XXXIII. Fifth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer

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XXXIII. Dominica quinta post festum Trinitatis, Oratio. Cum turbae irruerent ¹. Domine Jesu Christe, fac me per aviditatem irruere ad audiendum verbum Dei, irruentes non expellere, stare secus stagnum non in stagno inanis gloriae, naviculam obedientiae ascendere, per humilitatem descendere, retia praedicationis desiderii et bonae operationis ab omni avaritia, vana gloria, et adulatione lavare, per concordiam sententiarum reficere, per manifestationem exsiccare, per cautelam non per desidiam plicare, per scissionem non rumpere, navem religionis a terrenis reducere, in ea quiescendo sedere, alios per exemplum docere, contemplationem et actionem alternare, in profundum contemplationis praedicationis religionis ducere, in verbo tuae inspirationis, non in nocte culpae vel ignorantiae retia in capturam vivorum operum laxare, in aquis tribulationum copiosam multitudinem internarum visitationum et consolationum concludere: ita ut anima per admirationem extendatur, et subsidia proximorum et inferiorum requirat; ambas naves patientiae et obedientiae adimpleant, per humilitatem ad genua Jesu procidant: ut ex hoc subductis ad terram viventium navibus, praemia capiant aeterna. Amen.

XXXIII. Fifth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer. When the crowds were pressing upon him ¹. Lord Jesus Christ, make me through eagerness press on to hearing the word of God, not drive away those pressing on, stand beside the lake, not in the lake of empty glory, climb into the little boat of obedience, descend through humility, wash the nets of preaching, of desire, and of good operation from every avarice, empty glory, and flattery, repair them through concord of opinions, dry them through manifestation, fold them through caution, not through sloth, not break them through tearing, bring back the ship of religion from earthly things, sit in it by resting, teach others through example, alternate contemplation and action, lead into the deep of contemplation, preaching, and religion, at the word of your inspiration, not in the night of fault or ignorance, let down the nets for a catch of living works, and enclose in the waters of tribulations an abundant multitude of inward visitations and consolations, so that the soul may be stretched through admiration and may seek the aids of neighbors and inferiors; let both ships of patience and obedience be filled, and through humility let them fall down at the knees of Jesus, so that from this, with the ships drawn up onto the land of the living, they may receive eternal rewards. Amen.

Notes

Compare Luke 5:1-11; Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20. (Cf. Luc. V, 1-11. Matth. IV, 18-22. Marc. I, 16-20.) ↩