Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Psalm xxx. 3 - 4.
Esto mihi in Deum protectórum, et in locum refúgii, ut salvum me fácias:
Quóniam firmaméntum meum, et refúgium meum es tu:
Et propter nomen tuum dux mihi eris, et enútries me.
In te, Dómine, sperávi, non confúndar in ætérnum:
In justítia tua líbera me, et éripe me.
Versicle:
Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto,
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Be Thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of refuge, to save me:
For Thou art my strength and my refuge:
And for Thy Name’s sake, Thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
Psalm xxx. 2.
In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded:
Deliver me in Thy justice, and save me.
Versicle:
Glory be to The Father, and to The Son, and to The Holy Ghost,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
World without end.
Amen.
Thank you, Zephyrinus: The Introits like this one for Quinquagesima, and in general especially during this seasonal time, are miniature sermons, “Lenten food tid-bits for thought and prayer.” (The special Lenten “Tract” quotations from the Psalms this reader finds as well: “spiritual catechism in a little scriptural capsule.”) -Comment by Dante P
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dante P, for your welcome Comment.
DeleteZephyrinus agrees that The Traditional Latin Mass, with its panoply of glorious constituents (many thrown away in Vatican II for reasons that, still, nobody knows why) is a glorious and Heavenly bouquet.
To Assist at Mass is to experience a Divine Supper, to which we are all invited (and if we bother to accept and attend).
Part of the glorious constituents are the Divine parts of The Mass mentioned by Dante P: The Introit; The Gradual; The Tract. The Psalms. Each of them a magnificent and treasured instruction, full of beauty and truth.
Read them the day before you Assist at Mass. They are beautiful. When the Priest reads them at Mass, or refers to them in his Sermon, you will already understand them and appreciate their meaning. Such beauty. Such treasures.
It is a terrible tragedy that the so-called Novus Ordo (the “new Mass”) never expounds or teaches on the Divine Parts of The Mass mentioned above.