Ad Officium lectionis
& Ad Vesperas: Beda Venerabilis
Præcéssor
almus grátiæ
et
veritátis ángelus,
lucérna
Christi et pérpetis
evangelísta
lúminis,
Prophetíæ
præcónia,
quæ
voce, vita et áctibus
cantáverat,
hæc ástruit
mortis
sacræ signáculo.
Nam
nascitúrum sæculis,
nascéndo
quem prævénerat,
sed
et datórem próprii
monstráverat
baptísmatis,
Huiúsce
mortem innóxiam,
qua
vita mundo est réddita,
signat
sui præságio
baptísta
martyr sánguinis.
Præsta,
Pater piíssime,
sequi
Ioánnis sémitas,
metámus
ut pleníssime
ætérna
Christi múnera. Amen.
The loving forerunner of grace and angel of truth,
lamp of Christ and preacher of perpetual light, the proclamation of prophecy,
which he sang in voice, life and deeds, he confirmed by the sign of a holy
death. For he who was to be born to the world John preceded in birth and also
revealed as the giver of his own
baptism. The martyr Baptist by his blood
prefigures the innocent death by which
life is restored to the world. Grant us , O Father most holy, to follow the
path of John, that we may reap fully the eternal gifts of Christ. Amen.
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