Feria IV infra Hebdomadam IV AdventusWednesday within the Fourth Week of Advent
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. Prophétæ prædicavérunt * nasci Salvatórem de Vírgine María.
Psalmus 25 [1]
25:1 Júdica me, Dómine, quóniam ego in innocéntia mea ingréssus sum: * et in Dómino sperans non infirmábor.
25:2 Proba me, Dómine, et tenta me: * ure renes meos et cor meum.
25:3 Quóniam misericórdia tua ante óculos meos est: * et complácui in veritáte tua.
25:4 Non sedi cum concílio vanitátis: * et cum iníqua geréntibus non introíbo.
25:5 Odívi ecclésiam malignántium: * et cum ímpiis non sedébo.
25:6 Lavábo inter innocéntes manus meas: * et circúmdabo altáre tuum, Dómine:
25:7 Ut áudiam vocem laudis, * et enárrem univérsa mirabília tua.
25:8 Dómine, diléxi decórem domus tuæ, * et locum habitatiónis glóriæ tuæ.
25:9 Ne perdas cum ímpiis, Deus, ánimam meam, * et cum viris sánguinum vitam meam:
25:10 In quorum mánibus iniquitátes sunt: * déxtera eórum repléta est munéribus.
25:11 Ego autem in innocéntia mea ingréssus sum: * rédime me, et miserére mei.
25:12 Pes meus stetit in dirécto: * in ecclésiis benedícam te, Dómine.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Psalmus 51 [2]
51:3 Quid gloriáris in malítia, * qui potens es in iniquitáte?
51:4 Tota die injustítiam cogitávit lingua tua: * sicut novácula acúta fecísti dolum.
51:5 Dilexísti malítiam super benignitátem: * iniquitátem magis quam loqui æquitátem.
51:6 Dilexísti ómnia verba præcipitatiónis, * lingua dolósa.
51:7 Proptérea Deus déstruet te in finem, * evéllet te, et emigrábit te de tabernáculo tuo: et radícem tuam de terra vivéntium.
51:8 Vidébunt justi, et timébunt, et super eum ridébunt, et dicent: * Ecce homo, qui non pósuit Deum adjutórem suum:
51:9 Sed sperávit in multitúdine divitiárum suárum: * et præváluit in vanitáte sua.
51:10 Ego autem, sicut olíva fructífera in domo Dei, * sperávi in misericórdia Dei in ætérnum: et in sǽculum sǽculi.
51:11 Confitébor tibi in sǽculum, quia fecísti: * et exspectábo nomen tuum, quóniam bonum est in conspéctu sanctórum tuórum.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Psalmus 52 [3]
52:1 Dixit insípiens in corde suo: * Non est Deus.
52:2 Corrúpti sunt, et abominábiles facti sunt in iniquitátibus: * non est qui fáciat bonum.
52:3 Deus de cælo prospéxit super fílios hóminum: * ut vídeat si est intéllegens, aut requírens Deum.
52:4 Omnes declinavérunt, simul inútiles facti sunt: * non est qui fáciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.
52:5 Nonne scient omnes qui operántur iniquitátem, * qui dévorant plebem meam ut cibum panis?
52:6 Deum non invocavérunt: * illic trepidavérunt timóre, ubi non erat timor.
52:6 Quóniam Deus dissipávit ossa eórum qui homínibus placent: * confúsi sunt, quóniam Deus sprevit eos.
52:7 Quis dabit ex Sion salutáre Israël? * cum convérterit Deus captivitátem plebis suæ, exsultábit Jacob, et lætábitur Israël.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Ant. Prophétæ prædicavérunt nasci Salvatórem de Vírgine María.
Ant. The Prophets proclaimed * that the Savior would be born of the Virgin Mary.
Psalm 25 [1]
25:1 Judge me, Lord, for I have been walking in my innocence, * and by hoping in the Lord, I will not be weakened.
25:2 Examine me, Lord, and test me: * enkindle my temperament and my heart.
25:3 For your mercy is before my eyes, * and I have delighted in your truth.
25:4 I have not sat with the council of emptiness, * and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice.
25:5 I have hated the assembly of the malicious; * and I will not sit with the impious.
25:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent, * and I will surround your altar, O Lord,
25:7 so that I may hear the voice of your praise * and describe all your wonders.
25:8 O Lord, I have loved the beauty of your house * and the dwelling place of your glory.
25:9 O God, do not let my soul perish with the impious, * nor my life with the men of blood,
25:10 in whose hands are iniquities: * their right hand has been filled by bribes.
25:11 But as for me, I have been walking in my innocence. * Redeem me, and have mercy on me.
25:12 My foot has stood firm in the straight path. * In the churches, I will bless you, O Lord.
℣ 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 51 [2]
51:3 Why do you glory in malice, * you who are powerful in iniquity?
51:4 All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. * Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
51:5 You have loved malice above goodness, * and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
51:6 You have loved all ruinous words, * you deceitful tongue.
51:7 Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. * He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.
51:8 The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say: * “Behold the man who did not set God as his helper.
51:9 But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, * and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”
51:10 But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, * have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.
51:11 I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. * And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.
℣ 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 52 [3]
52:1 The fool has said in his heart, * “There is no God.”
52:2 They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. * There is no one who does good.
52:3 God gazed down from heaven on the sons of men, * to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God.
52:4 All have gone astray; together they have become useless. * There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
52:5 Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, * who devour my people like a meal of bread?
52:6 They have not called upon God. * In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear.
52:6 For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. * They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.
52:7 Who will grant from Zion the salvation of Israel? * Jacob will exult, when God will convert the captivity of his people; and Israel will rejoice.
℣ 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 Prophets proclaimed that the Savior would be born of the Virgin Mary.
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
Nono Kaléndas Januárii Luna quinta décima. Anno Dómini 2026
Vigília Nativitátis Dómini nostri Jesu Christi.
Cracóviæ, in Polónia, natális sancti Joánnis Cántii, Presbýteri et Confessóris, quem, doctrína, propagándæ fídei zelo, virtútibus ac miráculis clarum, Clemens Décimus tértius, Póntifex Máximus, Sanctórum número adscrípsit. Ejus autem festívitas tertiodécimo Kaléndas Novémbris celebrátur.
Apud Spolétum sancti Gregórii, Presbýteri et Mártyris; qui, tempóribus Diocletiáni et Maximiáni Imperatórum, primo nodósis fústibus cæsus, ac deínde, post cratículam et cárcerem, cárduis férreis in génibus percússus, sed et ardéntibus lampádibus per látera incénsus, tandem est decollátus.
Trípoli, in Phœnícia, sanctórum Mártyrum Luciáni, Metróbii, Pauli, Zenóbii, Theotími et Drusi.
Nicomedíæ sancti Euthýmii Mártyris, qui, in persecutióne Diocletiáni, cum multos ad martýrium præmisísset, et ipse, ense transfíxus, eos secútus est ad corónam.
Antiochíæ natális sanctárum Vírginum quadragínta, quæ, in Deciána persecutióne, per divérsa torménta martýrium consummárunt.
Burdígalæ sancti Delphíni Epíscopi, qui, Theodósii témpore, cláruit sanctitáte.
Romæ natális sanctæ Tharsíllæ Vírginis, ámitæ sancti Gregórii Papæ, de qua ipse testátur quod in hora éxitus sui Jesum ad se veniéntem víderit.
Tréviris sanctæ Irminæ Vírginis, fíliæ Dagobérti Regis.
℣ 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 Twenty-Fourth of December. The fifteenth day of the moon. In the year of our Lord 2026.
The Vigil of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
At Kraków in Poland, the heavenly birthday of Saint John Cantius, Priest and Confessor. Renowned for learning, zeal for spreading the faith, virtues, and miracles, he was enrolled among the Saints by Pope Clement XIII. His feast is celebrated on October 20.
At Spoleto, Saint Gregory, Priest and Martyr. In the time of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, he was first beaten with knotted clubs. Then, after the gridiron and imprisonment, his knees were struck with iron spikes, and his sides were also burned with flaming torches. Finally, he was beheaded.
At Tripoli in Phoenicia, the holy Martyrs Lucian, Metrobius, Paul, Zenobius, Theotimus, and Drusus.
At Nicomedia, Saint Euthymius, Martyr. In the persecution of Diocletian, he had sent many before him to martyrdom; then he himself, pierced with a sword, followed them to the crown.
At Antioch, the heavenly birthday of forty holy Virgins, who completed their martyrdom through various torments in the persecution of Decius.
At Bordeaux, Saint Delphinus, Bishop, who was renowned for holiness in the time of Theodosius.
At Rome, the heavenly birthday of Saint Tharsilla, Virgin, the paternal aunt of Pope Saint Gregory. He himself testifies that, at the hour of her death, she saw Jesus coming to her.
At Trier, Saint Irmina, Virgin, daughter of King Dagobert.
℣ 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.