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

Deus, qui Ecclésiam tuam beáti Dominici Confessóris tui illumináre dignátus es méritis et doctrinis: concéde; ut ejus intercessióne temporalibus non destituatur auxiliis, et spiritualibus semper profíciat increméntis. Per Dóminum.

Today is Monday in the 8th week post Pentecosten and it is the feast of the Confessor Saint Dominic, whose Mass in the Missale is Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam. This looks also to be sung at Le Barroux. 

My quasi-monthly adventure to the University library in an hour or so to change books features one of the seasonal 'detours' to Theo's; the library opens an hour later in Summer than it does when the University is in regular session which means that I must wait at the bus station for an hour or else walk a block or two and suffer a cappuccino and toasted bagel. The vicissitudes of life are barely supportable, ahem. 

Robert Frost's History of Poland-Lithuania is not speedy reading, not for me, anyway, which I attribute both to needing a new prescription in the spectacles and to the unfamiliar matter, including the abundance of Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, and Czech names: hence I'm still (even after the standard renewal period) not quite half way through it. It will be a quick trip in and out since I'll simply borrow it again; have never had to do this but the library folks have repeatedly told me that it can be done. I suppose they need to have the book in their possession to accomplish this although I'm not sure why. Of course it is possible that someone has reserved the Frost, which I consider very unlikely since it seems to me that I was the first one to have opened it. 

Have only now (at 1121) returned from the morning's adventure. One of the Lyft drivers, Brent, grew up here in Eugene and entertained me with tales of riots and whatnot. He noticed the house (or perhaps the house and my wild locks and cane etc) and mentioned how he really, really doesn't expect tips from 'minimum wage workers' with the et cetera implied, ha. I guess there are people who use Lyft each work day. We traded our tear-gassing stories. In any event, I obviously missed Holy Mass from Saint-Eugène.

Am having to be more frugal so inter alia cancelled my monthly subscription to Presto Music's streaming service. On a happier note, I discovered 'the Psalterium Project'; the short version is that their performance of the Psalter (using the Vulgata nova, alas) together with antiphons for each Psalm ('mostly') from the Hartker Antiphonarium, that is, Codex Sangallensis 390/391, is all of it online at Spotify. The Divine Office doesn't proceed from Psalm 1 to Psalm 150 without interruption of course but it is a wonderful aural world to immerse oneself in. 

Introitus. Ps. 36, 30-31. Os justi meditábitur sapiéntiam, et lingua ejus loquétur judícium: lex Dei ejus in corde ipsíus. Ps. ibid., 1. Noli æmulári in malignántibus: neque zeláveris faciéntes iniquitátem. V. Glória Patri.

Kyrie, Gloria.

Oratio. Deus, qui Ecclésiam tuam beáti Dominici Confessóris tui illumináre dignátus es méritis et doctrinis: concéde; ut ejus intercessióne temporalibus non destituatur auxiliis, et spiritualibus semper profíciat increméntis. Per Dóminum.

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Timótheum.
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, importúne: árgue, óbsecra, íncrepa in omni patiéntia, et doctrína. Erit enim tempus, cum sanam doctrínam non sustinébunt, sed ad sua desidéria coacervábunt sibi magístros, 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 délibor, 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. 91, 13 et 14. Justus ut palma florébit: sicut cedrus Líbani multiplicábitur in domo Dómini. V. Ibid., 3. Ad annuntiándum mane misericórdiam tuam, et veritátem tuam per noctem.

Allelúja, allelúja. V. Osee 14, 6. Justus germinábit sicut lílium: et florébit in ætérnum ante Dóminum. Allelúja.

✠ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam.
Luc. 12, 35-40.
In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis: Sint lumbi vestri præcincti, et lucérnæ ardéntes in mánibus vestris, et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis: ut, cum vénerit et pulsáverit, conféstim apériant ei. Beáti servi illi, quos, cum vénerit dóminus, invénerit vigilántes: amen, dico vobis, quod præcínget se, et fáciet illos discúmbere, et tránsiens ministrábit illis. Et si vénerit in secúnda vigília, et si in tértia vigília vénerit, et ita invénerit, beáti sunt servi illi. Hoc autem scitóte, quóniam, si sciret paterfamílias, qua hora fur veníret, vigiláret útique, et non síneret pérfodi domum suam. Et vos estóte paráti, quia, qua hora non putátis, Fílius hóminis véniet.

Offertorium. Ps. 88, 25. Véritas mea et misericórdia mea cum ipso: et in nómine meo exaltábitur cornu ejus.

Secreta. Múnera tibi, Dómine, dicáta sanctífica: ut, méritis beáti Domínici Confessóris tui, nobis profíciant ad medélam. 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. Concéde, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, qui peccatórum nostrórum póndere prémimur, beáti Domínici Confessóris tui patrocínio sublevémur. Per Dóminum.

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Concéde, miséricors Deus, fragilitáti nostræ præsídium; ut, qui sanctæ Dei Genitrícis memóriam ágimus; intercessiónis ejus auxílio, a nostris iniquitátibus resurgámus. Per Christum Dóminum nóstrum. 

Deus, a quo sancta desidéria, recta consília, et justa sunt ópera: da servis tuis illam, quam mundus dare non potest, pacem; ut et corda nostra mandátis tuis dédita, et hóstium subláta formídine, témpora sint tua protectióne tranquílla. Per Dóminum. 

Deus, qui caritátis dona per grátiam Sancti Spíritus tuórum fidélium córdibus infudísti: da fámulis et famulábus tuis, pro quibus tuam deprecámur cleméntiam, salútem mentis et córporis; ut te tota virtúte díligant, et quæ tibi plácita sunt, tota dilectióne perfíciant. Per Dóminum.

Laus Deo Virginique Matri