Vespers For Sundays.
Our Father. Hail Mary. (In silence.)
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V. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.
V. O God, come to my assistance.
R. Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.
R. O Lord, make haste to help me.
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula
sæculorum. Amen. Alleluia.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world
without end. Amen. Alleluiah.
From Saturday before Septuagesaima Sunday, till Saturday in
Holy Week, instead of Alleluia, is said,
Laus tibi, Domine, Rex eternæ gloriæ.
Praise be to thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.
N. B.—In Paschal time all the Psalms are said under this only.
Anthem. Alleluia.
Ant. Dixit Dominus.
Ant. The Lord said.
Ant. Alleluia.
Ant. Alleluiah.
Psalm CIX.
Christ's Exaltation and everlasting Priesthood.
Dixit Dominus Domino meo: *sede a dextris meis.
The Lord said unto my Lord, sit on my right hand.
Donec ponam inimicos tuos: *scabellum pedum tuorum.
Until I make thy enemies the footstool of thy
feet.
Virgam virtutis tuæ emittet Dominus ex Sion:
*Dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.
The Lord will send the sceptre of thy power out
of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.
Tecum principium in die virtutis tuæ, in
splendoribus sanctorum: *ex utero ante luciferum
genui te.
Dominion shall be with thee in the day of thy
power in the brightness of the saints: from the
womb before the day star I begat thee.
Juravit Dominus, et non pœnitebit eum: *Tu es
sacerdos in æternam secundum ordinem Melchisedech.
The Lord swore, and it shall not repent him:
Thou art a priest for ever, according to the
order of Melchisedech.
Dominus a dextris tuis: *confregit in die iræ suæ
reges.
The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in
the day of his wrath.
Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas:
*conquassabit capita in terra multorum.
He shall judge among nations, he shall fill
ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of
many.
De torrente in via bibet: *propterea exaltabit
caput.
He shall drink of the torrent in the way;
therefore shall he lift up the head.
Gloria Patri, &c.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Ant. Dixit Dominus.
Ant. The Lord said unto my Lord: sit thou
on my right.
Ant. Fidelia.
Ant. All his commandments.
Psalm. CX.
God is to be praised for his graces and benefits to his Church.
Confitebor tibi, Domine, in toto corde meo: *in concilio justorum, et congregatione.
I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: in the council of the just, and in the congregation.