I. First Sunday in the Advent of the Lord, Prayer

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I. Dominica prima in Adventu Domini, Oratio. Et cum appropinquassent Jerosolymis.... ¹ Domine Jesu Christe, qui pro nobis venisti in carnem per unionem divinae naturae ad humanam: veni in mentem nostram per gratiae infusionem, ut appropinquemus visioni tuae pacis ad nos, ad Praelatos et proximos, per confessionis puritatem, obedientiae humilitatem, et misericordiae sublimitatem. Mitte ibi duos discipulos, ordinatum timorem et amorem, in castellum animae nostrae, quae per turrim elationis, per murum obdurationis, et per seram pertinaciae contra te est. Qui non curant fatuum cogitatum contradicentem, solvent asinam, humilem simplicitatem: et pullum agilem, libertatem, a vinculis pravi pudoris et timoris, vel consuetudinem et contemptum a quolibet peccato mortali: et ad te ducentes tibi soli placere appetant: vestimenta imponant per detestationem contrarii et aemulationem majoris profectus, et per summae salutis desiderium te supersedere faciant. Plurima autem turba internarum cogitationum vestimenta bonorum operum per humilitatem sternant in via. Caedant ramos de arboribus, exempla Sanctorum ad imitandum sibi proponentes: ut in omnibus nostris internis et externis, tam de naturalibus quae praecedunt quam de gratuitis quae sequentur: O fili David nos salvificans a nobis benedicaris in excelsis. Amen.

I. First Sunday in the Advent of the Lord, Prayer. And when they had drawn near to Jerusalem.... ¹ Lord Jesus Christ, who for us came into flesh through the union of the divine nature to the human: come into our mind through the infusion of grace, so that we may draw near to the vision of your peace, to us, to prelates, and to neighbors, through purity of confession, humility of obedience, and loftiness of mercy. Send there two disciples, ordered fear and love, into the little castle of our soul, which through the tower of elation, through the wall of hardening, and through the bolt of obstinacy is against you. They, who do not attend to a foolish contradicting thought, shall loose the she-ass, humble simplicity, and the agile colt, liberty, from the bonds of perverse shame and fear, or custom and contempt from any mortal sin; and leading them to you, may they desire to please you alone; may they put on garments through detestation of the contrary and emulation of greater progress, and through desire of the highest salvation may they make you sit upon them. But let the very great crowd of internal thoughts spread the garments of good works in the way through humility. Let them cut branches from trees, setting before themselves examples of the Saints for imitation, so that in all our internal and external things, both concerning the natural things that precede and concerning the gratuitous things that will follow, O Son of David, saving us, you may be blessed by us in the heights. Amen.

Notes

Compare Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19; Zechariah 9:9. (Cf. Matth. XXI, 1-11. Marc. XI, 1-11. Luc. XIX, 29-44. Joan. XII, 12-19. Zach. IX, 9.) ↩