Monastic Breviary

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.

115:1 I have believed, therefore have I spoken; * but I have been humbled exceedingly.

115:2 I said in my excess: * Every man is a liar.

115:3 What shall I render to the Lord, * for all the things that he hath rendered to me?

115:4 I will take the chalice of salvation; * and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

115:5 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people: * precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

115:7 O Lord, for I am thy servant: * I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid.

115:7 Thou hast broken my bonds: * I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

115:9 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people: * in the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.

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.

139:2 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: * rescue me from the unjust man.

139:3 Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: * all the day long they designed battles.

139:4 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: * the venom of asps is under their lips.

139:5 Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: * and from unjust men deliver me.

139:5 Who have proposed to supplant my steps: * the proud have hidden a net for me.

139:6 And they have stretched out cords for a snare: * they have laid for me a stumbling block by the wayside.

139:7 I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: * hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

139:8 O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: * thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

139:9 Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: * they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

139:10 The head of them compassing me about: * the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.

139:11 Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: * in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

139:12 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: * evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

139:13 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, * and will revenge the poor.

139:14 But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: * and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.

140:1 I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: * hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.

140:2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; * the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

140:3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: * and a door round about my lips.

140:4 Incline not my heart to evil words; * to make excuses in sins.

140:4 With men that work iniquity: * and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

140:5 The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: * but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head.

140:6 For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased: * their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up.

140:7 They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed: * as when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground.

140:8 Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. * But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.

140:9 Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, * and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.

140:10 The wicked shall fall in his net: * I am alone until I pass.

Fratres: Hoc enim sentite in vobis, quod et in Christo Jesu: qui cum in forma Dei esset, non rapínam arbitrátus est esse se æquálem Deo: sed semetípsum exinanívit, formam servi accípiens, in similitúdinem hóminum factus, et hábitu invéntus ut homo. Humiliávit semetípsum, factus obédiens

usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.

1:46 My soul ✠ * doth magnify the Lord.

1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced * in God my Saviour.

1:48 Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; * for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

1:49 Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; * and holy is his name.

1:50 And his mercy is from generation unto generations, * to them that fear him.

1:51 He hath shewed might in his arm: * he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

1:52 He hath put down the mighty from their seat, * and hath exalted the humble.

1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; * and the rich he hath sent empty away.

1:54 He hath received Israel his servant, * being mindful of his mercy:

1:55 As he spoke to our fathers, * to Abraham and to his seed for 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.

Dómine Jesu Christe, qui de cœlis ad terram de sinu Patris descendisti, et sánguinem tuum pretiósum in remissiónem peccatórum nostrórum fudisti: te humíliter deprecámur; ut in die judícii, ad déxteram tuam audíre mereámur: Veníte benedícti:

Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.

Let us pray.

Grant us, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, ever to think such things as be reasonable, and in every word and work of ours, to do always that is well pleasing 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.

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