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 89

Priúsquam montes fíerent, aut formarétur terra et orbis: a sæculo et usque in sæculum tu es, Deus.

Ne avértas hóminem in humilitátem: et dixísti: Convertímini, fílii hóminum.

Quóniam mille anni ante óculos tuos, tamquam dies hestérna, quæ prætériit,

Et custódia in nocte, quæ pro níhilo habéntur, eórum anni erunt.

Mane sicut herba tránseat, mane flóreat, et tránseat: véspere décidat, indúret et aréscat.

Quia defécimus in ira tua, et in furóre tuo turbáti sumus.

Posuísti iniquitátes nostras in conspéctu tuo: sæculum nostrum in illuminatióne vultus tui.

Quóniam omnes dies nostri defecérunt: et in ira tua defécimus.

Anni nostri sicut aránea meditabúntur: dies annórum nostrórum in ipsis, septuagínta anni.

Si autem in potentátibus, octogínta anni: et ámplius eórum, labor et dolor.

Quóniam supervénit mansuetúdo: et corripiémur.

Quis novit potestátem iræ tuæ: et præ timóre tuo iram tuam dinumeráre?

Déxteram tuam sic notam fac: et erudítos corde in sapiéntia.

Convértere, Dómine, úsquequo? et deprecábilis esto super servos tuos.

Repléti sumus mane misericórdia tua: et exsultávimus, et delectáti sumus ómnibus diébus nostris.

Lætáti sumus pro diébus, quibus nos humiliásti: annis, quibus vídimus mala.

Réspice in servos tuos, et in ópera tua: et dírige fílios eórum.

Et sit splendor Dómini, Dei nostri, super nos, et ópera mánuum nostrárum dírige super nos: et opus mánuum nostrárum dírige.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

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

Psalmus 35

Quóniam dolóse egit in conspéctu ejus: ut inveniátur iníquitas ejus ad ódium.

Verba oris ejus iníquitas, et dolus: nóluit intellígere ut bene ágeret.

Iniquitátem meditátus est in cubíli suo: ástitit omni viæ non bonæ, malítiam autem non odívit.

Dómine, in cælo misericórdia tua: et véritas tua usque ad nubes.

Justítia tua sicut montes Dei: judícia tua abýssus multa.

Hómines, et juménta salvábis, Dómine: quemádmodum multiplicásti misericórdiam tuam, Deus.

Fílii autem hóminum, in tégmine alárum tuárum sperábunt.

Inebriabúntur ab ubertáte domus tuæ: et torrénte voluptátis tuæ potábis eos.

Quóniam apud te est fons vitæ: et in lúmine tuo vidébimus lumen.

Præténde misericórdiam tuam sciéntibus te, et justítiam tuam his, qui recto sunt corde.

Non véniat mihi pes supérbiæ: et manus peccatóris non móveat me.

Ibi cecidérunt qui operántur iniquitátem: expúlsi sunt, nec potuérunt stare.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

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

Canticum Moysis

Exodi 15, 1-19

Fortitúdo mea, et laus mea Dóminus, et factus est mihi in salútem.

Iste Deus meus, et glorificábo eum: Deus patris mei, et exaltábo eum.

Dóminus quasi vir pugnátor, Omnípotens nomen ejus. Currus Pharaónis et exércitum ejus projécit in mare.

Elécti príncipes ejus submérsi sunt in Mari Rubro: abýssi operuérunt eos, descendérunt in profúndum quasi lapis.

Déxtera tua, Dómine, magnificáta est in fortitúdine: déxtera tua, Dómine, percússit inimícum. Et in multitúdine glóriæ tuæ deposuísti adversários tuos:

Misísti iram tuam, quæ devorávit eos sicut stípulam. Et in spíritu furóris tui congregátæ sunt aquæ:

Stetit unda fluens, congregátæ sunt abýssi in médio mari.

Dixit inimícus: Pérsequar et comprehéndam, dívidam spólia, implébitur ánima mea:

Evaginábo gládium meum, interfíciet eos manus mea.

Flavit spíritus tuus, et opéruit eos mare: submérsi sunt quasi plumbum in aquis veheméntibus.

Quis símilis tui in fórtibus, Dómine? quis símilis tui, magníficus in sanctitáte, terríbilis atque laudábilis, fáciens mirabília?

Extendísti manum tuam, et devorávit eos terra. Dux fuísti in misericórdia tua pópulo quem redemísti:

Et portásti eum in fortitúdine tua, ad habitáculum sanctum tuum.

Ascendérunt pópuli, et iráti sunt: dolóres obtinuérunt habitatóres Philísthiim.

Tunc conturbáti sunt príncipes Edom, robústos Moab obtínuit tremor: obriguérunt omnes habitatóres Chánaan.

Irruat super eos formído et pavor, in magnitúdine bráchii tui:

Fiant immóbiles quasi lapis, donec pertránseat pópulus tuus, Dómine, donec pertránseat pópulus tuus iste, quem possedísti.

Introdúces eos, et plantábis in monte hereditátis tuæ, firmíssimo habitáculo tuo quod operátus es, Dómine:

Sanctuárium tuum, Dómine, quod firmavérunt manus tuæ. Dóminus regnábit in ætérnum et ultra.

Ingréssus est enim eques Phárao cum cúrribus et equítibus ejus in mare: et redúxit super eos Dóminus aquas maris:

Fílii autem Israel ambulavérunt per siccum in médio ejus.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

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

Psalmus 146

Ædíficans Jerúsalem Dóminus: dispersiónes Israélis congregábit.

Qui sanat contrítos corde: et álligat contritiónes eórum.

Qui númerat multitúdinem stellárum: et ómnibus eis nómina vocat.

Magnus Dóminus noster, et magna virtus ejus: et sapiéntiæ ejus non est númerus.

Suscípiens mansuétos Dóminus: humílians autem peccatóres usque ad terram.

Præcínite Dómino in confessióne: psállite Deo nostro in cíthara.

Qui óperit cælum núbibus: et parat terræ plúviam.

Qui prodúcit in móntibus fœnum: et herbam servitúti hóminum.

Qui dat juméntis escam ipsórum: et pullis corvórum invocántibus eum.

Non in fortitúdine equi voluntátem habébit: nec in tíbiis viri beneplácitum erit ei.

Beneplácitum est Dómino super timéntes eum: et in eis, qui sperant super misericórdia ejus.

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

Pallens facéssat cæcitas,

Quæ nosmet in præceps diu

Erróre traxit dévio.

Purósque nos præstet sibi:

Nihil loquámur súbdolum:

Volvámus obscúrum nihil.

Ne lingua mendax, ne manus

Oculíve peccent lúbrici,

Ne noxa corpus ínquinet.

Qui nos diébus ómnibus,

Actúsque nostros próspicit

A luce prima in vésperum.

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 89

Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past.

And as a watch in the night, things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away.

Our years shall be considered as a spider: the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years.

But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow.

For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear can number thy wrath?

So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

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 35

For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.

Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep.

Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord: O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God!

But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.

They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.

For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them that are right in heart.

Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the sinner move me.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.

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

Exodus 15, 1-19

The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me:

He is my God and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name. Pharao’s chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea:

His chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.

And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries:

Thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble. And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together:

The flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill:

I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praiseworthy, doing wonders?

Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them. In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed:

And in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.

Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.

Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm:

Let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation which thou hast made, O Lord;

Thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have, established. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea:

But the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.

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 146

The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.

Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth.

Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.

The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

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

Let no more our darkened eyes

Snare us, tangled by surprise

In the maze of sin!

Let this Light, serene and sure,

Keep our lips without secure,

Keep our souls within.

That, till life’s temptations end,

Tongue, nor hand, nor eye offend!

One, above us all,

All we do, and think, and say,

Watching us from break of day

Till the twilight fall.

Holy Spirit, Three in One,

One in Three, be glory done,

Now and evermore.

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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