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.
Psalmi
Ant. Dómine, * probásti me et cognovísti me. ‡
Psalmus 138(1-13) [1]
138:1 Dómine, probásti me, et cognovísti me: * ‡ (2) tu cognovísti sessiónem meam, et resurrectiónem meam.
138:3 Intellexísti cogitatiónes meas de longe: * sémitam meam, et funículum meum investigásti.
138:4 Et omnes vias meas prævidísti: * quia non est sermo in lingua mea.
138:5 Ecce, Dómine, tu cognovísti ómnia novíssima, et antíqua: * tu formásti me, et posuísti super me manum tuam.
138:6 Mirábilis facta est sciéntia tua ex me: * confortáta est, et non pótero ad eam.
138:7 Quo ibo a spíritu tuo? * et quo a fácie tua fúgiam?
138:8 Si ascéndero in cælum, tu illic es: * si descéndero in inférnum, ades.
138:9 Si súmpsero pennas meas dilúculo, * et habitávero in extrémis maris:
138:10 Étenim illuc manus tua dedúcet me: * et tenébit me déxtera tua.
138:11 Et dixi: Fórsitan ténebræ conculcábunt me: * et nox illuminátio mea in delíciis meis.
138:12 Quia ténebræ non obscurabúntur a te, † et nox sicut dies illuminábitur: * sicut ténebræ ejus, ita et lumen ejus.
138:13 Quia tu possedísti renes meos: * suscepísti me de útero matris meæ.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Dómine, probásti me et cognovísti me.
Ant. Mirabília ópera tua, * Dómine, et ánima mea cognóscit nimis.
Psalmus 138(14-24) [2]
138:14 Confitébor tibi quia terribíliter magnificátus es: † mirabília ópera tua, * et ánima mea cognóscit nimis.
138:15 Non est occultátum os meum a te, quod fecísti in occúlto: * et substántia mea in inferióribus terræ.
138:16 Imperféctum meum vidérunt óculi tui, † et in libro tuo omnes scribéntur: * dies formabúntur, et nemo in eis.
138:17 Mihi autem nimis honorificáti sunt amíci tui, Deus: * nimis confortátus est principátus eórum.
138:18 Dinumerábo eos, et super arénam multiplicabúntur: * exsurréxi, et adhuc sum tecum.
138:19 Si occíderis, Deus, peccatóres: * viri sánguinum, declináte a me:
138:20 Quia dícitis in cogitatióne: * Accípient in vanitáte civitátes tuas.
138:21 Nonne qui odérunt te, Dómine, óderam? * et super inimícos tuos tabescébam?
138:22 Perfécto ódio óderam illos: * et inimíci facti sunt mihi.
138:23 Proba me, Deus, et scito cor meum: * intérroga me, et cognósce sémitas meas.
138:24 Et vide, si via iniquitátis in me est: * et deduc me in via ætérna.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Mirabília ópera tua, Dómine, et ánima mea cognóscit nimis.
Ant. Ne derelínquas me, * Dómine, virtus salútis meæ.
Psalmus 139 [3]
139:2 Éripe me, Dómine, ab hómine malo: * a viro iníquo éripe me.
139:3 Qui cogitavérunt iniquitátes in corde: * tota die constituébant prǽlia.
139:4 Acuérunt linguas suas sicut serpéntis: * venénum áspidum sub lábiis eórum.
139:5 Custódi me, Dómine, de manu peccatóris: * et ab homínibus iníquis éripe me.
139:5 Qui cogitavérunt supplantáre gressus meos: * abscondérunt supérbi láqueum mihi:
139:6 Et funes extendérunt in láqueum: * juxta iter scándalum posuérunt mihi.
139:7 Dixi Dómino: Deus meus es tu: * exáudi, Dómine, vocem deprecatiónis meæ.
139:8 Dómine, Dómine, virtus salútis meæ: * obumbrásti super caput meum in die belli.
139:9 Ne tradas me, Dómine, a desidério meo peccatóri: * cogitavérunt contra me, ne derelínquas me, ne forte exalténtur.
139:10 Caput circúitus eórum: * labor labiórum ipsórum opériet eos.
139:11 Cadent super eos carbónes, in ignem deícies eos: * in misériis non subsístent.
139:12 Vir linguósus non dirigétur in terra: * virum injústum mala cápient in intéritu.
139:13 Cognóvi quia fáciet Dóminus judícium ínopis: * et vindíctam páuperum.
139:14 Verúmtamen justi confitebúntur nómini tuo: * et habitábunt recti cum vultu tuo.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Ne derelínquas me, Dómine, virtus salútis meæ.
Ant. Dómine, * clamávi ad te, exáudi me. ‡
Psalmus 140 [4]
140:1 Dómine, clamávi ad te, exáudi me: * ‡ inténde voci meæ, cum clamávero ad te.
140:2 Dirigátur orátio mea sicut incénsum in conspéctu tuo: * elevátio mánuum meárum sacrifícium vespertínum.
140:3 Pone, Dómine, custódiam ori meo: * et óstium circumstántiæ lábiis meis.
140:4 Non declínes cor meum in verba malítiæ, * ad excusándas excusatiónes in peccátis.
140:4 Cum homínibus operántibus iniquitátem: * et non communicábo cum eléctis eórum.
140:5 Corrípiet me justus in misericórdia, et increpábit me: * óleum autem peccatóris non impínguet caput meum.
140:6 Quóniam adhuc et orátio mea in beneplácitis eórum: * absórpti sunt juncti petræ júdices eórum.
140:7 Áudient verba mea quóniam potuérunt: * sicut crassitúdo terræ erúpta est super terram.
140:8 Dissipáta sunt ossa nostra secus inférnum: * quia ad te, Dómine, Dómine, óculi mei: in te sperávi, non áuferas ánimam meam.
140:9 Custódi me a láqueo, quem statuérunt mihi: * et a scándalis operántium iniquitátem.
140:10 Cadent in retiáculo ejus peccatóres: * singuláriter sum ego donec tránseam.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Dómine, clamávi ad te, exáudi me.
Ant. Educ de custódia * ánimam meam, Dómine, ad confiténdum nómini tuo.
Psalmus 141 [5]
141:2 Voce mea ad Dóminum clamávi: * voce mea ad Dóminum deprecátus sum:
141:3 Effúndo in conspéctu ejus oratiónem meam, * et tribulatiónem meam ante ipsum pronúntio.
141:4 In deficiéndo ex me spíritum meum, * et tu cognovísti sémitas meas.
141:4 In via hac, qua ambulábam, * abscondérunt láqueum mihi.
141:5 Considerábam ad déxteram, et vidébam: * et non erat qui cognósceret me.
141:5 Périit fuga a me, * et non est qui requírat ánimam meam.
141:6 Clamávi ad te, Dómine, * dixi: Tu es spes mea, pórtio mea in terra vivéntium.
141:7 Inténde ad deprecatiónem meam: * quia humiliátus sum nimis.
141:7 Líbera me a persequéntibus me: * quia confortáti sunt super me.
141:8 Educ de custódia ánimam meam ad confiténdum nómini tuo: * me exspéctant justi, donec retríbuas mihi.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Educ de custódia ánimam meam, Dómine, ad confiténdum nómini tuo.
Ant. O Lord, * you have searched me and known me.
Psalm 138(1-13) [1]
138:1 O Lord, you have examined me, and you have known me. * (2) You have known my sitting down and my rising up again.
138:3 You have understood my thoughts from afar. * My path and my fate, you have investigated.
138:4 And you have foreseen all my ways. * For there is no word in my tongue.
138:5 Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. * You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me.
138:6 Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. * It is mighty, and I cannot attain it.
138:7 Where will I go from your Spirit? * And where will I flee from your face?
138:8 If I ascend into heaven, you are there. * If I descend into Hell, you are near.
138:9 If I assume my feathers in early morning, * and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea,
138:10 even there, your hand will lead me, * and your right hand will hold me.
138:11 And I said: Perhaps darkness will overwhelm me, * and the night will be my illumination, to my delight.
138:12 But darkness will not be impenetrable to you, † and night will illuminate like the day: * for just as its darkness is, so also is its light.
138:13 For you have possessed my inmost being. * You have supported me from the womb of my mother.
℣ 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. O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
Ant. Wonderful are your works, * O Lord, and my soul knows it well.
Psalm 138(14-24) [2]
138:14 I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. † Your works are miraculous, * as my soul knows exceedingly well.
138:15 My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, * and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
138:16 Your eyes saw my imperfection, † and all this shall be written in your book. * Days will be formed, and no one shall be in them.
138:17 But to me, O God, your friends have been greatly honored. * Their principality has been exceedingly strengthened.
138:18 I will number them, and they will be more numerous than the sand. * I rose up, and I am still with you.
138:19 O God, if only you would cut down sinners. * You men of blood: depart from me.
138:20 For you say in thought: * They will accept your cities in vain.
138:21 Have I not hated those who hated you, Lord, * and wasted away because of your enemies?
138:22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred, * and they have become enemies to me.
138:23 Examine me, O God, and know my heart. * Question me, and know my paths.
138:24 And see if there might be in me the way of iniquity, * and lead me in the way of eternity.
℣ 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. Wonderful are your works, O Lord, and my soul knows it well.
Ant. Do not forsake me, * O Lord, the strength of my salvation.
Psalm 139 [3]
139:2 Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man. * Rescue me from the iniquitous man.
139:3 Those who have devised iniquities in their hearts: * all day long they constructed conflicts.
139:4 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. * The venom of asps is under their lips.
139:5 Preserve me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner, * and rescue me from men of iniquity.
139:5 They have decided to supplant my steps. * The arrogant have hidden a snare for me.
139:6 And they have stretched out cords for a snare. * They have placed a stumbling block for me near the road.
139:7 I said to the Lord: You are my God. * O Lord, heed the voice of my supplication.
139:8 Lord, O Lord, the strength of my salvation: * you have overshadowed my head in the day of war.
139:9 O Lord, do not hand me over to the sinner by my desire. * They have plotted against me. Do not abandon me, lest they should triumph.
139:10 The head of those who encompass me, * the labor of their lips, will overwhelm them.
139:11 Burning coals will fall upon them. You will cast them down into the fire, * into miseries that they will not be able to withstand.
139:12 A talkative man will not be guided aright upon the earth. * Evils will drag the unjust man unto utter ruin.
139:13 I know that the Lord will accomplish justice for the needy * and vindication for the poor.
139:14 So then, truly, the just will confess your name, * and the upright will dwell with your countenance.
℣ 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. Do not forsake me, O Lord, the strength of my salvation.
Ant. O Lord, * I have cried to you; hear me.
Psalm 140 [4]
140:1 O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. * Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
140:2 Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: * the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
140:3 O Lord, station a guard over my mouth * and a door enclosing my lips.
140:4 Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, * to making excuses for sins,
140:4 with men who work iniquity; * and I will not share fellowship with their chosen ones.
140:5 The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. * But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head.
140:6 For my prayer will still be toward their good will. * Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks.
140:7 They will hear my words, which have prevailed, * as when the clods of earth are broken upon the ground.
140:8 Our bones have been scattered beside Hell. * For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
140:9 Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me * and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
140:10 The sinners will fall into his net. * I am alone, until I pass over.
℣ 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. O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me.
Ant. Lead my soul * out of prison, O Lord, to confess your name.
Psalm 141 [5]
141:2 With my voice, I cried out to the Lord. * With my voice, I made supplication to the Lord.
141:3 In his sight, I pour out my prayer, * and before him, I declare my tribulation.
141:4 Though my spirit may become faint within me, * even then, you have known my paths.
141:4 Along this way, which I have been walking, * they have hidden a snare for me.
141:5 I considered toward the right, and I looked, * but there was no one who would know me.
141:5 Flight has perished before me, * and there is no one who has concern for my soul.
141:6 I cried out to you, O Lord. * I said: You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.
141:7 Attend to my supplication. * For I have been humbled exceedingly.
141:7 Free me from my persecutors, * for they have been fortified against me.
141:8 Lead my soul out of confinement in order to confess your name. * The just are waiting for me, until you repay 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.
Ant. Lead my soul out of prison, O Lord, to confess your name.
Capitulum Hymnus Versus
Prov. 31:10-11
Mulíerem fortem quis invéniet? Procul et de últimis fínibus prétium ejus. Confídit in ea cor viri sui, et spóliis non indigébit.
℟ Deo grátias.
Hymnus
Fortem viríli péctore
Laudémus omnes féminam,
Quæ sanctitátis glória
Ubíque fulget ínclita.
Hæc sancto amóre sáucia,
Dum mundi amórem nóxium
Horréscit, ad cæléstia
Iter perégit árduum.
Carnem domans jejúniis,
Dulcíque mentem pábulo
Oratiónis nútriens,
Cæli potítur gáudiis.
Rex Christe, virtus fórtium,
Qui magna solus éfficis,
Hujus precátu, quǽsumus,
Audi benígnus súpplices.
Deo Patri sit glória,
Ejúsque soli Fílio,
Cum Spíritu Paráclito,
Nunc, et per omne sǽculum.
Amen.
℣ Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis.
℟ Proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum.
Prov. 31:10-11
Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price. The heart of her husband confides in her, and he will not be deprived of spoils.
℟ Thanks be to God.
Hymn
Let us all praise the woman
of strong and manly heart,
who shines renowned everywhere
with the glory of holiness.
Wounded by holy love,
while she shudders at the harmful love
of the world, she traveled
the arduous way to heaven.
Taming the flesh with fasts
and nourishing her mind
with the sweet food of prayer,
she possesses the joys of heaven.
O Christ the King, strength of the strong,
you who alone accomplish great deeds,
hear graciously, at her prayer,
us your suppliants.
Let glory be to God the Father,
and to his only Son,
with the Spirit the Paraclete,
now and through every age.
Amen.
℣ Grace is poured forth upon your lips,
℟ Therefore God has blessed you for ever.
Canticum: Magnificat
Ant. Manum suam * apéruit ínopi, et palmas suas exténdit ad páuperem, et panem otiósa non comédit.
Canticum B. Mariæ Virginis
Luc. 1:46-55
1:46 Magníficat ✠ * ánima mea Dóminum.
1:47 Et exsultávit spíritus meus: * in Deo, salutári meo.
1:48 Quia respéxit humilitátem ancíllæ suæ: * ecce enim ex hoc beátam me dicent omnes generatiónes.
1:49 Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est: * et sanctum nomen ejus.
1:50 Et misericórdia ejus, a progénie in progénies: * timéntibus eum.
1:51 Fecit poténtiam in brácchio suo: * dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui.
1:52 Depósuit poténtes de sede: * et exaltávit húmiles.
1:53 Esuriéntes implévit bonis: * et dívites dimísit inánes.
1:54 Suscépit Israël púerum suum: * recordátus misericórdiæ suæ.
1:55 Sicut locútus est ad patres nostros: * Ábraham, et sémini ejus in sǽcula.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Manum suam apéruit ínopi, et palmas suas exténdit ad páuperem, et panem otiósa non comédit.
Ant. She opened her hand * to the needy, and stretched out her palms to the poor, and she did not eat the bread of idleness.
Canticle of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Luc 1:46-55
1:46 My soul ✠ * magnifies the Lord.
1:47 And my spirit leaps for joy * in God my Savior.
1:48 For he has looked with favor on the humility of his handmaid. * For behold, from this time, all generations shall call me blessed.
1:49 For he who is mighty has done great things for me, * and holy is his name.
1:50 And his mercy is from generation to generations * for those who fear him.
1:51 He has accomplished powerful deeds with his arm. * He has scattered the arrogant in the intentions of their heart.
1:52 He has deposed the powerful from their seat, * and he has exalted the humble.
1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things, * and the rich he has sent away empty.
1:54 He has taken up his servant Israel, * mindful of his mercy,
1:55 just as he spoke to our fathers: * to Abraham and to his offspring forever.
℣ 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. She opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her palms to the poor, and she did not eat the bread of idleness.
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.