Ante quam inchoetur Officium, laudabiliter dicitur, sub singulari semper numero, sequens Oratio; pro qua Summus Pontifex Pius Pp. XI sub die 17 Novembris 1933 Indulgentiam trium annorum concessit.

Oratio

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Laus tibi, Dómine, Rex ætérnæ glóriæ.

Psalmus 50

Et secúndum multitúdinem miseratiónum tuárum, dele iniquitátem meam.

Amplius lava me ab iniquitáte mea: et a peccáto meo munda me.

Quóniam iniquitátem meam ego cognósco: et peccátum meum contra me est semper.

Tibi soli peccávi, et malum coram te feci: ut justificéris in sermónibus tuis, et vincas cum judicáris.

Ecce enim, in iniquitátibus concéptus sum: et in peccátis concépit me mater mea.

Ecce enim, veritátem dilexísti: incérta et occúlta sapiéntiæ tuæ manifestásti mihi.

Aspérges me hyssópo, et mundábor: lavábis me, et super nivem dealbábor.

Audítui meo dabis gáudium et lætítiam: et exsultábunt ossa humiliáta.

Avérte fáciem tuam a peccátis meis: et omnes iniquitátes meas dele.

Cor mundum crea in me, Deus: et spíritum rectum ínnova in viscéribus meis.

Ne projícias me a fácie tua: et spíritum sanctum tuum ne áuferas a me.

Redde mihi lætítiam salutáris tui: et spíritu principáli confírma me.

Docébo iníquos vias tuas: et ímpii ad te converténtur.

Líbera me de sanguínibus, Deus, Deus salútis meæ: et exsultábit lingua mea justítiam tuam.

Dómine, lábia mea apéries: et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.

Quóniam si voluísses sacrifícium, dedíssem útique: holocáustis non delectáberis.

Sacrifícium Deo spíritus contribulátus: cor contrítum, et humiliátum, Deus, non despícies.

Benígne fac, Dómine, in bona voluntáte tua Sion: ut ædificéntur muri Jerúsalem.

Tunc acceptábis sacrifícium justítiæ, oblatiónes, et holocáusta: tunc impónent super altáre tuum vítulos.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Psalmus 91

Ad annuntiándum mane misericórdiam tuam: et veritátem tuam per noctem.

In decachórdo, psaltério: cum cántico, in cíthara.

Quia delectásti me, Dómine, in factúra tua: et in opéribus mánuum tuárum exsultábo.

Quam magnificáta sunt ópera tua, Dómine! nimis profúndæ factæ sunt cogitatiónes tuæ.

Vir insípiens non cognóscet: et stultus non intélliget hæc.

Cum exórti fúerint peccatóres sicut fœnum: et apparúerint omnes, qui operántur iniquitátem:

Ut intéreant in sæculum sæculi: tu autem Altíssimus in ætérnum, Dómine.

Quóniam ecce inimíci tui, Dómine, quóniam ecce inimíci tui períbunt: et dispergéntur omnes, qui operántur iniquitátem.

Et exaltábitur sicut unicórnis cornu meum: et senéctus mea in misericórdia úberi.

Et despéxit óculus meus inimícos meos: et in insurgéntibus in me malignántibus áudiet auris mea.

Justus, ut palma florébit: sicut cedrus Líbani multiplicábitur.

Plantáti in domo Dómini, in átriis domus Dei nostri florébunt.

Adhuc multiplicabúntur in senécta úberi: et bene patiéntes erunt, ut annúntient:

Quóniam rectus Dóminus, Deus noster: et non est iníquitas in eo.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Psalmus 63

Protexísti me a convéntu malignántium: a multitúdine operántium iniquitátem.

Quia exacuérunt ut gládium linguas suas: intendérunt arcum rem amáram, ut sagíttent in occúltis immaculátum.

Súbito sagittábunt eum, et non timébunt: firmavérunt sibi sermónem nequam.

Narravérunt ut abscónderent láqueos: dixérunt: Quis vidébit eos?

Scrutáti sunt iniquitátes: defecérunt scrutántes scrutínio.

Accédet homo ad cor altum: et exaltábitur Deus.

Sagíttæ parvulórum factæ sunt plagæ eórum: et infirmátæ sunt contra eos linguæ eórum.

Conturbáti sunt omnes qui vidébant eos: et tímuit omnis homo.

Et annuntiavérunt ópera Dei, et facta ejus intellexérunt.

Lætábitur justus in Dómino, et sperábit in eo, et laudabúntur omnes recti corde.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Canticum Moysis

Deut. 32, 1-43

Concréscat ut plúvia doctrína mea, fluat ut ros elóquium meum.

Quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillæ super grámina. Quia nomen Dómini invocábo:

Date magnificéntiam Deo nostro. Dei perfécta sunt ópera, et omnes viæ ejus judícia:

Deus fidélis, et absque ulla iniquitáte, justus et rectus. Peccavérunt ei, et non fílii ejus in sórdibus:

Generátio prava atque pervérsa. Hæccine reddis Dómino, pópule stulte et insípiens?

Numquid non ipse est pater tuus, qui possédit te, et fecit, et creávit te?

Meménto diérum antiquórum, cógita generatiónes síngulas:

Intérroga patrem tuum, et annuntiábit tibi: majóres tuos, et dicent tibi.

Quando dividébat Altíssimus gentes: quando separábat fílios Adam,

Constítuit términos populórum juxta númerum filiórum Israel.

Pars autem Dómini, pópulus ejus: Jacob funículus hereditátis ejus.

Invénit eum in terra desérta, in loco horróris, et vastæ solitúdinis:

Circumdúxit eum, et dócuit: et custodívit quasi pupíllam óculi sui.

Sicut áquila próvocans ad volándum pullos suos, et super eos vólitans,

Expándit alas suas, et assúmpsit eum, atque portávit in húmeris suis.

Dóminus solus dux ejus fuit: et non erat cum eo deus aliénus.

Constítuit eum super excélsam terram: ut coméderet fructus agrórum,

Ut súgeret mel de petra, oleúmque de saxo duríssimo.

Butýrum de arménto, et lac de óvibus cum ádipe agnórum, et aríetum filiórum Basan:

Et hircos cum medúlla trítici, et sánguinem uvæ bíberet meracíssimum.

Incrassátus est diléctus, et recalcitrávit: incrassátus, impinguátus, dilatátus,

Derelíquit Deum, factórem suum, et recéssit a Deo, salutári suo.

Provocavérunt eum in diis aliénis, et in abominatiónibus ad iracúndiam concitavérunt.

Immolavérunt dæmóniis, et non Deo, diis, quos ignorábant:

Novi recentésque venérunt, quos non coluérunt patres eórum.

Deum qui te génuit dereliquísti, et oblítus es Dómini, creatóris tui.

Vidit Dóminus, et ad iracúndiam concitátus est: quia provocavérunt eum fílii sui et fíliæ.

Et ait: Abscóndam fáciem meam ab eis, et considerábo novíssima eórum:

Generátio enim pervérsa est, et infidéles fílii.

Ipsi me provocavérunt in eo, qui non erat Deus, et irritavérunt in vanitátibus suis:

Et ego provocábo eos in eo, qui non est pópulus, et in gente stulta irritábo illos.

Ignis succénsus est in furóre meo, et ardébit usque ad inférni novíssima:

Devorabítque terram cum gérmine suo, et móntium fundaménta combúret.

Congregábo super eos mala, et sagíttas meas complébo in eis.

Consuméntur fame, et devorábunt eos aves morsu amaríssimo:

Dentes bestiárum immíttam in eos, cum furóre trahéntium super terram, atque serpéntium.

Foris vastábit eos gládius, et intus pavor, júvenem simul ac vírginem, lacténtem cum hómine sene.

Dixi: Ubinam sunt? cessáre fáciam ex homínibus memóriam eórum.

Sed propter iram inimicórum dístuli: ne forte superbírent hostes eórum,

Et dícerent: Manus nostra excélsa, et non Dóminus, fecit hæc ómnia.

Gens absque consílio est, et sine prudéntia. Utinam sáperent, et intellígerent, ac novíssima providérent.

Quómodo persequátur unus mille, et duo fugent decem míllia?

Nonne ídeo, quia Deus suus véndidit eos, et Dóminus conclúsit illos?

Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eórum: et inimíci nostri sunt júdices.

De vínea Sodomórum, vínea eórum, et de suburbánis Gomórrhæ:

Uva eórum uva fellis, et botri amaríssimi.

Fel dracónum vinum eórum, et venénum áspidum insanábile.

Nonne hæc cóndita sunt apud me, et signáta in thesáuris meis?

Mea est últio, et ego retríbuam in témpore, ut labátur pes eórum:

Juxta est dies perditiónis, et adésse festínant témpora.

Judicábit Dóminus pópulum suum, et in servis suis miserébitur:

Vidébit quod infirmáta sit manus, et clausi quoque defecérunt, residuíque consúmpti sunt.

Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eórum, in quibus habébant fidúciam?

De quorum víctimis comedébant ádipes, et bibébant vinum libáminum:

Surgant, et opituléntur vobis, et in necessitáte vos prótegant.

Vidéte quod ego sim solus, et non sit álius Deus præter me:

Ego occídam, et ego vívere fáciam: percútiam, et ego sanábo, et non est qui de manu mea possit erúere.

Levábo ad cælum manum meam, et dicam: Vivo ego in ætérnum.

Si acúero ut fulgur gládium meum, et arripúerit judícium manus mea:

Reddam ultiónem hóstibus meis, et his qui odérunt me retríbuam.

Inebriábo sagíttas meas sánguine, et gládius meus devorábit carnes.

De cruóre occisórum, et de captivitáte, nudáti inimicórum cápitis.

Laudáte, gentes, pópulum ejus, quia sánguinem servórum suórum ulciscétur:

Et vindíctam retríbuet in hostes eórum, et propítius erit terræ pópuli sui.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Psalmus 150

Laudáte eum in virtútibus ejus: laudáte eum secúndum multitúdinem magnitúdinis ejus.

Laudáte eum in sono tubæ: laudáte eum in psaltério, et cíthara.

Laudáte eum in týmpano, et choro: laudáte eum in chordis, et órgano.

Laudáte eum in cýmbalis benesonántibus: laudáte eum in cýmbalis jubilatiónis: omnis spíritus laudet Dóminum.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Capitulum Rom. 13, 12-13

Hymnus

Terris dies illábitur:

Lucis resúltat spículum:

Discédat omne lúbricum.

Mentis reátus córruat:

Quidquid tenébris hórridum

Nox áttulit culpæ, cadat.

Hic deprecámur cérnui,

Cum luce nobis éffluat,

Hoc dum canóre cóncrepat.

Ejúsque soli Fílio,

Cum Spíritu Paráclito,

Nunc et per omne sæculum.

Canticum Zachariæ

Luc. 1, 68-79

Et eréxit cornu salútis nobis: in domo David, púeri sui.

Sicut locútus est per os sanctórum, qui a sæculo sunt, Prophetárum ejus:

Salútem ex inimícis nostris, et de manu ómnium, qui odérunt nos:

Ad faciéndam misericórdiam cum pátribus nostris: et memorári testaménti sui sancti.

Jusjurándum, quod jurávit ad Abraham, patrem nostrum, datúrum se nobis:

Ut sine timóre, de manu inimicórum nostrórum liberáti, serviámus illi.

In sanctitáte, et justítia coram ipso, ómnibus diébus nostris.

Et tu, puer, Prophéta Altíssimi vocáberis: præíbis enim ante fáciem Dómini paráre vias ejus:

Ad dandam sciéntiam salútis plebi ejus: in remissiónem peccatórum eórum:

Per víscera misericórdiæ Dei nostri: in quibus visitávit nos, óriens ex alto:

Illumináre his, qui in ténebris, et in umbra mortis sedent: ad dirigéndos pedes nostros in viam pacis.

Preces

Orémus.

Oratio

(ex Commune Festorum beatæ Mariæ Virginis)

(si habeatur)

Oratio

Orémus.

Orémus.

Oratio

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Prayer

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.

Praise be to Thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.

Psalm 50

And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.

To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

I will teach the unjust the ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

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.

Psalm 91

To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear:

That they may perish for ever and ever: but thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.

The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated, that they may shew,

That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

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.

Psalm 63

Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All that saw them were troubled; and every man was afraid.

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

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

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.

Canticle of Moses

Deut. 32, 1-43

Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew.

As a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

Because I will invoke the name of the Lord:

Give ye magnificence to our God. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments:

God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth:

They are a wicked and perverse generation. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people?

Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

Remember the days of old, think upon every generation:

Ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam,

He appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness:

He led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them,

He spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields,

That he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan:

And goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross,

He forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not:

That were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.

And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be:

For it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities:

And I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell:

And shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite:

I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud,

And should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase then thousand?

Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.

Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha:

Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide:

The day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants:

He shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?

Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings:

Let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me:

I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment:

I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh,

Of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants:

And will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

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.

Psalm 150

Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness.

Praise him with sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.

Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the 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.

Little Chapter Rom. 13, 12-13

Hymn

Its golden shower, as day flows in;

Fast mount the pointed shafts of light:

Farewell to darkness and to sin!

Away, despondence and despair!

Whatever guilt the night has brought,

Now let it vanish into air.

Looking to which we sigh and pray,

O may it to thy minstrels prove

The dawning of a better day.

And to his sole-begotten Son;

Glory, O Holy Ghost, to thee,

While everlasting ages run.

Canticle of Zachary

Luke 1:68-79

because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:

And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant:

As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning:

Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us:

To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament,

The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us,

That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear,

In holiness and justice before him, all our days.

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 to his people, unto the remission of their sins:

Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:

To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

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.

Prayers

Let us pray.

Prayer

(Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

(if it be said)

Prayer

Let us pray.

Let us pray.

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