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Monastic Breviary

Monastic 1963

Dominica VI Post Epiphaniam IV. Novembris

II. classis

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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

Come Holy Ghost who ever One

Art with the Father and the Son,

It is the hour, our souls possess

With thy full flood of holiness.

Nunc, Sancte, nobis, Spíritus,

Unum Patri cum Fílio,

Dignáre promptus íngeri

Nostro refúsus péctori.

Let flesh and heart and lips and mind

Sound forth our witness to mankind;

And love light up our mortal frame,

Till others catch the living flame.

Os, lingua, mens, sensus, vigor

Confessiónem pérsonent.

Flamméscat igne cáritas,

Accéndat ardor próximos.

Almighty Father, hear our cry,

Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,

Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,

Doth live and reign eternally.

Amen.

Præsta, Pater piíssime,

Patríque compar Únice,

Cum Spíritu Paráclito

Regnans per omne sǽculum.

Amen.

Psalms

from the Psalter for the day of the week

Ant.

Alleluia, * alleluia, alleluia

Allelúia, * allelúia, allelúia

Psalm 118(33-40) [1]

118:33 (He) Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: * and I will always seek after it.

118:34 Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; * and I will keep it with my whole heart.

118:35 Lead me into the path of thy commandments; * for this same I have desired.

118:36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies * and not to covetousness.

118:37 Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: * quicken me in thy way.

118:38 Establish thy word to thy servant, * in thy fear.

118:39 Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: * for thy judgments are delightful.

118:40 Behold I have longed after thy precepts: * quicken me in thy justice.

118:33 (He) Legem pone mihi, Dómine, viam iustificatiónum tuárum: * et exquíram eam semper.

118:34 Da mihi intelléctum, et scrutábor legem tuam: * et custódiam illam in toto corde meo.

118:35 Deduc me in sémitam mandatórum tuórum: * quia ipsam vólui.

118:36 Inclína cor meum in testimónia tua: * et non in avarítiam.

118:37 Avérte óculos meos ne vídeant vanitátem: * in via tua vivífica me.

118:38 Státue servo tuo elóquium tuum, * in timóre tuo.

118:39 Ámputa oppróbrium meum quod suspicátus sum: * quia iudícia tua iucúnda.

118:40 Ecce, concupívi mandáta tua: * in æquitáte tua vivífica me.

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 118(41-48) [2]

118:41 (Vau) Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: * thy salvation according to thy word.

118:42 So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; * that I have trusted in thy words.

118:43 And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: * for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.

118:44 So shall I always keep thy law, * for ever and ever.

118:45 And I walked at large: * because I have sought after thy commandments.

118:46 And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: * and I was not ashamed.

118:47 I meditated also on thy commandments, * which I loved.

118:48 And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: * and I was exercised in thy justifications.

118:41 (Vav) Et véniat super me misericórdia tua, Dómine: * salutáre tuum secúndum elóquium tuum.

118:42 Et respondébo exprobrántibus mihi verbum: * quia sperávi in sermónibus tuis.

118:43 Et ne áuferas de ore meo verbum veritátis usquequáque: * quia in iudíciis tuis supersperávi.

118:44 Et custódiam legem tuam semper: * in sǽculum et in sǽculum sǽculi.

118:45 Et ambulábam in latitúdine: * quia mandáta tua exquisívi.

118:46 Et loquébar in testimóniis tuis in conspéctu regum: * et non confundébar.

118:47 Et meditábar in mandátis tuis, * quæ diléxi.

118:48 Et levávi manus meas ad mandáta tua, quæ diléxi: * et exercébar in iustificatiónibus tuis.

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 118(49-56) [3]

118:49 (Zai) Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, * in which thou hast given me hope.

118:50 This hath comforted me in my humiliation: * because thy word hath enlivened me.

118:51 The proud did iniquitously altogether: * but I declined not from thy law.

118:52 I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: * and I was comforted.

118:53 A fainting hath taken hold of me, * because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

118:54 Thy justifications were the subject of my song, * in the place of my pilgrimage.

118:55 In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: * and have kept thy law.

118:56 This happened to me: * because I sought after thy justifications.

118:49 (Zai) Memor esto verbi tui servo tuo, * in quo mihi spem dedísti.

118:50 Hæc me consoláta est in humilitáte mea: * quia elóquium tuum vivificávit me.

118:51 Supérbi iníque agébant usquequáque: * a lege autem tua non declinávi.

118:52 Memor fui iudiciórum tuórum a sǽculo, Dómine: * et consolátus sum.

118:53 Deféctio ténuit me, * pro peccatóribus derelinquéntibus legem tuam.

118:54 Cantábiles mihi erant iustificatiónes tuæ, * in loco peregrinatiónis meæ.

118:55 Memor fui nocte nóminis tui, Dómine: * et custodívi legem tuam.

118:56 Hæc facta est mihi: * quia iustificatiónes tuas exquisívi.

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.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Allelúia, allelúia, allelúia

Chapter Verse

Throughout the Year

1 John. 4:16

God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.

Deus cáritas est: et qui manet in caritáte, in Deo manet, et Deus in eo.

Thanks be to God.

Deo grátias.

I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me.

Ego dixi: Dómine, miserére mei.

Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

Sana ánimam meam, quia peccávi tibi.

Prayer

from the Proper of the season

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 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.

Præsta, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, semper rationabília meditántes, quæ tibi sunt plácita, et dictis exsequámur et factis.

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.