S. Ioannis de Deo Confessoris

Matutinum Laudes Prima Tertia Sexta Nona Vesperae Completorium

Incipit

℣ Dómine, lábia ☩ mea apéries.

℣ O Lord, ☩ open my lips.

℟ Et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.

℟ And my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

℣ Deus ✠ in adiutórium meum inténde.

℣ O God, ✠ come to my assistance.

℟ Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína.

℟ Lord, make haste to help me.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. 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.

Laus tibi, Dómine, Rex ætérnæ glóriæ.

Praise to you, O Lord, King of eternal glory.

Invitatorium

Ant. Veníte, * Exsultémus Dómino.

Ant. Come, * let us exult in the Lord.

Psalmus 94

Psalm 94

94:1 Veníte, exsultémus Dómino: * iubilémus Deo salutári nostro:
94:2 Præoccupémus fáciem eius in confessióne: * et in psalmis iubilémus ei.
repeat full invitatory antiphon
94:3 Quóniam Deus magnus Dóminus: * et Rex magnus super omnes deos.
94:4 Quia in manu eius sunt omnes fines terræ: * et altitúdines móntium ipsíus sunt.
repeat full invitatory antiphon
94:5 Quóniam ipsíus est mare, et ipse fecit illud: * et siccam manus eius formavérunt.
repeat full invitatory antiphon
94:7 Et nos pópulus páscuæ eius, et oves manus eius. * Hódie si vocem eius audiéritis, nolíte obduráre corda vestra:
94:8 Sicut in irritatióne secúndum diem tentatiónis in desérto: * ubi tentavérunt me patres vestri, probavérunt me, et vidérunt ópera mea.
repeat full invitatory antiphon
94:9 Quadragínta annis offénsus fui generatióni illi, * et dixi: Semper hi errant corde.
94:10 Et isti non cognovérunt vias meas, ut iurávi in ira mea: * Si introíbunt in réquiem meam.
repeat full invitatory antiphon

94:1 Come, let us exult in the Lord: * let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior:
94:2 Let us anticipate his presence with confession: * and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms.
Repeat the full invitatory antiphon.
94:3 For the Lord is a great God: * and a great King over all gods.
94:4 For in his hand are all the limits of the earth: * and the heights of the mountains are his.
Repeat the full invitatory antiphon.
94:5 For the sea is his, and he made it: * and his hands formed the dry land.
Repeat the full invitatory antiphon.
94:7 And we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. * If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
94:8 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: * where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works.
Repeat the full invitatory antiphon.
94:9 For forty years, I was offended by that generation, * and I said: These have always strayed in heart.
94:10 And these have not known my ways, so I swore in my wrath: * They shall not enter into my rest.
Repeat the full invitatory antiphon.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Veníte, Exsultémus Dómino.

Ant. Come, let us exult in the Lord.

Hymnus

Ex more docti mýstico
Servémus hoc ieiúnium,
Deno diérum círculo
Ducto quater notíssimo.

Lex et prophétæ prímitus
Hoc prætulérunt, póstmodum
Christus sacrávit, ómnium
Rex atque factor témporum.

Utámur ergo párcius
Verbis, cibis et pótibus,
Somno, iocis, et árctius
Perstémus in custódia.

Vitémus autem nóxia,
Quæ súbruunt mentes vagas:
Nullúmque demus cállidi
Hostis locum tyránnidi.

Flectámus iram víndicem,
Plorémus ante Iúdicem,
Clamémus ore súpplici,
Dicámus omnes cérnui:

Nostris malis offéndimus
Tuam, Deus, cleméntiam:
Effúnde nobis désuper,
Remíssor, indulgéntiam.

Meménto quod sumus tui,
Licet cadúci, plásmatis:
Ne des honórem nóminis
Tui, precámur, álteri.

Laxa malum, quod fécimus,
Auge bonum, quod póscimus:
Placére quo tandem tibi
Possímus hic, et pérpetim.

Præsta, beáta Trínitas,
Concéde, simplex Únitas,
Ut fructuósa sint tuis
Ieiuniórum múnera.
Amen.

The fast, as taught by holy lore,
We keep in solemn course once more:
The fast to all men known, and bound
In forty days of yearly round.

The law and seers that were of old
In diverse ways this Lent foretold,
Which Christ, all seasons’ King and Guide,
In after ages sanctified.

More sparing therefore let us make
The words we speak, the food we take,
Our sleep and mirth, —and closer barred
Be every sense in holy guard.

Avoid the evil thoughts that roll
Like waters o’er the heedless soul;
Nor let the foe occasion find
Our souls in slavery to bind.

In prayer together let us fall,
And cry for mercy, one and all,
And weep before the Judge’s feet,
And his avenging wrath entreat.

Thy grace have we offended sore,
By sins, O God, which we deplore;
But pour upon us from on high,
O pardoning One, thy clemency.

Remember thou, though frail we be,
That yet thine handiwork are we;
Nor let the honour of thy name
Be by another put to shame.

Forgive the sin that we have wrought;
Increase the good that we have sought:
That we at length, our wanderings o'er,
May please thee here and evermore.

Grant O thou Blessed Trinity,
Grant, O Essential Unity,
That this our fast of forty days
May work our profit and thy praise.
Amen.

Nocturni

Nocturnus 1

Nocturn 1

Ant. Dóminus de cælo * prospéxit super fílios hóminum.

Ant. The Lord * has looked down from heaven upon the children of men.

Psalmus 13

Psalm 13

13:1a Dixit insípiens in corde suo: * non est Deus.
13:1b Corrúpti sunt, et abominábiles facti sunt in stúdiis suis: * non est qui fáciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.
13:2 Dóminus de cælo prospéxit super fílios hóminum, * ut vídeat si est intéllegens, aut requírens Deum.
13:3a Omnes declinavérunt, simul inútiles facti sunt: * non est qui fáciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.
13:3b Sepúlcrum patens est guttur eórum: † linguis suis dolóse agébant * venénum áspidum sub lábiis eórum.
13:3c Quorum os maledictióne et amaritúdine plenum est: * velóces pedes eórum ad effundéndum sánguinem.
13:3d Contrítio et infelícitas in viis eórum, † et viam pacis non cognovérunt: * non est timor Dei ante óculos eórum.
13:4 Nonne cognóscent omnes qui operántur iniquitátem, * qui dévorant plebem meam sicut escam panis?
13:5 Dóminum non invocavérunt, * illic trepidavérunt timóre, ubi non erat timor.
13:6 Quóniam Dóminus in generatióne iusta est, † consílium ínopis confudístis: * quóniam Dóminus spes eius est.
13:7 Quis dabit ex Sion salutáre Israël? * cum avérterit Dóminus captivitátem plebis suæ, exsultábit Iacob, et lætábitur Israël.

13:1a The fool has said in his heart: * there is no God.
13:1b They are corrupt, and they have become abominable in their pursuits: * there is none who does good, there is not even one.
13:2 The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the children of men, * to see if there is any one who understands, or who seeks God.
13:3a All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: * there is none who does good, there is not even one.
13:3b Their throat is an open sepulchre: † they acted deceitfully with their tongues: * the poison of asps is under their lips.
13:3c Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: * their feet are swift to shed blood.
13:3d Destruction and misery are in their ways, † and the way of peace they have not known: * there is no fear of God before their eyes.
13:4 Will they never learn, all who work iniquity, * who devour my people as they eat bread?
13:5 They have not called upon the Lord, * there they trembled with fear, where there was no fear.
13:6 For the Lord is in the righteous generation, † you have confounded the counsel of the poor: * for the Lord is his hope.
13:7 Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? * When the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Dóminus de cælo prospéxit super fílios hóminum.

Ant. The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the children of men.

Ant. Qui operátur iustítiam * requiéscet in monte sancto tuo, Dómine.

Ant. He who does justice * shall rest on your holy mountain, O Lord.

Psalmus 14

Psalm 14

14:1 Dómine, quis habitábit in tabernáculo tuo? * aut quis requiéscet in monte sancto tuo?
14:2 Qui ingréditur sine mácula, * et operátur iustítiam:
14:3a Qui lóquitur veritátem in corde suo, * qui non egit dolum in lingua sua:
14:3b Nec fecit próximo suo malum, * et oppróbrium non accépit advérsus próximos suos.
14:4a Ad níhilum dedúctus est in conspéctu eius malígnus: * timéntes autem Dóminum gloríficat:
14:4b Qui iurat próximo suo, et non décipit, * (5a) qui pecúniam suam non dedit ad usúram, et múnera super innocéntem non accépit.
14:5b Qui facit hæc: * non movébitur in ætérnum.

14:1 O Lord, who will dwell in your tabernacle? * or who will rest on your holy mountain?
14:2 He who walks without blemish, * and who works justice:
14:3a He who speaks the truth in his heart, * who has not acted deceitfully with his tongue:
14:3b Nor has he done evil to his neighbor, * and has not taken up a reproach against his neighbors.
14:4a In his sight, the malicious one has been reduced to nothing: * but he glorifies those who fear the Lord.
14:4b He who swears to his neighbor and does not deceive, * (5a) he who has not given his money in usury, nor accepted bribes against the innocent.
14:5b He who does these things: * will be undisturbed for eternity.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Qui operátur iustítiam requiéscet in monte sancto tuo, Dómine.

Ant. He who does justice shall rest on your holy mountain, O Lord.

Ant. Inclína, Dómine, * aurem tuam mihi, et exáudi verba mea.

Ant. Incline, O Lord, * your ear to me, and hear my words.

Psalmus 16

Psalm 16

16:1a Exáudi, Dómine, iustítiam meam: * inténde deprecatiónem meam.
16:1b Áuribus pércipe oratiónem meam, * non in lábiis dolósis.
16:2 De vultu tuo iudícium meum pródeat: * óculi tui vídeant æquitátes.
16:3 Probásti cor meum, et visitásti nocte: * igne me examinásti, et non est invénta in me iníquitas.
16:4 Ut non loquátur os meum ópera hóminum: * propter verba labiórum tuórum ego custodívi vias duras.
16:5 Pérfice gressus meos in sémitis tuis: * ut non moveántur vestígia mea.
16:6 Ego clamávi, quóniam exaudísti me, Deus: * inclína aurem tuam mihi, et exáudi verba mea.
16:7 Mirífica misericórdias tuas, * qui salvos facis sperántes in te.
16:8a A resisténtibus déxteræ tuæ custódi me, * ut pupíllam óculi.
16:8b Sub umbra alárum tuárum prótege me: * (9a) a fácie impiórum qui me afflixérunt.
16:9b Inimíci mei ánimam meam circumdedérunt, † (10) ádipem suum conclusérunt: * os eórum locútum est supérbiam.
16:11 Proiciéntes me nunc circumdedérunt me: * óculos suos statuérunt declináre in terram.
16:12 Suscepérunt me sicut leo parátus ad prædam: * et sicut cátulus leónis hábitans in ábditis.
16:13 Exsúrge, Dómine, prǽveni eum, et supplánta eum: * éripe ánimam meam ab ímpio, frámeam tuam (14a) ab inimícis manus tuæ.
16:14b Dómine, a paucis de terra dívide eos in vita eórum: * de abscónditis tuis adimplétus est venter eórum.
16:14c Saturáti sunt fíliis: * et dimisérunt relíquias suas párvulis suis.
16:15 Ego autem in iustítia apparébo conspéctui tuo: * satiábor cum apparúerit glória tua.

16:1a Hear, O Lord, my just cause: * attend to my supplication.
16:1b Receive my prayer with your ears, * not from deceitful lips.
16:2 Let my judgment come forth from your presence: * let your eyes behold what is right.
16:3 You have proved my heart, and visited it by night: * you have tried me by fire, and iniquity has not been found in me.
16:4 That my mouth may not speak the works of men: * for the sake of the words of your lips I have kept hard ways.
16:5 Perfect my steps in your paths: * that my footsteps may not be moved.
16:6 I have cried out, for you have heard me, O God: * incline your ear to me, and hear my words.
16:7 Show forth your wonderful mercies, * O you who save those who hope in you.
16:8a Keep me as the apple of your eye, * from those who resist your right hand.
16:8b Protect me under the shadow of your wings: * (9a) from the face of the wicked who have afflicted me.
16:9b My enemies have surrounded my soul, † (10) they have enclosed their fatness: * their mouth has spoken pride.
16:11 Casting me down, they have now surrounded me: * they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
16:12 They have surrounded me like a lion ready for its prey: * and like a young lion dwelling in hidden places.
16:13 Arise, O Lord, forestall him and overthrow him: * deliver my soul from the wicked, your sword (14a) from the enemies of your hand.
16:14b O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: * of your hidden things their belly has been filled.
16:14c They are full of children: * and they have left their remains to their little ones.
16:15 But I in justice shall appear before your sight: * I shall be satisfied when your glory appears.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Inclína, Dómine, aurem tuam mihi, et exáudi verba mea.

Ant. Incline, O Lord, your ear to me, and hear my words.

℣ Mirífica Dómine misericórdias tuas.

℣ Show forth, O Lord, your mercies.

℟ Qui salvos facis sperántes in te.

℟ You who save those who trust in you.

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:

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:

℣ Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:

℣ And lead us not into temptation:

℟ Sed líbera nos a malo.

℟ But deliver us from evil.

Absolutio. Exáudi, Dómine Iesu Christe, preces servórum tuórum, et miserére nobis: Qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivis et regnas in sǽcula sæculórum.

Absolutio. Hear us, Lord Jesus Christ, and have mercy on your servants: You who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Benedictióne perpétua benedícat nos Pater ætérnus.

Benedictio. May the eternal Father bless us with his everlasting blessing.

Lectio 1

Reading 1

Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem

A Reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Ioannes 2:13-25

In illo témpore: Prope erat Pascha Iudæórum, et ascéndit Iesus Ierosólymam: et invénit in templo vendéntes boves, et oves, et colúmbas. Et réliqua.

Homilía sancti Augustíni Epíscopi

At that time: The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem; and he found in the temple those who were selling oxen, and sheep, and doves. And so forth.

A Homily of Saint Augustine the Bishop

Tract. 10 in Ioannem, post init.

Quid audívimus, fratres? Ecce templum illud figúra adhuc erat, et eiécit inde Dóminus omnes qui sua quærébant, qui ad núndinas vénerant. Et quæ ibi vendébant illi? Quæ opus habébant hómines in sacrifíciis illíus témporis. Novit enim cáritas vestra, quod sacrifícia illi pópulo pro eius carnalitáte, et corde adhuc lapídeo, tália data sunt, quibus tenerétur, ne in idóla deflúeret: et immolábant ibi sacrifícia, boves, oves et colúmbas. Nostis, quia legístis.

What have we heard, brethren? Behold, that temple was still a figure, and the Lord drove out from it all who were seeking their own interests, who had come for a market. And what were they selling there? The things that men needed for the sacrifices of that era. For your charity knows that those sacrifices were given to that people on account of their carnality and their heart still of stone, to keep them bound, lest they drift into idolatry; and they were offering sacrifices there — oxen, sheep, and doves. You know this, because you have read it.

℟ Vos, qui transitúri estis Iordánem, ædificáte altáre Dómino

℟ You who are about to cross the Jordan, build an altar to the Lord

De lapídibus, quos ferrum non tétigit: et offérte super illud holocáusta, et hóstias pacíficas Deo vestro.

Of stones that iron has not touched; and offer upon it burnt offerings and peace offerings to your God.

℣ Cumque intravéritis terram, quam Dóminus datúrus est vobis, ædificáte ibi altáre Dómino.

℣ And when you have entered the land which the Lord is to give you, build there an altar to the Lord.

℟ De lapídibus, quos ferrum non tétigit: et offérte super illud holocáusta, et hóstias pacíficas Deo vestro.

℟ Of stones that iron has not touched; and offer upon it burnt offerings and peace offerings to your God.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Unigénitus Dei Fílius nos benedícere et adiuváre dignétur.

Benedictio. May the Only Begotten Son of God be pleased to bless and assist us.

Lectio 2

Reading 2

Non ergo magnum peccátum, si hoc vendébant in templo, quod emebátur ut offerétur in templo: et tamen eiécit inde illos. Quid si ibi ebriósos inveníret, quid fáceret Dóminus, si vendéntes ea quæ lícita sunt, et contra iustítiam non sunt (quæ enim honéste emúntur, non illícite vendúntur) éxpulit tamen, et non est passus domum oratiónis fíeri domum negotiatiónis?

It was therefore no great sin if they sold in the Temple what was purchased in order to be offered in the Temple: and yet he drove them out. What would the Lord do if he found drunkards there — he who drove out even those who were selling things that were lawful and not contrary to justice (for what is honestly bought is not unlawfully sold) — and would not allow the house of prayer to become a house of trade?

℟ Audi, Israël, præcépta Dómini, et ea in corde tuo quasi in libro scribe:

℟ Hear, O Israel, the commandments of the Lord, and write them on your heart as in a book:

Et dabo tibi terram fluéntem lac et mel.

And I will give you a land flowing with milk and honey.

℣ Obsérva ígitur, et audi vocem meam: et inimícus ero inimícis tuis.

℣ Keep, therefore, and hear my voice: and I will be an enemy to your enemies.

℟ Et dabo tibi terram fluéntem lac et mel.

℟ And I will give you a land flowing with milk and honey.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Ad gáudia paradísi perdúcat nos misericórdia Christi.

Benedictio. May the mercy of Christ lead us to the joys of paradise.

Lectio 3

Reading 3

Si negotiatiónis domus non debet fíeri domus Dei, potatiónis debet fíeri? Nos autem quando ista dícimus, strident déntibus suis advérsus nos: et consolátur nos Psalmus, quem audístis: Stridérunt in me déntibus suis. Nóvimus et nos audíre unde curémur: etsi ingeminántur flagélla Christo, quia flagellátur sermo ipsíus. Congregáta sunt, inquit, in me flagélla, et nesciébant. Flagellátus est flagéllis Iudæórum: flagellátur blasphémiis falsórum Christianórum: multíplicant flagélla Dómino Deo suo, et nésciunt. Faciámus nos, quantum ipse ádiuvat. Ego autem, cum mihi molésti essent, induébam me cilício, et humiliábam in ieiúnio ánimam meam.

If the house of God should not become a house of business, should it become a house of drinking? Yet when we say these things, they gnash their teeth against us: and the Psalm you have heard consoles us: They have gnashed their teeth at me. We too know how to hear what may heal us: even if lashes are multiplied against Christ, because his word is being lashed. They have gathered, he says, their scourges against me, and they did not know it. He was lashed with the lashes of the Jews: he is lashed by the blasphemies of false Christians: they multiply their lashes against the Lord their God, and they do not know it. Let us do what he himself helps us to do. But I, when they were troubling me, clothed myself with sackcloth, and I humbled my soul in fasting.

℟ Sicut fui cum Moyse ita ero tecum, dicit Dóminus:

℟ As I was with Moses, so will I be with you, says the Lord:

Confortáre, et esto robústus: introdúces pópulum meum ad terram lacte et melle manántem.

Be strong and steadfast: you shall lead my people into the land flowing with milk and honey.

℣ Noli timére, quóniam tecum sum: ad quæcúmque perréxeris, non dimíttam te, neque derelínquam.

℣ Do not be afraid, for I am with you: wherever you go, I will not leave you, nor will I forsake you.

℟ Confortáre, et esto robústus: introdúces pópulum meum ad terram lacte et melle manántem.

℟ Be strong and steadfast: you shall lead my people into the land flowing with milk and honey.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

℟ Confortáre, et esto robústus: introdúces pópulum meum ad terram lacte et melle manántem.

℟ Be strong and steadfast: you shall lead my people into the land flowing with milk and honey.

Nocturnus 2

Nocturn 2

Ant. Díligam te, * Dómine, virtus mea.

Ant. I will love you, * O Lord, my strength.

Psalmus 17(2-16b)

Psalm 17(2-16b)

17:2 Díligam te, Dómine, fortitúdo mea: * (3a) Dóminus firmaméntum meum, et refúgium meum, et liberátor meus.
17:3b Deus meus adiútor meus, * et sperábo in eum.
17:3c Protéctor meus, et cornu salútis meæ, * et suscéptor meus.
17:4 Laudans invocábo Dóminum: * et ab inimícis meis salvus ero.
17:5 Circumdedérunt me dolóres mortis: * et torréntes iniquitátis conturbavérunt me.
17:6 Dolóres inférni circumdedérunt me: * præoccupavérunt me láquei mortis.
17:7a In tribulatióne mea invocávi Dóminum, * et ad Deum meum clamávi.
17:7b Et exaudívit de templo sancto suo vocem meam: * et clamor meus in conspéctu eius, introívit in aures eius.
17:8 Commóta est, et contrémuit terra: * fundaménta móntium conturbáta sunt, et commóta sunt, quóniam irátus est eis.
17:9 Ascéndit fumus in ira eius: † et ignis a fácie eius exársit: * carbónes succénsi sunt ab eo.
17:10 Inclinávit cælos, et descéndit: * et calígo sub pédibus eius.
17:11 Et ascéndit super Chérubim, et volávit: * volávit super pennas ventórum.
17:12 Et pósuit ténebras latíbulum suum, † in circúitu eius tabernáculum eius: * tenebrósa aqua in núbibus áëris.
17:13 Præ fulgóre in conspéctu eius nubes transiérunt, * grando et carbónes ignis.
17:14 Et intónuit de cælo Dóminus, † et Altíssimus dedit vocem suam: * grando et carbónes ignis.
17:15 Et misit sagíttas suas, et dissipávit eos: * fúlgura multiplicávit, et conturbávit eos.
17:16a Et apparuérunt fontes aquárum, * et reveláta sunt fundaménta orbis terrárum:
17:16b Ab increpatióne tua, Dómine, * ab inspiratióne spíritus iræ tuæ.

17:2 I will love you, O Lord, my strength: * (3a) the Lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my deliverer.
17:3b My God is my helper, * and in him will I hope.
17:3c My protector, and the horn of my salvation, * and my support.
17:4 I will praise the Lord with invocation: * and I shall be saved from my enemies.
17:5 The sorrows of death surrounded me: * and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
17:6 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: * the snares of death anticipated me.
17:7a In my affliction I called upon the Lord, * and I cried to my God.
17:7b And he heard my voice from his holy temple: * and my cry came before him, into his ears.
17:8 The earth was moved and trembled: * the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were shaken, because he was angry with them.
17:9 A smoke ascended by his wrath: † and a fire flared up from his face: * coals were kindled by it.
17:10 He bent the heavens, and he descended: * and darkness was under his feet.
17:11 And he ascended upon the Cherubim, and he flew: * he flew upon the feathers of the winds.
17:12 And he set darkness as his hiding place, † with his tabernacle all around him: * dark waters in the clouds of the air.
17:13 At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, * with hail and coals of fire.
17:14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, † and the Most High uttered his voice: * with hail and coals of fire.
17:15 And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them: * he multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.
17:16a And the fountains of waters appeared, * and the foundations of the world were revealed:
17:16b By your rebuke, O Lord, * by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Díligam te, Dómine, virtus mea.

Ant. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

Ant. Retríbuet mihi Dóminus * secúndum iustítiam meam.

Ant. The Lord will repay me * according to my justice.

Psalmus 17(17-35)

Psalm 17(17-35)

17:17 Misit de summo, et accépit me: * et assúmpsit me de aquis multis.
17:18 Erípuit me de inimícis meis fortíssimis, † et ab his qui odérunt me: * quóniam confortáti sunt super me.
17:19 Prævenérunt me in die afflictiónis meæ: * et factus est Dóminus protéctor meus.
17:20 Et edúxit me in latitúdinem: * salvum me fecit, quóniam vóluit me.
17:21 Et retríbuet mihi Dóminus secúndum iustítiam meam: * et secúndum puritátem mánuum meárum retríbuet mihi:
17:22 Quia custodívi vias Dómini, * nec ímpie gessi a Deo meo.
17:23 Quóniam ómnia iudícia eius in conspéctu meo: * et iustítias eius non répuli a me.
17:24 Et ero immaculátus cum eo: * et observábo me ab iniquitáte mea.
17:25 Et retríbuet mihi Dóminus secúndum iustítiam meam: * et secúndum puritátem mánuum meárum in conspéctu oculórum eius.
17:26 Cum sancto sanctus eris, * et cum viro innocénte ínnocens eris:
17:27 Et cum elécto eléctus eris: * et cum pervérso pervertéris.
17:28 Quóniam tu pópulum húmilem salvum fácies: * et óculos superbórum humiliábis.
17:29 Quóniam tu illúminas lucérnam meam, Dómine: * Deus meus, illúmina ténebras meas.
17:30 Quóniam in te erípiar a tentatióne, * et in Deo meo transgrédiar murum.
17:31 Deus meus, impollúta via eius: † elóquia Dómini igne examináta: * protéctor est ómnium sperántium in se.
17:32 Quóniam quis Deus præter Dóminum? * aut quis Deus præter Deum nostrum?
17:33 Deus, qui præcínxit me virtúte: * et pósuit immaculátam viam meam.
17:34 Qui perfécit pedes meos tamquam cervórum, * et super excélsa státuens me.
17:35 Qui docet manus meas ad prǽlium: * et posuísti, ut arcum ǽreum, brácchia mea.

17:17 He sent from on high, and he accepted me: * and he took me up out of many waters.
17:18 He rescued me from my strongest enemies, † and from those who hated me: * for they had been too strong for me.
17:19 They intercepted me in the day of my affliction: * and the Lord became my protector.
17:20 And he led me out into a wide place: * he accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.
17:21 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: * and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands:
17:22 For I have preserved the ways of the Lord, * and I have not behaved impiously before my God.
17:23 For all his judgments are in my sight: * and his justice I have not pushed away from me.
17:24 And I will be immaculate together with him: * and I will keep myself from my iniquity.
17:25 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: * and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.
17:26 With the holy, you will be holy, * and with the innocent, you will be innocent:
17:27 And with the elect, you will be elect: * and with the perverse, you will be perverse.
17:28 For you will save the humble people: * and you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.
17:29 For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord: * my God, enlighten my darkness.
17:30 For in you, I will be delivered from temptation: * and with my God, I will climb over a wall.
17:31 As for my God, his way is undefiled: † the eloquence of the Lord has been examined by fire: * he is the protector of all who hope in him.
17:32 For who is God, except the Lord? * and who is God, except our God?
17:33 It is God who has wrapped me with virtue: * and made my way immaculate.
17:34 It is he who has perfected my feet like the feet of deer, * and who stations me upon the heights.
17:35 It is he who trains my hands for battle: * and you have set my arms like a bow of brass.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Retríbuet mihi Dóminus secúndum iustítiam meam.

Ant. The Lord will repay me according to my justice.

Ant. Vivit Dóminus * et benedíctus Deus salútis meæ.

Ant. The Lord lives, * and blessed be God my salvation.

Psalmus 17(36a-51)

Psalm 17(36a-51)

17:36a Et dedísti mihi protectiónem salútis tuæ: * et déxtera tua suscépit me:
17:36b Et disciplína tua corréxit me in finem: * et disciplína tua ipsa me docébit.
17:37 Dilatásti gressus meos subtus me: * et non sunt infirmáta vestígia mea:
17:38 Pérsequar inimícos meos et comprehéndam illos: * et non convértar, donec defíciant.
17:39 Confríngam illos, nec póterunt stare: * cadent subtus pedes meos.
17:40 Et præcinxísti me virtúte ad bellum: * et supplantásti insurgéntes in me subtus me.
17:41 Et inimícos meos dedísti mihi dorsum, * et odiéntes me disperdidísti.
17:42 Clamavérunt, nec erat qui salvos fáceret ad Dóminum: * nec exaudívit eos.
17:43 Et commínuam eos, ut púlverem ante fáciem venti: * ut lutum plateárum delébo eos.
17:44 Erípies me de contradictiónibus pópuli: * constítues me in caput géntium.
17:45 Pópulus quem non cognóvi servívit mihi: * in audítu auris obedívit mihi.
17:46 Fílii aliéni mentíti sunt mihi, * fílii aliéni inveteráti sunt, et claudicavérunt a sémitis suis.
17:47 Vivit Dóminus, et benedíctus Deus meus: * et exaltétur Deus salútis meæ.
17:48 Deus, qui das vindíctas mihi, et subdis pópulos sub me: * liberátor meus de inimícis meis iracúndis.
17:49 Et ab insurgéntibus in me exaltábis me: * a viro iníquo erípies me.
17:50 Proptérea confitébor tibi in natiónibus, Dómine: * et nómini tuo psalmum dicam.
17:51 Magníficans salútes Regis eius, † et fáciens misericórdiam Christo suo David: * et sémini eius usque in sǽculum.

17:36a And you have given me the protection of your salvation: * and your right hand sustains me:
17:36b And your discipline has corrected me unto the end: * and your discipline itself will teach me.
17:37 You have expanded my footsteps under me: * and my tracks have not been weakened:
17:38 I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them: * and I will not turn back until they have failed.
17:39 I will break them, and they will not be able to stand: * they will fall under my feet.
17:40 And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle: * and those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.
17:41 And you have given the back of my enemies to me, * and you have destroyed those who hated me.
17:42 They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: * but he did not heed them.
17:43 And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind: * so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets.
17:44 You will rescue me from the contradictions of the people: * you will set me at the head of the Gentiles.
17:45 A people I did not know has served me: * as soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.
17:46 The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, * the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.
17:47 The Lord lives, and blessed is my God: * and may the God of my salvation be exalted.
17:48 O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me: * my liberator from my enraged enemies.
17:49 And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me: * from the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.
17:50 Because of this, I will confess to you among the nations, O Lord: * and I will compose a psalm to your name:
17:51 Magnifying the salvation of his king, † and showing mercy to David, his Christ: * and to his offspring, even for all time.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Vivit Dóminus et benedíctus Deus salútis meæ.

Ant. The Lord lives, and blessed be God my salvation.

℣ Os iusti meditábitur sapiéntiam.

℣ The mouth of the just man shall meditate wisdom.

℟ Et lingua eius loquétur iudícium.

℟ And his tongue shall speak judgment.

℣ Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:

℣ And lead us not into temptation:

℟ Sed líbera nos a malo.

℟ But deliver us from evil.

Absolutio. Ipsíus píetas et misericórdia nos ádiuvet, qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivit et regnat in sǽcula sæculórum.

Absolutio. May his loving kindness and mercy assist us, he who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Deus Pater omnípotens sit nobis propítius et clemens.

Benedictio. May God the almighty Father be gracious and merciful to us.

Lectio 4

Reading 4

Ioánnes de Deo, ex catholicis piisque paréntibus in oppido Montis Maioris Iunióris, regni Lusitaniæ, natus, quam sublimiter in sortem Dómini fúerit eléctus, insuetus splendor super eius domo refulgens, sonitúsque æris campani sua sponte emissus, ab ipso nativitátis témpore non obscure prænuntiárunt. A laxiori vivéndi ratióne, divina operante virtúte, revocatus, magnæ sanctitátis exhibere specimen cœpit, et ob audítam prædicatiónem verbi Dei sic ad melióra se excitátum sensit, ut iam ab ipso sanctioris vitæ rudiménto consummátum aliquid perfectumque visus sit attigisse. Bonis ómnibus in páuperes carcéribus inclusos erogatis, admirábilis pœniténtiæ suique ipsíus contemptus cuncto pópulo spectaculum factus, a plerisque, ceu demens, gráviter afflíctus, in carcerem améntibus destinátum coniícitur. At Ioánnes cælésti caritate magis incénsus, gemino atque amplo valetudinario ex piórum eleemosynis in civitáte Granaténsi exstructo, iactoque novi ordinis fundaménto, Ecclésiam nova prole fœcundávit fratrum Hospitalitátis, infirmis præcláro animárum corporúmque profectu inserviéntium, et longe lateque per orbem diffusórum.

John of God, born of Catholic and devout parents in the town of Montemor-o-Novo in the Kingdom of Portugal, was shown by an unwonted splendor shining over his house and by the spontaneous pealing of a bell from the very time of his birth to have been chosen for the Lord's portion in a most sublime manner. Called back from a more dissolute way of life by the power of God at work within him, he began to give proof of great holiness, and, having heard the preaching of the word of God, felt himself so stirred to better things that he seemed from the very first rudiments of a holier life to have touched something consummated and perfect. Having distributed all his goods to the poor confined in prison, and having become a spectacle to all the people of remarkable penance and contempt for himself, he was grievously afflicted by many who thought him mad and was cast into a prison appointed for the insane. But John, more and more inflamed with heavenly charity, built two large hospitals in the city of Granada from the alms of the devout, and laying the foundation of a new Order, enriched the Church with new offspring — the Brothers Hospitallers, who serve the sick with notable benefit to souls and bodies, and who have spread far and wide throughout the world.

℟ In mare viæ tuæ, et sémitæ tuæ in aquis multis:

℟ Your way is in the sea, and your paths are in the great waters:

Deduxísti sicut oves pópulum tuum in manu Móysi et Aaron.

You led your people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

℣ Transtulísti illos per mare Rubrum, et transvexísti eos per aquam nímiam.

℣ You brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them through the mighty waters.

℟ Deduxísti sicut oves pópulum tuum in manu Móysi et Aaron.

℟ You led your people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Christus perpétuæ det nobis gáudia vitæ.

Benedictio. May Christ grant us the joys of eternal life.

Lectio 5

Reading 5

Paupéribus ægrotis, quos propriis quandoque humeris domum deferebat, nulla re ad ánimæ corporisque salútem profícua déerit. Effusa quoque extra nosocomíum caritate indigéntibus muliéribus viduis, et præcipue virgínibus periclitántibus clam aliménta subministrabat, curamque indefessam adhibebat, ut carnis concupiscéntiam a próximis huiusmodi vítio inquinátis exterminaret. Cum autem maximum in regio Granaténsi valetudinario excitátum fuísset incendium, Ioánnes impávidus prosiliit in ignem, huc illuc discurrens, quoúsque tum infirmos humeris exportatos, tum lectulos e fenestris proiectos ab igne vindicávit, ac per dimidiam horam inter flammas, iam in immensum succrescéntes, versatus, exínde divínitus incólumis, univérsis civibus admirántibus exívit; in schola caritátis édocens, segniórem in eum fuísse ignem qui foris ússerat, quam qui intus accenderat.

He never failed to provide the poor sick — whom he sometimes carried home on his own shoulders — with anything that might profit the health of soul and body. Extending his charity also outside the hospital to needy widows and especially to maidens in danger, he secretly furnished them with food, and applied unceasing care to root out from his neighbors the concupiscence of the flesh by which they were defiled in that vice. When a great fire broke out in the royal hospital of Granada, John leaped fearlessly into the flames, rushing here and there until he had saved both the sick carried out on his shoulders and the beds thrown from the windows from the fire; and having remained for half an hour among the flames, which were by then grown immense, he emerged thence by divine protection unharmed, to the wonder of all the citizens — teaching in the school of charity that the fire which burned without had been less ardent than that which burned within.

℟ Qui persequebántur pópulum tuum, Dómine, demersísti eos in profúndum:

℟ Those who persecuted your people, O Lord, you drowned in the deep:

Et in colúmna nubis ductor eórum fuísti.

And in a pillar of cloud you were their guide.

℣ Deduxísti sicut oves pópulum tuum in manu Móysi et Aaron.

℣ You led your people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

℟ Et in colúmna nubis ductor eórum fuísti.

℟ And in a pillar of cloud you were their guide.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Ignem sui amóris accéndat Deus in córdibus nostris.

Benedictio. May God kindle the fire of his love in our hearts.

Lectio 6

Reading 6

Multiplici asperitátum genere, demissíssima obediéntia, extrema paupertáte, orándi studio, rerum divinárum contemplatióne, ac in beátam Vírginem pietáte mirifice excelluit, et lacrimárum dono enituit. Denique gravi morbo correptus, ómnibus Ecclésiæ sacramentis rite sancteque refectus, viribus licet destitútus, propriis indútus vestibus, e léctulo surgens ac provolutus in genua, manu et corde Christum Dóminum e cruce pendentem perstringens, octavo Idus Martii anno millesimo quingentésimo quinquagesimo obiit in osculo Dómini; quem étiam mórtuus ténuit, nec dimísit, et in eádem corporis constitutióne sex circiter horas, quoúsque inde dimotus fuísset, tota civitáte inspectante, mirabíliter permansit, odórem mire fragrántem diffúndens. Quem ante et post óbitum plurimis miraculis clarum, Alexander octavus Pontifex maximus in Sanctórum númerum rétulit; et Leo décimus tertius, ex Sacrórum catholici orbis antístitum voto ac Rituum Congregatiónis consulto, cælestem ómnium hospitalium et infirmórum ubíque degéntium patronum declarávit, ipsiúsque nomen in agonizántium litaníis invocari præcepit.

He excelled wonderfully in many kinds of austerity, in the most profound obedience, in extreme poverty, in zeal for prayer, in contemplation of divine things, and in devotion to the Blessed Virgin; and he was renowned for the gift of tears.

℟ Móyses fámulus Dei ieiunávit quadragínta diébus et quadragínta nóctibus:

℟ Moses, the servant of God, fasted forty days and forty nights:

Ut legem Dómini mererétur accípere.

that he might merit to receive the law of the Lord.

℣ Ascéndens Móyses in montem Sínai ad Dóminum, fuit ibi quadragínta diébus et quadragínta nóctibus.

℣ Moses went up on Mount Sinai to the Lord, and he was there forty days and forty nights.

℟ Ut legem Dómini mererétur accípere.

℟ that he might merit to receive the law of the Lord.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

℟ Ut legem Dómini mererétur accípere.

℟ that he might merit to receive the law of the Lord.

Nocturnus 3

Nocturn 3

Ant. Exáudiat te * Dóminus in die tribulatiónis.

Ant. May the Lord hear you * in the day of tribulation.

Psalmus 19

Psalm 19

19:2 Exáudiat te Dóminus in die tribulatiónis: * prótegat te nomen Dei Iacob.
19:3 Mittat tibi auxílium de sancto: * et de Sion tueátur te.
19:4 Memor sit omnis sacrifícii tui: * et holocáustum tuum pingue fiat.
19:5 Tríbuat tibi secúndum cor tuum: * et omne consílium tuum confírmet.
19:6 Lætábimur in salutári tuo: * et in nómine Dei nostri magnificábimur.
19:7a Ímpleat Dóminus omnes petitiónes tuas: * nunc cognóvi quóniam salvum fecit Dóminus Christum suum.
19:7b Exáudiet illum de cælo sancto suo: * in potentátibus salus déxteræ eius.
19:8 Hi in cúrribus, et hi in equis: * nos autem in nómine Dómini, Dei nostri invocábimus.
19:9 Ipsi obligáti sunt, et cecidérunt: * nos autem surréximus et erécti sumus.
19:10 Dómine, salvum fac regem: * et exáudi nos in die, qua invocavérimus te.

19:2 May the Lord hear you in the day of tribulation: * may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
19:3 May he send you help from the sanctuary: * and watch over you from Zion.
19:4 May he be mindful of all your sacrifices: * and may your burnt-offerings be fat.
19:5 May he grant to you according to your heart: * and confirm all your counsels.
19:6 We will rejoice in your salvation: * and in the name of our God, we will be magnified.
19:7a May the Lord fulfill all your petitions: * now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ.
19:7b He will hear him from his holy heaven: * the salvation of his right hand is in his power.
19:8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: * but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God.
19:9 They have been bound, and they have fallen: * but we have risen up and we have been set upright.
19:10 O Lord, save the king: * and hear us on the day that we will call upon you.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Exáudiat te Dóminus in die tribulatiónis.

Ant. May the Lord hear you in the day of tribulation.

Ant. Dómine, * in virtúte tua lætábitur rex.

Ant. O Lord, * in your power the king shall rejoice.

Psalmus 20

Psalm 20

20:2 Dómine, in virtúte tua lætábitur rex: * et super salutáre tuum exsultábit veheménter.
20:3 Desidérium cordis eius tribuísti ei: * et voluntáte labiórum eius non fraudásti eum.
20:4 Quóniam prævenísti eum in benedictiónibus dulcédinis: * posuísti in cápite eius corónam de lápide pretióso.
20:5 Vitam pétiit a te: * et tribuísti ei longitúdinem diérum in sǽculum, et in sǽculum sǽculi.
20:6 Magna est glória eius in salutári tuo: * glóriam et magnum decórem impónes super eum.
20:7 Quóniam dabis eum in benedictiónem in sǽculum sǽculi: * lætificábis eum in gáudio cum vultu tuo.
20:8 Quóniam rex sperat in Dómino: * et in misericórdia Altíssimi non commovébitur.
20:9 Inveniátur manus tua ómnibus inimícis tuis: * déxtera tua invéniat omnes, qui te odérunt.
20:10 Pones eos ut clíbanum ignis in témpore vultus tui: * Dóminus in ira sua conturbábit eos, et devorábit eos ignis.
20:11 Fructum eórum de terra perdes: * et semen eórum a fíliis hóminum.
20:12 Quóniam declinavérunt in te mala: * cogitavérunt consília, quæ non potuérunt stabilíre.
20:13 Quóniam pones eos dorsum: * in relíquiis tuis præparábis vultum eórum.
20:14 Exaltáre, Dómine, in virtúte tua: * cantábimus et psallémus virtútes tuas.

20:2 O Lord, in your strength the king shall rejoice: * and in your salvation he shall exult exceedingly.
20:3 You have given him his heart's desire: * and have not withheld from him the will of his lips.
20:4 For you have gone before him with the blessings of sweetness: * you have set upon his head a crown of precious stone.
20:5 He asked life of you: * and you gave him length of days for ever and ever.
20:6 Great is his glory in your salvation: * glory and great majesty you will lay upon him.
20:7 For you will give him a blessing for ever and ever: * you will make him joyful in gladness with your face.
20:8 For the king hopes in the Lord: * and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.
20:9 Let your hand be found upon all your enemies: * your right hand shall find all who hate you.
20:10 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your face: * the Lord in his anger shall trouble them, and fire shall devour them.
20:11 You shall destroy their fruit from the earth: * and their seed from among the sons of men.
20:12 For they have devised evils against you: * they thought up counsels which they could not establish.
20:13 For you shall make them turn their back: * among those that remain, you shall prepare their face.
20:14 Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength: * we will sing and praise your mighty deeds.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Dómine, in virtúte tua lætábitur rex.

Ant. O Lord, in your power the king shall rejoice.

Ant. Exaltábo te, * Dómine, quóniam suscepísti me.

Ant. I will exalt you, * O Lord, for you have upheld me.

Psalmus 29

Psalm 29

29:2 Exaltábo te, Dómine, quóniam suscepísti me: * nec delectásti inimícos meos super me.
29:3 Dómine, Deus meus, clamávi ad te, * et sanásti me.
29:4 Dómine, eduxísti ab inférno ánimam meam: * salvásti me a descendéntibus in lacum.
29:5 Psállite Dómino, sancti eius: * et confitémini memóriæ sanctitátis eius.
29:6 Quóniam ira in indignatióne eius: * et vita in voluntáte eius.
29:6 Ad vésperum demorábitur fletus: * et ad matutínum lætítia.
29:7 Ego autem dixi in abundántia mea: * Non movébor in ætérnum.
29:8 Dómine, in voluntáte tua, * præstitísti decóri meo virtútem.
29:8 Avertísti fáciem tuam a me, * et factus sum conturbátus.
29:9 Ad te, Dómine, clamábo: * et ad Deum meum deprecábor.
29:10 Quæ utílitas in sánguine meo, * dum descéndo in corruptiónem?
29:10 Numquid confitébitur tibi pulvis, * aut annuntiábit veritátem tuam?
29:11 Audívit Dóminus, et misértus est mei: * Dóminus factus est adiútor meus.
29:12 Convertísti planctum meum in gáudium mihi: * conscidísti saccum meum, et circumdedísti me lætítia:
29:13 Ut cantet tibi glória mea, et non compúngar: * Dómine, Deus meus, in ætérnum confitébor tibi.

29:2 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have upheld me: * and have not made my enemies to rejoice over me.
29:3 O Lord my God, I cried to you, * and you healed me.
29:4 O Lord, you have brought my soul out of hell: * you have saved me from those who go down into the pit.
29:5 Sing praise to the Lord, O you his saints: * and give thanks to the remembrance of his holiness.
29:6 For his wrath is in his indignation: * and life is in his good will.
29:6 In the evening weeping shall have place: * and in the morning gladness.
29:7 And in my abundance I said: * I shall never be moved.
29:8 O Lord, in your good will, * you gave strength to my beauty.
29:8 You turned away your face from me, * and I became troubled.
29:9 To you, O Lord, will I cry: * and I will make supplication to my God.
29:10 What profit is there in my blood, * while I go down to corruption?
29:10 Shall dust confess to you, * or shall it declare your truth?
29:11 The Lord heard, and had mercy on me: * the Lord became my helper.
29:12 You have turned my mourning into gladness for me: * you have cut off my sackcloth, and you have surrounded me with joy:
29:13 So then, may my glory sing to you, and may I not regret it: * O Lord my God, I will confess to you for eternity.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Exaltábo te, Dómine, quóniam suscepísti me.

Ant. I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have upheld me.

℣ Lex Dei eius in corde ipsíus.

℣ The law of his God is in his heart.

℟ Et non supplantabúntur gressus eius.

℟ And his steps shall not be overthrown.

℣ Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:

℣ And lead us not into temptation:

℟ Sed líbera nos a malo.

℟ But deliver us from evil.

Absolutio. A vínculis peccatórum nostrórum absólvat nos omnípotens et miséricors Dóminus.

Absolutio. May the almighty and merciful Lord absolve us from the bonds of our sins.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Ille nos benedícat, qui sine fine vivit et regnat.

Benedictio. May he bless us who lives and reigns without end.

Lectio 7

Reading 7

Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum

A Reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew

Matt 22:34-46

In illo témpore: Accessérunt ad Iesum pharisæi, et interrogávit eum unus ex eis legis doctor tentans eum: Magister, quod est mandátum magnum in lege? Et réliqua.

Homilía sancti Ioánnis Chrysóstomi

At that time: The Pharisees came to Jesus, and one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? And so forth.

A Homily of Saint John Chrysostom

Homilia 72 in Matthæum

Sadducæis confúsis, pharisæi rursus aggrediúntur; cumque quiéscere oporteret, decertare voluérunt: et legis perítiam profitentem præmittunt, non discere, sed tentare cupiéntes; ac ita intérrogant: Quodnam primum mandátum in lege sit. Nam cum primum illud sit, Diliges Dóminum Deum tuum: putántes causas sibi allatúrum ad mandátum hoc corrigéndum, aliquid addendo, quóniam Deum se faciebat, hoc modo intérrogant. Quid ígitur Christus? Ut ostendat idcirco ad hæc eos devenisse, quia nulla in eis esset caritas, sed invidiæ livore tabéscerent: Diliges, inquit, Dóminum Deum tuum: hoc primum et magnum mandátum est. Secúndum autem simile huic: Diliges próximum tuum sicut teípsum.

After the Sadducees had been confounded, the Pharisees came again to attack; and though they should have been at peace, they wished to contend; and they sent forward one who professed knowledge of the law, desiring not to learn but to test him; and so they ask: Which is the first commandment in the law? For since the first is, You shall love the Lord your God, thinking that he would bring forward reasons to amend this commandment by making some addition, since he was making himself God, they ask in this way. What then does Christ do? To show that the reason they had come to this was that there was no charity in them, but that they were consumed with the poison of envy, he says: You shall love the Lord your God: this is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

℟ Spléndida facta est fácies Móysi, dum respíceret in eum Dóminus:

℟ The face of Moses shone brightly when the Lord looked upon him:

Vidéntes senióres claritátem vultus eius, admirántes timuérunt valde.

The elders, beholding the glory of his countenance, were struck with great wonder and awe.

℣ Cumque descendísset de monte Sínai, portábat duas tábulas testimónii, ignórans quod cornúta esset fácies eius ex consórtio sermónis Dei.

℣ And when he came down from Mount Sinai, he carried the two tablets of the testimony, not knowing that his face was radiant from his converse with God.

℟ Vidéntes senióres claritátem vultus eius, admirántes timuérunt valde.

℟ The elders, beholding the glory of his countenance, were struck with great wonder and awe.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.

Benedictio. May the divine assistance remain always with us.

Lectio 8

Reading 8

Quam ob rem simile est huic? Quóniam hoc illud inducit, et ab illo rursus munítur. Quicúmque enim male agit, ódio habet lucem, et non venit ad lucem. Et rursus: Dixit insípiens in corde suo, Non est Deus. Deínde sequitur: Corrúpti sunt, et abominábiles facti sunt in stúdiis suis. Et íterum: Radix ómnium malórum avarítia est; quam quidam appeténtes, erravérunt a fide. Et, Qui díligit me, mandáta mea servábit: quorum caput et radix est: Diliges Dóminum Deum tuum, et próximum tuum sicut teípsum.

For this reason it resembles this. Because the one introduces the other, and in turn is fortified by it. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light. And again: "The fool said in his heart, There is no God." Then it follows: "They are corrupt and have become abominable in their pursuits." And again: "The root of all evils is avarice; which some desiring have strayed from the faith." And: "He who loves me will keep my commandments," of which the head and root is: "You shall love the Lord your God, and your neighbor as yourself."

℟ Ecce mitto Angelum meum, qui præcédat te, et custódiat semper:

℟ Behold, I send my Angel, who shall go before you, and keep you always:

Obsérva et audi vocem meam, et inimícus ero inimícis tuis, et affligéntes te afflígam: et præcédet te Angelus meus.

Observe and hear my voice, and I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you; and my Angel shall go before you.

℣ Israël, si me audíeris, non erit in te deus recens, neque adorábis deum aliénum: ego enim Dóminus.

℣ Israel, if you would listen to me, there will be no new god among you, neither will you adore a foreign god; for I am the Lord.

℟ Obsérva et audi vocem meam, et inimícus ero inimícis tuis, et affligéntes te afflígam: et præcédet te Angelus meus.

℟ Observe and hear my voice, and I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you; and my Angel shall go before you.

℣ Iube, Dómine, benedícere.

℣ Grant a blessing, O Lord.

Benedictio. Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.

Benedictio. May the King of Angels lead us to the company of the citizens on high.

Lectio 9

Reading 9

Si ergo diligere Deum, diligere proximum est (nam si diligis me, o Petre, inquit, pasce oves meas): si étiam dilectio proximi facit ut mandata custodias: merito ait in his totam legem et prophetas pendere. Et quemadmodum in superioribus, cum de resurrectione interrogaretur, plus docuit quam tentantes petebant: sic in hoc loco de primo interrogatus mandato, secundum étiam non valde quam primum inferius, sponte attulit: secundum enim est primo simile. Ita occulte insinuavit, odio illos ad quærendum incitari. Caritas enim, inquit, non gemulatur.

If therefore to love God is to love one's neighbor (for if you love me, O Peter, he said, feed my sheep): if also the love of neighbor causes us to keep the commandments: rightly does he say that the whole law and the prophets hang upon these. And just as above, when asked about the resurrection, he taught more than those who were testing him asked: so in this place, being questioned about the first commandment, he also brought in, of his own accord, a second not much less than the first: for the second is like to the first. Thus he covertly suggested that it was hatred that was spurring them on to question him. For charity, he says, is not jealous.

℟ Atténdite, pópule meus, legem meam:

℟ Attend, O my people, to my law:

Inclináte aurem vestram in verba oris mei.

Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

℣ Apériam in parábolis os meum: loquar propositiónes ab inítio sǽculi.

℣ I will open my mouth in parables: I will speak of things proposed from the beginning of the world.

℟ Inclináte aurem vestram in verba oris mei.

℟ Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

℟ Inclináte aurem vestram in verba oris mei.

℟ Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.