Unamuno the agony of Christianity

Now, after more than half a century, I realize and understand why Father Penagos, our rhetoric teacher in my time in Comilla, had taken a dislike to Don Miguel de Unamuno, whom he called a monkey; and it is that the great Basque writer surpasses Pio Baroja and Pérez de Ayala himself against the Jesuits in his indictments. He couldn't stand them. Nor was his countryman Iñigo de Loyola a saint of devotion. Basque among Basques, and consequently more Spanish than "Pupas" because of that "I understand myself and God understands me", Don Miguel wields his knowledge of Greek like a foil to put the Catholic religion on the bench. "The agony of Christianity" is a theological version of the "I accuse" of the Deyfruss affair. An allegation against the clergy, against King Alfonso XIII and the Heart of Jesus. The king had just consecrated the nation to this Jesuit devotion on the Cerro de los Ángeles. Holy Heart, you will reign. In this devastating book like no other of his, written in Paris, during his exile "paid for" by the dictator Primo de Ribera in 1924 because his professorial assets were not withdrawn, he reflects his doubts about the afterlife, the celibacy of the clerics, their doubts about the pontificate, a disastrous institution because for the professor at the University of Salamanca the guardian of the tomb of San Pedro happens to be a lackey of the antichrist (very strong, right?) He questions the fourth vow of the Jesuits. The obedience of the corpse and the two flags that are only one reality for the children of San Ignacio. And he dared to say about them what no one said they were fools, a bunch of jerks who practice corpse obedience. This article of their constitutions -explains don Miguel- is anti-Christian as anti-Christian is the papacy itself, a retrograde creation instituted by the Jesuits who, playing taba with millenarian terror, came up with a text like the totally apocryphal prophecies of Saint Malaquías . He questions all the social doctrine of the church, alleging that the ecclesiastical mission has nothing to do with politics, charity or the class struggle. They are very topical issues and I don't know if PP Francisco will have read Unamuno. This work was on the index for many years but raises truths and doubts at hand. That thing about Christian democracy sounded like blue chemistry to him... Christ had said that it is more difficult for a rich man to enter paradise than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, he showed that his good news has nothing to do with economic issues or social, with democracy, international demagogy or nationalism. Gospel in hand the great Don Miguel reads the primer to the priests, unmasking their Jesuit hypocrisy and his cynicism. Christianity is a building founded on great rhetoric, an assemblage of words since Saint Paul was its founder, Saint Augustine and other fathers of the desert were retor. I think that the Greek professor in his pride goes too far, although we will never discuss his brilliant definitions in this regard because in his analysis he remains in the shell and never reaches the soul of Christianity, that "quid divinum" that will pulse history to the very end. end of indestructible times when so many wanted to destroy it. Unamuno copies Tolstoy but despite his Hellenistic cognomentos he had not come to hear the monks of Athos sing a tropario or listen to the homily of a Russian Idumean. Eunuchs? Solicitors from the confessional? OK. That Jerusalem was a dirty city where ignorance, laziness and begging sprouted towards the beginning of the 20th century, well, too. Even so, in the word in principio erat Verbum the great factory of Revelation is founded. Christ cannot be understood if he is not described as the Great Eleuterio (liberator) and that was not understood by the great Greek professor. It focuses on the work of the "devil" (diabolos means accuser, provocateur) who walks at the pace of the Church in its transit through the earth through the centuries, in the midst of anxieties, calamities, great wars , human cruelties, felonies and conspiracies, excommunications, libelous bishops, eunuchs who castrated themselves to win the kingdom of heaven and show in their approach to religion an unmanly and feminine piety. This brilliant invective of Don Miguel de Unamuno, the great contreras, the "one cute" and "one milk" of Father Penagos, against the deposit of Truths reaffirms me in him; but the word is heard. "Paul - writes page 70 - when he was taken up to the seventh heaven, (possibly in an epileptic fit) he heard unspeakable sayings and wonderful music. The Samaritan woman heard the Christ and Sarah, already old, had a son by faith. Raab the whore, by faith he was saved." Certainly there is something in the gospel that flatters the ear and opens the doors of utopia for us. Writing was the bedside book of the great dreamers.

UNAMUNO

 

Unamuno la agonía del cristianismo

Ahora caigo al cabo de más de medio siglo en la cuenta y razón de por qué el P. Penagos nuestro profesor de retórica en mis tiempos comillenses le había cogido ojeriza a don Miguel de Unamuno al que llamaba una mona; y es que el gran escritor vasco supera en sus dicterios a Pio Baroja y al mismo Pérez de Ayala contra los jesuitas.

No los aguantaba. Tampoco su paisano Iñigo de Loyola era santo de devoción. Vasco entre los vascos, y en consecuencia más español que el "Pupas" por aquello de "yo me entiendo y Dios me entiende", don Miguel esgrime como un florete sus conocimientos de griego para sentar en el banquillo a la religión católica.

"La agonía del cristianismo" es una versión teológica del "yo acuso" del affaire Deyfruss. Un alegato contra la clerigalla, contra el Rey Alfonso XIII y el Corazón de Jesús. El rey acababa de consagrar a la nación a esta devoción jesuítica en el Cerro de los Ángeles. Corazón Santo, tú reinarás.

 En este libro demoledor cual ningún otro de los suyos, escrito en París, durante su exilio "pagado" por el dictador Primo de Ribera año 1924 pues no se le retiraron sus haberes de catedrático, refleja sus dudas sobre el más allá, el celibato de los clérigos, sus dudas sobre el pontificado, nefasta institución porque para el profesor de la Universidad de Salamanca el guardián de la tumba de San Pedro pasa por ser un lacayo del anticristo (muy fuerte ¿no?) Pone en tela de juicio el cuarto voto de los jesuitas.

La obediencia de cadáver y las dos banderas que son realidad sólo una para los hijos de San Ignacio. Y se atrevió a decir de ellos lo que nadie dijo que eran tontos, un atajo de pencos que practican la obediencia de cadáver.

Este artículo de sus constituciones-explica don Miguel- es anticristiano como anticristiano es el propio papado, una creación retrógrada instituida por los jesuitas que jugando a la taba con el terror milenarista se sacaron de la manga un texto como las profecías de San Malaquías totalmente apócrifas.

Cuestiona toda la doctrina social de la iglesia alegando que la misión eclesiástica nada tiene que ver ni con la política ni con la beneficencia ni con la lucha de clases.

Son temas muy de actualidad y no sé si el PP Francisco habrá leído a Unamuno. Esta obra estuvo muchos años en el índice pero suscita verdades y dudas de a puño. Eso de la democracia cristiana le sonaba a química azul... Cristo había dicho que es más difícil que un rico entre en el paraíso que un camello pase por el ojo de una aguja demostró que su buena nueva nada tiene que ver con cuestiones económicas ni sociales, con la democracia, la demagogia internacional o el nacionalismo. Evangelio en mano el gran don Miguel les lee la cartilla a los curas, desenmascara su hipocresía jesuítica y su cinismo.

El cristianismo es un edificio cimentado sobre grandes retóricas, un ensamblaje de palabras pues retor era san Pablo su fundador, retor san Agustín y otros padres del desierto. Creo que al profesor de griego en su orgullo se le va la mano aunque nunca discutiremos sus definiciones geniales al respecto porque en su análisis se queda en la cáscara y nunca llega al alma del cristianismo, ese "quid divinum" que pulsará la historia hasta el final de los tiempos indestructible cuando tantos quisieron destruirlo.

Unamuno copia a Tolstoi pero a pesar de sus cognomentos helenistas no había llegado a oír cantar un tropario a los monjes de Athos o escuchar la homilía de un idumeo ruso. ¿Eunucos? ¿Solicitadores desde el confesionario? Vale. Que Jerusalén era una ciudad sucia donde brotaba la ignorancia, la pereza y la mendicidad hacia principios del siglo XX, pues también.

Así y todo en la palabra in principio erat Verbum se cimienta la gran fábrica de la Revelación. A Cristo no se le puede entender si no se le describe como el Gran Eleuterio (libertador) y eso no lo supo entender el gran profesor de griego. Se fija en la obra del "diablo" (diábolos quiere decir acusador, provocador) que camina al paso de marcha de la Iglesia en su tránsito por la tierra a través de los siglos, en medio de las angustias, las calamidades, las grandes guerras, las crueldades humanas, los gatuperios y conjuras, las excomuniones, los obispos libeláticos, los eunucos que se castraron para ganar el reino de los cielos y demuestran en su aproximación a la religión una piedad poco viril y feminoide.

Esta genial invectiva de don Miguel de Unamuno, el gran contreras, el "una mona" y "una leche" del P. Penagos, contra el depósito de las Verdades a mí me reafirman en él;  mas, la palabra se oye. "Pablo- escribe pag. 70- cuando fue arrebatado al séptimo cielo, (posiblemente en un ataque epiléptico) oyó dichos indecibles y una música maravillosa. La Samaritana oyó al Cristo y Sara ya vieja tuvo un hijo por la fe. Raab la puta, por la fe se salvó". Ciertamente hay en el evangelio algo que halaga el oído y nos abre las puertas de la utopía.

La escritura fue el libro de cabecera de los grandes soñadores pero también de los grandes heresiarcas de los intolerantes, semilla de bienandanza y de desavenencias y crueldades. Pura contradicción emanante del pensamiento judío siempre oscilando entre dos cabos. He aquí que don Miguel descubre una lucha entre los fariseos a cuya rama davídica pertenece el Mesías que creen en la resurrección de la carne y los saduceos que la niegan y se muestran a favor del bienestar material.

De estas dos ramas de Israel la una mística y la otra progresista comulga el catolicismo. Son dos fuerzas que luchan a muerte. ¿Quién ganará la partida? Esa pregunta es el tema: la agonía, la lucha del cristianismo plasmada en este inquietante libro levantando la veda para cazar siniestras liebres que pueblan de fantasmas al mundo actual.

VANITY FAIR ARTICULO EN INGLÉS

 

 

la feria de vanidades y la desilusión,

BOOKFAIR FULL OF VANITY. WHO CARES? CUI PRODEST?


---Nights of white satin. Letters are written never being to send. Books that are written and no one reads at the other end

antonioparragalindo

A long and tiring walk I did through the pleasant woods and nostalgia shining the last sun for the day in askance rays in an evening June backwards and forwards north of Retire Pond.
A perusal of routine of every year. It was more than 40 years since I bought my typewiter. Hardly a day passed without the touch of the keyboards. I am a compulsive eater, a compulsive smoker and a compulsive scribbler. Compulsions and passions and impulses that what my life made.
Icarus tries to fly to heaven. Tantalus cleans the equerries of the stygian lagoon and at the end of the journey we are in between Scylla and Caribdis.
They don’t give a fart. They don’t listen. On my hands I brought the Diogenes torch searching for the flame of wisdom, knowledge and perception. But the Deus absconditus in this paean society any more none is these days.
With that candle you look an outsider, a Looney. Too many books garbage literature, a dizzyingly amount of titles laying in the stands of booksellers for use and disposal. User y tirar, but a new author was signing his bestseller.
I never sat on such a throne of the Nine Muses.
It is hard to be an unpublished writer. They regard you as an alien from far planet. The devil laughter swung from the branches from the maple trees.
-Ha...Ha... Ha
-Shut up your mouth you the scum of birds- told off I a grey pigeon which had been saying nasty things to me with an human voice, a case of anthropomorphosis at the bookmark.
Then noticing that the poor animal had not one of his legs,. he had eaten it up himself. I felt sorry for him.
-You are a failure.
-well that is what you thing. Don’t try you proof me.
The magpie spread then its big black wings –it is bad omen- and disappeared. I carried on walking. The fair of the book seemed to me a big bonfire and there the new inquisitors lifting their cassocks trying to keep warm heated their big monastic arse-holes. They watched and controlled every line that went into print.
In my youth I dreamt to sign sitting and smiling ad buyers in those huts. To be famous. To receive the acquiescence and beneplace of the public. See my firm signing the third page of ABC. Dreams. Impossible dreams.
The taming of the shrew. Nobody knows me. You send your manuscripts to the publishing house. Devolution with a rebuke with a few lines: notwithstanding the fact the merits of your text we have decided to decline your offer of your publication. It doesn’t fit with the patterns of our editorial panel.
- Ok
-. Don’t you worry. Smile. Be happy. Sing as you write.
- Which song?
-The ballad of the Volga oarsmen
-Volga… Volga, Volga, Ruskin reek – I proclaimed in a low tone.
This job is hard but nice. You sit down and you write. You row. Your pen is like a paddle. Your pen is sword. Sometimes you feel remiss or indolent at your desk and yielding to dismay all writers ask themselves the same question. What is this, what am I doing? Your piece is like the message in the bottle the survivor of the ship wreckage launch to the Ocean. Is there any one at the other end?
You never know. still ought not to be despondent, when fame skips your lucks or when the prow of your novel, essays, poems, sail against the odds of misfortunes. Not all of us can live in the mainstream but publish and be damned. Big brother is watching you.
-No dogs, no strawberry pickers, no writers
-No sex, we are British.
As I walked past the stands I had the uncomfortable impression that most of the being published is menial and ancillary. There they were sitting the flatterers of the Establishment, the moaners of the Gaols who were telling the untrue story of their prisons that never were. Plauto resurrected to write his Miles Glorious. They eat at their big dinners and they leave crumbs and pellicles for you.
Sing and whistle.
-I did not see you in the big fair. Either you are too good to be truth or a real failure.
-I can I assure you I don’t feel a failure. I am full of beams and ready for a big fight. One day we shall unmask the big traitors. Pray god and pass the ammunition but we won’t need guns and bullets or gig sticks. Only word and roses provided that the prentices of the big moaning has become a new religion. Nemesis is their goddess and they are waiting in the wall the word rage. I was a bit disquietened but proud. I did NOT lick the backsides of the new priests preaching Lager.
-What is that? A beer brand of prison
-The latter I am afraid I should think.
Left the place in a rush and entered in café near Castellany. I was thirsty.
-Pint of bitter please.
One more and another one. When I tumbled the seventh glass, I took the attraction from the waiter. His name was Alfonso and he wore a white jacked unpolluted to seve champagne to the Laureate Poets. In El Gijon they call him Mr. Prix. He is the lackey of the famous. No body give a fuck, none cares.
-Drinking again?
-Yeah.
-Celebrating?
-Of course
-And what are you celebrating, mister, if I may ask.
- I am wetting the head of those infants murdered by the abortists, the hymens that never were pierced on wedding nights, and all those broken promises and the books that never were born by the decision of the new priest.. Herodes lives somewhere in Jerusalem. Had many followers.. Herodias, my life for a dance, walks down to the cellar with the head of the decapitated Precurssor and patron of all the misunderstood literates.
Alfonso shook his head in disbelief.
-Those poets….- he muttered as he transported his tray full of schnapps to the customers drinking and gossiping in the big veranda. A few journalist from Madrid were having a big do.
That is how I celebrated the big fracas of the Bookfair. The stallion in the distance meadows neighed for their mares. Beautiful señoritas were flirting. Writers were getting pissed. When the bell struck ten with last ordered please my bowels nearly moved but only came a ferocious and alarming fart, like a thunder in gle the shot of a gun in the battle of Navrone.. Get it out of your system. Puke it out.
-That was for the editors
The entire world became blank. What is the purpose of this strife of literature? Who cares? Who reads? I was very naif in the middle of my alcoholic spree and I did not realize that every one was voting in the election casting fatal verdicts at the polls. If no body wants to listen it is meaningless to preach. If they don’t want to read better that the scribblers all over the world change their jobs and do something positive. Writers we are in vain. We are the forced to the ominous galleys of Internet where the bread is bitter and no pay. We are dead souls. Yes.

Sunday, 07 June 2009

 

 

 

GABRIEL MIRÓ ORFEBRE DE LA PALABRA

 

GABRIEL MIRÓ NUESTRO PADRE SAN DANIEL

 

 

Para hispanistas y filólogos y todos los que amamos las viejas palabras la prosa de Gabriel Miró nos lleva al mundo de los paraísos perdidos.

 Ya sé que algún modorro que nos lea se quejará de que autores como él pidan el esfuerzo de tener que abrir el diccionario y que el de la RAE en esta involución que nos aflige haya dado de mano la vieja lexicología como antiguallas inservibles y fenecidas voces del idioma popular; éste se reduce y se limita a la jerga urbana quedando circunscrita a ese lenguaje urbano, mímico y coprológico, un verdadero signo apocalíptico. El castellano está siendo vapuleado por un inglés macabro y macarrónico.

Toda esa gacería de baja estofa del Bronx que penetra a través de los sitcoms y el lenguaje gangster vía Jolivú. Con ello el alma del mundo se empobrece a marchas forzadas. De la racionalidad volvemos a la irracionalidad.

 El mensaje que lanzan epígonos semicientíficos como Eduardo Punsete ese malos pelos que habla y entrevista en  la 2 no se cansa de repetir el mensaje de que el hombre viene del mono.

 Por eso es todo un hallazgo volver a las novelas de Miró (El Obispo Leproso, Años y Leguas, las Cerezas del Cementerio etc.)

In principio erat Verbum. Dios creó primero la palabra. Después llenó el universo de cosas y vio que el mundo estaba bien hecho. Y a continuación formó al hombre del barro y a Eva de su costilla según el Génesis. Gabriel Miró resucita este vocabulario de léxicos que resultan como un fucilazo, exvotos testimoniales de una sociedad que se fue, pero el habla rica de los campesinos españoles de Levante perdura.

 Nuestro padre san Daniel es un retablo de las maravillas en prosa preciosista que pinta la vida de una ciudad episcopal Orihuela (Oleza) a comienzos del pasado siglo. En frases que parecen hechas para ser esculpidas en sojas o en tiras de mármol. Su pluma no está hecha de encañadura de ave, se escuda Miró. Es de hierro como un cincel. Puede que recargue un poco y que a fuerza de este prístino afán intente Miró ponerle los paños al púlpito como hacían los predicadores de campanillas antiguamente. Es un escritor litúrgico. El lector encuentra ornamentos del viejo culto eclesiástico que venían del rito visigótico.

 Fueron suprimidas por el concilio Vaticano II (hacheros, navetas, gremiales, gorjales, tunicelas, crismeras, casullas, píxides, epactas, corporales, viriles, hijuelas, brinquiños, sartales,  antipendios, frontales que adornaban el paramento del tabernáculo, las cáligas o zapatillas de seda laborada y el cenojil  azul que sujeta las medias de los obispos) el cristianismo proviene de los misterios órficos y no es tan sólo letra muerta sino la búsqueda y procura de un ideal

Vida tranquila y provincial a la sombra del campanario cuando todo poseía un principio y un fin es cuanto refleja este libro. Las onomásticas de los apóstoles, los mártires, confesores y doctores o las doce fiestas del calendario cristiano medían el tiempo. “Oleza criaba capellanes como Altea marinos y Alicante turroneros”. Prosa serena que contempla el circular de las estaciones y el nacer, morir y vivir de los personajes que describe con la pasmosa elegancia en que giran los azudes y azahares de una noria.

Es un mirar levantino hacia el paisaje de una zona que en lucha contra los piratas berberiscos (Cartagena, cabo de Palos, Malva Rosa valenciana o Peñíscola) defendió a la catolicidad. Los prelados entraban en posesión de su diócesis a lomos de una mula blanca. Saltan a la palestra clérigos de misa y olla, jesuitas místicos como  el Padre Bellod, don Magín, y don Jeromillo (cura pobre y cura rico). Se escucha en toda la novela el toque de Ánimas junto con el frufrú de las sotanas y sobrepellices, la campanilla del Viático, surtidores de patio claustral donde rezan el breviario los seminaristas ordenados in sacris deambulando por el claustro. Se escucha el bisbiseo de las viejas en las catedrales oscuras donde la piedra rezuma el vaho de los siglos, o la voz baja de particulares que pedían audiencia al señor obispo, escribanos, testamentarias que recogían las mandas de los moribundos en donaciones pro ánima que han servido de baluarte económico de la iglesia. Se percibe, todo sensual, muy gráfico, llamando a las cosas por su nombre, el tiemblo de los dijes al pasar las cuentas del rosario de plata de las devotas. Crujen los agremanes, blondas y azabaches de raso o deslumbran los estrados de damasco y el brillo de anillos de oro y pectorales todo de perlas. Un estilo majestuoso, solemne y episcopal.

 A Gabriel Miró hay que leerlo  despacio y no sólo con los ojos sino con el oído, el gusto, el olfato, el tacto. Hay que poner los cinco sentidos para captar sus descripciones de una sensualidad fruente que se goza en el hallazgo de la palabra exacta.  Esta zona en que se desarrolla la trama era un viejo reducto carlista que leía a Aparisi Guijarro y lanzaba vivas a Cristo rey y a Carlos sétimo.

Esta es la España de los curas trabucaires. La guerra de la Independencia abrió una sima en el seno de la Iglesia entre curas liberales o serviles y absolutistas. La mayor parte de los curas hicieronse carlistas.

 El obispo lució sobre su cabeza la barretina catalana hoy símbolo de la independencia de aquella región tan española y que fue  insignia de los alzados contra el liberalismo jansenista. Sin embargo era un hombre triste que vivía en un palacio inmenso con una huerta rodeada de viales de naranjos y de magnolios en medio de una gran soledad.

 Otro de los personajes: Caracortada que vive arruinado, pues dio todo sus caudales para la Causa. Se ha convertido en  pobre de pedir desde que fue herido por un sargento pesetero cuando su compañía mandada por el general Cabrera el Tigre del Maestrazgo fue atacada por soldados isabelinos. Dentro de este mundo idílico sin embargo no todo es lo que aparece. La sobrehaz de esta armonía de la ciudad episcopal son las pasiones, las envidias y enconos.

El odio que siente el mutilado carlista hacia el cacique don Álvaro alcanza proporciones homéricas. En una de sus magnificas descripciones las de las vísperas de San Pedro el autor hace contrastar la magnificencia del presbiterio claustral con la pobreza de la feligresía; unas cuantas viejas y unos mesegueros que se duermen durante la ceremonia.

 El boato de los ornamentos contrasta con los harapos con que se cubre el pueblo llano. El padre Bellod sube al arrabal de san Ginés una montaña donde la población carece de viviendas, los niños van desnudos y los moradores entre aguas reciales, bardomeras y pringues malviven, se alimentan de los higos chumbos que brindan los nopales o van a robar fruta al huerto de unos frailes o a la cerca del cura Jeromillo. Pudiera decirse que uno de los personajes es el hambre aunque Miró no es un escritor social.

 Simplemente se preocupa por esa dicotomía entre el ideal inalcanzable que propone la iglesia que busca en su gestión la utopía y la penuria de las  gentes irredentas a las que predica y sestean durante el sermón. El escritor se hace cargo de este fracaso. Lo agrio, lo feo, lo sórdido de la existencia contrasta con la hermosura y la contemplación estética. A los pobres siempre les tendréis con vosotros. Axioma bíblico.

Es el mayor ecologista de nuestra literatura. Hasta el siglo XIX nuestros literatos se habían despreocupado del campo. No hay paisaje por ejemplo en nuestra novela picaresca.

Él se constituye en el mejor paisajista y soberbiamente describe la mies que orea en las hazas de terreno y cabecean movidas por el viento cuando huele a junio. O las clases de frutas que da esta región del maestrazgo: albérchigos, sabrosísimas cermeñas o peras rabonas, bergamotos, zamboas, dátiles, naranjas, pomelos, cerezas, nopales que trajeron los moros y los españoles llevamos a Méjico, o el vino fondillón  o rancio de Alicante, vino  de consagrar el que llevan en las vinajeras los niños misarios. Uno se convierte a medida que avanza la lectura en acólito de esa gran eucaristía mística que brinda la naturaleza abundante y feraz.

El ambiente curial y levítico en el que se desenvuelve recuerda un poco a la Regenta de Leopoldo Alas pero a Miró escultor de retablos –Figuras de la Pasión-le falta vis dramática.

La acción es lenta y la urdimbre, débil en medio de una prosa triunfal y selecta, tan sensual que el lector parece oler a búcaros de glicinias o contempla la magnificencia de los oficios religiosos en la catedral de Orihuela con aquellos chantres y el precentor que sube a cantar el evangelio detrás de la cruz alzada flanqueado por dos lampisteros o turiferarios.

 Miró los embaúla en un argadillo de lexicografía selecta. Una sonrisa abacial y un obispo que bendice tocado con una mitra con forma de boca de pez. Los jardines de los monasterios, dice, han enriquecido las vocaciones y el lenguaje castellano. Un clérigo fumador habla en la sacristía  con voz gruesa entre vellones de humo. Se ven argollas en las puertas de nogal que delimitaban antiguamente la jurisdicción de la tierra de asilo y en los sillares de las pilastras catedralicias aun se percibe la herida de la gubia del picapedrero que las labró, operarios anónimos, de los que nada se dice, nada se sabe. Se escucha en la mañana el chacoloteo de las madreñas de las lecheras que suben la cuesta con sus herradas hacia la ciudad. Estas descripciones cuajan la mirada sobre un tiempo que se fue para no volver nunca más.

 Leer a este levantino es como calmar la sed  estética en un pilón de agua bendita,  porque siempre halla la palabra exacta. Estamos en una tierra requeté donde los mozos facciosos se unían a la partida con un escapulario bajo la camisa cuya leyenda decía: detente enemigo que el corazón de Jesús está conmigo. Era el detentebala. Pese a este amuleto la magnífica defensa fallaba y algunos no sobrevivían y los que regresaban de la partida volvían mutilados o epilépticos y el ambiente mezquino de Oleza les consumía, acabando en la cárcel o en el patíbulo donde los reos antes de morir cantaban el Salve Regina. No es posible la utopía. Quisieron construir la ciudad de Dios pero esto es un valle de lágrimas. Gabriel Miró murió joven de un ataque de apendicitis en su casa madrileña del Paseo del Prado. Siempre que bajo a los Libreros me acuerdo de él. Como muchos escritores de España tuvo una vida difícil y errabunda. Combinó su obra creativa con el oficio de amanuense en un archivo del obispado de Barcelona. También fue periodista

 

MISA DE S. AGUSTIN OBISPO DE HIPONA EN CARTAGO

 S. Augustini Episcopi et Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris ~ III. classis

Tempora: Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam XIII post Octavam Pentecostes IV. Augusti

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Top  Next Incipit In nómine Patris, ✠ et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.	2 Beginning In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, ✠ and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Top  Next S. Introíbo ad altáre Dei. M. Ad Deum, qui lætíficat iuventútem meam. S. Iúdica me, Deus, et discérne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab hómine iníquo et dolóso érue me. M. Quia tu es, Deus, fortitúdo mea: quare me repulísti, et quare tristis incédo, dum afflígit me inimícus? S. Emítte lucem tuam et veritátem tuam: ipsa me deduxérunt, et adduxérunt in montem sanctum tuum et in tabernácula tua. M. Et introíbo ad altáre Dei: ad Deum, qui lætíficat iuventútem meam. S. Confitébor tibi in cíthara, Deus, Deus meus: quare tristis es, ánima mea, et quare contúrbas me? M. Spera in Deo, quóniam adhuc confitébor illi: salutáre vultus mei, et Deus meus. S. Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto. M. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper: et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen. S. Introíbo ad altáre Dei. M. Ad Deum, qui lætíficat iuventútem meam.	3 P. I will go in to the altar of God. S. To God who giveth joy to my youth. P. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation which is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. S. For Thou, O God, art my strength: why hast Thou cast me off? and why go I sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? P. Send forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have conducted me and brought me unto Thy holy mount, and into Thy tabernacles. S. And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. P. To Thee, O God, my God, I will give praise upon the harp; why art thou sad, O my soul, and why dost thou disquiet me? S. Hope in God, for I will still give praise to Him: the salvation of my countenance and my God. P. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. S. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. P. I will go in to the altar of God. S. To God who giveth joy to my youth.
Top  Next V. Adiutórium nostrum ✠ in nómine Dómini. R. Qui fecit cælum et terram. Confíteor Deo omnipoténti, beátæ Maríæ semper Vírgini, beáto Michaéli Archángelo, beáto Ioánni Baptístæ, sanctis Apóstolis Petro et Paulo, ómnibus Sanctis, et vobis, fratres: quia peccávi nimis cogitatióne, verbo et ópere: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa. Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper Vírginem, beátum Michaélem Archángelum, beátum Ioánnem Baptístam, sanctos Apóstolos Petrum et Paulum, omnes Sanctos, et vos, fratres, oráre pro me ad Dóminum, Deum nostrum. M. Misereátur tui omnípotens Deus, et, dimíssis peccátis tuis, perdúcat te ad vitam ætérnam. S. Amen. M. Confíteor Deo omnipoténti, beátæ Maríæ semper Vírgini, beáto Michaéli Archángelo, beáto Ioánni Baptístæ, sanctis Apóstolis Petro et Paulo, ómnibus Sanctis, et tibi, pater: quia peccávi nimis cogitatióne, verbo et ópere: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa. Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper Vírginem, beátum Michaélem Archángelum, beátum Ioánnem Baptístam, sanctos Apóstolos Petrum et Paulum, omnes Sanctos, et te, pater, oráre pro me ad Dóminum, Deum nostrum. S. Misereátur vestri omnípotens Deus, et, dimíssis peccátis vestris, perdúcat vos ad vitam ætérnam. R. Amen. S. Indulgéntiam, ✠ absolutiónem et remissiónem peccatórum nostrórum tríbuat nobis omnípotens et miséricors Dóminus. R. Amen.	4 P. Our help ✠ is in the Name of the Lord. S. Who made heaven and earth. P. I confess to almighty God, to the blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, to all the Saints, and to you, brothers, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech the blessed Mary, ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, all the Saints, and you, brothers, to pray to the Lord our God for me. S. May almighty God be merciful to thee, and forgiving thy sins, bring thee to everlasting life. P. Amen. S. I confess to almighty God, to the blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, to all the Saints, and to you, Father, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech the blessed Mary, ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, all the Saints, and you, Father, to pray to the Lord our God for me. P. May almighty God be merciful to thee, and forgiving thy sins, bring thee to everlasting life. S. Amen. P. May the ✠ almighty and merciful Lord grant us pardon, absolution, and remission of our sins. S. Amen.
Top  Next V. Deus, tu convérsus vivificábis nos. R. Et plebs tua lætábitur in te. V. Osténde nobis, Dómine, misericórdiam tuam. R. Et salutáre tuum da nobis. V. Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam. R. Et clamor meus ad te véniat. V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Orémus, Aufer a nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine, iniquitátes nostras: ut ad Sancta sanctórum puris mereámur méntibus introíre. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen. Orámus te, Dómine, per mérita Sanctórum tuórum, quorum relíquiæ hic sunt, et ómnium Sanctórum: ut indulgére dignéris ómnia peccáta mea. Amen.	5 P. O God, Thou wilt turn again and quicken us. S. And thy people shall rejoice in Thee. P. Show us, O Lord, Thy mercy. S. And grant us Thy salvation. P. O Lord, hear my prayer. S. And let my cry come before Thee. P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Take away from us our iniquities, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that we may be worthy to enter with pure minds into the Holy of Holies, through Christ our Lord. Amen. We beseech Thee, O Lord, by the merits of Thy Saints, whose relics are here, and of all the Saints, that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to forgive me all my sins. Amen.
Top  Next Introitus Eccli 15:5 In médio Ecclésiæ apéruit os eius: et implévit eum Dóminus spíritu sapiéntiæ et intelléctus: stolam glóriæ índuit eum. Ps 91:2 Bonum est confitéri Dómino: et psállere nómini tuo, Altíssime. V. Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto. R. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen. In médio Ecclésiæ apéruit os eius: et implévit eum Dóminus spíritu sapiéntiæ et intelléctus: stolam glóriæ índuit eum.	6 Introit Ecclus 15:5 In the midst of the assembly he opened his mouth; and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding; He clothed him with a robe of glory. Ps 91:2 It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to Your name, Most High. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. In the midst of the assembly he opened his mouth; and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding; He clothed him with a robe of glory.
Top  Next Kyrie S. Kýrie, eléison. M. Kýrie, eléison. S. Kýrie, eléison. M. Christe, eléison. S. Christe, eléison. M. Christe, eléison. S. Kýrie, eléison. M. Kýrie, eléison. S. Kýrie, eléison.	7 Kyrie P. Lord, have mercy. S. Lord, have mercy. P. Lord, have mercy. S. Christ, have mercy. P. Christ, have mercy. S. Christ, have mercy. P. Lord, have mercy. S. Lord, have mercy. P. Lord, have mercy.
Top  Next Gloria Glória in excélsis Deo. Et in terra pax homínibus bonæ voluntátis. Laudámus te. Benedícimus te. Adorámus te. Glorificámus te. Grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam glóriam tuam. Dómine Deus, Rex cæléstis, Deus Pater omnípotens. Dómine Fili unigénite, Iesu Christe. Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris. Qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis. Qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram. Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris, miserére nobis. Quóniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dóminus. Tu solus Altíssimus, Iesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spíritu ✠ in glória Dei Patris. Amen.	8 Gloria Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee. We bless Thee. We adore Thee. We glorify Thee. We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory. O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. O Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For Thou only art holy. Thou only art the Lord. Thou only art most high, O Jesus Christ. Together with the Holy Ghost ✠ in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Top  Next Oratio V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Orémus. Adésto supplicatiónibus nostris, omnípotens Deus: et, quibus fidúciam sperándæ pietátis indúlges, intercedénte beáto Augustíno Confessóre tuo atque Pontífice, consuétæ misericórdiæ tríbue benígnus efféctum. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen. Orémus. Pro S. Hermete Martyre Deus, qui beátum Hermétem Mártyrem tuum virtúte constántiæ in passióne roborásti: ex eius nobis imitatióne tríbue; pro amóre tuo próspera mundi despícere, et nulla eius advérsa formidáre. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen.	9 Collect V. The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Give heed to our humble prayers, almighty God, and through the intercession of blessed Augustine, Your Confessor and Bishop, kindly grant Your oft-given mercy to those upon whom You bestow great hope in Your forgiveness. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen. Let us pray. For St. Hermes O God, Who strengthened blessed Hermes, Your Martyr, with the virtue of steadfastness in his suffering, grant that, emulating him, and out of love for You, we may look upon worldly success as nought and fear no earthly danger. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
Top  Next Lectio Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Timótheum 2 Tim 4:1-8 Caríssime: Testíficor coram Deo, et Iesu Christo, qui iudicatúrus est vivos et mórtuos, per advéntum ipsíus et regnum eius: prædica verbum, insta opportúne, importúne: árgue, óbsecra, íncrepa in omni patiéntia, et doctrína. Erit enim tempus, cum sanam doctrínam non sustinébunt, sed ad sua desidéria coacervábunt sibi magístros, pruriéntes áuribus, et a veritáte quidem audítum avértent, ad fábulas autem converténtur. Tu vero vígila, in ómnibus labóra, opus fac Evangelístæ, ministérium tuum ímple. Sóbrius esto. Ego enim iam delibor, et tempus resolutiónis meæ instat. Bonum certámen certávi, cursum consummávi, fidem servávi. In relíquo repósita est mihi coróna iustítiæ, quam reddet mihi Dóminus in illa die, iustus iudex: non solum autem mihi, sed et iis, qui díligunt advéntum eius. R. Deo grátias.	10 Lesson Lesson from the second letter of St. Paul the Apostle to Timothy 2 Tim. 4:1-8 Beloved: I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus, Who will judge the living and the dead by His coming and by His kingdom, preach the word, be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, entreat, rebuke with all patience and teaching. For there will come a time when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap up to themselves teachers according to their lusts, and they will turn away their hearing from the truth and turn aside rather to fables. But be watchful in all things, bear with tribulation patiently, work as a preacher of the Gospel, fulfill your ministry. As for me, I am already being poured out in sacrifice, and the time of my deliverance is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. For the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord, the just Judge, will give to me in that day; yet not to me only, but also to those who love His coming. R. Thanks be to God.
Top  Next Graduale Ps 36:30-31 Os iusti meditábitur sapiéntiam, et lingua eius loquétur iudícium. V. Lex Dei eius in corde ipsíus: et non supplantabúntur gressus eius. Allelúia, allelúia. Ps 88:21 Invéni David servum meum, óleo sancto meo unxi eum. Allelúia.	11 Gradual Ps 36:30-31 The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom, and his tongue utters what is right. V. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps do not falter. Alleluia, alleluia. Ps 88:21 V. I have found David, My servant; with My holy oil I have anointed him. Alleluia.
Top  Next Evangelium Munda cor meum ac lábia mea, omnípotens Deus, qui lábia Isaíæ Prophétæ cálculo mundásti igníto: ita me tua grata miseratióne dignáre mundáre, ut sanctum Evangélium tuum digne váleam nuntiáre. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen. Iube, Dómine, benedícere. Dóminus sit in corde meo et in lábiis meis: ut digne et competénter annúntiem Evangélium suum. Amen. V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Sequéntia +︎ sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum. R. Glória tibi, Dómine. Matt 5:13-19 In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus discípulis suis: Vos estis sal terræ. Quod si sal evanúerit, in quo saliétur? Ad níhilum valet ultra, nisi ut mittatur foras, et conculcétur ab homínibus. Vos estis lux mundi. Non potest cívitas abscóndi supra montem pósita. Neque accéndunt lucérnam, et ponunt eam sub módio, sed super candelábrum, ut lúceat ómnibus qui in domo sunt. Sic lúceat lux vestra coram homínibus, ut videant ópera vestra bona, et gloríficent Patrem vestrum, qui in cœlis est. Nolíte putare, quóniam veni sólvere legem aut prophétas: non veni sólvere, sed adimplére. Amen, quippe dico vobis, donec tránseat cœlum et terra, iota unum aut unus apex non præteríbit a lege, donec ómnia fiant. Qui ergo solvet unum de mandátis istis mínimis, et docúerit sic hómines, mínimus vocábitur in regno cœlórum: qui autem fécerit et docúerit, hic magnus vocábitur in regno cœlórum. R. Laus tibi, Christe. S. Per Evangélica dicta, deleántur nostra delícta.	12 Gospel Cleanse my heart and my lips, O almighty God, who didst cleanse the lips of the prophet Isaias with a burning coal, and vouchsafe, through Thy gracious mercy, so to purify me, that I may worthily announce Thy holy Gospel. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Give me Thy blessing, O Lord. The Lord be in my heart and on my lips, that I may worthily and in a becoming manner, proclaim His holy Gospel. Amen. P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit. Continuation ✠ of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord. Matt 5:13-19 At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its strength, what shall it be salted with? It is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under the measure, but upon the lampstand, so as to give light to all in the house. Even so let your light shine before men, in order that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall be lost from the Law till all things have been accomplished. Therefore whoever does away with one of these least commandments, and so teaches men, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever carries them out and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. R. Praise be to Thee, O Christ. S. By the words of the Gospel may our sins be blotted out.
Top  Next Credo omit.	13 Creed omit.
Top  Next Offertorium V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Orémus. Ps 91:13 Iustus ut palma florébit: sicut cedrus, quæ in Líbano est, multiplicábitur.	14 Offertory P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Ps 91:13 The just shall flourish like the palm tree; like a cedar of Libanus shall he grow.
Súscipe, sancte Pater, omnípotens ætérne Deus, hanc immaculátam hóstiam, quam ego indígnus fámulus tuus óffero tibi Deo meo vivo et vero, pro innumerabílibus peccátis, et offensiónibus, et neglegéntiis meis, et pro ómnibus circumstántibus, sed et pro ómnibus fidélibus christiánis vivis atque defúnctis: ut mihi, et illis profíciat ad salútem in vitam ætérnam. Amen.	Accept, O holy Father, almighty and eternal God, this unspotted host, which I, Thy unworthy servant, offer unto Thee, my living and true God, for my innumerable sins, offenses, and negligences, and for all here present: as also for all faithful Christians, both living and dead, that it may avail both me and them for salvation unto life everlasting. Amen.
Deus, ✠ qui humánæ substántiæ dignitátem mirabíliter condidísti, et mirabílius reformásti: da nobis per huius aquæ et vini mystérium, eius divinitátis esse consórtes, qui humanitátis nostræ fíeri dignátus est párticeps, Iesus Christus, Fílius tuus, Dóminus noster: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus: per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	O God, who, in creating human nature, didst wonderfully dignify it, and still more wonderfully restore it, grant that, by the Mystery of this water and wine, we may be made partakers of His divine nature, who vouchsafed to be made partaker of our human nature, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Thy Son, who with Thee, liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God: world without end. Amen.
Top  Next Offérimus tibi, Dómine, cálicem salutáris, tuam deprecántes cleméntiam: ut in conspéctu divínæ maiestátis tuæ, pro nostra et totíus mundi salúte, cum odóre suavitátis ascéndat. Amen. In spíritu humilitátis et in ánimo contríto suscipiámur a te, Dómine: et sic fiat sacrifícium nostrum in conspéctu tuo hódie, ut pláceat tibi, Dómine Deus. Veni, sanctificátor omnípotens ætérne Deus: et béne ✠ dic hoc sacrifícium, tuo sancto nómini præparátum.	17 We offer unto Thee, O Lord, the chalice of salvation, beseeching Thy clemency, that it may ascend before Thy divine Majesty, as a sweet savor, for our salvation, and for that of the whole world. Amen. Accept us, O Lord, in the spirit of humility and contrition of heart, and grant that the sacrifice which we offer this day in Thy sight may be pleasing to Thee, O Lord God. Come, O almighty and eternal God, the Sanctifier, and bless ✠ this Sacrifice, prepared for the glory of Thy holy Name.
Top  Next Lavábo inter innocéntes manus meas: et circúmdabo altáre tuum, Dómine: Ut áudiam vocem laudis, et enárrem univérsa mirabília tua. Dómine, diléxi decórem domus tuæ et locum habitatiónis glóriæ tuæ. Ne perdas cum ímpiis, Deus, ánimam meam, et cum viris sánguinum vitam meam: In quorum mánibus iniquitátes sunt: déxtera eórum repléta est munéribus. Ego autem in innocéntia mea ingréssus sum: rédime me et miserére mei. Pes meus stetit in dirécto: in ecclésiis benedícam te, Dómine. V. Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto. R. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	18 I will wash my hands among the innocent: and I will compass Thine altar, O Lord That I may hear the voice of praise: and tell of all Thy wonderous works. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of Thy house and the place where Thy glory dwelleth. Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with blood-thirsty men. In whose hands are iniquities, their right hand is filled with gifts. But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me. My foot hath stood in the direct way, in the churches I will bless Thee, O Lord. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Súscipe, sancta Trínitas, hanc oblatiónem, quam tibi offérimus ob memóriam passiónis, resurrectiónis, et ascensiónis Iesu Christi, Dómini nostri: et in honórem beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis, et beáti Ioannis Baptistæ, et sanctórum Apostolórum Petri et Pauli, et istórum et ómnium Sanctórum: ut illis profíciat ad honórem, nobis autem ad salútem: et illi pro nobis intercédere dignéntur in cælis, quorum memóriam ágimus in terris. Per eúndem Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.	Receive, O holy Trinity, this oblation which we make to Thee, in memory of the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in honor of Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the Saints, that it may avail unto their honor and our salvation, and may they vouchsafe to intercede for us in heaven, whose memory we celebrate on earth. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Top  Next S. Oráte, fratres: ut meum ac vestrum sacrifícium acceptábile fiat apud Deum Patrem omnipoténtem. M. Suscípiat Dóminus sacrifícium de mánibus tuis ad laudem et glóriam nominis sui, ad utilitátem quoque nostram, totiúsque Ecclésiæ suæ sanctæ. S. Amen. Secreta Sancti Augustíni Pontíficis tui atque Doctóris nobis, Dómine, pia non desit orátio: quæ et múnera nostra concíliet; et tuam nobis indulgéntiam semper obtíneat. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen. Pro S. Hermete Martyre Sacrifícium tibi, Dómine, laudis offérimus in tuórum commemoratióne Sanctórum: da, quǽsumus; ut, quod illis cóntulit glóriam, nobis prosit ad salútem. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen.	20 P. Brethren, pray that my Sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Father almighty. S. May the Lord receive the Sacrifice from thy hands, to the praise and glory of His Name, to our benefit and that of all His holy Church. P. Amen. Secret May the loving prayer of blessed Augustine, Your Bishop and Doctor, fail us never, O Lord; may it commend our offerings and ever secure for us Your forgiveness. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen. For St. Hermes We offer You, O Lord, the sacrifice of praise in memory of Your Saints; grant, we beseech You, that what has bestowed glory on them may profit us unto salvation. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
Top  Next Præfatio V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. V. Sursum corda. R. Habémus ad Dóminum. V. Grátias agámus Dómino, Deo nostro. R. Dignum et iustum est. Communis Vere dignum et iustum est, æquum et salutáre, nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere: Dómine sancte, Pater omnípotens, ætérne Deus: per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Per quem maiestátem tuam laudant Angeli, adórant Dominatiónes, tremunt Potestátes. Cæli cælorúmque Virtútes ac beáta Séraphim sócia exsultatióne concélebrant. Cum quibus et nostras voces ut admítti iubeas, deprecámur, súpplici confessione dicéntes: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.	21 Preface P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit. P. Lift up your hearts. S. We have lifted them up to the Lord. P. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. S. It is meet and just. Common It is truly meet and just, and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks to Thee, O Holy Lord, Father Almighty, eternal God, through Christ, our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominions adore it, the Powers are in awe. Which the heavens and the hosts of heaven together with the blessed Seraphim joyfully do magnify. And do Thou command that it be permitted us to join with them in confessing Thee, while we say with lowly praise: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth! Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory! Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!
Top  Next Canon Te ígitur, clementíssime Pater, per Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum, Dóminum nostrum, súpplices rogámus, ac pétimus, uti accépta hábeas et benedícas, hæc ✠ dona, hæc ✠ múnera, hæc ✠ sancta sacrifícia illibáta, in primis, quæ tibi offérimus pro Ecclésia tua sancta cathólica: quam pacificáre, custodíre, adunáre et régere dignéris toto orbe terrárum: una cum fámulo tuo Papa nostro N. et Antístite nostro N. et ómnibus orthodóxis, atque cathólicæ et apostólicæ fídei cultóribus.	22 Canon We therefore, humbly pray and beseech Thee, most merciful Father, through Jesus Christ; Thy Son, our Lord, that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to accept and bless these ✠ gifts, these ✠ presents, these ✠ holy unspotted Sacrifices, which in the first place we offer Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church to which vouchsafe to grant peace, as also to preserve, unite, and govern it throughout the world, together with Thy servant our Pope, and our Bishop, and all orthodox believers and professors of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith.
Meménto, Dómine, famulórum famularúmque tuarum N. et N. et ómnium circumstántium, quorum tibi fides cógnita est et nota devótio, pro quibus tibi offérimus: vel qui tibi ófferunt hoc sacrifícium laudis, pro se suísque ómnibus: pro redemptióne animárum suárum, pro spe salútis et incolumitátis suæ: tibíque reddunt vota sua ætérno Deo, vivo et vero.	Be mindful, O Lord, of Thy servants and handmaidens, N. et N. and of all here present, whose faith and devotion are known unto Thee, for whom we offer, or who offer up to Thee, this sacrifice of praise for themselves, their families and friends, for the redemption of their souls, for the health and salvation they hope for; and who now pay their vows to Thee, the everlasting, living and true God.
Top  Next Communicántes, et memóriam venerántes, in primis gloriósæ semper Vírginis Maríæ, Genetrícis Dei et Dómini nostri Iesu Christi: sed et beáti Ioseph, eiúsdem Vírginis Sponsi, et beatórum Apostolórum ac Mártyrum tuórum, Petri et Pauli, Andréæ, Iacóbi, Ioánnis, Thomæ, Iacóbi, Philíppi, Bartholomǽi, Matthǽi, Simónis et Thaddǽi: Lini, Cleti, Cleméntis, Xysti, Cornélii, Cypriáni, Lauréntii, Chrysógoni, Ioánnis et Pauli, Cosmæ et Damiáni: et ómnium Sanctórum tuórum; quorum méritis precibúsque concédas, ut in ómnibus protectiónis tuæ muniámur auxílio. Per eúndem Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.	24 We pray in union with and honor the memory, especially of the glorious ever Virgin Mary, mother of our God and Lord Jesus Christ: as also of the blessed Joseph, her Spouse, and of the blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter and Paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, and Thaddeus; Linus, Cletus, Clement, Xystus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian, and of all Thy Saints, through whose merits and prayers, grant that we may in all things be defended by the help of Thy protection. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Top  Next Hanc ígitur oblatiónem servitútis nostræ, sed et cunctæ famíliæ tuæ, quǽsumus, Dómine, ut placátus accípias: diésque nostros in tua pace dispónas, atque ab ætérna damnatióne nos éripi, et in electórum tuórum iúbeas grege numerári. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.	25 We therefore beseech Thee, O Lord, graciously to accept this oblation of our service, as also of Thy whole family; and to dispose our days in Thy peace, preserve us from eternal damnation, and rank us in the number of Thine Elect. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Quam oblatiónem tu, Deus, in ómnibus, quǽsumus, bene ✠ díctam, adscríp ✠ tam, ra ✠ tam, rationábilem, acceptabilémque fácere dignéris: ut nobis Cor ✠ pus, et San ✠ guis fiat dilectíssimi Fílii tui, Dómini nostri Iesu Christi.	Which oblation do Thou, O God, vouchsafe in all respects, to bless, ✠ approve, ✠ ratify, ✠ make worthy and acceptable; that it may be made for us the Body ✠ and Blood ✠ of Thy most beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Qui prídie quam paterétur, accépit panem in sanctas ac venerábiles manus suas, elevátis óculis in cælum ad te Deum, Patrem suum omnipoténtem, tibi grátias agens, bene ✠ díxit, fregit, dedítque discípulis suis, dicens: Accípite, et manducáte ex hoc omnes.	Who, the day before He suffered, took bread into His holy and venerable hands, and with His eyes lifted up towards heaven unto Thee, God, His almighty Father, giving thanks to Thee, He blessed ✠ it, broke it and gave it to His disciples saying: Take and eat ye all of this,
Top  Next HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM.	28 FOR THIS IS MY BODY.
Top  Next Símili modo postquam cenátum est, accípiens et hunc præclárum Cálicem in sanctas ac venerábiles manus suas: item tibi grátias agens, bene ✠ díxit, dedítque discípulis suis, dicens: Accípite, et bíbite ex eo omnes.	29 In like manner, after He had supped, taking also this excellent chalice into His holy and venerable hands He blessed ✠ , and gave it to His disciples, saying: Take and drink ye all of this,
Top  Next HIC EST ENIM CALIX SANGUINIS MEI, NOVI ET ÆTERNI TESTAMENTI: MYSTERIUM FIDEI: QUI PRO VOBIS ET PRO MULTIS EFFUNDETUR IN REMISSIONEM PECCATORUM. Hæc quotiescúmque fecéritis, in mei memóriam faciétis.	30 FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL TESTAMENT, THE MYSTERY OF FAITH; WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR MANY UNTO THE REMISSION OF SINS. As often as ye do these things, ye shall do them in remembrance of Me.
Top  Next Unde et mémores, Dómine, nos servi tui, sed et plebs tua sancta, eiúsdem Christi Fílii tui, Dómini nostri, tam beátæ passiónis, nec non et ab ínferis resurrectiónis, sed et in cælos gloriósæ ascensiónis: offérimus præcláræ maiestáti tuæ de tuis donis ac datis, hóstiam ✠ puram, hóstiam ✠ sanctam, hóstiam ✠ immaculátam, Panem ✠ sanctum vitæ ætérnæ, et Cálicem ✠ salútis perpétuæ.	31 Wherefore, O Lord, we Thy servants, as also Thy holy people, calling to mind the blessed Passion of the same Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, and also His Resurrection from the dead and His glorious Ascension into heaven: do offer unto Thy most excellent Majesty of Thine own gifts, bestowed upon us, a pure ✠ Host, a holy ✠ Host, an unspotted ✠ Host, the holy ✠ Bread of eternal life, and the Chalice ✠ of everlasting salvation.
Top  Next Supra quæ propítio ac seréno vultu respícere dignéris: et accépta habére, sicúti accépta habére dignátus es múnera púeri tui iusti Abel, et sacrifícium Patriárchæ nostri Abrahæ: et quod tibi óbtulit summus sacérdos tuus Melchísedech, sanctum sacrifícium, immaculátam hóstiam.	32 Upon which vouchsafe to look with a propitious and serene countenance, and to accept them, as Thou wert graciously pleased to accept the gifts of Thy just servant Abel, and the sacrifice of our patriarch Abraham, and that which Thy high priest Melchisedech offered to Thee, a holy Sacrifice, and unspotted Victim.
Súpplices te rogámus, omnípotens Deus: iube hæc perférri per manus sancti Angeli tui in sublíme altáre tuum, in conspéctu divínæ maiestátis tuæ: ut, quotquot ex hac altáris participatióne sacrosánctum Fílii tui Cor ✠ pus, et Sán ✠ guinem sumpsérimus, omni benedictióne cælésti et grátia repleámur. Per eúndem Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.	We most humbly beseech Thee, almighty God, command these offerings to be borne by the hands of Thy holy Angels to Thine altar on high, in the sight of Thy divine majesty, that as many as shall partake of the most holy Body ✠ and Blood ✠ of Thy Son at this altar, may be filled with every heavenly grace and blessing. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Meménto étiam, Dómine, famulórum famularúmque tuárum N. et N., qui nos præcessérunt cum signo fídei, et dórmiunt in somno pacis. Ipsis, Dómine, et ómnibus in Christo quiescéntibus locum refrigérii, lucis, et pacis, ut indúlgeas, deprecámur. Per eúndem Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.	Remember also, O Lord, Thy servants and handmaids N. and N., who are gone before us with the sign of faith, and rest in the sleep of peace. To these, O Lord, and to all that rest in Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, a place of refreshment, light, and peace; Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Nobis quoque peccatóribus fámulis tuis, de multitúdine miseratiónum tuárum sperántibus, partem áliquam et societátem donáre dignéris, cum tuis sanctis Apóstolis et Martýribus: cum Ioánne, Stéphano, Matthía, Bárnaba, Ignátio, Alexándro, Marcellíno, Petro, Felicitáte, Perpétua, Agatha, Lúcia, Agnéte, Cæcília, Anastásia, et ómnibus Sanctis tuis: intra quorum nos consórtium, non æstimátor mériti, sed véniæ, quǽsumus, largítor admítte. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum.	To us also, Thy sinful servants, confiding in the multitude of Thy mercies, vouchsafe to grant some part and fellowship with Thy holy Apostles and Martyrs, with John, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicitas, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia, and with all Thy Saints, into whose company we beseech Thee to admit us, not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offenses. Through Christ our Lord.
Top  Next Per quem hæc ómnia, Dómine, semper bona creas, sanctí ✠ ficas, viví ✠ ficas, bene ✠ dícis et præstas nobis. Per ip ✠ sum, et cum ip ✠ so, et in ip ✠ so, est tibi Deo Patri ✠ omnipoténti, in unitáte Spíritus ✠ Sancti, omnis honor, et glória. Per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen.	36 By Whom, O Lord, Thou dost ever create, sanctify, ✠ quicken, ✠ bless, ✠ and give unto us all these good things. By Him, ✠ and with Him, ✠ and in Him ✠ is to Thee, God the Father ✠ almighty, in the unity of the Holy ✠ Ghost, all honor and glory. P. World without end. S. Amen.
Top  Next Preparatio Communionis Orémus: Præcéptis salutáribus móniti, et divína institutióne formáti audémus dícere: Pater noster, qui es in cælis. Sanctificétur nomen tuum. Advéniat regnum tuum. Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie. Et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris. Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: R. Sed líbera nos a malo. S. Amen.	37 Preparation for Communion Let us pray. Instructed by Thy saving precepts, and following Thy divine institution, we are bold to say: 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. M. But deliver us from evil. P. Amen.
Top  Next Líbera nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, ab ómnibus malis, prætéritis, præséntibus et futúris: et intercedénte beáta et gloriósa semper Vírgine Dei Genetríce María, cum beátis Apóstolis tuis Petro et Paulo, atque Andréa, et ómnibus Sanctis, da propítius pacem in diébus nostris: ut, ope misericórdiæ tuæ adiúti, et a peccáto simus semper líberi et ab omni perturbatióne secúri. Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum. Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus. V. Per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen. Pax Dómini sit semper vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo.	38 Deliver us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, from all evils, past, present, and to come; and by the intercession of the Blessed and glorious ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and of the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, and of Andrew, and of all the Saints, mercifully grant peace in our days, that through the assistance of Thy mercy we may be always free from sin, and secure from all disturbance. Through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Who with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth God, P. World without end. S. Amen. P. The peace ✠ of the Lord be ✠ always with ✠ you. S. And with thy spirit.
Hæc commíxtio, et consecrátio Córporis et Sánguinis Dómini nostri Iesu Christi, fiat accipiéntibus nobis in vitam ætérnam. Amen.	May this mixture and consecration of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ be to us who receive it effectual unto eternal life. Amen.
Top  Next Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccáta mundi: miserére nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccáta mundi: miserére nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccáta mundi: dona nobis pacem.	40 Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Dómine Iesu Christe, qui dixísti Apóstolis tuis: Pacem relínquo vobis, pacem meam do vobis: ne respícias peccáta mea, sed fidem Ecclésiæ tuæ; eámque secúndum voluntátem tuam pacificáre et coadunáre dignéris: Qui vivis et regnas Deus per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	O Lord Jesus Christ, who saidst to Thine Apostles: Peace I leave you, My peace I give you: regard not my sins, but the faith of Thy Church; and vouchsafe to grant her that peace and unity which is agreeable to Thy will: Who livest and reignest God, world without end. Amen.
Dómine Iesu Christe, Fili Dei vivi, qui ex voluntáte Patris, cooperánte Spíritu Sancto, per mortem tuam mundum vivificásti: líbera me per hoc sacrosánctum Corpus et Sánguinem tuum ab ómnibus iniquitátibus meis, et univérsis malis: et fac me tuis semper inhærére mandátis, et a te numquam separári permíttas: Qui cum eódem Deo Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivis et regnas Deus in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who, according to the will of Thy Father, with the cooperation of the Holy Ghost, hast by Thy death given life to the world; deliver me by this Thy most sacred Body and Blood, from all my iniquities and from all evils; and make me always cleave to Thy commandments, and suffer me never to be separated from Thee, Who livest and reignest, with the same God the Father and the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Percéptio Córporis tui, Dómine Iesu Christe, quod ego indígnus súmere præsúmo, non mihi provéniat in iudícium et condemnatiónem: sed pro tua pietáte prosit mihi ad tutaméntum mentis et córporis, et ad medélam percipiéndam: Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	Let not the partaking of Thy Body, O Lord, Jesus Christ, which I, though unworthy, presume to receive, turn to my judgment and condemnation; but let it, through Thy mercy, become a safeguard and remedy, both for soul and body; Who with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest God, world without end. Amen.
Top  Next Panem cæléstem accípiam, et nomen Dómini invocábo. V. Dómine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum: sed tantum dic verbo, et sanábitur ánima mea. V. Dómine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum: sed tantum dic verbo, et sanábitur ánima mea. V. Dómine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum: sed tantum dic verbo, et sanábitur ánima mea.	44 I will take the Bread of heaven, and will call upon the Name of the Lord. V. Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof; say but the word, and my soul shall be healed. V. Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof; say but the word, and my soul shall be healed. V. Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof; say but the word, and my soul shall be healed.
Corpus Dómini nostri Iesu Christi custódiat ánimam meam in vitam ætérnam. Amen.	The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve my soul unto life everlasting. Amen.
Top  Next Quid retríbuam Dómino pro ómnibus, quæ retríbuit mihi? Cálicem salutáris accípiam, et nomen Dómini invocábo. Laudans invocábo Dóminum, et ab inimícis meis salvus ero. Sanguis Dómini nostri Iesu Christi custódiat ánimam meam in vitam ætérnam. Amen.	46 What return shall I make to the Lord for all He has given to me? I will take the chalice of salvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord. Praising I will call upon the Lord, and I shall be saved from my enemies. The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve my soul unto life everlasting. Amen.
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Top  Next Quod ore súmpsimus, Dómine, pura mente capiámus: et de múnere temporáli fiat nobis remédium sempitérnum. Corpus tuum, Dómine, quod sumpsi, et Sanguis, quem potávi, adhǽreat viscéribus meis: et præsta; ut in me non remáneat scélerum mácula, quem pura et sancta refecérunt sacraménta: Qui vivis et regnas in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	48 Grant, O Lord, that what we have taken with our mouth, we may receive with a pure mind; and from a temporal gift may it become to us an eternal remedy. May Thy Body, O Lord, which I have received, and Thy Blood which I have drunk, cleave to my bowels; and grant that no stain of sin may remain in me, who have been fed with this pure and holy Sacrament; Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.
Top  Next Communio Luc 12:42 Fidélis servus et prudens, quem constítuit dóminus super famíliam suam: ut det illis in témpore trítici mensúram.	49 Communion Luke 12:42 The faithful and prudent servant whom the master will set over his household to give them their ration of grain in due time.
Top  Next Postcommunio S. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Orémus. Ut nobis, Dómine, tua sacrifícia dent salútem: beátus Augustínus Póntifex tuus et Doctor egrégius, quǽsumus, precátor accédat. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen. Orémus. Pro S. Hermete Martyre Repleti, Dómine, benedictióne cœlésti, quǽsumus cleméntiam tuam: ut, intercedénte beáto Herméte Mártyre tuo, quæ humíliter gérimus, salúbriter sentiámus. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. R. Amen.	50 Post Communion P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. So that Your sacrificial rites may grant us salvation; we pray You, O Lord, that blessed Augustine, Your Bishop and illustrious teacher, may draw nigh as our intercessor. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen. Let us pray. For St. Hermes Filled with heavenly blessings, O Lord, we beseech Your mercy that, by the intercession of blessed Hermes, Your Martyr, we may experience the saving effects of the rite we humbly perform. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
Top  Next Conclusio S. Dóminus vobíscum. M. Et cum spíritu tuo.	51 Conclusion P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit.
Top  Next V. Ite, Missa est. R. Deo grátias.	52 V. Go, the Mass is ended. R. Thanks be to God.
Pláceat tibi, sancta Trínitas, obséquium servitútis meæ: et præsta; ut sacrifícium, quod óculis tuæ maiestátis indígnus óbtuli, tibi sit acceptábile, mihíque et ómnibus, pro quibus illud óbtuli, sit, te miseránte, propitiábile. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.	May the performance of my homage be pleasing to Thee, O holy Trinity: and grant that the Sacrifice which I, though unworthy, have offered up in the sight of Thy Majesty, may be acceptable to Thee, and through Thy mercy, be a propitiation for me, and for all those for whom I have offered it. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Top  Next Benedícat vos omnípotens Deus, Pater, et Fílius, ✠ et Spíritus Sanctus. R. Amen.	54 P. May almighty God the Father, Son, ✠ and Holy Ghost, bless you. S. Amen.
Top  Next V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Inítium +︎ sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem R. Glória tibi, Dómine. Ioann. 1, 1-14. Iunctis manibus prosequitur: In princípio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in princípio apud Deum. Omnia per ipsum facta sunt: et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est: in ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux hóminum: et lux in ténebris lucet, et ténebræ eam non comprehendérunt. Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Ioánnes. Hic venit in testimónium, ut testimónium perhibéret de lúmine, ut omnes créderent per illum. Non erat ille lux, sed ut testimónium perhibéret de lúmine. Erat lux vera, quæ illúminat omnem hóminem veniéntem in hunc mundum. In mundo erat, et mundus per ipsum factus est, et mundus eum non cognóvit. In própria venit, et sui eum non recepérunt. Quotquot autem recepérunt eum, dedit eis potestátem fílios Dei fíeri, his, qui credunt in nómine eius: qui non ex sanguínibus, neque ex voluntáte carnis, neque ex voluntáte viri, sed ex Deo nati sunt. Genuflectit dicens: Et Verbum caro factum est, Et surgens prosequitur: et habitávit in nobis: et vídimus glóriam eius, glóriam quasi Unigéniti a Patre, plenum grátiæ et veritátis. R. Deo grátias.	55 P. The Lord be with you. S. And with thy spirit. The beginning +︎ of the holy Gospel according to John R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord. John 1, 1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made: in Him was life, and the life was the Light of men; and the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to testify concerning the Light, that all might believe through Him. He was not the Light, but he was to testify concerning the Light. That was the true Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him to them He gave power to become sons of God, to them that believe in His Name, who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Here all kneel. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us: and we saw His glory, the glory as of the Only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. R. Thanks be to God.
Top  Next Orationes Leonis XIII S. Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum, benedícta tu in muliéribus et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. O. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen. S. Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum, benedícta tu in muliéribus et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. O. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen. S. Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum, benedícta tu in muliéribus et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. O. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen. O. Salve Regína, Mater misericórdiæ, vita, dulcédo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamámus, éxsules fílii Evæ. Ad te suspirámus geméntes et flentes in hac lacrymárum valle. Eia ergo, Advocáta nostra, illos tuos misericórdes óculos ad nos convérte. Et Iesum, benedíctum fructum ventris tui, nobis, post hoc exílium, osténde. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Mária. S. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Génitrix. O. Ut digni efficiámur promissiónibus Christi. S. Orémus. Deus, refúgium nostrum et virtus, pópulum ad te clamántem propítius réspice; et intercedénte gloriósa, et immaculáta Vírgine Dei Genitríce María, cum beáto Ioseph, eius Sponso, ac beatis Apóstolis tuis Petro et Paulo, et ómnibus Sanctis, quas pro conversióne peccatórum, pro libertáte et exaltatióne sanctæ Matris Ecclésiæ, preces effúndimus, miséricors et benígnus exáudi. Per eúndem Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen. O. Sancte Míchaël Archángele, defénde nos in prǽlio; contra nequítiam et insídias diáboli esto præsídium. Imperet illi Deus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, Princeps milítiæ Cæléstis, sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in mundo, divína virtúte in inférnum detrúde. Amen. S. Cor Iesu sacratíssimum. O. Miserére nobis. S. Cor Iesu sacratíssimum. O. Miserére nobis. S. Cor Iesu sacratíssimum. O. Miserére nobis.	56 Leonine Prayers P. Hail Mary, full of grace; The Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou amongst women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. A. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. P. Hail Mary, full of grace; The Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou amongst women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. A. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. P. Hail Mary, full of grace; The Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou amongst women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. A. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. A. Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us. And after this our exile, show unto us the blessed Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. P. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. O. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. P. Let us pray. O God, our refuge and our strength, look down in mercy on Thy people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of St. Joseph her Spouse, of Thy blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the Saints, in mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of our holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. A. Holy Michael Archangel, defend us in the day of battle; be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. -- May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God thrust down to hell Satan and all wicked spirits, who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen. P. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, A. Have mercy upon us. P. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, A. Have mercy upon us. P. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, A. Have mercy upon us.