SACRATISSIMI CORDIS IESU

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

SACRATISSIMI CORDIS IESU

Ad I & II Vesperas: Philippus Bruni

Auctor beáte sæculi,

Christe, Redémptor ómnium,

lumen Patris de lúmine

Deúsque verus de Deo:

Amor coégit te tuus

mortále corpus súmere,

ut, novus Adam, rédderes

quod vetus ille abstúlerat:

Ille amor, almus ártifex

terræ marísque et síderum,

erráta patrum míserans

et nostra rumpens víncula.

Non corde discédat tuo

vis illa amóris íncliti:

hoc fonte gentes háuriant

remissiónis grátiam.

Ad hoc acérbam lánceam

passúmque ad hoc est vúlnera,

ut nos laváret sórdibus

unda fluénte et sánguine.

Iesu, tibi sit glória,

qui corde fundis grátiam,

cum Patre et almo Spíritu

in sempitérna sæcula. Amen.

Blessed creator of the world,  O Christ, redeemer of all, light from the light of the Father, and true God from God.  Your love compelled you to take a mortal body that you as the new Adam might restore what the old Adam took away.  That love, O generous maker of the earth and the seas and stars,  caused you to have mercy  on the errors of our fathers and to break our chains.  May the power of that glorious love never depart fron your heart; may the nations drink form that from that fountain the grace of the remission of sins. For this you suffered the sharp lance and for this the wounding that it might cleanse us from our sins by the flow of water and blood. To you, O Jesus, be glory, who poured from your heart grace, with the Father and strengthening Spirit, in eternal ages. Amen.

Ad Officium lectionis: Philippus Bruni

Cor, arca legem cóntinens

non servitútis véteris,

sed grátiæ, sed véniæ,

sed et misericórdiæ;

Cor, sanctuárium novi

intemerátum fœderis,

templum vetústo sánctius

velúmque scisso utílius:

Te vulnerátum cáritas

ictu paténti vóluit,

amóris invisíbilis

ut venerémur vúlnera.

Hoc sub amóris sýmbolo

passus cruénta et mýstica,

utrúmque sacrifícium

Christus sacérdos óbtulit.

Quis non amántem rédamet?

quis non redémptus díligat

et caritáte iúgiter

hærére Christo géstiat?

Iesu, tibi sit glória,

qui corde fundis grátiam,

cum Patre et almo Spíritu,

in sempitérna sæcula. Amen.

Your heart contains the law, not the of law of slavery, but the law of grace, of pardon and of mercy.  Your heart is the pure sanctuary of the new covenant, a holier temple than the old one, a veil more profitable than the one that was torn. Love desired that you be wounded with a blow that opens you, invisible love that we might worship your wounds. Under this symbol of love, Christ suffered cruelly and mystically, as a priest he offered a twofold sacrifice. Who would not respond in love of one who loves this way? Who redeemed would not love and in love cleave always to Christ?  O Jesus, to you be glory, who from your heart poured out grace, with the Father and strengthening Spirit, in eternal ages. Amen.

Ad Laudes matutinas: Bernardus claravallensis?

Iesu, auctor cleméntiæ,

totíus spes lætítiæ,

dulcóris fons et grátiæ,

veræ cordis delíciæ:

Iesu, spes pæniténtibus,

quam pius es peténtibus,

quam bonus te quæréntibus;

sed quid inveniéntibus?

Tua, Iesu, diléctio,

grata mentis reféctio,

replet sine fastídio,

dans famem desidério.

O Iesu dilectíssime,

spes suspirántis ánimæ,

te quærunt piæ lácrimæ,

te clamor mentis íntimæ.

Mane nobíscum, Dómine,

Mane novum cum lúmine,

pulsa noctis calígine

mundum replens dulcédine.

Iesu, summa benígnitas,

mira cordis iucúnditas,

incomprehénsa bónitas,

tua nos stringit cáritas.

Iesu, flos Matris vírginis,

amor nostræ dulcédinis,

laus tibi sine términis,

regnum beatitúdinis. Amen.

 O Jesus, author of mercy, the hope of complete joy and source of sweet grace and the true delight of the heart. O Jesus, hope of the penitent, how loving to those who ask you in prayer, how good to those who seek you; but what do they find? Your love, O Jesus, pleasing refreshment of the soul, he fills without weariness, satisfying our hunger with desire. O most loving Jesus, hope of those who aspire for you, holy tears seek you, cry to you from deep inside the soul. Abide with us, O Lord, in the morning with the new light, drive away the darkness of night, filling the world with your sweetness.  O Jesus, highest kindness, wondrous joy of the heart, limitless goodness, your love urges us on. O Jesus, flower of the virgin Mother, love of our sweetness, praise to you without end in the kingdom blessed. Amen.

Tuesday: Weeks I & III

 

Lauds: novus

   

Pergráta mundo núntiat

auróra solis spícula,

res et colóre véstiens

iam cuncta dat nitéscere.

Qui sol per ævum prænites,

o Christe, nobis vívidus,

ad te canéntes vértimur,

te gestiéntes pérfrui.

Tu Patris es sciéntia

Verbúmque per quod ómnia

miro refúlgent órdine

mentésque nostras áttrahunt.

Da lucis ut nos fílii

sic ambulémus ímpigri,

ut Patris usque grátiam

mores et actus éxprimant.

Sincéra præsta ut prófluant

ex ore nostro iúgiter,

et veritátis dúlcibus

ut excitémur gáudiis.

The grateful dawn announces to the world the rays of the sun, and vesting things with color, makes all things to shine. O Christ, living for us, the sun shining through the ages, we turn to you singing and anxious to enjoy you. You are the knowledge of the Father and the Word through which all things glow in a wondrous order and attract our minds. Grant that we be sons of light, walking diligently, that our morals and acts may continually express the grace of the Father. Grant that sincerity may ever flow from our mouth and that we be inspired by the sweet joys of the truth.

When the Office of Readings is read in the daytime: 9^th-10^th Centuries

O sacrosáncta Trínitas,

quæ cuncta condens órdinas,

diem labóri députans

noctem quiéti dédicas,

Te mane, simul véspere,

te nocte ac die cánimus;

in tua nos tu glória

per cuncta serva témpora.

Nos ádsumus te cérnui

en adorántes fámuli;

vota precésque súpplicum

hymnis adiúnge cælitum.

O Holy Trinity, who creates and orders all things, establishing the day for work, giving the night for rest. Morning and evening, we sing to you night and day, preserve us in your glory at all times. We come to you on our knees, behold your adoring servants, join our intentions and prayers to the hymns of heaven.

Vespers: St. Gregory the Great?  

Tellúris ingens cónditor,

mundi solum qui éruens,

pulsis aquæ moléstiis,

terram dedísti immóbilem,

Ut germen aptum próferens,

fulvis decóra flóribus,

fecúnda fructu sísteret

pastúmque gratum rédderet:

Mentis perústæ vúlnera

munda viróre grátiæ,

ut facta fletu díluat

motúsque pravos átterat,

Iussis tuis obtémperet,

nullis malis appróximet,

bonis repléri gáudeat

et mortis actum nésciat.

O great creator of the earth, delivering the soil of the world, driving back the danger of the waters, you made the land secure. That bearing the appropriate seed, with beautiful golden flowers, it might be fertile with fruit, and render pleasing food. Cleanse the wounds of our dried out minds with the vigor of grace that it may purge our deeds with weeping and put a stop to disordered habits. At your command may our minds obey, draw near to no evil, rejoice to be filled with good, and know no eternal death.

Monday: Weeks 1 & 3:

Lauds: St. Ambrose

“It will be asked: ‘In what sort was the Son begotten?’ As one who is forever, as the Word, as the brightness of eternal light, (Hebrews 1:3)  for brightness takes effect in the instant of its coming into existence.” Ambrose de Fid. 1:79

Splendor patérnæ glóriæ, (1)

de luce lucem próferens, (2)

lux lucis et fons lúminis,

diem dies illúminans,

Verúsque sol, illábere

micans nitóre pérpeti,

iubárque Sancti Spíritus

infúnde nostris sénsibus.

Votis vocémus et Patrem,

Patrem perénnis glóriæ,

Patrem poténtis grátiæ,

culpam reléget lúbricam.

Infórmet actus strénuos,

dentem retúndat ínvidi,

casus secúndet ásperos,

donet geréndi grátiam.

Mentem gubérnet et regat

casto, fidéli córpore;

fides calóre férveat,

fraudis venéna nésciat. (3)

Christúsque nobis sit cibus,

potúsque noster sit fides; (4)

læti bibámus sóbriam

ebrietátem Spíritus.

Lætus dies hic tránseat;

pudor sit ut dilúculum, (50

fides velut merídies,

crepúsculum mens nésciat.

Auróra cursus próvehit;

Auróra totus pródeat,

in Patre totus Fílius

et totus in Verbo Pater. Amen.

1)      Heb. 1:3: the brightness of God’s glory;

2)     Nicene Creed: Lumen de lumine; 

3)     the Arian heresy; 

4)     Eucharistic reference;

5)     Faith as pure or modest as the dawn;

Hope as the heat of noon; mind know no darkness.

6)     Totus = dawn, totus = the Son, totus = the Father. 

Radiance of the Father’s glory, bring forth light from light, Light of light and Source of light, Day illuminating day. And true Sun descend upon us, glittering with perpetual glow, ray of the Holy Spirit, pour out upon our thoughts. In prayer we call upon the Father, the Father of endless glory, the Father of powerful glory, take away our devious sin.  Shape our manly deeds, blunt the teeth of the envious one, turn to good our difficulties, grant us the gift to act. May he direct and rule our minds, our bodies keep chaste and faithful, may faith burn bright, and know no venomous deceit. May Christ be our food, faith our drink; let us joyfully drink the Spirit’s sober drunkenness. May this day pass happily; our modesty like dawn, faith enkindled as noonday, the mind ignorant of nightfall.  Dawn in its course advances, may full dawn come: the Son wholly in the Father, the Father wholly in his Word. Amen.

When the Office of Readings is said in the daytime: 18^th Century

Ætérna lux, divínitas,

in unitáte Trínitas,

te confitémur débiles,

te deprecámur súpplices.

Summum Paréntem crédimus

Natúmque Patris únicum,

et caritátis vínculum

qui iungit illos Spíritum.

O véritas, o cáritas,

o finis et felícitas,

speráre fac et crédere,

amáre fac et cónsequi.

Qui finis et exórdium

rerúmque fons es ómnium,

tu solus es solácium,

tu certa spes credéntium.

Qui cuncta solus éfficis

cunctísque solus súfficis,

tu sola lux es ómnibus

et præmium sperántibus.

Christum rogámus et Patrem,

Christi Patrísque Spíritum;

unum potens per ómnia,

fove precántes, Trínitas. Amen.

Eternal light, Divinity, Trinity in unity, weak as we are we give you thanks, humbly we pray to you. We believe in the highest Father, the only Son of the Father, and the Spirit, the bond of love which joins them. O truth, O Love, O end of all and happiness, teach us to hope and believe, to love and follow you.  The end and the beginning, you are the source of all things, you alone our consolation, you the certain hope of those who trust in you.  You alone do all things, you alone are sufficient for all things, you the only light for all and only hope for those who hope in you. We ask Christ and the Father and the Spirit of both Christ and the Father, the single power behind all things, assist us as we pray. Amen.

Vespers: St. Gregory the Great?

Imménse cæli cónditor,

qui, mixta ne confúnderent, (1)

aquæ fluénta dívidens,

cælum dedísti límitem,

Firmans locum cæléstibus

simúlque terræ rívulis,

ut unda flammas témperet,

terræ solum ne díssipet:

Infúnde nunc, piíssime,

donum perénnis grátiæ,

fraudis novæ ne cásibus (2)

nos error átterat vetus.

Lucem fides invéniat,

sic lúminis iubar ferat;

hæc vana cuncta térreat,

hanc falsa nulla cómprimant.

1)      Gen.1:7: God divides the waters above and below;

2)     The new fraud is also old =the temptation of Adam;

3)     Lux brings not just physical light but also grace;

Infinite Creator of heaven, you who separated the flowing waters and set a limit to the sky, so that the two not be mixed and confused. Fortifying a place for the heavens and also for the rivers of the earth,  that water might temper heat and the soil of earth not be dried up. Pour now, most holy, into us the gift of endless grace,  that no occasions of new deceit or ancient deception destroy us. May light find faith, thus be supported by the beam of light; so may all vanities be removed, and no falsehood compromise our faith.