Last Minute Shopping for Candles

Before work on Monday, I should have time to make it to the early Mass at Carmel for Candlemas - but wait! I need candles... (runs to car, drives into down, walks around, locates more-or-less suitable candles) - phew, not bad for a very hot and humid Saturday afternoon after 4pm.

Now I just need to remember to bring them with me.

I hear from a spy in Melbourne that they've already celebrated the Presentation at the Cathedral!  (The archdiocese has a special Candlemas Mass for religious for some reason, which rather oddly is transferred to the nearest Saturday.  Why?  Perhaps because the aged sisters and brothers now resemble SS Simeon and Anna...)

Drink Beer

It's hot - 38.2°C at maximum to-day, which would have been just about a record but for yesterday! - and what else to do than have a beer?

I've been enjoying a Huon Dark Ale brewed by the Two Metre Tall Company (why is the company so-named? because I met the owner, who is indeed two metre's tall).

If you can obtain some, it's a very fine drop.

The Little Office after the Use of Sarum

In the famous Holbein sketch of St Thomas More and his extended family, all are shewn with a book - but this is not so much, as it has been misinterpreted to demonstrate, that they are all Renaissance men to a man (and woman), but to manifest their piety as all good Englishmen would have wished in the days before the Reformation struck: for evidently the volume they are each holding is a copy of the Primer, or Book of Hours; led by the head of the family, they are about to pray, not the family Rosary more familiar to Catholics in later times, but an Hour from the Little Office (probably Vespers).

Now the Little Office according to the Use of Sarum (which was that used in England for the most part, until in time of persecution the Roman Use was adopted for Mass, Office and most things else) was more or less like the modern, but probably a little closer to the Dominican Use (and closer still to the Carmelite) in point of fact - at Matins, appointing always the same three Psalms (8, 18, 23) under one antiphon, Benedicta tu, appended to them only, and having the three usual prayers to Our Lady as Lessons, and with no Absolution, but a versicle after the Te Deum. (It can be followed via this link to the Burnet Psalter; note such gloriously mediæval spellings as Ympnus for Hymnus.)

At Lauds, the eight pre-Pius X psalms and canticle are given with only one antiphon, the first of the Christmastide ones in the Roman Little Office, and the little chapter is also non-Scriptural (oddly, but as commonly in mediæval books): Maria virgo semper letare que meruisti Christum portare celi et terre conditorem quia de tuo utero protulisti mundi salvatorem ("Mary Virgin rejoice alway who deservedst Christ to carry, of heaven and earth the Maker, for from thy womb came forth the world's Saviour). The Benedictus antiphon is the same as the Dominican. As was also common, the Collect at all the Hours was Concede nos famulos; and as also common in mediæval times, after it and Benedicamus Domino came very many commemorations (each an anthem, verse and collect): of

1. the Holy Ghost,
2. the Holy Trinity,
3. the Holy Cross,
4. St Michael Archangel,
5. St John Baptist,
6. St Peter,
7. St Paul,
8. St Andrew,
9. St John the Evangelist,
10. St James,
11. St Bartholomew,
12. All the Apostles,
13. St Stephen,
14. St Lawrence,
15. St Thomas à Becket,
16. St Blaise,
17. St Christopher,
18. St Edmund King & Martyr,
19. St George,
20. All Martyrs,
21. St Germanus of Auxerre,
22. St Nicholas,
23. St Martin,
24. St John of Beverley,
25. St William,
26. St Leonard,
27. All Confessors,
28. St Anne,
29. St Mary Magdalen,
30. St Catherine,
31. St Margaret,
32. St Etheldreda,
33. St Faith,
34. All Virgins,
35. All Saints, and
36. for Peace.

(Note that the exact saints commemorated tended to vary from Little Office to Little Office - recalling that all these were manuscript, handwritten copies until the late 15th century - according to the personal devotion of the user, who even added in favourite saints or, one suspects, didn't read all of the commemorations each and every day.)

(For the same reason, very often short Hours, really just larger commemorations, were inserted after each Hour of the Blessed Virgin - in the Burnet Psalter, these are the Hours of the Holy Cross and of the Compassion of the Virgin.)

As in the Carmelite Use, Prime of Our Lady has Psalms 53, 116 and 117 (not 84 as in the Roman) - the first being that always used at the start of Prime, the last, that great Psalm of the Exodus sung on Sundays in celebration of the still greater and more perfect redemption wrought for us through the Paschal Mystery of Christ. The hymn - used at all the Little Hours - in its older version as here reading Memento salutis auctor &c., begins, as I suggested in an earlier post, with the first stanza of Veni Creator Spiritus - for through the agency of the Holy Ghost (first stanza), Christ took flesh (second stanza) in His Mother Mary (third stanza), to the glory of the whole Trinity (fourth and last stanza). The psalm antiphon is again the same as that in the Roman Little Office for Christmastide, and the lesson is from Ecclesiasticus; but there is a short responsory as well as a versicle, and the Collect is Concede. Terce, Sext and None have successively Pss 119-121, 122-124, 125-127 as in the Roman Use, again with Christmastide antiphons, capituli from Ecclesiasticus, short responsories, versicles and the same Collect.

Sarum Vespers of Our Lady are quite different to begin with from what the Roman and Dominican have: for the psalmody consists of Pss 121-125, under one antiphon, and with a non-Scriptural little chapter that is in fact elsewhere used as an antiphon: Beata es virgo Maria que dominum portasti creatorem mundi genuisti eum qui te fecit et in eternum permanes virgo ("Blessed art thou, Virgin Mary, who didst carry the Lord the Creator of the world: thou didst give birth to Him Who made thee, and in eternity thou abidest a virgin"). It is evident then that the psalms of Vespers are repeats of those used earlier during Terce, Sext and None; in the Sarum Breviary, as in the Roman before 1912, these five psalms were those read on ferias on Tuesdays, and were perhaps chosen for their brevity and beauty, the Gradual Psalms being favourites for use at prayer.

Again as in the Carmelite Little Office, there are four psalms appointed for use at Compline de Beata according to the Sarum Rite: Pss 12, 42, 128 and 130. The anthem for these psalms is familiar to me from Marian feasts at Compline according to the Dominican Breviary - an instance of how texts were interchanged, or rather how there existed a great fund of items for liturgical use. Likewise, the hymn appointed is the second half of the Vesper hymn Ave maris stella; strangely, there is no short responsory. As was also a common mediæval custom, the Collect for Compline is not Concede, but Gratiam tuam quæsumus, familiar to moderns as the concluding prayer of the Angelus. After the intercalated Hours mentioned above comes the Salve Regina, with its last exclamations farced, as was the Sarum custom, with stanzas of a hymn, then a versicle and the usual collect afterward.

Interesting...

Catholic Humour

Thinking on the names of the Coo-ees' Priory participants - as I went on a walk up around the Cataract Gorge and back (after Confession), noting the peacocks and pademelons (small wallabies) looking the worse for wear in this humid heat, with only a fat little lizard scurrying quickly over the path - reminded me of some old jokes about religious, and gave me material for new ones:

• At the Abbey of St Flossy (you know, St Flossy of the Broken Fingernail and the Tabernacle Doorkey), where Mother Abbess regularly reminds her daughters that "all change is pernicious," there is an ongoing battle between the severe, stout, matronly sacristan, Sr Mary Mediatrix of the Sacred Liturgy (seconded by her protege Sr Ciborium), and their new priest-chaplain Fr Gabriel Annunciator of the Second Advent with his offsider and server Br Baldacchino, the latter being (as their names suggest) members of that recent and flamboyant order of the Heralds of the Gospel or whatnot (whom, to quote from, ahem, Wikipedia, "strive for perfection, while always searching for the pulchritude in all their daily actions, even in the most private ones" - indeed...).  
• Imagine the scene when, Sr Ciborium at the behest of her immediate superior having just arranged the flowers in their vases on all seven levels of the reredos of the High Altar, Fr Gabriel announces as he arrives that he's to say a Low Mass of Requiem, so down the flowers must come - imagine the scene, when Sr Mediatrix (as she prefers to be called) demands the usual Votive Mass of St Flossy their patron saint, only to be told by Fr Gabriel that, as he is to offer Mass in the Ordinary Form (cruel blow), and in the wider Church St Flossy is at best accorded an Optional Memorial once a year, seeing as it is his prerogative to choose which particular Mass is best for the congregation... battle lines are drawn!

And why is it that over at Australia Incognita the latest posting on Coo-ees' Priory is recorded, under "Ozz [sic] Blogs", before it appears at Coo-ees' Priory?  Several times I've clicked on the link to their most recent effusion, only to be told it doesn't exist - then to find it does after all, just not for several more hours (as happened with their item about Frs Mick & Pat Dobson).  Congratulations to Terra for having a faster-than-light internet connexion; or should I say, Sr Magdalene?

The Latest on the SSPX Hoo-ha

I see on Rorate Cæli that Bp Williamson has apologized to the Pope and and Cardinal Hoyos for having stirred up so much trouble by his comments at the very time, as an act of mercy, the Holy Father was having the excommunication against him and his fellow SSPX bishops lifted. I hope charity toward him will prevail: not to resile from rejecting his offensive views, but in the matter of his excommunication being lifted to see it as an important step toward reconciling the SSPX with Rome, and to distinguish this from the need to demonstrate that the Church rejects anti-Semitism as a perversion of the Gospel, which is for Jews and Gentiles alike.  

It must be borne in mind that, even given his ugly reported remarks, the bishop certainly asserted that at the least hundreds of thousands of Jews did perish at the hands of the Nazis, and I assume that, as any Catholic, he laments such wicked murders: which would certainly not stamp him an vicious anti-Semite.  (I must say I don't really understand why people would wish to deny or minimize the Holocaust; but surely a neo-Nazi, a full-blown anti-Semite would exult in such slaughter, not downplay it.  What a mystery evil is.)

Never have I had dealings with the SSPX, who of course come in all types from friendly to scary, and I have been told that Williamson is rather odd and extreme even among them, for saying such things as "Destroy your television, that overflowing sewer of Satanic filth" and then, the next day, recommending to his followers' attention a rather nice documentary he watched on the television the night before!

Sinister Street re the Little Office

Sir Compton Mackenzie brought out his novel Sinister Street in 1913-14, being an account of the boyhood and  youth of a young man, Michael Fane, in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods - it's a good read.  (The author, by the way, became a Catholic in 1914.)  Here, in the chapter entitled "Incense", Michael discovers religion, of the Anglo-Catholic variety, and at the moment is visiting his friend Bernard Prout: 

'Shall we say Vespers?' suggested Mr Prout. 'You know - the Small Office of the Blessed Virgin.  It won't take long.  We can say Compline, too, if you like.'

'Just as you like,' said Michael.

...

Michael was handed a thin sky-blue book labelled Office of the B.V.M.

'Latin or English?' queried Mr Prout.

'Whichever you like,' said Michael.

'Well, Latin, if you don't mind.  I'm anxious to learn Latin, and I find this is good practice.'

'It doesn't look very good Latin,' said Michael doubtfully.

'Doesn't it?' said Mr Prout.  'It ought to.  It's the right version.'

'I expect this is Hellenistic - I mean Romanistic - Latin,' said Michael, who was proud of his momentary superiority in knowledge.  'Greek Test* is Hellenistic Greek.'

'Do you know Greek?' asked Mr Prout.

'A little.'

Mr Prout sighed.

[* In those days, schoolboys at public (that is, private) schools studied Latin and Greek, including the New Testament in the original.  O tempora, O mores!]

Nec nominetur

While reading Ephesians v at Matins to-day, I came across the words Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos: aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quæ ad rem non pertinet; sed magis gratiarum actio.  I smiled as I read the words nec nominetur, since I know a very senior religious (one of the patres graviores) who uses this very phrase whenever a brother mentions something indecorous: Nec nominetur, frater, let it not be so much as named!  Of course, hearing this, friends and myself came up with a whole series of frivolous jussive subjunctives: Nec audetur, let it not be heard; Nec videtur, let it not be seen; Nec manducetur, let it not be eaten!

It reminds me of that other classic phrase that religious like to quote: Solus cum sola non præsumitur recitare Rosarium!

Bl Columba Marmion's Feast

From the Roman Martyrology, 2004 edition, for today the 30th of January:

16*.  In the monastery of St Benedict of Maredsous also in Belgium, of the blessed Columba (Joseph) Marmion, who, born in Ireland, made a priest and then made Abbot in the Order of St Benedict, that as father of cenobites and leader of souls to holiness of life, shone with spiritual doctrine and eloquence.

Bl Columba Marmion, pray for us, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

All Records Broken

I had cause to go into town to-day to have lunch with a congenial mate, and then off and around the city, stopping off to note down the times of service at the local Greek Orthodox church (they have Divine Liturgy one Saturday each month; a friend of mine worships with them in Hobart, and Fr Timothy their priest is a friend of a Catholic bishop I know), buying some groceries, looking for the latest copy of an Astronomy magazine I take, etc.

It was hot out in the sun, certainly, but I had no idea that at 3.30pm the temperature broke the all-time record: it reached 38.7°C - the hottest recorded since records began in 1884! That's 101.7°F.  Golly.

(I just noticed - the candle in its candlestick on the sideboard has bent over in the broiling heat.)

Scamander on the coast and Ross in the midlands were both 41.5°C at 3pm (new records for the mainland of Tasmania), Cressy and Launceston Airport inland from Launceston, plus Fingal all broke 40°C, Bushy Park and Ouse (both in the south, up the Derwent Valley) 38°C... extraordinary weather.

(Oh, and in Victoria Melbourne registered 45.1, while in South Australia, Adelaide was 43.1.  Perhaps the whole world is just going to drop into the Sun.)

Curiouser and Curiouser: SS Tatiana & Martina

To-day we keep the feast of St Martina, Virgin & Martyr (at least if one is observing the Extraordinary Form, as by reading the 1962 Breviary); and when last Sunday I worshipped with the Russian Catholics, they were keeping the memory of St Tatiana, Martyr at Rome (whose feast occurs on the 12th of January, which was the date according to the Julian Calendar).  I thought to find out a little more about them, particularly the latter, who was unfamiliar to me, and thereby hangs a tale.

First, St Martina: apparently the evidence for her early cultus is obscure; Pope Donus (remember him?) dedicated a church to her in the Roman Forum in 677, as the modern Martyrology notes on this day (30th January, n. 3 and reference in its index), and in 1634 her relics, alongside those of SS Concordius, Epiphanius and friends, were uncovered in a crypt in an old church (the same one dedicated to her, by then having decayed and therefore being rebuilt): moved by this, Pope Urban VIII, then gloriously reigning, had the church (her church, known by this point as Santi Luca e Martina) repaired, and ordered her Office inserted into the Breviary, with special hymns newly composed by himself.  Their Latin I found very hard, so I looked them up and here append them with a translation courtesy of an old book found transcribed online...

Hymn at Matins [ previously divided in twain]

Martinæ celebri plaudite nomini
Cives Romulei, plaudite gloriæ:
Insignem meritis dicite Virginem,
Christi dicite Martyrem.

Hæc dum conspicuis orta parentibus
Inter delicias, inter amabiles
Luxus illecebras, ditibus affluit
Faustæ, muneribus domus,

Vitæ despiciens commoda, dedicat
Se rerum Domino, et munifica manu
Christi pauperibus distribuens opes,
Quaerit praemia coelitum.

Non illam crucians ungula, non feræ,
Non virgas horribili vulnere commovent;
Hinc lapsi e Superum sedibus Angeli
Cælesti dape recreant.

Quin et deposita sævitiæ leo
Se rictu placido projicit ad pedes:
Te Martina tamen dans gladius neci
Cæli cœtibus inserit.

Te, thuris redolens ara vaporibus,
Quae fumat, precibus jugiter invocat,
Et falsum perimens auspicium, tui
Delet nominis omine.

A nobis abigas lubrica gaudia
Tu, qui Martyribus dexter ades, Deus
Une et trine: tuis da famulis jubar,
Quo clemens animos beas.  Amen.

1. "Praise, Romuleian citizens [ i.e. of Rome, founded by Romulus], the illustrious name of Martina, praise her glory; celebrate in song a Virgin rendered illustrious by her merits; sing a Martyr of Christ."

2. "As she was born of distinguished parents, she lived amid pleasures, amid the fascinating allurements of luxury, and she abounded in the rich gifts of a prosperous house."

3. "But despising the comforts of life, she dedicates herself to the Lord of creation, and with a lavish hand she distributes her riches among the poor of Christ, and seeks for herself the reward of the Blessed."

4. "Neither the agonizing hook, nor wild beasts, nor the rods with their painful wounds shake her constancy; thereupon Angels descend from the abodes of the Blessed and strengthen her with heavenly food."

5. "And even the lion, laying aside his savage nature, with friendly gaping jaws lays himself down at her feet: thee, at length, Martina, the sword delivers up to death and enrolls thee among the hosts of heaven."

6. "The altar which smokes, redolent with the odors of incense, unceasingly invokes thee with prayers, and it destroys and annihilates by the omen* of thy name baneful idol-worship."

[* Martina means "warlike" - her warfare was against idolatry, which war she waged by prayer.]

7. "O God, Three and One, Thou who dost mightily assist the Martyrs, drive far from us dangerous pleasures: grant to Thy servants the light wherewith Thou dost graciously bless their souls.  Amen."

Hymn at Lauds and Vespers

Tu natale solum protege, tu bonae
Da pacis requiem Christiadum plagis;
Armorum strepitus, et fera prœlia
In fines age Thracios.

Et regum socians agmina sub crucis
Vexillo, Solymas nexibus exime,
Vindexque innocui sanguinis hosticum
Robur funditus erue.

Tu nostrum columen, tu decus inclytum,
Nostrarum obsequium respice mentium;
Romæ vota libens excipe, quae pio
Te ritu canit, et colit.

A nobis abigas lubrica gaudia
Tu, qui Martyribus dexter ades, Deus
Une et Trine: tuis da famulis jubar,
Quo clemens animos beas.  Amen.

1. "Protect thy native land and give to Christian nations the repose of holy peace: banish the din of arms and dreadful wars to Thracian fields [i.e. far away]."

2. "And uniting the armies of kings under the banner of the Cross, deliver Jerusalem from bondage, and as an avenger of innocent blood, utterly destroy the hostile power [of the Turks]."

3. "Thou, our pillar of strength, our illustrious ornament, behold the benevolent disposition of our hearts; graciously accept the prayers of Rome, who in a loving manner sings thy praises and honors thee."

4. "O God, Three and One, Thou who dost mightily assist the Martyrs, drive far from us dangerous pleasures: grant to Thy servants the light wherewith Thou dost graciously bless their souls.  Amen."

Second, St Tatiana: while the Byzantines keep her memory on the 12th of January, the modern Roman Martyrology makes no mention of her, again evidence of her early cultus in Rome seems hard to find, and it is even suggested, going on a great similarity between their Acts, that she and St Martina may be one and the same!  (She too, like St Martina, cast down idols by her prayers, was tormented but converted her very torturers by her miracles and constancy, thrown to a lion who refused to eat her, and finally suffered martyrdom by the sword, at Rome in the reign of Alexander Severus.)  Whatever of this skepticism, Tatiana is so popular among the Slavs that she is accounted Patron Saint of students, and her feast day is a public holiday in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, called Tatiana Day or Student Day.

I do recall that at least her Kontakion was chanted at the Divine Liturgy, thus:

In your sufferings you shone brightly in the royal purple of your blood, and like a beautiful dove you flew to heaven, passion-bearer Tatiana. Therefore, always pray for those who honor you.

Pursuing Unity

Now, ecumenism that proceeds as far as overcoming bigotry, prejudice and hatred is all very commendable, and I understand that things have come a long way from the days when "No Catholic need apply" could be found in employment advertisements - but owing to a lack of any ecclesiology above the level of the congregation, and an entirely individualistic, simplistic concept of salvation ("Just me and Jesus"), many Protestants seem to think that having friendly relations between "denominations" (read "a thousand weltering sects") is enough, and that one can attend whichever church one likes - which is the indifferentism that has also infected many Catholics: that is the danger with ecumenism having achieved modest improvements in good manners, but no great reunification; and while among mainstream Protestants things like weekly celebrations of what they would term Holy Communion or the Eucharist have become much more common than before the ecumenical liturgical movement, there is really not much sign of a vast convergence in doctrine (with the most major achievement so far being the partial agreement on justification between Catholics and most Lutherans), and contrariwise the disastrous deviations in morals that have become increasingly permitted, even lauded ("their glory is their shame") among "mainline" Protestants have made the search for true Christian unity farcical.  Add into the mix such oddities as priestesses, and it quite makes a Catholic glad that his own Church's fractured unity in faith, morals, liturgy and all else is holding up as well as it is!

But for all that, there is hope on the horizon - our hope in Christ, the One Head of the Church, Who we trust is by His secret grace, by His Divine Providence, and by His instruments, the hierarchs of His Church, the Pope and Bishops in communion with him, is gathering all into one.  For this reason, I am very glad that it appears the Traditional Anglican Communion's application - without preconditions - to be admitted to Catholic Unity has been accorded a favourable hearing at Rome, and rumour has it (would that it were true) that Easter 2009 may bring the happy news.  I recall that the great hope of Anglo-Catholicism was for corporate reunion with Rome.  Would that the pontificate of Benedict XVI sees this accomplished - His Holiness is likewise attempting to heal the schism with the SSPX, after all.

Here in Launceston, I note that there is a local parish of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia (a member of the TAC), and I am going to try and make contact, with an eye to finding out what is happening on the local level.  Who knows, if what is hoped for comes to pass I could join them at Mass!  From their Directory online, here are the details:

Parish of the Annunciation (Anglican Catholic Church in Australia)

Temporary location:

Harry Abbot Scout Centre, 

St George's Square, 

LAUNCESTON

SUNDAY:

 

10.30a.m. Holy Communion (1st,3rd 4th and 5th Sundays in month); 

10.30 a.m. Morning Prayer on 2nd Sunday.

I may go along on the 2nd Sunday to reconnoitre... and in the meanwhile have emailed them.

Hot and Bothered

I have had a very unpleasant night's sleep... at least back in Perth I had an airconditioner in the bedroom, but not here in Launceston, which is going through a very rare patch of being roastingly hot.  I've come downstairs and put on the one airconditioner - in the loungeroom. 

The weather looks to be vile and hot again to-day.

Last Sunday

Last Sunday I worshipped with the Russians, at the Russian Catholic Chapel of St Nicholas.  As the Russian Rite still keeps to the Julian calendar and the older method for calculating Easter, their Easter this year will be a week later than the Roman, and the Sunday just past - the 25th of January New Style (i.e. Gregorian) / 12th January Old Style (Julian) was the Sunday after the Theophany (since the Julian calendar is now thirteen days behind the Gregorian and hence the 6th of January O.S. is the 19th of January N.S.).  Being the 12th of January O.S., it was also the feast of St Tatiana, martyr at Rome (see icon at the top and details at the end of a Russian Orthodox web page).

This afforded much spiritual delight: the icon of the Baptism of the Lord was exposed for veneration, and at the Little Entrance was sung the Troparion and Kontakion of the Feast, after the Troparion of the Resurrection:

At Your baptism in the Jordan, O Lord, worship of the Trinity was revealed, for the Father's voice bore witness to You, calling You His "beloved Son", and the Spirit in the form of a dove confirmed the truth of these words.  O Christ God, Who appeared and enlightened the world, glory to You!

You have revealed Yourself to the world today, and Your light, O Lord, has shined upon us.  We recognize You and exclaim to You: "You have come and revealed Yourself, O Inaccessible Light."

It must be remembered that one common Eastern name for baptism is enlightenment or illumination - hence Christ shone out in the Jordan, shedding His healing rays on all men, manifesting Himself in His Epiphany.

After the service, Fr Lawrence said casually that he hadn't been sure whether it were the 32nd or the 33rd Sunday after Pentecost (as the Byzantine Rite enumerates all Sundays from one Pentecost right through until the pre-Lenten preparatory Sundays commence, there being no Advent as such, just the Nativity Fast), but that in any case the readings settled upon had been manifestly suitable!  I discover now that he was joking, since there are proper readings assigned for the Sunday after the Theophany, whatever Sunday after Pentecost it be, and the proper readings were those that were chanted.

The Gospel was taken from St Matthew iv, 12-17; the Epistle, from Ephesians iv, 7-13 (part of which I read in the Roman Breviary at Matins to-day, hence my being reminded of all this Liturgy) - and I have always found rather admirable the way the reader chants the Epistle, beginning on a very low note, and gradually ascending as he goes till he finishes on a very high one...

Hot Weather Update - II

Flinders Island set a new record for Tasmania today, with temperatures touching 41°C, and Launceston (my home once again) had its hottest day in a hundred years, reaching 37.1°C at Launceston Airport (in town itself, the temperature was a shade cooler).

I hope this is not the shape of things to come! (Recall that I joked that I was a climate refugee? Well, I didn't intend that I should have to flee Van Diemen's Land!)

Perhaps the heat can lead us to meditate on our latter end...

St Francis de Sales

I've tried, and failed, I'll admit, to read St Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life - oddly, since I find Fr Faber's perfervid prose fine, and ditto for St Louis de Montfort, somehow the Baroque style of de Sales doesn't sit well with me: too much sugar?

In any case, far be it from me to do anything but laud the great works of St Francis de Sales, who (as his hagiographic lesson says) by the help of God converted 72,000 Calvinist and other heretics to the Catholic Faith by his indefatigable preaching of the Divine Word and writing - "By his writings recording heavenly doctrine he enlightened the Church" - and so he was declared by Bl Pius IX a Doctor of the Church.

His Collect, composed by Pope Alexander VII:

Deus, qui ad animarum salutem beatum Franciscum Confessorem tuum atque Pontificem omnibus omnia factum esse voluisti: concede propitius; ut caritatis tuæ dulcedine perfusi, ejus dirigentibus monitis ac suffragantibus meritis, æterna gaudia consequamur.  Per...

(God, Who for the salvation of souls willed blessed Francis Thy Confessor and Pontiff to be made all things to all men [cf. I Cor. ix, 22]: graciously grant, that imbued with the sweetness of Thy love, by his directing admonitions and assisting merits, we may attain eternal joys.  Through...)

One of my missals provides the proper Mass of St Francis de Sales for his daughters, the nuns of the Order of the Visitation.  The Epistle is Ephesians iii, 7-21, and the Offertory, Apoc. ii, 19: "I know thy works and thy faith, and thy charity, and thy ministry, and thy patience, and thy last works, which are more than the former."  There is even a proper Preface:

Vere dignum... per Christum Dominum nostrum.

Qui Ecclesiæ suæ beatum Franciscum Pastorem juxta cor suum suscitavit, ut scriptis, sermonibus et exemplis pietatem corroboraret et aspera converteret in vias planas.  Quique illum suæ lenitatis spiritu tam mirabiliter adimplevit, ut non solum indurata peccatorum corda ad pœnitentiam flecteret, sed et rebelles tot hæreticorum mentes ad fidei catholicæ unitatem revocaret.

Et ideo...

(Truly worthy... through Christ our Lord.

(Who raised up for His Church blessed Francis as a Shepherd after His own Heart [cf. Jer. iii, 15], to strengthen piety by his writings, sermons and examples and to convert rough places into level paths [cf. Is. xl, 4].  Who also so marvellously filled him with a spirit of gentleness [cf. Gal. vi, 1], that not only did he bend the hard hearts of sinners to penitence, but recalled the rebel minds of many heretics to the unity of the Catholic Faith.

(And therefore...)

May he pray for us before the Face of God in heaven, that still to-day he may fulfil his God-given mission of grace, as an ambassador for Christ calling all of us to unity of Faith and right conduct, that the Lord may deign to work again such wonders through him that the sinner may repent and the heretic believe aright.

(It is a little-known fact that the Oratorians lay claim to St Francis de Sales, since it is thought that he met, if not St Philip Neri himself, then his close disciples, and at one stage sought to establish an Oratory in his area of operations prior to his becoming a bishop.)

Memento rerum Conditor

Herewith, the hymn at the Little Hours in the Little Office; it repays careful thought, with its emphasis on the Incarnation of Christ as the ground of our hope, on the Mother of God, therefore the mother of Grace and Mercy, as our protection from evil and refuge at death, and on adoration of the Trinity, One of Whom took flesh for us:

Memento, rerum Conditor,

Nostri quod olim corporis,

Sacrata ab alvo Virginis

Nascendo formam sumpseris.

(Remember, Maker of [all] things,

That once the form of our flesh, 

From the Virgin's sacred womb

Being born, thou didst assume.)

Maria, Mater gratiæ,

Dulcis parens clementiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege

Et mortis hora suscipe.

(Mary, Mother of grace,

Sweet parent of clemency,

Thou protect us from the enemy

And receive us at the hour of death.)

Jesu, tibi sit gloria,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre, et almo Spiritu,

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

(Jesu, to Thee be glory,

Who wast born of the Virgin,

With the Father, and the loving Spirit,

Unto sempiternal ages.  Amen.)

Hot Weather Update

As of 2 pm to-day, the temperature in Launceston reached 35.7°C, which is the highest temperature recorded here since before 1962 (it was hotter in the 1940's and back in 1908, it reached 37°C: weather reports indicate that the ongoing heatwave in Melbourne is of the same order as the 1908 heatwave, at the end of the Federation drought).

Death Comes for the Archbishop

No, this isn't a news flash, or a devout prayer that Such-and-such receive his reward very soon...  (For such, BTW, one sings the Media vita, or has a Requiem sung.)

Rather, I've just taken delivery of a favourite book of mine, which I've read over and again, but one of which I've never actually owned a copy: Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather (originally published 1927).  It's an evocative, elegaic work about two French priests come to the South-West of the United States to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism and erect new dioceses among the Indians, Spanish/Mexicans and Americans there.  I thoroughly recommend it to all.

While I'm not so interested in reading most of her œuvre, I think I may buy a copy of Shadows on the Rock, set in 17th century Quebec...

More on the Little Office - II

Considerations revolving around the Little Office are in my mind at the minute; though most of what I've written I've previously thought on years back (I typed up the Dominican Rite Little Office a long time ago, for instance).

Well, what more to say?

It is evident that the main Hours - Matins, Lauds and Vespers - are taken from the Common of Our Lady and from Marian feasts: so the psalmody appointed for Matins and Vespers is that of feasts of the Blessed Virgin.

As for the remaining Hours, for the most part the psalms provided are chosen from the Gradual Psalms (Pss 119-133), except, in the Roman Rite Little Office, for Prime.  (In the Dominican Little Office, all fifteen of the Gradual Psalms are used, three each at Prime, Terce, Sext, None and Compline - with the result that the psalms used at Dominican Terce de Beata are the equivalent of those used at Roman Sext de Beata, and so forth.)  Why is Prime differently supplied?  I conjecture that the Roman choice of Pss 53, 84 and 116 depends upon the truth that, before St Pius X reformed the cursus of the Psalter in 1912, each and every day Prime in the Breviary began with Psalm 53, and so it was felt to be the opening psalm par excellence of Prime, and so needs must be used at Prime of the Blessed Virgin also.  I also guess that Psalm 84 is used because its verses well accommodate a Marian and Christological interpretation (hence its special appropriateness in Advent); and Psalm 116 is just a very short psalm of praise added on!

Next, consider the antiphons: in the usual form of the Little Office employed through the year, the psalm antiphons at Matins are from the Common of the Blessed Virgin (and these are also used during Advent and Christmastide, with only one change made during Advent, just as the Breviary prescribes), while at Lauds and through the Hours they are those of the Assumption of Our Lady (Assumpta est... Maria Virgo... In odorem... Benedicta filia... Pulchra es...), while the psalm antiphons for Vespers are simply those from the Common of the Blessed Virgin (Dum esset... Læva ejus... Nigra sum... Jam hiems... Speciosa facta...).  Indeed, while considering Vespers, the little chapter (Ecclus xxiv, 14), hymn (Ave maris stella) and collect (Concede nos) are all likewise the same as those appointed for Vespers of feasts of Our Lady; and so too at Lauds, the hymn O gloriosa Virginum is that from the Common also.  The hymn at Matins(Quem terra) is from the Common, and the three responsories given for Matins (though the last is rarely used except during Septuagesimatide and Lent, as the Te Deum trumps it) are Sancta et... Beata es... and Felix namque... - and these are Responsories i, iii, and vii (changing festivitatem to commemorationem, and adding a Gloria Patri) from Matins of the Common of feasts of Our Lady.  Interestingly, the Invitatory antiphon is from the feast of the Annunciation.

In the Advent form of the Little Office, the psalm antiphons for Lauds, Vespers and through the Hours are those used for the Annunciation on the 25th of March: Missus est... Ave Maria.. Ne timeas... Dabit ei... Ecce ancilla... - all of which are taken from the Gospel of the Annunciation, which the Little Office adopts to read as the Lessons of Matins for the Advent season; and of course the Collect employed at every Hour is Deus qui de beatæ, again from the feast of the Annunciation.  Similarly, the three responsories of Matins (Missus est... Ave Maria... Suscipe verbum...) are taken from the first Nocturn of Matins of the Annunciation (Responsories i, ii, and iii).  The capitula read at the Advent Little Office day Hours are from Isaias xi, 1-2 (at Lauds, Terce and Vespers - but at None in the Daily Office at the Annunciation); Isaias vii, 14-15 (at Prime and Compline - it is used at Lauds, etc. of the Annunciation in the Breviary); St Luke i, 32 (at Sext just as at the same Hour on the feast of the Annunciation); Ecclus xxiv, 19-20 (at None: this is the only reading that doesn't change in the Little Office, and that doesn't come from the Annunciation feast).  It must be noted, by the way, that many of these items proper to the Annunciation also occur or occurred during Advent in the Breviary, and may be originally Advent texts.  (This is probably the case for the antiphon Spiritus Sanctus used for all the Gospel canticles for the Little Office in Advent - it is drawn from the Annunciation Gospel, and is somewhat similar to an antiphon used at the Annunciation, but otherwise I haven't tracked down its source.)

During the time from Christmas until the Purification, the antiphons for Lauds, through the Hours and Vespers are those of the Octave Day of Christmas, now quite reasonably styled in the Ordinary Form the Solemnity of Mary, Mater Dei: for the (obviously Byzantine) psalm antiphons appointed are O admirabile... Quando natus... Rubum quem... Germinavit radix... Ecce Maria..., and the Benedictus and Magnificat antiphons Mirabile mysterium...  and Magnum hereditatis... (the latter repeated at Compline for the Nunc Dimittis antiphon) are likewise taken from that great feast.

Returning at last to the ordinary form of the Little Office outside of Advent and Christmastide, the texts of Scripture used for lessons and little chapters are nearly all from Ecclesiasticus xxiv, which in the literal sense is the self-praise of the Law of God personified, and in the mystical sense is the self-praise of the Blessed Virgin and of Christ.  These are the assigned texts: at Lauds, Cant. vi, 8; at Prime, Cant. vi, 9 (used, slightly modified, for the Benedictus antiphon on the feast of the Assumption); at Terce, Ecclus xxiv, 15 and at Sext, Ecclus xxiv, 16 (the Breviary appoints both passages, joined together, for use at Sext on feasts of the Virgin); at None, Ecclus xxiv, 19-20 (just as for None of Marian feasts according to the great Office); at Vespers, Ecclus xxiv, 14 (used in the Breviary for Marian feasts at Lauds, etc.); and at Compline, Ecclus xxiv, 24.  Also, during the course of the year, there are proper Collects at each Hour (and with these may be numbered the Absolution and Blessings at Matins), which are drawn from the large stock of Marian orations in the Church's liturgy (such as those appended to each of the Marian anthems sung after Compline).

All that really remains is to enquire as to the sources of the antiphons for the Benedictus, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis through the year.  Throughout Eastertide, the Regina cæli is employed, that familiar anthem.  At Compline, otherwise the ancient Sub tuum (first recorded in Greek in the third century or earlier) is used.  At Vespers, a short and rather mediæval anthem is appointed: Beata Mater; and at Lauds, a longer text, said to go back to Augustine (though I suspect a mediæval writer adopting his mantle), the Beata Dei Genitrix.

One last item: the hymn Memento rerum Conditor, used at all five of the Little Hours, has a curious source - for it's a pastiche.  The title stanza comes from the Christmas hymn at Vespers by Prudentius (I think), but there is the third stanza! and the middle stanza is a standard mediæval plea to Our Lady, with the third being the standard doxology employed on all Marian feasts. Apparently in mediæval times, a stanza from the Veni creator Spiritus was also inserted, in honour of the Holy Ghost, Who also had a commemoration (antiphon, verse and collect) at each and every Hour.

Enough for now.

******

P.S.  It really ought be noted that the Little Office according to the Use of Rome as we have it to-day is apparently somewhat reworked compared to the many variant forms of the Little Office in mediæval times.  I recall reading that at the time St Pius V brought out the Roman Breviary (containing the Little Office), some changes were made in it in accord with the liturgical spirit of the times.  The Dominican Rite Little Office, as given in an earlier posting, is much more mediæval in its antiphons, for instance, and especially in its provision of three prayers to Our Lady as Lessons for Matins - these three prayers were exceedingly commonly used in mediæval versions of the Little Office, and I think they bear repeating here; note how they rhyme:

Sancta Maria, Virgo virginum,
mater et filia Regis regum omnium,
tuum nobis impende solatium:
ut cælestis regni per te mereamur habere præmium,
et cum electis Dei regnare in perpetuum.

Sancta Maria, piarum piissima,
intercede pro nobis, sanctarum sanctissima:
per te, Virgo, nostra sumat precamina
qui pro nobis ex te natus regnat super æthera:
ut sua caritate nostra deleantur peccamina.

Sancta Dei Genetrix, quæ digne meruisti concipere
quem totus orbis nequit comprehendere,
tuo pio interventu culpa nostras ablue:
ut redempti perennis sedem gloriæ
per te valeamus scandere,
ubi regnas cum eodem Filio tuo sine tempore.

Matins for St Peter Nolasco, Wednesday of the 3rd Week after Epiphany

I was quite moved by to-day's Matins Lessons.  First, there is the wonderful Pauline hymn contained in Ephesians i, 1-14 (which the modern Office I think very rightly has taken, somewhat abbreviated to only verses 3-10, to use as a canticle at Vespers on Mondays); and then, the short account of the life of St Peter Nolasco.  His collect, too, on which together with allied prayers I've blogged earlier, is noteworthy.

Herewith, Ephesians i, 1-14:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.  Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

Who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ: 

as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, 

that we should be holy and unspotted 

in His sight in charity: 

Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children 

through Jesus Christ unto Himself: 

according to the purpose of his will:

unto the praise of the glory of His grace, 

in which He hath graced us in His beloved Son:

in Whom we have redemption through His blood, 

the remission of sins, 

according to the riches of His grace, 

which hath superabounded in us 

in all wisdom and prudence, 

that He might make known unto us the mystery of His will, 

according to His good pleasure, 

which He hath purposed in Him, 

in the dispensation of the fulness of times, 

to re-establish all things in Christ, 

that are in heaven and on earth, in Him:

in Whom we also are called by lot, 

being predestinated according to the purpose of Him 

Who worketh all things according to the counsel of His will, 

that we may be unto the praise of His glory, 

we who before hoped Christ: 

in Whom you also, 

after you had heard the word of truth, 

(the gospel of your salvation;) 

in Whom also believing, 

you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise, 

Who is the pledge of our inheritance, 

unto the redemption of acquisition, 

unto the praise of His glory.

I was once privileged while on retreat to hear a masterly exegesis of this beautiful passage.

As I pray, after the example of the Byzantine Rite and of Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity, O.C.D., "Make me a praise of Thy glory, O Most Holy Trinity, consubstantial and undivided!"

Hot Weather

Yesterday afternoon found me in Melbourne, walking the length (2 km) of the shopping strip that is Chapel Street, South Yarra, in hot weather - moving up from the high twenties to the low thirties (but I was back in my airconditioned hire car by the time it reached the day's maximum of 35.6°C at 6 pm).  But I congratulated myself at being about to decamp to Tasmania, so escaping the predicted scorching heat...

Well, to-day has found us afflicted with 33°C in Launceston - unheard of!  And worse is to come... 34°C on Thursday, then 33°C for Friday and Saturday, which for Tasmanians is almost inconceivably warm.  (In the last forty-odd years, it's only ever been as hot as 35°C in January.)

At least we have airconditioning in the dining and lounge rooms.

As for the Mainland, apparently it has been hideously hot in Melbourne (topping out at 42.9°C, again, weirdly enough, at 6 pm), and even hotter in Adelaide: minimum 31°C, maximum 45°C!  Adelaide will have much the same to-morrow, and then only slightly cooler all week; Melbourne, two more days of 43°C, and only then a bit cooler.  

Yuck.

The Little Office and the Office of the Dead

Among pious layfolk in past times, not only was the Little Office of Our Lady read, but also the Office of the Dead (to say nothing of the Penitential Psalms or Litanies of the Saints).

Now, interestingly enough, the three Nocturns of Matins of the Dead have on average 49 psalm-verses, Lauds have 64, and Vespers, 40.  Matins and Lauds together are known as (the) Dirge, from the first antiphon of Matins, Dirige; Vespers is for the same reason known as Placebo, its opening word (as Deus in adjutorium, etc. is not used).  Hence, Dirge and Placebo together have on average 153 psalm-verses, and this total, when added to that of the Hours of the Blessed Virgin (to wit, 237, as I calculated below), gives 390 - which is almost exactly the portion of psalm-verses counted up in the Breviary each day.

This has interesting consequences - for instance, a priest unable to say the Breviary for some reason could theoretically apply to have his obligation commuted to reciting the Little Office and the Office of the Dead together, since he would be praying about the same amount of holy psalms and lessons, pious hymns and prayers, so to speak!  (In mediæval days, it was common for religious and laity to have committed the Little Office to memory, and one assumes this would also be the case for Placebo and Dirge.  In more recent times, a priest unable, through failing eyesight, say, to read his Breviary would usually get his obligation commuted to reciting 15 decades of the Rosary daily, which at a reasonable pace takes 45 minutes to an hour.  I wonder if these days all 20 decades would be required?  But oh no, I forgot, the modern Divine Office being so short it would seem that only 10 decades would suffice... and in any case, few priests would know or care to ask for such a commutation, seeing as it is an open secret that many don't pray the Office at all.)

Dominican Rite Little Office

Since I don't think this is available online, here is the whole of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to the Dominican Rite; I think the details of its differences from the Roman Little Office will be evident to those familiar with the latter.

[UPDATE (10th – 12th September 2011): I have now corrected a few embarrassing mistakes and made improvements for the greater ease of use, such as giving the antiphons in full after as well as before the psalms – please advise if any others are apparent.]

OFFICIVM PARVVM BEATÆ MARIÆ VIRGINIS

JVXTA RITVM ORDINIS PRÆDICATORVM

AD MATVTINVM

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Domine, labia mea aperies.

R/. Et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam. (Ps 50,17)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Invit. Regem Virginis Filium, * Venite, adoremus.

Psalmus 94.

Venite, exsultemus Domino, jubilemus Deo, salutari nostro: præoccupemus faciem ejus in confessione, et in psalmis jubilemus ei.

Regem Virginis Filium, venite, adoremus.

V/. Quoniam Deus magnus Dominus, et Rex magnus super omnes deos: quoniam non repellet Domino plebem suam: quia in manu ejus sunt omnes fines terræ, et altitudinem montium ipse conspicit.

Venite, adoremus.

V/. Quoniam ipsius est mare, et ipse fecit illud, et aridam fundaverunt manus ejus: venite, adoremus, et procidamus ante Deum: ploremus coram Domino, qui fecit nos, quia ipse est Dominus Deus noster; nos autem populus ejus et oves pascuæ ejus.

Regem Virginis Filium, venite, adoremus.

V/. Hodie, si vocem ejus audieritis, nolite obdurare corda vestra, sicut in exacerbatione secundum diem tentationis in deserto: ubi tentaverunt me patres vestri, probaverunt et viderunt opera mea.

Venite, adoremus.

V/. Quadraginta annis proximus fui generationi huic, et dixi: Semper hi errant corde; ipsi vero non cognoverunt vias meas: quibus juravi in ira mea: Si introibunt in requiem meam.

Regem Virginis Filium, venite, adoremus.

V/. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Venite, adoremus.

Regem Virginis Filium, venite, adoremus.

Hymnus

Quem terra, pontus, æthera

Colunt, adorant, prædicant,

Trinam regentem machinam

Claustrum Mariæ bajulat.

Cui luna, sol, et omnia

Deserviunt per tempora,

Perfusa cæli gratia,

Gestant puellæ viscera.

Beata Mater munere,

Cujus supernus Artifex,

Mundum pugillo continens,

Ventris sub arca clausus est.

Beata cæli nuntio,

Fecunda Sancto Spiritu,

Desideratus gentibus

Cujus per alvum fusus est.

Maria, mater gratiæ,

Mater misericordiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Et hora mortis suscipe.

Gloria tibi, Domine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Super psalmos aña. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui. (Lc 1,42)

Psalmus 8.

Domine, Dominus noster, * quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra!

Quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua * super cælos.

Ex ore infantium et lactentium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos, * ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.

Quoniam videbo cælos tuos, opera digitorum tuorum: * lunam et stellas, quæ tu fundasti.

Quid est homo, quod memor es ejus? * aut filius hominis, quoniam visitas eum?

Minuisti eum paulo minus ab Angelis, † gloria et honore coronasti eum: * et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.

Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus, * oves et boves universas: insuper et pecora campi.

Volucres cæli et pisces maris, * qui perambulant semitas maris.

Domine, Dominus noster, * quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra!

Gloria Patri et Filio * et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, * et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 18.

Cæli enarrant gloriam Dei, * et opera manuum ejus annuntiat firmamentum.

Dies diei eructat verbum, * et nox nocti indicat scientiam.

Non sunt loquelæ, neque sermones, * quorum non audiantur voces eorum.

In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum: * et in fines orbis terræ verba eorum.

In sole posuit tabernaculum suum: * et ipse tamquam sponsus procedens de thalamo suo:

Exsultavit ut gigas ad currendam viam, * a summo cælo egressio ejus:

Et occursus ejus usque ad summum ejus: * nec est qui se abscondat a calore ejus.

Lex Domini immaculata, convertens animas: * testimonium Domini fidele, sapientiam præstans parvulis.

Justitiæ Domini rectæ, lætificantes corda: * præceptum Domini lucidum, illuminans oculos.

Timor Domini sanctus, permanens in sæculum sæculi: * judicia Domini vera, justificata in semetipsa.

Desiderabilia super aurum et lapidem pretiosum multum: * et dulciora super mel et favum.

Etenim servus tuus custodit ea, * in custodiendis illis retributio multa.

Delicta quis intelligit? † ab occultis meis munda me: * et ab alienis parce servo tuo.

Si mei non fuerint dominati, tunc immaculatus ero: * et emundabor a delicto maximo.

Et erunt ut complaceant eloquia oris mei: * et meditatio cordis mei in conspectu tuo semper.

Domine, adjutor meus * et redemptor meus.

Gloria Patri et Filio * et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, * et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 23.

Domini est terra, et plenitudo ejus, * orbis terrarum, et universi qui habitant in eo.

Quia ipse super maria fundavit eum, * et super flumina præparavit eum.

Quis ascendet in montem Domini? * aut quis stabit in loco sancto ejus?

Innocens manibus et mundo corde, † qui non accepit in vano animam suam, * nec juravit in dolo proximo suo.

Hic accipiet benedictionem a Domino: * et misericordiam a Deo salutari suo.

Hæc est generatio quærentium eum, * quærentium faciem Dei Jacob.

Attollite portas, principes, vestras, † et elevamini, portæ æternales, * et introibit rex gloriæ.

Quis est iste rex gloriæ? * Dominus fortis et potens, Dominus potens in prælio.

Attollite portas, principes, vestras, † et elevamini, portæ æternales, * et introibit rex gloriæ.

Quis est iste rex gloriæ? * Dominus virtutum ipse est rex gloriæ.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui. (Lc 1,42) 

V/. Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis.

R/. Propterea benedixit te Deus in æternum. (Ps 44,3)

Pater noster… (secreto usque ad) Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.

R/. Sed libera nos a malo. (Mt 6,9-13)

V/. Jube, domne, benedicere.

Benedictio. Alma Virgo virginum intercedat pro nobis ad Dominum. R/. Amen.

Lectio i.

Sancta Maria, Virgo virginum,

mater et filia Regis regum omnium,

tuum nobis impende solatium:

ut cælestis regni per te mereamur habere præmium,

et cum electis Dei regnare in perpetuum.

Tu autem, Domine, miserere nostri. R/. Deo gratias.

(V/. Lc 1,42)

R/. i. Sancta et immaculata virginitas, quibus te laudibus efferam, nescio: * Quia quem cæli capere non poterant, tuo gremio contulisti. V/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui. * Quia quem cæli capere non poterant, tuo gremio contulisti.

V/. Jube, domne, benedicere.

Benedictio. Sancta Dei Genetrix sit nobis auxiliatrix. R/. Amen.

Lectio ii.

Sancta Maria, piarum piissima,

intercede pro nobis, sanctarum sanctissima:

per te, Virgo, nostra sumat precamina

qui pro nobis ex te natus regnat super æthera:

ut sua caritate nostra deleantur peccamina.

Tu autem, Domine, miserere nostri. R/. Deo gratias.

(V/. Lc 1,28)

R/. ii. Beata es, Virgo Maria, quæ Dominum portasti creatorem mundi: * Genuisti eum qui te fecit, et in æternum permanes virgo. V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. * Genuisti eum qui te fecit, et in æternum permanes virgo.

V/. Jube, domne, benedicere.

Benedictio. Nos cum Prole pia benedicat Virgo Maria. R/. Amen.

Lectio iii.

Sancta Dei Genetrix, quæ digne meruisti concipere

quem totus orbis nequit comprehendere,

tuo pio interventu culpas nostras ablue:

ut redempti perennis sedem gloriæ

per te valeamus scandere,

ubi regnas cum eodem Filio tuo sine tempore.

Tu autem, Domine, miserere nostri. R/. Deo gratias.

R/. iii. Felix namque es, sacra Virgo Maria, et omni laude dignissima: * Quia ex te ortus est Sol justitiæ, † Christus Deus noster. V/. Ora pro populo, interveni pro clero, intercede pro devoto femineo sexu: sentiant omnes tuum juvamen, quicumque celebrant tuam commemorationem. * Quia ex te ortus est Sol justitiæ, † Christus Deus noster. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto. † Christus Deus noster.

(Quando R/. repetitur in aliis Matutinis:) R/. Felix namque es, sacra Virgo Maria, et omni laude dignissima: quia ex te ortus est Sol justitiæ, Christus Deus noster.

(Quando Te Deum dicitur in aliis Matutinis:)

Hymnus Ambrosianus

Te Deum laudámus: * te Dóminum confitémur.

Te ætérnum Patrem * omnis terra venerátur.

Tibi omnes Angeli, * tibi Cæli et univérsæ Potestátes,

Tibi Chérubim et Séraphim * incessábili voce proclámant:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus * Dóminus Deus Sábaoth.

Pleni sunt cæli et terra * majestátis glóriæ tuæ.

Te gloriósus * Apostolòrum chorus,

Te Prophetárum * laudábilis númerus,

Te Mártyrum candidátus * laudat exércitus.

Te per orbem terrárum * sancta confitétur Ecclésia:

Patrem * imménsæ majestátis;

Venerándum tuum verum * et únicum Fílium;

Sanctum quoque * Paráclitum Spíritum.

Tu rex glóriæ, * Christe.

Tu Patris * sempitérnus es Filius.

Tu, ad liberándum susceptúrus hóminem, * non horrúisti Virginis úterum.

Tu, devícto mortis acúleo, * aperuísti credéntibus regna cælórum.

Tu ad déxteram Dei sedes, * in glória Patris.

Judex créderis * esse ventúrus.

Te ergo quǽsumus, tuis fámulis súbveni, * quos pretióso sánguine redemísti.

Ætérna fac cum sanctis tuis * in glória numerári.

Salvum fac pópulum tuum, Dómine, * et bénedic hereditáti tuæ.

Et rege eos, * et extólle illos usque in ætérnum.

Per síngulos dies * benedícimus te.

Et laudámus nomen tuum in sǽculum, * et in sǽculum sǽculi.

Dignáre, Dómine, die isto * sine peccáto nos custodíre.

Miserére nostri, Dómine, * miserére nostri.

Fiat misericórdia tua, Dómine, super nos, * quemádmodum sperávimus in te.

In te, Dómine, sperávi: * non confúndar in ætérnum.

Ante Laudes V/. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix.

R/. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

AD LAVDES

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Super psalmos aña. Post partum, Virgo, inviolata permansisti: Dei Genetrix, intercede pro nobis.

Psalmus 92.

Dominus regnavit, decorem indutus est: * indutus est Dominus fortitudinem, et præcinxit se.

Etenim firmavit orbem terræ, * qui non commovebitur.

Parata sedes tua ex tunc: * a sæculo tu es.

Elevaverunt flumina, Domine: * elevaverunt flumina vocem suam.

Elevaverunt flumina fluctus suos, * a vocibus aquarum multarum.

Mirabiles elationes maris: * mirabilis in altis Dominus.

Testimonia tua credibilia facta sunt nimis: * domum tuam decet sanctitudo, Domine, in longitudinem dierum.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 99.

Jubilate Deo, omnis terra: * servite Domino in lætitia.

Introite in conspectu ejus, * in exsultatione.

Scitote quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus: * ipse fecit nos, et non ipsi nos.

Populus ejus, et oves pascuæ ejus: † introite portas ejus in confessione, * atria ejus in hymnis: confitemini illi.

Laudate nomen ejus: quoniam suavis est Dominus, † in æternum misericordia ejus, * et usque in generationem et generationem veritas ejus.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 62.

Deus, Deus meus, * ad te de luce vigilo.

Sitivit in te anima mea, * quam multipliciter tibi caro mea.

In terra deserta, et invia, et inaquosa: † sic in sancto apparui tibi, * ut viderem virtutem tuam et gloriam tuam.

Quoniam melior est misericordia tua super vitas: * labia mea laudabunt te.

Sic benedicam te in vita mea: * et in nomine tuo levabo manus meas.

Sicut adipe et pinguedine repleatur anima mea: * et labiis exsultationis laudabit os meum.

Si memor fui tui super stratum meum, † in matutinis meditabor in te: * quia fuisti adjutor meus.

Et in velamento alarum tuarum exsultabo, † adhæsit anima mea post te: * me suscepit dextera tua.

Ipsi vero in vanum quæsierunt animam meam, † introibunt in inferiora terræ: * tradentur in manus gladii, partes vulpium erunt.

Rex vero lætabitur in Deo, †laudabuntur omnes qui jurant in eo: * quia obstructum est os loquentium iniqua.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Canticum trium Puerorum. Dan 3, 57-88 et 56.

Benedicite, omnia opera Domini, Domino: * laudate et superexaltate eum in sæcula.

Benedicite, Angeli Domini, Domino: * benedicite, cæli, Domino.

Benedicite, aquæ omnes quæ super cælos sunt, Domino: * benedicite, omnes virtutes Domini, Domino.

Benedicite, sol et luna, Domino: * benedicite, stellæ cæli, Domino.

Benedicite, omnis imber et ros, Domino: * benedicite, omnes spiritus Dei, Domino.

Benedicite, ignis et æstus, Domino: * benedicite, frigus et æstus, Domino.

Benedicite, rores et pruina, Domino : * benedicite, gelu et frigus, Domino.

Benedicite, glacies et nives, Domino: * benedicite, noctes et dies, Domino.

Benedicite, lux et tenebræ, Domino: * benedicite, fulgura et nubes, Domino.

Benedicat terra Dominum: * laudet et superexaltet eum in sæcula.

Benedicite, montes et colles, Domino: * benedicite, universa germinantia in terra, Domino.

Benedicite, fontes, Domino: * benedicite, maria et flumina, Domino.

Benedicite, cete et omnia quæ moventur in aquis, Domino: * benedicite, omnes volucres cæli, Domino.

Benedicite, omnes bestiæ et pecora, Domino: * benedicite, filii hominum, Domino.

Benedicat Israël Dominum: * laudet et superexaltet eum in sæcula.

Benedicite, sacerdotes Domini, Domino: * benedicite, servi Domini, Domino.

Benedicite, spiritus et animæ justorum, Domino: * benedicite, sancti et humiles corde, Domino.

Benedicite, Anania, Azaria, Misaël, Domino: * laudate et superexaltate eum in sæcula.

Benedicamus Patrem et Filium cum Sancto Spiritu: * laudemus et superexaltemus eum in sæcula.

Benedictus es, Domine, in firmamento cæli: * et laudabilis, et gloriosus, et superexaltatus in sæcula.

Psalmus 148.

Laudate Dominum de cælis, * laudate eum in excelsis.

Laudate eum, omnes Angeli ejus: * laudate eum, omnes virtutes ejus.

Laudate eum, sol et luna: * laudate eum, omnes stellæ, et lumen.

Laudate eum, cæli cælorum: * et aquæ omnes, quæ super cælos sunt, laudent nomen Domini.

Quia ipse dixit, et facta sunt: * ipse mandavit, et creata sunt.

Statuit ea in æternum, et in sæculum sæculi: * præceptum posuit, et non præteribit.

Laudate Dominum de terra, * dracones et, omnes abyssi.

Ignis, grando, nix, glacies, spiritus procellarum: * quæ faciunt verbum ejus:

Montes, et omnes colles: * ligna fructifera, et omnes cedri.

Bestiæ, et universa pecora: * serpentes et volucres pennatæ: 

Reges terræ et omnes populi: * principes et omnes judices terræ.

Juvenes, et virgines: senes cum junioribus laudent nomen Domini: * quia exaltatum est nomen ejus solius.

Confessio ejus super cælum, et terram: * et exaltavit cornu populi sui.

Hymnus omnibus sanctis ejus: * filiis Israël, populo appropinquanti sibi.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Post partum, Virgo, inviolata permansisti: Dei Genetrix, intercede pro nobis. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,23

Ego quasi vitis fructificavi suavitatem odoris: et flores mei fructus honoris et honestatis. R/. Deo gratias.

Hymnus

O gloriosa Domina,

Excelsa supra sidera:

Qui te creavit provide

Lactasti sacro ubere.

Quod Heva tristis abstulit

Tu reddis almo germine:

Intrent ut astra flebiles,

Cæli fenestra facta es.

Tu Regis alti janua

Et porta lucis fulgida:

Vitam datam per Virginem,

Gentes redemptæ, plaudite.

Maria, mater gratiæ,

Mater misericordiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Et hora mortis suscipe.

Gloria tibi, Domine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

V/. Elegit eam Deus et præelegit eam.

R/. Et habitare eam facit in tabernaculo suo.

Ad Bened. aña.

O gloriosa Dei Genetrix, Virgo semper Maria,

quæ Dominum omnium meruisti portare,

et Regem Angelorum sola Virgo lactare:

nostri, quæsumus, pia memorare,

et pro nobis Christum deprecare:

ut tuis fulti patrociniis ad cælestia regna mereamur pervenire.

Canticum Zachariæ. Lucæ 1.

Benedictus Dominus, Deus Israël, * quia visitavit et fecit redemptionem plebis suæ,

Et erexit cornu salutis nobis * in domo David pueri sui,

Sicut locutus est per os sanctorum, * qui a sæculo sunt, prophetarum ejus:

Salutem ex inimicis nostris, * et de manu omnium qui oderunt nos,

Ad faciendam misericordiam cum patribus nostris, * et memorari testamenti sui sancti:

Jusjurandum, quod juravit ad Abraham patrem nostrum, * daturum se nobis,

Ut sine timore, de manu inimicorum nostrorum liberati, * serviamus illi

In sanctitate et iustitia coram ipso * omnibus diebus nostris.

Et tu, puer, propheta Altissimi vocaberis: * præibis enim ante faciem Domini parare vias ejus,

Ad dandam scientiam salutis plebi ejus * in remissionem peccatorum eorum

Per viscera misericordiæ Dei nostri, * in quibus visitavit nos Oriens ex alto,

Illuminare his, qui in tenebris et in umbra mortis sedent, * ad dirigendos pedes nostros in viam pacis.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña.

O gloriosa Dei Genetrix, Virgo semper Maria,

quæ Dominum omnium meruisti portare,

et Regem Angelorum sola Virgo lactare:

nostri, quæsumus, pia memorare,

et pro nobis Christum deprecare:

ut tuis fulti patrociniis ad cælestia regna mereamur pervenire. 

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio. 

Concede nos famulos tuos, quæsumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis salute gaudere: et gloriosa beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis intercessione a præsenti liberari tristitia, et æterna perfrui lætitia. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

Per Adventum

(Cf. Lc 1,35.30.31)

Ad Bened. aña. Spiritus Sanctus in te descendet, Maria: ne timeas, habebis in utero Filium Dei, alleluja.

Oratio.

Deus, qui de beatæ Mariæ Virginis utero Verbum tuum Angelo nuntiante carne suscipere voluisti, præsta supplicibus tuis: ut, qui vere eam Genetricem Dei credimus, ejus apud te intercessionibus adjuvemur. Per eundem Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

A Nativitate Domini ad festum Purificationis inclusive

Ad Bened. aña. Genuit puerpera Regem, cui nomen æternum: et gaudia matris habens cum virginitatis honore, nec primam similem visa est, nec habere sequentem.

Oratio.

Deus, qui salutis æternæ, beatæ Mariæ virginitate fecunda, humano generi præmia præstitisti: tribue, quæsumus, ut ipsam pro nobis intercedere sentiamus, per quam meruimus Auctorem vitæ suscipere: Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

Tempore paschali

Ad Bened. aña. Beata Dei Genetrix Maria, Virgo perpetua, templum Domini, sacrarium Spiritus Sancti, tu sola sine exemplo placuisti Domino nostro Jesu Christo. Ora pro populo, interveni pro clero, intercede pro devoto femineo sexu, alleluja, alleluja.

Oratio.

Concede nos famulos tuos, quæsumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis salute gaudere: et gloriosa beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis intercessione a præsenti liberari tristitia, et æterna perfrui lætitia. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Si immediate non sequitur alia Hora, subditur

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.

AD PRIMAM

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Hymnus

Memento, salutis Auctor,

Quod nostri quondam corporis,

Ex illibata Virgine

Nascendo, formam sumpseris.

Maria, mater gratiæ,

Mater misericordiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Et hora mortis suscipe.

Gloria tibi, Domine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Super psalmos aña. Dignare me laudare te, Virgo sacrata: da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.

Psalmus 119.

Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi: * et exaudivit me.

Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis, * et a lingua dolosa.

Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi * ad linguam dolosam ?

Sagittæ potentis acutæ, * cum carbonibus desolatoriis.

Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est: habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar: * multum incola fuit anima mea.

Cum his qui oderunt pacem, eram pacificus: * cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 120.

Levavi oculos meos in montes, * unde veniet auxilium mihi.

Auxilium meum a Domino, * qui fecit cælum et terram.

Non det in commotionem pedem tuum: * neque dormitet qui custodit te.

Ecce non dormitabit neque dormiet, * qui custodit Israël.

Dominus custodit te, Dominus protectio tua, * super manum dexteram tuam.

Per diem sol non uret te: * neque luna per noctem.

Dominus custodit te ab omni malo: * custodiat animam tuam Dominus.

Dominus custodiat introitum tuum, et exitum tuum: * ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 121.

Lætatus sum in his quæ dicta sunt mihi: * In domum Domini ibimus.

Stantes erant pedes nostri, * in atriis tuis, Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, quæ ædificatur ut civitas: * cujus participatio ejus in idipsum.

Illuc enim ascenderunt tribus, tribus Domini: * testimonium Israël ad confitendum nomini Domini.

Quia illic sederunt sedes in judicio, * sedes super domum David.

Rogate quæ ad pacem sunt Jerusalem: * et abundantia diligentibus te:

Fiat pax in virtute tua: * et abundantia in turribus tuis.

Propter fratres meos, et proximos meos, * loquebar pacem de te:

Propter domum Domini, Dei nostri, * quæsivi bona tibi.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Dignare me laudare te, Virgo sacrata: da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,14

Ab initio, et ante sæcula creata sum, et usque ad futurum sæculum non desinam, et in habitatione sancta coram ipso ministravi. R/. Deo gratias.

R/. Post partum, Virgo, * Inviolata permansisti.

R/. Post partum, Virgo, * Inviolata permansisti.

V/. Dei Genetrix, intercede pro nobis. * Inviolata permansisti.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

R/. Post partum, Virgo, * Inviolata permansisti.

V/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus.

R/. Et benedictus fructis ventris tui. (Lc 1,42)

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio.

Gratiam tuam, quæsumus, Domine, mentibus nostris infunde: ut qui Angelo nuntiante Christi Filii tui incarnationem cognovimus, per passionem ejus et crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur. Per eundem Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Si immediate non sequitur alia Hora, subditur

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.

AD TERTIAM

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Hymnus

Memento, salutis Auctor,

Quod nostri quondam corporis,

Ex illibata Virgine

Nascendo, formam sumpseris.

Maria, mater gratiæ,

Mater misericordiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Et hora mortis suscipe.

Gloria tibi, Domine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Super psalmos aña. Gaude, Maria Virgo, cunctas hæreses sola interemisti in universo mundo.

Psalmus 122.

Ad te levavi oculos meos, * qui habitas in cælis.

Ecce sicut oculi servorum * in manibus dominorum suorum,

Sicut oculi ancillæ in manibus dominæ suæ: * ita oculi nostri ad Dominum, Deum nostrum, donec misereatur nostri.

Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri: * quia multum repleti sumus despectione:

Quia multum repleta est anima nostra: * opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 123.

Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israël: * nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis,

Cum exsurgerent homines in nos, * forte vivos deglutissent nos:

Cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos, * forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos.

Torrentem pertransivit anima nostra: * forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem.

Benedictus Dominus * qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum.

Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est * de laqueo venantium:

Laqueus contritus est, * et nos liberati sumus.

Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, * qui fecit cælum et terram.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 124.

Qui confidunt in Domino, sicut mons Sion: * non commovebitur in æternum, qui habitat in Jerusalem.

Montes in circuitu ejus: * et Dominus in circuitu populi sui, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

Quia non relinquet Dominus virgam peccatorum super sortem justorum: * ut non extendant justi ad iniquitatem manus suas.

Benefac, Domine, bonis, * et rectis corde.

Declinantes autem in obligationes adducet Dominus cum operantibus iniquitatem: * Pax super Israël.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Gaude, Maria Virgo, cunctas hæreses sola interemisti in universo mundo. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,15

Et sic in Sion firmata sum, et in civitate sanctificata similiter requievi, et in Jerusalem potestas mea. R/. Deo gratias.

R/. Sancta Maria, Mater Christi, * Audi rogantes servulos.

R/. Sancta Maria, Mater Christi, * Audi rogantes servulos.

V/. Et impetratam nobis cælitus tu defer indulgentiam. * Audi rogantes servulos.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

R/. Sancta Maria, Mater Christi, * Audi rogantes servulos.

V/. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix.

R/. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio.

Concede nos famulos tuos, quæsumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis salute gaudere: et gloriosa beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis intercessione a præsenti liberari tristitia, et æterna perfrui lætitia. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

Per Adventum

Oratio. 

Deus, qui de beatæ Mariæ Virginis utero Verbum tuum Angelo nuntiante carne suscipere voluisti, præsta supplicibus tuis: ut, qui vere eam Genetricem Dei credimus, ejus apud te intercessionibus adjuvemur. Per eundem Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

A Nativitate Domini ad festum Purificationis inclusive

Oratio.

Deus, qui salutis æternæ, beatæ Mariæ virginitate fecunda, humano generi præmia præstitisti: tribue, quæsumus, ut ipsam pro nobis intercedere sentiamus, per quam meruimus Auctorem vitæ suscipere: Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Si immediate non sequitur alia Hora, subditur

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.

AD SEXTAM

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Hymnus

Memento, salutis Auctor,

Quod nostri quondam corporis,

Ex illibata Virgine

Nascendo, formam sumpseris.

Maria, mater gratiæ,

Mater misericordiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Et hora mortis suscipe.

Gloria tibi, Domine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Super psalmos aña. In prole mater, in partu virgo, gaude et lætare, Virgo Mater Domini.

Psalmus 125.

In convertendo Dominus captivitatem Sion: * facti sumus sicut consolati:

Tunc repletum est gaudio os nostrum: * et lingua nostra exsultatione.

Tunc dicent inter gentes: * Magnificavit Dominus facere cum eis.

Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum: * facti sumus lætantes.

Converte, Domine, captivitatem nostram, * sicut torrens in austro.

Qui seminant in lacrimis, * in exsultatione metent.

Euntes ibant et flebant, * mittentes semina sua.

Venientes autem venient cum exsultatione, * portantes manipulos suos.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 126.

Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, * in vanum laboraverunt qui ædificant eam.

Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, * frustra vigilat qui custodit eam.

Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere: * surgite postquam sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris.

Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum: * ecce hæreditas Domini, filii: merces, fructus ventris.

Sicut sagittæ in manu potentis: * ita filii excussorum.

Beatus vir qui implevit desiderium suum ex ipsis: * non confundetur cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 127.

Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, * qui ambulant in viis ejus.

Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: * beatus es, et bene tibi erit.

Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans, * in lateribus domus tuæ.

Filii tui sicut novellæ olivarum, * in circuitu mensæ tuæ.

Ecce sic benedicetur homo, * qui timet Dominum.

Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion: * et videas bona Jerusalem omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.

Et videas filios filiorum tuorum, * pacem super Israël.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. In prole mater, in partu virgo, gaude et lætare, Virgo Mater Domini. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,16

Et radicavi in populo honorificato, et in parte Dei mei hereditas illius, et in plenitudine sanctorum detentio mea. R/. Deo gratias.

R/. Ora pro nobis, * Sancta Dei Genetrix.

R/. Ora pro nobis, * Sancta Dei Genetrix.

V/. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi. * Sancta Dei Genetrix.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

R/. Ora pro nobis, * Sancta Dei Genetrix.

V/. Elegit eam Deus et præelegit eam.

R/. Et habitare eam facit in tabernaculo suo.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio.

Protege, Domine, famulos tuos subsidiis pacis: et, beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis patrociniis confitentes, a cunctis hostibus redde securos. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Si immediate non sequitur alia Hora, subditur

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.

AD NONAM

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Hymnus

Memento, salutis Auctor,

Quod nostri quondam corporis,

Ex illibata Virgine

Nascendo, formam sumpseris.

Maria, mater gratiæ,

Mater misericordiæ,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Et hora mortis suscipe.

Gloria tibi, Domine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu

In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Super psalmos aña. Beata mater, et intacta virgo, gloriosa Regina mundi, intercede pro nobis ad Dominum.

Psalmus 128.

Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, * dicat nunc Israël:

Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea: * etenim non potuerunt mihi.

Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores: * prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum: * confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum: * quod priusquam evellatur exaruit:

De quo non implevit manum suam qui metit, * et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit.

Et non dixerunt qui præteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos: * benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 129.

De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine: * Domine, exaudi vocem meam.

Fiant aures tuæ intendentes, * in vocem deprecationis meæ.

Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine: * Domine, quis sustinebit?

Quia apud te propitiatio est: * et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.

Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus: * speravit anima mea in Domino.

A custodia matutina usque ad noctem: * speret Israël in Domino.

Quia apud Dominum misericordia: * et copiosa apud eum redemptio.

Et ipse redimet Israël, * ex omnibus iniquitatibus ejus.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 130.

Domine, non est exaltatum cor meum: * neque elati sunt oculi mei.

Neque ambulavi in magnis: * neque in mirabilibus super me.

Si non humiliter sentiebam: * sed exaltavi animam meam:

Sicut ablactatus est super matre sua, * ita retributio in anima mea.

Speret Israël in Domino, * ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Beata mater, et intacta virgo, gloriosa Regina mundi, intercede pro nobis ad Dominum. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,17-18

Quasi cedrus exaltata sum in Libano, et quasi cypressus in monte Sion: quasi palma exaltata sum in Cades, et quasi plantatio rosæ in Jericho. R/. Deo gratias.

R/. Elegit eam Deus * Et præelegit eam.

R/. Elegit eam Deus * Et præelegit eam.

V/. Et habitare eam facit in tabernaculo suo. * Et præelegit eam.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

R/. Elegit eam Deus * Et præelegit eam.

V/. Sancta Dei Genetrix, virgo semper Maria.

R/. Intercede pro nobis ad Dominum Deum nostrum.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio.

Famulorum tuorum, quæsumus, Domine, delictis ignosce: ut qui tibi placere de actibus nostris non valemus, Genetricis Filii tui Domini nostri intercessione salvemur: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Si immediate non sequitur alia Hora, subditur

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.

AD VESPERAS

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Super psalmos aña. Sancta Dei Genetrix, Virgo semper Maria, intercede pro nobis ad Dominum Deum nostrum.

Psalmus 109.

Dixit Dominus Domino meo: * Sede a dextris meis:

Donec ponam inimicos tuos * scabellum pedum tuorum.

Virgam virtutis tuæ emittet Dominus ex Sion: * dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.

Tecum principium in die virtutis tuæ in splendoribus sanctorum: * ex utero ante luciferum genui te.

Juravit Dominus, et non pænitebit eum: * Tu es sacerdos in æternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech.

Dominus a dextris tuis, * confregit in die iræ suæ reges.

Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas: * conquassabit capita in terra multorum.

De torrente in via bibet: * propterea exaltabit caput.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 112.

Laudate, pueri, Dominum: * laudate nomen Domini.

Sit nomen Domini benedictum, * ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

A solis ortu usque ad occasum, * laudabile nomen Domini.

Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus, * et super cælos gloria ejus.

Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster, qui in altis habitat, * et humilia respicit in cælo et in terra?

Suscitans a terra inopem, * et de stercore erigens pauperem:

Ut collocet eum cum principibus, * cum principibus populi sui.

Qui habitare facit sterilem in domo, * matrem filiorum lætantem.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 121.

Lætatus sum in his quæ dicta sunt mihi: * In domum Domini ibimus.

Stantes erant pedes nostri, * in atriis tuis, Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, quæ ædificatur ut civitas: * cujus participatio ejus in idipsum.

Illuc enim ascenderunt tribus, tribus Domini: * testimonium Israël ad confitendum nomini Domini.

Quia illic sederunt sedes in judicio, * sedes super domum David.

Rogate quæ ad pacem sunt Jerusalem: * et abundantia diligentibus te:

Fiat pax in virtute tua: * et abundantia in turribus tuis.

Propter fratres meos, et proximos meos, * loquebar pacem de te:

Propter domum Domini, Dei nostri, * quæsivi bona tibi.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 126.

Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, * in vanum laboraverunt qui ædificant eam.

Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, * frustra vigilat qui custodit eam.

Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere: * surgite postquam sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris.

Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum: * ecce hæreditas Domini, filii: merces, fructus ventris.

Sicut sagittæ in manu potentis: * ita filii excussorum.

Beatus vir qui implevit desiderium suum ex ipsis: * non confundetur cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 147.

Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum: * lauda Deum tuum, Sion.

Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum: * benedixit filiis tuis in te.

Qui posuit fines tuos pacem: * et adipe frumenti satiat te.

Qui emittit eloquium suum terræ: * velociter currit sermo ejus.

Qui dat nivem sicut lanam: * nebulam sicut cinerem spargit.

Mittit crystallum suam sicut buccellas: * ante faciem frigoris ejus quis sustinebit?

Emittet verbum suum, et liquefaciet ea: * flabit spiritus ejus, et fluent aquæ.

Qui annuntiat verbum suum Jacob: * justitias et judicia sua Israël.

Non fecit taliter omni nationi: * et judicia sua non manifestavit eis.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Sancta Dei Genetrix, Virgo semper Maria, intercede pro nobis ad Dominum Deum nostrum. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,20

Sicut cinnamomum et balsamum aromatizans odorem dedi: quasi myrrha electa dedi suavitatem odoris. R/. Deo gratias.

Hymnus

Ave, maris stella,

Dei Mater alma,

Atque semper Virgo,

Felix cæli porta.

Sumens illud Ave

Gabrielis ore,

Funda nos in pace,

Mutans nomen Hevæ.

Solve vincla reis,

Profer lumen cæcis,

Mala nostra pelle,

Bona cuncta posce.

Monstra te esse matrem:

Sumat per te preces,

Qui pro nobis natus

Tulit esse tuus.

Virgo singularis,

Inter omnes mitis,

Nos culpis solutos

Mites fac et castos.

Vitam præsta puram,

Iter para tutum:

Ut videntes Jesum

Semper collætemur.

Sit laus Deo Patri,

Summo Christo decus,

Spiritui Sancto,

Tribus honor unus. Amen.

V/. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix.

R/. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

Ad Magnif. aña. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, juva pusillanimes, refove flebiles, ora pro populo, interveni pro clero, intercede pro devoto femineo sexu.

Canticum beatæ Mariæ Virginis. Lucæ 1.

Magnificat * anima mea Dominum;

Et exsultavit spiritus meus * in Deo, salutari meo,

Quia respexit humilitatem ancillæ suæ: * ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes,

Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est, * et sanctum nomen ejus,

Et misericordia ejus a progenie in progenies * timentibus eum.

Fecit potentiam in brachio suo, * dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.

Deposuit potentes de sede, * et exaltavit humiles.

Esurientes implevit bonis, * et divites dimisit inanes.

Suscepit Israël, puerum suum, * recordatus misericordiæ suæ,

Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, * Abraham et semini ejus in sæcula.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, juva pusillanimes, refove flebiles, ora pro populo, interveni pro clero, intercede pro devoto femineo sexu. 

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio. 

Concede nos famulos tuos, quæsumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis salute gaudere: et gloriosa beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis intercessione a præsenti liberari tristitia, et æterna perfrui lætitia. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

Per Adventum

Ad Magnif. aña. O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud? Quia nec primam similem visa es, nec habere sequentem. Filiæ Jerusalem, quid me admiramini? Divinum est mysterium hoc quid cernitis.

Oratio. 

Deus, qui de beatæ Mariæ Virginis utero Verbum tuum Angelo nuntiante carne suscipere voluisti, præsta supplicibus tuis: ut, qui vere eam Genetricem Dei credimus, ejus apud te intercessionibus adjuvemur. Per eundem Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

A Nativitate Domini ad festum Purificationis inclusive

Ad Magnif. aña. O admirabile commercium! Creator generis humani, animatum corpus sumens, de Virgine nasci dignatus est: et procedens homo sine semine, largitus est nobis suam Deitatem.

Oratio. 

Deus, qui salutis æternæ, beatæ Mariæ virginitate fecunda, humano generi præmia præstitisti: tribue, quæsumus, ut ipsam pro nobis intercedere sentiamus, per quam meruimus Auctorem vitæ suscipere: Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

Tempore paschali

Ad Magnif. aña. Regina cæli, lætare, alleluja: quia quem meruisti portare, alleluja, resurrexit (Tempus Ascensionis: jam ascendit), sicut dixit, alleluja. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluja.

Oratio. 

Concede nos famulos tuos, quæsumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis salute gaudere: et gloriosa beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis intercessione a præsenti liberari tristitia, et æterna perfrui lætitia. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Si immediate non sequitur alia Hora, subditur

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.

AD COMPLETORIVM

V/. Ave, Maria, gratia plena: Dominus tecum.

R/. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. (Lc 1,28.42)

V/. Converte nos, Deus, salutaris noster.

R/. Et averte iram tuam a nobis. (Ps 84,5)

V/. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.

R/. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. (Ps 69,2)

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

(extra T.S.) Alleluja. (Temp. Sept.) Laus tibi, Domine, Rex æternæ gloriæ.

Super psalmos aña. Virgo Maria, non est tibi similis nata in mundo inter mulieres, florens ut rosa, fragrans sicut lilium: ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix.

Psalmus 131.

Memento, Domine, David, * et omnis mansuetudinis ejus:

Sicut juravit Domino, * votum vovit Deo Jacob:

Si introiero in tabernaculum domus meæ, * si ascendero in lectum strati mei:

Si dedero somnum oculis meis, * et palpebris meis dormitationem:

Et requiem temporibus meis: donec inveniam locum Domino, * tabernaculum Deo Jacob.

Ecce audivimus eam in Ephrata: * invenimus eam in campis silvæ.

Introibimus in tabernaculum ejus: * adorabimus in loco ubi steterunt pedes ejus.

Surge, Domine, in requiem tuam, * tu et arca sanctificationis tuæ.

Sacerdotes tui induantur justitiam: * et sancti tui exsultent.

Propter David, servum tuum, * non avertas faciem Christi tui.

Juravit Dominus David veritatem, et non frustrabitur eam: * De fructu ventris tui ponam super sedem tuam.

Si custodierint filii tui testamentum meum, * et testimonia mea hæc quæ docebo eos:

Et filii eorum usque in sæculum, * sedebunt super sedem tuam.

Quoniam elegit Dominus Sion: * elegit eam in habitationem sibi.

Hæc requies mea in sæculum sæculi: * hic habitabo, quoniam elegi eam.

Viduam ejus benedicens benedicam: * pauperes ejus saturabo panibus.

Sacerdotes ejus induam salutari: * et sancti ejus exsultatione exsultabunt.

Illuc producam cornu David, * paravi lucernam Christo meo.

Inimicos ejus induam confusione: * super ipsum autem efflorebit sanctificatio mea.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 132.

Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum * habitare fratres in unum:

Sicut unguentum in capite, * quod descendit in barbam, barbam Aaron,

Quod descendit in oram vestimenti ejus: * sicut ros Hermon, qui descendit in montem Sion.

Quoniam illic mandavit Dominus benedictionem, * et vitam usque in sæculum.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Psalmus 133.

Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum, * omnes servi Domini:

Qui statis in domo Domini, * in atriis domus Dei nostri.

In noctibus extollite manus vestras in sancta, * et benedicite Dominum.

Benedicat te Dominus ex Sion, * qui fecit cælum et terram.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Virgo Maria, non est tibi similis nata in mundo inter mulieres, florens ut rosa, fragrans sicut lilium: ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix. 

Capitulum. Eccli. 24,24

Ego mater pulchræ dilectionis et timoris et agnitionis et sanctæ spei. R/. Deo gratias.

R/. Intercede pro nobis, sancta Virgo virginum, * Mater Dei, Maria.

R/. Intercede pro nobis, sancta Virgo virginum, * Mater Dei, Maria.

V/. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi. * Mater Dei, Maria.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

R/. Intercede pro nobis, sancta Virgo virginum, * Mater Dei, Maria.

Hymnus

Virgo singularis,

Inter omnes mitis,

Nos culpis solutos

Mites fac et castos.

Vitam præsta puram,

Iter para tutum:

Ut videntes Jesum

Semper collætemur.

Sit laus Deo Patri,

Summo Christo decus,

Spiritui Sancto,

Tribus honor unus. Amen.

V/. Post partum, Virgo, inviolata permansisti.

R/. Dei Genetrix, intercede pro nobis.

Ad Nunc dimittis aña. Sub tuum præsidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genetrix: nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper Virgo benedicta.

Canticum Simeonis. Lucæ 2.

Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, * secundum verbum tuum in pace,

Quia viderunt oculi mei * salutare tuum,

Quod parasti * ante faciem omnium populorum,

Lumen ad revelationem gentium * et gloriam plebis tuæ Israël.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. 

Aña. Sub tuum præsidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genetrix: nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper Virgo benedicta. 

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

Oremus.

Oratio. 

Concede, misericors Deus, fragilitati nostræ præsidium: ut, qui sanctæ Dei Genetricis memoriam agimus, intercessionibus ejus auxilio a nostris iniquitatibus resurgamus. Per eundem Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. R/. Amen.

V/. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R/. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Ps 101,2)

V/. Benedicamus Domino.

R/. Deo gratias.

Benedictio. Benedictio Dei omnipotentis, Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti descendat super nos et maneat semper. R/. Amen.

Aña. Salve, Regina, mater misericordiæ: vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ. Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eja ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria. T.P. Alleluja.

V/. Dignare me laudare te, Virgo sacrata. T.P. Alleluja.

R/. Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos. T.P. Alleluja.

Oremus.

Oratio. 

Concede nos famulos tuos, quæsumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis salute gaudere: et gloriosa beatæ Mariæ semper Virginis intercessione a præsenti liberari tristitia, et æterna perfrui lætitia. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. R/. Amen.

Aña. O lumen Ecclesiæ, Doctor veritatis,

Rosa patientiæ, Ebur castitatis,

aquam sapientiæ propinasti gratis:

Prædicator gratiæ nos junge beatis. T.P. Alleluja.

V/. Ora pro nobis, beate Pater Dominice. T.P. Alleluja.

R/. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi. T.P. Alleluja.

Oremus.

Oratio. 

Concede, quæsumus, omnipotens Deus, ut qui peccatorum nostrorum pondere premimur, beati Dominici Confessoris tui, Patris nostri, patrocinio sublevemur. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. R/. Amen.

Fidelium animæ per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. R/. Amen.