Lent: Saturday & Sunday: Vespers:
Generally appointed for Vespers, sometimes Lauds, even in one case for Terce (Walpole).
Audi, benígne Cónditor,
nostras preces cum flétibus, (1)
sacráta in abstinéntia
fusas quadragenária.
Scrutátor alme córdium, (2) God searches hearts.
infírma tu scis vírium; (3)
ad te revérsis éxhibe
remissiónis grátiam.
Multum quidem peccávimus,
sed parce confiténtibus,
tuíque laude nóminis (4)
confer medélam lánguidis.
Sic corpus extra cónteri (5)
dona per abstinéntiam,
ieiúnet ut mens sóbria (Contrast of body and mind)
a labe prorsus críminum.
Præsta, beáta Trínitas,
concéde, simplex Unitas,
ut fructuósa sint tuis
hæc parcitátis múnera. Amen.
O Kind Creator, hear our prayers mixed with tears poured out in this holy forty-day fast. O sustaining Searcher of hearts, you know the weakness of our strength; show to us who have turned back to you the remission of our sins. Indeed we have sinned much but spare those who confess their sins; to the praise of your name grant healing to the sick. Grant that our bodies may be outwardly broken through abstinence that a temperate mind may fast from falling headlong into sin. Grant, O Blessed Trinity, give, O simple Unity, to those who are yours the fruitful rewards of fasting. Amen.
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