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THE ROMAN BREVIARY

REFORMED BY ORDER OF THE HOLY
CECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF TRENT;
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF POPE ST
PIUS V.; AND REVISED BY CLEMENT
VIII., URBAN VIII., AND LEO XIII.

TOGETHER WITH THE

OFFICES SINCE GRANTED
AND THE MARTYROLOGY

TRANSLATED OUT OF
LATIN INTO ENGLISH BY

JOHN, MARQUESS OF BUTE, K.T.

A NEW EDITION
FOR USE IN ENGLAND

IN FOUR VOLS.
VOL. II. SPRING

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON
M C M V 1 1 I

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE PIE . . . See vol. i. p. xix

TWO EASY TABLES . . ix
THE KALENDAR . . .
PRAYERS. ABSOLUTIONS AND BLESSINGS

THE PSALTER

MATTINS

SUNDAY ... I

MONDAY . 7 3

TUESDAY . 9 2

WEDNESDAY . Io8

THURSDAY . 1^3

FRIDAY . 140

SATURDAY . 157

LAUDS

SUNDAY ... 22

MONDAY ... 87

TUESDAY . 105

WEDNESDAY ... 12

THURSDAY . 137

FRIDAY ... . 153

SATURDAY .... 171

PRIME

SUNDAY ... 35

WEEK-DAYS . 45

VI CONTENTS.

THE PSALTER

TERCE ... .... 52

SEXT 59

NONE 66

VESPERS

SUNDAY . . . . . . . . . .176

MONDAY . . .185

TUESDAY 1 88

WEDNESDAY . . . . . . . . . . 1 90

THURSDAY . ..... J 93

FRIDAY . . . . . . . . . .197

SATURDAY .......... 2OO

COMPLINE -. . . 205

PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON-
LENT ... .... .213

PASSION WEEK . . . . . . . -325

HOLY WEEK . . ... 351

EASTER ........... 387

ROGATION . . . .453

ASCENSION . ... . 462

WHITSUNTIDE ... ... 497

THE COMMON OF SAINTS

FOR APOSTLES EVES . . . . . . . -513

FOR APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, AND MARTYRS, IN EASTER-TIDE . 514

FOR APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS OUT OF EASTER-TIDE . . 528

FOR ONE MARTYR OUT OF EASTER-TIDE ..... .548

FOR MANY MARTYRS OUT OP EASTER-TIDE . . . .564

FOR ONE BISHOP AND CONFESSOR . . . . . .581

FOR A CONFESSOR NOT A BISHOP . . . . . -598

FOR DOCTORS . .615

FOR THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY . . . . . . 620

FOR VIRGINS . 636

FOR HOLY WOMEN . . . . 49

FOR DEDICATION OF A CHURCH . .658

CONTENTS. Vll

PROPER OFFICE OF THE SAINTS-
FEAST-DAYS IN FEBRUARY . 68 1
n MARCH . .725
APRIL . . . 789
u MAY ... -839
ti JUNE . 93 1

ADDITIONAL SERVICES-
LITTLE OFFICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY . 965
OFFICE FOR THE DEAD . . 974
GRADUAL PSALMS ... 993
SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS AND LITANY . 994
GRACE BEFORE AND AFTER MEAT . . .998
PRAYERS FOR A JOURNEY . I OO I
PREPARATION FOR COMMUNION 1003
THANKSGIVING AFTER COMMUNION . . . TOO9
DEVOTIONS AFTER COMMUNION I Oil

THE VOTIVE OFFICES-
ALL HOLY ANGELS . . 1014
ALL THE HOLY APOSTLES IO2I
ST JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY . . 1024
THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR . 1031
THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST . . . 1044
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 1054

GENERAL APPENDIX 1063

OFFICES PECULIAR TO IRELAND . 1139

ERRATA.

Page 925, 2nd col., line 8 from fool, for Antiphon read Commemoration.
11 928, 2nd col., line 1 1 from top, before Octave insert preceding, of the.

TWO EASY TABLES. i x

TWO EASY TABLES,

COMPILED FROM THE PIE.

And in which it can be seen at a glance what is to be done

( I ) When the Second Vespers of one Office fall on the same evening with the First
Vespers of another Office.

(2) When two Offices fall on the same day.

To use these Tables, find the little square in which lines drawn from the
designations of the two Offices meet at right angles, and then look what direction
is given underneath the Table, with the number inscribed in the square.

For instance, in Table A a Double of the Second Class meets a Semi-double
in a square containing the numeral 4. And 4 gives the Rule " all of the former,
with a Commemoration of the latter," but if the case be reversed they meet in I,
and the Service is " all of the latter, nothing of the former." And so in Table B,
the case of a Double of the Second Class and a Semi-double falling on the same
day is provided for in 4 and 3, and it is ordered that the Semi-double be com
memorated and the Double of the Second Class observed, o indicates a case
which either cannot occur, or which is the subject of special directions in its own
place. However, it is first needful to know the rank of the different Offices.

LIST OF FEASTS ACCORDING TO THEIR CLASS.

Doubles of the First Class.

Christmas Day. Dec. 25.
Twelfth-Day. Jan. 6.
Maundy Thursday.
Good Friday.
Holy Saturday.
Easter Day.
Easter Monday.
Easter Tuesday.
Ascension Day.
Whitsun Day.
Whitsun Monday.
Whitsun Tuesday.
Corpus Christi.
The Sacred Heart.

The Immaculate Conception. Dec. 8.
Lady Day. March 25.
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TWO EASY TABLES.

The Assumption. Aug. I 5.

The Birthday of St John the Baptist. June 24.

St Joseph. March 19.

SS. Peter and Paul. June 29.

All Saints. Nov. i.

St Thomas of Canterbury. 1 Dec. 29.

St George. April 23.

St Augustine of Canterbury. May 26.

The Dedication of the Particular Church.

The Feast of the Patron, or Titular of the Particular Church.

The Feast of the Chief Patron or Patrons of the diocese.

Doubles of the Second Class.

The Circumcision. Jan. i.

The Holy Name.

The Most Holy Trinity.

The Most Precious Blood.

The Finding of the Cross. May 3.

Candlemas Day. Feb. 2.

The Visitation. July 2.

The Birth of the Blessed Virgin. Sept. 8.

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Rosary.

Michaelmas Day. Sept. 29.

The Patronage of St Joseph.

The Feasts of the Eleven Apostles, and of the Evangelists.

St Stephen. Dec. 26.

The Holy Innocents. Dec. 28.

St Lawrence. Aug. 10.

St Anne. July 26.

St Joachim.

St Gregory the Great. March 12.

St Edward. Oct. 13.

Greater Doubles.

The Commemorations

Of the Prayer of our Lord,

Of His Sufferings,

Of His Coronation,

Of His Piercing,

Of His Enshroudment,

Of His Five Wounds,

Of His Precious Blood.
The Transfiguration. Aug. 6.
The Most Holy Redeemer. Oct. 23.
The Exaltation of the Cross. Sept. 14.
Dedication of the Church of St Saviour. Nov. 9.

i Regarding the rank of this Feast, see note under his day.

TWO EASY TABLES. XI

The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin. Dec. 18.

Her Espousal. Jan. 23.

Her Sorrows (the two Feasts).

The Blessed Virgin styled Help of Christians. May 24.

The Blessed Virgin styled of Mount Carmel. July 1 6.

Dedication of St Mary s of the Snows. Aug. 5.

The Name of Mary.

The Blessed Virgin styled of Ransom. Sept. 24.

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin.

Her Motherhood.

Her Purity.

Her Patronage.

Manifestation of St Michael. May 8.

St Gabriel. March 18.

St Raphael. Oct. 24.

The Guardian Angels. Oct. 2.

The Beheading of the Baptist. Aug. 29.

St Peter s Chair at Rome. Jan. 18.

St Peter s Chair at Antioch. Feb. 22.

St Peter s Chains. Aug. i.

The Conversion of St Paul. January 25.

Commemoration of St Paul. June 30.

Dedication of the Churches of SS. Peter and Paul. Nov. 18.

St John before the Latin Gate. May 6.

St Barnabas. June 1 1 .

The Blessed John and his companions. May 4.

St Bede the Venerable. May 27.

St Alban. June 22.

Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury. July 7.

The Holy Relics (second Sunday in July).

St Ursula. Oct. 21.

St Edmund the Martyr. Nov. 20.

St Benedict. March 21.

St Dominic. Aug. 4.

St Francis. Oct. 4.

St Patrick. March 17.

St Francis Xavier. Dec. 3. 1

Sundays of the First Class.

The First Sunday of Advent.
The First Sunday of Lent.
Passion Sunday.
Palm Sunday.
Easter Sunday.
Low Sunday.
Whitsunday.
Trinity Sunday.

1 The Feast was an Ordinary Double when the Office given in this Breviary was printed.

xii TWO EASY TABLES.

Sundays of the Second Class.

The Second, Third, and Fourth Sundays in Advent.

Septuagesima Sunday.

Sexagesima Sunday.

Quinquagesima Sunday.

The Second, Third, and Fourth Sundays of Lent.

Greater Week-days.
Those of Advent.
Those of Lent.
The Ember Days.
Rogation Monday.

In the General Appendix will be found the following Greater Doubles.

Translation of the Holy House of Loreto.

The Finding of the Child JESUS in the Temple.

The Holy Home.

The Blessed Thomas Plumtree and his Companions.

The Flight of our Lord JESUS Christ into Egypt.

The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled of Good Counsel.

The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled the Mother of the Lord our Shepherd.

Lowliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled Mother of Grace.

Translation of St Edmund.

The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled of Perpetual Succour.

The Blessed John Fisher.

The Blessed Thomas More.

Translation of St Cuthbert.

The Blessed Thomas Percy.

LIST OF PRIMARY FEASTS.

I. Doubles of the First Class.
Christmas.
Twelfth Day.
Easter Day.
The Ascension.
Whitsun Day.
Corpus Christi.
The Immaculate Conception.
Lady Day.
The Assumption.

The Birthday of St John the Baptist.
St Joseph.

TWO EASY TABLES. xiii

SS. Peter and Paul.

All Saints.

St Thomas of Canterbury.

St George.

St Augustine of Canterbury.

The Dedication of the Particular Church.

The Patron or Titular.

The principal Patron or Patrons of the district or diocese.

II. Doubles of the Second Class.

The Circumcision.

The Most Holy Trinity.

Candlemas Day.

The Visitation.

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.

Michaelmas Day.

The Feasts of the Eleven Apostles, and of the Evangelists.

St Stephen. Dec. 26.

The Holy Innocents.

St Lawrence.

St Anne.

St Joachim.

St Gregory the Great.

St Edward.

III. Greater Doubles.

The Transfiguration.

The Dedication of St Saviour s.

Dedication of St Mary s of the Snows.

The Angels Guardian.

The Dedication of the Basilicas of SS. Peter and Paul.

St Barnabas.

St Benedict.

St Dominic.

St Francis.

St Gabriel.

St Raphael.

The Blessed John and his Companions.

St Bede the Venerable.

St Alban.

The Holy Relics.

St Ursula.

St Edmund the Martyr.

St Patrick.

St Francis Xavier.

IV. Doubles.
The Birthday (or day kept as such) of each Saint.

xiv TWO EASY TABLES.

LIST OF SECONDARY FEASTS.

I. Doubles of the First Class.
The Most Sacred Heart of JESUS.

II. Doubles of the Second Class.

The Most Holy Name of JESUS.

The Finding of the Holy Cross.

The Feast of the Most Precious Blood.

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Rosary.

The Patronage of St Joseph.

III. Greater Doubles.

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

The Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin (the two Feasts).

The Blessed Virgin styled of Mount Carmel.

Her Holy Name.

The Blessed Virgin styled of Ransom.

Her Presentation.

The Manifestation of St Michael.

The Beheading of St John the Baptist.

St Peter s Chair at Rome.

St Peter s Chair at Antioch.

St Peter s Chains.

The Conversion of St Paul.

The Commemoration of St Paul.

St John before the Latin Gate.

The Commemorations

Of the Prayer of our Lord,

Of His Sufferings,

Of His Coronation,

Of His Piercing,

Of His Enshroudment,

Of His Five Wounds,

Of His Precious Blood.
Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer.
The Espousal of the Blessed Virgin.
Her Motherhood.
Her Purity.
Her Patronage.

The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin.
The Blessed Virgin styled Help of Christians.
Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury.

All other Feasts of our Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Saints not
provided for in these lists.

TWO EASY TABLES.

TABLE A.

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Second Class) .

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A Double of the First Class .

A Double of the Second Class

A Patron or Titular

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A Semi-double .....

An Octave-day ...

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XVI TWO EASY TABLES.

unless it be of the First or Second Class, in which case the Service is of it, with
a Commemoration of the First Vespers of the Octave.

If the Second Vespers of the Octave-days of the Feasts of our Lord which
are Primary and more solemn, such as those of Twelfth-Day, Easter, the
Ascension, and the others, clash with the First Vespers of a Double (including
the Octave-day of St John the Baptist), the Double is only commemorated,
unless it be of the First or Second Class, the Patron, Titular, or Dedication
Feast of the particular Church, in which cases the Service is of the Double,
with a Commemoration of the Second Vespers of the Octave.

On the Octave-days of Primary Feasts of the Blessed Virgin, the Angels,
St John the Baptist, St Joseph, and the Holy Apostles, there is only a Com
memoration made of an Ordinary or Lesser Double that precedes or follows.

If a Double or Semi-double Feast have been reduced to the condition of a
Simple according to the Pie, Chap, x., and a Double of the First Class fall
upon the day before, the reduced Feast is commemorated at the Second Vespers
of the Double of the First Class only if it is to be commemorated at the Lauds
of the succeeding day, that is to say of its own day ; but upon Doubles of the
Second Class such a reduced Feast is commemorated at both Vespers in the
same way as an Octave-day or a Sunday would be ; but a day within an Octave
is not commemorated unless the next day s Office be of the same.

When several Commemorations are to be made, they are arranged in the order
of i, Privileged Sunday; 2, Octave-Day; 3, Greater Double; 4, Reduced
Double ; 5, Ordinary Sunday ; 6, Day within the Octave of Corpus Christi ;
7, Semi-double ; 8, Day within an Octave, reduced to the form of Simple ;
9, Greater Week-day or Eve; 10, Simple.

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A Double of a Doctor . .4

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Note.

A Double of any sort, even the Patron, Titular, or Dedication Feast of the
particular Church, if it fall on Dec. 24, Whitsun Eve, Jan. i or 13, Ash
Wednesday, Holy, Easter, or Whitsun Weeks, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi
Day, March 25, Aug. 15, Dec. 8, Midsummer Day, March 19, June 29, or
Nov. i, is transferred, if it can be transferred, but if not, it is simply com
memorated upon its own day, or totally omitted, as may be directed in the Pie.

Within the Octave of the Epiphany no Feast can be kept except Double
Feasts of the First Class, and that with Commemoration of the Octave. Other
Feasts of Nine Lessons are permanently fixed on the first free day after the
Octave ; Simples are commemorated only. Within the Octave of Corpus Christi,
Semi-doubles are reduced to the rank of Simples and commemorated, neither can
Doubles be transferred thither unless they be of the First or Second Class, and a
Commemoration is always made of the Octave. Within those Octaves, in which
the observance of Feasts is allowed, a Semi-double, if it fall on a Sunday, is
commemorated as prescribed by the Pie.

The Octaves of Christmas, Twelfth -Day, and Corpus Christi, are com
memorated at every Vespers and Lauds, whatever be the Office.

Other Octaves, which are not in the Kalendar, 1 are not observed from Ash
Wednesday to Low Sunday, or Whitsun Eve to Trinity Sunday, both inclusive,
or from Dec. 17 to Jan. 6.

An Octave-day can never be transferred. Therefore, if Corpus Christi fall
on Midsummer Day, and the Feast of St John were consequently kept on June
25, July i would be kept as the Octave of Corpus Christi, with a Commemoration
of the Octave of St John at both Vespers and at Lauds.

If some other Saints be mentioned in the Kalendar on the same day with the
Patron or Titular, the Feast of the Patron or Titular alone is observed. If the
other Feast be a Double or Semi-double, it is permanently fixed on the first free
day and kept as a Semi-double. If it is a Double of the First or Second Class,
it is similarly transferred and kept as on its own day. 2

The Week-days of Advent and Lent, if not kept as such, are always com
memorated at both Vespers and Lauds, whatever be the Office; Ember Days,
Eves, and Rogation Monday, at Lauds only. But if an Eve fall in Advent or
Lent, on an Ember Day, a Double of the First Class, or the Patronal, Titular,
or Dedication Feast of the particular Church, no notice is taken of it, even in
Lauds.

1 But in the diocese of Hexham there is a special privilege permitting the observance of an
Octave in honour of St Cuthbert.

2 I.e., in that particular Church, it has a day fixed other than elsewhere.

KALENDAR. XIX

KALENDAR.

JANUARY.

1 . Circumcision of our Lord. Double of the Second Class.

2. Octave of St Stephen. Double. Commemoration of the Octaves of St

Thomas of Canterbury, of St John, and of the Holy Innocents.

3. Octave of St John, Apostle and Evangelist. Double. Commemoration of

St Thomas of Canterbury, and of the Octave of the Holy Innocents.

4. Octave of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs. Double. Commemoration of St

Thomas of Canterbury.

5. Octave of St Thomas of Canterbury, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of

the Eve of the Epiphany and of St Telesphorus, Pope of Rome, Martyr.

6. EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD. Double of the First Class.

7. Within the Octave of the Epiphany.

8. Within the Octave.

9. Within the Octave.

10. Within the Octave.

1 1 . Within the Octave. Commemoration of St Hyginus, Pope of Rome, and

Martyr.

12. Within the Octave.

* Lord s Day within the Octave of the Epiphany. [The Finding of the Child

JESUS in the Temple. Greater Double. General Appendix.]

13. Octave of the Epiphany. Double.

* Second Lord s Day after the Epiphany. Feast of the Most Holy Name of

JESUS. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration of the Sunday.

14. Hilary, Bishop [of Poitiers,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.

Commemoration of St Felix, Priest and Martyr.
i 5. Paul, the First Hermit. Double. Commemoration of St Maurus, Abbat.

1 6. Marcellus, Pope and Martyr. Semi-double.

17. Antony, Abbat. Double.

1 8. The Chair of St Peter at Rome. Greater Double. Commemoration of St

Paul and of St Prisca, Virgin and Martyr.

19. Wolstan, Bishop [of Worcester,] Confessor. Double. Commemoration of

SS. Maris, Audifax, Abachum, and Martha, Martyrs.

* Third Lord s Day after the Epiphany. [The Feast of the Holy Home,

JESUS, Mary, and Joseph. Greater Double. Gen. App.]

20. Fabian and Sebastian, Martyrs. Double.

21. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr. Double.

22. Vincent and Anastasius. Semi-double.

23. Espousal of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St Joseph. Greater Double. Com

memoration of St Joseph and of Emerentiana, Virgin and Martyr.

24. Timothy, Bishop [of Ephesus,] Martyr. Double.

XX KALENDAR.

25. Conversion of St Paul. Greater Double. Commemoration of St Peter.

26. Polycarp, Bishop [of Smyrna,] Martyr. Double.

27. John Chrysostom, Patriarch [of Constantinople,] Confessor and Doctor of

the Church. Double.

28. Raymond of Penafuerte, Confessor. Semi- Double. 1 Commemoration of St

Agnes for the second time.

29. Francis de Sales, Bishop [of Geneva,] Confessor, and Doctor of the

Church. Double.

30. Martina, Virgin and Martyr. Semi- Double.

[Double in the Province of Westminster.]
3 i . Peter Nolasco, Confessor. Double.

* Friday after Septuagesima Sunday, Prayer of our Lord in the Garden of

Gethsemane. Greater Double.

* Friday after Sexagesima Sunday, Sufferings of our Lord. Greater Double.

lass.

FEBRUARY.

1 . Ignatius, Bishop [of Antioch,] Martyr. Double.

2. Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Ch

3. Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Confessor. Double. Commemoration

of Blase, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, Martyr.

4. Andrew Corsini, Bishop [of Fiesole,] Confessor. Double.

5. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr. Double.

6. Titus, Archbishop [of Gortyna in Crete,] Confessor. Double. Commem

oration of St Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr.

7. Romuald, Abbat. Double.

8. John de la Mata, Confessor. Double.

9. Cyril, Pope of Alexandria, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.

Commemoration of St Apollonia, Virgin and Martyr.

[The Twenty-six Holy Martyrs who suffered in Japan. Double. Gen.
App.]

10. Scholastica, Virgin. Double.

11. Gilbert [of Sempringham,] Confessor. Semi-double.

12. Benedict Biscop, Abbat, Confessor. Double.

13. The Seven Founders of the Servite Order, Confessors. Double.
[Kentigern, Bishop [of Glasgow,] Confessor. Double. Gen. App.]

14. Valentine, Priest and Martyr.

[Thomas Plumtree and his Companions, Martyrs. Greater Double. Gen.
^ App.]

I 5. Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs.
16.

17. [The Flight of our Lord JESUS Christ into Egypt. Greater Double. Gen.
". App.] ^

1 8. Simeon, Bishop [of Jerusalem,] Martyr.
19.

1 See vol. i. p. 723.

KALENDAR. XXI

20.
21.

22. The Chair of St Peter at Antioch. Greater Double. Commemoration of St

Paul.

23. Peter Damian, [Cardinal] Bishop [of Ostia,] Confessor, and Doctor of the

Church. Double. Commemoration of the Eve.

24. Matthias, Apostle. Double of the Second Class.
25.

26. Ethelbert, King of Kent, Confessor. Double.

27. [Margaret of Cortona, Penitent. Semi-double. Gen. App.]
28.

In Leap- Year February has 29 days, the additional day is inserted after the

23rd, the 24th is then the Eve of St Matthias, and the following days

are each counted one later, the Feast of St Matthias being the 25th, &c.

* First Friday in Lent, Coronation of our Lord with Thorns. Greater

Double.

Second Friday in Lent, Piercing of Our Lord with Spear and Nails.
Greater Double.

Third Friday in Lent, Enshroudment of our Lord. Greater Double.

Fourth Friday in Lent, The Five Most Holy Wounds of our Lord.
Greater Double.

MARCH.

1. David, Archbishop [of Caerleon,] Confessor. Double.

2. Chad, Bishop [of Lichfield,] Confessor. Double.

3. Aelred, Abbat, Confessor. Semi-double.

4. Casimir, Confessor. Semi-double. Commemoration of St Lucius, Pope of

Rome, and Martyr.

7. Thomas of Aquino, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double. Com

memoration of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs.

8. Felix, Bishop [of Dunwich,] Confessor. Double.

9. Frances of Rome, Widow. Double.

10. The Forty Martyrs. Semi-double.

11. John of God, Confessor. Double.

12. Gregory {the Great,~] Pope of Rome, Doctor of the Church, and Apostle of

England. Double of the Second Class.

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14.

16.

17. Patrick, Archbishop [of Armagh,] Confessor. Greater Double.
\ 8. The Archangel Gabriel. Greater Double.

19. JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. Double of the First
Class.

xxii KALENDAR.

20. Cuthbert, Bishop [of Lindisfarne,] Confessor. Double.

[In the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle this Feast has an Octave. See
Gen. App.]

2 1 . Benedict, Abbat and Confessor. Greater Double.

22. Cyril, Bishop [of Jerusalem,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
[Edward, King of England, Martyr. Double. Gen. App.]

2 3-
24.

25. ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. Double of the First Class.

26. [The Penitent Thief. Double. Gen. App.]

27. John of Damascus, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.

28. John of Capistrano, Confessor. Semi-double.
29.

3-
3 1 -

* Friday in Passion Week, Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Greater
Double.

APRIL,
i.

2. Francis of Paola, Confessor. Double.

3. Richard, Bishop [of Chichester,] Confessor. Double.

4. Isidore, Archbishop [of Seville,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.

Double.

5. Vincent Ferrer, Confessor. Double.
6.

10.

ii. Leo the Great, Pope of Rome, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.
Double.

12.

13. Hermenegild, Martyr. Semi-double.

14. Justin, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of SS. Tiburtius, Valerian, and

Maximus, Martyrs.

IS-

1 6.

17. Stephen Harding, Abbat, Confessor. Semi-double. Commemoration of St

Anicete, Pope of Rome, and Martyr.

1 8.

19. jElphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr. Double.
20.

2 1 . Anselm, Archbishop [of Canterbury,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.

Double.

22. Soter and Caius, Popes of Rome, and Martyrs. Semi-double.

KALENDAR. XX111

23. GEORGE, MARTYR, PATRON OF ENGLAND. Double of the First Class.

24. Faithful of Sigmaringen, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the Octave

of St George and of St Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury.

25. Mark, Evangelist. Double of the Second Class.

26. Cletus and Marcellinus, Popes of Rome, and Martyrs. Semi-double. Com

memoration of the Octave of St George.

[The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled of Good Counsel. Greater Double.
Gen. App.]

27. Egbert, Confessor. Semi-double. Commemoration of the Octave of St

George.

28. Paul of the Cross, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of

St George and of St Vitalis, Martyr.

29. Peter, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of St George.

30. Octave of St George, Martyr. Double.

* Third Lord s Day after Easter, Patronage of St Joseph. Double of the

Second Class. Commemoration of the Sunday.
[In some dioceses this Feast has an Octave. See Gen. App.]

MAY.

1 . Philip and James, Apostles. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration

of St Asaph, Bishop of St Asaph.

[* First Lord s Day in May, The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled the Mother
of the Lord our Shepherd. Greater Double. Gen. App.]

2. Athanasius, Pope of Alexandria, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.

Double.

3. Finding of the Holy Cross. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration

of SS. Alexander, Eventius, and Theodulus, Martyrs, and Juvenal, Bishop
of Narni, Confessor.

4. John, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester, Thomas More, and their companions,

Martyrs. Greater Double.

5. Katharine of Sienna, Virgin. Double.

6. John, Apostle and Evangelist, before the Latin Gate. Greater Double.

7. Stanislaw, Bishop [of Crakow,] Martyr. Double.

8. Manifestation of the Archangel St Michael. Greater Double.

9. Gregory of Nazianzus, Patriarch [of Constantinople,] Confessor, and Doctor

of the Church. Double.

10. Antonine, Archbishop [of Florence,] Confessor. Double. Commemoration

of SS. Gordian and Epimachus, Martyrs.

11. Pius V., Pope of Rome, Confessor. Double.

[John Rochester and James Walworth and their Companions, Martyrs.
Double. Gen. App.]

12. Nereus, Achilles, the Virgin Domitilla, and Pancras, Martyrs. Semi-double.
[Lowliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Greater Double. Gen. App.]

13. Walburg, Virgin. Double.

14. Monica, Widow. Double. Commemoration of St Boniface, Martyr.

XXIV -KALENDAR.

i 5. [Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, Confessor. Double. Gen. App.]

[The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled Mother of Grace. Greater Double.
Gen. App.]]

1 6. Simon Stock, Confessor. Double.

17. Paschal Baylon, Confessor. Double.

1 8. Venantius, Martyr. Double.

19. Dunstan, Archbishop [of Canterbury,] Confessor. Double. Commemora

tion of St Pudentiana, Virgin.

20. Bernardine of Sienna. Semi-double.

21. Peter Celestine, Pope of Rome, Confessor. Double.

22. Ubald, Bishop [of Gubbio,] Confessor. Semi-double. .

23. John Baptist de Rossi, Confessor. Double.

24. The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled " Help of Christians." Greater Double.
[In the dioceses of Shrewsbury and Westminster, Double of the First Class,

e with an Octave. Gen. App.]

25. Aldhelm, Bishop [of Sherborne,] Confessor. Double. Commemoration of

St Urban, Pope of Rome, and Martyr.

26. AUGUSTINE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CONFESSOR, APOSTLE OF ENGLAND.

Double of the First Class.

27. Bede the Venerable, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Greater Double.

Commemoration of the Octave of St Augustine and of St John I., Pope
of Rome, and Martyr.

28. Gregory VII., Pope of Rome, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the

Octave of St Augustine.

[The Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess [of Salisbury,] Martyr. Double.
Gen. App.]

29. Eleutherius, Pope of Rome, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the

Octave of St Augustine.

30. John of Nepomuc, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of St

Augustine and of St Felix, Pope of Rome, and Martyr.

31. Angela Merici, Virgin. Double. Commemorations of the Octave of St

Augustine and of St Petronilla, Virgin.

* Third Lord s Day after Pentecost, the Most Sacred Heart of JESUS.
Double of the First Class. Commemoration of the Sunday.

JUNE.

rv.

1. Within the Octave of St Augustine of Canterbury

2. Octave of St Augustine of Canterbury. Double. Commemoration of SS.

Marcellinus, Peter, and Elmo, Martyrs.

3. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, Virgin. Double.

4. Francis Caracciolo, Confessor. Double.

5. Boniface, Archbishop [of Maintz,] Martyr. Double.

[In the diocese of Plymouth, a Double of the First Class, with an Octave.
Gen. App.]

6. Norbert, Archbishop [of Magdeburg,] Confessor. Double.
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KALENDAR. XXV

8. William, Archbishop of York, Confessor. Double.

9. Primus and Felician, Martyrs.

[/ the diocese of Portsmouth, Translation of St Edmund, Archbishop of
Canterbury, Confessor. Greater Double. Gen. App.]]

10. Margaret, Queen of Scots, Widow. Double.

1 1 . Barnabas, Apostle. Greater Double.

12. John of San Fagondez. Double. Commemoration of SS. Basilides, Cyrinus,

Nabor, and Nazarius, Martyrs.

13. Anthony of Padua, Confessor. Double.

14. Basil the Great, Archbishop [of Cassarea-in-Pontus,] Confessor and Doctor

of the Church. Double.

15. Philip Neri, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of SS. Vitus, Modestus,

and Crescentia, Martyrs.

1 6.

17. Botolph, Abbat, Confessor. Semi-double.

[Lord s Day before the birth of St John the Baptist, the Blessed Virgin
Mary, styled of Perpetual Succour. Greater Double. Gen. App.]]

1 8. Mark and Marcellian, Martyrs.

19. Juliana de Falconieri, Virgin. Double. Commemoration of SS. Gervase

and Protase, Martyrs.

20. Silverius, Pope of Rome, and Martyr.

21. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor. Double.

22. Alban, Proto-Martyr of Britain. Greater Double. Commemoration of

Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, Confessor.

[First Free Day after June 22, the Blessed John Fisher, Cardinal Bishop of
Rochester, Martyr. Greater Double. Gen. App.]

23. Etheldreda, Virgin. Double. Commemoration of Midsummer Eve.

24. BIRTH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST. Double of the First Class.

25. William, Abbat, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of St

John.

26. John and Paul, Martyrs. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of St

John.

27. Within the Octave of the Birth of St John.

28. Leo II., Pope of Rome, and Confessor. Semi-double. Commemoration of

the Octave of St John, and of the Eve of the Apostles.

29. PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES. Double of the First Class.
[Commemoration of all the Holy Apostles. Gen. App.]

30. Commemoration of St Paul. Greater Double. Commemoration of St Peter,

and of the Octave of St John.

JULY.

* First Lord s Day in July, the Most Precious Blood of our Lord JESUS
Christ. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration of the Sunday.

Octave of the Birth of St John the Baptist. Double. Commemoration of
the Octave of SS. Peter and Paul.

XXVI KALENDAR.

2. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Class. Com

memoration of SS. Processus and Martinian, Martyrs.

3. Within the Octave of the Apostles.

4. Within the Octave of the Apostles.

5. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the

Octave of the Apostles.

6. Octave of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Double.

[First Free Day after July 6, the Blessed Thomas More, Martyr. Greater
Double. Gen. App.]

7. Translation of Thomas, Archbishop [of Canterbury], Martyr. Greater Double.
* Second Lord s Day in July, the Holy Relics. Greater Double. Com
memoration of the Sunday.

8. Isabel, Queen of Portugal, Widow. Semi-double.

9. Willibald, Bishop of Eichstad, Confessor. Double.

10. The Seven Brethren and the Holy Virgins Rufina and Secunda, all Martyrs.

Semi-double.

1 1 . Cyril, Bishop of Moravia, and Methodius, Bishop of Kieff, Confessors.

Double. Commemoration of St Pius I., Pope and Martyr.

12. John Gualberto, Abbat [of Passignano,] Double. Commemoration of SS.

Nabor and Felix, Martyrs.

13. Anaclete, Pope of Rome, and Martyr. Semi-double.

14. " Buona- ventura," [Cardinal] Bishop [of Albano,] Confessor, and Doctor

of the Church. Double.

15. Swithun, Bishop [of Winchester,] Confessor. Double.
[The Division of the Apostles. Double. Gen. App.]

[Third Sunday in July, Commemoration of All the Holy Bishops of Rome.
Double. Gen. App.]

1 6. The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled of Mount Carmel. Greater Double.
[In the diocese of Salford, Double of the First Class. Gen. App.]

17. Osmund, Bishop [of Salisbury,] Confessor. Double.

1 8. Camillus de Lelli, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St Symphorosa

and her Seven Sons, Martyrs.

19. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. Double.

20. Jerome Miani, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St Margaret, Virgin

and Martyr.

21. Henry II., Emperor of the Romans, Confessor. Semi-double. Commem

oration of St Praxedes, Virgin.

22. Mary Magdalen. Double.

23. Apollinaris, Bishop [of Ravenna,] Martyr. Double. Commemoration of St

Liborius, Bishop of Mans, Confessor.

24. Alexis, Confessor. Semi-double. Commemoration of the Eve of St James,

and of St Christina, Virgin and Martyr.

25. James, Apostle. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration of St Chris

topher, Martyr.

26. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Class.
\_In the diocese of Leeds, Double of the First Class. Gen. App.]

27. Pantaleon, Martyr.

28. Nazarius, Celsus, and Victor, Martyrs, and Innocent, Pope of Rome, and

Confessor. Semi-double.

KALENDAR. XXvii

29. Martha, Virgin. Semi-double. Commemoration of SS. Felix, Simplicius,

Faustinus, and Beatrix, Martyrs.

30. Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of SS.

Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs.
3 i . Ignatius, Confessor. Double.

AUGUST.

1. The Chains of St Peter. Greater Double. Commemoration of the Holy

Machabees, Martyrs.

2. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, Bishop [of Santa-Agata-de -Goti,]] Confessor,

and Doctor of the Church. Double. Commemoration of St Stephen,
Pope of Rome, and Martyr.

3. Finding of the body of St Stephen, the First Martyr. Semi-double.

4. Dominick, Confessor. Greater Double.

5. Dedication of St Mary s of the Snows. Greater Double.

6. Transfiguration of our Lord. Greater Double. Commemoration of St

Xystus, Pope of Rome, and SS. Felicissimus and Agapitus, Martyrs.

7. Gae tan, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St Donatus, Bishop of

Arezzo, Martyr.

8. Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus, Martyrs. Semi-double.

9. Oswald, King of the Northumbrians, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of

the Eve of St Lawrence, and of St Romanus, Martyr.

10. .Lawrence, Martyr. Double of the Second Class.

11. Within the Octave of St Lawrence. Commemoration of SS. Tiburtius and

Susanna.

12. Clare, Virgin. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of St Lawrence.

13. Within the Octave of St Lawrence. Commemoration of SS. Hippolytus

and Cassian, Martyrs.

14. Within the Octave of St Lawrence. Commemoration of the Eve of the

Assumption, and of St Eusebius, Confessor.

1 5. ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. Double of the First Class.

* The Lord s Day within the Octave of the Assumption, St Joachim, Con
fessor, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Class.
Commemoration of the Sunday.

1 6. Hyacinth, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the two Octaves.

17. Octave of St Lawrence. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of the

Assumption.

1 8. Helen, Empress of the Romans, Widow. Double. Commemoration of the

Octave of the Assumption, and of St Agapitus, Martyr.

19. Within the Octave of the Assumption.

20. Bernard, Abbat [of Clairvaux,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.

Double. Commemoration of the Octave of the Assumption.

21. Jeanne Frances Fremiot de Chantal, Widow. Double. Commemoration of

the Octave of the Assumption.

22. Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double. Com

memoration of SS. Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, Martyrs.

xxviii KALENDAR.

* The Lord s Day after the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. \_0ffice of the Most Pure Heart of the Blessed Virgin. Greater
Double. Vol. iii., Gen. App., p. 1028 ; vol. iv., Gen. App., p. 916.]

23. Philip Benizzi, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the Eve of St

Bartholomew.

24. Bartholomew , Apostle. Double of the Second Class.

25. Louis IX., King of France, Confessor. Semi-double.

26. Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome, and Martyr.

27. Joseph Casalanz, Confessor. Double.

28. Austin, Bishop [of Hippo,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.

Commemoration of St Hermes, Martyr.

29. Beheading of St John the Baptist. Greater Double. Commemoration of St

Sabina, Martyr.

30. Rose of Lima, Virgin. Double. Commemoration of SS. Felix and him

that joined him, Martyrs.

31. Aidan, Bishop [of Lindisfarne,] Confessor. Double.

SEPTEMBER.

1. Raymond the Unborn, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St Giles,

Abbat, and of the Twelve Holy Brethren, Martyrs.

2. Stephen, King of Hungary, Confessor. Semi-double.

4. [Translation of St Cuthbert, Bishop [of Lindisfarne] and Confessor. Greater

Double in the diocese of Hexham. Gen. App.]

5. Lawrence de Giustiniani, Patriarch of Venice, Confessor. Semi-double.
6.

8. Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Class. Commem

oration of St Adrian, Martyr.

* The Lord s Day within the Octave, The Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin

Mary. Greater Double. Commemoration of the Sunday.

9. Within the Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin. Commemoration of

St Gorgonius, Martyr.

10. Nicolas of Tolentino. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of the Birth

of the Blessed Virgin.

1 1. Within the Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin. Commemoration of

SS. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs.

12. Within the Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin.

13. Within the Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin.

14. Uplifting of the Holy Cross. Greater Double. Commemoration of the

Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin.

i 5. Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin. Double. Commemoration of St
Nicomede, Martyr.

* Third Lord s Day in this Month, The Seven Sorro ws of the Blessed Virgin

Mary. Greater Double. Commemoration of the Sunday.

KALENDAR. xxix

1 6. Cornelius, Pope of Rome, and Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyrs.

Semi-double. Commemoration of SS. Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian,
Martyrs.

17. Marking of the Body of St Francis with the marks of Our Lord. Double.
i 8. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor. Double.

19. Januarius, Bishop [of Benevento,] and his Companions, Martyrs. Double.

20. Eustace, Agapitus, Theopistus, and Theopista, Martyrs. Double. Com

memoration of the Eve of St Matthew.

2 1 . Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. Double of the Second Class.

22. Thomas of Villanueva, Archbishop [of Valencia,] Confessor. Double.

Commemoration of St Maurice and his Companions, Martyrs.

23. Linus, Pope of Rome, and Martyr. Semi-double. Commemoration of St

Thecla, Virgin and Martyr.

24. The Blessed Virgin Mary, styled " of Ransom." Greater Double.

25. Ninian, Bishop [of Galloway,] Confessor. Double.

26. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, Confessor. Double. Commemoration

of SS. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs.

27. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs. Semi-double.

28. Wenceslaus, Duke [of Bohemia,] Martyr. Semi-double.

29. Dedication of the Church of St Michael, the Archangel. Double of the Second

Class.

[In the dioceses of Menevia and Newport, ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
Double of the First Class. Gen. App.]

30. Jerome, Priest, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double. Com

memoration of St Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury.

OCTOBER.

* First Lord s Day in the Month, The Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin

Mary. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration of the Sunday.

1 . Remy, Bishop of Rheims, Confessor. Simple or Semi-double at will.

2. The Guardian Angels. Greater Double.

3. Thomas, Bishop of Hereford, Confessor. Double.

4. Francis, Confessor. Greater Double.

5. Placidus and his Companions, Martyrs.

6. Bruno, Confessor. Double.

7. Mark, Pope of Rome, Confessor. Commemoration of SS. Sergius and his

Companions, Martyrs.

* Second Lord s Day in the Month, Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Greater Double. Commemoration of the Sunday.

8. Bridget, Princess of Nericia, Widow. Double.

9. Denys, Bishop of Paris, Rusticus, and Eleutherius, Martyrs. Semi-double.
10. Paulinus, Archbishop of York, Confessor. Double.

IT. Francis Borgia, Confessor. Semi-double.

12. Wilfred, Archbishop [of York,] Confessor. Double.

13. Edward, King of England, Confessor. Double of the Second Class.

XXX KALENDAR.

14. Kallistus, Pope of Rome, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the Octave
of St Edward.

* Third Lord s Day in the Month, Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Greater Double. Commemoration of the Sunday.
i 5. Theresa, Virgin. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of St Edward.

16. Within the Octave of St Edward.

17. ladwiga, Widow. Semi-double. Commemoration of the Octave of St

Edward.

1 8. Luke, Evangelist. Double of the Second Class.

19. Peter of Alcantara, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the Octave

of St Edward.
[In the diocese of Shrewsbury, Double of the First Class. Gen. App.]

20. . Octave of St Edward. Double.

21. Ursula and her Companions, Virgins and Martyrs. Greater Double. Com

memoration of St Hilarion, Abbat.

* Fourth Lord s Day in the Month, Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Greater Double. Commemoration of the Sunday.

22. John of Kenty, Confessor. Double.

23. Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer. Greater Double.

24. The Archangel Raphael. Greater Double.

25. John of Beverley, Archbishop [of York,] Confessor. Double. Commem

oration of SS. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs.

26. Evaristus, Pope of Rome, Martyr.

27. Eve of SS. Simon and Jude.

28. Simon and Jude, Apostles. Double of the Second Class.
29.

3 i . Eve of All Saints.

NOVEMBER.

1. FEAST OF ALL THE SAINTS. Double of the First Class.

2. Within the Octave of All Saints. Commemoration of all the Faithful

Departed.

3. Winefrid, Virgin and Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of

All Saints.

4. Charles, [Cardinal] Archbishop [of Milan,] Confessor. Double. Com

memoration of the Octave of All Saints, and of Saints Vitalis and
Agricola, Martyrs.

5. Within the Octave of All Saints.

6. Within the Octave of All Saints.

7. Within the Octave of All Saints.

8. Octave of All Saints. Double. Commemoration of the Four Crowned

Martyrs.

9. Dedication of the Cathedral Church of Our Most Holy Saviour. Greater

Double. Commemoration of St Theodore, Martyr.

KALENDAR. XXXI

10. Andrew Avellino, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of SS. Tryphon,

Respicius, and the Virgin Nympha, Martyrs, and of St Justus, Bishop of
Rochester, Confessor.

11. Martin, Bishop [of Tours,] Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St

Mennas, Martyr.

1 2. Martin, Pope of Rome, Martyr. Semi-double.

13. Diego, Confessor. Semi-double.

14. Erconwald, Bishop of London, Confessor. Double.

[Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Martyr. Greater Double. Gen.
^ App.]
i 5. Gertrude, Virgin. Double.

1 6. Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, Confessor. Double.

[In the diocese of Portsmouth, EDMUND OF CANTERBURY. Double of the
First Class. Gen. App.]

17. Hew, Bishop of Lincoln, Confessor. Double.

i 8. Dedication of the Churches of SS. Peter and Paul. Greater Double.

19. Elizabeth, Widow. Double. Commemoration of St Pontian, Pope of

Rome, and Martyr.

20. Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr. Greater Double.

21. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Greater Double.

22. Cecily, Virgin and Martyr. Double.

23. Clement, Pope of Rome, Martyr. Double. Commemoration of St Felicity,

Martyr.

24. John of the Cross, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St Chrysogonus,

Martyr.

25. Katharine, Virgin and Martyr. Double.

26. Sylvester, Abbat, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St Peter, Pope

of Alexandria, Martyr.

27. Gregory, the Wonder-worker, Bishop [of Neo-Caesarea in Pontus,] Con

fessor. Double.

28. Jehoshaphat, Archbishop of Polotsk, Martyr. Double.

29. Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of

the Eve of St Andrew, if out of Advent, and of St Saturninus, Martyr.
[Cuthbert Maine, Martyr. Double. Gen. App.]

30. Andrew p , Apostle. Double of the Second Class.

DECEMBER.

1. Felix de Valois, Confessor. Double.

[Edmund Campion and his Companions, Martyrs. Double. Gen. App.]

2. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr. Semi- double.

3. Francis Xavier, Confessor. Double. 1

4. Peter Chrysologus, Archbishop [of Ravenna,] Confessor, and Doctor of the

Church. Double. Commemoration of St Barbara, Virgin and Martyr.

1 Since raised to the rank of a Greater Double.

XXX11 KALENDAR.

5. Brian, Bishop [of Dorchester,] Confessor. Double. Commemoration of St

Saba, Abbat.

6. Nicolas, Archbishop [of Myra,] Confessor. Double.

[In diocese of Liverpool, Double of the First Class. Gen. App.]

7. Ambrose, Bishop [of Milan,] Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.

Double.

8. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. Double of the

First Class.

9. Within the Octave of the Conception.

10. Within the Octave of the Conception. Commemoration of St Melchiades,

Pope of Rome, Martyr.
[Translation of the Holy House of Loreto. Greater Double. Gen. App.]

1 1 . Damasus, Pope of Rome, Confessor. Semi-double. Commemoration of the

Octave of the Conception.

12. Within the Octave of the Conception.

13. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr. Double. Commemoration of the Octave of the

Conception.

14. Within the Octave of the Conception.

15. Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. Double.

1 6. Eusebius, Bishop [of Vercelli,] Martyr. Semi-double.

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1 8. The Blessed Virgin Mary looking shortly to be delivered. Greater Double.
19.

20. Eve of St Thomas.

2 1 . Thomas, Apostle. Double of the Second Class.

22.
2 3

24. Christmas Eve.

25. BIRTHDAY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Double of the First Class.

26. Stephen, the First Martyr. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration

of the Octave of Christmas.

27. John, Apostle and Evangelist. Double of the Second Class. Commemora

tion of the Octaves of Christmas and of St Stephen.

28. The Holy Innocents. Double of the Second Class. Commemoration of the

Octaves of Christmas, of St Stephen, and of St John.

29. THOMAS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, MARTYR. Double of the First

Class. 1 Commemoration of the Octaves of Christmas, [of St Stephen,
of St John, and of the Innocents.]

30. Office of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, or of the Octave.

Commemorations of the Octaves of [Christmas,] of St Thomas of
Canterbury, of St Stephen, of St John, and of the Innocents.

31. Silvester, Pope of Rome, Confessor. Double. Commemoration of the

Octaves of Christmas, of St Thomas of Canterbury, of St Stephen,
of St John, and of the Innocents.

1 See the note to the Office in the Breviary.

PRAYERS. ABSOLUTIONS AND BLESSINGS. XXXlll

PRAYERS. ABSOLUTIONS AND BLESSINGS.

A PRAYER BEFORE A SERVICE.

O Lord, open Thou my mouth that I may bless Thy Holy Name. Cleanse
my heart from all vain, evil, and wandering thoughts ; enlighten my under
standing ; kindle my affections, that I may pray to, and praise Thee with
attention and devotion ; and may worthily be heard before the presence of
Thy Divine Majesty. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Lord, in union with that Divine Intention wherewith Thou didst Thyself
praise God, while as Thou wast on earth, I offer these Hours unto Thee.

A PRAYER AFTER A SERVICE.

In respect of which Pope Leo X. has granted to all persons who after saying
the Divine Office shall devoutly recite it on their knees , condonation of the shortcomings
and faults committed by them from human frailty in saying the Office.

To the Most Holy and undivided Trinity, to the Manhood of our Lord
JESUS Christ Crucified, to the fruitful Virginity of the most blessed and most
glorious Mary, always a Virgin, and to the holiness of all the Saints be ascribed
everlasting praise, honour, and glory, by all creatures, and to us be granted the
forgiveness of all our sins, world without end. Amen.

Verse. Blessed be the womb of the Virgin Mary which bore the Son of
the Eternal Father.

Answer. And blessed be the paps which gave suck to Christ our Lord.

Then are said the JLord s Prayer and the Angelic Salutation.

SUMMARY OF THE ABSOLUTIONS AND BLESSINGS PRONOUNCED AT MATTINS.

In the First Nocturn, and on Monday and Thursday.

Absolution.

Graciously hear, O Lord JESUS Christ, the prayers of Thy servants, and
have mercy upon us : Who livest and reignest with the Father, and the Holy
Ghost, world without end. Amen.

First Blessing.

May the Eternal Father bless us
With an eternal blessing. Amen.

Second Blessing.

May the Son, the Sole-begotten,
Mercifully bless and keep us. Amen.

xxxiv PRAYERS. ABSOLUTIONS AND BLESSINGS.

Third Blessing.

May the grace of God the Spirit

All our heart and mind enlighten. Amen.

In the Second Nocturn, and on Tuesday and Friday.
Absolution.

May His loving-kindness and mercy help us, Who liveth and reigneth with
the Father, and the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

Fourth Blessing.

God the Father Omnipotent,

Be to us merciful and clement. Amen.

Fifth Blessing.

May Christ to all His people give,
For ever in His sight to live. Amen.

Sixth Blessing.

May the Spirit s fire Divine

In our hearts enkindled shine. Amen.

In the Third Nocturn, and on Wednesday and Saturday.
Absolution.

May the Almighty and merciful Lord loose us from the bonds of our
sins. Amen.

Seventh Blessing.

May the Gospel s holy lection

Be our safety and protection. Amen.

Eighth Blessing.

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay. Amen.

For Feasts of Saints.

He (or she or they) whose feast-day we are keeping,
Be our Advocate (or Advocates) with God.

For Feasts of the Blessed Virgin.

She whose feast-day we are keeping
Mary, blessed Maid of Maidens,
Be our Advocate with God.

PRAYERS. ABSOLUTIONS AND BLESSINGS. XXXV

Ninth Blessing.

May He that is the Angels King

To that high realm His people bring. Amen.

Or, if another Gospel and Homily are to be begun,

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford .

On days of Three Lessons the Absolution and Blessings are as above, according
to the Week-day, with the following exceptions : First Blessing on Wednesday or
Saturday, (not the Simple Office of the Blessed Virgin,) if the First Lesson be
not Gospel with Homily,

May His blessing be upon us
Who doth live and reign for ever.

Whenever the First Lesson is Gospel with Homily, the Blessings are from the
Third Nocturn.

If the Office be of a Saint or Saints, the Blessings are :

First Blessing.

May His blessing be upon us
Who doth live and reign for ever.

Second Blessing.

He (or she or they) whose feast-day we are keeping,
Be our Advocate (or Advocates) with God.

Third Blessing.

May He that is the Angels King

To that high realm His people bring. Amen.

The Absolution and Blessings in the Simple Office of the Blessed Virgin for
Saturdays are peculiar to that Office, and are given in their own place.

CJte

OR,

BOOK OF PSALMS,

DIVIDED ACCORDING TO THE DAYS OF THE WEEK, TOGETHER WITH
THE ORDINARY OFFICE FOR THE DIFFERENT SEASONS.

MATTINS, 1 OR MORNING PRAYER.
FOR THE LORD S DAY, SUNDAY.

Before Mattins, and every other
Hour, except Lauds and Compline,
there is said inaudibly?

Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we

forgive them that trespass against us.
A j i j , . , .

And lead us not into temptation;

but deliver us from evil. Amen.

TTAIL, Mary, full of grace;

11 The Lord is with thee :

11 j

blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb, JESUS.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.

n At the beginning of Mattins and
Prime, and at the end of Lomfihne,
is ^ mid inaudibl / he A / ostles &gt;

Creed.

1 The proper hour for Mattins is midnight, at which time it is said in many Convents.
In others it is said at 2 or 5 A.M. In the Cathedral of Rome (St. John Lateran s) and
other Churches of the same country, the hour is about 7 A.M. It is allowable to say it at
any hour after the sun has begun to decline, and an ordinary practice is to do so late in the
afternoon.

- The reason why the Lord s Prayer and the Apostles Creed are recited inaudibly during
the Office seems to be, that in the early Church these formulae were concealed from the
unbaptized until very shortly before their baptism. Now, all were allowed to be present
at the Office, of which these formulae are a part, and therefore they were then so said that
the unbaptized could not hear them. The " Hail, Mary," having been added as a sort of
appendix to the Lord s Prayer, follows the same rule with it. The Lord s Prayer is said
aloud during the Canon of the Mass, because only the faithful were then present.
VOL. II. A

THE PSALTER.

I BELIEVE in God the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven
and earth. And in JESUS Christ,
His only Son, our Lord : Who
was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
bom of the Virgin Mary, suffered
under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
dead, and buried : He descended
into hell : the third day He rose
again from the dead : He ascended
into heaven, and sitteth on the .right
hand of God the Father Almighty :
from thence He shall come to judge
the quick and the dead. I be
lieve in the Holy Ghost, the Holy
Catholic Church, the Communion
of Saints, the Forgiveness of sins,
the Resurrection of the body, and
the Life everlasting. Amen.

Then is said aloud:

Versed *fa O LORD, open Thou
my lips.

Answer. And my mouth shall
show forth Thy praise.

Verse? ^ Make haste, O God,
to deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

3 As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, world with
out end. Amen, Alleluia. 4

From Sepluagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thursday instead of Alleluia
is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of heaven.

Then is said Psalm xciv. with the
Invitatory. The Invitatory here given
is said from the Octave of the Epiph
any to Septuagesima Sunday, and
from the Octave of Pentecost to Ad
vent Sunday.

Invitatory. Let us worship the
Lord, for * He is our Maker.

Repetition. Let us worship the
Lord, for * He is our Maker.

Psalm XCIV. 5

[Vulgate and LXX., "A song of praise
by David."]

OCOME, let us sing unto the
LORD, let us make a joyful
noise to the God of our Salva
tion : let us come before His
presence with thanksgiving, and
make a joyful noise unto Him
with psalms.

Let us worship the Lord, for He
is our Maker.

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

He is our Maker.

For the sea is His, and He made
it : and His hands formed the dry
land : 6 O come, let us worship
and fall down ; let us cry unto the

i p s . L J7 . 2 Ps. Ixix. 2.

3 The Greek original of this Doxology does not contain the words, " As it was in the
beginning" (inserted against the Arians), but runs thus : " Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, both now, and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

4 Or rather, "Hal lu-YAH," " Praise-ye-the-Eternal," a Hebrew phrase which occurs
repeatedly in the Bible. The sound of these words causes the Church such joy that she
denies herself their use during her penitential season. But in order not to remit the praise of
God, she substitutes for the Hebrew phrase a short rhyming Latin one, of similar meaning.

5 This Psalm is not given in the original from the Vulgate, but from some other Latin
translation. 6 Here it is usual to kneel till the *.

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

LORD our Maker. * For He is
the Lord our God ; and we are
His people, and the sheep of His
pasture.

Let us worship the Lord, for He
is our Maker.

To-day if ye will hear His voice,
harden not your heart; as in "the
Provocation," and as in the day of
" Temptation " in the wilderness :
when your fathers tempted Me,
proved Me, and saw My works. 1

He is our Maker.

Forty years long was I grieved
with that generation 2 and said, It is
a people that do alway err in their
heart, and they have not known My
ways : unto whom I sware in My
wrath that they should not enter
into My rest.

Let us worship the Lord, for He
is our Maker.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without
end. Amen.

He is our Maker.

Let us worship the Lord, for He
is our Maker.

The following Hymn is then said,
from the Octave of the Epiphany to the
First Sunday in Lent, and from the first
Sunday of October to Advent.

HYMN. 3

y 0-DAY the Blessed Three in One
A Began the earth and skies ;
To-day a Conqueror, God the Son,

Did from the grave arise ;
We too will wake, and, in despite
Of sloth and languor, all unite,
As Psalmists bid, through the dim night

Waiting with wistful eyes.

So may He hear, and heed each vow,

And prayer to Himaddrest ;
And grant an instant cleansing now,

A future glorious rest.
So may He plentifully shower,
On all who hymn His love and power,
In this most still and sacred hour,
His sweetest gifts and best.

Father of purity and light !

Thy presence if we win,
Twill shield us from the deeds of night,

The burning darts of sin ;
Lest aught denied or dissolute
Relax our bodies or imbrute,
And fires eternal be the fruit

Of fire now lit within.

Fix in our hearts, Redeemer dear,

The ever-gushing spring
Of grace to cleanse, of life to cheer

Souls sick and sorrowing.
Thee, bounteous Father, we entreat,
And only Son, awful and sweet,
And life-creating Paraclete,

The Everlasting King.

Amen.

Instead of the foregoing the follow
ing Hymn is said from the Octave of
Pentecost to the jirst Sunday of Oc
tober.

1 P 16 . ccasion here referred to is that described in Exodus xvii. 1-7. The children of
Israel while travelling through the desert became rebellious from want of water. It was
given them from the smitten rock. Then is added : " And he [Moses] called the name of
the place Temptation" (Hebrew and LXX. add "and Provocation"), "because of the
chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying : Is the LORD
among us, or not ? "

2 Namely, that particular generation which had come out of Egypt. The next clauses
relate to that which is written in Numbers xiv. 22 :" Because all these men which have
seen My glory, and My miracles, which I did in Egypt, and in the wilderness, have tempted
Me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice, surely they shall not see the
land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it."
And this is confirmed with an oath, in verse 28 : " As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye
have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you : your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness."

3 Ascribed to Pope St. Gregory the Great, but altered, one verse omitted, and the last
verse added. Translation by the late Card. Newman.

THE PSALTER.

HYMN. 1

LET us arise and watch by night,
And meditate always ;
And chant as in our Maker s sight
United hymns of praise.

So singing with the saints in bliss,

With them we may attain
Life everlasting after this,

And heaven for earthly pain.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

When the Invitatories, Hymns, &c.,
arc different from the above they are
given in the Office to which they be
long.

FIRST NOCTURN, OR WATCH OF
THE NIGHT.

Antiphon for Advent. Behold,
there cometh the King.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
Serve the LORD.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia.

Psalm I.

BLESSED is the man that walk-
eth not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, * nor sitteth in the seat of
the scoffers :

But his delight is in the Law of
the LORD ; * and in His Law doth
he meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, *
that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season :

His leaf also shall not wither :
* and whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper.

Not so are the ungodly, not so :
* but are like the chaff which the
wind driveth away from the face of
the earth.

Therefore the ungodly shall not
stand in the judgment : * nor sin
ners in the congregation of the
righteous.

For the LORD knoweth the way
of the righteous : * but the way of
the ungodly shall perish.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, * world
without end. Amen.

This Doxology is said at the end of
every Psalm unless special directions
are given to the contrary.

Psalm II.

[In Acts iv. 25, 26, the authorship of this
Psalm is attributed to David.]

WHY do the heathen rage, *
and the peoples devise a
vain thing?

The kings of the earth set them
selves, and the rulers take counsel
together * against the LORD, and
against His Anointed.

Let us break their bands asun
der : * and cast away their yoke
from us.

He That sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh them to scorn : * and
the Lord shall have them in de
rision.

Then shall He speak unto them
in His wrath : * and plague them in
His sore displeasure.

Yet hath He set me for King
upon His holy hill of Zion * to de
clare His decree.

1 Also ascribed to Pope St. Gregory the Great, although somewhat altered. Translation
by the late Card. Newman.

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

The LORD hath said unto me :
* Thou art My Son, this day have
I begotten thee.

Ask of Me, and I shall give
thee the heathen for thine inheri
tance, * and the uttermost parts
of the earth for thy possession.

Thou shalt rule them with a rod
of iron, * and shalt dash them in
pieces like a potter s vessel.

Be wise now, therefore, O ye
kings ; * be instructed, ye judges
of the earth.

Serve the LORD with fear : * and
rejoice with trembling before Him.

Lay hold of instruction, lest the
Lord be angry, * and ye perish from
the righteous way.

When His wrath is kindled sud
denly, * blessed are all they that
put their trust in Him.

Psalm III.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David, when he
fled from Absalom his son." See the his
tory in 2 Kings (Sam.) xv., xvi., xviii.]

ORD, how are they increased
** that trouble me ? * many are
they that rise up against me.

Many there be that say of my
-soul: * There is no help for him
in his God. 1

But Thou, O LORD, art a shield
for me, * my glory, and the Lifter
up of mine head.

I cried unto the LORD with my
voice : * and He heard me out of
His holy hill. 2

I laid me down and slept; * I
awaked, for the LORD sustained me.

I will not be afraid of thousands

of people that have set themselves
against me round about : * arise, O
LORD, save me, O my God.

For Thou hast smitten all them
that fought against me without a
cause 3 : * Thou hast broken the
teeth of the ungodly.

Salvation belongeth unto the
LORD : * and Thy blessing is upon
Thy people. 2

Psalm VI.

&lt; [Intituled "A Psalm of David." The
title also contains directions, probably musi
cal, the meaning of which is now uncertain.]

^\ LORD, rebuke me not in
Thine anger : * neither
chasten me in Thine hot dis
pleasure.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD,
for I am weak : * O LORD, heal me,
for my bones are shaken.

My soul also is sore vexed : * but
Thou, O LORD, how long ?

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul :
* O save me for Thy mercy s sake.

For in death there is no one that
remembereth Thee : * and in the
grave who shall give Thee thanks ?

I am weary with my groaning,
every night I wash my bed : * I
water my couch with my tears.

Mine eye is grown dim because
of grief : * I am waxen old because
of all mine enemies.

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

The LORD hath heard my suppli
cation : * the LORD hath received
my prayer.

Here occur in the Hebrew the letters SLH, or "Selah." The meaning of this is un
certain. Gesenius thinks "it seems to have been used to mark a short pause in singing
the words of the Psalm, so that the singer would be silent, while the instrumental music
continued. 2 SLH) again

But the Hebrew reads, not, "without a cause," but, "on the jaw-bone."

THE PSALTER.

Let all mine enemies be ashamed
and sore vexed : * let them return
and be ashamed suddenly.

Antiphon for Advent. Behold,
there cometh the King, even the
Most High, with great power, to
save the nations. Alleluia.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
1 Serve the LORD with fear, and re
joice with trembling before Him.

In Paschal time there is only one
Antiphon to the whole Nocturn.

Second Antiphon for Advent.
Strengthen ye.

Second Antiphon for the rest of the
year. God is a righteous judge.

Psalm VII.

[Intituled "An Hymn of David, which
he sang unto the LORD concerning the words
of Cush the Benjamite." This Gush is sup
posed to be the same as Shimei, whose curs
ing of David is narrated in 2 Kings (Sam.)
xvi. 7, 8, or else a nickname for Saul.]

OLORD my God, in Thee do
I take refuge : * save me
from all them that persecute me,
and deliver me.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, *
while there is none to deliver, or to
save.

O LORD my God, if I have done
this, * if there be iniquity in mine
hands ;

If I have requited with evil them
that requited me [with good], * may
I then flee empty before mine
enemies.

Let the enemy persecute my soul,
and take it, yea, let him tread down
my life upon the earth, * and lay
mine honour in the dust 2
1 Ps. ii. ii.

Arise, O LORD, in Thine anger :
* and lift up Thyself against the
borders of mine enemies.

And awake for me, O Lord my
God, according to the decree that
Thou hast made : * so shall the
congregation of the people com
pass Thee about.

For their sakes, therefore, return
Thou on high : * the LORD judgeth
the peoples.

Judge me, O LORD, according to
my righteousness, * and according
to mine integrity that is in me.

O let the wickedness of the
wicked come to an end, and es
tablish the just; * God trieth the
hearts and reins.

Mine help is righteous, coming
from the Lord, * Who saveth the
upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, strong
and patient : * is He not provoked
every day?

If ye turn not, He will whet His
sword : * He hath bent His bow and
made it ready.

And hath fitted thereon the in
struments of death, * He hath
ordained His arrows against the
persecutors.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity :
* he hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood.

He made a pit and digged it : *
and is fallen into the ditch which he
made.

His mischief shall return upon
his own head : * and his iniquity
shall come down upon his own
pate.

I will praise the LORD according
to His righteousness : * and will
sing praise to the name of the
LORD Most High.
2 SLH.

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

Psalm VIII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." It has
also a title which seems to show that it was
a song for the vintage.]

LORD, our Lord, * how ex
cellent is Thy Name in all
the earth !

For Thy glory is exalted * above
the heavens.

1 Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings hast Thou perfected praise
because of Thine enemies, * that
Thou mightest destroy the enemy
and the avenger.

When I consider Thine heavens,
the work of Thy fingers : * the moon
and the stars which Thou hast or
dained :

What is man, that Thou art mind
ful of him ? * or the son of man,
that Thou visitest him ?

Thou hast made him a little lower
than the angels, Thou hast crowned
him with glory and honour, * and
madest him to have dominion over
the works of Thine hands.

Thou hast put all things under
his feet, * all sheep and oxen, yea,
and the beasts of the field.

The fowl of the air, and the fish
of the sea, * that pass through the
paths of the sea.

LORD, our Lord, * how excel
lent is Thy Name in all the earth !

Psalm IX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." It has
also a superscription the meaning of which
is not now certain. The Targum connects
it with the slaying of Goliath.]

T WILL praise Thee, O LORD,
^ with mine whole heart : * I will
show forth all Thy marvellous works.

1 will be glad and rejoice in

Thee : * I will sing praise to Thy
Name, O Thou Most High.

When mine enemies are turned
back, * they shall fall and perish at
Thy presence.

For Thou hast maintained my
right and my cause : * Thou satest
in the throne judging right.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen,
and the wicked are perished : *
Thou hast put out their name for
ever, even for ever and ever.

The swords of the enemy have
failed utterly : * and their cities
Thou hast destroyed.

Their memorial is perished with
a crash : * and the LORD endureth
for ever.

He hath prepared His throne for
judgment : * and He shall judge
the world in righteousness, He shall
minister judgment to the people in
uprightness.

The LORD also is a refuge for the
poor : * a refuge in times of trouble.

And let them that know Thy
name put their trust in Thee : * for
Thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them
that seek Thee.

Sing praises to the LORD, Who
dwelleth in Zion
the people His doings.

For when He maketh inquisition
for blood He remembereth them : *
He forgetteth not the cry of the
afflicted.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD :
* consider my trouble [which I
suffer] of them that hate me.

Thou That liftest me up from the
gates of death : * that I may show
forth all Thy praises in the gates of
the daughter of Zion !

I will rejoice in Thy salvation : *

declare among

1 This verse was quoted by our Lord, concerning those who cried Hosannah on Palm
Sunday, Matthew xxi. 16.

THE PSALTER.

the heathen are sunk down in the
pit that they made.

In the net which they hid,

their own foot taken.

The LORD is known when He
executeth judgment : * the wicked
is snared in the work of his own
hands. 1

The wicked shall be turned into
hell : * all the nations that forget
God.

For the needy shall not alway be
forgotten : * the expectation of the
poor shall not perish for ever.

Arise, O LORD, let not man pre
vail : * let the heathen be judged in
Thy sight.

Put Thou a master over them, O
LORD : * let the nations know them
selves to be but men. 2

Why standest Thou afar off, O
LORD, * why hidest Thou Thyself
in times of trouble?

The wicked in his pride doth per
secute the poor : * they are taken
in the devices that they have im
agined.

For the wicked is praised accord
ing to his soul s desire : * and the
unrighteous is deemed blessed.

The wicked provoketh the LORD :
* in the greatness of his scornful
indignation he doth not care.

God is not before his eyes : * his
ways are always grievous.

Thy judgments are far out of his
sight : * he hath dominion over his
enemies.

He hath said in his heart : * I
shall not be moved unto generation
and generation, yea, I shall never
be in adversity.

His mouth is full of cursing, and

1 Here occurs: "Instrumental music SLH.

esenius opinion, see p. 5, note I.

- SLH. Here, according to the present Hebrew text, ends Ps. ix.

bitterness, and fraud : * under his
tongue is mischief and sorrow.

He sitteth in the lurking-places
with the rich : in the secret places
* doth he murder the innocent.

His eyes are privily set against
the poor : * he lieth in wait secretly,
as a lion in his den.

He lieth in wait to catch the
poor : * to catch the poor when
he draweth him [after him].

In his snare doth he bring him
down : * yet shall he himself totter
and fall down, when he hath mas
tered the poor.

He hath said in his heart : God
hath forgotten : * He turneth away
His face so that He shall never see it.

Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up
Thine hand : * forget not the
afflicted.

Wherefore doth the wicked pro
voke God? * for he hath said in
his heart : He will not require it.

Thou seest it, for Thou beholdest
labour and sorrow : * to deliver
them into Thine own hand.

The poor leaveth himself unto
Thee : * Thou wilt be the helper
of the fatherless.

Break Thou the arm of the
wicked and the evil man : * his
wickedness shall be sought after and
shall not be found.

The LORD shall be King for ever
and ever : * the heathen shall perish
out of His land.

The LORD hath heard the petition
of the poor : * Thine ear hath heard
the desire of his heart.

To judge the fatherless and the
oppressed, * that man may magnify
himself no more upon earth.

This is a strong argument in favour of

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

Psalm X.

[Intituled " Of David." There is also a
superscription perhaps musical, but now of
uncertain meaning.]

T N the LORD put I my trust ;
-- how say ye to my soul, *
Flee as a bird to the mountain?

For lo, the wicked bend their
bow, they make ready their arrows
in the quiver, * that they may
privily shoot at the upright in
heart.

For they have destroyed that
which Thou hast established : *
and what hath the righteous done ?

The LORD is in His holy temple :
* the LORD S throne is in heaven.

His eyes behold the poor : * His
eyelids try the children of men.

The LORD trieth the righteous
and the wicked : * but he that
loveth iniquity hateth his own soul.

Upon the wicked He shall rain
snares : * fire, and brimstone, and
an horrible tempest, this shall be
the portion of their cup.

For the righteous LORD loveth
righteousness : * His countenance
doth behold uprightness.

Antiphon for Advent. 1 Strengthen
ye the weak hands : be strong ; say :
Behold, our God will come, and
save us, Alleluia.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
2 God is a righteous judge, strong,
and patient : is He not provoked
every day?

Third Antiphon for Advent. Re
joice, all ye.

Third Antiphon for the rest of the
year. Thou shalt keep us.

Psalm XL

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," with some
other words, of meaning now uncertain, as
before.]

1 Isa. xxxv. 3, 4.
VOL. II.

TJELP, LORD, for the godly
- -*- man ceaseth : * for the truth
faileth from among the children of
men.

They speak vanity every one with
his neighbour : * with flattering lips,
with a double heart, do they speak.

The LORD shall cut off all flat
tering lips, * and the tongue that
speaketh proud things.

Who have said : With our tongue
will we prevail, our lips are our
own : * who is lord over us ?

For the oppression of the poor,
and the sighing of the needy, * now
will I arise, saith the LORD.

I will set him in safety : * I will
deal faithfully with him.

The words of the LORD are pure
words : * silver tried in a furnace,
purged of dross, purified seven times.

Thou shalt keep us, O LORD, and
preserve us * from this generation
for ever.

The wicked walk on every side :
* the increase of men is according
to Thy secret counsel.

Psalm XII.

[This Psalm has the same title as the
last.]

TTOW long wilt Thou forget
1 ** me, O LORD ? for ever ? *
How long hidest Thou Thy face
from me?

How long shall I take counsel
in my soul, * having sorrow in mine
heart daily?

How long shall mine enemy be
exalted over me ? * Consider, and
hear me, O LORD my God.

Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of death : * lest mine enemy
say : I have prevailed against him.

Ps. vii. 12.

A 2

THE PSALTER.

Those that trouble me will re
joice if I am moved : * but I have
trusted in Thy mercy.

Mine heart shall rejoice in Thy
salvation ; I will sing unto the LORD
because He hath dealt bountifully
with me : * and I will sing praise
to the name of the Lord Most
High.

Psalm XIII.
[Same title as Psalm x. ]

THE fool hath said in his heart :
* There is no God.
They are corrupt, and have be
come abominable in their works :

* there is none that doeth good,
no, not one.

The LORD looked down from
heaven upon the children of men :

* to see if there were any that did
understand, or seek God.

They are all gone aside, they are
altogether become unprofitable : *
there is none that doeth good, no,
not one.

1 Their throat is an open sepul
chre : with their tongues they have
used deceit : * the poison of asps is
under their lips.

Their mouth is full of cursing and
bitterness : * their feet are swift to
shed blood.

Destruction and misery are in
their ways, and the way of peace
they have not known : * there is no
fear of God before their eyes.

Have all the workers of iniquity
no knowledge, * who eat up my
people as they would eat bread ?

They call not upon the LORD : *
there were they in great fear, where
no fear was ;

For the Lord is in the generation
of the righteous : ye have shamed
the counsel of the poor : * because
the LORD is his hope.

O that the salvation of Israel were
come out of Zion ! * when the
LORD bringeth back the captivity of
His people, Jacob shall rejoice and
Israel shall be glad.

Psalm XIV.
[Intituled "A Psalm of David."]

LORD, who shall abide in Thy
tabernacle ? * who shall
dwell in Thine holy hill ?

He that walketh uprightly, * and
worketh righteousness.

He that speaketh the truth in his
heart, * he that deceiveth not with
his tongue.

He that hath not done evil to his
neighbour, * nor taken up a reproach
against his neighbour.

In whose eyes a vile person is
despised : * but he honoureth them
that fear the LORD.

He that sweareth to his neighbour,
and deceiveth him not, * he that
putteth not out his money to usury,
nor taketh reward against the in
nocent.

He that doeth these things, *
shall never be moved.

Antiphon for Advent. 2 Rejoice,
all ye, and be glad : for, behold, the
Lord will come with vengeance, He
will bring a recompense : He will
come and save us.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
3 Thou shalt keep us, O LORD, and
preserve us.

1 The next three verses are not in the Hebrew, although found in the Vulgate and the
LXX., which are supported by Rom. iii. 13-18.

2 Isa. xxxv. 4. s p s x i 8&gt;

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Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia. 1 The stone was rolled away,
Alleluia, from the door of the sepul
chre. Alleluia, alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. 2 Out of Zion, the Per
fection of beauty.

Answer. Our God shall come
manifestly.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 3 I have remembered Thy
name, O LORD, in the night.

Answer. And have kept Thy
law.

In Lent.

Verse. 4 He hath delivered me
from the snare of the fowler.

Answer. And from the noisome
pestilence.

In Passion time.

Verse. 5 O God, deliver my soul
from the sword.

Answer. And my darling from
the power of the dog.

/;/ Paschal time.

Verse. The Lord is risen from
the grave, Alleluia.

Answer. Who hung for us upon
the tree, Alleluia.

Then is said the Lords Prayer.

R Father (tnaudibly), Who
art in heaven, Hallowed be

Thy Name. Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is

in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. (Aloud.}

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

Then this Absolution.

VORACIOUSLY hear, O Lord
^*" Jesus Christ, the prayers of
Thy servants, and have mercy upon
us : Who livest and reignest with
the Father and the Holy Ghost,
world without end.
Answer. Amen.

Then the reader says :
6 Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

First Blessing.

May the Eternal Father bless us
With an everlasting blessing.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the First Lesson, and at
the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the First Responsory,
after which the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

Second Blessing.

1 Mark xvi. 3.
4 Ps. xc. 3.

2 Ps. xlix. 2.
5 Ps. xxi. 20.

May the Son the Sole-begotten
In His mercy bless and help us.
Answer. Amen.

3 Ps. cxviii. 55.

6 Some
tute for this

persons bound to say the Office, when reciting alone, are accustomed to substi-
is the words, " Command Thy blessing, O Lord ! "

THE PSALTER.

Then is read the Second Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Second Responsory,
after which the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Third Blessing.

May the grace of God the Spirit
All our heart and mind enlighten.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Third Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Third Responsory.

SECOND NOCTURN, OR WATCH OF
THE NIGHT.

Antiphon for Advent. Rejoice
greatly.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
Thou hast no need.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia.

Psalm XV.

[Intituled a work "of David," but the
specifically descriptive word is not now of
certain meaning.]

PRESERVE me, O Lord, for in
Thee do I put my trust : *
I have said unto the LORD : Thou
art my God, for Thou hast no need
of my goods.

To the Saints that are in His
land, * He hath made all my will
admirable.

Their sorrows are multiplied, *
that hasten after [a strange god].

1 Zech. ix. 9.

In their assemblies for blood-
shedding will I have no part : * nor
mention their names with my lips.

The LORD is the portion of mine
inheritance, and of my cup : *
Thou art He That shalt restore
mine inheritance unto me.

The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant places : * yea, I have a
goodly heritage.

I will bless the LORD, Who hath
given me counsel : * my reins also
instruct me in the night seasons.

I have set the LORD always be
fore my face : * because He is at
my right hand, I shall never be
moved.

Therefore mine heart is glad, and
my tongue rejoiceth : " my flesh
also shall rest in hope,

For Thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell : * neither wilt Thou suffer
Thine Holy One to see corruption.

Thou hast shown me the path
of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy
in Thy presence: * at Thy right
hand there are pleasures for ever
more.

Antiphon for Advent. l Rejoice
greatly, O daughter of Jerusalem :
behold, thy King cometh into thee,
O Zion ; fear not, for thy salvation
cometh quickly.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
2 Thou hast no need of my goods,
in Thee do I put my trust, preserve
me, O Lord.

In Paschal time there is only one
Antiphon to the whole Nocturn.

Second Antiphon for Advent.
Christ our King.

Second Antiphon for the rest of
the year. By the words.
- Ps. xv. i, 2.

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

Psalm XVI.
[Intituled "A Prayer of David."]

TTEAR my right, O LORD, *
-- -^ attend unto my cry.

Give ear unto my prayer, * that
goeth not out of feigned lips.

Let my sentence come forth from
Thy presence : * let Thine eyes be
hold the things that are equal.

Thou hast proved mine heart,
and visited it by night : * Thou
hast tried me with fire, and found
no wickedness in me.

That my mouth may not speak
concerning the works of men : * by
the words of Thy lips I have kept
me to strait paths.

Hold up my goings in Thy paths,
* that my footsteps slip not.

I have called upon Thee, for
Thou hast heard me, O God ; * in
cline Thine ear unto me, and hear
my speech.

Show Thy marvellous loving-
kindness, * O Thou That savest
them which put their trust in Thee !

From those that rise up against
Thy right hand keep me, * as the
apple of the eye.

Hide me under the shadow of
Thy wings, * from the face of the
wicked that oppress me.

Mine enemies compass my soul
round about, they are inclosed in
their own fat : * with their mouth
they speak proudly.

They that drave me out have
now compassed me : * they have
set their eyes bowing down to the
earth.

They have lain in wait for me, as
a lion that is ready for his prey : *
and as it were a young lion lurking
in secret places.

1 John i. 36.

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him,
and cast him down : * deliver my
soul from the wicked, Thy sword
from them that hate Thine hand.

O LORD, part them in their life
from the precious things of the
earth : * their belly is filled with
Thine hidden treasure.

They have children to the full : *
and leave the rest of their substance
to their babes.

As for me, I will behold Thy face
in righteousness : * I shall be satis
fied when Thy glory shall appear.

Antiphon for Advent. Christ
our King cometh, : Whom John
preached, saying ; Behold the Lamb
That should come !

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
2 By the words of Thy lips I have
kept me to strait paths.

Third Antiphon for Advent. Be
hold, I come.

Third Antiphon for the rest of the
year. I will love Thee.

When this Antiphon is used the
Psalm begins with the words, " O
LORD, my strength."

Psalm XVII.

[After a superscription, of meaning now
uncertain, the title of this Psalm proceeds,
" Of David, the servant of the LORD, who
spake unto the LORD the words of this song,
in the day that the LORD delivered him
from the hand of all his enemies, and from
the hand of Saul : and he said : It is
found also, with a few slight differences, in
2 Kings (Sam.) xxii.]

T WILL love Thee, O LORD,
* my strength : * the LORD is
my rock, and my fortress, and
my Deliverer.

My God, mine Helper, * in
Whom I trust.

2 Ps. xvi. 4.

THE PSALTER.

My buckler, and the horn of my
salvation, * and my refuge.

I called upon the LORD with
praises, * and am saved from mine
enemies.

The sorrows of death compassed
me : * and the floods of wicked
ness made me afraid.

The sorrows of hell compassed
me about : * the snares of death
came upon me.

In my distress I called upon the
LORD, * and cried unto my God.

And He heard my voice out of
His holy temple : * and my cry
came before Him, even into His
ears.

The earth shook and trembled :

* the foundations of the hills moved
and quaked, because He was wroth.

There went up a smoke in His
wrath, and fire burst forth before
His presence : * coals were kindled
by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and
came down : * and darkness was
under His feet.

And He rode upon the Cherubim l
and did fly : * yea, He did fly upon
the wings of the wind.

And He made darkness His secret
place, His pavilion round about
Him : * dark waters, thick clouds
of the skies.

At the brightness that was be
fore Him, the thick clouds passed,

* hailstones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered in the

heavens, and the Highest uttered
His voice : * hailstones and coals
of fire.

Yea, He sent out His arrows
and scattered them : * He shot

out many lightnings and discomfited
them.

And the fountains of waters were
seen, * and the foundations of the
world were discovered.

At Thy rebuke, O LORD, * at
the blast of the breath of Thy
wrath !

He sent from above, and took
me ; * and drew me out of many
waters.

He delivered me from the strong
est of mine enemies, and from them
which hated me : * for they were too
strong for me.

They came upon me in the day
of my calamity, * but the LORD was
my stay.

He brought me forth also into a
large place : * He delivered me be
cause He delighted in me.

And the LORD shall reward me
according to my righteousness, *
and according to the cleanness of
mine hands shall He recompense
me.

For I have kept the ways of the
LORD, * and have not wickedly de
parted from my GOD.

For all His judgments were before
me : * and I did not put away His
statutes from me.

I shall also be upright with Him,

* and keep myself from mine in
iquity.

And the LORD shall reward me
according to my righteousness, *
and according to the cleanness of
mine hands in His eye-sight.

With the holy Thou shalt be holy,

* and with the innocent Thou shalt
be innocent.

And with the pure Thou shalt be

1 Of these creatures, frequently mentioned in connection with the Divine manifestation,
an elaborate account will be found in Ezekiel i. (First Sunday of November), and more
shortly in Apoc. iv. (Tuesday in Third Week after Easter).

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

pure, * and with the contentious
Thou shalt be contentious.

For Thou wilt save the afflicted
people, * and bring down high
looks.

For Thou lightest my lamp, O
LORD : * my God, enlighten my
darkness !

For by Thee shall I be delivered
from temptation, * and by my God
shall I leap over a wall.

As for my God, His way is per
fect ; the word of the LORD is tried
in the fire : * He is a buckler to all
those that trust in Him.

For who is God save the LORD ?
*. or who is God save our God ?

It is God that girdeth me with
strength, * and maketh my way
perfect.

He maketh my feet like hinds
feet, * and setteth me upon mine
high places.

He teacheth my hands to war, *
and maketh mine arms like a bow
of brass.

Thou hast also given me the
shield of Thy salvation : * and Thy
right hand hath holden me up.

Thy correction also hath made
me great : * and Thy chastening it
is that shall teach me.

Thou hast enlarged my steps
under me, * and my feet have not
slipped.

I will pursue mine enemies and
overtake them : * neither will I turn
again till they be consumed.

I will wound them that they shall
not be able to rise : * they shall fall
under my feet.

Thou hast girded me also with
strength unto the battle, * and hast
subdued under me those that rose
up against me.

1 Apoc.

And hast made mine enemies to
turn their back toward me, * and
hast destroyed them that hate me.

They cried, but there was none
to save them, even unto the LORD,
* but He answered them not.

And I will beat them small, as
the dust before the wind : * I will
cast them out as the dirt in the
streets.

Thou shalt deliver me from the
gainsayings of the people : * Thou
shalt make me the head of the
heathen.

A people whom I knew not have
served me : * as soon, as they heard
of me they obeyed me.

The strangers feigned obedience
unto me : * the strangers were
wearied out, and stumbled in their
paths.

The LORD liveth, and blessed be
my God : * and let the God of my
salvation be exalted !

It is Thou, O God, That avengest
me, and subduest the people under
me. * Thou art my deliverer from
my wrathful adversaries.

And Thou shalt lift me up above
those that rise up against me :
Thou shalt deliver me from the
wicked man.

Therefore will I give thanks unto
Thee, O LORD, among the heathen,
* and sing praises unto Thy name.

Great deliverance giveth He to
His king, and showeth mercy to
His Anointed, to David, * and to
his seed for evermore.

Antiphon for Advent. l Behold,
I come quickly, saith the Lord,
and My reward is with Me, to give
every man according as his work
shall be.

xxii. 12.

THE PSALTER.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
1 I will love Thee, O LORD, my
strength.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia. 2 Woman, whom seekest
thou ? Alleluia. The Living among
the dead ? Alleluia. Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. 3 Send forth the Lamb,
O Lord, the ruler of the land.

Answer. From the "Rock" of
the wilderness unto the mount of
the daughter of Zion.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 4 For Thou lightest my
candle, O LORD.

Answer. My God, enlighten my
darkness.

In Lent.

Verse. 5 He shall cover thee with
His wings.

Ansiver. And under His feathers
shalt thou trust.

In Passion time.

Verse. 6 O Lord, save me from
the lion s mouth.

Answer. And mine affliction from
the horns of the unicorns.

In Paschal time.

Verse. 7 The Lord is risen indeed,
Alleluia.

Answer. And hath appeared unto
Simon, Alleluia.

Then is said the Lord s Prayer.

OUR Father (inaudibly), Who
art in heaven, Hallowed be
Thy Name. Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is
in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Ansiver. But deliver us from
evil.

Then this Absolution.

1V/TAY His loving-kindness and
1VA His mercy help us, Who
liveth and reigneth with the Father,
and the Holy Ghost, world without
end.

Answer. Amen.

Then the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Fourth Blessing.

God the Father the Almighty,
Show on us His grace and mercy.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Fourth Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Ansiver. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Fourth Responsory,
after which the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Fifth Blessing.

May Christ to all His people give,
For ever in His sight to live.
Answer. Amen.

1 Ps. xvii. 2. 2 John xx. 15.

3 Isa. xvi. i. The " Rock " is the town of Petra in the wilderness.

4 Ps. xvii. 29. 5 Ps. xc. 3. 6 Ps. xxi. 22.

7 Luke xxiv. 34.

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Then is read the Fifth Lesson, and at
the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Fifth Responsory,
after which the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Sixth Blessing.

May the Spirit s fire Divine
In our inmost being shine.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Sixth Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Sixth Responsory.

THIRD NOCTURN, OR WATCH OF
THE NIGHT.

Antiphon for Advent. The Angel
Gabriel.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
There is no speech.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia.

Psalm XVIII.

[Intituled " A Psalm of David," with the
same farther obscure superscription, as in
Pss. xii. and xiii.]

" I ^HE heavens declare the glory
- of God, * and the firmament
showeth His handy-work.

Day unto day uttereth speech,

* and night unto night showeth
knowledge.

There is no speech nor lan
guage, * where their voice is not
heard.

Their sound is gone out through
all the earth : * and their words to
the ends of the world.

He hath set His tabernacle in the
sun : x * which is as a bridegroom
coming out of his chamber.

He rejoiceth as a strong man to
run a race : * his going forth is from
the end of the heaven.

And his circuit unto the ends of
it : * and there is nothing hid from
the heat thereof.

The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul : * the testimony
of the LORD is sure, making wise the
simple.

The statutes of the LORD are
right, rejoicing the heart : the
commandment of the LORD is clear,
giving light unto the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is holy,
enduring for ever and ever : * the
judgments of the LORD are true,
righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than
gold and store of precious stones,

* sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb.

Verily, Thy servant keepeth them :

1 So the LXX., as well as the Vulgate. Cf. Ps. cii. 19; ciii. 2, 3. The sense seems
to be that the physical source of the light and life of this system is represented as a kind of
celestial counterpart of the tabernacle, which was the centre of the Divine authority as re
vealed upon earth. The Hebrew, however, which is supported by St. Jerome, reads, "In
them (i.e., the starry heavens) hath He set a tabernacle for the sun," and this reading
seems to commend itself to Archbishop Kenrick, who suggests that the " tabernacle " may
signify the region below the horizon, into which the sun retires nightly, as into a tent, to
sleep, and from which he issues in renewed glory every morning. Targum : In them
hath He set splendour as a tabernacle for the sun."

THE PSALTER.

* in keeping of them there is great
reward.

Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse Thou me from secret faults :

* preserve Thy servant also from
the sins of others.

If they get not dominion over me,
then shall I be undefiled : * and

1 shall be cleansed from the great
transgression.

Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of mine heart,

* be acceptable in Thy sight for
ever,

O LORD mine Helper, * and my
Redeemer !

Antiphon for Advent. l The An
gel Gabriel spake unto Mary, saying :
Hail, thou that art full of grace, the
Lord is with thee : blessed art thou
among women.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.

2 There is no speech nor lan
guage where their voice is not
heard.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon is
said to the whole Nocturn.

Second Antiphon for Advent.
Mary said.

Second Antiphon for the rest of the
year. The LORD.

When this Antiphon is used the
Psalm begins with the words " Hear
thee."

Psalm XIX.

[This Psalm has the same title as the
last.]

LORD hear thee in the day
** of trouble : * the Name of
the God of Jacob defend thee.

Send thee help from the sanc
tuary, * and strengthen thee out of
Zion.

Remember all thine offerings, *
and accept thy burnt sacrifice. 3

Grant thee according to thine
own heart, * and fulfil all thy
counsel.

We will rejoice in Thy salvation :

* and in the name of our God will
we exult.

The LORD fulfil all thy petitions :

* now know I that the LORD saveth
His Anointed.

He will hear him from His holy
heaven, * strong is the salvation of
His right hand.

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

They are brought down and fal
len : * but we are risen, and stand
upright.

O LORD, save the king : * and
hear us in the day when we call
upon Thee.

Antiphon for Advent. 4 Mary
said : What manner of salutation
is this ? My soul is troubled.
Shall I bear the King? And will
He not break the seal of my vir
ginity ?

Antiphon for the rest of the year.
5 The LORD hear thee in the day of
trouble.

Third Antiphon for Advent. The
King.

Third Antiphon for the rest of the
year. The king.

When this Antiphon is used the
Psalm begins with the words " Shall
joy."

1 Luke i. 28.
4 Luke i. 29.

2 Ps. xviii. 4.

3 Ps. xix. 2.

SLH.

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

Psalm XX.

[This Psalm also bears the same title as
the xviiith.]

THE king shall joy in Thy
strength, O LORD : * and in
Thy salvation how greatly shall he
rejoice !

Thou hast given him his heart s
desire, * and hast not withholden
the request of his lips. 1

For Thou hast met him with the
blessings of sweetness : * Thou hast
set a crown of precious stones upon
his head.

He asked life of Thee : * and
Thou gavest him length of days for
ever and ever.

His glory is great in Thy salva
tion : * honour and great majesty
shalt Thou lay upon him.

For Thou wilt give him to be a
blessing for ever : * Thou shalt
make him exceeding glad with Thy
countenance.

For the king trusteth in the
LORD, * and, through the mercy
of the Most High, he shall not be
moved.

Thine hand shall find out all
thine enemies : * thy right hand
shall find out all those that hate
thee.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery
oven in the time of thine anger : *
the LORD shall cut them off in His
wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Their fruit shalt thou destroy from
the earth, * and their seed from
among the children of men.

For they intended evil against
thee : * they imagined a device,
which they were not able to perform.

Therefore shalt thou cast them

1 SLH. 2 Heb. x. 37.

4 Isa. xxxv. 4 ; Micah i. 3. 5 Ps. xx.

behind thee : * thou shalt leave
their faces lying in thy track.

Be Thou exalted, O LORD, in
Thine own strength : * we will sing
and praise Thy power.

Antiphon for Advent. The King,
even the Most High, cometh ; there
fore let the hearts of men be purified
to go forth to meet Him, for, behold,

2 He will come and will not tarry.

Antiphon for the rest of the year.

3 The king shall joy in Thy strength,
O LORD.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Alle
luia, Weep not, Mary, Alleluia : the
Lord is risen, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. 4 The Lord cometh out of
His holy place.

Answer. He will come and save
His people.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 5 Be Thou exalted, O
LORD, in Thine own strength.

Answer. We will sing and praise
Thy power.

In Lent.

Verse. 6 His truth shall be thy
shield.

Answer. Thou shalt not be afraid
for the terror by night.

In Passion time.

Verse. 7 Take not away my soul
with sinners, O God !

Answer. Nor my life with bloody
men.

14.

3 Ps, xx. 2.
6 Ps. xc. 5. 7 Ps. xxv. 9.

THE PSALTER.

/;/ Paschal time.

Verse. x The disciples were glad,
Alleluia.

Answer. When they saw the
Lord, Alleluia.

Then is said the Lord s Prayer.

OUR Father (inaudibly\ Who
art in heaven, Hallowed be
Thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is
in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. (Aloud. )

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from evil.

Then the Absolution.

1\ /FAY the Almighty and merci-
L*-*- ful Lord loose us from the
bonds of our sins.
Answer. Amen.

Then the reader says :
Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

Seventh Blessing.

May the Gospel s saving Lord
Bless the reading of His word.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Seventh Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Seventh Responsory,
after which the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

Eighth Blessing.

God s most mighty strength al-

way

Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Eighth Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said the Eighth Responsory^
after which the reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Ninth Blessing.

May He That is the Angels

King
To that high realm His people

bring.
Answer. Amen.

Or, if another Gospel and Homily are
to be read:

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford.

Then is read the Ninth Lesson, and
at the end the reader says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Ansiver. Thanks be to God.

Then is said a Ninth Responsory,
unless this Hymn, "We praise Thee,
O God," be substituted for it. The
Hymn "We praise Thee, O God," is
said in this place on every Sunday and
Feast-day in the year (except the Feast
of the Holy Innocents if it fall on a
Week - day] from Easter to Advent
and from Christmas to Septuagesima.
In Advent and from Septuagesima to
Easter it is not said on Sttnday, but
only on Feast-days. From Easter to
Pentecost it is said on every day what
soever, except only Rogation Monday.

John xx. 20.

SUNDAY AT MATTINS.

praise Thee, O God : we
acknowledge Thee to be
the Lord.

All the earth doth worship Thee,
the Father everlasting.

To Thee all Angels cry aloud,
the heavens, and all the Powers
therein.

To Thee Cherubim 2 and Sera
phim 3 continually do cry :

Holy, Holy, Holy LORD God of
Sabaoth. 4

Heaven and earth are full of the
majesty of Thy glory.

The glorious company of the
Apostles praise Thee :

The goodly fellowship of the
Prophets praise Thee :

The white-robed army of Mar
tyrs praise Thee :

The holy Church throughout all
the world doth acknowledge Thee :

The Father of an infinite Ma
jesty :

Thine honourable, true and only
Son:

Also the Holy Ghost, the Com
forter.

Thou art the King of glory, O
Christ !

Thou art the everlasting Son of
the Father.

When Thou tookest upon Thee
to deliver man, Thou didst not
abhor the Virgin s womb :

When Thou hadst overcome the
sharpness of death, Thou didst
open the kingdom of heaven to
all believers :

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

We believe that Thou shalt come
to be our Judge :

5 We therefore pray Thee, help
Thy servants, whom Thou hast re
deemed with Thy precious Blood.

Make them to be numbered with
Thy Saints in glory everlasting. 6

7 O Lord, save Thy people, and
bless Thine inheritance.

Govern them, and lift them up
for ever.

Day by day we magnify Thee ;

And we worship Thy name,
ever world without end.

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

8 Have mercy upon us, O LORD,
have mercy upon us.

9 O LORD, let Thy mercy lighten
upon us, as our trust is in Thee.

10 O LORD, in Thee have I trust
ed : let me never be confounded.

If Lauds be not immediately tofollou,^
Mattins end thus :

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

Then the Prayer for the day ; then

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

Ansiver. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Verse. May the souls of the
faithful, through the mercy of God,
rest in peace.

Answer. Amen.

Then the Lord s Prayer.

1 The authorship of this Hymn, which is prescribed in the Rule of St. Benedict (born A.D.
480, died 543), is uncertain. 2 See Ezek. i. 3 See Isaiah vi. 2.

4 Hebrew feminine Plural, meaning "hosts," "armies."

5 During this verse it is usual to kneel. 6 Here ends the original Hymn.
7 Ps. xxvii. 9. 8 Ps. cxxii. 3. 9 Ps. xxxii. 22. 10 Ps. xxx. 2.

LAUDS, OR THE MORNING PRAISES
OF GOD. 1

Suntiag.

THE LORD S DAY.

Verse. t%t Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, world with
out end. Amen, Alleluia.

From Septuagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thursday instead of " Alle
luia," is said :

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of Heaven.

Then follow at once the Psalms and
Antiphons. From the First Sunday in
Advent till the Sunday after the Octave
of the Epiphany and from Septuagesima
Sunday till the Octave of Pentecost
(and also on all Feasts), Five Antiphons
are given, which are then said in the
places here marked. During the rest
of the year only Three Antiphons are
said, which are given here.

Alleluia.

Psalm XCII.

[The Hebrew and the Targum give no
superscription ; but the LXX. and the
Vulgate have "A Song of Praise by David
for the eve of the Sabbath when the earth
was established" i.e., A Song of Praise
proper for the close of Friday before the
setting - in of the Sabbath ; the time of
which it is said (Gen. i. 31, ii. i) : "And
God saw every thing that He had made,
and, behold, it was very good. And the
evening and the morning were the sixth
day. Thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the host of them."]

THE LORD reigneth, He is
clothed with majesty : * the
LORD is clothed with strength, where
with He hath girded Himself.

He hath established the world
also, * that it cannot be moved.

Thy throne is established of old :
* Thou art from everlasting.

The floods have lifted up, O
LORD, * the floods have lifted up
their voice

The floods lift up their waves. *
But Mightier than the noise of
many waters

Than the mighty breakers of the
sea * is the LORD on high !

1 The proper hour for Lauds is the dawn of day. This is reckoned to be about 3 A.M., at
which time this Office is said in many Convents. For this purpose it is, in choirs, invari
ably (except where it forms part of the same service with the Midnight Mass at Christmas)
said immediately after and as one service with Mattins. Hence it follows 1st, that it is
said late in the afternoon, when Mattins are said at that time, and 2ndly, that the Lord s
Prayer and Angelic Salutation are not said at the beginning. This service is constructed
on the same general principle as Vespers, and answers to that Office as Prime does to
Compline.

SUNDAY AT LAUDS.

Thy testimonies are very sure : *
holiness becometh Thine house, O
LORD, for ever !

When there are Five Antiphons the
First is repeated, and the Second begun
or said through the first time here.

Psalm XCIX.

[Intituled in the Vulgate and the LXX.,
"A Psalm of Thanksgiving."]

AKE a joyful noise unto God,
all ye lands : * serve the
LORD with gladness.

Come before His presence, * with
singing.

Know ye that the LORD, He is
God : * it is He That hath made
us, and not x we ourselves :

We are His people, and the sheep
of His pasture. * Enter into His gates
with thanksgiving, and into His courts
with praise : give thanks unto Him,

Praise His Name. For the LORD
is good, His mercy is everlasting :
* and His truth endureth to all
generations.

When there are Five Antiphons the
Second is repeated, and the Third begun
or said through the first time here.

Psalm LXII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David, when he
was in the wilderness of Judah." This was
one of the most perilous periods of David s
life, when he was flying from the pursuit of
Saul, and hiding in different forests and
wildernesses in the south of Palestine. He
was betrayed again and again, and had the
most hairbreadth escapes. The history
will be found in I Kings (Sam.) xxii. and
xxiii.]

GOD, Thou art my God, *
early will I seek Thee:

In a dry and desert land, with
out water. * So have I appeared
before Thee in the Sanctuary, to see
Thy power and Thy glory.

Because Thy loving-kindness is
better than life, * my lips shall praise
Thee.

Thus will I bless Thee while I
live : * and will lift up mine hands
in Thy name.

My soul shall be satisfied as
with marrow and fatness ; * and
my mouth shall praise Thee with
joyful lips.

When I remember Thee upon my
bed, I meditate upon Thee in the
night watches : * because Thou
hast been mine help :

And in the shadow of Thy wings
will I rejoice. My soul followeth
hard after Thee : * Thy right hand
upholdeth me.

But those that seek my soul to
destroy it, shall go into the lower
parts of the earth : * they shall fall
by the sword, they shall be a portion
for foxes.

But the King shall rejoice in
God : every one that sweareth by
him shall glory : * for the mouth
of them that speak lies shall be
stopped.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

Psalm LXVI.

[Besides a musical superscription, the
Hebrew and the Targum give no title ex
cept " A Psalm, a Psalm." But the Vulgate
and the LXX. ascribe the authorship to
David.]

My soul thirsteth for Thee, * my f~^ OD be merciful unto us, and

;h Inncrpth fnr Thpp VJT Kl^cc nc * r&gt;onco Wic- fo/^

flesh longeth for Thee,

bless us : * cause His face

1 The Hebrew tradition attributes the negative to an eccentric spelling, and translates
" and His we are. :

THE PSALTER.

to shine upon us, and be merciful
unto us. 1

That Thy way may be known
upon earth : * Thy saving health
among all nations.

Let the people praise Thee, O
God : * let all the people praise
Thee.

O let the nations be glad and
sing for joy : * for Thou judgest
the people righteously, and govern-
est the nations upon earth. 2

Let the people praise Thee, O
God, let all the people praise Thee.
* The earth hath yielded her in
crease ;

Let God, even our own God,
bless us ; let God bless us : * and
let all the ends of the earth fear
Him.

When there are Five Antiphons, the
Third is repeated, and the Fourth begun
or said through the first time here.

Ordinary Antiphon throughout the
year. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Second Ordinary Antiphon. The
king commanded.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia; Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia; Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia.

Second Antiphon for Paschal time.
He That delivered.

THE SONG OF THE THREE HOLY
CHILDREN. (Daniel iii. 57.)

[It is well known how the three young
comrades of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and
Azariah, called by the heathen, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, were thrown into
a furnace for refusing to worship an idol,
and remained unhurt amid the flames. In
this strange position Azariah offered a long
prayer. " And the king s servants, that put

them in, ceased not to make the oven hot
with resin, pitch, tow, and small wood, so
that the flame streamed forth above the
furnace forty and nine cubits. But the
Angel of the Lord came down into the
oven together with Azariah and his fellows,
and smote the flame of the fire out of the
oven, and made the midst of the furnace as
it had been a moist whistling wind, so that
the fire touched them not at all, neither
hurt nor troubled them. Then the three,
as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and
blessed God in the furnace, saying " the
Hymn, of which that in the text is a cento.
The first five verses are omitted.]

ALL ye works of the Lord,
bless ye the Lord : * praise
Him, and exalt Him above all for
ever.

O ye Angels of the Lord, bless ye
the Lord : * O ye heavens, bless ye
the Lord.

O all ye waters that be above the
heavens, bless ye the Lord : * O all
ye powers of the Lord, bless ye the
Lord.

O ye Sun and Moon, bless ye the
Lord : * O ye stars of heaven, bless
ye the Lord.

O ye showers and dew, bless ye
the Lord : * O ye winds of God,
bless ye the Lord.

O ye fire and heat, bless ye the
Lord : * O ye winter and summer,
bless ye the Lord.

O ye dews and rime, bless ye the
Lord : * O ye frost and cold, bless
ye the Lord.

O ye ice and snow, bless ye the
Lord : * O ye nights and days, bless
ye the Lord.

O ye light and darkness, bless ye
the Lord : * O ye lightnings and
clouds, bless ye the Lord.

O let the earth bless the Lord :
* let her praise and exalt Him above
all for ever !

1 SLH. The repetition of the words "be merciful unto us" is peculiar to the Latin.
2 SLH.

SUNDAY AT LAUDS.

O ye mountains and hills, bless
ye the Lord : * O all ye green
things upon the earth, bless ye the
Lord.

O ye wells, bless ye the Lord :

* O ye seas and floods, bless ye the
Lord.

O ye whales, and all that move
in the waters, bless ye the Lord :

* O all ye fowls of the air, bless
ye the Lord.

O all ye beasts and cattle, bless
ye the Lord : * O ye children of
men, bless ye the Lord.

O let Israel bless the Lord : * let
him praise and exalt Him above all
for ever !

O ye Priests of the Lord, bless ye
the Lord : * O ye servants of the
Lord, bless ye the Lord.

O ye spirits and souls of the
righteous, bless ye the Lord : * O
ye holy and humble men of heart,
bless ye the Lord.

Ananias, Azarias, and Misae l,
bless ye the Lord : * praise and
exalt Him above all for ever.

1 Bless we the Father, and the
Son, and the Holy Ghost : * let us
praise and exalt Him above all for
ever.

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, in the
firmament of heaven : * and to be
praised, and glorified, and exalted
above all for ever.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said, nor "Amen"
answered. But the other Canticles are
treated like ordinary Psalms.

When there are Five Antiphons, the
Fourth is repeated, and the Fifth begun
or said through the first time here.

Ordinary Antiphon throughout the

year. The king commanded, and
the Three Children were cast into
the furnace, fearing not the flame
of the fire, but saying : Blessed be
God!

Antiphon for Paschal time. He
That delivered the Three Children
from the burning fiery furnace, even
Christ, is risen from the grave.
Alleluia.

Third Antiphon. Alleluia.

Psalm CXLVIII.

[To this Psalm is prefixed "Alleluia."
The LXX. connect it with the Prophets
Haggai and Zechariah. See Thursday and
Friday in the fifth week of November.]

PRAISE ye the LORD from the
heavens : * praise Him in the
heights.

Praise ye Him, all His Angels : *
praise ye Him, all His hosts.

Praise ye Him, sun and moon :

* praise Him, all ye stars and light.
Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens:

* and all the waters that be above
the heavens. Let them praise the
Name of the LORD !

For He spake, and they were
made 2 : * He commanded, and they
were created.

He hath established them for
ever and ever : * He hath made a
decree which shall not pass.

Praise the LORD from the earth,

* ye dragons, and all deeps :
Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy wind,

* fulfilling His word :
Mountains, and all hills, * fruitful

trees, and all cedars :

Beasts, and all cattle, * creeping
things, and flying fowl :

Kings of the earth, and all people ;

1 This verse is, of course, a later addition ; more than two verses are omitted, and the last
given is one of those omitted at the beginning.

2 Taken from Ps. xxxii. 9.

THE PSALTER.

princes, and all judges of the
earth :

Young men, and maidens, old
men, and children : let them praise
the Name of the LORD * for His
Name alone is exalted !

His glory is above heaven and
earth. * He also exalteth the horn
of His people,

The praise of all His Saints, *
even of the children of Israel, a
people near unto Him.

[Here "Alleluia."]

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, c.," is not said.

Psalm CXLIX.
[Here Alleluia."]

ING unto the LORD a new
song : His praise in the
congregation of Saints.

Let Israel rejoice in Him That
made him : * and let the children
of Zion be joyful in their King.

Let them praise His Name in
the dance : * let them sing praises
unto Him with the timbrel and
harp.

For the LORD taketh pleasure in
His people : * He also will exalt
the meek unto salvation.

Let the Saints be joyful in glory :
* let them sing aloud upon their
beds:

Let the high praises of God be in
their mouth : * and a two-edged
sword in their hands ;

To execute vengeance upon the
heathen, * and punishments upon
the people ;

To bind their kings with chains,
* and their nobles with fetters of
iron ;

To execute upon them the judg

ment written : * this honour have
all His Saints.

[Here "Alleluia."]

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

Psalm CL.
[Here "Alleluia."]

pRAISE the Lord in His sanc
tuary ! * praise Him in the
firmament of His power !

Praise Him in His mighty acts !
* praise Him according to His ex
cellent greatness !

Praise Him with the sound of
the trumpet ! * praise Him with the
psaltery and harp !

Praise Him with the timbrel and
dance ! * praise Him with stringed
instruments and organs !

Praise Him upon the loud cym
bals, praise Him upon the high-
sounding cymbals ! * Let every
thing that hath breath praise the
LORD !

[Here "Alleluia."]

Antiphon. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alle
luia.

(The last of Five Antiphons is, of
course, repeated here.}

Then follows the Chapter. From the
First Sunday in Advent to the Second
Sunday after the Epiphany, and from
Septuagesima Sunday to the Third
Sunday after Pentecost, as also on all
Feasts, a special Chapter is given. On
the remaining Sundays the Chapter is
that given here.

CHAPTER. (Apoc. vii. 12.)

T3LESSING, and glory, and wis-
4^ dom, and thanksgiving, and
honour, and power, and might be

SUNDAY AT LAUDS.

unto our God for ever and ever.
Amen.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

This answer is always made after
the Chapter.

Then follows the Hymn. From the
First Sunday in Advent till the Octave
of the Epiphany and from the First
Sunday in Lent till the Octave of Pen
tecost, as also on all Feasts, a special
Hymn is given. On the remaining
Sundays the Hymn given here is said,
except between the Octave of Pentecost
and the first Sunday of October.

HYMN. 1

FRAMER of the earth and sky,
Ruler of the day and night,
With a glad variety,
Tempering all, and making light ;

Gleams upon our dark path flinging,
Cutting short each night begun,
Hark ! for chanticleer is singing,
Hark ! he chides the lingering sun.

And the morning star replies,
And lets loose the imprison d day ;
And the godless bandit flies
From his haunt, and from his prey.

Shrill it sounds, the storm relenting
Soothes the weary seamen s ears ;
Once it wrought a great repenting,
In that flood of Peter s tears.

Rouse we ; let the blithesome cry
Of that bird our hearts awaken ;
Chide the slumberers as they lie,
And arrest the sin-o ertaken.

Hope and health are in his strain,
To the fearful and the ailing ;
Murder sheathes his blade profane,
Faith revives when faith was failing.

JESU, Master ! when we sin,
Turn on us Thy healing Face ;
It will melt the offence within
Into penitential grace :

Beam on our bewildered mind,
Till its dreamy shadows flee ;
Stones cry out where Thou hast shined,
JESU ! musical with Thee.

To the Father and the Son,
And the Spirit, Who in heaven
Ever witness, Three and One,
Praise on earth be ever given.

Amen.

The following Hymn is said from the
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost till the
first Sunday of October.

HYMN. 2

"DALER have grown the shades of
A night,

And nearer draws the day,
Checkering the sky with streaks of
light,

Since we began to pray :

To pray for mercy when we sin,

For cleansing and release,
For ghostly safety, and within

For everlasting peace.

Praise to the Father, as is meet,

Praise to the Only Son,
Praise to the Holy Paraclete,

While endless ages run.

Amen.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent and from Scptuagesima
Sunday till the end of Paschal time, as
also on all Feasts, a special Verse and
Answer are given.

Verse. :? The LORD reigneth, He
is clothed with majesty.

Answer. The LORD is clothed
with strength, and hath girded Him
self with power.

Then is said the following Song from
the Gospel. It has an Antiphon, which
is always special, and which is either

1 By St. Ambrose, or at least of the Ambrosian school, except the last verse. Translation
by the late Card. Newman.

2 By Pope St. Gregory the Great, but a good deal altered. Translation by the late
Card. Newman. 3 Ps. xcii. I.

THE PSALTER.

begun or said through the first time be
fore it, according as the Office is Double
or not.

THE SONG OF ZACHARIAS.

[On the occasion of the circumcision of
St. John the Baptist. Luke i. 68-79.]

T3LESSED be the Lord God of
*-* Israel, * for He hath visited
and redeemed His people.

And hath raised up an horn of
salvation for us, * in the house of
His servant David :

As He spake by the mouth of
His holy Prophets, * which have
been since the world began :

That we should be saved from
our enemies, * and from the hand of
all that hate us :

To perform the mercy promised
to our fathers, * and to remember
His holy covenant :

The oath which He sware to our
father Abraham, * that He would
grant unto us,

That we, being delivered out of
the hand of our enemies, * might
serve Him without fear,

In holiness and righteousness be
fore Him * all the days of our life.

And thou, child, shalt be called
the Prophet of the Highest : * for
thou shalt go before the face of the
Lord to prepare His ways :

To give knowledge of salvation
unto His people, * by the remission
of their sins ;

Through the tender mercy of our
God, * whereby the dayspring from
on high hath visited us,

To give light to them that sit
in darkness, and in the shadow of
death, * to guide our feet into the
way of peace.

The Doxology, "Glory be to the

Father, c.," is said, and then the
Antiphon repeated.

Then is said :

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

Then follows the Prayer for the day
at the end of which is answered :

Ansiver. Amen.

Afterwards are made any Commem
orations necessary, by the Antiphon
for the Song of Zacharias, the Verse
and Answer after the Hymn, and the
Prayer (preceded by " Let us pray ")
from the superseded Office which is to
be commemorated. After which the
following Common Commemorations
are made, if required, according to
Chapter xxxv. of the General Rubrics.

When more than two Prayers are to
be said, the last clause of each (begin
ning "Through our Lord, &c.," or
" Who livest, &c.,") is omitted in all
except the first and the last, nor is
"Amen" answered except after these
two.

(Note that if these Commemoratio?is
be said upon a week-day, kept as such,
out of Paschal time, they are preceded
by the Commemoration of the Cross,
given hereafter at the end of the Lauds
of Monday.}

I. Commemoration of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.

(Omitted if the Office of the day is
of the Blessed Virgin, or if her Little
Office is to be said.}

Antiphon. O Holy Mary, be
thou an help to the helpless, a
strength to the fearful, a comfort to
the sorrowful; pray for the people,
plead for the clergy, make inter
cession for all women vowed to
God ; may all that keep thine holy

SUNDAY AT LAUDS.

remembrance, feel the might of
thine assistance.

Verse. Pray for us, O holy
Mother of God.

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.

we beseech Thee, O
Lord God, unto all Thy
servants, that they may continually
enjoy soundness both of mind and
of body, and by the glorious inter
cession of the Blessed Mary, always
a Virgin, may be delivered from
present sadness, and enter into the
joy of Thine eternal gladness.

From the Octave of the Epiphany to
Candlemas, the Antiphon is the same,
but the rest is as follows :

Verse. After thy delivery thou
still remainest a Virgin undefiled.

Answer. Mother of God, pray
for us.

Let us pray.

OGOD, Who, by the fruitful
virginity of the Blessed
Mary, hast given unto mankind the
rewards of everlasting life ; grant,
we beseech Thee, that we may con
tinually feel the might of her inter
cession, through whom we have
worthily received the Author of our
life, our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son.

II. Commemoration of St. Joseph,
Patron of the Universal Church.

(Omitted in his Votive Office.}

Antiphon. * JESUS Himself began
to be about thirty years of age, being
(as was supposed) the son of Joseph.

Verse. 2 The mouth of the right
eous speaketh wisdom.

Answer. And his tongue talketh
judgment.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who, in Thine un-
speakable foreknowledge,
didst choose Thy blessed servant
Joseph to be the husband of Thine
Own most holy Mother ; mercifully
grant that now that he is in heaven
with Thee, we who on earth do
reverence him for our defender,
may worthily be holpen by the
succour of his prayers to Thee on
our behalf.

III. Commemoration of the Holy
Apostles, Peter and Paid.

(Omitted in the Votive Office of the
Apostles.}

3 These are glorious

Antiphon.
princes over all the earth, they
loved one another in their lives,
and in their death they were not
divided.

Verse. 4 Their sound is gone out
through all the earth.

Answer. And their words to the
ends of the world.

Let us pray.

GOD, Whose Right Hand
caught the Blessed Peter
when he walked upon the water,
and began to sink, 5 and thrice de
livered his fellow-Apostle Paul from
the deep of the sea, when he suf
fered shipwreck ; 6 graciously hear
us, and grant, for the sake of them

1 Luke iii. 23.
4 Ps. xviii. 5.

2 Ps. xxxvi.
5 Matth. xiv

30.
31-

3 2 Kings (Sam.) i. 23.
6 2 Cor. xi. 25.

30 THE PSALTER.

both, that we also may attain unto For Peace.

everlasting glory. Antiphon. Give peace in our

Note 1 . time, O Lord, because there is

1 In England in this case, by a special rule, is made

Commemoration of St. George, Patron of England.

Antiphon. * The Saints through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises.

Verse, t O LORD, Thou hast compassed him.
Answer. With Thy favour as with a shield.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who dost gladden us through the worthy deeds and prayers of
Thy blessed Martyr George ; mercifully grant that all they that seek
Thy favour through him, may effectually obtain the gift of Thy grace.
And thus it is said within the Octave.

In the Diocese of Hexham St. George is not commemorated, but instead, the following
commemoration is made of St. Cuthbert :

Antiphon. Holy Cuthbert, our Protector, grace and glory of our father
land, look down upon us from Heaven, and pray God for us, that He grant
us everlasting joy.

Verse. At the prayers of Blessed Cuthbert and for his sake,

Answer. Be merciful unto Thy people, O Lord.

Let us pray.

C\ GOD, Who, through the priceless gift of Thy grace, dost make Thine
holy ones glorious, mercifully grant, that the prayers of Thy Blessed
Confessor and Bishop Cuthbert may help us worthily there to attain, where
are the spirits of just men made perfect.

In the Diocese of Northampton the following commemoration of St. Thomas of Canter
bury is made before that of St. George :

Antiphon. II am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am
known of Mine, and I lay down My life for the sheep.
Verse. In your patience
Answer. Possess ye your souls.

Let us pray.

r\ GOD, in defence of Whose Church the glorious Bishop Thomas fell
by the swords of wicked men, grant, we beseech Thee, that all that
ask his help may obtain wholesome fruit of their petition.

In the Diocese of Plymouth the following commemoration of St. Boniface of Maintz is
made before that of St. George :

Antiphon. Many nations, many thousands of men, did Blessed Boniface
* Heb. xi. 33. f Ps. v. 13. j John x. 14, 15. Luke xxi. 19.

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none other that fighteth for us, but our hearts may be set to obey Thy

only Thou, O our God. commandments, and also that by

Verse. l Peace be within thy Thee we being defended from the

walls. fear of our enemies, may pass our

Answer. And prosperity within time in rest and quietness. Through

thy palaces. our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy Son,

Who liveth and reigneth with Thee,

Let us pray. m tne unity of the Holy Ghost, one

God, world without end.

OGOD, from Whom all holy Answer. Amen,

desires, all good counsels,

and all just works do proceed ; give , %"*? M f^ A a f ferLow Sunday

r ^ u- i- till the Eve of the Ascension, instead of

unto Thy servants that peace which the p recedin Commemorations, is said

the world cannot give, that both the following:

gain for Christ, and forasmuch as he made himself like unto an Apostle, he
hath purchased unto himself a great reward in Heaven along with the
Apostles.

Verse. Be strong in the Lord, be strong.

Answer. That ye may live for ever with God.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who wast pleased to make the zeal of Thy Blessed Martyr and
Bishop Boniface the mean whereby Thou didst cause many peoples
to know Thy Name, mercifully grant unto us who honour his memory to be
feelingly holpen by the succour of his protection.

(And so it is said within the Octave?}

In the Diocese of Portsmouth the following commemoration of St. Edmund of Can
terbury is made after that of St. George :

Antiphon. He loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore he
died in exile.

Verse. Cast out upon a world of woes,

In exile here we roam.

Answer. O Blessed Edmund, by thy prayers,
Gain us the love of home.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who in the abundance of Thy goodness toward Thy Church
hast made her bright by the illustrious life of Thy blessed Confessor
and Bishop Edmund, and gladdened her by his glorious and wondrous
works, mercifully grant unto Thy servants that they may be bettered in
following after his ensample, and shielded by his protection from all things
that may rise up against them.

1 Ps. cxxi. 7.

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Paschal Commemoration of the
Cross.

(Omitted in the Votive Offices of the
Blessed Sacrame?it and of the Passion.}

Antiphon. He That was cruci
fied is risen from the dead, and
hath redeemed us. Alleluia, Al
leluia.

1 Say among the heathen

Alleluia.

Answer. That the LORD reign-
eth from the tree Alleluia.

Let us pray.

OGOD, Who didst send Thy
Son to suffer death for us
upon the Cross, that Thou might-
est deliver us from the power of
the enemy ; grant unto us Thy
servants to be made partakers of
His Resurrection. Through the
Same our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Answer. Amen.

After the last Prayer is said :

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.
Answer. Thanks be to God.

If the Office of the Dead or the Litany
(with or without the Penitential Psalms}
is to follow immediately, it is begun
here. Otherwise

There is said in rather a low voice :
May the souls of the Faithful

1 Ps. xcv. 10, old version.

" 2 i.e., it is said for the first time after Vespers, if the Antiphon of the B.V. be to be said,
and in any case after Compline, on the Saturday evening before Advent Sunday, and it is
still similarly said after Vespers on February 2, but not after Compline on that day. It is
ascribed to Hermann the Cripple, a monk of Reichenau, who died A.D. 1052. This trans
lation is in the same rhymeless measure as the original,

through the mercy of God rest in
peace.

Answer. Amen.

If Prime is to follow immediately, it
is begun here, and what follows is not
said till the end of the whole service.
Otherwise the Office ends thus :

The Lord s Prayer is said inaudibly :

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive them that trespass against
us. And lead us not into temp
tation ; but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Then aloud :

Verse. The .Lord give us His
peace.

Answer. And life everlasting.
Amen.

Then follows one of these Four Anti-
phons of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ac
cording to the season of the year.

I. From the First Sunday in Ad
vent to Candlemas, both inclusive.

Antiphon. 2 Maiden, Mother of
Him that redeemed us, thou that
abidest

Heaven s open gate, and the Star
of the Sea, come, succour the fallen !

Fallen indeed we are, but fain
would rise by thy succour.

Thou that beyond nature s course,
hast borne in time the Eternal ;

Thou that a Virgin before and
after that childbirth remainest,

SUNDAY AT LAUDS.

From the Archangel s lips the
quickening message receiving,

Mother of JESUS and us, turn
thine eyes of mercy on sinners.

Verse. The Angel of the Lord
announced unto Mary.

Answer. And she conceived by
the Holy Ghost.

Let us pray.

beseech Thee, O Lord,
pour Thy grace into our
hearts ; that, as we have known
the Incarnation of Thy Son Christ
by the message of an Angel, so by
His Passion and Cross we may be
brought unto the glory of the
Resurrection. Through the same
Christ our Lord.
Answer. Amen.

In and after the First Vespers of
Christmas Day the Verse and Answer
and Prayer are as follows :

Verse. After thy delivery thou
still remainest a Virgin undefiled.

Answer. Mother of God, pray
for us.

Let us pray.

C\ GOD, Who, by the fruitful
^^ virginity of the Blessed Mary,
r hast given unto mankind the re
wards of everlasting life; grant, we
beseech Thee, that we may con
tinually feel the might of her inter
cession, through whom we have
worthily received the Author of
our life, even our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son.
Answer. Amen.

II. From Candlemas to Maundy
Thursday, both exclusive

Antiphon. Hail, O Mary, Queen
of Heaven,

Queen of Angel worlds on high,
Hail, O Rod to Jesse given,
Blessed Portal of the sky,

Hail, O Lady, bright and glorious,
Clad in beauty pure and true,
Virgin ! o er sin s stain victorious,
Sinners for thy succour sue.

Verse. Holy Virgin, my praise
by thee accepted be.

Answer. Give me strength against
thine enemies.

Let us pray.

we beseech Thee, O
most merciful God, a succour
unto the frailty of our nature, that
as we keep ever alive the memory
of the holy Mother of God, so by
the help of her intercession we may
be raised up from the bondage of
our sins. Through the same Christ
our Lord.

Answer. Amen.

III. From Easter Sunday 2 //// the
Saturday after Pentecost, both in
clusive.

ion. Rejoice! rejoice! thou
Queen of Heaven, Alleluia,

For He That thee for Son was
given, Alleluia,

As He promised is arisen. Alle
luia.

z.^it is said for the first time after Compline on Feb. 2 (even if the Feast of the
runhcation be transferred), and for the last time after Compline on Wednesday in Holy
Week. The authorship is unknown ; it seems to date from about the eleventh century

; i.e., it is said for the first time after Compline on Easter Eve. The date and author
ship are unknown ; but a legend has become attached to it to the effect that St. Gregory
the Great heard the three first lines uttered by an angel, and himself added the fourth, on
trie same occasion from which was instituted the procession upon St. Mark s Day
VOL. II.

THE PSALTER.

Mother, pray to Him for us. Alle
luia.

Verse. Be glad and rejoice, O
Virgin Mary, Alleluia,

Answer. For the Lord is risen
indeed, Alleluia.

Let us pray.

OGOI), Who art pleased to
gladden the whole world by
the resurrection of Thy Son our
Lord JESUS Christ ; grant, we be
seech Thee, that by the help of
His Mother the Virgin Mary, we
may finally attain unto the glad
ness of life everlasting. Through
the same Christ our Lord.
Answer. Amen.

IV. From Trinity Sunday 1 till the
Saturday before Advent Sunday,
both inclusive.

Antiphon. Hail, O Queen, Mother
of mercy ! hail, our life, our sweet
ness, and our hope ! To thee we
cry, the banished sons of Eve. To
ward thee we sigh, weeping and
groaning in this vale of tears. Ah,
then, thou our Advocate, turn on us
those merciful eyes of thine ! And,
after this our exile, show to us
JESUS, the blessed Fruit of thy

womb. O merciful, O gracious, O

sweet Virgin Mary !

Verse. Pray for us, O holy Mother
of God,

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting
God, Who, by the co-opera
tion of the Holy Ghost, didst make
ready both the body and soul of the
glorious Virgin and Mother Mary
worthily to become a meet dwelling
for Thy Son ; grant that as we re
joice in her memory, so by her piti
ful intercession we may be delivered
from the evils that continually hang
over us, and finally from everlasting
death. Through the same Christ
our Lord.

Answer. Amen.

After each of these Antiphons is said
this Blessing :

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

Feasts. The above Office, appointed
for Sunday, is also said on all Feasts
whatsoever, even Simples, and every
day in Paschal time.

1 i.e., it is said for the first time after Vespers, if the Antiphon of the B.V. be to be
said, and in any case after Compline, on the Saturday evening before Trinity Sunday. The
last clause is usually admitted to be an exclamation uttered by St. Bernard of Clairvaux in
the Cathedral of Spires ; but the authorship of the rest is disputed, some ascribing it to
Hermann the Cripple, others to one Peter of Monsoro, Bishop of Compostella, others to
one Adhemar, Bishop of Podium (Puy-en-Velay). It seems to have been well known, at
least in Spain, early in the twelfth century.

35.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR. 1

Sunfcag.

THE LORD S DAY.

Before Prime is said inaudibly the
Lord s Prayer, the Angelic Salutation,
and the Apostles Creed.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as
we forgive them that trespass against
us. And lead us not into tempta
tion ; but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

TTAIL, Mary, full of grace; The
1 A Lord is with thee : blessed

art thou among women, and blessed

is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray

for us sinners, now and at the hour

of our death. Amen.

T BELIEVE in God the Father
* Almighty, Maker of heaven and
earth. And in JESUS Christ, His
Only Son, our Lord ; Who was con
ceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of

the Virgin Mary, suffered under
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead,
and buried : He descended into
hell : the third day He rose again
from the dead : He ascended into
heaven, and sitteth on the right
hand of God the Father Almighty :
from thence He shall come to judge
the quick and the dead. I believe
in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic
Church, the Communion of Saints,
the Forgiveness of sins, the Resur
rection of the body, and the Life
everlasting. Amen.

Then is said aloud:

Verse. ^ Make haste, O God,
to deliver me.

Ansiver. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.

From Septuagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thursday instead of "Alle
luia" is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of heaven.

Prime is the first service of the Church for the day-time, Mattins and Lauds being for
the middle and close of night. Its proper hour is when the sun has fairly risen, and day
begun, which is reckoned to be about 6 A.M., about which time it is generally said in
choirs. Sometimes Mattins, Lauds, and Prime are said together early in the morning,
forming the complete morning service of the Church. It is from this aggregation that the
Morning Prayer " of the Anglican Prayer Book is derived.

THE PSALTER.

Then is said the following :

HYMN. 1

THE star of morn to night succeeds,
We therefore meekly pray,
May God, in all our words and deeds,
Keep us from harm this day.

May He in love restrain us still
From tones of strife and words of ill,
And wrap around and close our eyes
To earth s absorbing vanities.

May wrath and thoughts that gender
shame

Ne er in our breasts abide,
And painful abstinences tame

Of wanton flesh the pride ;

So when the weary day is o er,

And night and stillness come once

more,

Blameless and clean from spot of earth
We may repeat with reverent mirth

To God the Father glory be,

And to His Only Son,
And to the Spirit, One and Three,

While endless ages run.

Amen.

The last verse is sometimes said thus,
altered in honour of the Incarnation :

JESU, the Virgin-born, to Thee

Eternal praise be given,
W T ith Father, Spirit, One and Three,

Here as it is in heaven.

Amen.

In Paschal time it is said thus, altered
in honour of the Resurrection :

To Father, Son, and Paraclete,

The slain and risen Son,
Be praise and glory, as is meet,

While endless ages run.

Amen.

// is also occasionally otherwise al
tered, which occasions are marked in
their places.

Then follow the Psalms. They are
all said under one Antiphon, and

when Five Antiphons have been said
at Lauds, the First of these Five
is the Antiphon at Prime, otherwise
that given here is used.

Antiphon. Alleluia.

Psalm LI 1 1.

[The superscription of this Psalm, after
some words which are probably a musical
direction, proceeds "[A Psalm] of David,
when the Ziphim came and said to Saul,
Doth not David hide himself with us?"
This was during the same period of his life
in the South in which he composed Ps.
Ixii. The Ziphim, or peasantry of the
neighbourhood of Ziph, betrayed him twice
to Saul, and both times, especially the first,
he was in imminent peril. I Kings (Sam.)
xxiii. 19-29, xxvi.]

SAVE me, O God, in Thy Name,
* and judge me in Thy
power.

Hear my prayer, O God : * give
ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers are risen up against
me, and oppressors seek after my
soul : * and have not set God be
fore them. 2

Behold God is mine Helper :
and the Lord upholdeth my soul.

Reward Thou evil unto mine
enemies : * and cut them off in
Thy truth.

I will freely sacrifice unto Thee :
* and praise Thy Name, O LORD,
for it is good.

For Thou hast delivered me out
of all trouble : * and mine eye
hath seen [my desire] upon mine
enemies.

The following Psalm, " O give thanks
unto the LORD," is said only on Sun
days, when the Office is of the Sunday,
nor is it said from Easter to Pentecost,
both inclusive. Moreover it is not said
on or after Septuagesima Sunday till

1 Another Ambrosian hymn. Translation by the late Card. Newman.

SLH.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

Easter, but then is substituted for it
Psalm xcii., "The LORD reigneth "
(given at the beginning of Lauds\

Psalm CXVII.

[From some verses it seems as though this
Psalm was written for the Feast of Taber
nacles, and perhaps as a processional at the
entry of the King (David ?) into the place
of worship. The Vulgate and the LXX.
prefix the word Alleluia.]

GIVE thanks unto the LORD,
for He is good : * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

Let Israel now say that He is
good : * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

Let the house of Aaron now say,
* that His mercy endureth for ever.

Let them now that fear the LORD
say, * that His mercy endureth for
ever.

I called upon the LORD in dis
tress : * and the LORD heard me
[and set me] at large.

The LORD is on my side : * I
will not fear what man can do
unto me.

The LORD is on my side : * and
I shall see [my desire upon] them
that hate me.

It is better to put confidence in
the LORD, * than to put confidence
in man.

It is better to trust in the LORD,

* than to trust in princes.

All nations compassed me about :

* but in the Name of the LORD ! *
I was avenged on them.

They compassed me about, yea,
they compassed me about : * but
in the Name of the LORD ! I was
avenged on them.

They compassed me about like
bees; they burnt out as the fire
of thorns : * but in the Name
of the LORD ! I was avenged on
them.

They thrust sore at me, that I
might fall : * but the LORD helped
me.

The LORD is my strength and
my song, * and is become my
salvation.

The voice of rejoicing and salva
tion * is in the tabernacles 2 of the
righteous.

The right hand of the LORD hath
done valiantly. The right hand of
the LORD hath exalted me : * the
right hand of the LORD hath done
valiantly.

I shall not die, but live, * and
declare the works of the LORD.

The LORD hath chastened me
sore : * but He hath not given me
over unto death.

Open to me the gates of right
eousness ; I will go into them and
praise the LORD. * This is the gate
of the LORD, into which the righteous
shall enter.

I will praise Thee, for Thou hast
heard me, * and art become my
salvation.

3 The stone which the builders
refused * is become the head-stone
of the comer.

This is the LORD S doing : * and
it is marvellous in our eyes.

This is the day which the LORD
hath made : * let us rejoice and be
glad in it.

Save me now, O LORD ! O LORD,
send Thou prosperity. * Blessed

1 Probably a war-cry.

2 The allusion is to the ceremonial of the Feast of Tabernacles, Lev. xxiii. 42, "Ye shall
dwell in booths seven days."

3 These two verses were quoted by our Lord. Matth. xxi. 42 ; Mark xii. 10.

THE PSALTER.

be he that cometh in the Name of
the LORD ! l

We have blessed you out of the
house of the LORD. * God is the
LORD and hath showed us light :

Keep the solemn feast-day with
leafy boughs, * even unto the horns
of the Altar. 2

Thou art my God, and I will
praise Thee : * Thou art my God,
and I will exalt Thee.

I will give thanks unto Thee, for
Thou hast heard me, * and art be
come my salvation.

O give thanks unto the LORD,
for He is good : * for His mercy
endureth for ever.

Psalm CXVIII. 2

BLESSED are the undefiled in
the way, * who walk in the
law of the LORD.

Blessed are they that keep His
testimonies : * that seek Him with
the whole heart.

For they that work iniquity, *
walk not in His ways.

Thou hast commanded us * to
keep Thy precepts diligently.

O that my ways were directed *
to keep Thy statutes.

Then shall I not be ashamed, *

when I have respect unto all Thy
commandments.

I will praise Thee with upright
ness of heart, * when I shall have
learned Thy righteous judgments.

I will keep Thy statutes : * O
forsake me not utterly.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

WHEREWITHAL shall a young
man keep his way? * By
taking heed unto Thy word.

With my whole heart have I sought
Thee : * O let me not wander from
Thy commandments !

Thy word have I hid in mine
heart, * that I might not sin against
Thee.

Blessed art Thou, O LORD : * teach
me Thy statutes !

With my lips * have I declared
all the judgments of Thy mouth.

I have rejoiced in the way of Thy
testimonies, * as much as in all
riches.

I will meditate on Thy pre
cepts, * and have respect unto
Thy ways.

I will delight myself in Thy
statutes : * I will not forget Thy
word.

1 Notice that this is the very verse which was sung during the Palm Sunday procession.
The word Hosanna is a corruption of its third and fourth words viz., " Ho-shy ah na."

2 Lev. xxiii. 40. " And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees,
branches of palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook ; and ye
shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days." As to the Feast of Tabernacles,
the Jewish tradition understands by " goodly trees " the citron, and by " thick trees " the
myrtle. Branches of willow were fastened to the corners of the altar.

:! This long poem in praise of the Divine Law, which the Church recites every day and
all day, is A B C Darian. Its 176 verses are divided into twenty-two sections, of eight
verses each, in each of which sections all the verses begin with the same letter of the
Hebrew alphabet. The first eight, therefore, begin with Aleph, which somewhat cor
responds to A.

4 Here begins the letter Beth, somewhat represented by B.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

Continuation of the same Psalm.

a 1

1H\EAL bountifully with Thy ser-
f-&lt; vant, quicken me, * and I
will keep Thy word.

Open Thou mine eyes, * that I
may behold wondrous things out of
Thy law.

I am a stranger in the earth : *
hide not Thy commandments from
me.

My soul is an-hungered for the
longing that it hath unto Thy
judgments * at all times.

Thou hast rebuked the proud : *
they are cursed that do err from
Thy commandments.

Remove from me reproach and
contempt : * for I have kept Thy
testimonies.

Princes also did sit and speak
against me : * but Thy servant did
meditate on Thy statutes.

Thy testimonies also are my de
light, * and Thy precepts my coun
sellors.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

IV/TY soul cleaveth unto the
^Vl ground : * quicken Thou
me according to Thy word.

I have declared my ways and
Thou heardest me : * teach me Thy
statutes.

Make me to understand the way

of Thy precepts : * so shall I talk
of Thy wondrous works.

My soul sleepeth for heaviness : *
strengthen Thou me according unto
Thy word.

Remove from me the way of lying :
* and grant me Thy law graciously.

I have chosen the way of truth :

Thy judgments have I not for
gotten.

I cleave unto Thy testimonies, O
LORD : * put me not to shame !

I have run the way of Thy com
mandments, * since Thou hast en
larged mine heart.

The following Creed is only said on
Sundays when the Office is of the Sun
day, and on Trinity Sunday. The ex
ceptions are Easter a?id Pentecost Sun
days, when it is not said, because they
are treated as Festivals.

THE CREED OF ST ATHANASIUS. 3

AXTHOSOEVER willeth to be
* * safe, * before all things it
is necessary that he hold the
Catholic Faith.

Which faith except every one do
keep whole and undefiled, * without
doubt he shall perish eternally.

Now the Catholic Faith is this, *
that we worship One God in Trinity,
and Trinity in Unity.

Neither confounding the Persons,
* nor dividing the Substance.

For there is one Person of the
Father, another of the Son, * and
another of the Holy Ghost.

But the Godhead of the Father,

1 Here begins the letter Ghimel, answering partly to our G.

2 Here begins the letter Daleth, answering partly to our D.

3 The translation largely follows that in the Rev. A. E. Burn s Introduction to the
Creeds, The origin and date of this hymn have been the subject of much discussion.
" It is agreed that it was not written by St Athanasius, and that it was written in Latin."
In the opinion of Mr Burn the indications point to the South of Gaul as its place of origin,
and to the decade A.D. 420-430 as the period of its composition.

THE PSALTER.

of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
is One, * the Glory Equal, the
Majesty Co-Eternal.

Such as the Father is, such is the
Son, * and such is the Holy Ghost.

The Father Uncreated, the Son
Uncreated, * and the Holy Ghost
Uncreated.

The Father Infinite, the Son In
finite, * and the Holy Ghost In
finite.

The Father Eternal, the Son Eter
nal, * and the Holy Ghost Eternal.

And yet They are not Three
Eternals, * but One Eternal.

As also They are not Three Un
created, nor Three Infinites, * but
One Uncreated, and One Infinite.

So likewise the Father is Almighty,
the Son Almighty, * and the Holy
Ghost Almighty.

And yet They are not Three Al
mighties, * but One Almighty.

So the Father is God, the Son
God, * and the Holy Ghost God.

And yet They are not Three Gods,

* but One God.

So the Father is Lord, the Son
Lord, * and the Holy Ghost Lord.

And yet They are not Three
Lords, * but One Lord.

For, like as we are compelled by
Christian truth to acknowledge every
Person by Himself to be God and
Lord, * so are we forbidden by the
Catholic Religion to say, there be
Three Gods or Three Lords.

The Father is made of none, *
neither created, nor begotten.

The Son is of the Father alone :

* not made, nor created, but Be
gotten.

The Holy Ghost is of the Father,
and the Son : * not made, nor
created, nor begotten, but Pro
ceeding.

So there is One Father, not Three
Fathers ; One Son, not Three Sons ;

* One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy
Ghosts.

And in this Trinity is nothing
afore or after, nothing is greater or
less; * but the whole Three Per
sons are Co -Eternal together, and
Co-Equal.

So that in all things, as is afore
said, * the Unity in Trinity, and
the Trinity in Unity is to be wor
shipped.

He therefore that willeth to be
safe, * let him thus think of the
Trinity.

But it is necessary to eternal
salvation, * that he also believe
faithfully the Incarnation of our
Lord JESUS Christ.

The right Faith therefore is, that
we believe and confess, * that our
Lord JESUS Christ, the Son of God,
is God and Man.

God, of the Substance of the
Father, Begotten before the worlds :

* and Man, of the substance of His
mother, born in the world.

Perfect God, Perfect Man, * of
a reasoning Soul and human Flesh
subsisting.

Equal to the Father as touching
His Godhead, * inferior to the
Father as touching His Manhood.

Who, although He be God and
Man, * yet He is not Two, but One
Christ.

One, however, not by conversion
of the Godhead into Flesh, * but by
taking of the Manhood into God.

One altogether, not by confusion
of Substance, * but by Unity of
Person.

For as the reasoning soul and
flesh is one man, * so God and
Man is One Christ.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

Who suffered for our salvation,
descended into hell, * rose again
the third day from the dead.

He ascended into heaven, He sit-
teth on the right hand of the Father,
God Almighty, * from whence He
shall come to judge the quick and
the dead.

At Whose coming all men shall
rise again with their bodies, * and
shall give account for their own
works.

And they that have done good
shall go into life eternal, * but
they that have done evil into
eternal fire.

This is the Catholic Faith, * which
except a man believe faithfully and
firmly, he cannot be safe.

Here is said the Doxology, "Glory
be to the Father, &c."

Antiphon. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alle
luia.

In Paschal time is said a fourth
time&gt; Alleluia.

Then is said the Chapter.
CHAPTER, (i Tim. i. 17.)

UNTO the King Eternal, Im
mortal and Invisible, the
only God, be honour and glory for
ever and ever. Amen.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then follows the Short Responsory.

Christ, Thou Son of the Living
God, have mercy on us.

Answer. Christ, Thou Son of the
Living God, have mercy on us.

Verse. Thou That sittest at the
right hand of the Father.

Answer. Have mercy on us.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,

and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Christ, Thou Son of the
Living God, have mercy on us.

Verse. l Arise, O Christ, and help
us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

This Responsory is occasionally al
tered, which alterations are given in
their proper places. From Low Sun
day inclusive till Ascension Day ex
clusive it is said thus :

Christ, Thou Son of the Living
God, have mercy on us. Alleluia,
Alleluia.

Answer. Christ, Thou Son of the
Living God, have mercy on us. Alle
luia, Alleluia.

Verse. Thou That art arisen
from the dead.

Answer. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Christ, Thou Son of the
Living God, have mercy on us. Alle
luia, Alleluia.

Verse. Arise, O Christ, and help
us. Alleluia.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake. Alleluia.

From Ascension Day inclusive till
Pentecost exclusive it is the same, ex
cept that instead of "Thou That art
arisen from the dead" is said:

Verse. Thou That art gone up
above the stars.

During the Octave of Pentecost it is
still the same except that this Verse is
said thus :

Verse. Thou That sittest at the
right hand of the Father.

Ps. xliii. 26.

VOL. II.

B 2

THE PSALTER.

After the Short Responsory follow
these prayers called the Preces, except
on Doubles and within Octaves, when
they are omitted down to the mark *.

1 Kyrie eleison .

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

OUR Father (inaudibly\ Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer.
evil.

But deliver us from

I BELIEVE (inaudibly) in God
the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth. And in JESUS
Christ, His only Son, our Lord :
Who was conceived by the Holy
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, dead, and buried : He de
scended into hell : the third day He
rose again from the dead : He as
cended into heaven, and sitteth on
the right hand of God the Father
Almighty : from thence He shall
come to judge the quick and the
dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost,
the Holy Catholic Church, the Com
munion of Saints, the Forgiveness
of sins. (Aloud.)

Verse. The Resurrection of the
body.

Answer. And the Life everlast
ing. Amen.

Verse. 2 And unto Thee have I
cried, O LORD.

Answer. And in the morning
shall my prayer come betimes be
fore Thee.

Verse. 3 Let my mouth be filled
with Thy praise.

Answer. That I may sing of Thy
glory, all the day long of Thy great
ness.

Verse. 4 O Lord, hide Thy face
from my sins.

Answer. And blot out all mine
iniquities.

Verse. Create in me a clean heart,
O God.

Answer. And renew a right spirit
within me.

Verse. Cast me not away from
Thy presence.

Answer. And take not Thine
holy Spirit from me.

Verse. Restore unto me the joy
of Thy salvation.

Answer. And uphold me with
Thy free spirit.

Verse. 5 *J Our help is in the
name of the LORD.

Answer. Who made heaven and
earth.

The General Confession.

T CONFESS to God Almighty,
-*- to the Blessed Mary, always
a Virgin, to the Blessed Michael
the Archangel, to the Blessed John
the Baptist, to the Holy Apostles
Peter and Paul, and to all the
Saints, that I have sinned exceed
ingly in thought, word, and deed,
by my fault, by my fault, by my
most grievous fault. Therefore I
beseech the Blessed Mary, always

1 Greek Litany, signifying " Lord, have mercy Christ, have mercy Lord, have mercy.

2 Ps. Ixxxvii. 14. 3 Ps. Ixx. 8. 4 Ps. 1. 11-14. 5 Ps - cxxiii. 8.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

a Virgin, the Blessed Michael the
Archangel, the Blessed John the
Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter
and Paul, and all the Saints, to
pray to the Lord our God for me.

The Absolution.

ALMIGHTY God have mercy
^~*- on us, forgive us our sins,
and bring us to life everlasting.
Answer. Amen.

AY tne Almighty and mer-
ciful Lord grant us pardon,
absolution, and remission of all our
sins.

Answer. Amen.

The7i the Office continues as follows :

Verse. Vouchsafe, O Lord, this
day.

Answer. To keep us without
sin.

Verse. Have mercy upon us, O
LORD.

Answer. Have mercy upon us.

Verse. O LORD, let Thy mercy
lighten upon us.

Answer. As our trust is in Thee.

Here the Office is resumed when the
Preces have been omitted.

* Verse. Hear my prayer, O
LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

LORD God Almighty, Who
hast safely brought us to the
beginning of this day, defend us
in the same with Thy mighty power :
and grant that this day we fall into
no sin, but that all our thoughts,

words, and works may be ordered
by Thy governance to do always
that is righteous in Thy sight.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ,
Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth
with Thee, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.

Answer. Amen.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

If the Prime of the Little Office of Me
Blessed Virgin Mary is to be said, it is
said now. Then is read the Martyr-
ology of the morrow, if it be to be read,
the reader concluding with the words :

And in other places many other
holy Martyrs and Confessors and
holy Virgins.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

After which the Office proceeds thus : 1

Verse. 2 Precious in the sight of
the LORD.

Answer. Is the death of His
Saints.

TV/JAY Holy Mary and all the
!* Saints plead for us with the
Lord, that we may worthily be
holpen and delivered by Him Who
liveth and reigneth for ever and
ever.

Answer. Ameri.

Verse. Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Verse. Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

1 Whether the Martyrology has been read or not. The Martyrology is never binding
out of Choir. 2 p s&gt; cxv&gt; 5.

THE PSALTER.

Verse. Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, world with
out end. Amen.

OUR Father (inaudibly], Who
art in heaven, Hallowed be
Thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is
in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. (Aloud?)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer.
evil.

But deliver us from

Verse. x Look upon Thy ser
vants, O Lord, and upon the works
of Thine hands, and order the go
ings of their children.

Answer. And let the beauty of
the LORD our God be upon us,
and establish Thou the work of
our hands upon us, yea, the work
of our hands, establish Thou it.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. As it was in the be
ginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

Let us pray.

OLORD God, King of heaven
and earth, may it please Thee
this day to order and to hallow, to

rule and to govern our hearts and
our bodies, our thoughts, our words,
and our works, according to Thy
law and in the doing of Thy com
mandments, that we, being holpen
of Thee, may here, and for ever
and ever, worthily be saved and de
livered by Thee, O Saviour of the
world, Who livest and reignest for
ever and ever.
Answer. Amen.

Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

The Blessing.

The Lord Almighty order our
days and deeds in His peace.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Short Lesson. On all
Feasts, even Simples, and some other
days, this is the same as the Chapter
which is to be read at None, which will
be found in its proper place. On other
days one of the following is read, ac
cording to the Season of the year.

i. From the Octave of the Epiphany
till the First Sunday in Lent, and
from the Octave of Pentecost till
Advent Sunday, all exclusive.

2 Thess. iii. 5.

And the Lord direct your hearts
into the love of God, and into the
patience of Christ.

2. From Advent Sunday inclusive till
Christmas Eve exclusive.

Isa. xxxiii. 2.

O LORD, be gracious unto us :
for we have waited for Thee : be
Thou our arm every morning, our
salvation also in the time of
trouble.

Ps. Ixxxix. 1 6, 17.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

3. From the First Sunday in Lent in
clusive till Passion Sunday exclusive.

Isa. Iv. 6.

Seek ye the LORD, while He may
be found : call ye upon Him while
He is near.

4. From Passion Sunday inclusive till
Maundy Thursday exclusive.

Isa. 1. 6.

I hid not my face from shame
and spitting. The Lord GOD *
will help me, therefore also shall
I not be confounded.

5. From Easter Sunday inclusive till
Ascension Day exclusive.

Col. iii. i.

If ye be risen with Christ, seek
those things which are above, where
Christ sitteth at the right hand of
God : set your affections on things
above, not on things on the earth.

When the Reader has finished the
Short Lesson, he says :

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Verse. Our help is in the name
of the LORD.

Answer. Who made heaven and
earth.

Verse. Bless ye.

Answer. May God [bless us].

The Blessing.

&gt;J&lt; The Lord bless us, and keep
us from all evil, and bring us to life
everlasting; and may the souls of
the Faithful, through the mercy of
God, rest in peace.

Answer. Amen.

Lastly, unless some other Hour is to
follow immediately, the Lord s Prayer
is said inaudibly.

Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive them that trespass against
us. And lead us not into tempta
tion ; but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Note. When Office is said in Choir
the Service is ended with the Antiphon
of the Blessed Virgin Mary every time
the Choir is left. Otherwise it is only
said as given in this book, at the end of
Lauds (or the aggregation of which
Lauds forms a part} and Compline.

Feasts. The above Office appointed
for Sundays is also said on all Feasts
whatsoever, even Simples, and every
day in Paschal time.

PRIME ON WEEK-DAYS.

All the same as on Sunday, except as
otherwise given here.

Ordinary Antiphon during the
year. Blessed are they that walk.

In Advent the Antiphon is the First
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, unless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon in Lent. As I live.

Antiphon for Passiontide. De
liver me, O Lord.

Psalm cxvii., "O give thanks unto
the LORD," is not said. On Saturday
it is simply omitted, a?id only the three
Feast- Day Psalms (viz. liii. and the two
first sections 0/"cxviii.) are said, but on
the other days of the week one of the
Psalms following is put in its place.

1 The Divine Name.

THE PSALTER.

Psalm XXIII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." The
Vulgate and the LXX. add "for the first
day of the week."]

THE earth is the LORD S and
the fulness thereof; * the
world, and they that dwell there
in.

For He hath founded it upon the
seas, * and established it upon the
floods.

Who shall ascend into the moun
tain of the LORD? * or who shall
stand in His holy place?

He that hath clean hands and
a pure heart, * who hath not
lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor
sworn deceitfully unto his neigh
bour.

He shall receive a blessing from
the LORD, * and mercy from the
God of his salvation.

This is the generation of them
that seek Him, * that seek the
face of the God of Jacob. 1

Lift up your gates, O ye princes,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
doors ! * and the King of glory
shall come in.

Who is this King of glory ? *
The LORD strong and mighty, the
LORD mighty in battle.

Lift up your gates, O ye princes,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
doors ! * and the King of glory
shall come in.

Who is this King of glory ? *
The LORD of hosts, He is the
King of glory. 1

Psalm XXIV.

[Intituled "Of David." This Psalm is
ABC Darian.]

UNTO Thee, O LORD, do I lift
up my soul : * O my God,
I trust in Thee, let me not be
ashamed.

Neither let mine enemies triumph
over me : * for none that wait on
Thee shall be ashamed :

Let them be ashamed that
transgress * without cause.

Show me Thy ways, O LORD, *
and teach me Thy paths.

Lead me in Thy truth and teach
me; * for Thou art the God of
my salvation : and on Thee do I
wait all the day.

Remember, O LORD, Thy tender
mercies, * and Thy loving-kind
nesses, which have been ever of
old.

Remember not the sins of my
youth, * nor my transgressions :

According to Thy mercy remem
ber Thou me, * for Thy goodness
sake, O LORD.

Good and upright is the LORD ;
* therefore will He teach sinners
in the way.

The meek will He guide in judg
ment : * the meek will He teach
His way.

All the paths of the LORD are
mercy and truth, * unto such as
keep His covenant and His testi
monies.

For Thy Name s sake, O LORD,
pardon mine iniquity ; * for it is
great.

SLH.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

What man is he that feareth the
LORD ? * him shall He teach in the
way that He shall choose.

His soul shall dwell at ease : *
and his seed shall inherit the earth.

The LORD is a strong rock unto
them that fear Him ; * and His
covenant shall be made known to
them.

Mine eyes are ever toward the
LORD : * for He shall pluck my feet
out of the net.

Turn Thee unto me, and have
mercy upon me, * for I am desolate
and afflicted.

The troubles of mine heart are
enlarged : * O bring me out of my
distresses.

Look upon mine affliction and my
pain : * and forgive all my sins.

Consider mine enemies, for they
are many : * and they hate me with
cruel hatred.

O keep my soul, and deliver me :
* let me not be ashamed, for I put
my trust in Thee.

The undefiled and the upright
cleave to me : * for I wait on Thee.

Redeem Israel, O God, * out of
all his troubles !

Psalm XXV.
[Intituled "Of David."]

JUDGE me, O LORD, for I have
J walked in mine innocence : * I
have trusted also in the LORD ; I
shall not slide.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove
me : * try as by fire my reins and
mine heart.

For Thy loving-kindness is before
mine eyes : * and I have walked in
Thy truth.

I have not sat with vain persons,

* neither will I go in with wrong
doers.

I hate the congregation of evil
doers : * and will not sit with the
wicked.

I will wash mine hands in inno-
cency, * and I will compass Thine
Altar, O LORD.

That I may hear the voice of
thanksgiving, * and tell of all Thy
wondrous works.

LORD, I have loved the beauty of
Thine house, * and the place where
Thy glory dwelleth.

Make not my soul to perish with
sinners, O God, * nor my life with
bloody men :

In whose hands is mischief, * and
their right hand is full of bribes.

But as for me, I will walk in
mine innocence : * redeem me, and
be merciful unto me.

My foot standeth in uprightness :

* in the congregations will I bless
Thee, O LORD.

Psalm XXII.
[Intituled "A Psalm of David."]

LORD is my Shepherd, I
shall not want. * He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures :

He leadeth me beside the still
waters. * He restoreth my soul :

He leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness, * for His Name s
sake.

Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil : * for Thou art with
me :

Thy rod and Thy staff * they
comfort me.

THE PSALTER.

Thou preparest a table before me,

* in the presence of mine enemies :
Thou anointest mine head with

oil : * and mine overflowing cup, O
how goodly is it !

Surely Thy mercy shall follow me

* all the days of my life :

And I will dwell in the house of
the LORD * for ever.

Psalm XXI.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." It has
a musical (?) superscription, from part of
which it appears that it was written for a
tune called "The hind of the morning."]

1\ /TY God, my God, look upon
*** me 1 : why hast Thou for
saken me ? * the voice of mine of
fences keepeth Thy deliverance far
from me.

O my God, I cry in the day-time,
and Thou hearest not : * and in the
night season and still it is not fool
ishness in me.

But Thou dwellest in holiness, *
O Thou Praise of Israel !

Our fathers trusted in Thee : *
they trusted, and Thou didst deliver
them.

They cried unto Thee, and were
delivered : * they trusted in Thee,
and were not confounded.

But I am a worm and no man : *
a reproach of men, and despised of
the people.

2 All they that see me laugh me to
scorn : * they shoot out the lip, and
shake their head :

He trusted in the LORD, let Him
rescue him : * let Him deliver him,
seeing He delighteth in him.

But Thou art He That took me
out of the womb : * Thou art mine
hope from my mother s breasts. I
was cast upon Thee from the womb :

Thou art my God from my
mother s belly. * Be not far from
me :

For trouble is near : * for there is
none to help.

Many bulls have compassed me :
* strong bulls have beset me round.

They gaped upon me with their
mouths, * as a ravening and a roar
ing lion.

I am poured out like water, * and
all my bones are out of joint ;

Mine heart is like melting wax *
in the midst of my bowels.

My strength is dried up like a
potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to
my jaws : * and Thou hast brought
me into the dust of death.

For many dogs have compassed
me : * the assembly of the wicked
have inclosed me.

They pierced mine hands and my
feet : * they have told all my bones :

They look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them,
and upon my vesture do they cast
lots.

But let not Thine help be far from
me ; O LORD, * haste Thee to save
me.

God, deliver my soul from the
sword : * my darling from the power
of the dog !

Save me from the lion s mouth ; *
and mine affliction from the horns of
the unicorns.

1 will declare Thy name unto my
brethren : * in the midst of the
congregation will I praise Thee.

1 The words "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" were quoted by our
Lord upon the Cross (Matth. xxvii. 46 ; Mark xv. 34).

2 Read Matth. xxvii. 39-44.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR.

Ye that fear the LORD, praise
Him : * all ye seed of Jacob, glorify
Him ;

Let all the seed of Israel fear
Him. * For He hath not despised
nor abhorred the prayer of the
poor;

Neither hath He hid His face
from me : * but when I cried unto
Him, He heard me.

My praise shall be of Thee in the
great congregation : * I will pay my
vows before them that fear Him.

The poor shall eat and be satis
fied, and they shall praise the LORD
that seek Him : * their heart shall
live for ever.

All the ends of the earth * shall
remember and turn unto the LORD.

And all the kindreds of the na
tions * shall worship before Him.

For the kingdom is the LORD S :

* and He hath dominion among the
nations.

All they that be fat upon earth
shall eat and worship : * all they
that go down to the dust shall fall
down before Him :

My soul also shall live unto Him ;

* and my seed shall serve Him :
The generation to come shall tell

it unto the Lord : * and the heavens
shall declare His righteousness unto
a people that shall be born, whom
the Lord hath made.

Psalm cxvii. is simply omitted and
no other is substituted for it.

Ordinary Antiphon during the
year. Blessed are they that walk
in Thy law, O Lord.

In Advent the Antiphon is the First
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, unless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon in Lent. 1 As I live,
saith the LORD, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked, but
rather that he turn from his way and
live.

Antiphon for Passiontide. 2 De
liver me, O Lord, and set me be
side Thee : and any man s hand
may fight against me.

CHAPTER. (Zech. viii. 19.)

LOVE peace and truth, saith the
Lord Almighty.

If the Preces have not been said at
Lauds, then the Preces are now said,
as on Sunday j but if the Lauds Preces
have been said, the following longer
form is used, all kneeling :

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

OUR Father (inaudibly), Who
art in heaven, Hallowed be
Thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is
in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

BELIEVE (inaudibly) in God
the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth. And in JESUS

Ezek. xxxiii. II.

2 Job xvii. 3.

THE PSALTER.

Christ, His only Son, our Lord :
Who was conceived by the Holy
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, dead, and buried : He
descended into hell : the third day
He rose again from the dead : He
ascended into heaven, and sitteth
on the right hand of God the
Father Almighty : from thence He
shall come to judge the quick and
the dead. I believe in the Holy
Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church,
the Communion of Saints, the For
giveness of sins. (Aloud.)

Verse. The Resurrection of the
body.

Answer. And the Life everlast
ing. Amen.

Verse. And unto Thee have I
cried, O LORD.

Answer. And in the morning
shall my prayer come betimes before
Thee.

Verse. Let my mouth be filled
with Thy praise.

Answer. That I may sing of
Thy glory, all the day long of Thy
greatness.

Verse. O Lord, hide Thy face
from my sins.

Answer. And blot out all mine
iniquities.

Verse. Create in me a clean
heart, O God.

Answer. And renew a right spirit
within me.

Verse. Cast me not away from
Thy presence.

Answer. And take not Thine
Holy Spirit from me.

Verse. Restore unto me the joy
of Thy salvation.

Answer. And uphold me with
Thy free spirit.

Verse. 1 Deliver me, O LORD,
from the evil man.

Answer. And preserve me from
the wicked man.

Verse. 2 Deliver me from mine
enemies, O my God.

Answer. And defend me from
them that rise up against me.

Verse. Deliver me from the
workers of iniquity.

Answer. And save me from
bloody men.

Verse. 3 So will I sing unto Thy
Name for ever.

Answer. That I may daily per
form my vows.

Verse. 4 Answer us, O God of
our salvation.

Answer. Who art the confidence
of all the ends of the earth, and of
them that are afar off upon the sea.

Verse. Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Verse. 5 Holy God, Holy Mighty,
Holy Immortal.

Answer. Have mercy on us.

Verse. 6 Bless the LORD, O my
soul.

Answer. And all that is within
me, bless His holy Name.

Verse. Bless the LORD, O my soul.

Answer. And forget not all his
benefits.

Verse. Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities.

1 Ps. cxxxix. 2. 2 Ps. Iviii. 2, 3. 3 Ps. Ix. 9. 4 Ps. Ixiv. 6.

5 Called the " Trisagion " in the Eastern Church. Its legendary origin is that it was
learnt from angels by a boy who was carried up into the air during a tempest at Con
stantinople in the time of St Proclus (A.D. 434). It is probably much older than his
time. Photius thought it was adapted from Ps. xli. 2. 6 Ps. cii. 1-5.

PRIME, OR THE FIRST HOUR. 51

Answer. Who healeth all thy Answer. Thy youth is renewed

diseases. like the eagle s.

Verse. Who redeemeth thy life Verse. *J Our help is in the

from destruction. name of the LORD.

Answer. Who crowneth thee Answer. Who made heaven and

with loving - kindness and tender earth,
mercies.

Verse. Who satisfieth thy desire Then is made the General Confession,

with good things. and all proceeds as on Sunday.

TERCE, OR THE THIRD HOUR. 1

fitter for efaerg tiajj in

^4^ /&gt;$ beginning of Terce the Lord s
Prayer and the Angelic Salutation are
said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we for
give them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

IT AIL, Mary, full of grace; The
-*- -* Lord is with thee : blessed
art thou among women, and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now, and at the hour
of our death. Amen.

Then is said aloud :

Verse. &gt;| Make haste, O God,
to deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.

From Septuagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thursday instead of "Alle
luia" is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of heaven.

Then is said the following :

HYMN. 2

COME, Holy Ghost, Who ever One,
Reignest with Father and with

Son,

3 It is the hour, our souls possess
With Thy full flood of holiness.

Let flesh, and heart, and lips, and mind,
Sound forth our witness to mankind ;
And love light up our mortal frame
Till others catch the living flame.

Now to the Father, to the Son,
And to the Spirit, Three in One,
Be praise, and thanks, and glory given,
By men on earth, by Saints in heaven.

Amen.

The last verse is sometimes said thus,
altered in honour of the Incarnation :

JESU, the Virgin-born, to Thee,
To Father, Spirit, One and Three,
Be praise, and thanks, and glory given,
By men on earth, by Saints in heaven.

Amen.

1 The proper hour of Terce is 9 A.M., about which time it is generally said in
communities before the Community Mass.

2 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school. Translation by the late Card. Newman.

3 It was at this the third hour that the Holy Ghost descended on the day of Pente
cost. Acts ii. 15.

TERCE, OR THE THIRD HOUR.

In Paschal time it is said thus, al
tered in honour of the Resurrection :

JESU, our Risen Lord, to Thee,
To Father, Spirit, One and Three,
Be praise, and thanks, and glory given,
By men on earth, by Saints in heaven.

Amen.

// is also occasionally otherwise al
tered, which occasions are marked in
their places.

Then follow six sections of Psalm
CX VIII. They are all said under one
Antiphon, and when Five Antiphons
have been said at Lauds, the Second of
these Five is the Antiphon at Terce.
Otherwise those given here are used.

Ordinary Antiphon for Sundays ;
and for every day in Paschal time.
Alleluia.

Ordinary Antiphon for Week-days.
Lead me.

In Advent the Antiphon is the Second
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, unless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon in Lent. Behold now
is the day.

Antiphon in Passiontide. O Lord,
Thou hast judged.

Continuation of Psalm C XVIII.

rr 1

"TEACH me, O LORD, the way of
^ Thy statutes : * and I shall
keep it unto the end.

Give me understanding, and I
shall keep Thy law: * yea, I shall
observe it with my whole heart.

Lead me in the path of Thy

commandments : * for therein do I
delight.

Incline mine heart unto Thy testi
monies, * and not to covetousness.

Turn away mine eyes from be
holding vanity : * quicken Thou me
in Thy way.

Stablish Thy word unto Thy ser
vant, * that he may fear Thee.

Turn away my reproach, which I
dread : * for Thy judgments are
good.

Behold, I have longed after
Thy precepts : * quicken me in
Thy righteousness.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

T ET Thy mercy come also unto
-*-* me, O LORD : * even Thy sal
vation, according to Thy word.

So shall I have wherewith to
answer him that reproacheth me :
* for I trust in Thy word.

And take not the word of truth
utterly out of my mouth : * for I
have hoped in Thy judgments.

So shall I keep Thy law contin
ually, * for ever and ever.

And I will walk at liberty : * for
I seek Thy precepts.

I will speak of Thy testimonies
also before kings : * and will not be
ashamed.

And I will delight myself in Thy
commandments, * which I have loved.

Mine hands also will I lift up
unto Thy commandments, which I
have loved : * and I will meditate
in Thy statutes.

1 Here begins the letter He, an aspirate, nearly represented by our H.
2 Here begins the letter Vau, variously attempted to be represented by V, W, U,
O, Oo.

THE PSALTER.

Continuation of the same Psalm.

EMEMBER Thy word unto
Thy servant, * upon which
Thou hast caused me to hope.

This is my comfort in mine afflic
tion, * that Thy word hath quickened
me.

The proud have behaved them
selves very wickedly : * yet have I
not turned aside from Thy law.

I remembered Thy judgments of
old, O LORD : * and have comforted
myself.

Horror hath taken hold upon me,

* because of the wicked that forsake
Thy law.

Thy statutes have been my songs

* in the house of my pilgrimage.

I have remembered Thy Name, O
LORD, in the night, * and have kept
Thy law.

This I had, * because I kept Thy
precepts.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

rr 2

art my portion, O LORD,
* I have said that I would
keep Thy law.

I entreated Thy favour with my
whole heart : * be merciful unto me
according to Thy word.

I thought on my ways, * and
turned my feet unto Thy testi
monies.

I made haste, and delayed not

* to keep Thy commandments.
The bands of the wicked have

compassed me about : * yet have
I not forgotten Thy law.

At midnight I will rise to give
thanks unto Thee, * because of
Thy righteous judgments.

I am the companion of all them
that fear Thee, * and of them that
keep Thy precepts.

The earth, O LORD, is full of
Thy mercy : * teach me Thy
statutes.

Continuation of the same Psalm.

hast dealt well with Thy
servant, O LORD, * according
to Thy word.

Teach me goodness, and judg
ment, and knowledge : * for I have
believed Thy commandments.

Before I was afflicted, I went
astray : * therefore now I have
kept Thy word.

Thou art good, * and in Thy
goodness teach me Thy statutes.

The proud have dealt very
wickedly with me : * but I will
keep Thy precepts with my whole
heart.

Their heart is curdled as milk : 4
* but I delight in Thy law.

It is good for me that Thou hast
afflicted me : * that I might learn
Thy statutes.

The law of Thy mouth is better
unto me, * than thousands of gold
and silver.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

1 Here begins the letter Zain, answering to Z.

2 Here begins the letter Kheth, a strong guttural, variously represented by Kh and Hh.

3 Here begins the letter Teth, represented by T.

4 " Gross as fat is their heart " (Leeser). The idea conveyed is that of stupidity.

TERCE, OR THE THIRD HOUR.

HINE hands have made me and
fashioned me : * give me
understanding, that I may learn
Thy commandments.

They that fear Thee will be glad
when they see me : * because I have
hoped in Thy word.

I know, O LORD, that Thy judg
ments are right, * and that Thou
in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Let Thy merciful kindness be for
my comfort, * according to Thy
word unto Thy servant.

Let Thy tender mercies come unto
me, that I may live : * for Thy law
is my delight.

Let the proud be ashamed, for
they dealt wrongfully with me with
out a cause : * but I will meditate
in Thy precepts.

Let those that fear Thee turn
unto me, * and those that know
Thy testimonies.

Let mine heart be undented in
Thy statutes, * that I be not
ashamed.

Ordinary Antiphon for Sundays.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Antiphon for every day in Paschal
time. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia.

Ordinary Antiphon for Week
days. 2 Lead me in the path of
Thy commandments, O Lord.

In Advent the Antiphon is the Second
Antiphon which has been said at Lands
on Sunday, unless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon in Lent. Behold now
is the day of repentance, to redeem
sin, and save the soul.

Antiphon in Passiontide. 3 O
Lord, Thou hast judged the cause
of my soul. Thou hast redeemed
my life, O Lord my God.

Then follows the Chapter and the
Short Responsory. When they are not
given specially, one of the following is
used. After the Chapter is always an
swered, " Thanks be to God."

On Sundays, from the Third Sun
day after the Epiphany inclusive until
Septuagesima Sunday exclusive, and
from the Third Sunday after Pentecost
inclusive until Advent S^mday exclusive
are said the following, and the Respon
sory is used moreover till the First
Sunday in Lent exclusive.

CHAPTER, (i John iv. 16.)

GOD is love : and he that dwell-
eth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

4 Incline mine heart unto Thy
testimonies, O God.

Answer. Incline mine heart unto
Thy testimonies, O God.

Verse. Turn away mine eyes from
beholding vanity : quicken Thou me
in Thy way.

Ansiuer. Unto Thy testimonies,
O God.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Incline mine heart unto
Thy testimonies, O God.

Verse. 5 I said, LORD, be merci
ful unto me.

Answer. Heal my soul, for I
have sinned against Thee.

1 Here begins the letter Jod, variously represented by J, Y, I, Ee.

2 Ps. cxviii. 35. 3 Lam. iii. 58. 4 Ps. cxviii. 36, 37.

5 Ps. xl. 5.

THE PSALTER.

On ordinary Week-days throughout
the year are said the following :

CHAPTER. (Jer. xvii. 14.)

HEAL me, O LORD, and I shall
be healed : save me, and I
shall be saved : for Thou art my
praise.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

Heal my soul, for I have sinned
against Thee.

Answer. Heal my soul, for I
have sinned against Thee.

Verse. I said, LORD, be merciful
unto me.

Answer. For I have sinned against
Thee.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Heal my soul, for I
have sinned against Thee.

Verse. 1 Be Thou mine Helper,
neither leave me,

Answer. Nor forsake me, O God
of my salvation.

In Advent are said the following (but
the Chapter on Week-days oiily) :

CHAPTER. (Jer. xxiii. 5.)

BEHOLD, the days come, saith
the LORD, that I will raise
unto David a righteous branch : and
a King shall reign in wisdom, and
shall execute judgment and justice
in the earth.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

Come and save us, O Lord God
of hosts.

Answer. Come and save us, O
Lord God of hosts.

Verse. 2 Cause Thy face to shine,
and we shall be saved.

Answer. O Lord God of hosts.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Come and save us, O
Lord God of hosts.

Verse. 3 The heathen shall fear
Thy Name, O LORD.

Answer. And all the kings of
the earth Thy glory.

In Lent are said the following (but the
Chapter 071 Week-days only} :

CHAPTER. (Joel ii. 12, 13.)

ye to Me with all your
heart, with fasting, and with
weeping, and with mourning. And
rend your heart and not your gar
ments, saith the Lord Almighty.
Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

4 He hath delivered me from the
snare of the fowler.

Answer. He hath delivered me
from the snare of the fowler.

Verse. And from the noisome
pestilence.

Answer. From the snare of the
fowler.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Ansiver. He hath delivered me
from the snare of the fowler.

Verse. He shall cover thee with
His wings.

Answer. And under His feathers
shalt thou trust.

1 Ps. xxvi. 9.

2 Ps. Ixxix. 4.

3 Ps. ci. 1 6.

4 Ps. xc. 3.

TERCE, OR THE THIRD HOUR.

In Passiontide are said the following
(but the Chapter on Week-days only) :

CHAPTER. (Jer. xvii. 13.)

OLORD, all that forsake Thee
shall be ashamed : they that
depart from Thee shall be written
in the earth : because they have
forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
living waters.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

1 O God, deliver my soul from
the sword.

Answer. O God, deliver my soul
from the sword.

Verse. And my darling from
the power of the dog.

Answer. My soul from the sword.
O God, deliver my soul from the
sword.

Verse. O Lord, save me from
the lion s mouth.

Answer. And mine affliction
from the horns of the unicorns.

In Paschal time are said the following
(but the Chapter on Week-days only} :

CHAPTER. (Rom. vi. 9.)

/CHRIST, being raised from the
^-^ dead, dieth no more, death
hath no more dominion over Him.
For in that He died, He died unto
sin once ; but in that He liveth, He
liveth unto God.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

The Lord is risen from the grave,
Alleluia, Alleluia.

Answer. The Lord is risen from
the grave, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Who hung for us upon
the tree.

Answer. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The Lord is risen from
the grave, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. 2 The Lord is risen in
deed, Alleluia.

Answer. And hath appeared to
Simon, Alleluia.

After the Short Responsory, if the
Preces have been said at Lauds, all kneel
down and the following are said; but
if the Preces have been omitted at Lauds,
then these are also omitted down to the
mark *.

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from evil.

Verse. 3 Turn us again, O Lord
God of hosts.

Answer. And cause Thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.

Verse. Arise, O Christ, and help
us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

Here the Office is continued when the
above has been omitted.

1 Ps. xxi. 21.

2 Luke xxiv. 34.

Ps. Ixxix. 8.

THE PSALTER.

* Verse. Hear my prayer, O
LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

Here is said the Prayer for the day,
after which :

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.
Answer. Thanks be to God.

If the Little Office of the Blessed
Virgin Mary is to follow immediately,
it is begun here, and what follows is not
said. Otherwise the Office ends thus :

Verse (said in a somewhat lower
voice]. May the souls of the Faith
ful, through the mercy of God, rest
in peace.

Answer. Amen.

Lastly, unless Sext follow, the Lord s
Prayer is said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we for
give them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Note. IVhen Office is said in Choir
the Service is ended with the Antiphon
of the Blessed Virgin Mary every time
the Choir is left. Otherwise it is only
said as given in this book, at the end
of Lauds (or the aggregation of which
Lauds forms a part] and Compline.

Feasts. The above Office, appointed
for all Sundays and Week-days through
out the year, is likewise said on all
Feasts.

SEXT, OR THE SIXTH HOUR. 1

SKce for eforg Sag in tfje

At the beginning of Sext, the Lortfs
Prayer and the Angelic Salutation are
said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we for
give them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

HAIL, Mary, full of grace ; The
Lord is with thee : blessed
art thou among women, and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now, and at the hour
of our death. Amen.

Then is said aloud:

Verse. *J Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is

now, and ever shall be, world with
out end. Amen. Alleluia.

From Septuagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thursday, instead of " Alle
luia" is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee -be given,
O Eternal King of Heaven.

Then is said the following :
HYMN. 2

OGOD, Who canst not change nor
fail,

Guiding the hours, as they roll by,
Brightening with beams the morning

pale,
And burning in the mid-day sky ;

Quench Thou the fires of hate and

strife,

The wasting fever of the heart ;
From perils guard our feeble life,
And to our souls Thy peace impart.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,
And Holy Spirit, God of grace,
To Whom all glory, Three in One,
Be given in every time and place.

Amen.

The last verse is sometimes said thus,
altered in honoitr of the Incarnation :

Hear, JESU, Virgin-born, our cry,
W T ith Father and with Holy Ghost,
To Whom be praise, here as on high,
On earth as mid the Angelic Host.

Amen.

1 The proper hour for Sext is 12 noon. In Choirs it is generally said after the Com
munity Mass.

2 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school, with one word altered. Translation by the
late Card. Newman.

THE PSALTER.

In Paschal time it is said thus, altered
in honour of the Resurrection :

To Thee, our Risen Lord, we cry,
With Father and with Holy Ghost,
To Whom be praise, here as on high,
On earth as mid the Angelic Host.

Amen.

// is also occasionally otherwise al
tered, which occasions are marked in
their places.

Then follow six sections of Psalm
CXVIIL They are all said under one
Antiphon, and when Five Antiphons
have been said at Lauds the third of
these Five is the Antiphon at Sext.
Otherwise those given here are used.

Ordinary Antiphon for Sundays
and for every day in Paschal time.
Alleluia.

Ordinary Antiphon for Week-days.
Hold Thou me up.

In Advent the Antiphon is the Third
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, tmless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon in Lent. Let us ap
prove ourselves.

Antiphon in Passiontide. O My
people.

Continuation of Psalm CXVIIL

TV/TY soul fainteth for Thy salva-
^*- tion : * but I hope in Thy
word.

Mine eyes fail for Thy word, *
saying : When wilt Thou comfort
me?

For I am become like a wine
skin in time of frost : * yet do I
not forget Thy statutes.

How many are the days of Thy
servant? * when wilt Thou execute
judgment on them that persecute
me?

The wicked have spoken lies
unto me, * which are not after Thy
law.

All Thy commandments are faith
ful : * they persecute me wrongfully,
help Thou me.

They had almost consumed me
upon earth : * but I forsook not
Thy precepts.

Quicken me after Thy loving-
kindness : * so shall I keep the
testimony of Thy mouth.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

FOR ever, O LORD, * Thy word
is settled in heaven.

Thy faithfulness is unto all genera
tions : * Thou hast established the
earth, and it abideth.

The day continueth by Thine
ordinance : * for all things serve
Thee.

Unless Thy law had been my
delight, * then perchance I should
have perished in mine affliction.

I will never forget Thy precepts :
* for with them Thou hast quick
ened me.

I am Thine, save me : * for I
have sought Thy precepts.

The wicked have waited for me,
to destroy me : * but I considered
Thy testimonies.

I have seen an end of all perfec
tion : * but Thy commandment is
exceeding broad.

M. j hVl*****VWft*fl ^AV^l^^^lllti UL \JCl\J.

1 Here begins the letter Caph, a guttural variously represented by C, Q, Ch, &c.

2 Here begins the letter Lamed, answering to L.

SEXT, OR THE SIXTH HOUR.

Confutation of the same Psalm.

HOW I love Thy law, O Lord !
* it is my meditation all the

day.

Thou, through Thy command
ments, hast made me wiser than
mine enemies : * for they are ever
with me.

I have more understanding than
all my teachers : * for Thy testi
monies are my meditation.

I understand more than the an
cients, * because I keep Thy pre
cepts.

I have refrained my feet from
every evil way ; * that I might keep
Thy word.

I have not departed from Thy
judgments : * for Thou hast taught
me.

How sweet are Thy words unto
my taste ! * yea, sweeter than honey
to my mouth.

Through Thy precepts I get un
derstanding : * therefore I hate every
false way.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is 7iot said.

" I A HY word is a lamp unto my feet,
* * and a light unto my path.

I have sworn, and am stedfastly
purposed, * to keep Thy righteous
judgments.

I am afflicted very much, O
LORD : * quicken me according to
Thy word.

Accept, I beseech Thee, the free

will offerings of my mouth, O LORD :
* and teach me Thy judgments.

My soul is continually in mine
hand : * yet do I not forget Thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for
me : * yet I erred not from Thy
precepts.

Thy testimonies have I taken as
an heritage for ever : * for they are
the rejoicing of mine heart.

I have inclined mine heart to
perform Thy statutes always, * be
cause of the reward.

Continuation of the same Psalm.

T HATE the unrighteous : * but
- Thy law do I love.

Thou art mine Helper and my
Protector : * and in Thy word do
I hope.

Depart from me, ye evil-doers :
* for I will keep the commandments
of my God.

Uphold me according to Thy
word, and I shall live : * and let me
not be ashamed of mine hope.

Hold Thou me up and I shall be
safe : * and I will have respect unto
Thy statutes continually.

Thou hast trodden down all them
that err from Thy statutes : * for
their thought is falsehood.

I hold all the wicked of the earth
as liars : * therefore I love Thy
testimonies.

Make Thou my flesh to tremble
for fear of Thee : * for I am afraid
of Thy judgments.

Here the Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

1 Here begins the letter Mem, answering to M.

2 Here begins the letter Nun, answering to N.

3 Here begins the letter Samech, somewhat represented by S.

THE PSALTER.

HAVE done judgment and jus-
^ tice : * leave me not to mine
oppressors.

Be surety for Thy servant for
good : * let not the proud oppress
me.

Mine eyes fail for Thy salva
tion, * and for the word of Thy
righteousness.

Deal with Thy servant according
unto Thy mercy : * and teach me
Thy statutes.

I am Thy servant : * give me un
derstanding, that I may know Thy
testimonies.

It is time for Thee, LORD, to work :
* they have made void Thy law.

Therefore I love Thy command
ments * above gold and the topaz
stone.

Therefore did I turn to all Thy
commandments : * I hate every
false way.

Ordinary Antiphon for Sunday.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Antiphon for every day in Paschal
time. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia.

Ordinary Antiphon for Week-days.
2 Hold Thou me up, O Lord, and I
shall be safe.

In Advent the Antiphon is the Third
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, unless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon in Lent. Let us ap
prove ourselves in much patience, in
much fasting, by the armour of
righteousness.

Antiphon in Passiontide. 3 O My
people, what have I done unto thee,
and wherein have I wearied thee ?
Testify against Me.

Then follows the Chapter and the
Short Responsory. When they are not
given specially, one of the following is
used. After the Chapter is always an
swered, " Thanks be to God."

On Sundays, from the Third Sunday
after the Epiphany inclusive until Sep-
tuagesima Sunday exclusive, and from
the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost in
clusive until Advent Sunday exclusive,
are said the following, and the Re
sponsory is used moreover until the
First Sunday in Lent, exclusive.

CHAPTER. (Gal. vi. 2.)

T3EAR ye one another s burdens,
fr? and so shall ye fulfil the law
of Christ.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

4 For ever, O LORD, Thy word is
settled [in heaven].

Answer. For ever, O LORD, Thy
word is settled [in heaven].

Verse. Thy faithfulness is unto
all generations.

Answer. Thy word is settled [in
heaven].

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. For ever, O LORD, Thy
word is settled [in heaven].

Verse. 5 The LORD is my Shep
herd, I shall not want.

Answer. He maketh me to lie
down in green pastures.

1 Here begins the letter Ayin, or Chain, as to the sound of which the learned are not
agreed.

2 Ps. cxviii. 117. 3 Micah vi. 3. 4 Ps. cxviii. 89. 5 Ps. xxii. i, 2.

SEXT, OR THE SIXTH HOUR.

On ordinary Week-days throughout
the year are said the following :

CHAPTER. (Gal. vi. 2.)

BEAR ye one another s burdens,
and so shall ye fulfil the law
of Christ.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

1 1 will bless the LORD at all
times.

Answer. I will bless the LORD
at all times.

Verse. His praise shall continu
ally be in my mouth.

Answer. At all times.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. I will bless the LORD
at all times.

Verse. The LORD is my Shep
herd, I shall not want.

Answer. He maketh me to lie
down in green pastures.

In Advent are said the following (but
the Chapter on Week-days only) :

CHAPTER. (Jerem. xxxiii. 16.)

TN those days shall Judah be
^ saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely : and this is the name where
by she shall be called, The LORD
our Righteousness.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

2 Show us Thy mercy, O LORD.

Answer. Show us Thy mercy, O
LORD.

Verse. And grant us Thy sal
vation.

Answer. Thy mercy, O LORD.

1 Ps. xxxiii. 2. 2 Ps. Ixxxiv. 8.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Show us Thy mercy, O
LORD.

Verse. 3 Remember us, O LORD,
with the favour that Thou bearest
unto Thy people.

Answer. O visit us with Thy
salvation.

In Lent are said the following (but
the Chapter on Week-days only} :

CHAPTER. (Isa. lv. 7.)

T ET the wicked forsake his way,
* and the unrighteous man his
thoughts, and let him return unto
the LORD, and He will have mercy
upon him ; and to our God, for He
will abundantly pardon.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

4 He shall cover thee with His
wings.

Answer. He shall cover thee
with His wings.

Verse. And under His feathers
shalt thou trust.

Ansiver. With His wings.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. He shall cover thee
with His wings.

Verse. His truth shall be thy
shield.

Answer. Thou shalt not be
afraid for the terror by night.

In Passiontide are said the following
(but the Chapter on Week-days only) :

CHAPTER. (Jerem. xvii. 18.)

T ET them be confounded that per-
"- secute me, but let not me be

confounded ; let them be dismayed,

3 Ps. cv. 4. 4 Ps. xc. 4.

6 4

THE PSALTER.

but let not me be dismayed ; bring
upon them the day of evil, and de
stroy them with double destruction,
O Lord our God.

Ansiuer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

1 O Lord, save me from the lion s
mouth.

Answer. O Lord, save me from
the lion s mouth.

Verse. And mine affliction from
the horns of the unicorns.

Answer. From the lion s mouth,
O Lord, save me from the lion s
mouth.

Verse. 2 Make not my soul to
perish with sinners, O God.

Answer. Nor my life with bloody
men.

In Paschal time are said the follow
ing (but the Chapter on Week-days
only] :

CHAPTER, (i Cor. xv. 20.)

NOW is Christ risen from the
dead, the first-fruits of them
that sleep ; for since by man came
death, by man came also the res
urrection of the dead. For as in
Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia,
Alleluia.

Answer. The Lord is risen in
deed, Alleluia.

Verse. And hath appeared to
Simon.

Answer. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The Lord is risen in
deed, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. 3 The disciples were glad,
Alleluia.

Answer. When they saw the
Lord, Alleluia.

After the Short Responsory, if the
Preces have been said at Lauds all kneel
down and the following are said, but if
the Preces have been omitted at Lauds
then these are also omitted, down to the
mark *.

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

OUR Father (inaudibly), Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

Verse. Turn us again, O Lord
God of hosts !

Answer. And cause Thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.

Verse. Arise, O Christ, and help
us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

Here the Office is continued when the
above has been omitted.

* Verse. Hear my prayer, O
Lord.

Ps. xxi. 22.

2 Ps. xxv. 9.

John xx. 20.

SEXT, OR THE SIXTH HOUR.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

Here is said the Prayer for the day,
after which :

Verse. Hear my prayer, O Lord.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.
Answer. Thanks be to God.

If the Little Office of the Blessed Vir
gin Mary is to follow immediately, it
is begun here, and what follows is not
said. Otherwise the Office ends thus :

Verse (said in a somewhat lower
tone). May the souls of the Faithful,
through the mercy of God, rest in
peace.

Answer. Amen.

Lastly, unless None follow, the Lord s
Prayer is said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Feasts. The above Office, appointed
for all Sundays and Week-days through
out the year, is likewise said on all
Feasts.

VOL. II.

NONE, OR THE NINTH HOUR. 1

ffitce for e&erg tiag in tfje

beginning of None the Lord s
Prayer and the Angelic Salutation are
said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

HAIL, Mary, full of grace ; The
Lord is with thee : blessed
art thou among women, and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now, and at the hour
of our death. Amen.

Then is said aloud :

Verse. *J Make haste, O God,
to deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.

From Septuagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thursday instead of "Alle
luia" is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of heaven.

HYMN. 2

O GOD, Unchangeable and True,
Of all the Light and Power,
Dispensing light in silence through
Every successive hour ;

Lord, brighten our declining day,

That it may never wane,
Till death, when all things round decay,

Brings back the morn again.

This grace on Thy redeemed confer,

Father, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, the Comforter,

Eternal Three in One.

Amen.

The last verse is sometimes said thus,
altered in honour of the Incarnation :

JESU, the Virgin-born, to Thee,

Eternal praise be given,
With Father, Spirit, One and Three,

Here as it is in heaven.

Amen.

1 The proper hour for None is 3 P.M., but in Choirs it varies.

2 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school, with one word altered,
late Card. Newman.

Translation by the

NONE, OR THE NINTH HOUR.

In Paschal time it is said thus, al
tered in honour of the Resurrection :

To Father, Son, and Paraclete,

The slain and risen Son,
Be praise and glory, as is meet,

While endless ages run.

Amen.

// is also occasionally otherwise al
tered, which occasions are marked in
their places.

Then follow six sections of Psalm
CXVII1. They are all said under one
Antiphon, and when Five Antiphons
have been said at Lauds, the Fifth of
these Five is the Antiphon at None.
Otherwise those given here are used.

Ordinary Antiphon for Sundays
and for every day in Paschal time.
Alleluia.

Ordinary Antiphon for Week-days.
Look Thou upon me.

In Advent the Antiphon is the Fifth
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, unless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon for Week-days in Lent.
Let us approve ourselves.

Antiphon for Week-days in Pas-
siontide. Did not they reward me
evil for good?

Continuation of Psalm C XVIII.

D 1

PHY testimonies are wonderful :
* therefore doth my soul keep
them.

The unfolding of Thy words
giveth light : * yea, it giveth under
standing unto the simple.

I opened my mouth and panted :
* for I longed for Thy command
ments.

Look Thou upon me, and be
merciful unto me, * as Thou usest
to do unto those that love Thy
Name.

Order my steps in Thy word : *
and let not any iniquity have do
minion over me.

Deliver me from the oppression
of man : * and I will keep Thy
precepts.

Make Thy face to shine upon
Thy servant : * and teach me Thy
statutes.

Rivers of water run down mine
eyes : * because they keep not Thy
law.

The Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

T) IGHTEOUS art Thou, O
*-^ LORD : * and upright are
Thy judgments.

Thy testimonies that Thou hast
commanded are righteous, * and
very faithful.

My zeal hath consumed me, *
because mine enemies have for
gotten Thy words.

Thy word is tried to the utter
most : * and Thy servant loveth it.

I am small and despised : * yet
do I not forget Thy precepts.

Thy righteousness is an ever
lasting righteousness : * and Thy
law is the truth.

Trouble and anguish have taken
hold upon me : * Thy command
ments are my delight.

The righteousness of Thy testi
monies is everlasting : * give me
understanding, and I shall live.

* Here begins the letter Pe, represented by P. Ph. F.
2 Here begins the letter Tzade, represented by Tz or Ts.

THE PSALTER.

Continuation of the same Psalm-

P 1

T CRIED with my whole heart,
* hear me, O LORD : * I will
keep Thy statutes.

I cried unto Thee, save me : *
and I will keep Thy command
ments.

Before the dawning of the morn
ing, I cried : * for I hoped in Thy
word.

Mine eyes look up to Thee
early : * that I may meditate in
Thy word.

Hear my voice according unto
Thy loving-kindness, O LORD : *
and quicken me according to Thy
judgment.

They that persecute me draw nigh
to sin : * but are far from Thy
law.

Thou art near, O LORD : * and
all Thy ways are truth.

Concerning Thy testimonies I
have known of old : * that Thou
hast founded them for ever.

The Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is not said.

/CONSIDER mine affliction, and
^-^ deliver me : * for I do not

forget Thy law.

Give judgment concerning me,
and deliver me : * quicken me for
the sake of Thy word.

Salvation is far from the wicked :
* for they seek not Thy statutes.

Great are Thy tender mercies, O

LORD : * quicken me according to
Thy judgments.

Many are my persecutors, and
mine enemies : * yet do I not turn
aside from Thy testimonies.

I beheld the transgressors, and
was grieved : * because they kept
not Thy word.

Consider how I love Thy pre
cepts, O LORD : * quicken me
according to Thy loving-kindness.

Thy word is true from the be
ginning : * and every one of Thy
righteous judgments endureth for
ever.

Continuation of the same Psalm.

PRINCES have persecuted me

without a cause: * but mine

heart standeth in awe of Thy word.

I will rejoice at Thy word, * as
one that findeth great spoil.

I hate and abhor wickedness : *
but Thy law do I love.

Seven times a day do I praise
Thee, * because of Thy righteous
judgments.

Great peace have they that love
Thy law : * and for them there are
no stumbling-blocks.

LORD, I hope for Thy salvation :

* and I love Thy commandments.
My soul hath kept Thy testimonies,

* and loved them exceedingly.

I have kept Thy precepts and
Thy testimonies ; * for all my ways
are before Thee.

The Doxology, " Glory be to the
Father, c.," is not said.

1 Here begins the letter Koph, generally represented by Ch or Q.

2 Here begins the letter Resh, analogous to R, but concerning the precise sound of
which the learned are not agreed.

3 Here begins the letter Shin, somewhat represented by S and Sh.

NONE, OR THE NINTH HOUR.

6 9

T ET my cry come near before
*-* Thee, O LORD: * give me
understanding according to Thy
word.

Let my supplication come before
Thee: * deliver me according to
Thy word.

My lips shall utter praise, *
when Thou hast taught me Thy
statutes.

My tongue shall speak of Thy
word : * for all Thy commandments
are righteousness.

Let Thine hand help me : * for I
have chosen Thy precepts.

I have longed for Thy salvation,

LORD : * and Thy law is my de
light.

My soul shall live, and it shall
praise Thee : * and Thy judgments
shall help me.

I have gone astray like a lost
sheep : * seek Thy servant : for

1 do not forget Thy command
ments.

Ordinary Antiphon for Sundays.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Antiphon for every day in Paschal
time. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Al
leluia.

Ordinary Antiphon for Week-days.

2 Look Thou upon me, O Lord, and
be merciful unto me.

In Advent the Antiphon is the Fifth
Antiphon which has been said at Lauds
on Sunday, tmless the day have a set of
its own.

Antiphon for Week-days in Lent.

3 Let us approve ourselves in much

patience, by the armour of righteous
ness, by the power of God.

Antiphon for Week-days in Pas-
siontide. 4 Did not they reward me
evil for good ? for they digged a pit
for my soul.

Then follows the Chapter and the
Short Resppnsory. When they are not
given specially, one of the following is
used. After the Chapter is always an
swered: " Thanks be to God."

On Sundays, from the Third Sunday
after the Epiphany inclusive until Sep-
tuagesima Sunday exclusive, and from
the Third Sunday after Pentecost in
clusive till Advent Sunday exclusive,
are said the following, and the Respon-
sory is tised moreover till the First
Sunday in Lent exclusive.

CHAPTER, (i Cor. vi. 20.)

R ye are bought with a great
price. Glorify God, and bear
Him in your body.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

5 1 cried with my whole heart,
hear me, O LORD.

Answer. I cried with my whole
heart, hear me, O LORD.

Verse. I will keep Thy statutes.

Ansiver. Hear me, O LORD.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. I cried with my whole
heart, hear me, O LORD.

Verse. 6 Cleanse Thou me from
secret faults, O Lord.

Answer. Preserve Thy servant
also from the sins of others.

1 Here begins the letter Tau, corresponding somewhat to T or Th.
Ps. cxviii. 132. 3 2 Cor. vi. 4, 7.

Ps. cxviii. 145.

Ps. xviii. 13, 14.

4 Jer. xviii. 20.

THE PSALTER.

On ordinary Week-days throughout
the year are said the following :

CHAPTER, (i Cor. vi. 20.)

FOR ye are bought with a great
price. Glorify God, and bear
Him in your body.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

1 Redeem me, O Lord, and be
merciful unto me.

Answer. Redeem me, O Lord,
and be merciful unto me.

Verse. For my foot standeth in
uprightness.

Answer. And be merciful unto
me.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Redeem me, O Lord,
and be merciful unto me.

Verse. Cleanse Thou me from
secret faults, O Lord.

Answer. Preserve Thy servant
also from the sins of others.

In Ad-vent are said the following (but
the Chapter on Week-days only) :

CHAPTER. (Isa. xiv. i.)

HER time is near to come, and
her days shall not be pro
longed. For the LORD will have
mercy on Jacob, and Israel shall be
saved.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

2 The LORD shall arise upon thee,
O Jerusalem.

Answer. The LORD shall arise
upon thee, O Jerusalem.

Verse. And His glory shall be
seen upon thee.

Answer. Upon thee, O Jerusalem.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The LORD shall arise
upon thee, O Jerusalem.

Verse. Come, O Lord, and make
no tarrying.

Ansiver. Pardon the sins of Thy
people.

In Lent are said the following (but
the Chapter on Week-days only) :

CHAPTER. (Isa. Iviii. 7.)

DEAL thy bread to the hungry,
and bring the poor that are
cast out to thine house : when thou
seest the naked, cover him, and
hide not thyself from thine own
flesh.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

His truth shall be thy shield.

Answer. His truth shall be thy
shield.

Verse. Thou shalt not be afraid
for the terror by night.

Answer. Thy shield.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. His truth shall be thy
shield.

Verse. 3 God hath given His
angels charge over thee.

Answer. To keep thee in all thy
ways.

1 Ps. xxv. 11, 12.

2 Isa. Ix. 2.

NONE, OR THE NINTH HOUR.

In Passiontide are said the following
(but the Chapter on Week-days only) :

CHAPTER. (Jer. xviii. 20.)

ID EMEMBER that I stood before
i*^ 1 Thee, to speak good for them,

and to turn away Thy wrath from

them.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

1 Make not my soul to perish with
sinners, O God.

Answer. Make not my soul to
perish with sinners, O God.

Verse. Nor my life with bloody
men.

Answer. With sinners, O God.
Make not my soul to perish with
sinners, O God.

Verse. 2 Deliver me, O LORD,
from the evil man.

Answer. Preserve me from the
wicked man.

In Paschal time are said the follow
ing (but the Chapter on Week-days only]:

CHAPTER, (i Pet. iii. 18.)

/CHRIST hath once suffered for
^ our sins, the Just for the un
just, that He might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Short Responsory.

3 The disciples were glad. Al
leluia, Alleluia.

Answer. The disciples were glad.
Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. When they saw the Lord.

Answer. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,

and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The disciples were glad.
Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. 4 Abide with us, Lord.
Alleluia.

Answer. For it is toward even
ing. Alleluia.

After the Short Responsory, if the
Preces have been said at Lauds, all
kneel doivn, and the following are said.
Btit if the Preces have been omitted at
Lands, then these are also omitted down
to the mark *.

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Father (inaudibly), Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from evil.
Verse. Turn us again, O Lord
God of hosts.

Answer. And cause Thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.

Verse. Arise, O Christ, and help
us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

Here the Office is continued when the
above has been omitted.

* Verse. Hear my prayer, O
LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

1 Ps. xxv. 9.

2 Ps. cxxxix. 2.

John xv. 20.

4 Luke xxiv. 29.

THE PSALTER.

Let us pray.

Here is said the Prayer for the day,
after which :

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.
Ansiver. Thanks be to God.

If the Little Office of the Blessed Vir
gin Mary is to follow immediately, it
is begun here, and what follows is not
said. Otherwise the Office ends thus :

Verse (said in a somewhat lower
voice). May the souls of the Faithful,
through the mercy of God, rest in
peace.

Answer. Amen.

Lastly, unless Vespers follow, the
Lord s Prayer is said inatidibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive them that trespass against
us. And lead us not into temp
tation ; but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Note. When Office is said in Choir,
the service is ended with the Antiphon
of the Blessed Virgin Mary every time
the Choir is left. Otherwise it is only
said as given in this book, after Lauds
(or the aggregation of which Lauds
forms a part] and Compline.

Feasts. The above Office, appointed
for all Sundays and Week-days through
out the year, is likewise said on all
Feasts.

nt Jftattins.

THE SECOND DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sundays, except as other
wise given here,

Invitatory, O come, * let us sing
unto the LORD.

When this Invitatory is used the
Psalm begins with the words, " Let us
make a joyful noise."

Invitatory in Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, * Alleluia.

On Simple Feasts the Invitatory is
special.

On Simple Feasts the Hymn is special,
but on Week-days kept as such the fol
lowing is said from the Octave of the
Epiphany till the first Monday in Lent,
and from the Octave of Pentecost to Ad
vent. The Hymns for the other seasons
are given in the proper office of the
Seasons.

HYMN. 1

SLEEP has refreshed our limbs, we
spring

From off our bed, and rise ;
Lord, on Thy suppliants while they

sing,
Look with a Father s eyes.

Be Thou the first on every tongue,

The first in every heart ;
That all our doings all day long,

Holiest ! from Thee may start.

1 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school,
late Card. Newman.
VOL. II.

Cleanse Thou the gloom, and bid the

light

Its healing beams renew ;
The sins, which have crept in with

night,
With night shall vanish too.

Our bosoms, Lord, unburthen Thou,

Let nothing there offend ;
That those who hymn Thy praises now

May hymn them to the end.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

Only one Nocturn is said,

Antiphon. The LORD is the de
fence.

In Paschal time there is only one
Antiphon to the whole Nocticrn, Al
leluia.

Psalm XXVI.

[Intituled "Of David." The Vulgate and
the LXX. add "before his anointing." See
2 Kings (Sam.) ii. 4. Monday, fifth week
after Pentecost.]

THE LORD is my light and my
salvation ; * whom shall I
fear?

The LORD is the defence of my
life : * of whom shall I be afraid ?

with two words altered. Translation by the
C 2

THE PSALTER.

When the evil-doers come upon
me, * to eat up my flesh,

Mine enemies that trouble me, *
they stumble and fall.

Though an host should encamp
against me, * mine heart shall not
fear.

Though war should rise against
me, * in this will I be confident.

One thing have I desired of the
LORD, that will I seek after, * that
I may dwell in the house of the
LORD all the days of my life,

To behold the beauty of the
LORD, * and to visit His temple.

For He hath hidden me in His
pavilion : * in the secret of His
tabernacle hath He hidden me in
the day of trouble.

He hath set me up upon a rock :
* and now hath He lifted up mine
head above mine enemies.

I will offer in His tabernacle
the sacrifice of joy : * I will sing,
yea, I will sing praises unto the
LORD.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with
my voice : * have mercy on me and
answer me.

My heart said unto Thee, My
face hath sought Thee : * Thy face,
LORD, will I seek.

Hide not Thy face far from
me : * turn not away in anger from
Thy servant.

Be Thou mine Helper, * neither
leave me, nor forsake me, O God of
my salvation.

When my father and my mother
forsake me, * then the LORD taketh
me up.

Teach me Thy way, O LORD : *
and lead me in a plain path, because
of mine enemies.

Deliver me not over unto the will
of mine enemies : * for false wit

nesses are risen up against me, and
iniquity hath belied itself.

I believe that I shall yet see the
goodness of the LORD * in the land
of the living.

Wait on the LORD, be of good
courage : * and thine heart shall be
strengthened, wait, I say, on the
LORD.

Psalm XXVII.
[Also intituled " Of David."]

UNTO Thee will I cry, O LORD;
my God, be not silent to me :

* lest, if Thou be silent to me, I be
come like them that go down into
the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplica
tion, O Lord, when I cry unto Thee,

* when I lift up mine hands toward
Thine holy temple.

Draw me not away with the wick
ed : * and destroy me not with the
workers of iniquity.

Who speak peace with their
neighbour : * but mischief is in
their hearts.

Give them according to their
deeds, * and according to the wick
edness of their inventions.

Give them after the works of their
hands : * render to them their desert.

Because they regard not the works
of the LORD, or the operation of His
hands, * Thou shalt destroy them,
and not build them up.

Blessed be the LORD : * because
He hath heard the voice of my
supplication.

The LORD is my strength and my
shield : * mine heart trusted in Him
and I am holpen.

And my flesh greatly rejoiceth : *
and with my whole heart I will
praise Him.

MONDAY AT MATTINS.

The LORD is the strength of His
people : * and He is the saving
strength of His Anointed.

O Lord, save Thy people, and
bless Thine inheritance : * and gov
ern them, and lift them up for ever.

Antiphon. l The LORD is the de
fence of my life.

Second Antiphon. Worship.

Psalm XXVIII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." The
Vulgate and the LXX. add "for the going
forth from the tabernacle, or ending of the
tabernacle," apparently meaning the con
clusion of the Feast of Tabernacles.]

IVE unto the LORD, O ye sons
of God : * give unto the
Lord young rams.

Give unto the LORD glory and
honour, give unto the LORD the
glory due unto His Name : * wor
ship the LORD in His holy courts.

The voice of the LORD is upon
the waters, the God of glory thun-
dereth : * the LORD is upon many
waters.

The voice of the LORD is power
ful : * the voice of the LORD is full
of majesty.

The voice of the LORD breaketh
the cedars : * yea, the LORD break
eth the cedars of Lebanon.

He smiteth them down as though
it were a calf in Lebanon, * and the
beloved [forest is felled] like a young
wild bull. 2

The voice of the LORD forketh
the flames of fire : * the voice of
the LORD shaketh the wilderness,

yea, the LORD also shaketh the
3 wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the LORD maketh
the hinds to calve, and discovereth
the thickets : * and in His temple,
every one uttereth His glory.

The LORD fixeth the flood : * yea,
the LORD sitteth King for ever.

The LORD will give strength unto
His people : * the LORD will bless
His people with peace.

Psalm XXIX.

[Intituled "A song of rejoicing at the
opening of the house of David." The pal
ace, for the inauguration of which this song
was written, is thus mentioned in 2 Kings
(Sam.) v. 9-.ii. "So David dwelt in the
fort" (on Sion) "and called it the city of
David. And David built round about from
Millo and inward. And David went on,
and grew great ; and the LORD God of
Hosts was with him. And Hiram, King of
Tyre, sent messengers to David, and cedar-
trees, and carpenters, and masons ; and they
built David an house."]

T WILL extol Thee, O LORD, for
^ Thou hast lifted me up, * and
hast not made my foes to rejoice
over me.

O LORD my God, I cried unto
Thee, * and Thou hast healed me.

O LORD, Thou hast brought up
my soul from the grave : * Thou
hast saved me from being one of
them that go down into the pit.

Sing unto the LORD, O ye Saints
of His ! * and give thanks to the
memorial of His holiness.

For there is terror in His anger :

* and in His favour is life.
Weeping may endure for a night :

* but joy cometh in the morning.

1 Ps. xxvi. i.

2 The Hebrew is, "He also maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Shiryon "
(oftener called Hermon) "like young wild cattle."

3 That is, the deserts to the south of Palestine, amid which is found the town of
Kadesh-Barnea.

THE PSALTER.

And I, in my prosperity I said :
I shall never be moved.

LORD, in Thy favour, * Thou hast
made my glory to stand so fast.

Thou didst hide Thy face from
me, * and I was troubled.

I cried unto Thee, O LORD : *
and unto my God I made supplica
tion :

What profit is there in my blood,
* when I go down to corruption ?

Shall the dust praise Thee, * or
shall it declare Thy truth?

The LORD heard me, and had
mercy upon me : * the LORD be
came mine Helper.

Thou hast turned for me my
mourning into rejoicing : * Thou
hast put off my sackcloth, and
girded me with gladness.

To the end that my glory may
sing praise unto Thee, and may not
be silent : * O LORD my God, I will
give thanks unto Thee for ever.

Antiphon. l Worship the LORD
in His holy courts.

Third Antiphon. Deliver me.

Psalm XXX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David" with the
same farther superscription as Pss. xii. xiii.
The Vulgate and the LXX. add "of haste "
or " distraction," meaning apparently that
David wrote it, on recovering from the
mental condition in which he had exclaimed
(v. 23), " I am cut off from before Thine
eyes."]

IN Thee, O LORD, do I put my
trust, let me never be ashamed :
* deliver me in Thy righteousness.

Bow down Thine ear unto me : *
deliver me speedily.

Be Thou to me a God, a Pre

server, and an house of defence, *
to save me.

For Thou art my strength and
my refuge : * and for Thy Name s
sake Thou wilt lead me and nourish
me.

Thou wilt pull me out of the net,
that they have laid privily for me : *
for Thou art my Preserver.

2 Into Thine hands I commend my
spirit : * Thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth !

I have hated them that regard *
lying vanities.

But I trust in the LORD : * I will
be glad and rejoice in Thy mercy.

For Thou hast considered my
trouble : * Thou hast saved my soul
in adversity ;

And hast not shut me up into the
hand of the enemy: * Thou hast
set my feet in a wide place.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD,
for I am in trouble : * mine eye is
consumed with grief, my soul, and
my belly.

For my life is spent with grief, *
and my years with sighing.

My strength faileth because of
mine affliction, * and my bones are
consumed.

I was a reproach among all mine
enemies, and among my neighbours
specially, * and a fear to mine ac
quaintance.

They that did see me without fled
from me : * I am forgotten as a
dead man out of mind.

I am like a broken vessel : * for
I have heard the slander of many
on every side :

When they took counsel together
against me, * they devised to take
away my life.

1 Ps. xxviii. 2.

2 This verse was quoted by our Lord on the Cross, Luke xxiii. 46.

MONDAY AT MATTINS.

But I trusted in Thee, O LORD :
* I said : Thou art my God, my
lot is in Thine hand.

Deliver me from the hand of
mine enemies, * and from them that
persecute me.

Make Thy face to shine upon Thy
servant, save me in Thy mercy : *
let me not be ashamed, O LORD, for
I have called upon Thee.

Let the wicked be ashamed and
let them go down into the grave : *
let the lying lips be put to silence ;

Which speak grievous things
proudly and contemptuously *
against the righteous.

O how great is Thy goodness,

Lord, * which Thou hast laid up
for them that fear Thee !

Which Thou hast wrought for
them that trust in Thee, * before
the sons of men !

Thou shalt hide them in the
covert of Thy presence * from the
troubling of men.

Thou shalt keep them secretly in
Thy pavilion * from the strife of
tongues.

Blessed be the LORD : * for He
hath showed me His marvellous
kindness in a strong city.

For I said in mine haste : * I
am cut off from before Thine
eyes.

Nevertheless Thou heardest the
voice of my supplication, * when

1 cried unto Thee.

O love the LORD, all ye His
Saints : * for the LORD loveth truth
fulness, and will plentifully reward
the proud doers.

Be of good courage and let your
heart be strengthened, * all ye that
hope in the LORD.

Psalm XXXI.
[Intituled "A didactic (?) poem of David."]

"DLESSED are they whose trans-
*-* gressions are forgiven, * and
whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man unto whom
the LORD imputeth not iniquity, *
and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Because I kept silence, my bones
waxed old, * while I groaned all the
day long.

For day and night Thine hand was
heavy upon me : * I turned in mine
anguish while the thorn was fastened
in me. 1

I acknowledged my sin unto
Thee : * and mine iniquity I hid
not.

I said : I will confess against
myself my transgression, unto the
LORD : * and Thou forgavest the
iniquity of my sin. 1

For this shall every one that is
godly pray unto Thee, * in a season
able time.

Surely in the floods of great
waters, * they shall not come nigh
unto him.

Thou art mine hiding-place from
the trouble that compasseth me : *
O Thou That art my joy ! deliver
me from them that compass me
round about. 1

I will give thee understanding,
and teach thee in the way which
thou shalt go : * I will keep Mine
eyes upon thee.

Be ye not as the horse and as
the mule, * which have no under
standing.

Whose mouths thou holdest fast
with bit and bridle, * else they will
not come unto thee.

1 SLH.

THE PSALTER.

Many sorrows shall be to the
wicked : * but he that trusteth in
the LORD, mercy shall compass him
about.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice,
ye righteous, * and shout for joy,
all ye that are upright in heart.

Antiphon. x Deliver me in Thy
righteousness.

Fourth Antiphon. Praise is comely.

Psalm XXXII.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. ascribe this
psalm " to David."]

D EJOICE in the LORD, O ye
IV righteous : * praise is comely
for the upright.

Praise the LORD with harp : *
sing unto Him with the psaltery
of ten strings.

Sing unto Him a new song : *
play skilfully unto Him with a loud
noise.

For the word of the LORD is
right : * and all His works are done
in truth.

He loveth mercy and judgment : *
the earth is full of the goodness of
the LORD.

By the word of the LORD were
the heavens made, * and all the
host of them by the breath of His
mouth.

He gathereth the waters of the
sea together as an heap : * He lay-
eth up the depths in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear the LORD :

* let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of Him.

For He spake, and it was done :

* He commanded, and it was made.
The LORD bringeth the counsel

of the heathen to nought : * He
maketh the devices of the people of
none effect, and setteth aside the
counsel of princes.

But the counsel of the LORD
standeth for ever, * the thoughts of
His heart to all generations.

Blessed is the nation whose God
is the LORD, * the people He hath
chosen for His own inheritance.

The LORD looketh from heaven :

* He beholdeth all the sons of men.
From the set place of His habi
tation * He looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth.

He fashioneth the heart of every
one of them : * He considereth all
their works.

There is no king saved by the mul
titude of an host : * a mighty man is
not delivered by much strength.

An horse is a vain thing for safety :

* by his great strength he shall not
escape.

Behold, the eyes of the LORD are
upon them that fear Him, * and
upon them that hope in His mercy.

To deliver their soul from death,

* and to feed them in time of famine.

Our soul waiteth for the LORD : *
for He is our help and our shield.
For our heart shall rejoice in Him :

* because we have trusted in His
holy Name.

Let Thy mercy, O LORD, be upon
us, * according as we hope in Thee.

Psalm XXXIII.

[Intituled "Of David, when he changed
his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove
him away and he departed." This incident
is thus described in I Kings (Sam.) xxi. 10.
" And David arose and fled that day for fear
of Saul, and went to Achish" (otherwise
called Abimelech) "the King of Gath. And

1 Ps. XXX. 2.

MONDAY AT MATTINS.

the servants of Achish said unto him : Is
not this David the King of the land ? Did
they not sing one to another of him in
dances saying, Saul hath slain his thou
sands, and David his ten thousands ? And
David laid up these words in his heart, and
was sore afraid of Achish the King of Gath.
And he changed his behaviour before them,
and feigned himself mad in their hands,
and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and
let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Achish to his servants : Lo, ye
see the man is mad ; wherefore have you
brought him to me ? Have I need of mad
men, that ye have brought this fellow to
play the madman in my presence? Shall
this fellow come into mine house ? xxii.
David therefore departed thence, and es
caped to the cave of Adullam." This Psalm
is A B C Darian.]

T WILL bless the LORD at all
* times : * His praise shall con
tinually be in my mouth.

My soul shall make her boast in
the LORD : * the humble shall hear
thereof, and be glad.

magnify the LORD with me : *
and let us exalt His Name together.

1 sought the LORD, and He heard
me, * and delivered me from all my
distress.

Draw near unto Him, and be light
ened, * and your faces shall not be
ashamed.

This poor man cried, and the
.LORD heard him, * and saved him
out of all his troubles.

The angel of the LORD encampeth
round about them that fear Him, *
and delivereth them.

O taste and see that the LORD is
good : * blessed is the man that
trusteth in Him.

O fear the LORD, all ye His Saints :

* for there is no want to them that
fear Him.

The mighty lack and suffer hunger :

* but they that seek the LORD shall
not want any good thing.

Come, ye children, hearken unto
me : * I will teach you the fear of
the LORD.

What man is he that desireth life,

* that loveth to see good days ?
Keep thy tongue from evil, * and

thy lips from speaking guile.

Depart from evil and do good : *
seek peace and pursue it.

The eyes of the LORD are upon
the righteous : * and His ears are
open unto their cry.

But the face of the LORD is against
them that do evil, * to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.

The righteous cry and the LORD
heareth, * and delivereth them out
of all their troubles.

The LORD is nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart, * and saveth
such as be of a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the
righteous : * but the LORD will de
liver them out of all.

The Lord keepeth all their bones :

* not one of them shall be broken.
The death of sinners is grievous :

* and they that hate the righteous
shall be guilty.

The LORD redeemeth the souls of
His servants : * and none of them
that trust in Him shall be guilty.

Antiphon. l Praise is comely for
the upright.

Fifth Antiphon. Fight against
them.

Psalm XXXIV.
[Intituled "Of David."]

DO me right, O LORD, against
them that strive with me : *
fight against them that fight against
me.

1 Ps. xxx ii. i.

THE PSALTER.

Take hold of arms and buckler : *
and stand up for mine help.

Draw out also the spear, and stop
the way against them that persecute
me : * say unto my soul : I am thy
salvation.

Let them be confounded and put
to shame, * that seek after my soul.

Let them be turned backward and
brought to confusion, * that devise
mine hurt.

Let them be as dust before the
wind : * and let the Angel of the
LORD drive them.

Let their way be dark and slip
pery : * and let the Angel of the
LORD chase them.

For without cause have they hid
den for me the deadly trap of their
net : * without cause have they
digged a pit for my soul.

Let the snare come upon him at
unawares, and let his net, that he
hath hid, catch himself : * and into
that very snare let him fall.

And my soul shall be joyful in
the LORD : * it shall rejoice in His
salvation.

All my bones shall say : * LORD,
who is like unto Thee ?

Who deliverest the poor from
them that are too strong for him, *
the poor and the needy from them
that spoil him ?

False witnesses did rise up, * they
laid to my charge things that I knew
not.

They rewarded me evil for good,

* to put all men far off from me.
But as for me, when they were

sick, * my clothing was sackcloth.
I humbled my soul with fasting :

* and my prayer shall return into
mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he
1 (Literally,) "

had been my friend or brother : * I
bowed down as one that mourneth
and is heavy.

But against me they rejoiced and
gathered themselves together : *
slanders were collected against me,
and I knew it not.

They disappeared, yet they ceased
not ; they assailed me, they laughed
me bitterly to scorn : * they gnashed
upon me with their teeth.

Lord, how long wilt Thou look
on? * Rescue my soul from their
destruction, my darling l from the
lions.

I will give Thee thanks in the
great congregation : * I will praise
Thee among much people.

Let not them that are mine ene
mies wrongfully rejoice over me, *
they that hate me without a cause
and wink with the eye.

For they spoke to me peaceably :
* but by their leasing they stirred
up the land to anger against me, yea,
they plotted against me.

Yea, they opened their mouth
wide against me : * they said, Aha,
Aha, our eyes have seen it.

This Thou hast seen, O LORD,
keep not silence : * O Lord, be not
far from me.

Stir up Thyself, and awake to my
judgment, * unto my cause, my God
and my Lord.

Judge me, O LORD my God,
according to Thy righteousness, *
and let them not rejoice over me.

Let them not say in their hearts :
Aha, Aha, so would we have it ; *
neither let them say : We have
swallowed him up.

Let them be ashamed and brought
to confusion together, * that rejoice
at mine hurt,
mine only one."

MONDAY AT MATTINS.

Let them be clothed with shame
and dishonour, * that magnify them
selves against me.

Let them shout for joy and be
glad, that favour my righteous cause :
* and let them that have pleasure
in the prosperity of His servant
say continually, Let the LORD be
magnified.

And my tongue shall speak of
Thy righteousness * of Thy praise,
all the day long.

Psalm XXXV.

[Intituled " Of David, the servant of the
LORD," and a farther superscription not
now understood.]

THE wicked saith plainly in his
own heart, that he will go on
still in sin : * there is no fear of
God before his eyes.

For he flattereth himself in his
own eyes, * until his iniquity be
found hateful.

The words of his mouth are ini
quity and deceit : * he willeth not
to understand, that he may do
good.

He deviseth mischief upon his
bed : * he setteth himself in every
.way that is not good, but he ab-
horreth not evil.

Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the
heavens : * and Thy faithfulness
reacheth unto the clouds.

Thy righteousness is like the
mountains of God : * Thy judg
ments are a great deep.

O LORD, Thou preservest man
and beast : * How excellent is Thy
loving-kindness, O God !

And the children of men * shall
put their trust under the shadow of
Thy wings.

They shall be abundantly satisfied
with the fatness of Thine house, * and
Thou shalt make them drink of the
river of Thy pleasures.

For with Thee is the fountain of
life : * and in Thy light shall we see
light.

O continue Thy loving-kindness
unto them that know Thee, * and
Thy righteousness to the upright in
heart.

Let not the foot of pride come
against me : * and let not the hand
of the wicked remove me.

There are the workers of iniquity
fallen : * they are cast out, neither
are they able to stand.

Antiphon. 1 Fight against them
that fight against me.
Sixth Antiphon. Show.

Psalm XXXVI.

[Intituled "Of David." It is A B C
Darian ; the first, third, and fifth verses, and
so on, begin with the corresponding letters
of the alphabet.]

FRET not thyself because of the
evil-doers : * neither be thou
envious against the workers of
iniquity.

For they shall soon dry up like
the grass, * and wither quickly as
the green herb.

Trust in the LORD, and do good :
* and dwell in the land, and thou
shalt be fed with the riches thereof.

Delight thyself in the LORD : *
and He shall give thee the desires
of thine heart.

Show thy way unto the LORD,
trust also in Him : * and He shall
bring it to pass.

And He shall bring forth thy

la Ps. xxxiv. I.

THE PSALTER.

righteousness as the light, and thy
judgment as the noon-day : * rest in
the LORD, and make thy prayer unto
Him.

Fret not thyself because of him
that prospereth in his way, * be
cause of the man that bringeth
wicked devices to pass.

Cease from anger and forsake
wrath : * fret not thyself to do evil.

For evil-doers shall be cut off : *
but those that wait upon the LORD,
they shall inherit the earth.

For yet a little while, and the
wicked shall not be : * yea, thou
shalt search for his place, and thou
shalt not find it.

1 But the meek shall inherit the
earth : * and shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace.

The wicked plotteth against the
just, * and gnasheth upon him with
his teeth.

But the Lord shall laugh at him :

* for He seeth that his day is
coming.

The wicked have drawn out the
sword, * they have bent their bow,

To cast down the poor and the
needy, * to slay such as be upright
of heart.

Their sword shall enter into their
own hearts : * and their bow shall be
broken.

A little that a righteous man hath

* is better than great riches of the
wicked.

For the arms of the wicked shall
be broken; ^ : but the LORD up-
holdeth the righteous.

The LORD knoweth the days of
the undefiled : * and their inheri
tance shall be for ever.

They shall not be ashamed in the
evil time, and in the days of famine

1 Matth. v. 4 seems to

they shall be satisfied : * for the
wicked shall perish.

Yea, the enemies of the LORD,
no sooner than they be honourable
and exalted, * shall pass away, yea,
pass away like smoke.

The wicked borroweth and pay-
eth not again : * but the righteous
showeth mercy and giveth.

For such as bless him shall in
herit the earth : * but they that
curse him shall be cut off.

The steps of a [good] man are
ordered by the LORD : * and He de-
lighteth in his way.

Though he fall, he shall not be
utterly cast down : * for the LORD
upholdeth him with His hand.

I have been young, and now am
old : * yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed
begging bread.

He is ever merciful and lendeth :
* and his seed shall be blessed.

Depart from evil and do good : *
and dwell for evermore.

For the LORD loveth judgment,
and forsaketh not His saints : * they
shall be preserved for ever.

The unrighteous shall be pun
ished : * and the seed of the wicked
shall be cut off.

But the righteous shall inherit the
land : * and dwell therein for ever.

The mouth of the righteous speak-
eth wisdom, * and his tongue talketh
judgment.

The law of his God is in his
heart, * none of his steps shall
slide.

The wicked watcheth the right
eous, * and seeketh to slay him.

But the LORD will not leave him
in his hands, * nor condemn him
when he is judged.

be quoted from this.

MONDAY AT MATTINS.

Wait on the LORD and keep His
way, and He shall exalt thee, to in
herit the land : * when the wicked
are cut off thou shalt see it.

I have seen the wicked in great
power, * and exalted like a cedar in
Lebanon.

And I passed by, and, lo, he was
not : * and I sought him, and his
place was not found.

Keep innocency, and look to the
thing that is right : * for the peace
maker shall have a reward here
after.

But the transgressors shall be cut
off together : * the end of the wicked
is destruction.

But the salvation of the righteous
is of the LORD : * and He is their
strength in the time of trouble.

And the LORD shall help them,
and deliver them : * He shall de
liver them from the wicked, and
save them, because they trust in
Him.

Psalm XXXVII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." It has
a further superscription of (now) unknown
meaning. The Vulgate and the LXX. con
nect it with the Sabbath.]

LORD, rebuke me not in Thy
wrath, * neither chasten me
in Thine hot displeasure.

For Thine arrows stick fast in
me : * and Thou hast laid Thine
hand heavily upon me.

There is no soundness in my
flesh, because of Thine anger :
neither is there any rest in my bones
because of my sins.

For mine iniquities are gone over
mine head : * and as an heavy bur
then they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink and are cor
rupt, * because of my foolishness.

I am troubled and bowed down
exceedingly : * I go mourning all
the day long.

For my loins are filled with a
loathsome disease : * and there is
no soundness in my flesh.

I am feeble and. sore broken : *
I groan aloud by reason of the dis-
quietness of mine heart.

Lord, all my desire is before
Thee : * and my groaning is not hid
from Thee.

Mine heart panteth, my strength
faileth me : * as for the light of
mine eyes, it also is gone from
me.

My friends and my neighbours *
draw near, and stand over against
me.

And they that are nearest to me
stand afar off: * they also that
sought after my life have used
violence against me.

And they that seek mine hurt have
spoken mischievous things, * and
imagined falsehoods all the day
long.

But I, as a deaf man, hear not, *
and as a dumb man that openeth
not his mouth.

Thus I was as a man that heareth
not, * and in whose mouth are no
reproofs.

For in Thee, O LORD, do I
hope : * Thou wilt hear me, O Lord
my God !

For I said : Let not mine ene
mies rejoice over me : * when my
feet slip they magnify themselves
against me.

For I am ready for the scourges :

* and my sorrow is continually be
fore me.

For I will declare mine iniquity,

* and think upon my sin.

But mine enemies are lively, and

8 4

THE PSALTER.

they are strengthened against me : *
and they that hate me wrongfully
are many.

They that render evil for good
speak against me, * because I have
followed goodness.

Forsake me not, O LORD my
God : * be not far from me.

Make haste to help me, * O
Lord God of my salvation !

Antiphon. l Show thy way unto
the LORD.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. 2 Out of Zion, the Perfec
tion of beauty,

Answer. Our God shall come
manifestly.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 3 Thy mercy, O LORD, is
in the heavens.

Answer. And thy faithfulness
reacheth unto the clouds.

In Lent.

Verse. 4 He hath delivered me
from the snare of the fowler.

Answer. And from the noisome
pestilence.

In Passion time.

Verse. 5 O God, deliver my soul
from the sword.

Answer. And my darling from
the power of the dog.

1 Ps. xxxvi. 5.
4 Ps. xc. 3.
7 Ps. viii. 6, 7.

2 Ps. xlix,
5 Ps. xxi.
8 Ps. xxxi

In Paschal time.

Verse. The Lord is risen from
the grave, Alleluia.

Answer. Who hung for us upon
the tree, Alleluia.

The rest is the same as the First Noc-
turn of the preceding Sunday, only the
Lessons and sometimes the Responsories
are those of the day.

Simple Feasts. It is to be remem
bered that when a Simple Feast is kept
on Monday, the Invitatory and Hymn
are of the Feast, being taken from the
Common of Saints of the class, unless
specially given. Then the Psalms and
Antiphons of the week -day, as given
above. Then is said a Verse and
Answer as follow :

In the Sijnple Office for one or many
Martyrs in Paschal time.

Verse. O ye saints and right
eous, rejoice in the Lord, Alleluia.

Answer. 6 God hath chosen you
for His own inheritance. Alleluia.

In the Simple Office for one Martyr
(put of Paschal time).

Verse. 7 Thou hast crowned him
with glory and honour, O Lord.

Answer. And madest him to
have dominion over the works of
Thine hands.

In the Simple Office for many Martyrs
(put of Paschal time}.

Verse. 8 Be glad in the LORD,
and rejoice, ye righteous.

Answer. And shout for joy, all
ye that are upright in heart.

In the Simple Office for Confessors
(ivhether Bishops or not).

Verse. 9 The Lord loved him and
beautified him.

\In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

. 2, 3. 3 Ps. xxxv. 6.

21. 6 Ps. xxxii. 12.

II. 9 Ecclus. xlv. 9.

MONDAY AT MATTINS.

Answer. And clothed him with
a robe of glory.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

In the Simple Office for one Holy
. Woman, of any class.

Verse. x In thy comeliness and
thy beauty.

\In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

Answer. Go forward, fare pros
perously and reign.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

The others, as well as what follows,
to the end of the service, are taken from
the First Nocturn of the Office Common
to Saints of the class, unless something
special be appointed. The Lessons are
arranged according to the rules in
Chapter xxvi. 4, of the general Rubrics.
The Hymn, "We praise Thee, O God,"
is said at the end, instead of a third
Responsory. The Responsories are
arranged according to the rules in
Chapter xxvii. 4, of the general Rubrics.
Thus :

The Lord s Prayer is said :

OUR Father (inaudibly], Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in
.heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.}

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

Then this Absolution :

/^RACIOUSLY hear, O Lord
^^ Jesus Christ, the prayers of
Thy servants, and have mercy
upon us : Who livest and reignest

with the Father, and the Holy
Ghost, world without end.
Answer. Amen.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

First Blessing, if the Lesson be from
Scripture.

May the Eternal Father bless us
With an everlasting blessing.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing, if the Lesson be of an
Homily.

May the Gospel s saving Lord
Bless the reading of His Word.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing on a Simple Feast.

May His blessing be upon us
Who doth live and reign for ever.
Answer. Amen.

Then the First Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the First Responsory of
the preceding Sunday. On a Simple
Feast, the first Responsory in the Com
mon Office for the class to which the
Saint belongs.

Then the Reader says :
Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture.

May the Son the Sole-begotten
In His mercy bless and help us.
Answer. Amen.

1 Ps. xliv. 5.

THE PSALTER.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be from
an Homily.

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

Second Blessing, for a Simple Feast.

He (or she or they) whose feast-day

we are keeping
Plead for us before the Lord.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Second Lesson, either
from Scripture or from an Homily, or
on a Simple Feast either the Second
and Third Lessons from Scripture
read together as one, or if the Saint
or Saints have two Lessons, the first
of these.

Then the Second Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the Second Responsory
of the preceding Su?iday, but in Paschal
time there is added to it :

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

And the Answer of the Responsory is
repeated again.

On a Simple Feast the Second Res
ponsory in the Common Office for the
class to which the Saint belongs, with
the addition of " Glory be to the
Father," &-V., and the repetition of
the Answer.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Third Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture.

May the grace of God the Spirit
All our heart and mind enlighten.
Answer. Amen.

Third Blessing, for a Simple Feast, or
if the Lesson be from an Homily.

May He That is the Angels King
To that high realm His people bring.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Third Lesson either
from Scripture, or of the Homily, or on
Simple Feasts the Seconder only Lesson
of the Saint.

Then, on Simple Feasts and on any
day in Paschal time is said the Hywm,
"We praise Thee, O God." But on
week-days kept as such out of Paschal
time the Third Responsory of the pre
ceding Sunday.

THE SECOND DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as other
wise given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Have mercy.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, " Upon me, O
God."

Psalm L.

[This Psalm has a musical (?) superscrip
tion, and the title then proceeds, "A Psalm
of David, when Nathan the Prophet came
unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-
sheba." The whole history is in 2 Kings
(Sam.) xi. xii. (Saturday, 5th week after
Pentecost, and 6th Sunday.)]

TTAVE mercy upon me, O God,
-** * after Thy great mercy :

And according to the multitude
pf Thy tender mercies * blot out my
transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine
iniquity : * and cleanse me from my
sin.

For I acknowledge my trans
gression : and my sin is ever
before me.

Against Thee, Thee only, have I
sinned, and done evil in Thy sight :
* that Thou mightest be justified
when Thou speakest, and be clear
when Thou art judged.

For behold, I was shapen in in
iquity : * and in sin did my mother
conceive me.

For behold Thou desirest truth :

* the hidden secrets of Thy wisdom
Thou hast made manifest unto me.

Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I
shall be clean : * wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and glad
ness : * that the bones which Thou
hast broken may rejoice.

Hide Thy face from my sins : *
and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O
God : * and renew a right spirit
within me.

Cast me not away from Thy
presence : * and take not Thine
holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of Thy
salvation : * and uphold me with
Thy free Spirit.

Then will I teach transgressors
Thy ways : * and sinners shall be
converted unto Thee.

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness,
O God, Thou God of my salvation :

* and my tongue shall sing aloud *
of Thy righteousness.

O LORD, open Thou my lips, *

1 So the Hebrew, the LXX., and all. the versions, including Doway, but the Latin
text has the curious mistake of exidtabit for exaltabit.

THE PSALTER.

and my mouth shall show forth Thy
praise.

For Thou desirest not sacrifice,
else would I give it : * Thou de-
lightest not in burnt-offering.

The sacrifice of God is a broken
spirit : * a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

Do good in Thy good pleasure
unto Zion : * to build the walls of
Jerusalem.

Then shalt Thou be pleased with
the sacrifices of righteousness, with
burnt-offering and whole burnt-offer
ing : * then shall they offer bullocks
upon Thine altar.

Antiphon. Have mercy upon me,
O God.

Second Antiphon. Consider.

Psalm V.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," with a
musical (?) superscription.]

GIVE ear unto my words, O
LORD, * consider my suppli
cation.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry,

* my King and my God !

For unto Thee will I pray. * O
LORD, in the morning Thou shalt
hear my voice :

In the morning will I stand before
Thee and look up. * For Thou art
not a God that hath pleasure in
wickedness :

Neither shall the evil dwell with
Thee, * nor the unrighteous stand
in Thy sight :

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

* Thou shalt destroy all them that
speak leasing :

The LORD abhorreth the bloody
and deceitful man. * But as for me,
in the multitude of Thy mercy

I will come into Thine house : *
I will worship toward Thine holy
temple in Thy fear.

Lead me, O LORD, in Thy
righteousness, * because of mine
enemies ; make my way straight
before Thy face.

For there is no faithfulness in
their mouth : * their inward part
is very wickedness.

Their throat is an open sepulchre ;
they flatter with their tongue. *
Judge Thou them, O God!

Let them fall by their own coun
sels ; cast them out in the multi
tude of their transgressions, * for
they have rebelled against Thee, O
Lord!

And let all those that put their
trust in Thee, rejoice : * let them
ever shout for joy, because Thou
dwellest in them :

Let them also that love Thy Name
be joyful in Thee. * For Thou wilt
bless the righteous.

O LORD, Thou hast compassed
us * with Thy favour as with a
shield.

Antiphon. Consider my suppli
cation, O Lord.

Third Antiphon. O God, Thou
art my God.

If this Antiphon is 2ised, the Psalm
begins with the words, " Early will I
seek Thee."

Psalms LXIL, LXVI.
O God, Thou art my God, &c.

(P- 23).

Antiphon. O God, Thou art my
God, early will I seek Thee.

Fourth Antiphon. Thine anger
is turned away.

MONDAY AT LAUDS.

THE SONG OF ISAIAH THE PROPHET.

[Isa. xii. i. The description of the res
toration of Israel in Isa. xi. (Second Sun
day in Advent) is continued to the end
of that Chapter, and this Song is then
introduced by the words, "And in that
day thou shall say : "]

OLORD, I will praise Thee,
though Thou wast angry with
me, * Thine anger is turned away,
and Thou comfortest me.

Behold, God is my salvation : *
I will trust and not be afraid :

For the LORD is my strength
and my song : * He also is become
my salvation.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of the Saviour:
* and in that day shall ye say :
Praise the LORD and call upon His
Name !

Declare His doings among the
people, * tell them that His Name
is exalted.

Sing unto the LORD, for He hath
done glorious things : " make ye
this known in all the earth.

Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabi
tant of Zion : * for great is the
Holy One of Israel in the midst of
thee !

Antiphon. Thine anger is turned
away, and Thou comfortest me.
Fifth Antiphon. Praise ye.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words "the LORD
from the heavens."

Psalms CXLVIII., CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD from the
heavens, &c. (//. 25, 26).

Antiphon. Praise ye the LORD
from the heavens.

From Advent Sunday till the Octave
of the Epiphany and from the First
Sunday in Lent till the Octave of Pente
cost special Chapters are given. At
other times the following is said on all
week-days observed as such.

CHAPTER. (Rom. xiii. 12.)

THE night is far spent, the day
is at hand : let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and
let us put on the armour of light :
let us walk honestly as in the day.

HYMN. 1

OF the Father Effluence bright,
Out of Light evolving light,
Light from Light, unfailing Ray,
Day creative of the day.

Truest Sun, upon us stream
With Thy calm perpetual beam,
In the Spirit s still sunshine
Making sense and thought divine.

Seek we too the Father s face,

Father of almighty grace,

And of majesty excelling,

Who can purge our tainted dwelling ;

Who can aid us, who can break
Teeth of envious foes, and make
Hours of loss and pain succeed,
Guiding safe each duteous deed.

And, infusing self-control,
Fragrant chastity of soul,
Faith s keen flame to soar on high,
Incorrupt simplicity.

Christ Himself for food be given,
Faith become the cup of heaven,
Out of which the joy is quaff d
Of the Spirit s sobering draught.

With that joy replenished
Morn shall glow with modest red,
Noon with beaming face be bright,
Eve be soft without twilight.

It has dawned : upon our way,
Father, in Thy Word, this day,
In Thy Father, Word Divine,
From Thy cloudy pillar shine.

1 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school, slightly altered. Translation by the late
Card. Newman.

THE PSALTER.

To the Father and the Son,
And the Spirit, Three and One,
As of old, and as in heaven,
Now and here be glory given.

Amen.

Verse. l Thou hast satisfied us
early with Thy mercy.

Answer, We rejoice and are
glad.

Antiphonfor the Songof Zacharias.
Blessed * be the Lord God of Israel.

After the repetition of the Antiphon
after the Song of Zacharias, on the
week-days of Advent and Lent, the
Ember Days, and all Vigils which are
fasts except Christinas Eve and the
Eve and Ember Days of Pentecost, all
kneel down, and the following prayers
called the Preces are said:

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Then the Lord s Prayer is said aloud.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we for
give them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;

Answer. But deliver us from evil.

Verse. 2 I said : LORD, be mer
ciful unto me.

Answer. Heal my soul, for I
have sinned against Thee.

Verse. 3 Return, O LORD, how
long?

Answer. And let it repent Thee
concerning Thy servants.

Verse. 4 Let Thy mercy, O LORD,
be upon us.

Answer. According as we hope
in Thee.

Verse. 5 Let Thy priests be
clothed with righteousness.

Answer. And let Thy saints
shout for joy.

Verse. 6 O LORD, save the King.

Answer. And hear us in the day
when we call upon Thee.

Verse. 7 O LORD, save Thy peo
ple, and bless Thine inheritance.

Answer. And govern them, and
lift them up for ever.

Verse. 8 Remember Thy congre
gation.

Answer. Which Thou hast pur
chased of old.

Verse. 9 Peace be within thy
walls.

Answer. And prosperity within
thy palaces.

Verse. Let us pray for the faith
ful departed.

Answer. O Lord, grant them
eternal rest, and let the everlasting
light shine upon them !

Verse. May they rest in peace.

Answer. Amen.

Verse. Let us pray for our ab
sent brethren.

Answer. 10 O Thou my God,
save Thy servants that trust in
Thee.

Verse. Let us pray for the sor
rowful and the captives.

Answer. n Redeem them, O God
of Israel, out of all their troubles.

Verse. 12 O Lord, send them help
from the sanctuary.

1 PS.

Ps. xxxii. 22. 5 Ps. cxxxi. 9.

Ps. xix. 10. This verse never varies, whatever the form of government.
7 Ps. xxvii. 9. 8 p s&gt; ixxiji. 2 9 p s cxxi 7

10 Ps. Ixxxv. 2. n Ps. xxiv. 22. 12 Ps. xix. 3.

MONDAY AT LAUDS.

Answer. And strengthen them
out of Zion.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Psalm CXXIX.

[Intituled "A Song of Degrees." The
meaning of this title is not certain. The
Psalms so called may perhaps, like the
"Graduals" of the Roman Liturgy, be
"step-songs," intended to be sung during
processions, Liturgical or of pilgrims.]

OUT of the depths have I cried
unto Thee, O LORD ! * Lord,
hear my voice.

Let Thine ears be attentive * to
the voice of my supplication.

If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark
iniquities, * O Lord, who shall
stand ?

But there is forgiveness with
Thee : * because of Thy law, I wait
for Thee, O LORD !

My soul waiteth on His word : *
my soul hopeth in the Lord.

From the morning watch even
until night * let Israel hope in the
LORD :

For with the LORD there is mercy,
* and with Him is plenteous re
demption.

And He shall redeem Israel, *
from all his iniquities.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is

now, and ever shall be, world with
out end. Amen.

Verse. l Turn us again, O LORD
God of hosts !

Answer. And cause Thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.

Verse. 2 Arise, O Christ, and
help us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

Then follows the Prayer of the Day.

All proceeds to the end of the service
as on Sunday, except that when Suf
frages are said, the following is said
before the Commemoration of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.

Commemoration of the Cross.

Antiphon. Through Thy Cross s
holy sign, JESUS, guard this soul of
mine, from my ghostly enemy.

Verse. 3 Let all the earth worship
Thee, and sing unto Thee.

Ansiver. Let them sing praises
unto Thy Name, O Lord !

Let us pray.

OLORD, we beseech Thee, keep
us in continual peace, whom
it hath pleased Thee to redeem by
the tree of the Holy Cross.

1 Ps. Ixxix. 20.

2 Ps. xliii. 26.

3 Ps. Ixv. 4.

at Jftattins.

THE THIRD DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as other
wise given here.

Invitatory. Let us make a joyful
noise to * the God of our salvation.

Invitatory in Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, * Alleluia.

On Simple Feasts the Invitatory is
special.

On Simple Feasts the Hymn is
special, but on Week-days kept as such
the following is said from the Octave
of the Epiphany till the first Tuesday
in Lent, and from the Octave of Pente
cost till Advent. The Hymns for the
other Seasons are given in the proper
Office of the Seasons.

HYMN. 1

OGOD from God, and Light from
Light,

Who art Thyself the Day,
Our chants shall break the clouds of

night ;
Be with us while we pray.

Chase Thou the gloom that haunts the

mind,

The thronging shades of hell,
The sloth and drowsiness that bind
The senses with a spell.

Lord, to their sins indulgent be,
Who, in this hour forlorn,
By faith in what they do not see,
With songs prevent the morn.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,
And Spirit, God of grace,
To Whom all worship shall be done
In every time and place.

Amen.

Only one Nocttirn is said.
Antiphon. That I sin not.

In Paschal time there is only one An-
liphon to the whole Nocturn, Alleluia.

Psalm XXXVIII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," with a
farther notice of meaning now uncertain.
It is addressed to Jeduthun, concerning
whom it is said, in I Par. (Chron.) xvi. 42,
that David appointed, along with the Priests
who officiated before the Ark, " Heman
and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen,
who are expressed by name, to give thanks
to the LORD, because His mercy endureth
for ever. And with them Heman and
Jeduthun, with trumpets and cymbals, for
those that should make a sound, and with
musical instruments of God. " The Targum
says that it was to be used by Jeduthun for
his watch in the Sanctuary.]

T SAID : I will take heed unto
1 my ways, * that I sin not with
my tongue.

I kept a watch upon my mouth, *
while the wicked stood up against
me.

I was dumb, and humbled myself,
I held my peace even from good :

1 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school. Translation by the late Card. Newman.

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* and my sorrow was stirred up
afresh.

Mine heart was hot within me :

* and while I was musing the fire
kindled.

I spake with my tongue : * LORD,
make me to know mine end ;

And the measure of my days
what it is ; * that I may know how
frail I am.

Behold, Thou hast made my days
as a span : * and mine age is as
nothing before Thee.

Verily every man living * is
altogether vanity. 1

Surely every man flitteth by like
a shade : * he is disquieted also in
vain.

He heapeth up riches, * and
knoweth not who shall gather them.

And now for what wait I ? Is it
not for the Lord ? * and mine hope
is with Thee.

Deliver me from all my transgres
sions : * Thou hast given me for a
reproach unto the foolish.

I was dumb and opened not my
mouth, because Thou didst it : *
remove Thy strokes away from me.

I am consumed by the blow of
Thine hand : * Thou, with rebukes
dost correct man for iniquity.

And Thou makest his beauty to
consume away like a spider s web :

* surely every man is disquieted in

I vain. 1
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and my
cry : * give ear unto my tears.

Hold not Thy peace : for I am a
stranger with Thee, and a sojourner,

* as all my fathers were.

O spare me, that I may recover
strength, before I go hence, * and
be no more.

Psalm XXXIX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David " and with
the same (now) uncertain superscription as
Ps. xii.l

WAITED patiently for the
LORD, * and He inclined unto

me,

And heard my cry : * He brought
me up also out of an horrible pit,
and out of the miry clay.

And set my feet upon a rock ; *
and ordered my goings.

And He hath put a new song in
my mouth, * even praise unto our
God.

Many shall see it, and fear, * and
shall trust in the LORD.

Blessed is that man whose trust
is the Name of the LORD : * and
who respecteth not pride and lying
vanities.

Many, O LORD my God, are Thy
wonderful works which Thou hast
done : * and in Thy thoughts there
is none like unto Thee.

If I would declare and speak of
them, * they are more than can be
numbered.

Sacrifice and offering Thou hast
not desired ; * but mine ears hast
Thou opened.

Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast
Thou not required : * then said I :
Lo, I come.

In the beginning of the book it is
written of me that I should fulfil
Thy will: * O my God, I delight
to do it, yea, Thy law is within mine
heart.

I have preached Thy righteous
ness in the great congregation : * lo,
I have not refrained my lips : O
LORD, Thou knowest.

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THE PSALTER.

I have not hidden Thy righteous
ness within mine heart : * I have
declared Thy faithfulness and Thy
salvation.

I have not concealed Thy loving-
kindness, and Thy truth * from the
great congregation.

Withhold not Thou Thy tender
mercies from me, O LORD : * let
Thy loving-kindness and Thy truth
continually preserve me.

For countless evils have com
passed me about : * mine iniquities
have taken hold upon me, and I am
not able to look up.

They are more in number than
the hairs of mine head : * and mine
heart faileth me.

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver
me : * O LORD, look upon me to
help me.

Let them be ashamed and con
founded together that seek after my
soul, * to destroy it.

Let them be driven backward,
and put to shame, * that wish me
evil.

Let them quickly bear their
shame, * that say unto me : Aha,
Aha.

Let all those that seek Thee re
joice and be glad in Thee : * and
let such as love Thy salvation say
continually : The LORD be mag
nified.

But I am poor and needy : * the
Lord thinketh upon me.

Thou art mine Helper and my
Deliverer : * make no tarrying, O
God.

Antiphon. l That I sin not with
my tongue.

Second Antiphon. Heal.

1 Ps. xxxviii. 2.

Psalm XL.

[Intituled " A Psalm of David," with
some other words, of meaning now un
certain, as in some other Psalms.]

T3LESSED is he that considereth
-*- the poor and needy : * the
LORD will deliver him in time of
trouble.

The LORD preserve him, and
quicken him, and make him to be
blessed upon the earth : * and de
liver him not unto the will of his
enemies !

The LORD strengthen him upon
his bed of suffering ! * Thou hast
made all his bed in his sickness.

As for me, I said : LORD, be
merciful unto me : * heal my soul,
for I have sinned against Thee.

Mine enemies speak evil of me :
* When shall he die, and his name
perish ?

If he came to see me he spake
vanity : * his heart gathereth iniquity
to itself.

He went out, * and told it.

All they that hate me whispered
together against me : * against me
did they devise mine hurt.

They plotted together to do me
evil : * Now that he lieth, surely he
shall rise up no more.

Yea, mine own familiar friend in
whom I trusted, * who did eat of
my bread, hath lifted up his heel
against me. 2

But Thou, O LORD, be merciful
unto me, and raise me up : * and I
will requite them.

By this I know that Thou de-
lightest in me : * because mine
enemy cannot triumph over me.

But as for me, Thou upholdest

- Quoted by our Lord. John xiii. 18.

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me, because of mine innocence : *
and settest me before Thy face for
ever.

Blessed be the LORD God of
Israel from everlasting, and to
everlasting. * Amen, Amen. 1

Psalm XLI.

[This Psalm has a superscription, the
meaning of which is not now certain, but
which seems in part to imply that it was a
didactic poem written to be sung by the
choir of the Korahites, a family of Levites
and singers in the time of David.]

A S the hart panteth after the
if*- water -brooks : * so panteth
my soul after Thee, O God!

My soul is athirst for God, for
the mighty God, for the living God :

* when shall I come and appear
before God ?

My tears have been my meat day
and night, * while they daily say
unto me : Where is thy God ?

When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul in me : * for
I will go unto the place of the
wondrous Tabernacle, even unto
the house of God.

With the voice of joy and praise,

* the noise of a multitude that keep
holiday.

Why art thou cast down, O my
soul, * and why art thou disquieted
in me?

Hope thou in God, for I shall yet
praise Him, * the Health of my
countenance and my God.

My soul is cast down within me :

* therefore will I remember Thee
from the land of Jordan, and from

the mountains of Hermon, 2 from the
Little Hill. 3

Deep calleth unto deep, * at the
noise of Thy waterspouts.

All Thy waves and Thy billows *
are gone over me.

The LORD hath commanded [the
praise of] His loving- kindness in
the day-time, * and in the night
His song.

Mine shall it be to pray unto the
God of my life. * I will say unto
God : Thou art my refuge.

Why hast Thou forgotten me ? *
and why go I mourning, while the
enemy oppresseth me?

While my bones are broken, *
they that trouble me, even mine
enemies, reproach me ;

While they say daily unto me :
Where is thy God ? * AVhy art thou
cast down, O my soul, and why art
thou disquieted within me ?

Hope thou in God, for I shall yet
praise Him : * the Health of my
countenance and my God.

Antiphon. 4 Heal my soul, O
Lord, for I have sinned against Thee.
Third Antiphon. Mine heart.

Psalm XLI 1 1.

[This Psalm has the same uncertain
[? musical] superscription as some others,
and the Targum farther ascribes its author
ship to David.]

"\ \ TE have heard with our ears,
V * O God : * our fathers have
told us,

What work Thou didst in their
days, * and in the times of old.

1 With this Psalm ends the first of the five books into which the Psalter is divided.

2 A chain of mountains in the north-east of Palestine, stretching down on the eastern
side of Jordan.

3 Or rather, the hill Mizar (viz. the Little), proper name of a mountain on the eastern
ridge of Lebanon. May it not be that the Korahites were among the Levitical families
which had cities in the north and north-east districts ? 4 Ps. xl. 5.

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Thine hand scattered the heathen,
and planted them : * Thou didst
afflict the people and cast them out.

For they got not the land in pos
session by their own sword : * neither
did their own arm save them.

But Thy right hand, and Thine
arm, and the light of Thy counten
ance : * because Thou hadst a favour
unto them.

Thou art my King and my God :
* Who commandest victories for
Jacob !

Through Thee shall our horn toss
our enemies : * through Thy Name
will we tread them under that rise
up against us.

For I will not trust in my bow : *
neither shall my sword save me.

For Thou hast saved us from them
that afflicted us, * and hast put to
shame them that hated us.

In God will we glory all the day
long, * and will praise Thy Name
for ever. 1

But now Thou hast cast off and
put us to shame : * and Thou, O
God, wilt not go forth with our
armies.

Thou hast turned us back behind
our enemies : * and they that hate
us take spoil for themselves.

Thou hast given us like sheep ap
pointed for meat, * and hast scat
tered us among the heathen.

Thou hast sold Thy people for
nought, * and hast not increased
Thy wealth by their price.

Thou makest us a reproach to our
neighbours, * a scorn and a derision
to them that are round about us.

Thou makest us a by-word among
the heathen, * a shaking of the head
among the peoples.

My confusion is all day long be

fore me, * and the shame of my face
hath covered me,

For the voice of him that reproach-
eth and blasphemeth, * by reason of
the enemy and avenger.

All this is come upon us, yet have
we not forgotten Thee : * neither
have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

Our heart also is not turned back :

* neither have our steps strayed
from Thy way ;

Though Thou hast sore broken us
in the place of affliction, * and the
shadow of death hath covered us.

If we have forgotten the Name of
our God, * or stretched out our
hands to a strange god ;

Shall not God search this out ? *
for He knoweth the secrets of the
heart.

Yea, for Thy sake are we killed all
the day long : * we are counted as
sheep for the slaughter.

Awake, why sleepest Thou, O
Lord ? * arise, and cast us not off
for ever.

Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face,

* and forgettest our affliction and
our oppression ?

For our soul is bowed down to
the dust : * our belly cleaveth unto
the earth.

Arise, O Lord, help us : * and
redeem us for Thy Name s sake.

Psalm XLIV.

[This Psalm has a long superscription, the
exact meaning of which is not now certain.
It seems to have been a marriage-song writ
ten to be sung by the Korahites. The Tar-
gum ascribes it to the time of Moses, but it
seems rather to belong to that of the Jewish
Monarchy. ]

MINE heart is overflowing with
a good matter : * I speak of
my works unto the king.

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My tongue is the pen * of a ready
writer.

Thou art fairer than the children
of men, grace is poured into thy lips :

* therefore God hath blessed thee
for ever.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, *
O most mighty !

In thy comeliness, and thy beauty,

* go forward, fare prosperously, and
reign,

Because of truth, and meekness,
and righteousness : * and thy right
hand shall lead thee wonderfully.

Thine arrows are sharp (the
people shall fall under thee) * into
the heart of the King s enemies.

1 Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever : * the sceptre of Thy
kingdom is a right sceptre.

Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity : * therefore,
God, thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.

Thy garments smell of myrrh, and
aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory
palaces, * whereby kings daughters
among thine honourable women have
made thee glad.

Upon thy right hand did stand
the queen in a vesture of gold, *
bedecked with divers colours.

Hearken, O daughter, and con
sider, and incline thine ear : * for
get also thine own people, and thy
father s house :

And the King shall greatly de
sire thy beauty : * for He is the
Lord thy God, 2 and Him shall they
worship.

And the daughters of Tyre shall

entreat thy favour * with gifts, even
all the rich among the people.

The King s daughter is all glo
rious within, * in a vesture of gold,
clad in divers colours.

After her shall virgins be brought
unto the king : * her fellows shall
be brought unto thee.

With gladness and rejoicing shall
they be brought : * they shall enter
into the King s palace.

Instead of thy fathers shall be
thy children : * thou shalt make
them princes over all the earth.

They shall be mindful of thy
name, * unto all generations.

Therefore shall the people praise
thee for ever, * yea, for ever and
ever.

Antiphon. 3 Mine heart is over
flowing with a good matter.
Fourth Antiphon. Our help.

Psalm XLV.

[This Psalm has a superscription of un
certain meaning, but of which part seems
to imply that it was to be sung by treble
voices, from the choir of the Korahite
family. And the Targum ascribes it, but
apparently by a mere guess, to the time when
Korah and his fellow-rebels were destroyed
by an earthquake in the wilderness, but
"the children of Korah died not" (Num.
xxvi. 10, Ii).]

GOD is our refuge and strength,
* our help in trouble, which
is come upon us exceedingly.

Therefore will we not fear, though
the earth be removed, * and though
the mountains be carried into the
midst of the sea ;

Though the waters thereof roar

1 So are these words translated in Heb. i. 8, 9.

2 The word "God" is not in the Hebrew, and the original meaning, addressed to the
bride, is, "He is thy lord, and bow thou to him." So also St Jerome.

3 Ps. xliv. 2.

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and be troubled ; * though the
mountains shake with the swelling
thereof. 1

[There is] a river, the streams
whereof make glad the city of God :
* the Most High hath hallowed His
Tabernacle.

God is in the midst of her, she
shall not be moved : * God shall
help her right early.

The heathen raged, and the king
doms were moved : * He uttered
His voice, the earth melted.

The LORD of hosts is with us : *
the God of Jacob is our refuge. 1

Come and behold the works of
the LORD, what wonders He hath
wrought in the earth ; * He maketh
wars to cease unto the end of the
earth.

He breaketh the bow and cut-
teth the weapons in sunder : * and
burneth the shields in the fire.

Be still, and know that I am
God : * I will be exalted among
the heathen, and I will be exalted
in the earth.

The LORD of hosts is with us : *
the God of Jacob is our refuge. 1

Psalm XLVI.

[Intituled " A Psalm of the sons of
Korah," with another (now uncertain) direc
tion.]

OCLAP your hands, all ye
people : * shout unto God
with the voice of triumph.

For the LORD Most High is ter
rible : * He is a great King over all
the earth.

He hath subdued the people
under us, * and the nations under
our feet.

He hath chosen His own inheri-

1 SLH.

tance for us, * the excellency of
Jacob, whom He loved. 1

God is gone up with a shout, *
and the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet.

Sing praises to our God, sing
praises : * sing praises unto our
King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the
earth : * sing ye praises with under
standing.

God reigneth over the heathen :
* God sitteth upon the throne of
His holiness.

The princes of the people are
gathered together with the God of
Abraham : * for the mighty ones
of the earth are greatly exalted.

Antiphon. 2 Our help in trouble.
Fifth Antiphon. Great is the
LORD.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins -with the words, " And greatly to
be praised."

Psalm XLVI I.

[Intituled "A Song. A Psalm of the

sons of Korah." The Vulgate and the

LXX. assign it to the second day of the
week.]

REAT is the LORD, and greatly
to be praised * in the city of
our God, in the mountain of His
holiness.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of
the whole earth, is mount Zion, *
on the sides of the north, the city
of the great King.

God is known in her palaces *
for a refuge.

For, lo, the kings were assembled :
* they passed by together.

They saw, and so they marvelled;

2 Ps. xlv. 2.

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they were troubled, they hasted
away : * fear took hold upon them

There, pain, as of a woman in
travail. * Thou shalt break the
ships of Tarshish l with a mighty
wind.

As we have heard, so have we
seen in the city of the LORD of
hosts, in the city of our God : *
God hath established her for ever. 2

We have received Thy loving-
kindness, O God, * in the midst
of Thy temple.

According to Thy Name, O God,
so is Thy praise unto the ends of
the earth : * Thy right hand is full
of righteousness.

Let mount Zion rejoice, and let
the daughters of Judah be glad, *
because of Thy judgments, O Lord.

Walk about Zion, and go round
about her : * tell the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks : *
and consider her palaces ; that
ye may tell it to the generation
following.

For this God is our God for ever
and ever : * He shall be our guide
for ever.

Psalm XLV1II.

[This Psalm has the same title as Ps.
xlvi.]

IT EAR this, all ye people: *
-* *- give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the world ;

Both low and high : * rich and
poor together.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom:
* and the meditation of my heart
shall be of understanding.

I will incline mine ear to a par
able : I will open my saying
upon the harp.

1 A very flourishing colony and emporium

Wherefore should I fear in the
day of evil ? * The iniquity of them
that dog mine heels shall compass
me about,

They that trust in their own
strength, * and boast themselves
in the multitude of their riches.

Can a man redeem, redeem his
brother ? * He cannot give to God
a ransom for himself
Nor yet a redemption for his own
soul, * if he should work for ever,
and live even unto the end.

Nay, though he should not see

destruction, when he beholdeth

wise men die * likewise the

fool and the brutish person perish,

And leave their wealth to others :

* and their grave shall be their
house for ever

Even their dwelling-place to all
generations : * they called their
lands after their own names.

For man, having been created
in honour, hath had no understand
ing : * he hath made himself like
unto the beasts that understand
not, and is become like unto
them.

This their way is a stumbling-
block for themselves : * yet their
posterity will approve their sayings. 2

Like sheep they are laid in the
grave : * death will pasture them.

And the upright shall have do
minion over them in the morning :

* and the beauty of their strength
shall waste away in the grave.

But God will redeem my soul
from the power of the grave, *
when He shall receive me. 2

Be not thou afraid when one is
made rich, * and when the glory
of his house is increased.

For when he dieth he shall carry
of the Phoenicians in Spain. 2 SLH.

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nothing away, * his glory shall not
descend with him.

Though while he lived he blessed
his soul ; * and praised thee when
thou didst well to him.

He shall go to the generation of
his fathers : * and shall never see
light.

Man, having been created in
honour, hath had no understand
ing : * he hath made himself like
unto the beasts that understand
not, and is become like unto them.

Antiphon. 1 Great is the LORD,
and greatly to be praised.

Sixth Antiphon. The God of
gods.

If this Antiphon be tised, the Psalm
begins with the ivords, " Even the
LORD."

Psalm XLIX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of Asaph." This
Asaph was a Levite, chief of the singers
appointed by David. I Par. (Chron.) xvi.
4. "And he (David) appointed certain of
the Levites to minister before the Ark of
the LORD, and to record, and to thank
and praise the LORD God of Israel. Asaph
the chief, and next to him Zachariah, Jeiel,
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah,
and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom ;
and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps ;
but Asaph made a sound with cymbals."]

HTHE God of gods, even the
* LORD, hath spoken, * and
called the earth,

From the rising of the sun unto
the going down thereof. * Out of
Zion, the Perfection of beauty,

God shall come manifestly, *
even our God, and shall not keep
silence.

A fire shall devour before Him :
* and it shall be very tempestuous
round about Him.

1 Ps. xlvii. 2.

He shall call to the heavens from
above, * and to the earth, that
He may judge His people.

Gather His saints together unto
Him, * those that have made a
covenant with Him by sacrifice.

And the heavens shall declare
His righteousness : * for God is
Judge Himself. 2

Hear, O My people, and I will
speak ; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee ; * I am God, even
thy God.

I will not reprove thee for thy
sacrifices : * for thy burnt -offerings
are continually before Me.

I will take no bullock out of thine
house, * nor he -goats out of thy
folds.

For every beast of the forest is
Mine, * the cattle and the bulls
upon the mountains.

I know all the birds of the sky :

* and the beauty of the field is
Mine.

If I were hungry, I would not
tell thee : * for the earth is Mine,
and the fulness thereof.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, *
or drink the blood of goats?

Offer unto God the sacrifice of
praise : * and pay thy vows unto the
Most High :

And call upon Me in the day of
trouble : * I will deliver thee, and
thou shalt glorify Me.

But unto the wicked, God saith :

* What hast thou to do to declare
My statutes, that thou shouldest take
My covenant in thy mouth ?

Seeing thou hatest instruction, *
and castest My words behind thee ?

When thou sawest a thief then
thou tookest pleasure in him : * and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
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101

Thy mouth aboundeth with evil :

* and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou satest and spakest against

thy brother, and slanderedst thine
own mother s son : * these things
hast thou done, and I kept silence.

Thou thoughtest wickedly that I
was such an one as thyself: * I will
reprove thee, and set them in order
before thine eyes.

Consider ye this, ye that forget
God : * lest He tear you in pieces,
and there be none to deliver.

The sacrifice of praise shall honour
Me : * and there is the path where
in I will show unto him the salvation
of God.

Psalm LI.

[After another uncertain superscription,
the title of this Psalm proceeds: "[A
Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite
came and told Saul, and said unto him :
David is come to the house of Ahimelech. "
The circumstances may be read in I Kings
(Sam.) xxii. (Saturday, fourth week after
Pentecost). After Doeg told Saul, the
latter sent for Ahimelech and the other
Priests, and ordered them to execution.
"But the servants of the king would not
put forth their hand to fall upon the Priests
of the LORD. And the king said to Doeg :
Turn thou, and fall upon the Priests. And
Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the
"Priests, and slew on that day four-score and
five persons that did wear a linen ephod. "
The inhabitants of the Priestly city of Nob
were also brutally massacred. One of the
sons of Ahimelech escaped and told David.]

V\THY boastest thou thyself in
* * mischief, * O thou that art
mighty in iniquity ?

Thy tongue deviseth unrighteous
ness all the day long : * like a sharp
razor hast thou wrought treachery.

Thou lovest evil more than good ;

* iniquity rather than to speak of
uprightness. 1

Thou lovest all deadly words, *
O thou deceitful tongue !

Therefore God shall destroy thee
for ever : * He shall take thee away,
and pluck thee out of thy dwelling-
place, and root thee out of the land
of the living. 1

The righteous shall see it, and
fear, and shall laugh at him, and
say : * Lo, this is the man that
made not God his strength ;

But trusted in the abundance of
his riches : * and hardened himself
in his wickedness.

But I am like a fruitful olive-
tree in the house of God, * I trust
in the mercy of God for ever and
ever.

I will praise Thee for ever, be
cause Thou hast done it : * and I
will wait on Thy name, for it is
good before Thy saints.

Antiphon. 2 The God of gods,
even the LORD, hath spoken.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. Send forth the Lamb, O
Lord, the ruler of the land.

Ansit er. From the " Rock " of
the wilderness unto the mount of
the daughter of Zion.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 3 Offer unto God the sac
rifice of praise.

Answer. And pay thy vows un
to the Most High.

/;/ Lent.

Verse. He shall cover thee with
His wings.

1 SLH.

2 Ps. xlix. i.

3 Ps. xlix. 14.

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Answer. And under His feath
ers shalt thou trust.

In Passion time.

Verse. O Lord, save me from
the lion s mouth.

Answer. And mine affliction
from the horns of the unicorns.

In Paschal time.

Verse. The Lord is risen in
deed, Alleluia.

Answer. And hath appeared un
to Simon, Alleluia.

The rest is the same as the Second
Nocturn on the preceding Sunday, only
the Lessons, and sometimes the Respon-
sories, are those of the day.

Simple Feasts. It is to be remembered
that when a Simple Feast is kept on
Tuesday, the Invitatory and Hymn are
of the Feast, being taken from the Com
mon of Saints of the class, unless speci
ally given.

Then the Psalms and Antiphons of
the Week-day, as given above. Then is
said a Verse and Answer as follows :

In the Simple Office for one or many
Martyrs in Paschal time.

Verse. The everlasting light
shall shine upon Thy Saints, O
Lord. Alleluia.

Answer. Even unto everlasting.
Alleluia.

In the Simple Office for one Martyr
(out of Paschal time).

Verse. x Thou hast set a crown,
O Lord, of precious stones.
Answer. Upon his head.

In the Simple Office for many Martyrs
(out of Paschal time].

Verse. 2 Let the
joice before God.

righteous

re-

Answer. Yea, let them exceed
ingly rejoice.

In the Simple Office for a Bishop and
Confessor.

Verse. 3 The Lord chose him for
a priest unto Himself.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

Answer. To offer up unto Him
the sacrifice of praise.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

In the Simple Office for a Confessor
not a Bishop.

Verse. 4 The mouth of the right
eous shall speak wisdom.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

Answer. And his tongue talk of
judgment.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

For one Holy Woman, of whatever kind.

Verse. 5 God shall give her the
help of His countenance.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

Answer. God is in the midst of
her, she shall not be moved.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

The others, as well as what follows,
to the end of the Service, are taken from
the Second Nocturn of the Office common
to Saints of the class, tinless something
special be appointed. The Lessons are
arranged According to the rules in Chap
ter xxvi. 4 of the general Rubrics.
The hymn, " We praise Thee, O God,"
is said at the end, instead of a Third
Responsory. The Responsories are ar
ranged according to the rules in Chapter
xxvii. 4 of the general Rubrics. Thus;

The Lords Prayer is said :

OUR Father (inaudibly), Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy

1 Ps. xx. 4.
4 Ps. xxxvi. 30.

2 Ps. Ixvii. 4.

Ps. xlv. 6 (Alexandrian version).

Cf. Ecclus. xlv. 1 6, 27.

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103

will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.)
* Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

Then this Absolution :

\l\ AY His loving kindness and

^ *- mercy help us, Who liveth

and reigneth with the Father, and

the Holy Ghost, world without end.

Answer. Amen.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

First Blessing, if the Lesson be from
Scripture.

God the Father the Almighty
Show on us His grace and mercy.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing, if the Lesso?i be of an
Homily.

May the Gospel s saving Lord
Bless the reading of His Word.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing on a Simple Feast.

May His blessing be upon us,
Who doth live and reign for ever.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the First Lesson from
Scripttire or from the Homily., or, on a
Simple Feast, either the First from
Scripture, or, if the Saint or Saints
have two Lessons, the whole three Scrip
ture Lessons read together as one.

Then the First Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the First Responsory of
the Second Nocturn of the preceding

Sunday. On a Simple Feast, it is the
first Responsory in the Common Office
for the class to which the Saint belongs.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture.

May Christ to all His people give
For ever in His sight to live.
Answer. Amen.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be from
an Homily.

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

Second Blessing, for a Simple Feast.

He (or She or They) whose feast-day

we are keeping
Plead for us before the Lord.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Second Lesson, either
from the Scripture or from an Homily,
or, on a Simple Feast, either the Second
and Third Lessons from Scripture read
together as one, or, if the Saint or Saints
have two Lessons, the first of these.

Then the Second Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the Second Responsory
of the preceding Sunday, but in Paschal
time there is added to it :

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

And the Answer of the Responsory is
repeated again.

On a Simple Feast the Second Re
sponsory in the Common Office for the
class to which the Saint belongs, with the
addition of " Glory be to the Father,"
&c., and the repetition of the Answer.

104

THE PSALTER.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Third Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture.

May the Spirit s fire divine
In our inmost being shine.
Answer. Amen.

Third Blessing, for a Simple Feast, or
if the Lesson be from an Homily.

May He that is the Angels King
To that high realm His people bring.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Third Lesson either
from, Scripture, or of the Homily, or,
on Simple Feasts, the Second or only
Lesson of the Saint.

Then, on Simple Feasts and on any
day in Paschal time save Rogation
Monday is said the Hymn, " We praise
Thee, O God." But on week-days kept
as such out of Paschal time the Third
Responsory of the preceding Sunday.

105

THE THIRD DAY OF THE W T EEK.

All as on Sunday , except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. O Lord.

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, &c. (/.

8 7 ).

Antiphon. O Lord, blot out my
transgressions.

Second Antiphon. The health.

PsalmXLII.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. ascribe this
Psalm "to David."]

UDGE me, O God, and plead
my cause against an ungodly
nation : * O deliver me from the
unjust and deceitful man.

For Thou, O God, art my strength :
* why dost Thou cast me off? and
why go I mourning, because of the
-oppression of the enemy ?

O send out Thy light and Thy
truth : * let them lead me and bring
me unto Thine holy hill, and unto
Thy tabernacles !

Then will I go unto the Altar
of God, * unto God, the Gladdener
of my youth !

VOL. II.

Upon the harp will I praise
Thee, O God, my God ! * why art
thou cast down, O my soul? and
why dost thou disquiet me ?

Hope thou in God : for I will still
praise Him, * Who is the health of
my countenance, and my God.

Antiphon. The health of my
countenance, and my God.
Third Antiphon. Early.

Psalms LXII., LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c.

(P. 23).

Antiphon. Early will I seek Thee,
O God.

Fourth Antiphon. Save us.

THE SONG OF HEZEKIAH, KING OF
JUDAH. (Isa. xxxviii. 10.)

[Intituled "The writing of Hezekiah,
King of Judah, when he had been sick, and
was recovered of his sickness." The his
tory will be found in 4 (2) Kings xx. (nth
Sunday after Pentecost).]

I SAID, In the midst of my days,
* I shall go to the gates of the
grave :

I looked for the rest of my
years. * I said, I shall not see the
D 2

io6

THE PSALTER.

LORD my God l in the land of the
living :

I shall behold man no more, *
with the dwellers in the land of
rest.

Mine age is departed, and is
rolled up from me, * as a shepherd s
tent:

My life is cut off as by a weaver :
my web was scarce begun when He
cut me off: * from day even to
night wilt Thou make an end of
me.

I thought I might live till morn
ing : * as a lion, so doth He break
all my bones :

From day even to night wilt Thou
make an end of me. Like a

swallow s fledgling so did I twitter,
I did coo as a dove :

Mine eyes fail, * with looking
upward.

LORD, I am seized, undertake
for me. * What shall I say, or what
will He answer me, seeing that He
Himself hath done it?

1 will call to remembrance before
Thee all my years * in the bitter
ness of my soul.

O Lord, if by these things men
live, and in such things is the life
of my spirit, so mayest Thou chasten
me, and make me to live. Be
hold, mine anguish is [turned] into
peace :

But Thou hast delivered my soul
from destruction : * Thou hast cast
all my sins behind Thy back.

For the grave cannot praise Thee,
death cannot celebrate Thee : * they
that go down into the pit cannot
hope for Thy truth.

The living, the living, he shall

praise Thee, as I do this day : *
the father to the children shall make
known Thy truth.

O LORD, save me : * and we will
sing our songs all the days of our
life in the house of the LORD.

Antiphon. Save us all the days of
our life, O Lord.

Fifth Antiphon. Praise ye the
LORD.

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD from the
heavens, &c. (pp. 25, 26).

Antiphon. Praise ye the LORD
from the heavens, all His Angels.

CHAPTER. (Rom. xiii. 12.)

The night is far spent, &c. (as on
Monday, p. 89).

HYMN. 2

DAY S herald bird
At length is heard,
Telling its morning torch is lit,
And small and still
Christ s accents thrill
Within the heart, rekindling it.

Away, He cries,

With languid eyes,
And sickly slumbers profitless !

I am at hand,

As watchers stand,
In awe, and truth, and holiness.

He will appear,

The hearts to cheer
Of suppliants pale and abstinent ;

Who cannot sleep

Because they weep
With holy grief and violent.

1 " My God" is not in the Hebrew, but the Divine Name is repeated.

2 Author of original, Aurelius Prudentius Clemens: b. 348 A.D., d. after 405 A.D.
Translation by the late Card. Newman.

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107

Keep us awake,

The fetters break,
JESU ! which night has forged for us ;

Yea, melt the night

To sinless light,
Till all is bright and glorious.

To Father, Son,

And Spirit, one,
To the Most Holy Trinity,

All praise be given

In earth and heaven,
Now, as of old, and endlessly. Amen.

Verse. l Thou hast satisfied us
early with Thy mercy.

Answer. We rejoice and are glad.

Antiphonfor the SongofZacharias.
The Lord hath raised up * an horn
of salvation for us, in the house of
His servant David.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other general Commemorations, and
Long Preces in Advent and Lent, and
on Fast-days, as on Monday.

Ps. Ixxxix. 14.

loS

THE FOURTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sttnday except as otherwise
given here.

Invitatory. In Thy hand, O
Lord, * are the inmost depths of
the earth.

HYMN. 1

WHO madest all and dost control,
Lord, with Thy touch divine,
Cast out the slumbers of the soul,
The rest that is not Thine.

Look down, Eternal Holiness,

And wash the sins away
Of those, who, rising to confess,

Outstrip the lingering day.

Our hearts and hands by night, O Lord,

We lift them in our need ;
As holy Psalmists give the word,

And holy Paul the deed.

Each sin to Thee of years gone by,
Each hidden stain lies bare ;

We shrink not from Thine awful eye,
But pray that Thou wouldst spare.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To Whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place. Amen.

Only one Nocturn is said.

Antiphon. God bringeth back.

In Paschal time only o?ie Antiphon
is said to the whole Nocturn. Alleluia.

Psalm LI I.

[Intituled "of David," with a further
superscription, perhaps musical, but of a
(now) uncertain meaning. The Targum
gives it the additional superscription, "to
render praise, for the reward of the impious
who blasphemed the Name of the Lord."
It is a repetition of Ps. xiii.]

THE fool hath said in his heart :
* There is no God.

Corrupt are they and have done
abominable iniquity : * there is
none that doeth good.

God looketh down from heaven
upon the children of men, * to see
if there be any that will understand,
or that will seek God.

Every one of them is gone back,
they are altogether become unprofit
able : * there is none that doeth
good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no
knowledge, * who eat up my people
as they eat bread ?

They have not called upon God :
* there were they in great fear,
where no fear was.

For God hath scattered the bones
of them that work that which is
pleasing in the sight of men : *
they are put to shame, because God
hath despised them.

O that the salvation of Israel

Another hymn of the Ambrosian school. Translation by the late Card. Newman,

WEDNESDAY AT MATTINS.

109

were come out of Zion ! * when
God bringeth back the captivity of
His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and
Israel shall be glad.

Psalm LIV.

[This Psalm has a superscription of which
nothing can now be certainly interpreted,
except the ascription of authorship "To
David."]

IVE ear to my prayer, O God,
" and despise not my suppli
cation : * attend unto me and hear
me.

I mourn in my exercise ; * and
am troubled, because of the voice
of the enemy, and because of the
oppression of the wicked.

For they cast iniquity upon me :

* and in wrath they hate me.
My heart is sore pained within

me : * and the terrors of death are
fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon me : * and darkness
hath overwhelmed me.

And I said : O that I had wings
like a dove, * for then would I fly
away and be at rest !

Lo, then would I wander far off,

* and remain in the wilderness. 1

I waited for Him Who hath de
livered me * from distress of spirit
and from tempest.

Destroy, O Lord ! divide their
tongues : * for I have seen iniquity
and strife in the city.

Day and night iniquity goeth
round about upon her walls : *
trouble also and unrighteousness are
in the midst of her.

Usury and guile * depart not
from her streets.

For if mine enemy had reproached
me, * then I could have borne it.

If he also that hated me had
magnified himself against me, *
then haply I would have hidden
myself from him.

But it was thou, a man like-
minded, * my guide and mine ac
quaintance :

We took pleasant meats together :

* we walked unto the house of God
in company.

Let death come upon them : *
and let them go down quick into
hell;

For wickedness is in their dwell
ings, * among them.

But as for me I have called upon
God : * and the LORD shall save
me.

Evening, and morning, and at
noon will I complain and cry aloud,

* and He shall hear my voice.

He shall deliver my soul in
peace from them that draw nigh
against me : * for there were many
against me.

God shall hear and afflict them,

* even He That abideth of old. 1
Because they have no changes,

therefore they fear not God. * He
hath stretched forth His hand to
requite them.

They have broken His covenant :
the anger of His countenance hath
put them to flight, * and His wrath
pursueth them.

His words were softer than oil,

* yet were they drawn swords.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD,

and He shall sustain thee : * He
shall never suffer the righteous to
be moved.

But Thou, O God, shalt bring
them down * into the pit of destruc
tion.

Bloody and deceitful men shall

1 SLH.

110

THE PSALTER.

not live out half their days : * but
I will trust in Thee, O Lord.

Antiphon. l God bringeth back
the captivity of His people.
Second Antiphon. For my soul.

Psalm LV.

[This Psalm has a long and very obscure
superscription. From part of this it seems
that it was written to be sung to a tune
called " The dumb dove among foreigners."
The authorship is ascribed "To David,
when the Philistines took him in Gath."
This may either be the occasion described
in the note on Ps. xxxiii. (p. 78), or that
narrated thus in I Kings (Sam.) xxvii.
" And David said in his heart : I shall now
perish one day by the hand of Saul ; there
is nothing better for me than that I should
speedily escape into the land of the Philis
tines ; and Saul shall despair of me, to
seek me any more in any coast of Israel ;
so shall I escape out of his hand. And
David arose, and he passed over, with the
six hundred men that were with him, unto
Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
. . . And it was told Saul that David was
fled to Gath, and he sought no more again
for him."]

T3E merciful unto me, O God, for
*~* man treadeth me down : * he
fighteth all the day long, and op-
presseth me.

Mine enemies tread me down all
the day long : * for they be many
that fight against me.

The height of the morning makes
me afraid, * but I will trust in
Thee.

In God I will praise His word,
in God I have put my trust : * I
will not fear what flesh can do unto
me.

All the day long they wrest my
words : * all their thoughts are
against me for evil.

They gather themselves together

and hide themselves : * they mark
my steps.

When they wait for my soul,
for nothing shalt Thou deliver
them : * in Thine anger Thou
shalt cast down the people.

God, I have declared my life
unto Thee, * Thou hast put my
tears in Thy sight,

Even as Thou hast promised. *
Then shall mine enemies turn back,

In whatsoever day I cry unto
Thee : * behold, I know that Thou
art my God.

In God will I praise His word,
in the LORD will I praise His
word : * in God have I put my
trust, I will not be afraid what
man can do unto me.

Thy vows are upon me, O God,

* I will pay them, even praises
unto Thee.

For Thou hast delivered my
soul from death, and my feet from
falling ; * that I may walk before
God in the light of the living.

Psalm LVI.

[Another long title of uncertain meaning.
The Psalm seems to have been written for
a tune called "Destroy not," "by David,
when he fled from Saul in the cave" I
Kings (Sam.) xxii. I "David therefore
departed thence" (viz. from Gath) "and
escaped to the cave Adullam." See the
note on Ps. xxxiii., p. 78.]

BE merciful unto me, O God,
be merciful unto me : * for
my soul trusteth in Thee.

Yea, in the shadow of Thy wings
will I make my refuge, * until this
iniquity be overpast.

1 will cry unto God Most High :

* unto God, That performeth all
things for me.

1 Ps. lii. 7.

WEDNESDAY AT MATTINS.

He hath sent from heaven, and
saved me : * He hath given for a
reproach them that trod me down. 1

God hath sent forth His mercy
and His truth ; * and delivered my
soul from among the lions whelps ;
I was troubled in my sleep.

As for the sons of men, their
teeth are spears and arrows, * and
their tongue a sharp sword.

Be Thou exalted, O God, above
the heavens : * and let Thy glory
be over all the earth.

They prepared a net for my
steps ; * and bowed down my soul.

They digged a pit before me : *
into the midst whereof they are
fallen themselves. 1

Mine heart is ready, O God,
mine heart is ready : * I will sing,
and give praise.

Awake up, my glory ; awake,
psaltery and harp : * I will awake
early.

I will praise Thee, O Lord, among
the people ; * and sing unto Thee
among the nations.

For Thy mercy is great unto the
heavens, * and Thy truth unto the
clouds.

Be Thou exalted, O God, above
the heavens : * and let Thy glory
be above all the earth.

Antiphon. 2 For my soul trusteth
in Thee.

Third Antiphon. Judge uprightly.

Psalm LVII.

[This Psalm has the same title as the last,
except the historical reference.]

T F ye indeed speak righteousness,
-*- * judge uprightly, O ye sons of
men.

1 SLH.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness :
* your hands weigh out violence in
the earth.

The wicked are estranged from
the womb, they go astray from the
belly, * speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of
a serpent : * they are like the deaf
adder, that stoppeth her ears ;

That will not hearken to the
voice of charmers, * nor of the
sorcerer charming never so wisely.

God shall break their teeth in
their mouth : * the LORD shall
break off the great teeth of the
lions.

They shall melt away as waters
which run down : * He bendeth
His bow until they be shattered.

They shall melt away like melting
wax : * fire taketh hold upon them
and they see not the sun.

As thorns that are plucked up
before ever they be grown into a
bush : * so even in their greenness,
shall He root them up in His
anger.

The righteous shall rejoice when
he seeth the vengeance : * he shall
wash his hands in the blood of the
wicked.

And man shall say : Verily, there
is a reward for the righteous, *
verily there is a God That judgeth
the earth.

Psalm LVII I.

[This Psalm has the same title as the two
last, with the addition : " when Saul sent,
and they watched the house, to kill him."
The occasion is thus described in I Kings
(Sam.)xix. II. " Saul also sent messengers
unto David s house, to watch him, to slay
him in the morning ; and Michal, David s
wife, told him, saying : If thou save not thy

2 Ps. Ivi. 2.

I 12

THE PSALTER.

life to-night, to-morrow thou shall be slain.
So Michal let David down through a
window, and he went, and fled, and
escaped."]

T^VELIVER me from mine ene-
*-^ mies, O my God : * and

defend me from them that rise up
against me.

Deliver me from the workers of
iniquity : * and save me from bloody
men.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my
life : * the mighty have fallen upon
me.

Not for my transgression, not for
my sin, O LORD ; I ran and
ordered myself without fault.

Awake to meet me, and behold :

* O Thou, the LORD God of hosts,
the God of Israel !

Awake to visit all the heathen :
* be not merciful to any wicked
transgressors. 1

They come at evening and hunger
like dogs ; * and go round about
the city.

Behold, they yelp with their
mouth, and a sword is in their lips :

* for who, say they, doth hear ?
But Thou, O LORD, shalt laugh

at them : * Thou shalt bring all
the heathen to nought.

O my strength, I will wait upon
Thee, for Thou, O God, art my
defence : * the mercy of my God
shall receive me.

God shall let me see all my
desire upon mine enemies : slay
them not ; * lest my people forget.

Scatter them by Thy power : *
and bring them down, O Lord our
shield !

For the sin of their mouth, and
the words of their lips : * let them
even be taken in their pride ;

1 SLH.

And at the end they shall be
spoken of for cursing and lying :

* and in the wrath at the end they
shall perish.

And they shall know that God
ruleth in Jacob, * and unto the
ends of the earth. 1

They shall return at evening,
and hunger like dogs : * and go
round about the city.

They shall wander up and down
for meat ; * and grudge if they be
not satisfied.

But I will sing of Thy power :

* yea, I will sing aloud of Thy
mercy in the morning.

For Thou hast been my defence,

and refuge in the day of my

trouble.

Unto Thee, O my strength, will
I sing, for God is my defence, *
the God of my mercy.

Antiphon. 2 Judge uprightly, O
ye sons of men.

Fourth Antiphon. Give us.

Psalm LIX.

[This Psalm has a superscription, prob
ably musical, but the meaning of which is
now uncertain. It then proceeds: "Of
David, when he strove with Mesopotamia,
and with Western Syria, when Joab re
turned and smote of Edom in the valley
of Salt" (viz. the Jordan valley near the
Dead Sea) "twelve thousand." The oc
casion was some very successful wars which
David carried on against several neighbour
ing kings, and which are described in 2
Kings (Sam.) viii. and I Par. (Chron.)
xviii. The Psalm seems to have been
written under some temporary reverses
during the campaign.]

OGOD, Thou hast cast us off,
and scattered us : * Thou
hast been displeased, and hast had
mercy upon us.

2 Ps. Ivii. 2.

WEDNESDAY AT MATTINS.

Thou hast made the earth to
tremble, and hast broken it : *
heal the breaches thereof, for it
shaketh.

Thou hast showed Thy people
hard things : * Thou hast made
us to drink the wine of astonish
ment.

Thou hast given a warning to
them that fear Thee, * that they
may fly from before the bow. 1

That Thy beloved may be deliv
ered : * save with Thy right hand,
and hear me.

God hath spoken in His holi
ness : * I will rejoice and divide
Shechem, and mete out the valley
of booths. 2

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh
is mine : * Ephraim also is the
strength of mine head. 3

Judah is my King : * Moab is
the vessel [of the triumph] of mine
hope. 4

Over Edom will I cast out my
shoe : * over the " Strangers " 5
have I triumphed.

Who will bring me into the
strong city? * who will lead me
into Edom?

Wilt not Thou, O God, Who
hast cast us off? * and wilt not
Thou go out with our armies, O
God?

Give us help from trouble : *
for vain is the help of man.

Through God we shall do vali
antly : * for He it is That shall
tread down our enemies.

Psalm LX.

[Intituled "of David." It has also a
musical (?) superscription now of uncertain
meaning.]

TT EAR my cry, O God : * attend
* * unto my prayer.

From the ends of the earth I
cried unto Thee : when mine
heart was overwhelmed, Thou didst
lift me up upon a rock.

Thou didst lead me, for Thou
hast been a shelter for me, * a
strong tower from the enemy.

I will abide in Thy tabernacle
for ever : * I will make my
refuge in the covert of Thy
wings. 1

For Thou, O God, hast heard
my vows : * Thou hast given the
heritage to those that fear Thy
name.

Thou wilt prolong the King s
life : * and his years to many
generations.

He shall abide before God for
ever : * who will seek for His
mercy and truth ?

So will I sing praise unto Thy
name for ever : * that I may daily
perform my vows.

Antiphon. 6 Give us help from
trouble, O Lord.

Fifth Antiphon. Doth not my
soul.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
commences with the words " Wait upon
God."

1 SLH.

2 Shechem, now Nablus, in the valley between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, called the
"valley of booths" from those which Jacob erected there for his cattle. Gen. xxxiii. 17.

3 These three form the central district of the Land of Promise.

4 The Hebrew is" Moab is my wash-pot," that is, a receptacle for off-scourings, The
comparison is with the Divinely appointed sovereignty of Judah, respecting whom see
Gen. xlix. 10.

5 That is, the Philistines. 6 Ps. lix. 13.

THE PSALTER.

Psalm LXI.

[This Psalm has exactly the same super
scription as Ps. xxxviii.]

not my soul wait upon
God ? * for from Him com-
eth my salvation.

He only is my God and my
salvation : * He is my defence, I
shall not be greatly moved.

How long will ye run together
against a man ? * Do ye slay, all
of you [one that is] as a bowing
wall and as a tottering fence?

Truly they imagined to cast me
down from mine honour, when I
ran in my thirst : * they blessed
with their mouth and cursed in
their heart. 1

But wait thou on God, O my
soul : * for mine expectation is
from Him.

For He only is my God and my
salvation : * He is mine helper, I
shall not be moved.

In God is my salvation and my
glory : * He is the God of my
strength, and my refuge is in God.

Trust in Him, ye congregation
of the people, pour out your heart
before him : * God is our help for
ever. 1

Surely the sons of men are vanity,
the sons of men are a lie in the
balance : * they are a deceit, alto
gether lighter than vanity.

Trust not in iniquity, and desire
not robbery : * if riches increase,
set not your heart upon them.

God hath spoken once, these two
things have I heard ; that power be-
longeth unto God : also unto Thee,O
Lord, belongeth mercy : * for Thou
shalt render to every man according
to his works.

Psalm LXIII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David " with a

farther superscription of meaning now
uncertain.]

T T EAR my voice, O God, in my
prayer : * preserve my life
from fear of the enemy.

Thou hast hidden me from the
secret counsel of the wicked, * from
the insurrection of the workers of
iniquity.

For they whet their tongue like
a sword : * they bend their
bow, even bitter words, that they
may shoot in secret at the per
fect.

Suddenly do they shoot at him
and fear not : * they encourage
themselves in evil purpose.

They commune of laying snares
privily : * they say : Who shall see
them?

They search out iniquities : *
they accomplish a diligent search.

Man shall attain to thoughts that
are very deep : * but God shall
[still] be exalted.

The arrows of babes have pierced
them : * and their tongues are
weakened against them.

All that saw them were moved :

* and all men feared,

And declared the work of
God, * and understood His
doings.

The righteous shall be glad in
the LORD, and shall trust in Him :

* and all the upright in heart shall
glory.

Antiphon. 2 Doth not my soul
wait upon God ?

Sixth Antiphon. O bless our
God.

1 SLH.

Ps. Ixi. 2.

WEDNESDAY AT MATTINS.

Psalm LXV.

[Except the words " Psalm or Song " the
title of this Psalm is not now certainly
understood. The Vulgate and the LXX.
add "for the uprising."]

TV /T AKE a joyful noise unto God,
^**- all ye lands, sing forth the
honour of His name : * make His
praise glorious.

Say unto God : How terrible art
Thou in Thy works, O Lord! *
through the greatness of Thy power
shall Thine enemies feign to submit
themselves unto Thee.

Let all the earth worship Thee,
and sing unto Thee : * let them
sing praises to Thy Name. 1

Come and see the works of God ;

* He is terrible in His counsels
toward the children of men.

He turned the sea into dry land,
they went through the flood on foot :

* there did we rejoice in Him.

He ruleth by His power for ever,
His eyes behold the nations : * let
not the rebellious exalt themselves. 1

bless our God, ye people : *
and make the voice of His praise to
be heard.

Who holdeth my soul in life :

* and suffereth not my feet to be
^ moved.

For Thou, O God, hast proved
us : * Thou hast tried us with fire,
as silver is tried.

Thou broughtest us into the net,
Thou laidst affliction upon our
back : * Thou hast caused men to
ride over our heads.

We went through fire and through
water : * and Thou broughtest us
out into a place of refreshment.

1 will go into Thine house with

burnt-offerings : * I will pay Thee
my vows, which my lips have uttered,

And my mouth hath spoken, *
when I was in trouble.

I will offer unto Thee burnt-
sacrifices of fatlings, with the in
cense of rams : * I will offer unto
Thee bullocks with goats. 1

Come, hear, all ye that fear God,
and I will declare * what He hath
done for my soul.

I cried unto Him with my mouth,

* and extolled Him with my tongue.
If I regard iniquity in mine heart,

* the Lord will not hear me.
Therefore God hath heard me,

* and attended to the voice of my
prayer.

Blessed be God, * Who hath not
turned away my prayer, nor His
mercy from me.

Psalm LXVII.

[The meaning of the title of this Psalm,
except the ascription of authorship " To
David," is now uncertain.]

T ET God arise, and let His
enemies be scattered : * let
them also that hate Him flee before
Him.

As smoke is driven away, so let
them be driven away : * as wax
melteth before the fire, so let the
wicked perish at the presence of
God.

But let the righteous be glad, and
rejoice before God : * yea, let them
exceedingly rejoice.

Sing unto God, sing praises to
His name : * spread a path before
Him That rideth upon the heavens :
The LORD 2 is His name.

1 SLH.

2 "The LORD" is here, as elsewhere, substituted out of profound reverence for the real
name of God, the Unspeakable Word, called the " Tetragrammaton," from its four letters.

THE PSALTER.

Rejoice before Him : * fear shall
go before the face of Him That is
the Father of the fatherless, and the
Judge of the widows :

Even God in His holy habitation :
* God, That maketh men to be of
one mind in an house.

He bringeth out those which are
bound with chains, * but they that
provoke Him dwell among the
graves.

O God, when Thou wentest
forth before Thy people, * when
Thou didst march through the
wilderness l

The earth shook; the heavens
also dropped at the presence of the
God of Sinai, * at the presence of
the God of Israel.

Thou, O God, didst send a plen
tiful rain 2 upon Thine inheritance :

Thou didst refresh Thine inheri
tance when it was weary.

Thy flock dwelt therein : * Thou,
O God, didst provide in Thy good
ness for the poor.

The Lord gave the word * to
the great company that published
it.

3 The king of the hosts is [fallen
into the hands] of the Well- beloved :
* and the fair ones that tarried at
home have divided the spoils.

Though ye have lien among the
sheep-folds, 4 yet shall ye be as the
wings of a dove, covered with silver,

* and her tail-feathers with yellow
gold.

When the [God] of heaven had
scattered kings in it, then white as
with snow was Salmon, 5 * that hill
of God, that fruitful hill.

An hill of many peaks, a fruitful
hill : * why look ye enviously upon
the high hills ?

This 6 is the hill which God de-
sireth to dwell in : * yea, the LORD
will dwell in it unto the end.

The chariots of God are many
times ten thousand, even thousands
of the blessed : * the Lord is among
them; [as] in Sinai, [so] in the
Holy place.

Thou hast ascended on high,
Thou hast led captivity captive : *
Thou hast received gifts among
men,

Even them that believe not *
that the LORD God dwelleth among
them.

Blessed be the Lord daily : * the
God of our salvation maketh our
way prosperous. 7

He That is our God is the God
of salvation : * and unto the LORD,
even the Lord, belong the issues
from death.

But God shall wound the head
of His enemies : * the hairy scalp
of such an one as goeth on still
in his trespasses.

The Lord said : I will bring

2 Perhaps the manna is meant.

It need not be remarked that the sense of this verse is very obscure. In the view of
the Greek translators there seems to be a play upon the name of David, which signifies
-Beloved. 4 p er haps an allusion to an army camping out in the fields.

_ A mountain in Samaria, near Shechem, where David won great victories over some
neighbouring kings. See Ps. lix., p. 63. Gesenius thinks that "white as with snow" is
&gt;e understood "white with the bleached bones of the slain." But a modern writer,
ascribing a battle in the Soudan, and the defeat and flight of the Dervishes, says, " they
broke, and fled, leaving the field white with jibbah-clad corpses, like a meadow dotted
with snowdrifts."

6 Namely, perhaps, the group of hills on which Jerusalem stands, as opposed to the
higher and more picturesque mountains at Shechem. 7 SLH.

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them again from Bashan 1 : * I will
bring them back from the depths
of the sea.

That thy foot may be dipped in
the blood of thine enemies, * the
tongue of thy dogs in the same.

They have seen Thy goings, O
God, * even the goings of my God,
my King, Which dwelleth in the
sanctuary.

The singers went before, the
players on instruments followed
after, * among the damsels playing
with timbrels.

Bless ye God in the congrega
tions, even the Lord, * ye that are
of the fountains of Israel !

There is little Benjamin, * in the
joy of his heart,

The princes of Judah, their
leaders, * the princes of Zabulon,
the princes of Nephthali.

Command it, O God, in Thy
strength : * strengthen, O God, that
which Thou hast wrought for us.

Because of thy temple at Jeru
salem, * shall kings bring presents
unto Thee.

Rebuke the beasts of the reeds, 2
the multitude of the bulls with the
cows of the people, * [who watch]
that they may cut off them that are
tried like silver. 3

Scatter Thou the people that de
light in war : ambassadors shall come
out of Egypt : * Ethiopia shall soon
stretch out her hands unto God.

Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of
the earth : * O sing praises unto
the Lord. 4

O sing praises unto God, even
unto Him that rideth upon the
heaven of heavens * from the day-
spring.

Lo, He shall send out His voice,
and that a mighty voice. Ascribe
ye strength unto God ; * over Israel
is His excellency, and His strength
is in the clouds.

God is wonderful in His holy
places : the God of Israel is He
That shall give strength and power
unto his people : * blessed be God.

Antiphonf* O bless our God, ye
people.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. The LORD cometh out of
His holy place.

Answer. He will come and save
His people.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 6 O God, I have declared
my life unto Thee.

Answer. Thou hast put my tears
in Thy sight.

In Lent.

Verse. His truth shall be thy
shield.

Answer. Thou shalt not be
afraid for the terror by night.

In Passion time.

Verse. Take not away my soul
with sinners, O God.

1 The campaign of David related in 2. Kings (Sam.) viii. and I Par. (Chron.) xviii.
extended to this neighbourhood.

2 Perhaps meaning wild buffaloes. As to the comparison of the enemy to wild cattle,
compare Ps. xxi. 13, " Many bulls have compassed me, strong bulls have beset me round."

3 If the words are to be taken thus, the reference is perhaps to David s veterans, but the
meaning seems more likely to be " those that submissively offer in tribute pieces of silver."

4 SLH, 5 Ps. Ixv. 8. 6 Ps. Iv. 9.

THE PSALTER.

Answer. Nor my life with bloody
men.

In Paschal time.

Verse. The disciples were glad,
Alleluia.

Answer. When they saw the Lord,
Alleluia.

The rest is the same as the Third
Nocturn of the preceding Sunday, ex
cept necessary differences. The Lessons
are those of the day. The Responsories
are arranged according to the rules in
Chapter xxvii. 4, 5, of the General
Rubrics.

Simple Feasts. It is to be remem
bered that when a Simple Feast is kept
on Wednesday, the Invitatory and Hymn
are of the Feast, being taken from the
Common of Saints of the class, unless
specially given. Then the Psalms and
Antiphons of the week-day^ as given
above. Then is said a Verse and An
swer as follows ;

For one or many Martyrs in Paschal
time.

Verse. x Everlasting joy upon
their heads, Alleluia.

Answer. They shall obtain joy
and gladness, Alleluia.

For one Martyr, (out of Paschal time.}

Verse. 2 His glory is great in
Thy salvation.

Answer. Honour and great ma
jesty shalt Thou lay upon him.

For many Martyrs, (put of Paschal
time.}

Verse. 3 The righteous shall live
for evermore.

Answer. Their reward also is
with the Lord.

For a Bishop and Confessor.

Verse. 4 Thou art a Priest for
ever.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
1 Isa. xxxv. 10. 2 Ps. xx. 6. 3 Wisd.

Answer. After the order of Mel-
chisedeck.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
For a Confessor not a Bishop.

Verse. 5 The law of his God is
in his heart.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
Answer. And his steps shall not
slide.

[/// Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
For one Holy Woman of any kind.

Verse. God hath chosen her, and
fore-chosen her.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
Answer. He hath made her to
dwell in His tabernacle.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

The others, as well as what follows,
to the end of the Service, are taken from
the Third Nocturn of the Office Common
to Saints of the class, unless something
special be appointed, except necessary
differences. The Lessons are arranged
according to the rules in Chapter xxvi.
4, of the general Rubrics. The Hymn
" We praise Thee, O God," is said at
the end, instead of a Third Responsory.
The Responsories are arranged accord
ing to the Rules in Chapter xxvii. 4, 5, of
the General Rubrics. Thus :

The Lords Prayer is said :

OUR Father (inaudibly), Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Ansiver. But deliver us from
evil.

v. 16. 4 Ps. cix. 4. 5 Ps. xxxvi. 31.

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119

Then this Absolution :
TV /T AY the Almighty and merciful

Lord loose us from the bonds
of our sins.

Answer. Amen.

Then the Reader says :
Sir, be pleased to give the bless-

First Blessing, if the Lesson be from
Scripture.

May His blessing be upon us,
Who doth live and reign for ever.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing, if the Lesson be of an
Homily.

May the Gospel s saving Lord
Bless the reading of His Word.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing on a Simple Feast.

May His blessing be upon us
Who doth live and reign for ever.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the First Lesson from
Scripture or from the Homily, or on a
Simple Feast either the First from
Scripture, or, if the Saint or Saints
have two Lessons, the whole three from
Scripture read together as one.
. Then the First Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the First Responsory of
the preceding Sunday. On a Simple
Feast, the First Responsory in the Com
mon Office for the class to which the
Saint belongs.

Then the Reader says :
Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture or from an Homily.

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

Second Blessing, for a Simple Feast.

He (or She or They) whose feast-day

we are keeping
Plead for us before the Lord.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Second Lesson, either
from Scripture or from a?i Homily, or
on a Simple Feast either the Second
and Third Lessons from Scriptttre
read together as one, or if the Saint
or Sai7its have two Lessons, tJie first
of these.

Then the Second Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the Second Responsory
of the preceding Sunday, but in Paschal
time there is added to it :

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

And the Answer of the Responsory is
repeated again.

On a Simple Feast the Second Re
sponsory in the Common Office for the
class to which the Saint belongs, witJi
the addition of "Glory be to the
Father," &*c., and the repetition of
the Answer.

Then the Reader says :
Sir, be pleased to give the bless

ing.

Third Blessing.

May He That is the Angels King
To that high realm His people bring.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Third Lesson either
from Scripture, or of the Homily, or on
Simple Feasts the Second or only Lesson
of the Saint.

Then, on Simple Feasts and on any
day in Paschal time is said the Hymn,
"We praise Thee, O God." But on
week-days kept as such otit of Paschal
time the Third Responsory of the pre
ceding Sunday.

120

THE FOURTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Stindays, except as other
wise given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Wash me.

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, c., (/.

8 7 ).

Antiphon. Wash me throughly
from mine iniquity, O Lord.

Second Antiphon. Praise be-
cometh Thee.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, " O God, in
Zion."

Psalm LXIV.

[Intituled "A Psalm. A Song of
David," with a musical (?) superscription.
The Vulgate adds that its use was pre
scribed by Jeremiah and Ezekiel to the
exiles when they began to return from
the Captivity.]

PRAISE becometh Thee, O God,
in Zion : * and unto Thee
shall the vow be performed in Jeru
salem.

Hear my prayer : * unto Thee
shall all flesh come.

Iniquities prevail against us : *
but as for our transgressions, Thou
shalt purge them away.

Blessed is the man whom Thou
choosest, and causest to come near
unto Thee : * he shall dwell in
Thy courts :

We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of Thine house : * Thy
temple is holy, terrible in right
eousness.

Answer us, O God of our salva
tion : * Thou that art the confidence
of all the ends of the earth, and
of the uttermost parts of the sea !

Thou that by Thy strength settest
fast the mountains, being girded
with power : * Thou that stirrest
up the depth of the sea, and the
noise of his waves !

The heathen shall be troubled.
They that dwell in the uttermost
parts shall be afraid at Thy tokens :
* Thou makest the outgoings of the
morning and evening to rejoice.

Thou visitest the earth and water-
est it : * Thou greatly enrichest it :

The river of God is full of water :
Thou makest ready their corn, * for
Thou hast so prepared it.

Drench her furrows, increase the
fruits thereof : * the springing there
of shall rejoice at her showers.

Thou crownest the year with Thy
goodness : * and Thy fields teem
with fruitfulness.

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ness wax fruitful : * and the little
hills are girded with joy.

The pastures are clothed with
flocks ; the valleys also overflow
with corn : * they shout for joy,
yea, they sing.

Antiphon. Praise becometh Thee,
O God, in Zion.

Third Antiphon. O my God.

Psalms LXIL, LXVI.
O God, Thou art my God, &c.,
(A *3).

Antiphon. O my God, my lips
shall praise Thee while I live.

Fourth Antiphon. The LORD
shall judge.

THE SONG OF HANNAH, (i Kings
(Sam.) ii.)

[Composed by her when she brought her
son Samuel and presented him to the LORD.
See i Kings (Sam.) i. ii., (Monday and
Tuesday after Trinity Sunday.)]

TV/TINE heart rejoiceth in the
*^-*- LORD, * and mine horn is
exalted in my GOD : l

My mouth is enlarged over mine
enemies : * because I rejoice in Thy
salvation.

There is none holy as the LORD ;
for there is none beside Thee : *
neither is there any mighty like our
God.

Talk no more * so exceeding
proudly.

Let your old arrogancy depart out
of your mouth : for the LORD is a
God of knowledge, * and by Him
thoughts are judged.

The bows of the mighty men are
broken, * and they that stumbled
are girded with strength.

They that were full have hired
out themselves for bread : * and
they that were hungry are filled.

So that the barren hath borne
fruitfully : * and she that had many
children is waxed feeble.

The LORD killeth, and maketh
alive : * He bringeth down to the
grave, and bringeth up.

The LORD maketh poor, and
maketh rich : * He bringeth low,
and lifteth up.

He raiseth up the poor out of the
dust, * and lifteth up the beggar
from the dunghill,

To set them among princes, * and
to make them inherit the throne of
glory :

For the pillars of the earth are
the LORD S, * and He hath set the
world upon them.

He will keep the feet of His
saints, and the wicked shall be silent
in darkness : * for by his strength
shall no man prevail.

The adversaries of the LORD shall
be made to fear Him : * out of
heaven also shall He thunder upon
them.

The LORD shall judge the ends
of the earth : and He shall give
strength unto His King, * and exalt
the horn of His Anointed.

Antiphon. The LORD shall judge
the ends of the earth.

Fifth Antiphon. Praise God.

Psalms CXLVIII., CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD from the
heavens, &c., (pp. 25, 26).

Antiphon. Praise God, ye heavens
of heavens.

1 The Divine Name.

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THE PSALTER.

CHAPTER. (Rom. xiii. 12.)

The night is far spent, &c., (as on
Monday , p. 89).

HYMN. 1

TJAUNTING gloom and flitting
shades,

Ghastly shapes, away !
Christ is rising, and pervades

Highest Heaven with day.

He with His bright spear the night

Dazzles and pursues ;
Earth wakes up, and glows with light

Of a thousand hues.

Thee, O Christ, and Thee alone,

With a single mind,
We with chant and plaint would own ;

To thy flock be kind.

Much it needs Thy light divine,

Spot and stain to clean ;
Light of Angels, on us shine

With Thy face serene.

To the Father, and the Son,

And the Holy Ghost,
Here be glory, as is done

By the angelic host. Amen.

Verse. Thou hast satisfied us
early with Thy mercy.

Answer. We rejoice and are glad.

Antiphonfor the Song of Zacharias.
O Lord, save us * from the hand of
all that hate us.

Commemoration of the Cross before the
other Commemorations, and Long Preces
in Advent and Lent, on the Ember
Wednesdays (except that of Pentecost)
and on Fast-days, as on Monday.

1 Hymn founded on hymn in the Cathemerinon of Prudentius ; translation by the late
Card. Newman.

I2 3

at JEattins.

THE FIFTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as other
wise given here.

Invitatory.
hath made us
worship Him.

It is the Lord That
: * O come, let us

HYMN. 1

ALL tender lights, all hues divine,
The night has swept away ;
Shine on us, Lord, and we shall shine
Bright in an inward day.

The spots of guilt, sin s wages base,
Searcher of hearts, we own ;

Wash us and robe us in Thy grace,
Who didst for sins atone.

The sluggard soul, that bears their
mark,

Shrinks in its silent lair,
Or gropes amid its chambers dark

For Thee, Who art not there.

Redeemer ! send Thy piercing rays,

That we may bear to be
Set in the light of Thy pure gaze,

And yet rejoice in Thee.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

Only one Nocturn is said.
Antiphon. Make haste.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon
is said to the whole Nocturn. Alleluia.

Psalm LXVIII.

[Intituled "Of David," with a (now un
certain) musical (?) direction.]

SAVE me, O God ; * for the
waters are come in unto my
soul.

I sink in deep mire, * where
there is no standing.

I am come into the depth of the
sea, * and the flood overfloweth me.

I am weary of my crying, my
throat is dried : * mine eyes fail,
while I wait for my God.

They that hate me without a
cause, * are more than the hairs of
mine head.

They that would destroy me,
being mine enemies wrongfully, are
mighty : * then I restored that
which I took not away.

O God, Thou knowest my fool
ishness : * and my faults are not
hid from Thee.

Let not them that wait on Thee,
O Lord, be ashamed for my sake, *
Thou LORD of hosts.

Let not those that seek Thee *
be confounded for my sake, O God
of Israel.

Because for Thy sake I have
borne reproach : shame hath

covered my face.

1 Ambrosian hymn ; translation by the late Card. Newman.

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THE PSALTER.

I am become a stranger unto my
brethren, * and an alien unto my
mother s children.

For the zeal of Thine house hath
eaten me up : * and the reproaches
of them that reproached Thee are
fallen upon me.

And I chastened my soul with
fasting : * and that was to my re
proach.

I made sackcloth also my gar
ment, * and I became a proverb to
them.

They that sat in the gate spake
against me, * and I was the song of
the drunkards.

But as for me, my prayer is unto
Thee, O LORD : * in an acceptable
time, O God !

In the multitude of Thy mercy
hear me, ** in the truth of Thy
salvation !

Deliver me out of the mire, that
I sink not : * deliver me from them
that hate me, and out of the deep
waters.

Let not the waterflood overflow
me, neither let the deep swallow me
up, * and let not the pit shut her
mouth upon me.

Hear me, O LORD, for Thy
loving - kindness is good : turn
unto me according to the multitude
of Thy tender mercies.

And hide not Thy face from Thy
servant, * for I am in trouble ; hear
me speedily.

Draw nigh unto my soul, and re
deem it : * deliver me because of
mine enemies.

Thou knowest my reproach, and
my shame, * and my dishonour.

Mine adversaries are all before
Thee : * mine heart hath looked for
reproach and bitterness.

And I looked for some to take

pity on me, and there was none : *
and for comforters, and I found
none.

They gave me also gall for meat :

* and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.

Let their table be made a snare
before them, * and a recompense,
and a stumbling-block.

Let their eyes be darkened, that
they see not : * and ever bow Thou
down their back.

Pour out Thine indignation upon
them, * and let Thy wrathful anger
take hold of them.

Let their habitation be desolate :

* and let none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom

Thou hast smitten : and they
embitter the pain of my wounds.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity :

* and let them not come into Thy
righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the
book of the living : * and not be
written with the righteous.

But I am poor and sorrowful : *
Thy salvation, O God, hath set me
up on high.

I will praise the name of God
with a psalm, * and will magnify
Him with thanksgiving.

And it shall please GOD better
than a young bullock, * that hath
horns and hoofs.

Let the humble see this and be
glad, * seek God, and your soul
shall live.

For the LORD heareth the poor

* and despiseth not His prisoners.
Let the heaven and earth praise

Him, * the sea, and everything
that moveth therein.

For God will save Zion, * and
the cities of Judah shall be built
up.

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125

And they shall dwell there, *
and have it in possession.

The seed also of His servants
shall inherit it, * and they that
love His name shall dwell therein.

Psalm LXIX.

[Intituled "Of David, to bring to re
membrance " with another (now uncertain)
musical (?) superscription. The Vulgate
and the LXX. add to remembrance "how
the Lord had saved him " ; the Targum
associates the Psalm with the offering of
the incense. This Psalm is a repetition
of the last four verses of Ps. xxxix.]

A/TAKE haste, O God, to de-
** liver me : * make haste to
help me, O LORD.

Let them be ashamed and con
founded, * that seek after my
soul.

Let them be turned backward
and put to confusion, * that de
sire mine hurt.

Let them be turned back with
shame, * that say unto me, Aha,
Aha.

Let all those that seek Thee be
joyful and glad in Thee, * and let
such as love Thy salvation say con
tinually : Let the Lord be magnified.

But I am poor and needy : *
help me, O God.

Thou art mine help and my
deliverer : * O LORD, make no
tarrying.

Antiphon. l Make haste, O Lord
God, to deliver me.

Second Antiphon. Be Thou my
God.

Psalm LXX.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. give the
heading, "A Psalm of David ; of the Sons
of Jonadab, and the first Captives." The

sons of Jonadab are the descendants of
Jonadab, the son of Rechab, of whose
faithfulness to observe a nomadic life,
and to abstain from wine, it is written
in Jer. xxxv. 19: "Therefore thus saith
the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel :
Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not
want a man to stand before me for
ever." They had taken refuge at Jeru
salem to escape the incursions of Nebu
chadnezzar, and the meaning seems to
be that when they and others were carried
away as captives, they made special use
of this Psalm.]

TN Thee, O LORD, have I put

* my trust, let me never be put
to confusion : * deliver me in Thy
righteousness, and cause me to es
cape.

Incline Thine ear unto me, *
and save me.

Be Thou my God, my Pro
tector, and my strong habitation,

* to save me.

For Thou art my rock, * and
my fortress.

Deliver me, O my God, out of
the hand of the wicked, * and out
of the hand of the unrighteous and
cruel man.

For Thou art mine hope, O Lord :

* O LORD, Thou art my trust from
my youth.

By Thee have I been holden up
from the womb : * Thou art my
defence from my mother s bowels.

My praise shall be continually
of Thee : * I am a wonder unto
many : but Thou art my strong
refuge.

Let my mouth be filled with
Thy praise, that I may sing of
Thy glory, * all the day long of
Thy greatness.

Cast me not off in the time of
old age : * forsake me not when
my strength faileth.

Ps. Ixix. i.

126

THE PSALTER.

For mine enemies speak against
me, * and they that lay wait for
my soul take counsel together,

Saying : God hath forsaken him :
persecute and take him, * for there
is none to deliver him.

O God, be not far from me : *
O my God, make haste for mine
help.

Let them be confounded and
consumed that are adversaries to
my soul : * let them be covered
with reproach and dishonour, that
seek mine hurt.

But I will hope continually, *
and will yet praise Thee more and
more.

My mouth shall show forth Thy
righteousness, * Thy salvation all
the day.

And because I know not the tale
thereof, I will go in the strength of
the Lord : * O LORD, I will make
mention of Thy righteousness, even
of Thine only.

God, Thou hast taught me
from my youth : * and hitherto
have I declared Thy wondrous
works.

Now also when I am old and
grey-headed, * O God, forsake me
not,

Until I have showed Thy strength
* unto all generations, that are to
come.

Thy power and Thy righteous
ness, O God, are in the highest,
Who hast done great things : * O
God, who is like unto Thee?

Thou Who hast showed me great
and sore troubles, shalt quicken me
again : * and bring me up again
from the depths of the earth.

Thou hast increased Thy great
ness : * and again comforted me.

1 will also praise Thee on . the

psaltery, even Thy truth : * O
God, unto Thee will I sing with
the harp, O Thou Holy One of
Israel !

My lips shall be fain when I sing.
unto Thee, * and my soul which
Thou hast redeemed.

My tongue also shall talk of Thy
righteousness all the day long : * for
they are confounded and brought
unto shame that seek mine hurt.

PSALM LXXI.

[Intituled " Of Solomon," that is, written
concerning him.]

the king Thy judgment, O
God, * and Thy righteousness
unto the king s son.

To judge Thy people with right
eousness, * and Thy poor with
judgment.

The mountains shall receive peace
with the people, * and the little hills
righteousness.

He shall judge the poor of the
people, and save the children of the
needy, * and shall break in pieces
the false accuser.

And he shall endure with the sun,
and before the moon, * throughout
all generations.

He shall come down like rain
upon a fleece, * and as showers that
water the earth.

In his days shall righteousness
flourish, and abundance of peace,
* so long as the moon endureth.

He shall have dominion also from
sea to sea : * and from the river .
unto the ends of the earth.

The Ethiopians shall fall before
him : * and his enemies shall lick \
the dust.

The kings of Tarshish, and of the
.isles shall bring presents: * the

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127

kings of Arabia and Saba 1 shall
offer gifts.

Yea, all the kings of the earth
shall fall down before him : all
nations shall serve him.

For he shall deliver the needy
from the strong, * the poor also that
hath no helper.

He shall spare the poor and
needy, * and shall save the souls of
the needy.

He shall redeem their soul from
fraud and violence : * and precious
shall their name be in his sight.

And he shall live, and to him
shall be given of the gold of Arabia ;
prayer also shall be made for him
continually ; * all the day long shall
he be blessed.

And there shall be a staff of
bread in the land, upon the top of
the mountains ; the fruit thereof
shall be higher than Lebanon : *
and they of the city shall flourish
like grass of the earth.

Blessed be his name for ever : *
his name endureth as long as the sun.

And in him shall all the kindreds
of the earth be blessed : * all nations
shall call him blessed.

Blessed be the LORD God of Is
rael, * Who only doth wondrous
things.

And blessed be His glorious
Name for ever : * and let the whole
earth be filled with his glory : Amen,
Amen. 2

Antiphon. 3 Be Thou my God,
my protector.

Third Antiphon. Thou hast re
deemed the rod.

Psalm LXXII.
[Intituled "A Psalm of Asaph."]

^PRULY God is good to Israel, *
* to such as are upright in
heart.

But as for me, my feet were al
most gone : * my steps had well
nigh slipped.

For I was envious at the un
righteous, * when I saw the pros
perity of the wicked.

For they have no thought of
death : * and they are uncon
cerned in trial.

They are not in trouble as other
men, * neither are they plagued like
other men.

Therefore pride compasseth them
about, * violence and ungodliness
cover them as a garment.

Their iniquity ariseth as it were
from fatness : * they have more
than heart could wish.

They think and speak wickedness :
* they speak loftily concerning op
pression.

They set their mouth against the
heavens, * and their tongue walketh
through the earth.

Therefore my people turn aside
after them : * and the men of their
day run after them.

And they say : How doth God
know, * and is there knowledge in
the Most High ?

Behold, these are the ungodly,
who prosper in the world, * they
increase in riches.

And I said : Then I have cleansed
mine heart in vain, * and washed
mine hands in innocency.

1 This seems to be Meroe, a province of Ethiopia.

2 After this, there is the following notification, "The prayers of David, the son of
Jesse, are ended, : and this is the end of the second of the five books into which the
Psalter is divided. 3 Ps. Ixx. 3.

128

THE PSALTER.

For all the day long have I been
plagued, * and chastened every
morning.

If I say : I will speak thus : *
behold, I should disown the gener
ation of Thy children.

And I thought to know this, *
it was too hard for me ;

Until I went into the Sanctuary
of God, * and understood their
hereafter.

Surely Thou dost set them in
slippery places : * Thou castest
them down even in their pros
perity.

How are they brought into deso
lation ? In a moment are they
perished, * they are utterly con
sumed because of their wickedness.

As a dream when one awaketh,

Lord, * Thou shalt bring their
image to nought in Thy city.

For mine heart was on fire, and

1 was pricked in my reins ; * and I
was brought to nothing and knew
not :

I became as a beast before Thee :

* nevertheless I am continually with
Thee :

Thou hast holden me by my
right hand, and guided me accord
ing to Thy will, * and received me
to glory.

For what have I in heaven, * and
what is there upon earth that I
desire beside Thee?

My flesh and mine heart faileth :

* Thou art the God of mine heart,
and God is my portion for ever.

For, lo, they that go far from
Thee shall perish : * Thou hast
destroyed all them that go a whor
ing from Thee.

But it is good for me to draw
near to God : * to put my trust in
the Lord GOD,

That I may declare all Thy
praises, * in the gates of the
daughter of Zion.

Psalm LXXIII.

[Intituled "A didactic (?) Psalm of
Asaph."]

OGOD, why hast Thou cast us
off for ever : * why doth
Thine anger smoke against the
sheep of Thy pasture?

Remember Thy congregation, *
which Thou hast purchased of
old.

Thou hast redeemed the rod of
Thine inheritance : * Mount Zion
wherein Thou hast dwelt.

Lift up Thine hands against their
perpetual pride : * even all that
the enemy hath done wickedly in
the sanctuary !

They also that hate Thee roar, *
in the midst of Thy solemn con
gregation.

They set up their ensigns for
trophies * on the pinnacles [of Thy
temple] as though it had been the
gate [of their own city] ; and con
sidered not !

As the fellers in a wood of thick
trees, so did they hew down the
gates thereof: * they have broken
it down with axes and hammers.

They have set on fire Thy Sanc
tuary : * they have defiled the
dwelling-place of Thy name by
casting it down to the ground.

The sort of them said in their
hearts with one consent : * Let us
put away the feast-days of God out
of the land.

We see not our signs, there is no
more any prophet : * and none
knoweth us any more.

O God, how long shall the ad-

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versary reproach ? * Shall the enemy
blaspheme Thy name for ever ?

Why withdrawest Thou Thine
hand, even Thy right hand, * from
Thy bosom for ever ?

But God is our King of old, *
working salvation in the midst of
the earth.

Thou by Thy strength didst
make the sea to stand on an heap :

Thou brakest the heads of the
dragons in the waters.

Thou brakest the heads of le
viathan in pieces : * Thou gavest
him to be meat to the people 1 of
Ethiopia.

Thou didst cleave the fountains
and the floods : * Thou driedst up
the rivers of Ethan. 2

The day is Thine, the night also
is Thine : * Thou hast created the
light and the sun.

Thou hast set all the borders of
the earth: * Thou hast made
l| summer and spring.

Remember this, that the enemy
hath reproached the LORD : * and
that a foolish people have blas
phemed Thy name.

O deliver not unto beasts the
souls of them that praise Thee : *
and forget not the souls of Thy poor
for ever.

Have respect unto Thy cove
nant : * for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of
cruelty.

O let not the oppressed return
ashamed : * let the poor and needy
praise Thy name.

Arise, O God, judge Thine own

cause : * remember how the foolish
man reproacheth Thee daily.

Forget not the voice of Thine
enemies : * the pride of them that
hate Thee ascendeth continually.

AnHphon. 3 Thou hast redeemed
the rod of Thine inheritance.

Fourth Antiphon. And we will
call.

Psalm LXXIV.

[Intituled "A Psalm A Song of Asaph,"
with_a superscription of meaning now un
certain, but, in part, indicating the tune
"Destroy not." The Targum says that it
was composed as a thanksgiving at the time
when David said " Destroy not thy people,"
and the occasion meant is probably that of
the plague provoked by David s number
ing of the people, as related in the last
chapter of 2 Kings (Sam.)]

T INTO Thee, O God, will we
^ give thanks : * we will give
thanks and call upon Thy name.

We will declare Thy wondrous
works : * when I shall take a set
time, I will judge uprightly.

The earth and all the inhabitants
thereof are dissolved : * I bear up
the pillars of it. 4

I said unto the wicked : Deal
not wickedly : * and to the evil
doers : Lift not up your horn on
high-
Lift not up your horn on high :
speak not wickedness against
God.

For neither from the east, nor

from the west, nor from the desert

mountains : * for God is the judge :

He putteth down one, and setteth

up another : * for in the hand of the

People probably referring to the wild beasts, (as in Proverbs xxx. 25, 26, "The ants
are a people not strong the conies are but a feeble folk : ) who ate the dead bodies of the
gyptians (whose power seems meant by the leviathan) washed upon the shores of the
Red Sea.
* Ethan = continuity "The continuously flowing streams."

PS. Ixxiii. 2. 4 SLH

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130

THE PSALTER.

LORD there is a cup of strong wine
full of mixture. 1

And he turneth it this way and
that : surely the dregs thereof are
not wrung out : * all the wicked of
the earth shall drink them.

But I will declare for ever : * I
will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

All the horns of the wicked also
will I break : * and the horns of the
righteous shall be exalted.

Psalm LXXV.

[Intituled " A Psalm A Song of Asaph,"
with a farther superscription similar to the
preceding. The Vulgate and the LXX. add
"against the Assyrians "; the meaning pro
bably is that it was found appropriate as a
Psalm of thanksgiving after the destruction
of the Assyrians (3 (2) Kings xix. 35).]

IN Judah is God known : * His
name is great in Israel.
And His tabernacle is in "Peace," 2

* and His dwelling-place in Zion.
There brake He the arrows of the

bow, * the shield, the sword, and
the battle. 3

When Thou didst make Thy light
to shine forth right wondrously from
the everlasting hills : * all they that
were foolish of heart were troubled :

They have slept their sleep : *
and all the men of riches have found
nothing in their hands.

At Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,

* they that rode upon horses are
cast into a dead sleep.

Thou art to be feared ; and who
shall withstand Thee, * when once
Thou art angry ?

Thou didst cause judgment to
be heard from heaven : * the earth
trembled and was still,

When God arose to judgment, *
to save all the meek of the earth. 3

For the thoughts of man shall
praise Thee : * the remainder of
his thoughts shall keep holy his days
before Thee.

Vow, and pay unto the LORD
your God : * all ye that are round
about Him bring presents,

Even unto Him That ought to be
feared, and that cutteth off the spirit
of princes, * to Him That is terrible
among the kings of the earth.

Antiphon. 4 And we will call
upon Thy name, O Lord.

Fifth Antiphon. Thou art the
God.

Psalm LXXVI.

[Intituled "A Psalm of Asaph," with a
musical (?) direction, addressed to Jeduthun.]

T CRIED unto the Lord with my
^ voice ; * even unto God with
my voice, and He gave ear unto
me.

In the day of my trouble I
sought the Lord ; in the night with
my hands I sought Him * and failed
not.

My soul refused to be comforted :

* I remembered God, and rejoiced,
and pondered, and my spirit was
overwhelmed. 3

Mine eyes anticipated the night
watches : * I was troubled, and
spake not.

I have considered the days of old,

* and had in mind the everlasting
years.

In the night also I commune with
mine own heart : * and I mused,
and searched out mine own spirit.

1 Aromatic herbs, &c., were mixed
Smith s Diet, of the Bible, Wine.

2 Peace a translation of "Salem."

with wine to make it more intoxicating. See

SLH.

4 Ps. Ixxiv. 2.

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Will God cast off for ever ? * or
will He be favourable no more ?

Or will He put away His mercy
for ever, * to generation and genera
tion ?

Or hath God forgotten to be
gracious ? * or will He in His anger
shut up His tender mercies ? *

And I said : Now have I begun :
* the change cometh of the right
hand of the Most High.

I remembered the works of the
LORD : * surely I will remember
Thy wonders of old.

I will meditate also of all Thy
work : * and talk of Thy doings.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanc-
| tuary. Who is so great a God as our
I God? * Thou art the God That
doest wonders.

Thou hast declared Thy strength
.among the people : * Thou hast with
Thine arm redeemed Thy people,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph. 1

The waters saw Thee, O God,
the waters saw Thee : * and they
were afraid, the depths also were
troubled.

There was a noise as of many
waters, * the clouds sent out a
sound.

Thine arrows also went abroad :
* the voice of Thy thunder rolled.

Thy lightnings lightened the
world : * the earth trembled and
shook.

Thy way is in the sea, and Thy
paths in the great waters : * and
Thy footsteps are not known.

Thou leddest Thy people like a
flock, * by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.

Psalm LXXVII.

[Intituled " A didactic (?) poem of
Asaph."]

V"E ear, O my people, to my
law : * incline your ears to
the words of my mouth.

1 will open my mouth in para
bles : * I will utter dark sayings
of old.

Which we have heard and known,

* and our fathers have told us.
They are not hidden from their

children, * in the generation to
come :

Showing the praises of the LORD,
and His mighty acts, * and His
wonderful works that He hath done.

He established also a testimony
in Jacob, * and appointed a law
in Israel.

Which He commanded our fathers
that they should make known to
their children : * that the generation
to come may know them,

Even the children which shall be
bom and arise, * and declare them
to their children ;

That they may set their hope in
God, and not forget the works of
God, * but keep His command
ments.

And may not be as their fathers,

* a stubborn and rebellious -gen
eration,

A generation that set not their
heart aright, * and whose spirit
was not steadfast with God.

2 The children of Ephraim bend
ing and shooting with bows, * turned
back in the day of battle.

They kept not the covenant of

1 SLH.

2 The next few verses perhaps relate to the refusal of the children of Israel to in
vade the Land of Promise when they first reached it, owing to fear of the inhabitants.
-Numb. xiv.

132

THE PSALTER.

God, * and refused to walk in
His law.

And forgot His works, and
His wonders that He had showed
them.

Marvellous things did He in the
sight of their fathers, in the land of
Egypt, * in the plain of Tanis. 1

He divided the sea, and caused
them to pass through, * and He
made the waters to stand as an
heap.

In the day - time also He led
them with a cloud, * and all the
night with a light of fire.

He clave the rock in the wil
derness, * and gave them drink
as out of the great depth.

He brought water also out of
the rock, * and caused waters to
run down like rivers.

And they sinned yet more against
Him, * and provoked the Most
High in the wilderness.

And they tempted God in their
hearts, * to ask meat for their
lust.

Yea, they spake against God : *
they said : Can God furnish a table
in the wilderness ?

Behold, He smote the rock, and
the waters gushed out, * and the
streams overflowed.

Can He give bread also, * or
furnish a table for His people?

Therefore the LORD heard this,
and was wroth : * so a fire was
kindled against Jacob, and anger
came up against Israel.

Because they believed not in
God, * and trusted not in His
salvation.

And He commanded the clouds

from above, * and opened the
doors of heaven.

And rained down manna upon
them to eat, * and gave them of
the bread of heaven.

Man did eat Angels bread : *
He sent them meat to the full.

He caused an east wind to
blow in the heaven : * and by His
power He brought in the south
wind.

He rained flesh also upon them
as dust, * and feathered fowls like
as the sand of the sea.

And it fell in the midst of their
camp, * round about their habita
tions.

So they did eat, and were well
filled, and He gave them their own
desire : they were not disap
pointed of their lust.

But while their meat was yet in
their mouths : * the wrath of God
came upon them,

And slew the fattest of them, *
and smote down the chosen men
of Israel.

For all this they sinned still, *
and believed not in His wondrous
works.

Therefore their days were con
sumed in vanity, * and their years
in trouble.

When He slew them, they sought
Him : * and they returned, and
enquired early after God.

And they remembered that God
was their strength, * and the High
God their redeemer.

Yet they flattered Him with their
mouth, * and lied unto Him with
their tongue.

For their heart was not right

1 An ancient city (mentioned here and subsequently) in Lower Egypt, called both by
a Shemitic name, Zoan, as well as by its Egyptian name, surrounded by plains, and close to
the natural and constant border of Palestine.

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133

with Him, * neither were they
steadfast in His covenant.

But He being full of compassion,
forgave their iniquity, * and de
stroyed them not.

Yea, many a time did He turn
His anger away, * and did not stir
up all His wrath.

He remembered also that they
were but flesh ; * a wind that
passeth away and cometh not
again.

How often did they provoke
Him in the wilderness? * grieve
Him to anger in the desert?

Yea, they turned again, and
tempted God, * and provoked the
Holy One of Israel.

They remembered not His hand,

* in the day when He delivered
them from the hand of the op
pressor.

How He set His signs in Egypt,

* and His wonders in the plain of
Tanis.

And turned their rivers into
blood : * and their floods, that
they could not drink.

He sent divers sorts of flies
among them, which devoured them :

* and frogs, which destroyed them.
He gave also their increase unto

the caterpillar, * and their labour
unto the locust.

And He destroyed their vines
with hail, * and their sycamore
trees with frost.

. He gave up their cattle also to
the hail, * and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.

He cast upon them the fierceness
of His anger, * indignation, and
wrath, and trouble, by sending evil
Angels among them.

He made a way to His anger;
He spared not their soul from

death, * and cut off their cattle in
death with them.

He smote also every first-born in
the land of Egypt : * the first-fruits
of all their labour in the tabernacles
of Ham.

And made His own people to go
forth like sheep : * and guided them
in the wilderness like a flock.

And He led them on in hope,
and they feared not : * and He
overwhelmed their enemies in the
sea.

And He brought them to the
mountain of His Sanctuary, * even
the mountain, which His right hand
hath purchased.

He cast out the heathen also
before them, * and allotted the land
among them by line,

And made the tribes of Israel to
dwell * in their tents.

Yet they tempted and provoked
the Most High God, * and kept not
His testimonies.

And turned back, and observed
not His covenant, * like their
fathers ; they were turned aside like
a deceitful bow.

They provoked Him to anger
with their high places, * and moved
Him to jealousy with their graven
images.

God heard it and cast them out :
* and brought Israel utterly to
nought.

He forsook also the tabernacle of
Shiloh, * even His tabernacle, where
He dwelt among men.

And He delivered their strength
into captivity, * and their beauty
into the enemy s hand.

He gave His people over also
unto the sword : * and cast off His
inheritance.

The fire consumed their young

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THE PSALTER.

men : * and their maidens made no
funeral song.

Their priests fell by the sword :

* and their widows made no lamen
tation.

Then the Lord awaked as one
out of sleep, * like a mighty man
heated with wine.

And He smote His enemies in
the hinder part : * He put them to
a perpetual shame.

Moreover, He refused the taber
nacle of Joseph, * and chose not the
tribe of Ephraim.

But chose the tribe of Judah, *
Mount Zion, which he loved.

And He built His sanctuary like
the horn of an unicorn upon the
earth, * which He hath established
for ever.

He chose David also His servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds :

* from following the ewes great with
young He brought him,

To feed Jacob His servant, * and
Israel His inheritance.

So he fed them according to the
integrity of his heart : * and guided
them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Antiphon. 1 Thou art the God
That doest wonders.

Sixth Antiphon. Be merciful.

Psalm LXXVIII.
[Intituled "A Psalm of Asaph."]

OGOD, the heathen are come
into Thine inheritance, Thine
holy temple have they defiled : *
they have made Jerusalem like an
heap of stones in an orchard.

The dead bodies of Thy servants
have they given to be meat unto
the fowls of the heaven, * the flesh

of Thy saints unto the beasts of the
earth.

Their blood have they shed like
water round about Jerusalem : * and
there was none to bury them.

We are become a reproach to our
neighbours, * a scorn and derision
to them that are round about us.

How long, LORD ? wilt Thou be
angry for ever ? * shall Thy jealousy
burn like fire ?

Pour out Thy wrath upon the
heathen, that have not known Thee,

* and upon the kingdoms that have
not called upon Thy name !

For they have devoured Jacob,

* and laid waste His dwelling-place.
O remember not against us our

former iniquities, let Thy tender
mercies speedily overtake us : * for
we are brought very low.

Help us, O God of our salvation,
and for the glory of Thy name de
liver us, O Lord : * and forgive our
sins, for Thy name s sake.

Lest haply they should say among
the heathen : Where is their God ?
* And make known among the
nations in our sight

The vengeance of the blood of
Thy servants, which is shed : * let
the sighing of the prisoners come
before Thee.

According to the greatness of
Thine arm, * preserve Thou the
children of the slain.

And render unto our neighbours
sevenfold into their bosom : * their
reproach wherewith they have re
proached Thee, O Lord!

But we Thy people, and sheep
of Thy pasture, * will give Thee
thanks for ever:

We will show forth Thy praise *
to all generations.

1 Ps. Ixxvi. 15.

THURSDAY AT MATTINS.

135

Psalm LXXIX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of Asaph," with a
direction, perhaps musical, the meaning
of which is not now certain. The LXX.
adds "concerning the Assyrian," probably
meaning that it was used as a prayer
after the destruction of Jerusalem by
Nebuchadnezzar. ]

GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
* Thou That leadest Joseph
like a flock.

Thou That sittest upon the Cheru
bim, * shine forth before Ephraim,
Benjamin, and Manasseh.

Stir up Thy strength, and come

* and save us.

Turn us again, O God, * and
cause Thy face to shine, and we
shall be saved.

O LORD God of hosts, * how
long wilt Thou be angry against the
prayer of Thy servant ?

Wilt Thou feed us with the bread
of tears, * and give us tears to drink
in great measure ?

Thou makest us a strife unto our
neighbours : * and our enemies jest
upon us.

Turn us again, O God of hosts :

* and cause Thy face to shine, and
we shall be saved.

Thou hast brought a vine out of
Egypt : * Thou hast cast out the
heathen and planted it.

Thou preparedst room before it :

* Thou didst cause it to take deep
root, and it filled the land.

The hills tlere covered with the
shadow of it, * and the cedars of
God with the boughs thereof.

She sent out her boughs unto the
sea, * and her branches unto the
river. 1

Why hast Thou broken down her

hedge ? * so that all they which
pass by the way do pluck her?

The boar out of the wood doth
root it up, * and the wild beast of
the field doth devour it.

Return, O God of hosts : * look
down from heaven, and behold, and
visit this vine ;

And protect that Thy right hand
hath planted, * and the son of man
whom Thou madest strong for Thy
self.

It is burnt with fire, and cut
down : * they shall perish at the
rebuke of Thy countenance.

Let Thine hand be upon the man
of Thy right hand, * and upon the
son of man whom Thou madest
strong for Thyself.

So will we not go back from
Thee ; * quicken us, and we will
call upon Thy name.

Turn us again, O LORD God of
hosts : * and cause Thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.

Antiphon. 2 Be merciful unto our
sins, O Lord.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. Out of Zion, the Per
fection of beauty,

Answer. Our God shall come
manifestly.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. 3 My lips shall be fain
when I sing unto Thee.

Answer. And my soul, which
Thou hast redeemed.

1 That is, the dominion of the Israelites stretched from the Mediterranean to the
Euphrates. 2 Ps. Ixxviii. 9. 3 Ps. Ixx. 23.

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THE PSALTER.

In Lent.

Verse. He hath delivered me
from the snare of the fowler.

Answer. And from the noisome
pestilence.

In Passion time.

Verse. O God, deliver my soul
from the sword.

Answer. And my darling from
the power of the

In Paschal time.

Verse. The Lord is risen from
the grave, Alleluia.

Answer. Who hung for us upon
the tree, Alleluia.

The rest is the same as the First
Nocturn on the preceding Sunday , only
the Lessons, and sometimes the Respon-
sories, are those of the day.

137

THE FIFTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

A II as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :

Antiphon. Against Thee, Thee
only.

Psalm L.

Have mercy upon me, &c., (p.
87).

Antiphon. Against Thee, Thee
only, have I sinned, have mercy
upon me, O Lord !

Second Antiphon. Lord.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, "Thou hast
been."

Psalm LXXX1X.

[Intituled "A Prayer of Moses the man
of God."]

T ORD, Thou hast been our re-
* fuge * in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought
forth, or ever the earth and the
world were formed, * even from
everlasting to everlasting, Thou art
God.

Turn not man to destruction ; *
for Thou sayest, Return, ye children
of men.

For a thousand years in Thy sight

* are but as yesterday when it is past,

And their years shall be reckoned

VOL. II.

as nothing, * even as a watch in
the night.

In the morning they are like
grass which soon fadeth away : in
the morning it flourisheth, and
then it fadeth away : in the
evening it is cut down, drieth up,
and withereth.

For we are consumed by Thine
anger : * and by Thy wrath are
we troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities be
fore Thee, * our life in the light
of Thy countenance.

For all our days are passed away,
* and we are consumed by Thine
anger.

The works whereon we toil all
our years are but frail structures
like a spider s web : * the days of
our years are threescore years and
ten :

And if by reason of strength they
be fourscore years, * yet is their
increase but labour and sorrow :

For weakness cometh, * and we
are cut off.

Who knoweth the power of Thine
anger, * or can measure Thy wrath,
that he may fear Thee as Thou
oughtest to be feared?

Show Thou the might of Thy
right hand ; * and apply our hearts
to wisdom.

E 2

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THE PSALTER.

Return, O LORD, how long? *
and let it intreat Thee concerning
Thy servants.

Thou hast satisfied us early with
Thy mercy, * and we rejoice and
are glad all our days.

We are gladdened for the days
wherein Thou hast afflicted us ; *
for the years wherein we have seen
evil.

Look upon Thy servants, and
upon Thy works, * and establish
their children.

And let the beauty of the LORD
our God be upon us ; and establish
Thou the work of our hands upon
us : * yea, the work of our hands
establish Thou it.

Antiphon. Lord, Thou hast
been our refuge.

Third Antiphon. I meditate.

Psalms LXIL, LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c.,
(A 23).

Antiphon. I meditate upon Thee
in the night watches.

Fourth Antiphon. Let us sing.

If this Antiphon be iised the Canticle
begins with the words, " Unto the
LORD."

THE SONG OF MOSES (Exod. xv.)

[On the occasion of the successful escape
of the Israelites through the Red Sea.]

ET us sing unto the LORD, for
*- He hath triumphed gloriously :
* the horse and his rider hath He
thrown into the sea.

The LORD is my strength and
my song, * and He is become
my salvation :

1 But in the present Hebrew text,

He is my God, and I will glorify
Him : * my father s God, and I
will exalt Him.

The LORD is like a man of war :
" THE ALMIGHTY " * is His name.

* Pharaoh s chariots and his host
hath He cast into the sea.

His chosen captains are drowned
in the Red Sea. * The depths have
covered them : they sank into the
bottom as a stone.

Thy right hand, O LORD, is be
come glorious in power : Thy right
hand, O LORD, hath shattered the
enemy. * And in the greatness
of Thy majesty Thou hast over
thrown them that rose up against
Thee.

Thou sentest forth Thy wrath,
which consumed them as stubble.

* And with the blast of Thy fury
the waters were gathered together,

The floods stood upright, * and
the depths were congealed in the
heart of the sea.

The enemy said : I will pursue
and overtake, * I will divide the
spoil ; my soul shall be sated upon
them :

I will draw my sword, * mine
hand shall destroy them.

Thy wind blew, and the sea
covered them ; * they sank as lead
in the mighty waters.

Who is like unto Thee, O LORD,
among the mighty? * who is like
unto Thee, glorious in holiness,
terrible, and worthy to be praised,
doing wonders?

Thou stretchedst out Thy right
hand, and the earth swallowed them.

Thou in Thy mercy hast led
forth the people which Thou hast
redeemed :

And hast borne them in Thy
here stands again the Divine name.

THURSDAY AT LAUDS.

139

strength, * unto Thine holy habi
tation.

The people came up and were
angry : * sorrow took hold on the
inhabitants of Philistia.

Then the princes of Edom were
amazed, the mighty men of Moab,
trembling took hold upon them : *
all the inhabitants of Chanaan
melted away.

Let fear and dread fall upon
them, * by the greatness of Thine
arm :

Let them be as still as a stone :
till Thy people pass over, O LORD,

* till Thy people pass over, which
Thou hast purchased.

Thou shalt bring them in and
plant them in the mountain of
Thine inheritance, * in Thy most
sure dwelling, which Thou hast
made, O LORD :

In the Sanctuary, O Lord, which
Thine hands have established.

* The LORD shall reign for ever
and ever.

For the horse of Pharaoh went
in with his chariots and with his
horsemen into the sea, * and the
LORD brought again the waters of
the sea upon them :

But the children of Israel went on
dry land * in the midst of the sea.

Antiphon. Let us sing gloriously
unto the LORD.

Fifth Antiphon. Praise God.

Psalms CXLVIII., CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD, &c., (pp. 25,
26).

Antiphon.
Sanctuary.

Praise God in His

CHAPTER. (Rom. xiii. 12.)

The night is far spent, c., (as
on Monday, p. 89).

HYMN. 1

C* EE, the golden dawn is glowing,
^ While the paly shades are going,
Which have led us far and long,
In a labyrinth of wrong.

May it bring us peace serene ;
May it cleanse, as it is clean ;
Plain and clear our words be spoke,
And our thoughts without a cloak ;

So the day s account shall stand,
Guileless tongue and holy hand,
Steadfast eyes and unbeguiled,
" Flesh as of a little child."

There is One Who from above
Watches how the still hours move
Of our day of service done,
From the dawn to setting sun.

To the Father, and the Son,
And the Spirit, Three and One,
As of old, and as in Heaven,
Now and here be glory given.

Amen.

Verse. Thou hast satisfied us
early with Thy mercy.

Answer. We rejoice and are
glad.

Antiphon for the Song of Zacharias.

Let us serve the Lord * in holiness,
and He will deliver us from our
enemies.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other Commemorations, and Long
Preces in Advent and Lent, and on
Fast-days, as on Monday.

1 Extracted from hymn by Prudentius ; translation by the late Card. Newman.

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Jfrxbap nt Jftattin*.

THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

Invitatory. Let us worship the
Lord, for * He is our Maker.

HYMN. 1

TV/T AY the dread Three in One, Who
**! sways

All with His sovereign might,
Accept from us this hymn of praise,

His watchers in the night.

For in the night, when all is still,
We spurn our bed and rise,

To find the balm for ghostly ill,
His bounteous hand supplies.

If e er by night our envious foe
With guilt our souls would stain,

May the deep streams of mercy flow,
And make us white again ;

That so with bodies braced and bright,

And hearts awake within,
All fresh and keen may burn our light,

Undimmed, unsoiled by sin.

Shine on Thine own, Redeemer sweet !

Thy radiance increate
Through the long day shall keep our
feet,

In their pure morning state.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

Only one Nocturn is said.

Antiphon. Sing aloud.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, " Unto God our
strength."

In Paschal time only one Antiphon is
said for the whole Nocturn. Alleluia.

Psalm LXXX.

[Intituled "Of Asaph." It has a super
scription of meaning now uncertain, but
part of which perhaps means that it was
a Hymn for the vintage.]

O ING aloud unto God our strength :
^ * make a joyful noise unto the
God of Jacob.

Take a psalm, and bring hither
the timbrel : * the pleasant harp
with the psaltery.

Blow the trumpet in the new
moon, 2 * in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast-day.

1 From a hymn of the Ambrosian school, very slightly altered ; translation by the late
Card. Newman.

2 The ordinance referred to in this and the next verses is found in Numb. x. "And the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying : Make thee two trumpets of silver, of a whole piece shalt
thou make them. . . . And in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and
in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings,
and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings ; that they may be to you for a memorial
before God. I am the LORD your God."

FRIDAY AT MATTINS.

For this is a statute for Israel :
* and a law of the God of Jacob.

This He ordained in Joseph for
a testimony, when he went out of
the land of Egypt : * he heard a
language that he understood not.

He removed his shoulder from
the burden, * his hands were done
with slaving over the baskets.

Thou calledst upon Me in trouble,
and I delivered thee : * I answered
thee in the secret place of thunder : I
proved thee at the waters of strife. 1

Hear, O My people, and I will
testify unto thee : * O Israel, if
thou wilt hearken unto Me, there
shall no strange god be in thee,
neither shalt thou worship any
strange god.

For I am the LORD thy God,
Who brought thee out of the land
of Egypt : * open thy mouth wide
and I will fill it.

But My people would not hearken
unto My voice : * and Israel would
not obey Me :

So I gave them up unto their
own hearts lust : * they walked
in their own counsels.

that My people had heark
ened unto Me, * that Israel had

*, walked in My ways !

1 should quickly have brought
their enemies under them, * and
turned Mine hand against their
adversaries.

The haters of the LORD would
have feigned submission unto Him :
* but their time should have en
dured for ever.

He would have fed them also
with the finest of the wheat : *
and with honey out of the rock
would He have satisfied them.

Psalm LXXXI.
[Intituled "A Psalm of Asaph. ; ]

GOD standeth in the congrega
tion of the mighty : * He
judgeth among the judges.

How long do ye judge unjustly,

* and accept the person of the
wicked ? 2

Defend the poor and fatherless :

* do justice to the afflicted and
needy.

Deliver the poor, * and rid the
needy out of the hand of the wicked.

They know not, neither do they
understand, they walk on in dark
ness : * all the foundations of the
earth are out of course.

3 1 have said : Ye are gods, *
and all of you are children of the
Most High

But ye shall die like men :
and fall like one of the princes.

Arise, O God, judge the earth :

* for Thou shalt inherit all na
tions.

Antiphon. 4 Sing aloud unto
God our strength.

Second Antiphon. Thou alone.

Psalm LXXXI I.

[Intituled " A Song. A Psalm of
Asaph."]

OGOD, who shall be likened
unto Thee ? * hold not Thy
peace, and be not still, O God.

For, lo, Thine enemies make a
tumult : * and they that hate Thee
have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel
against Thy people, * and con
sulted against Thine holy ones.

1 SLTt. For "the waters of Meribah " or "strife," see note on Ps. xciv., p. 2.

2 SLH. 3 This verse was quoted by our Lord. John x. 34. 4 Ps. Ixxx. 2.

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THE PSALTER.

They have said : Come and let
us cut them off from being a na
tion : * that the name of Israel
may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together
with one consent : * they are con
federate against Thee : the taberna
cles of Edom, 1 and the Ishmaelites.

Of Moab, and the Hagarenes ;
Gebal, and Ammon, Amalek, * the
" Strangers " with the inhabitants
of Tyre.

Assur also is joined with them :

* they have holpen the children
of Lot. 2

Do unto them as unto Midian, 3
and Sisera : * as unto Jabin, at
the brook of Kishon.

They perished at Endor : * they
became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb
and like Zeeb ; * as Zebah and
Zalmunna,

All their princes : * who said :
Let us take to ourselves the Sanc
tuary of God in possession.

O my God, make them like a
wheel [of whirling dust] ; * and as
the stubble before the wind !

As the fire that burneth a wood,

* and as the flame that setteth the
mountains on fire.

So pursue them with Thy tem
pest, * and trouble them in Thine
anger.

Fill their faces with shame : * and
they will seek Thy Name, O LORD !

Let them be confounded and
troubled for ever : * yea, let them
be put to shame and perish.

And let men know that Thy
name is the LORD : * Thou alone
art the Most High over all the
earth.

PsalmLXXXIII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of the sons of
Korah. " It has the same superscription as
Ps. Ixx., referring possibly to the vintage.
It reads as if it were a pilgrim-song refer
ring to the going up of all the males of
Israel to Jerusalem to observe the Feast of
Tabernacles, when harvest and vintage were
over. ]

HOW lovely are Thy taberna
cles, O LORD of hosts ! *
my soul longeth and fainteth for
the courts of the LORD :

Mine heart and my flesh * rejoice
for the living God.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an
house, * and the dove a nest for
herself, where she may lay her
young,

Even Thine altars, O LORD of
hosts, * my King and my God !

Blessed are they that dwell in
Thine house, O Lord ; * they will
be ever praising Thee. 2

Blessed is the man whose strength
is from Thee ; * who hath settled in
his heart to go up [to thy Sanctu
ary,] through the vale of tears, 4 to
the place which he hath appointed.

He That hath given the Law will

1 Of the list of tribes in the next few verses, the Ishmaelites are the inhabitants of Edom;
Moab, and the Hagarenes, Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, tribes to the south and south-east of
Canaan ; the " Strangers " are the Philistines ; Assur is Assyria ; the children of Lot are
the Moabites and Ammonites. 2 SLH.

3 The Midianites invaded Israel during the Judgeship of Gideon, who defeated them.
Barak had previously, by a great victory between the Kishon and Endor, delivered his
people from the tyranny of Jabin king of the Canaanites, whose general, Sisera, lost his life
on the occasion. Oreb and Zeeb were two princes, and Zebah and Zalmunna two kings of
the Midianites, whom the Israelites took prisoners and put to death on the second occasion.
See Judges iv.-viii.

4 Hebrew, "of Baca," probably the proper name of a place, but, literally, "weeping."

FRIDAY AT MATTINS.

give His blessing; they shall go
from strength to strength : * they
appear before the God of gods in
Zion.

LORD God of hosts, hear my
prayer : * give ear, O God of Ja
cob ! J

Behold, O God, our shield:
and look upon the face of Thine
Anointed.

For a day in Thy courts is better

* than a thousand.

1 had rather be a menial in the
house of my God, * than to dwell
in the tents of wickedness.

For God loveth mercy and truth :

* the LORD will give grace and
glory.

No good thing will He withhold
from them that walk uprightly.
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man
that trusteth in Thee !

Antiphon. 2 Thou alone art the
Most High over all the earth.
Third Antiphon. LORD.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words " Thou hast been
favourable."

Psalm LXXXIV.

[Intituled "A Psalm of the sons of
Korah," with the usual (now uncertain)
superscription.]

LORD, Thou hast been favour
able unto Thy land : * Thou
hast brought back the captivity of
Jacob.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of
Thy people: * Thou hast covered
all their sins. 1

Thou hast taken away all Thy
wrath : * Thou hast turned Thyself
from the fierceness of Thine anger.

1 SLH.

Turn us, O God of our salvation,
* and cause Thine anger towards us
to cease.

Wilt Thou be angry with us for
ever? * wilt Thou draw out Thine
anger to all generations ?

God, Thou shalt again quicken
us : * and Thy people shall rejoice
in Thee.

Show us Thy mercy, O LORD ! *
and grant us Thy salvation.

1 will hear what the LORD God
will speak in me : * for He will
speak peace unto His people,

And to His saints, * and unto
them that are changed in heart.

Surely His salvation is nigh them
that fear Him, * that glory may
dwell in our land.

Mercy and truth have met to
gether : * righteousness and peace
have kissed each other.

Truth hath sprung out of the
earth : * and righteousness hath
looked down from heaven.

Yea, the LORD shall give that
which is good : * and our land shall
yield her increase.

Righteousness shall go before
Him : * and shall set His footsteps
in the way.

Psalm LXXXV.
[Intituled "A Prayer of David."]

BOW down Thine ear, O LORD,
and hear me : * for I am poor
and needy.

Preserve my soul, for I am holy :
* O Thou my God, save Thy servant
that trusteth in Thee.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for
I cry unto Thee all the day long : *
rejoice the soul of Thy servant, for

2 Ps. Ixxxii. 19.

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THE PSALTER.

unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul.

For Thou, Lord, art good and
ready to forgive, * and plenteous
in mercy to all them that call upon
Thee.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my
prayer: * and attend to the voice
of my supplication.

In the day of my trouble I called
upon Thee, * for Thou hast heard
me.

Among the gods there is none like
unto Thee, O Lord : * neither are
there any works like unto Thy works.
All nations whom Thou hast
made shall come and worship be
fore Thee, O Lord: * and shall
glorify Thy name.

For Thou art great and doest won
drous things : * Thou art God alone.
Teach me Thy way, O LORD,
and I will walk in Thy truth: *
let mine heart be glad, that it may
fear Thy name.

I will praise Thee, O Lord my
God, with all mine heart, * and I
will glorify Thy name for evermore.
For great is Thy mercy toward
me : * and Thou hast delivered my
soul from the lowest hell.

O God, the wicked are risen
against me, and the assemblies of
violent men have sought after my
soul, * and have not set Thee before
them.

But Thou, O Lord, art a God full
of compassion and gracious, * long-
suffering, and plenteous in mercy
and truth.

O look upon me, and have mercy

upon me : * give Thy strength unto
Thy servant, and save the son of
Thine handmaid !

Show me a token for good, that
they which hate me may see it and be
ashamed : * because Thou, O LORD,
hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Antiphon. l LORD, Thou hast
been favourable unto Thy land.

Fourth Antiphon. Her foundation.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, "Is in the holy
mountains."

Psalm LXXXVI.

[Intituled "A Psalm. A Song of the
sons of Korah." The Targum adds that it
was based upon words of the ancients,
perhaps meaning that the two first verses
before the SLH were an ancient saying to
M-hich the rest was a later addition.]

TER foundation is in the holy
-* -* mountains : * the LORD lov-
eth the gates of Zion more than all
the dwellings of Jacob !

Glorious things are spoken of
thee, * O city of God ! 2

I will make mention of Rahab 3
and Babylon * that know me.

Behold the "Strangers," 4 and
Tyre, and the people of Ethiopia, *
these were there

And of Zion shall it not be said :
This and that man was born in her,
* and the Highest Himself hath
established her? 5

The LORD shall make count,

when He writeth up the people [and

the princes,] 6 * of all that are in her. 2

All they that dwell in thee * are

in gladness.

1 Ps. Ixxxiv. 2. 2 SLH

I That is " the Insolent One," namely, Egypt. 4 f ^ t he Philistines&gt;

meaning that Jerusalem shall be illustrious as the birth-place of all kinds of
,-iished persons? The Targum, curiously enough, says that the persons meant are
and Solomon, whereas David is a native of Bethlehem.
Displaced from the beginning of the next verse.

FRIDAY AT MATTINS.

Psalm LXXXVII.

[This Psalm has a long superscription, in
which its authorship is attributed to Pieman
the Ezrahite, one of five brothers, descen
dants of Zarah, the son ofjudah. Four of
them were celebrated for wisdom. 3 (i)
Kings iv. 31. This Psalm was written for
the sons of Korah, and intended to be sung
with an accompaniment of pipes and flutes.]

LORD God of my salvation, *
I have cried day and night
before Thee.

Let my prayer come before Thee ;
* incline Thine ear unto my cry.

For my soul is full of troubles : *
and my life draweth nigh unto the
grave.

I am counted with them that go
down into the pit : * I am as a
man that hath no strength, lying
nerveless among the dead,

Like the pierced that lie in the
grave, whom Thou rememberest no
more : * and they are cast off from
Thine hand.

_ They have laid me in the lowest
pit, * in darkness and in the shadow
of death.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,
* and Thou hast afflicted me with
all Thy waves. 1

Thou hast put away mine ac
quaintance far from me : * they
have made me an abomination unto
them.

I am shut up, and cannot come
forth: * mine eyes fail by reason
of affliction.

LORD, I have called daily upon
Thee : * I have stretched out my
hands unto Thee !

Wilt Thou show wonders to the
iead ? * or can physicians quicken
them, so that they may praise
Thee ? l

Shall Thy loving -kindness be
1 SLH.

declared in the grave, * and Thy
faithfulness in destruction ?

Shall Thy wonders be known in
the dark, * and Thy righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness ?

But unto Thee have I cried, O
LORD : * and in the morning shall
my prayer come before Thee.

LORD, why castest Thou off my
prayer, * why hidest Thou Thy face
from me ?

I am afflicted, and in toil from
my youth up: * and when I was
lifted up, then was I brought down
and troubled :

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me,
* and Thy terrors have troubled me.
They came round about me all
the day like a flood : * they com
passed me about together.

Friend and neighbour hast Thou
put far from me, * mine acquaint
ance also, because of my misery.

Antiphon. 2 Her foundation is
in the holy mountains.
Fifth Antiphon. Blessed.

Psalm LXXXVIII.

[Intituled " A didactic (?) Poem of Ethan
the Ezrahite." This Ethan was a brother
of the author of the last Psalm.]

T WILL sing of the mercies * of
* the LORD for ever.

With my mouth will I make
known Thy faithfulness * to all
generations.

For Thou hast said : Mercy shall
be built up for ever in the heavens :

Thy faithfulness shall be estab
lished in them.

I have made a covenant with My
chosen, I have sworn unto David
My servant: * thy seed will I
establish for ever.

2 Ps, Ixxxvi. I.

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THE PSALTER.

And build up thy throne * to
all generations. 1

And the heavens shall praise Thy
wonders, O LORD; * Thy faithful
ness also in the congregation of the
Saints

For who in heaven can be com
pared unto the LORD? * Who
among the sons of God can be
likened unto GOD ?

God, Which is glorious in the
assembly of the saints, * great
and terrible to all them that are
about Him.

O LORD God of hosts, who is
like unto Thee ? * Thou art strong,
O LORD, and Thy faithfulness is
round about Thee !

Thou rulest the raging of the
sea : * when the waves thereof
arise Thou stillest them.

Thou hast broken the " Inso
lent " one, 2 as one that is slain :
* Thou hast scattered Thine ene
mies with Thy strong arm.

The heavens are Thine, the
earth also is Thine, as for the
world and the fulness thereof
Thou hast founded them : * the
North and the South Thou hast
created them : .

3 Tabor and Hermon shall re
joice in Thy name. * Thou hast
a mighty arm.

Strong is Thine hand, and high
Thy right hand : * justice and
judgment are the foundations of
Thy throne.

Mercy and truth shall go before
Thy face. * Blessed is the people
that know the joyful sound !

They shall walk, O LORD, in
the light of Thy countenance, and
in Thy name shall they rejoice all
the day : * in Thy righteousness
also shall they be exalted.

For thou art the glory of their
strength: * and in Thy favour
our horn shall be exalted.

For of the LORD is our de
fence, * and of the Holy One of
Israel is our King.

Then Thou spakest in vision to
Thine holy ones, and saidst : * I
have laid help upon one that is
mighty, and have exalted one
chosen out of My people.

I have found David My ser
vant : * with Mine holy oil have I
anointed him.

For Mine hand shall help him :
* Mine arm also shall strengthen
him.

The enemy shall prevail nothing
against him : * nor the son of
wickedness afflict him.

And I will beat down his foes
before his face, * and put them
that hate him to flight.

And My truth and My mercy
shall be with him: * and in My
Name shall his horn be exalted.

I will set his hand also in the
sea, * and his right hand in the
rivers. 4

He shall cry unto me : Thou
art my Father, * my God, and
the rock of my salvation.

5 Also I will make him My first
born, * higher than the kings of
the earth.

My mercy will I keep for him

1 SLH.

2 Rahab i.e., Egypt.

3 Two prominent mountains in the North of Syria.

4 That is ; " I will make his power to be bounded on the West by the Mediterranean,
and on the East by the Tigris and Euphrates."

5 The next verses are a sort of quotation of the Divine message given by Nathan t
David. 2 Kings (Sam.) vii. 14-16.

FRIDAY AT MATTINS.

for evermore, * and My covenant
shall stand fast with him.

His seed also will I make to
endure for ever, * and his throne
as the days of heaven.

But if his children forsake My
law, * and walk not in My judg
ments,

If they break My statutes, * and
keep not My commandments,

Then I will visit their trans
gressions with the rod, * and
their iniquity with stripes.

Nevertheless My loving-kindness
will I not utterly take from him,

* nor fail in My truth.

My covenant also will I not break,

* nor make void the thing that is
gone out of My lips.

Once have I sworn by Mine
holiness, that I will not lie unto
David : * his seed shall endure for
ever,

And his throne, as the sun before
Me : * and as the full moon for
ever, and as the faithful witness in
heaven. 1

But Thou hast cast off and de
spised, * Thou hast put away Thine
Anointed.

Thou hast made void the cove-
Bant of Thy servant : * Thou hast
profaned his crown [by casting] it
to the ground.

Thou hast broken down all his
hedges : * Thou hast brought his
strongholds to ruin.

All that pass by the way spoil
him : " he is a reproach to his
neighbours.

Thou hast set up the right hand
of his adversaries : * Thou hast
made all his enemies to rejoice.

Thou hast turned the edge of his
sword, * and hast not upholden him
in battle.

Thou hast made his brightness to
cease, * and cast his throne down
to the ground.

The days of his youth hast Thou
shortened: * Thou hast covered
him with shame. 2

How long, LORD, wilt Thou hide
Thyself, for ever? * Shall Thy
wrath burn like fire?

Remember how short my time is :.
* wherefore hast Thou made all the
sons of men in vain ?

What man is he that liveth, and
shall not see death? * Shall he
deliver his soul from the hand of
the grave ? 2

Lord, where are Thy former lov
ing-kindnesses, * which Thou swarest
unto David in Thy truth ?

Remember, Lord, the reproach of
Thy servants, * (that I bear in my
bosom) even the reproach of many
people

Wherewith Thine enemies have
reproached, O LORD * wherewith
they have reproached the woes of
Thine Anointed.

Blessed be the LORD for ever
more ! * Amen, Amen. 3

PsalmXCIII.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. ascribe this
Psalm to David, and assign it to the fourth
day of the week. ]

LORD God to Whom ven-
geance belongeth, * the God
to Whom vengeance belongeth hath
shown Himself.

Lift up Thyself, Thou judge of

1 SLH. Is the "faithful witness" the rainbow? See Gen. ix. (Thursday after Sexa-
gesima Sunday.) 2 CJLH

3 Here ends the third of the five books into which the Psalter is divided.

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THE PSALTER.

the earth : * render a reward to the
proud.

LORD, how long shall the wicked,

* how long shall the wicked
triumph ?

How long shall they utter and
speak iniquity ? * all the workers of
wickedness boast themselves ?

They crush Thy people, O LORD !

* and afflict Thine heritage.

They slay the widow and the
stranger, * and murder the father
less.

Yet they say : The LORD shall
not see, * neither shall the God of
Jacob understand.

Understand, ye brutish among the
people ! * and ye fools, some time
be wise !

He That planted the ear, shall He
not hear ? * or He That formed the
eye, can He not see ?

He That chastiseth the heathen,
shall not He correct? * He That
teacheth man knowledge?

The LORD knoweth the thoughts
of men, * that they are vanity.

Blessed is the man whom Thou
chastenest, O LORD, * and teachest
out of Thy law.,

That Thou mayest give him rest
from the days of adversity, * until
the pit be digged for the wicked.

For the LORD will not cast off
His people, * neither will He for
sake His inheritance.

Until righteousness return unto
judgment, * and all the upright in
heart follow it.

Who will rise up for me against
the evil-doers ? * or who will stand
up with me against the workers of
iniquity ?

Unless the LORD had been mine
help, * my soul had almost dwelt
in the grave.

When I said : My foot slippeth
* Thy mercy, O LORD, held me
up.

In the multitude of the sorrows
within mine heart, * Thy comforts
delight my soul.

1 Hath the throne of iniquity
fellowship with Thee? * which
frameth mischief by a law?

They that gather themselves
together against the soul of the
righteous, * and condemn the in
nocent blood ?

But the LORD is my refuge, *
and my God is the stay of my
trust.

And He shall bring upon them
their own iniquity, and shall cut
them off in their own wickedness :
* the LORD our God shall cut
them off.

Antiphon. 2 Blessed be the LORD
for evermore.

Sixth Antiphon. Sing.

Psalm XCV.

[In I Par. (Chron.) xvi. it is stated that
David gave this Psalm to Asaph and his
brethren upon the day that the ark was
brought to Jerusalem. The text is there
given somewhat differently, and the whole
forms the second part of one Psalm, of
which the first part consists of the first
fifteen verses of Ps. civ. The Vulgate and
the LXX. note that it was sung at the
rebuilding of the Temple after the Cap
tivity.]

SING unto the LORD a new
song : * sing unto the LORD,
all the earth.

Sing unto the LORD, and bless

1 This verse is translated according to the sense of the Hebrew, the LXX., Aquila, |
Symmachus, Theodotion, and St Jerome, but the Latin has the second, instead of the
third, person singular in the last clause. 2 Ps. Ixxxviii. 53.

FRIDAY AT MATTINS.

149

His Name : * show forth His sal
vation from day to day.

Declare His glory among the
heathen, * His wonders among all
people.

For the LORD is great, and greatly
to be praised : * He is to be feared
above all gods.

For all the gods of the heathen
are devils : * but the LORD made
the heavens.

Praise and beauty are before
Him : * holiness and majesty are
in His sanctuary.

Give unto the LORD, O ye kin
dreds of the people, give unto the
LORD glory and honour : * give
unto the LORD the glory due unto
His name.

Bring sacrifices, and come into
His courts : * O worship the LORD
in His holy temple !

Let all the earth fear before
Him. Say among the heathen,
The LORD reigneth !

He hath established the world
also, that it shall not be moved :
* He shall judge the people right
eously.

Let the heavens rejoice, and let
the earth be glad, let the sea roar,
and the fulness thereof: * let the
rields be joyful and all that is
therein.

Then shall all the trees of the
wood rejoice before the LORD, for
He cometh, * for He cometh to
judge the earth.

He shall judge the world with
righteousness : * and the people
with His truth. 1

Psalm XCVI.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. have the
superscription "[A Psalm] of David when
his country was re - established " per
haps meaning after the usurpation of Ab-
solom.]

HP HE LORD reigneth ; let the
1 earth rejoice: * let the mul
titude of isles be glad thereof.

Clouds and darkness are round
about Him : * righteousness and
judgment are the foundation of
His throne.

A fire shall go before Him, * and
burn up His enemies round about.

His lightnings enlightened the
world : * the earth saw and trem
bled.

The hills melted like wax at
the presence of the LORD, * at
the presence of the Lord of the
whole earth.

The heavens declared His right
eousness, * and all the people
saw His glory.

Confounded be all they that
worship graven images, * and that
boast themselves of idols.

Worship Him, all ye His An
gels ! * Zion heard, and was glad.

And the daughters of Judah
rejoiced, * because of Thy judg
ments, O LORD !

For thou, LORD, art high above
all the earth : * Thou art exalted
far above all gods.

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil :
* the Lord preserveth the souls of
His saints ; He delivet eth them out
of the hand of the wicked.

Light is sprung up for the

In i Par. (Chron.) xvi. the Psalm continues :" O give thanks unto the LORD, for
He IS good : for His mercy endureth for ever. And say ye : Save us, O God of our
salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give
thanks to Thy holy Name, and glory in Thy praise. Blessed be the LORD God of
Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said : Amen and praised the LORD"
possibly in Ps. cxxxv.

ISO

THE PSALTER.

righteous, * and gladness for the
upright in heart.

Rejoice in the LORD, ye right
eous, * and give thanks to the
memorial of His holiness !

Antiphon. l Sing unto the LORD,
and bless His name.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.
In Advent.

Verse. Send forth the Lamb, O
Lord, the ruler of the land.

Answer. From the "Rock" of
the wilderness unto the mount of
the daughter of Zion.

During the rest of the year.
Verse. 2 Let my prayer come
before Thee, O Lord.

Answer. Incline Thine ear unto

my cry.

In Lent.

Verse. He shall cover thee with
His wings.

Answer. And under His feath
ers shalt thou trust.

In Passion time.

Verse. O Lord, save me from
the lion s mouth.

Answer. And mine affliction
from the horns of the unicorns.

In Paschal time.

Verse. The Lord is risen in
deed, Alleluia.

Answer. And hath appeared un
to Simon, Alleluia.

The rest is the same as the Second
Nocturn on the preceding Sunday, only
the Lessons, and sometimes the Respon-
sories, are those of the day.

Simple Feasts. It is to be remembered
that when a Simple Feast is kept on
Friday, the Invitatory and Hymn are
of the Feast, being taken from the Com
mon of Saints of the class, unless speci
ally given.

Then the Psalms and Antiphons of
the Week-day, as given above. Then is
said a Verse and Answer as follows :

In the Simple Office for one or many
Martyrs in Paschal time.

Verse. The everlasting light
shall shine upon Thy Saints, O
Lord. Alleluia.

Answer. Even unto everlasting.
Alleluia.

/;/ the Simple Office for one Martyr,
(put of Paschal time}.

Verse. 3 Thou hast set a crown
O Lord, of precious stones.
Answer. Upon his head.

In the Simple Office for many Martyr,
(put of Paschal time].

Verse. 4 Let the righteous re
joice before God.

Answer. Yea, let them exceed
ingly rejoice.

In the Simple Office for a Bishop and
Conjessor.

Verse. 5 The Lord chose him for
a priest unto Himself.

\Jn Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
Answer. To offer up unto Him
the sacrifice of praise.

[In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

In the Simple Office for a Confessor
not a Bishop.

Verst. 6 The mouth of the right
eous shall speak wisdom.

[7n Paschal time, add Alleluia.]
Answer. And his tongue talk ol
judgment.

\In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

1 PS. XCV. 2.

4 Ps. Ixvii. 3.

2 Ps. Ixxxvii. 3.
5 Ecclus. xlv. 16.

3 Ps. xx. 3.
6 Ps. xxxvi. 30.

FRIDAY AT MATTINS.

For one Holy Woman, of whatever

Verse. * God shall give her the
help of His countenance.

\In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

Answer. God is in the midst of
her, she shall not be moved.

\In Paschal time, add Alleluia.]

The others, as well as what follows,
to the end of the Service, are taken from
the Second Nocturn of the Office common
to Saints of the class, unless something
special be appointed. The Lessons are
arranged according to the rules in Chap
ter xx vi. 4 of the general Rubrics.
The Hymn, " We praise Thee, O God,"
is said at the end, instead of a Third
Responsory. The Responsories are ar
ranged according to the rules in Chapter
xxvii. 4 of the General Rubrics. Thus:

The Lords Prayer is said:

Father (inaudibly], Who art
in heaven, Hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our tres
passes, as we forgive them that tres
pass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

Then this Absolution :

TV/FAY His loving kindness and
-L*^ mercy help us, Who liveth
and reigneth with the Father, and
the Holy Ghost, world without end.
Answer. Amen.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

First Blessing, if the Lesson be from
Scripture.

God the Father, the Almighty,
Show on us His grace and mercy,
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing, if the Lesson be of an
Homily.

May the Gospel s saving Lord
Bless the reading of His Word.
Answer. Amen.

First Blessing on a Simple Feast.

May His blessing be upon us,
Who doth live and reign for ever.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the First Lesson from
Scripture or from the Homily, or, on a
Simple Feast, either the First from
Scripture, or, if the Saint or Saints
have two Lessons, the whole three Scrip
ture Lessons read together as one.

Then the First Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the First Responsory of
the preceding Sunday. On a Simple
Feast, it is the First Responsory in the
Common Office for the class to which
the Saint belongs.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture.

May Christ to all His people give
For ever in His sight to live.
Answer. Amen.

Second Blessing, if the Lesson be from
an Homily.

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

1 Ps. xlv. 5, (Alexandrian version).

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THE PSALTER.

Second Blessing, for a Simple Feast.

He (or She or They) whose feast-
day we are keeping
Plead for us before the Lord.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Second Lesson, either
from the Scripture or from an Homily,
or, on a Simple Feast, either the Second
and Third Lessons from Scripture re ad
together as one, or, if the Saint or Saints
have two Lessons, the first of these.

Then the Second Responsory, unless
otherwise directed. On a week-day kept
as such, this is the Second Responsory
of the preceding Sunday, but in Paschal
time there is added to it :

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

And the Answer of the Responsory is
repeated again.

On .a Simple Feast the Second Re
sponsory in the Common Office for the
class to which the Saint belongs, with the
addition of " Glory be to the Father,"
&c., and the repetition of the Answer.

Then the Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

Third Blessing, if the Lesson be of
Scripture.

May the Spirit s fire divine
In our inmost being shine. -
Answer. Amen.

Third Blessing, for a Simple Feast, or
if the Lesson be from an Homily.

May He that is the Angels King
To that high realm His people bring,
Answer. Amen.

Then is read the Third Lesson either
from Scripture, or of the Homily, or,
on Simple Feasts, the Second or only
Lesson of the Saint.

Then, on Simple Feasts and on any
day in Paschal time is said the Hymn,
"We praise Thee, O God." But on
week-days kept as such out of Paschal
time the Third Responsory of the pre
ceding Sunday.

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Jfribag at faub*.

THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Stmday, except as other
wise given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Uphold mine heart.

Psalm L.

Have mercy upon me, c., (/.
87).

Antiphon. Uphold mine heart
with Thy free spirit, O God.

Second Antiphon. In Thy faith
fulness.

Psalm CXLII.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," and
the Vulgate and the LXX. add, "when
he was being persecuted by Absolom his
son."]

TJEAR my prayer, O LORD,
-*- -^ give ear to my supplication
in Thy faithfulness : * answer me,
in Thy righteousness.

And enter not into judgment
with Thy servant : * for in Thy
sight shall no man living be jus
tified.

For the enemy hath persecuted
my soul : * he hath smitten my
life down to the ground :

He hath made me to dwell in
darkness, as those that have been

long dead. Therefore is my

spirit overwhelmed within me : mine
heart within me is troubled.

I remember the days of old :
T meditate on all thy works : *
I muse on the works of Thine
hands.

I stretch forth mine hands unto
Thee : * my soul [thirsteth] after
Thee, as a thirsty land. 1

Hear me speedily, O LORD : *
my spirit faileth :

Hide not Thy face from me, *
lest I be like unto them that go
down into the pit.

Cause me to hear Thy loving-
kindness in the morning : * for
in Thee do I trust :

Cause me to know the way
wherein I should walk : * for I
lift up my soul unto Thee.

Deliver me, O LORD, from
mine enemies : I flee unto Thee
to hide me. * Teach me to do
Thy will : for Thou art my God.

Let Thy good Spirit lead me
into the land of uprightness. *
For Thy name s sake, O LORD,
Thou shalt quicken me in Thy
righteousness.

Thou shalt bring my soul out
of trouble : * and of Thy mercy
cut off mine enemies,

SLH.

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THE PSALTER.

And destroy all them that af- His glory covered the heavens,
flict my soul : * for I am Thy * and the earth was full of His

servant.

praise.

His brightness was as the light :
* He had horns 2 coming out of
His hand :

There was the hiding of His
power. * Before Him went death.

And the destroyer went forth

at His feet. * He stood and mea-
O God, Thou art my God, &c., sured the earth .

2 3)- He beheld, and drove asunder

the nations : * and the everlast-
Lord, cause Thy - n g mountains were crushed :

The everlasting hills did bow : *
because the Eternal passed by. 3

I saw the tents of Ethiopia in
affliction : * the curtains of the
land of Midian did tremble. 4

Wast Thou displeased against
the rivers, O LORD? * was Thine
anger against the rivers ? Thy
wrath against the sea?

That Thou didst ride upon
Thine horses, * and Thy chariots
were salvation?

Thou didst seize and draw Thy

Antiphon. In Thy faithfulness,
answer me, O Lord.

Third Antiphon. O Lord.

Psalms LXIL, LXVI.

Antiphon.
face to shine upon us.

Fourth Antiphon. O LORD, I
have heard.

If this Antiphon be used the Can
ticle begins with the words, " Thy
speech."

THE SONG OF HABAKKUK THE
PROPHET. (Hab. iii.)

[Intituled "A prayer of Habakkuk the
Prophet " with a direction, perhaps musi
cal.]

LORD, I have heard tell of

Thee : * and was afraid : bow, * according to the oaths that

O LORD, revive Thy work * in Thou utteredst unto the tribes/

the midst of the years ;

Thou didst cleave the rivers of

In the midst of the years shalt the earth : the mountains saw Thee

Thou make it known : * in wrath, and they trembled : * the overflow-

Thou wilt remember mercy. ing of the water passed by :

God shall come from " the The deep uttered his voice : *

South," and the Holy One he lifted up his hands on high,

from Mount Paran. 1 The sun and moon stood still

1 SLH. "The South" is, in the original, "Teman," the name of a country and nation
eastward of Idumea, but used for the south generally. Paran, or Pharan, is an uncultured
and mountainous region, lying between Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Idumea. The pas
sage is an imitation of the words of Moses when blessing the tribes. Deut. xxxiii. 2. "The
LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He stirred forth from Mount
Paran, and He came with ten thousands of Saints : from His right hand went a fiery law
for them."

" Gesenius says " Horns is here used of flashes of lightning, just as the Arabian poets
compare the first beams of the rising sun to horns, and call the sun itself a gazelle."

3 The present Hebrew simply is The ways are everlasting to Him. "

4 Proper name of an Arabian nation whose territory lay from the eastern shore of the
^Elanitic Gulf as far as the land of Moab. 8 SLH.

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in their habitation : * at the light
of Thine arrows they went forth, at
the shining of Thy glittering spear.

Thou didst tread down the
land in indignation : * Thou didst
thresh the heathen in anger.

Thou wentest forth for the sal
vation of Thy people, * even for
salvation with Thine Anointed. 1

Thou didst smite the head of
the house of the wicked : 2 Thou
didst lay bare the foundation untp
the neck. 3

Thou didst curse his sceptre,
even the head of his fighting men,

* when they came out as a whirl
wind to scatter me :

Their rejoicing was as the re
joicing of him * that devoureth
the poor secretly.

Thou didst make a way in the
sea for Thine horses, * through
the mire of great waters.

I heard, and my belly trembled :

* my lips quivered at the voice :
Let rottenness enter into my

bones, and corruption swarm

under me :

That I may rest in the day of
trouble : * that I may go up unto
our people that are girded. 4

Although the fig-tree shall not
blossom, * neither shall fruit be
in the vines :

The labour of the olive shall
fail, * and the fields shall yield
no meat :

The flock shall be cut off from
the fold, * and there shall be no
herd in the stalls :

Yet will I rejoice in the LORD :

* I will joy in the God of my
salvation. 5

The LORD God is my strength :

* and He will make my feet like
hinds feet:

And He will lead me forth, to
make me to walk upon mine high
places, * as a conqueror, to sing
praises unto Him. 6

Antiphon. O LORD, I have heard
Thy speech, and was afraid.
Fifth Antiphon. Praise God.

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD, from the
heavens, &c., (pp. 25, 26).

Antiphon. Praise God with the
timbrel and dance.

CHAPTER. (Rom. xiii. 12.)

The night is far spent, c., (as on
Monday, p. 89).

HYMN. 7

GLORY of the eternal Heaven,
Blessed Hope to mortals given,
Of the Almighty Only Son,
And the Virgin s Holy One ;
Raise us, Lord, and we shall rise

In a sober mood,
And a zeal which glorifies
Thee from gratitude.

Now the day-star keenly glancing,
Tells us of the sun s advancing;
While the unhealthy shades decline,
Rise within us, Light Divine !

John

1 Moses? 2 Pharaoh?

3 SLH. Some critics read " of the rock " instead of " unto the neck."

4 Accinctum. The Latin translator probably meant " girt," as the dead were girt, cf.

xi. 44.

Jesu Meo. So the Hebrew.

This last clause seems to be only a musical direction, which has got confounded with
the text. Some translate it : " Given to the leader of the string band."
7 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, slightly altered ; translation by the late Card. Newman.

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THE PSALTER.

Rise, and, risen, go not hence,

Stay and make us bright,
Streaming through each cleansed
sense,

On the outward night.

Then the root of faith shall spread
In the heart new fashioned ;
Gladsome hope shall spring above,
And shall bear the fruit of love.
To the Father, and the Son,

And the Holy Ghost,
Here be glory, as is done,

By the Angelic host.

Amen.

Verse. Thou hast satisfied us
early with Thy mercy.

Answer. We rejoice and are
glad.

Antiphon for the Song of Zach-
arias. Through the tender mercy
of our God * the day-spring from on
high hath visited us.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other Commemorations, and Long
Preces in Advent and Lent, and on
*Fast-days, as on Monday.

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iatetbap at

THE SABBATH.

All as on Sunday, except as other
wise given here.

Invitatory, O come, let us wor
ship * the Lord our God.

HYMN. 1

BATHER of mercies infinite,
*- Ruling all things that be,
Who, shrouded in the depth and height,
Art One, and yet art Three :

Accept our chants, accept our tears,
A mingled stream we pour ;

Such stream the laden bosom cheers,
To taste Thy sweetness more.

Purge Thou with fire the o ercharged
mind,

Its sores and wounds profound;
And with the watcher s girdle bind

The limbs which sloth has bound.

That they who with their chants by
night

Before Thy presence come,
All may be fill d with strength and light

From their eternal home.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

Only one Nocturn is said.
Antiphon. For the Lord.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon is
said for the whole Nocturn. Alleluia.

Psalm XCVII.

[Intituled "A Psalm." The Vulgate and
the LXX. ascribe it to David.]

SING unto the LORD a new
song : * for He hath done
marvellous things.

His right hand, and His holy arm,

* have gotten Him the victory.
The LORD hath made known His

salvation : * His righteousness hath
He openly showed in the sight of
the heathen.

He hath remembered His mercy,

* and His truth towards the house
of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have
seen * the salvation of our God.

Make a joyful noise unto the
LORD, all the earth, * make a
loud noise and rejoice, and sing
praise.

Sing unto the LORD with the
harp, with the harp and the voice
of a psalm. * With trumpets and
sound of cornet,

Make a joyful noise before the
LORD, the King. * Let the sea
roar, and the fulness thereof, the
world and they that dwell therein.

Let the floods clap their hands,
let the hills be joyful together be-

1 Another hymn of the Ambrosian school, considerably altered ; translation by the late
Card. Newman.

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THE PSALTER.

fore the LORD. * For He cometh
to judge the earth :

With righteousness shall He judge
the world, * and the people with
equity.

Psalm XCVIII.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. ascribe this
Psalm to David.]

THE LORD reigneth, be the
people never so impatient : *
He sitteth upon the Cherubim, be
the earth never so unquiet.

The LORD is great in Zion : i
and He is high above all people.

Let them praise Thy great and
terrible Name, for it is holy:
and the King s majesty loveth judg
ment.

Thou dost establish equity :
Thou executest judgment and right
eousness in Jacob.

Exalt ye the LORD our God, and
worship at His footstool : " for it
is holy.

Moses and Aaron among His
priests, * and Samuel among them
that call upon His name.

They called upon the LORD, and
He answered them. * He spake
unto them in the cloudy pillar :

They kept His testimonies, *
and the ordinance that He gave
them.

Thou answeredst them, O LORD
our God ! * O God, Thou forgav-
est them, though Thou tookest
vengeance of their inventions.

Exalt the LORD our God and
worship at His holy hill : * for the
LORD our God is Holy.

Antiphon. l For the Lord hath
done marvellous things.

1 Ps.

When the following Psalm, "Make
a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands,"
is to be said at Lauds (as would be the
case, for instance, if Christmas Eve fell
on a Saturday} it is not said here, nor
its A ntiphon. But instead is said Psalm
xci., " It is a good thing to give thanks
unto the LORD," from the Saturday
Lauds which are to be displaced, with
the Antiphon, "It is a good thing * to
give thanks unto the LORD," in which
case the Psalm begins with the words
" To give thanks unto the LORD."

Second Antiphon. Make a joyful
noise.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, " Unto GOD, all
ye lands."

Psalm XCIX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of thanksgiving."
The Targum has " A Psalm for the Sacrifice
of thanksgiving."]

MAKE a joyful noise unto GOD,
all ye lands : * serve the
LORD with gladness.

Come before His presence, * with
singing.

Know ye that the LORD, He is
God : * it is He That hath made
us, and not we ourselves :

We are His people, and the
sheep of his pasture. * Enter into
His gates with thanksgiving, and
into His courts with praise : give
thanks unto Him,

Praise His Name. For the LORD
is good, His mercy is everlasting : *
and His truth endureth to all gen
erations.

Psalm C.
[Intituled " A Psalm of David."]

T WILL sing of mercy and judg-
A ment, * unto Thee, O LORD !
I will sing and behave myself

xcvii. i.

wisely in a perfect way. * O when
wilt Thou come unto me ?

I walked within mine house, * in
the innocence of mine heart.

I set no wicked thing before mine
eyes : * I hate the work of them
that turn aside.

A froward heart cleaveth not
unto me : * the wicked person that
turned aside from me, I would not
know.

Whoso privily slandered his neigh
bour, * him did I expose.

Him that had an high look and
a proud heart : * with him I will
not eat.

Mine eyes are upon the faithful
of the land, that they may dwell
with me : * he that walked in a
perfect way, he ministered unto
me.

He that doeth proud things shall
not dwell within mine house : * he
that speaketh wickedness was not
upright in my sight.

I will early destroy all the wicked
of the land : * that I may cut off
all wicked doers from the city of the
LORD.

Antiphon. l Make a joyful noise
unto GOD, all ye lands.
Third Antiphon. O God.

Psalm CI.

[Intituled "A Prayer of the afflicted,
when he is overwhelmed, and poureth
out his complaint before the LORD."]

"LI EAR my prayer, O LORD, *

1 A and let my cry come unto
Thee.

Hide not Thy face from me : *
in the day when I am in trouble
incline Thine ear unto me.

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In the day when I call upon
Thee, * answer me speedily.

For my days are wasted away like
smoke : * and my bones are con
sumed as a firebrand.

I am smitten like grass, and mine
heart is withered: * for I have
forgotten to eat my bread.

By reason of the voice of my
groaning * my bones cleave to my
flesh.

I am like a pelican of the wil
derness : * I am like an owl in his
hole.

I watch, * and am as a sparrow
alone upon the house-top.

Mine enemies reproached me
all the day : * and they that
praised me are sworn together
against me.

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
* and mingled my drink with weep
ing :

Because of thine indignation and
wrath : * for Thou hast lifted me up
and cast me down.

My days are like a shadow that
declineth : * and I am withered like
grass.

But Thou, O LORD, endurest for
ever, * and Thy remembrance unto
all generations.

Thou shalt arise and have mercy
upon Zion : * for the time to
favour her, yea, the set time, is
come.

For Thy servants take pleasure
in her stones : * and have pity on
her dust.

So the heathen shall fear Thy
name, O LORD, * and all the kings
of the earth Thy glory.

When the LORD shall build up
Zion, " He shall appear in His
glory.

1 Ps. xcix. I.

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THE PSALTER.

He hath had regard unto the
prayer of the destitute, * and hath
not despised their supplication.

Let this be written for the gen
eration to come : * and the people
which shall be created shall praise
the LORD.

For He hath looked down from
the height of His sanctuary : *
from heaven did the LORD behold
the earth :

To hear the groaning of the
prisoners, * to loose the children
of the slain.

To declare the name of the
LORD in Zion, * and His praise in
Jerusalem.

When the people are gathered
together, * and the kings, to serve
the LORD.

1 He answered him in the way
of his strength : * Show me the
shortness of my days.

Call me not away in the midst of
my days : * Thy years are unto all
generations.

Thou, Lord, in the beginning,
hast laid the foundation of the
earth : * and the heavens are the
works of Thine hands.

They shall perish, but Thou re-
mainest : * and they all shall wax
old as doth a garment :

And as a vesture shalt Thou
change them, and they shall be
changed : * but Thou art the
Same, and Thy years shall not
fail.

The children of Thy servants shall
continue : * and their seed shall be
established for ever.

Psalm CII.
[Intituled "of David."]

BLESS the LORD, O my soul : *
and all that is within me, bless
His holy name.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, * and
forget not all His benefits.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities :
* Who healeth all thy diseases.

Who redeemeth thy life from
destruction : * Who crowneth thee
with loving - kindness and tender
mercies.

Who satisfieth thy desire with
good things : * thy youth is re
newed like the eagle s.

The LORD executeth mercy, * and
judgment for all that are oppressed.

He made known His ways unto
Moses, * His will unto the chil
dren of Israel.

The LORD is merciful and gra
cious : * slow to anger, and plen
teous in mercy.

He will not always chide :
neither will He keep His anger for
ever.

He hath not dealt with us after
our sins : * nor rewarded us accord
ing to our iniquities.

For as the heaven is high above
the earth, * so great is His mercy
toward them that fear Him.

As far as the east is from the
west, * so far hath He removed our
transgressions from us.

Like as a father pitieth his chil
dren, so the LORD pitieth them that
fear Him. * For He knoweth our
frame ;

1 "He" may be taken for the "afflicted man" who has just given utterance to his
hopes of a brighter future. The Hebrew, (as now pointed,) reads: " He afflicted in the
way his (my) strength, he cut short my days." The Alexandrian translators, using an
unpointed text, took the opening word of the clause to mean "he answered" instead
of "he afflicted " as they might easily do, the letters being the same for either word.
The Hebrew text itself is not quite settled.

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161

He remembereth that we are
dust : * as for man, his days are as
grass, as a flower of the field so
shall he flourish.

For the wind passeth over it, and
it is gone, * and the place thereof
shall know it no more.

But the mercy of the LORD is
from everlasting * to everlasting
upon them that fear Him,

And His righteousness unto chil
dren s children ; * to such as keep
His covenant,

And to those that remember His
commandments, * to do them.

The LORD hath prepared His
throne in heaven, * and His king
dom shall rule over all.

Bless the LORD, all ye His
Angels, * that excel in strength,
that do His commandments, to
hearken unto the voice of His
word.

Bless ye the LORD, all ye His
hosts : * ye ministers of His that
do His pleasure.

Bless the LORD, all His works :
* in all places of His dominion ;
bless the LORD, O my soul !

Antiphon. 1 O God, let my cry
come unto Thee.

Fourth Antiphon. Bless the
LORD.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, " O my soul."

Psalm CIII.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. ascribe this
Psalm to David.]

T3LESS the LORD, O my soul : *
[M O LORD my God, Thou art
very great !

Thou art clothed with honour and

1 PS- Ci. I. 2 SQ

VOL. II.

majesty, * covering Thyself with
light as with a garment !

Who stretchest out the heavens
like a curtain, * Who coverest their
upper chambers with the waters !

Who makest the clouds Thy
chariot, * Who walkest upon the
wings of the wind !

Who makest Thine Angels spi
rits : * and Thy ministers a flame
of fire ! 2

Who layest the foundations of the
earth ; * it shall not be removed for
ever !

Thou coveredst it with the deep
as with a garment, * the waters
stood above the mountains.

At Thy rebuke they fled : * at
the voice of Thy thunder they hasted
fearfully away.

The mountains go up, and the
valleys go down, * into the place
which Thou hast founded for them.

Thou hast set a bound, that
they may not pass over : * that
they turn not again to cover the
earth.

Who sendeth springs into the
valleys : * the waters run among
the hills.

All the beasts of the field drink
thereof : * the wild asses seek them
in their thirst.

By them build the fowls of the
heaven their habitation ; * they sing
among the rocks.

He watereth the hills from His
upper chambers : * the earth is
satisfied with the fruit of Thy
works.

He causeth the grass to grow for
the cattle, * and herb for the service
of men :

That Thou mayest bring forth
food out of the earth, * and wine
is this passage translated, Heb. i. 7.

1 62

THE PSALTER.

that maketh glad the heart of
man ;

Oil to make his face to shine, *
and bread to strengthen man s
heart.

The trees of the field are filled
[with sap], the cedars of Lebanon
also, which He hath planted :
there the birds make their nests.

The stork s nest is the highest
among them : * the high hills are a
refuge for the wild goats, and the
rocks for the conies.

He hath appointed the moon for
seasons : * the sun knoweth his
going down.

Thou makest darkness, and it is
night : * wherein all the beasts of
the forest do come forth.

The young lions roar after their
prey, * and seek their meat from
God.

The sun ariseth, and they gather
themselves together : * and lay
them down in their dens.

Man goeth forth unto his work,

* and to his labour, until the even
ing.

O LORD, how manifold are Thy
works ! * in wisdom hast Thou
made them all : the earth is full of
Thy riches.

So is this great and wide sea :

* wherein are things creeping in
numerable.

Both small and great beasts : *
there go the ships;

There is that Leviathan whom
Thou hast made to play with him :

* these all wait upon Thee, that
Thou mayest give them their meat
in due season.

That thou givest them, they
gather : * when Thou openest Thine
hand, they are all filled with good.

Thou hidest Thy face, they are
troubled : * Thou takest away their
breath, they die, and return to their
dust.

Thou sendest forth Thy spirit,
and they are created : * and Thou
renewest the face of the earth.

Let the glory of the LORD endure
for ever ! * the LORD shall rejoice in
His works.

He looketh on the earth and
maketh it to tremble : * He touch-
eth the mountains and they smoke.

I will sing unto the LORD as long
as I live : * I will sing praise to my
God while I have my being.

My meditation of Him shall be
sweet : * I will be glad in the
LORD.

Let the sinners be consumed out
of the earth, and let the wicked be
no more : * bless thou the LORD, O
my soul ! l

Psalm CIV.

[The first fifteen verses of this Psalm
are found in a slightly different edition in
i Par. (Chron.) xvi. as the first part of a
Psalm given by David to Asaph and his
brethren, on the day that the ark was
brought to Jerusalem. The rest is our
present Psalm xcv., which see with the
notes, p. 148. The Vulgate and the LXX.
prefix "Alleluia."]

OGIVE thanks unto the LORD,
and call upon His name : *
make known His deeds among the
heathen.

Sing unto Him, and sing psalms
unto Him : * talk ye of all His
wondrous works.

Glory ye in His holy name : *
let the heart of them rejoice that
seek the LORD.

Seek the LORD, and be strong :
* seek His face evermore.

Alleluia" is here appended in the Hebrew.

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Remember His marvellous works
that He hath done: * His won
ders and the judgments of his
mouth.

O ye seed of Abraham, His ser
vant, * ye children of Jacob His
chosen !

He is the LORD our God : * His
judgments are in all the earth.

He hath remembered His cove
nant for ever, * the word which
He commanded to a thousand gen
erations

[The covenant] that He made
with Abraham : * and His oath
unto Isaac.

And He confirmed the same
unto Jacob for a law, * and to
Israel for an everlasting covenant.

Saying : Unto thee will I give
the land of Canaan, * the lot of
your inheritance.

When they were but a few men
in number, * very few, and strangers
in it.

And they went from one nation
to another, * and from one king
dom to another people.

He suffered no man to do them
wrong: * yea, He reproved kings
for their sakes.

Touch not Mine anointed, * and
do My prophets no harm. 1

Moreover He called for a famine
upon the land : * and brake the
whole staff of bread.

He sent a man before them : *
Joseph was sold for a servant :

Whose feet they hurt with fetters,
the iron entered into his soul. *
Until his word came,

The word of the LORD tried
him : * the king sent and loosed
him ; even the ruler of the people,
and let him go free.

He made him lord of his house,

* and ruler of all his substance.

To instruct his princes at his
pleasure, * and teach his elders
wisdom.

Israel also came into Egypt, *
and Jacob sojourned in the land
of Ham.

And He increased His people
greatly : * and made them stronger
than their enemies.

He turned their heart to hate
His people, * and to deal subtilly
with his servants.

He sent Moses His servant, *
and Aaron whom He had chosen.

He showed signs among them,

* and wonders in the land of
Ham.

He sent darkness and made it
dark : * He made not His words
of none effect.

He turned their waters into
blood, * and slew their fish.

Their land brought forth frogs, *
in the chambers of their kings.

He spake, and there came divers
sorts of flies, * and lice in all their
coasts.

He gave them hail for rain, *
flaming fire in their land.

He smote their vines also and
their fig-trees, * and brake the trees
of their coasts.

He spake, and the locust came,
and the caterpillar, * without
number,

And ate up all the herb in their
land, * and devoured all the fruit
of their ground.

He smote also all the first-born
in their land, * the chief of all
their travail.

He brought them forth also with
silver and gold : * and there was

Here ends the portion found in I Par. (Chron.) xvi. 22.

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THE PSALTER.

not one feeble person among their
tribes.

Egypt was glad when they de
parted : * for the fear of them fell
upon them.

He spread a cloud for a cover
ing, * and fire to give light in the
night.

They asked, and the quail came,
* and He satisfied them with the
bread of heaven.

He opened the rock and the
waters gushed out, the rivers
ran through the dry places.

For He remembered His holy
promise, * that He made unto
Abraham His servant.

And He brought forth His people
with joy, * and His chosen with
gladness.

And gave them the lands of the
heathen, * and they inherited the
labour of the peoples.

That they might observe His
statutes, * and keep His laws.

[Here the Hebrew adds "Alleluia."]

Antiphon. 1 Bless the LORD, O
my soul !

Fifth Antiphon. Visit us.

Psalm CV.
[Superscribed "Alleluia."]

GIVE thanks unto the LORD,
for He is good : * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

Who can utter the mighty acts
of the LORD ? * who can show
forth all His praise?

Blessed are they that keep judg
ment, * and they that do righteous
ness at all times.

Remember us, O LORD, with

the favour that Thou showest unto
Thy people : * O visit us with
Thy salvation :

That I may see the good of Thy
chosen, that I may rejoice in the
gladness of Thy people, that
Thou mayest be praised in Thine
inheritance.

We have sinned with our fathers :

* we have done wickedly, we have
committed iniquity.

Our fathers considered not Thy
wonders in Egypt : * they remem
bered not the multitude of Thy
mercies,

But provoked Him when they
went up unto the sea, * even the
Red Sea.

Nevertheless He saved them for
His name s sake, * that He might
make His mighty power to be
known.

He rebuked the Red Sea also,
and it was dried up : * and He
led them through the depths as
through the wilderness.

And He saved them from the
hand of them that hated them, *
and redeemed them from the hand
of the enemy.

And the waters covered their
enemies : * there was not one of
them left.

And they believed His words :

* and sang His praise.

They soon forgot His works : *
and waited not for His counsel.

And lusted exceedingly in the
wilderness : * and tempted God
in the desert.

And He gave them their request,

* and sent fulness into their soul.
They provoked Moses also in the

camp, * and Aaron, the saint of the
LORD.

1 Ps. cii. i.

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I6 5

The earth opened and swallowed
up Dathan, * and covered the com
pany of Abiram. 1

And a fire was kindled in their
assembly, * the flame burned up
the wicked.

2 They made a calf also in
Horeb, * and worshipped the
graven image.

Thus they changed their Glory *
into the similitude of a calf that
eateth grass.

They forgat God their Saviour,
* Who had done great things in
Egypt, wondrous works in the land
of Ham, terrible things by the Red
Sea.

Therefore He said that He would
cut them off, * had not Moses His
chosen stood before Him in the
breach,

To turn away His wrath, lest
He should destroy them : * yea,
they despised the pleasant land;

They believed not His words :
but murmured in their tents : *
they hearkened not unto the voice
of the LORD.

He also lifted up His hand
against them, * to overthrow them
in the wilderness.

To overthrow their seed also
among the nations, * and to scat
ter them in the lands.

They joined themselves also unto
Baal-peor, 3 * and ate the sacrifices
of the dead.

And they provoked Him to
anger with their inventions: * and
the carcasses lay thick among
them.

Then stood up Phinehas and
made a propitiation : * and the
plague was stayed.

And that was counted unto him
for righteousness, * unto all genera
tions for evermore.

They angered Him also at the
waters of "Provocation," 4 * so
that it went ill with Moses for
their sakes ; because they provoked
his spirit;

So that he spake unadvisedly with
his lips. 5 * They did not destroy
the nations concerning whom the
LORD commanded them : 6

And they were mingled among
the heathen, and learned their
works, and served their idols : *
and it became a snare to them.

Yea, they sacrificed their sons
* and their daughters unto devils.

Numbers xvi. They tried to stir up a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, upon
levelling principles, "and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up," while
some of their partizans were consumed by a fire which issued from the sanctuary

For the well-known history of the golden calf, see Exod. xxxii.

I.e., , "the Lord of Mount Peor," an idol of the Moabites. The whole history of this
lapse of the Israelites, and how Phinehas stopped the plague by killing one pair of
the transgressors, is in Numbers xxv. "And the LORD spake unto Moses saying:
Fhmehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the Priest, hath turned My wrath
away from the children of Israel. . . . Behold, I give unto him My covenant of
peace; and he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting
Priesthood."

4 Meribah. See note on Ps. xciv., p. 3.

5 Numbers xx. 10. "And Moses . . . said unto them: Hear now, ye rebels must
we fetch you water out of this rock?" v. 12. "And the LORD spake unto MOSCS
and Aaron: Because ye believed Me not, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children
ot Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have
given them.

6 In Judges i. 21 to the end, is a long list of the districts of idolaters whom they left in
Canaan and among whom they lived.

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And shed innocent blood, * even
the blood of their sons and of their
daughters, whom they sacrificed unto
the idols of Chanaan :

And the land was polluted with
blood. They were defiled also
with their own works, * and went
a whoring with their own inven
tions.

Therefore was the wrath of the
LORD kindled against His people,

* and He abhorred His own in
heritance.

And He gave them into the hand
of the heathen : * and they that
hated them ruled over them.

Their enemies also oppressed
them, and they were brought into
subjection under their hand.
Many times did He deliver them,

But they provoked Him with
their counsel, * and they were
brought low for their iniquity.

But He regarded their affliction,

* and heard their cry.

And He remembered His cove
nant, * and repented according to
the multitude of His mercies.

He made them also to be pitied

* of all those that carried them
captives.

Save us, O LORD our God, *
and gather us from among the
nations !

To give thanks unto Thy holy
Name, " and to triumph in Thy
praise.

Blessed be the LORD God of
Israel from everlasting to everlast
ing : * and let all the people say :
Amen, Amen.

[The Hebrew adds " Alleluia, 3 which
the Vulgate and the LXX. prefix to
the next Psalm. Here ends the fourth
of the five books into which the Psalter
is divided.]

Psalm CVI.

OGIVE thanks unto the LORD,
for He is good : * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

Let the redeemed of the LORD
say so, whom He hath redeemed
from the hand of the enemy : *
and gathered them out of the
lands,

From the rising of the sun and
from the setting thereof, * from
the north and from the south.

They wandered in the wilderness
in a dry land : * they found no
pathway to a city to dwell in :

Hungry and thirsty, * their soul
fainted in them.

Then they cried unto the LORD
in their trouble; * and He de
livered them out of their distresses.

And He led them forth by the
right way, * that they might go
to a city to dwell in.

O that men would praise the
LORD for His goodness : * and for
His wonderful works to the children
of men !

For He satisfieth the longing
soul : * and filleth the hungry soul
with goodness.

Such as sit in darkness and in
the shadow of death, * being bound
in affliction and iron.

Because they rebelled against the
words of God, * and contemned the
counsel of the Most High.

Therefore their heart was brought
down with labour : * they fell down,
and there was none to help.

Then they cried unto the LORD
in their trouble : * and He de
livered them out of their distresses.

And He brought them out of
darkness and the shadow of death :
* and brake their bands in sunder.

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O that men would praise the
LORD for His goodness : * and
for His wonderful works to the
children of men !

F^or He hath broken the gates
of brass, * and cut the bars of iron
in sunder.

He saved them from the way
of their transgression : * for they
were afflicted because of their in
iquities.

Their soul abhorred all manner
of meat : * and they drew near even
unto the gates of death.

Then they cried unto the LORD
in their trouble : * and He de
livered them out of their dis
tresses.

He sent His word and healed
them, * and delivered them from
their straits.

O that men would praise the
LORD for His goodness : * and for
His wonderful works to the children
of men !

Yea, let them sacrifice the sacri
fice of thanksgiving, * and declare
His works with rejoicing.

They that go down to the sea
in ships, * and do business in great
waters ;

These see the works of the LORD,

* and His wonders in the deep.

He commandeth, and the stormy
wind riseth, * and the waves thereof
are lifted up.

They mount up to the heaven,
and go down again to the depths :

* their soul is melted because of
trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger
like a drunken man, * and are at
their wits end.

Then they cry unto the LORD
in their trouble, * and He delivereth
them out of their distresses.

And He maketh the storm a
calm, * and the waves thereof are
still.

And they are glad because [the
breakers] be quiet : * so He
bringeth them unto their desired
haven.

O that men would praise the
LORD for His goodness : * and for
His wonderful works to the children
of men !

Let them exalt Him also in the
congregation of the people, * and
praise Him in the assembly of the
elders.

He turneth the rivers into a
wilderness, * and the water-springs
into dry ground ;

A fruitful land into a salt desert,
* for the wickedness of them that
dwell therein.

He turneth the wilderness into a
standing-water, * and dry ground
into water-springs.

And there He maketh the hungry
to abide, * and they prepare a city
to dwell in :

And sow the fields, and plant
vineyards, * and bring forth fruits
of increase.

He blesseth them also, and they
are multiplied greatly : * and He
suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Again they are minished, * and
brought low, through oppression,
affliction, and sorrow.

He poureth contempt upon prin
ces, * and He causeth them to
wander in the wilderness, and in
the land where there is no way.

Yet helpeth He the poor from
affliction, * and maketh him fami
lies like a flock.

The righteous shall see it and
rejoice : * and all iniquity shall stop
her mouth.

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THE PSALTER.

Who is wise, and will observe
these things? * even he shall un
derstand the loving-kindness of the
LORD.

Antiphon. l Visit us with Thy
salvation, O LORD.

Sixth Antiphon. I will greatly
praise.

Psalm CVII.

[ Intituled A Song. A Psalm of David."
It is a compilation of Ps. Ivi. 8-12, and
Ps. lix. 6-14.]

MINE heart is ready, O God,
mine heart is ready : * I
will sing and give praise, even with
my glory.

Awake up, my glory, awake,
psaltery and harp ! * I will awake
right early.

I will praise Thee, O LORD,
among the people : * and sing unto
Thee among the nations.

For Thy mercy is great above the
heavens : * and Thy truth unto the
clouds.

Be Thou exalted, O God,
above the heavens, and let Thy
glory be above all the earth : *
2 that Thy beloved may be de
livered :

Save with Thy right hand and
hear me. God hath spoken in
His holiness :

I will rejoice, and divide She-
chem, * and mete out the valley of
booths.

Gilead is mine ; and Manasseh
is mine : Ephraim also is the
strength of mine head :

Judah is my King : * Moab is
the vessel [of the triumph] of mine
hope.

Over Edom will I cast out my
shoe : * over the " Strangers " have
I triumphed.

Who will bring me into the strong
city ? * who will lead me into
Edom?

Wilt not Thou, O God, Who
hast cast us off? * and wilt not
Thou go forth with our armies,
O God?

Give us help from trouble : * for
vain is the help of man.

Through God we shall do val
iantly : * and He it is That shall
tread down our enemies.

Psalm CVII I.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," with a
superscription, probably musical, but now
uncertain.]

HOLD not Thy peace, O God
of my praise : * for the
mouth of the wicked, and the
mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me :

They have spoken against me
with a lying tongue : they com
passed me about also with words of
hatred : * and fought against me
without a cause.

In return for my love they were
mine adversaries : * but I gave
myself unto prayer.

And they have rewarded me evil
for good, * and hatred for my love.

Set Thou a wicked man over
him : * and let the devil stand at
his right hand.

When he is judged, let him go
forth condemned : * and let his
prayer become sin.

Let his days be few ; * and let
another take his office.

1 Ps. cv. 4.

2 Here begins the extract from Ps. lix. See that Psalm and notes on it, p. 112.

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Let his children be fatherless, * for Thy name s sake, O Lord, *

and his wife a widow. because Thy mercy is good.

Let his children be continually Deliver Thou me, for I am

vagabonds, and beg : * and let poor and needy : * and mine heart

them be driven out of their dwell- is wounded within me.
ings. I am gone like the shadow when

Let the extortioner catch all that it declineth : * and tossed up and

he hath : * and let the stranger spoil down as the locust,
his labour. My knees are weak through

Let there be none to extend fasting : * and my flesh faileth

mercy unto him : * and let there of fatness.

be none to have pity on his little I became also a reproach unto

ones. them : * they looked upon me,

Let his posterity be cut off: * in and shaked their heads,

one generation let their name be Help me, O LORD my God ! *

blotted out. O save me according to Thy

Let the iniquity of his fathers be mercy.

remembered before the LORD : * That they also may know that

and let not the sin of his mother be this is Thine hand : * and Thou,

blotted out.

LORD, hast done it !

Let them be before the LORD Let them curse, but bless Thou :

continually, and let their memory * when they arise against me let

be cut off from the earth. * Be- them be ashamed : but let Thy

cause that he remembered not to servant rejoice,
show mercy, Let mine adversaries be clothed

But persecuted the poor and with shame : * and let them be

needy man, * and the broken in covered with their own confusion

heart, that he might slay him. as with a mantle.

As he loved cursing, so let it I will greatly praise the LORD

come unto him : * as he delighted with my mouth : * yea, I will

not in blessing, so let it be far praise Him among the multitude.

For He standeth at the right

from him :

As he clothed himself with curs- hand of the poor, * to save my
ing, like as with a garment, * so soul from them that persecute me.
let it come into his bowels like
water, and like oil into his bones. Antiphon. l l will greatly praise

Let it be unto him as the gar- the LORD with my mouth,
ment which covereth him, * and Antiphon in Paschal time, Al-

for a girdle wherewith he may be leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
girded continually.

Let this be the reward of mine
adversaries from the LORD : * and
of them that speak evil against my
soul.

And do Thou for me, O LORD, His holy place.

1 Ps. cviii. 30.

Then is said a Verse and Answer.

In Advent.
Verse. The LORD cometh out of

VOL. II.

F 2

THE PSALTER.

Answer. He will come and save
His people.

During the rest of the year.

Verse. l Hear my prayer, O
LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

In Lent.

Verse. His truth shall be thy
shield.

Answer. Thou shalt not be
afraid for the terror by night.

In Passion time.

Verse. Take not away my soul
with sinners, O God.

Answer. Nor my life with bloody
men.

In Paschal time.

Verse. The disciples were glad,
Alleluia.

Answer. When they saw the Lord,
Alleluia.

No Festal Office can occur, except
that of the Immaculate Conception of
the Blessed Virgin Mary.

1 Ps. ci. 2.

I/I

THE SABBATH.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Do good.

Psalm L.

Have mercy upon me, &c., (/.
87).

Antiphon, Do good, O Lord, in
Thy good pleasure.

Second Antiphon. It is a good
thing.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the ^uords t "To give
thanks."

[Intituled "A Psalm.
Sabbath Day."]

Psalm XCI.

A Song for the

TT is a good thing to give thanks
1 unto the LORD, * and to sing
praises unto Thy name, O Most
High!

To show forth Thy loving-kind
ness in the morning, * and Thy
faithfulness in the night;

Upon an instrument of ten
strings : * upon the harp with a
solemn sound.

For Thou, LORD, hast made me

glad through Thy work : * and I
will triumph in the works of Thine
hands.

O LORD, how great are Thy
works ! * Thy thoughts are very
deep.

A brutish man knoweth not : *
neither doth a fool understand this.

When the wicked spring up like
grass : * and when all the workers
of iniquity are seen,

It is that they may be destroyed
for ever: * but Thou, LORD, art
Most High for evermore.

For, lo, Thine enemies, O LORD,
for, lo, Thine enemies shall perish :
* and all the workers of iniquity
shall be scattered.

But mine horn shall be exalted
like the horn of an unicorn : * and
mine old age shall be crowned with
Thy mercy. 1

Mine eye also shall look upon
mine enemies : * and mine ear shall
hear of the wicked that rise up
against me.

The righteous shall flourish like
the palm tree : * he shall grow like
a cedar in Lebanon.

Those that are planted in the
house of the LORD, * in the courts
of the house of our God shall
flourish.

Hebrew : " I am anointed with fresh oil."

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THE PSALTER.

They shall still bring forth fruit
in old age : * they shall flourish,
to declare :

That the LORD our God is up
right : * and that there is no un
righteousness in Him.

Antiphon. It is a good thing to
give thanks unto the LORD.

Third Antiphon. Let all the
ends.

Psalms LXIL, LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c.,
(P- 23).

Antiphon. Let all the ends of
the earth fear the Lord.

Fourth Antiphon. Ascribe ye
greatness.

THE SONG OF MOSES. (Deut. xxxii.)

[Deut. xxxi. 28: "Gather unto me,"
(said Moses) "all the elders of your tribes,
and your officers, that I may speak these
words in their ears, and call heaven and
earth to record against them. For I know
that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
yourselves and turn aside from the way
which I have commanded you ; and evil
will befall you in the latter days ; because
ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke Him to anger through the work of
your hands. And Moses spake in the ears
of all the congregation of Israel the words
of this song, until they were ended : "]

GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak ; * and hear, O
earth, the words of my mouth.

My teaching shall drop as the
rain, * my speech shall distil as the
dew ;

As the small rain upon the
tender herb, and as the showers
upon the grass : * because I will
proclaim the name of the LORD.

Ascribe ye greatness unto our
God. * The works of God are

perfect : and all His ways are judg
ment :

A God of truth, and without
iniquity, just and right is He.
They have sinned against Him,
and by their defilement they are
not His children :

They are a perverse and crooked
generation. * Do ye thus requite
the LORD, O foolish people and
unwise ?

Is not He thy Father? * That
hath bought thee, and made thee,
and created thee ?

Remember the days of old, *
consider generation after genera
tion :

Ask thy father, and he will show
thee * thine elders, and they will
tell thee.

When the Most High divided
the nations, * when He separated
the sons of Adam,

He set the bounds of the people

* according to the number of the
children of Israel.

For the LORD S portion is His
people : * Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.

He found him in a desert land,

* in the waste and howling wilder
ness :

He led him about and instructed
him, * and kept him as the apple
of His eye.

As the eagle that stirreth up her
young to fly, * and fluttereth over
them,

So spread He abroad His wings,
and took him, * and bore him on
His pinions ;

The LORD alone did lead him,

* and there was no strange god
with him.

He made him ride upon the
high places of the earth, * that

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he might eat the increase of the
fields :

And He made him to suck
honey out of the rock, * and oil
out of the flinty rock :

Butter of kine, and milk of
sheep, * with fat of lambs and
rams of the breed of Bashan :

And goats, with the fat of wheat,

* and to drink the pure blood of
the grape.

The "Beloved" 1 waxed fat, and
kicked : * he was waxen fat, he
was grown plump, he was covered
with fatness :

He forsook God That made him,

* and departed from the God of
his salvation.

They provoked Him to jealousy
with strange gods, * and with
abominations provoked they Him
to anger.

They sacrificed unto devils, and
to things that were no gods, * to
gods whom they knew not,

New gods that came newly up,

* whom their fathers feared not.
The God That begat thee hast

thou forsaken, * and hast forgotten
God That formed thee.

When the LORD saw it, He was
roused to anger, * because of the
provoking of His sons and of His
daughters.

And He said : I will hide My
face from them, * and see what
their end shall be :

For they are a very froward
generation, * children in whom is
no faith.

They have moved Me to jealousy
with that which is not God, * and
provoked Me to anger with their
vanities :

And I will move them to jealousy
with those who are not a people,

* and provoke them to anger with
a foolish nation.

A fire is kindled in Mine anger,

* and shall burn unto the lowest
hell,

And shall consume the earth with
her increase, * and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains.

I will heap mischiefs upon them,

* and will spend Mine arrows upon
them.

They shall be wasted with hun
ger, * and the birds of the air
shall prey on them with a very
grievous devouring :

I will send the teeth of beasts
upon them, * with the poison of
serpents creeping in the dust.

The sword without and terror
within shall destroy * both the
young man and the virgin, the
suckling with the man of grey
hairs.

I said : Where are they ? * I
will make the remembrance of
them to cease among men :

But I forbore because of the
wrath of the enemy, * lest their
adversaries should triumph,

And lest they should say : Our
high hand, and not the LORD, *
hath done all this.

They are a nation void of coun
sel, neither is there any under
standing in them. * O that they
were wise, and that they understood
this, and would consider their latter
end!

How should one chase a thou
sand, * and two put ten thousand
to flight !

Except their God had sold them,

1 Jeshurun but that this pet-name of the Israelite people means "Beloved" is not
now reckoned certain.

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THE PSALTER.

* and the LORD had delivered them
up !

For their gods are not as our
God, * even our enemies them
selves being judges.

Their vine is of the vine of
Sodom, * and of the fields of Go
morrah :

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

* and their clusters are bitter :
Their wine is the poison of

dragons, * and the cruel venom of
asps.

Is not this laid up in store with
Me, * and sealed up among My
treasures ?

To Me belongeth vengeance,
and I will repay in due time, * to
make their foot to slide.

The day of their calamity is at
hand, * and the things that shall
come upon them make haste.

The LORD shall judge His people,

* and take pity on His servants,
When He seeth that their hand

is weakened, * and there is none
shut up and left, and that they
that remained are consumed.

And He shall say : Where are
their gods, * in whom they trusted ?

Of whose sacrifices they did eat
the fat, * and drank the wine of
their drink-offerings ?

Let them rise up, and help you,

* and be your protection in the
time of need.

See now that I, even I, am
He, * and there is no god with
Me:

I kill, and I make alive : I wound
and I heal : * neither is there any
that can deliver out of Mine hand.

I will lift up Mine hand to
heaven, and say : * I live for ever.

If I whet My glittering sword,
* and Mine hand take hold on
judgment ;

I will render vengeance to Mine
enemies, * and will requite them
that hate Me.

I will make Mine arrows drunk
with blood, * and My sword shall
devour flesh ;

With the blood of the slain * and
of the captives, and of the despoiled
chief of the enemy.

Rejoice with His people, ye
nations : * for He will avenge the
blood of His servants,

And will render vengeance to
their adversaries, * and will be
merciful unto the land of His
people.

Antiphon. Ascribe ye greatness
unto our God.

Fifth Antiphon. Praise God.

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD from the
heavens, &c., (//. 25, 26).

Antiphon. Praise God upon the
loud cymbals.

CHAPTER. (Rom. xiii. 12.)

The night is far spent, &c., (as
on Monday , /. 89).

HYMN. 1

n^HE dawn is sprinkled o er the sky,

The day steals softly on ;
Its darts are scattered far and nigh,
And all that fraudful is, shall fly

Before the brightening sun ;
Spectres of ill, that stalk at will,

And forms of guilt that fright,
And hideous sin, that ventures in

Under the cloak of night.

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, considerably altered ; translation by the late Card.
Newman.

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And of our crimes the tale complete,

Which bows us in Thy sight,
Up to the latest, they shall fleet,
Out-told by our full numbers sweet,

And melted by the light.
To Father, Son, and Spirit, One,

Whom we adore and love,
Be given all praise, now and always,

Here as in Heaven above.

Amen.

Verse. Thou hast satisfied us
early with Thy mercy.

Answer. We rejoice and are glad.

Antiphon for the Song of Zacha-
rias. Give light, O Lord, * unto
them that sit in darkness, and guide
our feet into the way of peace, O
Thou God of Israel !

Commemoration of the Cross before
the others, and Long Preces in Ad
vent and Lent, and on Fast-days,
except the Eves of Christmas and
Pentecost.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG. 1

THE LORD S DAY.

At the beginning of Vespers the
Lord s Prayer and the Angelic Salu
tation are said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as
we forgive them that trespass against
us. And lead us not into tempta
tion ; but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

HAIL, Mary, full of grace; The
Lord is with thee : blessed
art thou among women, and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now, and at the hour
of our death. Amen.

Then is said aloud:

Verse. ^ Make haste, O God,
to deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help
me, O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. mies.

1 The proper hour for Vespers is sunset, reckoned to be about 6 P.M.
recitation, they ought not usually to be begun before noon.

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.

From Septuagesima Sunday to
Maundy Thtirsday instead of "Alle
luia" is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of heaven.

Then follow the Psalms. They are
said under Five Antiphons, except in
Paschal time when there is only one,
and when these are not specially given,
those given here are used.

Antiphon. The LORD said.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words " Unto my
Lord."

Antiphon for Paschal time. Al
leluia.

Psalm CIX.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David." The
first verse was quoted by our Lord. Matth.
xxii. 44 ; Mark xii. 36 ; Luke xx. 42.]

THE LORD said unto my Lord :
* Sit Thou at My right hand,
Until I make Thine enemies *
Thy footstool.

The LORD shall send the rod of
Thy strength out of Zion : * rule
Thou in the midst of Thine ene-

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Thine shall be the dominion in
the day of Thy power, amid the
brightness of the saints : * from the
womb, before the day-star have I
begotten Thee.

The LORD hath sworn, and will
not repent : * Thou art a Priest for
ever after the order of Melchisedek.

The Lord at Thy right hand *
shall strike through kings in the
day of His wrath.

He shall judge among the hea
then, He shall fill the places with
dead bodies : * He shall wound the
heads over many countries.

He shall drink of the brook in
the way : * therefore shall he lift
up his head.

Antiphon. The LORD said unto
my Lord : * Sit Thou at My right
hand.

Second Antiphon. All His com
mandments.

Psalm CX.

[The Hebrew prefixes "Alleluia," and
begins, " I will praise the LORD." The
Psalm is A B C Darian.]

WILL praise Thee, O LORD,

* with my whole heart : * in the
assembly of the upright, and in the
congregation.

The works of the LORD are great,

* meet to serve for the doing of
His will.

His work is honourable and glo
rious, * and His righteousness en-
dureth for ever.

He hath made a memorial of

His wonderful works : the LORD

is gracious and full of compassion.

He hath given meat unto them

that fear Him :

He will ever be mindful of His

covenant. * He will show His
people the power of His works,

That He may give them the
heritage of the heathen. * The
works of His hands are verity and
judgment :

All His commandments are sure ;
they stand fast for ever and ever, *
being done in truth and uprightness.

He sent redemption unto His
people : He hath commanded His
covenant for ever :

Holy and terrible is His Name.

* The fear of the LORD is the be
ginning of wisdom :

A good understanding have all
they that do His commandments :

* His praise endureth for ever.

Antiphon. 1 A11 His command
ments are sure ; they stand fast for
ever and ever.

Third Antiphon. In His com
mandments.

Psalm CXI.

[The Hebrew prefixes "Alleluia." The
Vulgate adds to the superscription "on the
return of Haggai and Zechariah [from the
Captivity]." See Thursday, fifth week in
November. The Psalm is A B C Darian.]

BLESSED is the man that fear-
eth the LORD : * that de-
lighteth greatly in His command
ments.

His seed shall be mighty upon
earth ; * the generation of the up
right shall be blessed.

Glory and riches shall be in his
house : * and his righteousness en
dureth for ever.

Unto the upright there ariseth
light in the darkness : * he is
gracious, and full of compassion,
and righteous.

Ps. ex. 8.

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THE PSALTER.

Happy is the man that showeth
favour and lendeth ; he will guide
his words with discretion : * surely
he shall not be moved for ever :

The righteous shall be in ever
lasting remembrance. * He shall
not be afraid of evil tidings :

His heart is ready, trusting in the
LORD. His heart is established, *
he shall not be afraid until he see
his desire upon his enemies.

He hath dispersed, he hath given
to the poor : his righteousness en-
dureth for ever : * his horn shall
be exalted with honour.

The wicked shall see it, and be
grieved; he shall gnash his teeth,
and melt away : * the desire of
the wicked shall perish.

Antiphon. In His command
ments he delighteth greatly.

Fourth Antiphon. Blessed be the
Name.

Psalm CXI I.
[The Hebrew prefixes "Alleluia."]

the LORD, O ye His
servants, * praise the Name
of the LORD.

Blessed be the Name of the
LORD, * from this time forth, and
for evermore !

From the rising of the sun unto
the going down of the same, * the
LORD S Name is to be praised.

The LORD is high above all
nations, * and His glory above the
heavens.

Who is like unto the LORD our
God, Who dwelleth on high, *
and beholdeth what is lowly in
heaven, and in the earth?

He raiseth up the poor out of

the dust, * and lifteth the needy
out of the dung-hill ;

That He may set him with
princes, * even with the princes
of His people.

He maketh the barren woman
to keep house, * and to be a joy
ful mother of children.

[The Hebrew adds " Alleluia," which
the Vulgate and the LXX. prefix to the
next Psalm.]

Antiphon. Blessed be the Name
of the LORD for evermore.

Fifth Antiphon. We that live.

Psalm CXI 1 1.

A \ ^HEN Israel went out of Egypt,
* * * the house of Jacob from
a people of strange language,

Judah was His sanctuary, * and
Israel His dominion.

The sea saw it and fled : * Jor
dan was driven back.

The mountains skipped like rams,

* and the little hills like lambs.
What ailed thee, O thou sea,

that thou fleddest? * and thou
Jordan, that thou wast driven back ?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped
like rams ? * and ye little hills,
like lambs?

The earth trembled at the pres
ence of the Lord, * at the presence
of the God of Jacob :

Who turned the rock into a
standing water, * and the flint into
a fountain of waters. 1

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us:

* but unto Thy Name give glory,
For Thy mercy, and for Thy

truth s sake. * Wherefore should
the heathen say : Where is now
their God?

1 In the Hebrew here ends Ps. cxiv. and the next words begin cxv.

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But our God is in the heavens :
* He hath done whatsoever He
hath pleased.

The idols of the heathen are
silver and gold, * the work of
men s hands.

They have mouths, but they
speak not : * eyes have they, but
they see not.

They have ears, but they hear
not : * noses have they, but they
smell not :

They have hands, but they handle
not : feet have they, but they walk
not : * neither speak they through
their throat.

May they that make them be
like unto them : * even every one
that trusteth in them.

The house of Israel trusteth
in the LORD : * He is their help
and their shield.

The house of Aaron trusteth in
the LORD : * He is their help and
their shield.

They that fear the LORD trust
in the LORD : * He is their help
and their shield.

The LORD hath been mindful of
us, * and blessed us :

He hath blessed the house of Is
rael : * He hath blessed the house
of Aaron.

He hath blessed them that fear
the LORD, * both small and
great.

The LORD increase you more
and more, * l you and your chil
dren.

Ye are blessed of the LORD, *
Who made heaven and earth.

The heaven of heavens is the
LORD S : * but the earth hath He
given to the children of men.

The dead shall not praise Thee,
O LORD, * neither all they that go
down into the grave.

But we that live bless the LORD,

* from this time forth for evermore.

[The Hebrew adds "Alleluia."]

Antiphon. We that live bless the
LORD.

Antiphon for Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Here follows the Chapter, When a
special one is not given, the following is
used:

CHAPTER. (2 Cor. i. 3.)

BLESSED be God, even the
Father of our Lord JESUS
Christ, the Father of mercies, and
the God of all comfort, Who com-
forteth us in all our tribulation.
Answer. Thanks be to God.

TJiis Answer is always made after
the Chapter.

Then follows the Hymn. When a
special one is not given, the following
is used:

HYMN. 1

P ATHER of Lights, by Whom each

* day

Is kindled out of night,
Who, when the heavens were made,

didst lay

Their rudiments in light ;
Thou, Who didst bind and blend in one
The glistening morn and evening pale,
Hear Thou our plaint, when light is

gone,
And lawlessness and strife prevail.

Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime
Wreck us with life in view ;

Lest thoughts and schemes of sense

and time
Earn us a sinner s due.

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, very slightly altered ; translation by the late Card.
Newman.

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So may we knock at Heaven s door,
And strive the immortal prize to win,
Continually and evermore
Guarded without and pure within.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son,

And Spirit, God of grace,
To Whom all worship shall be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

Then is said a Verse and A?iswer.
If a special one is not give?i, the follow
ing is used:

Verse. x Let my prayer, O Lord,
be set forth.

Answer. As incense before
Thee.

Then is said the following Canticle
from the Gospel. It has an Antiphon
which is always special, and which is
either begun or said through the first
time before it, according as the Office is
Double or not.

THE SONG OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
MARY. (Luke i. 46.)

MY soul * doth magnify the
Lord:

And my spirit hath rejoiced * in
God my Saviour.

For He hath regarded the low
liness of His handmaiden : * for, be
hold, from henceforth all generations
shall call me blessed.

For He That is Mighty hath done
to me great things : * and holy is His
name.

And His mercy is on them that
fear Him, * from generation to gen
eration.

He hath showed strength with
His arm : * He hath scattered the
proud in the imagination of their
heart.

He hath put down the mighty

from their seat, * and exalted them
of low degree.

He hath filled the hungry with
good things, * and the rich He hath
sent empty away.

He hath holpen His servant Is
rael, * in remembrance of His
mercy :

As He spake to our fathers, *
to Abraham, and to his seed for
ever.

The Hymn, " Glory be to the Father,
&c.," is said, and then the Antiphon re
peated.

Then is said :

Verse. Hear rny prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

Then follows the Prayer for the day,
at the end of which is answered;

Answer. Amen.

Afterwards are made any Commemo
rations necessary, by the Antiphon for
the Song of the Blessed Virgin, the Verse
and Answer after the Hymn, and the
Prayer, (preceded by " Let us pray,")
from the superseded Office which is to
be commemorated. After which the fol
lowing Common Commemorations are
made, if reqtiired, according to Chapter
xxxv. of the General Rubrics.

When more than two Prayers are to
be said, the last clause of each (beginning
"Through our Lord, &c. ( " or "Who
livest, &c.") is omitted in all except the
first and the last, nor is " Amen " an
swered except after these two.

(Note that if these Commemorations,
with the exception of those of St Joseph,
and SS. Peter and Paul, be said upon
a week-day, kept as such, out of Paschal
time, they are preceded by the Commem
oration of the Cross, given hereafter at
the end of the Lauds of Monday.}

Ps. cxl. 2.

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181

I. Commemoration of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.

(This Commemoration is omitted if
the Office of the day^ be of the Blessed
Virgin, or if her Little Office is to be
said.)

Antiphon. O Holy Mary, be thou
an help to the helpless, a strength to
the fearful, a comfort to the sorrow
ful ; pray for the people, plead for
the clergy, make intercession for all
women vowed to God ; may all that
keep thine holy remembrance, feel
the might of thine assistance.

Verse. Pray for us, O holy Mother
of God.

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.

GRANT, we beseech Thee, O
Lord God, unto all Thy ser
vants, that they may continually
enjoy soundness both of mind and
body, and by the glorious inter
cession of the Blessed Mary, always
a Virgin, may be delivered from
present sadness, and enter into the
joy of Thine eternal gladness.

From the Octave of the Epiphany to
Candlemas, the Antiphon is the same,
but the rest is as folloivs :

Verse. After thy delivery thou
still remainest a Virgin undenled.

Answer. Mother of God, pray
for us.

Let us pray.

OGOD, Who, by the fruitful vir
ginity of the Blessed Mary,
hast given unto mankind the rewards
of everlasting life ; grant, we beseech
Thee, that we may continually feel

the might of her intercession, through
whom we have worthily received the
Author of our life, our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son.

II. Commemoration of St Joseph,
Patron of the Universal Church.

(Omitted in the Votive Office of St
Joseph.}

Antiphon. * Behold a faithful and
wise servant whom his Lord hath
made ruler over His household.

Verse. 2 Glory and riches shall
be in his house.

Answer. And his righteousness
endureth for ever.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who, in Thine unspeak-
able foreknowledge, didst
choose Thy blessed servant Joseph
to be the husband of Thine Own
most holy Mother ; mercifully
grant that now that he is in heaven
with Thee, we who on earth do
reverence him for our defender,
may worthily be holpen by the
succour of his prayers to Thee
on our behalf.

III. Commemoration of the Holy
Apostles, Peter and Paul.

(Omitted in the Votive Office of the
Apostles.}

Antiphon. Peter the Apostle,
and Paul the Teacher of the Gen
tiles, have taught us Thy law, O
Lord.

Verse. 3 Thou shalt make them
princes over all the earth.

Answer. They shall be mindful
of Thy Name, O Lord.

Matth. xxiv. 45.

2 Ps. cxi. 3.

3 Ps. xliv. 17, 1 8.

1 82 THE PSALTER.

Let us pray. the deep of the sea, when he suf-

GOD, Whose Right Hand fered shipwreck; graciously hear

caught the Blessed Peter us &gt; and S rant &gt; for the sake of them

when he walked upon the water, both &gt; that we also ma y attam unto

and began to sink, and thrice de- everlasting glory.

livered his fellow-Apostle Paul from Note l .

1 In England, by a special rule in this case, is made

Commemoration of St George, Patron of England.

Antiphon. The Saints through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises.

Verse. O LORD, Thou hast compassed him.
Answer. With Thy favour as with a shield.

Let us pray.

OGOD, Who dost gladden us through the worthy deeds and prayers
of Thy blessed Martyr George; mercifully grant that all they
which seek Thy favour through him, may effectually obtain the gift of
Thy grace.

(And thus it is said within the Octave.}

In the Diocese of Hexham St George is not commemorated, but instead the following
commemoration is made of St Cuthbert :

Antiphon. Holy Cuthbert, our Protector, grace and glory of our father
land, look down upon us from Heaven, and pray God for us, that He grant
us everlasting joy.

Verse. At the prayers of Blessed Cuthbert and for his sake,

Answer. Be merciful unto Thy people, O Lord.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who, through the priceless gift of Thy grace, dost make
Thine holy ones glorious, mercifully grant, that the prayers of Thy
Blessed Confessor and Bishop Cuthbert may help us worthily there to
attain, where are the spirits of just men made perfect.

In the Diocese of Northampton the following commemoration of St Thomas of
Canterbury is made before that of St George :

Antiphon. I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am
known of Mine, and I lay down My life for the sheep.
Verse. In your patience
Answer. Possess ye your souls.

Let us pray.

C\ GOD, in defence of Whose Church the glorious Bishop Thomas
fell by the swords of wicked men, grant, we beseech Thee, that all
that ask his help may obtain wholesome fruit of their petition.

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For Peace. Let us pray.

Antiphon. Give peace in our f~\ GOD, from Whom all holy

time, O Lord, because there is \^ desires, all good counsels,

none other that nghteth for us, and all just works do proceed ;

but only Thou, O our God. give unto Thy servants that peace

Verse. Peace be within thy which the world cannot give, that

walls. both our hearts may be set to

Answer. And prosperity within obey Thy commandments, and also

thy palaces. that by Thee we being defended

In the Diocese of Plymouth the following commemoration of St Boniface of Maintz is
made before that of St George :

Antiphon. Many nations, many thousands of men, did Blessed Boniface
gain for Christ, and forasmuch as he made himself like unto an Apostle
he hath purchased unto himself a great reward in Heaven along with
the Apostles.

Verse. Be strong in the Lord, be strong.

Answer. That ye may live for ever with God.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who wast pleased to make the zeal of Thy Blessed Martyr
and Bishop Boniface the mean whereby Thou didst cause many
peoples to know Thy Name, mercifully grant unto us who honour his
memory to be feelingly holpen by the succour of his protection.

(And so it is said within the Octave.}

In the Diocese of Portsmouth the following commemoration of St Edmund of Canter
bury is made after that of St George :

Antiphon. He loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore
he died in exile.

Verse. Cast out upon a world of woes,

In exile here we roam.

Answer. O Blessed Edmund, by thy prayers,
Gain us the love of home.

Let us pray.

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THE PSALTER.

from the fear of our enemies, may
pass our time in rest and quiet
ness. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end.
Answer. Amen.

From the Monday after Low Sunday
till Rogation Ttiesday, instead of the
preceding Commemorations, is said the
following:

Paschal Commemoration of the
Cross.

(Omitted in the Votive Offices of
the Blessed Sacrament, and of the
Passion.)

Antiphon. JESUS, our trium
phant Head,

On the Cross s transom dread

The Hands of power and mercy
spread

That brake the prison of the
dead. Alleluia.

Verse. Say among the heathen
Alleluia.

Answer. That the LORD reign
eth from the tree, 1 Alleluia.

Let us pray.

OGOD, Who didst send Thy
Son to suffer death for us
upon the Cross, that Thou might-
est deliver us from the power of
the enemy; grant unto us Thy
servants to be made partakers of
His Resurrection. Through the
Same our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Answer. Amen.

After the last Prayer is said:

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.
Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then is said in rather a low voice :

May the souls of the Faithful,
through the mercy of God, rest in
peace.

Answer. Amen.

Then,) unless Compline follow, the
Lord s Prayer inaudibly :

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Note. When Office is said in Choir,
the service is ended with the Antiphon
of the Blessed Virgin Mary every time
the Choir is left. Otherwise it is only
said as given in this book, after Lauds,
(or the aggregation of which Lauds
forms a part] and Compline. When
ever it is said, except after Compline, it
is preceded by:

Verse. *J The Lord give us His
peace.

Answer. And life everlasting.
Amen.

Ij the Office of the Dead follow im
mediately, the above prayer for the
Faithful departed, and the " Our Fa
ther," are omitted.

Feasts. The above Office, appointed
for Sunday, is also, speaking in a gen
eral sense, used on all Feasts above the
rank of Simples.

1 Ps. xcv. 10, old version.

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I8 5

I A II as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

JJlontrag.

THE SECOND DAY OF THE WEEK.

Second Antiphon, I believed.

The Psalms are as follows ;

Antiphon. The Lord hath in
clined.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon
is said, Alleluia.

Psalm CXIV.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. prefix "Al
leluia."]

T AM well pleased, because the
^ LORD hath heard * the voice
of my supplication :

Because He hath inclined His ear
unto me, * therefore will I call upon
Him all my days.

The sorrows of death compassed
me : * and the straits of hell found
me :

Sorrow and trouble did I find.

* Then called I upon the name of
the LORD :

LORD, deliver my soul. * Gra
cious is the LORD, and righteous :
yea, our God is merciful.

The LORD preserveth the simple :

* I was brought low and He helped
me.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul :

* for the LORD hath dealt bountifully
with thee.

For He hath delivered my soul
from death, * mine eyes from tears,
and my feet from falling.

1 will walk before the LORD * in
the land of the living.

Antiphon. * The Lord hath in
clined His ear unto me.

1 Ps.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, " Therefore have
I spoken."

Psalm CXV.

[In the Hebrew this Psalm is a continua
tion of the last. The Vulgate and the LXX.
prefix "Alleluia."]

T BELIEVED, therefore have I
^ spoken : * but I was greatly
afflicted.

I said in my haste : * All men
are liars.

What shall I render unto the
LORD * for all His benefits toward
me?

I will take the cup of salvation,

* and call upon the name of the
LORD.

I will pay my vows unto the LORD
in the presence of all His people.

* Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of His Saints.

LORD, truly I am Thy servant :

* I am Thy servant, and the son of
Thine handmaid :

Thou hast loosed my bonds. * I
will offer to Thee the sacrifice of
thanksgiving, and will call upon the
name of the LORD.

1 will pay my vows unto the LORD,
in the presence of all His people : *
in the courts of the LORD S house, in
the midst of thee, O Jerusalem !

[Here the Hebrew appends "Alle
luia," which the Vulgate and the LXX.
prefix to the next Psalm.]

Antiphon. I believed, therefore
have I spoken.

Third Antiphon. O praise.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, " The LORD."

cxiv. 2.

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THE PSALTER.

all
Him,

all

Psalm CXVI.

O PRAISE the LORD,
nations : * praise
ye people.

For His merciful kindness is great
toward us : * and the truth of the
LORD endureth for ever.

[Here the Hebrew appends "Alle
luia," which the Vulgate and the LXX.
prefix to the next Psalm.]

Antiphon. O praise the LORD,
all ye nations.

Fourth Antiphon. I cried.

Psalm CXIX.

[This is the first of the " Songs of De
grees," or "Gradual Psalms." See note
to Ps. cxxix., p. 91.]

IN my distress I cried unto the
LORD, * and He heard me.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from
lying lips, * and from a deceitful
tongue.

What shall be given unto thee, or
what shall be done unto thee, * thou
false tongue ?

Sharp arrows of the mighty, * with
hot burning coals.

Woe is me ! that my sojourn is
long : I dwell with the dwellers of
Kedar. 1 * My soul hath long dwelt
as an exile

With them that hate peace. I
was peaceable : * when I spoke
unto them, they fought against me
without a cause.

Antiphon. 2 I cried, and He heard
me.

Fifth Antiphon. From whence
cometh.

Psalm CXX.
[Also a Song of Degrees.]

I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the
hills, * from whence cometh
mine help.

Mine help cometh from the LORD,
* Who made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy feet to be
moved : * He That keepeth thee
will not slumber.

Behold, He That keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is thy keeper : the
LORD is thy shade * upon thy right
hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by
day, * nor the moon by night.

The LORD shall keep thee from
all evil : * the Lord shall keep thy
soul.

The LORD shall keep thy coming
in and thy going out, * from this
time forth and for evermore.

Antiphon. 3 From whence cometh
mine help.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

HYMN. 4

LORD of unbounded space,
Who, lest the sky and main
Should mix, and heaven should lose its

place,
Didst the rude waters chain ;

Parting the moist and rare,
That rills on earth might flow

To soothe the angry flame, whene er
It ravens from below ;

Pour on us of Thy grace

The everlasting spring,
Lest our frail steps renew the trace

Of the ancient wandering.

1 Properly "Black-skin." This was the name of a son of Ishmael, and of an Arabian
tribe sprung from him. 2 Ps. cxix. I. 3 Ps. cxx. I.

4 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, almost unchanged ; translation by the late Card.
Newman.

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May faith in lustre grow,
And rear her star in heaven,

Paling all sparks of earth below
Unquenched by damps of even.

Grant it, O Father, Son,

And Holy Spirit of grace,
To Whom be glory, Three in One,

In every time and place.

Amen.

Antiphonfor the Song of the Blessed
Virgin, My soul doth magnify the
Lord, * for God hath regarded my
lowliness.

After the repetition of the Antiphon
after the Song of the Blessed Virgin, on
the Week-days of Advent and Lent, the
Ember Days, and all Vigils which are
Fasts, except Christmas Eve and the
Eve and Ember Days of Pentecost, all
k?ieel down, and the following prayers,
called the Preces, are said:

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Then the Lord s Prayer is said aloud.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

Verse. I said : LORD, be merci
ful unto me.

Answer. Heal my soul, for I
have sinned against Thee.

Verse. Return, O LORD, how
long?

Answer. And let it repent Thee
concerning Thy servants.

Verse. Let Thy mercy, O LORD,
be upon us.

Ansiver. According as we hope
in Thee.

Verse. Let Thy priests be clothed
with righteousness.

Answer. And let Thy Saints
shout for joy.

Verse. O LORD, save the King.

Answer. And hear us in the day
when we call upon Thee.

Verse. O Lord, save Thy people,
and bless Thine inheritance.

Answer. And govern them, and
lift them up for ever.

Verse. Remember Thy congre
gation.

Answer. Which Thou hast pur
chased of old.

Verse. Peace be within thy
walls.

Answer. And prosperity within
thy palaces.

Verse. Let us pray for the Faith
ful departed.

Answer. O Lord, grant them
eternal rest, and let the everlasting
light shine upon them.

Verse. May they rest in peace.

Answer. Amen.

Verse. Let us pray for our absent
brethren.

Answer. O Thou, my God, save
Thy servants that trust in Thee.

Verse. Let us pray for the sorrow
ful and the captive.

Answer. Redeem them, O God
of Israel, out of all their troubles.

Verse. O Lord, send them help
from the sanctuary.

Answer. And strengthen them
out of Zion.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O
LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

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Psalm L.

Have mercy upon me, O God,
&c, (/. 87). "

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

Verse. Turn us again, O LORD
God of Hosts.

Answer. And cause Thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.

Verse. Arise, O Christ, and help
us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.
Here follows the Prayer of the Day.

All proceeds to the end of the service as
on Sunday, except that when Suffrages
are said, the following is said before the
Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin
Mary.

Commemoration of the Cross.

(Omitted in the Offices of the Blessed
Sacrament, and of the Passion.)

Antiphon. Through Thy Cross s
holy sign, JESUS, guard this soul of
mine, from my ghostly enemy.

Verse. Let all the earth worship
Thee, and sing unto Thee.

Answer. Let them sing praises to
Thy name, O Lord.

Let us pray.

LORD, we beseech Thee, keep
us in continual peace, whom

Thou hast vouchsafed to redeem by
the tree of the Holy Cross.

Simple Feasts. If the Vespers of a
Simple Feast be kept on a Monday, the
Office is of the Feast, from the Chapter
inclusive.

THE THIRD DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Let us go.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon is
said, Alleluia.

Psalm CXXI.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees, of David."]

T WAS glad when they said unto
* me : * Let us go into the house
of the LORD.

Our feet have been wont to stand

* within thy gates, O Jerusalem !
Jerusalem is builded as a city *

that is compact together :

Whither the tribes go up, the
tribes of the LORD, * the testimony
of Israel, to give thanks unto the
name of the LORD.

For there are set thrones for judg
ment, * the thrones for the house of
David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem :

* they shall prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy walls, * and

prosperity within thy palaces.

For my brethren and companions
sakes, * I will now say Peace be
within thee !

Because of the house of the LORD
our God, * I will seek thy good.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

189

Antiphon. Let us go with glad
ness into the house of the LORD.

Second Antiphon. O Thou That
dwellest.

Psalm CXX1I.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees."]

UNTO Thee lift I up mine eyes,
* O Thou That dwellest in
the heavens !

Behold, as the eyes of servants *
look unto the hand of their masters,

As the eyes of a maiden unto
the hand of her mistress : * so
our eyes look unto the LORD our
God, until that He have mercy
on us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD,
have mercy upon us : * for we are
exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled
* with the scorning of those that
are at ease, and with the con
tempt of the proud.

Antiphon. O Thou That dwell
est in the heavens, have mercy
upon us.

Third Antiphon. Our help.

Psalm CXXIII.

[Intituled "A Song of Degrees," to which
the Hebrew and the Targum add " of
David," but this ascription of authorship
does not occur in the Vulgate or the LXX.]

TF it had not been the LORD
^ Who was on our side now
may Israel say * if it had not
been the LORD Who was on our
side,

When men rose up against us :
" then they had swallowed us up
quick,

When their wrath was kindled

against us : * then the waters had
overwhelmed us,

The stream had gone over our
soul : * then the overwhelming
waters had .gone over our soul.

Blessed be the LORD, * Who hath
not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird *
out of the snare of the fowlers :

The snare is broken, * and we
are escaped.

Our help is in the name of the
LORD, * Who made heaven and
earth.

Antiphon. l Our help is in the
name of the LORD.

Fourth Antiphon. Do good, O
LORD.

Psalm CXXIV.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees."]

that trust in the LORD
shall be as Mount Zion : *
he that dwelleth in Jerusalem
shall never be moved.

The mountains are round about
Jerusalem : * and the LORD is
round about His people, from
henceforth, and for ever.

For the Lord will not suffer
the rod of the wicked to rest upon
the lot of the righteous : * lest
the righteous put forth their hands
unto iniquity.

Do good, O LORD, to the good,
* and to them that are upright in
their hearts.

As for such as turn aside unto
their crooked ways, the LORD
shall lead them forth with the
workers of iniquity : * peace be
upon Israel !

Antiphon. Do good, O LORD,

1 Ps. cxxiii. 8.

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to the good, and to them that are
upright in their hearts.

Fifth Antiphon. We were like.

Psalm CXXV.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees."]

WHEN the LORD turned again
the captivity of Zion, * we
were like them that come again
from sickness.

Then was our mouth filled with
laughter, * and our tongue with
singing.

Then said they among the hea
then : * The LORD hath done great
things for them.

The LORD hath done great things
for us : * whereof we are glad.

Turn again our captivity, O
LORD, * as the streams in the
south.

They that sow in tears * shall
reap in joy.

They go forth weeping, ** sow
ing their seed;

They shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing, * bringing their
sheaves with them.

Antiphon. We were like them
that come again from sickness.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

HYMN. 1

ALL-BOUNTIFUL Creator, Who,
When Thou didst mould the
world, didst drain
The waters from the mass, that so
Earth might immovable remain ;

That its dull clods it might transmute
To golden flowers in vale or wood,
To juice of thirst-allaying fruit,
And grateful herbage spread for food ;

Wash Thou our smarting wounds and

hot,

In the cool freshness of Thy grace ;
Till tears start forth the past to blot,
And cleanse and calm Thy holy place,

Till we obey Thy full behest,

Shun the world s tainted touch and

breath,

Joy in what highest is and best,
And gain a spell to baffle death.

Grant it, O Father, Only Son,
And Holy Spirit, God of grace,
To Whom all glory, Three in One,
Be given in every time and place.

Amen.

Antiphon for the Song of the
Blessed Virgin, Let my spirit re
joice * in God my Saviour.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other general Commemorations, and
Long Preces at certain times as on
Monday.

Simple Feasts. If the Vespers of a
Simple Feast be kept on a Tuesday, the
Office is of the Feast from the Chapter
inclusive.

THE FOURTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. He shall not be
ashamed.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon \
is said, Alleluia.

Psalm CXXVI.

[Intituled "A Song of Degrees, of Solo-
mon." The LXX. omits the ascription to {
Solomon.]

T^XCEPT the LORD build the
*- house, * they labour in vain j
that build it :

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, hardly altered ; translation by the late Card. Newman.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

Except the LORD keep the city,

* the watchman waketh but in
vain.

It is vain for you to rise up
early, * rise up when ye are
rested, ye that eat the bread of
sorrow :

For He giveth His beloved sleep.
Lo, children are an heritage of the
LORD, * the fruit of the womb is His
reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a
mighty man, * so are the children
of the out-cast.

Happy is the man that hath his
desire satisfied with them : * he shall
not be ashamed when he speaketh
with his enemies in the gate.

Antiphon. He shall not be a-
shamed when he speaketh with his
enemies in the gate.

Second Antiphon. Blessed.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
commences with the words, " Is every
one."

Psalm CXXVII.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees."]

1DLESSED is every one that feareth
M the LORD, * that walketh in
His ways.

For thou shalt eat the labour of
thine hands : * happy shalt thou be
and it shall be well with thee.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine

* on the sides of thine house :

Thy children like olive plants *
round about thy table.

Behold, that thus shall the man
be blessed * that feareth the
LORD.

The LORD bless thee out of

Zion : * and mayest thou see the
good of Jerusalem all the days of
thy life.

Yea, mayest thou see thy chil
dren s children, * and peace upon
Israel.

Antiphon. Blessed is every one
that feareth the LORD.

Third Antiphon. Many a time.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, " Have they
afflicted me."

Psalm CXXVII I.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees."]

1\ /[" ANY a time have they warred
**- against me from my youth
* may Israel now say :

Many a time have they warred
against me from my youth : * yet
they have not prevailed against
me.

1 The ploughers ploughed upon
my back : * they made long their
furrows.

The LORD is righteous, He hath
broken the necks of the wicked. *
Let them all be confounded and
turned back that hate Zion.

Let them be as the grass upon
the house - tops, * which withereth
before it is plucked up :

Wherewith the mower filleth not
his hand, * nor he that bindeth
sheaves his bosom.

Neither do they that go by say :
The blessing of the LORD be upon
you ! * we bless you in the name of
the LORD !

Antiphon. Many a time have they
afflicted me from my youth up.

1 I.e., "They furrowed my back with stripes as the ground is furrowed with the
plough. " Gesenius.

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Fourth Antiphon. Out of the
depths.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, " Have I cried
unto Thee."

Psalm CXXIX.

OUT of the depths have I cried
unto Thee, O LORD ! * Lord,
hear my voice.

Let Thine ears be attentive * to
the voice of my supplication.

If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark
iniquities, * O Lord, who shall
stand ?

But there is forgiveness with Thee :

* because of Thy law, I wait for
Thee, O LORD !

My soul doth wait on His word :

* my soul hopeth in the Lord.
From the morning watch even

until night * let Israel hope in the
LORD :

For with the LORD there is mercy,

* and with Him is plenteous redemp
tion.

And He shall redeem Israel, *
from all his iniquities.

Antiphon. Out of the depths have
I cried unto Thee, O LORD.

Fifth Antiphon. Let Israel hope.

Psalm CXXX.

[Intituled "A Song of Degrees," to which
the Hebrew and the Vulgate, but not the
Targum or the LXX., add "of David."]

T ORD, mine heart is not haughty,
-* * nor mine eyes lofty :

Neither do I exercise myself in
great matters, * or in wonderful
things that are above me.

If I have not thought lowly of
myself * (but lifted up my soul)

Even as a child that is weaned
from his mother : * so be my soul
rewarded.

Let Israel hope in the LORD, *
from henceforth and for ever.

Antiphon. Let Israel hope in the
LORD.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

HYMN. 1

OLORD, Who throned in the holy
height,

Through plains of ether didst diffuse
The dazzling beams of light,
In soft transparent hues ;

Who didst, on the fourth day, in

heaven,
Light the fierce cresset of the sun,

And the meek moon at even,

And stars that wildly run ;

That they might mark and arbitrate
Twixt alternating night and day,

And tend the train sedate

Of months upon their way ;

Clear, Lord, the brooding night within,
And clean these hearts for Thy abode,

Unlock the spell of sin,

Crumble its giant load.

Grant it, O Father, Only Son,
And Holy Spirit, God of grace,

To Whom all praise be done

In every time and place.

Amen.

Antiphon at the Song of the
Blessed Virgin. The Lord hath
regarded * my lowliness, and He
That is mighty hath done in me
great things.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other general Commemorations, and

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, somewhat nltered ; translation by the late Card.
Newman.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

193

Long Preces in Advent and Lent, and
on Fast-days, as on Monday.

Simple Feasts. If the Vespers of a
Simple Feast be kept on a Wednesday,
the Office is of the Feast from the Chap
ter inclusive.

THE FIFTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. And all.

In Paschal time only o?ie Antiphon
is said, Alleluia.

Psalm CXXXI.

[Intituled "A Song of Degrees." It
reads like a Processional for some transla
tion of the Sacred Ark, perhaps that de
scribed in 3 (i) Kings vii. (Saturday before
8th Sunday after Pentecost.)]

T ORD, remember David, * and
* all his meekness :

How he sware unto the LORD : *
he vowed a vow unto the God of
Jacob ;-

Surely I will not come into the
tabernacle of mine house, * nor go
up into my bed ;

I will not give sleep to mine eyes,

* or slumber to mine eyelids \

I will not give the temples of
mine head any rest, until I find out
a place for the LORD, * an habita
tion for the God of Jacob.

1 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah :

* we found it in the fields of " the
Wood."

We will go into His tabernacle :

* we will worship in His footprints.
Arise, O LORD, into Thy rest,

* Thou and the ark of Thine
holiness.

Let Thy priests be clothed with
righteousness, * and let Thy Saints
shout for joy.

For Thy servant David s sake,

* turn not away the face of Thine
Anointed.

The LORD hath sworn in truth
unto David, and He will not turn
from it : * Of the fruit of thy body
will I set upon thy throne.

If thy children will keep My
covenant, * and My testimony
that I shall teach them,

Then their children for ever *
shall sit upon thy throne.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion :

* He hath chosen it for His habita
tion.

This is My rest for ever : * here
will I dwell, for I have chosen it.

I will abundantly bless her
widows : * I will satisfy her poor
with bread.

I will clothe her Priests with
salvation : * and her Saints shall
shout aloud for joy.

There will I make the horn of
David to bud : * I have ordained
a lamp for Mine Anointed.

His enemies will I clothe with
shame : * but upon him shall My
sanctification flourish.

Antiphon. And all his meekness.
Second Antiphon. Behold.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, "How good and
how pleasant."

1 This verse relates to the fetching of the ark from Kirjath-jearim, (literally "The
town-of-the- woods,") which stood at the borders of the territory of Ephraim, here called
Ephratah. See 2 Kings (Sam.) vi. (Thursday, 5th week after Pentecost.)

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Psalm CXXXII.

[Intituled " A Song of Degrees," to which
the Hebrew and the Vulgate, but not the
Targum or the LXX., add "of David."]

BEHOLD, how good and how
pleasant it is * for brethren
to dwell together in unity.

1 It is like the precious oint
ment upon the head, * that ran
down upon the beard, even Aaron s
beard,

That went down to the skirts
of his garments. * As the dew of
Hermon, that descendeth upon
the mountains of Zibn; 2

For there the LORD commanded
the blessing, * even life for evermore.

Antiphon. Behold, how good
and how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity.

Third Antiphon. Whatsoever.

Psalm CXXXIV.
[To this Psalm is prefixed "Alleluia,"]

ye the Name of the
LORD, * praise Him, O ye
servants of the LORD !

Ye that stand in the house of
the LORD, * in the courts of the
house of our God :

Praise the LORD, for the LORD
is good : * sing praises unto His
Name, for it is pleasant.

For the LORD hath chosen Jacob
unto Himself, * and Israel for
His peculiar treasure.

For I know that the LORD is
great, * and that our Lord is above
all gods.

Whatsoever the LORD pleased,
that did He in heaven and in
earth, * in the seas, and all deep
places :

Causing the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth : *
He maketh lightnings for the rain ;

He bringeth the wind out of
His treasures. * He smote the
first-born of Egypt, from man even
unto beast.

He sent tokens and wonders
into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
* upon Pharaoh and upon all his
servants.

He smote great nations, * and
slew mighty kings.

3 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
and Og, king of Bashan, * and
all the kingdoms of Canaan.

And gave their land for an
heritage, * an heritage unto Israel
His people.

Thy Name, O LORD, endureth for
ever ! * Thy memorial, O LORD,
throughout all generations !

For the LORD will judge His
people, * and will repent Himself
concerning His servants.

The idols of the heathen are
silver and gold, * the work of
men s hands.

A mouth have they, but they
speak not : * eyes have they, but
they see not.

Ears have they, but they hear
not : * neither is there any breath
in their mouths.

Let them that make them be
made like unto them, * and every
one that trusteth in them.

1 The reference is to the unction of Aaron with holy chrism at his consecration,
described in Lev. viii. 12.

2 Probably not the mountain at Jerusalem, but one of the chain of Hermon, which is
once mentioned elsewhere. Deut. iv. 48.

3 Sihon, a king of the Amorites, reigning in Heshbon ; Og, a giant, king of Bashan.
They were both defeated and slain by the Israelites. Num. xxi.

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195

Bless the LORD, O house of
Israel ! * bless the LORD, O house
of Aaron !

Bless the LORD, O house of
Levi ! * ye that fear the LORD,
bless the LORD !

Blessed be the LORD out of
Zion, * Which dwelleth at Jeru
salem !

[The Hebrew adds "Alleluia," which
the Vulgate places at the beginning of
the next Psalm.]

Antiphon. Whatsoever the LORD
pleased, that did He.

Fourth Antiphon. For His
mercy.

Psalm CXXXV.

[tt is not improbable that this Psalm was
sung at the Dedication of the Temple, for,
in 2 Par. (Chron. ) vii. 3, it is said that when
the congregation on that occasion saw the
fire miraculously descending upon the sac
rifice, "they bowed themselves with their
faces to the ground upon the pavement, and
worshipped, and praised the LORD, for He
is good, for His mercy endureth for ever. "
It looks very like a continuation of the song
given by David to certain singers, I Par.
(Chron.) xvi. 7, especially as it is afterwards
said that some of them were chosen "to give
thanks to the LORD, because His mercy
endureth for ever." Some consider that
the latter verses refer to the return from the
captivity, but these may be an addition.]

OGIVE thanks unto the LORD,
for He is good! * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

O give thanks unto the God of
gods ! * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

O give thanks to the Lord of
lords ! * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

To Him Who Alone doeth great
wonders * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

To Him That by wisdom made the

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heavens * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

To Him That spread out the
earth above the waters * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

To Him That made great lights

* for His mercy endureth for
ever.

The sun to rule by day * for
His mercy endureth for ever.

The moon and stars to rule by
night * for His mercy endureth for
ever.

To Him That smote Egypt in their
first-born * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

To Him That brought out Israel
from among them * for His mercy
endureth for ever.

With a strong hand and with a
stretched out arm * for His mercy
endureth for ever.

To Him That divided the Red
Sea into parts * for His mercy
endureth for ever.

And made Israel to pass through
the midst of it * for His mercy
endureth for ever.

But overthrew Pharaoh and his
host in the Red Sea * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

To Him That led His people
through the wilderness * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

To Him That smote great kings
- * for His mercy endureth for
ever.

And slew mighty kings * for His
mercy endureth for ever.

Sihon, king of the Amorites

* for His mercy endureth for
ever.

And Og, the king of Bashan

* for His mercy endureth for
ever.

And gave their land for an heri-
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tage * for His mercy endureth for
ever.

Even an heritage unto Israel His
servant * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

Who remembered us in our low
estate * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

And hath redeemed us from our
enemies * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

Who giveth food to all flesh
* for His mercy endureth for ever.

O give thanks unto the God of
heaven ! * for His mercy endureth
for ever.

O give thanks unto the Lord of
lords ! * for His mercy endureth for
ever.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, * let
my right hand forget her cunning I

Let my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth, * if I do not remember
thee,

If I prefer not Jerusalem * above
my chief joy.

Remember, O LORD, the chil
dren of Edom, * in the day of
Jerusalem :

Who said : Rase it, rase it * even
to the foundation thereof.

O daughter of Babylon, doomed
to destruction, * happy shall he be
that rewardeth thee, as thou hast
served us !

Happy shall he be that taketh, *
and dasheth thy little ones against
the rock.

Antiphon. For
dureth for ever.

Fifth Antiphon.
the songs.

His mercy en- Antiphon. Sing us one of the
songs of Zion.

Sing us one of Antiphon in Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Psalm CXXXVI.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. connect this
Psalm with the name of Jeremiah. They
also style it a Psalm of David, the apparent
meaning of which would seem to be that it
was composed in imitation of his poems.]

T3 Y the rivers of Babylon, there we
-D sa t down, yea, we wept, * when
we remembered Zion.

We hung our harps upon the
willows * in the midst thereof.

For there they that carried us
away captive required of us * a

song;

And
said: *
of Zion.

How shall

they that had taken us
Sing us one of the songs

we sing the LORD S

song * in a strange land ?

HYMN. 1

r\ GOD, Who hast given
^-^ The sea and the sky,
To fish and to bird
For a dwelling to keep,
Both sons of the waters
One low and one high,
Ambitious of heaven,
Or sunk in the deep ;

Save, Lord, Thy servants,
Whom Thou hast new made
In a laver of blood
Lest they trespass and die ;
Lest pride should elate,
Or sin should degrade,
And they stumble on earth
Or be dizzied on high.

To the Father, and Son,
And the Spirit be done,
Now and always,
Glorv and Praise. Amen.

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, slightly altered ; translation by the late Card.
Newman.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

197

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. O God, * show strength with
Thine arm : put down the mighty,
and exalt them of low degree.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other general Commemorations and
Long Preces in Advent and Lent, and
on Fast- days, as on Monday.

JJttoag.

THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Behold the Angels.

In Paschal time only one Antiphon is
said, Alleluia.

Psalm CXXXVII.

[Intituled "Of David," to which the
LXX. adds "of Haggai and Zechariah,"
the meaning apparently being that it was
his composition, but that they made some
special regulation as to its use.]

T WILL praise Thee, O Lord, with
* my whole heart : * because
Thou hast heard the words of my
mouth.

Before the Angels will I sing
praise unto Thee. * I will worship
toward Thine holy temple, and
praise Thy Name.

For Thy loving-kindness, and for
Thy truth : * for Thou hast mag
nified Thine holy Name above
every name.

In whatsoever day I call upon
Thee, answer me : * Thou wilt
strengthen my soul exceedingly.

Let all the kings of the earth

praise Thee, O LORD, * for they
have heard all the words of Thy
mouth.

Yea, let them sing of the ways of
the LORD : * that great is the glory
of the LORD.

For the LORD is high, yet hath
He respect unto the lowly : * but
the proud He knoweth from afar.

Though I walk in the midst of
trouble Thou wilt revive me : *
Thou shalt stretch forth Thine hand
against the wrath of mine enemies,
and Thy right hand shall save me.

The LORD will give recompense
on my behalf: Thy mercy, O
LORD, endureth for ever : forsake
not the works of Thine own hands.

Antiphon. Before the Angels
will I sing praise unto Thee, O
my God.

Second Antiphon. O LORD.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
commences with the words, " Thou hast
searched me."

Psalm CXXXVII I.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," with a
musical (?) direction, the meaning of which
is not now certain.]

LORD, Thou hast searched
me, and known me : * Thou
knowest my down-sitting and mine
up-rising :

Thou understandest my thoughts
afar off. * Thou searchest my path,
and my line,

And art acquainted with all my
ways : * before there is a word on
my tongue.

Lo, O LORD, Thou knowest all
things both new and old : * Thou
hast made me, and laid Thine hand
upon me.

198

THE PSALTER.

Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me : * it is high, and I cannot
attain unto it.

Whither shall I go from Thy
Spirit? * or whither shall I flee
from Thy presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, Thou
are there : * if I go down into hell,
Thou art there.

If I take the wings of the morn
ing, * and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea;

Even there shall Thine hand lead
me, * and Thy right hand shall hold
me.

If I say : Surely the darkness
shall cover me : * even the night
shall be light about me in my
pleasures.

For the darkness is not darkness
to Thee : and the night shineth as
the day : * the darkness and the
light to Thee are both alike.

For Thou didst form my reins :
* Thou hast upholden me from
my mother s womb.

I will praise Thee, for Thy great
ness is terrible : * marvellous are
Thy works : and that my soul
knoweth right well.

My bones were not hid from
Thee, when Thou madest me in
secret : * nor my substance in the
lower parts of the earth.

Thine eyes beheld my substance
yet being imperfect : and in Thy
book all were written : * day by day
were they to be fashioned, when as
yet there was none of them.

But to me, O God, Thy friends
are exceeding honourable : * their
power is waxen right strong.

If I should count them, they are
more in number than the sand : * I
arose, and am still with Thee.

Surely Thou wilt slay the wicked,
O God : * depart from me, ye bloody
men.

For ye say in thought : * In
vain shall Thy people take Thy
cities.

Do not I hate them, O LORD,
that hate Thee? * and am not I
grieved at those that rise up against
Thee ?

I hate them with perfect hatred :
* they are to me as enemies.

Search me, O God, and know
mine heart : * try me and know my
thoughts.

And see if there be any wicked
way in me : * and lead me in the
way everlasting.

Antiphon. O LORD, Thou hast
searched me and known me.
Third Antiphon. Preserve me.

Psalm CXXXIX.

[Intituled " A Psalm of David," with the
same musical (?) direction as before.]

"pvELIVER me, O LORD, from
*-J the evil man : * preserve me
from the wicked man :

Which imagine mischiefs in their
heart : * continually are they gath
ered together for war.

They have sharpened their tongues
like a serpent : * adders poison is
under their lips. 1

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands
of the wicked : * and preserve me
from the evil man :

Who purpose to overthrow my
goings. * The proud have hid a
snare for me :

And spread a net with cords : *
by the way-side have they set a trap
for me. 1

1 SLH.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

199

I said unto the LORD : Thou art
my God : * hear the voice of my
supplication, O LORD !

LORD, my Lord, Thou Strength
of my salvation, * Thou hast covered
mine head in the day of battle !

Give me not up, O LORD, to the
desires of the wicked : * they take
counsel together against me : forsake
me not, lest they exalt themselves. 1

As for the head of those that
compass me about, * let the mis
chief of their own lips cover them.

Let burning coals fall upon them ;
let them be cast into the fire: * when
they are in trouble they will not be
able to stand.

An evil-speaker shall not prosper
in the earth : * evil shall hunt the
wicked man, to overthrow him.

1 know that the LORD will main
tain the cause of the afflicted, * and
will revenge the poor.

Surely the righteous shall give
thanks unto Thy Name ; * and the
upright shall dwell in Thy presence.

Antiphon. Preserve me, O Lord,
from the wicked man.

Fourth Antiphon. LORD.

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words. " I cry unto
Thee."

Psalm CXL.
[Intituled "A Psalm of David."]

T ORD, I cry unto Thee: hear
-I* me ! * give ear unto my voice
when I cry unto Thee.

\ SLH&gt;

2 The Targum is, "They are torn away from the house of instruction by the strong

hands of their judges." The Syriac, "And their judges are crushed by the strong hand."
Messrs Jennings and Lowe render, "When their judges have been thrown down the sides
of the rock, then they shall hear my words as welcome;" and continue, "When the
usurping rulers have been deposed, and the disappointed rabble has executed its ven
geance on them, it shall bethink it again of David s divinely constituted authority, and
gladly recall him to the throne. This is the only rational interpretation of the verse.
For the mode of punishment mentioned, cf. 2 Chron. xxv. 12, Luke iv. 29."

Let my prayer be set forth as in
cense before Thee : * the lifting-up
of mine hands as the evening sacri
fice.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my
mouth : * keep the door of my lips.

Incline not mine heart to any evil
word, * to excuse myself in my sins,

With men that work wickedness ;

* and let me not eat of their dainties.

Let the righteous smite me in
kindness : and let him reprove me :

* but the oil of the wicked shall not
anoint mine head :

For yet my prayer shall be against
their lusts. * 2 Their judges shall
be left [to their fate beside] in the
hands of the rock :

[And] they [that have wreaked
their vengeance on them] shall hear
my words, that they are mighty. *
Like clods of earth broken by the
ploughman,

So are our bones scattered at the
grave s mouth. * But mine eyes are
unto Thee, O LORD, my Lord : in
Thee is my trust, leave not my life
to destruction.

Keep me from the snare which
they have laid for me, * and the gins
of the workers of iniquity.

The wicked shall fall into their
own net ; * as for me, I dwell alone,
until I depart hence.

Antiphon. LORD, I cry unto Thee,
hear me.

Fifth Antiphon. O Lord, let my
portion.

2OO

THE PSALTER.

Psalm CXLI.

[Intituled " A didactic (?) Psalm of David.
A Prayer when he was in the cave," namely,
on the same occasion as that on which he
wrote Psalm Ivi. See note on that Psalm,
p. 1 10.]

I CRIED unto the LORD with my
voice : * with my voice unto
the LORD did I make supplication.

I pour out my complaint before
Him : * before Him also I show my
trouble.

When my spirit faileth from me,

* then Thou knewest my path.

In the way wherein I walked *
have they privily laid a snare for me.

I looked on the right hand, and
beheld : * but there was no man
that would know me :

Refuge failed me : * and no man
cared for my soul.

I cried unto Thee, O LORD ! * I
said : Thou art my refuge, and my
portion in the land of the living.

Attend unto my cry, * for I am
brought very low :

Deliver me from my persecutors :

* for they are stronger than I.
Bring my soul out of prison, that

I may praise Thy Name : * the
righteous wait for me, till Thou deal
bountifully with me.

Antiphon. O Lord, let my por
tion be in the land of the living.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

HYMN. 1

V\7HOM all obey,
v v Maker of man ! Who from Thy

height

Badest the dull earth bring to light
All creeping things, and the fierce might
Of beasts of prey ;

And the huge make
Of wild or gentler animal.
Springing from nothing at Thy call,
To serve in their due time, and all

For sinners sake ;

Shield us from ill !
Come it by passion s sudden stress,
Lurk in our mind s habitual dress,
Or through our actions seek to press

Upon our will.

Vouchsafe the prize
Of sacred joy s perpetual mood,
And service-seeking gratitude,
And love to quell each strife or feud,

If it arise.

Grant it, O Lord !
To Whom, the Father, Only Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
In heaven and earth all praise be done

With one accord.

Amen.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. He hath put down the
mighty, * that persecute His Saints :
and hath exalted them of low degree,
that confess His Christ.

Commemoration of the Cross before
the other general Commemorations, and
Long Preces in Advent and Lent, and
on Fast-days, as on Monday.

Simple Feasts. If the Vespers of a
Simple Feast be kept on a Friday, the
service is of the Feast from the Chapter
inclusive.

Saturtrag.

THE SABBATH.

All as on Sunday, except as otherwise
given here.

The Psalms are as follows :
Antiphon. Blessed.

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, considerably altered ; translation by the late Card.
Newman.

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

201

If this Antiphon be used, the Psalm
begins with the words, " Be the LORD
my God."

In Paschal time only one Antiphon is
said, Alleluia.

Psalm CXLIII.

[Intituled Of David. " The Vulgate and
the LXX. add "against Goliath."]

BLESSED be the LORD my God,
Which teacheth mine hands
to war, * and my fingers to fight.

My goodness, and my fortress : *
my strength, and my Deliverer :

My shield, and He in Whom I
trust : * Who subdueth my people
under me.

LORD, what is man, that Thou
takest knowledge of him ? * or the
son of man, that Thou makest ac
count of him ?

Man is like to vanity : * his days
are as a shadow that passeth away.

Bow Thy heavens, O LORD, and
come down : * touch the mountains,
and they shall smoke.

Cast forth the bright lightning,
and scatter them : * send out
Thine arrows, and make them to
quake.

. Send Thine hand from above :
rid me, and deliver me out of great
waters, * from the hand of strange
children :

Whose mouth speaketh vanity : *
and their right hand is a right hand
of falsehood.

I will sing a new song unto Thee,
O God ; * upon a psaltery of ten
strings will I sing praises unto
Thee:

Who hast given salvation unto
kings : * Who deliveredst David
Thy servant from the hurtful sword.
Rid me,

And deliver me from the hand

of strange children, whose mouth
speaketh vanity : * and their right
hand is a right hand of falsehood :

Whose sons may be as saplings
grown up * in their youth ;

Their daughters decked out, *
adorned after the similitude of the
temple :

Their garners full, * affording
stores upon store :

Their sheep fruitful in young,
countless in their pastures : * their
oxen fat :

There is no breach in their walls,
nor inroad : * nor wailing in their
streets.

Happy is that people, that is in
such a case : * happy is that people
whose God is the Lord.

Antiphon. Blessed be the LORD
my God.

Second Antiphon. Every day.

Psalm CXLIV.

[Intituled " David s song of praise." It is
ABC Darian.]

WILL extol Thee, my God, O
King ! * and I will bless Thy
name for ever and ever.

Every day will I bless Thee; *
and I will praise Thy name for ever
and ever.

Great is the LORD, and greatly to
be praised : * and His greatness is
unsearchable.

One generation shall praise Thy
works to another, * and shall declare
Thy mighty acts.

They shall speak of the glorious
honour of Thy Majesty, * and tell of
Thy wondrous works.

And men shall speak of the might
of Thy terrible acts, * and declare
Thy greatness.

2O2

THE PSALTER.

They shall abundantly utter the
record of Thy great goodness, *
and shall sing of Thy righteous
ness.

The LORD is gracious and full of
compassion : * slow to anger and of
great mercy.

The LORD is good to all, * and
His tender mercies are over all His
works.

May all Thy works praise Thee,
O LORD ! * and let Thy saints bless
Thee!

They shall speak of the glory of
Thy kingdom, * and talk of Thy
power ;

To make known to the sons of
men Thy mighty acts, * and the
glorious majesty of Thy king
dom.

Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, * and Thy dominion
endureth throughout all genera
tions !

The Lord is faithful in all His
words, * and holy in all His
works.

The LORD upholdeth all that fall,
* and raiseth up all those that be
bowed down.

The eyes of all wait upon Thee,
O Lord ! * and Thou givest them
their meat in due season.

Thou openest Thine hand, * and
fillest all things living with plenteous-
ness.

The LORD is righteous in all
His ways, * and holy in all His
works.

The LORD is nigh unto all them
that call upon Him, * to all that call
upon Him in truth.

He will fulfil the desire of them
that fear Him : * He also will hear
their cry and will save them.

The LORD preserveth all them

that love Him, * but all the wicked
will He destroy.

My mouth shall speak the praise
of the LORD ; * and let all flesh
bless His holy Name for ever and
ever.

Antiphon. Every day will I bless
Thee, O Lord.

Third Antiphon. While I live.

Psalm CXLV.

[To this Psalm is prefixed "Alleluia."
The Vulgate and the LXX. connect it with
the names of Haggai and Zechariah.]

pRAISE the LORD, O my soul;
while I live will I praise the
LORD : * I will sing praises unto my
God while I have being.

Put not your trust in princes, *
in the son of man, in whom is no
help.

His breath goeth forth, and he
returneth to his earth : * in that
very day their thoughts perish.

Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his help, his hope is
in the LORD his God : * Who made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that therein is :

Who keepeth truth for ever.
Who executeth judgment for the
oppressed : * Who giveth food to
the hungry.

The LORD looseth the prisoners :
* the LORD openeth the eyes of the
blind :

The LORD raiseth them that are
bowed down : * the LORD loveth
the righteous :

The LORD preserveth the stran
gers ; He defendeth the fatherless
and widow : * but the way of the
wicked He will turn aside.

The LORD shall reign for ever !

VESPERS, OR EVENSONG.

203

even thy God, O Zion, * unto all
generations !

[The Hebrew adds "Alleluia," which
the Vulgate and the LXX. prefix to the
next Psalm.]

Antiphon. While I live will I
praise the LORD.

Fourth Antiphon. Let the praise
of our God.

Psalm CXLVI.

[The Vulgate and the LXX., as stated,
prefix "Alleluia," and the LXX. adds " of
Haggai and Zechariah."]

pRAISE ye the LORD, for it is
good to sing praises : * the
praise of our God is pleasant and
comely.

The LORD doth build up Jeru
salem : * He gathereth together
the outcasts of Israel.

He healeth the broken in heart, *
and bindeth up their wounds.

He telleth the number of the
stars * and calleth them all by
their names.

Great is our Lord, and of great
power : * and His understanding is
infinite.

The LORD lifteth up the meek ; *
but He casteth the wicked down to
the ground.

Sing unto the LORD with thanks
giving : * sing praise upon the harp
unto our God.

Who covereth the heaven with
clouds : * and prepareth rain for the
earth,

Who maketh grass to grow upon
the mountains, * and herbs for the
service of men :

He giveth to the beast his food,
* and to the young ravens which cry
unto Him.

He delighteth not in the strength
of an horse ; * neither taketh He
pleasure in the legs of a man.

The LORD taketh pleasure in them
that fear Him, * and in those that
hope in His mercy.

Antiphon. Let the praise of our
God be pleasant.

Fifth Antiphon. Praise the LORD.

If this Antiphon be used the Psalm
begins with the words, u O Jerusalem/

Psalm CXLVII.

[In the Hebrew this is the continuation
of the preceding Psalm. The Vulgate and
the LXX. prefix "Alleluia," and the LXX.
adds " of Haggai and Zechariah."]

PRAISE the LORD, O Jerusalem !
* praise thy God, O Zion !

For He hath strengthened the
bars of thy gates : * He hath blessed
thy children within thee :

He maketh peace in thy borders :
* and filleth thee with the finest of
the wheat.

He sendeth forth His command
ment upon earth : * His word run
neth very swiftly.

He giveth snow like wool : * He
scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

He casteth forth His ice like
morsels : * who can stand before
His cold?

He sendeth out His word, and
melteth them : * He causeth His
wind to blow, and the waters flow.

He declareth His word unto
Jacob, * His statutes and His
judgments unto Israel.

He hath not dealt so with any
nation : * neither hath He made
known to them His judgments.

[The Hebrew adds "Alleluia," which
the Vulgate and the LXX. prefix to the
next Psalm.]

204

THE PSALTER.

Antiphon. Praise the LORD, O
Jerusalem.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Alle
luia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

From Advent Sunday till the Octave
of the Epiphany, and from Septuagesima
Sunday till the Octave of Pentecost spe
cial Chapters are given.

At other times the following is said:
CHAPTER. (Rom. xi. 33.)

OTHE depth of the riches and
wisdom and knowledge of
God : how unsearchable are His
judgments and His ways past find
ing out !

The following Hymn and Verse and
Answer is used during the same seasons
as the above Chapter, and likewise from
Septuagesima to Lent.

HYMN. 1

THE red sun is gone,
Thou Light of the heart,
Blessed Three, Holy One,
To Thy servants a un
Everlasting impart.

1 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, altered
the late Card. Newman.

There were Lauds in the morn,
Here are Vespers at even :
Oh, may we adorn
Thy temple new born
With our voices in Heaven.

To the Father be praise,
And praise to the Son,
And the Spirit always,
While the infinite days
Of eternity run.

Amen.

Verse. Let the evening prayer
ascend unto Thee, O Lord.

Answer. And let there descend
upon us Thy mercy.

The following Antiphon is said only
from the Octave of the Epiphany till
Septuagesima.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. God hath holpen His ser
vant Israel: * as He spake to
Abraham and to his seed, to exalt
them of low degree for ever and
ever.

Prayer of the succeeding Sunday.
almost beyond recognition ; translation by

205

COMPLINE. 1

Witt for ttrerg &ag in tlje

^4/ the beginning of Compline the
Reader says :

Sir, be pleased to give the bless
ing.

The Blessing.

May the Almighty Lord grant us
a quiet night and a perfect end.
Answer. Amen.

Then is read this Short Lesson.
SHORT LESSON, (i Pet. v. 8.)

T3RETHREN, be sober, be vigil-
-*- ant : because your adversary
the devil as a roaring lion walketh
about, seeking whom he may devour:
whom resist ye, stedfast in the faith.

But Thou, O Lord, have mercy
upon us.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Verse. *J&lt; 2 Our help is in the
Name of the LORD.

Answer. Who made heaven and
earth.

Then the Lord s Prayer is said in-
audibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy

kingdom come. Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, as we for
give them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

After this is said the General Confes
sion and Absolution.

T CONFESS to God Almighty, to
1 the Blessed Mary, always a
Virgin, to the Blessed Michael the
Archangel, to the Blessed John the
Baptist, to the Holy Apostles Peter
and Paul, and to all the Saints, that
I have sinned exceedingly in thought,
word, and deed, by my fault, by my
fault, by my most grievous fault.
Therefore I beseech the Blessed
Mary, always a Virgin, the Blessed
Michael the Archangel, the Blessed
John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles
Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, to
pray to the Lord our God for me.

The Absolution.

ALMIGHTY God have mercy
**-*- on us, forgive us our sins,
and bring us to life everlasting.
Answer. Amen.

1 Compline (Completorium) is the last office of the Church, and is proper to the end of
the evening before going to bed, reckoned to be about 9 p.m., but it may be said any time
before midnight. It is very frequently recited along with Vespers, thus forming the com
plete Evening Service of the Church, and it is from this aggregation that the "Evening
Prayer " of the Anglican Prayer Book is derived. 2 Ps. cxxiii. 8.

206

THE PSALTER.

t%t 1\ /T AY the Almighty and mer-

V ciful Lord grant us pardon,
absolution, and remission of all our
sins.

Answer. Amen.

Verse. 1 Turn us, O God of our
salvation.

Ansiver. And cause Thine anger
toward us to cease.

Verse. t%t Make haste, O God, to
deliver me.

Answer. Make haste to help me,
O LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.

From the Saturday before Septua-
gesima Sunday to Mamidy Thursday
instead of " Alleluia " is said:

Ceaseless praise to Thee be given,
O Eternal King of heaven.

Then follow the Psalms. They are
all said under one Antiphon.

Antiphon. Have mercy.
Antiphon in Paschal time. Alle
luia.

Psalm IV.

[Intituled "A Psalm of David," with a
musical (?) direction of (now) uncertain
meaning.]

TIT HEN I called, the God of my
* * righteousness heard me : *
Thou hast enlarged me when I was
in distress :

Have mercy upon me, * and hear
my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long
will ye be dull of heart? * Why
will ye love vanity, and seek after
leasing ? 2

1 Ps. Ixxxiv. 5.

But know that the LORD hath set
apart for Himself him that is holy :

* the LORD will hear me when I
call unto Him.

Be ye angry and sin not : * what
ye speak in your heart, repent upon
your bed. 2

Offer the sacrifices of righteous
ness, and put your trust in the LORD.

* There be many that say : Who will
show us any good ?

LORD, Thou hast set upon us the
light of Thy countenance. * Thou
hast put gladness in my heart,

More than in the time that
their corn, and wine, and oil
increased.

I will both lay me down in peace,

* and sleep,

For Thou, LORD, only * makest
me to dwell in safety.

Psalm XXX.

[The first eight verses of Psalm xxx., p.
76.]

IN Thee, O LORD, do I put my
trust, let me never be asham
ed ; * deliver me in Thy righteous
ness.

Bow down Thine ear to me, *
deliver me speedily.

Be Thou to me a God, a Pre
server, and an house of defence, *
to save me.

For Thou art my strength and
my refuge, * and for Thy Name s
sake Thou wilt lead me and nourish
me.

Thou wilt pull me out of the net,
that they have laid privily for me,

* for Thou art my Preserver.
Into Thine hands I commend my

spirit : * Thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth !
2 SLH.

COMPLINE.

207

Psalm XC.

[The Vulgate and the LXX. give the
heading, "A Psalm of praise of David."]

HE that dwelleth in the help of
the Most High, * shall abide
under the shadow of the God of
heaven.

He will say to the LORD : Thou
art my refuge, and my fortress, *
my God, in Him will I trust.

For He shall deliver me from the
snare of the fowler, * and from the
noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with His
wings, * and under His feathers
shalt thou trust :

His truth shall be thy shield. *
Thou shalt not be afraid for the
terror by night;

For the arrow that flieth by day,
for the pestilence that walketh in
darkness, * for the evil spirit that
wasteth at noon-day.

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

Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou
behold : * and see the reward of
the wicked.

Because Thou, O LORD, art my
trust : * thou hast made the Most
High thy refuge.

There shall no evil befall thee, *
neither shall any plague come nigh
thy dwelling.

For He hath given His Angels
charge over thee, * to keep thee in
all thy ways :

They shall bear thee up in their
hands, * lest haply thou dash thy
foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the adder
and the cockatrice : * the lion also
and the dragon shalt thou trample
under feet.

Because he hath set his trust
upon Me, therefore will I deliver
him : * I will defend him because
he hath known My Name.

He shall call upon Me, and I will
answer him : * I am with him in
trouble: I will deliver him and
glorify him.

With long life will I satisfy him :
* and show him My salvation.

Psalm CXXXIII.
[Intituled "A Song of Degrees."]

"DEHOLD now, bless ye the
U LORD, * all ye servants of the
LORD.

Which stand in the house of the
LORD, * even in the courts of the
house of our God,

By night. Lift up your hands
toward the sanctuary, * and bless
the LORD.

The LORD That made heaven
and earth, * bless thee out of
Zion !

Antiphon. l Have mercy upon
me, O Lord, and hear my prayer.

Antiphon in Paschal time. Al
leluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Then is said the following :

HYMN. 2

T\T OW that the day-light dies away,
* ^ By all Thy grace and love,
Thee, Maker of the world, we pray
To watch our bed above.

1 Ps. iv. 2.

2 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, very slightly altered ; translation by the late Card,
Newman.

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THE PSALTER.

Let dreams depart and phantoms fly,

The offspring of the night,
Keep us, like shrines, beneath Thine
eye,

Pure in our foes despite.

This grace on Thy redeemed confer,

Father, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, the Comforter,

Eternal Three in One.

Amen.

The last verse is sometimes said thus,
altered in honour of the Incarnation :

JESU, the Virgin-born, to Thee

Eternal praise be given,
With Father, Spirit, One and Three,

Here as it is in heaven.

Amen.

In Paschal time it is said thus, al
tered in honour of the Resurrection :

To Father, Son, and Paraclete,

The slain and risen Son,
Be praise and glory, as is meet,

While endless ages run.

Amen.

// is also occasionally otherwise al
tered, which occasions are marked in
their places.

Then follows the
CHAPTER. (Jer. xiv. 9.)

YET Thou, O LORD, art in the
midst of us, and Thine holy
Name is called upon us : x leave us
not, O Lord our God.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

Then the Short Responsory.

2 Into Thine hands, O Lord, I
commend my spirit.

Answer. Into Thine hands, O
Lord, I commend my spirit.

Verse. Thou hast redeemed us,
O LORD God of truth.

Answer. I commend my spirit.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Into Thine hands, O
Lord, I commend my spirit.

Verse. 3 Keep us, O Lord, as
the apple of the eye.

Answer. Hide us under the
shadow of Thy wings.

From the Saturday after Easter in
clusive to the Saturday after Pentecost
exclusive, the above is said thus :

Into Thine hands, O Lord, I com
mend my spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Answer. Into Thine hands, O
Lord, I commend my spirit. Al
leluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Thou hast redeemed us,
O LORD God of truth.

Answer. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Into Thine hands, O
Lord, I commend my spirit. Alle
luia, Alleluia.

Verse. Keep us, O Lord, as the
apple of the eye. Alleluia.

Answer. Hide us under the
shadow of Thy wings. Alleluia.

Then is said the following Canticle
from the Gospel, with its Antiphon.

Antiphon. O Lord, keep us.

1 The allusion seems to be to the invocation of the Name upon Israel by the Priests,
Numb. vi. 22. "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying : Speak unto Aaron, and unto
his sons, saying, On this wise shall ye bless the children of Israel, saying unto them The
LORD bless thee and keep thee ; the LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious
unto thee ; the LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace and they
shall put My Name upon the children of Israel ; and I will bless them."

2 Ps. xxx. 6. 3 Ps. xvi. 8.

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THE SONG OF SIMEON. (Luke ii. 29.)

[Uttered by Simeon at the presentation
of our LORD in the Temple. "Then took
he Him up in his arms, and blessed God,
and said : "]

T ORD, now lettest Thou Thy
*-** servant depart in peace, *
according to Thy word :

For mine eyes have seen * Thy
Salvation,

Which Thou hast prepared *
before the face of all people ;

A Light to lighten the Gentiles,
* and the glory of Thy people
Israel.

The Doxology, "Glory be to the
Father, &c.," is said.

Antiphon. O Lord, keep us
waking, guard us sleeping: that
we may wake with Christ and rest
in peace.

In Paschal time, "Alleluia."

Then follow these short prayers, called
the Preces. They are omitted on Doubles
and within Octaves. In Advent, Lent,
and the Ember Days they are said
kneeling:

Kyrie eleison.

Answer. Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Father, (inaudibly,) Who
art in heaven, Hallowed be
Thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is
in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. (Aloud.)

Verse. And lead us not into
temptation.

Answer. But deliver us from
evil.

1 Dan. iii

T BELIEVE (inaudibly) in God
A the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth. And in JESUS
Christ, His only Son, our Lord;
Who was conceived by the Holy
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, dead, and buried : He
descended into hell : the third day
He rose again from the dead : He
ascended into heaven, and sitteth
on the right hand of God the
Father Almighty. From thence He
shall come to judge the quick and
the dead. I believe in the Holy
Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church,
the Communion of Saints, the For
giveness of sins, (aloud)

Verse. The Resurrection of the
body.

Answer. And the Life ever
lasting. Amen.

Verse. ! Blessed art Thou, O
Lord God of our fathers,

Answer. And to be praised and
glorified above all for ever.

Verse. Bless we the Father, and
the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Let us praise and exalt
Him above all for ever.

Verse. x Blessed art Thou, O

Lord, in the firmament of heaven,

Answer. And to be praised, and

glorified, and exalted above all for

ever.

Verse. May the Lord, the Al
mighty and merciful, bless and
keep us.

Ansiver. Amen.
Verse. Vouchsafe, O Lord, this
night,

Answer. To keep us without sin.
Verse. Have mercy upon us, O
LORD.

Answer. Have mercy upon us.
52, 56.

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THE PSALTER.

Verse. O LORD, let Thy mercy
lighten upon us.

Answer. As our trust is in Thee.

Here the service is resumed, -when
the above has been omitted.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.
Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Let us pray.

VISIT, we beseech Thee, O
Lord, this habitation, 1 and
drive far from it all snares of the
enemy : let Thine holy Angels dwell
herein, to keep us in peace, and
may Thy blessing be always upon
us. Through our Lord JESUS Christ,
Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth
with Thee, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.

Answer. Amen.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

Answer. And let my cry come
unto Thee.

Verse. Bless we the Lord.

Answer. Thanks be to God.

The Blessing.

May the Almighty and Merciful
Lord, ^ the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost, bless and keep us.

Answer. Amen.

Then follows immediately one of
these Four Antiphons of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, according to the season
of the year.

I. From the Vespers of the Saturday
before Advent Sunday till those of
Candlemas, both inclusive.

Antiphon. Maiden ! Mother of
Him Who redeemed us, thou that
abidest

Heaven s open gate, and the Star
of the Sea, come, succour the fallen !

Fallen indeed we are, but fain
would rise by thy succour.

Thou that beyond nature s course
hast borne in time the Eternal ;

Thou that a Virgin before, and
after that childbirth remainest,

From the Archangel s lips the
quickening message receiving,

Mother of JESUS and us, turn
thine eyes of mercy on sinners.

Verse. The Angel of the Lord
announced unto Mary,

Answer. And she conceived of
the Holy Ghost.

Let us pray.

WE beseech Thee, O Lord, pour
Thy grace into our hearts ;
that, as we have known the Incar
nation of Thy Son JESUS Christ by
the message of an Angel, so by His
Passion and Cross we may be
brought unto the glory of His
Resurrection. Through the same
Christ our Lord.
Answer. Amen.

From the First Vespers of Christmas
inclusive, the Verse and Answer and
Prayer are as follows :

Verse. After thy delivery thou
still remainest a Virgin undefiled.

Answer. Mother of God, pray
for us.

Let us pray.

OGOD, Who, by the fruitful
virginity of the Blessed Mary,
hast given unto mankind the re
wards of everlasting life ; grant, we
beseech Thee, that we may con
tinually feel the might of her in-

1 This Office was originally the last Prayer before going to rest for the monks of the
Order of St Benedict.

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211

tercession ; through whom we have
worthily received the Author of
our life, our Lord JESUS Christ
Thy Son.

Answer. Amen.

II. from the Compline of the 2nd
day of February inclusive to
Maundy Thursday exclusive.

Antiphon. Hail, O Mary, Queen
of heaven,

Queen of Angel worlds on high,
Hail, O Rod to Jesse given,
Blessed Portal of the sky,

Hail, O Lady, bright and glorious,
Clad in beauty, pure and true,
Virgin ! o er sin s stain victorious,
Sinners for thy succour sue.

Verse. Holy Virgin, my praise
by thee accepted be.

Answer. Give me strength against
thine enemies.

Let us pray.

JV/T OST merciful God, grant, we
^ ^ beseech Thee, a succour
unto the frailty of our nature, that
as we keep ever alive the memory
?bf the holy Mother of God, so by
the help of her intercession we may
be raised up from the bondage of
our sins. Through the same Christ
our Lord.

Answer. Amen.

III. From the First Compline of
Easter inclusive till the First
Vespers of Trinity Sunday ex
clusive.

Antiphon. Rejoice! rejoice! thou
Queen of Heaven, Alleluia,

For He That thee for Son was
given, Alleluia,

As He promised is arisen. Alle
luia.

Mother, pray to Him for us,
Alleluia.

Verse. Be glad and rejoice, O
Virgin Mary, Alleluia,

Answer. For the Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia.

Let us pray.

C\ GOD, Who dost vouchsafe to
^-^ gladden the whole world by
the resurrection of Thy Son our
Lord JESUS Christ; grant, we be
seech Thee, that by" the help of
His Mother the Virgin Mary, we
may finally attain unto the glad
ness of life everlasting. Through
the same Christ our Lord.
Answer. Amen.

IV. From the First Vespers of
Trinity Sunday inclusive till the
Vespers of Saturday before Ad
vent Sunday exclusive.

Antiphon. Hail, O Queen, Mo
ther of mercy ! hail, our life, our
sweetness, and our hope. To thee
we cry, the banished sons of Eve.
Toward thee we sigh, weeping and
groaning in this vale of tears/ Ah,
then, thou our Advocate, turn on us
those merciful eyes of thine ! And,
after this our exile, show to us JESUS,
the blessed Fruit of thy womb. O
most merciful, O most gracious, O
most sweet Virgin Mary ! l

Verse. Pray for us, holy Mo
ther of God.

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

1 Of these four Antiphons, "Maiden Mother" is ascribed to Hermann the Cripple, a
monk of Reichenau, who died A.D. 1052. The authorship of the second is unknown : it

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THE PSALTER.

Let us pray.

O ALMIGHTY and everlasting
God, Who, by the co-opera
tion of the Holy Ghost, didst make
ready both the body and soul of
the glorious Virgin and Mother
Mary worthily to become a meet
dwelling for Thy Son ; grant that
as we rejoice in her memory, so
by her pitiful intercession we may
be delivered from the evils that
continually hang over us, and finally
from everlasting death. Through
the same Christ our Lord.
Answer. Amen.

After each of these Antiphons is said
this Blessing:

God s most mighty strength alway
Be His people s staff and stay.
Answer. Amen.

Lastly, -whether Mattins be to follow
immediately, or not, the Lords Prayer,
the Angelic Salutation, and the Apos
tles Creed are said inaudibly.

OUR Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will
be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us. And lead us
not into temptation ; but deliver
us from evil. Amen.

HAIL, Mary, full of grace ; the
Lord is with thee : blessed
art thou among women, and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now, and at the
hour of our death. Amen.

I BELIEVE in God, the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven
and earth. And in JESUS Christ,
His Only Son, our Lord, Who
was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered
under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
dead, and buried : He descended
into hell : the third day He rose
again from the dead : He ascended
into heaven, and sitteth at the right
hand of God the Father Almighty :
from thence He shall come to
judge both the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the
Holy Catholic Church, the Com
munion of Saints, the Forgiveness
of sins, the Resurrection of the
body, and the life everlasting.

Amen.

Thus ends the Office of Compline
throughout the year, in which Office
the words, " May the souls, &c.," are
omitted, and the Verse and Answer,
"The Lord give us, &c.," are not said
before the Antiphon of the Blessed
Virgin.

seems to date from about the eleventh century. The date and authorship of the third are
likewise unknown ; but a legend has become attached to it, to the effect that St Gregory
the Great heard the three first lines uttered by an angel, and himself added the fourth, on
the same occasion on which was instituted the procession upon St Mark s Day. The
authorship of " Hail, O Queen" is disputed. The last clause is usually admitted to be an
exclamation uttered by St Bernard of Clairvaux in the cathedral of Spires. But the
authorship of the rest is disputed, some ascribing it to Hermann the Cripple, others to
one Peter of Monsoro, bishop of Compostella, others to one Adhemar, bishop of Podium
(Puy-en-Velay). It seems to have been well known, at least in Spain, early in the
twelfth century.

proper &gt;flue of tlje

During Lent the following rules are
to be observed.

1 . On the first Saturday and every
Week-day after, Vespers * are said be
fore Supper, being the one meal allowed.

2. When the service is of the Week
day, at every service except Mattins,
Preces are said kneeling.

3. If the service is of the Week-day,
the following additions are made in
Choir, but persons bound to the Divine
Office are not bound to them under sin?

a. On Monday the Office of the Dead,
viz. the Vespers after the Vespers on
Sunday evening, and the Dirge after
Lauds the next morning. Out of Choir
U may be said any time between Sun-

* day afternoon and Monday midnight.
Monday i?i Holy Week is excepted.

b. On Wednesday the Gradual
Psalms. In Choir they are said be
fore Mattins; out of Choir whenever

convenient, and Wednesday in Holy
Week is excepted.

c. On Friday* the Penitential

Psalms and the Litany. The whole
is said kneeling after Lauds, but out
of Choir how and when convenient.
Good Friday is excepted. (See the
Additional Sen ices at the end of the
Breviary. )

4. Simple Feasts are only commemo
rated. Doubles and Semidoubles are
observed, if they fall on Week-days be
fore Palm Sunday. In this case the
Ninth Lesson of the Festival is omitted
or read as one with the Eighth, and
for the Ninth Lesson is read the first
part or the whole of the Homily for
the Week-day, which is also commemo
rated at Lauds and Vespers.

Fourth Day. Of Ashes.

This Day ca?inot be displaced by a
Festival.

Before Mattins are said the Gradual
Psalms.

1 The letter of this rule is, of course, fulfilled by those who eat before sunset, if they say
Vespers before supper, which a tolerated custom now allows to be taken at any time after noon.
In this country at least, the rich, when fasting, usually adhere to the primitive practice of the
Church during the warmth of her first love, and take their meal after dark ; but among working-
people and religious, who rise very early, the other practice is most usual. The Church now
tolerates it, only insisting that at any rate her day of Prayer should have closed. For private
recitation some do not hold the rule to apply.

2 There are, however, indulgences for reciting them under any circumstances.

3 But in most if not all dioceses there are Greater Double Offices in honour of the Passion on
these Fridays.

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

MATTINS.
First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gos
pel according to Matthew (vi. 16.)

A T that time : JESUS said unto His
^^ disciples ; When ye fast, be not,
as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance.
And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (Bk. ii. on the Lord s Sermon
on the Mount, ch. xii., torn. 4.)

It is evident that by these precepts
we are bidden to seek for inner glad
ness, lest, by running after that reward
which is without, we should become
conformed to the fashion of this world,
and should so lose the promise of that
blessing which is all the truer and
more stable that it is inward, that
blessing wherein God hath chosen us
to be conformed to the likeness of His
Son. In this chapter we will princi
pally consider the fact that vain-glory
findeth a ground for its exercise in
struggling poverty as much as in
worldly distinction and display ; and
this development is the most dangerous,
because it entices under pretence of
being the serving of God.

First Responsory.

1 1 came this day unto the well, and
I besought the Lord, and said : O
LORD God of Abraham, Thou hast
prospered my way.

Verse. Therefore the virgin to
whom I shall say : Give me water of
thy pitcher to drink ; and she shall say
to me : Drink, my lord, and I will give
thy camels drink also ; let the same be
the woman whom the LORD hath ap
pointed for my master s son.

Answer. O LORD God of Abraham,
Thou hast prospered my way.

1 Gen. xxiv. 42-44.

Second Lesson.

TIE that is characterised by un-
bridled indulgence in luxury or
in dress, or any other display, is by
these very things easily shown to be a
follower of worldly vanities, and de-
ceiveth no one by putting on an hypo
critical mask of godliness. But those
professors of Christianity, who turn all
eyes on themselves by an eccentric
show of grovelling and dirtiness, not
suffered by necessity, but by their own
choice, of them we must judge by their
other works whether their conduct
really proceedeth from the desire of
mortification by giving up unnecessary
comfort, or is only the mean of some
ambition : the Lord biddeth us beware
of wolves in sheep s clothing, but " by
their fruits," saith He, " ye shall know
them."

Second Responsory.

2 The word of the LORD came unto
Abram, saying : Fear not, Abram : I
am thy shield, and thy exceeding great
reward.

Verse. For I am the LORD thy God
That brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees.

Answer. Fear not, Abram : I am
thy shield, and thy exceeding great
reward.

Third Lesson.

HP HE test is when, by divers trials,
such persons lose those things
which under the cover of seeming un-
worldliness they have either gained or
sought to gain. Then must it needs
appear whether they be wolves in
sheep s clothing, or indeed sheep in
their own. But that hypocrites do
the contrary maketh it no duty of a
Christian to shine before the eyes of
men with a display of needless luxury
the sheep need not to lay aside their

2 xv. i, 7.

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own clothing because wolves sometimes
falsely assume it.

Third Responsory.

Abram removed his tent, and came,
and dwelt by the vale l of Mamre ; and
built there an altar unto the LORD.

Verse. And the LORD said unto
him : Lift up thine eyes, and look ; all
the land which thou seest, to thee will
I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Answer. And built there an Altar
unto the LORD.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. And built there an altar
unto the LORD.

LAUDS.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
When ye fast, * be not, as the hypo
crites, of a sad countenance.

Prayer.

(On this and all other Week-day Offices
in Lent, Preces are said kneeling.)

Q LORD, grant unto Thy faithful
people to enter with all meet
godliness upon the observance of this
worshipful and solemn Fast, and in
like mind faithfully to fulfil the same.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

After None, ashes are blessed and
put upon the heads of clergy and people,
after which is celebrated the Liturgy.

VESPERS.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, * where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt.

Prayer. i

TOOK mercifully, O Lord, upon all
that bow themselves down before
Thy Divine Majesty, and, as Thou
hast given them to taste of Thine
Unspeakable Gift, so strengthen them
ever by Thy heavenly succour. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

Fifth Day.

MATTINS.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gos
pel according to Matthew (viii. 5.)

A T that time : When JESUS was
entered into Capernaum, there
came unto Him a centurion, beseech
ing Him, and saying : Lord, my
servant lieth at home sick of the
palsy, and grievously tormented. And
so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (Book ii. on the Agreement
of the Evangelists, ch. xx., torn. 4.)

Let us consider whether Matthew
and Luke are at one as touching this
centurion s servant. Matthew saith :
"There came unto Him a centurion,

1 Some, instead of "vale" or "plain," read "oak" or "terebinth -tree."
(( J These Prayers appointed for the Week-day evenings during Lent, are the same as the

Prayers over the people" read after the Post-Communions of the corresponding masses said
Ber None. The first clause of the Prayer above relates to the Bidding, " Bow down your

ads to God," always said before the Prayer over the people," and the second clause, of
course, to the Holy Communion just received.

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THE PROPER OFFICE: OF THE SEASON.

beseeching Him, and saying : Lord,
my servant .lieth at home sick of the
palsy." This seemeth to differ from
what Luke saith : namely : " And when
he heard of JESUS, he sent unto Him
the elders of the Jews, beseeching Him
that He would come and heal his
servant. And when they came to
JESUS, they besought him instantly,
saying : That he was worthy for whom
He should do this ; for he loveth our
nation, and he hath built us a syna
gogue. Then JESUS went with them ;
and when He was now not far from
the house, the centurion sent friends
to Him, saying unto Him: Lord,
trouble not Thyself; for I am not
worthy that Thou shouldest enter under
my roof." (vii. 6, et seg.}

First Responsory.

Lord, my servant lieth at home sick
ol the palsy, and grievously tormented.
Amen, I say unto Thee, I will come
and heal him:

Verse. Lord, I am not worthy that
Thou shouldest enter .under my roof,
but "speak the word only, and my ser
vant shall be healed. :

Answer. Amen, I say unto thee, I
will come and heal him.

Second Lesson.

T F it were done thus, how is Matthew
truthful, when he saith that the
"centurion came unto Him, "-^seeing
that, in fact, he sent his friends ? We
must then look well irito this, and we
shall see that Matthew only made use
of a common form of speech. Now,
we use to say of a man that he cometh
to a place even though he be not
already come : whence also we say,
"He arrived close;" or "He arrived a
long way off," that is, to that place to
which he would come ;, yea, we speak

of that coming, toward which he
tendeth, as though it had already
taken place, when he that should be
come at, seeth not yet him that cometh,
but is come at for him by friends, to
obtain his favour, which is needful for
him that would come to him. And so
much doth this manner of speaking
hold, that they are commonly said to
" come at " a great man, (who is
beyond their personal reach,) who, by
means of suitable persons, succeed in
laying before him such things as they
desire.

Second Responsory.

1 Abraham stood by the oak of
Mamre, and he saw three men coming
up by the path. He saw three, and
worshipped One.

Verse. Behold, Sarah thy wife shall
bear thee a son, and thou shalt call
his name Isaac.

Answer. He saw three, and wor
shipped One.

Third Lesson.

n^HEREFQRE it is not strange that
Matthew should make use of the
common short phrase, and say of the
centurion, who reached the Lord s sym
pathies, by mean of friends, that he
"came unto Him." Also we must
needs not pass by lightly the mystic
depth which underlieth the words of
this holy Evangelist. It is written in
the Psalms (xxxiii. 6): "Draw near
unto Hjm and be lightened." Thus
did the centurion in faith draw near
unto; JESUS, and the Lord so praised
him that He said : " I have not found
so great faith, no, not in Israel." Of
him of whom these words were spoken
the. Evangelist deemeth it wiser to say
that, he had found his way to JESUS,
that he had got to Christ, than that
they came, through whom he sent his
message unto Him.

1 xviii. i, a; xvii. 19,

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Third Responsory.

1 The Lord did tempt Abraham, and
said unto him : Take thy son .Isaac
whom thou lovest, and offer him there
for a burnt-offering upon one .of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.

Verse. And when the Lord called
him, he answered : Behold, here I am.
And the Lord said unto him : ..

Answer. Take thy son Isaac whom
thou lovest, and offer him there fora
burnt-offering upon one of the moun
tains which I will tell thee of.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Take thy son Isaac whom
thou lovest, and offer him there for a
burnt-offering upon one of the moun
tains which I will tell thee of.

LAUDS.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of
the palsy * and grievously tormented.
Amen, I say unto thee : I will come
and heal him.

Prayer.

C\ GOD, Whom sin doth justly move
to anger, and repentance turn
again, mercifully to forgive the same,
look down now graciously upon the
supplications of Thy people praying
before Thee, and turn away the scourges
of Thy wrath, which for our sins, we
do most rightfully deserve. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

At the beginning of the Martyrology,
say, On the morrow we commemorate
the Coronation of our Lord JESUS
Christ with Thorns.

" The same Prayer at Terc.e, Sext,
and None.

in Bent

Office in Memory of the Coronation
of our Lord JESUS Christ with
Thorns.

Greater Double.

All as on Sundays except the follow
ing.

FIRST VESPERS .

Anliphons, Chapter, and Prayer from
Lauds.

Last Psalm.

Ps. cxvi. O praise the LORD, &c.,
(P. 1 86.)

ffymn.%

DAUGHTERS of Zion ! Royal Maids !

Come forth to see the Crown
Which Zion s self, with cruel hands.
Hath woven for her Son.

See ! how amid His gory Locks

The jagged thorns appear ;
See ! how His pallid Countenance

Foretells that death is near.

Oh, savage was the earth that bore
Those thorns so sharp and long !

Savage the hand that gathered them
To work this deadly wrong !

But now that Christ s redeeming Blood

Hath tinged them with its dye,
Fairer than roses they appear,

Or palms of victory.

JESU ! the thorns which pierced Thy Brow

Sprang from the seed of sin ;
Pluck ours, we pray Thee, from our hearts,

And plant Thine own therein.

Praise, honour, to the Father be,

And sole begotten Son;
Praise to the Spirit Paraclete

While endless ages run. Amen.

Verse. When they had platted a
crown of thorns,

Answer. They put it upon His
Head.

XXll. I, 2.

2 Hymn found in the Breviary, only ; translation by the late R.ev. E. Caswall.

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Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. J Go forth, O ye daughters
of Zion, and behold King Solomon
with the Crown wherewith his mother
crowned him whilst she was making
ready a Cross for her Saviour.

A Commemoration of the Week-Day.

Antiphon. Lord, I am not worthy
Thou shouldst enter under my roof;
but speak this word only, and my
servant shall be healed.

Verse. Let my prayer, O Lord, be
set forth,

Answer. As incense before Thee.

Prayer.

CPARE, O Lord, spare Thy people,
^ that they, being justly chastened
because of their iniquities, may,
through Thy mercy, find time of
relief. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. Christ our King, Who
was crowned with thorns, * Him, O
come, let us worship !

Hymn from Vespers.

FIRST NOCTURN.

Only three Psalms are said, as fol
lows.

First Antiphon. He shall be like
a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth its fruit in its
season.

4-)

Ps. i. Blessed is the man, &c., (p.

Second Antiphon. They take coun

sel together against the LORD, and
against His Anointed.

Ps. ii. Why do the heathen, &c.,
(P- 4-)

Third Antiphon. Thou hast en
larged me when I was in distress.

Ps. iv. When I called, c., (p.
206.)

Verse. 2 Thou hast crowned Him
with glory and honour, O Lord

Answer. And madest Him to have
dominion over the works of Thy hands.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Isaiah (liii.)

O hath believed our report ?

And to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed ? For he shall grow
up before Him as a tender plant, and
as a root out of a dry ground : he
hath no form nor comeliness ; and when
we shall see him, there is no beauty
that we should desire him. He is
despised and rejected of men ; a man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief ;
and he hid as it were his face from
us ; he was despised, and we esteemed
him not. Surely he hath borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows : yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities : the
chastisement of our peace was upon
him, and with his stripes we are
healed.

First Responsory.

3 Cursed is the ground by man s
work. Thorns and thistles shall it
bring forth for the Anointed.

Verse. Because Adam hath eaten
of the tree of which God commanded

1 Cant. iii. n.

2 Ps. viii. 6.

Gen. iii. 17, 18, &c.

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him, saying : Thou shalt not eat
of it.

Answer. Thorns and thistles shall
it bring forth for the Anointed.

Second Lesson.

A LL we, like sheep, have gone
astray ; we have turned every
one to his own way : and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was offered up because he willed
it, 1 and he opened not his mouth.
He is brought as a sheep to the
slaughter, and as a lamb before his
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not
his mouth. He was taken from prison
and from judgment : and who shall
declare his generation ? For he was
cut off out of the land of the living ;
for the transgression of my people have
I stricken him.

Second Responsory.

The Lord 2 appeared unto Moses in
a flame of fire, out of the midst of a
bush ; and he looked, and, behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush
was not consumed.

Verse. And Moses said : I will now
turn aside, and see this great sight.

Answer. And he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and
the bush was not consumed.

Third Lesson.

A ND he made his grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his
death ; because he had done no vio
lence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to
bruise him ; He hath put him to

grief; when he hath made his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and
the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see of the
travail of his soul, and shall be satis
fied : by his knowledge shall My
righteous servant justify many, for he
shall bear their iniquities.

Third Responsory.

3 Behold the fire and the wood.
God will provide Himself a lamb for a
burnt-offering.

Verse. And Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind
him a ram caught in a thicket by his
horns.

Answer. A lamb for a burnt-offer
ing".

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. A lamb for a burnt-offer
ing.

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. O LORD, Thou
hast compassed me with Thy favour
as with a shield.

Ps. v. Give ear to my words, &c.,
(p. 88.)

Second Antiphon. Thou hast made
him a little lower than the angels,
Thou hast crowned him with glory and
honour.

Ps. viii. O LORD, our Ruler, &c.,
(A 70

Third Antiphon. The wicked bend
their bow, they make ready their arrows

Oblatus est quia ipse voluit. The present Hebrew is literally, "He was oppressed and
he was afflicted." Jonathan ben Uzziel, " He was required, and he was brought back, and
without opening his mouth, he submitted to the mighty of the people."

- Exod. iii. 2, 3, but the words are "the Angel of the Eternal appeared, &c."

* Gen. xxii. 7, 8, 13.

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in the quiver, that they may shoot at
the upright.

Ps. x. In the LORD, &c., (p. 9.)

Verse. 1 Thou hast set a crown, O
Lord, of precious stones,
Answer. Upon his head.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of St Bernard, Abbat [of Clairvaux.]
(2nd for Twelfth Day.}

" /~*O forth, O ye daughters of Zion."
^~* You we address as daughters
of Zion, O worldly souls, frail, sickly
children, daughters and not sons,
beings in whom there is no muscle,
and no manliness. Go forth from
your dream of carnal sensuality to
understand something with your mind.
Go forth from your bondage to the
lusts of the flesh, unto the freedom of
spiritual intelligence. Go forth out of
your country, and from your kindred,
and from your father s house, and be
hold King Solomon with the crown
wherewith his mother crowned him,
that crown of want and woe. But
albeit his stepmother crowned him with
a crown of woeful thorns, he is yet to
be crowned by his household with a
crown of righteousness, when "the
Son of Man shall send forth His
Angels, and they shall gather out of
His Kingdom all things that offend,"
(Matth. xiii. 41,) when "the LORD
will enter into judgment with the
antients of His people," (Isa. iii. 14,)
and " the world shall fight with Him
against the unwise." (Wisd. v. 21.)
The Father also crowneth Him with a
crown of glory, as saith the Psalmist :
"Thou hast crowned him with glory
and honour, O Lord," (Ps. viii. 6.)
Daughters of Zion ! behold Him with
the crown wherewith His mother
crowned Him !

Fourth Responsory.

2 When the chief Shepherd shall
appear, (even the Shepherd That was
smitten, and the sheep of the flock
were scattered abroad,) when He shall
appear, ye shall receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not away

Verse. When He maketh a great
feast to show the riches of His glorious
kingdom.

Answer. Ye shall receive a crown
of glory that fadeth not away.

Fifth Lesson. (42 fid Sermon on the
Song of Songs. )

T3RETHREN, from the first moment
of my conversion, I took care to
gather a bundle of my Lord s troubles
and griefs, and put the same to lie be
tween my breasts, to make up for the
sheaf of merits which I knew I had not.
I will tell how abundantly sweet was
the smell of this [bundle of myrrh.]
As long as I live, even for ever and
ever, I will never forget those mercies
whereby I was called to life. I have
kept this healthy bundle by me, and
no one will ever take it away from me,
but it shall lie between my breasts. I
have decreed that to think of these
troubles and griefs is real wisdom ;
in them I have determined to find
perfect righteousness, full knowledge,
plentiful salvation, and abundant merit.
From these His troubles and griefs I
drink sometimes a draught of healthy
bitters, and from the same again I
draw the sweet oil of comfort. It is
the thought of these troubles and woes
of His that cheereth me when I am
afflicted, and maketh me grave when
it is well with me. As the pilgrim
walketh along the King s High-way of
this present life, in joy and in sorrow,
it is the memory of the woes of JESUS
that keeps him moving straight and

1 Ps. xx. 4,

2 i Pet. v. 4 ; Matth. xxvi. 31 ; Esther i. 3, 4.

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saveth him from the dangers that
threaten him upon the one hand or
upon the other. These griefs are what
will gain my pardon from the Judge of
all the earth ; He Who is dreadful to
the mighty is shown by these griefs to
be meek and lowly, manifesting as the
Forgiving One, yea, One That a man
may take ensample by, Him Who is
exalted above all Princes and dreadful
among the kings of the earth.

Fifth Responsory.

1 He hath received a glorious king
dom and a beautiful crown.

Verse. 2 God hath highly exalted
Him, and given Him a Name which is
above every name.

Answer. And a beautiful crown.

Sixth Lesson.

HPHEREFORE are these His griefs
oftentimes in my mouth, and
God knoweth that they be alway in
my heart. My pen useth to write of
them, as is manifest. The highest
flight of my philosophy is this, to
know JESUS, and Him Crucified. I
do not ask, like the Bride, where He
lieth to rest at noon, (Cant. i. 6,) since
I have the joy to embrace Him as He
lieth between my breasts. I ask not
where He feedeth at noon, since I see
Him on the Cross a Saviour. On the
Cross He is glorious, at my breast He
is sweet ; on the Cross, my Bread ; at
my breast, my milk, milk which filleth
the bellies of sucklings, and the paps
of mothers, and therefore He shall lie
betwixt my breasts. Do ye also, dearly
beloved brethren, do ye also gather you
a bundle of this beloved myrrh, [even
the woe of JESUS,] put it in the core
of your heart, put it to guard the door
of your breast, that it may lie betwixt

your breasts also. If ye have before
your eyes Him Whom ye bear about,
the sight of the Lord s afflictions
will make your own lighter to carry,
through the help of Him Who is
the Bridegroom of the Church, and
Who is above all God, blessed for
ever. Amen.

Sixth Responsory.

3 They shall make an ark of shittirh-
wood ; and thou shalt overlay it with
pure gold ; within and without shalt
thou overlay it, and shalt make upon
it a crown of gold round about.

Verse. And thou shalt put into the
ark the testimony which I shall give
thee.

Answer. And shalt make upon it
a crown of gold round about.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. And shalt make upon it
a crown of gold round about.

1 Wisd. v. 17.
VOL. II.

THIRD NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. He that walked
uprightly and worked righteousness
was crowned upon Thy holy hill.

Ps. xiv. LORD, who shall abide, &c.,
(P. 10.)

Second Antiphon. Thou hast set a
crown of precious stones upon his head,
O Lord.

Ps. xx. The king shall joy, &c., (p.
190

Third Antiphon. In the presence
of mine enemies Thou anointest mine
head with oil.

Ps. xxii. The LORD is my Shepherd,
&c., (p. 470

2 Phil. ii. 9. 3 Exod. xxv. 10, n, 16.

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Verse. l A crown of gold upon his
head.

Answer. Wherein was engraved
" HOLINESS."

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xix. i.)

A T that time : Pilate took JESUS
^ and scourged Him. And the
soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and
put it on His Head. And so on.

Homily by St Bernard, Abbat [of
Clairvaux.] ($otk on divers matters.}

Daughters of Zion, behold King Solo
mon not here called " the Preacher,"
or Y dydyah. 2 By these three names
was that King called, and therein is he
a figure of our true Solomon, JESUS
Christ, Who was Sh lomoh, that is,
"the Peaceful One" in His exile here,
Who will be [Koheleth, that is,] " the
Preacher " when He delivereth the last
doom, and Who is Y dydyah, that is,
"the delight of the LORD" as the
Universal King gentle in His exile,
righteous in His judgment, glorious in
His kingdom ; lovely in His exile,
dreadful in His judgment, worshipful
in His kingdom. Behold Him now
" with the crown wherewith His Mother
crowned Him." This was a crown of
mercy, and therein He may be followed.
But His step-mother also crowned Him
with a crown of sorrow, and therein
He was made a reproach. By His
step-mother I mean the Synagogue
which showed herself not as His mother,
but as His step-mother.

Seventh Responsory.

3 Thou shalt make an Altar to burn
incense upon ; of shittim-wood shalt

thou make it. And thou shalt make
unto it a crown of gold round
about.

Verse. And thou shalt put the
Altar before the veil that is before
the mercy-seat.

Answer. And thou shalt make
unto it a crown of gold round
about.

Eighth Lesson.

T T IS household will crown Him with
a crown of righteousness, and
therein He will be dreadful. His
Father crowneth Him with a crown of
glory, and therein He is lovely. Let
sinners gaze upon Him in His crown
of sorrow, the crown of thorns, and let
the pricks thereof enter into themselves.
Let the daughters of Zion, the souls
that love Him, gaze upon Him in His
crown of mercy, and follow in His
steps. The wicked shall gaze upon
Him in His crown of righteousness,
and they shall perish. The Saints
shall gaze upon Him in His crown of
glory, and they shall be blessed for
ever.. Others also that have followed
Him shall be crowned after Him, but
that by earnest working by the help of
His grace. He alone was crowned by
His mother, Who alone, with every
emotion duly ordered, came forth out
of His mother s womb, like a Bride
groom out of his chamber.

Eighth Responsory.

4 A man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief, Christ was crowned with
thorns. The Same is He Who
crowneth us with mercy and loving-
kindness.

Verse. He was wounded for our
transgressions ; He was bruised for

1 Ecclus. xlv. 14.

2 " The-delight-of-the-LoRD," a name given to Solomon, 2 Kings (Sam.) xii. 25. In the
Vulgate it is translated " Amabilis-Domino."

3 Exod. xxx. i, 3, 6. 4 Isa. liii. 3 ; Ps. cii. 4.

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our iniquities ; and with His stripes we
are healed.

Answer. The Same is He Who
crowneth us with mercy and loving-
kindness.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The Same is He Who
crowneth us with mercy and loving-
kindness.

Ninth Blessing.

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford.

Ninth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (v.

430

AT that time : JESUS said unto His

disciples : Ye have heard that it

hath been said : Thou shalt love thy

neighbour and hate thine enemy. And

so on.

Homily by St Jerome, Priest [at
Bethlehem.] (Bk. i., Comm. on Matth.
v. and vi.)

" But I say unto you : Love your
enemies, do good to them that hate
you." There are many who judge
of the commandments of the Lord by
their own weakness, and not by the
strength of His Saints ; and so deem
Him to have commanded things im
possible. These are they who think
that not to hate their enemies is all
that they are able to do ; and that to
command us to love them, is to com
mand more than man s nature can
bear. It behoveth them to know, that
this which Christ commandeth is not
impossible, albeit perfect. This is what
David did in respect of Saul and
Absalom ; the martyr Stephen also
prayed for his enemies, even while they

were stoning him ; and Paul " could
wish that himself were accursed from
Christ for his " persecutors. (Rom. ix.
3.) And this, JESUS Himself did, as
well as taught, when He said : " Father,
forgive them : for they know not what
they do." (Luke xxiii. 34.) "That
ye may be the children of your Father
Which is in heaven." If he that doeth
the commandments of God becometh a
son of God, then is he not a son by
nature, but by his own choice.

"Therefore when thou doest thine
alms, do not sound a trumpet before
thee, as the hypocrites do in the syna
gogues, and in the streets, that they
may have glory of men." He that
soundeth a trumpet before him, when
he doeth alms, is an hypocrite. He
that disfigureth his face, when he
fasteth, to the end that he may show
the emptiness of his belly in his looks,
he also is an hypocrite. He that
prayeth in the synagogues and in the
corners of the streets, that he may be
seen of men, is an hypocrite. From
all which, we gather that an hypocrite
is one which doeth anything that he
may have glory of men. To me also
it seemeth that he which saith unto
his brother : " Let me pull out the
mote out of thine eye," (vii. 4,) that he
also is an hypocrite ; for he proposeth
to take upon him that office for vain
glory s sake, that he himself may ap
pear righteous. W T herefore the Lord
saith unto him : " Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out of thine own
eye." Thus we see that it is, not the
doing good, but the motive which
moveth us to do good, which will meet
with reward from God ; and, if thou
stray but a little from the right way, it
is of small moment whether thou
wander to the right hand or to the
left, when once thou hast lost the
straight path.

The Hyimi, "We praise Thee, O
God, &c.," is said.

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LAUDS.

First Antiphon. l My beloved is
white and ruddy ; * the hair of his
head is like kingly purple bound in
tresses.

Second Antiphon. 2 The spirit of
the fear of the Lord rested upon him ;
* a crown of wisdom and gladness
adorned him.

Third Antiphon. 3 The Lord clothed
him with the garments of salvation, *
and with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decked with his
crown.

Fourth Antiphon. 4 A bundle of
myrrh is my well-beloved unto me ; *
he shall lie betwixt my breasts.

Fifth Antiphon. 5 The King of Eter
nal Glory, * Who was crowned for our
sakes, will bless the crown of the year
with His goodness.

Chapter. (Cant. iii. n.)

the

forth, O ye daughters of Zion,
and behold King Solomon with
crown wherewith his mother

crowned him.

Hymn.*

"THE noble crown of Christ our Lord

Shines in the antient pact ;
By thorn-entangled Victim shown,
And burning Bush intact.

The ark was circled by a crown ;
The Table s mystic round,
And Altars breathing sweet perfume
Fair golden crowns surround.

Hail ! Crown of glory ! hail to thee !
Encircling JESUS scars !
No gems, no gold can rival thee,
Nor crowns of shining stars.

Strength, honour, praise and glory be
To Father and to Son,
And to the Spirit Paraclete,
While endless ages run. Amen.

Verse. 7 Thou shalt be a crown of
glory in the hand of the LORD.

Answer. And a royal diadem in
the hand of thy God.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Then came JESUS forth, wearing the
crown of thorns and the purple robe.

Prayer throughout the Office.

/^RANT, we beseech Thee, O Al-
^-* mighty God, that we who among
the memories of the sufferings of our
Lord JESUS Christ do make worshipful
mention of His Coronation with thorns,
may by Him be worthily crowned with
glory and honour in heaven. Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. When thou doest alms
let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth.

Verse. Thou hast satisfied us early
with Thy mercy.

Answer. We rejoice and are glad.

Prayer.

C\ LORD, the Fast is now begun ;
^^ we beseech Thee graciously to
bless the same, and so to strengthen
us Thy people, that we may ever
follow this our bodily exercise, with
our hearts truly turned to seek after
Thee. Through our Lord JESUS

3 Isa. Ixi. 10.

1 Cant. v. 10 ; vii. 5. 2 Isa. xi. 2 ; Ecclus. i. 22, n.

4 Cant. i. 12. 5 Ps. Ixiv. 12.

6 Hymn of sixteenth to eighteenth century, found in the Breviary only, author unknown,
translation by the Rev. Dr Wallace. 7 Isa. Ixii. 3.

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Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. My beloved, &c., (First
Antiphon at Lauds. ]

Ps. liii. and the two sections of
cxviii. " Whosoever, &c.," is not
said.

Chapter at the end. (Isa. xxviii. 5.)

T N that day shall the LORD of hosts
be for a crown of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty unto the residue of
His people.

TERCE.

Antiphon. The spirit of the fear,
&c., (Second Antiphon at Lauds. }

Chapter from Lauds.

Short Responsory.

Thou shalt be a crown of glory in
the hand of the LORD.

Answer. Thou shalt be a crown of
glory in the hand of the LORD.

Verse. And a royal diadem in the
hand of thy God.

Answer. In the hand of the LORD.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Thou shalt be a crown of
glory in the hand of the LORD.

Verse. Thou hast crowned him
with glory and honour, O Lord.

Answer. And madest him to have
dominion over the works of Thy
hands.

SEXT.

Antiphon. The Lord clothed him,
&c., (Third Antiphon at Lauds. ]

Chapter. (Apoc. vi. 2.)

T SAW, and behold, a white horse ;
and he that sat on him had a
bow ; and a crown was given unto
him ; and he went forth conquering,
and to conquer.

Short Responsory.

Thou hast crowned him with glory
and honour, O Lord.

Answer. Thou hast crowned him
with glory and honour, O Lord.

Verse. And madest him to have
dominion over the works of Thy
hands.

Answer. With glory and honour,
O Lord.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Thou hast crowned him
with glory and honour, O Lord.

Verse. We worship Thy Crown,
O Lord,

Answer. We tell of Thy glorious
sufferings.

NONE.

Antiphon. The King, &c. (Fifth
Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter as at the end of Prime.

Short Responsory.

We worship Thy Crown, O Lord.

Answer. W T e worship Thy Crown,
O Lord.

Verse. We tell of Thy glorious
sufferings.

Answer. Thy Crown, O Lord !

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. W T e worship Thy Crown,
O Lord.

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Verse. When they had platted a
crown of thorns,

Answer. They put it upon His
Head.

SECOND VESPERS.

Antiphons, Chapter, and Prayer
front Lauds.

Last Psalm.

Ps. cxvi. O praise the LORD, &c.,
(p. 1 86.)

Hymn, and Verse and Answer from
First Vespers.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. * And they bowed the knee
before Him, and mocked Him, saying :
Hail, King of the Jews ! And they
spit upon Him, and took the reed, and
smote Him on the Head.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. But thou, when thou
prayest, enter into thy closet ; and
when thou hast shut the door, pray
to thy Father thus :

Verse. Let my prayer, O Lord, be
set forth.

Answer. As incense before Thee.

Prayer.

/^RACIOUSLY look down upon Thy
people, O Lord, and purge the
same from all sin, for then shall no
evil be able to hurt them, when no
iniquity hath hold upon them. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The Sabbath.

MATTINS.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Mark (vi.
490

A T that time : When the even was
come, the ship was in the midst
of the sea, and JESUS alone on the land.
And so on.

Homily by the Venerable Bede,
Priest [at Jarrow] and Doctor of the
Church. 2 (Bk. ii., cap. 6, on Mark

vi. 45.)

The toil of the disciples in rowing,
and the wind contrary to them, is a
figure of the divers toils of the Holy
Church, as, amid the waves of a world
that fighteth against her, and the
stormy blasts of unclean spirits, she
laboureth to reach the rest of her
Fatherland above, as a shore safe
for her anchor. Here also it is
well said that the ship was in the
midst of the sea, and He alone on
the land ; for sometimes it cometh
to pass that the Church is, by the
great pressure of the Gentiles, not
only so afflicted, but also befouled,
that it seemeth as though, if it were
possible, her Redeemer had for the
time forsaken her.

First Responsory.
I came this day, &c., (p. 214.)

1 Matth. xxvii. 29.

- The celebrated English historian; born, A.D. 673, near Jarrow on the Tyne ; sent to the
new Benedictine house at that place, at seven years of age ; ordained Deacon in 691 ; Priest,
702 ; died, May 26, 735, after the First Vespers of the Ascension, which fell on May 27, on
which day, therefore, the Martyrology names him, with the remark that he is very famous for
holiness and learning. In England he [had] a Festival on Oct. 29. [On November 13, 1899,
he was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church. His Festival is now kept everywhere on May 27.]

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Second Lesson.

V\THENCE it is that there cometh
that cry of hers, when she is
taken amid the waves, and the winds
of temptations that break upon her,
and with piteous entreaty she calleth
on Him to protect her " Why stand-
est Thou afar off, O LORD, why
hidest Thou Thyself in times of
trouble?" (Ps. ix. 22.) And then,
in the verses that follow, she telleth
Him what saith the enemy that per-
secuteth her, saying : " For he hath
said in his heart : God hath for
gotten ; He hideth His face : He
will never see it." (32.)

Second Responsory.

The word of the LORD, &c., (p.

214.)

Third Lesson.

WERILY, He forgetteth not the
prayer of the poor, neither turn-
eth He His face away from any that
putteth his trust in Him ; yea, rather,
to him whosoever is striving with the
enemy, He giveth help to conquer, and,
whosoever conquereth, to him He giveth
an everlasting crown. For the which
reason also it is here said plainly :
" He saw them toiling in rowing."
The Lord seeth them that are toiling
in the sea, albeit He be Himself on
the land. Although He seem for a
moment to tarry in succouring the
distressed, nevertheless the look of His
love is strengthening them, all the
while, lest they should faint : and
sometimes He setteth them free, even
by an open deliverance, conquering all
their adversaries for them, as when He
-walked upon the swelling of the waves,
and stilled them.

Third Responsory.

Abram removed his tent, &c., (p.

215.)

LAUDS.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
1 Yet they seek Me * daily, and delight
to know My ways.

Prayer.

TTEAR our prayers, O Lord, and
grant unto us, that we may keep
with all earnestness and godliness,
this solemn Fast, ordained for the
health both of our bodies and of our
souls. Through our Lord JESUS Christ,
Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

VESPERS.

This is thejirst day on which Vespers
must be said before Supper.

CJiapter and Prayer from the follow
ing Lauds.

Hymn?

C\ MAKER of the world, give ear,

Accept the prayer and own the tear,
Towards Thy Seat of Mercy sent
In this most holy Fast of Lent.

Each heart is manifest to Thee :
Thou knowest our infirmity :
Forgive Thou then each soul that fain
Would seek to Thee, and turn again.

Our sins are manifold and sore,

But pardon them that sin deplore ;

And, for Thy Name s sake, make each soul,

That feels and owns its languor, whole.

1 Isa. Iviii. 2.

2 Hymn by St Gregory the Great ; the fourth verse slightly altered ; translation extracted
from the " Hymnal Noted."

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So mortify .we every sense
By grace of outward abstinence,
That from each stain and spot of sin
The soul may keep her fast within.

Grant, O Thou Blessed Trinity !
Grant, O Essential Unity !
That this our Fast of forty days
May work our profit and Thy praise.

Amen.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over thee.

Answer. To keep thee in all thy
ways.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. * Then shalt thou call, * and
the Lord shall answer : thou shalt cry,
and He shall say : Here I am.

Henceforth more sparing let us be

Of food, of words, of sleep ;
Henceforth beneath a stricter guard

The roving senses keep :

And let us shun whatever things

Distract the careless heart ;
And let us shut our souls against

The tyrant tempter s art ;

And weep before the Judge, and strive

His vengeance to appease ;
Saying to Him with contrite voice

Upon our bended knees :

Much have we sinned, O Lord ! and still

We sin each day we live ;
Yet look in pity from on high,

And of Thy grace forgive.

Remember that we still are Thine,

Though of a fallen frame ;
And take not from us in Thy wrath

The glory of Thy name.

Jirst Suntiag in

The First LorcPs Day in the Forty
Days before Easter.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. Let it not be vain for
you to rise up early, before the light 2 :
for * the Lord hath promised a crown
to them that watch.

Hymn 2

"M"OW, with the slow revolving year,

Again the Fast we greet ;
Which in its mystic circle moves
Of forty days complete.

That Fast, by Law and Prophet taught,

By JESUS Christ restored ;
JESUS, of seasons and of times

The Maker and the Lord.

Undo past evil; grant us, Lord,
More grace to do aright ;

So may we now and ever find
Acceptance in Thy sight.

Blest Trinity in Unity!

Vouchsafe us, in Thy love,
To gather from these fasts below

Immortal fruit above.

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Second
Epistle of the Blessed Apostle Paul
to the Corinthians (vi. I.)

V\7"E then, as workers together with
Him, beseech you also that ye
receive not the grace of God in vain.
(For He saith : " I have heard thee in
a time accepted, and in the day of sal
vation have I succoured thee." 4 Be-

1 Isa. Ivill. 9 . 2 p s . cxxv j. 2-

3 Hymn of the Ambrosian school, very slightly altered ; translation by the late Rev. E.
Caswall. 4 i sa . xlix . 8&lt;

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hold, now is the acceptable time ;
behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Giving no offence to any, that our
ministry be not blamed ; but in all
things let us approve ourselves as the
ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults,
in labours, in watchings, in fastings, in
purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering,
in kindness, in the Holy Ghost, in love
unfeigned, in the word of truth, in the
power of God : by the armour of right
eousness on the right hand and on the
left, by honour and dishonour, by evil
report and good report ; as deceivers,
and yet true ; as unknown, and yet
well known ; as dying, and behold, we
live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as
sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing ; as poor,
yet making many rich ; as having no
thing, and yet possessing all things.

First Responsory.

Behold, now is the acceptable time ;
behold, now is the day of salvation :
let us approve ourselves in much
patience, in much fasting ; in the
power of God, by the armour of right
eousness.

Verse. In all things let us approve
ourselves as the ministers of God, in
much patience, in much fasting.

Answer. In the power of God, by
the armour of righteousness.

Second Lesson.

C\ YE Corinthians, our mouth is open
unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye
are straitened in your own bowels ;
but having the same recompense, (I
speak as unto sons,) be ye also en
larged. Be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers. For what

1 "The destroyer," i.e., Satan.

fellowship hath righteousness with un
righteousness ? And what communion
hath light with darkness ? And what
concord hath Christ with Belial ? l or
what part hath he that believeth with
an infidel ? And what agreement hath
the temple of God with idols ? For ye
are the temple of the living God, as
God hath said : "I will dwell in them,
and walk among them, and I will be
their God, and they shall be My
people." 2

Second Responsory.

In all things let us approve our
selves as the ministers of God, in much
patience ; that our ministry be not
blamed.

Verse. Behold, now is the accept-
able time ; behold, now is the day of
salvation : let us approve ourselves in
much patience.

Answer. That our ministry be not
blamed.

Third Lesson.

T AM filled with comfort, I am ex-
A ceeding joyful in all our tribula
tion. For when we were come into
Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but
we were troubled on every side : with
out were fightings, within were fears.
Nevertheless God, That comforteth
those that are cast down, comforted us
by the coming of Titus. And not by
his coming only, but also by the con
solation wherewith he was comforted
in you, when he told us your earnest
desire, your mourning, your zeal for
me : so that I rejoiced the more. For
though I have made you sorry with a
letter, I repent not ; and, if I had re
pented, perceiving that the same
epistle made you sorry, (though it
were but for a season,) now I rejoice :
not that ye were made sorry, but that
ye sorrowed to repentance.

2 Exod. xxix. 45 ; Lev. xxvi. 12.

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

Third Responsory.

1 The Priests shall pray, with fast
ing and with weeping, and shall say :
Spare, O LORD, spare Thy people ;
and give not Thine heritage to de
struction.

Verse. The Priests shall weep be
tween the porch and the altar, and
shall say :

Answer. Spare, O LORD, spare
Thy people ; and give not Thine heri
tage to destruction.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Spare, O LORD, spare
Thy people : and give not Thine heri
tage to destruction.

SECOND NOCTURN.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of Pope St Leo [the Great.] (tfh
on Lent.}

"P) EARLY beloved brethren, I am to
preach to you the holiest and
the greatest of Fasts ; and with what
words can I more fitly begin than with
those words of the Apostle, in whom
Christ spake, which have just been
read ? " Behold, now is the accept
able time ! Behold, now is the day of
salvation ! " It is true that there are
no times which are not rich with God s
gifts ; His grace doth ever give us an
entry unto His mercy ; nevertheless,
more especially at this time doth it
behove that the minds of all men be
earnestly stirred up to make progress
in things spiritual, and to be nerved
by a trust in God stronger than ever ;
for now the anniversary of that day on
which we were redeemed is drawing
near, and thereby moving us to work
all godliness, to the end that we may
be able to celebrate, with clean minds

Joel ii. 17.

2 Ps. Ixxviii. 9.

and bodies, that mystery which ex-
ceedeth all others, the mystery of the
Lord s sufferings.

Fourth Responsory.

Let us amend for the better in that
wherein we have sinned unknowingly,
or ever the day of death suddenly pre
vent us, and we seek a place of repent
ance, and find none. Give heed, O
Lord, and have mercy upon us, for we
have sinned against Thee.

Verse. 2 Help us, O God of our
salvation, and for the glory of Thy
Name deliver us, O Lord.

Answer. Give heed, O Lord, and
have mercy upon us, for we have
sinned against Thee.

Fifth Lesson.

TV/TYSTERIES so great demand sus-
tained earnestness, and continu
ous worship, if we would ever abide in
the sight of God, such as it is meet
that He should find us on the Feast of
the Passover. But since few have the
strength to do thus, and the frailty of
the body rebelleth against such hard
ness, while the divers actions of this
life distract us with their cares, it
necessarily befalleth that the dust of
earth befouleth the hearts even of the
godly. To meet this befoulment there
fore, and to restore the cleanness of
our souls, it is provided by the health
ful institution of God, that we should
be purged by an exercise of forty days,
wherein godly works may redeem the
mis-spending of our other time, and
purifying fasts rid us of the same.

Fifth Responsory.

3 Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts,
and let him return unto the LORD, and
He will have mercy upon him ; 4 for the

3 Isa. Iv. 7. 4 Joel ii. 13.

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231

Lord our God is gracious, and merci
ful, and repenteth Him of the evil.

Verse. l The Lord hath no pleasure
in the death of the wicked ; but that
he turn from his way and live.

Answer. For the Lord our God is
gracious, and merciful, and repenteth
Him of the evil.

Sixth Lesson.

^THEREFORE, dearly beloved
brethren, as we are now about
to enter upon these mystic days, the
end of whose most holy ordinance is
the cleansing both of our souls and
bodies, let us take heed that we be
obedient unto the command of the
Apostle, putting far away from us
every defilement of flesh and spirit,
ordering the strife which there is be
tween the two substances whereof we
are compounded ; that the soul, which
is ordained under the rule of God, and
which it beseemeth under His rule to
rule the body, may enjoy the fulness
of her lordship ; giving no offence to
any so that we may give no cause to
such as revile us. For if our ways
during the Fast agree not with the
purity of perfect temperance, the re
proaches of the unbelievers will be
just, and our sins will arm the tongues
of the ungodly to the harming of our
religion. The sum of our Fast standeth
not only in abstaining from meats ;
neither is it profitable to deny food to
the body, if the mind be not bridled
from iniquity.

Sixth Responsory.

The season of the Fast openeth unto
us the gates of heaven ; let us enter
thereon in prayer and supplication, that
on the day when the Lord riseth again
we may rejoice with Him

Verse. In all things let us approve

ourselves the ministers of God, in
much patience.

Answer. That on the day when
the Lord riseth again we may rejoice
with Him.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. That on the day when
the Lord riseth again we may rejoice
with Him.

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (iv. i.)

A T that time : JP:SUS was led up of
the Spirit into the wilderness, to
be tempted of the devil : and when He
had fasted forty days and forty nights,
He was afterward an-hungred. And
so on.

Homily by Pope St Gregory [the
Great] (i6th on the Gospels.}

Some persons are accustomed to
question what Spirit it was of which
JESUS was led up into the wilderness,
on account of the words a little farther
on : " Then the devil taketh Him up
into the holy city " and again : " The
devil taketh Him up into an exceeding
high mountain." But in truth, and
without any searching, we may very
fitly take it that we are to believe it
was the Holy Ghost Who led Him up
into the wilderness ; His own Spirit led
Him where the evil spirit found Him
to tempt Him. When however it is
said that He, God and man, was taken
up by the devil either into an exceed
ing high mountain or into the holy city,
the mind shrinketh from believing, and
the ears of man tingle to hear it. Yet
these things we know not to be incred
ible, when we consider certain other
things concerning Him.

1 Ezek. xxxiii. n.

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

Seventh Responsory.

1 Rend your hearts and not your
garments, and turn unto the LORD
your God ; for He is gracious and
merciful.

Verse. Let the wicked forsake his
way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts, and let him return unto the
LORD, and He will have mercy upon
him.

Answer. For He is gracious and
merciful.

Eighth Lesson.

T N truth, the devil is the head of all
the wicked, and every wicked man
is a member of this body, of which the
devil is the head. Was not Pilate a
limb of Satan ? Were not the Jews
that persecuted, and the soldiers that
crucified Christ, likewise limbs of
Satan ? Is it then strange that He
should allow Himself to be led up into
a mountain by the head, Who allowed
Himself to be crucified by the mem
bers ? Therefore it is not unworthy
of our Redeemer, Who came to be
slain, that He was willing to be
tempted. It was meet that He should
thus overcome our temptations by His
own, even as He came to conquer our
death by His own.

Eighth Responsory.

2 Deal thy bread to the hungry,
and bring the poor and the wanderer
to thine house. Then shall thy
light break forth as the morning",
and thy righteousness shall go before
thee.

Verse. When thou seest the naked,
cover him ; and hide not thyself from
thine own flesh.

Answer. Then shall thy light break
forth as the morning, and thy right
eousness shall go before thee.

1 Joel ii. 13.
:f

Ninth Lesson.

ought to know that temptation
worketh through three forms.
There is, first, the suggestion ; then
the delectation ; 3 lastly, the consent.
When we are tempted, it often hap-
peneth that we fall into delectation,
and even into consent, because in the
sinful flesh of which we are begotten,
we carry in ourselves matter to favour
the attack. But God, when He took
Flesh in the womb of the Virgin, and
came into the world without sin, did
so without having in Himself anything
of this lusting of the flesh against the
spirit. It was possible therefore for
Him to be tempted in the first stage,
namely suggestion ; but there was no
thing in His Mind in which delectation
could fix its teeth. And thus all the
temptation which He endured from the
devil was without, and none within
Him.

Ninth Responsory.

4 God hath given His Angels charge
over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands,
lest haply thou dash thy foot against a
stone.

Verse. Thou shalt tread upon the
adder and the cockatrice, the lion also,
and the dragon shalt thou trample
under feet.

Answer. They shall bear thee up
in their hands, lest haply thou dash
thy foot against a stone.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. They shall bear thee up
in their- hands, lest haply thou dash
thy foot against a stone.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. Create in me a
clean heart, * O God, and renew a
right spirit within me.

3 I.e., the feeling of " How pleasant to do it."

2 Isa. Iviii. 7, 8.
4 Ps. xc. 11-13.

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233

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, &c., (p. 87.)

Second Antiphon. Save me now, O
LORD ; * O LORD, send Thou pros
perity.

Psalm CXVII.

O give thanks, &c., (p. 37.)

Third Antiphon. Thus will I bless
Thee, * O Lord, while I live ; and will
lift up my hands in Thy Name.

Psalms LXIL and LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c., (p.
23-)

Fourth Antiphon. 1 In an humble
spirit * and a contrite heart may we
be accepted by Thee, O Lord ; and so
let our sacrifice be this day, that it
may be acceptable and pleasant in Thy
sight, O Lord our God !

The Song of the Three Holy Children.

Fifth Antiphon. Praise God, * ye
heavens of heavens, and all ye waters. 2

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD, &c., (pp. 25,
26.)

Chapter. (2 Cor. vi. i.)

"D RET H REN, we beseech you that
ye receive not the grace of God
in vain. For He saith : I have heard
thee in a time accepted, and in the day
of salvation have I succoured thee.

Hymn?

"THE darkness fleets, and joyful earth

Welcomes the new-born day ;
JESUS ! true Sun of human souls !
Shed in our souls Thy ray !

Thou, Who dost give the accepted time,

Give tears to purify,
Give flames of love to burn our hearts

As victims unto Thee.

The fountain, whence our sins have flowed,

Shall soon in tears distil,
If but Thy penitential grace

Subdue the stubborn will.

The 4 day is near when all re-blooms,

Thine own blest day, O Lord !
We too would joy, by Thy right hand

To life s true path restored.

All-glorious Trinity ! to Thee

Let earth s vast fabric bend ;
And evermore from souls renewed

The Saints new song ascend.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over thee.

Answer. To keep thee in all thy
ways.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS was led up of the Spirit into the
wilderness, * to be tempted of the
devil : and when He had fasted forty
days and forty nights, He was after
ward an-hungred.

Prayer throughout the day.

r~\ GOD, Who dost every year purge
^^^ Thy Church by the Fast of Forty
Days, grant unto this Thy family, that
what things soever they strive to obtain
at Thy hand by abstaining from meats,
they may ever turn to profit by good
works. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. When JESUS had fasted
forty days * and forty nights, He was
afterward an-hungred.

1 Dan. iii. 40.

2 Possibly, an allusion to the approaching Easter baptisms.

3 Hymn of perhaps twelfth century ; author unknown ; altered almost beyond recognition ;
translation by the late Rev. E. Caswall. 4 I.e., Easter.

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TERCE.

Antiphon. Then the devil taketh
Him up into the holy city, * and set-
teth Him on a pinnacle of the temple,
and saith unto Him : If Thou be the
Son of God, cast Thyself down.

Chapter from Lauds.

SEXT.

Antiphon. Man shall not live by
bread alone, * but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Chapter. (2 Cor. vi. 2.)

"DEHOLD, now is the acceptable
time ; now is the day of salvation :
giving no offence to any, that our min
istry be not blamed.

NONE.

Antiphon. Thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God, * and Him only shalt
thou serve.

Chapter. (2 Cor. vi. 9.)

A S chastened, and not killed ; as

sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing ;

as poor, yet making many rich ; as

having nothing, yet possessing all

things.

VESPERS.

Chapter and Verse and Answer from
Lauds.

Hymn as on Saturday evening.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Behold, now is the accepted
time ; * behold, now is the day of sal
vation ; in these days therefore let us
approve ourselves as the ministers of
God, in much patience, in fastings, in
watchings, and in love unfeigned.

Afterwards are said the Vespers for
the Dead.

Second Day.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gos
pel according to Matthew (xxv. 31.)

A T that time : JESUS said unto His
~^^ disciples : When the Son of Man
shall come in His* glory, and all the
Angels with Him, then shall He sit
upon the throne of His glory, and be
fore Him shall be gathered all nations.
And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (On Faith and Works, xv. 4.)

If, without keeping the command
ments, it be possible to attain unto life
by faith only, (and "faith, if it hath
not works, is dead," James ii. 17,)
how can it be true that the Lord will
say to such as He shall have set on
His left hand : " Depart from Me, ye
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels ? " He
rebuketh them, not because they have
not believed in Him, but because they
have not wrought good works. Yea,
lest any man should promise himself
life eternal by faith only, (and " faith,
if it hath not works, is dead,") the
Lord saith that He will gather together
all nations, nations who have lived
mingled together in the same countries,
that we may seem to hear them which
have believed indeed in Him, but have
not wrought good works, (as though
that their dead faith could, "being
alone," lead them into life eternal,)
that we may seem to hear such crying
unto Him, " Lord, when saw we Thee
suffering such and such things, and did
not minister unto Thee ? "

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First Responsory.

Behold, now is the acceptable time,
&c., (p. 228.)

Second Lesson.

T F they shall go into everlasting fire
who have not done works of
mercy, shall not they go who have
taken their neighbour s goods ? Or
shall not they go who have outraged
the temple of God in their own selves,
and so been merciless to themselves ?
As if works of mercy could avail any
thing without love, contrary to the
words of the Apostle : " Though I
bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing." (i Cor. xiii. 3.) And what
manner of love to his neighbour hath
he who loveth him as himself and
loveth not himself? remembering that
" he that loveth iniquity hateth his own
soul." (Ps. x. 6.)

Second Responsory.
In all things, &c., (p. 228.)

TJiird Lesson.

XT EITHER dare we say here that by
which some delude themselves,
namely, that the fire indeed is everlast
ing, but that they will not burn therein
everlastingly. Such men say that they
whose faith is dead, will pass through
that everlasting fire, and that they are
they to whom it is promised that they
themselves " shall be saved, yet so as
by fire." (i Cor. iii. 15.) So that,
though the fire itself be everlasting, the
burning of the damned therein, that is,
the work of the fire upon them, will
not be everlasting. As though the
Lord were answering this beforehand,
the last words of His Sermon are :
"And these shall go away into ever
lasting punishment, but the righteous

into life eternal." As the fire, so shall
the burning be ; and the Truth biddeth
us know that they shall burn therein,
who have lacked, not faith, but good
works.

Third Responsory.
The Priests, &c., (p. 229.)

LAUDS.
Chapter. (Isa. Iviii. i.)

C* RY aloud, spare not ; lift up thy
voice like a trumpet, and show
My people their transgressions, and
the house of Jacob their sins.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Come, ye blessed of My Father, * in
herit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world.

Prayer.

n^URN us, O God of our salvation,
and that the Fast of these Forty
Days may profit us, do Thou order
all our thoughts according to Thy
heavenly teaching. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ, Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

After Lauds is said the Dirge.

VESPERS.

Chapter. (Joel ii. 17.)

/ T**HE Priests, the ministers of the
LORD, shall weep between the
porch and the altar, and shall say :
Spare, O LORD, spare Thy people,
and give not thine heritage to reproach,

THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

that the heathen should rule over
them.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday, (p. 227.)

Prayer.

T OOSE us, O Lord, we beseech
"^ Thee, from all bonds of our
sins, and in Thy mercy turn away
from us all pains which for the same
we do justly deserve. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

Third Day.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xxi.
10.)

AT that time: When JESUS was
come into Jerusalem, all the
city was moved, saying : Who is
this ? And so on.

Homily by the Venerable Bede,
Priest [at Jarrow.] (jth for Lent,
Tom. vii.)

The same thing which the Lord
showed in a figure by cursing the
barren fig-tree, He afterwards more
plainly put before us by casting the
desecrators out of the temple. The
tree herself had not sinned by bearing
no fruit when the Lord was hungry,
for the time of figs was not yet come,
but those Priests had sinned who were
carrying on worldly business in the

Lord s house, and who neglected to
bring forth that fruit of godliness
which they owed, and which the Lord
was hungry to find in them. The
Lord made the fig-tree to wither away
under His curse, that all men who
saw it, and all men who hear of it,
might know that they will be con
demned by the judgment of God, if
they content themselves with the talk
of godliness, without the solid fruit of
good works, even as that barren fig-
tree was clothed only with a rustling
garb of green leaves.

First Responsory.
Let us amend, &c., (p. 229.)

Second Lesson,

T)UT because the buyers and sellers
understood not the parable of
the barren fig-tree, the Lord brought
upon them the stroke of the punish
ment that they had deserved, and cast
out the traffickers in earthly things,
from that house, wherein it had been
commanded that nothing should be
done save the work of God, sacrifices
and prayers offered up to Him, and
His word read, taught, and sung.
And yet it may be believed that noth
ing was being sold or bought in the
temple save such things as were need
ful for the service thereof, as we read
in another place, (John ii. 14,) that
when JESUS went into the temple
" He found those that sold oxen and
sheep and doves," and all these
things were doubtless there for no
other end but to be offered to God in
that His holy house, and were sold
by the natives to those worshippers
who came from a distance, to be so
used.

Second Responsory.
Let the wicked, &c., (p. 229.)

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Third Lesson,

T F, therefore, the Lord would not
have to be sold in the temple,
even such things as He willed should
be offered therein, (on account, that
is, of the greed or dishonesty which
is often the stain of such transactions,)
with what anger, suppose ye, would
He visit such as He might find laugh
ing or gossiping there, or yielding to
any other sin ? If the Lord suffer not
to be carried on in His house such
worldly business as may be freely
done elsewhere, how much more shall
such things as ought never to be done
anywhere, draw down the anger of
God if they be done in His own holy
house ? Lastly ; the Holy Ghost
came down upon the Lord in the
shape of a dove, and by doves there
fore may be signified the gifts of that
Holy Spirit. They, then, to this day
sell doves in the temple of God, who
take money in the Church for the lay
ing on of their hands, whereby the
Holy Ghost is given from heaven.

Third Responsory.

The season of the Fast, &c., (p.

230.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on
Monday (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS went into the temple of God, *
and cast out all them that sold and
bought ; and overthrew the tables of
the money-changers, and the seats of
them that sold doves.

Prayer.

JJ)OK down, O Lord, on this Thy

family, and grant that our minds,

which, by the chastening of the body,

we seek to purify, may ever more and

more shine in Thy sight by strong
hungering after Thee. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
Unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on Mon
day, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. For it is written that My
house is the house of prayer * for all
nations ; but ye have made it a den
of thieves ; and He was daily teach
ing in the temple.

Prayer.

C\ LORD, may our prayers come
^~ &gt; ^ up before Thy presence, and
do Thou mercifully rid Thy Church
of all wickedness. Through our Lord
JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

Fotirth Day of Quarter- Tense.

Before Mattins are said the Gradual
Psalms.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xii.
38.)

A T that time : Certain Scribes and
^^ Pharisees answered JESUS, say
ing : Master, we would see a sign
from Thee. And so on.

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Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (jth Bk. on Luke, ch. xii.)

After the condemnation of the Jew
ish people, the mystery of the Church
is plainly declared in the figures of
the repentant Ninevites, and of the
Queen of the South. Like that Queen,
the Church cometh from the uttermost
parts of the earth, to hear the wisdom
of the true Solomon, the Prince of
Peace. 1 A Queen she is, and a
Queen of one indivisible realm,
wrought into one body out of all na
tions, however divers and distant.

First Responsory.
Rend your hearts, &c., (p. 231.)

Second Lesson.

AND thus cometh that great mys
tery of Christ and the Church, a
mystery more excellent now in the
fulness of truth, than in the ancient
type. For there they had in Solomon
only a type of that which Christ is
now in His own Person. And the
Church is of two classes, whereof the
one knoweth not how to sin, and the
other sinneth no more. To wash
away sin is the work of repentance,
to eschew it that of wisdom.

Second Responsory.
Deal thy bread, &c., (p. 231.)

of His love ; for, by turning our eyes
on the Ninevites, He showeth us a way
of escape, while He setteth before us
the horror of what will otherwise be
our punishment. Even the Jews
need not cease to hope for pardon,.
if only they would repent.

Third Responsory.

2 Shut up alms in the breast of the
poor, and it shall plead for you with
the Lord. For, 3 as water will quench
fire, so alms maketh an atonement
for sins.

Verse. 4 Give alms, and, behold, all
things are clean unto you.

Answer. For, as water will quench
fire, so alms maketh an atonement for
sins.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. For, as water will quench
fire, so alms maketh an atonement for
sins.

LAUDS.

I, as on

Chapter from Isa.
Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
This evil and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign ; * and there shall
no sign be given to it, but the sign of
the Prophet Jonas.

Third Lesson.

TASTLY, the sign of the Prophet
Jonas, as it was a figure of the
Lord s sufferings, was also a witness to
the gravity of those sins which the
Jews committed. At the same time,
we see in these words of the Lord a
declaration at once of His power, and

Prayer.

C\ LORD, we beseech Thee, merci-
^^^ fully to hear our prayers, and to
stretch forth the right hand of Thy
power against all things that fight
against us. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the

1 A play on the meaning in the Hebrew of the name Solomon, i.e., " Peaceful."

2 Ecclus. xxix. 15. 3 Ecclus. iii. 33. 4 Luke xi. 41.

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Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 1 7, as on
Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. As Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whale s belly, * so
shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth.

Prayer.

C\ LORD, we beseech Thee to cast
Thy bright beams of light upon
our mind that we may clearly see
whatsoever things Thou wouldst have
us to do, and have strength to do
always that is pleasing in Thy sight.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

Fifth Day.
MATTINS.
Hymn as on Sunday, (p. 227.)

Homily by St Jerome, Priest [at
Bethlehem.] (Bk. ii. Comm. on
Matth. xv.)

Christ leaveth the Scribes and
Pharisees who had spoken falsely
against Him, and goeth into the
coasts of Tyre and Sidon, that He
may heal the Tyrians and Sidonians.
But a woman of Canaan cometh to
Him out of the land He had left, and
crieth to Him to give health to her
daughter. Remark that the case of
the daughter of this woman of Canaan
is the fifteenth case of healing.

" Have mercy on me, O Lord, Thou
Son of David ! " She knew that He
was to be called " Son of David " be
cause she was come out of His own
country, and had left the errors of the
Tynans and Sidonians when she
changed her home and her faith. 1

First Responsory.

I had been troubled, but that I
knew Thy mercy, O Lord : Thou hast
said : 2 I have no pleasure in the death
of the wicked, but that he turn from
his way and live. O Thou, Who
didst call the Canaanitish woman and
the Publican unto repentance !

Verse. 3 In the multitude of the
sorrows within my heart, Thy com
forts delight my soul.

Answer. O Thou Who didst call
the Canaanitish woman and the
Publican unto repentance !

First Lesson.

Second Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy " M Y dau - hter is grievously vexed

Gospel according to Matthew (xv. wlth a devlL " l ^ that

2 j ^ the daughter of this woman of Canaan,

[whom the Lord at length delivered,]
T that time : JESUS went thence,
and departed into the coasts of

Tyre and Sidon. And so on.

was a figure of the souls of such as
now believe, but were once grievously
vexed by the devil, knowing not Him

"The woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician by nation." (Mark vii. 26.)
2 Ezek. xxxiii. ii. s Ps. xciii. 19.

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Who made them, and bowing down
to stocks and stones.

" But He answered not a word "
not because He was puffed up with
the pride of the Pharisees, or shared
the high looks of the Scribes, but that
He might fulfil His own word that He
had spoken, saying : " Go not into the
way of the Gentiles, and into any city
of the Samaritans enter ye not."
(Matth. x. 5.) He would not give
an occasion to such as spoke falsely
against Him, and He kept back perfect
salvation from the Gentiles until such
time as He should have suffered and
risen again.

Second Responsory.
In all things, &c., (p. 228.)

Third Lesson.

" A ND His disciples came and be
sought Him, saying : Send her
away ; for she crieth after us." The
disciples, knowing not as yet the
mysterious things of the Lord, said
this, either because they were moved
with compassion and so interceded for
this Canaanitish woman, whom another
Evangelist calleth a Syrophcenician,
(Mark vii. 26,) or because she was
crying out that the Lord was an hard,
instead of a merciful physician, and
they desired to be rid of her clamour.
" But He answered and said : I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel," not that He was not
sent unto the Gentiles, but because it
was to Israel in the first instance that
He was sent, whom refusing the Gos
pel, He might justly pass away from,
and go to the Gentiles.

LAUDS. , ; ;

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on
Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS went thence, * and departed
unto the coasts of Tyre and Sidon :
and, behold a woman of Canaan came
out of those coasts, 1 and cried unto
Him, saying : Have mercy on me,
Thou Son of David !

Prayer.

C\ LORD, look down favourably
upon the. earnestness of Thy
people, and grant that they being an-
hungred in their bodies, may be spirit
ually fed by the fruit of good works.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

At the beginjiing of the Martyrology
is said,

On the morrow we commemorate
the piercing of the Lord JESUS Christ
with the spear and the nails.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

Third Responsory.
The Priests, &c., (j&gt;. 229.)

1 Viz., those of her adopted country, Canaan

Sixth Day of Quarter- Tense.

Office in Memory of the Piercing of
our Lord JESUS Christ with the
Spear and Nails.

Greater Double.

All as on Sunday, except the fol
lowing.

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241

FIRST VESPERS.

Antiphons, Chapter, and Prayer
from Lauds.

Last Psalm.

Ps. cxvi. O praise the LORD, &c.,
(p. 1 86.)

Hymn.

\N Calvary with what a mystery gleams
The spear that at the ninth hour of

the day
Made for the Precious Blood toward the

earth

Out of the pulseless Heart its last strange
way.

As the first Adam by the tree of life

Lay still and silent in sleep s deep repose,

Mother of all that live, from his cleft side
Eve guileful bride to life and beauty rose.

So when upon the Cross s quickening tree
In death s deep sleep the Second Adam

hung,

Mother of all that live by faith, the Church
From His cleft Side in Blood and Water
sprung.

There too the nails that pierced Him they

they were

Wherewith the Saviour to the bitter wood
Whereto His Hands and Feet were nailed,

nailed too

The dark handwriting that against us
stood.

Praise to the Father, and the Holy Ghost,
And Him Who, where earth s feeble vision

fails

Amid the glory of the Eternal Throne
Still bears the marking of the spear and
nails.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. 2 Blotting out the hand
writing of the ordinance that was
against us, He took it out of the way,
nailing it to His Cross.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. O woman, great is thy
faith : be it unto thee even as thou
wilt.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

/^RANT, O Lord, we beseech Thee,
^^ unto all Christian people, that
what they now believe they may one
day know and may see in love un
checked, that heavenly gift whereof
now they are the worshippers and the
partakers. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

At Compline, last verse of the Hymn,

Lord JESU, slain for us, to Thee

Eternal praise be given,
With Father, Spirit, One and Three,

Here as it is in heaven.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. Christ, Who was pierced
with the Spear and Nails, * Him, O
come, let us worship !

Verse. J They pierced My Hands
and My Feet.

Answer. They have told all My
Bones.

Hymn?

If the Hymn at Vespers should not
have been said, it is said instead of this

1 Ps. xxi. 17, 18, 2 Col. ii, 14.

* Hymn of sixteenth to eighteenth century, author unknown, translation by the late Rev.
E. Caswall.

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one, and verses i, 2, and 3 &lt;?/" /to ar*?
prefixed to the Hymn at Lands.

TTAIL, Spear and Nails, erewhile despised

As things of little worth ;
Now crimson with the Blood of Christ
And famed through heaven and earth.

Chosen by Jewish perfidy

As instruments of sin,
God turned you into ministers

Of love and grace Divine :

For from each several wound ye made

In the Redeemer s Frame,
As from a fount, celestial gifts

And life eternal came.

Thee, JESU, pierced with Nails and Spear,

Let every knee adore ;
With Thee, O Father, and with Thee,

O Spirit, evermore. Amen.

FIRST NOCTURN.

Only three Psalms are said.

First Antiphon. But when they
came to JESUS, they brake not His
Legs, but one of the soldiers with a
spear pierced His Side.

Ps. i. Blessed is the man, &c., (p.
40

Second Antiphon. And forthwith
came thereout Blood and Water ; and
he that saw it bare record, and his
record is true.

Ps. ii. Why do the heathen, &c.,
(P. 40

Third Antiphon. Another Scripture
saith : They shall look on Him Whom
they pierced.

Ps. iii. LORD, how are they in
creased, &c., (p. 5.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Zechariah (xii. 10.)

HPHUS saith the Lord: I will pour
upon the house of David and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
spirit of grace and of supplications ;
and they shall look upon Me Whom
they have pierced ; and they shall
mourn for him, as one mourneth for
his only son, and shall be in bitter-
ness for him, as one useth to be that
is in bitterness for the death of his
first-born. In that day there shall
be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the
field of Megiddon. 3 And the land
shall mourn, every family apart ; the
family of the house of David apart,
and their wives apart ; the family of
the house of Nathan apart, and their
wives apart ; the family of the house
of Levi apart, and their wives apart ;
the family of Shimei apart, and their
wives apart ; all the families that re
main apart, and their women apart.

First Responsory.

But when they came to JESUS, and
saw that He was dead already, they
brake not His Legs ; but one of the
soldiers with a spear pierced His
Side.

Verse. And he that saw it bare
record, and his record is true.

Answer. One of the soldiers with
a spear pierced His Side.

Second Lesson,

Verse. 2 They persecute him whom T N that day there shall be a fountain

Thou hast smitten. A opened to the house of David,

Answer. And they embitter the and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

pain of my wounds. for sin and for uncleanness. 4 And

1 Antiphons from John xix. 33-37. 2 Ps. Ixviii. 27.

3 This was the national lamentation for the death of Josiah. 2 Par. (Chron.) xxxv. 24, 25.

4 In ablutionem peccatoris et menstruatae.

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243

it shall come to pass in that day, saith
the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off
the names of the idols out of the land,
and they shall no more be remem
bered ; the false prophets and the
unclean spirit will I cause to pass out
of the land. And it shall come to
pass that, when any shall yet prophesy,
then his father and his mother, that
begat him, shall say unto him : Thou
shalt not live, for thou speakest lies
in the name of the LORD. And his
father and his mother, that begat him,
shall thrust him through, when he pro-
phesieth. And it shall come to pass
in that day, that the prophets shall be
ashamed every one of his vision, when
he had prophesied ; neither shall they
wear a rough garment to deceive ; but
he shall say : I am no prophet ; I am
an husbandman ; for Adam hath been
mine ensample from my youth.

Second Responsory.

One of the soldiers with a spear
pierced His Side, and forthwith came
thereout Blood and Water.

Verse. In that day there shall be
a fountain opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jer
usalem.

Answer. And forthwith came there
out Blood and Water.

Third Lesson.

AND one shall say unto him : What
are these wounds in thine hands ?
Then he shall answer : Those with
which I was wounded in the house of
my friends. 1 Awake, O sword, against
My shepherd, and against the man
that is My fellow, saith the LORD of
hosts ; smite the shepherd, and the

sheep shall be scattered ; and I will
turn Mine hand upon the little ones.
And it shall come to pass that in all
the land, saith the LORD, two parts
therein shall be cut off and die ; but
the third shall be left therein. And I
will bring the third part through the
fire, and will refine them as silver is
refined, and will try them as gold is
tried. He shall call on My Name, and
I will hear him. I will say : Thou
art My people ; and he shall say :
The LORD is my God.

Third Responsory.

In that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin
and for uncleanness.

Verse. This is He That came by
Water and Blood, even JESUS Christ.

Answer. For sin and for unclean-
ness.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. For sin and for unclean-

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. They shall look
upon Me Whom they have pierced ;
and they shall mourn for him as one
mourneth for his only son.

Ps. iv.
206.)

When I called, &c., (p.

Second Antiphon. What are these
wounds in thine hands ?

Ps. v. Give ear, &c., (p. 88.)

Third Antiphon. Those with which
I was wounded in the house of my
friends.

1 Abp. Kenrick says: "The occasion of his wounds is not stated, although he received
them in the house of his friends. They were probably inflicted by his parents, to punish
him for uttering false prophecies" as he also says before: "The general horror of idolatry
is expressed by the readiness of parents to punish their own son for countenancing it by
false predictions. .

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Ps. viii. O LORD, our Lord, &c.,

(P- 7-)

Verse. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

Answer. He was bruised for our
iniquities.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from a Sermon
by Pope Innocent VI. (Decree con
cerning the Feast of the Spear and
the Nails.}

"\17 E are behoven so to glory in the
most holy sufferings of our
Lord and Saviour JESUS Christ, as to
count out one by one all the mysteries
and merits of His Suffering, and even
to glory in every one of their soul-
saving instruments. Among such
mysteries is notable the fact that the
Saviour on the Cross, after that He
had given up the Ghost, .bore that
His Side should be pierced with a
spear, to the end that in the^. stream
of Blood and Water which forthwith
came thereout, there might spring
forth, one, and stainless, and virgin,
His Bride and our holy mother, the
Church. O how blessed is that gap
in the Sacred Side, whence have
rushed for us so many and so great
streams of mercy ! Happy for us
was the lance whose work was to do
us such good, and to add such an
other glory to such a victory !

Fourth Respomory.

1 This is He That came by Water
and Blood, even JESUS Christ ; not by
Water only, but by Water and Blood.

Verse. 2 There are Three that bear
witness in earth, the Spirit, and the
Water, and the Blood : and these
three are One.

Answer. Not by Water only, but
by Water and Blood.

Fifth Lesson.

T N opening that Side, the lance
opened for us the gates of the
kingdom of heaven. In wounding
Him Who was dead already, (John
xix- 33) 34)) the lance closed our
wounds, and gave us life and health.
In piercing Him Who was harmless,
(Heb. vii. 26,) the lance, by His
Blood, purged our sins of their harm-
fulness ; in trickling down with that
most holy Water, it flooded away from
our eye the beam which had made us
blind, and washed us clean in the
waves of God s mercy. For us are
also sweet the nails wherewith the
Saviour was fastened upon the Cross.
We must clearly remember that theirs
it was not only to be smeared with
the sinless Blood, not only to bear
up the weight of the Great [Victim of
Atonement], but to open for us, in the
salvation-bringing Wounds, sweet wells
of the goodness of God ; [by going
through His Hands,] to free our hands
from the manacles of sin, and, [by
boring His Feet,] to draw our feet
out of the snares of death.

Fifth Responsory.

3 Many dogs have compassed me :
the assembly of the wicked have in
closed me. They pierced my hands
and my feet : they have told all my
bones.

Verse. One shall say unto him,
What are these wounds in thine
hands ?

Answer. They pierced my hands
and my feet : they have told all my
bones.

Sixth Lesson.

HP HAN the Cleft in that Side, and

the Wounds in those Hands and

Feet what is there holier? What is

John v. 6.

i John v. 8.

Ps. xxi. 17.

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there more life-giving ? out of Them
floweth salvation, and in Them the
souls of believers may for ever find
health. The Lance and Nails hereto
fore mentioned, and other instruments
employed in the life-giving Sufferings
of Christ, are everywhere to be held
in reverence of all His faithful people,
and solemn Offices concerning His
Sufferings themselves are held and
kept in the Church ; but We, never
theless, hold it meet and convenient
that a special Festal Office should be
held and kept concerning these things
in particular, especially in those places
where the instruments themselves are
asserted to be still preserved ; and
We desire by these Offices and In
dulgences more particularly to provoke
the earnestness in godliness of such
of the faithful as please themselves
with the belief that they have any such
Relique in their possession.

Sixth Responsory.

One shall say unto him : What are
these wounds in thine hands ? Then
he shall answer : Those with which I
was wounded in the house of my
friends.

Verse. l Except I shall see in His
Hands the print of the nails, I will not
believe.

Answer. Those with which I was
wounded in the house of my friends.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Those with which I was
wounded in the house of my friends.

THIRD NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. They pierced my
hands and my feet : they have told all
my bones.

Ps. xcv. O sing unto the LORD,
&c., (p. 148.)

Second Antiphon. Except I shall
see in His Hands the print of the
nails, and put my finger into the print
of the nails, and thrust my hand into
His Side, I will not believe.

Ps. xcvi. The LORD reigneth, &c.,
(p. 149.)

Third Antiphon. Reach hither thy
finger, and behold My Hands ; and
reach hither thy hand, and thrust
it into My Side.

Ps. xcvii. O sing unto the LORD,

&c, (p. 157.)

Verse. The chastisement of our
peace was upon Him.

Answer. And with His stripes we
are healed.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xix. 28.)

AT that time: JESUS, knowing that
all things were now accom
plished, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, saith : I thirst. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (i2otk Tract upon John.}

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and thereof do we drink. Of this was
it a type when it was said unto Noah :
" The door of the ark shalt thou set in
the side thereof . . . and of every
living thing of all flesh shalt thou
bring into the ark ... to keep them
alive." (Gen. vi. 16, 19.) A figure
this of the Church.

Seventh Responsory,

These things were done that the
Scripture should be fulfilled : A bone
of Him shall not be broken. And
again another Scripture saith : They
shall look on Him Whom they pierced.

Verse. I will pour upon the house
of David and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of
supplications.

Answer. They shall look on Him
Whom they pierced.

Eighth Lesson.

"THUS it was that the first woman
was made from the side of her
husband while he slept, and she was
called [Eve, which is, being inter
preted,] "Life," "because she was the
mother of all living." (Gen. iii. 20.)
This name set forth a great good,
before it became associated with the
bitter fruit of a great evil. And here
we have the second Adam bowing His
Head, and the deep sleep of death
falling upon Him upon the Cross,
and He sleepeth that the Lord God
may take a thing out of His Side, and
make thereof a wife for Him. O what
a death was His, which quickeneth the
dead ! What is cleaner than His
Blood ? What more health - giving
than His wounding ? " For these
things were done, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled : Not a Bone of Him
shall be broken, and again, another
Scripture saith: They shall look on
Him Whom they pierced. "

Eighth Responsory.

I will pour upon the house of David
and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the spirit of grace and of supplications ;
and they shall look upon Me Whom
they have pierced.

Verse. And they shall mourn for
him as one mourneth for his only son.

Answer. And they shall look upon
Me Whom they have pierced.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. And they shall look upon
Me Whom they have pierced.

Ninth Blessing.

May the Gospel s glorious word,
Cleansing to our souls afford.

Ninth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (v. I.)

A T that time : There was a feast of
^^ the Jews : and JESUS went up to
Jerusalem. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
H ippo. ] (ijtk Tract on John. )

Let us see what is mystically signi
fied by that one infirm man whom
alone the Lord, keeping to a mys
terious unity, chose out of so many
sufferers, to be the subject of His
healing power. He found in him a
certain number of years of sickness.
He had had an infirmity thirty and
eight years. How this number is
proper rather to weakness than to
health, will now be the subject of a
few careful remarks. I bespeak your
attention ; the Lord will be present,
that I may speak fitly, and you may
understand. The number forty is put
before us as hallowed, and, in a way,
perfect. I think that your love know-

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eth this : God s Scriptures often and
often witness it. Ye well know that
a Fast of this number of days is hal
lowed. Moses fasted forty days. Elias
did the same. And our Lord and
Saviour JESUS Christ Himself fasted
this number of days complete. Moses
representeth the Law, Elias the Pro
phets, and the Lord the Gospel. And
therefore these three appeared on the
Mount of the Transfiguration. There
the Lord showed Himself to His dis
ciples with His Face shining as the
sun, and His raiment glistering ; and
He stood between Moses and Elias ;
as it were, the Gospel receiving" testi
mony, on the one hand from the Law,
and, on the other, from the Prophets.
Whether, therefore, it be in the Law,
or in the Prophets, or in the Gospel,
the number of forty is recommended
to us for Fast-days. The great and
general Fast is this: to abstain from
the iniquity of the world, and her for
bidden pleasures. This is the perfect
Fast, "that, denying ungodliness, and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly in this present
world." After such a Fast, what is
the Feast that followeth ? Hear what
the Apostle saith in continuation :
"Looking for that blessed hope, and
the glorious appearing of our great
God and Saviour JESUS Christ."
{Titus ii. 12, 13.) We, then, make
our pilgrimage in this world a Lent,
by living good lives, and abstaining
from her iniquities and her forbidden
pleasures. But at the end of this
life-long Lent there will be an Easter
indeed. We " look for that blessed
hope, and the glorious appearing of
our great God and Saviour JESUS
Christ." When that hope is realised,
when that faith is swallowed up in
knowledge, then indeed shall we re
ceive every man a penny. In good
sooth, it is true that every labourer
in the vineyard will get his wages

witness that Gospel which I believe
ye have not forgotten, (Matth. xx. i-
16) and which it is not my business
to quote again as if ye were ignorant
children. Now, the word used in the
original for this penny which the la
bourers received is " denarion." And
the derivation of the word " denarion "
is the numeral " decem," ten. There
are forty days in Lent, and if we add
ten, we get fifty. So do we toil in
fasting for the forty days of Lent be
fore Easter, and, then, when we have,
as it were, received our reward, we
keep holiday for the fifty days of
Easter -tide. Remember how I re
marked, that the man healed by our
Lord at the pool of Bethesda had had
an infirmity thirty and eight years. I
wish to explain why this number of
thirty-eight is proper rather to weak
ness than to health. " Love is the
fulfilling of the law" (Rom. xiii. 10;)
to the fulfilling of the law belongeth
in every work the number forty. But
in love we have given us two precepts :
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This is
the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it : Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets." (Matth.
xxii. 37-40.) When the widow gave
all she had for an offering to God she
gave two mites (Mark xii. 42 ;) the
inn-keeper received two pence where
with to cure him that had fallen among
thieves (Luke x. 35 ;) JESUS abode for
two days among the Samaritans (John
iv. 40,) that He might establish them
in love. When, then, anything good
is spoken of as two, the two great
divisions of love are the chief mystic
interpretation. If, then, the law is
fulfilled in the number forty, and it
is not fulfilled if there be lacking the
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that he was infirm who lacked two of
forty ?

The Hymn, "We praise Thee, O
God, c.," is said.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. One of the soldiers
with a spear pierced His Side, * and
forthwith came thereout Blood and
Water.

Second Antiphon. They pierced
my hands and my feet, * they have
told all my bones.

Third Antiphon. There are three
that bear witness in earth, * the Spirit,
and the Water, and the Blood.

Fourth Antiphon. l Why are ye
troubled ? * and why do thoughts
arise in your hearts ? Behold My
Hands and My Feet, that it is I
Myself.

Fifth Antiphon. Reach hither thy
finger, and behold My Hands ; * and
reach hither thy hand, and thrust it
into My Side.

Chapter, (i John v. 5.)

T~) EARLY beloved brethren, Who is
he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that JESUS is the
Son of God ? This is He that came
by W 7 ater and Blood, even JESUS
Christ not by Water only, but by
Water and Blood.

Hymn?

/^\H, turn those blessed points, all bathed

In JESU S Blood, on me ;
Mine were the sins that wrought His death
Mine be the penalty.

Pierce through my feet, my hands, my heart

So may some Drop distil
Of Blood Divine, into my soul,

And all its evils heal.

So may my feet be slow to sin,

Harmless my hands shall be ;
So, from my wounded heart, shall each

Forbidden passion flee.

Thee, JESUS ! pierced with nails and spear !

Let every knee adore !
With Thee, O Father, and with Thee,

O Spirit, evermore. Amen.

Verse. They pierced my hands and
my feet.

Answer. They have told all my
bones.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
3 His visage was so marred more than
any man, and His Form more than
the sons of men. So shall He sprinkle
many nations.

Prayer throughout the Office.

C\ GOD, Who didst take our weak
^-^ nature upon Thee, and, inas
much as Thou didst will it, didst
work salvation for the world by being
crucified with nails and pierced with
a spear, mercifully grant unto all of
us who now on earth are making sol
emn memorial of the same nails and
spear, that hereafter in heaven we
may be made glad for ever by the fruits
of that glorious victory whereof Thy
piercing was the mean. Who livest
and reignest with God the Father,
in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one
God, world without end. Amen.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. The Angel of the Lord
came down from heaven : and the
water was troubled, and one was
made whole.

Verse. God hath given His angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy !
ways.

1 Luke xxiv. 38, 39.

2 Hymn of sixteenth to eighteenth century, author unknown, translation by the late Rev.
E. Caswall. 3 Isa. lii. 14, 15.

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Prayer.

"DE gracious unto Thy people, O
P Lord, and in Thy mercy help
all such as Thou hast called to be
Thine. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. One of the soldiers,
&c., (First Antiphon at Lauds.}

Ps. liii. and the two sections of Ps.
cxviii. "Whosoever, &c.," is not said.

In the Short Responsory, instead of
"Thou That sittest, &c.," is said,

Verse. Thou That wast wounded
for us.

Chapter at the end. (i Pet. ii. 24.)

VWHO His Own Self bare our sins
in His Own Body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness : by Whose
stripes ye were healed.

TERCE.

Antiphon. They pierced, &c.,
(Second Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter from Lauds.

Short Responsory.

They pierced my hands and my
feet.

Answer. They pierced my hands
and my feet.

Verse. They have told all my
bones.

Answer. And my feet.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. They pierced my hands
and my feet.

Verse. They persecute him whom
Thou hast smitten.

Answer. And they embitter the
pain of my wounds.

SEXT.

Antiphon. There are three, &c.,
(Third Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter, (i Pet. ii. 21.)

TDRETHREN, Christ suffered for
us, leaving you an example, that
ye should follow His steps : Who did
no sin, neither was guile found in His
Mouth.

Short Responsory.

They persecute him whom Thou
hast smitten.

Answer. They persecute him
whom Thou hast smitten.

Verse. And they embitter the pain
of my wounds.

Answer. Whom Thou hast smitten.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. They persecute him
whom Thou hast smitten.

Verse. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

Answer. He was bruised for our
iniquities.

NONE.

Antiphon. Reach hither, &c.,
(Fifth Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter as at the end of Prime.

Short Responsory.

He was wounded for our trangres-
sions.

Answer. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

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Verse. He was bruised for our ini
quities.

Answer. For our transgressions.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

Verse. The chastisement of our
peace was upon Him.

Answer. And with His stripes we
are healed.

SECOND VESPERS.

All as the First, except the following.

Last Psalm.
Ps. cxv., I believed, &c., (p. 185.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Surely He hath borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows : yet
we did esteem Him stricken, smitten
of God and afflicted.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. He that made me
whole, the same said unto me : Take
up thy bed, and walk in peace.

Verse. God hath given His angels
charge over Thee. |^ ^^

Answer. To keep Thee in all
Thy ways.

Prayer.

TTEAR us, O merciful God, and
cause the bright beams of Thy
grace to shine upon our souls.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

(Bmfier

The Sabbath of Quarter-Tense.

MATTINS.
Hymn as on Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xvii.
I.)

A T that time : JESUS taketh Peter,
T** and James, and John his brother,
and bringeth them up into an high
mountain apart, and was transfigured
before them. And so on.

Homily by Pope St Leo [the
Great.] (On the Transfiguration of
the Lord.}

Dearly beloved brethren, the Lesson
from the Holy Gospel which, entering
in by our bodily ears, hath knocked at
the door of our inner mind, calleth us
to understand a great mystery. This,
by the grace of God, we shall the more
readily do, if we return to consider
what hath been told us just before.
The Saviour of mankind, even JESUS
Christ, laying the foundations of that
faith whereby the ungodly are called
to righteousness and the dead to life,
instilled into the minds of His dis
ciples, both by the voice of His teach
ing and the wonder of His works, that
they should believe Him, the one
Christ, to be both the Only-begotten
Son of God and the Son of man.
Had they believed Him one of these
and not the other, it had availed them
nothing to salvation ; and the danger
was equally great, of holding the Lord
JESUS Christ to be God without the
Manhood, or Man only without the
Godhead, since we are constrained
to acknowledge that He is perfect
God and perfect Man, and that as
there is in the Godhead perfect Man
hood, so there is in the Manhood
perfect Godhead.

First Responsory.
Rend your hearts, &c., (p. 231.)

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Second Lesson.

T O strengthen, therefore, the sav-
ing knowledge of this faith, the
Lord had asked His disciples what,
among the differing opinions of men,
was their own belief and judgment
as to Who He was. Then did the
Apostle Peter, by the revelation of
That Father Who is above all,
rising above fleshly things, yea, out
stripping the thoughts of men, then
did he fix the eyes of his mind upon
the Son of the living God, and con
fess the glory of the Godhead, for he
looked not on the substance of the
flesh and blood only. And in all the
exaltation of this faith so well did he
please God, that he was gifted with
that joyous blessing, the hallowed
establishment of that impregnable
rock, whereon the Church being
founded, should prevail against the
gates of hell and the laws of death ;
neither, when anything is to be bound
or loosed, is any bound or loosed in
heaven, otherwise than as the judg
ment of Peter hath bound or loosed
it upon earth.

Second Responsory.
Deal thy bread, &c., (p. 231.)

Third Lesson.

"DUT, dearly beloved brethren, it
behoved that the height of this
understanding, which the Lord praised,
should rest upon a foundation, and
that foundation, the mystery of the
lower nature, lest the faith of the
Apostle, carried away by the glorious
acknowledgment of the Godhead in
Christ, should deem it unworthy and
unnatural for the impassible God to
take into Himself the frailty of our
nature ; and should thus believe that
n Christ the Manhood had been so
glorified as to be no longer able to
suffer pain, or be dissolved in death.

And therefore it was that, when the
Lord said how that He must go up
unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things
of the elders and chief priests, and
scribes, and be killed, and rise again
the third day, and the blessed Peter,
bright with heavenly illumination, and
still glowing from the passionate ac
knowledgment of the Divine Sonship,
by a natural, and, as seemed to him,
a godly shrinking, could not bear the
mention of mockery and insult and a
cruel death, he was corrected by the
merciful rebuke of JESUS, and moved
rather to desire to be a partaker in the
sufferings of his Master.

Third Responsory.
Shut up alms, &c., (p. 237.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on
Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on

Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS took His disciples, * and went
up into a mountain, and was trans
figured before them.

Prayer.

T OOK down mercifully, O Lord, we
beseech Thee, upon Thy people,
and graciously turn away from them
the scourges of Thy wrath. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter and Prayer from the follow
ing Lauds.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the last Saturday, (p. 227.)

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Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed I will make them savoury meat for
Virgin. Tell the vision that ye have thy father, such as he loveth ; and

seen to no man, * until the Son of man
be risen again from the dead.

Second Suntias in Hent.

Second Lord s Day in the Forty Days
before Easter.

MATTINS.

Invitatory and Hymn as on last
Sunday, (p. 227.)

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
Genesis (xxvii. i.)

AND it came to pass that when
^ Isaac was old, and his eyes were
dim, so that he could not see, he called
Esau his eldest son, and said unto
him : My son ? And he said unto
him : Here am I. And his father
said : Behold, now I am old, and I
know not the day of my death. Take
thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow,
and go out to the field ; and take me
some venison, and make me savoury
meat, such as thou knowest that I
love, and bring it to me, that I may
eat, and my soul may bless thee be
fore I die. And Rebecca heard. And
Esau went to the field to do as his
father had commanded him. And
Rebecca said unto Jacob her son : I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy
brother, saying : Bring me venison,
and make me savoury meat, that I
may eat, and bless thee before the
LORD, before my death. Now there
fore, my son, obey my voice, and go
now to the flock, and fetch me from
thence two good kids of the goats, and

thou shalt bring it to thy father, that
he may eat, and that he may bless
thee before his death.

First Responsory.

Take thy weapons, thy quiver and
thy bow, and bring me some of thy
venison, that I may eat, and my soul
may bless thee.

Verse. And when thou hast taken
somewhat, make me thereof savoury
meat, that I may eat.

Answer. And my soul may bless
thee.

Second Lesson.

AND he answered : Thou knowest
*^^ that Esau my brother is an hairy
man, and I am a smooth man ; if my
father feel me, and perceive it, I fear
lest he think that I go about to deceive
him, and I shall bring a curse upon
me, and not a blessing. And his
mother said unto him : Upon me be
the curse, my son ; only obey my
voice, and go, fetch me them as I
have said. And he went, and fetched,
and brought them to his mother. And
she made savoury meat, such as she
knew that his father loved. And she
took goodly raiment of Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put
them upon Jacob : and she put the
skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his
neck. And she gave the savoury
meat, and the bread which she had
prepared, into his hand. And he
brought it unto his father, and said :
My father ? And he said : I hear ;
who art thou, my son ? And Jacob
said : I am Esau thy first - born ; I
have done according as thou badest
me. Arise, sit, and eat of my veni
son, that thy soul may bless me. And
Isaac said unto his son again : How

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is it that thou couldest find it so
quickly, my son ? And he said : God
willed that that which I sought should
come to me quickly.

Second Responsory.

See ! the smell of my son is as the
smell of a field which the LORD hath
blessed : may my God multiply thee
as the sand of the sea, and give thee
a blessing of the dew of heaven !

Verse. And God Almighty bless
thee, and multiply thee

Answer. And give thee a blessing
of the dew of heaven.

Third Lesson.

AND Isaac said : Come near, that I
^^ may feel thee, my son, whether
thou be my very son Esau or not.
And he went near unto his father, and
Isaac felt him, and said : The voice is
Jacob s voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau. And he discerned
him not, because his hands were
hairy, as his elder brother s hands.
Therefore, or ever he blessed him, he
said : Art thou my very son Esau ?
And he answered : I am. And he
said : Bring it near to me, my son,
and I will eat of thy venison, that my
soul may bless thee. And he brought
it near to him, and he did eat ; and
he brought him wine also. And when
he had drunk, he said unto him :
Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
And he came near and kissed him.
And as soon as he smelled the smell
of his raiment, he blessed him, and
said : See ! the smell of my son is as
the smell of a field which the LORD
hath blessed. God give thee of the
dew of heaven, and the fatness of the
earth, and plenty of corn and wine.
Let people serve thee, and nations
"bow down to thee : be lord over thy
brethren and let thy mother s sons
VOL. n.

bow down to thee. Cursed be he that
curseth thee, and blessed be he that
blesseth thee !

Third Responsory.

God give thee of the dew of heaven
and the fatness of the earth. Let
people and nations serve thee. Be
lord over thy brethren.

Verse. And let thy mother s sons
bow down to thee.

Answer. Be lord over thy brethren.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Be lord over thy brethrep.

SECOND NOCTURN.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book
against Lying written by St Austin,
Bishop [of Hippo.] (Ch. ix. torn. 4.)

T F we consider faithfully and care-
* fully what it was that Jacob did
by the advice of his mother, and where
in he seemeth to have deceived his
father, it will appear that [it hath an
aspect in which] it is not a lie, but an
allegory. If we denounce this [its
mystic sense] as a lie, then must we
also give the name of lies to even all
parable, and to every figure devised to
set forth the nature of anything, which
is not to be taken in its literal sense,
but in which one thing is to be under
stood under the name of another.
And this be far from us. Whoso
should do this, would bring the charge
of falsehood against very many figures
of speech, including that one called
metaphor (in which a word is trans
ferred from that meaning which be-
longeth to it, to some other) to which
would, by such reasoning, be given
the name of a lie.

I 2

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

Fourth Responsory.

1 As Jacob went out from his own
land, he saw the glory of God, and
said : How dreadful is this place !
This is none other but the house
of God ; and this is the gate of
heaven.

Verse. Surely God is in this place,
and I knew it not.

Answer. This is none other but
the house of God ; and this is the
gate of heaven.

Fifth Lesson.

*"PHE deep meaning is given; but
what is considered is the lie ;
because men do not understand the
way in which that signification, which
is a truth, is set forth ; but the false
hood is plainly expressed, and be
lieved. That we may understand this
more plainly by taking some points in
illustration, consider with me what
Jacob did. It is certain that he cov
ered his limbs with the skins of goats.
If we consider his object in point of
fact, we shall find that it was to lie,
because he did this that he might be
thought to be he who he was not.
But if we consider this his deed in
that deep typical sense which it un
doubtedly possesseth, we find that by
the goat-skins are represented sins,
and by him who covered himself
therewith Him Who bore not His own
sins, but the sins of others.

Fifth Responsory.

2 If the Lord my God will be with
me, in this way that I go, and will
keep me, and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put .on, and will
bring me again safely, the LORD shall
be my refuge, and this stone shall be
a sign.

Verse. So Jacob rose up early in
the morning, and took the stone that
he had put for his pillow, and set it
up for a pillar, and poured oil upon
the top of it, and said :

Answer. The LORD shall be my
refuge, and this shall be a sign.

Sixth Lesson.

TT is impossible to apply the term
" lie " to that mystic aspect of this
transaction in which it was true ; and
such an aspect there is, not only in
the acts, but in the words. When
Isaac said to Jacob: "Who art thou,
my son ? " and Jacob answered : " I
am Esau, thy first-born," if we take
this in its sense relative to the two
brothers, it will be apparent that it
was a lie. If, however, we look at it
relatively to that for the sake of which
these words and deeds were written
down, we shall see that Christ is here
signified in His mystic body, the
Church. Concerning her, [the young
er covenant,] He saith [to them of the
older covenant]: "Ye shall see Abra
ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the
Prophets in the kingdom of God, and
you yourselves thrust out. And they
shall come from the east, and from
the west, and from the north, and
from the south, and shall sit down in
the kingdom of God. And, behold,
there are last which shall be first, and
there are first which shall be last."
(Luke xiii. 28-30.) Thus did the
younger take away the title and in
heritance from the elder, and acquire
it to himself.

Sixth Responsory.

The LORD shall be my God, and
this stone, which I have set for a
pillar, shall be called God s house,
and of all that Thou shalt give me, I

xxviu. 17.

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will offer tithes and peace-offerings to
Thee.

Verse. If I come again to my
father s house in peace.

Answer. I will offer tithes and
peace-offerings unto Thee.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. I will offer tithes and
peace-offerings unto Thee.

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xvii.
I-)

AT that time: JESUS taketh Peter,

and James, and John his brother,

and bringeth them up into an high

mountain apart, and was transfigured

before them. And so on.

Continuation of the Homily by Pope
St Leo" [the Great.]

JESUS took Peter, and James, and
John his brother, and brought them
up into an exceeding high mountain
apart, and manifested forth the bright
ness of His glory. Hitherto, though
they understood that there was in Him
the Majesty of God, they knew not
the power of that Body which veiled
the Godhead. And therefore He had
individually and markedly promised
to some of the disciples that had stood
by Him (Matth. xvi. 28) that they
should "not taste of death till they
had seen the Son of Man coming in
His kingdom," that is, in the kingly
splendour, which is the right of the
Manhood taken into God, and which
He willed to make visible to those
three men. This it was that they saw,
for the unspeakable and unapproach
able vision of the Godhead Himself
which will be the everlasting life of

the pure in heart, (Matth. v. 8,) can
no man, who is still burdened with a
dying body, see and live.

Seventh Responsory.

1 The Angel said unto Jacob : Let
me go, for the day breaketh. And he
said : I will not let thee go, except
thou bless me. And he blessed him
there.

Verse. And when Jacob arose,
behold there wrestled a man with him,
until the breaking of the day ; and,
when he saw that he prevailed not, he
said unto him :

Answer. Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said : I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he blessed him there.

Eighth Lesson.

"HEN the Father saith : "This
is My beloved Son, in Whom I
am well pleased : hear ye Him " did
they not plainly hear Him say " This
is My Son, Whose it is to be of Me
and with Me without all time " ? For
neither is He That begetteth, before
Him That is begotten, neither He
That is begotten, after Him That be
getteth Him. " This is My Son "
between Whom and Me, to be God is
not a point of difference ; to be Al
mighty, a point of separation ; nor to
be Eternal, a point of distinction.
" This is My Son " not by adoption,
but My very Own ; not created from,
or of another substance, or out of
nothing, but begotten of Me ; not of
another nature, and made like unto
Me, but of Mine own Being, born of
Me, equal unto Me.

Eighth Responsory.

I have seen God face to face and
my life is preserved.

XXXH. 24-32.

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

Verse. And he said unto me : Thy
name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel shall be thy name.

Answer. And my life is preserved.

Ninth Lesson.

" T^HIS is My Son " by Whom all
^ things were made, and without
Whom was not anything made that was
made, (John i. 3 ;) Who maketh like
wise all things whatsoever I make :
and what things soever I do He doeth
likewise, (v. 19), inseparably and in
differently. " This is My Son " Who
thought it not robbery, nor hath taken
it by violence, to be equal with Me,
but, abiding still in the form of My
glory, that He may fulfil Our common
decree for the restoration of mankind,
hath bowed the unchangeable Godhead
even to the form of a servant. (Phil,
ii. 6, 7.) Him therefore in Whom I
am in all things well pleased, by Whose
preaching I am manifested, and by
Whose lowliness I am glorified, Him
instantly hear ye. For He is the Truth
and the Life, (John xiv. 6,) My Power,
and My Wisdom, (i Cor. i. 24.)

Ninth Responsory.

1 When Jacob heard that Esau came
to meet him, he divided his sons and
his wives, saying : If Esau smite the
one company, then the other shall es
cape. Deliver me, O Lord, Which
saidst unto me : I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of heaven, and as the
sand of the sea, which cannot be num
bered for multitude.

Verse. O LORD, Which saidst unto
me : Return unto thy country 2 O
Lord, Which feedest me still from my
youth up

Answer. Deliver me, O Lord.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

1 xxxii. 7, ii, 12.

Answer. Which saidst unto me : I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of
heaven, and as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be numbered for multi
tude.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. O LORD, open
Thou my lips, * and my mouth shall
show forth Thy praise.

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, &c., (p. 87.)

Second Antiphon. The right hand
of the LORD * hath done valiantly, the
right hand of the LORD hath exalted
me.

Psalm CXVII.

O give thanks, &c., (p. 37.)

Third Antiphon. My God * hath
been my help.

Psalms LXII. and LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c.,
(P- 23-)

Fourth Antiphon. Let us sing the
Song of the Three Children, * even the
Song that they sang when they blessed
the Lord in the burning fiery furnace.

The Song of the Three Holy Children,
(P- 24.)

Fifth Antiphon. He hath estab
lished them * for ever and ever : He
hath made a decree which shall not
pass.

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.
Praise ye the Lord, c., (pp. 25, 26.)

Chapter, (i Thess. iv. i.)
beseech you, brethren, and ex-

hort you by the Lord JESUS, that
as ye have received of us how ye ought

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to walk and to please God, ye would so
walk, and abound more and more.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS took His disciples, * and went
up into a mountain, and was trans
figured before them.

Prayer.

C\ GOD, Who seest that we have no
power of ourselves to help our
selves, keep us both outwardly in our
bodies, and inwardly in our souls, that
we may be defended from all adversities
which may happen to the body, and
from all evil thoughts which may as
sault and hurt the soul. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer throughout the day.

PRIME.

Antiphon. Lord, it is good for us
to be here : * if Thou wilt, let us make
here three tabernacles, one for Thee,
and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

TERCE.

A ntiphon from Prime.
Chapter from Lauds.

SEXT.

Antiphon. Let us make here three
tabernacles, * one for Thee, and one
for Moses, and one for Elias.

Chapter, (i Thess. iv. 3.)

"P OR this is the will of God, even
your sanctification, that ye should
abstain from fornication ; that every one
of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour.

NONE.

Antiphon. Tell the vision that ye
have seen to no man, * until the Son
of Man be risen again from the dead.

Chapter, (i Thess. iv. 7.)

"pOR God hath not called us unto
uncleanness, but unto holiness,
in Christ JESUS our Lord.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Lauds,

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin same as that at None.

After Vespers are said the Vespers
of the dead.

Second Day.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
227.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (viii. 21.)

A T that time : JESUS said unto the
^^ multitudes of the Jews : I go My
way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall
die in your sins. And so on.

Homily on this passage by St
Austin, Bishop [of Hippo.] (Tract
38 on John.}

The Lord spake unto the Jews, say
ing : " I go My way " for, to the Lord
Christ, death was a departure to that
place whence He had come, and
whence He had never departed. " I
go My way," saith He, "and ye shall
seek Me " not from love, but from
hatred. Yea after He had withdrawn

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

Himself from the sight of men, two
classes sought Him, even they that
loved, and they that hated Him ; the
one because they longed for His pres
ence, the other because they were fain
to hunt Him down. In the Psalms the
Lord Himself saith by His Prophet: 1
" Refuge failed me, and no man cared
for my soul." (Ps. cxli. 5.) And
again He said in another Psalm : " Let
them be confounded and put to shame
that seek after my soul." (Ps. xxxiv.
4-)

First Responsory. .

2 While as Jacob went from Beer-
sheba, and hasted unto Haran, the
LORD spake unto him, saying : The
land whereon thou sleepest, to thee
will I give it, and to thy seed.

Verse. 3 He built an altar of stones
unto the Name of the Lord, and poured
oil upon the top of it ; and God blessed
him and said.:

Answer. The land whereon thou
sleepest, to thee will I give it, and to
thy seed.

Second Lesson.

HTHUS doth He blame them that
seek not, and condemn such as
seek. Yea, it is a good thing to seek
the soul of Christ, as the disciples
sought it ; and an evil thing to seek
it, as the Jews sought it ; the first
sought it to possess, the second to
destroy it. What then doth He bid
us know will be the reward of such as
seek it evilly in a perverse heart ?
"Ye shall seek Me, and" lest ye
think that ye shall do well so to seek
Me, I tell you that ye " shall die in
your sins." To seek Christ with bad
intent, is as much as to die in sin, for
it is to hate Him through Whom alone
we can be saved.

Second Responsory.

4 God appeared unto Jacob, and
blessed him, and said : I am the God
of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow
unto Me. 5 I will make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee.

Verse. 6 Surely the LORD is in this
place, and I knew it not.

Answer. I will make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee.

Third Lesson.

Y\7HEREAS men whose hope is in
God ought to return good even
for evil, those men returned evil for
good. The Lord therefore told them
beforehand, and, because He knew it,
He let them know their coming end,
how that they should die in their sins.
Then He said farther : " Whither I
go, ye cannot come." This He said
in another place (xiii. 33) to His dis
ciples, but He never said to them :
"Ye shall die in your sins." What
said He ? The same words as to the
Jews : " Whither I go, ye cannot
come." Yet, to the disciples, these
words only deferred, they cut not
away hope for they, though for a
little while they could not come whither
He was to go, were yet in the end to
go there. Not so they to whom He
foretold and said : " Ye shall die in
your sins."

Third Responsory.
God give thee, &c., (p. 252.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday (p. 232.)

1 Viz., by inspiring the language of the complaint. The words in both cases were uttered by
David.

xxv-in. 13.

xxxv. 7, 14, 9.

4 xxxi. 13.

5 xlviii. 4.

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259

Antiphan at the Song of Zacharias.
Even the Same * That I said unto you
from the beginning.

Prayer.

r\ ALMIGHTY God, grant, we be-
" seech Thee, unto this Thy family,
that as they do abstain from meals to
afflict the flesh, so by following after
righteousness they may fast from sin.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

After Lauds is said the Dirge.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 1 7, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as m
the First Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. He That sent Me is with Me,
* and hath not left Me alone, for I do
always those things that please Him.

Prayer.

/^RACIOUSLY hear our prayers, O
^ Almighty God, and as Thou dost
give us to look with confidence for Thy
favour for which we hope, so grant us,
in Thy goodness, the manifestation of
Thine accustomed mercy. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

Third Day.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.

22 7 .) .:

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xxiii.

I-)

A T that time : Spake JESUS to the
^"^ multitude, and to His disciples,
saying : The Scribes and Pharisees sit
in Moses seat. All therefore whatso
ever they bid you observe, that ob
serve and do ; but do not ye after
their works. And so on.

Homily by St Jerome, Priest [at
Bethlehem.] (Bk. iv. Comm. on
Matth. xxiii.)

Was there ever man gentler and
kinder than the Lord ? The Phari
sees tempted Him ; their craft was
confounded, and, in the words of the
Psalmist, " The arrows of babes have
pierced them," (Ps. Ixiii. 8,) and
nevertheless, because of the dignity
of their priesthood and name, He
exhorteth the people to be subject to
them, by doing according to their
words, though not according to their
works. By the words " Moses seat "
we are to understand the teaching of
the law. Thus also must we mysti
cally take, " Sitteth in the seat of the
scornful," (Ps. i. I,) and likewise,
"overthrew the seats of them that
sold doves," (Matth. xxi. 12,) to de
scribe doctrine.

First Responsory.
As Jacob went, &c., (p. 253.)

Second Lesson.

" TIT OR they bind heavy burdens,
and grievous to be borne, and
lay them on men s shoulders, but they
themselves will not move them with
one of their fingers." This is gen
erally directed against all teachers
who command things hard, and them-

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

selves do not even things easy. But
it is to be remarked that the " shoul
ders," the "fingers," and the "bind
ing" of the burdens, have a spiritual
interpretation.

" But all their works they do for to
be seen of men." Whosoever there
fore doth anything for to be seen of
men, the same is, so far, a Scribe and
a Pharisee.

Second Responsory.

If the Lord my God, &c., (Fifth
Responsory on Sunday, p. 253.)

Third Lesson.

" T HEY make broad their phylac-
teries, and enlarge the borders
of their garments. And love the
uppermost rooms at feasts, and the
chief seats in the synagogues, and
greetings in the markets, and to be
called of men, Rabbi." Woe to us
miserable sinners who have inherited
the vices of the Pharisees ! When the
Lord had given the commandments of
the law to Moses He added after
wards : " Thou shalt bind them for a
sign upon thine hand, and they shall
be as frontlets between thine eyes,"
(Deut. vi. 8.) The sense of these
words is : " My Law shall be in thine
hand to order whatsoever thou doest,
and ever before thine eyes that thou
mayest meditate therein day and
night." But the Pharisees, by a
bad interpretation, were accustomed
to write on pieces of parchment the
Decalogue of Moses, that is, the Ten
Words of the Law, 1 and to tie these
pieces of parchment, plaited in a
peculiar manner, on their foreheads,
so as to make a sort of crown round
their heads, which projected in front
of their eyes, and always moved be
fore them.

Third Responsory.

The LORD shall be my God, &c.,
(P- 2530

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
For One is your Master, * Which is
in heaven, even Christ the Lord.

Prayer.

TENABLE us, O Lord, we beseech
Thee, to carry to a perfect end
this holy and helpful observance, that
what we know we have to do by Thine
ordinance we may be holpen to do
by Thy strength. Through our Lord
J^SUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. And all ye are brethren, * and
call no man your father upon earth :
for One is your Father, Which is in
heaven : neither be ye called masters,
for One is your Master, even Christ.

Prayer.

T END Thy merciful ears, O Lord,

we beseech Thee, unto our

supplications, and heal the sickness

1 St Jerome seems to have been misinformed. The passages inscribed in the phylacteries
are four, and are (i) Exod. xiii. i-to, (2) 11-16 ; (3) Deut. vi. 4-9; (4) xi. 13-21.

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26l

of our souls, that we, receiving Thy ing Christ still, as we read they had

pardon, may rejoice for ever in Thy
blessing. Throug h our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

Fourth Day.

Before Mattins are said the Gradual
Psalms.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
227.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xx.

170

A T that time : JESUS, going up to
Jerusalem, took the twelve dis
ciples apart, and said unto them : Be
hold, we go up to Jerusalem ; and the
Son of man shall be betrayed unto the
chief priests and unto the Scribes, and
they shall condemn Him to death.
And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (Bk. v. to Gratian, on Faith,
c. ii.)

Consider what it was that the mother
of Zebedee s children came to Christ
desiring, with, and for her sons. She
was a mother, who, longing for the
honour of her sons, preferred a request
immoderate, and yet pardonable. She
was a mother who, albeit stricken in
years and comfortless, at an age
when she had sore need of the
strength of her offspring to help and
keep her, was yet so earnest in godli
ness and motherly love, that she had
liefer suffer the loss of her sons, that
they might gain the reward of follow

already done, when, at the first call of
the Lord, they left their nets and their
father, (iv. 21, 22.)

First Responsory.
The Angel said, &c., (p. 254.)

Second Lesson.

CHE, then, yielding to the intensity
of her motherly love, besought
the Saviour, saying, " Grant that
these my two sons may sit, the one
at Thy right hand and the other
at Thy left hand, in Thy kingdom."
Although it was a mistake, it was
a mistake of love. For a mother s
love knoweth no moderation. Yet,
although it was a greedy prayer,
that was a pardonable greed, which
hungered, not for riches, but for
grace. Neither was that request
shameless which sought, not her own
good, but her children s. Remember
that she was a mother. Think how
that she was a mother.

Second Responsory.
I have seen God, &c., (p. 254.)

Third Lesson.

/CHRIST took into His considera-
^^ tion that mother s love of hers,
which made her sons reward the
comfort of her own old age, and
which could bear the loss of her
loved ones, broken as she was by a
mother s yearnings. Consider also
that she was a woman, that is, of
the weaker sex, to which the Lord
had not yet given strength by His
Passion. Consider, I say, that she
was an heiress of Eve, and weakened
by that transmission of the unbridled
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the Lord had not yet disarmed by His
Blood, even that craving for undue
dignity, wherewith all our natures are
imbued, and which Christ s Blood-
shedding had not yet washed away.
She erred indeed, but the mistake was
an inherited weakness.

Third Responsory.
When Jacob heard, &c., (p. 255.)

^Prayer.

f~\ GOD, the Renewer and Lover of
^~"^ innocency, turn the hearts of all
Thy servants to Thyself, that so they,
being enkindled with the fire of Thy
Spirit, may be found ever rooted in
faith, and fruitful in works. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Same Holy Ghost, one
God, world without end. Amen.

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, * and
the Son of man shall be betrayed to be
crucified.

Prayer.

T OOK down in mercy upon Thy
people, O Lord, we beseech
Thee, and grant unto them, whom
Thou commandest to abstain from
fleshly meats, power to abstain also
from the corruption of sin. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. For He shall be delivered to
the Gentiles, * to mock, and to scourge,
and to crucify.

Fifth Day.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
227.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Luke (xvi. 19.)

A T that time : JESUS said unto the
** Pharisees : There was a certain
rich man, which was clothed in purple
and fine linen, and fared sumptuously
every day. And so on.

Homily by Pope St Gregory [the
Great.] (^oth on the Gospels.}

Whom, dearly beloved brethren,
whom are we to understand as signi
fied by that rich man which was
clothed in purple and fine linen, and
fared sumptuously every day, whom, I
ask, are we to understand, but the
Jewish people, who had all the outward
life of religious ordinances, and who
turned the treasure of the law they had
received to show and not to use ?
What but the herd of the Gentiles is
figured in Lazarus, full of sores ?
Whosoever turneth himself to God and
is not ashamed to confess his sin, hath
his sores on the skin, for in a sore on
the skin breaketh out the corruption,
which is drawn from within.

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First Responsory.
Take thy weapons, &c., (p. 251.)

Second Lesson.

V\7"HAT is, then, the confession of
our sins but the breaking out
of our sores ? The corrupt matter of
sin is healthily opened in confession,
instead of remaining in the mind to rot
it. Open sores on the skin bring the
poisonous matter to the surface, and
when we confess our sins, what do we
but open up the evil that there is lurk
ing in us ? But Lazarus desired to be
fed with the crumbs which fell from the
rich man s table, and no man gave
unto him ; even so did that proud
people scorn to admit a Gentile to the
knowledge of their law. 1

Second Responsory.

See ! the smell of my son, &c., (p.

252.)

Third Lesson.

n^HE teaching of the law moved
them to pride, and not to love,
as though they swelled with self-
importance at the thought of their
riches, and the words which some
Gentiles caught of their knowledge
were as crumbs falling from their
sumptuous table. On the other hand,
the dogs came and licked the sores of
the beggar that was laid at their gate.
Sometimes in Holy Writ, under the
figure of dogs, preachers are under
stood. A dog s tongue healeth the
sore which it licketh, and so do holy
teachers, when we confess our sins,
and they speak to us, mollify by their
tongues the sores of our souls.

Third Responsory.
God give thee, &c., (p. 252.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse a?id Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Son, remember * that thou in thy life
time receivedst thy good things, and
likewise Lazarus evil things.

Prayer.

/^RANT unto us, O Lord, we be-
^ Jr seech Thee, the help of Thy
grace, that we, who are now bent on
fasting and prayer, may be freed from
enemies both of our bodies and of our
souls. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reign-
eth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

At the beginning of the Martyrology,
is said,

On the morrow we commemorate
the Enshroudment of our Lord JESUS
Christ in His Most Holy Winding-
sheet.

Sixth Day.

Office in Memory of the Enshroudment
of our Lord JES US in His Most
Holy Winding-sheet.

Greater Double.

All as on Sundays, except the follow
ing.

FIRST VESPERS.

Antiphons, Chapter, and Prayer
from Lauds.

1 Gentilium quemque ad cognitionem legis admittere superbus ille populus despiciebat. It
is, however, evident, from John xii. 20, Acts ii. 5, and other places, that Gentile converts to
Judaism were by no means rare.

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Ps. cxvi.
(P. 1 86.)

Last Psalm.

O praise the Lord, &c.,

Hymn.^

JESUS ! when on Thy fatal day
Thy people turn their awe-struck eyes,
Thy latest vesture s history dread
Distinct before their memory lies.

Thy Suffering o er, from Hands and Feet
They drew the nails who loved Thee well

Into the linen s spotless folds
Thy Soul-less Body gently fell.

O Word of God ! the conquest won,
Thy trophies still around Thee lay ;

Clothed in a vesture dipped in Blood,
Thou restedst Victor from the fray.

With our salvation s awful Price
Still wet upon Thy gaping Side

And mangled Feet, and Hands, and Brow,
The virgin web was redly dyed.

If Blood from Thee, let tears from us
In spirit on Thy grave-clothes fall :

The price was Thine, the debt was ours ;
For us, for us, was suffered all.

Thou Who Thine own blest life didst give

A sacrifice for ours to be,
Teach us, O God, in least return

Our Blood-bought lives to give to Thee !

Word of the Self-Existent One,
Word uttered with the Breath Divine,

Word clad in vesture dipped in Blood,
All praise eternally be Thine ! Amen.

Verse. We honour Thy Winding-
sheet, O Lord.

Answer. We call to mind Thy
glorious Sufferings.

Antiphon to the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. A man named Joseph, a
good man and a just, went to Pilate,
and begged the Body of JESUS.
[Then Pilate commanded the Body

to be delivered.] And when [Joseph]
had taken [the Body] he wrapped It
in a clean linen cloth.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. That rich man, who
had refused Lazarus bread-crumbs,
cried for a drop of water.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

T&gt; E Thou, O Lord, the help of Thy
servants, and grant unto their
prayers this abiding effect of Thy
mercy : that as they do make their
boast in Thee, that it is Thou which
hast created and dost govern them, so
Thou wilt renew in them the gifts
wherewith Thou didst bountifully en
dow them, and wilt preserve what
Thou hast renewed. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ, Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. Christ our Lord, Who
recalleth the memory of His Suffer
ings by the thought of the Holy
Shroud, * Him, O come, let us
worship !

Hymn*

A WONDROUS mystery this day
Reveals itself before our eyes :
The true Son of the living God
Upon the Cross in torment dies.

To advocate a servant s cause,

He takes that servant s guilty guise ;

The Master suffers for the slave,
The just Man for the sinner dies.

1 The original Latin, of sixteenth to eighteenth century, is from the Proprium of the arch-
dioccese of Freiburg.

2 Hymn of sixteenth to eighteenth century, taken from the Proprium of the arch-diocoese
of Freiburg, translation by the Rev. Dr Wallace.

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The emblems of His cruel death
And triumph redly were impressed

Upon the robe, which with its folds
His mangled Body did invest.

These were the signs of victory won

O er Death, o er Hell, and o er the World ;

These were the trophies which our Chief
Displays triumphantly unfurled.

This gratitude at least we owe
To Him Who brought eternal life,

That neath this banner we should stand,
And fight and conquer in the strife.

Then let us die to all our sin,
And let us rise to life of grace ;

That by the Cross we may deserve
To see the glory of His Face.

Grant this, O Father merciful !

And Thou, His own coequal Son !
Grant this, O Spirit ! Who dost bear

The sceptre, while the ages run. Amen.

FIRST NOCTURN.
Only three Psalms are said.

First Antiphon. * Thou art red in
thine apparel, and thy garment like
their s that tread in the wine-press.

Ps. iv. When I called, c., (p.
206.)

Second Antiphon. * Blood hath
been sprinkled upon my garments,
and I have stained all my raiment.

Ps. xiv. LORD, who shall abide,
&c., (p. 10.)

Third Antiphon. 2 They part my
garments among them, and cast lots
upon my vesture.

Ps. xv. Preserve me, &c., (p. 12.)

Verse. We honour Thy Winding-
sheet, O Lord.

Answer. We call to mind Thy
sufferings.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Isaiah (liii.)

HO hath believed our report?
And to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed ? For he shall grow
up before Him as a tender plant, and
as a root out of a dry ground : he
hath no form nor comeliness ; and when
we shall see him, there is no beauty
that we should desire him. He is
despised and rejected of men ; a man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and he hid as it were his face from
us ; he was despised, and we esteemed
him not. Surely he hath borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows : yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities : the
chastisement of our peace was upon
him, and with his stripes we are
healed.

First Responsory.

Behold, we saw Him as having no
form nor comeliness. There is no
beauty in Him. He hath borne our
sins, and sorroweth for us. He was
wounded for our transgressions, and
with His stripes we are healed.

Verse. Surely He hath borne our
sins, and carried our sorrows.

Answer. And with His stripes we
are healed.

Second Lesson.

A LL we, like sheep, have gone
"^^ astray ; we have turned every
one to his own way : and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all. He was offered up because he
willed it, 3 and he opened not his

1 Isa. Ixiii. 2, 3. 2 Ps. xxi. 19.

3 Oblatus est quia ipse voluit. The present Hebrew is literally, " He was oppressed and
he was afflicted." Jonathan ben Uzziel, " He was required, and he was brought back,
and without opening his mouth, he submitted to the mighty of the people."

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mouth. He is brought as a sheep to
the slaughter, and as a lamb before
his shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth. He was taken from
prison and from judgment : and who
shall declare his generation ? For
he was cut off out of the land of the
living ; for the transgression of my
people have I stricken him. And
he made his grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death ;
because he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Second Responsory.

1 What are these wounds in thine
hands ? Then he shall answer : Those
with which I was wounded in the house
of my friends.

Verse. Awake, O sword, against
My shepherd, and against the man
that is My fellow.

Answer. Then he shall answer :
Those with which I was wounded in
the house of my friends.

Third Lesson.

A/" ET it pleased the LORD to bruise
him ; He hath put him to
grief; when he hath made his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and
the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see of the
travail of his soul, and shall be satis
fied : by his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many, for he
shall bear their iniquities. Therefore
will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong ; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death ; and
he was numbered with the trans
gressors ; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.

Third Responsory.

We honour Thy Winding-sheet, O
Lord ; we call to mind Thy glorious
sufferings. Thou that didst suffer for
us, have mercy upon us !

Verse. O that every one who is
here gathered this day to praise Thee
may find that Thou art indeed salva
tion for him !

Answer. Thou that didst suffer for
us, have mercy upon us !

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Thou that didst suffer for
us, have mercy upon us !

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. He hid as it
were His Face from us ; He was
despised, - and we esteemed Him
not.

Ps. xxiii. The earth is the LORD S,

&c, (j&gt;. 46.)

Second Antiphon. All they that

see Me, laugh Me to scorn ; they

shoot out the lip, and shake the
head.

Ps. xxvi. The LORD is my light,
&c., (p. 730

Third Antiphon. He hath poured
out His soul unto death ; [and He was
numbered with the transgressors ;] and
He bare the sin of many.

Ps. cxliv.
(P. 201.)

I will extol Thee, &c.,

Verse. We adore Thee, O Christ,
and we bless Thee.

Answer. Because that through
Thy Cross Thou hast redeemed the
world.

1 Zech. xiii. 6, 7.

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Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of St Ambrose, Bishop [of Milan.]
(On Luke xxiii.)

"IITHAT is the meaning of this, that,
not His Apostles but Joseph,
and as saith John, Nicodemus, per
formed the burial of Christ ? The one
was a just and bold man, the other a
master in Israel. Such it beseemed
Christ to have to lay Him in the grave
even He from whom all justice and all
rule proceed. Hereby no ground is
left for dispute, and the Jews are con
futed by witnesses from their own
midst. For had the Apostles buried
Him, they might have said that He
had been taken away, rather than
buried. The just man covereth the
Body of Christ with linen, the guile
less anointeth it with ointment. These
distinctions we find not idle, for the
clothing of the Church is the righteous
ness of her Saints (Apoc. xix. 8), and
guilelessness bringeth her grace.

Fourth Responsory.

O wondrous Shroud, wherein was
wrapped up our Treasure, the ransom-
money of the captives.

Verse. The whole world rejoiceth,
redeemed by the Blood of her Lord.

Answer. Our Treasure, the ransom-
money of the captives.

Fifth Lesson.

1T\O thou, if thou also wilt be just,
clothe [in thy mind s eye] the
Body of the Lord, with that glory
which is Its Own. Though thou be-
lievest It to have been dead, [in thy
faith] cover It with the fulness of the
Godhead Which belongeth unto It.
Anoint It with myrrh and aloes, that
thou mayest be a good savour of

Christ. The linen which the just
Joseph gave was fine, and perchance
the same as the great sheet knit at
the four corners, and let down to the
earth, wherein were all manner of four-
footed beasts of the earth, and wild
beasts, and creeping things, and fowls
of the air, figures of the Gentiles,
which appeared unto Peter. (Acts x.
u, 12.) With Christ was mystically
buried in that ointment of spikenard
the Church, who bindeth together in
her Communion all peoples, how
divers soever they be.

Fifth Responsory.

1 And his brethren took Joseph s
coat, and dipped it in the blood of a
kid of the goats, which they had
slaughtered, and they sent one that
brought the coat unto their father,
and said : This have we found see
now whether it be thy son s coat
or no.

Verse. And he knew it, and said :
It is my son s coat ; an evil beast hath
devoured him.

Answer. This have we found
see now whether it be thy son s coat,
or no.

Sixth Lesson.

T^HIS Joseph is called by Luke just,
and by Matthew rich. And well
is he called rich which receiveth the
Body of Christ. By receiving [the
source of all] riches, he bade farewell
to lack of faith. He that is just is
rich. A just man therefore wrapped
the Body in the linen, while an Is
raelite "brought a mixture of myrrh
and aloes, about an hundred pound
weight," that is to say, the measure
of perfect faith. "Then took they
the Body of JESUS, and wound It in
linen clothes with the spices, as the
manner of the Jews is to bury"

1 Gen. xxxvii. 31-33.

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(John xix. 38-42,) wound it, not in
the nooses of treachery, but in the
bands of loyalty. And they laid It
in that garden, whereunto the Church
is so oftentimes compared, because of
the manifold and divers fruits of good
works and flowers of grace which do
grow in her.

Sixth Responsory.

1 Christ suffered for us, leaving you
an example, that ye should follow His
steps, Who did no sin, neither was
guile found in His Mouth.

Verse. Who, when He was reviled,
reviled not again ; when He suffered,
He threatened not.

Answer. Who did no sin, neither
was guile found in His Mouth.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Who did no sin, neither
was guile found in His Mouth.

THIRD NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. My flesh shall rest
in hope, for Thou wilt not suffer Thine
Holy One to see corruption.

Ps. liii. Save me, O God, &c.,

(P. 36.)

Second Antiphon. Thou hast turned
for me my mourning into rejoicing :
Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and
girded me with gladness.

Ps. Ixxv. In Judah is God known,
&c., (p. 130.)

Third Antiphon. I am as a man
that hath no strength, lying nerveless
among the dead.

Ps. Ixxxvii. O LORD God of my
salvation, &c., (p. 145.)

Verse. Let all the earth worship
Thee and sing unto Thee.

Answer. Let them sing praises to
Thy Name, O Lord.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Mark (xv. 42.)

A T that time : When the even was
~T come, because it was the Pre
paration, that is, the day before the
Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea, an
honourable Counsellor, which also
waited for the kingdom of God, came,
And so on.

Homily by the Venerable Bede,
Priest [at Jarrow.] (For Tuesday in
Holy Week.}

The Greek word " Paraskeue,"
used by the Evangelist, signifieth
" the Preparation," and was the name
by which the Greek-speaking Jews
were used to call Friday, as being the
day whereon those things were got
ready which would be needed during
the rest of the Sabbath, even as it
was antiently commanded concerning
the manna : " On the sixth day they
shall prepare that which they bring in,
and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily." (Exod. xvi. 5.) Even
thus is it written that on Friday " God
created man." (Gen. i. 27.) And
"thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God ended
His work which He had made ; and
He rested on the seventh day from
all His work which He had made.
And God blessed the seventh day and
sanctified it, because that in it He
had rested from all His work which
God created and made." (ii. 1-3.)
And He was pleased to call the sev
enth day the Sabbath, that is to say,
the Day of " Rest." (Exod. xx. 10.)
In like manner also did the crucified

1 i Pet. ii. 21-23.

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26 9

Saviour complete upon Friday the
work of the new creation, and "when
... He had received the vinegar,
He said: It is finished" even as it
were "The evening and the morning
are about to be numbered as the sixth
day, and My work whereby I have
re-made the world, I have ended."
And on the seventh day, the Sabbath
Day, He rested from all His work
which He had made, awaiting in the
grave till the eighth day should come,
for him to rise again.

Seventh Responsory.

Joseph bought a clean linen cloth,
to wrap therein the Body of the Lord.
He came therefore, and took the
Body.

Verse. Joseph of Arimathaea be
sought Pilate that he might take away
the Body of JESUS.

Answer. He came therefore, and
took the Body.

Eighth Lesson.

" T OSEPH of Arimathaea, an honour-
J able Counsellor, which also
waited for the kingdom of God, came,
and went in boldly unto Pilate, and
craved the Body of JESUS." Very
honourable was this Joseph in the
eyes of the world, but his honour now
is because of his good work toward
God. It was meet that he who laid
the Lord in the grave should by his
good life have earned such a ministry,
and by the power of his honourable
position in the world should have been
able to obtain it. A person unknown
or obscure would not have been able
to go unto the President and to obtain
from him the Body of the Crucified.

Eighth Responsory.

This is that most honourable Wind
ing-sheet, wherein, when the Author

of salvation was taken down from the
Cross, He was pleased to be wrapped.

Verse. That we being stripped of
the slough of the old Adam and buried
together with [the new Adam] might
be clothed on with the white linen of
His sinlessness.

Answer. Wherein when the Author
of salvation was taken down from
the Cross, He was pleased to be
wrapped.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Wherein, when the Au
thor of salvation was taken down from
the Cross, He was pleased to be
wrapped.

Ninth Blessing.

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford.

Ninth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gos
pel according to Matthew (xxi. 33.)

A T that time : JESUS spake unto
^^ the multitudes of the Jews and
unto the chief priests this parable :
There was a certain householder,
which planted a vineyard, and hedged
it round about. And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (k. ix. on Luke xx.)

Many derive divers spiritual mean
ings from the term vineyard, but
Isaias giveth us to know that " the
vineyard of the LORD of Sabaoth is
the house of Israel," (v. 7.) Who
but God planted that vineyard ? He
it was that let it out to husbandmen,
and went into a far country ; not that
the Lord, Who is everywhere present,
moveth from place to place ; but be
cause He is nigh unto them that seek
Him, and from such as regard Him
not He standeth afar off. For a long
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seem to ask too early for the fruits
of His vineyard. For where kindness
is greatest, there ingratitude is worst.

Therefore it is well written in Mat
thew, for our instruction, that He
" hedged it round about," that is, He
girded it with the fortifications of His
own Divine protection, that it might
not easily lie open to the ravages of
spiritual wild beasts.

"And digged a wine-press in it."
What sense are we to put upon the
wine-press, unless it be that the Psalms
are here described under that title,
because in them the mysteries of the
Lord s Passion flow over like new
wine, working under the power of the
Holy Ghost ? Whence also, they
upon whom the Holy Ghost was out
poured were deemed to be drunken
(Acts ii. 13.) God therefore digged
a wine-press, whereinto the reasonable
grapes of inward fruitfulness poured
their spiritual richness.

"And built a tower" that is, He
raised up the goodly structure of the
Law. And so this His vineyard,
thus fortified, furnished, and garnished,
He gave over to the Jews.

"And when the time of the fruit
drew near, He sent His servants to the
husbandmen." Well doth He call it
the time of the fruit, not the time of
the in-gathering. For the Jews yielded
Him no fruit ; the Lord had no in
gathering from that vineyard of which
He said: "When I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, it brought
forth wild grapes." 1 (Isa. v. 4.) Not
that wine that maketh glad the heart
of man, not with the new wine of the
spirit, reeked that wine-press, but with
the blood of the Prophets, brutally
shed.

The Hymn, "We praise Thee, O
God, &c.," is said.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. There was a man
named Joseph, an honourable Coun
sellor, a good man, and a just ; * (the
same also was rich ;) who also himself
waited for the kingdom of God.

Second Antiphon. This man went
in boldly unto Pilate, * and craved
the Body of JESUS.

Third Antiphon. When Pilate
knew of the Centurion that JESUS was
already dead, * he gave the Body to
Joseph.

Fourth Antiphon. And Joseph
bought fine linen, * and took Him
down, and wrapped Him in the linen.

Fifth Antiphon. And laid Him in
a sepulchre, * wherein never man be
fore was laid.

Chapter. (Isa. Ixiii. i.)

"\ ^\T HO is This That cometh from
Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah ? This That is glorious
in his apparel, travelling in the great
ness of His strength ? I, That speak
in righteousness, mighty to save.

Hymn?

JESUS, as though Thyself wert here,
I draw in trembling sorrow near ;
And gazing on Thy Form divine,
Kneel down to kiss those Wounds of Thine.

Ah me, how naked art Thou laid,
Blood-stained, distended, cold, and dead,
Joy of my soul, my Saviour sweet !
Upon the sacred Winding-sheet !

Hail, awful Brow ! Hail, thorny wreath !
Hail, Countenance, now pale in death,
Whose glance but late so brightly blazed,
That angels trembled as they gazed.

And hail to Thee, my Saviour s Side
And hail to Thee, Thou Wound so wide,
Thou Wound more ruddy than the rose,
True Antidote of all our woes.

1 Thus the present text, but that quoted by St Ambrose follows the LXX., " thorns."

2 Hymn, of sixteenth to eighteenth century, from the Proprium of the arch-dioccese of Frei
burg, translation by the late Rev. E. Caswall.

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O by those sacred Hands and Feet

For me so mangled, I entreat,

My JESUS, turn me not away,

But let me here for ever stay. Amen.

Verse. The LORD reigneth, He is
clothed with majesty.

Answer. The LORD is clothed
with strength, and hath girded Himself
with power.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Joseph, an honourable Counsellor,
which also waited for the kingdom of
God, bought fine linen, and took down
the Body of JESUS, and wrapped It
in the linen.

Prayer throughout the Office.

C\ GOD, Who hast left unto us [in
^~^ the] records of Thy Sufferings
[how Thou wast enshrouded] in the
holy linen wherein Joseph wrapped
Thy most sacred Body what time he
had taken It down from the Cross,
mercifully grant that through Thy
Death and Burial we may be brought
unto the glory of Thy Resurrection.
Who livest and reignest with God the
Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. He will miserably de
stroy those wicked men, and will let out
His vineyard unto other husbandmen,
which shall render Him the fruits in
their seasons.

Verse. God hath given His angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

Q ALMIGHTY God, grant, we be
seech Thee, that the Sacred
Fast may so cleanse us that thereby

Thou mayest make us to come with
clean hearts unto those holy ordin
ances 1 which are now before us.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. There was a man, &c.,
(First Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter at the end. (Isa. Ixiii. 5.)

T LOOKED, and there was none to
help ; I searched, and there was
none to uphold ; therefore Mine Own
arm brought salvation unto Me, and
My fury, it upheld Me.

TERCE.

Antiphoji. This man went in, &c.,
(Second Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter from Lauds.

Short Responsory.

We honour Thy Winding-sheet, O
Lord.

Answer. We honour Thy Wind
ing-sheet, O Lord.

Verse. We call to mind Thy
Sufferings.

Answer. O Lord.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. W T e honour Thy Wind
ing-sheet, O Lord.

Verse. We worship and bless
Thee, O Christ !

Answer. For that by Thy death
Thou hast redeemed the world.

1 Viz., the Sacraments administered at Easter.

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SEXT.

Antiphon. When Pilate knew,
&c., (Third Antiphon at Lauds. ]

Chapter. (Isa. Ixiii. 2.)

VyHEREFORE art Thou red in
Thine apparel, and Thy gar
ments like their s that tread in the
wine -fat? I have trodden the wine
press alone, and of the people there
was none with Me.

Short Responsory.

We worship and bless Thee, O
Christ !

Answer. We worship and bless
Thee, O Christ!

Verse. For that by Thy death Thou
hast redeemed the world.

Answer. O Christ !

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. We worship and bless
Thee, O Christ!

Verse. Let all the earth worship
Thee, and sing unto Thee.

Answer. Let them sing praises to
Thy Name, O Lord.

NONE.

Antiphon. And laid Him, &c.,
(Fifth Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter as at the end of Prime.

Short Responsory.

Let all the earth worship Thee and
sing unto Thee.

Answer. Let all the earth worship
Thee and sing unto Thee.

Verse. Let them sing praises to
Thy Name, O Lord.

Answer. And sing unto Thee.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Let all the earth worship
Thee and sing unto Thee.

Verse. The LORD reigneth, He is
clothed with majesty.

Answer. The LORD is clothed with
strength, and hath girded Himself
with power.

SECOND VESPERS.

As the First, except the following.

Last Psalm.
Ps. cxli. I cried unto the LORD,

&C., (p. 200.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. A certain rich man of Ari-
mathasa, named Joseph, took the Body
of JESUS, and wrapped It in clean
linen.

Commemoration of Week-day.

Antiphon. When they sought to
lay hands on Him, they feared the
multitude, because they took Him for
a Prophet.

Verse. God hath given His angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

C* RANT unto Thy people, O Lord,
^ we beseech Thee, soundness both
of mind and body, that they, cleaving
ever unto good works, may evermore
worthily be defended by the shield of
Thine Almighty arm. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ, Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

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The Sabbath.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Luke (xv. 1 1.)

A T that time : JESUS spake this
^^ parable unto the Pharisees and
Scribes : A certain man had two sons ;
and the younger of them said to his
father : Father, give me the portion of
goods that falleth to me. And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (Bk. vii. Comment, on Luke

xv.)

Thou seest how that the heavenly
goods are given to such as seek them.
Neither oughtest thou to think the
father to blame, because he gave to
his younger son. In the kingdom of
God there is no age of weakness,
neither doth faith wax infirm with
years. He, surely, who asked, deemed
himself of sufficient age. And would
that he had not left his father ! then
had he been ignorant of the obstacle
of his age ! But after that he had
left his father s house, and had gone
into a far country, he began to be in
want. Well is he said to have wasted
his substance, who hath cut himself
off from the Church !

First Responsory.

Father, I have sinned against heaven
and before thee, and am no more
worthy to be called thy son. Make
me as one of thine hired servants.

Verse. How many hired servants
of my father s have bread enough and
to spare, and I perish with hunger !

I will arise and go to my father and
will say unto him :

Answer. Make me as one of thine
hired servants.

Second Lesson.

T_T E took his journey into a far
country. No man can go farther
than to abandon his own better self, to
leave, not his country, but his morals,
and, as it were, in an hideous fever of
lust after the world, to divorce himself
from the ties that bind him to holy
things. Yea, he that turneth his back
on Christ, banisheth himself from his
Fatherland, and becometh a citizen of
the world. But we "are no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellow-
citizens with the saints, and of the
household of God," since we " who
sometimes were afar off, are made nigh
by the Blood of Christ." (Eph. ii. 19,
13.) Let us not envy the pleasures of
them who remain in the far country.
We too have once been there, but, as
saith Isaiah, "they that dwelt in the
land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined." (ix. 2.)
And that far country is the land of the
shadow of death.

Second Responsory.
I have seen God, &c., (p. 254.)

Third Lesson.

T)UT we to whom the Lord Christ is
the breath of life, are alive under
the shadow of Christ. And therefore
it is that the Church saith : " I sat
down under His shadow with great
delight." (Cant. ii. 3.) The prodigal
son by riotous living wasted all the
gifts of nature. Take warning, O thou
who art made in the image and likeness
of God, lest thou waste the same by
brutish wallowing. Thou art the work
of God; say not "to a stock: Thou

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art my father," (Jer. ii. 27,) lest thou
grow into the likeness of a stock, as it
is written : " They that make them are
like unto them." (Ps. cxiii. 16.)

Suntiag in 3Lent.

Third Lord s Day in the Forty Days
before Easter.

Third Responsory.
When Jacob heard, c., (p. 255.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 234.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 232.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
I will arise and go to my father, * and
will say unto him : Make me as one of
thine hired servants.

Prayer.

C* RANT, O Lord, we beseech Thee,
^-* that our Fasts may bring forth
their fruit unto salvation, that so the
affliction which we lay upon our bodies
may quicken our souls unto spiritual
increase. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter and Prayer from the follow
ing Lauds.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. But the father said to his
servants : * Bring forth the best robe,
and put it on him, and put a ring on
his hand, and shoes on his feet.

MATTINS.

Invitatory and Hymn as on the
First Sunday, (p. 227.)

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
Genesis (xxxvii. 2.)

JOSEPH, being sixteen years old,
was feeding the flock with his
brethren, for he was yet but a lad ;
and he was with the sons of Bilhah
and Zilpah, his father s wives ; and he
brought unto his father their evil
report. Now Israel loved Joseph more
than all his children, because he was
the son of his old age, and he made
him a coat of many colours. And
when his brethren saw that their father
loved him more than all his brethren,
they hated him, and could not speak
peaceably unto him. And it came to
pass that he dreamed a dream, and he
told it his brethren ; and they hated
him yet the more. And he said unto
them : Hear, I pray you, this dream
which I have dreamed : I thought that
we were binding sheaves in the field,
and my sheaf arose, and stood upright ;
and your sheaves stood round about,
and made obeisance to my sheaf. And
his brethren said unto him : Shalt thou
indeed rule over us ? or shalt thou
indeed have dominion over us ? And
they hated him yet the more for his
dreams and for his words. And he
dreamed yet another dream, and told
it to his brethren, and said : I beheld
in my dream as though the sun, and
the moon, and the eleven stars made
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his father and to his brethren ; and his
father rebuked him, and said unto
him : What is this dream that thou
hast dreamed ? Shall I, and thy
mother, and thy brethren indeed come
to bow down ourselves to thee to the
earth ?

First Responsory.

And when his brethren saw Joseph
afar off, they said one to another : Be
hold, this dreamer cometh. Come, let
iis slay him ; and we shall see what
will become of his dreams.

Verse. And when his brethren saw
that their father loved Joseph more
than all his brethren, they hated him,
and could not speak peaceably unto
him ; therefore they said :

Answer. Come, let us slay him ;
and we shall see what will become of
his dreams.

Second Lesson.

O O his brethren envied him, but his
father observed the saying, and
spake nothing. And when his brethren
were gone to feed their father s flock in
Shechem, Israel said unto him : Thy
brethren feed the flock in Shechem :
come, and I will send thee unto them.
And he said to him : Here am I. And
he said to him : Go, I pray thee, and
see whether it be well with thy
brethren, and with the flocks ; and
bring me word again w r hat passeth.
So he sent him out of the vale of
Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
And a certain man found him wander
ing in the field, and asked him what
he sought. And he answered : I seek
my brethren ; tell me, I pray thee,
where they feed their flocks. And the
man said unto him : They are departed
hence ; for I heard them say : Let us
go to Dothan. And Joseph went after

his brethren, and found them in
Dothan. And when they saw him
afar off, before he came near unto
them, they conspired against him, to
slay him, and said one to another :
Behold, this dreamer cometh ; come,
let us slay him, and cast him into some
old cistern, and we will say : Some evil
beast hath devoured him ; and we shall
see what will become of his dreams.

Second Responsory.

Judah l said unto his brethren : Be
hold, the Ishmaelites pass by ; come,
let us sell him, and let not our hands
be defiled. For he is our flesh, and
our brother.

Verse. What profit is it if we slay
our brother, and conceal his blood ?
It is better to sell him.

Answer. For he is our flesh, and
our brother.

Third Lesson.

AND Reuben heard it, and he strove
to deliver him out of their hands ;
and said : Kill him not, nor shed blood,
but cast him into this cistern that is
in the wilderness, and keep your hands
undefiled. This he said, being willing
to rid him out of their hands, and de
liver him to his father again. And it
came to pass straightway, when Joseph
was come unto his brethren, that they
stripped him out of his coat of many
colours that was on him ; and they
cast him into an old cistern, wherein
was no water. And they sat down to
eat bread ; and, behold, a company of
Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with
their camels bearing spicery, and balm,
and myrrh, going to carry it down to
Egypt. Judah therefore said unto his
brethren : What profit is it if we slay
our brother, and conceal his blood ?

1 Judas. Perhaps the passage is chosen for this Responsory with allusion to the selling of
Christ by the Iscariote.

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It is better to sell him to the Ishmael-
ites, and let not our hands be de
filed ; for he is our brother and our
flesh. And his brethren were con
tent. Then there passed by Midian-
ites, merchantmen, and they drew
up Joseph out of the cistern, and
sold him to the Ishmaelites for
twenty pieces of silver : and they
brought him into Egypt.

Third Responsory.

They drew up Joseph out of the pit,
and sold him to the Ishmaelites for
twenty pieces of silver. 1 And Reuben
returned unto the pit, and when he
found not Joseph, he rent his clothes,
and wept, and said : The child is not,
and I, whither shall I go ?

Verse. And they took Joseph s coat,
and dipped it in the blood of a kid of
the goats, and they sent one that
brought the coat unto their father, and
said : See now whether this be thy
son s coat or no.

Answer. And Reuben returned
unto the pit, and when he found
not Joseph, he rent his clothes, and
wept.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. And Reuben said : The
child is not, and I, whither shall I go ?

SECOND NOCTURN.
Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book
upon holy Joseph written by St Am
brose, Bishop [of Milan.] (Ch. I.)

"THE lives of the saints are the
models for the lives of others.
This is one of the reasons why we
have been given the wise tale of the
Scriptures, that while, by reading

therein, we come to know Abraham,
and Isaac, and Jacob, and others of
the righteous, we may follow them in
that path of innocency which is opened
to us for our imitation by the record
of their godly conversation. Of them
I have often treated, and to-day the
story of the holy Joseph cometh be
fore me. In that story there are
patterns of many virtues, but chiefly
is he glorious on account of his clean
living. Right is it then that ye who
have learnt in Abraham the devoted-
ness of a faith that nothing could
daunt, in Isaac the transparency of an
upright soul, in Jacob a wonderful
patience of spirit in great travails,
should now turn from their worthy
deeds, to see the bright example of
Joseph s self-control.

Fourth Responsory.

When Jacob saw Joseph s coat he
rent his clothes, and mourned ; and he
said : An evil beast hath devoured my
son Joseph.

Verse. And his brethren took his
coat, and sent it to his father : and he
knew it, and said :

Answer. An evil beast hath de
voured my son Joseph.

Fifth Lesson.

"PHE holy Joseph is put before us as
a pattern of chastity. Modesty
shineth in his manners and in his
deeds, and a certain loveliness, which
is found with chastity, shineth there
also. Hence his parents loved him
more than their other children. But
this love caused him to be the object
of an envy, which we must needs not
pass by, and upon this the whole
story turneth. Yet, at the same time,
we learn how that just man was not
swayed by any desire to avenge his

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own sufferings, neither repaid evil for
evil. Whence also David saith : " If
I have rewarded evil " (Ps. vii. 5.)*

Fifth Responsory.

2 When Joseph came into the land
of Egypt, he heard a language that he
understood not ; his hands were bur
dened with labour ; 3 and his tongue
spake wisdom among princes.

Verse. 4 Whose feet they hurt with
fetters ; the iron entered into his soul,
until the time that his word came

Answer. And his tongue spake
wisdom among princes.

Sixth Lesson.

TN what would Joseph have been
worthy to be chosen before others,
if he had harmed them which harmed
him, and loved them which loved him ?
For this do many do. But it is a won
der if one do that which the Saviour
teacheth, and love his enemy. Well,
then, may we wonder at him who did
this before the Gospel came ; who,
being injured, spared ; being assailed,
forgave ; being sold, returned no evil ;
but repaid insult with favour. W T e,
from the Gospel, have been taught to
do all this, and we cannot. Let us
also, then, learn how that there was
envy even among some of the holy
[Patriarchs], that we may follow the
example of the patience [wherewith
others of them bore it;] and let us
feel that they were not men of another
and higher nature than ours, but only
more heedful ; that they were not sin
less, but that they repented. But if the
passion of envy scorched even some
of the holy race, how much more need
is there for the sinful to take heed lest
it set fire to them ?

Sixth Respo?isory.

me.

3 Ps. xlviii. 4 ; civ.
VOL. II.

5 Think on me when it shall be well
with thee, and make mention of me
unto Pharaoh, that he may bring me
out of this prison. For I was stolen
away ; and here have I done noth
ing, that they should put me into the
dungeon.

Verse. For yet three days, and
then Pharaoh shall remember thy ser
vice, and restore thee unto thy place ;
then think of me

Answer. And make mention of
me unto Pharaoh, that he may bring
me out of this prison.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. For I was stolen away ;
and here have I done nothing, that
they should put me into the dungeon.

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Luke (xi. 14.)

that time : JESUS was casting
out a devil, and it was dumb.
And it came to pass, when the devil
was gone out, the dumb spake; and
the people wondered. And so on.

Homily by the Venerable Becle,
Priest [at Jarrow.] (Bk. iv. c. 48 on
Luke xi.)

We read in Matthew (xii. 22) that
the devil, by which this poor creature
was possessed, was not only dumb, but
also blind ; and that, when he was
healed by the Lord, he saw as well as
spake. Three miracles, therefore,
were performed on this one man ; the
blind saw, the dumb spake, and the

e TfYV &Ci St A " lb l rose seems to have understood the sense
If I have rewarded evil unto them that rewarded [evil unto!
- Ps. Ixxx. 6, 7.

CXVlll. 46. 4 PC ri v T ; i

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possessed was delivered. This mighty
work was then indeed wrought car
nally, but it is still wrought spiritually
in the conversion of believers, when
the devil is cast out of them, so that
their eyes see the light of faith, and
the lips, that before were dumb, are
opened that their mouth may show
forth the praise of God.

" But some of them said : He casteth
out devils through Beelzebub, the chief
of the devils." These some were not
of the multitude, but liars among the
Pharisees and Scribes, as we are told
by the other Evangelist (24.)

Seventh Responsory.

1 We are verily guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish
of his soul, when he besought us, and
we would not hear. Therefore is this
distress come upon us.

Verse. And Reuben answered his
brethren, saying : Spake I not unto
you, saying: Do not sin against the
child ; and ye would not hear ?

Answer. Therefore is this distress
come upon us.

Eighth Lesson.

AWHILE the multitude, who were
less instructed, wondered ever
at the works of the Lord, the Pharisees
and Scribes, on the other hand, denied
the facts when they could, and when
they were not able, twisted them by an
evil interpretation, and asserted that
the works of God were the works of an
unclean spirit.

"And others, tempting Him, sought
of Him a sign from heaven." They
would have had Christ either to call
down fire from heaven like Elias, (4
Kings i. 10,) or, like Samuel, (i Kings
vii. 10,) to have made thunder roll,
and lightning flash, and rain fall at

midsummer. And yet and if he had
so done, they had been still able to
explain away these signs also, as being
the natural result of some unusual,
though, till that moment, unremarked
state of the atmosphere. O thou, who
stubbornly deniest that which thine
eye seeth, thine hand holdeth, and
thy sense perceiveth, what wilt thou
say to a sign from heaven ? In
good sooth, thou wilt say that the
magicians in Egypt also wrought
divers signs from heaven. (Ex. vii.,
viii.)

Eighth Responsory.

And Reuben answered his brethren,
saying : Spake I not unto you, saying :
Do not sin against the child ; and ye
would not hear ? Behold, his blood is
required.

Verse. We are verily guilty con
cerning our brother, in that we saw the
anguish of his soul, when he besought
us, and we would not hear.

Answer. Behold, his blood is re
quired.

Ninth Lesson.

" "DUT He, knowing their thoughts,
P said unto them: Every king
dom divided against itself is brought
to desolation, and an house divided
against an house falleth." He an
swered not their words, but their
thoughts ; as though He would com
pel them to believe in the power
of Him Who seeth the secrets of
the heart. But if every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to
desolation, then have not the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost a
divided kingdom, since His is a
kingdom that, without all contra
diction, shall never be brought to
desolation by any shock, but abideth
unchanged and unchangeable for ever.
"If Satan also be divided against

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himself, how shall his kingdom stand ?
Because ye say that I cast out devils by
Beelzebub." In saying this, He sought
to draw from their own mouth a con
fession that they had chosen for
themselves to be part of that devil s
kingdom, which, if it be divided against
itself, cannot stand.

Ninth Responsory.

Jacob lamented for his two sons, say
ing : Woe is me ; I am bereaved of
Joseph, for he is not ; and afflicted
because of Benjamin, because he is
taken away for bread. I pray the
King of heaven in my distress, that He
may make me to see them yet again.

jVerse. And Jacob cast him down
upon his face upon the ground, and
wept sore ; and he prayed, saying

Answer. I pray the King of heaven
in my distress, that He may make me
to see them yet again.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. I pray the King of heaven
in my distress, that He may make me
to see them yet again.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. O Lord, do good
in Thy good pleasure * unto Zion ; to
build the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, &c., (p. 87.)

Second Antiphon. The LORD is on
my side ; * I will not fear : what can
man do unto me ?

Psalm CXVII.
O give thanks, &c., (p. 37.)

Third A ntiphon. God be merciful *
unto us, and bless us.

Psalms LXII. and LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c.,

(P- 23.)

Fourth Antiphoit. 1 The fire forgat
his strength * that Thy children might
be delivered therefrom.

The Song of the Three Holy Children,

(p. 24.)

Fifth Antiphon. Praise God, O ye
sun and moon, * for His Name alone
is exalted !

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD, &c., (pp. 25,
26.)

Chapter. (Eph. v. i.)

gRETHREN, be ye followers of
God, as dear children ; and walk
in love, as Christ also hath loved us,
and hath given Himself for us, an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a
sweet-smelling savour.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the So?ig of Zacharias.
When a strong man armed keepeth his
palace, * his goods are in peace.

Prayer throughout the Office.

beseech Thee, Almighty God,
look upon the hearty desires of
Thy humble servants, and stretch forth
the right hand of Thy Majesty, to be
our defence against all our enemies.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. When JESUS had cast
out the devil, * the dumb spake, and
the people wondered.

1 Cf. Wisdom xvi. 23.

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TERCE.

Antiphon. If I with the finger of
God * cast out devils, no doubt the
kingdom of God is come upon you.

Chapter from Lauds,

SEXT.

Antiphon. He that gathereth not
with Me scattereth, * and he that is
not with Me is against Me.

Chapter. (Eph. v. 5.)

T7OR this know ye, that no whore
monger, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath
any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God.

NONE.

Antiphon. When the unclean spirit
* is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest, and
finding none.

Chapter. (Eph. v. 8.)

T7OR ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light : for the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness, and
righteousness, and truth.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Lauds.
Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sattirday (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. A certain woman of the com
pany lifted up her voice and said : *
Blessed is the womb that bare Thee,
and the paps which Thou hast sucked.
But JESUS said unto her : Yea, rather,

blessed are they that hear the word of
God, and keep it.

After Vespers are said the Vespers of
the Dead.

Second Day.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday (p.
228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Luke (iv. 23.)

A T that time : JESUS said unto the
^^ Pharisees : Ye will surely say
unto Me this proverb : Physician, heal
Thyself. Whatsoever we have heard
done in Capernaum, do also here in
Thy country. And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] . (Bk. iv. on Luke iv.)

Here we have a display of a spite
not very common. Their hatred of
Christ, and their desire to find grounds
for that hatred in what in Him ap
pealed for their love, had made them
forget their local friendliness to a
fellow-citizen. By this example as well
as by God s declaration, thou mayest
learn that thou wilt wait in vain to be
holpen of His mercy, whilst thou art
envious of the spiritual good of thy
neighbour. Yea, the Lord turneth Him
away from the envious, and will not
show the mighty works of His power
to such as are bitter against His gifts i
to others. The example of Himself !
which God hath been pleased to set
before us is that of His doings in the
Flesh, and it is by these His doings
which He suffered to be seen, that we
are taught touching those which are
unseen.

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281

First Responsory.

1 Take hence presents with you, and
go unto the lord of the land, and when
ye be come into his presence, bow
yourselves to him to the earth. And
my God give you mercy before the
man, that he may send away again
this your brother, and him which he
keepeth in ward.

Verse. Take of the best fruits of
the land in your vessels, and carry
down the man a present.

Aiisiuer. And my God give you
mercy before the man, that he may
send away again this your brother,
and him which he keepeth in ward.

Second Lesson.

HE Saviour then doth not lightly
excuse Himself that He had
wrought none of His mighty works
in His own country, lest perchance
any should thence learn to think
lightly of our duty to love our Father
land. Neither was it possible that
He Who loved all, should not love
His own countrymen ; they it was
who failed in that love because of
their very envy.

" I tell you of a truth, many widows
were in Israel in the days of Elias. ;
The days of Elias not that the said
days belonged to Elias, but either be
cause those were the days when Elias
lived and worked ; or, else, this is a
mystic phrase, meaning that Elias by
his works made many souls to awake
spiritually from the night of sin to the
day of grace, and turn to the Lord.
In this latter sense that holy Prophet
was a mean whereby heaven was
opened to such as looked to the eter
nal and mysterious things of God,
and again was shut, (and there was
a famine,) when there were no means

1 Cf. xliii. 11-14.

of knowing God throug h outward or
dinances. This subject, however, I
have treated before at full length,
when I was writing on the subject of
widows.

Second Responsory.

2 Is this your younger brother, of
whom ye spake unto me ? God be
gracious unto thee, my son. And he
made haste, and entered into the
house, and wept there, for his tears
brake forth, and he could not refrain
himself.

Verse. And Joseph lifted up his
eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin,
and his bowels yearned upon his
brother.

Answer. And he made haste, and
entered into the house, and wept there,
for his tears brake forth, and he could
not refrain himself.

Third Lesson.

" A ND many lepers were in Israel
in the days of Eliseus the Pro
phet, and none of them was cleansed,
saving Naaman the Syrian." By these
words of the Lord our great Physician,
we are plainly taught and urged to
put our trust in the Adorable God,
since we see that none was healed, or
cleansed from bodily plague-spots,
save him who took a religious means
to regain health. For the blessings
of God are not given to them who
close their eyes in sleep, but to them
that look to Him. We have remarked
in our other book, (alluded to above,)
that the widow to whom Elias was
sent was a type of the Church. And
next after [the mention of the type of]
the Church cometh meetly the [men
tion of him who was a type of the

2 xliii. 29, 30.

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Gentile] people, [her converts.] 1 Yea,
the Gentiles were a people foreigners
by birth, leprous, and covered with
plague-spots, till they were baptized
in the stream [of the] mystic [Jordan ;]
but from the sacramental waters they
rise, lepers no more, but cleansed in
body and soul, a glorious virgin
Church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing. (Eph. v. 27.)

Third Responsory.

2 Joseph said unto his eleven breth
ren : I am Joseph whom ye sold into
Egypt ; is our father yet alive, the old
man of whom ye spake unto me ? Go,
bring him down unto me, that he may
live.

Verse. For these two years hath
the famine been in the land ; and
yet there are five years, in the which
there shall neither be earing nor
harvest.

Answer. Go, bring him down unto
me, that he may live.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Go, bring him down unto
me, that he may live.

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as o?i the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday r , (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Amen I say unto you, * No Prophet
is accepted in his own country.

Prayer.

r\ LORD, we beseech Thee merci-
^^^ fully to shed abroad Thy grace
into our hearts, that we who are now
denying carnal meats to our bodily
cravings, may have power likewise to
withhold from the same all yielding to
the deathful lusts of sin. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

After Lauds is said the Dirge.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. But JESUS, * passing through
the midst of them, went His way.

Prayer.

T ET our help, O Lord, be in Thy
mercy, that we over whom Thy
wrath doth most justly hang because
of our sins, may in all dangers worth
ily be shielded by Thy protection and
delivered by Thy salvation. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

1 Translated directly from the works of the Saint, which give the following : " Diximus, in
vidua ilia, ad quam Elias directus est, typum ecclesise prasmissum. Populus ecclesiam congruit
ut sequatur, (i.e., congruit ut populus ecclesiam sequatur.) Populus ille ex alienigenis congre-
gatus, populus ille ante leprosus," &c. In the printed text of the Breviary the passage has got
corrupted thus: "Diximus, in vidua ilia, ad quam Elias directus est, typum ecclesiae prae-
missum. Populus ecclesiam congregavit^ ut sequatur populus ille ex alienigenis congregatus.
Populus ille ante leprosus," &c. 2 xlv. 4, 6 ; xliii. 27.

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283

Third Day.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
228. )

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xviii.
I5-)

A T that time : JESUS said unto His
if"*" disciples : If thy brother shall
trespass against thee, go and tell him
his fault between thee and him alone.
And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (i6tk Sermon on the Words
of the Lord, vol. x.)

Why tell him his fault ? Because
he hath made thee smart by trespass
ing against thee ? God forbid. If
thou tell him his fault because thou
lovest thyself, thou dost nothing.
But if thou tell it him because thou
lovest him, then dost thou do exceed
ing well. Hear now, in the words of
the Gospel itself, for love of whom
thou oughtest to do it, of thyself, or
of him. The Lord saith : " If he
shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy
brother." Therefore it behoveth thee
to do it for his sake, that thou mayest
gain him ; since, if thou so do, haply
thou mayest gain him ; whereas, if
thou do it not, he may haply perish.
Why then are there so many who
reckon lightly of a trespass against
their brother, and say : I have done
no great offence, for I have tres
passed only against my fellow man ?
Deem it not light ; thou hast tres
passed, though it be against thy
fellow man.

First Responsory.

1 They told Jacob, saying : Thy son
Joseph is yet alive, and he is gover
nor over all the land of Egypt ; and,
when he heard it, his spirit revived,
and he said : It is enough ; I will go,
and see him before I die.

Verse. And when Jacob heard
that his son yet lived, he was as one
that awakeneth from a deep sleep,
and said

Answer. It is enough ; I will go,
and see him before I die.

Second Lesson.

VWOULDEST thou know that thy
trespass against thy brother
hath destroyed thee ? If he against
whom thou hast trespassed tell thee
thy fault between himself and thee
alone, and thou hear him, he hath
gained thee. Gained thee ! And
what signify those words, if it be not
that thou, if thou be not gained, shalt
perish ? For if thou shouldest not
otherwise perish, in what sense can
he be said to gain thee ? Therefore
let no man deem it a light thing when
he trespasseth against his brother.
For the Apostle Paul saith in a cer
tain place : " When ye sin so against
the brethren, and wound their weak
conscience, ye sin against Christ."
(i Cor. viii. 12.) We are all mem
bers of Christ. How dost thou not
trespass against Christ, which tres-
passest against one of His members ?

Second Responsory.
When Joseph came, &c., (p. 277.)

Third Lesson.

T ET no man therefore say : I have

not trespassed against God, but

only against my brother ; that is, I

1 xlv. 26-28.

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have trespassed against my fellow-
man ; and so the sin is light, if any
at all. And perchance thou wilt ar
gue that it is light, because it is
quickly mended ; thou hast trespassed
against thy brother, but thou canst
make satisfaction, and be right again ;
thou hast done the deadly thing
quickly, and quickly canst thou find
a remedy. O my brethren, which of
us can hope for the kingdom of heaven,
when we remember that the Gospel
saith : " Whosoever shall say to his
brother : Thou fool : shall be in dan
ger of hell fire ? " (Matth. v. 22.) It
is a thought full of dread ; but, lo !
the remedy "If thou bring thy gift
to the altar, and there rememberest
that thy brother hath aught against
thee, leave there thy gift before the
altar, and go thy way ; first be recon
ciled to thy brother, and then come
and offer thy gift." God is not wroth
that thou tarry or ever thou offer thy
gift ; for God seeketh thyself more
than thy gift.

Third Responsory,
Think on me, &c., (p. 277.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as 071 the
first Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
If two of you shall agree on earth *
as touching anything that they shall
ask, it shall be done for them of My
Father, saith the Lord.

Prayer.

/^RACIOUSLY hear us, O Al-
^ Jr mighty and merciful God, and
in Thy goodness enable us to reap the

fruit of this pur healthful Fasting.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sattirday, (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Where two or three are
gathered together in My Name, *
there am I in the midst of them, saith
the Lord.

Prayer.

r\ LORD, shield us by Thy pro-
S^ tection, and keep us ever from
all iniquity. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and reign
eth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

Fourth Day.

Before Mattins are said the Grad
ual Psalms.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xv.
I-)

A T that time : There came to JESUS
^^ Scribes and Pharisees which
were of Jerusalem, saying : Why do

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Thy disciples transgress the tradition
of the elders ? And so on.

Homily by St Jerome, Priest [at
Bethlehem.] (Bk. ii. Comm. on Matth.

xv.)

The stupidity of the Pharisees and
Scribes is something extraordinary.
They rebuke the Son of God because
He doth not observe the traditions
and commandments of men : " for
they wash not their hands when they
eat bread." It behoveth us to cleanse,
not the hands of the body, but the
hands of the soul, namely, our works,
that we may do the commandments
of God.

" But He answered and said unto
them : Why do ye also transgress the
commandment of God by your tradi
tion ? " He meeteth here their false
accusation by a true. How, saith
He, do ye, who pass over the com
mandments of God, in order to keep to
the traditions of men, hold that My
disciples are to be rebuked, because
they deem the tradition of the elders
of little moment in comparison with
the doing of what they know to be
the Laws of God ?

First Responsory.
We are verily guilty, &c., (p. 278.)

Seco7id Lesson.

" T7OR God commanded, saying,
Honour thy father and mother ;
and, He that curseth father or mother,
let him die the death." But ye say :
"Whosoever shall say to his father
or his mother : It is a gift, by what
soever thou mightest be profited by
me ; and honour not his father or his
mother, he shall be free." The word
" honour " is used in Scripture, not so
much in the sense of paying saluta
tions and services, as in that of giving
VOL. IL

alms and gifts. " Honour widows,"
saith the Apostle, "which are widows
indeed." (i Tim. v. 3.) And here
honour signifieth support. So again,
(17, 1 8): "Let the Priests that rule
well be counted worthy of double
honour, especially they who labour in
the word and doctrine. For the
Scripture saith : Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the
corn : and : The labourer is worthy
of his reward. "

Second Responsory.

And Reuben answered, &c., (p.

278.)

Third Lesson.

"PHE Lord being mindful of the
helplessness, or age, or poverty
of parents, had commanded their
children to honour them even by giv
ing them the necessaries of life. The
Scribes and Pharisees, scrupling not
to make of none effect this most be
nign law, and bringing in ungodliness
under the very form of godliness,
taught, for the benefit of unnatural
children, that if any one vowed to
God, Who is our very Father in
heaven, whatsoever he was bound to
give to his parents, the duty of dis
charging his debt to his heavenly
Father ought to come before that
which he owed to his earthly father ;
or, at least, that parents in such case
incurred the guilt of sacrilege by tak
ing for themselves what they knew
had been made a gift to God. And
so parents were left unsuccoured, and
the offerings of such children, under
pretence of being given to God and
His temple, became the gain of the
Priests.

Third Responsory.

Jacob lamented, &c., (p. 279.)
K 2

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LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Hear and understand * the traditions
which the Lord hath given unto us.

Prayer.

/^RANT unto us, O Lord, we be-
^-* seech Thee, that we, being
purged by healthful Fasting, and
mortified to all sinful lusts, may the
more speedily obtain of Thee forgive
ness. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

The sauie Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 1 7, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. To eat * with unwashen
hands, defileth not a man.

Prayer.

C^ RANT unto us, we beseech Thee,
^ O Almighty God, that we who
seek the shelter of Thy protection,
being defended from all evils, may
serve Thee in peace and quietness of
spirit. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

Fifth Day.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.

228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Luke (iv. 38.)

A T that time : JESUS arose out of
^^ the synagogue, and entered into
Simon s house. And Simon s wife s
mother was taken with a great fever.
And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (Bk. iv. on Luke iv.)

Behold here how long-suffering is
the Lord our Redeemer ! Neither
moved to anger against them, nor
sickened at their guilt, nor outraged
by their attacks, did He leave the
Jews country. Nay, forgetting their
iniquity, and mindful only of His
mercy, He strove to soften their hard
and unbelieving hearts, sometimes by
His teaching, and sometimes by free
ing some of them, and sometimes by
healing them. St Luke doth well
to tell us first of the man who
was delivered from an unclean
spirit, and then of the healing of
a woman. The Lord indeed came
to heal both sexes, but that must
be healed first which was created
first, and then must not she be
passed by whose first sin arose
rather from fickleness of heart than
from depraved will.

First Responsory.

And when his brethren, &c., (p.

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2S 7

with things lesser, that He may go on
to things greater. Even men are
able to deliver other men from evil
spirits, albeit with the word of God :
to command the dead to rise again is
for God s power alone. 1 Perchance,
also, this woman, the mother-in-law of
Simon and Andrew, was a type of our
nature, stricken down with the great
fever of sin, and burning with unlawful
lusts after divers objects. Nor would

1 say that the passion which rageth in
the mind is a lesser tire than that
fever which burneth the body. Cov-
etousness, and lust, and uncleanness,
and vain desires, and strivings, and
anger these be our fevers.

Third Responsory.

They drew up Joseph, &c., (p.

276.)

LAUDS.

CJiapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as o?i
the First Sim day, (p. 233.)

AntipJwn at the Song of ZacJiarias.
And devils also came out of many, *
crying out and saying" : Thou art
Christ the Son of God. And He,
rebuking them, suffered them not to
speak, for they knew that He was
Christ.

Prayer.

2 pRAISE be to Thee, O Lord, for

the blessed and solemn victory
of Thine holy servants Cosmas and
Damian, whereby Thou, in Thine un
speakable Providence, wast pleased to
give unto them everlasting glory, and

1 Divinse solius est potestatis and yet Scripture attributes this miracle to divers saints under
both covenants.

2 On this day the "station" at Rome is in the Church of SS. Cosmas and Damian. It is
not, however, the day of their martyrdom, which the Martyrology distinctly declares to be
Sept. 27, when their Feast occurs. The " beata solemnitas " here spoken of must therefore be
understood of their victory itself. Cf. Cant. iii. u, "the day of his espousals, the day of the
.gladness of his heart."

Seco?id Lesson.

"PHAT the Lord began to heal on
the Sabbath-day showeth in a
figure how that the new creation be-
ginneth where the old creation ended.
It showeth, moreover, that the Son of
God, Who is come not to destroy the
law but to fulfil the law, (Matth. v.
17,) is not under the law, but above
the law. Neither was it by the law,
but by the Word, that the world was
created, as it is written : " By the
Word of the LORD were the heavens
made." (Ps. xxxii. 6.) The law,
then, is not destroyed, but fulfilled,
in the Redemption of fallen man.
Whence also the Apostle saith :
" Put off, concerning the former con
versation, the old man, which is cor
rupt according to the deceitful lusts ;
and be renewed in the spirit of your
mind ; and put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteous
ness and true holiness." (Eph. iv. 22.)

Second Responsory.
Judah said, &c., (p. 275.)

Third Lesson.

T T was well that He began to heal on
the Sabbath, that He might show
Himself to be the Creator, weaving" in
one with another of His works, and
continuing that which He had already
begun, even as a workman, being to
repair an house, beginneth not to take
down that which is old from the
foundations, but from the roof. Thus
doth the Lord begin to lay to His
hand again, in that place whence last
He hath lifted it ; then He beginneth

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untp us a shield and succour. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

At the beginning of the Martyrology,
is said,

On the morrow we commemorate
the Five Most Holy Wounds of our
Lord JESUS Christ.

Prayer as above at Terce, Sext, and
None.

Office in honour of the Five Most
Holy Wounds of our Lord JESUS
Christ.

Greater Double.

All as on Sundays, except the follow
ing.

FIRST VESPERS.

Antiphons, Chapter, and Prayer
from Lauds.

Ps. cxv. I believed, &c., (p. 185.)

Ps. cxix. In my distress, &c., (p.
186.)

Ps. cxxxix. Deliver me, O LORD,
&c, (p. 198.)

Ps. cxl. LORD, I cry unto Thee,
&c., (p. 199.)

Ps. cxli. I cried unto the LORD,
&c., (p. 200.)

Hymn.^

CING, my tongue, the glorious battle,

With completed victory rife :
And above the Cross s trophy

Tell the triumph of the strife :
How the world s Redeemer conquered

By surrendering of His life.

God his Maker, sorely grieving

That the first-made Adam fell,
When he ate the fruit of sorrow

Whose reward was death and hell,
Noted then this Tree, the ruin

Of the ancient tree to quell. 2

For the work of our salvation
Needs would have his order so,

And the multiform deceiver s
Art by art would overthrow,

And from thence 3 would bring the med cine
Whence the insult of the foe.

Wherefore, when the sacred fulness
Of th appointed time was come,

This world s Maker left His Father,
Sent the Heavenly Mansion from,

And proceeded, God Incarnate,
Of the Virgin s Holy Womb.

Weeps the Infant in the manger
That in Bethlehem s stable stands ;

And His Limbs the Virgin Mother
Doth compose in swaddling bands,

Meetly thus in linen folding
Of her God the Feet and Hands. 4

To the Trinity be glory

Everlasting, as is meet:
Equal to the Father, equal

To the Son, and Paraclete :
Trinal Unity, Whose praises

All created things repeat. Amen.

Verse. 5 They shall look upon Him
Whom they have pierced.

Answer. And they shall mourn for

1 Hymn by Venantius Fortunatus, translated by the late Dr Neale.

2 The Cross, as the mystic "tree of life," (Gen. ii. 9,) is here set by the poet in antithesis
to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "whose mortal taste Brought death into^ the
world and all our woe." The present translator has taken the liberty to substitute "tree" for
"wood," as a translation of "lignum," as more conformable to our common phraseology,,
and used by Dr Neale himself in the " Royal Banners."

3 I.e., from trees.

4 The poem is here abruptly broken off, the rest being sung at Lauds,

5 Zech. xii. 10.

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Him, as one mourneth for the death of
the first-born.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. While as the Only-begotten
Son of God hung upon the Cross, and
was mocked of all, His Virgin Mother
Mary worshipped him in her sorrow as
very God and Man.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. All they that had any
sick brought them unto Jesus, and He
healed them.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

T ORD, we beseech Thee that Thine
heavenly Peace-Offering may so
effectually work for all Thy people,
which are now bowing themselves
down before Thee, that they may ever
continue in meek obedience to Thy
commandments. Through the Same
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. Christ Who was nailed
to the Cross, pierced with five Wounds,
* Him, O come, let us worship !

Hymn as at Vespers, (p. 288.)

FIRST NOCTURN. 1

First Antiphon. Who is This That
cometh from Edom, with dyed gar
ments from Bozrah ?

Ps. x. In the LORD put I, &c., (p.

Second Antiphon. Wherefore art
Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy

garments like their s that tread in the
wine-fat ?

Ps. xiv. LORD, who shall abide, &c.,
(P. 10.)

Third Antiphon. I have trodden the
wine-press alone, and of the people
there was none with Me.

Ps. xxiii. The earth is the LORD S,
&c, (p. 46.)

Verse. 2 They pierced My Hands
and My Feet.

Answer. They have told all My
Bones.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Isaiah (liii.)

\\ /"HO hath believed our report ?
And to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed ? For he shall grow
up before him as a tender plant, and
as a root out of a dry ground : he
hath no form nor comeliness ; and
when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men ;
a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief; and he hid as it were his face
from us ; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not. Surely he hath
borne our griefs and carried our
sorrows : yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our trans
gressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities : the chastisement of our
peace was upon him, and with his
stripes we are healed.

First Responsory.

3 God hath made us acceptable in
His beloved Son, in Whom we have
redemption through His Blood, for the
remission of sins.

Verse* 4 Behold, the fulness of the

Antiphons from Isa. Ixiii; 1-3.

2 Ps. xxi. 17.

3 Eph.L-6,7.

4 Gal; fv. 4.

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time was come wherein God sent forth
His Son into the world.

Aiiswer. In Whom we have re
demption through His Blood, for the
remission of sins.

Second Lesson.

A LL we, like sheep, have gone
J ^ astray ; we have turned every
one to his own way : and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all. He was offered up because he
willed it, 1 and he opened not his
mouth. He is brought as a sheep
to the slaughter, and as a lamb before
his shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth. He was taken from
prison and from judgment : and who
shall declare his generation ? For
he was cut off out of the land of the
living ; for the trangression of My
people have I stricken him. And
he made his grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death ; be
cause he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise
him ; He hath put him to grief.

Second Responsory.

2 We who sometimes were far off,
are made nigh by the Blood of JESUS
Christ ; for He is our peace, Who hath
made both one.

Verse. This is the LORD S doing,
and it is marvellous in our eyes.

Answer. He is our peace, Who
hath made both one.

Third Lesson. (Ixiii. i.)

O is this that cometh from
Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah ? This, that is glorious

in his apparel, travelling in the great
ness of his strength ? I that speak
in righteousness, mighty to save.
Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like their s
that tread in the wine-fat ? I have
trodden the wine-press alone, and of
the people there was none with me.
I trod them in mine anger, and tram
pled them in my fury ; and their blood
is sprinkled upon my garments, and I
have stained all my raiment. For the
day of vengeance is in mine heart, and
the year of my redemption is come.
I looked, and there was none to help ;
I sought, and there was none to
uphold.

Third Responsory.

3 It pleased [the Father] that in the
first-born from the dead should all the
fulness of the Godhead dwell, and by
Him to reconcile all things unto Him
self, making peace through the Blood
of His Cross, whether they be things
in heaven or things in earth.

Verse. He is the Head of the Body
of the Church, in all things having the
preeminence.

Answer. Making peace through
the Blood of His Cross, whether they
be things in heaven or things in earth.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Making peace through
the Blood of His Cross, whether they
be things in heaven or things in earth.

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antipho?i. They pierced My
Hands and My Feet ; they have told
all My Bones.

Ps. xxi. My God, my God, &c., (p.

48.)

1 Oblatus est quia ipse voluit. The present Hebrew is literally, "He was oppressed and
he was afflicted." Jonathan ben Uzziel, "He was required, and he was brought back, and
without opening his mouth, he submitted to the mighty of the people." St Jerome thought it
meant " He was brought before" [Pilate], &c.

2 Eph. ii. 14; Ps. cxvii. 23. 3 s Col. ii. 9; i. 18, 20.

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Second Antiphon. l From the Sole
of the Foot even unto the Head there
is no soundness in Him.

Ps. Ixv. Make a joyful noise, &c.,
(P- I 50

Third Antiphon. l Wounds, and
Bruises, and putrefying Sores they
have not been closed, neither bound
up, neither mollified with ointment

Ps. Ixxv. In Judah is God known,
&c., (p. 130.)

Verse. Surely He hath borne our
griefs.

Answer. And carried our sorrows.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of St Bernard, Abbat [of Clairvaux.]
(Bk. on the Passion, ch. 41.)

A FTER much mocking by Jews and
f*" Gentiles, after much Blood-shed-
ing, JESUS is taken, and His Hands
and Feet pierced with hard nails, and
so our Saviour, the gentle JESUS, is
nailed to the tree of the Cross. Look
there, and gaze upon the roses of
bloody suffering how they shine
the marks of that love greater than
which hath no man. Suffering and
love strive together whether the one
shall be more excellent for bloodiness
or the other for fieriness.

Fourth Responsory.

2 JESUS through death destroyed
him that had the power of death, that
He might deliver them who through
fear of death were all their life-time
subject to bondage.

Verse. Wherefore in all things it
behoved Him to be made like unto

His brethren, that he might be
merciful.

Answer. That He might deliver
them who through fear of death were
all their life-time subject to bondage.

Fifth Lesson.

T O with what red flowers doth
blossom that noble Vine, our
ruddy JESUS ! Look if anywhere on
His Body thou wilt not find those
bloody roses. Look into one Hand
and then into the Other, and thou wilt
find a rose in Either. Look at one
Foot and then at the Other are They
not rosy ? Look at the Gash in His
Side, and That hath Its rose too
but a rose pink rather than red this
time, by reason of the Water ; as saith
the Evangelist : " One of the soldiers
with a spear pierced His Side, and
forthwith came thereout Blood and
Water."

Fifth Responsory.

3 By man came death ; by Man
came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all have sinned, even
so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Verse. At last shall be destroyed
the enemy death.

Answer. For as in Adam all have
sinned, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive.

Sixth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the same.
(On the Passion of the Lord.}

T OOK down, O Lord, Holy Father,
^ from Thy Sanctuary, even from
heaven Thy dwelling-place, and behold
this Most Holy Oblation Which our
Great High Priest, Thine Holy Child,
the Lord JESUS doth offer unto Thee

1 Isa. i. 6. 2 Heb. ii. 15, 17.

3 i Cor. xv. 21, 22, 26. Notice the curious divergence from the inspired text, which reads,
" In Adam all die, &c."

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for the sins of His brethren ; and take
not vengeance upon us for the multi
tude of our iniquities. Know now, O
Father, whether this be Thy Son
Joseph s coat or no. Alas ! an evil
beast hath devoured Him, and trampled
[Him] in his fury [and stained all] His
raiment. Behold, in five places It is
rent grievously. 1

Sixth Responsory.

2 We see JESUS, [Who was made a
little lower than the angels,] for the
suffering of death, crowned with glory
and honour, that He [by the grace of
God] should taste death for every man.

Verse. For it became Him [for
Whom are all things, and by Whom
are all things,] in bringing many sons
unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.

Answer. That He [by the grace
of God] should taste death for every
man.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. That He [by the grace
of God] should taste death for every
man.

THIRD NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. 3 What are these
wounds in Thine Hands ?

Ps. xcv. O sing unto the LORD,
&c., (p. 148.)

Second Antiphon. 3 Those with
which I was wounded in the house of
My friends.

Ps. xcvi. The LORD reigneth, &c.,
(p. 149.)

Third Antiphon. 4 My complaint is
bitter, and my stroke is heavier than
my groaning.

1 Cf. Gen. xxxvii. 32, 33 ; Isa. Ixiii. 3.
4 Job xxiii. 2.

Ps. xcvii. O sing unto the LORD,
&c. (p. 1570

Verse. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

Answer. He was bruised for our
iniquities.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xix. 28.)

A T that time : JESUS, knowing that
^^ all things were now accom
plished, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, saith : I thirst. And so on.

Homily by St Cyril, Pope of Alex
andria. (Bk. xii. Comment, on John.}

The brutality of the Jews had
already outraged Christ to the full ;
cruelty had nothing left to desire ; and
now at the last moment the Most Holy
Flesh of Christ suffereth a pain spring
ing naturally from Itself. That Flesh,
fevered by many and divers tortures,
felt thirst. Great pain hath the
property of producing strong thirst,
since by some natural law which I
cannot explain, it drieth up as by heat
the liquids of the body and as it were
setteth on fire the inward parts.

Seventh Responsory.

5 The grace of God is now made
manifest by the appearing of our
Saviour JESUS Christ, \Vho hath
abolished death, and hath brought life
and immortality to light.

Verse. Who hath saved us and
called us with His holy calling, ac
cording to grace which was given us
in Christ JESUS.

Answer. Who hath abolished
death, and hath brought life and im
mortality to light.

- Heb. ii. 9, 10.
5 2 Tim. i. 10, 9.

Zech. xiii. 6.

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293

Eighth Lesson.

" T T is finished." Jewish outrage
* against God was finished ; the
power to inflict torture was finished.
What had the Jews left unattempted,
or cruelty left undone ? Did any pain
or insult remain uninflicted ? Rightly
did He say : " It is finished." But
He was come to be the Lord of the
dead as well as of the quick, and the
hour was now calling Him to go and
preach to the imprisoned spirits in the
netherworld. He accepted even death
for our sakes and bore in His Own
Flesh that suffering common to all our
nature. 1 When they saw that the
Head of JESUS had fallen, and deemed
Him to have already given up the
Ghost, they held it pains wasted to
break His Legs. Howbeit, forasmuch
as they were not quite sure that He
was dead, they pierced His Side with
a spear, and there burst forth Blood
mingled with Water, the image and the
first-fruits of the mystic Thankoffering
and of holy Baptism, for holy Baptism
is indeed a thing of Christ and from
Christ, and the virtue of the mystic
Thankoffering proceedeth unto us from
His holy Flesh.

Eighth Responsory.

2 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take
the book, and to open the seals thereof,
for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed
us to God by Thy Blood

Verse. And hast made us unto our
God a kingdom and Priests.

Answer. By Thy Blood.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. By Thy Blood.

Ninth Blessing.

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford.

1 The lesson now stops here.

Ninth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (iv. 5.)

A T that time : Cometh JESUS to a
*"* city of Samaria which is called
Sychar : near to the parcel of ground
that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (\*)th Tract on John.}

" JESUS, wearied with His journey,"
" JESUS, wearied with His journey,"
the mysteries are beginning now.
It is not for nothing that JESUS is
wearied. It is not for nothing that
the Mighty One of God is wearied. It
is not for nothing that He is wearied
Who Himself giveth Rest to all them
that are weary and heavy-laden. It is
not for nothing that He is wearied
Whose absence prostrateth us, and
Whose presence maketh us to be
strong.

" JESUS, therefore, being wearied
with His journey, sat thus on the well :
and it was about the sixth hour."
There is a depth in all these details
they all have something to say for us
to learn. Upon them we gaze.
"Knock," saith the Lord, "and it
shall be opened unto you." Let us
knock then and, O, may He open to
me and to you, even He Who hath
spoken to us those words : " Knock,
and it shall be opened unto you."
(Matth. vii. 7.) It is for thy sake
that JESUS was wearied with His
journey. We find the strength of
JESUS, and we find JESUS weak ; yea,
strong and weak. Strong, for " In the
beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word
was God : the Same was in the be
ginning with God." Wouldest thou
know again how that the Son of God
is strong ? " All things were made

~ Apoc. v. 9, 10.

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by Him, and without Him was not
anything made that was made "-
made without effort. (John i. 1-3.)
What then is stronger than He by
Whom all things were made without
effort ? Wouldest thou know His
weakness ? " The Word was made
Flesh and dwelt among us." (M-)
Christ, strong, made thee ; Christ,
weak, redeemed thee. Christ, strong,
made all things out of nothing ; Christ,
weak, so wrought that that that was
made perished not. His strength hath
made us, and His weakness saved us.
He then, being Himself made weak,
is strength to all such as are weak,
gathering them together, to use His
own figure, even as an hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings. " O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! how often would
I have gathered thy children together,
even as an hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not ! "
(Matth. xxiii. 37.) Consider now, my
brethren, in what bondage is an hen to
her chickens. There is no other bird
in whom motherhood is unmistakeable.
W T e watch the sparrows building their
nests under our eyes ; we see swallows,
and storks, and pigeons building theirs
every day. But, unless we actually
see them in their nests, we know not
if they have little ones, or no. But
the hen s motherhood is so much a
part of herself, that even if at the
minute we see not her children the
chickens following after her, neverthe
less we see by her ways if she be a
mother.

The Hymn, "We praise Thee, O
God, &c.," is said.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. Surely He hath
borne our griefs * and carried our
sorrows.

1 Isa. xxx. 26.
3 Lam. i. 12.

Second Antiphon. But He was
wounded for our transgressions, * He
was bruised for our iniquities.

Third Antiphon. l The LORD bind-
eth up the hurt of His people, * and
healeth the stroke of their wound.

Fourth Antiphon. 2 Every one that
goeth by it shall be astonished * at all
the plagues thereof.

Fifth Antiphon. 3 O all ye that
pass by ! * Behold and see, if there be
any sorrow like unto My sorrow !

Chapter. (Isa. liii. 5.)

[CHRIST] was wounded for our
^ transgressions, He was bruised
for our iniquities, and with His stripes
we were healed.

Hymn.^

HPHIRTY years among us dwelling,

His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, He meets His Passion,

For that this He freely willed :
On the Cross the Lamb is lifted,

Where His Life-Blood shall be spilled.

He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed ;

From that Holy Body broken
Blood and water forth proceed :

Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are freed.

Faithful Cross ! above all other,

One and only noble Tree !
None in foliage, none in blossom,

None in fruit thy peers may be :
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron !

Sweetest weight is hung on thee.

Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory !

Thy relaxing sinews bend ;
For a while the ancient rigour,

That thy birth bestowed, suspend ;
And the King of heavenly beauty

On thy bosom gently tend.

2 Jer. xlix. 17.

4 Continuation of the Vespers Hymn.

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295

Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world s ransom to uphold ;

For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old :

With the Sacred Blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.

To the Trinity be glory

Everlasting, as is meet :
Equal to the Father, equal

To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, Whose praises

All created things repeat. Amen.

Verse. They shall look upon Him
Whom they have pierced.

Answer. And they shall mourn for
Him as one mourneth for the death of
his first-born.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
One of the soldiers with a spear pierced
His Side, and forthwith came thereout
Blood and Water.

Prayer throughout the Office.

C\ GOD, Who by the suffering of
^~ &gt; ^ Thine Only-begotten Son, and
the outpouring of His Blood through
the Five Wounds, hast made anew the
manhood which sin had lost, grant, we
beseech Thee, that we who on earth do
worship the Wounds W T hich He re
ceived may worthily obtain in heaven
the purchase of His Most Precious
Blood. Through the Same our Lord
JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. Whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him, shall
never thirst.

Verse. God hath given His angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

T ORD, we beseech Thee graciously
^~* to bless this our Fast, that we
who are now outwardly denying meats
to our bodies, may have power in
wardly to keep our souls fasting from
all sin. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

PRIME.

A7itiphon. Surely, &c., (First An
tiphon at Lands.}

Chapter at the end. (Isa. liii. 12.)

[CHRIST] poured out His Soul

^^ rl^ofT^ m-\r\ "H f i^ro c -mimVi

unto

death ; and He was numbered
with the transgressors ; and He bare
the sin of many, and made intercession
for the transgressors.

TERCE.

Antiphon. But He was wounded,
&c., (Second Antiphon at Lauds. ]

Chapter from Lauds.

Short Responsory.

They pierced My Hands and My
Feet.

Answer. They pierced My Hands
and My Feet.

Verse. They have told all My
Bones.

Answer. My Hands and My Feet.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. They pierced My Hands
and My Feet.

Verse. O all ye that pass by !

Answer. Behold, and see My
sorrow !

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SEXT.

Antiphon. The LORD bindeth up,
&c., (Third Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter. (Isa. 1. 6.)

T HID not my face from shame and
spitting ; for the Lord GOD will
help me ; therefore shall I not be
confounded.

Short Responsory.

Surely He hath borne our griefs.

Answer. Surely He hath borne our
griefs

Verse. And carried our sorrows.

Answer. Our griefs.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Surely He hath borne our
griefs.

Verse. The chastisement of our
peace was upon Him.

Answer. And with His stripes we
are healed.

NONE.

Antiphon. O all ye, &c., (Fifth
Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter as at the end of Prime.

Short Responsory.

He was wounded for our transgres
sions.

Answer. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

Verse. He was bruised for our ini
quities.

Answer. For our transgressions.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. He was wounded for our
transgressions.

Verse. He was offered up because
He willed it.

Answer. And He opened not His
Mouth.

SECOND VESPERS.

All as the First, except the

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. I am your Redemption. *
My Hands, which made you, those
Hands were pierced with the nails. It
was for your sakes that I was scourged,
for your sakes that I was crowned with
thorns, for your sakes that as I hung,
I said : " I thirst " and, for water,
they gave Me vinegar to drink. They
gave Me also gall for My meat, and
pierced My Side with a spear. I died
and was buried, and arose again. I
am with you always and am alive for
evermore.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. Sir, I perceive that Thou
art a prophet : our fathers worshipped
in this mountain.

Verse. God hath given His angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

The Sabbath.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (viii. I.)

, we beseech Thee, O Al-
Jr mighty God, that we whose
trust is under the shadow of Thy
wings, may, through the help of Thy
power, overcome all evils that rise up
against us. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

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297

A T that time : JESUS went unto the
"* Mount of Olives. And early in
the morning He came again into the
temple. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (33rd Tract on John.}

" JESUS went unto the Mount of
Olives " even unto that fruitful
Mount, that anointing Mount, that
Mount of Chrism. Where else be
came it Christ to teach if not on the
Mount of Olives ? For the word
"Christ "is derived from " Chrisma,"
and "Chrisma" is the Greek for
"ointment." He hath anointed us
that we may be able to wrestle with
the devil. 1

" And, early in the morning, He
came again into the temple ; and all
the people came unto Him ; and He
sat down, and taught them " and no
man laid hands on Him, because He
was not yet pleased to suffer. And
now listen how His enemies tried the
Lord s meekness.

First Responsory.

We are verily guilty, &c., (p. 278.)

Second Lesson.

"AND the Scribes and Pharisees
brought unto Him a woman
taken in adultery ; and when they had
set her in the midst, they say unto
Him : Master, this woman was taken
in adultery, in the very act. Now,
Moses in the law commanded that
such should be stoned ; but what
sayest Thou ? This they said, tempt
ing Him, that they might have to
accuse Him." Whereof to accuse
Him ? Had they taken Him in any
sin ? Or was the woman said to have
anything to do with Him ?

Second Responsory.

And Reuben answered, &c., (p.

278.)

Third Lesson.

V\/E must understand, my brethren,
that there was a wonderful gen
tleness in the Lord. They knew that
He was most mild and most gentle.
Of Him indeed it had been said of
old time : " Gird Thy sword upon Thy
thigh, O most Mighty ! In Thy come
liness and Thy beauty go forward, fare
prosperously, and reign, because of
truth, and meekness, and righteous
ness." (Ps. xliv. 4, 5.) And He
came bringing truth as one that
teacheth, meekness as one that de-
livereth, and righteousness as one that
knoweth. Because of these it was
that the Prophet declared, in the Holy
Ghost, that He was to reign. When
ever He spake, truth shone forth :
whenever He spared His enemies,
meekness was made glorious. And
His enemies, racked with envy and
hatred by His truth and His meek
ness, laid a stumbling-block for His
righteousness.

Third Responsory.
Jacob lamented, &c., (p. 279.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS stooped down, * and wrote on
the ground : He that is without sin,
let him cast a stone at her.

1 The ancient wrestlers had their bodies rubbed with oil.

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Prayer.

C\ ALMIGHTY God, grant, we
^^ beseech Thee, that as many as,
to afflict the body, do abstain from
meats, may, by following after right
eousness, fast from sin. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

VESPERS.

Chapter and Prayer from the follow
ing Lauds.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Woman, hath no man con
demned thee ? * No man, Lord.
Neither do I condemn thee : go, and
sin no more.

j5Uti;3Lent SuntJag, called also
JHotjjering Suntiag, anti

The Fourth Lord s Day in the Forty
Days before Easter.

MATTINS.

Invitatory and Hymn as on the First
Sunday, (p. 228.)

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
Exodus (iii. i.)

"VT OW Moses kept the flock of Jethro
* : his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian : and he led the flock to the
back-side of the desert, and came to
the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the LORD 2 appeared to him in a
flame of fire, out of the midst of a
bush : and he looked, and, behold,
the bush burned with fire, and was
not consumed. And Moses said : I
will now turn aside, and see this great
sight, why the bush is not burned.
And when the LORD saw that he
turned aside to see, He called unto
him out of the midst of the bush, and
said : Moses ! Moses ! And he said :
Here am I. And He said : Draw not
nigh hither ; put off thy shoes from off
thy feet ; for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground. Moreover
He said : I am the God of thy father :
the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And
Moses hid his face ; for he was afraid
to look upon God.

First Responsory.

The Lord spake unto Moses, saying:
Go down now into Egypt, and say unto
Pharaoh : Let My people go. And
the heart of Pharaoh shall be hardened,
that he will not let My people go but
by a mighty hand.

Verse. The cry of the children of
Israel is come unto Me, and I have
seen their affliction : come now, there
fore, and I will send thee unto
Pharaoh, and thou shalt say unto
him

Answer. Let My people go. And
the heart of Pharaoh shall be hard
ened, that he will not let My people
go but by a mighty hand.

1 So called because on this day the gladness of the Church at the thought of the consequences
to her of the atonement causes her to use, if possible, rose-coloured (viz. reddish brown) vest
ments, &c., instead of purple, as well as the altar to be decorated with flowers, the dalmatic and
tunicie to be worn, and the organ played. The observance is a sort of rest in the middle of Lent,
and in some places the Fast undergoes a slight modification for a few days. On this day, at
Rome, the Pope blesses the Golden Rose, which afterwards remains on the altar during Mass.

2 Hebrew, " the angel of the LORD." So also the LXX. and Onkelos.

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Second Lesson.

A ND the LORD said : I have surely
^^ seen the affliction of My people
which are in Egypt, and have heard
their cry by reason of their task
masters ; for I know their sorrows ;
and I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
to bring them up out of that land, unto
a good land and a large, unto a land
flowing with milk and honey, unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the Hit-
tites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites. Now, therefore, the. cry of
the children of Israel is come unto
Me, and I have also seen the oppres
sion wherewith the Egyptians oppress
them. Come now therefore, and I
will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
mayest bring forth My people, the
children of Israel, out of Egypt.

Second Responsory.

1 Moses stood before Pharaoh, and
said : Thus saith the LORD : Let My
people go, that they may hold a feast
unto Me in the wilderness.

Verse. The Lord God of the
Hebrews hath sent me unto thee,
saying :

Answer. Let My people go, that
they may hold a feast unto Me in the
wilderness.

Third Lesson.

A 1

And He said unto him : Certainly I
will be with thee ; and this shall be a
token unto thee that I have sent thee :
when thou hast brought forth My
people out of Egypt, thou shalt serve
God upon this mountain. And Moses
said unto God : Behold, when I come
unto the children of Israel, and shall
say unto them : The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you : and
they shall say unto me : What is His
Name ? what shall I say unto them ?
And God said unto Moses : I AM
THAT I AM. 2 And He said : Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Is
rael : I AM 3 hath sent me unto you.
And God said moreover unto Moses :
Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel : The LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
sent me unto you. This is My Name
for ever, and this is My memorial
unto all generations.

Third Responsory.

4 Let us sing unto the LORD, for He
hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse
and his rider hath He thrown into
the sea. The LORD is my strength
and song, and He is become
salvation.

Verse. The LORD is a man of war ;
ALMIGHTY 5 is His Name.

Answer. The LORD is my strength
and song, and He is become my sal
vation.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The LORD is my strength,
and my song, and He is become my
salvation.

ND Moses said unto God : Who
am I that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth
the children of Israel out of Egypt ?

1 Exod. v. i.

2 EGO SUM QUI SUM. Hebrew, EH YEH ASHER EH YEH. LXX., I AM HE
THAT IS. Onkelos does not dare to attempt a translation, and it is indeed unfathomable ;
though it is generally understood to express the nature of Him Who alone is Self-existent,
Eternal, and Unchangeable.

3 QUI EST. Hebrew, EH YEH, LXX., HE THAT IS. Onkelos, untranslated, as
before. 4 xv . t _ 3 . 6 The Nair , e&gt;

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SECOND NOCTURN.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of 1 St Basil the Great, Archbishop
[of Caesarea-in-Pontus.] (ist on
Fasting. )

W ]

r E know that it was with and by
fasting that Moses went up into
the Mount, 2 for he had not dared to
go up to that smoking summit, nor to
have entered that darkness, except he
had been made strong by a Fast. It
was with fasting that he received the
commandments, written by the finger
of God upon tables of stone. Upon
the mountain, that Fast made interest
with Him Whose law was given unto
it ; but, below, gluttony was leading
the people to the worship of idols and
polluting them. It is written : "The
people sat down to eat and to drink,
and rose up to play." (Ex. xxxii. 6.)
That one fit of drunken phrenzy, on
the part of the people, made void and
of none effect all the toil and patience
of the forty days, during the which
the servant of God had fasted and
prayed unceasingly. To the Fast
had been given those tables of stone
written on with the finger of God ; the
Feast s work was to break them, by
the hand of the most holy prophet,
who deemed a nation of drunkards a
nation unmeet to receive law from
God.

Fourth Responsory.

3 Thy way is in the sea, and Thy
paths in the great waters. Thou
leddest Thy people like a flock, by the
hand of Moses and Aaron.

Verse. 4 Thou broughtest them
through the Red Sea, and leddest
them through much water.

Answer. Thou leddest Thy people
like a flock by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.

Fifth Lesson.

T N a moment of time, that people,
* who had by great wonders been
taught to worship God, were, by
gluttony, dropped back into the cess
pool of Egyptian idolatry. The which
things if thou wilt consider, thou shalt
see that the tendency of fasting is to
God-ward, and that that of feasting is
to hell-ward. What was it that de
graded Esau, and made him a slave to
his brother ? Was it not that one dish
of pottage for which he sold his birth
right ? (Gen. xxv. 29-34.) Was it
not prayer when joined to fasting that
gave Samuel to his mother ? ( i Kings
[Sam.] i. 7, 19.) What made the
mighty Samson invincible ? Was it
not the fast during the which he was
conceived in his mother s womb ?
The fast it was which made him to be
conceived ; the fast, which fed him ;
the fast, which made a man of him,
even as the Angel of the Lord com
manded his mother, saying : " She
may not eat of anything that cometh
of the vine, neither let her drink wine
or strong drink." (Judges xiii. 14.)
Fasting is the mother of prophets, the
strength and stay of mighty men.

Fifth Responsory.

O Lord, Thou hast overwhelmed in
the deep of the sea them which perse
cuted Thy people, even Thy people
which Thou leddest in the pillar of
the cloud.

Verse. Thou leddest Thy people
like a flock, by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.

Answer. Even Thy people, which
Thou leddest in the pillar of the cloud.

1 June 14.

2 See the facts referred to throughout, in Ex. xxiv. 12-18 ; xxxi. 18 ; xxxii. 1-19.

3 Ps. Ixxvi. 20. 4 Wisd. x. 18.

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Sixth Lesson.

T T is fasting" which giveth wisdom to
lawgivers ; fasting \vhich is the
trustiest keeper of the soul, and the
safest companion for the body. It is
fasting which is strength and armour
to mighty men ; fasting which maketh
supple them which run and which
wrestle. It is fasting which maketh
a man strong to strive against tempta
tion, and which is to godliness as a
fenced city ; even fasting, whose fellow
is soberness, and her work temperance.
It is fasting which maketh men to
wax valiant in fight ; fasting which
teacheth to rest in time of peace.
Fasting maketh a Nazarite to be holy,
and a priest perfect. Without a fast
it is unlawful to touch the Sacrifice,
not only in that mystic and true wor
ship of God which now is, but also
according to the law, in those sacrifices
which were offered of old time as
figures of the true. It was fasting
which opened the eyes of Elias to look
upon the visions of GOD, even as it is
written, that when he had fasted forty
days and forty nights he was in the
mount of God, even Horeb, and he
was made able, so far as man may be
made able, to see God. (3 [i] Kings
xix. 8 et seq.) Even so also was
Moses in that Mount forty days and
forty nights, fasting, at what time he
again received the Law. (Ex. xxxiv.
28.) Unless the Ninevites had fasted,
both man and beast, herd and flock,
they had not escaped from the ruin
that hung over them. (Jonah iii. 7-
10.) In the wilderness fell some
and who were they ? Yea, they
were such as lusted after flesh meat.
(Num. xi. 33.)

Sixth Responsory.

1 Moses, the servant of God, fasted
forty days and forty nights, to make

him meet to receive the Law of
God.

Verse. 2 Moses gat him up unto
the Lord into Mount Sinai, and he
was in the Mount forty days and
forty nights.

Answer. To make him meet to
receive the Law of God.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. To make him meet to
receive the Law of God.

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (vi. i.)

A T that time : JESUS went over the
^^ Sea of Galilee, which is the sea
of Tiberias. And a great multitude
followed Him, because they saw His
miracles which He did on them that
were diseased. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (24/7^ Tract on John.*}

The miracles which our Lord JESUS
Christ did were the very works of God,
and they enlighten the mind of man by
mean of things which are seen, that he
may know more of God. God is Him
self of such a Substance as eye cannot
see, and the miracles, by the which He
ruleth the whole world continually, and
satisfieth the need of everything that
He hath made, are by use become so
common, that scarce any will vouch
safe to see that there are wonderful
and amazing works of God in every
grain of seed of grass. According to
His mercy He kept some works to be
done in their due season, but out of
the common course and order of
nature, that men might see them and
be astonished, not because they are
greater, but because they are rarer

Exod. xxxiv. 28.

2 Exod. xxiv. 18.

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than those which they lightly esteem,
since they see them day by day.

Seventh Responsory.

1 After that the Lord had looked
upon him, the face of Moses shone.
And when the elders saw that his face
shone, they marvelled and were sore
afraid.

Verse. And when he came down
from Mount Sinai with the two tables
of testimony in his hand, he wist not
that his face shone, because that God
had spoken with him.

Answer. And when the elders saw
that his face shone, they marvelled and
were sore afraid.

Eighth Lesson.

T7OR it is a greater miracle to govern
the whole universe, than to satisfy
five thousand men with five loaves of
bread ; and yet no man marvelleth at
it. At the feeding of the five thou
sand, men marvel, not because it is a
greater miracle than the other, but
because it is rarer. For Who is He
Who now feedeth the whole world,
but He Who, from a little grain that
is sown, maketh the fulness of the
harvest ? God worketh in both cases
in one and the same manner. He
Who of the sowing maketh to come
the harvest, is He Who of the five
barley loaves in His Hands made
bread to feed five thousand men ; for
Christ s are the Hands which are able
to do both the one and the other.
He Who multiplieth the grains of
corn multiplied the loaves, only not by
committing them to the earth whereof
He is the Maker.

Eighth Responsory.

2 Behold, I send My Angel before
thee, to keep thee. Beware, and obey

1 Exod. xxxiv. 29, 30. 2 Exod. xxiii. 20.

My voice ; then I will be an enemy
unto thine enemies, and an adversary
unto thine adversaries ; for Mine Angel
shall go before thee.

Verse. 3 O Israel, if thou wilt
hearken unto Me, there shall no
strange god be in thee, neither shalt
thou worship any strange god : for I
am the LORD.

Answer. Beware, and obey My
voice ; then I will be an enemy unto
thine enemies, and an adversary unto
thine adversaries ; for Mine Angel
shall go before thee.

Ninth Lesson.

^HIS miracle, then, is brought to
bear upon our bodies, that our
souls may thereby be quickened ;
shown to our eyes, to give food to
our understanding ; that, through His
works which we see, we may marvel
at that God Whom we cannot see,
and, being roused up to believe, and
purified by believing, we may long to
see Him, yea, may know by things
which are seen Him Who is Unseen.
Nor yet sufficeth it for us to see only
this meaning in Christ s miracles.
Let us ask of the miracles themselves
what they have to tell us concerning
Christ for, soothly, they have a
tongue of their own, if only we will
understand it. For, because Christ is
the Word of God, therefore the work
of the Word is a Word for us.

Ninth Responsory.

4 Give ear, O My people, to My
law : incline your ears to the words
of My mouth.

Verse. I will open My mouth in
parables : I will utter dark sayings of
old.

Answer. Incline your ears to the
words of My mouth.

3 Ps. Ixxx. 10. 4 Ps. Ixxvii. i.

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Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. Incline your ears to the
words of My mouth.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. Then shalt Thou
be pleased * with the sacrifices of
righteousness, when Thou hast hidden
Thy face from my sins.

Psalm L.
Have mercy, &c., (p. 87.)

Second Antiphon. It is better to
trust * in the LORD, than to trust in
princes.

Psalm CXVIL
O give thanks, &c., (p. 37.)

Third Antiphon. Let God, even
our own God, bless us ; * let God
bless us.

Psalms LXII. and LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c., (p.

230

Fourth Antiphon. * O Lord, Thou
art mighty to save * us with a strong
hand : deliver us, O our God.

The Song of the Three Holy Children.

Fifth Antiphon. Kings of the earth,
* and all people, praise God.

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

Praise ye the LORD, &c., (pp. 25,
26.)

Chapter. (Gal. iv. 22.)

"BRETHREN, It is written that

Abraham had two sons ; the one

by a bond-maid, the other by a free

woman. But he who was of the bond
woman was born after the flesh : but
he of the free woman was by promise ;
which things are an allegory.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
When JESUS lifted up His Eyes, * and
saw a great company come unto Him,
He saith unto Philip : Whence shall
we buy bread that these may eat ?
And this He said to prove him ; for
He Himself knew what He would do.

Prayer.

/^RANT, we beseech Thee, Al-
^- J mighty God, that we who for
our evil deeds are worthily punished,
may, by the comfort of Thy grace,
mercifully be relieved. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer throughout the day.

PRIME.

Antiphon. And JESUS took the
loaves, * and when He had given
thanks, He distributed to them that
were set down.

TERCE.

Antiphon. With five loaves and
two fishes * did the Lord satisfy five
thousand men.

Chapter from Lauds.

SEXT.

Same Antiphon as at Terce.

1 Dan. iii, 17.

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Chapter. (Gal. iv. 27.)

"D E JO ICE, thou barren, that bearest
not, break forth and cry, thou
that travailest not ; for the desolate
hath many more children than she
which hath an husband.

NONE.

Antiphon. Then those men, * when
they had seen the miracle that JESUS
did, said within themselves : This is of
a truth that Prophet that should come
into the world.

Chapter. (Gal. iv. 31.)

CO then, brethren, we are not child-
ren of the bond-woman, but of
the free : in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Lands.
Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (pp. 227, 228.)

A?itiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. And JESUS went up into a
mountain, * and there He sat with His
disciples.

After Vespers are said the Vespers
of the Dead.

Second Day.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.

228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (ii. 13.)

A T that time : The Jews Passover
*"* was at hand : and JESUS went
up to Jerusalem, and found in the

temple those that sold oxen, and
sheep, and doves. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
H ippo. ] ( i Qth Tract on John. )

What hear we now, my brethren ?
Behold, that temple was still but a
figure, and the Lord drove out there
from all them that sought their own,
even them that were come to deal in
merchandise. And what was it that
they sold there ? Only such things as
were needful to men for the sacrifices
that then were. For your love know-
eth that, because of that people s
carnal-mindedness and the stoniness
of their heart, there were commanded
unto them such sacrifices as these,
thereby to hold them back from idol
atry : and there, according, they
offered up oxen, and sheep, and doves.
This ye have read, and know.

First Responsory.

1 When ye be gone over Jordan,
there shall ye build an altar unto the
LORD, of whole stones ; ye shall not
lift up any iron tool upon them ; and
ye shall offer burnt-offerings thereon,
and peace-offerings, unto your God.

Verse. When ye shall pass over
[Jordan] unto the land which the
LORD giveth you, there shall ye build
an altar unto the LORD.

Answer. Of whole stones ; ye shall
not lift up any iron tool upon them ;
and ye shall offer burnt-offerings there
on, and peace-offerings, unto your God.

Second Lesson.

T T was no great sin, therefore, if they
sold in the temple that which was
bought to be offered in the temple
and yet He drove them out. If, then,
the Lord drove out of His temple them
which sold such things as are lawful

1 Deut. xxvii. 4-6.

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and right (for to buy and sell is lawful,
if only it be done honestly,) and suf
fered not the house of prayer to be
made an house of merchandise, what
would He have done if He had found
there men drunken ?

Second Responsory.

Hear, O Israel, the law of the Lord,
and write it in thine heart as in a
book ; and I will give unto thee a land
flowing with milk and honey.

Verse. Take heed therefore, and
hearken unto My voice : and I will be
an enemy unto thine enemies.

Answer. And I will give unto thee
a land flowing with milk and honey.

Third Lesson.

T F the house of God must not be an
house of merchandise, must it be
an house to drink in ? And yet, when
we say this, men gnash upon us with
their teeth. But we find consolation
in remembering that so far we are
even as the Psalmist, who saith :
"They gnashed upon me with their
teeth." 1 (Ps. xxxiv. 16.) Yea, we
have also learnt to listen to words
that heal us, though, of a verity, the
lashes that are made at His word are
really made at Christ. " Lashes,"
saith He, " were heaped upon Me ;
and they knew not what they did."
(i 5.) 1 He was lashed by the scourges
of the Jews, and He is lashecl still by
the blasphemies of false Christians ;
they heap lashes upon the Lord their
God ; and know not what they do.
As for us, we will do that which He
hath holpen us to do ; " But as for
me, when they troubled me, my cloth
ing was sackcloth, and I humbled my
soul with fasting" (I3). 1

Third Responsory.

2 As I was with Moses, so I will be
with thee, saith the Lord. Be strong
and of a good courage, and thou shalt
bring My people into a land flowing
with milk and honey.

Verse. Fear not, for I am with
thee : whithersoever thou goest I will
not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Answer. Be strong and of a good
courage, and thou shalt bring My
people into a land flowing with milk
and honey.

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. I, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Thus saith the Lord : * Take these
things hence ; make not My Father s
house an house of merchandise.

Prayer.

/^RANT, we beseech Thee, O Al-
^- J mighty God, that we who year
by year do prayerfully renew the holy
observance of this Thy great Fast,
may be acceptable in Thy sight, as
touching both our bodies and our
souls. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

After Lauds is said the Dirge.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

1 The quotation is not from the present Latin Version.

2 Addressed to Joshua. (Josh; i. 5, 6.) " - :

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Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Thus saith the Lord : *
Destroy this temple, and in three days
I will raise it up. But He spake of
the temple of His Body.

Prayer.

r\ LORD, we beseech Thee graci-
^^ ously to hear our supplications,
and evermore help and defend all them
to whom Thou hast given the mind to
pray. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

Third Day.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.
228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (vii. 14.)

A T that time : About the midst of
the Feast, JESUS went up into
the temple, and taught. And the
Jews marvelled. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (29/7? Tract on John.}

He Who had gone up unto the
Feast, "not openly, but as it were in
secret," the Same taught, and spake
openly, and no man laid hands upon
Him. That He had hid Himself,
was for example s sake ; that He
manifested Himself, was to show His
power. And when He taught, the

1 John vii. 20 ; viii. 40 ; xviii. 23.

Jews marvelled. As seemeth to my
mind, they all marvelled, but were not
all converted. And wherefore mar
velled they ? Because many of them
knew where He was born, and how
He had been brought up. They had
never seen Him learn letters ; but
they heard Him dispute concerning
the law, and alledge the testimony of
the same, as no man could do who
had not read it ; and no man can read
unless he learn ; and therefore they
marvelled. But their marvelling was
unto the Teacher an occasion for the
revealing of higher truth.

First Responsory.

Why go ye about to kill Me, a Man
That hath l told you the truth ? If I
have spoken evil, bear witness of the
evil ; but if well, why smitest thou
Me?

Verse. 2 Many good works have I
wrought among you ; for which of
those works go ye about to kill Me ?

Answer. If I have spoken evil,
bear witness of the evil ; but if well,
why smitest thou Me ?

Second Lesson.

T7OR when they marvelled and whis
pered, the Lord said a certain
deep thing, yea, a thing worthy of
very careful thought and discussion.
And what was this thing which the
Lord gave for an answer to such as
" marvelled that He knew letters, hav
ing never learned ? " " JESUS answered
them and said : My doctrine is not
Mine, but His That sent Me." Here
is the first depth, for He seemeth in
these few words to enunciate a contra
diction. He saith not : This doctrine
is not Mine but : " My doctrine is
not Mine." If it be not Thine, O
Lord, wherefore dost Thou call it

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Thine ? If it be Thine, wherefore say-
est Thou that it is not Thine ? For
Thou sayest : " My doctrine is not
Mine."

Second Responsory.

1 I, even I, the Lord, have led you
forty years in the wilderness, and your
clothes are not waxen old upon you.
I rained down manna upon you from
heaven, and ye have forgotten Me,
saith the Lord.

Verse. I led you forth out of the
land of Egypt, and delivered you from
the house of bondage.

Answer. I rained down manna
upon you from heaven, and ye have
forgotten Me, saith the Lord.

Third Lesson.

T ET us then carefully regard what
*"* this same holy Evangelist saith
in the beginning of his Gospel, and we
shall find there wherewith to loose the
knot of this difficulty. There it is
written : " In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God." (i. i.)
What is the doctrine of the Father but
the Word of the Father ? If Christ
therefore be the W 7 ord of the Father,
He is the doctrine of the Father.
But a Word cannot be of no one, but
must needs, if it be a W 7 ord, have
some one whose word it is. Christ
therefore saith that His doctrine is
Himself, and therefore not His, foras
much as He is the Word of the
Father. And what hast thou that is
so much thine own as thy self? Or
what is there that is so little thine
own as thyself, if that which thou art
is another s ?

Third Responsory.

Moses, the servant of God, &c., (p.
3oi.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Why go ye about to kill Me, * a Man
that hath told you the truth ?

Prayer.

C\ LORD, we beseech Thee that the
^-^ observance of this holy fast
may avail us both to the increase of
godliness in our conversation, and the
stablishing upon us of the help of Thy
mercy. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Tercc, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (pp. 227, 228.)

Antiphon at the Song cf the Blessed
Virgin. No man laid hands on Him ;
* because His hour was not yet come.

Prayer.

f~\ LORD, have mercy upon Thy
^-^ people, and be graciously pleased
to grant relief unto the same, who
are ever toiling amid the storms of
divers tribulations. Through our Lord
JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth
and reigneth with Thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, world without end.
Amen.

1 Deut. xxix. 5.

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Fourth Day.

Before Mattins are said the Gradual
Psalms.

MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.

228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (ix. i.)

A T that time : As JESUS passed by,
*"* He saw a man which was blind
from his birth. And His disciples
asked Him, saying : Rabbi, who did
sin, this man, or his parents, that he
was born blind ? And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] ( 4 /\th Tract on John. )

Dread and wondrous are all the
things which our Lord JESUS Christ
did, both His works and His words ;
the works, because He wrought them ;
the words, because they are deep. If,
therefore, we consider the meaning of
this work of His, we see that that
man which was blind from his birth
was a figure of mankind. This spirit
ual blindness was the consequence of
the sin of the first man, from whom we
all inherit by birth, not death only,
but depravity also. For if blindness
be unbelief, and faith, light, whom,
when Christ came, did He find faith
ful ? Nay, the Apostle who had him
self been born of the race of which
the Prophets came, saith : "We also
were by nature children of wrath, even
as others." (Eph. ii. 3 ) And if
children of wrath, then children also
of vengeance, children of dam
nation, children of hell. And where

fore so "by nature," unless it were
that the sin of the first man had made
all his descendants to be born in sin,
in that they partook of his nature ?
If, then, our nature bring sin with it,
all men, according to the spirit, are
born blind.

First Responsory.
After that the Lord, &c., (p. 302.)

Second Lesson.

HTHE Lord came; and what did
He ? He set before us a great
mystery. " JESUS spat on the ground,
and made clay of the Spittle " for
"the Word was made flesh."

" And He anointed the eyes of the
blind man with the clay" but yet
that man saw not. He was anointed,
indeed, but yet still he saw not.

"And He said unto him : Go, wash
in the Pool of Siloam." Now, it was
the duty of the Evangelist to impress
upon us the name of this Pool, and
therefore he saith : " Siloam, which
is, by interpretation, Sent." Ye, my
brethren, know Who is signified where
it is written: "[The sceptre shall not
depart from Judah, nor a law-giver
from his loins, until] He that shall be
Sent [cometh.]" (Gen. xlix. 10.)
Yea, He it is, Who, if He had not
been sent, we had never been sent
loose out of the prison-house of sin.
The blind man went his way there
fore, and washed his eyes in that
Pool, which is, by interpretation,
" Sent " in other words, he was bap
tized in Christ. When, therefore, he
had figuratively been baptized in Him
Whom the Father hath Sent into the
world "he came seeing." When he
was anointed, he was perchance made
a figure of a Catechumen. 1

1 Oil (specially blest for that purpose by Bishops on Maundy Thursday, and called from its
object the oil of Catechumens) is, of course, still used in so making them, both infants and
adults.

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Second Responsory.
Behold I send, &c., (p. 302.)

Third Lesson.

VE have heard this great mystery.
Ask of a man i 1 "Art thou a
Christian ? " He answereth thee : " I
am not." Then, if thou ask him :
" Art thou a pagan then, or a Jew ? "
And he still saith unto thee : " Nay "
and thou say: "Art thou then a
Catechumen, though not yet one of
the faithful ? " and he saith : " Yea, a
Catechumen " then there thou seest
a man anointed, but not yet washed.
With what hath he been anointed ?
Ask of him, and he will tell thee.
Ask of him in Whom he believeth,
and, being a Catechumen, he will
say: "In Christ." But, behold, I
speak before both Faithful and Cate
chumens. What said I touching the
Spittle and the clay ? I said : " for
the Word was made flesh. " This
the Catechumens hear, but it is not
enough for them to be anointed ; they
must make haste to the washing, if
they would have their eyes opened. 2

Third Responsory.

Give ear, O My people, &c., (p.
302.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Rabbi, who did sin, this man, or his
parents, * that he was born blind ?

JESUS answered, and said : Neither
hath this man sinned, nor his parents ;
but that the works of God shall be
made manifest in him.

Prayer.

f~\ GOD, Who by mean of fasting
dost give unto the righteous the
reward of their good works, and unto
sinners pardon ; have mercy upon us,
we beseech Thee, and grant that we,
humbly confessing our guiltiness, may
so be enabled to obtain Thy forgive
ness. Through our Lord JESUS Christ
Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth
with Thee, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Joel ii. 17, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn a?id Verse and Answer as on
the First Saturday, (p. 227.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. The Man that is called JESUS
* made clay of His Spittle, and an
ointed mine eyes, and now I do see.

Prayer.

T ET Thy merciful ears, O Lord, be
open unto the prayers of all them
that entreat Thee, and that Thou
mayest grant us ever such things as
we ask, teach us ever to ask such
things as are pleasing in Thy sight.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

The ancient Church, at least in Africa, did not so commonly use infant Baptism as we
op. bt Augustine himself was made a Catechumen when an infant, and not baptized till
his conversion to Catholicism from the heresy which he had embraced as a young man and
retained for nine years.

" A great deal of doctrine and several formularies as well as privileges were concealed from
the Catechumens.

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Fifth Day.

MATTINS.
Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.

22%.}

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Luke (vii. 1 1.)

A T that time : JESUS went into a
"*"* city called Nairn ; and His dis
ciples went with Him, and much
people. And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (Bk. v. Comm. on Luke vii.)

The history which we here read in
the Holy Gospel hath for us specially
two gracious lessons, the one from the
literal, the other from the mystic in
terpretation thereof. According to the
letter then, we see how quickly the
compassion of God was aroused by
the sorrow of this mother, who was a
widow, a widow broken down by nurs
ing her only son, or by the bitterness
of her grief for his death. She was a
widow also whose worshipful conver
sation is borne witness to by this,
that, " much people of the city was
with her." Mystically however, this
widow encompassed by the multitude
was something more than a poor
woman whose tears won from the
Lord the resurrection of her young
and only son ; for she is a type of our
holy Mother the Church, who calleth
back her young children to life from
the pursuit of deathly vanities, and
soul-slaying honours, by bidding them
look on those tears which she sheddeth
for such as they, and which it is un
lawful for her to shed for them of
whom she knoweth that they will rise
again. 1

First Responsory.

The Lord spake unto Moses, &c.,
(p. 298.)

Second Lesson.

man, then, being dead, was
carried out on a bier to the
grave by four bearers, 2 even as the
sinner is borne to destruction by the
four elements of which he is composed.
But there was hope in his latter end,
from this, that that whereon he was
carried was of wood, and wood, albeit
it had profited us little before, is
become everything to us now since
" JESUS touched it," being a figure of
that gibbet, the Cross, which was
made thereof, and wherefrom salva
tion floweth unto all people. When,
therefore, the horrid bearers of the
corpse heard the commandment of
God, they stood still, and carried no
farther him who was dead through the
fatal course of a material nature. And
is not our case even as that of the
widow s son, when we lie, as it were,
lifeless, in our spiritual coffin, that is,
in the last bed of our soul s death,
consumed by the fever of unbridled
lust, or frozen by cold-heartedness, or
with our whole manliness sapped by
some degrading habit of this earthly
body, or starved by a spiritual lock
jaw that shutteth our mouth to the
bright food of our soul ? These, and
such as these, are they which carry us
out to burial.

Second Responsory.
Moses stood, &c., (p. 299.)

Third Lesson.

"D UT even at the last hour, when the

hope of life hath been utterly ex

tinguished, and the bodies of the dead

are lying by the side of the grave, by

1 Viz. those "who are fallen asleep in JESUS."

2 The Greek uses the Plural, not the Dual.

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the word of God those carcases live
again, yea, arise and speak. Then
doth JESUS deliver the son to his
mother, for JESUS calleth him out of
the grave, and delivereth him from
death. O, what is the grave of the
soul but a bad life ? Sinner ! thy
grave is unbelief, and thy throat is a
sepulchre ! Even so is it written :
"Their throat is an open sepulchre,"
(Ps. v. ii,) whereout breathe their
pestilential words. Lo ! Christ mak-
eth thee free from that grave ! If
only thou wilt hear the word of God,
thou shalt yet arise from that sepul
chre ! Yea, though thy sin be ex
ceeding weighty, so that the tears of
thine own sorrow cannot wash it away,
let thy Mother the Church weep for
thee, that longing Mother who weepeth
for every one of her children as though
he were "the only son of his mother,
and she was a widow." Believe me,
her spiritual anguish is keen like the
anguish of nature, when she seeth her
children dead in sin, and carried out
to be buried for ever.

Third Respo?isory.
Let us sing, &c., (p. 299.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS went into a city called Nairn ; *
and, behold, there was a dead man
carried out, the only son of his
mother.

Prayer.

Q ALMIGHTY God, grant, we be
seech Thee, that we who are
chastened by this hallowed fast, may

be gladdened by holy earnestness, and
that as earthly attractions grow dim
mer, things heavenly may grow clearer.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

At the beginning of the Martyr ology
is said,

On the morrow we commemorate
the Most Precious Blood of our Lord
JESUS Christ.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

Sixth Day.

Office in honour of the Most Precious
Blood of otir Lord JESUS Christ.

Greater Double.

All as on Sundays, except the fol
lowing.

FIRST VESPERS. 1

First Antiphon. Who is this that
cometh from Edom, with dyed gar
ments from Bozrah ? this, that is
glorious in His apparel ?

Second Antiphon. I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save.

Third Antiphon. He was clothed
with a vesture dipped in blood, and
His name is called "The Word of
God."

Fourth Antiphon. Wherefore art
Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy
garments like him that treadeth in the
wine-fat ?

Fifth Antiphon. I have trodden
the wine - press alone, and of the
people there was none with Me.

Chapter and Prayer from Lauds.

1 Antiphons from Isa. Ixiii. 1-3 except the 3rd, which is Apoc. xix. 13.

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Hymn.

let the long procession stream
And through the streets in order wend ;
Let the bright waving line of torches gleam,
The solemn chant ascend.

While we, with tears and sighs profound,

That memorable Blood record,
Which, stretched on His hard Cross, from
many a Wound,

The dying JESUS poured.

By the first Adam s fatal sin
Came death upon the human race ;

In this new Adam doth new life begin,
And everlasting grace.

For scarce the Father heard from heaven

The cry of His expiring Son,
When in that cry our sins were all forgiven,

And boundless pardon won.

Henceforth, whoso in that dear Blood
Washeth, shall lose his every stain,

And, in immortal roseate beauty robed,
An Angel s likeness gain.

Only, run thou with courage on

Straight to the goal set in the skies;

He Who assists thy course will give thee

soon
The everlasting prize.

Father Supreme ! vouchsafe that we,
For whom Thine only Son was slain,

And whom Thine Holy Ghost doth sanc

tify,
May heavenly joys attain. Amen.

Verse. 2 Lord, Thou hast redeemed
us by Thy Blood.

Answer. And hast made us unto
our God a kingdom.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. 3 Ye are come unto Mount
Sion and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
JESUS the Mediator of the New Cove

nant, and to the Blood of sprinkling
That speaketh better things than that
of Abel.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. A great Prophet is risen
up among us, and God hath visited
His people.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

GOD, the Teacher and Shepherd
of all Thy people, free the same
from all sins which do assail them,
that so they may ever be pleasing in
Thy sight and safe under Thy shelter.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. Christ the Son of God
hath redeemed us by His Own Blood.
* O come, let us worship Him.

Hymn.^

TIE Who once, in righteous vengeance,

Whelmed the world beneath the flood,
Once again in mercy cleansed it
With the stream of His Own Blood,
Coming from His Throne on high
On the painful Cross to die.

5 Blest with this all-saving shower
Earth her beauty straight resumed ;
In the place of thorns and briars,
Myrtles sprang and roses bloomed :
Flowers surprised the desert waste,
Wormwood lost her bitter taste.

i Sixteenth to eighteenth century, author unknown, translation by the late Rev. Father
Caswall. " Apoc. v. 9, 10. 3 Heb. xii. 22, 24.

4 Anonymous hymn of eighteenth century translation by the late Rev. E. Caswall.

s These two verses are apparently founded on such passages as Isa. xxxv. ; xi. 8 ; Mark
xvi. 18, &c. . , ;-.. . , \

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Scorpions ceased ; the slimy serpent
Laid his deadly poison by ;
Savage beasts of cruel instinct
Lost their wild ferocity ;
Welcoming the gentle reign
Of the Lamb for sinners slain.

O the wisdom of the Eternal !
O its depth and height Divine !
O the sweetness of that mercy
Which in JESUS Christ doth shine !
Slaves we were condemned to die,
Our King pays the penalty.

When before the Judge we tremble,
Conscious of His broken laws,
May this Blood in that dread hour,
Cry aloud and plead our cause
Bid our guilty terrors cease
Be our pardon and our peace.

Prince and Author of Salvation !
Lord of Majesty Supreme !
JESU, praise to Thee be given
By the world Thou didst redeem !
Who with the Father and the Spirit
Reignest in eternal merit. Amen.

FIRST NOCTURN.
Only three Psalms are said.

First Antiphon. x And when eight
days were accomplished, for the cir
cumcising of the child, His Name was
called JESUS.

Ps. ii. Why do the heathen, &c.,
(P. 4-)

Second Antiphon. 2 And being in
an agony, He prayed more earnestly,
and His Sweat was as it were great
drops of Blood falling down to the
ground.

Ps. iii. LORD, how are they in
creased, &c., (p. 5.)

Third Antiphon. 3 Judas, which
had betrayed Him, repented himself,
and brought again the thirty pieces of
silver, saying : I have sinned, in that I
have betrayed the innocent Blood.

Ps. xv. Preserve me, O Lord, c.,

(P. 12.)

Verse. Lord, Thou hast redeemed
us

Answer. By Thy Blood.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Epistle
of the Blessed Apostle Paul to the
Hebrews (ix. 1 1.)

CHRIST being come an High
^ Priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect taber
nacle, not made with hands, that is to
say, not of this building, neither by
the blood of g oats and calves, but by
His own Blood, He entered in once
into the Holy Place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us. For if the
blood of goats or of bulls, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the un
clean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh, how much more shall the
Blood of Christ, Who, through the
Holy Spirit, offered Himself without
spot to God, purge our conscience
from dead works to serve the living
God ? And for this cause, He is the
Mediator of the New Testament, that,
by means of death, for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under
the first Testament, they, which are
called, might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.

First Responsory.

4 JESUS also, that He might sanctify
the people with His own Blood, suf
fered without the gate. Let us go
forth therefore unto Him without the
camp, bearing His reproach.

Verse. Ye have not yet resisted
unto blood, striving against sin.

Answer. Let us go forth therefore
unto Him without the gate, bearing
His reproach.

1 Luke ii. 21. 2 Luke xxii. 44. 3 Matth. xxvii. 3, 4. 4 Heb. xiii. 12, 13; xii. 4.

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Second Lesson.

T^OR where a testament is, there
must also of necessity be the
death of the testator. For a testa
ment is of force after men are dead :
otherwise it is of no strength at all
while the testator liveth. Wherefore
neither the first Testament was dedi
cated without blood. For when Moses
had read every precept of the law to
all the people, he took the blood of
calves and of goats, with water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book and all the people,
saying : This is the blood of the
Testament which God hath enjoined
unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled
likewise with blood both the Taber
nacle and all the vessels of the minis
try. And almost all things are by the
law purged with blood ; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.

Second Responsory.

1 Moses took the blood, and sprin
kled all the people, saying : This is the
blood of the Testament which God
hath enjoined unto you.

Verse. Through faith he kept the
Passover, and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he that destroyed the first-born
should touch them.

Answer. Saying : This is the blood
of the Testament which God hath
enjoined unto you.

Third Lesson, (x. 19.)

TTAVING therefore, brethren, bold-
ness to enter into the holiest by
the Blood of Christ, by a new and liv
ing way which He hath consecrated
for us, through the veil (that is to say,
His Flesh,) and having an High
Priest over the house of God, let us
draw near with a true heart and full

assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water ;
let us hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering ; (for He is
faithful That promised,) and let us
consider one another to provoke unto
love and to good works.

Third Responsory.

2 Ye, who sometimes were far off,
are made nigh by the Blood of Christ.
For He is our Peace, Who hath made
both one.

Verse. 3 It pleased [the Father that
in Him should all fulness dwell, and,]
having made peace through the Blood
of His Cross, by Him to reconcile all
things unto Himself, [by Him, I say,]
whether they be things in earth or
things in heaven.

Answer. For He is our Peace,
Who hath made both one.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. For He is our Peace,
Who hath made both one.

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. 4 Pilate, willing to
content the people, delivered JESUS,
when He had scourged Him, to be .
crucified.

Ps. xxii. The LORD is my Shep
herd, &c., (p. 470

Second Antiphon. 5 When Pilate
saw that he could prevail nothing, he
took water, and washed his hands |
before the multitude, saying : I am \
innocent of the Blood of this just |
Person.

Ps. xxix. I will extol Thee, &c.,
(P- 75-)

1 Heb. ix. 19, 20 ; xi. 28.
4 Mark xv. 15.

2 Eph. ii. 13, 14.

5 Matth. xxvii. 24, 25.

3 Col. i. 19, 20.

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Third Antiphon, Then answered
all the people and said : His Blood be
on us, and on our children.

Ps. Ixiii. Hear my voice, &c., (p.

114.)

Verse. l The Blood of JESUS Christ,
the Son of God,

Answer. Cleanseth us from all sin.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of St John Chrysostom, Archbishop
[of Constantinople.]

YXTOULDEST thou hear the power
V V of the Blood of Christ ? Then
let us look at the figure thereof, let us
call to mind the old type, and tell the
story written in the antient Scriptures.
The Egyptians would not let God
take away Israel His firstborn, 2 "And
Moses said : Thus saith the LORD
About midnight will I go out into the
midst of Egypt, and all the first-born
in the land of Egypt shall die, from
the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth
upon his throne unto the first-born of
the maid-servant that is behind the
mill, and all the first-born of beasts.
And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such
as there was none like it, nor shall be
like it any more. But against any of
the children of Israel shall not a dog
move his tongue, against man or
beast ; that ye may know how that
the LORD hath put a difference be
tween the Egyptians and Israel."
(Ex. xi. 4-7.) "Then Moses called
for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them : Draw out and take you a
lamb according to your families and
kill the Passover. And ye shall take
a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the

blood that is in the basin, and strike
the lintel and the two side-posts with
the blood .... and when He seeth
the blood upon the lintel and on the
two side-posts, the LORD will pass
over the door, and will not suffer the
destroyer to come in unto your houses
to smite you." (xii. 21-23.) And
could the blood of a sheep save a
man ? Yea, in good sooth ; not be
cause it was blood, but because it
represented in a figure the Blood of
the Lord.

Fourth Responsory.

3 Pass the time of your sojourning"
here in fear ; forasmuch as ye know
that ye were not redeemed with cor
ruptible things, as silver and gold

Verse. But with the Precious Blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without spot.

Answer. Ye know that ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as
silver and gold.

Fifth Lesson.

"PHE statues of monarchs, mindless
and speechless images though
they be, have sometimes been an
helpful refuge to men endowed with
soul and reason, not because they are
works of the brazier s skill, but because
the likeness they bear is a King s.
And just so did this unconscious blood
deliver the lives of men, not because
it was blood, but because it fore
shadowed the shedding" of the Blood
of JESUS. On that night in Egypt,
when the destroying Angel saw the
blood upon the lintel and on the two
side-posts, he passed over the door,
and came not in unto the house.
Even so now much more will the
destroyer of souls flee away when he

1 i John i. 7.

2 The description in the Latin is a sort of oratorical paraphrase of the account in the
Pentateuch, which I have thought it best to represent by two simple quotations.

3 i Peter i. 17-19.

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seeth, not the lintel and the two side-
posts sprinkled with the blood of a
lamb, but the l mouth of the faithful
Christian, the living dwelling of the
Holy Ghost, shining with the blood of
the True Messiah. If the Angel let
the type be, how shall not the enemy
quail before the Reality ? Wouldest
thou hear more of the power of that
Blood ? I am willing. Consider from
what source it welleth, from what foun
tain it springeth. Its fountain is the
Heart of the Lord, pierced for us
upon the Cross. " Then came the
soldiers, and brake the legs of the
first, and of the other which was cruci
fied with Him ; but when they came to
JESUS, and saw that He was dead
already, they brake not His Legs, but
one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced His Side, and forthwith came
thereout Blood and Water," (John xix.
32-34,) whereof the One is a figure of
Baptism, and the Other of the Sacra
ment [of the Altar.] ~

Fifth Responsory.

3 Ye are bought with a great price,
therefore glorify God and bear Him in
your body.

Verse. Ye are bought with a price
be not ye the servants of men.

Answer. Glorify God and bear
Him in your body.

Sixth Lesson.

^\NE of the soldiers with a spear
^"^ pierced His Side the veil of
the Temple of His Body was rent in
twain. (John ii. 19-21, Matth. xxvii.
51.) O how glorious is the treasure
that is laid open to me therein ! How
noble the riches that it is my joy there
to have found ! Thus was it with the

Paschal lamb. The Jews slew the
typical sheep, but to me also is it
given to know the worth of the thing
typified. " One of the soldiers with a
spear pierced His Side, and forthwith
came thereout Blood and Water." I
would not, O my hearer, that thou
shouldest pass by the depths of such
a mystery as this without pausing. I
have some mystic and hidden words to
say. I frave sa id that that Blood and
Water were a figure of Baptism and
of the Mysteries [of the Altar.] These
are the foundations of the Church,
" the washing of regeneration, and re
newing of the Holy Ghost." (Tit. iii.
5.) I say [that the Church is founded
in these things, whereof the substance
came out of the Redeemer s Side,
namely,] in Baptism and the Mysteries
[of the Altar.] It was therefore out of
the Side of Christ that the Church was
created, just as it was out of the side
of Adam that Eve was raised up to be
his bride. (Gen. ii. 21, 22.) This is
the reason why Paul saith, no doubt
in allusion to the [bride of the Second
Adam, even the Holy Church to which
we belong, coming, like the bride of
the first Adam, out of the] Side [of
her Husband] : " We are members of
His Body, [of His Flesh,] and of His
bones." (Eph. v. 30.) For even as
God made the woman Eve out of the
rib which He had taken out of the side
of Adam, so hath Christ made the
Church out of the Blood and Water
Which He made to flow for us out
of His Own Side.

Sixth Responsory.

4 God commendeth His love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
in due time Christ died for us.

Verse. Much more then being now

1 I.e., probably, as wet from the Eucharistic chalice.

2 After this comes a passage which I omit, as it relates to a reading in the Gospel of St John,
used by St Chrysostorn, but rejected by the present Greek and Latin texts.

3 i Cor. vi. 20 ; vii. 23. 4 R om&gt; v&gt; 8&gt; 9&gt; 6 .

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justified by His Blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through Him.

Answer. In that, while we were yet
sinners, in due time Christ died for us.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. In that, while we were yet
sinners, in due time Christ died for us.

THIRD NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. l Then came JESUS
forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and
the purple robe. And Pilate saith
unto them : Behold the Man !

Ps. Ixxiii. O God, why hast Thou,
&c, (p. 128.)

Second Antiphon. And He, bearing
His Cross, went forth into a place
called "the place of a Skull," where
they crucified Him.

Ps. Ixxxvii. O LORD God, &c., (p.

I45-)

Third Antiphon. [But] when they
[came to JESUS, and] saw that He was
dead already, they brake not His
Legs ; but one of the soldiers with a
spear pierced His Side, and forthwith
came thereout Blood and Water.

Ps. xciii. The LORD God to Whom
vengeance, &c., (p. 147.)

Verse. 2 Christ loved us
Answer. And washed us from our
sins in His Own Blood.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xix. 29.)

AT that time : When JESUS had re
ceived the vinegar, He said : It
is finished. And He bowed His

Head, and gave up the ghost. And
so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (i2o//z Tract on John.}

" One of the soldiers with a spear
pierced His Side, and forthwith came
thereout Blood and Water." The
Evangelist speaketh carefully. He
saith not that he smote the Side, nor
yet that he wounded It, nor yet any
thing else, but "pierced" "pierced"
It, to fling wide the entrance unto life,
whence flow the Sacraments of the
Church, those Sacraments without
which there is no entrance unto the
life which is life indeed. That Blood
which was shed there was shed for the
remission of sins, that Water is the
water that mantleth in the cup of
salvation. Therein are we washed,
and thereof do we drink. Of this was
it a type when it was said unto Noah :
" The door of the ark shalt thou set
in the side thereof . . . and of
every living thing of all flesh shalt
thou bring into the ark ... to keep
them alive." (Gen. vi. 16, 19.) A
figure this of the Church. Thus was
it that the first woman was made from
the side of her husband while he slept,
and she was called [Eve, which is,
being interpreted,] "Life," "because
she was the mother of all living."
(Gen. iii. 20.) This name set forth a
great good, before it became associ
ated with the bitter fruit of a great
evil. And here we have the Second
Adam bowing His Head, and the
deep sleep of death falling upon Him
upon the Cross, and He sleepeth, that
the Lord God may take a thing out of
His side, and may make thereof a wife
for Him. O what a death was His,
which quickeneth the dead ! What is
cleaner than His Blood ? What more
health-giving than His wounding ?

John xix. 5, 17, 33, 4.

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Apoc. i. 5.

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THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SEASON.

Seventh Responsory.

1 This is He That came by Water
and Blood, even JESUS Christ ; not by
Water only, but by Water and Blood.

Verse. 2 In that day there shall be
a fountain opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jeru
salem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Answer. Not by Water only, but
by Water and Blood.

Eighth Lesson.

TV/I" EN were being held bondsmen to
the devil, slaves to evil spirits.
But they have been redeemed from
that bondage. They had been able to
sell themselves, but they were not able
to redeem themselves. A Redeemer
came and paid the price for them.
He shed His Blood, and at that cost
bought the world. Ye ask what He
bought ? Look what He paid, and ye
shall see what He bought. Christ s
Blood was the price. What is His
Blood worth ? What, but the whole
world ? What but all men ? They
are very unthankful for His redemp
tion, or very proud, who say that It is
only precious enough to buy the
Africans, or that they themselves are
so precious that It was shed only for
them. Let there be an end to such
conceit, an end to such vain-glory.
What He paid, He paid for all.

Eighth Responsory.

3 God hath predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by JESUS
Christ, in Whom we have redemption
through His Blood.

Verse. The forgiveness of sins, ac
cording to the riches of His g race,
wherein He hath abounded toward us.

Answer. In Whom we have re
demption through His Blood.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. In Whom we have re
demption through His Blood.

Ninth Blessing.

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford.

Ninth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xi. i.)

A T that time : A certain man was
^^ sick, named Lazarus, of Beth
any, the town of Mary, and her sister
Martha. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (49/^ Tract on John.}

Ye remember that in our last read
ing we learnt how that the Lord
" escaped out of the hands " of them
which " took up stones to stone Him,"
" and went away again beyond Jordan,
into the place where John at first
baptized." (John x. 31, 39, 40-)
While, then, the Lord still tarried
there, Lazarus was sick at Bethany,
which was a town near to Jerusalem.

"It was that Mary which anointed
the Lord with ointment, and wiped
His Feet with her hair, whose brother
Lazarus was sick. Therefore his
sisters sent unto Him." We know
already whither it was that they sent,
for we know where JESUS was : " He
was gone away again beyond Jordan."

" His sisters sent unto Him, saying :
Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is
sick " in order that, if He so pleased,
He might come and free him from his
sickness. But JESUS healed not, that
He might afterward quicken. What
therefore sent his sisters to say ?

1 i John v. 6.

" Zech. xiii. i.

Eph. i. 5-7-

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" Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest
is sick" and no more. They said
not : " Come : " for JESUS loved
him ; and to tell Him that he was
sick was enough. They dared not to
say : " Come, and heal him : "they
dared not to say : " Speak the word
where Thou art, and it shall be done
here." And wherefore should they not
have said this if they had the faith
which won the Centurion so much
praise ? He had said : " Lord, I am
not worthy that Thou shouldest come
under my roof; but speak the word
only, and my servant shall be healed."
(Matth. viii. 8.) But they said none
of these things, only : " Lord, behold,
he whom Thou lovest is sick " " It is
enough that Thou shouldest know it :
Thou art not one that lovest and
leavest." But some man will say :
" How shall Lazarus be a type of the
sinner, and yet the Lord so love him ? "
Let such an one hear the words of the
same Lord, which He said : " I am
not come to call the righteous, but
sinners." (Matth. ix. 13.) For if
God had not loved sinners, He had
not come down from heaven to earth.

"When JP:SUS heard that, He said :
This sickness is not unto death, but
for the glory of God, that the Son of
God might be glorified thereby." Such
a glorification is no increase of majesty
for Him, but of profit for us. He
therefore meaneth to say : " This
sickness is not unto death, but for the
working of a miracle, the which being
wrought, if men will thereby believe in
Christ, they shall escape the real
death." Note especially how the Lord
doth in this place declare Himself to
be God, as it were by implication, for
the sake of some which say that He is
not the Son of God.

The hymn "We praise Thee, O
God, &c.," is said.

LAUDS. 1

First Antiphon. Who are these *
that are arrayed in white robes ?
And whence came they ?

Second Antiphon. These are they
which came out of great tribulation,

* and have washed their robes [and
made them white] in the Blood of the
Lamb.

Third Antiphon. Therefore are
they before the throne of God, * and
serve Him day and night.

Fourth Antiphon. And they over
came the dragon * by the Blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testi
mony.

Fifth Antiphon. Blessed are they

* that wash their robes in the Blood
of the Lamb.

Chapter. (Heb. ix. n.)

"DRETHREN, Christ being come an
High Priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this building ; neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but
by His Own Blood, He entered in once
into the Holy Place, having obtained
eternal redemption.

Hymn?

pJJAIL, Holy Wounds of JESUS, hail !

Sweet pledges of the saving Rood !
Whence flow the streams that never fail
The purple streams of His dear Blood.

Brighter than brightest stars ye show,
Than sweetest rose your scent more rare,
No Indian gem may match your glow,
No honey s taste with yours compare.

Portals are ye to that dear Home,
Wherein our wearied souls may hide.
Whereto no angry foe can come,
The Heart of JESUS Crucified.

1 Antiphons from Apoc. vii. 13-15; xii. n ; xxii. 14.

2 Translation extracted from the Hymnal Noted.

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What countless stripes our JESUS bore,
All naked left in Pilate s hall,
What copious floods of purple gore
Through rents in His torn garments fall.

His comely brow, O shame and grief,
By the sharp thorny crown is riven,
Through Hands and Feet, without relief
The cruel nails are deeply driven.

But when for our poor sakes He died,
A willing Priest, by love subdued,
The soldier s spear transfixed His Side
Forth flowed the Water and the Blood.

Beneath the winepress of God s wrath,
To save our souls from endless pains,
Still hour by hour His Blood flows forth
Till not a single drop remains.

Come, bathe you in that healing flood,
All ye who mourn with sin opprest,
Your only hope in JESUS Blood,
His Sacred Heart your only rest.

All praise to Him, the Eternal Son,
At God s right hand enthroned above,
Whose Blood the world s redemption won,
Whose Spirit seals the gifts of love.

Amen.

Verse. Being justified by the Blood
of Christ

Answer. We shall be saved from
wrath through Him.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
The blood shall be to you for a token,
saith the Lord, and when I see the
Blood I will pass over you, and the
plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you. 1

Prayer throughout the Office.

r\ ALMIGHTY and Everlasting
^-^ God, Who hast appointed Thine
Only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer
of the world, and hast been pleased to
be reconciled unto us by His Blood,

grant us, we beseech Thee, so to use
this solemn worship of the price of our
salvation, that the Power thereof may
here on earth keep us from all things
that may hurt us, and the purchase of
the same may gladden us for ever
hereafter in Heaven. Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

Commemoration of the Week-day.

Antiphon. Our friend Lazarus
sleepeth : let us go and awake him
out of sleep. 2

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all
Thy ways.

Prayer.

OGOD, who dost quicken the
whole world anew by Thine
unspeakable Sacraments, grant, we
beseech Thee, that Thy Church may
both profit by whatsoever Thou hast
ordained touching the things which
are eternal, nor be comfortless of such
help as is needful unto her touching
the things which are temporal.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. Who are these, &c.,
(First Antiphon at Lauds.}

Ps. liii. and the two first sections
of cxviii. In the Short Responsory,
instead of "Thou That sittest, c.,"
is said,

Verse. Thou That hast redeemed
us by Thy Blood.

2 A curious divergence from the words of the inspired text, which are : "I go, that 1 may
awake him, &c."

FOURTH WEEK IN LENT.

3 2I

Chapter, (Heb. ix. 19.)

JV/TOSES took the blood of calves
and of goats, with water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book, and all the people,
saying : This is the blood of the
Testament which God hath enjoined
unto you.

TERCE.

Antiphon. These are they, &c.,
{Second Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter from Lauds.

Short Responsory.

Lord, Thou hast redeemed us by
Thy Blood.

Answer. Lord, Thou hast redeemed
us by Thy Blood.

Verse. Out of every kindred, and
tongue, and people.

Answer. By Thy Blood.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Lord, Thou hast redeemed
us by Thy Blood.

Verse. The Blood of JESUS Christ,
the Son of God

Answer. Cleanseth us from all sin.

SEXT.

Antiphon. Therefore are they, &c.,
(Third Antiphon at Lauds,}

Chapter. (Heb. ix. 13.)

F the blood of bulls and of goats, and
the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling
the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying
of the flesh, how much more shall the
Blood of Christ, Who through the
Holy Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God, purge our conscience
from dead works, to serve the living
God?

Short Responsory.

The Blood of JESUS Christ, the Son
of God, cleanseth us.

Answer. The Blood of JESUS
Christ, the Son of God, cleanseth us.

Verse. From all sin.

Answer. Cleanseth us.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. The Blood of JESUS
Christ, the Son of God, cleanseth us.

Verse. Christ loved us

Answer. And washed us from our
sins in His Own Blood.

NONE.

Antiphon. Blessed are they, &c.,
(Fifth Antiphon at Lauds. )

Chapter as at the end of Prime.

Short Responsory.

Christ loved us, and washed us from
our sins in His Own Blood.

Answer. Christ loved us, and
washed us from our sins in His Own
Blood.

Verse. And hath made us unto our
God and Father a kingdom and
priests.

Answer. In His Own Blood.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Christ loved us, and
washed us from our sins in His Own
Blood.

Verse. Being justified by the Blood
of Christ,

Answer. We shall be saved from
wrath through Him.

SECOND VESPERS.

Same as the First except the follow

ing.

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Last Psalm.

Ps. cxlvii. Praise the LORD, O
Jerusalem, &c., (p. 203.)

Verse. We pray Thee therefore,
help Thy servants.

Answer. Whom Thou hast re
deemed by Thy Precious Blood.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. This day shall be unto you
for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a
Feast to the Lord throughout your
generations ; ye shall keep it a Feast
by an ordinance for ever.

Com7iiemoratioji of the Week-day.

Antiphon. Lord, if Thou hadst
been here, Lazarus had not died ; be
hold, by this time he stinketh, for he
hath lain in the grave four days al
ready.

Verse. God hath given His Angels
charge over Thee.

Answer. To keep Thee in all Thy
ways.

Prayer.

/^RANT, we beseech Thee, O Al-
mighty God, unto all us who
know that we are weak, and who trust
in Thee, because we know that Thou
art strong, the gladsome help of Thy
loving-kindness, both here in time and
hereafter in eternity. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The Sabbath.
MATTINS.

Hymn as on the First Sunday, (p.

228.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (viii. 12.)

A T that time : JESUS spake unto the
rr~ multitudes of the Jews, saying ;
I am the Light of the world : He that
followeth Me, walketh not in dark
ness ; but shall have the Light of life.
And so on.

Homily on this passage by St
Austin, Bishop [of Hippo.] (34^
Tract o?i John.}

I take it that these words of the
Lord " I am the Light of the world "
are sufficiently clear to all men who
have eyes which see that Light. At
the same time, such men as have no
eyes except those which are in their
bodies, are surprised to find our Lord
JESUS Christ saying, " I am the Light
of the world." And that we might
not want somebody to say, "Is our
Lord JESUS Christ, then, the same
sun that riseth and setteth every
day ? " there have actually been
heretics who did say it. The Mani-
chaeans believed that that sun which
we see \vith our bodily eyes, and to
see which is plain and common to
beasts as well as men, was the Lord
Christ.

First Responsory.

After that the Lord, &c., (p. 302.)

Second Lesson.

T)UT the right faith of the Catholic
Church damneth such comment,
and recogniseth in it a doctrine of
devils. And as it is her practice not
only to brand errors by the difference
of her own Creed, but also to remove
them, if possible, by dint of argument,
let us take up arms against this false
hood, which hath from the very begin
ning been the object of the curse of

FOURTH WEEK IN LENT.

the Holy Church. God forbid that
we should believe that our Lord JESUS
Christ is this sun whose apparent
movement is to rise every day in the
East, and set every day in the West ;
which when we see no more, night
cometh over us ; and whose rays are
sometimes intercepted by clouds : and
which hath some law of motion of its
own whereby it describeth an orbit. 1
The planet is not the same thing as
our Lord JESUS Christ. Our Lord
JESUS Christ is not that created sun,
but He by Whom that sun was
created ; for " all things were made
by Him, and without Him was not
anything made that was made." (John

i. 3-)

Second Responsory.

Behold I send, &c., (p. 302.)

Third Lesson.

T T E is therefore the Light by Whom
the material light was made.
Him may we love, Him may we long
to know, Him may we thirst after ; to
Him may His own beams one day
lead us, and in Him may we so live
that we shall never die ! For He,
even He, and none other, He is that
Light, of Whom the Prophet that was
given of old time sang in the Psalms,
when he said : " For with Thee is the
fountain of life, and in Thy Light shall
we see light." (Ps. xxxv. 10.) Re
member ye likewise what the word of
God s ancient saints saith of such
Light : " O LORD, Thou preservest
man and beast -How excellent is Thy
loving-kindness, O God!" (7, 8.)

Third Responsory.
Give ear, &c., (p. 302.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Isa. Iviii. i, as on the
First Monday, (p. 235.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
the First Sunday, (p. 233.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Thus saith the Lord : * He that fol
io weth Me walketh not in darkness,
but shall have the Light of life.

Prayer.

r\ LORD, we pray Thee, that Thy
^-^^ grace may make fruitful the toil
of this our godly exercise, since it shall
nothing avail us to have fasted, if our
Fast be not pleasing in Thy most gra
cious sight. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and reign-
eth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

Before Vespers all Crosses, images,
and pictures are covered with ptirple
veils*

VESPERS.

From these Vespers till the Vespers
of Low Sunday, both inclusive, the
Week-day Commemoration of the Cross
is not made, and at and after the Lauds
of the Monday in Low Week it is made
in the manner peculiar to Easter-tide
till the Lauds of the Eve of the Ascen-

1 Modern astronomers believe the centre of its orbit to be a star (Alcyone) in the constellation
Pleiades.

2 The extremely sorrowful tone of the Church throughout the early part of the month Nisan,
(and that Passiontide is to be so translated is evident from the First Responsory on Passion
Sunday,) is not explained by any custom of the Synagogue, and is perhaps intended in honour
of our Lord s last sojourn in Judaea, during which the plots for His death were in development.
He seems, from the Gospel and tradition, to have arrived at Bethany, from the neighbourhood
of Jordan, on the Friday, and the Church, in deference to the " Day of Delight," postpones her
commemoration of these woeful days till the close of the Sabbath which began on Friday evening,
and during which He rested with those He loved, the last Sabbath but one before His death.

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sion, inclusive, save on Doubles and
days within an Octave. Likewise,
from these Vespers inclusive, till Lauds
of the Monday after Trinity Sunday
exclusive, the Common Commemora
tions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of
St Joseph, of the Holy Apostles Peter
and Paul, of the local Patron, and for
Peace are omitted.

Chapter and Prayer from the follow
ing Lauds.

Hymn. 1

*T^HE Royal Banners forward go ;

The Cross shines forth in mystic glow,
Where Life for sinners death endured,
And life by death for man procured.

Where deep for us the spear was dy d,
Life s torrent rushing from His Side,
To wash us in that precious flood
Where, mingled, Water flowed, and Blood.

Fulfilled is all that David told
In true Prophetic song of old ;
"Amidst the nations, God/ saith he,
"Hath reigned and triumphed from the
Tree." 2

O Tree of Beauty ! Tree of Light !
O Tree with Royal Purple dight !
Elect on whose triumphal breast
Those holy Limbs should find their rest !

On whose dear arms, so widely flung,
The weight of this world s ransom hung :
The price of human kind to pay,
And spoil the spoiler of his prey.

3 O Cross, our one reliance, hail !
This holy Passiontide, avail
To give fresh merit to the Saint,
And pardon to the penitent.

To Thee, Eternal Three in One,
Let homage meet by all be done ;
Whom by the Cross Thou dost restore,
Preserve and govern evermore. Amen.

Verse. Deliver me, O LORD, from
the evil man.

Answer. Preserve me from the
wicked man.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. I am One * That bear wit
ness of Myself, and the Father That
sent Me beareth witness of Me.

COMPLINE.

Note that the Verse, " Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Ghost," is omitted in the Short
Responsory, and is not said again ex
cept on Festivals, till the Saturday
evening before Low Sunday. Also
that the same change is made in all the
other Short Responsories, viz., those at
Prime, Terce, Sext, and None, till
Low Sunday. The Responsory there
fore runs as follows :

Into Thy hands, O Lord, I com
mend my spirit.

Answer. Into Thy hands, O Lord,
I commend my spirit.

Verse. Thou hast redeemed us, O
LORD God of truth.

Answer. I commend my spirit.
Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend
my spirit.

Verse. Keep us, O Lord, as the
apple of the eye.

Answer. Hide us under the shadow
of Thy wings.

And it is thus said daily until
Maundy - Thursday, exclusive, except
on Festivals, when it is said as
usual.

1 Translation by the late Rev. Dr Neale. It was composed by Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop
of Poictiers, (whose life extended from A.D. 530 to 609,) on occasion of the reception of certain
Reliques by St Gregory of Tours and St Radegund, previously to the consecration of a Church
at Poictiers. It is therefore strictly and primarily a processional hymn. (Neale s Mediaeval
Hymns, i, 6.)

* 2 . So-called Italic for Ps. xcv. 10.

3 " These two verses were added when the Hymn was appropriated to Passiontide."

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passion Suttoag,

The Lord s Day i?i time of the
Passion.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. To-day if ye will hear
the voice of the Lord, * harden not
your hearts.

In Ps. xciv. the words, " To-day, if
ye will hear His voice, harden not your
hearts," are omitted, and in place of
them, the Invitatory is repeated again
by the Choir, (or others who may be
answering,} after which the Cantors or
Officiant begin, "As in the Provoca
tion, &c."

At the end of the Psalm the clause
beginning " Glory be to the Father,
&c." is also omitted, nor are the words
" Harden not your hearts " said, but
the entire Invitatory is simply repeated
again.

Hymnl

CING, my tongue, the glorious battle,

With completed victory rife :
And above the Cross s trophy

Tell the triumph of the strife :
How the world s Redeemer conquered

By surrendering of His life.

God his Maker, sorely grieving

That the first-made Adam fell,
When he ate the fruit of sorrow

Whose reward was death and hell,
Noted then this Tree, the ruin

Of the ancient tree to quell. 2

1 Also by Venantius Fortunatus, and translated by the late Dr Neale.

2 The Cross, as the mystic "tree of life," (Gen. ii. 9,) is here set by the poet in antithesis to
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "whose mortal taste Brought death into the world
and all^our woe." The present translator has taken the liberty to substitute "tree" for

wood, as a translation of " lignum," as more conformable to our common phraseology,
and used by Dr Neale himself in the " Royal Banners."

* I.e., from trees. 4 The poem is here abruptly broken off, the rest being sung at Lauds.

Abp. Kenrick says : "This Prophet was a son of Hilkiah, a Priest of Anathoth, a village in
the tribe of Benjamin, about three miles from Jerusalem. He prophesied in Judea, from the
thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah, about 629 years before Christ, until the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, during a period of forty years. Subsequently, also, he prophesied both in Judea and
in Egypt, where he is believed to have died, although the circumstances of his death are not
ascertained. St Epiphanius states that he was stoned by the people of Taphne." (So the
Roman Martyrology, on May i ; and it is generally believed that he was martyred for protest
ing against idolatry.) "The Prophet was, in several respects, a type of our Redeemer, of
Whose wonderful Conception, Life," and Sufferings, striking predictions and figures are found in
this Divine book. The Church borrows his lamentations to express her anguish and desolation
m contemplating the Passion and Death of her Divine Spouse." For some account of the
events of his time, see the Eleventh Week after Pentecost.

For the work of our salvation
Needs would have his order so,

And the multiform deceiver s
Art by art would overthrow,

And from thence 3 would bring the med cine
Whence the insult of the foe.

Wherefore, when the sacred fulness
Of th appointed time was come,

This world s Maker left His Father,
Sent the Heavenly Mansion from,

And proceeded, God Incarnate,
Of the Virgin s Holy Womb.

Weeps the Infant in the manger
That in Bethlehem s stable stands ;

And His Limbs the Virgin Mother
Doth compose in swaddling bands,

Meetly thus in linen folding
Of her God the Feet and Hands. 4

To the Trinity be glory

Everlasting, as is meet :
Equal to the Father, equal

To the Son, and Paraclete :
Trinal Unity, Whose praises

All created things repeat. Amen.

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Lesson.

Here beginneth the Book of the
Prophet 5 Jeremiah (i. i.)

"P HE words of Jeremiah the son of
Hilkiah, of the Priests that were
in Anathoth, in the Land of Benjamin :
to whom the word of the LORD came
in the days of Josiah the son of Amon
king of Judah, in the thirteenth year

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of his reign. 1 It came also in the
days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the end of the
eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carry
ing away of Jerusalem captive in the
fifth month. Then the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying : Before
I formed thee in the belly I knew
thee ; and before thou earnest forth
out of the womb I sanctified thee ;
and I ordained thee a prophet unto
the nations. Then said I : Ah ! Lord
GOD ! 2 behold, I cannot speak, for I
am a child ! 3

First Responsory.

4 These are the days to be observed
of you in their seasons. In the four
teenth day at even is the LORD S
Passover, and on the fifteenth day ye
shall keep a Feast unto the LORD, the
Most High. 5

Verse. The LORD spake unto
Moses, saying : Speak unto the chil
dren of Israel, and say unto them :

Answer. In the fourteenth day at
even is the LORD S Passover, and on
the fifteenth day ye shall keep a Feast
unto the LORD, the Most High.

Second Lesson.

T)UT the LORD said unto me: Say
not, I am a child : for thou shalt
go to all that I shall send thee ; and
whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt
speak. Be not afraid of their faces,
for I am with thee to deliver thee,
saith the LORD. Then the LORD put
forth His hand, and touched my

mouth ; and the LORD said unto me :
Behold, I have put My words in thy
mouth. See, I have this day set thee
over the nations and over the king
doms, to root out and to pull down,
and to destroy and to throw down, and
to build and to plant. Moreover the
word of the LORD came unto me,
saying : Jeremiah, what seest thou ?
And I said : I see a rod of the watch-
early [tree. 6 ] Then said the LORD
unto me : Thou hast well seen : for I
will watch over My word to perform it
early. And the word of the LORD
came unto me the second time, say
ing : What seest thou ? And I said :
I see a seething pot, and the face
thereof is from the face of the North. 7

Second Responsory.

8 They be increased that trouble me,
and that say : There is no help for
him in his God. Arise, O LORD !
Save me, O my God !

Verse. 9 Lest mine enemy say : I
have prevailed against him.

Aftswer. Arise, O LORD ! Save
me, O my God !

Third Lesson.

HPHEN the LORD said unto me:
Out of the North an evil shall
break forth upon all the inhabitants of
the land. For, lo, I will call all the
families of the kingdoms of the North,
saith the LORD : and they shall come,
and they shall set every one his throne
at the entering of the gates of Jerusa
lem, and against all the walls thereof
round about, and against all the cities

1 About the year B.C. 629. 2 The Name.

3 He is thought to have been about fifteen years of age. 4 Lev. xxiii. 1-6.

5 The i4th day is Holy Saturday, and at Even (the hour of Even Song) is the joyful ceremony
peculiar to that day. The i5th day is Easter Day.

6 This is the Hebrew name of the almond-tree, " so called because it is the first to arouse and
awake from the sleep of winter." (Gesenius.)

7 "This boiling caldron is used to represent the elements of excitement on the part of the
Babylonians and Chaldeans who were about to invade Judah."

8 Ps. iii. 2, 3, 7. 9 Ps. xii. 5.

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of Judah. And I will utter My judg
ments with them, touching all their
wickedness who have forsaken Me, and
have made offerings unto other gods,
and worshipped the works of their own
hands. Thou, therefore, gird up thy
loins, and arise, and speak unto them
all that I command thee. Be not dis
mayed at their faces ; for I will not
make their countenance fearful unto
thee. For, behold, I have made thee
this day a fenced city, and an iron
pillar, and brazen walls against the
whole land, against the kings of
Judah, against the princes thereof,
and against the priests thereof, and
against the people of the land. And
they shall fight against thee, and they
shall not prevail against thee ; for I
am with thee, saith the LORD, to
deliver thee.

to come to this one in worthy and
meet manner. But these days, which
now are, are they which ought most
especially to stir up a godly mind in
us, seeing that they are they which
are nearest to that most glorious
mystery of God s mercy. In these
days the holy Apostles, taught by the
Holy Ghost, ordered the chiefest store
of Fasting, that we, sharing His Cross
with Christ, might, albeit we are what
we are, in Him, do some of the same
things which He did for our sakes,
and so realise the saying of the
Apostle : " If we suffer with Him, we
shall be also glorified together/
(Rom. viii. 17.) He that is "par
taker of the sufferings" (2 Cor. i. 7)
of the Lord hath a sure and certain
hope of that blessedness which He
hath promised unto us.

Third Responsory.

1 How long shall mine enemy be ex
alted over me ? Consider, and hear
me, O LORD my God !

Verse. Those that trouble me will
rejoice when I am moved : but I have
trusted in Thy mercy.

Answer. Consider and hear me, O
LORD my God ! How long shall mine
enemy be exalted over me ? Consider
and hear me, O LORD my God !

SECOND NOCTURN.
Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of Pope St Leo [the Great.] (&lt;)th
for Lent. )

Q EARLY beloved brethren, we
know that of all the solemn
Feasts which are kept by Christians
the Passover is the chief. The ordi
nances of the whole rest of the year
are ordered to the end of preparing us

1 Ps. xii. 3-6.

Fourth Responsory.

- Thou art my God be not far from
me : for trouble is near ; for there is
none to help.

Verse. But be not Thy strength
far from me ; O LORD, haste Thee to
help me.

Answer. For trouble is near ; for
there is none to help.

Fifth Lesson.

"p\ EARLY beloved brethren, there is
^ no man to whom the state of the
age in which he liveth denieth a share
in this glory of partaking, first the suf
ferings, and then the triumph and joy,
of Christ. It is not as though this
time of peace were barren in occasions
of valour. The Apostle giveth us this
warning : " All that will live godly in
Christ JESUS shall suffer persecution."
(2 Tim. iii. 12.) And therefore, as
long as godliness is watchful, persecu
tion will never be asleep. The Lord

2 PS. XXU II, 12, 20.

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Himself saith in one of His own ex
hortations : " He that taketh not his
cross, and followeth after Me, is not
worthy of Me." (Matth. x. 38.) And
we must not doubt that these words of
Christ apply not only to His immedi
ate disciples, to whom He spoke them,
but belong to all the faithful and to
the whole Church, who, whosoever be
the believers of whom she is for the
time composed on earth, heareth in
these words the way to be saved which
her Lord hath appointed for them.

Fifth Responsory.

1 I was cast upon Thee from the
womb ; Thou art my God from my
mother s belly ; be not far from me.
For trouble is near, and there is none
to help.

Verse. Save me from the lion s
mouth, and mine affliction from the
horns of the unicorns.

Answer. For trouble is near, and
there is none to help.

Sixth Lesson.

A ;

S, then, it is the duty of the whole
body of the Church to live godly,
so is it her right at all times to be
a-bearing of her Master s Cross, and
that not only in her general body, but
individually in the person of each one
of her members, who differ every one
from another in the way in which they
have to carry it, and the shape in
which it is laid upon them. The one
common name for all their carrying of
the Cross is persecution, but the man
ner of his wrestling is special to each ;
and there is often more danger in the
ambush than in the pitched field of
battle. Blessed Job, who had tried
both the goods and the ills of this
world, said : "Is not the life of man
upon earth a warfare?" (vii. i.)

1 Ps. xxi. ii, 12, 22.

The attack upon the faithful soul
arrayeth itself not alone in bodily
torture and punishment ; yea, when
the limbs are sound enough, fearful is
the ravage that threateneth us when
the lusts of the flesh unman us. But
when " the flesh lusteth against the
spirit, and the spirit against the
flesh " (Gal. iv. 7) the reasonable mind
findeth her reinforcement in the help
ful Cross of Christ, and though she be
lured by foul cravings, yet refuseth to
give her consent, for God maketh her
pure thoughts to tremble for fear of
Him. (Ps. cxviii. 120.)

Sixth Responsory.

2 O Lord, my trouble is near, and
there is none to help me ; or ever
they pierce my hands and my feet,
save me from the lion s mouth ! that
I may declare Thy Name unto my
brethren.

Verse. O God, deliver my soul
from the sword, and my darling from
the power of the dog.

Answer. That I may declare Thy
Name unto my brethren. O Lord, my
trouble is near, and there is none to
help me ; or ever they pierce my hands
and my feet, save me from the lion s
mouth ! that I may declare Thy Name
unto my brethren.

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (viii. 46.)

A T that time : JESUS said unto the
^ multitudes of the Jews : Which
of you convinceth Me of sin ? And, if
I say the truth, why do ye not believe
Me ? And so on.

Homily by Pope St Gregory [the
Great] (i8/7* on the Gospels.}

2 PS. XXI. 12, 17, 22, 23, 21.

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Dearly beloved brethren, consider
the gentleness of God. He came to
take away sins, and He saith : "Which
of you convinceth Me of sin ? " He
Who, through the might of His God
head, was able to justify sinners, was
contented to show by argument that
He was not Himself a sinner. But
exceeding dread is that which follow-
eth. " He that is of God heareth
God s words ; ye, therefore, hear them
not, because ye are not of God." If,
then, whosoever is of God heareth
God s words, and whosoever is not of
Him cannot hear His words, let each
one ask himself if he, in the ear of his
heart, heareth God s words, and under-
standeth Whose words they are ? The
Truth commandeth us to long for a
Fatherland in heaven, to bridle the
lusts of the flesh, to turn away from
the glory of the world, to seek no
man s goods, and to give away our
own.

Seventh Responsory.

1 O Lord, I go mourning all the day
long, for my soul is filled with a loath
some disease : they also that sought
after my life have used violence
against me.

Verse. My friends and my neigh
bours draw near, and stand over
against me ; and they that are nearest
to me stand afar off.

Answer. They also that sought
after my life have used violence
against me.

Eighth Lesson.

T ET each of you, therefore, think
within himself if this voice of
God is heard in the ear of his heart,
and if he knoweth already if he is of
God. For some there be, whom it

1 Ps. xxxvii. 7, 8, 13, 12.

pleaseth not to hear the command
ments of God even with their bodily
ears. And some there be, who receive
the same with their bodily ears, but
whose heart is far from them. And
some also there be, who hear the
words of God with joy, so that they
are moved thereby even to tears ; but
when their fit of weeping is past they
turn again to iniquity. They hear not
the words of God, who despise to do
them. Therefore, dearly beloved bre
thren, call up your own life before
your mind s eye, and then ponder
with trembling those awful words
which the mouth of the Truth spake :
" Ye therefore hear them not, because
ye are not of God."

Eighth Responsory.

2 O Lord, hide not Thy face from
Thy servant, for I am in trouble ; hear
me speedily.

Verse. Draw nigh unto my soul,
and redeem it ; deliver me, because of
mine enemies.

Answer. For I am in trouble ;
hear me speedily.

Ninth Lesson.

T^HE Truth speaketh these words
concerning the reprobate ; but
the reprobate make manifest the same
thing concerning themselves, by their
evil works. Thus immediately fol-
loweth : " Then answered the Jews,
and said unto Him : Say we not well
that Thou art a Samaritan, and hast a
devil ? " But let us hear what the
Lord said to this insult. " I have not
a devil, but I honour My Father, and
ye do dishonour Me." The Lord
said : " I have not a devil," but He
did not say : " I am not a Samaritan,"
for in a sense a Samaritan He was

2 Ps. Ixix. 17.

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indeed, 1 since the word Samaritan, in
the Hebrew tongue, signifieth, being
interpreted, "a Watcher," and the
Lord is that Watcher, of Whom the
Psalmist saith (cxxviii. 2) that unless
He keep the city, other watchman
waketh but in vain. He also is that
Watchman unto Whom crieth Isaiah
(xxi. 11): "Watchman, what of the
night ? Watchman, what of the
night ? " Therefore the Lord said :
" I have not a devil," but not : " I
am not a Samaritan." Of the two
things brought against Him He denied
one ; but by His silence, admitted the
other.

Ninth Responsory.

O 2 that my head were waters, and
mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I
might weep day and night ! for my
nearest brother hath supplanted me,
and my neighbour hath walked with
slanders against me.

Verse. 3 Let their way be dark and
slippery, and let the Angel of the LORD
persecute them.

Answer. And my neighbour hath
walked with slanders against me. O
that my head were waters, and mine
eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night ! for my nearest
brother hath supplanted me, and my
neighbour hath walked with slanders
against me.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. 4 O LORD, behold
my affliction ; * for the enemy hath
magnified himself.

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, &c., (p. 87.)

Second Antiphon. I called upon the
LORD * in my distress ; and He an
swered me, and set me at large.

Psalm CXVIL
O give thanks, &c., (p. 37.)

Third Antiphon. 5 O Lord, Thou
hast pleaded the cause of my soul ; *
Thou hast redeemed my life, O Lord
my God.

Psalms LX1I. and LXVI.

O God, Thou art my God, &c., (p.

230

Fourth Antiphon. 6 O My people,
what have I done unto thee ? * or
wherein have I wearied thee ? testify
against Me.

The Song of the Three Holy Children,

(A 24.)

Fifth Antiphon. " Shall evil be re
compensed for good ? * for they have
digged a pit for My soul.

Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.
Praise ye the LORD, &c., (p. 25.)

Chapter. (Heb. ix. n.)

"DRETHREN, Christ being come an
-^ High Priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this building, neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but
by His Own Blood, He entered in once
into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us.

1 The Jews, however, of course meant that He was one of those heretics whose headquarters
were at Samaria, and who still exist there, of whom He had Himself said, " Ye worship ye
know not what." (John iv. 22.)

- Jer. ix. i, 4. Lit., "Who will give my head," &c. :i Ps. xxxiv. 6.

4 Lam. i. 9. 5 Lam. iii. 58. 6 Micah vi. 3.^ 7 Jer. xviii. 20.

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ffymn*

HTHIRTY years among us dwelling,

His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, He meets His Passion,

For that this He freely willed :
On the Cross the Lamb is lifted,

Where His Life-Blood shall be spilled.

He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed ;

From that Holy Body broken
Blood and water forth proceed :

Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are freed.

Faithful Cross ! above all other,

One and only noble Tree !
None in foliage, none in blossom,

None in fruit thy peers may be :
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron !

Sweetest weight is hung on thee.

Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory !

Thy relaxing sinews bend ;
For a while the ancient rigour,

That thy birth bestowed, suspend ;
And the King of heavenly beauty

On thy bosom gently tend.

Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world s ransom to uphold ;

For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old ;

With the Sacred Blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.

To the Trinity be glory

Everlasting, as is meet:
Equal to the Father, equal

To the Son, and Paraclete :
Trinal Unity, Whose praises

All created things repeat. Amen.

from

mine

Verse. 2 Deliver me
enemies, O my God,

Answer. And defend me from them
that rise up against me.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
JESUS said * unto the multitudes of
the Jews and unto the Chief Priests :
He that is of God heareth God s

1 Continuation of the Mattins Hymn.

words ; ye, therefore, hear them not,
because ye are not of God.

Prayer throughout the day.

beseech Thee, Almighty God,
mercifully to look upon this
Thy family, that by Thy great good
ness they may be governed and pre
served evermore, both in body and
soul. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

PRIME.

Antiphon. I have not a devil ; *
but I honour My Father, and ye do
dishonour Me, saith the Lord.

The Short Responsory is said as fol
lows :

Christ, Thou Son of the Living God,
have mercy on us.

Answer. Christ, Thou Son of the
Living God, have mercy on us.

Verse. Thou, that sittest at the
right hand of the Father.

Answer. Have mercy on us.
Christ, Thou Son of the Living God,
have mercy on us.

Verse. Arise, O Christ, and help us.

Answer. And deliver us for Thy
Name s sake.

And it is thus said daily until
Maundy- Thursday, exclusive, except on
Festivals, when it is said as usual.

TERCE.

Antiphon. I seek not Mine Own
glory; * there is One That seeketh
and judgeth.

Chapter from Lauds.

2 Ps. Iviii. 2.

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SEXT.

Antiphon. Amen, Amen, * I say
unto you : If a man keep My saying,
he shall never see death.

Chapter, (Heb. ix. 13.)

"pOR if the blood of goats and of
bulls, and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to
the purifying of the flesh, how much
more shall the Blood of Christ, Who
through the Holy Spirit offered Him
self without spot to God, purge our
conscience from dead works, to serve
the living God ?

NONE.

Antiphon. Then took the Jews up
stones * to cast at Him : but JESUS hid
Himself, and went out of the temple.

Chapter. (Heb. ix. 15.)

AND for this cause He is the Medi-
^~^ ator of the New Testament, that,
by means of death, for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under
the first Testament, they which are
called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance, in Christ JESUS
our Lord.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Lauds.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday evening, (p. 324.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Your father Abraham rejoiced
to see My day : * and he saw it, and
was glad.

After Vespers are said the Vespers of
the Dead.

in (paeston (B&gt;eeft.

Second Day.

MATTINS.

Invitatory and alterations in Ps.
xciv., and Hymn, as yesterday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (vii. 32.)

A T that time : The chief priests and
^^ the Pharisees sent officers to take
JESUS. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo. ] ( 3 1 st Tract on John. )

How could they take Him until such
time as He willed to be taken ? If,
then, they could not take Him until
He willed to be taken, were they sent
to watch His teaching ? " Then said
JESUS unto them : Yet a little while
am I with you " what ye now seek
to do, ye shall do ; but not yet, for I
will not so yet. And why will I not
so yet ? Because " yet a little while
am I with you, and then I go unto
Him that sent Me " I must fulfil that
which I am sent to do, and so go to
suffer.

First Responsory.

1 Deliver me, O my God, out of the
hand of the wicked, and out of the
hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
For Thou art my hope.

Verse. O my God, be not far from
me : O my God, make haste for my
help.

Answer. For Thou art my hope.

Second Lesson.

" "Y^E shall seek Me, and shall not

find Me, and where I am

thither ye cannot come." In these

1 Ps. Ixx. 4, 5, 12.

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words He foretold already His rising
again from the dead. While He was
with them they would not know Him ;
and afterwards they sought Him, when
they saw that a multitude already be
lieved in Him. For great signs were
wrought also when the Lord rose
again, and ascended up into heaven.
Then were great signs again wrought
through the Disciples, (that is, through
them by Him Who worketh the same
directly also by Himself,) according
as He had said unto them : "Without
Me ye can do nothing." (John xv. 5.)
When that lame man that was laid
daily at the Beautiful Gate of the
Temple stood up at the voice of Peter
(Acts iii.) and walked, and all the
people were filled with wonder, Peter
bade them know that it was not by
his own power that he had made him
to walk, but by the power of Him
Whom they had killed. And when
they heard this, many were pricked
in their heart, and said : What shall
we do ? (Acts ii. 37.)

Second Responsory.

1 They that lay wait for my soul
take counsel together, saying : God
hath forsaken him ; persecute and
take him, for there is none to de
liver him. O my God, be not far
from me : O my God, make haste
for my help.

Verse. 2 All that hate me whispered
together against me ; against me did
they devise my hurt, saying :

Answer. Persecute and take him,
for there is none to deliver him. O
my God, be not far from me : O my
God, make haste for my help.

Third Lesson.

T7 OR they saw that they were bur
dened with the guilt of an ex
ceeding great sin, in that they had
killed Him, Whom it was their duty
to worship and adore : and for that
guilt they knew of no propitiation.
Yea, their sin was indeed exceeding
great ; and the consideration of it
made them to despair for whom the
Lord, when He hung upon the Cross,
had been willing to pray, as it is
written : " Then said JESUS : Father,
forgive them, for they know not what
they do." (Luke xxiii. 34.) At that
hour He had seen among" many aliens
some that \vere His Own ; for them
He asked forgiveness, while yet He
suffered at their hand, nor considered
that they were putting Him to death,
but only that He was dying for them.

Third Responsory.

3 Mine enemies spoke to me peace
ably, but in wrath they troubled me.
This Thou hast seen, O LORD ; keep
not silence : be not far from me.

Verse. But as for me, when they
troubled me my clothing was sackcloth,
and I humbled my soul with fasting.

Answer. This Thou hast seen, O
LORD ; keep not silence : be not far
from me. Mine enemies spoke to me
peaceably, but in wrath they troubled
me. This Thou hast seen, O Lord ;
keep not silence : be not far from me.

LAUDS.

Chapter. (Jer. xi. 19.)

/~*OME, let us put [poison of a

deadly] tree 4 into his bread, and

let us cut him off from the land of the

2 Ps. xl. 8.

1 Ps. Ixx. 10, ii.

3 Ps. xxxiv. 20, 22, 13. (Other version than the present.)

4 The present Hebrew is, literally, "Let us destroy . . . tree in his bread," i.e., "Let us
destroy him by putting the juice of some poisonous tree into his food." LXX., " Let us put
tree into his bread." Jonathan ben Uzziel, " Let us cast poison of death into his food." For
the context regarding this plot to assassinate Jeremiah, see the First Lesson on Tuesday in
Holy Week. This passage seems to have been selected with an eye to a mystic allusion to the

fatal tree " of the Cross, as the instrument of death.

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living, that his name may be no more
remembered.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at tJie Song of Zacharias.
In the last day, that great day of the
Feast, * JESUS stood and cried, saying:
If any man thirst, let Him come unto
Me, and drink.

Prayer.

IT ALLOW, O Lord, we beseech
Thee, this our Fast, and merci
fully grant us forgiveness of all our
trespasses. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

After Lauds is said the Dirge.

VESPERS.
Chapter. (Jer. xi. 20.)

jgUT, O LORD of Sabaoth, That
judgest righteously, and triest
the reins and the heart, let me see
Thy vengeance on them : for unto
Thee, have I revealed my cause, [O
Lord my God.]

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday, (p. 324.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. If any man thirst, let him
come unto Me, * and drink : and out
of his belly shall flow living water,
saith the Lord.

Prayer.

ANT unto Thy people, we be-
seech Thee, O Lord, health both
of mind and body, that they, ever

cleaving unto good works, may under
Thy shadow be ever worthily defended.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

Third Day.

MATTINS.

Invitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn as on Sunday, (p. 325.)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (vii. I.)

A T that time : JESUS walked in Gali
lee ; for He would not walk in
Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill
Him. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
H ippo. ] ( 2 %th Tract on John. )

In this chapter of the Gospel, my
brethren, our Lord JESUS Christ hath
much commended Himself unto our
faith, as touching His Manhood. At
the same time, His words and works
were alway such as to give us to be
lieve that He is both God and Man,
yea, that God Who made us, and that
Man Who hath sought us, yea, God
the Son, Who, as touching His God
head, is alway with the Father, (John
i. 1 8 ; iii. 13,) and, as touching His
Manhood, hath been with us in time.
(Matth. i. 23.) For He had not
sought the work of His hands unless
He had been made His own work.
(John i. 14.) Keep this well in mind,
and let your hearts never forget it,
namely, that Christ was not made
Man so as to cease to be God. He,
Who made the Manhood, took It into

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that Godhead Which is His from ever
lasting to everlasting. 1

First Responsory.

2 Thou art my Helper and my Pro
tector, O Lord, and in Thy word do I
hope. Depart from me, ye evil doers,
for I will keep the commandments of
my God.

Verse. I hate the unrighteous, but
Thy law do I love.

Answer. Depart from me, ye evil
doers, for I will keep the command
ments of my God.

Second Lesson.

V\THILE therefore He lay hid in the
Manhood, we must not think
that He had suffered any lessening of
power, but that He was giving en-
sample to our weakness. When He
willed it, He was taken ; when He
willed it, He was put to death. (John
x. 1 8.) But, since He was to have
members, that is, His faithful people,
who would not have that power over
their lives which He, our God, had
over His, He hid Himself, He con
cealed Himself, as if it were to escape
being put to death, to show what
should be done by those His members
in whom He should dwell.

Second Responsory.

8 1 will teach transgressors Thy
ways, and sinners shall be converted
unto Thee. Deliver me from blood-
guiltiness, O God, Thou God of my
salvation.

Verse. O Lord, open Thou my lips,
and my mouth shall show forth Thy
praise.

Answer. Deliver me from blood-
guiltiness, O God, Thou God of my
salvation.

Third Lesson.

T7 OR Christ is not the Head of His
Church in such sense that He is
not in her Body ; but the whole Christ
is in the Head, and the whole Christ
is in the Body. That, then, which
His members are is Himself, (though
That Which He is, That are not there
fore His members.) For if His mem
bers had not been indeed His Own,
how had He said unto Saul, (Acts ix.
4): "Why persecutes! thou Me ? "-
since Saul was not persecuting Him
in Himself, but in His members, that
is, in His faithful ones which were
upon earth. He said not, " Why per-
secutest thou My holy ones," nor,
" My servants," no, nor yet called He
them by that more honourable name,
" My brethren," but, " Why perse-
cutest thou Me?" that is, "the mem
bers of My Body, whose Head I am."

Third Responsory.

4 Make not my soul to perish with
sinners, O God, nor my life with
bloody men. Redeem me, O Lord !

Verse. ~&gt; Deliver me, O LORD, from
the evil man, preserve me from the
wicked man.

Answer. Redeem me, O Lord !
make not my soul to perish with sin
ners, O God, nor my life with bloody
men. Redeem me, O Lord !

LAUDS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 19, as yester-

day, (P- 333-)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday ^ (p. 331.)

1 The Creed of St Athanasius is as felicitous as usual in the expression ofthis dogma " One ;
not by conversion of the Godhead into Flesh ; but by taking of the Manhood into God." See
the whole passage beginning, " For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess that our Lord
JESUS Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man, &c., &c."

2 Ps. cxviii. 114, 115, 113. 3 p s . i. 15-17. 4 PS. xxv . g. 5 p s . cxxxix. 2.

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Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
My time is not yet come : * but your
time is alway ready.

Prayer.

r\ LORD, we beseech Thee, that
^^ this our Fast may be acceptable
in Thy sight, and may, through Thy
blessing, effectually work in us, making
us meet here to receive Thy grace and
hereafter the everlasting glory which
Thou hast promised. Through our
Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 20, as yester
day, (p. 334.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday, (p. 324.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Go ye up unto this Feast : *
I go not up [yet] unto this Feast, for
My time is not yet full come.

Prayer.

r\ LORD, we beseech Thee to give
^-^ us grace to endure to the end in
doing of Thy will, that in our days
Thy people which serve Thee may
have increase, both as touching better
ing of their works, and multiplying of
their numbers. 1 Through our Lord
JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth
and reigneth with Thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

Fotirth Day.

Before Mattins are said the Gradual
Psalms.

MATTINS.

Invitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn as on Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (x. 22.)

A T that time : It was at Jerusalem
^^ the Feast of the Dedication, and
And TESUS walked

it was winter,
in the Temple
And so on.

JESUS
Solomon s

Porch.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
H ippo. ] ( 4 Wi Tract on John. )

The Greek word " Enkainia," used
by the Evangelist, 2 signifieth the Feast
of the Dedication of the Temple. The
derivation thereof is " kainon," which
is, being interpreted, "new;" and the
Dedication of anything new is thence
called Enkainia. The use of this word
is still preserved among ourselves ; 3 if
any man put on his new coat for the
first time we say that he enkainiateth. 4
It was the use of the Jews to keep
solemn holiday upon the Anniversary
of the Dedication of the Temple, and
this was the Feast-day which was be
ing observed when the Lord spake the
words which have been read. 5

First Responsory.
O Lord, I go mourning, c., (p. 329.)

1 An allusion to those who are to be baptised on the approaching Holy Saturday.

2 And preserved in the Latin, probably because it was the regular name for the Feast among
the Greek-speaking }ews. It was the Feast now commonly called " Chanucah," which is kept
on Casleu 25, (about the beginning of December,) with an Octave. See Monday in the
Second week of October.

3 Viz., in Africa in the fifth century. 4 Encseniare dicitur.
5 The discourse was perhaps delivered after the Gospel at High Mass.

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Second Lesson.

" T T was winter. And JESUS walked
* in the Temple in Solomon s
Porch. Then came the Jews round
about Him, and said unto Him : How
long dost Thou make us to doubt ?
If Thou be the Christ, tell us plainly."
They sought not to know the truth,
but to have whereof to accuse Him.
It was winter, and they were cold ;
for they were slow to draw near to
God s fire. If to believe is to draw
near thereto, then he which believeth
draweth near thereto : and he which
denieth, goeth away therefrom. The
feet of the soul, by which it moveth,
are the affections thereof.

Second Responsory.
O Lord, hide not, &c., (p. 329.)

Third Lesson.

n^HEY were frozen with want of love,
and at the same time on fire with
thirst to do injury. They stood afar
off, and yet came near ; for though
they drew not near by faith, they
were eager to persecute. They sought
to hear the Lord say : " I am the
Christ ; " and perchance they knew
somewhat concerning Christ, as touch
ing His Manhood, for the Prophets
had prophesied of Christ. But the
Godhead of Christ even some heretics
do not see witnessed either in the
Prophets or in the Gospel ; how much
less the Jews, as long as " the veil is
upon their heart." (2 Cor. iii. 15.)

Third Responsory.
O that my head, &c., (p. 330.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 1 9, as on Mon-
da y, (P- 3330

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
My sheep hear My voice, * and I, the
Lord, know them.

Prayer.

f~\ GOD, be mercifully pleased,
^~"^ through the hallowing of this
Fast, to shed light upon the hearts
of Thy faithful people, and since Thou
hast given them the mind to pray, let
Thy pitiful ears be opened graciously
to hear their supplications. Through
our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 20, as on Mon-
day, (p. 334-)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday, (p. 324.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Many good works have I
wrought * among you, and for them
ye go about to kill Me.

Prayer.

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Fifth Day.
MATTINS.

Invitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn as 071 Sunday.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gos
pel according to Luke (vii. 36.)

A T that time : One of the Pharisees
-** desired JESUS that He would
eat with him. And He went into the
Pharisee s house, and sat down to
meat. And so on.

Homily by Pope St Gregory [the
Great.] (33*7/0;; the Gospels.}

When I think of the repentance of
Mary Magdalene I feel nigher to weep
than to say ought. Is there indeed
any man, however stony his heart, who
is not somewhat moved to follow the
ensample of her repentance by the tears
of that poor sinful woman ? She
weighed what she did, and would not
that what she did should be niggardly.
She came unbidden among the guests,
and obtruded her tears upon the ban
quet. Ye may hence gather her
sorrow, that she was content to weep
at a feast.

First Responsory.
Deliver me, c., (p. 332.)

Second Lesson.

believe that this woman, of
whom Luke saith that she was
" a woman in the city, which was a
sinner," and whom John nameth Mary,
(xi. 2,) was the same as she of whom
it is written in Mark (xvi. 9) that the
Lord had cast out of her seven devils.
And what signify seven devils but all

manner of sin ? For even as seven
days do represent all time, so doth
the number seven stand for all. There
fore is it said that Mary had seven
devils, because she was full of all sin.

Second Responsory.
They be increased, &c., (p. 326.)

Third Lesson.

T3UT see how she realized the depth
of her own filthiness, and came to
be washed to the Well of Mercy, before
all them which were bidden to the
feast. The bitterness of her inward
shame made her esteem it a light thing
to be despised outw r ardly. At what
then do we marvel, my brethren?
That she came, or that the Lord wel
comed her ? Or would it be truer for
me to say that He drew her to Him
and welcomed her when she came ?
for His mercy inwardly drew her, and,
when she came, His gentleness openly
welcomed her.

Third Respo?isory.
How long, &c., (p. 327.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 19, as on Mon
day, (p. 333-)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
The Master saith, My time is at hand ;
* I will keep the Passover at thy house
with My disciples.

Prayer.

/^RANT, we beseech Thee, O Al-
^- J mighty God, that the honour of
man s nature, which gluttony hath de
graded, may be seasonably renewed by

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strictness in keeping of this healthful
Fast. Through our Lord JESUS Christ
Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

At the beginning of the Mar tyro logy,
zs said,

The morrow is the Feast of the
Seven Sorrows of the Most Blessed
Virgin Mary.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

Vespers are of the Feast.

in (paeeton QBeefi.
ompa00ton of our

Sixth Day.
Greater Double.

Office of the Seven Sorrows of the
Blessed Virgin Mary.

All from the Common Office for
Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
except what is given here.

Note, (\sf] That should this Feast
be prevented by one of higher dignity,
it is tra7isferred to the Saturday, and
should it be again prevented, it is
omitted. (2ndly] If, for any reason,
the First Vespers are not said, the
Hymn proper to them is prefixed to the
Hymn at Mattins.

FIRST VESPERS.

Antiphons, Chapter, and Prayer
from Lauds.

Psalms.

i. Psalm CXV.

I believed, therefore have I spoken,
&c., (p. 185.)

2. Psalm CXIX.
In my distress, &c., (p. 186.)

3. Psalm CXXXIX.
Deliver me, O LORD, &c., (p. 198.)

4. Psalm CXL.

LORD, I cry unto Thee, &c., (p.
1990

5. Psalm CXLL

I cried unto the LORD, &c., (p.
200.)

Hymn. 1

AT the Cross her station keeping,

Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to JESUS to the last :
Through her heart His sorrow sharing,
All His bitter anguish bearing,
Lo ! the piercing sword had passed !

O, how sad, and sore distressed,
Now was she, that Mother Blessed
Of the Sole-begotten One ;
Woe-begone, with heart s prostration,
Mother meek, the bitter Passion
Saw she of her glorious Son.

Who could mark, from tears refraining,
Christ s dear Mother uncomplaining,
In so great a sorrow bowed?
Who, unmoved, behold her languish
Underneath His Cross of anguish,
Mid the fierce unpitying crowd?

1 This, with the Hymns at Mattins and Lauds, constitutes the master-piece of Jacopone
da Todi, the "Stabat Mater," called by Dr Neale the most pathetic, as the "Dies Irje " is
the most sublime, of Mediaeval poems. The translation is extracted from " Hymns for the
Year," except verses 8 and 9, which are omitted in that compilation, and which are taken
from the "Hymnal Noted." The "People s Hymnal" contains an extract from the same
translation, and attributes it to Bp. R. Mant. The readings of these Hymnals differ con
siderably from one another.

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For His people s sins rejected,
She her JESUS unprotected,
Saw with thorns, with scourges rent ;
Saw her Son from judgment taken,
Her beloved in death forsaken,
Till His Spirit forth He sent.

Fount of love and holy sorrow,
Mother ! may my spirit borrow
Somewhat of thy woe profound ;
Unto Christ, with pure emotion,
Raise my contrite heart s devotion,
Love to read in every Wound. Amen.

Verse. Pray for us, O Virgin most
sorrowful.

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. * Simeon said unto Mary :
Yea, a sword shall pierce through thine
own soul also.

Prayer as at Lauds.

The following Commemoration is
made of the Week-day.

Antiphon. 2 With desire I have
desired to eat this Passover with you
before I suffer.

Verse. Deliver me, O LORD, from
the evil man.

Answer. Preserve me from the
wicked man.

Let us pray.

C\ LORD, we beseech Thee deal
^- &gt; ^ mercifully with Thy people, and
fill plentifully with the rich things of
Thy commandments all them who at
this time do, to fulfil Thy will, turn
away from that which displeaseth
Thee. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

1 Luke ii. 34, 35.

At Compline the last verse of the
Hymn is altered in honour of the
Incarnation, and so at Prime, Terce,
Sext, None, and the Second Compline.

As the Office is of a Festal form,
the Verse, " Glory," &c., is said as
ustial in the Responsory, and so
throughout.

MATTINS.

Invitatory. When we remember
the sorrows of the most glorious Vir
gin, * O come, let us worship the
Lord, Who suffered for us !

Hymn.

"THOSE five Wounds on JESUS smitten,

Mother ! in my heart be written,
Deep as in thine own they be :
Thou, my Saviour s Cross who bearest,
Thou, thy Son s rebuke who sharest,
Let me share them both with thee !

In the Passion of my Maker

Be my sinful soul partaker,

Weep till death, and weep with thee ;

Mine with thee be that sad station,

There to watch the great Salvation

Wrought upon the atoning Tree. Amen.

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. The kings of the
earth set themselves, and the rulers
take counsel together against the
LORD, and against His Anointed.

Psalm II.

Why do the heathen rage ? &c.,

(A 4-)

Second Antiphon. I cried unto the
LORD with my voice, and He heard
me out of His holy hill.

Psalm III.

LORD, how are they increased, &c.,
(P- 50

2 Luke xxii. 15.

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Third Antiphon. My heart is like
melting wax in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm XII.

How long wilt Thou forget me, &c.,
(P- 9-)

Verse. 1 He hath made me deso
late.

Answer. And faint with sorrow all
the day.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book
of the Prophet Isaiah (liii.)

"\1THO hath believed our report?
And to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed ? For he shall grow
up before Him as a tender plant, and
as a root out of a dry ground : he
hath no form nor comeliness ; and
when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men ;
a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief; and he hid as it were his face
from us ; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not. Surely he hath
borne our griefs and carried our
sorrows : yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our trans
gressions, he was bruised for our ini
quities : the chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and with his stripes
we are healed.

sight of Him doth altogether breathe
of love, and stirreth up to love in
return ; His Head is bowed down,
His Hands are stretched out, and His
Side is opened.

Verse. Maiden and Mother, thou
didst look upon Him with eyes full of
tenderness, and there thou sawest not
only that thy Son was smitten, but
that the world was saved.

Answer. For the sight of Him
doth altogether breathe of love, and
stirreth up to love in return ; His
Head is bowed down, His Hands are
stretched out, and His Side is opened.

Second Lesson.

A LL we, like sheep, have gone
astray ; we have turned every
one to his own way : and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was offered up because he willed
it, 3 and he opened not his mouth.
He is brought as a sheep to the
slaughter, and as a lamb before his
shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth. He was taken from
prison and from judgment : and who
shall declare his generation ? For
he was cut off out of the land of the
living ; for the transgression of my
people have I stricken him. And he
made his grave with the wicked, and
with the rich in his death ; because
he had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in his mouth.

First Responsory.

2 My Beloved is white and ruddy,
yea, He is altogether lovely ; for the

Second Responsory.

His hands are like rings, 4 pierced
with the points of the nails ; set with

Lam.

13.

2 Cant. v. 10.

3 Oblatus est quia ipse voluit. The present Hebrew is literally, He was oppressed and he
was afflicted." Jonathan ben Uzziel, " He was required, and he was brought back, and without
opening his mouth, he submitted to the mighty of the people." St Jerome, whose version this
is, takes the words in the sense of " brought before" the several tribunals.

4 Viz., with the centres removed so as to make the outside of the hand surround a void space,
as a ring does, instead of the palms. The words of the original, (Cant. v. 14,) however, are
" His hands are like gold rings, set with gems of Tarshish " viz., according to Gesenius, " The
fingers when bent are like gold rings, the dyed nails are compared to gems," the Easterns, as

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price of man s salvation, as it were
with jacinths.

Verse. l He had horns coming out
of His hands : there was the hiding
of His power : for His Hands are

Answer. Set with the price of
man s salvation, as it were with
jacinths.

Third Lesson.

YET it pleased the LORD to bruise
him ; He hath put him to
grief; when he hath made his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and
the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see of the
travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied : by his knowledge shall
My righteous Servant justify many,
for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion
with the great, and he shall divide
the spoil with the strong ; because he
hath poured out his soul unto death ;
and he was numbered with the trans
gressors ; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.

Third Responsory.

JESUS loved John because his singu
lar gift of purity made him more worthy
of love. He chose him for a virgin
unto Himself, and he remaineth a
virgin for ever.

Verse. At the end, when He was
dying upon the Cross, to him did
He commit His mother, maiden to
maiden.

Ans^uer. He chose him for a
virgin unto Himself, and he remaineth
a virgin for ever.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. He chose him for a
virgin unto Himself, and he remain
eth a virgin for ever.

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. Mine enemies
speak evil of me : When shall he
die, and his name perish ?

Psalm XL.

Blessed is he that considereth, &c.,
(P- 94-)

Second Antiphon. O God, I have
declared my life unto Thee, Thou
hast put my tears in Thy sight.

Psalm L V.
Be merciful unto me, &c., (p. 110.)

Third Antiphon. As for the sons
of men, their teeth are spears and
arrows, and their tongue a sharp
sword.

Psalm L VI.

Be merciful unto me, &c., (p. 110.)

Verse. 2 My face is swollen with
weeping,

Answer. And on mine eyelids is
the shadow [of death.]

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons
of St Bernard, Abbat [of Clairvaux.]

( On the twelve stars. )

"THE Martyrdom of the Virgin is

set before us, not only in the

prophecy of Simeon, but also in the

is well known, being accustomed to dye their nails red, or rather orange, with henna. What
particular stone is to be understood by " gems of Tarshish " is not certain. Jacinth is the Latin,
and it is of a purple colour with reddish flashes, so that it might, by a violent figure, be com
pared to the appearance of an inflamed wound. The LXX. and others understand the topaz,
which is found of a pinkish and yellowish tinge, and thus would answer to the effect (viz., like
Homer s "rosy-fingered Dawn") of finger nails died with henna.
1 Hab. iii. 4, p. 87. - Job xvi. 17.

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story itself of the Lord s Passion.
The holy old man said of the Child
JESUS (Luke ii. 34,) "Behold, this
Child is set for the fall and the
rising again of many in Israel ; and
for a sign which shall be spoken
against ; yea," (said he unto Mary,)
"a sword shall pierce through thine
own soul also " Even so, O Blessed
Mother ! The sword did indeed
pierce through thy soul ! for nought
could pierce the Body of thy Son,
nor pierce thy soul likewise. Yea,
and when this JESUS of thine had
given up the ghost, and the bloody
spear could torture Him no more,
thy soul winced as it pierced His
dead Side His Own Soul might
leave Him, but thine could not.

Fourth Responsory.

1 The Jews crucified JESUS ; and
there was darkness ; and about the
ninth hour JESUS cried with a loud
voice : My God, why hast Thou for
saken Me ? And He bowed His
Head, and gave up the Ghost.

Verse. 2 O what a sickening at
heart was thine at that moment, O
Mother !

Answer. And He bowed His
Head, and gave up the Ghost.

Fifth Lesson.

PHE sword of sorrow pierced
through thy soul, so that we
may truly call thee more than martyr,
in whom the love, that made thee
suffer along with thy Son, wrung thy
heart more bitterly than any pang of
bodily pain could do. Did not that
word of His indeed pierce through
thy soul, sharper than any two-edged
sword, even to the dividing asunder

of soul and spirit, (Heb. iv. 12,)

" Woman, behold thy son ! " (John

1 Matth. xxvii. 35, 45, 46 ; John xix. 30.

xix. 26.) O what a change to thee!
Thou art given John for JESUS, the
servant for his Lord, the disciple for
his master, the son of Zebedee for
the Son of God, a mere man for
Very God. O how keenly must the
hearing of those words have pierced
through thy most loving soul, when
even our hearts, stony, iron, as they
are, are wrung at the memory thereof
only !

Fifth Responsory.

The suffering of the Lord was a
sorrow exceeding sorrowful to her,
His Mother, crushed by a natural
bereavement.

Verse. The iron of the soldier s
lance pierced through the Side of the
Redeemer, and through the soul of the
Virgin Mother.

Answer. A sorrow exceeding sor
rowful to her, His Mother, crushed
by a natural bereavement.

Sixth Lesson.

ARVEL not, my brethren, that
Mary should be called a Martyr
in spirit. He indeed may marvel who
remembereth not what Paul saith,
naming the greater sins of the Gen
tiles, that they were " without natural
affection," (Rom. i. 31.) Far other
were the bowels of Mary, and far
other may those of her servants be !
But some man perchance will say :
Did she not know that He was to
die ? Yea, without doubt, she knew
it. Did she not hope that He was
soon to rise again ? Yea, she most
faithfully hoped it. And did she still
mourn because He was crucified ?
Yea, bitterly. But who art thou, my
brother, or whence hast thou such
wisdom, to marvel less that the Son
of Mary suffered than that Mary suf
fered with Him ? He could die in

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the Body, and could not she die with
Him in her heart ? His was the deed
of that Love, greater than which hath
no man (John xv. 1 3 ;) hers, of a love,
like to which hath no man, save He.

Sixth Responsory.

1 O that Thou wert my brother, that
sucked the breasts of my mother, that
I might cleave unto Thy Side, till
Thy Blood touched my blood, and
cleansed it ! O that the Fountain of
Water 2 Which floweth from the
Well-head of Thy Righteous Heart,
(through Thy Veins, Who hast done
all things well, 3 ) may at the last
spring up for us into everlasting
blessedness !

Verse. 4 Thy sons shall come from
far, and Thy daughters shall be nursed
at Thy Side.

Answer. O that the Fountain of
Water Which floweth from the Well
head of Thy Righteous Heart, (through
Thy Veins, Who hast done all things
well,) may at the last spring up for us
into everlasting blessedness !

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

THIRD NOCTURN,

First Antiphon. They bend their
bow, even bitter words, that they may
shoot in secret at the perfect.

Psalm LXIII.
Hear my voice, &c., (p. 114.)

Second Antiphon. I am as a man
that hath no strength, lying nerveless
among the dead.

Psalm LXXXVII.
O LORD God of my salvation, &c.,
(P. MS-)

Third Antiphon. 5 He hath filled
me with bitterness, he hath made me
drunken with wormwood.

Psalm CVIII.
Hold not Thy peace, &c., (p. 168.)

Verse. O God, I have declared my
life unto Thee

Answer. Thou hast put my tears
in Thy sight.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xix. 25.)

A T that time : There stood by the
*-^ Cross of JESUS His Mother, and
His Mother s sister Mary the wife of
Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. And
so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo. ] (n qth Tract on John. )

This is that hour whereof JESUS,
when He was about to turn water into
wine, had said unto His Mother :
" Woman, what have I to do with
thee ? Mine hour is not yet come."
(John ii. 4.) He had spoken of this
hour, which then was not yet come,
wherein, being about to die, it should
be His duty to acknowledge her of
whom He had been born in a dying
Body. Then, since He was about to
work the works of God, He thrust

1 Cant. viii. i.

3 Lit., through the veins of good work.

* Isa. Ix. 4.

2 Cf. John iv. 14.
Cf. Mark vii. 37.
5 Lam. iii. 15.

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from Him, 1 as though He knew her
not, her who was His Mother, not
in that nature as touching which He is
equal to the Father, but in that as
touching which He is inferior to the
Father. But now, since He is suffer
ing the pains of Man, He careth, with
a Man s love, for her of whom He
hath been made Man. And herein
He giveth us a lesson. He doth that
which He would have us to do. The
Good Master, by His Own example,
commandeth that among His disciples,
dutiful children should succour their
parents, as though even that Tree
whereupon His dying Limbs were
nailed, even that Tree were to be a
pulpit for His teaching.

Seventh Responsory.

2 I am distressed for Thee, my Son
JESUS, very pleasant hast Thou been
unto me ; Thy love to me was wonder
ful, passing the love of women ; for
even as a mother loveth her only Son,
so loved I thee.

Verse. 3 My life is spent with grief,
and my years with sighing.

Answer. For even as a mother
loveth her only Son, so loved I Thee.

Eighth Blessing.

She whose Feast-day we are keeping
Mary, Blessed Maid of Maidens,
Be our advocate with God.

Eighth Lesson.

A ND of this teaching by JESUS

Crucified cometh that which the

Apostle Paul commandeth, where he

saith, (i Tim. v. 8:) " If any provide
not for his own, and specially for
those of his own house, he hath
denied the faith, and is worse than
an infidel." But what is so much of
a man s own house, as children are
of their parents ? and parents of their
children s ? Of this most healthy law
the Master of the Saints was pleased
Himself to give an example, when,
being God, He treated not as His
handmaid her of whom He was the
Maker and the Lord, but, being
also Man, gave another to be as
a son in His stead, to her of whom
as Man He had been made, 4 and
whom He was leaving.

Eighth Responsory.

Fount of love and holy sorrow,
Mother ! may my spirit borrow
Somewhat of thy woe profound ;
r&gt; Unto Christ, with pure emotion,
Raise my contrite heart s devotion,
Love to read in every Wound.

Verse. That as thy Son JESUS for
our sakes died and rose again, so we
also who have died with Him G may
rise again with Him.

Answer. Unto Christ, with pure
emotion,

Raise my contrite heart s devotion,

Love to read in every Wound.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. Unto Christ, with pure
emotion,

Raise my contrite heart s devotion,

Love to read in every Wound.

Tune, ergo, divina facturus, non divinitatis sed infirmitatis matrem velut incognitam re-
pellebat, lit. " the Mother, not of His Divinity but of His weakness." To translate this passage,
I have made use of the exact words of the Athanasian Creed. (Tr.)

2 2 Kings (Sam.) i. 26. It is from the lament of David over Saul and Jonathan, and is, in
the original place, " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan, &c."

3 Ps. xxx. ii. 4 Creatus.

5 These words are not in the original from the Hymn, as is the beginning of the Responsory,
but they rhyme with it, and express the same idea.

6 Commortui, i.e., in baptism. Rom. vi. 4; Col. ii. 12; 2 Tim. ii. n.

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Ninth Blessing.

May the Gospel s glorious word
Cleansing to our souls afford.

Ninth Lesson. (Of the Week-day }}

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xi. 47.)

A T that time : Gathered the chief
*~*- Priests and the Pharisees a
council against JESUS, and said :
What do we ? For this Man doeth
many miracles. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo.] (49^ Tract on John.}

The chief Priests and the Pharisees
took counsel together, but " Let us
believe in Him " was not one of the
suggestions offered. Those lost crea
tures thought much more how they
might hurt and undo Him, than how
they might save themselves from
perishing. And yet they were afraid,
and took counsel together, " and said :
What do we ? For this Man doeth
many miracles. If we let Him thus
alone, all men will believe on Him ;
and the Romans shall come and take
away both our place and our nation."
They were afraid of losing temporal
things, but they gave no thought to
eternal life, and so they lost both. 2
(Second Lesson of the Week-day.}
For, after that the Lord had suffered
and been glorified, first came the
Romans, and took away both their place
and nation, prevailing against them
and leading them away captive, and
secondly there followeth them that

which is written : " But the children
of the kingdom shall be cast out into
outer darkness." (Matth. viii. 12.)
But their fear was that, if all men
should believe on Christ, none would
remain to defend the city of God and
His Temple against the Romans,
since they deemed that Christ s teach
ing was against the Temple itself,
and against the laws of their fathers.
(Third Lesson of the Week -day.}
"And one of them, named Ca iphas,
being the High Priest that same year,
said unto them : " Ye know nothing
at all, nor consider that it is ex
pedient for us that one man should
die for the people, and that the whole
nation perish not. And this spake he
not of himself : but being High Priest
that year, he prophesied Here
we will learn that bad men are en
abled by the spirit of prophecy to
foretell the future ; which, at the same
time, the Evangelist attributeth to an
ordinance of God, namely, that he was
the High Priest.

The Hymn, "We praise Thee, O
God, &c.," is said.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. 3 I will get me to
the mountain of myrrh, * and to the
hill of frankincense.

Second Antiphon. My beloved * is
white and ruddy : the hair of his head
is like kingly purple, bound in tresses. 4

Third Antiphon. 5 Whither is thy
beloved gone, * O thou fairest among
women ? Whither is thy beloved
turned aside ?

1 If it be transferred to Saturday, of course it is the Homily for that day.

2 A person bound to the Office may satisfy by ending the Ninth Lesson here.

3 Cant. iv. 6.

4 Canalibus, lit., streamlets. Cant. vii. 5. The allusion of the Office is evidently to the
Hair of our Lord when on the Cross, darkened with the Precious Blood, and hanging in long
masses from under the cincture of His thorny crown. The Latin translator seems to have used
a different vocalisation of the Hebrew text to that which we now have, and which makes the
sense somewhat thus: "The hair of thine head is like purple" (alluding perhaps to the
appearance of very black hair, especially in sunlight ; and the Bride of the Canticles was
swarthy, i. 4) "the King is captivated by thy tresses." 5 Cant. v. 17.

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Fourth Antiphon. l A bundle of
myrrh is my well-beloved unto me ; he
shall lie betwixt my breasts.

Fifth Antiphon. 2 Revive me with
flowers, * stay me up with apples, for
I am swooning with love.

Chapter. (Isa. liii. i.)

O hath believed our report?

And unto whom is the arm of
the LORD revealed ? For he shall
grow up before Him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground.

Hymn.

WIRGIN, thou, of virgins fairest,
May the bitter woe thou bearest

Make on me impression deep ;
Thus Christ s dying may I carry,
With Him in His Passion tarry,

And His Wounds in memory keep.

May His Wounds transfix me wholly,
May His Cross and Life-Blood holy

Ebriate my heart and mind:
Thus inflamed with pure affection,
In the Virgin s Son protection

May I at the Judgment find.

When in death my limbs are failing
Let Thy Mother s prayer prevailing

Lift me, JESUS ! to Thy throne :
To my parting soul be given
Entrance through the gate of heaven ;

There confess me for Thine own !

Amen.

Verse. Pray for us, O Virgin most
sorrowful !

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
When JESUS saw His Mother, * and
the disciple whom He loved, standing
by the Cross, He saith unto His
Mother : Woman, behold thy Son !
Then saith He to the disciple : Behold
thy Mother !

Prayer throughout the Office.

C\ GOD, at Whose Passion, accord-
^^ ing to the prophecy of Simeon,
a sword of sorrow pierced through the
gentle soul of the glorious Maiden and
Mother Mary, mercifully grant to as
many as do ever remember with awe
how that her soul was pierced and
Thou didst suffer, even for all such
be Thou entreated, for the sake and
by the prayers of all Thy glorious and
holy servants who stood so leally by
Thy Cross, and grant unto the same,
that for them Thy life-giving Death
may not have been in vain. Who
livest and reignest with God the
Father, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Amen.

The following Commemoration is
made of the Week-day.

Antiphon. Now the Jews Feast-
day was at hand, and the chief Priests
sought how they might kill JESUS ;
but they feared the people.

Verse. Deliver me from mine ene
mies, O my God.

Answer. And defend me from
them that rise up against me.

Let us pray.

beseech Thee, O Lord, pour
Thy grace into our hearts, that
all we who of our own will do check
our sins with the curb of mortification,
may suffer here, and escape condem
nation to eternal punishment hereafter.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

(The Penitential Psalms and the
Litany are not said, because of the
Feast.}

1 Cant. i.

2 Cant. ii. 5.

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PRIME.

SEXT.

Antiphon. I will get me, &c.
(First Antiphon at Lauds.*}

Antiphon. Whither, &c.
Antiphon at Lauds. .)

Chapter. (Isa. liii. 5.

(Third

/;/ the Short Responsory, instead
of the words, "Thou that sittest at
the Right Hand of the Father," is TT E was wounded for our transgres-
c"v// L -* sions ; he was bruised for our

iniquities : the chastisement of our
peace was upon him, and with his
stripes we are healed.

said :

Verse. Thou That didst suffer for
man s sake.

And the Verse, " Glory be, &c.," is
said as usual out of Passiontide.

Chapter at the end. (Isa. liii. 8.)

O shall declare his generation ?

For he was cut off out of the
land of the living ; for the transgres
sion of My people have I stricken
him.

TERCE.

Antiphon. My beloved, * &c.
(Second Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter from Lauds.

Short Responsory.

He hath made me desolate.

Answer. He hath made me des
olate.

Verse. And faint with sorrow all
the day.

Answer. Desolate.

Verse. Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.

Answer. He hath made me des
olate.

Verse. My face is swollen with
weeping.

Short Responsory.

My face is swollen with weeping.

Answer. My face is swollen with
weeping.

Verse. And on my eyelids is the
shadow [of death.]

Answer. Swollen with weeping.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. My face is swollen with
weeping.

Verse. O God, I have declared my
life unto Thee,

Answer. Thou hast put my tears
in Thy sight.

NONE.

Antiphon. Revive me, &c. (Fifth
Antiphon at Lauds.}

Chapter as at the end of Prime.
Short Responsory.

O God, I have declared my life unto
Thee

Answer. O God, I have declared
my life unto Thee

Verse. Thou hast put my tears in
Thy sight.

Answer. I have declared my life
Answer. And on mine eyelids is unto Thee,
the shadow [of death.] Verse. Glory be to the Father, and

to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

After Terce, in community Churches, Answer. O God, I have declared

is said or sung the Mass of the Feast. my life unto Thee.

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Verse. Pray for us, O Virgin most
sorrowful !

Answer. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.

After None, in community Churches,
is said or sung the Mass of the Week
day.

SECOND VESPERS.

All as at the First, except the
Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin, which is the same as that at
the Song of Zacharias at Lauds, and
the following

Commemoration of the Week-day. 1

Antiphon. The chief Priests con
sulted that they might kill JESUS, but
they said : Not on the Feast-day, lest
there be an uproar among the people.

Verse. Deliver me, O LORD, from
the evil man.

Answer. Preserve me from the
wicked man.

Let us pray.

we beseech Thee, O Al-
mighty God, that we who seek
the grace of Thy protection, being-
delivered from all evils, may serve
Thee ever in peace and quietness of
spirit. Through our Lord JESUS
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end. Amen.

The Sabbath.
MATTINS.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xii. 10.)

A T that time : The chief Priests
consulted that they might put
Lazarus also to death ; because that
by reason of him many of the Jews
went away and believed on JESUS.
And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
H ippo. ] ( 5 Qth Tract on John. )

When they saw Lazarus who had
been raised from the dead, and knew
that the miracle which the Lord had
worked was so great, spread about by
so many witnesses, and so plain and
manifest that it could neither be con
cealed nor denied, they invented an
expedient ; and see here what it was
" But the chief Priests consulted
that they might put Lazarus also to
death." What stupidity of thought,
what blindness of cruelty is here ! If
the Lord Christ had raised up again
a man who had died a natural death,
could He not also raise up one that
had died by violence ? Would killing
Lazarus paralyse the Lord ? But if ye
consider that there is a difference be
tween a man dead of disease, and a
man killed, behold, the Lord hath
raised up both : for He first raised
up Lazarus, who had died a natural
death, and then Himself, after a vio
lent one.

First Responsory.

O Lord, I go mourning, &c., (p.

3290

Second Lesson. ($ist Tract. )

Invitatory and alteration in Ps.
xciv. and Hymn as on last Sunday,

(A 325.)

VOL. II.

"("")N the next day much people
that were come to the feast,
when they heard that JESUS was com-

1 Supposing the Feast not to be transferred to Saturday.

M 2

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ing to Jerusalem, took branches of
palm-trees, and went forth to meet
Him, and cried : Hosanna ! Blessed
is the King of Israel That cometh
in the Name of the Lord ! " Palm-
branches are glorious boughs which
tell of victory ; yea, the Lord was now
ready by His Own Death to trample
down death, and to carry the victori
ous banner of His Cross in triumph
over the devil, the prince of death.
The cry with which He was greeted,
namely " Hosanna," hath not, as we
are assured by some who are ac
quainted with the Hebrew language,
any meaning in particular, but is a
shout after the manner of interjections,
as they are called, just as in Latin
when we lament we say " Heu," or
when we are pleased, " Vah." l

Second Responsory.
O Lord, hide not, &c., (p. 329.)

Third Lesson.

HPHESE were the shouts of applause
* with which the crowd greeted
Him, " Hosanna ! Blessed is the King
of Israel That cometh in the Name of
the Lord ! " What inward torture
must the jealousy of the Jewish leaders
have caused them, when they heard
that great multitude hailing Christ as
their King ! But, for the Lord, what
was it to be King of Israel ? To the
Eternal 2 King what mattered it to be
come a King of men ? And Christ is
not King of Israel in the sense of
monarchs who exact tribute, or arm
hosts with steel to conquer enemies
that are seen. But King of Israel He

is, as He Who is Lord of our intellect,
a Ruler Whose power shall never wane,
and Who openeth a Kingdom in heaven
to all such as centre in Him their faith,
their hope, and their love.

Third Responsory.
O that my head, &c., (p. 330.)

LAUDS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 19, as on
Monday, (p. 333.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.

Father, glorify Thou Me * with
Thine Own Self, with the glory which

1 had with Thee before the world was.

Prayer.

C\ LORD, we beseech Thee that
^ Thy people, since they are hal
lowed as Thine Own, may grow ever
in godly love toward Thee their Father
Who art in heaven, and may so be
schooled by holy works, that being
more and more pleasing in the sight
of Thy Divine Majesty, they may ever
receive more and more of Thy gifts.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ, Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

At the beginning of the Marty r-
ology, is said,

The morrow is the Lord s Day of
the Palms, on the which day our
Lord JESUS Christ entered Jerusalem

i So in English " Hurrah," " Ha, ha, ha," and so on. Heu is generally translated "Alas,"
and Vah, "Aha." "Hosanna," however, means "Save, I pray," or "O save !" i.e., " I pray
[God] save [you]." It is said to have been a common Hebrew cry, answering to " Long live
or more nearly "God save e.g., the King." The actual phrase occurs in Ps. cxvii. 25, 26,
where it possibly hails the King s entrance into the temple. "Save now, O LORD ! O LORD,
send Thou prosperity! Blessed be he that cometh in the Name of the LORD!" "Anna,
ADONAI, hoshiah na ; anna, ADONAI, hatzlichah na."

- Rex saeculorum, King of the ages," or, King of the worlds."

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sitting upon the foal of an ass, as had
been foretold in the prophecy of Zach-
arias, and the multitude came forth to
meet Him carrying branches of palm-
trees.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext,
and None.

VESPERS.

Chapter and Prayer from the Lauds
of the following morning.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
last Saturday, (p. 324.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. O righteous Father, the world
hath not known Thee ; * but I have
known Thee, because Thou hast sent
Me.

The Lords Day among the Palms.

MATTINS.

Invitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn, as on the last Sunday, (p.

3250

FIRST NOCTURN.

first Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Jeremiah (ii. 12.)

gE astonished, O ye heavens, at this,
and ye gates thereof, be ye very
desolate, saith the LORD. For My
people have committed two evils.
They have forsaken Me, the Fountain
of living waters, and hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold
no water. Is Israel a servant ? Is he

an home -born slave ? Why is he
spoiled ? The young lions roared upon
him and yelled, 2 and they made his
land waste : his cities are burned, with
out inhabitant. Also, the children of
Memphis 3 and Tahapanes have pol
luted 4 thee up to the crown of thy
head. Hast thou not procured this
unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken
the LORD thy God, when He led thee
by the way ?

First Responsory.

5 O Lord, in the day that I called
upon Thee, Thou saidst : Fear not.
Thou hast pleaded my cause, and hast
redeemed me, O Lord my God.

Verse. 6 In the day of my trouble
I called upon Thee, for Thou hast
heard me.

Answer. Thou hast pleaded my
cause, and hast redeemed me, O Lord
my God.

Second Lesson.

A ND now what hast thou to do in
the way of Egypt, to drink the
waters of the "Miry"?? Or what
hast thou to do in the way of Assyria,
to drink the waters of the river ? 8
Thine own wickedness shall correct
thee, and thy back-slidings shall re
prove thee. Know, therefore, and see,
that it is an evil thing and bitter, that
thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God,
and that My fear is not in thee, saith
the LORD God of hosts. Of old time
thou hast broken My yoke, and burst
My bands ; and thou saidst : I will
not serve. Yea, upon every high hill,
and under every green tree, thou wan-
derest playing the harlot. Yet I had
planted thee a noble vine, wholly a
right seed : how then art thou turned

1 Called also Flowering Sunday, and Fig Sunday.

- Lit., gave out their voice. a Hebrew name, Noph.
Constupraverunt : but the Hebrew is, "devour the crown, &c."

* Lam. iii. 57, 58. e Ps . ) xxxv . ?t
J Shichor, "miry," an abusive nick-name for the Nile.

Euphrates.

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into the degenerate plant of a strange
vine unto Me ? For though thou wash
thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, yet thine iniquity is marked be
fore Me, saith the Lord GOD. 1

Second Responsory.

My brethren stand afar off from me,
and they which have known me
make themselves strange unto me, and
leave me.

Verse. My neighbours forsake me,
and mine acquaintance

Answer. Make themselves strange
unto me, and leave me.

Third Lesson. (29.)

HERE FORE will ye plead with
Me ? Ye all have forsaken
Me, saith the LORD. In vain have I
smitten your children ; they received
no correction ; your own sword hath
devoured your Prophets, the genera
tion of you hath been as a lion unto
them to destroy them. See ye the
word of the LORD : Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel ? a land of
darkness ? Wherefore say My people :
We have forsaken Thee ; we will come
no more unto Thee ? Can a maid
forget her ornaments or a bride her
attire ? 2 Yet My people have for
gotten Me, days without number.

Third Responsory.

3 Give heed to me, O LORD, and
hearken to the voice of them that con
tend with me. Shall evil be recom
pensed for good ? for they have digged
a pit for my soul.

Verse. Remember that I stood
before Thee to speak good for them,
and to turn away Thy wrath from
them.

The Name.

Answer. Shall evil be recompensed
for good ? for they have digged a pit
for my soul. Give heed to me, O
LORD, and hearken to the voice of
them that contend with me. Shall
evil be recompensed for good ? for
they have digged a pit for my soul.

SECOND NOCTURN.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Ser
mons of Pope St Leo [the Great]
(Second on the Passion of tJie
Lord.}

"pv EARLY beloved brethren, the
-*-^ jubilant and triumphal day
which ushereth in the commemoration
of the Lord s Passion is come ; even
that day for which we have longed so
much, and for whose yearly coming
the whole world may well look.
Shouts of spiritual exultation are
ringing, and suffer not that we should
be silent. It is indeed hard to preach
often on the same Festival, and that
always meetly" and rightly, but a
Priest is not free, when we celebrate
so great and mysterious an out-pouring
of God s mercy, to leave his faithful
people without the service of a dis
course. Nay, that his subject-matter
is unspeakable should in itself make
him eloquent, since where enough can
never be said, there must needs ever
be somewhat to say. Let man s weak
ness, then, fall down before the glory
of God, and acknowledge herself ever
too feeble to unfold all the works of
His mercy. We may jade our emo
tions, break down in our understand
ing, and fail in our speech : it is good
for us, that even what we truly feel in
presence of the Divine Majesty is
but little, [compared to the vastness of
the subject.]

3 Jer. xviii. 19.

Fascia pectoralis breast-knot.

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Fourth Responsory.

1 The enemy hath enclosed my
ways : he lay in wait for me as a lion
in secret places : he hath filled me and
made me drunken with bitterness :
they have cut off my life in the dun
geon, and cast a stone upon me. O
Lord, behold all their iniquity, and
plead the cause of my soul, Thou That
art the Redeemer of my life !

Verse. I was a derision to all my
people, and their song all the day.

Answer. O Lord, behold all their
iniquity, and plead the cause of my
soul, Thou That art the Redeemer of
my life !

Fifth Lesson.

T7 OR when the Prophet saith :
A " Seek the LORD and be strong ;
seek His face evermore," (Ps. civ. 4,)
let no man thence conclude that he
will ever have found all that he seeketh,
lest he which hath ceased to come
near should cease to be near. But
among all the works of God which foil
and weary the steadfast gaze of man s
wonder, what is there that doth at
once so ravish and so exceed the
power of our mind s eye as do the
sufferings of the Saviour ? He it was
Who, to loose man from the bands
wherewith he had bound himself by
the first death-dealing transgression,
spared to bring against the rage of the
devil the power of the Divine Majesty,
and met him with the weakness of our
lowly nature. For if our proud and
cruel enemy had been able to know
the counsel of God s mercy, it had
been his task rather to have softened
the minds of the Jews into gentleness,
than to have inflamed them with un
righteous hatred ; and so lost the
service of all his slaves, by pursuing
for his Debtor One That owed him
nothing.

1 Lam. iii. 9, 10, i

Jer. xvii

i. 9, 10, 15, 53, 58, 14.
i. 17, 18, (LXX.)

Fifth Responsory.

2 Save me, O God, for the waters
are come in unto my soul : hide not
Thy face from me ; for I am in
trouble. Hear me speedily, O Lord
my God.

Verse. Draw nigh unto my soul,
and redeem it : deliver me because of
mine enemies.

Answer. For I am in trouble.
Hear me speedily, O Lord my God.

Sixth Lesson.

"RUT his own hate dug a pit-fall for
him : he brought upon the Son
of God that death which is become
life to all the sons of men. He shed
that innocent Blood, Which hath re
conciled the world unto God, and
become at once the price of our re
demption and the cup of our salvation.
The Lord hath received that which
according to the purpose of His Own
good pleasure He hath chosen. He
hath let fall on Hfm the hands of
bloody men : but while they were bent
only on their own sin, they were ser
vants ministering to the Redeemer s
work. And such was His tenderness
even for His murderers that His prayer
to His Father from the Cross, as
touching them, was, not that He
might be avenged upon them, but
that they might be forgiven.

Sixth Responsory.

3 O Lord, be not Thou far from me :
spare me in the day of evil : let them
be confounded that persecute me ; but
let not me be confounded.

Verse. 4 Let all mine, enemies which
seek after my soul be confounded.

Answer. But let not me be con
founded. O Lord, be not Thou far

- Ps. Ixviii. 2, 18, 19.
4 Cf. Ps. xxxiv. 4.

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from me : spare me in the evil day : let
them be confounded that persecute me,
but let not me be confounded.

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to Matthew (xxi.

A T that time : When JESUS drew
" nigh unto Jerusalem, and was
come to Bethphage, unto the Mount of
Olives, then He sent two disciples. 1
And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop [of
Milan.] (tyth Book on Luke.}

Beautiful is the type, when the
Lord, about to leave the Jews, and to
take up His abode in the hearts of the
Gentiles, goeth up into the Temple ; a
figure of His going to the true Temple
wherein He is worshipped, not in the
deadness of the letter, but in spirit and
in truth, even that Temple of God
whereof the foundations are laid, not
in buildings of stone, but in faith. He
leaveth behind Him such as hate Him,
and getteth Him to such as will love
Him. And therefore cometh He unto
the Mount of Olives that He may
plant upon the heights of grace those
young olive-branches, whose Mother
is the Jerusalem which is above.
Upon this mountain standeth He, the
Heavenly Husbandman, that all they
which be planted in the House of the
Lord may be able each one to say :
" But I am like a fruitful olive-tree in
the House of God." (Ps. li. 10.)

Seventh Responsory.

2 The LORD is with me as a Mighty
Terrible One ; therefore have they

persecuted me, and have not been able
to understand. O LORD, Thou triest
the reins and the heart unto Thee
have I opened my cause.

Verse. 3 O LORD, Thou hast seen
my wrong that they do me ; judge
Thou my cause.

Answer. Unto Thee have I opened
my cause.

Eighth Lesson.

AND perchance that mountain doth
^^ signify Christ Himself. For
what other is there that beareth such
fruit of olives as He doth, not rich with
store of loaded branches, but spiritu
ally fruitful with the fulness of the
Gentiles ? He also it is on Whom we
go up, and unto Whom we go up ; He
is the Door ; He is the Way ; He is
He Which is opened and Which
openeth ; He is He upon Whom
knocketh whosoever entereth in, and
to Whom they that have entered in,
do worship.

A figure also was it that the dis
ciples went into a village, and that
there they found an ass tied and a colt
with her : neither could they be loosed,
save at the command of the Lord. It
was the hand of His Apostles which
loosed them. He whose work and
life are like theirs will have such
grace as was theirs. Be thou also
such as they, if thou wouldest loose
them that are bound.

Eighth Responsory.

4 The ungodly said, reasoning with
themselves, but not aright ; Let us lie
in wait for the righteous, because he is
clean contrary to our doings : he pro-
fesseth to have the knowledge of God,
he calleth himself the Son of God, and
boasteth that he hath God to his

1 Here follow the two words " dicens eis" which I omit, as they would produce an odd
sense in English.

2 Jer. xx. n, 12. 3 Lam. iii. 59. 4 Wisd. ii. i, 12, 13, 17, 16, 20.

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Father. Let us see if his words be
true ; and, if he be indeed the Son of
God, let Him deliver him from our
hand ; let us condemn him with a
shameful death.

Verse. We are esteemed of him as
counterfeits, and he abstaineth from
our ways as from filthiness, and com-
mendeth the end of the just.

Answer. Let us see if his words be
true ; and, if he be indeed the Son of
God, let Him deliver him from our
hand ; let us condemn him with a
shameful death.

Verse. For trouble is near, and
there is none to help.

Answer. But do Thou, O Lord
my Redeemer, avenge me ! Liars are
come round about me, they have
fallen upon me with scourges without
a cause. But do Thou, O Lord my
Redeemer, avenge me !

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. 1 The Lord GOD
will help me : * and therefore I am
not confounded.

Nmth Lesson.

, let us consider who they
were, who, being convicted of
transgression, were banished from their
home in the Garden of Eden into a
village, and in this thou wilt see how
Life called back again them whom
death had cast out. For this reason,
we read in Matthew that there were
tied both an ass and her colt ; thus, as
man was banished from Eden in a
member of either sex, so is it in
animals of both sexes that his re-call
is figured. The she-ass is a type of
our sinful Mother Eve, and the colt
of the multitude of the Gentiles ; and
it was upon the colt that Christ took
His seat. And thus it is well written
of the colt, (Luke xix. 30,) that thereon
never yet had man sat, for no man
before Christ ever called the Gentiles
into the Church which statement
thou hast in Mark also (xi. 2) :
"Whereon never man sat."

Ninth Responsory.

Psalm L.
Have mercy upon me, &c., (p. 87.)

Second Antiphon. They compassed
me about, * yea, they compassed me
about : but in the Name of the LORD !
I will destroy them.

Psalm CXVII.
O give thanks, &c., (p. 37.)

Third Antiphon. Judge Thou my
cause, * and redeem me, O Lord, for
Thou art mighty to save.

Psalms LXII. and LXVL

O God, Thou art my God, &c., (p.

230

Fourth Antiphon. 2 Fare we with
Angels and men in faith to meet the
Redeemer, * hailing the Slayer of
death with joyful shouts of Hosanna
in the highest !

The Song of the Three Holy Chil
dren.

Liars are come round about, they Fifth Antiphon. 3 Let them be

have fallen upon me with scourges confounded that persecute me ; * but

without a cause. But do Thou, O let not me be confounded, O Lord my

Lord my Redeemer, avenge me ! God.

1 Isa. 1. 7.

2 This is the fifth Antiphon sung during
Hexameter lines, ending with Hosanna.

the Procession.

It has a sort of cadence like two
3 Jer. xvii. 18.

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Psalms CXLVIIL, CXLIX., CL.

ye the LORD, &c., (pp. 25,

Praise

26.)

Chapter.

(Phil. ii. 5.)

"DRETHREN, Let this mind be in
-^ you, which was also in Christ
JESUS, Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with
God : but emptied Himself, and took
upon Him the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of men, and
found in fashion as a man.

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
last Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Much people that were come to the
Feast, cried * unto the Lord : Blessed
is He That cometh in the Name of the
Lord ! Hosanna in the highest ! *

Prayer throughout the Office.

A LMIGHTY
^ Who, of

and everlasting God,
Thy tender love to
wards mankind, hast sent Thy Son
our Saviour JESUS Christ to take upon
Him our flesh and to suffer death
upon the Cross, that all mankind
should follow the example of His
great humility ; mercifully grant, that
we may both follow the example of
His patience, and also be made par
takers of His resurrection. Through
the Same our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

TERCE.

Antiphon. The Hebrew children
spread their garments in the way, *
and cried, saying : Hosanna to the
Son of David! Blessed is He that
cometh in the Name of the Lord !

Chapter from Lauds.

After Terce, and, in Parish
Churches, the blessing and sprinkling
of the Holy Water, there follows the
ceremony of blessing the palms, or other
boughs of trees, during which is read
the Lesson from Exod. xv. xvi. and the
Gospel from Matth. xxi., which is the
subject of the Homily at Mattins.
Whe?i the branches have been distrib
uted to the people, follows the pro
cession, which represents the Trium
phal Entry of otir Lord into the Holy
City. After the procession the Liturgy
is immediately celebrated, with the rites
peculiar to the day, and including the
Epistle from Phil. ii. and the Passion
according to Matthew (xxvi. xxvii.)

SEXT.

Antiphon. 2 Unto Thee have I
opened my cause, * O Lord my God,
Which art the Redeemer of my life.

Chapter. (Phil. ii. 8.)

TIE humbled Himself and became
^~1 obedient unto death, even the
death of the Cross, wherefore God also
hath highly exalted Him, and given
Him a Name which is above every

PRIME.

Antiphon. The Hebrew children
took branches of olive-trees, * and
went forth to meet the Lord, crying
and saying : Hosanna in the highest !

NONE.

Antiphon. 3 1 will call upon Thy
Name, * O LORD ; hide not Thy face
at my cry.

1 That is, either "Save [Him,] we pray [Thee, O Thou That dwellest] in the highest," or
"O send [Him] health from heaven."

2 Jer. xx. 12 ; Lam. iii. 58. 3 Lam. in. 55, 56.

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Chapter. (Phil. ii. 10.)

AT the Name of JESUS let every
** knee bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under
the earth : and let every tongue con
fess that our Lord JESUS Christ is in
the glory of God the Father.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Lauds.
Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday before Passion Sunday, (p.

3 2 40

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. x It is written : I will smite
the Shepherd, * and the sheep of the
flock shall be scattered abroad : but
after I am risen again, I will go before
you into Galilee : there shall ye see Me,
saith the Lord.

qUotrtap in fjofp Q#eel 2

Second Day in the Great Week.

MATTINS.

Inuitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn as on Passion Sunday, (p.
3250

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy
Gospel according to John (xii. I.)

HPHEN JESUS, six days before the
Passover, came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, which had been
dead, whom JESUS raised from the
dead. And so on.

Homily by St Austin, Bishop [of
Hippo. ] ( 5 Qth Tract on John. )

" There they made Him a supper "
and " Lazarus was one of them that

sat at the table" lest men should
deem that it was but by an ocular
delusion that they had seen him arise
from the dead. He lived therefore,
spake, and ate ; to the manifestation
of the truth, and the confusion of the
unbelieving Jews. JESUS, then, sat
down to meat with Lazarus and others,
and Martha, being one of Lazarus
sisters, served. But Mary, Lazarus
other sister, " took a pound of oint
ment of spikenard, very costly, and
anointed the Feet of JESUS, and wiped
His Feet with her hair ; and the house
was filled with the odour of the oint
ment." We have now heard that
which was done ; let us search out
the mystic meaning thereof.

First Responsory.

3 The ungodly said : Let us oppress
the righteous man without cause, and
swallow him up alive, as the grave : let
us make his memorial to perish from
the earth, and cast lots among us for
his spoils : and those murderers laid
by store for themselves, but of evil.
Fools and haters loathe wisdom, and
are guilty in their thoughts.

Verse. Such things they did im
agine, and were deceived, for their
own wickedness blinded them.

Answer. Fools and haters loathe
wisdom, and are guilty in their
thoughts.

Second Lesson.

"\1THOSOEVER thou art that wilt
be a faithful soul, seek with
Mary to anoint the Feet of the Lord
with costly ointment. This ointment
was a figure of justice, and therefore
is there said to have been a pound
thereof, [a pound being a weight used
in scales.] The word " pistikes " used

1 Matth. xxvi. 31, 32 ; Zech. xiii. 7.

2 Called also Fig Monday, in certain parts of England, because on this day our Lord desired
to eat figs. 3 Wisd. ii. i, 10 ; Prov. i. 12.

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by the Evangelist as the name of this
ointment, we must believe to be that
of some place, from which this costly
perfume was imported. 1 Neither is
this name meaningless for us, but
agreeth well with our mystic interpre
tation, since " Pistis " is the Greek
word which signifieth " Faith," and
whosoever will do justice must know
that: "The just shall live by faith."
(Rom. i. 17; Hab. ii. 4.) Anoint
therefore the Feet of JESUS by thy
good life, following in the marks which
those Feet of the Lord have traced.
Wipe His Feet likewise with thy hair ;
that is, if thou have aught which is
not needful to thee, give it to the poor ;
and then thou hast wiped the Feet of
JESUS with thy hair, that is, with that
which thou needest not, and which
is therefore to thee as is hair, being
a needless out -growth to the body.
Here thou hast what to do with that
which thou needest not. To thee it is
needless, but the Lord s Feet have
need of it ; yea, the Feet which the
Lord hath on earth are sorely needy.

Second Responsory.

2 1 became a reproach unto mine
enemies : they looked upon me and
shaked their heads. Help me, O
LORD my God !

Verse. They have spoken against
me with a lying tongue : they com
passed me about also with words of
hatred.

Answer.
God!

Help me, O LORD my

Third Lesson.

~pOR of whom save of His members,

will He say at the latter day:

" Inasmuch as ye have done it unto

one of the least of these My brethren,
ye have done it unto Me " ? (Matth.
xxv. 40.) That is "ye have spent
nothing save that which ye needed
not, but ye have ministered unto My
Feet."

" And the house was filled with the
odour of the ointment." That is, the
fragrance of your good example filleth
the world ; for this odour is a figure of
reputation. They which are called
Christians, and yet live bad lives, cast
a slur on Christ : and it is even such
as they unto whom it is said : " The
Name of God is blasphemed among
the Gentiles through you." (Rom. ii.
24; Ezek. xxxvi. 20, 23.) But if,
through such, the Name of God be
blasphemed, through the godly is
praise ascribed to the Same His Holy
Name, as the Apostle doth likewise
say : "In every place we are unto
God a sweet savour of Christ, [in them
that are saved, and in them that
perish."] (2 Cor. ii. 14, 15.)

Third Responsory.

3 False witnesses are risen up against
me, and such as breathe out cruelty :
they have gone about to kill me,
neither spared they to spit in my face ;
their spears have wounded me, and
all my bones are out of joint. But as
for me, I counted myself as one that
is dead upon the earth.

Verse. They poured forth their fury
upon me, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth.

Answer. But as for me, I counted
myself as one that is dead upon the
earth. False witnesses are risen up
against me, and such as breathe out
cruelty ; they have gone about to kill
me, neither spared they to spit in my
face ; their spears have wounded me,

1 But it is now generally believed that this word is either (i) From "pino," to drink, and
means liquid; (2) From " pistis," faith, and means genuine, unadulterated; or (3) From the
spicata, and means " spike "-nard.

Latin

2 Ps. cviii. 25, 3.

3 Cf. Ps. xxvi. 12.

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and all my bones are out of joint. But
as for me, I counted myself as one
that is dead upon the earth.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. l I hid not my
face * from shame and spitting.

Second Antipho?i. 2 Awake, O
sword, * against them that scatter
my flock.

Third Antiphon. 3 They took the
thirty pieces of silver, * my price, that
I was prized at of them.

Fourth Antiphon. 4 Waters flowed
over mine head ; * I said : I am cut
off; I will call upon Thy Name, O
LORD God.

Fifth Antiphon. O Lord, behold -&gt;
the lips * of those that rose up against
me, and their device.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 19, as on Mon
day after Passion Sunday, (p. 333.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Passion Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me *
with Thine Own Self, with the glory
which I had with Thee before the
world was.

Prayer.

C\ ALMIGHTY God, Which know-
^^ est that we be set in such straits
that we have no power of ourselves to
help ourselves, we pray Thee merci
fully to relieve us for whom continually
pleadeth the Suffering of Thine Only-
Begotten Son, Who liveth and reigneth
with Thee, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

The Antiphons at Prime, Terce,

Sext, and None are the First, Second,
Third, and Fifth, at Lauds, respec
tively.

VESPERS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 20, as 071 the
Monday after Passion Sunday, (p.

334-)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday before Passion Sunday, (p.

324.)

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. Thou couldest have no power
* at all against Me, except it were
given thee from above.

Prayer.

IT ELP us, O God of our salvation,
and grant us grace to draw
near with joy to the memorial of Thy
great mercies whereby Thou wast
pleased to make us new creatures.
Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy
Son, Who liveth and reigneth with
Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.

1 Isa. 1. 6.

4 Lam. iii. 54, 55.

- Cf. Zech. xiii.
5 Lam. iii. 62.

tn )

Third Day in the Great Week.
MATTINS.

Inuitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn, as on Passion Sunday, (p.
325-)

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Jeremiah (xi. 15.)

V\7HY hath My beloved wrought
many iniquities in Mine house?
Will holy meats 6 make atonement for
thy perverseness, whereof thou boast-
est ? The LORD called thy name, A

3 Zech. xi. 12, 13.

6 Apparently the sacrifices.

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green olive tree, fair, fruitful, goodly :
as soon as He had spoken, a great
fire was kindled in her, and the
boughs thereof are burnt up. And
the LORD of hosts, That planted thee,
hath pronounced evil against thee, for
the evil of the house of Israel, and of
the house of Judah, which they have
done against themselves, to provoke
Me to anger, in making offerings unto
Baalim. But Thou, O LORD, hast
given me knowledge of it, and I
know it : then Thou showedst me
their doings. But I was like a
gentle lamb, that is brought to the
slaughter : and I knew not that they
had devised devices against me, say
ing : Come, let us put [poison of a
deadly] tree into his bread, and let
us cut him off from the land of the
living, that his name may be no more
remembered. But, O LORD of Saba-
oth, That judgest righteously, and
triest the reins and the heart, let me
see Thy vengeance on them ; for unto
Thee have I revealed my cause.

First Responsory.

1 I have suffered defaming and fear
from them that were my familiars :
they watched for my halting, 2 saying :
Let us entice him, and prevail against
him. But Thou, O LORD, art with
me, as a Mighty Terrible One. Let
them stumble into everlasting con
fusion, that I may see Thy vengeance
upon them, for unto Thee have I
opened my cause.

Verse. 3 O LORD, plead Thou the
cause of my soul, Thou That art the
Redeemer of my life.

Answer. Let them stumble into
everlasting confusion, that I may see
Thy vengeance upon them, for unto
Thee have I opened my cause.

Second Lesson, (xii. i.)

"DIGHTEOUS art Thou, O LORD,
and I plead with Thee ; yet let
me talk with Thee of Thy judgments :
wherefore doth the way of the wicked
prosper ? Wherefore are all they
happy that lie and work iniquity ?
Thou hast planted them ; yea, they
have taken root : they grow ; yea,
they bring forth fruit. Thou art near
in their mouth, and far from their
reins. But Thou, O LORD, knowest
me ; Thou hast seen me, and tried
mine heart toward Thee. Pull them
out like sheep for the shambles, and
prepare 4 them for the day of slaughter.
How long shall the land mourn, and
the herbs of every field wither, for the
wickedness of them that dwell therein?
The beasts are consumed and the
birds, because they said : He shall
not see our last end.

Second Responsory.

5 For Thy sake, O God of Israel, I
have borne reproach ; shame hath cov
ered my face ; I am become a stranger
unto my brethren, and an alien unto
my mother s children. For the zeal of
Thine house hath eaten me up.

Verse. Draw nigh unto my soul,
and redeem it ; deliver me, because of
mine enemies.

Answer. For the zeal of Thine
house hath eaten me up.

Third Lesson. (7.)

T HAVE forsaken Mine house ; I
have left Mine heritage, I have
given the dearly beloved of My soul 6
into the hand of her enemies. Mine
heritage is become unto Me as a lion
in the forest ; it crieth out against Me, i
therefore have I hated it. Is not

1 Cf. Jer. xx. 10, n.

3 Lam. iii. 58.

5 Ps. Ixviii. 8-10, 19.

- Custodientes latus meum, lit., watching my side.

4 Sanctifica, lit., devote them.

15 Dilectam animam meam, lit., my dearly beloved soul.

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Mine heritage unto Me as an hideous
bird [of prey] ? Is not the unseemly
bird everywhere throughout it? 1 Come
ye, assemble yourselves together, all
ye beasts of the field, hasten to de
vour. Many pastors have destroyed
My vineyard, they have trodden My
portion under foot, they have made My
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
They have made it desolate, and
[being desolate] it mourneth unto
Me. With desolation is the whole
land made desolate, because there is no
man that considereth in the heart.

Third Responsory.

2 The congregation of the people
hath compassed me about, but I re
warded no evil unto him that rewarded
evil unto me. O Lord, let the wicked
ness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the just.

Verse. Judge me, O LORD, accord
ing to my righteousness, and accord
ing to mine integrity that is in me.

Answer. O Lord, let the wicked
ness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the just. The congrega
tion of the people hath compassed me
about, but I rewarded no evil unto
him that rewarded evil unto me. O
Lord, let the wickedness of the wicked
come to an end, but establish the just.

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. 3 Behold, O LORD,
and see : * for I am in trouble : hear
me speedily.

Second Antiphon. 4 Plead my cause,
* O Lord : deliver me from the unjust
and deceitful man.

Third Antiphon. 5 I cried by reason
of mine affliction unto the LORD, * and
He heard me out of the belly of hell.

Fourth Antiphon. Q O LORD, I am
oppressed * undertake Thou for me ;
for I know not what to say unto mine
enemies.

Fifth Antiphoii. ~ The ungodly
said : Let us oppress the righteous
man, * because he is clean contrary
to our doings.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 19, as on Mon
day in Passion Week, (p. 333.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Passion Stmday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Now, before the Feast of the Passover,
as JESUS knew that His hour was
come, * having loved His Own which
were in the world, He loved them
unto the end.

Prayer.

r\ ALMIGHTY and everlasting
^-^ God, give us grace so to use
the solemn and mysterious memorial
of the Lord s Suffering, that the same
may be unto us a mean whereby
worthily to win Thy forgiveness.
Through the Same our Lord JESUS
Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

The Antiphon -s at Prime, Terce,
Sext, and None, are the First, Scco?id,
Third, and Fifth, at Lands, respec
tively.

1 " Numquid avis discolor hasreditas Mea Mihi ? Numquid avis tincta per totum ? " Hebrew,
lit., "Is Mine heritage unto Me an hideous [flock of] vultures? Is the flock of vultures all
round it?" LXX., "Is not Mine heritage an hyaena s den unto Me? or a den [of them] all
round it?" Jonathan ben Uzziel: " Like a flock of birds scattered about, thus is Mine heritage
scattered about before Me. And like a bird that has been shot at, thus collect themselves upon
it those who murder with the sword ; all around, the kings of the nations ; and their camps
come upon it for plunder."

2 Cf. Ps. vii. 8, s, 10, 9. 3 Lam. i. 20 ; Ps. Ixviii. 18. * p s . X ni. lt

5 Jonah ii. 3. 6 Isa. xxxviii. 14. Cf. 15. 7 Wisd. ii. 12.

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Aftet None is celebrated the Liturgy,
including the Passion according to
Mark (xiv. i-xv. 46.)

VESPERS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 20, as on
Monday in Passio?i Week, (p. 334.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday before Passion Sunday, (p.

3240

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. I have power to lay down
My life, * and I have power to take it
again.

Prayer.

"DID us, O God, by Thy mercy, of
all deceitfulness of the old man,
and make us meet to become a new
creature in our Lord JESUS Christ
Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth
with Thee, in the unity of the Holy
Ghost, one God, world without end.
Aine?i.

Fourth Day in the Great Week.

MATTINS.

Invitatory, alteration in Ps. xciv.,
and Hymn as on Passion Sunday, (J).
3250

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of
the Prophet Jeremiah (xvii. 13.)

r\ LORD, the Hope of Israel, all
W that forsake Thee, shall be
ashamed : they that depart from Thee,
shall be written in the earth ; because
they have forsaken the LORD, the
fountain of living waters. Heal me,
O LORD, and I shall be healed ; save

me, and I shall be saved ; for Thou
art my praise. Behold, they say unto
me : Where is the word of the
LORD ? let it come now. As for me,
I was not turned aside from following
after Thee, Which art my Shepherd : *
neither have I desired the day of
man ; Thou knowest. That which
came out of my lips was right before
Thee. Be not a terror unto me :
Thou art my hope in the day of evil.
Let them be confounded that perse
cute me, but let not me be con
founded : let them be dismayed, but
let not me be dismayed : bring upon
them the day of evil, and destroy them
with double destruction.

First Responsory.

2 They have spoken against me with
a lying tongue ; they compassed me
about also with words of hatred : in
return for my love they were my
adversaries : but I gave myself unto
prayer ; and Thou hast heard me, O
Lord my God !

Verse. And they have rewarded
me evil for good, and hatred for my
love.

Answer. But I gave myself unto
prayer ; and Thou hast heard me, O
Lord my God !

Second Lesson, (xviii. 13.)

O hath heard such things as the
virgin of Israel hath done most
horribly ? Will the snow of Lebanon
fail from the rock of the field ? 3 or
can a man root up the source of a
fountain of cold flowing waters ? Be
cause My people hath forgotten Ale,
they have offered sacrifices to lies, and I
stumbled in their ways, their ancient !
ways, to turn aside therefrom into !
paths untried ; to make their land

1 /.*?., that in which the veracity of the Prophet would be proved by the destruction of
his people. 2 p s cv ^ 3&gt; 4&gt; 5&gt;

3 I.e., will snow ever cease to lie among the wild crags of Lebanon ?

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desolate, and a perpetual hissing.
Every one that passeth thereby shall
be astonished, and wag his head. I
will scatter them as with an east wind
before the enemy ; I will show them
the back, and not the face, in the day
of their calamity. Then l said they :
Come, and let us devise devices
against Jeremiah ; for the law shall
not perish from the Priest, nor counsel
from the wise, nor the word from the
Prophet. Come, and let us smite him
with the tongue, and let us not give
heed to any of his words.

Second Responsory.
The ungodly said, &c., (p. 354.)

Third Lesson.

heed to me, O LORD, and
- hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me. Shall evil be
recompensed for good ? For they
have digged a pit for my soul. Re
member that I stood before Thee to
speak good for them, and to turn away
Thy wrath from them. Therefore de
liver up their children to the famine,
and give them over to the edge of the
sword : let their wives be bereaved of
their children and be widows, and let
their men be put to death ; let their
young men be slain by the sword in
battle. Let a cry be heard from their
houses ; for Thou wilt bring the
robbers suddenly upon them ; because
they have digged a pit to take me,
and hid snares for my feet. Yet,
LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay me ; forgive not
their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
from Thy sight ; let them be over
thrown before Thee : deal with them in
the time of Thine anger.

Third Responsory.
Liars are come, &c., (p. 355.)

LAUDS.

First Antiphon. 2 Deliver me from
blood-guiltiness, O God, * Thou that
art my God, and my tongue shall sing
aloud of Thy righteousness.

Second Antiphon. 3 I have suffered
defaming * and fear from them : but
the LORD is with me as a Mighty
Terrible One.

Third Antiphon. 4 But in vain
have they sought my soul ; * they
shall go into the lower parts of the
earth.

Fourth Antiphon. All mine ene
mies heard of my affliction : * O
Lord, they rejoiced that thou hadst
done it.

Fifth Antiphon. 5 O Lord, bind
the Gentiles * with chains, and their
kings with fetters.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 19, as on
Monday in Passion Week, (p. 333.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Passion Sunday, (p. 331.)

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Simon, sleepest thou ? * Couldst not
thou watch one hour with Me ?

Prayer.

Q ALMIGHTY God, we beseech
Thee that we whose transgres
sions do unceasingly harm us, may
find freedom in the Suffering of Thine
Only-begotten Son, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.

1 That is, when the Saint had delivered the preceding prophecy, his fellow-townsmen deter
mined to put him down as a young upstart.

2 p s- 1. 16. 3 j er&gt; xx&gt; I0j Iti 4 p s&lt; ixji. I0&lt; 5 p s&gt;

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At the beginning of the Martyrology,
is said,

On the morrow is commemorated
the Lord s Supper, whereat Christ
JESUS, upon the day before He was
crucified for our salvation, committed
to His disciples the celebration of the
mysteries of His Body and Blood.

After the Martyrology on this day,
the Martyrology is not read again till
Easter Sttnday.

The same Prayer at Terce, Sext, and
None.

The Antiphons at Prime, Terce,
Sext, and None are the First, Second,
Third, and Fifth at Lands, respec
tively.

After None is celebrated the Liturgy,
including the Passion according to
Luke (xxii. i-xxiii. 55.)

VESPERS.

Chapter from Jer. xi. 20, as o?i
Monday in Passion Week, (p. 334.)

Hymn and Verse and Answer as on
Saturday before Passion Sunday, (p.

3240

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed
Virgin. The damsel said unto Peter :
* Surely thou art one of them, for thy
speech bewrayeth thee.

Prayer.

T ORD, we beseech Thee, behold
^** this Thy family, for which our
Lord JESUS Christ was contented to
be betrayed, and given up into the
hands of wicked men, and to suffer
death upon the Cross : Who liveth
and reigneth with Thee, in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

Fifth Day of the Great Week, whereon
was instituted the Lord s Supper.

MATTINS.

On this and the two following
nights Mattins and Lauds are always
said together, and these Three Services
are commonly called the Three Nights
of Darkness.^ In Choir six lights are
lighted upon the Altar, and fifteen
(seven on each side and one at the top]
in a triangle-shaped candlestick before
the Epistle corner. As each Antiphon
is repeated the second time, one of the
fifteen candles is put out.

The Antiphons are all doubled, and
the Hymn, " Glory be to the Father,"
&c., is everywhere omitted.

After the Lord s Prayer, the Angelic
Salutation, and the Apostles Creed
have been said inaudibly, all else is
omitted, and the First Antiphon be
gins at once.

FIRST NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. The zeal of Thine
house hath eaten me up, and the re
proaches of them that reproached Thee
are fallen upon me.

Psalm LXVIII.
Save me, O God, &c., (p. 123.)

Second Antiphon. Let them be
turned backward and put to confusion,
that desire my hurt.

Psalm LXIX.
Make haste, O God, &c., (p. 125.)

Third Antiphon. Deliver me, O my
God, out of the hand of the wicked.

Tenebrae.

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Psalm LXX.

In Thee, O LORD, &c., (p. 125.)

Verse. Let them be turned back
ward and put to confusion.

Answer. That desire my hurt.

The whole of the Lord s Prayer is
then said inaudibly, and the Reader at
once begins the First Lesson. Thus is
it done on each of the three nights; no
Absolution or Blessing is asked or
given in any Nocturn or before any
Lesson.

First Lesson.

Here beginneth the Lamentation x of
Jeremiah the Prophet (i. i.)

A LEPH. 2 How doth the city sit
solitary that was full of people !
How is she become as a widow, she
that was great among the nations !
She that was Princess among the pro
vinces, how is she become tributary !

BETH. She weepeth sore in the
night, and her tears are upon her
cheeks : among all her lovers, she hath
none to comfort her ; all her friends
have dwelt treacherously with her, and
are become her enemies.

GHIMEL. Judah is gone into cap
tivity, because of affliction, and because
of great servitude : she dwelleth among
the heathen, and findeth no rest : all
her persecutors overtook her between
the straits.

DALETH. The ways of Zion do
mourn, because none come to the
solemn Feasts ; all her gates are
desolate, her Priests sigh, her virgins
are afflicted, and she weighed down
with bitterness.

HE. Her adversaries are the chief,
her enemies prosper : for the LORD

hath afflicted her for the multitude of
her transgressions ; her children are
gone into captivity before the enemy.
Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! Return unto
the Lord thy God !

The Reader does not say, " But
Thou," &c., nor is " Thanks be to
God " answered after this or any other
Lesson on these three nights, but the
Responsory begins at once.

First Responsory.

3 At the Mount of Olives He prayed
unto the Father : O My Father, if it
be possible, let this cup pass from Me !
The spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak.

Verse. Watch and pray, that ye
enter not into temptation.

Answer. The spirit indeed is will
ing, but the flesh is weak.

Second Lesson.

\ 7AV. And from the daughter of
Zion all her beauty is departed :
her princes are become like harts that
find no pasture, and they are gone
without strength before the pursuer. 4

ZAIN. Jerusalem remembereth, in
the days of her affliction and of her
miseries, all her pleasant things that
she had in the days of old, when
her people fell into the hand of the
enemy, and none did help her : the
adversaries saw her, and did mock
at her Sabbaths.

HETH. 5 Jerusalem hath grievously
sinned ; therefore she is removed. All
that honoured her, despise her, because
they have seen her nakedness. Yea,
she sigheth and turneth backward.

1 Over the ruins of Jerusalem, after it had been sacked and burnt by the Assyrians.

2 This composition is A B C Darian. The letters are those of the Hebrew alphabet.
8 Matth. xxvi. 42, 41.

4 The simile is a sporting one, taken from wretched animals subjected to the chase, but which
are too feeble to run well.

5 Rather, Cheth, or Kheth, a strong guttural, like Scotch "ch" in "loch."

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TETH. Her filthiness is in her
skirts ; she remembereth not her last
end : therefore she came down wonder
fully, she had no comforter. O LORD,
behold my affliction, for the enemy
hath magnified himself.

Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! Return unto
the Lord thy God.

Second Responsory.

1 My Soul is exceeding sorrowful,
even unto death : tarry ye here and
watch with Me ; yet a little while, and
ye shall see the multitude close Me in.
Ye shall flee ; and I will go to be
offered a sacrifice for you.

Verse. Behold, the hour is at hand,
and the Son of man is betrayed into
the hands of sinners.

Answer. Ye shall flee ; and I will
go to be offered a sacrifice for you.

Third Lesson.

T OD. 2 The enemy hath spread out
his hand upon all her pleasant
things ; for she hath seen the heathen
enter into her Sanctuary, concerning
whom Thou didst command that they
should not enter into Thy congregation.

CAPH. All her people sigh, they seek
bread : they have given their pleasant
things for meat to relieve the soul.
See, O LORD, and consider, for I am
become vile.

LAMED. Is it nothing to you, all ye
that pass by ? Behold, and see if there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,
which is done unto me ; wherewith the
LORD hath afflicted me in the day of
His fierce anger.

MEM. From above hath He sent
fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
against them : He hath spread a net
for my feet. He hath turned me back :
He hath made me desolate and faint
all the day.

1 Matth. xxvi. 38, 45. 2 Or, Yod.

NUN. The yoke of my trans
gressions is bound by His hand ; they
are wreathed and come up upon my
neck. He hath made my strength to
fall : the LORD hath delivered me into
their hands, from whom I am not able
to rise up.

Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! Return unto
the Lord thy God !

Third Responsory.

3 Behold, when we shall see Him, He
hath no form nor comeliness : there is
no beauty in Him : this is He Which
hath borne our griefs and carried our
sorrows ; but He was wounded for our
transgressions, and with His stripes we
are healed.

Verse. Surely He hath borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows.

Answer. And with His stripes we
are healed. Behold, when we shall see
Him, He hath no form nor comeliness:
there is no beauty in Him ; this is He
Which hath borne our sins and carried
our sorrows : but He was wounded for
our transgressions, and with His stripes
we are healed.

SECOND NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. The Lord shall de
liver the needy from the strong : the
poor also, that hath no helper.

Psalm LXXI.
Give the king, c., (p. 126.)

Second Antiphon. The ungodly think
and speak wickedness : they speak
loftily concerning oppression.

Psalm LXXII.
Truly God is good, &c., (p. 127.)

Third Antiphon. Arise, O Lord, and
judge my cause.

3 Isa. liii. 2, 4.

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Psalm LXXIII.

God, why hast Thou cast us off ?
&c., (p. 128.)

Verse. Deliver me, O my God, out
of the hand of the wicked.

Answer. Out of the hand of the un
righteous and cruel man.

Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Treatise
of St Austin, Bishop [of Hippo,]
upon the Psalms (liv. i.)

" C* IVE ear to my prayer, O God,
and despise not my supplica
tion : attend unto me and hear me."
These are the words of a man tra
vailing, anxious, and troubled. He
prayeth in the midst of much suffer
ing, longing to be rid of his affliction.
Our part is to see what that his
affliction was, and when he hath told
us, to acknowledge that we also suffer
therefrom ; that so, partaking in his
trouble, we may take part also in his
prayer. He saith : " I mourn in my
exercise, and am troubled." Where
in mourned he ? Wherein was he
troubled ? He saith : "In my exer
cise." In the next words he giveth
us to know that his affliction was the
oppression of the wicked, (" Because
of the voice of the enemy, and because
of the oppression of the wicked,")
and this suffering which came upon
him at the hands of wicked men, he
hath called his exercise. Think not
that wicked men are in this world
for nothing, or that God doth no good
with them. Every wicked man liveth,
either to repent, or to exercise the
righteous.

Fourth Responsory.

1 Mine own friend hath betrayed Me
by the sign of a kiss : " Whomsoever I

shall kiss, That Same is He hold
Him fast." This was the traitorous
sign which he gave, even he who
murdered with a kiss. Woe unto that
man ! He cast down the price of
blood, and went, and hanged him
self.

Verse. It had been good for that
man if he had not been born.

Answer. Woe unto that man ! He
cast down the price of blood, and
went, and hanged himself.

Fifth Lesson.

A/WOULD to God that they which
now exercise us were converted
and exercised with us ! Yet, while
they are as they are, and exercise us,
we will not hate them : for we know
not of any one of them whether he
will endure to the end in his sin.
Yea, oftentimes, when thou deemest
that thou hatest thine enemy, he
whom thou hatest is thy brother,
and thou knowest it not. The Holy
Scriptures show us that the devil and
his angels are already damned unto
everlasting fire, and therefore of their
repentance it behoveth us to despair ;
but of theirs only. These are they
against whom we wrestle within ; to
the which wrestling the Apostle stir-
reth us up where he saith: "We
wrestle not against flesh and blood,"
(that is, not against men whom we
see,) "but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world." (Eph.
vi. 12.) He saith not "the rulers of
this world," lest perchance thou
shouldest deem that devils are the
lords of heaven and earth ; what he
doth say is, " rulers of the darkness
of this world," of that world which
they love who love the world, of that
world wherein the ungodly and un
righteous do prosper, of that world,

1 Matth. xxvi. 48, 24 ; xxvii. 5.

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in fine, of which the Gospel saith :
"And the world knew Him not."
(John i. 10.)

Fifth Responsory.

1 The vile trader Judas came to the
Lord to kiss Him, and He, as a guile
less Lamb, refused not a kiss to Judas,
who, for a certain number of pence,
betrayed Christ to the Jews.

Verse. It had been good for that
man if he had not been born.

Answer. Who, for a certain number
of pence, betrayed Christ to the Jews.

Sixth Lesson.

" T HAVE seen iniquity and strife in
the city." (v. 10.) Behold, the
glory of the Cross. That Cross which
was the object of the insults of God s
enemies, is established now above the
brows of kings. The end hath shown
the measure of its power : it hath
conquered the world, not by the
sword, but by its wood. The enemies
of God thought the Cross a meet
object of insult and ridicule, yea, they
stood before it, "wagging their heads
and saying : If He be the Son of God,
let Him come down from the Cross ! "
(Matth. xxvii. 39, 40.) And He
stretched forth His Hands unto a
disobedient and gainsaying people.
(Rom. x. 21.) If he is just which
liveth by faith, (Rom. i. 17; Hab. ii.
4,) he is unjust that hath not faith.
Therefore where is written " iniquity "
we may understand "unbelief." The
Lord therefore saith that He "saw
iniquity and strife in the city," and
that He "stretched forth His Hands
unto that disobedient and gainsaying
people," and, disobedient and gain
saying as they were, He was hungry
for their salvation, and said : " Father,

forgive them, for they know not what
they do." (Luke xxiii. 34.)

Sixth Responsory.

2 One of My disciples shall betray
Me this night. Woe unto that man
by whom I am betrayed ! It had
been good for that man if he had not
been born.

Verse. He that dippeth his hand
with Me in the dish, the same shall
betray Me into the hands of sinners.

Answer. It had been good for that
man if he had not been born. One of
My disciples shall betray Me this
night. Woe unto that man by whom
I am betrayed. It had been good for
that man if he had not been born.

THIRD NOCTURN.

First Antiphon. I said unto the
wicked : Speak not wickedness against
God.

Psalm LXXIV.
Unto Thee, O God, &c., (p. 129.)

Second Antiphon. The earth trem
bled and was still, when God arose to
judgment.

Psalm LXXV.

In Judah is God known, &c., (/.
130.)

Third Antiphon. In the day of my
trouble I sought God with my hands. 3

Psalm LXXVI.
I cried unto the Lord, c., (p. 130.)

Verse. Arise, O Lord.
Answer. Judge Thou my cause.

1 Cf. Matth. xxvi. 48-50, 15, 24 ; Jer. xi. 19. 2 Matth. xxvi. 21, 24, 23, 45.

3 In its original place the meaning would be, "hands lifted up in prayer;" here it is
probably meant to refer to our Lord s, lifted up and stretched out upon the Cross.

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Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the First
Epistle of the Blessed Apostle Paul
to the Corinthians (ii. 17.)

"M"OW, in this that I command, I
praise you not, that ye come to
gether, not for the better, but for the
worse. For, first of all, when ye come
together in the Church, I hear that
there be divisions among you, and I
partly believe it. For there must be
also heresies, that they which are ap
proved may be made manifest among
you. When ye come together, there
fore, into one place, this is not to eat
the Lord s Supper. For every one
taketh before his own supper to eat,
and one is hungry, and another is
drunken. What ! have ye not houses
to eat and to drink in ? or despise ye
the Church of God, and shame them
that have not ? What shall I say
to you ? Do I praise you ? In this
I praise you not.

Seventh Responsory.

1 I was like a gentle lamb that is
brought to the slaughter, and I knew
not that mine enemies had devised de
vices against me, saying : Come, let
us put [poison of a deadly] tree into
his bread, and let us cut him off from
the land of the living.

Verse. ~ All they that hate me de
vised my hurt against me : they plotted
together to do me evil, saying :

Answer. Come, let us put [poison
of a deadly] tree into his bread, and
let us cut him off from the land of the
living.

Eighth Lesson.

pOR I have received of the Lord

that which also I delivered unto

you, That the Lord JESUS, the same

Jer. xi. 19. -2 p s . x l, 8, 9

night in which He was betrayed, took
bread ; and, when He had given
thanks, He brake it, and said : Take,
eat : This is My Body, Which shall
be given for you ; this do in remem
brance of Me. After the same manner
also He took the cup, when He had
supped, saying : This Cup is the New
Testament in My Blood. This do ye,
as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance
of Me. For as often as ye eat this
Bread and drink this Cup, ye do show
the Lord s death till He come.

Eighth Respo?isory.

3 Could ye not watch with Me one
hour, ye that called one on the other
to die for Me ? Or see ye not Judas,
how that he sleepeth not, but maketh
haste to betray Me to the Jews ?

Verse. 4 Why sleep ye ? Rise, and
pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Answer. Or see ye not Judas, how
that he sleepeth not, but maketh haste
to betray Me to the Jews ?

Ninth Lesson.

whosoever shall

eat this Bread, or drink the
Cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be
guilty of the Body and Blood of the
Lord. But let a man examine him
self, and so let him eat of that Bread,
and drink of that Cup. For he that
eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth
and drinketh damnation to himself, not
discerning the Lord s Body. For this
cause many are weak and sickly
among you, and many sleep. For if
we would judge ourselves, we should
not be judged. But when we are
judged we are chastened of the Lord,
that we should not be condemned with
the world. Wherefore, my brethren,
when ye come together to eat, tarry
one for another. If any man hunger,

3 Matth. xxvi. 40.

4 Luke xxii. 46.

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let him eat at home, that ye come not
together unto condemnation. And the
rest will I set in order when I come.

Ninth Responsory.

1 The elders of the people consulted
that they might take JESUS by subtilty,
and kill Him : they came out, as
against a thief, with swords and
staves.

Verse. 2 The chief Priests and the
Pharisees gathered a council.

Answer. That they might take
JESUS by subtilty, and kill Him : they
came out, as against a thief, with
swords and staves. The elders of the
people consulted that they might take
JESUS by subtilty, and kill Him : they
came out, as against a thief, with
swords and staves.

LAUDS.

This part of the Service begins at
once with the First Antiphon.

First Antiphon. O Lord, Thou
shalt be justified when Thou speakest,
and be clear when Thou art judged.

Second Antiphon. 3 The Lord was
brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and He opened not His mouth.

Third Antiphon. Mine heart is
broken within me ; all my bones
tremble.

Fourth Antiphon. O Lord, Thou
hast spoken unto us in Thy strength,
and in Thy Holy Banquet.

Fifth Antiphon. 3 He was offered
up because He willed it, and He bore
our sins.

No Chapter or Hymn are said either
on this or the two following nights.

Verse. 4 Mine Own familiar friend,
in whom I trusted,

Answer. Which did eat of My
bread, hath lifted up his heel against
Me.

By this time all the candles on the
triangular candlestick have been put
out, except the one at the top, and,
while the Song of Zacharias is being
sung, every light throughout the
Church is put out, as are also the six
on the Altar, one by one, so that the
last is put out at the words, " To give
light to them that sit in darkness, &c."
As the Antiphon, " Now he that be
trayed Him, &c.," is repeated the second
time, the candle at the top of the tri
angular candlestick is taken and hidden
under the Altar, at the Epistle corner.

Antiphon at the Song of Zacharias.
Now he that betrayed Him gave them
a sign, saying : Whomsoever I shall
kiss, That Same is He : hold Him fast.

Then is said the following sentence,
and as it begins, all kneel down :

Christ, for our sakes, became obedi
ent unto death.

Then is said :

1 . The Lord s Prayer, inaudibly.

2. Ps. L., " Have mercy upon me,
&c.," (p. 87,) in a tone which can just
be heard.

3. The Prayer, " Lord, we beseech
Thee, behold this Thy family, &c.,"
(p. 364.) Neither " Let us pray " nor
anything else is said before it. It is
said in the same tone as Ps. L., except
the last clause, " Who liveth and reign-
eth, &c.," which is said inaudibly.
When it is over some noise is made?
the hidden light is put back on the
triangular candlestick, and all present
immediately rise and depart in silence.

1 Matth. xxvi. 3, 4, 55. 2 John xi. 47. :5 Isa. liii. 7.

5 That is, the Officiant, to announce that the Prayer is over, gives one or two taps.

4 Ps. xl. 10.

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PRIME.

After the Lord s Prayer, the Angelic
Salutation, a?id the Apostles Creed
have been said inaudibly, all else is
omitted, and the Psalms begin at once.

No Antiphon is said, and the Hymn,
" Glory be to the Father, &c.," is
everywhere omitted.

The Psalms themselves are as on
Feasts, viz. Ps. LIIL "Save me, O
God, &c.," and the two first parts of
Ps. CXVIII., "Blessed are the unde-
filed, &a