Monastic Breviary

Little Office of the BVM

Marian devotion through the day

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Roman Breviary

Rubrics of 1960 Reduced 1955 Divino Afflatu 1954 Divino Afflatu 1939 Tridentine 1906 Tridentine 1888 Tridentine 1570

Monastic Breviary

Monastic 1963 Le Barroux Monastic 1930 Monastic 1617

Votive offices

Office of the Dead Little Office of the BVM Our Lady on Saturday St Joseph (Wednesdays)The Passion (Fridays)

Monastic votive offices

Office of the Dead Little Office of the BVM Our Lady on Saturday The Passion (Fridays)

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

Meménto salútis Auctor,

Quod nostri quondam córporis,

Ex illibáta Vírgine

Nascéndo, formam súmpseris.

María Mater grátiæ,

Mater misericórdiæ:

Tu nos ab hoste prótege,

Et hora mortis súscipe.

All honour, praise and glory be,

O Jesu, Virgin-Born, to thee;

All glory, as is ever meet,

To Father, and to Paraclete.

Amen.

Glória tibi, Dómine,

Qui natus es de Vírgine,

Cum Patr[e], et Sancto Spíritu,

In sempitérna sǽcula.

Amen.

Psalms

Ant.

The Virgin Mary hath been taken into the chamber on high, * where the King of kings sitteth on a throne amid the stars.

María Virgo assúmpta est * ad æthéreum thálamum, in quo Rex regum stelláto sedet sólio.

Psalm 119 [1]

119:1 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: * and he heard me.

119:2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, * and a deceitful tongue.

119:3 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, * to a deceitful tongue?

119:4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, * with coals that lay waste.

119:5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: * my soul hath been long a sojourner.

119:7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: * when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

119:1 Ad Dóminum cum tribulárer clamávi: * et exaudívit me.

119:2 Dómine, líbera ánimam meam a lábiis iníquis, * et a lingua dolósa.

119:3 Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponátur tibi * ad linguam dolósam?

119:4 Sagíttæ poténtis acútæ, * cum carbónibus desolatóriis.

119:5 Heu mihi, quia incolátus meus prolongátus est: habitávi cum habitántibus Cedar: * multum íncola fuit ánima mea.

119:7 Cum his, qui odérunt pacem, eram pacíficus: * cum loquébar illis, impugnábant me gratis.

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 120 [2]

120:1 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, * from whence help shall come to me.

120:2 My help is from the Lord, * who made heaven and earth.

120:3 May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: * neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

120:4 Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, * that keepeth Israel.

120:5 The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection * upon thy right hand.

120:6 The sun shall not burn thee by day: * nor the moon by night.

120:7 The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: * may the Lord keep thy soul.

120:8 May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; * from henceforth now and for ever.

120:1 Levávi óculos meos in montes, * unde véniet auxílium mihi.

120:2 Auxílium meum a Dómino, * qui fecit cælum et terram.

120:3 Non det in commotiónem pedem tuum: * neque dormítet qui custódit te.

120:4 Ecce, non dormitábit neque dórmiet, * qui custódit Israël.

120:5 Dóminus custódit te, Dóminus protéctio tua, * super manum déxteram tuam.

120:6 Per diem sol non uret te: * neque luna per noctem.

120:7 Dóminus custódit te ab omni malo: * custódiat ánimam tuam Dóminus.

120:8 Dóminus custódiat intróitum tuum, et éxitum tuum: * ex hoc nunc, et usque in sǽculum.

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 121 [3]

121:1 I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: * We shall go into the house of the Lord.

121:2 Our feet were standing * in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

121:3 Jerusalem, which is built as a city, * which is compact together.

121:4 For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: * the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

121:5 Because their seats have sat in judgment, * seats upon the house of David.

121:6 Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: * and abundance for them that love thee.

121:7 Let peace be in thy strength: * and abundance in thy towers.

121:8 For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, * I spoke peace of thee.

121:9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, * I have sought good things for thee.

121:1 Lætátus sum in his, quæ dicta sunt mihi: * In domum Dómini íbimus.

121:2 Stantes erant pedes nostri, * in átriis tuis, Ierúsalem.

121:3 Ierúsalem, quæ ædificátur ut cívitas: * cuius participátio eius in idípsum.

121:4 Illuc enim ascendérunt tribus, tribus Dómini: * testimónium Israël ad confiténdum nómini Dómini.

121:5 Quia illic sedérunt sedes in iudício, * sedes super domum David.

121:6 Rogáte quæ ad pacem sunt Ierúsalem: * et abundántia diligéntibus te:

121:7 Fiat pax in virtúte tua: * et abundántia in túrribus tuis.

121:8 Propter fratres meos, et próximos meos, * loquébar pacem de te:

121:9 Propter domum Dómini, Dei nostri, * quæsívi bona tibi.

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.

The Virgin Mary hath been taken into the chamber on high, * where the King of kings sitteth on a throne amid the stars.

María Virgo assúmpta est * ad æthéreum thálamum, in quo Rex regum stelláto sedet sólio.

Chapter Verse

Sir 24:15

And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.

Et sic in Sion firmáta sum, et in civitáte sanctificáta simíliter requiévi, et in Ierúsalem potéstas mea.

Thanks be to God.

Deo grátias.

Grace is poured into thy lips.

Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis.

Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum.

Prayer

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.

O God, Who, by the fruitful virginity of the Blessed Mary, hast given unto mankind the rewards of everlasting life; grant, we beseech thee, that we may continually feel the might of her intercession, through whom we have worthily received the Author of our life, our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son:

Deus, qui salútis ætérnæ, beátæ Maríæ virginitáte fecúnda, humáno géneri prǽmia præstitísti: tríbue, quǽsumus; ut ipsam pro nobis intercédere sentiámus, per quam merúimus auctórem vitæ suscípere, Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum Fílium tuum:

Who with thee liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.

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.

Texts from the Divinum Officium project.