Roman 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.

Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For the Lord will not cast off his people: for in his hand are all the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his.

For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. (genuflect) Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us: For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

2:1 Why have the Gentiles raged, * and the people devised vain things?

2:2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, * against the Lord and against his Christ.

2:3 Let us break their bonds asunder: * and let us cast away their yoke from us.

2:4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: * and the Lord shall deride them.

2:5 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, * and trouble them in his rage.

2:6 But I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy mountain, * preaching his commandment.

2:7 The Lord hath said to me: * Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

2:8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, * and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

2:9 Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, * and shalt break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

2:10 And now, O ye kings, understand: * receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

2:11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: * and rejoice unto him with trembling.

2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, * and you perish from the just way.

2:13 When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, * blessed are all they that trust in him.

3:2 Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? * many are they who rise up against me.

3:3 Many say to my soul: * There is no salvation for him in his God.

3:4 But thou, O Lord art my protector, * my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

3:5 I have cried to the Lord with my voice: * and he hath heard me from his holy hill.

3:6 I have slept and taken my rest: * and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me.

3:7 I will not fear thousands of the people, surrounding me: * arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.

3:8 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: * thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

3:9 Salvation is of the Lord: * and thy blessing is upon thy people.

26:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation, * whom shall I fear?

26:1 The Lord is the protector of my life: * of whom shall I be afraid?

26:2 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, * to eat my flesh.

26:2 My enemies that trouble me, * have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

26:3 If armies in camp should stand together against me, * my heart shall not fear.

26:3 If a battle should rise up against me, * in this will I be confident.

26:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; * that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

26:4 That I may see the delight of the Lord, * and may visit his temple.

26:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; * in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

26:6 He hath exalted me upon a rock: * and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies.

26:6 I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: * I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.

26:7 Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: * have mercy on me and hear me.

26:8 My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: * thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

26:9 Turn not away thy face from me; * decline not in thy wrath from thy servant.

26:9 Be thou my helper, * forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

26:10 For my father and my mother have left me: * but the Lord hath taken me up.

26:11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, * and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.

26:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; * for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

26:13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord * in the land of the living.

26:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, * and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

40:2 Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: * the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

40:3 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: * and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

40:4 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: * thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.

40:5 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: * heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

40:6 My enemies have spoken evils against me: * when shall he die and his name perish?

40:7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: * his heart gathered together iniquity to itself.

40:7 He went out * and spoke to the same purpose.

40:8 All my enemies whispered together against me: * they devised evils to me.

40:9 They determined against me an unjust word: * shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?

40:10 For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, * who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

40:11 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: * and I will requite them.

40:12 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: * because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.

40:13 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: * and hast established me in thy sight for ever.

40:14 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. * So be it. So be it.

39:2 With expectation I have waited for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.

39:3 And he heard my prayers, * and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs.

39:3 And he set my feet upon a rock, * and directed my steps.

39:4 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.

39:4 Many shall see, and shall fear: * and they shall hope in the Lord.

39:5 Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; * and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

39:6 Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: * and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee.

39:6 I have declared and I have spoken * they are multiplied above number.

39:7 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; * but thou hast pierced ears for me.

39:7 Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: * then said I, Behold I come.

39:8 In the head of the book it is written of me that I should do thy will: * O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

39:10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, * lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.

39:11 I have not hid thy justice within my heart: * I have declared thy truth and thy salvation.

39:11 I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth * from a great council.

39:12 Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: * thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

39:13 For evils without number have surrounded me; * my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see.

39:13 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: * and my heart hath forsaken me.

39:14 Be pleased, O Lord to deliver me: * look down, O Lord, to help me.

39:15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul * to take it away.

39:15 Let them be turned backward and be ashamed * that desire evils to me.

39:16 Let them immediately bear their confusion, * that say to me: ’T is well, ’t is well.

39:17 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: * and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.

39:18 But I am a beggar and poor: * the Lord is careful for me.

39:18 Thou art my helper and my protector: * O my God, be not slack.

55:2 Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; * all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.

55:3 My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; * for they are many that make war against me.

55:4 From the height of the day I shall fear: * but I will trust in thee.

55:5 In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: * I will not fear what flesh can do against me.

55:6 All the day long they detested my words: * all their thoughts were against me unto evil.

55:7 They will dwell and hide themselves: * they will watch my heel.

55:8 As they have waited for my soul, for nothing shalt thou save them: * in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces.

55:9 O God, I have declared to thee my life: * thou hast set my tears in thy sight,

55:9 As also in thy promise. * Then shall my enemies be turned back.

55:10 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * behold I know thou art my God.

55:11 In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. * In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.

55:12 In me, O God, are vows to thee, * which I will pay, praises to thee:

55:13 Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: * that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

56:2 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: * for my soul trusteth in thee.

56:2 And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, * until iniquity pass away.

56:3 I will cry to God the most High; * to God who hath done good to me.

56:4 He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: * he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me.

56:4 God hath sent his mercy and his truth, * and he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled.

56:5 The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, * and their tongue a sharp sword.

56:6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, * and thy glory above all the earth.

56:7 They prepared a snare for my feet; * and they bowed down my soul.

56:7 They dug a pit before my face, * and they are fallen into it.

56:8 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: * I will sing, and rehearse a psalm.

56:9 Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: * I will arise early.

56:10 I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: * I will sing a psalm to thee among the nations.

56:11 For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: * and thy truth unto the clouds.

56:12 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: * and thy glory above all the earth.

63:2 Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: * deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

63:3 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; * from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

63:4 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; * they have bent their bow a bitter thing, to shoot in secret the undefiled.

63:6 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: * they are resolute in wickedness.

63:6 They have talked of hiding snares; * they have said: Who shall see them?

63:7 They have searched after iniquities: * they have failed in their search.

63:7 Man shall come to a deep heart: * and God shall be exalted.

63:8 The arrows of children are their wounds: * and their tongues against them are made weak.

63:9 All that saw them were troubled; * and every man was afraid.

63:10 And they declared the works of God: * and understood his doings.

63:11 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: * and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

87:2 Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

87:3 Let my prayer come in before thee: * incline thy ear to my petition.

87:4 For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

87:5 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: * I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.

87:6 Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: * and they are cast off from thy hand.

87:7 They have laid me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

87:8 Thy wrath is strong over me: * and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

87:9 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: * they have set me an abomination to themselves.

87:9 I was delivered up, and came not forth: * my eyes languished through poverty.

87:10 All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: * I stretched out my hands to thee.

87:11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? * or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

87:12 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: * and thy truth in destruction?

87:13 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; * and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

87:14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: * and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

87:15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: * why turnest thou away thy face from me?

87:16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: * and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

87:17 Thy wrath hath come upon me: * and thy terrors have troubled me.

87:18 They have come round about me like water all the day: * they have compassed me about together.

87:19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: * and my acquaintance, because of misery.

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.

Lesson from the book of Daniel

1 In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

2 The first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the desolation of Jerusalem.

3 And I set my face to the Lord my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.

5 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments.

21 As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly touched me at the time of the evening sacrifice.

22 And he instructed me, and spoke to me, and said: O Daniel, I am now come forth to teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.

23 From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth: and I am come to shew it to thee, because thou art a man of desires: therefore do thou mark the word, and understand the vision.

24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the saint of saints may be anointed.

25 Know thou therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls in straitness of times.

26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fall: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.

In passióne domínica, fratres, tria specialiter convénit intuéri: opus, modum, causam. Nam in ópere quidem patiéntia, in modo humílitas, in causa cáritas commendatur. Patiéntia autem singuláris, quod vidélicet: cum supra dorsum ejus fabricarent peccatóres; cum sic extenderetur in ligno, ut dinumerarentur ómnia ossa ejus; cum fortíssimum illud propugnaculum, quod custódit Israël, lindique foraretur; cum foderéntur manus ejus et pedes, sicut agnus ad occisionem ductus sit et tamquam ovis coram tondénte non apéruit os suum. Non advérsus Patrem

murmurans, a quo missus fúerat; non advérsus humánum genus, pro quo, quæ non rapuit, exsolvebat; non dénique vel contra pópulum ipsum peculiárem sibi, a quo pro tantis benefíciis tanta mala recipiebat.

Modum ipsum, si diligénter attendas, non modo mitem, sed et húmilem corde cognosces. Nempe in humilitáte judícium ejus sublatum est, cum nec ad tantas blasphemias, nec ad falsissima, quæ sibi objiciebantur crímina respónderet. Vídimus, inquit, eum et non erat ei aspectus, nec speciosum forma præ fíliis hóminum, sed oppróbrium hóminum et tamquam leprosum, novissimum virórum, plane virum dolórum a Deo percussum et humiliátum; ita ut nulla esset ei spécies, neque decor. O novissimum et altíssimum! O húmilem et sublimem! Oppróbrium hóminum et glóriam Angelórum! Nemo illo sublimior, neque humilior. Dénique sputis illitus est, oppróbriis saturatus est, morte turpissima condemnátus est, cum sceleratis deputatus est. Nihílque merebitur vel ista humílitas, quæ hunc habet modum; imo quæ tam est ultra modum? Sicut est patiéntia singuláris, sic et humílitas admirábilis; utráque sine exémplo.

Utrámque tamen magnífice causa ipsa comméndat, nimírum cáritas est. Propter nímiam enim caritátem suam, qua diléxit nos Deus, ut servum redímeret, nec Pater Fílio, nec sibi Fílius ipse pepércit. Vere nímiam, quia et hæc mensúram excedit, modum superat, plane supereminens univérsis. Majórem, inquit, caritátem nemo habet, quam ut ánimam suam ponat quis pro amícis suis. Tu majórem habuisti Dómine, ponens eam étiam pro inimícis. Cum enim adhuc inimíci essémus, per mortem tuam et tibi reconciliati sumus et Patri. Quænam ergo ália vidébitur esse, vel fuísse, vel fore huic símilis caritáti? Vix pro justo quis móritur. Tu pro injustis passus es, moriens propter delícta nostra, qui venisti justificare gratis peccatóres, servos fácere fratres, captívos cohæredes, éxsules reges.

We praise thee, O God, * we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.

All the earth doth worship thee, * the Father everlasting.

To thee all Angels cry aloud, * the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.

To thee Cherubim and Seraphim * continually do cry.

bow head Holy, Holy, Holy * Lord God of Sabaoth;

Heaven and earth are full * of the Majesty of thy glory.

The glorious company of the Apostles * praise thee.

The goodly fellowship of the Prophets * praise thee.

The noble army of Martyrs * praise thee.

The holy Church throughout all the world * doth acknowledge thee;

The Father, * of an infinite Majesty.

Thine honourable, true, * and only Son;

Also the Holy Ghost, * the Comforter.

Thou art the King of Glory, * O Christ.

Thou art the everlasting * Son of the Father.

During the following verse all make a profound bow: When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, * thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.

When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, * thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.

Thou sittest at the right hand of God, * in the glory of the Father.

We believe that thou shalt come * to be our Judge.

Kneel for the following verse We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, * whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious Blood.

Make them to be numbered with thy Saints, * in glory everlasting.

O Lord, save thy people, * and bless thine heritage.

Govern them, * and lift them up for ever.

Day by day * we magnify thee;

During the following verse, by local custom, all make a profound bow. And we worship thy Name * ever, world without end.

Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us * this day without sin.

O Lord, have mercy upon us, * have mercy upon us.

O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, * as our trust is in thee.

O Lord, in thee have I trusted, * let me never be confounded.

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.