Roman Breviary

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 forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation: But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried: he descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven; sitteth at the right hand of God the Father almighty: from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

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

Alleluia.

53:3 Save me, O God, by thy name, * and judge me in thy strength.

53:4 O God, hear my prayer: * give ear to the words of my mouth.

53:5 For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: * and they have not set God before their eyes.

53:6 For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

53:7 Turn back the evils upon my enemies; * and cut them off in thy truth.

53:8 I will freely sacrifice to thee, * and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

53:9 For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: * and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.

21:2 O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

21:3 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: * and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

21:4 But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.

21:5 In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.

21:6 They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

21:7 But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

21:8 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

21:9 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

21:10 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb.

21:11 From my mother’s womb thou art my God, * depart not from me.

21:12 For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.

21:13 Many calves have surrounded me: * fat bulls have besieged me.

21:14 They have opened their mouths against me, * as a lion ravening and roaring.

21:15 I am poured out like water; * and all my bones are scattered.

21:15 My heart is become like wax melting * in the midst of my bowels.

21:16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: * and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

21:17 For many dogs have encompassed me: * the council of the malignant hath besieged me.

21:17 They have dug my hands and feet. * They have numbered all my bones.

21:18 And they have looked and stared upon me. * They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.

21:20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; * look towards my defence.

21:21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: * my only one from the hand of the dog.

21:22 Save me from the lion’s mouth; * and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

21:23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: * in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

21:24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: * all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.

21:25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: * because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man.

21:25 Neither hath he turned away his face from me: * and when I cried to him he heard me.

21:26 With thee is my praise in a great church: * I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

21:27 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: * their hearts shall live for ever and ever.

21:28 All the ends of the earth * shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord:

21:28 And all the kindreds of the Gentiles * shall adore in his sight.

21:29 For the kingdom is the Lord’s; * and he shall have dominion over the nations.

21:30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: * all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

21:31 And to him my soul shall live: * and my seed shall serve him.

21:32 There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: * and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.

118:1 (Aleph) Blessed are the undefiled in the way, * who walk in the law of the Lord.

118:2 Blessed are they that search his testimonies: * that seek him with their whole heart.

118:3 For they that work iniquity, * have not walked in his ways.

118:4 Thou hast commanded * thy commandments to be kept most diligently.

118:5 O! that my ways may be directed * to keep thy justifications.

118:6 Then shall I not be confounded, * when I shall look into all thy commandments.

118:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, * when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.

118:8 I will keep thy justifications: * O! do not thou utterly forsake me.

118:9 (Béth) By what doth a young man correct his way? * By observing thy words.

118:10 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: * let me not stray from thy commandments.

118:11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, * that I may not sin against thee.

118:12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: * teach me thy justifications.

118:13 With my lips * I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

118:14 I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, * as in all riches.

118:15 I will meditate on thy commandments: * and I will consider thy ways.

118:16 I will think of thy justifications: * I will not forget thy words.

118:17 (Ghimel) Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me * and I shall keep thy words.

118:18 Open thou my eyes: * and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.

118:19 I am a sojourner on the earth: * hide not thy commandments from me.

118:20 My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, * at all times.

118:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud: * they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.

118:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt: * because I have sought after thy testimonies.

118:23 For princes sat, and spoke against me: * but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

118:24 For thy testimonies are my meditation: * and thy justifications my counsel.

118:25 (Daleth) My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: * quicken thou me according to thy word.

118:26 I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: * teach me thy justifications.

118:27 Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: * and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

118:28 My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: * strengthen thou me in thy words.

118:29 Remove from me the way of iniquity: * and out of thy law have mercy on me.

118:30 I have chosen the way of truth: * thy judgments I have not forgotten.

118:31 I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: * put me not to shame.

118:32 I have run the way of thy commandments, * when thou didst enlarge my heart.

Love ye truth and peace, said the Almighty Lord.

Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy upon us, Lord have mercy upon us.

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 forgive those who trespass against us.

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried: he descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven; sitteth at the right hand of God the Father almighty: from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins.

I confess to almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the Saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed: strikes his breast through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.

May the almighty ✠ and merciful Lord grant us pardon, absolution and remission of our sins. Amen.

skip second «O Lord, hear my prayer»

Let us pray.

O Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who has safely brought us to the beginning of this day: defend us by thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always what is righteous in thy sight.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

November 14th 2026, the 4th day of the Moon,

On the morrow we keep in England the feast of holy Erconwald, Bishop of London, who was famous for many miracles, and of whom mention is made upon the last day of April.

Upon the same 14th day of November, were born into the better life:

At Gangra, in Paphlagonia, the holy martyr Hypatius, Bishop (of that see,) who was stoned to death by the Novatian heretics on his way back from the great Council of Nicea.

At Heraclea, in Thrace, the holy martyrs Clementine, Theodotus, and Philomenus.

At Alexandria, the holy martyr Serapion, whom the persecutors under the Emperor Decius most cruelly tormented until they dislocated all his joints, and then cast him down headlong from the top of his own house, and so made him a martyr for Christ.

At Troyes, in Gaul, under the Emperor Aurelian, the holy martyr Venerandus.

Likewise in Gaul, the holy Virgin Veneranda, who received the crown of martyrdom under the Emperor Antonine and Asclepiades the President.

At Emesa, many holy Women, who, for Christ's faith's sake, were most cruelly tortured and murdered under the savage Arab chief Mady.

At Bologna, the holy Confessor Jucundus, Bishop (of that see.) In Ireland, (in the year 1181,) holy Lorcan Ua Tuathail, Archbishop of Dublin.

Holy Mary and all the Saints, intercede for us with the Lord, our God, so that we may merit His help and salvation, who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy upon us, Lord have mercy upon us.

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 forgive those who trespass against us.

Let us pray.

O Lord, Almighty God, King of heaven and earth, Saviour of the world, bless, lead, rule and govern our hearts and bodies, our senses, words and deeds today, following thy law and commandments, that here and for eternity with thy help we shall be saved in freedom. Who livest and reignest, world without end.

And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God, and the patience of Christ.

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 forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation: But deliver us from evil. Amen.