XX. Sunday in the Octaves of Easter, Prayer

Latin (Borgnet)English

pp. 363–364

XX. Dominica in octavis Paschae, Oratio. Cum sero esset die illo ¹. Domine Jesu Christe, da mihi in die cognitionis sero humilitatis, integritatem unitatis, et sabbatum internae quietis: claude fores exteriores, visum contra vanitatem, auditum contra verbositatem, olfactum contra voluptatem, gustum contra edacitatem, tactum contra foeditatem et impuritatem: et fores interiores, memoriam contra oblivionem, rationem contra errorem, voluntatem contra invidiam, affectionem et intentionem rectam contra pravitatem, utilitatem contra humanum favorem propter metum daemonum: ut discipuli, virtutes congregentur in unum: veni, ut visites: sta, ut corrobores: dic, ut erudias. O summum gaudium, veni ut consoleris pusillanimes. O summa virtus, sta ut sustentes debiles et infirmos. O summa sapientia, dic ut erudias erroneos et imperitos. Ostende nobis manus, invitans nos ad operationem bonorum, latus ad patientiam malorum. Gaudeant discipuli tui viso te Domino, et congaudeant resurgenti proximo. Sicut misit te Pater, mitte nos in sapientia et bonitate. Sicut inspirasti nobis vitam naturalem, infla et spiritualem. Antequam exerceamus potestatem remissionis peccatorum, appareat in opere manuum nostrarum fixura clavorum, dolor de damno peccati, pudor de turpitudine, timor de poena, poenitentia in gustu et habitu, et elongatio ab omni occasione et opportunitate peccandi: ut proximus mittens manus in vulnus lateris, imitetur in nobis affectum compassionis. Amen.

XX. Sunday in the Octaves of Easter, Prayer. When it was evening on that day ¹. Lord Jesus Christ, give me in the day of knowledge the evening of humility, the integrity of unity, and the sabbath of inward rest. Close the exterior doors: sight against vanity, hearing against verbosity, smell against pleasure, taste against greediness, touch against foulness and impurity; and the interior doors: memory against forgetfulness, reason against error, will against envy, affection and right intention against depravity, utility against human favor because of fear of demons, so that the disciples, the virtues, may be gathered into one. Come, that you may visit; stand, that you may strengthen; speak, that you may instruct. O highest joy, come that you may console the faint-hearted. O highest virtue, stand that you may sustain the weak and infirm. O highest wisdom, speak that you may instruct the erroneous and unskilled. Show us your hands, inviting us to the working of good things, and your side, inviting us to the patience of evil things. Let your disciples rejoice when you, the Lord, have been seen, and let them rejoice together with the neighbor who rises again. As the Father sent you, send us in wisdom and goodness. As you breathed natural life into us, breathe also spiritual life. Before we exercise the power of remission of sins, let there appear in the work of our hands the fastening of the nails, sorrow over the harm of sin, shame over baseness, fear of punishment, penitence in taste and habit, and removal from every occasion and opportunity of sinning, so that the neighbor, putting his hands into the wound of the side, may imitate in us the affection of compassion. Amen.

Notes

Compare John 20:19-25; Luke 24:36-43; Mark 16:14. (Cf. Joan. XX, 19-25. Luc. XXIV, 36-43. Marc. XVI, 14.) ↩