Let us Pray. God, who by the fruitful virginity, of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, haft given to mankind the rewards of eternal falvation : Grant, we beseech thee, that we may be fenfible of the benefit of her interceffion, by whom we have received the Author of Life, our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth, &c. R. Amen. V. Lord hear my prayer. R. And let my cry come to thee. R. Thanks be to God. The Bleffing. May the Almighty and merciful Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, blefs and keep us. R. Amen. This being done, and the V. May the Divine Help, being faid, Our Father, Hail Mary, and the Creed, are to be faid in fecret. THE OFFICE For the Dead. To be faid with the Invitatory and three Nocturns, and the Anthems doubled, as well at Even-Song as at Mattins, on the day of all the faithful departed, on the day of the departure, and on the Anniversary of any one decedfed, with one only prayer, as follows; and then at Even-Song the Pfalm, Praife our Lord, is to be omitted, and at the Lauds, the Pfalm, From the Deep. At other times the Office is faid, as it is bere fet down. Even-Song is begun with the Anth, I will please. Pfalm 114. Dilexi quoniam. The Propbet in this Pfalm gives thanks to God for having delivered him from an imminent danger; and promifeth facrifices of Praife to God for bis mercy fbewn to bim. I Have loved, because our Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. Because he has inclined his ear to me, and in my days I will call upon him. The forrows of death have encompaffed me, and the perils of hell have found me. I have found tribulation and forrow, and I called upon the name of our Lord. O Lord, deliver my foul: our Lord is merciful and juft; and our God does mercy. Our Lord keeps little ones: I was humbled, and he has delivered me, Turn, O my foul, into thy reft, because our Lord has done good things to thee. Because he has delivered my foul from death my eyes from tears, my feet from flipping. I will please our Lord in the country of the living. In the end of all the Pfalms, is to be faid. Give them, O Lord, eternal reft: and let thy light fhine upon them for ever. The Anth. I will please our Lord in the land of the living. The Anth. Wo is me. Pfalm 119. Ad Dominum cum tribulater. ARGUMENT, as before in page 39. THEN I was in tribulation, I cried to our Lord, and he heard me. WHEN Lord, deliver my foul from unjuft lips; and from a deceitful tongue. What will be given, or what recompence can be made for a deceitful tongue? The fharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of defolation, Wo is me, that my banishment is prolonged; I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar, my foul has been long a stranger. With them that hated peace, I was peaceable: when I fpoke to them, they oppofed me without caufe. Give them, O Lord, &c. as before, The Anth. Wo is me, O Lord, that my abode is prolonged. I The Anth. Our Lord. Pfalm 120. Levavi oculos meos.. ARGUMENT, as before in page 40. Have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help fhall come to me. My help is from our Lord, who made heaven and earth. Let him not fuffer thy foot to moved; nor let him flumber that keeps thee. Lo, he fhall not flumber nor fleep, that keeps Ifrael. Our Lord keeps thee, our Lord is thy protection, on thy right hand. By day the fun fhall not burn thee, nor the moon by night. Our Lord keeps thee, from all evil, may our Lord keep thy foul. Let our Lord keep thy coming in, and thy going out; from henceforth, now, and for ever. Give them, &c. The Anth. Our Lord keeps thee from all evil, may our Lord keep thy foul. The Anth. If thou, O Lord. F Pfalm 129. De profundis. ARGUMENT, as before in page 58. ROM the deep I have cried to thee, O Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my petition. If thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord: Lord, who fhall bear it? Because with thee there is mercy and because of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My foul has trufted in his word, my foul has hoped in our Lord. From the morning watch even till night, let Ifrael hope in our Lord." Because with our Lord there is mercy, and with him plentiful redemption. And he fhall redeem Ifrael from all his iniquities. Give them, &c. The Anth. If thou, O Lord, regardest iniquities, Lord, who fhall be able to bear it? The Anth. Pfalm 137. Defpife not. Confitebor tibi Domine. In this pfalm David thanks God for all the benefits received from bim, and expreffetb bis affurance in the Divine affiftance for the future. I Will confefs to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, because thou haft heard the words of my mouth. P |