NONE
At
the hour of none, we remember the death of Christ, whose hymns see above all
the results of salvation. Thus, the hymn
"Ternis ter horis numerus", invites us to ask for the grace of
forgiveness which was granted to the good thief. Death is destroyed by the
death of the Savior and after the darkness that has dwarfed " all the
earth" from the sixth to the ninth hour (Lk 23:44), the light finally returns,
and we find an allusion to the resurrection of the many holy departed referred
to in Mt. 27, 52-53 (184). In the second
stanza of the hymn: "Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor", for ordinary time, we
have a daily memorial of the mystery of the ninth hour: "In her, through
the death of Christ and his descent into the underworld, the redemption of mankind has
been completed; In it, is broken, every day once again the
captivity of those who return, the unwise,
to their former slavery (185).
In the last days of Holy Week, the hymn of None endeavors to highlight the
mystery of the cross by which man is freed from the bondage to Satan and has access
to the true life (186). We also find the "cycle" of Peter in the same
way at None, since at this ninth hour devoted to prayer among the Jews, a hymn
commemorates the miracle done by St. Peter when he healed a lame man at the Gate called
Beautiful of the temple where he was going to pray (Acts 3: 1). Recalling this
important event presents it as a striking example of the power of the prayer of faith professed in the name of Jesus (187). Another concluding prayer, that of Tuesday, evokes
the prayer of the centurion Cornelius,
which was answered in a wondrous way
when Peter was sent to reveal the way of salvation. The grace requested is
precisely that we become good cooperators in the work of salvation. The prayer
of the following three days asks God to make efficacious this memory of the
Savior's death. Three particular points
of unequal importance are made. On Wednesday, we ask the Lord Jesus "who
extended his arms upon the cross to save
men ", to make the actions of the
Christians worthy of him and that they manifest to the world the work of
redemption (189). On Thursday, we ask the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that
we may imitate the patience of Jesus, while on Friday we address Christ Himself who
forgave the converted thief, to grant us like the thief to go to heaven (190). Finally,
on Saturday, we pray for the consummation of peace, after having lived for the Lord, through
the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (191). The time of none is thus
characterized more clearly than the other two little hours by the mystery of
Christ, the mystery of his blessed death and the fruits that flow from it for
us. The traditional attachment of the prayer of the Hours to the mystery of
Christ is well observed in the Liturgy
of the Hours but could be more explicit still especially in the adaptations to other
languages. It would be desirable for
small hours or median hours to be conceived as private prayers or devotion in
accordance with tradition, Lauds and Vespers
remaining the two principal moments of ecclesial prayer.
184. T. Quadrag, ad non, hymn. Ternis ter horis
numerus, str. 2; 3. Cf. : Ordin. T.P. ad non. hymn. Haec hora,
quae
resplenduit str. I, str, 2.
185. A. LOHR, II y eut un soir, it y eut un
matin, op. cit., p. 284; T.O. ad non, hymn. Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor, str. 2.
186. Fer. VI in Pass. Dom er Sabb. Sancto, ad
non. hymn. Per crucem, Christe quaesumus, str. 2; T.P. ad non. hymn.
Haec
hora, quae resplenduit, str. 3. In Exalt. S. Crucis, 14 sept. ad laud. hymn.
Signum crucis mirabile, str. 3.
187. T.O. ad non. hymn (ad lib.). Ternis horarum
terminis, str. 2 ; Fer. II T.O. I ad non., orat. conclus.
188. Fer. III T.O, I 'ad non., orat. conclus.
189. Fer. IV T.O. I ad non., orat. conclus.
190.
Fer. V T.O. I ad non., orat. conclus.; Fer. VI T.O. I ad non., orat. coriclus.;
T. Quadrag. ad non. hymn. Ternis ter
horis
numerus, str. 2'; Fer. IV T.O. I ad off. leer. hymn. (noct.) Rerum creator
optime, str. 2.
191.
Sabb. T.O. I ad non., orat. conclus.
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