S. Petri Chrysologi Episcopi Confessoris et Ecclesiæ DoctorisS. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
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
Jam lucis orto sídere,
Deum precémur súpplices,
Ut in diúrnis áctibus
Nos servet a nocéntibus.
Linguam refrénans témperet,
Ne litis horror ínsonet:
Visum fovéndo cóntegat,
Ne vanitátes háuriat.
Sint pura cordis íntima,
Absístat et vecórdia;
Carnis terat supérbiam
Potus cibíque párcitas.
Ut, cum dies abscésserit,
Noctémque sors redúxerit,
Mundi per abstinéntiam
Ipsi canámus glóriam.
Deo Patri sit glória,
Ejúsque soli Fílio,
Cum Spíritu Paráclito,
Nunc et per omne sǽculum.
Amen.
Now that the sun has risen,
Let us humbly pray to God,
That in our daily actions
He may keep us from all harm.
May he hold back and bridle the tongue,
Lest the din of strife ring out:
May he guard the eyes with care,
Lest they drink in vanities.
Let the depths of the heart be pure,
And let folly be far away;
May sparing use of food and drink
Curb the pride of the flesh.
That when the day shall pass away
And fortune bring back the night,
Pure through abstinence,
We may ourselves sing his glory.
To God the Father be glory,
And to his only Son,
With the Spirit the Paraclete,
Now and through every age.
Amen.
Psalmi
Ant. Ne discédas a me, * Dómine: quóniam tribulátio próxima est: quóniam non est qui ádjuvet.
Psalmus 21(2-12) [1]
21:2 Deus, Deus meus, réspice in me: quare me dereliquísti? * longe a salúte mea verba delictórum meórum.
21:3 Deus meus, clamábo per diem, et non exáudies: * et nocte, et non ad insipiéntiam mihi.
21:4 Tu autem in sancto hábitas, * laus Israël.
21:5 In te speravérunt patres nostri: * speravérunt, et liberásti eos.
21:6 Ad te clamavérunt, et salvi facti sunt: * in te speravérunt, et non sunt confúsi.
21:7 Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo: * oppróbrium hóminum, et abjéctio plebis.
21:8 Omnes vidéntes me, derisérunt me: * locúti sunt lábiis, et movérunt caput.
21:9 Sperávit in Dómino, erípiat eum: * salvum fáciat eum, quóniam vult eum.
21:10 Quóniam tu es, qui extraxísti me de ventre: * spes mea ab ubéribus matris meæ. In te projéctus sum ex útero:
21:11 De ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu, * ne discésseris a me:
21:12 Quóniam tribulátio próxima est: * quóniam non est qui ádjuvet.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Psalmus 21(13-23) [2]
21:13 Circumdedérunt me vítuli multi: * tauri pingues obsedérunt me.
21:14 Aperuérunt super me os suum, * sicut leo rápiens et rúgiens.
21:15 Sicut aqua effúsus sum: * et dispérsa sunt ómnia ossa mea.
21:15 Factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquéscens * in médio ventris mei.
21:16 Áruit tamquam testa virtus mea, et lingua mea adhǽsit fáucibus meis: * et in púlverem mortis deduxísti me.
21:17 Quóniam circumdedérunt me canes multi: * concílium malignántium obsédit me.
21:17 Fodérunt manus meas et pedes meos: * dinumeravérunt ómnia ossa mea.
21:18 Ipsi vero consideravérunt et inspexérunt me: * divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea, et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
21:20 Tu autem, Dómine, ne elongáveris auxílium tuum a me: * ad defensiónem meam cónspice.
21:21 Érue a frámea, Deus, ánimam meam: * et de manu canis únicam meam:
21:22 Salva me ex ore leónis: * et a córnibus unicórnium humilitátem meam.
21:23 Narrábo nomen tuum frátribus meis: * in médio ecclésiæ laudábo te.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Psalmus 21(24-32) [3]
21:24 Qui timétis Dóminum, laudáte eum: * univérsum semen Jacob, glorificáte eum.
21:25 Tímeat eum omne semen Israël: * quóniam non sprevit, neque despéxit deprecatiónem páuperis:
21:25 Nec avértit fáciem suam a me: * et cum clamárem ad eum, exaudívit me.
21:26 Apud te laus mea in ecclésia magna: * vota mea reddam in conspéctu timéntium eum.
21:27 Edent páuperes, et saturabúntur: et laudábunt Dóminum qui requírunt eum: * vivent corda eórum in sǽculum sǽculi.
21:28 Reminiscéntur et converténtur ad Dóminum * univérsi fines terræ:
21:28 Et adorábunt in conspéctu ejus * univérsæ famíliæ géntium.
21:29 Quóniam Dómini est regnum: * et ipse dominábitur géntium.
21:30 Manducavérunt et adoravérunt omnes pingues terræ: * in conspéctu ejus cadent omnes qui descéndunt in terram.
21:31 Et ánima mea illi vivet: * et semen meum sérviet ipsi.
21:32 Annuntiábitur Dómino generátio ventúra: * et annuntiábunt cæli justítiam ejus pópulo qui nascétur, quem fecit Dóminus.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Ne discédas a me, Dómine: quóniam tribulátio próxima est: quóniam non est qui ádjuvet.
Ant. Do not depart from me, * O Lord: for tribulation is near: for there is none to help.
Psalm 21(2-12) [1]
21:2 O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.
21:3 My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, * and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.
21:4 But you dwell in holiness, * O Praise of Israel.
21:5 In you, our fathers have hoped. * They hoped, and you freed them.
21:6 They cried out to you, and they were saved. * In you, they hoped and were not confounded.
21:7 But I am a worm and not a man: * a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.
21:8 All those who saw me have derided me. * They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.
21:9 He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. * Let him save him because he chooses him.
21:10 For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I have been thrown upon you from the womb;
21:11 from the womb of my mother, you are my God. * Do not depart from me.
21:12 For tribulation is near, * since there is no one who may 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 21(13-23) [2]
21:13 Many calves have surrounded me; * fat bulls have besieged me.
21:14 They have opened their mouths over me, * just like a lion seizing and roaring.
21:15 And so, I have been poured out like water, * and all my bones have been scattered.
21:15 My heart has become like wax, melting * in the midst of my chest.
21:16 My strength has dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. * And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.
21:17 For many dogs have surrounded me. * The council of the malicious has besieged me.
21:17 They have pierced my hands and feet. * They have numbered all my bones.
21:18 And they have examined me and stared at me. * They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots.
21:20 But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; * be attentive to my defense.
21:21 O God, rescue my soul from the spear, * and my only one from the hand of the dog.
21:22 Save me from the mouth of the lion, * and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast.
21:23 I will declare your name to my brothers. * In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.
℣ 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 21(24-32) [3]
21:24 You who fear the Lord, praise him. * All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.
21:25 May all the offspring of Israel fear him. * For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor.
21:25 Neither has he turned his face away from me. * And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.
21:26 My praise is with you, within a great church. * I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him.
21:27 The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for the Lord will praise him. * Their hearts will live forever and ever.
21:28 They will remember and be converted to the Lord, * all the ends of the earth.
21:28 And they will adore in his sight, * all the families of the Gentiles.
21:29 For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, * and he will have dominion over the Gentiles.
21:30 All the prosperous of the earth have eaten and adored. * In his sight, they will fall down, all those who descend to the ground.
21:31 And my soul will live for him, * and my offspring will serve him.
21:32 There will be announced for the Lord a future generation, * and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom the Lord has made.
℣ 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 depart from me, O Lord: for tribulation is near: for there is none to help.
Capitulum Responsorium Versus
1 Tim. 1:17
Regi sæculórum immortáli et invisíbili, soli Deo honor et glória in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
℟ Deo grátias.
℟ Christe, Fili Dei vivi, * Miserére nobis.
℟ Christe, Fili Dei vivi, * Miserére nobis.
℣ Qui ventúrus es in mundum.
℟ Miserére nobis.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Christe, Fili Dei vivi, * Miserére nobis.
℣ Exsúrge, Christe, ádjuva nos.
℟ Et líbera nos propter nomen tuum.
1 Tim 1:17
To the King of ages, immortal and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
℟ Thanks be to God.
℟ Christ, Son of the living God, * have mercy on us.
℟ Christ, Son of the living God, * have mercy on us.
℣ Who are to come into the world.
℟ Have mercy on us.
℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.
℟ Christ, Son of the living God, * have mercy on us.
℣ Arise, O Christ, help us.
℟ And deliver us for your name's sake.
Oratio
℣ Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.
℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.
Orémus.
Dómine Deus omnípotens, qui ad princípium hujus diéi nos perveníre fecísti: tua nos hódie salva virtúte; ut in hac die ad nullum declinémus peccátum, sed semper ad tuam justítiam faciéndam nostra procédant elóquia, dirigántur cogitatiónes et ópera.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟ Amen.
℣ Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.
℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.
℣ Benedicámus Dómino.
℟ Deo grátias.
℣ O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟ And let my cry come before you.
Let us pray.
O Lord God almighty, who have brought us to the beginning of this day: save us today by your power; that on this day we may turn aside to no sin, but that our words may always proceed, our thoughts be directed, and our works ordered, toward the doing of your justice.
Through 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.
Martyrologium
Nonis Decémbris Luna vicésima quinta. Anno Dómini 2026
In Judǽa sancti Sabbæ Abbátis, in óppido Cappadóciæ Mútala orti, qui miro sanctitátis exémplo refúlsit, et pro fide cathólica, advérsus impugnántes sanctam Sýnodum Chalcedonénsem, strénue laborávit, ac tandem in ea diœcésis Hierosolymitánæ laura, quæ ipsíus sancti Sabbæ nómine póstmodum est insigníta, requiévit in pace.
Níciæ, apud Varum flúvium, sancti Bassi Epíscopi, qui, in persecutióne Décii et Valeriáni, a Perénnio Prǽside, ob Christi fidem, equúleo tortus, láminis candéntibus ustus, fústibus et scorpiónibus cæsus, in ignem missus, et, cum inde evasísset illǽsus, duóbus clavis confíxus, illústre martýrium consummávit.
Pápiæ sancti Dalmátii, Epíscopi et Mártyris; qui in persecutióne Maximiáni passus est.
Corfínii, in Pelígnis, sancti Pelíni, Epíscopi Brundusíni, qui, cum ob ejus oratiónem, sub Juliáno Apóstata, templum Martis corruísset, a templórum Pontifícibus diríssime cæsus est, atque, octogínta et quinque vulnéribus confóssus, martýrii corónam proméruit.
Item sancti Anastásii Mártyris, qui, præ ardóre martýrii, sponte se persecutóribus óbtulit.
Thagúræ, in Africa, sanctórum Mártyrum Júlii, Potámiæ, Crispíni, Felícis, Grati et aliórum septem.
Thebéste, in Numídia, sanctæ Crispínæ, nobilíssimæ féminæ, quæ, tempóribus Diocletiáni et Maximiáni, cum sacrificáre nollet, jussu Anolíni Procónsulis decolláta est; quam sanctus Augustínus sæpe láudibus celébrat.
Tréviris sancti Nicétii Epíscopi, miræ sanctitátis viri.
Polýboti, in Asia, sancti Joánnis Epíscopi, cognoménto Thaumatúrgi.
℣ Et álibi aliórum plurimórum sanctórum Mártyrum et Confessórum, atque sanctárum Vírginum.
℟ Deo grátias.
℣ Pretiósa in conspéctu Dómini.
℟ Mors Sanctórum ejus.
Sancta María et omnes Sancti intercédant pro nobis ad Dóminum, ut nos mereámur ab eo adjuvári et salvári, qui vivit et regnat in sǽcula sæculórum.
℟ Amen.
The Fifth of December. The twenty-fifth day of the moon. In the year of our Lord 2026.
In Judea, Saint Sabas the Abbot, born at Mutala, a town in Cappadocia, who shone as a remarkable example of holiness and worked strenuously for the Catholic faith against those who attacked the holy Council of Chalcedon. He finally rested in peace in the laura of the diocese of Jerusalem that was later named after Saint Sabas himself.
At Nice, on the river Var, Saint Bassus the Bishop. In the persecution of Decius and Valerian, the governor Perennius had him tortured on the rack for the faith of Christ, burned with glowing metal plates, beaten with clubs and scourges called scorpions, and thrown into the fire. After he escaped unharmed, he was pierced with two nails and completed an illustrious martyrdom.
At Pavia, Saint Dalmatius, Bishop and Martyr, who suffered in the persecution of Maximian.
At Corfinium, among the Peligni, Saint Pelinus, Bishop of Brindisi. Under Julian the Apostate, a temple of Mars collapsed through his prayer; the temple priests therefore beat him most cruelly, and, pierced with eighty-five wounds, he won the crown of martyrdom.
Likewise, Saint Anastasius the Martyr, who, out of his ardent desire for martyrdom, freely offered himself to the persecutors.
At Thagura, in Africa, the holy martyrs Julius, Potamia, Crispin, Felix, Gratus, and seven others.
At Thebeste, in Numidia, Saint Crispina, a woman of very noble rank. In the time of Diocletian and Maximian, she refused to offer sacrifice and was beheaded by order of the Proconsul Anolinus. Saint Augustine often praises her.
At Trier, Saint Nicetius the Bishop, a man of remarkable holiness.
At Polybotus, in Asia, Saint John the Bishop, called the Wonder-worker.
℣ And elsewhere of many other holy Martyrs and Confessors, and holy Virgins.
℟ Thanks be to God.
℣ Precious in the sight of the Lord.
℟ The death of his Saints.
May holy Mary and all the Saints intercede for us to the Lord, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him, who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
℟ Amen.
De Officio Capituli
℣ Deus in adjutórium meum inténde.
℟ Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína.
℣ Deus in adjutórium meum inténde.
℟ Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína.
℣ 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.
Kýrie, eléison. Christe, eléison. Kýrie, eléison.
Pater Noster dicitur secreto usque ad Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris:
℣ Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:
℟ Sed líbera nos a malo.
℣ Réspice in servos tuos, Dómine, et in ópera tua, et dírige fílios eórum.
℟ Et sit splendor Dómini Dei nostri super nos, et ópera mánuum nostrárum dírige super nos, et opus mánuum nostrárum dírige.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Orémus.
Dirígere et sanctificáre, régere et gubernáre dignáre, Dómine Deus, Rex cæli et terræ, hódie corda et córpora nostra, sensus, sermónes et actus nostros in lege tua, et in opéribus mandatórum tuórum: ut hic et in ætérnum, te auxiliánte, salvi et líberi esse mereámur, Salvátor mundi: Qui vivis et regnas in sǽcula sæculórum.
℟ Amen.
℣ O God, come to my assistance.
℟ Lord, make haste to help me.
℣ O God, come to my assistance.
℟ Lord, make haste to help me.
℣ 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.
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
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.
℣ Look upon your servants, O Lord, and upon your works, and direct their children.
℟ And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us; direct the works of our hands upon us, and the work of our hands, direct it.
℣ 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.
Let us pray.
Be pleased to direct and sanctify, to rule and to govern, O Lord God, King of heaven and earth, this day our hearts and our bodies, our senses, our words, and our actions, in your law and in the works of your commandments: that here and in eternity, with your help, we may merit to be saved and free, O Savior of the world: who live and reign for ever and ever.
℟ Amen.
Lectio brevis
℣ Jube, Dómine, benedícere.
Benedictio. Dies et actus nostros in sua pace dispónat Dóminus omnípotens.
℟ Amen.
Isa 33:2
Dómine, miserére nostri: te enim exspectávimus: esto brácchium nostrum in mane, et salus nostra in témpore tribulatiónis.
℣ Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
℟ Deo grátias.
℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.
Benediction. May the almighty Lord direct our days and deeds in his peace.
℟ Amen.
Isa 33:2
O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.
℣ But you, O Lord, have mercy on us.
℟ Thanks be to God.
Conclusio
℣ Adjutórium nostrum ✠ in nómine Dómini.
℟ Qui fecit cælum et terram.
℣ Benedícite.
℟ Deus.
Benedictio. Dóminus nos benedícat, ✠ et ab omni malo deféndat, et ad vitam perdúcat ætérnam. Et fidélium ánimæ per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace.
℟ Amen.
℣ Our help ✠ is in the name of the Lord.
℟ Who made heaven and earth.
℣ Bless us.
℟ God.
Benediction. May the Lord bless us, ✠ and defend us from all evil, and lead us to eternal life. And may the souls of the faithful rest in peace through the mercy of God.
℟ Amen.