Feria Sexta infra Hebdomadam Passionis

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. Dolóres gloriósæ recoléntes Vírginis, Dóminum pro nobis passum * Veníte adorémus.

Ant. Recalling the glorious sorrows of the Virgin, the Lord who suffered for us: * Come, let us adore.

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. Dolóres gloriósæ recoléntes Vírginis, Dóminum pro nobis passum Veníte adorémus.

Ant. Recalling the glorious sorrows of the Virgin, the Lord who suffered for us: Come, let us adore.

Hymnus

Sancta Mater, istud agas,
Crucifíxi fige plagas
Cordi meo válide:

Tui nati vulneráti,
Tam dignáti pro me pati,
Pœnas mecum dívide.

Fac me tecum pie flere,
Crucifíxo condolére,
Donec ego víxero:

Iuxta crucem tecum stare,
Et me tibi sociáre
In planctu desídero.
Amen.

Holy Mother! pierce me through;
In my heart each wound renew
Of my Saviour crucified:

Let me share with thee his pain,
Who for all my sins was slain,
Who for me in torments died.

Let me mingle tears with thee,
Mourning him who mourned for me,
All the days that I may live:

By the cross with thee to stay;
There with thee to weep and pray;
Is all I ask of thee to give.
Amen.

Nocturni

Nocturnus 1

Nocturn 1

Ant. Astitérunt reges terræ, * et príncipes convenérunt in unum advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum eius.

Ant. The kings of the earth stood up, * and the princes gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

Psalmus 2

Psalm 2

2:1 Quare fremuérunt gentes: * et pópuli meditáti sunt inánia?
2:2 Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum * advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum eius.
2:3 Dirumpámus víncula eórum: * et proiciámus a nobis iugum ipsórum.
2:4 Qui hábitat in cælis, irridébit eos: * et Dóminus subsannábit eos.
2:5 Tunc loquétur ad eos in ira sua, * et in furóre suo conturbábit eos.
2:6 Ego autem constitútus sum Rex ab eo super Sion montem sanctum eius, * prǽdicans præcéptum eius.
2:7 Dóminus dixit ad me: * Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te.
2:8 Póstula a me, et dabo tibi gentes hereditátem tuam, * et possessiónem tuam términos terræ.
2:9 Reges eos in virga férrea, * et tamquam vas fíguli confrínges eos.
2:10 Et nunc, reges, intellégite: * erudímini, qui iudicátis terram.
2:11 Servíte Dómino in timóre: * et exsultáte ei cum tremóre.
2:12 Apprehéndite disciplínam, nequándo irascátur Dóminus, * et pereátis de via iusta.
2:13 Cum exárserit in brevi ira eius: * beáti omnes qui confídunt in eo.

2:1 Why have the Gentiles been seething: * and why have the people been pondering nonsense?
2:2 The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one * against the Lord, and against his Christ:
2:3 Let us shatter their chains: * and cast their yoke away from us.
2:4 He who dwells in heaven will ridicule them: * and the Lord will mock them.
2:5 Then will he speak to them in his anger, * and trouble them with his fury.
2:6 Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, * preaching his precepts.
2:7 The Lord has said to me: * You are my son, this day have I begotten you.
2:8 Ask of me, and I will give to you the Gentiles for your inheritance, * and the ends of the earth for your possession.
2:9 You will rule them with an iron rod, * and you will shatter them like a potter's vessel.
2:10 And now, O kings, understand: * be instructed, you who judge the earth.
2:11 Serve the Lord in fear: * and rejoice before him with trembling.
2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, * and you perish from the just way.
2:13 When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time: * blessed are all who trust 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. Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum eius.

Ant. The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

Ant. Voce mea * ad Dóminum clamávi, et exaudívit me de monte sancto suo.

Ant. With my voice * I cried to the Lord, and he heard me from his holy mountain.

Psalmus 3

Psalm 3

3:2 Dómine, quid multiplicáti sunt qui tríbulant me? * multi insúrgunt advérsum me.
3:3 Multi dicunt ánimæ meæ: * Non est salus ipsi in Deo eius.
3:4 Tu autem, Dómine, suscéptor meus es, * glória mea, et exáltans caput meum.
3:5 Voce mea ad Dóminum clamávi: * et exaudívit me de monte sancto suo.
3:6 Ego dormívi, et soporátus sum: * et exsurréxi, quia Dóminus suscépit me.
3:7 Non timébo míllia pópuli circumdántis me: * exsúrge, Dómine, salvum me fac, Deus meus.
3:8 Quóniam tu percussísti omnes adversántes mihi sine causa: * dentes peccatórum contrivísti.
3:9 Dómini est salus: * et super pópulum tuum benedíctio tua.

3:2 Lord, why have they who trouble me been multiplied? * Many rise up against me.
3:3 Many say of my soul: * There is no salvation for him in his God.
3:4 But you, O Lord, are my sustainer, * my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
3:5 With my voice I cried out to the Lord: * and he heard me from his holy mountain.
3:6 I slept, and took my rest: * and I arose, for the Lord sustained me.
3:7 I will not fear thousands of people surrounding me: * arise, O Lord, save me, O my God.
3:8 For you have struck all who oppose me without cause: * you have broken the teeth of sinners.
3:9 Salvation belongs to the Lord: * and your blessing is upon your people.

℣ 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. Voce mea ad Dóminum clamávi, et exaudívit me de monte sancto suo.

Ant. With my voice I cried to the Lord, and he heard me from his holy mountain.

Ant. Factum est cor meum * tamquam cera liquéscens in médio ventris mei.

Ant. My heart has become * like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalmus 12

Psalm 12

12:1 Úsquequo, Dómine, obliviscéris me in finem? * Úsquequo avértis fáciem tuam a me?
12:2 Quámdiu ponam consília in ánima mea, * dolórem in corde meo per diem?
12:3 Úsquequo exaltábitur inimícus meus super me? * (4a) réspice, et exáudi me, Dómine, Deus meus.
12:4b Illúmina óculos meos ne umquam obdórmiam in morte: * (5a) nequándo dicat inimícus meus: Præválui advérsus eum.
12:5b Qui tríbulant me, exsultábunt si motus fúero: * (6a) ego autem in misericórdia tua sperávi.
12:6b Exsultábit cor meum in salutári tuo: † cantábo Dómino qui bona tríbuit mihi: * et psallam nómini Dómini altíssimi.

12:1 How long, O Lord, will you forget me until the end? * How long will you turn your face away from me?
12:2 How long can I take counsel in my soul, * sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?
12:3 How long will my enemy be exalted over me? * (4a) Look upon me and listen to me, O Lord my God.
12:4b Enlighten my eyes, lest I ever sleep in death: * lest my enemy say: I have prevailed against him.
12:5b They who trouble me will exult if I am moved: * but I have hoped in your mercy.
12:6b My heart will rejoice in your salvation: † I will sing to the Lord who has given good things to me: * and I will chant to the name of the Lord Most High.

℣ 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. Factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquéscens in médio ventris mei.

Ant. My heart has become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

℣ Pósuit me desolátam.

℣ He has made me desolate.

℟ Tota die mæróre conféctam.

℟ All day long consumed with grief.

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 11:47-54

In illo témpore: Collegérunt pontífices et pharisǽi concílium advérsus Iesum, et dicébant: Quid fácimus, quia hic homo multa signa facit? Et réliqua.

Homilía sancti Augustíni Epíscopi

In that time: The high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council against Jesus, and they were saying: What are we to do, for this man works many signs? And so forth.

A Homily of Saint Augustine, Bishop

Tract. 49 in Ioannem, sub finem

Pontífices et pharisǽi sibi consulébant: nec tamen dicébant: Credámus. Plus enim pérditi hómines cogitábant, quómodo nocérent, ut pérderent, quam quómodo sibi consúlerent, ne perírent: et tamen timébant, et quasi consulébant. Dicébant enim: Quid fácimus, quia hic homo multa signa facit? Si dimíttimus eum sic, omnes credent in eum: et vénient Románi, et tollent nostrum locum et gentem. Temporália pérdere timuérunt, et vitam ætérnam non cogitavérunt, ac sic utrúmque amisérunt.

The chief priests and the Pharisees were taking counsel among themselves, and yet they did not say: Let us believe. For those ruined men thought more of how they might harm so as to destroy, than of how they might take counsel for themselves lest they perish; and yet they feared, and as it were took counsel. For they said: What are we doing, since this man works many signs? If we let him go on like this, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our place and nation. They feared to lose temporal things, and they gave no thought to eternal life; and so they lost both.

℟ Deus meus es tu, ne discédas a me:

℟ You are my God, do not depart from me:

Quóniam tribulátio próxima est, et non est qui ádiuvet.

For tribulation is near, and there is none to help.

℣ Tu autem, Dómine, ne elongáveris auxílium tuum a me: ad defensiónem meam áspice.

℣ But you, O Lord, do not withdraw your help far from me: look to my defense.

℟ Quóniam tribulátio próxima est, et non est qui ádiuvet.

℟ For tribulation is near, and there is none to help.

℣ 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

Nam et Románi post Dómini passiónem et glorificatiónem tulérunt eis et locum et gentem, expúgnando et transferéndo: et illud eos séquitur, quod álibi dictum est: Fílii autem regni huius ibunt in ténebras exterióres. Hoc autem timuérunt, ne, si omnes in Christum créderent, nemo remanéret, qui advérsus Romános civitátem Dei templúmque defénderet: quóniam contra ipsum templum, et contra suas patérnas leges doctrínam Christi esse sentiébant.

For the Romans too, after the Lord's Passion and glorification, took from them both place and nation, by conquest and deportation: and that saying follows them which was spoken elsewhere: But the sons of the kingdom will go out into the exterior darkness. Now this they feared: lest, if all should believe in Christ, no one would remain to defend the city of God and the Temple against the Romans; for they perceived that the teaching of Christ was directed against the Temple itself and against their ancestral laws.

℟ In te iactátus sum ex útero, de ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu, ne discédas a me:

℟ Upon you have I been cast from the womb, from my mother's womb you are my God, do not depart from me:

Quóniam tribulátio próxima est, et non est qui ádiuvet.

For tribulation is near, and there is none to help.

℣ Salva me ex ore leónis, et a córnibus unicórnium humilitátem meam.

℣ Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

℟ Quóniam tribulátio próxima est, et non est qui ádiuvet.

℟ For tribulation is near, and there is none to help.

℣ 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

Unus autem ex ipsis Cáiphas, cum esset Póntifex anni illíus, dixit eis: Vos nescítis quidquam, nec cogitátis, quia éxpedit vobis ut unus moriátur homo pro pópulo, et non tota gens péreat. Hoc autem a semetípso non dixit: sed cum esset póntifex anni illíus, prophetávit. Hic docémur, étiam hómines malos prophetíæ spíritu futúra prædícere: quod tamen Evangelísta divíno tríbuit sacraménto, quia póntifex fuit, id est summus sacérdos.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish. Now this he said not of himself: but since he was high priest that year, he prophesied. By this we are taught that even wicked men foretell the future by the spirit of prophecy: which, however, the Evangelist attributes to a divine mystery, because he was a pontiff, that is, the chief priest.

℟ In próximo est tribulátio mea, Dómine, et non est qui ádiuvet; ut fódiant manus meas et pedes meos: líbera me de ore leónis,

℟ My tribulation is near, O Lord, and there is no one to help; that they dig through my hands and feet: deliver me from the mouth of the lion,

Ut enárrem nomen tuum frátribus meis.

That I may declare your name to my brethren.

℣ Erue a frámea, Deus, ánimam meam, et de manu canis únicam meam.

℣ Rescue, O God, my soul from the sword, and my only one from the hand of the dog.

℟ Ut enárrem nomen tuum frátribus meis.

℟ That I may declare your name to my brethren.

℣ 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 próximo est tribulátio mea, Dómine, et non est qui ádiuvet; ut fódiant manus meas et pedes meos: líbera me de ore leónis, * Ut enárrem nomen tuum frátribus meis.

℟ My tribulation is near, O Lord, and there is no one to help; that they dig through my hands and feet: deliver me from the mouth of the lion, * That I may declare your name to my brethren.

Nocturnus 2

Nocturn 2

Ant. Inimíci mei * dixérunt mala mihi: Quando moriétur, et períbit nomen eius?

Ant. My enemies * spoke evil against me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

Psalmus 40

Psalm 40

40:2 Beátus qui intéllegit super egénum, et páuperem: * in die mala liberábit eum Dóminus.
40:3 Dóminus consérvet eum, et vivíficet eum, et beátum fáciat eum in terra: * et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicórum eius.
40:4 Dóminus opem ferat illi super lectum dolóris eius: * univérsum stratum eius versásti in infirmitáte eius.
40:5 Ego dixi: Dómine, miserére mei: * sana ánimam meam, quia peccávi tibi.
40:6 Inimíci mei dixérunt mala mihi: * Quando moriétur, et períbit nomen eius?
40:7 Et si ingrediebátur ut vidéret, vana loquebátur: * cor eius congregávit iniquitátem sibi.
40:7 Egrediebátur foras, * et loquebátur in idípsum.
40:8 Advérsum me susurrábant omnes inimíci mei: * advérsum me cogitábant mala mihi.
40:9 Verbum iníquum constituérunt advérsum me: * Numquid qui dormit non adíciet ut resúrgat?
40:10 Étenim homo pacis meæ, in quo sperávi: * qui edébat panes meos, magnificávit super me supplantatiónem.
40:11 Tu autem, Dómine, miserére mei, et resúscita me: * et retríbuam eis.
40:12 In hoc cognóvi quóniam voluísti me: * quóniam non gaudébit inimícus meus super me.
40:13 Me autem propter innocéntiam suscepísti: * et confirmásti me in conspéctu tuo in ætérnum.
40:14 Benedíctus Dóminus, Deus Israël, a sǽculo et usque in sǽculum: * fiat, fiat.

40:2 Blessed is he who understands concerning the needy and the poor: * the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
40:3 The Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: * and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
40:4 The Lord help him upon his bed of sorrow: * you have turned all his couch in his sickness.
40:5 I said: O Lord, be merciful to me: * heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.
40:6 My enemies have spoken evil of me: * When shall he die and his name perish?
40:7 And if one came to see me, he spoke vain things: * his heart gathered iniquity to itself.
40:7 He went out, * and spoke to the same purpose.
40:8 All my enemies whispered against me: * they devised evil against me.
40:9 They determined against me an unjust word: * Will he who sleeps rise no more?
40:10 For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted: * who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.
40:11 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: * and I will repay them.
40:12 By this I know that you have had a good will toward me: * because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
40:13 But you have upheld me by reason of my innocence: * and have established me in your sight for ever.
40:14 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from age to age: * so be it, so be it.

℣ 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. Inimíci mei dixérunt mala mihi: Quando moriétur, et períbit nomen eius?

Ant. My enemies spoke evil against me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

Ant. Deus, vitam meam * annuntiávi tibi: posuísti lácrimas meas in conspéctu tuo.

Ant. O God, I have declared * my life to you; you have placed my tears in your sight.

Psalmus 55

Psalm 55

55:2 Miserére mei, Deus, quóniam conculcávit me homo: * tota die impúgnans tribulávit me.
55:3 Conculcavérunt me inimíci mei tota die: * quóniam multi bellántes advérsum me.
55:4 Ab altitúdine diéi timébo: * ego vero in te sperábo.
55:5 In Deo laudábo sermónes meos, in Deo sperávi: * non timébo quid fáciat mihi caro.
55:6 Tota die verba mea exsecrabántur: * advérsum me omnes cogitatiónes eórum in malum.
55:7 Inhabitábunt et abscóndent: * ipsi calcáneum meum observábunt.
55:8 Sicut sustinuérunt ánimam meam, pro níhilo salvos fácies illos: * in ira pópulos confrínges.
55:9 Deus, vitam meam annuntiávi tibi: * posuísti lácrimas meas in conspéctu tuo.
55:9 Sicut et in promissióne tua: * tunc converténtur inimíci mei retrórsum:
55:10 In quacúmque die invocávero te: * ecce, cognóvi, quóniam Deus meus es.
55:11 In Deo laudábo verbum, in Dómino laudábo sermónem: * in Deo sperávi, non timébo quid fáciat mihi homo.
55:12 In me sunt, Deus, vota tua, * quæ reddam, laudatiónes tibi.
55:13 Quóniam eripuísti ánimam meam de morte, et pedes meos de lapsu: * ut pláceam coram Deo in lúmine vivéntium.

55:2 Have mercy on me, O God, for man has trampled over me: * all day long, he has afflicted me by fighting against me.
55:3 My enemies have trampled over me all day long: * for those who make war against me are many.
55:4 From the height of the day, I will be afraid: * but truly, I will hope in you.
55:5 In God, I will praise my words; in God, I have put my trust: * I will not fear what flesh can do to me.
55:6 All day long, they curse my words: * all their intentions are for evil against me.
55:7 They will dwell and hide themselves: * they will watch my heel.
55:8 Just as they waited for my soul, nothing will save them: * in your anger, you will crush the people.
55:9 O God, I have announced my life to you: * you have placed my tears in your sight.
55:9 Even in your promise: * then my enemies will be turned back:
55:10 On whatever day that I call upon you: * behold, I know that you are my God.
55:11 In God, I will praise the word; in the Lord, I will praise his speech: * in God, I have hoped; I will not fear what man can do to me.
55:12 My vows to you, O God, are in me, * I will repay them: praises be to you.
55:13 For you have rescued my soul from death, and my feet from slipping: * so that I may be pleasing in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

℣ 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. Deus, vitam meam annuntiávi tibi: posuísti lácrimas meas in conspéctu tuo.

Ant. O God, I have declared my life to you; you have placed my tears in your sight.

Ant. Fílii hóminum, * dentes eórum arma et sagíttæ: et lingua eórum gládius acútus.

Ant. The sons of men, * their teeth are arms and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalmus 56

Psalm 56

56:2 Miserére mei, Deus, miserére mei: * quóniam in te confídit ánima mea.
56:2 Et in umbra alárum tuárum sperábo, * donec tránseat iníquitas.
56:3 Clamábo ad Deum altíssimum: * Deum qui benefécit mihi.
56:4 Misit de cælo, et liberávit me: * dedit in oppróbrium conculcántes me.
56:4 Misit Deus misericórdiam suam, et veritátem suam, * et erípuit ánimam meam de médio catulórum leónum: dormívi conturbátus.
56:5 Fílii hóminum dentes eórum arma et sagíttæ: * et lingua eórum gládius acútus.
56:6 Exaltáre super cælos, Deus, * et in omnem terram glória tua.
56:7 Láqueum paravérunt pédibus meis: * et incurvavérunt ánimam meam.
56:7 Fodérunt ante fáciem meam fóveam: * et incidérunt in eam.
56:8 Parátum cor meum, Deus, parátum cor meum: * cantábo, et psalmum dicam.
56:9 Exsúrge, glória mea, exsúrge, psaltérium et cíthara: * exsúrgam dilúculo.
56:10 Confitébor tibi in pópulis, Dómine: * et psalmum dicam tibi in géntibus:
56:11 Quóniam magnificáta est usque ad cælos misericórdia tua, * et usque ad nubes véritas tua.
56:12 Exaltáre super cælos, Deus: * et super omnem terram glória tua.

56:2 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: * for my soul trusts in you.
56:2 And I will hope in the shadow of your wings, * until iniquity passes away.
56:3 I will cry out to God Most High: * to God who has been kind to me.
56:4 He sent from heaven and freed me: * he has surrendered into disgrace those who trampled me.
56:4 God has sent his mercy and his truth, * and he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions: I slept troubled.
56:5 The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, * and their tongue is a sharp sword.
56:6 Be exalted above the heavens, O God, * and your glory above all the earth.
56:7 They prepared a snare for my feet: * and they bowed down my soul.
56:7 They dug a pit before my face: * and they have fallen into it.
56:8 My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared: * I will sing, and I will compose a psalm.
56:9 Rise up, my glory; rise up, psaltery and harp: * I will arise in early morning.
56:10 I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples: * and I will compose a psalm to you among the nations:
56:11 For your mercy has been magnified, even to the heavens, * and your truth, even to the clouds.
56:12 Be exalted above the heavens, O God: * and your glory above all the earth.

℣ 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. Fílii hóminum, dentes eórum arma et sagíttæ: et lingua eórum gládius acútus.

Ant. The sons of men, their teeth are arms and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

℣ Fácies mea intúmuit a fletu.

℣ My face is swollen with weeping,

℟ Et pálpebræ meæ caligavérunt.

℟ And my eyelids are darkened.

℣ 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

Sermo sancti Bernárdi Abbátis

Sermon of Saint Bernard, Abbot

Sermo de duodecim stellis

Martýrium Vírginis tam in Simeónis prophetía, quam in ipsa Domínicæ passiónis história commendátur. Pósitus est hic (ait sanctus senex de púero Iesu) in signum cui contradicétur; et tuam ipsíus ánimam (ad Maríam autem dicébat) pertransíbit gládius. Vere tuam, o beáta Mater, ánimam pertransívit. Alióquin non nisi eam pertránsiens, carnem Fílii tui penetráret. Et quidem posteáquam emísit spíritum tuus ille Iesus, ipsíus plane non áttigit ánimam crudélis láncea, quæ ipsíus apéruit latus, sed tuam útique ánimam pertransívit. Ipsíus nimírum ánima iam ibi non erat, sed tua plane inde nequíbat avélli.

The martyrdom of the Virgin is commended both in the prophecy of Simeon and in the very history of the Lord's Passion. This child, said the holy elder of the boy Jesus, is set as a sign that shall be contradicted; and a sword shall pierce your own soul — for it was to Mary that he spoke. Truly your soul, O blessed Mother, was pierced. Otherwise it would not have pierced the flesh of your Son unless it had first passed through your soul. And indeed after that Jesus of yours gave up his spirit, the cruel lance which opened his side did not touch his soul, since it was no longer there, but it assuredly pierced your soul. His soul, without doubt, was no longer there; but yours plainly could not be torn away from that place.

℟ Ténebræ factæ sunt, dum crucifixíssent Iesum Iudǽi, et circa horam nonam exclamávit Iesus voce magna: Deus meus, ut quid dereliquísti me?

℟ Darkness fell when the Jews crucified Jesus, and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice: My God, why have you forsaken me?

Et inclináto cápite emísit spíritum.

And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.

℣ Quis tibi nunc sensus, dum cernis tália, Virgo?

℣ What now are your thoughts, O Virgin, as you behold these things?

℟ Et inclináto cápite emísit spíritum.

℟ And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.

℣ 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

Tuam ergo pertransívit ánimam vis dolóris, ut plusquam Mártyrem non immérito prædicémus, in qua nimírum corpóreæ sensum passiónis excésserit compassiónis afféctus. An non tibi plusquam gládius fuit sermo ille, revéra pertránsiens ánimam, et pertíngens usque ad divisiónem ánimæ et spíritus: Múlier, ecce fílius tuus? O commutatiónem! Ioánnes tibi pro Iesu tráditur, servus pro Dómino, discípulus pro Magístro, fílius Zebedǽi pro Fílio Dei, homo purus pro Deo vero. Quómodo non tuam affectuosíssimam ánimam pertransíret hæc audítio, quando et nostra, licet sáxea, licet férrea péctora, sola recordátio scindit?

The force of grief therefore pierced your soul, so that we rightly proclaim you more than a Martyr, in whom the affection of compassion surpassed the sense of bodily suffering. Was not that word more than a sword to you, truly piercing the soul and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit: Woman, behold your son? O what an exchange! John is given to you in place of Jesus, a servant in place of the Lord, a disciple in place of the Master, the son of Zebedee in place of the Son of God, a mere man in place of the true God. How could that word not pierce your most loving soul, when even our hearts — though of stone, though of iron — are rent by the mere recollection of it?

℟ Pássio Dómini,

℟ The Passion of the Lord,

Ipsam eius Matrem, carnáli orbitáte gráviter percússam, vehementíssime contristávit.

grievously struck his own Mother with the sorrow of bereavement, and filled her with the deepest anguish.

℣ Ferrum lánceæ militáris, latus quidem Salvatóris, ánimam vero transívit Vírginis Matris.

℣ The iron of the soldier's lance pierced the side of the Savior, but it passed through the soul of the Virgin Mother.

℟ Ipsam eius Matrem, carnáli orbitáte gráviter percússam, vehementíssime contristávit.

℟ grievously struck his own Mother with the sorrow of bereavement, and filled her with the deepest anguish.

℣ 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

Non mirémini, fratres, quod María Martyr in ánima fuísse dicátur. Mirétur qui non memínerit se audivísse Paulum inter máxima géntium crímina memorántem, quod sine affectióne fuíssent. Longe id fuit a Maríæ viscéribus, longe sit a sérvulis eius. Sed forte quis dicat: Numquid non eum præscíerat moritúrum? Et indubitánter. Numquid non sperábat contínuo resurrectúrum? Et fidéliter. Super hæc dóluit crucifíxum? Et veheménter. Alióquin quisnam tu, frater, aut unde tibi hæc sapiéntia, ut miréris plus Maríæ Fílium patiéntem? Ille étiam mori córpore pótuit; ista cómmori corde non pótuit? Fecit illud cáritas, qua maiórem nemo hábuit; fecit et hoc cáritas, cui post illam símilis áltera non fuit.

Wonder not, brethren, that Mary is said to have been a martyr in her soul. Let him wonder who does not remember that Paul counted it among the greatest crimes of the gentiles that they were without affection. Far was that from the heart of Mary, far let it be from her servants. But perhaps someone may say: Did she not know beforehand that he was to die? Without doubt. Did she not hope that he would straightway rise again? With faith. And yet did she grieve at his crucifixion? Most vehemently. Who then are you, brother, and whence comes this wisdom in you, that you should wonder that Mary should grieve more than the suffering of her Son? He too was able to die in body; was she unable to die together with him in heart? That was the work of charity, than which no one had greater; that too was the work of charity, than which after his there was no second like it.

℟ Quis mihi det te fratrem meum sugéntem úbera matris meæ, et inhæréndo láteri tuo, ut sanguis tuus sánguinem meum tangat, et tergat:

℟ Who will grant me that you were my brother, nursing at my mother's breast, and that I might cling to your side, that your blood might touch my blood and cleanse it:

Ut fons aquæ tuæ de scaturígine recti cordis, per venas boni óperis, in finem ætérnæ felicitátis exsíliat?

That the fountain of your water might leap from the spring of an upright heart, through the veins of good works, to the end of eternal happiness?

℣ Fílii tui de longe vénient, et fíliæ tuæ de látere surgent.

℣ Your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will rise up at your side.

℟ Ut fons aquæ tuæ de scaturígine recti cordis, per venas boni óperis, in finem ætérnæ felicitátis exsíliat?

℟ That the fountain of your water might leap from the spring of an upright heart, through the veins of good works, to the end of eternal happiness?

℣ 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 fons aquæ tuæ de scaturígine recti cordis, per venas boni óperis, in finem ætérnæ felicitátis exsíliat?

℟ That the fountain of your water might leap from the spring of an upright heart, through the veins of good works, to the end of eternal happiness?

Nocturnus 3

Nocturn 3

Ant. Intendérunt arcum, * rem amáram, ut sagíttent in occúltis immaculátum.

Ant. They have bent their bow, * a bitter thing, to shoot in secret at the blameless.

Psalmus 63

Psalm 63

63:2 Exáudi, Deus, oratiónem meam cum déprecor: * a timóre inimíci éripe ánimam meam.
63:3 Protexísti me a convéntu malignántium: * a multitúdine operántium iniquitátem.
63:4 Quia exacuérunt ut gládium linguas suas: * intendérunt arcum rem amáram, ut sagíttent in occúltis immaculátum.
63:6 Súbito sagittábunt eum, et non timébunt: * firmavérunt sibi sermónem nequam.
63:6 Narravérunt ut abscónderent láqueos: * dixérunt: Quis vidébit eos?
63:7 Scrutáti sunt iniquitátes: * defecérunt scrutántes scrutínio.
63:7 Accédet homo ad cor altum: * et exaltábitur Deus.
63:8 Sagíttæ parvulórum factæ sunt plagæ eórum: * et infirmátæ sunt contra eos linguæ eórum.
63:9 Conturbáti sunt omnes qui vidébant eos: * et tímuit omnis homo.
63:10 Et annuntiavérunt ópera Dei, * et facta eius intellexérunt.
63:11 Lætábitur iustus in Dómino, et sperábit in eo, * et laudabúntur omnes recti corde.

63:2 Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication: * rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.
63:3 You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant: * from a multitude of workers of iniquity.
63:4 For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword: * they have formed their bow into a bitter thing, so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.
63:6 They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid: * they are resolute in their wicked talk.
63:6 They have spoken so as to hide snares: * they said: Who will see them?
63:7 They have been searching carefully for iniquities: * their exhaustive search has failed.
63:7 Man will approach with a deep heart: * and God will be exalted.
63:8 The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds: * and their tongues have been weakened against them.
63:9 All those who saw them have been troubled: * and every man was afraid.
63:10 And they announced the works of God, * and they understood his acts.
63:11 The just will rejoice in the Lord, and they will hope in him, * and all the upright of heart will be praised.

℣ 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. Intendérunt arcum, rem amáram, ut sagíttent in occúltis immaculátum.

Ant. They have bent their bow, a bitter thing, to shoot in secret at the blameless.

Ant. Factus sum * sicut homo sine adiutório, inter mórtuos liber.

Ant. I am become * like a man without help, free among the dead.

Psalmus 87

Psalm 87

87:2 Dómine, Deus salútis meæ: * in die clamávi, et nocte coram te.
87:3 Intret in conspéctu tuo orátio mea: * inclína aurem tuam ad precem meam:
87:4 Quia repléta est malis ánima mea: * et vita mea inférno appropinquávit.
87:5 Æstimátus sum cum descendéntibus in lacum: * factus sum sicut homo sine adiutório, inter mórtuos liber.
87:6 Sicut vulneráti dormiéntes in sepúlcris, quorum non es memor ámplius: * et ipsi de manu tua repúlsi sunt.
87:7 Posuérunt me in lacu inferióri: * in tenebrósis, et in umbra mortis.
87:8 Super me confirmátus est furor tuus: * et omnes fluctus tuos induxísti super me.
87:9 Longe fecísti notos meos a me: * posuérunt me abominatiónem sibi.
87:9 Tráditus sum, et non egrediébar: * óculi mei languérunt præ inópia.
87:10 Clamávi ad te, Dómine, tota die: * expándi ad te manus meas.
87:11 Numquid mórtuis fácies mirabília: * aut médici suscitábunt, et confitebúntur tibi?
87:12 Numquid narrábit áliquis in sepúlcro misericórdiam tuam, * et veritátem tuam in perditióne?
87:13 Numquid cognoscéntur in ténebris mirabília tua, * et iustítia tua in terra obliviónis?
87:14 Et ego ad te, Dómine, clamávi: * et mane orátio mea prævéniet te.
87:15 Ut quid, Dómine, repéllis oratiónem meam: * avértis fáciem tuam a me?
87:16 Pauper sum ego, et in labóribus a iuventúte mea: * exaltátus autem, humiliátus sum et conturbátus.
87:17 In me transiérunt iræ tuæ: * et terróres tui conturbavérunt me.
87:18 Circumdedérunt me sicut aqua tota die: * circumdedérunt me simul.
87:19 Elongásti a me amícum et próximum: * et notos meos a miséria.

87:2 O Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried by day, and in the night before you.
87:3 Let my prayer enter into your sight: * incline your ear to my supplication.
87:4 For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life has drawn near to the grave.
87:5 I am counted among those who go down to the pit: * I have become as a man without help, free among the dead.
87:6 Like the wounded sleeping in the sepulchres, whom you remember no more: * and they are cast off from your hand.
87:7 They have placed me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
87:8 Your wrath is confirmed over me: * and all your waves you have brought in upon me.
87:9 You have put my acquaintances far from me: * they have made me an abomination to themselves.
87:9 I am shut up, and I cannot go forth: * my eyes have languished through poverty.
87:10 I cried to you, O Lord, all the day: * I stretched out my hands to you.
87:11 Will you work wonders for the dead: * or shall the physicians raise them up, and they shall give thanks to you?
87:12 Shall anyone in the sepulchre declare your mercy, * and your truth in destruction?
87:13 Shall your wonders be known in the dark, * and your justice in the land of forgetfulness?
87:14 But I, O Lord, have cried to you: * and in the morning my prayer shall come before you.
87:15 Why, O Lord, do you reject my prayer: * why do you turn your face away from me?
87:16 I am poor, and in labors from my youth: * and being exalted, I have been humbled and troubled.
87:17 Your wrath has passed over me: * and your terrors have troubled me.
87:18 They have surrounded me like water all the day: * they have compassed me about together.
87:19 You have put far from me friend and neighbor: * and my acquaintances, because of misery.

℣ 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. Factus sum sicut homo sine adiutório, inter mórtuos liber.

Ant. I am become like a man without help, free among the dead.

Ant. Replévit me amaritúdine, * inebriávit me absýnthio.

Ant. He has filled me with bitterness, * he has made me drunk with wormwood.

Psalmus 108

Psalm 108

108:2 Deus, laudem meam ne tacúeris: * quia os peccatóris, et os dolósi super me apértum est.
108:3 Locúti sunt advérsum me lingua dolósa, et sermónibus ódii circumdedérunt me: * et expugnavérunt me gratis.
108:4 Pro eo ut me dilígerent, detrahébant mihi: * ego autem orábam.
108:5 Et posuérunt advérsum me mala pro bonis: * et ódium pro dilectióne mea.
108:6 Constítue super eum peccatórem: * et diábolus stet a dextris eius.
108:7 Cum iudicátur, éxeat condemnátus: * et orátio eius fiat in peccátum.
108:8 Fiant dies eius pauci: * et episcopátum eius accípiat alter.
108:9 Fiant fílii eius órphani: * et uxor eius vídua.
108:10 Nutántes transferántur fílii eius, et mendícent: * et eiciántur de habitatiónibus suis.
108:11 Scrutétur fænerátor omnem substántiam eius: * et dirípiant aliéni labóres eius.
108:12 Non sit illi adiútor: * nec sit qui misereátur pupíllis eius.
108:13 Fiant nati eius in intéritum: * in generatióne una deleátur nomen eius.
108:14 In memóriam rédeat iníquitas patrum eius in conspéctu Dómini: * et peccátum matris eius non deleátur.
108:15 Fiant contra Dóminum semper, et dispéreat de terra memória eórum: * pro eo quod non est recordátus fácere misericórdiam.
108:17 Et persecútus est hóminem ínopem, et mendícum, * et compúnctum corde mortificáre.
108:18 Et diléxit maledictiónem, et véniet ei: * et nóluit benedictiónem, et elongábitur ab eo.
108:18 Et índuit maledictiónem sicut vestiméntum, * et intrávit sicut aqua in interióra eius, et sicut óleum in óssibus eius.
108:19 Fiat ei sicut vestiméntum, quo operítur: * et sicut zona, qua semper præcíngitur.
108:20 Hoc opus eórum, qui détrahunt mihi apud Dóminum: * et qui loquúntur mala advérsus ánimam meam.
108:21 Et tu, Dómine, Dómine, fac mecum propter nomen tuum: * quia suávis est misericórdia tua.
108:22 Líbera me quia egénus, et pauper ego sum: * et cor meum conturbátum est intra me.
108:23 Sicut umbra cum declínat, ablátus sum: * et excússus sum sicut locústæ.
108:24 Génua mea infirmáta sunt a ieiúnio: * et caro mea immutáta est propter óleum.
108:25 Et ego factus sum oppróbrium illis: * vidérunt me, et movérunt cápita sua.
108:26 Ádiuva me, Dómine, Deus meus: * salvum me fac secúndum misericórdiam tuam.
108:27 Et sciant quia manus tua hæc: * et tu, Dómine, fecísti eam.
108:28 Maledícent illi, et tu benedíces: * qui insúrgunt in me, confundántur: servus autem tuus lætábitur.
108:29 Induántur qui détrahunt mihi, pudóre: * et operiántur sicut diplóide confusióne sua.
108:30 Confitébor Dómino nimis in ore meo: * et in médio multórum laudábo eum.
108:31 Quia ástitit a dextris páuperis, * ut salvam fáceret a persequéntibus ánimam meam.

108:2 O God, do not be silent toward my praise: * for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful one have been opened against me.
108:3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues, and with words of hatred they have surrounded me: * and they have fought against me without cause.
108:4 Instead of loving me they detracted me: * but I gave myself to prayer.
108:5 And they set evil against me in place of good: * and hatred in return for my love.
108:6 Establish a sinner over him: * and let the devil stand at his right hand.
108:7 When he is judged, may he go forth condemned: * and may his prayer be counted as sin.
108:8 May his days be few: * and let another take his episcopate.
108:9 May his sons be orphans: * and his wife a widow.
108:10 May his sons be carried by those who wander and beg: * and may they be cast out of their dwelling places.
108:11 May the money-lender scrutinize all his possessions: * and let foreigners plunder his labors.
108:12 May there be no one to help him: * nor any who shows compassion to his orphaned children.
108:13 May his posterity be brought to ruin: * in one generation may his name be blotted out.
108:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be recalled before the Lord: * and the sin of his mother not be blotted out.
108:15 May these be set against the Lord always, and may the memory of them perish from the earth: * because he did not remember to show mercy.
108:17 And so the destitute man was pursued, with the beggar * and the remorseful in heart, so as to be put to death.
108:18 And he loved a curse, and it came to him: * and he was unwilling to have a blessing, and it went far from him.
108:18 And he clothed himself with curses like a garment, * and it entered his inner self like water, and it entered his bones like oil.
108:19 May it be to him like a garment that covers him: * and like a belt that always cinches him.
108:20 This is the work of those who detract me with the Lord: * and who speak evils against my soul.
108:21 But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name's sake: * for your mercy is sweet.
108:22 Free me, for I am destitute and poor: * and my heart has been disquieted within me.
108:23 I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines: * and I have been shaken off like locusts.
108:24 My knees have been weakened by fasting: * and my flesh has been replaced by oil.
108:25 And I have become a disgrace to them: * they saw me, and they shook their heads.
108:26 Help me, O Lord, my God: * save me according to your mercy.
108:27 And let them know that this is your hand: * and that you, O Lord, have done this.
108:28 They will curse, and you will bless: * may those who rise up against me be confounded; but your servant will rejoice.
108:29 May those who detract me be clothed with shame: * and may they be covered with their confusion, as if with a double cloak.
108:30 I will confess exceedingly to the Lord with my mouth: * and I will praise him in the midst of the multitude.
108:31 For he stands at the right hand of the poor, * in order to save my soul from persecutors.

℣ 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. Replévit me amaritúdine, inebriávit me absýnthio.

Ant. He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.

℣ Deus vitam meam annuntiávi tibi.

℣ O God, I have declared my life to you,

℟ Posuísti lácrimas meas in conspéctu tuo.

℟ You have placed my tears in your sight.

℣ 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 Ioánnem.

A Reading from the holy Gospel according to John.

Ioannes 19:25-27.

In illo témpore: Stabant iuxta crucem Iesu Mater eius, et soror Matris eius Maria Cleophæ, et Maria Magdalene. Et réliqua.

Homilía sancti Augustíni Epíscopi.

At that time: Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. And so forth.

A Homily of Saint Augustine, Bishop.

Tract. 119 in Ioánnem.

Hæc nimírum est illa hora, de qua Iesus, aquam conversúrus in vinum, díxerat Matri: Quid mihi et tibi est múlier? nondum venit hora mea. Hanc ítaque horam prædíxerat, quæ tunc nondum vénerat, in qua debéret agnóscere moritúrus, de qua fúerat mortáliter natus. Tunc ergo divína factúrus, non divinitátis, sed infirmitátis matrem velut incógnitam repellébat. nunc autem humána iam pátiens, ex qua fúerat factus homo, afféctu commendábat humáno. Morális ígitur insinuátur locus. Facit quod faciéndum ádmonet, et exémplo suo suos minístros instrúxit præcéptor bonus, ut a fíliis piis impendátur cura paréntibus: tamquam lignum illud, ubi fixa erant membra moriéntis, étiam cáthedra fúerit magístri docéntis.

This is undoubtedly that hour of which Jesus, about to change water into wine, had said to his mother: What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet come. That hour, therefore, he had foretold — the hour which had not yet come — in which, as he was dying, he was bound to acknowledge her from whom he had been born in mortal flesh. Then, therefore, when he was about to do divine things, he repelled, as though unknown, her who was the mother not of his divinity but of his weakness. But now, suffering human things, he commended with human affection her from whom he had been made man. A moral teaching is thus insinuated. He does what he urges us to do, and the good teacher instructed his own ministers by his own example, that devoted care should be rendered to parents by dutiful children: as though that wood on which the limbs of the dying one were fixed was also the chair of the teaching master.

℟ Dóleo super te fili mi Iesu, decórus nimis, et amábilis super amórem mulíerum!

℟ I grieve over you, my son Jonathan, exceeding fair and beloved beyond the love of women!

Sicut enim mater únicum díligit fílium, ita ego te diligébam.

For as a mother loves her only son, so did I love you.

℣ Defécit in dolóre vita mea, et anni mei in gemítibus.

℣ My life has failed in sorrow, and my years in groans.

℟ Sicut enim mater únicum díligit fílium, ita ego te diligébam.

℟ For as a mother loves her only son, so did I love you.

℣ 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

Ex hac sana doctrína didícerat Paulus Apóstolus quod docébat quando dicébat: Si quis autem suis, et máxime domésticis non próvidet, fidem negávit, et est infidéli detérior, Quid autem tam cuíque domésticum, quam paréntes fíliis, aut paréntibus fílii? Huius ítaque salubérrimi præcépti ipse Magíster Sanctórum de seípso constituébat exémplum: quando non ut fámulæ Deus, quam creáverat, et regébat; sed ut matri homo, de qua creátus fúerat, et quam relinquébat, álterum pro se quodámmodo fílium providébat.

From this sound doctrine the Apostle Paul had learned what he taught when he said: But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. Now what is so much one's own to each person as parents to their children, or children to their parents? The very Teacher of the Saints was constituting an example of this most salutary precept from himself: when he provided another son, in some manner in his own place, not as a slave-woman's son to the God who had created her and governed her; but as a man to a mother, by whom he had been born and whom he was leaving behind.

℟ Eia, Mater fons amóris, fac nos sentíre vim dolóris, ut tecum lugeámus:

℟ Come, Mother, fount of love, make us feel the force of grief, that we may mourn with you:

Et Domínicæ passiónis fructum sentiámus.

And may we experience the fruit of the Lord's Passion.

℣ Ut sicut Fílius tuus Iesus pro nobis mórtuus est, et resurréxit; ita et nos commórtui cum eódem resurgámus.

℣ That as your Son Jesus died for us and rose again, so also we, dying with him, may rise with him.

℟ Et Domínicæ passiónis fructum sentiámus.

℟ And may we experience the fruit of the Lord's Passion.

℣ 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.

℟ Et Domínicæ passiónis fructum sentiámus.

℟ And may we experience the fruit of the Lord's Passion.

℣ 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

de Homilía Feriæ.

From the Ferial Homily.

Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem

A Reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Ioannes 11:47-54

In illo témpore: Collegérunt pontífices et pharisǽi concílium advérsus Iesum, et dicébant: Quid fácimus, quia hic homo multa signa facit? Et réliqua.

Homilía sancti Augustíni Epíscopi

Tract. 49 in Ioannem, sub finem

The high priests and the Pharisees were consulting among themselves; and yet they were not saying: Let us believe. For those lost men were thinking more about how to do harm so as to destroy, than about how to take counsel for themselves so that they might not perish. And yet they feared, and were, as it were, taking counsel. For they said: What are we to do, for this man works many signs? If we leave him thus, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. They feared to lose temporal things, and gave no thought to eternal life, and so they lost both.

℟ Quis dabit cápiti meo aquam, et óculis meis fontem lacrimárum, et plorábo die ac nocte? quia frater propínquus supplantávit me,

(The following verse is said kneeling)

Et omnis amícus fraudulénter incéssit in me.

(Brethren, when they begin 'Te ergo quaesumus,' departing from the Stalls, let them reverently bow at the words 'Quos pretioso' and the rest)

℣ Fiant viæ eórum ténebræ et lúbricum: et Angelus Dómini pérsequens eos.

℟ Et omnis amícus fraudulénter incéssit in me.

℟ Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes, and I will weep day and night? For a close kinsman has supplanted me,

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

And every friend has dealt deceitfully with me.

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

℣ Let their ways become darkness and slipperiness: and let the Angel of the Lord pursue them.

℟ Quis dabit cápiti meo aquam, et óculis meis fontem lacrimárum, et plorábo die ac nocte? quia frater propínquus supplantávit me, et omnis amícus fraudulénter incéssit in me.

℟ And every friend has dealt deceitfully with me.

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

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

℟ Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes, and I will weep day and night? For a close kinsman has supplanted me, and every friend has dealt deceitfully with me.