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Monastic Breviary

Le Barroux

S. Gertrudis Virginis O. N.

Duplex II Classis

Tempora: Feria III infra Hebdomadam VI post Epiphaniam IV. Novembris

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Start

O God, ✠ come to my assistance;

Deus ✠ in adiutórium meum inténde.

O Lord, make haste to help me.

Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína.

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.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

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

Alleluia.

Allelúia.

Hymn

O strength and stay upholding all creation,

Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,

Yet day by day the light in due gradation

From hour to hour through all its changes guide:

Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor,

Immótus in te pérmanens,

Lucis diúrnæ témpora

Succéssibus detérminans:

Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,

An eve untouched by shadows of decay,

The brightness of a holy death-bed blending

With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.

Largíre clarum véspere,

Quo vita nusquam décidat,

Sed prǽmium mortis sacræ

Perénnis instet glória.

Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,

And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,

Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living

Now and to endless ages art adored.

Amen.

Præsta, Pater piíssime,

Patríque compar Únice,

Cum Spíritu Paráclito

Regnans per omne sǽculum.

Amen.

Psalms

from the Proper of Saints

Ant.

Ancílla fidélis * et sponsa elécta intrávit in cor et gáudium Dómini sui, cujus amóre languébat.

Ancílla fidélis * et sponsa elécta intrávit in cor et gáudium Dómini sui, cuius amóre languébat.

Psalm 125 [1]

125:1 When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, * we became like men comforted.

125:2 Then was our mouth filled with gladness; * and our tongue with joy.

125:2 Then shall they say among the Gentiles: * The Lord hath done great things for them.

125:3 The Lord hath done great things for us: * we are become joyful.

125:4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, * as a stream in the south.

125:5 They that sow in tears * shall reap in joy.

125:6 Going they went and wept, * casting their seeds.

125:6 But coming they shall come with joyfulness, * carrying their sheaves.

125:1 In converténdo Dóminus captivitátem Sion: * facti sumus sicut consoláti:

125:2 Tunc replétum est gáudio os nostrum: * et lingua nostra exsultatióne.

125:2 Tunc dicent inter gentes: * Magnificávit Dóminus fácere cum eis.

125:3 Magnificávit Dóminus fácere nobíscum: * facti sumus lætántes.

125:4 Convérte, Dómine, captivitátem nostram, * sicut torrens in Austro.

125:5 Qui séminant in lácrimis, * in exsultatióne metent.

125:6 Eúntes ibant et flebant, * mitténtes sémina sua.

125:6 Veniéntes autem vénient cum exsultatióne, * portántes manípulos suos.

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

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

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

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

Psalm 126 [2]

126:1 Unless the Lord build the house, * they labour in vain that build it.

126:1 Unless the Lord keep the city, * he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

126:2 It is vain for you to rise before light, * rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow.

126:2 When he shall give sleep to his beloved, * behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

126:4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, * so the children of them that have been shaken.

126:5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; * he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

126:1 Nisi Dóminus ædificáverit domum, * in vanum laboravérunt qui ædíficant eam.

126:1 Nisi Dóminus custodíerit civitátem, * frustra vígilat qui custódit eam.

126:2 Vanum est vobis ante lucem súrgere: * súrgite postquam sedéritis, qui manducátis panem dolóris.

126:2 Cum déderit diléctis suis somnum: * ecce heréditas Dómini fílii: merces, fructus ventris.

126:4 Sicut sagíttæ in manu poténtis: * ita fílii excussórum.

126:5 Beátus vir, qui implévit desidérium suum ex ipsis: * non confundétur cum loquétur inimícis suis in porta.

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

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

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

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

Psalm 127 [3]

127:1 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: * that walk in his ways.

127:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: * blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

127:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, * on the sides of thy house.

127:3 Thy children as olive plants, * round about thy table.

127:4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed * that feareth the Lord.

127:5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: * and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

127:6 And mayst thou see thy children’s children, * peace upon Israel.

127:1 Beáti, omnes, qui timent Dóminum, * qui ámbulant in viis eius.

127:2 Labóres mánuum tuárum quia manducábis: * beátus es, et bene tibi erit.

127:3 Uxor tua sicut vitis abúndans, * in latéribus domus tuæ.

127:3 Fílii tui sicut novéllæ olivárum, * in circúitu mensæ tuæ.

127:4 Ecce, sic benedicétur homo, * qui timet Dóminum.

127:5 Benedícat tibi Dóminus ex Sion: * et vídeas bona Ierúsalem ómnibus diébus vitæ tuæ.

127:6 Et vídeas fílios filiórum tuórum, * pacem super Israël.

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

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

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

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

Ant.

Ancílla fidélis et sponsa elécta intrávit in cor et gáudium Dómini sui, cujus amóre languébat.

Ancílla fidélis et sponsa elécta intrávit in cor et gáudium Dómini sui, cuius amóre languébat.

Chapter Verse

from the Proper of Saints

Cant 2:13-14

Surge, amíca mea, speciósa mea, et veni, colúmba mea, in foramínibus petræ, in cavérna macériæ, osténde mihi fáciem tuam, sonet vox tua in áuribus meis: vox enim tua dulcis, et fácies tua decóra.

Thanks be to God.

Deo grátias.

God hath chosen her, and fore-chosen her.

Elégit eam Deus, et præelégit eam.

He hath made her to dwell in His tabernacle.

In tabernáculo suo habitáre facit eam.

Prayer

from the Proper of Saints

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

Kýrie, eléison. Christe, eléison. Kýrie, eléison.

«Our Father» is said silently until «And lead us not into temptation:».

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.

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:

And lead us not into temptation:

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:

But deliver us from evil.

Sed líbera nos a malo.

O Lord, hear my prayer.

Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.

And let my cry come unto thee.

Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

Let us pray.

Orémus.

Deus, qui in puríssimo corde beátæ Gertrúdis Vírginis tuæ jucúndam tibi habitatiónem præparásti; ejus méritis et intercessióne cordis nostri máculas cleménter abstérge; ut digna divínæ majestátis tuæ habitátio éffici mereátur.

Deus, qui in puríssimo corde beátæ Gertrúdis Vírginis tuæ iucúndam tibi habitatiónem præparásti; eius méritis et intercessióne cordis nostri máculas cleménter abstérge; ut digna divínæ maiestátis tuæ habitátio éffici mereátur.

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

Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

Conclusion

O Lord, hear my prayer.

Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.

And let my cry come unto thee.

Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

Let us bless the Lord.

Benedicámus Dómino.

Thanks be to God.

Deo grátias.

May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Fidélium ánimæ per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace.

Amen.

Then, in the public recitation of the Office, if the Community is to leave the Choir, the following Versicle is said.

Si descendendum sit a choro, concluditur dicendo.

May the divine assistance ✠ remain with us always.

Divínum auxílium ✠ máneat semper nobíscum.

And with our brothers, who are absent. Amen.

Et cum frátribus nostris abséntibus. Amen.

Texts from the Divinum Officium project.