The Divine Office – Part 6 – Terce

Tridentine Community News (February 20, 2011):

To acquaint you with the Hours of the Extraordinary Form Breviary, below we print Terce, mid-morning prayer, for February 17, 2011. Other Hours have similar structure and flow.

V. O God ✠ come to my assistance;
R. O Lord, make haste to help me.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Alleluia.

Hymn
Come Holy Ghost Who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With Thy full flood of holiness.

Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.

Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.

Psalms (from the Psalter for the day of the week)
Ant. How good is God * to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
Psalm 72(1-9) [1]
72:1 How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
72:2 But my feet were almost moved; * my steps had well-nigh slipped.
72:3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, * seeing the prosperity of sinners.
72:4 For there is no regard to their death, * nor is there strength in their stripes.
72:5 They are not in the labor of men: * neither shall they be scourged like other men.
72:6 Therefore pride hath held them fast: * they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
72:7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: * they have passed into the affection of the heart.
72:8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: * they have spoken iniquity on high.
72:9 They have set their mouth against heaven: * and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalm 72(10-17) [2]
72:10 Therefore will my people return here * and full days shall be found in them.
72:11 And they said: How doth God know? * and is there knowledge in the most High?
72:12 Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world * they have obtained riches.
72:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, * and washed my hands among the innocent.
72:14 And I have been scourged all the day; * and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
72:15 If I said: I will speak thus; * behold I should condemn the generation of Thy children.
72:16 I studied that I might know this thing, * it is a labor in my sight:
72:17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, * and understand concerning their last ends.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalm 72(18-28) [3]
72:18 But indeed for deceits Thou hast put it to them: * when they were when they were lifted up Thou hast cast them down.
72:19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: * they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
72:20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; * so in Thy city Thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
72:21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: * and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
72:22 I am become as a beast before Thee: * and I am always with Thee.
72:23 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by Thy will Thou hast conducted me, * and with Thy glory Thou hast received me.
72:24 For what have I in heaven? * and besides Thee what do I desire upon earth?
72:25 For Thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: * Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
72:26 For behold they that go far from Thee shall perish: * Thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to Thee.
72:27 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, * to put my hope in the Lord God:
72:28 That I may declare all Thy praises, * in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Ant. How good is God * to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

Chapter Responsory Versicle (from the Proper of Saints)
1 Pet 4:13
Brethren: If you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that when His glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.
R. Thanks be to God.

R.br. The Lord loved him, and beautified him.
R. The Lord loved him, and beautified him.
V. He clothed him with a robe of glory.
R. And beautified him.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. The Lord loved him, and beautified him.

V. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom.
R. And his tongue talketh judgment.

Prayer (from the Proper of Saints)
V. O Lord, hear my prayer
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
Let us pray.
Lord Jesus Christ, Who, that Thou mightest recall to mind the woes of Thy most holy Mother, didst through the Seven blessed Fathers make Thy Church herself the mother of a new household of her servants, grant unto us in mercy that we may so share their tears as to share their blessedness also.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Conclusion
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
V. Let us bless the Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
R. Amen.

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Mon. 02/21 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (Feria)

Tue. 02/22 7:00 PM: High Mass at both Assumption-Windsor and St. Josaphat (Chair of St. Peter)
Tue. 02/24 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Josaphat (St. Matthias, Apostle)

[Comments? Please e-mail tridnews@stjosaphatchurch.org. Previous columns are available at www.stjosaphatchurch.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Josaphat bulletin insert for February 20, 2011. Hat tip to A.B.]