CHRISTMASTIDE Vespers · Illuc enim ascendérunt tribus, tribus Dómini: * testimónium Israël ad...

CHRISTMASTIDE

Vespers

from the

Little Office

PRAYER BEFORE THE DIVINE OFFICE

Open my lips, O Lord, to praise Your holy Name.

Cleanse my heart of any vain, evil, or distracting

thoughts. Give light to my mind and fervor to my will;

enable me to recite this Office worthily, attentively and

devoutly, so that my prayer will be heard in the

presence of Thy divine Majesty. Through Christ our

Lord. Amen.

Lord, I offer You this Hour with the same divine

intention You had while on earth offering praises to

God.

Pater noster. Ave Maria.

– INCIPIT –

O God, ✠ come to my as-si-stance.

R. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Ho- ly Spi-rit.

R. As it was in the beginning, is now and will be

For-e-ver. Amen. Al le-lu ia.

– PSALMODY –

Ps. 109

Di-xit| Dóminus Dómino meo: * Sede a dextris meis: {SIT}

Donec ponam inimícos tuos, * scabéllum pedum tuórum. {ALL}

Virgam virtútis tuæ emíttet Dóminus ex Sion: * {CANTOR}

domináre in médio inimicórum tuórum. {ALL, etc.}

Tecum princípium in die virtútis tuæ in splendóribus sanctórum: *

ex útero ante lucíferum génu-i te.

Jurávit Dóminus, et non pœnitébit eum: *

Tu es sacérdos in ætérnum secúndum órdinem Melchísedech.

Dóminus a dextris tuis, * confrégit in die iræ suæ reges.

Judicábit in natiónibus, implébit ruínas: *

conquassábit cápita in terra multórum.

De torrénte in via bibet: * {STAND}

proptérea exaltábit caput. {BOW}

Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, *

et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen. {ANTIPHON}

marvelous exchange! Man’s Creator has

become man, born of a virgin. We have

been made sharers in the divinity of Christ Who

humbled Himself to share in our humanity.

The LORD’s| revelation to my lord: * “Sit at My right hand:{SIT}

Until I make * Your foes Your footstool.” {ALL}

The LORD will send from Sion Your scepter of power: *{CANTOR}

rule in the midst of Your foes.

With You is princely rule * on the day of Your power. {ALL, etc.}

In holy splendor, from the womb before the dawn *

I have begotten You.

The LORD has sworn an oath He will not change: *

“You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.”

The LORD, standing at Your right, *

shatters kings in the day of His wrath.

He brings a judgment among the nations, *

and heaps the bodies high;

He shatters heads * throughout the wide earth.

He shall drink from the stream by the wayside, * {STAND}

and therefore He shall lift up His head. {BOW}

Glory to the Father and to the Son * and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning is now *

and will be forever. Amen. {ANTIPHON}

O

Ps. 112

Laudá|te, púeri, Dóminum: * laudáte nomen Dómini. {SIT, etc}

Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum, *

ex hoc nunc, et usque in sǽculum.

A solis ortu usque ad occásum, * laudábile nomen Dómini.

Excélsus super omnes gentes Dóminus, *

et super cælos glória ejus.

Quis sicut Dóminus, Deus noster, qui in altis hábitat, *

et humília réspicit in cælo et in terra?

Súscitans a terra ínopem, * et de stércore érigens páuperem:

Ut cóllocet eum cum princípibus, * cum princípibus pópuli sui.

Qui habitáre facit stérilem in domo, * matrem filiórum lætántem.



et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

y Your miraculous birth of the

Virgin You have fulfilled the

Scriptures: like a gentle rain falling upon

the earth You have come down to save

Your people. O God, we praise You.

Praise, O| servants of the LORD,* praise the Name of the LORD! {SIT}

May the Name of the LORD be blest * both now and forevermore!

From the rising of the sun to its setting, *

praised be the Name of the LORD!

High above all nations is the LORD, * above the heavens His glory.

Who is like the LORD, our God, * who dwells on high,

Who lowers Himself to look down * upon heaven and earth?

From the dust He lifts up the lowly, *

from the ash heap He raises the poor,

To set them in the company of princes, *

yes, with the princes of His people.

To the childless wife He gives a home *

as a joyful mother of children.


As it was in the beginning is now * and will be forever. Amen.

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Ps. 121

Lætá|tus sum in his, quæ dicta sunt mihi: * In domum Dómini íbimus.

Stantes erant pedes nostri, * in átriis tuis, Jerúsalem.

Jerúsalem, quæ ædificátur ut cívitas: *

cujus participátio ejus in idípsum.

Illuc enim ascendérunt tribus, tribus Dómini: *

testimónium Israël ad confiténdum nómini Dómini.

Quia illic sedérunt sedes in judício, * sedes super domum David.

Rogáte quæ ad pacem sunt Jerúsalem: *

et abundántia diligéntibus te:

Fiat pax in virtúte tua: * et abundántia in túrribus tuis.

Propter fratres meos, et próximos meos, * loquébar pacem de te:

Propter domum Dómini, Dei nostri, * quæsívi bona tibi.




our blessed and fruitful

virginity is like the bush,

flaming yet unburned, which Moses

saw on Sinai. Pray for us, Mother

of God.

I re|joiced when they said to me, * “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

And now our feet are standing * within your gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built as a city * bonded as one together.

It is there that the tribes go up, * the tribes of the LORD.

For Israel’s witness it is * to praise the Name of the LORD.

There were set the thrones for judgment, *

the thrones of the house of David.

For the peace of Jerusalem pray, *

“May they prosper, those who love you.”

May peace abide in your walls, * and security be in your towers.

For the sake of my family and friends, *

let me say, “Peace upon you.”

For the sake of the house of the LORD, our God, *

I will seek good things for you.



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Ps. 126

Nisi| Dóminus ædificáverit domum, *

in vanum laboravérunt qui ædí-ficant eam.

Nisi Dóminus custodíerit civitátem, *

frustra vígilat qui custódit eam.

Vanum est vobis ante lucem súrgere: *

súrgite postquam sedéritis, qui manducátis panem dolóris.

Cum déderit diléctis suis somnum: *

ecce heréditas Dómini fílii : merces, fructus ventris.

Sicut sagíttæ in manu poténtis: * ita fílii excussórum.

Beátus vir qui implévit desidérium suum ex ipsis: *

non confundétur cum loquétur inimícis suis in porta.




he Virgin has given birth to the

Savior: a flower has sprung from

Jesse’s stock and a star has risen

from Jacob. O God, we praise You.

If the| LORD does not build the house, * in vain do its builders labor;

If the LORD does not guard the city, *

in vain does the guard keep watch.

In vain is your earlier rising, * your going later to rest,

You who toil for the bread you eat, *

when He pours gifts on His beloved while they slumber.

Yes, children are a gift from the LORD, *

a blessing, the Fruit of the womb.

Indeed, the sons of youth *

are like arrows in the hand of a warrior.

Blessed is the warrior *

who has filled his quiver with these arrows!

He will have no cause for shame, *

when he disputes with his foes in the gateways.



Ps. 147

Lauda,| Jerúsalem, Dóminum: * lauda Deum tuum, Sion.

Quóniam confortávit seras portárum tuárum: *

benedíxit fíliis tuis in te.

Qui pósuit fines tuos pacem: * et ádipe fruménti sáti-at te.

Qui emíttit elóquium suum terræ : * velóciter currit sermo ejus.

Qui dat nivem sicut lanam: * nébulam sicut cínerem spargit.

Mittit crystállum suam sicut buccéllas: *

ante fáciem frígoris ejus quis sustinébit?

Emíttet verbum suum, et liquefáciet ea: *

flabit spíritus ejus, et fluent aquæ.

Qui annúntiat verbum suum Jacob: * justítias, et judícia sua Israël.

Non fecit táliter omni natióni: * et judícia sua non manifestávit eis.




ary has given birth to our

Savior. John the Baptist saw

Him and cried out: This is the

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins

of the world, alleluia.

O Je|rusalem, glorify the LORD! * O Sion, praise your God!

He has strengthened the bars of your gates; *

He has blessed your children within you.

He established peace on your borders; *

He gives you your fill of finest wheat.

He sends out His word to the earth, *

and swiftly runs His command.

He showers down snow like wool; * He scatters hoarfrost like ashes.

He hurls down hailstones like crumbs; *

before such cold, who can stand?

He sends forth His word and it melts them; *

at the blowing of His breath the waters flow.

He reveals His word to Jacob; * to Israel, His decrees and judgments.

He has not dealt thus with other nations; *

He has not taught them His judgments.



B inítio et

ante sǽcula

creáta sum, et usque ad

futúrum sǽculum non

désinam, et in habitatióne

coram ipso ministrávi.

R. Deo grátias.

Before all ages,

from the beginning,

He created me, and

through all ages I shall not

cease to be. In the holy tent

I ministered before Him.

R. Thanks be to God.

{FIRST VERSE IS SUNG GENUFLECTING}

2. Sumens illud «Ave»

Gabrielis ore,

funda nos in pace,

mutans Evæ nomen.

3. Solve vincla reis,

profer lumen cæcis,

mala nostra pelle,

bona cuncta posce.

4. Monstra te esse matrem,

sumat per te precem

qui pro nobis natus

tulit esse tuus.

5. Virgo singularis,

inter omnes mitis,

nos culpis solutos

mites fac et castos.

6. Vitam præsta puram,

iter para tutum,

ut videntes Jesum

semper collætemur.

7. Sit laus Deo Patri,

summo Christo decus,

Spiritui Sancto

tribus honor unus.

Amen.

{STAND}

{BOW}

V. Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis.

R. Proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum.

Et ex|sultávit spíritus meus * in Deo salutári meo.

Quia| respéxit humilitátem ancíllæ suæ: * {REMAIN STANDING}

ecce enim ex hoc beátam me dicent omnes generatiónes.

Quia| fecit mihi magna qui potens est: * et sanctum nomen ejus.

Lk 1:46-55

Et mi|sericórdia ejus a progénie in progénies * timéntibus eum.

Fecit| poténtiam in bráchio suo: *

dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui.

Depó|suit poténtes de sede, * et exaltávit húmiles.

Esu|riéntes implévit bonis: * et dívites dimísit inánes.

Suscé|pit Israël púerum suum, * recordátus misericórdiæ suæ.

Sicut| locútus est ad patres nostros, *

Abraham et sémini ejus in sǽcula.

Glóri|a Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut| erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, *


eirs are we of a great mystery: the womb that

never knew man is made the temple of God:

He Who takes flesh from her is not defiled: all the

nations shall gather, saying: Glory to You, O Lord.

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– ORATION & CONCLUSION –

V. Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.

R. Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

V. Orémus

Deus, qui salútis ætérnæ,

beátæ Maríæ virginitáte

fœcúnda, humáno géneri

præmia præstitísti: tríbue,

quæsumus; ut ipsam pro

nobis intercédere sentiámus,

per quam merúimus auctórem

vitæ suscípere, Dóminum

nostrum Jesum Christum

Fílium tuum:

Qui tecum vivit et regnat in

unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus

per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

O God, Who through the

fruitful virginity of Blessed

Mary bestowed on the human

race the grace of eternal

salvation, grant, we pray, that

we may experience the

intercession of her, through

whom we were found worthy

to receive the Author of life,

our Lord Jesus Christ Your Son.

Who lives and reigns with

You in the unity of the Holy

Spirit, one God, for ever and

ever.

R. Amen.

V. Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.

R. Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

V. Fidélium ✠ ánimæ per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace.

R. Amen.

PRAYER AFTER THE DIVINE OFFICE

Let every creature give unending praise, honor, power

and glory throughout all eternity to the Most Holy and

Undivided Trinity, the crucified humanity of our Lord

Jesus Christ, the chaste Motherhood of Mary, the ever

glorious and blessed Virgin, and to the entire assembly of

Saints, and may we be granted the forgiveness of our sins.

V. Blessed is the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary which

bore the Son of the eternal Father.

R. And blessed are the breasts which nursed Christ our Lord.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Antiphons and Ave Maris Stella and Alma Redemptoris Mater hymns

from the Liber Usualis, Solesmes ❖ English Psalm texts from the

Revised Grail Psalter ❖ English Psalm Antiphon texts from the

International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) ❖

Graphics made available by ClipArtETC of the University of South

Florida ❖ Booklets prepared by Thu Mai of the Northern Virginia

Divine Office Society, 2020, nvdos.org ❖ May God bless you.

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