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.

104:1 Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: * declare his deeds among the Gentiles.

104:2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: * relate all his wondrous works.

104:3 Glory ye in his holy name: * let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

104:4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: * seek his face evermore.

104:5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; * his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

104:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; * ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

104:7 He is the Lord our God: * his judgments are in all the earth.

104:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: * the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

104:9 Which he made to Abraham; * and his oath to Isaac:

104:10 And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, * and to Israel for an everlasting testament:

104:11 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, * the lot of your inheritance.

104:12 When they were but a small number: * yea very few, and sojourners therein:

104:13 And they passed from nation to nation, * and from one kingdom to another people.

104:14 He suffered no man to hurt them: * and he reproved kings for their sakes.

104:15 Touch ye not my anointed: * and do no evil to my prophets.

104:16 And he called a famine upon the land: * and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

104:17 He sent a man before them: * Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

104:18 They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, * until his word came.

104:19 The word of the Lord inflamed him: * the king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

104:21 He made him master of his house, * and ruler of all his possession.

104:22 That he might instruct his princes as himself, * and teach his ancients wisdom.

104:23 And Israel went into Egypt: * and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

104:24 And he increased his people exceedingly: * and strengthened them over their enemies,

104:25 He turned their heart to hate his people: * and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

104:26 He sent Moses his servant: * Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

104:27 He gave them power to shew his signs, * and his wonders in the land of Cham.

104:28 He sent darkness, and made it obscure: * and grieved not his words.

104:29 He turned their waters into blood, * and destroyed their fish.

104:30 Their land brought forth frogs, * in the inner chambers of their kings.

104:31 He spoke, and there came diverse sorts of flies, * and sciniphs in all their coasts.

104:32 He gave them hail for rain, * a burning fire in the land.

104:33 And he destroyed their vineyards, and their fig trees: * and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

104:34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, * of which there was no number.

104:35 And they devoured all the grass in their land, * and consumed all the fruit of their ground.

104:36 And he slew all the firstborn in their land: * the firstfruits of all their labour.

104:37 And he brought them out with silver and gold: * and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.

104:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: * for the fear of them lay upon them.

104:39 He spread a cloud for their protection, * and fire to give them light in the night.

104:40 They asked, and the quail came: * and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

104:41 He opened the rock, and waters flowed: * rivers ran down in the dry land.

104:42 Because he remembered his holy word, * which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

104:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, * and his chosen with gladness.

104:44 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: * and they possessed the labours of the people:

104:45 That they might observe his justifications, * and seek after his law.

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.

105:1 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.

105:2 Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? * who shall set forth all his praises?

105:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, * and do justice at all times.

105:4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: * visit us with thy salvation.

105:5 That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: * that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

105:6 We have sinned with our fathers: * we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

105:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: * they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies:

105:7 And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, * even the Red Sea.

105:8 And he saved them for his own name’s sake: * that he might make his power known.

105:9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: * and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

105:10 And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: * and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

105:11 And the water covered them that afflicted them: * there was not one of them left.

105:12 And they believed his words: * and they sang his praises.

105:13 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: * and they waited not for his counsels.

105:14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: * and they tempted God in the place without water.

105:15 And he gave them their request: * and sent fulness into their souls.

105:16 And they provoked Moses in the camp, * Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

105:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: * and covered the congregation of Abiron.

105:18 And a fire was kindled in their congregation: * the flame burned the wicked.

105:19 They made also a calf in Horeb: * and they adored the graven thing.

105:20 And they changed their glory * into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

105:21 They forgot God, who saved them, * who had done great things in Egypt, wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

105:23 And he said that he would destroy them: * had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach:

105:24 To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them; * and they set at nought the desirable land.

105:25 They believed not his word, and they murmured in their tents: * they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

105:26 And he lifted up his hand over them: * to overthrow them in the desert;

105:27 And to cast down their seed among the nations, * and to scatter them in the countries.

105:28 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: * and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

105:29 And they provoked him with their inventions: * and destruction was multiplied among them.

105:30 Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: * and the slaughter ceased.

105:31 And it was reputed to him unto justice, * to generation and generation for evermore.

105:32 They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: * and Moses was afflicted for their sakes: because they exasperated his spirit.

105:33 And he distinguished with his lips; * they did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

105:35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: and served their idols, * and it became a stumblingblock to them.

105:37 And they sacrificed their sons, * and their daughters to devils.

105:38 And they shed innocent blood: * the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan.

105:39 And the land was polluted with blood, and was defiled with their works: * and they went aside after their own inventions.

105:40 And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: * and he abhorred his inheritance.

105:41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: * and they that hated them had dominion over them.

105:42 And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands: * many times did he deliver them.

105:43 But they provoked him with their counsel: * and they were brought low by their iniquities.

105:44 And he saw when they were in tribulation: * and he heard their prayer.

105:45 And he was mindful of his covenant: * and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

105:46 And he gave them unto mercies, * in the sight of all those that had made them captives.

105:47 Save us, O Lord, our God: * and gather us from among nations:

105:47 That we may give thanks to thy holy name, * and may glory in thy praise.

105:48 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: * and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.

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.

Josaphat Kuncewitz was born of noble Catholic parents at Vladimir in Volhynia. Once as a child, as he listed to his mother tell the story of the Passion, a dart came forth from the side of Christ on the crucifix and wounded the boy in the heart. Set on fire with love of God, he devoted himself to prayer and works of charity with such zeal that he became the admiration and the model for youths far older than he. When Josaphat was twenty years old he was professed among the cloistered followers of the monastic rule of Saint Basil. Almost at once he made remarkable progress in evangelical perfection. He went barefoot, even in the severe winters of that country. He never ate meat, and drank wine only when obliged to do so under obedience. He disciplined his body by wearing rough hair-shirts until the day of his death. He kept unspotted the flower of chastity which in his youth he had dedicated to the Virgin Mother of God. He became so celebrated for virtue and learning that despite his youth he was made superior of the monastery at Byten, and the Archimandrite of Vilnius. Finally much against his will, but to the very great joy of the Catholic people, he was made Archbishop of Polotsk.

In the years following the promotion to this dignity, Josaphat did not relax in any way his austere mode of living. Nothing was so close to his heart as service to God and the salvation of the flock entrusted to his care. He was a vigorous champion of Catholic unity and truth. He laboured to the utmost of his ability to win back schismatics and heretics to unity with the See of blessed Peter. Both by preaching and writing he defended the Supreme Pontiff and the doctrine of the Pope's plenitude of power. He directed these works, full of piety and learning against most shameful calumnies and the errors of wicked men. Josaphat vindicated episcopal rights and restored ecclesiastical property seized by laymen. He won back an incredible number of heretics to the bosom of holy Mother Church. How successfully he laboured to re-establish communion between the Greek and Latin Churches is told in Papal commendations. He gladly spent the revenues set aside for his maintenance to rebuild God's house, to erect convents for consecrated virgins, and to carry on other charitable works. So generous was Josaphat towards the poor that in one instance when he did not have money enough to supply the needs of a certain widow, he pawned his omophorion, that is, his episcopal pallium.

The great progress made by the Catholic faith so stirred up the anger of certain of its wicked enemies that they conspired to murder this athlete of Christ. In a sermon he foretold to his people what was about to happen. As he was setting out for Vitebsk on a pastoral visit, these enemies broke into the episcopal palace, attacking and wounding every one they found. Undaunted, this most kindly man hurried out to the assassins of his own free will and addressed them mildly. My little children, he said, why do ye strike my servants? If ye have any complaint against me, I am here. Thereupon they rushed at him, overwhelmed him with blows and pierced him through with spears. Finally they slew him a stroke of a great axe and threw his body into the river. This happened on November 12th, 1632, when he was forty-three years old. Later his body, surrounded by a marvellous light, was raised from the deepest part of the river. The blood of this Martyr benefited first of all those murderers of their spiritual father. Sentenced to die for their crime, almost all abjured their schism and repented of their crime. Because this wonderful high priest became famous after his death for many miracles, the Supreme Pontiff, Urban VIII, honoured him with the title Blessed. On the 29th of June, 1867, during the solemn observance of the centenaries of the Princes of the Apostles, in the presence of the college of cardinals, of about five hundred others, patriarchs, metropolitans, and bishops of every rite from all parts of the world, assembled in the Vatican basilica, with all solemn ceremonies, Pius IX canonized the first eastern Christian to uphold the unity of the Church. The Supreme Pontiff, Leo XIII, extended his Mass and Office to the universal Church.

106:1 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.

106:2 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: * and gathered out of the countries.

106:3 From the rising and the setting of the sun, * from the north and from the sea.

106:4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: * they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

106:5 They were hungry and thirsty: * their soul fainted in them.

106:6 And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: * and he delivered them out of their distresses.

106:7 And he led them into the right way: * that they might go to a city of habitation.

106:8 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: * and his wonderful works to the children of men.

106:9 For he hath satisfied the empty soul, * and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.

106:10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: * bound in want and in iron.

106:11 Because they had exasperated the words of God: * and provoked the counsel of the most High:

106:12 And their heart was humbled with labours: * they were weakened, and there was none to help them.

106:13 Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: * and he delivered them out of their distresses.

106:14 And he brought them out of darkness, * and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

106:15 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, * and his wonderful works to the children of men.

106:16 Because he hath broken gates of brass, * and burst the iron bars.

106:17 He took them out of the way of their iniquity: * for they were brought low for their injustices.

106:18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: * and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

106:19 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: * and he delivered them out of their distresses.

106:20 He sent his word, and healed them: * and delivered them from their destructions.

106:21 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: * and his wonderful works to the children of men.

106:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: * and declare his works with joy.

106:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, * doing business in the great waters:

106:24 These have seen the works of the Lord, * and his wonders in the deep.

106:25 He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: * and the waves thereof were lifted up.

106:26 They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: * their soul pined away with evils.

106:27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; * and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

106:28 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: * and he brought them out of their distresses.

106:29 And he turned the storm into a breeze: * and its waves were still.

106:30 And they rejoiced because they were still: * and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.

106:31 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, * and his wonderful works to the children of men.

106:32 And let them exalt him in the church of the people: * and praise him in the chair of the ancients.

106:33 He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: * and the sources of water into dry ground:

106:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, * for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

106:35 He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, * and a dry land into water springs.

106:36 And hath placed there the hungry; * and they made a city for their habitation.

106:37 And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: * and they yielded fruit of birth.

106:38 And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: * and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.

106:39 Then they were brought to be few: * and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.

106:40 Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: * and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

106:41 And he helped the poor out of poverty: * and made him families like a flock of sheep.

106:42 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, * and all iniquity shall stop their mouth.

106:43 Who is wise, and will keep these things: * and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

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.

From the Holy Gospel according to John

In that time Jesus said to the pharisees: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. And so on.

Homily by St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople.

Dearly beloved brethren, the Bishops of the Church hold a great office, an office that needeth much that wisdom and strength whereof Christ hath given us an example. We must learn of Him to lay down our lives for the sheep and never to leave them; and to fight bravely against the wolf. This is the difference between the true shepherd and the hireling. The one leaveth the sheep and seeketh his own safety, but the other recketh not of his own safety, so as he may watch over the sheep. Christ then having given us the pattern of a good shepherd, warneth us against two enemies; first, the thief that cometh not but to kill and to steal, and, secondly, the hireling that standeth by, and defendeth not them that are committed to his charge.

Ezechiel hath said of old time, xxxiv. 2: Woe be to the shepherds of Israel! do they not feed themselves? Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? But they did the contrary, a great wickedness and the root of many evils. Therefore, he saith, they brought not back that which was gone astray neither did they search for that which was lost neither did they bind up that which was broken, nor strengthen that which was sick; for they fed themselves, and not the flock. And Paul hath the same in other words, where he saith, Phil. ii. 21: All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

Christ showeth Himself very different from either the thief or the hireling; whereas the thief cometh to destroy, He came that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. The hireling fleeth, but He layeth down His life for the sheep, that the sheep perish not. When then the Jews went about to kill Him, He ceased not to teach He gave not up them that believed in Him, but stood steadfast and died. Wherefore He hath good title often to say, I am the Good Shepherd. It was but a little while, and He showed us how He could lay down His life for the sheep. And if it appeareth not as yet how they have life, and have it more abundantly, (but it shall appear, in the world which is to come,) we may well be persuaded of the truth of the second promise, who have seen the fulfilment of the first.

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.

Stir up in thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that Spirit which so filled blessed Josaphat, thy Martyr and Bishop, that he laid down his life for his flock; that by his intercession we, being likewise animated and strengthened by that same Spirit, may not fear to lay down our lives for our brethren.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

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.

149:1 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: * let his praise be in the church of the saints.

149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: * and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.

149:3 Let them praise his name in choir: * let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

149:4 For the Lord is well pleased with his people: * and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

149:5 The saints shall rejoice in glory: * they shall be joyful in their beds.

149:6 The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: * and two-edged swords in their hands:

149:7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, * chastisements among the people:

149:8 To bind their kings with fetters, * and their nobles with manacles of iron.

149:9 To execute upon them the judgment that is written: * this glory is to all his saints.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

Let us pray.

Stir up in thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that Spirit which so filled blessed Josaphat, thy Martyr and Bishop, that he laid down his life for his flock; that by his intercession we, being likewise animated and strengthened by that same Spirit, may not fear to lay down our lives for our brethren.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

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.

93:1 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: * the God of revenge hath acted freely.

93:2 Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: * render a reward to the proud.

93:3 How long shall sinners, O Lord: * how long shall sinners glory?

93:4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: * shall all speak who work injustice?

93:5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: * and they have afflicted thy inheritance.

93:6 They have slain the widow and the stranger: * and they have murdered the fatherless.

93:7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: * neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

93:8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: * and, you fools, be wise at last.

93:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? * or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

93:10 He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: * he that teacheth man knowledge?

93:11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, * that they are vain.

93:12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: * and shalt teach him out of thy law.

93:13 That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: * till a pit be dug for the wicked.

93:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: * neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

93:15 Until justice be turned into judgment: * and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

93:16 Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? * or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity?

93:17 Unless the Lord had been my helper, * my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

93:18 If I said: My foot is moved: * thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

93:19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, * thy comforts have given joy to my soul.

93:20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, * who framest labour in commandment?

93:21 They will hunt after the soul of the just, * and will condemn innocent blood.

93:22 But the Lord is my refuge: * and my God the help of my hope.

93:23 And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he will destroy them: * the Lord our God will destroy them.

Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Let us pray.

O Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who has safely brought us to the beginning of this day: defend us by thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always what is righteous 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.

November 15th 2026, the 5th day of the Moon,

On the morrow we keep the feast of the holy Virgin Gertrude, of whom mention is made upon the 17th day of this present month of November.

Colóniæ Agrippínæ sancti Albérti Epíscopi et Confessóris, ex Ordine Prædicatórum, cognoménto Magni, sanctitáte et doctrína célebris, quem Pius Papa Undécimus Doctórem universális Ecclésiæ declarávit, et Pius Duodécimus cultórum scientiárum naturálium cæléstem apud Deum Patrónum constítuit.

The holy martyr Eugene, Archbishop of Toledo, a disciple of blessed Denys, the Areopagite. He finished his testimony in the country of Paris, and received from the Lord a blessed crown of suffering, (in the year 95.) His body was afterwards brought to Toledo.

At Nola, in Campania, the holy martyr Felix, Bishop (of that see,) who was famous for miracles from the fifteenth year of his age upward and gained the battle of martyrdom under the President Marcian, along with thirty others.

There likewise, under the Emperor Licinius and the President Lysanias, the holy Deacon Abibus, who was torn with hooks and cast into the fire.

At Edessa, in Syria, under the Emperor Diocletian and Antonine the President, the holy martyrs Gurias and Samonas.

In Brittany, (in the sixth century,) holy Machutus, (St. Maclou or St. Malo, first) Bishop (of the ancient See of Aleth, in Brittany,) who was marked by miracles even from his youth upward.

At Verona, (about the year 800,) the holy Confessor Luperius, Bishop (of that see.)

In Austria, (in the year 1136,) holy Leopold, (Margrave of Austria,) Marquess of that country, whose name Innocent VIII enrolled with those of the Saints.

Holy Mary and all the Saints, intercede for us with the Lord, our God, so that we may merit His help and salvation, who lives and reigns for ever and 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.

O Lord, Almighty God, King of heaven and earth, Saviour of the world, bless, lead, rule and govern our hearts and bodies, our senses, words and deeds today, following thy law and commandments, that here and for eternity with thy help we shall be saved in freedom. Who livest and reignest, world without end.

And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God, and the patience of Christ.

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.

101:2 Hear, O Lord, my prayer: * and let my cry come to thee.

101:3 Turn not away thy face from me: * in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me.

101:3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * hear me speedily.

101:4 For my days are vanished like smoke: * and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

101:5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: * because I forgot to eat my bread.

101:6 Through the voice of my groaning, * my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

101:7 I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: * I am like a night raven in the house.

101:8 I have watched, * and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

101:9 All the day long my enemies reproached me: * and they that praised me did swear against me.

101:10 For I did eat ashes like bread, * and mingled my drink with weeping.

101:11 Because of thy anger and indignation: * for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

101:12 My days have declined like a shadow, * and I am withered like grass.

101:13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: * and thy memorial to all generations.

101:14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: * for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

101:15 For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: * and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

101:16 And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, * and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

101:17 For the Lord hath built up Sion: * and he shall be seen in his glory.

101:18 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: * and he hath not despised their petition.

101:19 Let these things be written unto another generation: * and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

101:20 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: * from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

101:21 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: * that he might release the children of the slain:

101:22 That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: * and his praise in Jerusalem;

101:23 When the people assemble together, * and kings, to serve the Lord.

101:24 He answered him in the way of his strength: * Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

101:25 Call me not away in the midst of my days: * thy years are unto generation and generation.

101:26 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: * and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

101:27 They shall perish but thou remainest: * and all of them shall grow old like a garment:

101:28 And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. * But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

101:29 The children of thy servants shall continue: * and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

Let us pray.

Stir up in thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that Spirit which so filled blessed Josaphat, thy Martyr and Bishop, that he laid down his life for his flock; that by his intercession we, being likewise animated and strengthened by that same Spirit, may not fear to lay down our lives for our brethren.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

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.

103:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: * O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.

103:1 Thou hast put on praise and beauty: * and art clothed with light as with a garment.

103:2 Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: * who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water.

103:3 Who makest the clouds thy chariot: * who walkest upon the wings of the winds.

103:4 Who makest thy angels spirits: * and thy ministers a burning fire.

103:5 Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: * it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

103:6 The deep like a garment is its clothing: * above the mountains shall the waters stand.

103:7 At thy rebuke they shall flee: * at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

103:8 The mountains ascend, and the plains descend * into the place which thou hast founded for them.

103:9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; * neither shall they return to cover the earth.

103:10 Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: * between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.

103:11 All the beasts of the field shall drink: * the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.

103:12 Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: * from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.

103:13 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: * the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

103:14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, * and herb for the service of men.

103:14 That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: * and that wine may cheer the heart of man.

103:15 That he may make the face cheerful with oil: * and that bread may strengthen man’s heart.

103:16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: * there the sparrows shall make their nests.

103:17 The highest of them is the house of the heron. * The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.

103:19 He hath made the moon for seasons: * the sun knoweth his going down.

103:20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: * in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

103:21 The young lions roaring after their prey, * and seeking their meat from God.

103:22 The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: * and they shall lie down in their dens.

103:23 Man shall go forth to his work, * and to his labour until the evening.

With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved.

Let us pray.

Stir up in thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that Spirit which so filled blessed Josaphat, thy Martyr and Bishop, that he laid down his life for his flock; that by his intercession we, being likewise animated and strengthened by that same Spirit, may not fear to lay down our lives for our brethren.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

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.

108:2 God, be not thou silent in my praise: * for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

108:3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; * and have fought against me without cause.

108:4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: * but I gave myself to prayer.

108:5 And they repaid me evil for good: * and hatred for my love.

108:6 Set thou the sinner over him: * and may the devil stand at his right hand.

108:7 When he is judged, may he go out condemned; * and may his prayer be turned to sin.

108:8 May his days be few: * and his bishopric let another take.

108:9 May his children be fatherless, * and his wife a widow.

108:10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; * and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

108:11 May the usurer search all his substance: * and let strangers plunder his labours.

108:12 May there be none to help him: * nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

108:13 May his posterity be cut off; * in one generation may his name be blotted out.

108:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: * and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

108:15 May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: * because he remembered not to shew mercy,

108:17 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; * and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

108:18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: * and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him.

108:18 And he put on cursing, like a garment: * and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.

108:19 May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; * and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

108:20 This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; * and who speak evils against my soul.

108:21 But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name’s sake: * because thy mercy is sweet.

He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray in the sight of the most High.

Let us pray.

Stir up in thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that Spirit which so filled blessed Josaphat, thy Martyr and Bishop, that he laid down his life for his flock; that by his intercession we, being likewise animated and strengthened by that same Spirit, may not fear to lay down our lives for our brethren.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

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.

143:9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: * on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

143:10 Who givest salvation to kings: * who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: Deliver me,

143:11 And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: * and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

143:12 Whose sons are as new plants * in their youth:

143:12 Their daughters decked out, * adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

143:13 Their storehouses full, * flowing out of this into that.

143:13 Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: * their oxen fat.

143:14 There is no breach of wall, nor passage, * nor crying out in their streets.

143:15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: * but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

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.

Let us pray.

Stir up in thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that Spirit which so filled blessed Josaphat, thy Martyr and Bishop, that he laid down his life for his flock; that by his intercession we, being likewise animated and strengthened by that same Spirit, may not fear to lay down our lives for our brethren.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.

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. And lead us not into temptation: But deliver us from evil. Amen.

I confess to almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the Saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed: strikes his breast through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.

May the almighty ✠ and merciful Lord grant us pardon, absolution and remission of our sins. Amen.

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.

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.

102:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: * and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

102:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, * and never forget all he hath done for thee.

102:3 Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: * who healeth all thy diseases.

102:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: * who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

102:5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: * thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle’s.

102:6 The Lord doth mercies, * and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

102:7 He hath made his ways known to Moses: * his wills to the children of Israel.

102:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful: * longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.

102:9 He will not always be angry: * nor will he threaten for ever.

102:10 He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: * nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

102:11 For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: * he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

102:12 As far as the east is from the west, * so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

But thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us: forsake us not, O Lord our God.