In Vigilia AscensionisOn the Vigil of the Ascension
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 in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
Psalmi
Ant. Allelúja, * allelúja, allelúja.
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. Allelúja, allelúja, allelúja.
Ant. Alleluia, * alleluia, alleluia.
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 am serene 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 precipitous 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. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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, * Allelúja, allelúja.
℟ Christe, Fili Dei vivi, miserére nobis, * Allelúja, allelúja.
℣ Qui surrexísti a mórtuis.
℟ Allelúja, allelúja.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Christe, Fili Dei vivi, miserére nobis, * Allelúja, allelúja.
℣ Exsúrge, Christe, ádjuva nos, allelúja.
℟ Et líbera nos propter nomen tuum, allelúja.
1 Tim 1:17
to the King of ages, to the immortal, invisible, solitary God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
℟ Thanks be to God.
℟ Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us, * Alleluia, alleluia.
℟ Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us, * Alleluia, alleluia.
℣ Who rose from the dead.
℟ Alleluia, alleluia.
℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.
℟ Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us, * Alleluia, alleluia.
℣ Arise, O Christ, help us, alleluia.
℟ And deliver us for your name's sake, alleluia.
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
Sexto Idus Maji Luna vicésima sexta. Anno Dómini 2029
In Monte Olivéti Ascénsio Dómini nostri Jesu Christi.
Sancti Antoníni, ex Ordine Prædicatórum, Epíscopi Florentíni et Confessóris, cujus dies natális sexto Nonas mensis hujus recensétur.
Romæ, via Latína, natális sanctórum Mártyrum Gordiáni et Epímachi, quorum prior, pro confessióne nóminis Christi, témpore Juliáni Apóstatæ, diu plumbátis cæsus et ad últimum cápite truncátus, noctu a Christiánis sepúltus eádem via fuit in crypta, in quam beáti Epímachi Mártyris relíquiæ paulo ante translátæ fúerant ab Alexándria, ubi ipse, pro Christi fide, martýrium compléverat prídie Idus Decémbris.
In terra Hus sancti Job Prophétæ, admirándæ patiéntiæ viri.
Romæ beáti Calepódii, Presbýteri et Mártyris; quem Alexánder Imperátor gládio fecit occídi, et corpus ejus per civitátem trahi, atque in Tíberim jactári, quod invéntum Callístus Papa sepelívit. Decollátus est étiam Palmátius Consul cum uxóre et fíliis et áliis promíscui sexus quadragínta duóbus de domo sua, Simplícius quoque Senátor cum uxóre et sexagínta octo de família sua, item et Felix cum uxóre sua Blanda; quorum cápita suspénsa sunt per divérsas portas Urbis, ad exémplum Christianórum.
Item Romæ, via Latína, ad Centum Aulas, natális sanctórum Mártyrum Quarti et Quincti, quorum córpora Cápuam transláta sunt.
Apud Leontínos, in Sicília, sanctórum Mártyrum Alphíi, Philadélphi et Cyríni.
Smyrnæ sancti Dioscóridis Mártyris.
Apud Taréntum sancti Catáldi Epíscopi, miráculis clari.
Matríti sancti Isidóri Agrícolæ, quem, miráculis clarum, Gregórius Papa Décimus quintus, una cum sanctis Ignátio, Francísco Xavério, Terésia et Philíppo Nério, in Sanctórum númerum rétulit.
Medioláni Invéntio sanctórum Mártyrum Nazárii et Celsi, in qua beátus Ambrósius Epíscopus corpus sancti Nazárii recenti adhuc sánguine conspérsum réperit, atque ad Basílicam Apostolórum tránstulit, una cum córpore beáti Celsi púeri, quem idem ipse Nazárius nutríerat, et Anolínus, in Nerónis persecutióne, simul cum eo feríri gládio jússerat quinto Kaléndas Augústi; quo die festívitas gloriósi eórum martýrii celebrátur.
℣ 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 Tenth of May. The twenty-sixth day of the moon. In the year of our Lord 2029.
On Mount Olivet, the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Antoninus, of the Order of Preachers, Bishop of Florence and Confessor, whose heavenly birthday is recorded on May 2.
At Rome, on the Latin Way, the heavenly birthday of the holy Martyrs Gordianus and Epimachus; the former, for his confession of the name of Christ in the time of Julian the Apostate, was long beaten with leaden flails and finally beheaded, and buried by night by Christians on the same road in a crypt into which the relics of the blessed Martyr Epimachus had shortly before been transferred from Alexandria, where he himself had completed his martyrdom for the faith of Christ on December 12.
In the land of Uz, Saint Job the Prophet, a man of wondrous patience.
At Rome, blessed Calepodius, Priest and Martyr; whom the Emperor Alexander had slain with the sword, his body dragged through the city and cast into the Tiber; it was found and buried by Pope Callixtus. The Consul Palmatius was also beheaded, along with his wife and children and forty-two others of his household of both sexes; likewise the Senator Simplicius with his wife and sixty-eight of his household; and also Felix with his wife Blanda; whose heads were hung over the various gates of the City as a warning to Christians.
Also at Rome, on the Latin Way, at the Hundred Halls, the heavenly birthday of the holy Martyrs Quartus and Quintus, whose bodies were translated to Capua.
At Leontini, in Sicily, the holy Martyrs Alphius, Philadelphus, and Cyrinus.
At Smyrna, Saint Dioscorides the Martyr.
At Tarentum, Saint Cataldus the Bishop, renowned for miracles.
At Madrid, Saint Isidore the Farmer, renowned for miracles, whom Pope Gregory XV enrolled among the Saints together with Saints Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Teresa, and Philip Neri.
At Milan, the Finding of the holy Martyrs Nazarius and Celsus; in which blessed Ambrose the Bishop found the body of Saint Nazarius still sprinkled with fresh blood, and transferred it to the Basilica of the Apostles, together with the body of the blessed boy Celsus, whom Nazarius himself had raised, and whom Anolinus, in the persecution of Nero, had ordered to be struck with the sword along with him on July 28; on which day the feast of their glorious martyrdom is celebrated.
℣ 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 may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.
℣ 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.
Col 3:1-2
Si consurrexístis cum Christo, quæ sursum sunt quǽrite, ubi Christus est in déxtera Dei sedens: quæ sursum sunt sápite, non quæ super terram.
℣ 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.
Col 3:1-2
Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
℣ 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.