XIV. Second Sunday in Lent, Prayer

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XIV. Dominica secunda in Quadragesima, Oratio. Egressus Jesus secessit in partes Tyri et Sidonis ¹. Domine Jesu Christe, fili David, miserere mei: quia sensualitas filia rationis meae a daemonio prudentiae voluptatis, cupiditatis, et curiositatis, male vexatur. Et licet non sis missus ad exercitia tollenda, sed potius ad oves, mundas scilicet cogitationes, et puras affectiones domus Israel fidelis animae Deum contemplantis, quae per suggestionem diabolicam perierunt recuperandas: dimitte tamen eam, quia impedit et clamat post discipulos tuos, scilicet virtutes, dicens: Adjuva me. Et quamvis non sit bonum panem sumere filiorum, scilicet vexationem, tentationem, correptionem, et tribulationem: et mittere canibus, scilicet voluptuosis, luxuriosis, et impatientibus, qui latrant murmurantes pro tribulatione, et mordent lapides, voluptatis scilicet, quos panes putant: dona mihi, Domine, cum catello humili peccatori avide et gratanter sumere pro modulo possibilitatis meae de micis tribulationum quae cadent de mensa passionis dominorum meorum, Sanctorum tuorum, ut filia mea a daemonio fomitis liberetur. Amen.

XIV. Second Sunday in Lent, Prayer. Jesus went out and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon ¹. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of David, have mercy on me, because sensuality, the daughter of my reason, is badly vexed by the demon of the prudence of pleasure, cupidity, and curiosity. And although you were not sent for taking away exercises, but rather for recovering the sheep, namely the clean thoughts and pure affections of the house of Israel, of the faithful soul contemplating God, which perished through diabolical suggestion, nevertheless dismiss her, because she impedes and cries after your disciples, namely the virtues, saying: Help me. And although it is not good to take the bread of the children, namely vexation, temptation, correction, and tribulation, and to cast it to dogs, namely to the pleasure-seeking, lustful, and impatient, who bark by murmuring because of tribulation and bite stones, namely stones of pleasure, which they think are breads: grant me, Lord, with the humble little dog, a sinner, eagerly and gratefully to take, according to the measure of my possibility, from the crumbs of tribulations that fall from the table of the passion of my lords, your Saints, so that my daughter may be freed from the demon of the tinder. Amen.

Notes

Compare Matthew 15:21-28; Mark 7:24-30. (Cf. Matth. XV, 21-28. Marc. VII, 24-30.) ↩