Monastic Breviary

Our Lady on Saturday

The Saturday memorial of Our Lady

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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)

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

Doxology: NatT

O God of truth, O Lord of might,

Who orderest time and change aright,

Who send’st the early morning ray,

And light’st the glow of perfect day:

Rector potens, verax Deus,

Qui témperas rerum vices,

Splendóre mane ínstruis,

Et ígnibus merídiem:

Extinguish thou each sinful fire,

And banish every ill desire;

And while thou keep’st the body whole,

Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.

Exstíngue flammas lítium,

Aufer calórem nóxium,

Confer salútem córporum,

Verámque pacem córdium.

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

Votive

Ant.

I am black but comely, * O ye daughters of Jerusalem; therefore hath the King loved me, and brought me into his chamber.

Nigra sum, * sed formósa, fíliæ Ierúsalem; ídeo diléxit me Rex, et introdúxit me in cubículum suum.

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.

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.

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.

Ant.

I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem; therefore hath the King loved me, and brought me into his chamber.

Nigra sum, sed formósa, fíliæ Ierúsalem; ídeo diléxit me Rex, et introdúxit me in cubículum suum.

Chapter Verse

Votive

Sir 24:15-16

And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. 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 sic in Sion firmáta sum, et in civitáte sanctificáta simíliter requiévi, et in Ierúsalem potéstas mea. Et radicávi in pópulo honorificáto, et in parte Dei mei heréditas illíus, et in plenitúdine sanctórum deténtio mea.

Thanks be to God.

Deo grátias.

God shall help her with His countenance.

Adiuvábit eam Deus vultu suo.

God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved.

Deus in médio eius, non commovébitur.

Prayer

Votive

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.

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord God, unto all thy servants, that they may remain continually in the enjoyment of soundness both of mind and body, and by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Mary, always a Virgin, may be delivered from present sadness, and enter into the joy of thine eternal gladness.

Concéde nos fámulos tuos, quǽsumus, Dómine Deus, perpétua mentis et córporis sanitáte gaudére: et, gloriósa beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis intercessióne, a præsénti liberári tristítia, et ætérna pérfrui lætítia.

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.