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.
Canticle of Moses
Deut. 32, 1-43
HEAR, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
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 ten 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.
Ant. The Lord will have mercy on his servants: and he will be merciful to the land of his people.
Ant. 5 Praise ye.
Canticle of Ecclesiasticus
Eccli. 36, 1-16
HAVE mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies:
And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after thee:
That they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew forth thy wonders.
Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power.
For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence,
That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O Lord.
Renew thy signs, and work new miracles. Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.
Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath. Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy.
Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.
Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people.
Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is no other beside us.
Gather together all the tribes of Jacob: that they may know that there is no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works.
And thou shalt inherit them as from the beginning.
Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.
Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which thou hast sanctified, the city of thy rest.
Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy glory.
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. Show us, O Lord, the light of thy mercies.
Ant. 5 Let every spirit.
COMPLINE
FIERY CREATOR OF FIRE,
LIGHT GIVER OF LIGHT,
LIFE AND AUTHOR OF LIFE,
SALVATION AND BESTOWER OF SALVATION,
IN CASE THE LAMPS SHOULD ABANDON
THE JOYS OF THIS NIGHT,
YOU WHO DO NOT DESIRE OUR DEATH,
GIVE LIGHT TO OUR BREAST.
TO THOSE WANDERING FROM EGYPT,
YOU BESTOW THE DOUBLE GRACE,
YOU SHOW THE VEIL OF CLOUD,
AND GIVE THE NOCTURNAL LIGHT.
WITH A PILLAR OF CLOUD IN THE DAY,
YOU PROTECT THE PEOPLE AS THEY GO,
WITH A PILLAR OF FIRE AT EVENING,
YOU DISPEL THE NIGHT WITH LIGHT.
YOU CALL OUT TO YOUR SERVANT FROM THE FLAME,
YOU DO NOT SPURN THE BUSH OF THORNS,
AND THOUGH YOU ARE CONSUMING FIRE,
YOU DO NOT BURN WHAT YOU ILLUMINE.
NOW IT IS TIME THAT THE CLOUDY BEE-BREAD
SHOULD BE CONSUMED, ALL IMPURITY BOILED AWAY, AND THE WAXEN FLESH SHOULD SHINE
WITH THE GLOW OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
YOU STORE NOW IN THE RECESSES OF THE COMB THE SWEET FOOD OF THE DIVINE HONEY,
AND PURIFYING THE INMOST CELLS OF THE HEART,
YOU HAVE FILLED THEM WITH YOUR WORD;
THAT THE SWARM OF THE NEW BROOD,
CHOSEN BY YOUR MOUTH AND SPIRIT,
MAY LEAVE THEIR BURDENS AND WIN HEAVEN
ON WINGS NOW FREE FROM CARE.
MAY YOUR HOLY ANGELS, O CHRIST JESUS, SON OF THE LIVING GOD,
TEND OUR SLEEP, OUR REST, OUR BRIGHT BED.
LET THEM REVEAL TRUE VISIONS TO US IN OUR SLEEP, O HIGH PRINCE OF THE UNIVERSE, O GREAT AND MYSTERIOUS KING.
MAY NO DEVILS, NO DEMONS, NO SPIRITS OF SORCERY OR MAGIC, NO EVIL SPIRITS OF ANY SORT VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE, NO INJURY OR TERRIFYING DREAMS DISTURB OUR REST, OUR PROMPT AND SWIFT REPOSE.
MAY OUR WAKING, OUR WORK, AND OUR LIVING BE HOLY; OUR SLEEP, OUR REST, WITHOUT HINDRANCE OR HARM.
O HOLY LORD GOD OF CREATION, WE INVOKE YOU. YOU ARE OUR GRACIOUS COUNSELOR. DO YOU TURN YOUR FACE TOWARD OUR ENEMIES, FOR YOU ARE OUR JUDGEMENT WITHOUT BETRAYAL.
YOU ARE OUR KING. YOU ARE OUR LAW. YOURS ARE OUR SPIRITS, SOULS, BODIES, WE LOVE YOU, BLESSED CHRIST JESUS, FOR OUR SPIRITS SOULS BODIES ARE YOURS TONIGHT, TOMORROW AND AT ALL TIMES UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME.
O HOLY KING. KEEP US IN YOUR ROYAL DWELLING ALL OUR DAYS. EATING THE FEAST FROM YOUR TABLE. KEEP US IN YOU,
O HOLY JESUS,
GENTLE FRIEND,
MORNING STAR,
MIDDAY SUN ADORNED,
BRILLIANT FLAME OF RIGHTEOUNESS, LIFE EVERLASTING AND ETERNITY,
FOUNTAIN EVER-NEW, EVER-LIVING, EVER-LASTING,
HEART'S DESIRE OF PATRIARCHS, ESPECIALLY ST. ENOCH IN THE FLESH,
LONGING OF PROPHETS, ESPECIALLY ST. ELIJAH IN THE FLESH, WITH ST. ENOCH, YOUR HOLY PROPHETS YET TO RETURN,
BELOVED MASTER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GABRIEL, YOUR LOYAL WARRIORS, HOLY ARCHANGELS,
MASTER OF APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES,
GIVER OF THE LAW,
PRINCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
SAVIOUR OF THE SAVED,
JUDGE OF DOOM,
SON OF THE MERCIFUL FATHER WITHOUT MOTHER IN HEAVEN,
SON OF THE TRUE VIRGIN MARY, WITHOUT FATHER ON EARTH,
TRUE AND LOVING BROTHER,
KEEP US IN YOU O HOLY GOD AT ALL TIMES UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME,
BLESSED VIRGIN WHO BORE GOD AND TOOK CARE OF HIM WITH TENDER LOVE,
BRIGHT, WITH GOODNESS FULL,
MARY MIRACLE, THE LION'S PRECIOUS LOVE,
VIRGIN ONCE, MOTHER OF CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR AND VIRGIN STILL, ALL YE ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS OF GOD, THE SAME, PRAY FOR AND WITH US UNCEASINGLY, BARUCH ADONAI YAHWEH ELOHIM OLAM eth ABBA OUR FATHER AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE DELIVER US UNCEASINGLY WITH AND BY THE PRAYER AND COMPANY OF ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS FOR AND WITH US UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME.
THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE (CH. 2: 25-32)
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen Christ the Lord. So he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the law, he took Him up in his arms and blessed God, and said: “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light for the revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”
Glory to God forever. Amen.
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