Monastic Breviary

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.

5:2 Give ear, O Lord, to my words * understand my cry.

5:3 Hearken to the voice of my prayer, * O my King and my God.

5:4 For to thee will I pray: * O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

5:5 In the morning I will stand before thee, and will see: * because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

5:6 Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: * nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

5:7 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: * thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie.

5:7 The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor. * But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy,

5:8 I will come into thy house; * I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

5:9 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: * because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.

5:10 For there is no truth in their mouth: * their heart is vain.

5:11 Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: * judge them, O God.

5:11 Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: * for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

5:12 But let all them be glad that hope in thee: * they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell in them.

5:12 And all they that love thy name shall glory in thee: * For thou wilt bless the just.

5:13 O Lord, thou hast crowned us, * as with a shield of thy good will.

6:2 Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, * nor chastise me in thy wrath.

6:3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: * heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

6:4 And my soul is troubled exceedingly: * but thou, O Lord, how long?

6:5 Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: * O save me for thy mercy’s sake.

6:6 For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: * and who shall confess to thee in hell?

6:7 I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: * I will water my couch with my tears.

6:8 My eye is troubled through indignation: * I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

6:9 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: * for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

6:10 The Lord hath heard my supplication: * the Lord hath received my prayer.

6:11 Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: * let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.

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.

16 Spare me, for my days are nothing.

17 What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

18 Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.

19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?

21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

6 Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling

20 The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.

25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.

22:1 The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing. * He hath set me in a place of pasture.

22:2 He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment: * he hath converted my soul.

22:3 He hath led me on the paths of justice, * for his own name’s sake.

22:4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, * for thou art with me.

22:4 Thy rod and thy staff, * they have comforted me.

22:5 Thou hast prepared a table before me * against them that afflict me.

22:5 Thou hast anointed my head with oil; * and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it!

22:6 And thy mercy will follow me * all the days of my life.

22:6 And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord * unto length of days.

24:1 To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: * In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

24:3 Neither let my enemies laugh at me: * for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

24:4 Let all them be confounded that act unjust things * without cause.

24:4 Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, * and teach me thy paths.

24:5 Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; * for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

24:6 Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; * and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

24:7 The sins of my youth * and my ignorances do not remember.

24:7 According to thy mercy remember thou me: * for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

24:8 The Lord is sweet and righteous: * therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

24:9 He will guide the mild in judgment: * he will teach the meek his ways.

24:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, * to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

24:11 For thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: * for it is great.

24:12 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? * He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen.

24:13 His soul shall dwell in good things: * and his seed shall inherit the land.

24:14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: * and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

24:15 My eyes are ever towards the Lord: * for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

24:16 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; * for I am alone and poor.

24:17 The troubles of my heart are multiplied: * deliver me from my necessities.

24:18 See my abjection and my labour; * and forgive me all my sins.

24:19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, * and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

24:20 Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: * I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

24:21 The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: * because I have waited on thee.

24:22 Deliver Israel, O God, * from all his tribulations.

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.

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.

From the book of St. Augustine, the Bishop, on the Care for the Deceased

If this be true, doubtless also the providing for the interment of bodies a place at the Memorials of Saints, is a mark of a good human affection towards the remains of one's friends. Yet it follows not that the bodies of the departed are to be despised and flung aside, and above all of just and faithful men, which bodies as organs and vessels to all good works their spirit has holily used. For if a father's garment and ring, and whatever such like, is the more dear to those whom they leave behind, the greater their affection is towards their parents, in no wise are the bodies themselves to be spurned, which truly we wear in more familiar and close conjunction than any of our putting on. For these pertain not to ornament or aid which is applied from without, but to the very nature of man. Whence also the funerals of the just men of old were with dutiful piety cared for, and their obsequies celebrated, and sepulture provided: and themselves while living did touching burial or even translation of their bodies give charge to their sons.

And when this affection is exhibited to the departed by faithful men who were most dear to them, there is no doubt that it profits them who while living in the body merited that such things should profit them after this life. But even if some necessity should through absence of all facility not allow bodies to be interred, or in such places interred, yet should there be no pretermitting of supplications for the spirits of the dead: which supplications, that they should be made for all in Christian and catholic fellowship departed, even without mentioning of their names, under a general commemoration, the Church has charged herself withal; to the intent that they which lack, for these offices, parents or sons or whatever kindred or friends, may have the same afforded unto them by the one pious mother which is common to all. But if there were lack of these supplications, which are made with right faith and piety for the dead, I account that it should not a whit profit their spirits, howsoever in holy places the lifeless bodies should be deposited.

Which things being so, let us not think that to the dead for whom we have a care, any thing reaches save what by sacrifices either of the altar, or of prayers, or of alms, we solemnly supplicate: although not to all for whom they are done be they profitable, but to them only by whom while they live it is obtained that they should be profitable. But forasmuch as we discern not who these be, it is meet to do them for all regenerate persons, that none of them may be passed by to whom these benefits may and ought to reach. For better it is that these things shall be superfluously done to them whom they neither hinder nor help, than lacking to them whom they help. More diligently however does each man these things for his own near and dear friends, in order that they may be likewise done unto him by his. But as for the burying of the body, whatever is bestowed on that, is no aid of salvation, but an office of humanity, according to that affection by which no man ever hates his own flesh. Whence it is fitting that he take what care he is able for the flesh of his neighbor, when he is gone that bare it. And if they do these things who believe not the resurrection of the flesh, how much more are they beholden to do the same who do believe; that so, an office of this kind bestowed upon a body, dead but yet to rise again and to remain to eternity, may also be in some sort a testimony of the same faith?

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.

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.

41:2 As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; * so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

41:3 My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; * when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

41:4 My tears have been my bread day and night, * whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

41:5 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: * for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God:

41:5 With the voice of joy and praise; * the noise of one feasting.

41:6 Why art thou sad, O my soul? * and why dost thou trouble me?

41:6 Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: * the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

41:7 My soul is troubled within myself: * therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little hill.

41:8 Deep calleth on deep, * at the noise of thy flood-gates.

41:8 All thy heights and thy billows * have passed over me.

41:9 In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; * and a canticle to him in the night.

41:9 With me is prayer to the God of my life. * I will say to God: Thou art my support.

41:10 Why hast thou forgotten me? * and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

41:11 Whilst my bones are broken, * my enemies who trouble me have reproached me;

41:11 Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God? * Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

41:12 Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: * the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

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.

From the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians

12 Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen again.

14 And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ; whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.

16 For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.

17 And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain, for you are yet in your sins.

18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished.

19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep

21 For by a man came death, and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

22 And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

35 But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? or with what manner of body shall they come?

36 Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be; but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

38 But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.

40 And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

41 One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.

43 It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.

44 It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a spiritual body.

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

56 Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable; always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Let us pray.

O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.

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

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.

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Let us pray.

O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.

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

17:26 With the holy thou wilt be holy; * and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:

17:27 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: * and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

17:28 For thou wilt save the humble people; * but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

17:29 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: * O my God, enlighten my darkness.

17:30 For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; * and through my God I shall go over a wall.

17:31 As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: * he is the protector of all that trust in him.

17:32 For who is God but the Lord? * or who is God but our God?

17:33 God, who hath girt me with strength; * and made my way blameless.

17:34 Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: * and who setteth me upon high places.

17:35 Who teacheth my hands to war: * and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.

17:36 Thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: * and thy right hand hath held me up:

17:36 And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: * and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.

17:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; * and my feet are not weakened.

17:38 I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: * and I will not turn again till they are consumed.

17:39 I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: * they shall fall under my feet.

17:40 And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; * and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.

17:41 And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, * and hast destroyed them that hated me.

17:42 They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: * but he heard them not.

17:43 And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; * I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

17:44 Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; * thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

17:45 A people which I knew not, hath served me: * at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.

17:46 The children that are strangers have lied to me, * strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.

17:47 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, * and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

17:48 O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, * my deliverer from my enraged enemies.

17:49 And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: * from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

17:50 Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, * and I will sing a psalm to thy name.

17:51 Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: * and to his seed for ever.

18:2 The heavens shew forth the glory of God, * and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

18:3 Day to day uttereth speech, * and night to night sheweth knowledge.

18:4 There are no speeches nor languages, * where their voices are not heard.

18:5 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: * and their words unto the ends of the world.

18:6 He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: * and he, as a bridegroom coming out of his bride chamber,

18:6 Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way: * his going out is from the end of heaven,

18:7 And his circuit even to the end thereof: * and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat.

18:8 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: * the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

18:9 The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: * the commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.

18:10 The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: * the judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

18:11 More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: * and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

18:12 For thy servant keepeth them, * and in keeping them there is a great reward.

18:13 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord: * and from those of others spare thy servant.

18:14 If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: * and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.

18:15 And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: * and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight.

18:15 O Lord, my helper, * and my redeemer.

19:2 May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: * may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

19:3 May he send thee help from the sanctuary: * and defend thee out of Sion.

19:4 May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: * and may thy whole burnt offering be made fat.

19:5 May he give thee according to thy own heart; * and confirm all thy counsels.

19:6 We will rejoice in thy salvation; * and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.

19:7 The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: * now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed.

19:7 He will hear him from his holy heaven: * the salvation of his right hand is in powers.

19:8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: * but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God.

19:9 They are bound, and have fallen: * but we are risen, and are set upright.

19:10 O Lord, save the king: * and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

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.

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Let us pray.

We suppliants, O Lord, pour forth our prayers for the souls of all thy servants and handmaids, that thou wouldst mercifully pardon whatsoever they have committed through human frailty, and graciously vouchsafe to deliver them from the pains of purgatory.

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 this day, the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed, on which day Holy Church, their common Mother, after due diligence to celebrate with fitting praise all her children who now rejoice in heaven, doth strive also to assist by her prayers all them that suffer still in Purgatory, which are of avail before Christ, her Lord and Spouse, in order that as speedily as possible they may join the society of the citizens on high.

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.

Let us pray.

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.

120:1 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, * from whence help shall come to me.

120:2 My help is from the Lord, * who made heaven and earth.

120:3 May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: * neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

120:4 Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, * that keepeth Israel.

120:5 The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection * upon thy right hand.

120:6 The sun shall not burn thee by day: * nor the moon by night.

120:7 The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: * may the Lord keep thy soul.

120:8 May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; * from henceforth now and for ever.

121:1 I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: * We shall go into the house of the Lord.

121:2 Our feet were standing * in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

121:3 Jerusalem, which is built as a city, * which is compact together.

121:4 For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: * the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

121:5 Because their seats have sat in judgment, * seats upon the house of David.

121:6 Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: * and abundance for them that love thee.

121:7 Let peace be in thy strength: * and abundance in thy towers.

121:8 For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, * I spoke peace of thee.

121:9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, * I have sought good things for thee.

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.

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Let us pray.

O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Let us pray.

O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.

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

125:1 When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, * we became like men comforted.

125:2 Then was our mouth filled with gladness; * and our tongue with joy.

125:2 Then shall they say among the Gentiles: * The Lord hath done great things for them.

125:3 The Lord hath done great things for us: * we are become joyful.

125:4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, * as a stream in the south.

125:5 They that sow in tears * shall reap in joy.

125:6 Going they went and wept, * casting their seeds.

125:6 But coming they shall come with joyfulness, * carrying their sheaves.

126:1 Unless the Lord build the house, * they labour in vain that build it.

126:1 Unless the Lord keep the city, * he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

126:2 It is vain for you to rise before light, * rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow.

126:2 When he shall give sleep to his beloved, * behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

126:4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, * so the children of them that have been shaken.

126:5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; * he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

127:1 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: * that walk in his ways.

127:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: * blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

127:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, * on the sides of thy house.

127:3 Thy children as olive plants, * round about thy table.

127:4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed * that feareth the Lord.

127:5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: * and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

127:6 And mayst thou see thy children’s children, * peace upon Israel.

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.

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Let us pray.

O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.

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

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.

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Let us pray.

O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.

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

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, our holy Father Benedict, 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, our holy Father Benedict, 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.

4:2 When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: * when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me.

4:2 Have mercy on me: * and hear my prayer.

4:3 O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? * Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

4:4 Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: * the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

4:5 Be ye angry, and sin not: * the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

4:6 Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: * many say, Who sheweth us good things?

4:7 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: * thou hast given gladness in my heart.

4:8 By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, * they are multiplied.

4:9 In peace in the selfsame * I will sleep, and I will rest:

4:10 For thou, O Lord, singularly * hast settled me in hope.

90:1 He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, * shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

90:2 He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: * my God, in him will I trust.

90:3 For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: * and from the sharp word.

90:4 He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: * and under his wings thou shalt trust.

90:5 His truth shall compass thee with a shield: * thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.

90:6 Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: * of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

90:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: * but it shall not come nigh thee.

90:8 But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: * and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

90:9 Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: * thou hast made the most High thy refuge.

90:10 There shall no evil come to thee: * nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.

90:11 For he hath given his angels charge over thee; * to keep thee in all thy ways.

90:12 In their hands they shall bear thee up: * lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

90:13 Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: * and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

90:14 Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: * I will protect him because he hath known my name.

90:15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: * I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

90:16 I will fill him with length of days; * and I will shew him my salvation.

133:1 Behold now bless ye the Lord, * all ye servants of the Lord:

133:1 Who stand in the house of the Lord, * in the courts of the house of our God.

133:2 In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, * and bless ye the Lord.

133:3 May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, * he that made heaven and earth.

2:29 Now ✠ thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, * according to thy word in peace;

2:30 Because my eyes have seen * thy salvation,

2:31 Which thou hast prepared * before the face of all peoples:

2:32 A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, * and the glory of thy people Israel.

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.

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Let us pray.

We beseech you, O Lord, to be merciful to the souls of all your servants and handmaids for whom we humbly entreat your majesty, that by these offices of pious supplication they may be found worthy to enter into everlasting rest.

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