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.
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 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.
Ad Laudes
matutinas: Paulus Diaconus
O nimis felix meritíque celsi,
nésciens labem nívei pudóris,
præpotens martyr eremíque cultor,
máxime
vatum.
Nunc potens nostri méritis opímis
péctoris duros lápides repélle,
ásperum planans iter, et refléxos
dírige
calles,
Ut pius mundi sator et redémptor,
méntibus pulsa mácula polítis,
rite dignétur véniens sacrátos
pónere
gressus.
Láudibus cives célebrant supérni
te, Deus simplex paritérque trine;
súpplices ac nos véniam precámur:
parce
redémptis. Amen.
O mighty martyr, cultivator of solitude, greatest
of the prophets, exceedingly blessed and worthy of heaven, knowing no fall from
your snow-white purity. Now powerful in your great merits, drive away the hard
stones of our hearts, making its way smooth and its crooked paths
straight. That when the holy Creator and
Redeemer of the world comes, in souls polished and with stains removed, he
might make his holy way rightly and worthily.
May the citizens of heaven praise you, God simple and equally three; but
we humbly pray pardon: spare the redeemed. Amen
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