Ps 55:5
In God, in Whose promise I glory, in the Lord Whose word I praise, in God I trust without fear; what can flesh do against me?
Ps 55:2
Have pity on me, O God, for men trample upon me; all the day they press their attack against me.
Glory Be to the Father…
In God, in Whose promise I glory, in the Lord Whose word I praise, in God I trust without fear; what can flesh do against me?
Ps 55:5.
In Deo laudábo verbum, in Dómino laudábo sermónem: in Deo sperábo, non timebo, quid fáciat mihi homo.
Ps 55:2
Miserére mei, Deus, quóniam conculcávit me homo: tota die bellans tribulávit me.
Glória Patri…
In Deo laudábo verbum, in Dómino laudábo sermónem: in Deo sperábo, non timebo, quid fáciat mihi homo.
O Lord, we beseech You, in Your mercy, pour forth Your grace into our hearts, that, as we abstain from material food, so may we restrain our senses from sin.
Through our Lord…
Córdibus nostris, quǽsumus, Dómine, grátiam tuam benígnus infúnde: ut, sicut ab escis carnálibus abstinémus; ita sensus quoque nostros a nóxiis retrahámus excéssibus.
Per Dominum…
Commemoration St. John Damascene
Almighty, eternal God, Who to defend the honor paid to sacred images, filled blessed John with heavenly learning and wondrous strength of soul, grant that, by his intercession and example, we may imitate the virtues of those whose images we honor and may enjoy the help of their patronage.
Through our Lord…
Commemoratio S. Joannis Damasceni Confessoris
Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui, ad cultum sacrárum imáginum asseréndum, beátum Joánnem cœlésti doctrína et admirábili spíritus fortitúdine imbuísti: concéde nobis ejus intercessióne et exémplo; ut, quorum cólimus imagines, virtútes imitémur et patrocínia sentiámus.
Per Dominum…
Lesson from the book of Kings
4 Kings, 5:1-15
In those days, Naaman, general of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable - for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria - and he was a valiant man and rich, but a leper. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman’s wife, and she said to her mistress, I wish my master had been with the prophet who is in Samaria; he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he has. Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying, Thus and thus said the girl from the land of Israel. And the king of Syria said to him, Go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment and brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words, When you shall receive this letter, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may heal him of his leprosy. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments and said, Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man has sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? Mark, and see how he seeks occasions against me. And when Eliseus the man of God had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying, Why have you rent your garments? Let him come in to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus: and Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying, Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh shall recover health and you shall be clean. Naaman was angry and went away, saying, I thought he would have come out to me, and standing would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me. Are not the Abana and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation, his servants came to him, and said to him, Father, if the prophet had bid you to do some great thing, surely you should have done it; how much rather what he now has said to you, ‘Wash, and you shall be clean’? Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child, and he was made clean. And returning to the man of God with all his train, he came, and stood before him, and said, In truth I know, there is no other God in all the earth, but only in Israel.
Léctio libri Regum.
4 Reg 5:1-15
In diébus illis: Náaman, princeps milítiæ regis Sýriæ, erat vir magnus apud dóminum suum, et honorátus: per illum enim dedit Dóminus salútem Sýriæ: erat autem vir fortis et dives, sed leprósus. Porro de Sýria egréssi fúerant latrúnculi, et captívam dúxerant de terra Israël puéllam párvulam, quæ erat in obséquio uxóris Náaman, quæ ait ad dóminam suam: Utinam fuísset dóminus meus ad Prophétam, qui est in Samaría: profécto curásset eum a lepra, quam habet. Ingréssus est ítaque Náaman ad dóminum suum, et nuntiávit ei, dicens: Sic et sic locúta est puélla de terra Israël. Dixítque ei rex Sýriæ: Vade, et mittam lítteras ad regem Israël. Qui cum proféctus esset, et tulísset secum decem talénta argénti, et sex míllia áureos, et decem mutatória vestimentórum, détulit lítteras ad regem Israël in hæc verba: Cum accéperis epístolam hanc, scito, quod míserim ad te Náaman servum meum, ut cures eum a lepra sua. Cumque legísset rex Israël lítteras, scidit vestiménta sua, et ait: Numquid Deus ego sum, ut occídere possim et vivificáre, quia iste misit ad me, ut curem hóminem a lepra sua? animadvértite et vidéte, quod occasiónes quærat advérsum me. Quod cum audísset Eliséus vir Dei, scidísse vidélicet regem Israël vestiménta sua, misit ad eum, dicens: Quare scidísti vestiménta tua? véniat ad me, et sciat esse prophétam in Israël. Venit ergo Náaman cum equis et cúrribus, et stetit ad óstium domus Eliséi: misítque ad eum Eliséus núntium, dicens: Vade, et laváre sépties in Jordáne, et recípiet sanitátem caro tua, atque mundáberis. Irátus Náaman recedébat, dicens: Putábam, quod egrederétur ad me, et stans invocáret nomen Dómini, Dei sui, et tángeret manu sua locum lepræ, et curáret me. Numquid non melióres sunt Abana et Pharphar, flúvii Damásci, ómnibus aquis Israël, ut laver in eis, et munder? Cum ergo vertísset se, et abíret indígnans, accessérunt ad eum servi sui, et locúti sunt ei: Pater, et si rem grandem dixísset tibi Prophéta, certe fácere debúeras: quanto magis quia nunc dixit tibi: Laváre, et mundáberis? Descéndit, et lavit in Jordáne sépties, juxta sermónem viri Dei, et restitúta est caro ejus, sicut caro púeri párvuli, et mundátus est. Reversúsque ad virum Dei cum univérso comitátu suo, venit, et stetit coram eo, et ait: Vere scio, quod non sit álius Deus in univérsa terra, nisi tantum in Israël.
Ps 55:9, 2
O God, my wanderings You have counted; my tears are recorded in Your sight.
℣. Have pity on me, O Lord, for men trample upon me; all the day they press their attack against me.
Tractus
Ps 102:10
O Lord, deal with us not according to our sins, nor requite us according to our crimes.
Ps 78:8-9
O Lord, remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may Your compassion quickly come to us, for we are brought very low. (kneel)
℣. Help us, O God, our Saviour, because of the glory of Your Name, O Lord; deliver us and pardon our sins for Your Name’s sake.
Ps 55:9, 2
Deus, vitam meam annuntiávi tibi: posuísti lácrimas meas in conspéctu tuo.
℣. Miserére mei, Dómine, quóniam conculcávit me homo: tota die bellans tribulávit me.
Tractus
Ps 102:10
Dómine, non secúndum peccáta nostra, quæ fécimus nos: neque secúndum iniquitátes nostras retríbuas nobis.
Ps 78:8-9
℣. Dómine, ne memíneris iniquitátum nostrárum antiquárum: cito antícipent nos misericórdiæ tuæ, quia páuperes facti sumus nimis. (Hic genuflectitur)
℣. Adjuva nos, Deus, salutáris noster: et propter glóriam nóminis tui, Dómine, líbera nos: et propítius esto peccátis nostris, propter nomen tuum.
Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 4:23-30
At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees: You will surely quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure Yourself! Whatever things we have heard of as done in Capharnaum, do here also in Your own country!’ But He said, Amen I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country. In truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land; and to none of them was Elias sent, but rather to a widowed woman in Sarepta of Sidon. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian. And all in the synagogue, as they heard these things, were filled with wrath. And they rose up and put Him forth out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill, on which their town was built, that they might throw Him down headlong. But He, passing through their midst, went His way.
Sequéntia ☩ sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam.
Luc 4:23-30.
In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus pharisǽis: Utique dicétis mihi hanc similitúdinem: Médice, cura teípsum: quanta audívimus facta in Caphárnaum, fac et hic in pátria tua. Ait autem: Amen, dico vobis, quia nemo prophéta accéptus est in pátria sua. In veritáte dico vobis, multæ víduæ erant in diébus Elíæ in Israël, quando clausum est cœlum annis tribus et ménsibus sex, cum facta esset fames magna in omni terra: et ad nullam illárum missus est Elías, nisi in Sarépta Sidóniæ ad mulíerem víduam. Et multi leprósi erant in Israël sub Eliséo Prophéta: et nemo eórum mundátus est nisi Náaman Syrus. Et repléti sunt omnes in synagóga ira, hæc audiéntes. Et surrexérunt, et ejecérunt illum extra civitátem: et duxérunt illum usque ad supercílium montis, super quem cívitas illórum erat ædificáta, ut præcipitárent eum. Ipse autem tránsiens per médium illórum, ibat.
Ps 54:2-3
Hearken, O God, to my prayer; turn not away from my pleading; give heed to me, and answer me.
Ps 54:2-3
Exáudi, Deus, oratiónem meam, et ne despéxeris deprecatiónem meam: inténde in me, et exáudi me.
O Lord, make for us a sacrament of salvation the gift of homage which we offer to You.
Through our Lord…
Munus, quod tibi, Dómine, nostræ servitútis offérimus, tu salutáre nobis pérfice sacraméntum.
Per Dominum…
Commemoration St. John Damascene
O Lord, may the holy intercession of blessed John be united with that of Your Saints whose images, through his efforts, we venerate in our churches, and thus may the gifts we offer You be found worthy in Your sight.
Through our Lord…
Commemoratio S. Joannis Damasceni Confessoris
Ut, quæ tibi, Dómine, offérimus, dona tuo sint digna conspéctu: beáti Joánnis et Sanctórum, quos ejus ópera expósitos in templis cólimus, pia suffragátio conspíret.
Per Dominum…
Lent
It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; Who by this bodily fast, dost curb our vices, dost lift up our minds and bestow on us strength and rewards; through Christ our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with these we entreat Thee that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted while we say with lowly praise:
de Quadragesima
Vere dignum et justum est, æquum et salutáre, nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere: Dómine, sancte Pater, omnípotens ætérne Deus: Qui corporáli ieiúnio vítia cómprimis, mentem élevas, virtútem largíris et prǽmia: per Christum Dóminum nostrum. Per quem majestátem tuam laudant Angeli, adórant Dominatiónes, tremunt Potestátes. Cæli cælorúmque Virtútes, ac beáta Séraphim, sócia exsultatióne concélebrant. Cum quibus et nostras voces, ut admítti iúbeas, deprecámur, súpplici confessióne dicéntes:
Ps 13:7
Oh, that out of Sion would come the salvation of Israel! When the Lord restores the well being of His people, then shall Jacob exult and Israel be glad.
Ps 13:7
Quis dabit ex Sion salutáre Israël? cum avérterit Dóminus captivitátem plebis suæ, exsultábit Jacob, et lætábitur Israël.
Grant, we beseech You, almighty and merciful God, that what we take into our mouth, we may eat with a pure heart.
Through our Lord…
Præsta, quǽsumus, omnípotens et miséricors Deus: ut, quod ore contíngimus, pura mente capiámus.
Per Dominum…
Commemoration St. John Damascene
We beseech You, O Lord, that the gifts we have eaten may be as heavenly weapons to guard us; and may we be protected by the patronage of blessed John, reinforced by the united prayers of the Saints, the veneration of whose images by the Church, he gloriously vindicated.
Through our Lord…
Commemoratio S. Joannis Damasceni Confessoris
Sumpta nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, dona cœléstibus armis tueántur: et beáti Joánnis patrocínia circúmdent Sanctórum unánimi suffrágio cumuláta; quorum imágines evícit in Ecclésia esse venerándas.
Per Dominum…
Prayer over the people
Let us pray.
Bow your heads to God.
Let Your mercy come to our help, O Lord, that under Your protection we may be found worthy to be snatched from the threatening dangers of our sins, and saved by Your deliverance.
Through our Lord…
Oratio super populum
Orémus.
Humiliáte cápita vestra Deo.
Subvéniat nobis, Dómine, misericórdia tua: ut ab imminéntibus peccatórum nostrórum perículis, te mereámur protegénte éripi, te liberánte salvári.
Per Dominum…
