Monastic Breviary
Little Office of the BVM
Little Office of the BVM
Marian devotion through the day
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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
We run after thee, on the scent of thy perfumes * the virgins love thee heartily.
In odórem * unguentórum tuórum cúrrimus: adolescéntulæ dilexérunt te nimis.
Psalm 122 [1]
122:1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, * who dwellest in heaven.
122:2 Behold as the eyes of servants * are on the hands of their masters,
122:2 As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: * so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.
122:3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: * for we are greatly filled with contempt.
122:4 For our soul is greatly filled: * we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
122:1 Ad te levávi óculos meos, * qui hábitas in cælis.
122:2 Ecce, sicut óculi servórum * in mánibus dominórum suórum,
122:2 Sicut óculi ancíllæ in mánibus dóminæ suæ: * ita óculi nostri ad Dóminum, Deum nostrum, donec misereátur nostri.
122:3 Miserére nostri, Dómine, miserére nostri: * quia multum repléti sumus despectióne:
122:4 Quia multum repléta est ánima nostra: * oppróbrium abundántibus, et despéctio supérbis.
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.
Antiphona · In odorem Mode IV
Liber antiphonarius, 1960, p. 820 · Transcribed by Andrew Hinkley · GregoBase, CC0
Psalmus · Psalmus 122 Tonus 4 A
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We run after thee, on the scent of thy perfumes * the virgins love thee heartily.
Psalm 123 [2]
123:1 If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say: * If it had not been that the Lord was with us,
123:2 When men rose up against us, * perhaps they had swallowed us up alive.
123:3 When their fury was enkindled against us, * perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.
123:5 Our soul hath passed through a torrent: * perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.
123:6 Blessed be the Lord, * who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.
123:7 Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow * out of the snare of the fowlers.
123:7 The snare is broken, * and we are delivered.
123:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, * who made heaven and earth.
123:1 Nisi quia Dóminus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israël: * nisi quia Dóminus erat in nobis,
123:2 Cum exsúrgerent hómines in nos, * forte vivos deglutíssent nos:
123:3 Cum irascerétur furor eórum in nos, * fórsitan aqua absorbuísset nos.
123:5 Torréntem pertransívit ánima nostra: * fórsitan pertransísset ánima nostra aquam intolerábilem.
123:6 Benedíctus Dóminus * qui non dedit nos in captiónem déntibus eórum.
123:7 Ánima nostra sicut passer erépta est * de láqueo venántium:
123:7 Láqueus contrítus est, * et nos liberáti sumus.
123:8 Adiutórium nostrum in nómine Dómini, * qui fecit cælum et terram.
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.
Psalmus 123 Tonus 4 A
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Psalm 124 [3]
124:1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: * he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth in Jerusalem.
124:2 Mountains are round about it: * so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.
124:3 For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: * that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.
124:4 Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, * and to the upright of heart.
124:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: * peace upon Israel.
124:1 Qui confídunt in Dómino, sicut mons Sion: * non commovébitur in ætérnum, qui hábitat in Ierúsalem.
124:2 Montes in circúitu eius: * et Dóminus in circúitu pópuli sui, ex hoc nunc et usque in sǽculum.
124:3 Quia non relínquet Dóminus virgam peccatórum super sortem iustórum: * ut non exténdant iusti ad iniquitátem manus suas.
124:4 Bénefac, Dómine, bonis, * et rectis corde.
124:5 Declinántes autem in obligatiónes addúcet Dóminus cum operántibus iniquitátem: * pax 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.
Psalmus 124 Tonus 4 A
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We run after thee, on the scent of thy perfumes * the virgins love thee heartily.
In odórem * unguentórum tuórum cúrrimus: adolescéntulæ dilexérunt te nimis.
Chapter Verse
Sir 24:16
And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.
Et radicávi in pópulo honorificáto, et in parte Dei mei heréditas illíus, et in plenitúdine sanctórum deténtio mea.
Thanks be to God.
Deo grátias.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
Benedícta tu in muliéribus.
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Et benedíctus fructus ventris tui.
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.
Most merciful God, grant, we beseech thee, a succour unto the frailty of our nature, that as we keep ever alive the memory of the holy Mother of God, so by the help of her intercession we may be raised up from the bondage of our sins.
Concéde, miséricors Deus, fragilitáti nostræ præsídium; ut, qui sanctæ Dei Genetrícis memóriam ágimus; intercessiónis eius auxílio, a nostris iniquitátibus resurgámus.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
Per eúndem 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.
Texts from the Divinum Officium project.