XLVII. Nineteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer

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pp. 395–396

XLVII. Dominica decima nona post festum Trinitatis, Oratio. Ascendens Jesus in naviculam transfretavit ¹. Domine Jesu Christe, qui in Passione tua naviculam crucis ascendisti, in Resurrectione transfretasti, et in Ascensione venisti in civitatem tuam, villam pulchritudinis corporum et consolationis animarum: ecce verbum praedicationis, assiduitas orationis, eleemosyna, et frequentia confessionis; vel timor de obduratione cordis, de ira Dei, de periculo supervenientis infirmitatis, de incertitudine mortis; vel allocutio divinae inspirationis, vitatio multitudinis, exempla Sanctorum, et humilitas poenitentiae, offerunt tibi animam peccatorum morbo dissolutam, immobilem ad promerendum, insensibilem propriorum vulnerum et aliorum; jacentem in monte superbiae ut Saul, in terra cupiditatis ut Dagon, et in lecto luxuriae ut Aeneas. Respice portitorum fidem, et dic jacenti in peccatis ut confidat in terra sibi remitti peccata, surgat per confessionem, tollat lectum per satisfactionem, ambulet per profectum virtutum in domum suam, in unitatem Ecclesiae, vel aeternam beatitudinem: ut turbae fidelium videant, timeant, et glorificent Deum, qui talem potestatem dedit hominibus ad hominum utilitatem. Amen.

XLVII. Nineteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer. Jesus, going up into the little boat, crossed the sea ¹. Lord Jesus Christ, who in your Passion went up into the little boat of the cross, in the Resurrection crossed the sea, and in the Ascension came into your city, the town of the beauty of bodies and consolation of souls: behold, the word of preaching, assiduity of prayer, alms, and frequency of confession; or fear concerning hardness of heart, concerning the wrath of God, concerning the danger of an infirmity coming upon one, concerning the uncertainty of death; or the address of divine inspiration, avoidance of the crowd, examples of the Saints, and humility of penitence, offer to you the soul dissolved by the disease of sins, immovable for meriting, insensible to its own wounds and those of others, lying on the mountain of pride like Saul, on the earth of cupidity like Dagon, and on the bed of luxury like Aeneas. Look upon the faith of the bearers, and tell the one lying in sins to trust that sins are remitted to him on earth, to rise through confession, to take up the bed through satisfaction, to walk through progress of virtues into his house, into the unity of the Church, or eternal beatitude, so that the crowds of the faithful may see, fear, and glorify God, who gave such power to human beings for the usefulness of human beings. Amen.

Notes

Compare Matthew 9:1-8; Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26; John 5:1-16. (Cf. Matth. IX, 1-8. Marc. II, 1-12. Luc. V, 17-26. Joan. V, 1-16.) ↩