Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Twenty-First Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Contendite intrare per angustam portam, quia multi, dico vobis, quaerent intrare et non poterunt.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Multi ab oriente et occidente venient et recumbent cum Abraham et Isaac et Iacob in regno caelorum.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Ecce sunt novissimi, qui erunt primi, et sunt primi, qui erunt novissimi, dicit Dominus.

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ORATIO

Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare quod praecipis, id desiderare quod promittis, ut, inter mundanas varietates, ibi nostra fixa sint corda, ubi vera sunt gaudia. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Twentieth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Ignem veni mittere in terram, et quid volo nisi ut accendatur?

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Baptismo habeo baptizari, et quomodo coarctor usque dum perficiatur!

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Putatis quia pacem veni dare in terram? Non, dico vobis, sed separationem.

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ORATIO

Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, ut, te in omnibus et super omnia diligentes, promissiones tuas, quae omne desiderium superant, consequamur. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Nineteenth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Ubi est thesaurus tuus, ibi est et cor tuum, dicit Dominus.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Beati illi servi, quos cum venerit Dominus, et pulsaverit ianuam, invenerit vigilantes.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Sint lumbi vestri praecincti, et lucernea ardentes in manibus vestris.

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ORATIO

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, quem paterno nomine invocare praesumimus, perfice in cordibus nostris spiritum adoptionis filiorum, ut promissam hereditatem ingredi mereamur. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Eighteenth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Am I the only person who gets a sensation of butterflies in his stomach every time we change volumes in the Breviary?

I'm easily excited, I guess...

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Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Cavete ab omni avaritia, quia vita vestra non est ex his, quae possidetis.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Thesaurizate vobis thesauros in caelo, ubi nec aerugo, nec tinea demolitur.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Si vere, fratres, divites esse cupitis, veras divitias amate.

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ORATIO

Adesto, Domine, famulis tuis, et perpetuam benignitatem largire poscentibus, ut his, qui te auctorem et gubernatorem gloriantur habere, et grata restaures, et restaurata conserves. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Seventeenth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Cum esset Iesus in quodam loco orans, dixit unus ex discipulis eius ad eum: Domine, doce nos orare.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Petite, et dabitur vobis; quaerite, et invenietis; pulsate, et aperietur vobis.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Si vos, cum sitis mali, nostis dona bona dare filiis vestris, quanto magis Pater de caelo dabit Spiritum Sanctum petentibus se!

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ORATIO

Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam, ut, te rectore, te duce, sic bonis transeuntibus nunc utamur, ut iam possimus inhaerere mansuris. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Sixteenth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Intravit Iesus in quoddam castellum, et mulier quaedam, Martha nomine, excepit illum.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Maria sedens secus pedes Domini audiebat verbum illius.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Optimam partem elegit sibi Maria, quae non auferetur ab ea in aeternum.

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ORATIO

Propitiare, Domine, famulis tuis, et clementer gratiae tuae super eos dona multiplica, ut, spe, fide et caritate ferventes, semper in mandatis tuis vigili custodia perseverent. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for the Fifteenth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo et proximum tuum sicut teipsum.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

Samaritanus quidam iter faciens, venit secus illum qui inciderat in latrones, et videns eum misericordia motus est et curavit vulnera eius.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Quis tibi videtur proximus fuisse illi, qui incidit in latrones? Et ait illi: Qui fecit misericordiam in illum. Vade et tu fac similiter.

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ORATIO

Deus, qui errantibus, ut in viam possint redire, veritatis tuae lumen ostendis, da cunctis qui christiana professione censentur, et illa respuere, quae huic inimica sunt nomini, et ea quae sunt apta sectari. Per Dominum...

Latin Antiphons and Closing Prayer for Fourteenth Sunday of the Year (Cycle C)

Ad I Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.

Ad Laudes matutinas - Ad Benedictus, ant.

In quamcumque domum intraveritis, primum dicite: Pax huic domui. Et requiescet super illam pax vestra.

Ad II Vesperas - Ad Magnificat, ant.

Gaudete et exsultate, quia nomina vestra scripta sunt in caelis, dicit Dominus.

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ORATIO

Deus, qui in Filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti, fidelibus tuis sanctam concede laetitiam, ut, quos eripuisti a servitute peccati, gaudiis facias perfrui sempiternis. Per Dominum...

New Project Announcement

My long-time readers will know from previous entries that I try, whenever possible, to pray the office from the Latin editio typica altera of 2000. There are two primary reasons for this: first, the Latin forms of the proper prayers are richer than the translations given in our English edition; and second, there is a complete set of antiphons provided for the Sundays of the year coinciding with the three-year lectionary cycle, whereas the English translation is from the older edition which only has a single antiphon for each of the Gospel canticles.

Occasionally, when pinched for time, I make use of the Latin ediiton in a supplemental way, simple taking the Gospel antiphon and the prayer text from there, while praying everything else in English (and I have found nothing in the rubrics to suggest this to be improper, but am open to correction). I have found find this practice to be very fruitful and to provide a richness to my celebration of the liturgy on Sundays which is lacking when I simply use the English edition.

This evening, as I prayed Vespers, reflecting upon the Holy Father's letter given motu proprio this morning, I decided that I wanted to share this richness and that this site provides me with a medium for doing so. So, as a service to my readers who pray the breviary, or for any one who might be interested, I am going to try to provide each weekend the antiphons for First and Second Vespers and for Morning Prayer, as well as the closing prayer. Perhaps people who find the Latin breviary too pricy or superfluous to their real needs will find this small helping to hit the spot.

I am preparing these a few weeks in advance so all I have to do is post them as each date rolls around. I will try to have them on the site each week by Saturday morning so that people can print them out and clip them inside their breviaries if they wish.

As always, questions and comments are welcome. The posts in this project will all be filed under "breviary" for easy access.