S. Thomæ de Aquino Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris
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. Iubilémus Deo, * Salutári nostro.
Ant. Let us shout with joy to God, * our Savior.
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. Iubilémus Deo, Salutári nostro.
Ant. Let us shout with joy to God, our Savior.
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. Expúgna, Dómine, * impugnántes me.
Ant. Fight, O Lord, * against those who fight against me.
Psalmus 34(1-10)
Psalm 34(1-10)
34:1 Iúdica, Dómine, nocéntes me, * expúgna impugnántes me.
34:2 Apprehénde arma et scutum: * et exsúrge in adiutórium mihi.
34:3 Effúnde frámeam, et conclúde advérsus eos, qui persequúntur me: * dic ánimæ meæ: Salus tua ego sum.
34:4 Confundántur et revereántur, * quæréntes ánimam meam.
34:4 Avertántur retrórsum, et confundántur * cogitántes mihi mala.
34:5 Fiant tamquam pulvis ante fáciem venti: * et Ángelus Dómini coárctans eos.
34:6 Fiat via illórum ténebræ et lúbricum: * et Ángelus Dómini pérsequens eos.
34:7 Quóniam gratis abscondérunt mihi intéritum láquei sui: * supervácue exprobravérunt ánimam meam.
34:8 Véniat illi láqueus, quem ignórat: et cáptio, quam abscóndit, apprehéndat eum: * et in láqueum cadat in ipsum.
34:9 Ánima autem mea exsultábit in Dómino: * et delectábitur super salutári suo.
34:10 Ómnia ossa mea dicent: * Dómine, quis símilis tibi?
34:10 Erípiens ínopem de manu fortiórum eius: * egénum et páuperem a diripiéntibus eum.
34:1 O Lord, judge those who harm me, * assail those who attack me.
34:2 Take hold of weapons and a shield: * and rise up in assistance to me.
34:3 Bring forth the spear, and close in on those who persecute me: * say to my soul, 'I am your salvation.'
34:4 Let them be confounded and in awe, * who pursue my soul.
34:4 Let them be turned back and be confounded, * who think up evil against me.
34:5 May they become like dust before the face of the wind: * and let the Angel of the Lord hem them in.
34:6 May their way become dark and slippery: * and may the Angel of the Lord pursue them.
34:7 For, without cause, they have concealed their snare for me unto destruction: * over nothing, they have rebuked my soul.
34:8 Let the snare, of which he is ignorant, come upon him, and let the deception, which he has hidden, take hold of him: * and may he fall into that very snare.
34:9 But my soul will exult in the Lord: * and delight over his salvation.
34:10 All my bones will say: * 'Lord, who is like you?'
34:10 He rescues the needy from the hand of the stronger one: * the indigent and the poor from those who plunder him.
℣ 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. Expúgna, Dómine, impugnántes me.
Ant. Fight, O Lord, against those who fight against me.
Ant. Restítue ánimam meam * a malefáctis eórum, Dómine.
Ant. Rescue my soul * from their evil deeds, O Lord.
Psalmus 34(11-17)
Psalm 34(11-17)
34:11 Surgéntes testes iníqui, * quæ ignorábam interrogábant me.
34:12 Retribuébant mihi mala pro bonis: * sterilitátem ánimæ meæ.
34:13 Ego autem cum mihi molésti essent, * induébar cilício.
34:13 Humiliábam in ieiúnio ánimam meam: * et orátio mea in sinu meo convertétur.
34:14 Quasi próximum, et quasi fratrem nostrum, sic complacébam: * quasi lugens et contristátus, sic humiliábar.
34:15 Et advérsum me lætáti sunt, et convenérunt: * congregáta sunt super me flagélla, et ignorávi.
34:16 Dissipáti sunt, nec compúncti, tentavérunt me, subsannavérunt me subsannatióne: * frenduérunt super me déntibus suis.
34:17 Dómine, quando respícies? * restítue ánimam meam a malignitáte eórum, a leónibus únicam meam.
34:11 Unfair witnesses have risen up, * interrogating me about things of which I am ignorant.
34:12 They repaid me evil for good: * to the deprivation of my soul.
34:13 But as for me, when they were harassing me, * I was clothed with haircloth.
34:13 I humbled my soul with fasting: * and my prayer will become my sinews.
34:14 Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please: * like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.
34:15 And they have been joyful against me, and they joined together: * scourges have been gathered over me, and I was ignorant of it.
34:16 They have been scattered, yet they were unremorseful. They have tested me. They scoffed at me with scorn: * they gnashed their teeth over me.
34:17 Lord, when will you look down upon me? * Restore my soul from before their malice, my only one from before the lions.
℣ 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. Restítue ánimam meam a malefáctis eórum, Dómine.
Ant. Rescue my soul from their evil deeds, O Lord.
Ant. Exsúrge, Dómine, * et inténde iudício meo.
Ant. Arise, O Lord, * and attend to my judgment.
Psalmus 34(18-28)
Psalm 34(18-28)
34:18 Confitébor tibi in ecclésia magna, * in pópulo gravi laudábo te.
34:19 Non supergáudeant mihi qui adversántur mihi iníque: * qui odérunt me gratis et ánnuunt óculis.
34:20 Quóniam mihi quidem pacífice loquebántur: * et in iracúndia terræ loquéntes, dolos cogitábant.
34:21 Et dilatavérunt super me os suum: * dixérunt: Euge, euge, vidérunt óculi nostri.
34:22 Vidísti, Dómine, ne síleas: * Dómine, ne discédas a me.
34:23 Exsúrge et inténde iudício meo: * Deus meus, et Dóminus meus in causam meam.
34:24 Iúdica me secúndum iustítiam tuam, Dómine, Deus meus, * et non supergáudeant mihi.
34:25 Non dicant in córdibus suis: Euge, euge, ánimæ nostræ: * nec dicant: Devorávimus eum.
34:26 Erubéscant et revereántur simul, * qui gratulántur malis meis.
34:26 Induántur confusióne et reveréntia * qui magna loquúntur super me.
34:27 Exsúltent et læténtur qui volunt iustítiam meam: * et dicant semper: Magnificétur Dóminus qui volunt pacem servi eius.
34:28 Et lingua mea meditábitur iustítiam tuam, * tota die laudem tuam.
34:18 I will confess to you in a great Church, * I will praise you among a weighty people.
34:19 May those who are my unjust adversaries not be glad over me: * those who have hated me without cause, and who nod agreement with their eyes.
34:20 For indeed, they spoke peacefully to me: * and speaking with passion to the earth, they intended deceit.
34:21 And they opened their mouth wide over me: * they said, 'Well, well, our eyes have seen.'
34:22 You have seen, O Lord, do not be silent: * Lord, do not depart from me.
34:23 Rise up and be attentive to my judgment: * my God and my Lord, to my cause.
34:24 Judge me according to your justice, O Lord, my God, * and do not let them be glad over me.
34:25 Do not let them say in their hearts, 'Well, well, to our soul': * neither let them say, 'We have devoured him.'
34:26 Let them blush and be in awe together, * those who congratulate at my misfortunes.
34:26 Let them be clothed with confusion and awe, * who speak great things against me.
34:27 Let them exult and rejoice, who wish my justice: * and let them ever say, 'The Lord be magnified,' who will the peace of his servant.
34:28 And so my tongue will express your justice, * your praise all day long.
℣ 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. Exsúrge, Dómine, et inténde iudício meo.
Ant. Arise, O Lord, and attend to my judgment.
℣ Lingua mea meditábitur iustítiam tuam.
℣ My tongue shall meditate on your justice.
℟ Tota die laudem tuam, Dómine.
℟ All the day long, your praise, O Lord.
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 Matthǽum
A Reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 21:10-17
Matt 21:10-17
In illo témpore: Cum intrásset Iesus Ierosólymam, commóta est univérsa cívitas, dicens: Quis est hic? Et réliqua.
Homilía sancti Bedæ Venerábilis Presbýteri
At that time: When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, saying: Who is this? And so forth.
A Homily of Saint Bede the Venerable, Priest
Homil. 7 in Quadrag. tom. 7
Homil. 7 in Quadrag. tom. 7
Quod maledicéndo ficum infructuósam per figúram fecit Dóminus, hoc idem mox apértius osténdit, eiciéndo ímprobos e templo. Neque enim áliquid peccávit arbor, quod esuriénte Dómino poma non hábuit, quorum necdum tempus advénerat: sed peccavére sacerdótes, qui in domo Dómini negótia sæculária gerébant, et fructum pietátis, quem debúerant, quemque in eis Dóminus esuriébat, ferre superséderant. Arefécit Dóminus árborem maledícto, ut hómines hæc vidéntes, sive audiéntes, multo magis intellégerent sese divíno condemnándos esse iudício, si absque óperum fructu, de plausu tantum sibi religiósi sermónis, velut de sónitu et teguménto blandiréntur viridántium foliórum.
What the Lord did figuratively by cursing the barren fig tree, he presently showed more openly by driving the wicked out of the temple. For the tree did not sin by failing to have fruit for the hungry Lord, since its time had not yet come; but the priests sinned who conducted secular business in the house of the Lord, and had neglected to bring forth the fruit of piety which they owed, and for which the Lord hungered in them. The Lord withered the tree with a curse, so that men seeing or hearing this might understand far better that they themselves were to be condemned by divine judgment, if, without the fruit of works, they flattered themselves merely on the applause of pious speech, as though on the rustling and covering of green leaves.
℟ Emendémus in mélius, quæ ignoránter peccávimus: ne súbito præoccupáti die mortis, quærámus spátium pœniténtiæ, et inveníre non possímus:
℟ Let us amend for the better what we have sinned through ignorance; lest, suddenly overtaken by the day of death, we seek a space for repentance and are unable to find it:
Atténde, Dómine, et miserére, quia peccávimus tibi.
Attend, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned against you.
℣ Adiuva nos, Deus salutáris noster, et propter honórem nóminis tui, Dómine, líbera nos.
℣ Help us, O God of our salvation, and for the honor of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
℟ Atténde, Dómine, et miserére, quia peccávimus tibi.
℟ Attend, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned against you.
℣ 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
Verum quia non intellexérunt, in ipsos consequénter districtiónem méritæ ultiónis exércuit: et eiécit commércia rerum humanárum de domo illa, in qua divínas tantum res agi, hóstias et oratiónes Dei offérri, verbum Dei legi, audíri, et decantári præcéptum erat. Et quidem credéndum est, quia ea tantum vendi vel emi repérerit in templo quæ ad ministérium necessária essent eiúsdem templi, iuxta hoc quod álias factum légimus, cum idem templum ingrédiens, invénit in eo vendéntes et eméntes oves, et boves, et colúmbas: quia nimírum hæc ómnia non nisi ut offerréntur in domo Dómini, eos qui de longe vénerant, ab indígenis comparáre credéndum est.
But because they did not understand, he consequently exercised upon them the strictness of deserved punishment: and he drove out the trade in human goods from that house, in which it had been commanded that only divine things should be transacted, that victims and prayers should be offered to God, that the word of God should be read, heard, and sung. And indeed it is to be believed that he found sold or bought in the temple only what was necessary for the ministry of that same temple, in view of what we read done on another occasion, when entering the same temple he found in it those selling and buying sheep, oxen, and doves: for without doubt all these things were bought by those who came from afar from the native inhabitants only so that they might be offered in the house of the Lord.
℟ Derelínquat ímpius viam suam, et vir iníquus cogitatiónes suas, et revertátur ad Dóminum, et miserébitur eius:
℟ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him:
Quia benígnus et miséricors est, et præstábilis super malítia Dóminus Deus noster.
For the Lord our God is good and merciful, and ready to forgive evil.
℣ Non vult Dóminus mortem peccatóris, sed ut convertátur et vivat.
℣ The Lord does not desire the death of the sinner, but that he be converted and live.
℟ Quia benígnus et miséricors est, et præstábilis super malítia Dóminus Deus noster.
℟ For the Lord our God is good and merciful, and ready to forgive evil.
℣ 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 ergo Dóminus nec ea volébat venúmdari in templo, quæ in templo volébat offérri, vidélicet propter stúdium avarítiæ, sive fraudis, quod próprium solet esse negotiántium fácinus: quanta putas animadversióne puníret, si invenísset ibi áliquos rísui vel vanilóquio vacántes aut álii cuílibet vítio mancipátos? Si enim ea quæ álibi líbere geri póterant, Dóminus in domo sua temporália negótia geri non pátitur: quanto magis ea quæ nusquam fíeri licet, plus cæléstis iræ meréntur, si in ǽdibus Deo sacrátis agúntur? Verum quia Spíritus Sanctus in colúmba super Dóminum appáruit, recte per colúmbas Sancti Spíritus charísmata signántur. Qui autem sunt in templo Dei hódie, qui colúmbas vendunt, nisi qui in Ecclésia prétium de impositióne manus accípiunt, per quam vidélicet impositiónem Spíritus Sanctus cǽlitus datur?
If, therefore, the Lord was not willing that even those things should be sold in the temple which he wished to be offered there—on account of the vice of avarice or fraud, which tends to be the characteristic sin of traders—with what severity do you suppose he would punish those whom he found there engaged in laughter, idle speech, or given over to any other vice? For if the Lord does not allow temporal business to be transacted in his house, even when such things could be freely done elsewhere: how much more do those things deserve the wrath of heaven, which may nowhere be done, if they are done in the houses consecrated to God? But because the Holy Spirit appeared over the Lord in the form of a dove, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are rightly signified by doves. Now who are those in the temple of God today who sell doves, but those who in the Church receive payment for the laying on of hands, by which the Holy Spirit is given from heaven?
℟ Paradísi portas apéruit nobis ieiúnii tempus: suscipiámus illud orántes, et deprecántes:
℟ The season of fasting has opened for us the gates of Paradise; let us take it up with prayer and supplication,
Ut in die resurrectiónis cum Dómino gloriémur.
That we may glory with the Lord on the day of the Resurrection.
℣ In ómnibus exhibeámus nosmetípsos sicut Dei minístros in multa patiéntia.
℣ In all things let us show ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience.
℟ Ut in die resurrectiónis cum Dómino gloriémur.
℟ That we may glory with the Lord on the day of the Resurrection.
℣ 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 in die resurrectiónis cum Dómino gloriémur.
℟ That we may glory with the Lord on the day of the Resurrection.
Nocturnus 2
Nocturn 2
Ant. Noli æmulári * in eo qui prosperátur et facit iniquitátem.
Ant. Do not vie * with him who prospers and commits iniquity.
Psalmus 36(1-15)
Psalm 36(1-15)
36:1 Noli æmulári in malignántibus: * neque zeláveris faciéntes iniquitátem.
36:2 Quóniam tamquam fænum velóciter aréscent: * et quemádmodum ólera herbárum cito décident.
36:3 Spera in Dómino, et fac bonitátem: * et inhábita terram, et pascéris in divítiis eius.
36:4 Delectáre in Dómino: * et dabit tibi petitiónes cordis tui.
36:5 Revéla Dómino viam tuam, et spera in eo: * et ipse fáciet.
36:6 Et edúcet quasi lumen iustítiam tuam: et iudícium tuum tamquam merídiem: * súbditus esto Dómino, et ora eum.
36:7 Noli æmulári in eo, qui prosperátur in via sua: * in hómine faciénte iniustítias.
36:8 Désine ab ira, et derelínque furórem: * noli æmulári ut malignéris.
36:9 Quóniam qui malignántur, exterminabúntur: * sustinéntes autem Dóminum, ipsi hereditábunt terram.
36:10 Et adhuc pusíllum, et non erit peccátor: * et quæres locum eius et non invénies.
36:11 Mansuéti autem hereditábunt terram: * et delectabúntur in multitúdine pacis.
36:12 Observábit peccátor iustum: * et stridébit super eum déntibus suis.
36:13 Dóminus autem irridébit eum: * quóniam próspicit quod véniet dies eius.
36:14 Gládium evaginavérunt peccatóres: * intendérunt arcum suum,
36:14 Ut deíciant páuperem et ínopem: * ut trucídent rectos corde.
36:15 Gládius eórum intret in corda ipsórum: * et arcus eórum confringátur.
36:1 Do not choose to imitate the malicious: * neither should you envy those who work iniquity.
36:2 For they will quickly wither away like dry grass: * and in like manner to kitchen herbs, they will soon droop.
36:3 Hope in the Lord and do good: * and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.
36:4 Delight in the Lord: * and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.
36:5 Reveal your way to the Lord, and hope in him: * and he will accomplish it.
36:6 And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday: * be subject to the Lord and pray to him.
36:7 Do not choose to compete with him who prospers in his way: * with the man who does injustices.
36:8 Cease from wrath and leave behind rage: * do not choose to imitate the malicious.
36:9 For those who are malicious will be exterminated: * but those who remain with the Lord, these will inherit the land.
36:10 Yet still a little while, and the sinner will not be: * and you will search his place and find nothing.
36:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth: * and they will delight in the multitude of peace.
36:12 The sinner will observe the just: * and he will gnash his teeth over him.
36:13 But the Lord will laugh at him: * for he knows in advance that his day will come.
36:14 The sinners have drawn the sword: * they have bent their bow,
36:14 So as to cast down the poor and the needy: * so as to massacre the upright of heart.
36:15 Let their sword enter into their own hearts: * and let their bow be broken.
℣ 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. Noli æmulári in eo qui prosperátur et facit iniquitátem.
Ant. Do not vie with him who prospers and commits iniquity.
Ant. Brácchia peccatórum * conteréntur, confírmat autem iustos Dóminus.
Ant. The arms of sinners * shall be broken, but the Lord strengthens the just.
Psalmus 36(16-29)
Psalm 36(16-29)
36:16 Mélius est módicum iusto, * super divítias peccatórum multas.
36:17 Quóniam brácchia peccatórum conteréntur: * confírmat autem iustos Dóminus.
36:18 Novit Dóminus dies immaculatórum: * et heréditas eórum in ætérnum erit.
36:19 Non confundéntur in témpore malo, et in diébus famis saturabúntur: * quia peccatóres períbunt.
36:20 Inimíci vero Dómini mox ut honorificáti fúerint et exaltáti: * deficiéntes, quemádmodum fumus defícient.
36:21 Mutuábitur peccátor, et non solvet: * iustus autem miserétur et tríbuet.
36:22 Quia benedicéntes ei hereditábunt terram: * maledicéntes autem ei disperíbunt.
36:23 Apud Dóminum gressus hóminis dirigéntur: * et viam eius volet.
36:24 Cum cecíderit non collidétur: * quia Dóminus suppónit manum suam.
36:25 Iúnior fui, étenim sénui: * et non vidi iustum derelíctum, nec semen eius quærens panem.
36:26 Tota die miserétur et cómmodat: * et semen illíus in benedictióne erit.
36:27 Declína a malo, et fac bonum: * et inhábita in sǽculum sǽculi.
36:28 Quia Dóminus amat iudícium, et non derelínquet sanctos suos: * in ætérnum conservabúntur.
36:28 Iniústi puniéntur: * et semen impiórum períbit.
36:29 Iusti autem hereditábunt terram: * et inhabitábunt in sǽculum sǽculi super eam.
36:16 Better is a little to the just, * than the great riches of the wicked.
36:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: * but the Lord strengthens the just.
36:18 The Lord knows the days of the blameless: * and their inheritance shall be for ever.
36:19 They shall not be confounded in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be filled: * for the wicked shall perish.
36:20 But the enemies of the Lord, as soon as they are honored and exalted: * failing, they shall fail like smoke.
36:21 The wicked man borrows and does not repay: * but the just man shows mercy and gives.
36:22 For those who bless him shall inherit the land: * but those who curse him shall perish.
36:23 By the Lord the steps of a man are directed: * and he takes delight in his way.
36:24 When he falls he shall not be cast down: * for the Lord holds his hand beneath him.
36:25 I have been young, and now am old: * yet I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.
36:26 All the day he shows mercy and lends: * and his seed shall be in blessing.
36:27 Turn from evil and do good: * and dwell for ever and ever.
36:28 For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake his saints: * they shall be preserved for ever.
36:28 The unjust shall be punished: * and the seed of the wicked shall perish.
36:29 But the just shall inherit the land: * and shall dwell upon it for ever and ever.
℣ 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. Brácchia peccatórum conteréntur, confírmat autem iustos Dóminus.
Ant. The arms of sinners shall be broken, but the Lord strengthens the just.
Ant. Custódi innocéntiam * et vide æquitátem.
Ant. Keep innocence * and behold equity.
Psalmus 36(30-40)
Psalm 36(30-40)
36:30 Os iusti meditábitur sapiéntiam, * et lingua eius loquétur iudícium.
36:31 Lex Dei eius in corde ipsíus, * et non supplantabúntur gressus eius.
36:32 Consíderat peccátor iustum: * et quærit mortificáre eum.
36:33 Dóminus autem non derelínquet eum in mánibus eius: * nec damnábit eum, cum iudicábitur illi.
36:34 Exspécta Dóminum, et custódi viam eius: et exaltábit te ut hereditáte cápias terram: * cum períerint peccatóres vidébis.
36:35 Vidi ímpium superexaltátum, * et elevátum sicut cedros Líbani.
36:36 Et transívi, et ecce non erat: * et quæsívi eum, et non est invéntus locus eius.
36:37 Custódi innocéntiam, et vide æquitátem: * quóniam sunt relíquiæ hómini pacífico.
36:38 Iniústi autem disperíbunt simul: * relíquiæ impiórum interíbunt.
36:39 Salus autem iustórum a Dómino: * et protéctor eórum in témpore tribulatiónis.
36:40 Et adiuvábit eos Dóminus et liberábit eos: * et éruet eos a peccatóribus, et salvábit eos: quia speravérunt in eo.
36:30 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom, * and his tongue shall speak judgment.
36:31 The law of his God is in his heart, * and his steps shall not stumble.
36:32 The wicked man watches the just: * and seeks to put him to death.
36:33 But the Lord will not abandon him in his hands: * nor condemn him when he is judged.
36:34 Wait for the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt you to inherit the land: * when the wicked have perished you shall see it.
36:35 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, * and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon.
36:36 And I passed by, and behold he was no more: * and I sought him, and his place was not found.
36:37 Keep innocence and see righteousness: * for there is a future for the man of peace.
36:38 But the unjust shall perish together: * the remnant of the wicked shall be cut off.
36:39 But the salvation of the just is from the Lord: * and he is their protector in the time of tribulation.
36:40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them: * and he shall rescue them from the wicked, and save them: because they have hoped in him.
℣ 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. Custódi innocéntiam et vide æquitátem.
Ant. Keep innocence and behold equity.
℣ Os iusti meditábitur sapiéntiam.
℣ The mouth of the just man shall meditate wisdom.
℟ Et lingua eius loquétur iudícium.
℟ And his tongue shall speak judgment.
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. 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
Præclárum christiáni orbis decus et Ecclésiæ lumen, beatíssimus vir Thomas, Landulpho comite Aquinate et Theodora Neapolitana, nobílibus paréntibus natus, futuræ in Deiparam devotiónis afféctum adhuc infantulus osténdit. Nam chártulam ab eo invéntam, in qua salutátio Angelica scripta erat, frustra adniténte nutrice, compressa manu valide retinuit, et a matre per vim abreptam, ploratu et gestu repétiit, ac mox redditam deglutívit. Quintum annum agens, monachis sancti Benedicti Cassinátibus custodiendus traditur. Inde Neapolim studiórum causa missus, iam adoléscens Fratrum Prædicatórum Ordinem suscépit. Sed matre ac frátribus id indigne feréntibus, Lutétiam Parisiórum mittitur. Quem fratres in itinere per vim raptum, in arcem castri sancti Ioánnis perducunt: ubi varie exagitatus, ut sanctum proponsitum mutaret, mulierem etiam, quæ ad labefactándam eius constantiam introducta fuerat, titióne fugávit. Mox beátus iuvenis, flexis genibus ante signum crucis orans, ibique somno correptus, per quietem sentire visus est sibi ab Angelis constringi lumbos; quo ex témpore omni póstea libidinis sensu cáruit. Soróribus, quæ ut eum a pio consílio removerent, in castrum venerant, persuasit, ut, contemptis curis sæcularibus, ad exercitatiónem cæléstis vitæ se conferrent.
Thomas, the most blessed man, the splendor of the Christian world and the light of the Church, born of noble parents, Landulf count of Aquino and Theodora of Naples, showed even as an infant his future devotion to the Mother of God. For a little parchment which he found, on which the Angelic Salutation was written, he firmly held clenched in his hand despite the nurse's vain effort to take it, sought back with weeping and gesture when violently snatched away by his mother, and swallowed it as soon as it was returned. At the age of five he was entrusted to the Benedictine monks of Montecassino to be kept. Sent then to Naples for the sake of studies, he as a young man embraced the Order of Friars Preachers. But when his mother and brothers took this badly, he was sent to Paris. His brothers seized him on the journey by force and brought him to the fortress of the castle of San Giovanni; where, harassed in various ways to make him change his holy resolve, he put to flight with a firebrand even a woman who had been introduced to undermine his constancy. Soon the blessed young man, kneeling in prayer before the sign of the Cross and there overtaken by sleep, seemed in his rest to feel his loins girded by Angels; and from that time he was ever after free from every movement of lust. His sisters, who had come to the castle to dissuade him from his holy purpose, he persuaded to put aside worldly cares and devote themselves to the practice of heavenly life.
℟ Emendémus in mélius, quæ ignoránter peccávimus: ne súbito præoccupáti die mortis, quærámus spátium pœniténtiæ, et inveníre non possímus:
℟ Let us amend for the better what we have sinned through ignorance; lest, suddenly overtaken by the day of death, we seek a space for repentance and are unable to find it:
Atténde, Dómine, et miserére, quia peccávimus tibi.
Attend, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned against you.
℣ Adiuva nos, Deus salutáris noster, et propter honórem nóminis tui, Dómine, líbera nos.
℣ Help us, O God of our salvation, and for the honor of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
℟ Atténde, Dómine, et miserére, quia peccávimus tibi.
℟ Attend, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned against you.
℣ 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
Emissus e castro per fenestram, Neapolim redúcitur; unde Romam, póstea Parisium a fratre Ioánne Theutónico, ordinis Prædicatórum generali magistro, ductus, Alberto Magno doctore, philosophíæ ac theologíæ operam dedit. Viginti quinque annos natus, magister est appellatus, publiceque philósophos ac Theólogos summa cum laude est interpretatus. Numquam se lectióni aut scriptióni dedit, nisi post oratiónem. In difficultátibus locórum sacræ Scripturæ, ad oratiónem ieiunium adhibebat. Quin étiam sodali suo fratri Regínaldo dicere solebat, quidquid sciret non tam studio aut labóre suo peperisse, quam divínitus tráditum accepisse. Neapoli cum ad imáginem Crucifixi vehementius oraret, hanc vocem audívit: Bene scripsísti de me, Thoma; quam ergo mercedem accípies? Cui ille: Non aliam, Dómine, nisi teípsum. Collatiónes Patrum assidue pervolutábat; et nullum fuit scriptórum genus, in quo non esset diligentíssime versatus. Scripta eius et multitúdine, et varietáte, et facilitate explicándi res difficiles adeo excellunt, ut uberrima atque incorrupta illíus doctrina, cum revelátis veritátibus mire consentiens, aptíssima sit ad ómnium témporum erróres pervincendos.
Sent down from the castle through a window, he was brought back to Naples; thence led to Rome, and afterward to Paris, by Friar John the Teutonic, Master General of the Order of Preachers, he devoted himself to philosophy and theology under the teacher Albert the Great. At the age of twenty-five he was called a master, and publicly expounded philosophers and theologians with the highest praise. He never gave himself to reading or writing except after prayer. In the difficulties of passages of Sacred Scripture, he would add fasting to prayer. Indeed, he was accustomed to say to his companion, Friar Reginald, that whatever he knew he had acquired not so much by his own study and labor as by divine gift. When at Naples he was praying more fervently before an image of the Crucified, he heard this voice: You have written well of me, Thomas; what reward will you receive? To which he replied: None other, Lord, but yourself. He constantly read through the Conferences of the Fathers; and there was no kind of writing with which he was not most diligently acquainted. His writings excel so greatly in number, variety, and facility in explaining difficult matters that his most abundant and incorrupt doctrine, wonderfully consonant with revealed truths, is most apt for overcoming the errors of every age.
℟ Derelínquat ímpius viam suam, et vir iníquus cogitatiónes suas, et revertátur ad Dóminum, et miserébitur eius:
℟ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him:
Quia benígnus et miséricors est, et præstábilis super malítia Dóminus Deus noster.
For the Lord our God is good and merciful, and ready to forgive evil.
℣ Non vult Dóminus mortem peccatóris, sed ut convertátur et vivat.
℣ The Lord does not desire the death of the sinner, but that he be converted and live.
℟ Quia benígnus et miséricors est, et præstábilis super malítia Dóminus Deus noster.
℟ For the Lord our God is good and merciful, and ready to forgive evil.
℣ 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
A summo Pontifice Urbano quarto Romam vocatus, eius iussu ecclesiásticum lucubrávit Offícium in Corporis Christi solemnitate celebrándum: oblatos vero honores et Neapolitanum archiepiscopátum, étiam deferénte Cleménte quarto, recusávit. A prædicatióne divini verbi non desistebat; quod cum fáceret per octavam Paschæ in basilica sancti Petri, mulierem, quæ eius fimbriam tetígerat, a fluxu sánguinis liberávit. Missus a beato Gregório décimo ad concílium Lugdunense, in monasterio Fossæ Novæ in morbum íncidit, ubi ægrotus Cantica canticórum explanávit. Ibidem obiit quinquagenarius, anno salútis millesimo ducentésimo septuagesimo quarto, Nonis Martii. Miraculis étiam mórtuus cláruit; quibus probátis, a Ioánne vigesimo secundo in Sanctórum númerum relátus est, anno millesimo tercentésimo vigesimo tertio, translato póstea eius corpore Tolosam, ex mandato beáti Urbani quinti. Cum sanctis angelicis spirítibus non minus innocéntia quam ingenio comparatus, Doctoris Angelici nomen iure est adeptus, eidem auctoritate sancti Pii quinti confirmátum. Leo autem décimus tertius, libentíssime excípiens postulatiónes et vota ómnium pene Sacrórum antistitum orbis catholici, ad tot præcipue philosophicórum systématum a veritáte aberrántium luem propulsandam, ad increménta scientiárum et communem humani generis utilitátem, eum, ex sacrórum Rituum Congregatiónis consulto, per apostolicas litteras cælestem patronum scholárum ómnium catholicárum declarávit et instituit.
Called to Rome by Supreme Pontiff Urban IV, he composed by his command the ecclesiastical Office to be celebrated on the solemnity of Corpus Christi; but he refused the honors offered to him and the archbishopric of Naples, even when it was tendered by Clement IV. He did not cease from the preaching of the divine word; and while doing so through the octave of Easter in the basilica of Saint Peter, he freed from a flow of blood a woman who had touched the hem of his garment. Sent by Blessed Gregory X to the Council of Lyon, he fell ill in the monastery of Fossanova, where, though sick, he expounded the Song of Songs. There he died at the age of fifty, in the year of salvation twelve hundred and seventy-four, on the Nones of March. He was also renowned by miracles after death; and upon their verification, he was numbered among the Saints by John XXII, in the year thirteen hundred and twenty-three, his body having afterwards been translated to Toulouse at the command of Blessed Urban V. Compared with the holy angelic spirits no less in innocence than in genius, he rightly obtained the name of Angelic Doctor, confirmed to him by the authority of Saint Pius V. And Leo XIII, most gladly receiving the petitions and desires of nearly all the sacred pastors of the Catholic world — especially to repel the blight of so many philosophical systems straying from truth, for the advancement of the sciences and the common benefit of the human race — declared and established him, by apostolic letters and on the advice of the Congregation of Sacred Rites, as the heavenly patron of all Catholic schools.
℟ Paradísi portas apéruit nobis ieiúnii tempus: suscipiámus illud orántes, et deprecántes:
℟ The season of fasting has opened for us the gates of Paradise; let us take it up with prayer and supplication,
Ut in die resurrectiónis cum Dómino gloriémur.
That we may glory with the Lord on the day of the Resurrection.
℣ In ómnibus exhibeámus nosmetípsos sicut Dei minístros in multa patiéntia.
℣ In all things let us show ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience.
℟ Ut in die resurrectiónis cum Dómino gloriémur.
℟ That we may glory with the Lord on the day of the Resurrection.
℣ 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 in die resurrectiónis cum Dómino gloriémur.
℟ That we may glory with the Lord on the day of the Resurrection.
Nocturnus 3
Nocturn 3
Ant. Ne in ira tua * corrípias me, Dómine.
Ant. Do not rebuke me, O Lord, * in your anger.
Psalmus 37(2-11)
Psalm 37(2-11)
37:2 Dómine, ne in furóre tuo árguas me, * neque in ira tua corrípias me.
37:3 Quóniam sagíttæ tuæ infíxæ sunt mihi: * et confirmásti super me manum tuam.
37:4 Non est sánitas in carne mea a fácie iræ tuæ: * non est pax óssibus meis a fácie peccatórum meórum.
37:5 Quóniam iniquitátes meæ supergréssæ sunt caput meum: * et sicut onus grave gravátæ sunt super me.
37:6 Putruérunt et corrúptæ sunt cicatríces meæ, * a fácie insipiéntiæ meæ.
37:7 Miser factus sum, et curvátus sum usque in finem: * tota die contristátus ingrediébar.
37:8 Quóniam lumbi mei impléti sunt illusiónibus: * et non est sánitas in carne mea.
37:9 Afflíctus sum, et humiliátus sum nimis: * rugiébam a gémitu cordis mei.
37:10 Dómine, ante te omne desidérium meum: * et gémitus meus a te non est abscónditus.
37:11 Cor meum conturbátum est, derelíquit me virtus mea: * et lumen oculórum meórum, et ipsum non est mecum.
37:2 O Lord, rebuke me not in your fury, * nor chastise me in your wrath.
37:3 For your arrows are fixed in me: * and you have laid your hand upon me.
37:4 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger: * there is no peace in my bones because of my sins.
37:5 For my iniquities have gone over my head: * and like a heavy burden they are weighed down upon me.
37:6 My wounds have putrefied and festered, * because of my foolishness.
37:7 I have become wretched and bowed down to the end: * all the day I walked in sorrow.
37:8 For my loins are filled with delusions: * and there is no soundness in my flesh.
37:9 I am afflicted and greatly humbled: * I groaned with the groan of my heart.
37:10 O Lord, before you is all my desire: * and my groaning is not hidden from you.
37:11 My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me: * and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
℣ 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. Ne in ira tua corrípias me, Dómine.
Ant. Do not rebuke me, O Lord, in your anger.
Ant. Inténde in adiutórium meum, * Dómine, virtus salútis meæ.
Ant. Be intent upon my help, * O Lord, the strength of my salvation.
Psalmus 37(12-23)
Psalm 37(12-23)
37:12 Amíci mei, et próximi mei * advérsum me appropinquavérunt, et stetérunt.
37:12 Et qui iuxta me erant, de longe stetérunt: * et vim faciébant qui quærébant ánimam meam.
37:13 Et qui inquirébant mala mihi, locúti sunt vanitátes: * et dolos tota die meditabántur.
37:14 Ego autem tamquam surdus non audiébam: * et sicut mutus non apériens os suum.
37:15 Et factus sum sicut homo non áudiens: * et non habens in ore suo redargutiónes.
37:16 Quóniam in te, Dómine, sperávi: * tu exáudies me, Dómine, Deus meus.
37:17 Quia dixi: Nequándo supergáudeant mihi inimíci mei: * et dum commovéntur pedes mei, super me magna locúti sunt.
37:18 Quóniam ego in flagélla parátus sum: * et dolor meus in conspéctu meo semper.
37:19 Quóniam iniquitátem meam annuntiábo: * et cogitábo pro peccáto meo.
37:20 Inimíci autem mei vivunt, et confirmáti sunt super me: * et multiplicáti sunt qui odérunt me iníque.
37:21 Qui retríbuunt mala pro bonis, detrahébant mihi: * quóniam sequébar bonitátem.
37:22 Ne derelínquas me, Dómine, Deus meus: * ne discésseris a me.
37:23 Inténde in adiutórium meum, * Dómine, Deus, salútis meæ.
37:12 My friends and my neighbors * drew near and stood against me.
37:12 And those who were close to me stood afar off: * and those who sought my soul used violence.
37:13 And those who sought evil against me spoke vanities: * and meditated deceits all the day.
37:14 But I, like a deaf man, heard not: * and was as a mute not opening his mouth.
37:15 And I became as a man that hears not: * and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
37:16 For in you, O Lord, have I hoped: * you will hear me, O Lord my God.
37:17 For I said: Lest my enemies ever exult over me: * and when my feet are shaken, they speak great things against me.
37:18 For I am ready for scourges: * and my sorrow is ever before me.
37:19 For I will declare my iniquity: * and I will think upon my sin.
37:20 But my enemies live and are stronger than I: * and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
37:21 Those who return evil for good spoke ill of me: * because I pursued goodness.
37:22 Do not forsake me, O Lord my God: * do not depart from me.
37:23 Make haste to my assistance, * O Lord, God of my salvation.
℣ 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. Inténde in adiutórium meum, Dómine, virtus salútis meæ.
Ant. Be intent upon my help, O Lord, the strength of my salvation.
Ant. Ámove, Dómine, * a me plagas tuas.
Ant. Remove, O Lord, * your plagues from me.
Psalmus 38
Psalm 38
38:2 Dixi: Custódiam vias meas: * ut non delínquam in lingua mea.
38:2 Pósui ori meo custódiam, * cum consísteret peccátor advérsum me.
38:3 Obmútui, et humiliátus sum, et sílui a bonis: * et dolor meus renovátus est.
38:4 Concáluit cor meum intra me: * et in meditatióne mea exardéscet ignis.
38:5 Locútus sum in lingua mea: * Notum fac mihi, Dómine, finem meum.
38:5 Et númerum diérum meórum quis est: * ut sciam quid desit mihi.
38:6 Ecce mensurábiles posuísti dies meos: * et substántia mea tamquam níhilum ante te.
38:6 Verúmtamen univérsa vánitas, * omnis homo vivens.
38:7 Verúmtamen in imágine pertránsit homo: * sed et frustra conturbátur.
38:7 Thesaurízat: * et ignórat cui congregábit ea.
38:8 Et nunc quæ est exspectátio mea? Nonne Dóminus? * Et substántia mea apud te est.
38:9 Ab ómnibus iniquitátibus meis érue me: * oppróbrium insipiénti dedísti me.
38:10 Obmútui, et non apérui os meum, quóniam tu fecísti: * ámove a me plagas tuas.
38:12 A fortitúdine manus tuæ ego deféci in increpatiónibus: * propter iniquitátem corripuísti hóminem.
38:12 Et tabéscere fecísti sicut aráneam ánimam eius: * verúmtamen vane conturbátur omnis homo.
38:13 Exáudi oratiónem meam, Dómine, et deprecatiónem meam: * áuribus pércipe lácrimas meas.
38:13 Ne síleas: quóniam ádvena ego sum apud te, et peregrínus, * sicut omnes patres mei.
38:14 Remítte mihi, ut refrígerer priúsquam ábeam, * et ámplius non ero.
38:2 I said: I will keep my ways: * that I sin not with my tongue.
38:2 I set a guard upon my mouth, * while the wicked stood against me.
38:3 I was dumb and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: * and my sorrow was renewed.
38:4 My heart grew warm within me: * and in my meditation a fire shall blaze forth.
38:5 I spoke with my tongue: * Make me know, O Lord, my end.
38:5 And what is the number of my days: * that I may know what is wanting to me.
38:6 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth: * and my substance is as nothing before you.
38:6 Yet surely all is vanity, * every man that lives.
38:7 Surely man passes like an image: * yea, and he is disquieted in vain.
38:7 He lays up treasures: * and knows not for whom he gathers them.
38:8 And now what is my hope? Is it not the Lord? * And my substance is with you.
38:9 Deliver me from all my iniquities: * you have made me a reproach to the foolish.
38:10 I was dumb and opened not my mouth, because you have done it: * remove your scourges from me.
38:12 Through the strength of your hand I have failed under your rebukes: * you have corrected man for iniquity.
38:12 And you have made his soul waste away like a spider: * yet surely every man is disquieted in vain.
38:13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: * give ear to my tears.
38:13 Be not silent: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, * as all my fathers were.
38:14 Spare me, that I may be refreshed before I depart, * and be no more.
℣ 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. Ámove, Dómine, a me plagas tuas.
Ant. Remove, O Lord, your plagues from 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.
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. 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 4:1-11
Matt 4:1-11
In illo témpore: Ductus est Iesus in desértum a Spíritu, ut tentarétur a diábolo. Et cum ieiunásset quadragínta diébus et quadragínta nóctibus, póstea esúriit. Et réliqua.
Homilía sancti Gregórii Papæ
At that time: Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. And so forth.
A Homily of Saint Gregory, Pope
Homilia 16 in Evangelia
Homilia 16 in Evangelia
Dubitári a quibúsdam solet, a quo spíritu sit Iesus ductus in desértum, propter hoc quod súbditur: Assúmpsit eum diábolus in sanctam civitátem: et rursum: Assúmpsit eum in montem excélsum valde. Sed vere et absque ulla quæstióne conveniénter accípitur, ut a Sancto Spíritu in desértum ductus credátur: ut illuc eum suus Spíritus dúceret, ubi hunc ad tentándum malígnus spíritus inveníret. Sed ecce cum dícitur Deus homo vel in excélsum montem, vel in sanctam civitátem a diábolo assúmptus, mens réfugit crédere, humánæ hoc audíre aures expavéscunt. Qui tamen non esse incredibília ista cognóscimus, si in illo et ália facta pensámus.
It is commonly doubted by some by which spirit Jesus was led into the desert, on account of what follows: The devil took him up into the holy city; and again: He took him up onto a very high mountain. But it is rightly and without any difficulty understood that he is believed to have been led into the desert by the Holy Spirit: so that his own Spirit would lead him there where the malicious spirit would find him to tempt him. But behold, when it is said that God-made-man was taken up by the devil either to a very high mountain or to the holy city, the mind recoils from believing it, human ears tremble to hear it. And yet we know these things not to be unbelievable, if we weigh against them the other things done in him.
℟ Scíndite corda vestra, et non vestiménta vestra: et convertímini ad Dóminum Deum vestrum:
℟ Rend your hearts, and not your garments: and turn to the Lord your God:
Quia benígnus et miséricors est.
For he is gracious and merciful.
℣ Derelínquat ímpius viam suam, et vir iníquus cogitatiónes suas, et revertátur ad Dóminum, et miserébitur eius.
℣ Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him.
℟ Quia benígnus et miséricors est.
℟ For he is gracious and merciful.
℣ 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
Certe iniquórum ómnium caput diábolus est: et huius cápitis membra sunt omnes iníqui. An non diáboli membrum fuit Pilátus? an non diáboli membra Iudǽi persequéntes, et mílites crucifigéntes Christum fuérunt? Quid ergo mirum, si se ab illo permísit in montem duci, qui se pértulit étiam a membris illíus crucifígi? Non est ergo indígnum Redemptóri nostro quod tentári vóluit, qui vénerat occídi. Iustum quippe erat, ut sic tentatiónes nostras suis tentatiónibus vínceret, sicut mortem nostram vénerat sua morte superáre.
Surely the head of all the wicked is the devil, and the members of this head are all the wicked. Was not Pilate a member of the devil? Were not the Jews who persecuted, and the soldiers who crucified Christ, members of the devil? What wonder, then, if he permitted himself to be led by him to the mountaintop — he who also bore being crucified by that one's members? There is therefore nothing unworthy of our Redeemer in his having willed to be tempted, he who had come to be slain. For it was indeed right that he should overcome our temptations by his own temptations, just as he had come to overcome our death by his own death.
℟ Frange esuriénti panem tuum, et egénos vagósque induc in domum tuam:
℟ Break your bread for the hungry, and bring the needy and the wandering into your house:
Tunc erúmpet quasi mane lumen tuum, et anteíbit fáciem tuam iustítia tua.
Then your light shall break forth like the morning, and your justice shall go before your face.
℣ Cum víderis nudum, óperi eum, et carnem tuam ne despéxeris.
℣ When you see the naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.
℟ Tunc erúmpet quasi mane lumen tuum, et anteíbit fáciem tuam iustítia tua.
℟ Then your light shall break forth like the morning, and your justice shall go before your face.
℣ 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
Sed sciéndum nobis est, quia tribus modis tentátio ágitur: suggestióne, delectatióne et consénsu. Et nos cum tentámur, plerúmque in delectatiónem, aut étiam in consénsum lábimur: quia de carnis peccáto propagáti, in nobis ipsis étiam gérimus, unde certámina tolerámus. Deus vero, qui in útero Vírginis incarnátus, in mundum sine peccáto vénerat, nihil contradictiónis in semetípso tolerábat. Tentári ergo per suggestiónem pótuit: sed eius mentem peccáti delectátio non momórdit. Atque ídeo omnis diabólica illa tentátio foris, non intus fuit.
But we must know that temptation is carried out in three ways: by suggestion, by delight, and by consent. And when we are tempted, we frequently fall into delight or even into consent: because, propagated from the sin of the flesh, we bear within ourselves even what we endure as conflicts. But God, who became incarnate in the womb of a Virgin, had come into the world without sin, and endured no contradiction within himself. He could therefore be tempted through suggestion: but the delight of sin did not bite his mind. And therefore all that diabolical temptation was from without, not from within.
℟ Angelis suis Deus mandávit de te, ut custódiant te in ómnibus viis tuis:
℟ God has given his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways:
In mánibus portábunt te, ne umquam offéndas ad lápidem pedem tuum.
They shall bear you in their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.
℣ Super áspidem et basilíscum ambulábis, et conculcábis leónem et dracónem.
℣ You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk, and you shall trample underfoot the lion and the dragon.
℟ In mánibus portábunt te, ne umquam offéndas ad lápidem pedem tuum.
℟ They shall bear you in their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.
℣ 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.
℟ In mánibus portábunt te, ne umquam offéndas ad lápidem pedem tuum.
℟ They shall bear you in their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.