SS. PHILIPPI ET IACOBI
Ad Officium lectionis:
novus
Philíppe,
summæ honóribus
vocatiónis
énitens,
cum
cive Petro príncipe
qua
mente Christum díligis!
At
ipse amóris íntima
tibi
repéndit pígnora,
tibíque
Patris dísserit
suæque
vitæ dógmata.
Nec
te minus compléctitur,
Iacóbe,
Christi cáritas,
qui
frater eius díceris
sed
et colúmna Ecclésiæ.
Almæ
Sion qui præsides
primus
gregi claríssimo,
nos
usque scriptis próvidis
verbum
salútis édoces.
O
vos, beáti, nóbili
Iesum
proféssi sánguine,
spe
nos fidéque cúrrere
date
in supérnam pátriam,
Ut,
quando mansiónibus
iam
Patris immorábimur,
simul
canámus pérpetim
in
Trinitátis glóriam. Amen.
O Philip, glittering with the honors of the
highest calling, along with your fellow citizen Peter the prince of the
Apostles, you loved Christ. Who rewarded you with most intimate pledges of love and
explained to you the truth of the relationship between his own life and the
Father. No less did the love of Christ embrace you, O James, you who were
called his brother and pillar of the Church.
You who first presided over the glorious flock of your own city,
Jerusalem, and taught from the holy scripture the word of salvation. O you apostles,
blessed and noble, who shed your blood for Jesus, grant that we may run
faithfully to our heavenly fatherland.
That, when we dwell in the
Father’s mansions, we may forever sing the glory of the Trinity. Amen.
S. MATTHIÆ
Ad Officium lectionis: novus
Matthía,
sacratíssimo
Apostolórum
cœtui
quam
miro tu consílio
ascríptus
es divínitus!
tristi
miser suspéndio
magni
gradum fastígii
Christíque
amórem dénegans.
En
Christi te diléctio
ad
eius transfert glóriam,
Petri
movénte lábia
sortésque
Sancto Spíritu.
Tanto
dicátus múneri,
lucem
revélas géntibus
ad
mortem usque, strénuus
Iesum
conféssus sánguine.
Da
nos, beáte Apóstole,
lætis
promptísque córdibus
almus
quascúmque Spíritus
vias
demónstrat, pérsequi.
Sit
Trinitáti glória,
quæ
nobis ad cæléstia
per
te concédat scándere
hymnósque
ætérnos dícere. Amen.
O Matthias, O you were divinely enrolled
in most holy band of the Apostles by their wondrous decision. One wretched disciple had gone away and had
sadly hung himself, rejecting both great honor and the love of Christ. By Christ’s love for you he raised you to
this glory, when Peter moved by Holy Spirit announced that lot had fallen on
you. A great gift was decreed that you would reveal the light to the gentiles
even at the price of death, courageously confessing Jesus with your blood.
Grant to us, O blessed Apostle, that with joyful and prompt hearts and the
prompting of the strengthening Spirit,
we may follow in the way he shows us.
To the Trinity be glory, who causes us through you to ascend the heavens
and sing eternal hymns. Amen.
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