S. Hedwigis Viduæ
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
Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor,
Immótus in te pérmanens,
Lucis diúrnæ témpora
Succéssibus detérminans:
Largíre lumen véspere,
Quo vita nusquam décidat,
Sed prǽmium mortis sacræ
Perénnis instet glória.
Præsta, Pater piíssime,
Patríque compar Únice,
Cum Spíritu Paráclito
Regnans per omne sǽculum.
Amen.
O God, the abiding strength of things,
Dwelling unmoved within yourself,
Determining the hours of daily light
By their successions:
Grant light at evening,
That life may nowhere fail,
But may the eternal glory
Press upon us as the reward of holy death.
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. Misericórdia et véritas * præcédent fáciem tuam, Dómine.
Psalmus 88(2-19) [1]
88:2 Misericórdias Dómini * in ætérnum cantábo.
88:2 In generatiónem et generatiónem * annuntiábo veritátem tuam in ore meo.
88:3 Quóniam dixísti: In ætérnum misericórdia ædificábitur in cælis: * præparábitur véritas tua in eis.
88:4 Dispósui testaméntum eléctis meis, jurávi David, servo meo: * Usque in ætérnum præparábo semen tuum.
88:5 Et ædificábo in generatiónem et generatiónem * sedem tuam.
88:6 Confitebúntur cæli mirabília tua, Dómine: * étenim veritátem tuam in ecclésia sanctórum.
88:7 Quóniam quis in núbibus æquábitur Dómino: * símilis erit Deo in fíliis Dei?
88:8 Deus, qui glorificátur in consílio sanctórum: * magnus et terríbilis super omnes qui in circúitu ejus sunt.
88:9 Dómine, Deus virtútum, quis símilis tibi? * potens es, Dómine, et véritas tua in circúitu tuo.
88:10 Tu domináris potestáti maris: * motum autem flúctuum ejus tu mítigas.
88:11 Tu humiliásti sicut vulnerátum, supérbum: * in brácchio virtútis tuæ dispersísti inimícos tuos.
88:12 Tui sunt cæli, et tua est terra, orbem terræ et plenitúdinem ejus tu fundásti: * aquilónem, et mare tu creásti.
88:13 Thabor et Hermon in nómine tuo exsultábunt: * tuum brácchium cum poténtia.
88:14 Firmétur manus tua, et exaltétur déxtera tua: * justítia et judícium præparátio sedis tuæ.
88:15 Misericórdia et véritas præcédent fáciem tuam: * beátus pópulus, qui scit jubilatiónem.
88:16 Dómine, in lúmine vultus tui ambulábunt, et in nómine tuo exsultábunt tota die: * et in justítia tua exaltabúntur.
88:18 Quóniam glória virtútis eórum tu es: * et in beneplácito tuo exaltábitur cornu nostrum.
88:19 Quia Dómini est assúmptio nostra, * et Sancti Israël, regis nostri.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Psalmus 88(20-38) [2]
88:20 Tunc locútus es in visióne sanctis tuis, et dixísti: * Pósui adjutórium in poténte: et exaltávi eléctum de plebe mea.
88:21 Invéni David, servum meum: * óleo sancto meo unxi eum.
88:22 Manus enim mea auxiliábitur ei: * et brácchium meum confortábit eum.
88:23 Nihil profíciet inimícus in eo, * et fílius iniquitátis non appónet nocére ei.
88:24 Et concídam a fácie ipsíus inimícos ejus: * et odiéntes eum in fugam convértam.
88:25 Et véritas mea, et misericórdia mea cum ipso: * et in nómine meo exaltábitur cornu ejus.
88:26 Et ponam in mari manum ejus: * et in flumínibus déxteram ejus.
88:27 Ipse invocábit me: Pater meus es tu: * Deus meus, et suscéptor salútis meæ.
88:28 Et ego primogénitum ponam illum * excélsum præ régibus terræ.
88:29 In ætérnum servábo illi misericórdiam meam: * et testaméntum meum fidéle ipsi.
88:30 Et ponam in sǽculum sǽculi semen ejus: * et thronum ejus sicut dies cæli.
88:31 Si autem derelíquerint fílii ejus legem meam: * et in judíciis meis non ambuláverint:
88:32 Si justítias meas profanáverint: * et mandáta mea non custodíerint:
88:33 Visitábo in virga iniquitátes eórum: * et in verbéribus peccáta eórum.
88:34 Misericórdiam autem meam non dispérgam ab eo: * neque nocébo in veritáte mea:
88:35 Neque profanábo testaméntum meum: * et quæ procédunt de lábiis meis, non fáciam írrita.
88:36 Semel jurávi in sancto meo: Si David méntiar: * semen ejus in ætérnum manébit.
88:37 Et thronus ejus sicut sol in conspéctu meo, * et sicut luna perfécta in ætérnum: et testis in cælo fidélis.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Psalmus 88(39-53) [3]
88:39 Tu vero repulísti et despexísti: * distulísti Christum tuum.
88:40 Evertísti testaméntum servi tui: * profanásti in terra Sanctuárium ejus.
88:41 Destruxísti omnes sepes ejus: * posuísti firmaméntum ejus formídinem.
88:42 Diripuérunt eum omnes transeúntes viam: * factus est oppróbrium vicínis suis.
88:43 Exaltásti déxteram depriméntium eum: * lætificásti omnes inimícos ejus.
88:44 Avertísti adjutórium gládii ejus: * et non es auxiliátus ei in bello.
88:45 Destruxísti eum ab emundatióne: * et sedem ejus in terram collisísti.
88:46 Minorásti dies témporis ejus: * perfudísti eum confusióne.
88:47 Úsquequo, Dómine, avértis in finem: * exardéscet sicut ignis ira tua?
88:48 Memoráre quæ mea substántia: * numquid enim vane constituísti omnes fílios hóminum?
88:49 Quis est homo, qui vivet, et non vidébit mortem: * éruet ánimam suam de manu ínferi?
88:50 Ubi sunt misericórdiæ tuæ antíquæ, Dómine, * sicut jurásti David in veritáte tua?
88:51 Memor esto, Dómine, oppróbrii servórum tuórum * quod contínui in sinu meo multárum géntium.
88:52 Quod exprobravérunt inimíci tui, Dómine, * quod exprobravérunt commutatiónem Christi tui.
88:53 Benedíctus Dóminus in ætérnum: * fiat, fiat.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Misericórdia et véritas præcédent fáciem tuam, Dómine.
Ant. Mercy and truth * shall go before your face, O Lord.
Psalm 88(2-19) [1]
88:2 I will sing the mercies of the Lord * in eternity.
88:2 From generation to generation, * I will announce your truth with my mouth.
88:3 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. * Your truth will be prepared there.
88:4 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant: * I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity.
88:5 And I will build up from generation to generation * your throne.
88:6 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, * and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
88:7 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? * Who among the sons of God is like God?
88:8 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. * He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
88:9 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? * You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.
88:10 You rule over the power of the sea, * and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.
88:11 You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. * You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.
88:12 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness. * You created the north and the sea.
88:13 Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name. * Your arm acts with power.
88:14 Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted. * Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne.
88:15 Mercy and truth will precede your face. * Blessed is the people that knows jubilation.
88:16 They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord, and they will exult in your name all day long, * and they will be exalted in your justice.
88:18 For you are the glory of their strength, * and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.
88:19 For our protection is of the Lord, * and it is of our king, 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.
Psalm 88(20-38) [2]
88:20 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: * I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.
88:21 I have found my servant David. * I have anointed him with my holy oil.
88:22 For my hand will assist him, * and my arm will fortify him.
88:23 The enemy will have no advantage over him, * nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.
88:24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. * And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
88:25 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. * And his horn will be exalted in my name.
88:26 And I will place his hand on the sea * and his right hand on the rivers.
88:27 He will invoke me: “You are my father, * my God, and the support of my salvation.”
88:28 And I will make him the first-born, * preeminent before the kings of the earth.
88:29 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, * and my covenant for him faithfully.
88:30 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, * and his throne like the days of heaven.
88:31 But if his sons abandon my law, * and if they do not walk in my judgments,
88:32 if they profane my justices, * and if they do not keep my commandments:
88:33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, * and their sins with a beating.
88:34 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, * and I will not do harm to my truth.
88:35 And I will not profane my covenant, * and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.
88:36 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David, * his offspring will remain for eternity.
88:37 And his throne will be like the sun in my sight, * and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.
℣ 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 88(39-53) [3]
88:39 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, * you have been angry with your anointed.
88:40 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. * You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.
88:41 You have destroyed all his fences. * You have made his stronghold a terror.
88:42 All who pass by the way have plundered him. * He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
88:43 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. * You have brought joy to all his enemies.
88:44 You have diverted the help of his sword, * and you have not assisted him in battle.
88:45 You have torn him away from cleansing, * and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
88:46 You have reduced the days of his time. * You have flooded him with confusion.
88:47 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? * Will your wrath flare up like a fire?
88:48 Remember what my substance is. * For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?
88:49 Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? * Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?
88:50 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, * just as you swore to David in your truth?
88:51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants * (which I have sustained in my bosom) among many nations.
88:52 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; * with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.
88:53 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. * Amen. Amen.
℣ 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. Mercy and truth shall go before your face, O Lord.
Capitulum Responsorium Versus
Prov 31:29-30
Multæ fíliæ congregavérunt divítias: tu supergréssa es univérsas. Fallax grátia, et vana est pulchritúdo: múlier timens Dóminum, ipsa laudábitur.
℟ Deo grátias.
℟ Elégit eam Deus, * Et præelégit eam.
℟ Elégit eam Deus, * Et præelégit eam.
℣ In tabernáculo suo habitáre facit eam.
℟ Et præelégit eam.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Elégit eam Deus, * Et præelégit eam.
℣ Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis.
℟ Proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum.
Prov 31:29-30
Many daughters have gathered together riches; you have surpassed them all. Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.
℟ Thanks be to God.
℟ God has chosen her * and has chosen her before all others.
℟ God has chosen her * and has chosen her before all others.
℣ He makes her dwell in his tabernacle.
℟ And has chosen her before all others.
℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.
℟ God has chosen her * and has chosen her before all others.
℣ Grace is poured forth upon your lips,
℟ Therefore God has blessed you for ever.
Oratio
℣ Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.
℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátam Hedwígem a sǽculi pompa ad húmilem tuæ crucis sequélam toto corde transíre docuísti: concéde; ut ejus méritis et exémplo discámus peritúras mundi calcáre delícias, et in ampléxu tuæ crucis ómnia nobis adversántia superáre:
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, who taught blessed Hedwig to pass with her whole heart from the pomp of the world to the humble following of your Cross: grant that, by her merits and example, we may learn to tread underfoot the perishing pleasures of the world, and to overcome all adversities in the embrace of your Cross.
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.