,

Through every year in long array,

That Thou, salvation’s source alone,

Proceedest from the Father’s throne.

The heavens above, the rolling main

And all that earth’s wide realms contain,

With joyous voice now loudly sing

The glory of their new-born King.

And we who, by Thy precious Blood

From sin redeemed, are marked for God,

On this the day that saw Thy birth,

Sing the new song of ransomed earth.

O Lord, the Virgin-born, to Thee

Eternal praise and glory be,

Whom with the Father we adore

And Holy Ghost forevermore.

Amen.

At the Nocturn

Ant. The Lord raised up * a testimony in Jacob: and appointed a law in Israel.

Psalm 77(1-8) [1]

77:1 O my people, attend to my law. * Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

77:2 I will open my mouth in parables. * I will speak about concepts that are from the beginning.

77:3 We have heard and known such great things, * as our fathers have described to us.

77:4 These things have not been hidden from their sons * in any generation:

77:4 declaring the praises of the Lord, and his virtues, * and the wonders that he has done.

77:5 And he has received testimony with Jacob, * and he has set a law within Israel.

77:5 Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons, * so that another generation might know them,

77:6 and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, * shall describe them to their sons.

77:7 So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, * and may they seek his commandments.

77:8 May they not become like their fathers, * a perverse and exasperating generation:

77:8 a generation that does not straighten their heart * and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. The Lord raised up a testimony in Jacob: and appointed a law in Israel.

Ant. Before their fathers * God worked wonders.

Psalm 77(9-16) [2]

77:9 The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, * have been turned back in the day of battle.

77:10 They have not kept the covenant of God. * And they were not willing to walk in his law.

77:11 And they have been forgetful of his benefits, * and of his miracle, which he revealed to them.

77:12 He performed miracles in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, * in the field of Tanis.

77:13 He broke the sea and he led them through. * And he stationed the waters, as if in a vessel.

77:14 And he led them with a cloud by day, * and with illumination by fire throughout the night.

77:15 He broke through the rock in the wasteland, * and he gave them to drink, as if from the great abyss.

77:16 He brought forth water from the rock, * and he conducted the waters, as if they were rivers.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. Before their fathers God worked wonders.

Ant. The Lord opened * the gates of heaven, and rained down manna upon them to eat.

Psalm 77(17-31) [3]

77:17 And yet, they continued to sin against him. * In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment.

77:18 And they tempted God in their hearts, * by asking for food according to their desires.

77:19 And they spoke badly about God. * They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert?

77:20 He struck the rock, and so waters flowed * and the torrents flooded,

77:20 but would even he be able to provide bread, * or provide a table, for his people?”

77:21 Therefore, the Lord heard, and he was dismayed, * and a fire was kindled within Jacob, and an anger ascended into Israel.

77:22 For they neither put their trust in God, * nor did they hope in his salvation.

77:23 And he commanded the clouds from above, * and he opened the doors of heaven.

77:24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, * and he gave them the bread of heaven.

77:25 Man ate the bread of Angels. * He sent them provisions in abundance.

77:26 He transferred the south wind from heaven, * and, in his virtue, he brought in the Southwest wind.

77:27 And he rained down flesh upon them, as if it were dust, * and feathered birds, as if they were the sand of the sea.

77:28 And they fell down in the midst of their camp, * encircling their tabernacles.

77:29 And they ate until they were greatly satisfied, and he brought to them according to their desires. * They were not cheated out of what they wanted.

77:30 Their food was still in their mouth, * and then the wrath of God came upon them.

77:31 And he slew the fat ones among them, * and he impeded the elect of Israel.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. The Lord opened the gates of heaven, and rained down manna upon them to eat.

Ant. God * is their helper: and the Most High is their redeemer.

Psalm 77(32-41) [4]

77:32 In all these things, they continued to sin, * and they were not trustworthy with his miracles.

77:33 And their days faded away into vanity, * and their years with haste.

77:34 When he slew them, then they sought him. * And they returned, and they drew near to him in the early morning.

77:35 And they were mindful that God is their helper * and that the Most High God is their redeemer.

77:36 And they chose him with their mouth, * and then they lied to him with their tongue.

77:37 For their heart was not upright with him, * nor have they been living faithfully in his covenant.

77:38 Yet he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins. * And he will not destroy them.

77:38 And he has abundantly turned aside his own wrath. * And he did not enflame his wrath entirely.

77:39 And he remembered that they are flesh: * with a spirit that goes forth and does not return.

77:40 How often did they provoke him in the desert * and stir him to wrath in a waterless place?

77:41 And they turned back and tempted God, * and they exasperated the Holy One of Israel.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. God is their helper: and the Most High is their redeemer.

Ant. The Lord * redeemed them from the hand of the one who afflicted them.

Psalm 77(42-58) [5]

77:42 They did not remember his hand, * in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the one troubling them.

77:43 Thus, he positioned his signs in Egypt * and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

77:44 And he turned their rivers into blood, * along with their rain showers, so that they could not drink.

77:45 He sent among them the common fly, and it devoured them, * and the frog, and it scattered them.

77:46 And he gave up their fruits to mold * and their labors to the locust.

77:47 And he slew their vineyards with hail * and their mulberry trees with severe frost.

77:48 And he delivered their cattle to the hail * and their possessions to fire.

77:49 And he sent the wrath of his indignation among them: * indignation and wrath and tribulation, sent forth by evil angels.

77:50 He made way for the path of his anger. He did not spare their souls from death. * And he enclosed their beasts of burden in death.

77:51 And he struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt: * the first-fruits of all their labor in the tabernacles of Ham.

77:52 And he took away his own people like sheep, * and he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

77:53 And he led them out in hope, and they did not fear. * And the sea covered their enemies.

77:54 And he led them to the mountain of his sanctification: * the mountain that his right hand had acquired.

77:54 And he cast out the Gentiles before their face. * And he divided their land by lot to them, with a line of distribution.

77:55 And he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell * in their tabernacles.

77:56 Yet they tempted and aggravated God Most High, * and they did not keep his testaments.

77:57 And they turned themselves aside, and they did not serve the covenant. * In the same manner as their fathers, they were turned backwards, like a crooked bow.

77:58 They impelled him to anger on their hills, * and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. The Lord redeemed them from the hand of the one who afflicted them.

Ant. God * built his sanctuary on earth.

Psalm 77(59-72) [6]

77:59 God listened, and he spurned them, * and he reduced Israel greatly, almost to nothing.

77:60 And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, * his tabernacle where he had dwelt among men.

77:61 And he delivered their virtue into captivity, * and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

77:62 And he enclosed his people with the sword, * and he spurned his inheritance.

77:63 Fire consumed their young men, * and their virgins were not lamented.

77:64 Their priests fell by the sword, * and their widows did not weep.

77:65 And the Lord was awakened, as if out of sleep, * and like a powerful man impaired by wine.

77:66 And he struck his enemies on the back. * He gave them over to everlasting disgrace.

77:67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, * and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

77:68 But he chose the tribe of Judah: * mount Zion, which he loved.

77:69 And he built up his sanctuary, like a single-horned beast, in the land * that he founded for all ages.

77:70 And he chose his servant David, and he took him from the flocks of the sheep: * he received him from following the ewes with their young,

77:71 in order to pasture Jacob his servant * and Israel his inheritance.

77:72 And he fed them with the innocence of his heart. * And he led them with the understanding of his hands.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. God built his sanctuary on earth.

Ant. Help us, * O God, our salvation: and be gracious toward our sins.

Psalm 78 [7]

78:1 O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. * They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.

78:2 They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, * the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

78:3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, * and there was no one who would bury them.

78:4 We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, * an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.

78:5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? * Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?

78:6 Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, * and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name.

78:7 For they have devoured Jacob, * and they have desolated his place.

78:8 Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, * for we have become exceedingly poor.

78:9 Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. * And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name.

78:10 Let them not say among the Gentiles, “Where is their God?” * And may your name become known among the nations before our eyes.

78:10 For the retribution of your servants’ blood, which has been poured out: * may the groans of the shackled enter before you.

78:11 According to the greatness of your arm, * take possession of the sons of those who have been killed.

78:12 And repay our neighbors sevenfold within their sinews. * It is the reproach of the same ones who brought reproach against you, O Lord.

78:13 But we are your people and the sheep of your pasture: * we will give thanks to you in all ages.

78:13 From generation to generation, * we will announce your praise.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. Help us, O God, our salvation: and be gracious toward our sins.

Ant. I am the Lord * your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Psalm 80 [8]

80:2 Exult before God our helper. * Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

80:3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: * a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

80:4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, * on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

80:5 for it is a precept in Israel * and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

80:6 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. * He heard a tongue that he did not know.

80:7 He turned the burdens away from his back. * His hands had been a slave to baskets.

80:8 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. * I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

80:9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. * If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me, then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

80:11 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. * Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

80:12 But my people did not hear my voice, * and Israel was not attentive to me.

80:13 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. * They will go forth according to their own inventions.

80:14 If my people had heard me, * if Israel had walked in my ways,

80:15 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, * and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

80:16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, * and their time will come, in every age.

80:17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, * and he saturated them with honey from the rock.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. I am the Lord your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Ant. Be not silent, O God, * for your enemies have lifted up their head.

Psalm 82 [9]

82:2 O God, who will ever be like you? * Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.

82:3 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, * and those who hate you have carried out a head.

82:4 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, * and they have plotted against your holy ones.

82:5 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations * and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”

82:6 For they plotted unanimously. * Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant: the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites,

82:8 and Moab and the Hagarites, and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, * the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

82:9 For even Assur comes with them. * They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

82:10 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, * just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

82:11 They perished at Endor, * and they became like the dung of the earth.

82:12 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, * and Zebah and Zalmunna:

82:13 all their leaders * who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

82:14 My God, set them like a wheel, * and like stubble before the face of the wind.

82:15 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, * and like a flame burning up the mountains.

82:16 So will you pursue them in your tempest, * and disturb them in your wrath.

82:17 Fill their faces with shame, * and they will seek your name, O Lord.

82:18 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, * and let them be confounded and perish.

82:19 And let them know that the Lord is your name. * You alone are the Most High in all the earth.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

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

Ant. Be not silent, O God, for your enemies have lifted up their head.

℣ Beautiful in form beyond the sons of men.

℟ Grace is poured out upon your lips.

The Our Father is said silently as far as And lead us not into temptation:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we also forgive those who trespass against us:

℣ And lead us not into temptation:

℟ But deliver us from evil.

Absolution. May his loving kindness and mercy assist us, he who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever.

℟ Amen.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benediction. May God the almighty Father be gracious and merciful to us.

℟ Amen.

Lesson 1

From the Letter to the Romans

Rom 5:1-5

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 For through him we also have access by faith to this grace, in which we stand firm, and to glory, in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

3 And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience,

4 And patience leads to proving, yet truly proving leads to hope,

5 But hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

℣ But you, O Lord, have mercy on us.

℟ Thanks be to God.

℟ Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world: behold him of whom I said to you: He who comes after me has been made before me:

* Whose sandal strap I am not worthy to unfasten.

℣ He who is from the earth speaks of the earth: he who comes from heaven is above all.

℟ Whose sandal strap I am not worthy to unfasten.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benediction. May Christ grant us the joys of eternal life.

℟ Amen.

Lesson 2

Rom 5:6-9

6 Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

7 Now someone might barely be willing to die for the sake of justice, for example, perhaps someone might dare to die for the sake of a good man.

8 But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

9 Christ died for us. Therefore, having been justified now by his blood, all the more so shall we be saved from wrath through him.

℣ But you, O Lord, have mercy on us.

℟ Thanks be to God.

℟ A hallowed day has shone upon us: come, O nations, and adore the Lord:

* For today a great light has descended upon the earth.

℣ This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

℟ For today a great light has descended upon the earth.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ For today a great light has descended upon the earth.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benediction. May God kindle the fire of his love in our hearts.

℟ Amen.

Lesson 3

Rom 5:10-12

10 For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

11 And not only that, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into this world, and through sin, death; so also death was transferred to all men, to all who have sinned.

℣ But you, O Lord, have mercy on us.

℟ Thanks be to God.

Te Deum

O God, we praise you; * O Lord, we acclaim you.

Eternal Father, * all the earth reveres you.

To you all the Angels, * the heavens and all the Powers of heaven:

To you the Cherubim and Seraphim * cry out in endless praise:

(A bow is made) Holy, Holy, Holy * Lord God of hosts;

Heaven and earth are filled * with the majesty of your glory.

The glorious choir of Apostles * sings to you,

the noble company of Prophets * praises you,

the white-robed army of Martyrs * glorifies you.

Holy Church throughout the earth * proclaims you,

the Father * of boundless majesty;

your true and only Son, * worthy of adoration;

and the Holy Spirit, * the Paraclete.

You, O Christ, * are the King of glory.

You are * the Father's everlasting Son.

(A bow is made) When you resolved to save the human race, * you did not spurn the Virgin's womb.

You overcame the sting of death * and opened the Kingdom of Heaven to those who put their faith in you.

You are seated at the right hand of God * in the glory of the Father.

We believe you are the Judge * who is to come.

(The following verse is said kneeling) And so we beg you, help your servants, * redeemed by your most precious blood.

Number them * among your Saints in eternal glory.

Save your people, Lord, * and bless your inheritance.

Shepherd them * and raise them to eternal life.

Day by day * we bless you,

(A bow is made, according to custom) and we praise your name * for endless ages evermore.

Be gracious, Lord, on this day, * and keep us from all sin.

Have mercy on us, O Lord, * have mercy.

May your mercy be upon us, Lord, * as we place our trust in you.

In you, O Lord, I rest my hope: * let me never be put to shame.

The rest is omitted unless Lauds is said separately.

℣ O Lord, hear my prayer.

℟ And let my cry come before you.

Let us pray.

O God, who through the fruitful virginity of Blessed Mary have bestowed upon the human race the rewards of eternal salvation: grant, we pray, that we may experience her intercession for us, through whom we merited to receive the author of life, our Lord Jesus Christ your Son:

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

℟ Amen.

℣ O Lord, hear my prayer.

℟ And let my cry come before you.

℣ Let us bless the Lord.

℟ Thanks be to God.

℣ May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

℟ Amen.