Septem Dolorum Beatæ Mariæ VirginisThe Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Incipit

℣ Deus ✠ in adjutórium meum inténde.

℟ Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

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

Allelúja.

℣ 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.

Hymnus

Nunc, Sancte, nobis, Spíritus,

Unum Patri cum Fílio,

Dignáre promptus íngeri

Nostro refúsus péctori.


Os, lingua, mens, sensus, vigor

Confessiónem pérsonent.

Flamméscat igne cáritas,

Accéndat ardor próximos.


Præsta, Pater piíssime,

Patríque compar Únice,

Cum Spíritu Paráclito

Regnans per omne sǽculum.

Amen.

Now, Holy Spirit, for us,

One with the Father and the Son,

Deign readily to enter,

Poured into our hearts.


May mouth, tongue, mind, senses, strength

Resound with confession.

May charity blaze with fire,

May its ardor kindle our neighbors.


Grant this, most loving Father,

And you, the Only-Begotten, equal to the Father,

With the Spirit the Paraclete,

Reigning through every age.

Amen.

Psalmi

Ant. Respéxit me * et exaudívit deprecatiónem meam Dóminus.

Psalmus 39(2-9) [1]

39:2 Exspéctans exspectávi Dóminum, * et inténdit mihi.

39:3 Et exaudívit preces meas: * et edúxit me de lacu misériæ, et de luto fæcis.

39:3 Et státuit super petram pedes meos: * et diréxit gressus meos.

39:4 Et immísit in os meum cánticum novum, * carmen Deo nostro.

39:4 Vidébunt multi, et timébunt: * et sperábunt in Dómino.

39:5 Beátus vir, cujus est nomen Dómini spes ejus: * et non respéxit in vanitátes et insánias falsas.

39:6 Multa fecísti tu, Dómine, Deus meus, mirabília tua: * et cogitatiónibus tuis non est qui símilis sit tibi.

39:6 Annuntiávi et locútus sum: * multiplicáti sunt super númerum.

39:7 Sacrifícium et oblatiónem noluísti: * aures autem perfecísti mihi.

39:7 Holocáustum et pro peccáto non postulásti: * tunc dixi: Ecce, vénio.

39:8 In cápite libri scriptum est de me ut fácerem voluntátem tuam: * Deus meus, vólui, et legem tuam in médio cordis mei.

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

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

Psalmus 39(10-14) [2]

39:10 Annuntiávi justítiam tuam in ecclésia magna, * ecce, lábia mea non prohibébo: Dómine, tu scisti.

39:11 Justítiam tuam non abscóndi in corde meo: * veritátem tuam et salutáre tuum dixi.

39:11 Non abscóndi misericórdiam tuam et veritátem tuam * a concílio multo.

39:12 Tu autem, Dómine, ne longe fácias miseratiónes tuas a me: * misericórdia tua et véritas tua semper suscepérunt me.

39:13 Quóniam circumdedérunt me mala, quorum non est númerus: * comprehendérunt me iniquitátes meæ, et non pótui ut vidérem.

39:13 Multiplicátæ sunt super capíllos cápitis mei: * et cor meum derelíquit me.

39:14 Compláceat tibi, Dómine, ut éruas me: * Dómine, ad adjuvándum me réspice.

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

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

Psalmus 39(15-18) [3]

39:15 Confundántur et revereántur simul, qui quærunt ánimam meam, * ut áuferant eam.

39:15 Convertántur retrórsum, et revereántur, * qui volunt mihi mala.

39:16 Ferant conféstim confusiónem suam, * qui dicunt mihi: Euge, euge.

39:17 Exsúltent et læténtur super te omnes quæréntes te: * et dicant semper: Magnificétur Dóminus: qui díligunt salutáre tuum.

39:18 Ego autem mendícus sum, et pauper: * Dóminus sollícitus est mei.

39:18 Adjútor meus, et protéctor meus tu es: * Deus meus, ne tardáveris.

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

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

Ant. Respéxit me et exaudívit deprecatiónem meam Dóminus.

Ant. The Lord looked upon me * and heard my supplication.

Psalm 39(2-9) [1]

39:2 I have waited expectantly for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.

39:3 And he heard my prayers * and he led me out of the pit of misery and the quagmire.

39:3 And he stationed my feet upon a rock, * and he directed my steps.

39:4 And he sent a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.

39:4 Many will see, and they will fear; * and they will hope in the Lord.

39:5 Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, * and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.

39:6 You have accomplished your many wonders, O Lord my God, * and there is no one similar to you in your thoughts.

39:6 I have announced and I have spoken: * they are multiplied beyond number.

39:7 Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. * But you have perfected ears for me.

39:7 Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require. * Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.”

39:8 At the head of the book, it has been written of me: that I should do your will. * My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.

℣ 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.

Psalm 39(10-14) [2]

39:10 I have announced your justice in a great Church: * behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.

39:11 I have not concealed your justice within my heart. * I have spoken your truth and your salvation.

39:11 I have not concealed your mercy and your truth * from a great assembly.

39:12 O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. * Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.

39:13 For evils without number have surrounded me. * My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see.

39:13 They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. * And my heart has forsaken me.

39:14 Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. * Look down, O Lord, 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.

Psalm 39(15-18) [3]

39:15 Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul * to steal it away.

39:15 Let them be turned back and be in awe, * who wish evils upon me.

39:16 Let them bear their confusion all at once, * who say to me, “Well, well.”

39:17 Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. * And let those who love your salvation always say, “May the Lord be magnified.”

39:18 But I am a beggar and poor. * The Lord has been concerned about me.

39:18 You are my helper and my protector. * My God, do not delay.

℣ 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 looked upon me and heard my supplication.

Capitulum Responsorium Versus

Lam 2:13

Cui comparábo te? vel cui assimilábo te, fília Jerúsalem? cui exæquábo te, et consolábor te, virgo fília Sion? Magna est velut mare contrítio tua.

℟ Deo grátias.


℟ O vos omnes, * Qui transítis per viam.

℟ O vos omnes, * Qui transítis per viam.

℣ Atténdite et vidéte, si est dolor, sicut dolor meus.

℟ Qui transítis per viam.

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

℟ O vos omnes, * Qui transítis per viam.


℣ Defecérunt præ lácrimis óculi mei.

℟ Conturbáta sunt ómnia víscera mea.

Lam 2:13

To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea.

℟ Thanks be to God.


℟ O all you * who pass along the way.

℟ O all you * who pass along the way.

℣ Attend and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow.

℟ Who pass along the way.

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

℟ O all you * who pass along the way.


℣ My eyes have failed through weeping.

℟ All my inward parts are troubled.

Oratio

℣ Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.

℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

Orémus.

Deus, in cujus passióne, secúndum Simeónis prophetíam, dulcíssimam ánimam gloriósæ Vírginis et Matris Maríæ dolóris gládius pertransívit: concéde propítius; ut, qui dolóres ejus venerándo recólimus, passiónis tuæ efféctum felícem consequámur:

Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

℟ Amen.

℣ O Lord, hear my prayer.

℟ And let my cry come before you.

Let us pray.

O God, in whose Passion the sword of sorrow pierced the most sweet soul of the glorious Virgin and Mother Mary, according to the prophecy of Simeon: graciously grant that we who reverently commemorate her sorrows may happily obtain the saving effect of your Passion:

Who live and reign with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

℟ Amen.

Conclusio

℣ Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.

℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

℣ Benedicámus Dómino.

℟ Deo grátias.

℣ Fidélium ánimæ per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace.

℟ 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.