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℣. O Lord,
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open thou my lips.
℟. And my mouth shall declare thy praise.
℣. O God, ✠ come to my assistance;
℟. O Lord, make haste to help me.
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.
Invitatory
{Antiphon from the Common or Feast}
Ant. The Lord, the King of Confessors, * O come, let us worship.
Ant. The Lord, the King of Confessors, * O come, let us worship.
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
Ant. The Lord, the King of Confessors, * O come, let us worship.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For the Lord will not cast off his people: for in his hand are all the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his.
Ant. O come, let us worship.
For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
(genuflect)
Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us: For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Ant. The Lord, the King of Confessors, * O come, let us worship.
Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
Ant. O come, let us worship.
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.
Ant. The Lord, the King of Confessors, * O come, let us worship.
℣. 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.
Ant. O come, let us worship.
Ant. The Lord, the King of Confessors, * O come, let us worship.
Hymn
{from the Common or Feast}
This the confessor of the Lord, whose triumph
Now all the faithful celebrate, with gladness
On this feast day year by year receiveth
Merited honors.
Saintly and prudent, modest in behaviour,
Peaceful and sober, chaste was he, and lowly.
While that life’s vigour, coursing through his members,
Quickened his being.
Sick ones of old time, to his tomb resorting,
Sorely by ailments manifold afflicted,
Oft-times have welcomed health and strength returning,
At his petition.
Whence we in chorus gladly do him honour,
Chanting his praises with devout affection,
That in his merits we may have a portion,
Now and forever.
His be the glory, power and salvation,
Who over all things reigneth in the highest,
Earth’s mighty fabric ruling and directing,
Onely and Trinal.
Amen.
Psalms with lections
{Antiphons from the Psalter for the season of the Church year}
At the Nocturn
Ant. The Lord set up a testimony in Jacob: * and made a law in Israel.
Psalm 77 (1-8)
Attend, O my people, to my law: * incline your ears to the words of my mouth.77:1
I will open my mouth in parables: * I will utter propositions from the beginning.77:2
How great things have we heard and known, * and our fathers have told us.77:3
They have not been hidden from their children, * in another generation.77:4
Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, * and his wonders which he hath done.77:4
And he set up a testimony in Jacob: * and made a law in Israel.77:5
How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: * that another generation might know them.77:5
The children that should be born and should rise up, * and declare them to their children.77:6
That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: * and may seek his commandments.77:7
That they may not become like their fathers, * a perverse and exasperating generation.77:8
A generation that set not their heart aright: * and whose spirit was not faithful to God.77:8
℣. 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.
Ant. The Lord set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel.
Ant.
The Lord did wonderful things * in the sight of their fathers.
Psalm 77 (9-16)
The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: * they have turned back in the day of battle.77:9
They kept not the covenant of God: * and in his law they would not walk.77:10
And they forgot his benefits, * and his wonders that he had shewn them.77:11
Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, * in the field of Tanis.77:12
He divided the sea and brought them through: * and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.77:13
And he conducted them with a cloud by day: * and all the night with a light of fire.77:14
He struck the rock in the wilderness: * and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.77:15
He brought forth water out of the rock: * and made streams run down as rivers.77:16
℣. 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.
Ant. The Lord did wonderful things in the sight of their fathers.
Ant.
The Lord opened * the doors of heaven and had rained down manna upon them to eat.
Psalm 77 (17-31)
And they added yet more sin against him: * they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.77:17
And they tempted God in their hearts, * by asking meat for their desires.77:18
And they spoke ill of God: * they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?77:19
Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, * and the streams overflowed.77:20
Can he also give bread, * or provide a table for his people?77:20
Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: * and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.77:21
Because they believed not in God: * and trusted not in his salvation.77:22
And he had commanded the clouds from above, * and had opened the doors of heaven.77:23
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, * and had given them the bread of heaven.77:24
Man ate the bread of angels: * he sent them provisions in abundance.77:25
He removed the south wind from heaven: * and by his power brought in the southwest wind.77:26
And he rained upon them flesh as dust: * and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.77:27
And they fell in the midst of their camp, * round about their pavilions.77:28
So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire: * they were not defrauded of that which they craved.77:29
As yet their meat was in their mouth: * and the wrath of God came upon them.77:30
And he slew the fat ones amongst them, * and brought down the chosen men of Israel.77:31
℣. 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.
Ant. The Lord opened the doors of heaven and had rained down manna upon them to eat.
Ant.
God is their helper, * and the most high God their redeemer.
Psalm 77 (32-41)
In all these things they sinned still: * and they believed not for his wondrous works.77:32
And their days were consumed in vanity, * and their years in haste.77:33
When he slew them, then they sought him: * and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.77:34
And they remembered that God was their helper: * and the most high God their redeemer.77:35
And they loved him with their mouth: * and with their tongue they lied unto him:77:36
But their heart was not right with him: * nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.77:37
But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: * and will not destroy them.77:38
And many a time did he turn away his anger: * and did not kindle all his wrath.77:38
And he remembered that they are flesh: * a wind that goeth and returneth not.77:39
How often did they provoke him in the desert: * and move him to wrath in the place without water?77:40
And they turned back and tempted God: * and grieved the holy one of Israel.77:41
℣. 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.
Ant. God is their helper, and the most high God their redeemer.
Ant.
The Lord redeemed them * from the hand of him that afflicted them.
Psalm 77 (42-58)
They remembered not his hand, * in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:77:42
How he wrought his signs in Egypt, * and his wonders in the field of Tanis.77:43
And he turned their rivers into blood, * and their showers that they might not drink.77:44
He sent amongst them diverse sorts of flies, which devoured them: * and frogs which destroyed them.77:45
And he gave up their fruits to the blast, * and their labours to the locust.77:46
And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, * and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.77:47
And he gave up their cattle to the hail, * and their stock to the fire.77:48
And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: * indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.77:49
He made a way for a path to his anger: * he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.77:50
And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: * the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.77:51
And he took away his own people as sheep: * and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.77:52
And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: * and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.77:53
And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: * the mountain which his right hand had purchased.77:54
And he cast out the Gentiles before them: * and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.77:54
And he made the tribes of Israel * to dwell in their tabernacles.77:55
Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: * and they kept not his testimonies.77:56
And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: * even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.77:57
They provoked him to anger on their hills: * and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.77:58
℣. 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.
Ant. The Lord redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them.
Ant.
God built * his sanctuary in the earth.
Psalm 77 (59-72)
God heard, and despised them, * and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.77:59
And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, * his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.77:60
And he delivered their strength into captivity: * and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.77:61
And he shut up his people under the sword: * and he despised his inheritance.77:62
Fire consumed their young men: * and their maidens were not lamented.77:63
Their priests fell by the sword: * and their widows did not mourn.77:64
And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, * and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.77:65
And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: * he put them to an everlasting reproach.77:66
And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: * and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:77:67
But he chose the tribe of Juda, * mount Sion which he loved.77:68
And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land * which he founded for ever.77:69
And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: * he brought him from following the ewes great with young,77:70
To feed Jacob his servant, * and Israel his inheritance.77:71
And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: * and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.77:72
℣. 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.
Ant. God built his sanctuary in the earth.
Ant.
Help us, O God, our Saviour, * deliver us: and forgive us our sins.
Psalm 78
O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: * they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.78:1
They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: * the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.78:2
They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem, * and there was none to bury them.78:3
We are become a reproach to our neighbours: * a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.78:4
How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: * shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?78:5
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: * and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.78:6
Because they have devoured Jacob; * and have laid waste his place.78:7
Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, * for we are become exceeding poor.78:8
Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: * and forgive us our sins for thy name’s sake:78:9
Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? * And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes,78:10
By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: * let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee.78:10
According to the greatness of thy arm, * take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.78:11
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: * the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.78:12
But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, * will give thanks to thee for ever.78:13
We will shew forth thy praise, * unto generation and generation.78:13
℣. 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.
Ant. Help us, O God, our Saviour, deliver us: and forgive us our sins.
Ant.
I am the Lord * God of Israel, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Psalm 80
Rejoice to God, our helper: * sing aloud to the God of Jacob.80:2
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: * the pleasant psaltery with the harp.80:3
Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, * on the noted day of your solemnity.80:4
For it is a commandment in Israel, * and a judgment to the God of Jacob.80:5
He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: * he heard a tongue which he knew not.80:6
He removed his back from the burdens: * his hands had served in baskets.80:7
Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: * I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.80:8
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: * O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me; there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.80:9
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.80:11
But my people heard not my voice: * and Israel hearkened not to me.80:12
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: * they shall walk in their own inventions.80:13
If my people had heard me: * if Israel had walked in my ways:80:14
I should soon have humbled their enemies, * and laid my hand on them that troubled them.80:15
The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: * and their time shall be for ever.80:16
And he fed them with the fat of wheat, * and filled them with honey out of the rock.80:17
℣. 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.
Ant. I am the Lord God of Israel, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Ant.
Be not thou silent, O Lord, * for Thy enemies lifted up their head.
Psalm 82
O God, who shall be like to thee? * Hold not thy peace, neither be O God, thou still,82:2
For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: * and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.82:3
They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, * and have consulted against thy saints.82:4
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, * so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.82:5
For they have contrived with one consent: * they have made a covenant together against thee; the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites:82:6
Moab, and the Agarens, Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: * the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.82:8
Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: * they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.82:9
Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: * as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.82:10
Who perished at Endor: * and became as dung for the earth.82:11
Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, * and Zebee, and Salmana.82:12
All their princes, * who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.82:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; * and as stubble before the wind.82:14
As fire which burneth the wood: * and as a flame burning mountains:82:15
So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: * and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.82:16
Fill their faces with shame; * and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.82:17
Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: * and let them be confounded and perish.82:18
And let them know that the Lord is thy name: * thou alone art the most High over all the earth.82:19
℣. 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.
Ant. Be not thou silent, O Lord, for Thy enemies lifted up their head.
℣.
Let them know that the Lord is thy name.
℟. Thou alone art the most High over all the earth.
Our Father
is said silently until
And lead us not into temptation:
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Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
℣. And lead us not into temptation:
℟. But deliver us from evil.
Absolution.
May His loving-kindness and mercy help us, Who liveth and reigneth with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, world without end.
℟. Amen.
℣.
Grant, Lord, a blessing.
Benediction.
May His blessing be upon us who doth live and reign for ever.
℟. Amen.
Reading 1
Lesson from the second book of Machabees
2 Mac 5:1-4
1
At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into Egypt.
2
And it came to pass that through the whole city of Jerusalem for the space of forty days there were seen horsemen running in the air, in gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like bands of soldiers.
3
And horses set in order by ranks, running one against another, with the shakings of shields, and a multitude of men in helmets, with drawn swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden armour, and of harnesses of all sorts.
4
Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good.
℣. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
℟. Thanks be to God.
℟. Be ye not afraid of the assault of the enemy; remember how our fathers were delivered.
* Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven, and our God will have mercy upon us.
℣. Remember His marvellous works that He hath done unto Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea.
℟. Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven, and our God will have mercy upon us.
℣.
Grant, Lord, a blessing.
Benediction.
He whose feast-day we are keeping, be our Advocate with God.
℟. Amen.
Reading 2
2 Mac 5:5-7
5
Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason taking with him no fewer than a thousand men, suddenly assaulted the city: and though the citizens ran together to the wall, the city at length was taken, and Menelaus fled into the castle.
6
But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that prosperity against one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking they had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered.
7
Yet he did not get the principality, but received confusion at the end, for the reward of his treachery, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.
2 Mac 5:8-10
8
At the last having been shut up by Aretas the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws, and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:
9
And he that had driven many out of their country, perished in a strange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have refuge there:
10
But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.
℣. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
℟. Thanks be to God.
℟. Thine, O Lord, is the power, thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted above all the heathen.
* Give peace in our time, O Lord.
℣. O Lord God, Creator of all things, Who art fearful and strong, righteous and merciful.
℟. Give peace in our time, O Lord.
℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
℟. Give peace in our time, O Lord.
℣.
Grant, Lord, a blessing.
Benediction.
May He that is the Angels' King to that high realm His people bring.
℟. Amen.
Reading 3
Antony María Claret, was born at Sallent in Spain, of pious and respectable parents. As a youth he practiced the weaver's trade, but later became priest. After some time in the parochial ministry, he went to Rome, hoping that the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith would send him to the foreign missions. But God disposed otherwise, and he returned to Spain, where he traveled throughout Catalonia and the Canary Islands as an apostolic missionary. Besides writing many worthwhile books, he founded the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Having been appointed archbishop of Santiago in Cuba, he was conspicuous for the virtues of a zealous shepherd. He restored the seminary, promoted the teaching and the discipline of the clergy, started projects for social welfare, and founded the teaching Sisters of Mary Immaculate for the Christian education of girls. At length having been summoned to Madrid, to become confessor to the Queen of Spain and her adviser in the most serious affairs of the Church, he gave an outstanding example of austerity and of all virtues. At the Vatican Council he strenuously defended the infallibility of the Pope. He was responsible for a remarkable spread of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and her Rosary. Finally he died in exile at Fontfroide in France in the year 1870. Renowned for his miracles, he was beatified by Pope Pius XI and canonized by Pius XII.
℣. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
℟. Thanks be to God.
Te Deum
We 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 and Seraphim * continually do cry.
bow head
Holy, Holy, Holy * Lord God of Sabaoth;
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 noble army of Martyrs * praise thee.
The holy Church throughout all the world * doth acknowledge thee;
The Father, * of an infinite Majesty.
Thine honourable, true, * and only Son;
Also the Holy Ghost, * the Comforter.
Thou art the King of Glory, * O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting * Son of the Father.
During the following verse all make a profound bow:
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.
Kneel for the following verse
We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, * whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious Blood.
Make them to be numbered with thy Saints, * in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save thy people, * and bless thine heritage.
Govern them, * and lift them up for ever.
Day by day * we magnify thee;
During the following verse, by local custom, all make a profound bow.
And we worship thy Name * ever, world without end.
Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us * this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, * have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, * as our trust is in thee.
O Lord, in thee have I trusted, * let me never be confounded.
Skip the rest, unless praying
Lauds
separately.
Prayer
{from the Proper of Saints}
℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
O
God, with the virtues of an apostle thou didst exalt blessed Anthony Mary, thy Confessor and Bishop, and through him build in thy Church new religious congregations of clerics and virgins: grant, we beseech thee, that led by his counsels and helped by his prayers, we may unremittingly work for the salvation of souls.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
Conclusion
℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
℣. Let us bless the Lord.
℟. Thanks be to God.
℣. May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
℟. Amen.
