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.

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.

Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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.

Upon the same 18th day of November, were born into the better life:

At Antioch, the holy martyr Romanus. In the time of the Emperor Galerius, when the Prefect Asclepiades was assailing the Church and seeking utterly to overthrow it, Romanus exhorted the other Christians to gainsay him. For this cause he was put to horrid torments, and his tongue was cut out but thereafter he still uttered the praise of God. Then he was strangled in prison, and so was crowned by a famous martyrdom.

Before him there suffered also the little lad Barula, who was asked by Romanus whether it were better to worship one God or many gods, and answered that we ought to believe in the one God whom the Christians worship for the saying of the which thing he was first flogged and then beheaded.

Likewise at Antioch, (about the year 304,) the holy martyr Hesychius. He was a soldier, but when he heard the command that whosoever would not sacrifice to idols should cast away his military belt, he straightway took off his belt, for which cause a large stone was tied to his right hand, and he was thrown into the river.

On the same day, (in the fifth century,) the holy martyrs Oriculus and his Companions, who suffered for the Catholic faith in the persecution under the Vandals.

At Mainz, holy Maximus, Bishop of that see, who suffered many things from the Arians in the time of the Emperor Constantius, and died a Confessor.

At Tours, (in the year 942,) blessed Odo, Abbot of Cluny.

At Antioch, (about the year 782,) the holy monk Thomas, in whose honour the Antiochenes keep a solemn feast-day every year on account of a plague which was stayed by his prayers.

At Lucca, in Tuscany, is commemorated the finding, (in the year 800,) of the body of the holy Confessor Finnan, Bishop (of that see, a son of Ultach, King of Ulster.)

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.

To execute the office of the priesthood, and to have praise, and to glorify his people in his name. He chose him out of all men living, to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and a good savour.

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.