Sic lúceat lux vestra coram homínibus, ut vídeant ópera vestra bona, et gloríficent Patrem vestrum, qui in cœlis est...

Preces pópuli tui, quǽsumus, Dómine, cleménter exáudi: ut, qui juste pro peccátis nostris afflígimur, pro tui nóminis glória misericórditer liberémur.




Today is Monday infra Hebdomadam Septuagesimae but is also the feast of the Confessor Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, who was able to be all things to all men without importing vague varieties of heresy into his conversation in order to do it: he is celebrated both at Le Barroux and at Saint-Eugène. 

Am going out on what is become my monthly errand (this is the second) to the University library (three buses, tsk) to change books; also, I need to remember to take the Eugene Public Library card in order to complete the procedure for making me capable of borrowing the University's books. 

I used to avail myself of the University's largesse frequently but when I moved into this more distant neighborhood several years ago I fell out of the habit, alas; now that I'm retired and no longer have the ability to spend much money on books I figured it is a good thing to begin again (and the city bus is free to use now, since I am beyond 65 and finally took the trouble to acquire the 'Honored Rider' card, ha). The only reason it looks to be a monthly trip is my increasing slowness at reading, tsk. 

Am returning a book (Kenneth Levy's essays Gregorian chant and the Carolingians), renewing Serge Lancel's Saint Augustine (which, frankly, I didn't even start reading, beyond Henry Chadwick's foreward and then the introduction), and then borrowing... I haven't decided yet. Perhaps nothing, in order to concentrate on the Lancel, perhaps John Van Engen's Rupert of Deutz, perhaps....

M l'Abbé Gubitoso is celebrating Holy Mass at Saint-Eugène today.

Decided to begin Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Yet again will scourge myself for not acquiring the five or six (of seven) volumes of Kiel's Grammatici Latini when I had the chance; would have had to eat nothing but ramen for six weeks and fallen behind on the bills.

Introitus. Eccli. 15, 5. In médio Ecclésiæ apéruit os ejus: et implevit eum Dóminus spíritu sapiéntiæ et intelléctus: stolam glóriæ índuit eum. Ps. 91,2. Bonum est confitéri Dómino: et psállere nómini tuo, Altíssime. ℣. Glória Patri.





Kyrie, Gloria.

Oratio.
Deus, qui ad animárum salútem beátum Francíscum Confessórem tuum atque Pontíficem ómnibus ómnium factum esse voluísti: concéde propítius; ut, caritátis tuæ dulcédine perfúsi, ejus dirigéntibus mónitis ac suffragántibus méritis, ætérna gáudia
consequámur. Per Dóminum.

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Timotheum.
2. Tim. 4, 1-8.

Caríssime: Testíficor coram Deo, et Jesu Christo, qui judicatúrus est vivos et mórtuos, per advéntum ipsíus et regnum ejus: prǽdica verbum, insta opportúne, importune: árgue, óbsecra, íncrepa in omni patiéntia, et doctrína. Erit enim tempus, cum sanam doctrínam non sustinébunt, sed ad sua desidéria, coacervábunt sibi magistros, pruriéntes áuribus, et a veritáte quidem audítum avértent, ad fábulas autem converténtur. Tu vero vígila, in ómnibus labóra, opus fac Evangelístæ, ministérium tuum ímpie. Sóbrius esto. Ego enim jam delíbor, et tempus resolutiónis meæ instat. Bonum certámen certávi, cursum consummávi, fidem servávi. In réliquo repósita est mihi coróna justítiæ, quam reddet mihi Dóminus in illa die, justus judex: non solum autem mihi, sed et iis, qui díligunt advéntum ejus.

Graduale. Ps. 36, 30-31. Os justi meditábitur sapiéntiam, et lingua ejus loquétur judícium. ℣. Lex Dei ejus in corde ipsíus: et non supplantabúntur gressus ejus.





Tractus. Ps. 111, 1-3. Beátus vir, qui timet Dóminum: in mandátis ejus cupit nimis. ℣. Potens in terra erit semen ejus: generátio 
rectórum benedicétur. ℣. Glória et divítiæ in domo ejus: et justítia ejus manet in sǽculum sǽculi.





✠ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum.
Matth. 5, 13-19.

In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis: Vos estis sal terræ. Quod si sal evanúerit, in quo saliétur? Ad níhilum valet ultra, nisi ut mittátur foras, et conculcétur ab homínibus. Vos estis lux mundi. Non potest cívitas abscóndi supra montem pósita. Neque accendunt lucérnam, et ponunt eam sub módio, sed super candelábrum, ut lúceat ómnibus qui in domo sunt. Sic lúceat lux vestra coram  homínibus, ut vídeant ópera vestra bona, et gloríficent Patrem  vestrum, qui in cœlis est. Nolíte putáre, quóniam veni sólvere legem aut prophétas: non veni sólvere, sed adimplére. Amen, quippe dico vobis, donec tránseat cœlum et terra, jota unum aut unus apex non præteríbit a lege, donec ómnia fiant. Qui ergo solvent unum de mandátis istis mínimis, et docúerit sic hómines, mínimus vocábitur in regno cœlórum: qui autem fécerit et docúerit, hic magnus vocábitur in regno cœlórum.

M Gubitoso didn't say the Credo and I have to admit that I don't recall if it was sung at Le Barroux or not; was preoccupied, mea culpa, with going out. One of the popes suppressed the Credo from Masses of Doctors but I can never recall if it was Pius XII or Ioannes XXIII in his re-arrangement or Paulus VI in his entirely novel composition.

Credo.

Offertorium. Ps. 91, 13.
Justus ut palma florébit: sicut cedrus, quæ in Líbano est multiplicábitur.





Secreta. Sancti Francisci Pontíficis tui atque Doctóris nobis, Dómine, pia non desit orátio: quæ et múnera nostra concíliet; et tuam nobis indulgéntiam semper obtíneat. Per Dóminum.

Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei.

Communio. Luc. 12, 42.
Fidélis servus et prudens, quem constítuit dóminus super famíliam suam: ut det illis in témpore trítici mensúram.





Postcommunio. Ut nobis, Dómine, tua sacrifícia dent salútem: beátus Franciscus Póntifex tuus et Doctor egrégius, quǽsumus, precátor accédat. Per Dóminum.



LDVM




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