XLII. Fourteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer

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XLII. Dominica decima quarta post festum Trinitatis, Oratio. Cum iret Jesus in Jerusalem, transibat per mediam Samariam ¹. Domine Jesu Christe, per medium contemplationis et operationis, vel per occulte et manifeste malos, perduc nos ad visionem pacis tuae, internae et aeternae: ingredere ad castellum animae nostrae, ubi diversorum peccatorum maculis leprosi affectus occurrant tibi per conatum liberi arbitrii: stant per imbecillitatem proficiendi, a longe per culpae gravitatem, clamant per attritionem: Jesu praeceptor cui peccavimus, miserere nostri. Respice misericorditer in nos, ut euntes ad confessionem mundemur per contritionem: ut animus ex remotione duplicitatis hypocrisis, cupiditatis, et inconstantiae, per uniformitatem et charitatem unus videns se mundatum, redeat ad te cum magna devotione, cadens in faciem tuae imaginis, quam deformaverat ante pedes passionis misericordiae et veritatis tuae; et se de caetero custodiat per conversionis facilitatem, compassionis pietatem, et gratificationis humilitatem. Amen.

XLII. Fourteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer. When Jesus was going to Jerusalem, he was passing through the midst of Samaria ¹. Lord Jesus Christ, through the middle of contemplation and operation, or through those secretly and manifestly evil, lead us through to the vision of your peace, inward and eternal. Enter into the castle of our soul, where leprous affections with the stains of diverse sins may meet you through the effort of free choice: they stand through weakness in advancing, from afar through the gravity of fault, and cry through attrition: Jesus, teacher against whom we have sinned, have mercy on us. Look mercifully upon us, so that as we go to confession we may be cleansed through contrition; so that the soul, from removal of the duplicity of hypocrisy, cupidity, and inconstancy, one through uniformity and charity, seeing itself cleansed, may return to you with great devotion, falling upon the face of your image, which it had deformed, before the feet of the passion of your mercy and truth; and for the rest may guard itself through readiness of conversion, devotedness of compassion, and humility of thanksgiving. Amen.

Notes

Compare Luke 17:11-19; Matthew 8:16; Mark 1:32-34. (Cf. Luc. XVII, 11-19. Matth. VIII, 16. Marc. I, 32-34.) ↩