Samuel anointing David.
Illumination of Psalm 25 from the Saint Bertin Psalter, circa 1170, now in Saint John’s College, Cambridge. Once owned by the Abbesses of Wherwell Abbey, starting with Matilda of Bailleul. “Vellum. 12th-Century. Magnificently written”.
And passed down through Euphemia de Walliers.
Date: 2 January 1170.
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This File: 28 March 2021.
User: Victuallers
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Whilst washing his hands at the Lavabo, the Priest recites Verses 6 - 12 of Psalm xxv (Psalm 25), (see, below, in Red).
Lavabo inter innocéntes manus meas:
et circúmdabo altáre tuum, Dòmine:
Ut áudiam vocem laudis,
et enárrem univérsa mirabília tua.
Dómine, diléxi decórem domus tuæ,
et locum habitatiónis glóriæ tuæ.
Ne perdas cum ímpiis,
Deus, ánimam meam,
et cum viris sánguinum vitam meam:
In quorum mánibus iniquitátes sunt:
déxtera eórum repléta est munéribus.
Ego autem in innocéntia mea ingréssus sum:
rédime me, et miserére mei.
Pes meus stetit in dirécto:
in ecclésiis benedícam te, Dómine.
Glória Patri . . .
In Masses For The Dead, and at Masses of the Season in Passion-Tide, the Glória Patri is omitted.
Psalm 25.
“Judica me, Domine”.
David’s Prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered,
that he may come to Worship Him in His Tabernacle.
Unto The End.
A Psalm For David.
Judge me, O Lord,
for I have walked in my innocence:
And I have put my trust in the Lord,
and shall not be weakened.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
burn my reins and my heart.
For Thy mercy is before my eyes;
and I am well pleased with Thy truth.
I have not sat with the council of vanity:
Neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.
I have hated the assembly of the malignant;
and with the wicked I will not sit.
I will wash my hands among the innocent;
and will compass Thy Altar, O Lord:
That I may hear the voice of Thy praise:
and tell of all Thy wondrous works.
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of Thy house;
and the place where Thy glory dwelleth.
Take not away my Soul, O God, with the wicked:
Nor my life with bloody men:
In whose hands are iniquities:
Their Right Hand is filled with gifts.
But as for me, I have walked in my innocence:
Redeem me, and have mercy on me.
My foot hath stood in the direct way:
In the Churches I will Bless Thee, O Lord.
during Holy Mass, the Priest (Celebrant) washes his fingers.
Out of respect for the Body of Jesus, which he is about to touch after the Consecration, even when no Incense has been used, the Priest washes the tips of the first fingers of each hand.
This Ceremony is a Sacramental which purifies our hearts
and prepares them for the Holy Sacrifice and Communion.
“The water that flows over the tips of our fingers,” says Saint Augustine, “washes away the last traces of our impurities.”
Whilst washing his hands at the Lavabo, the Priest recites Verses 6 - 12 of Psalm xxv (Psalm 25), see, above, in Red.
Let us say this Psalm with true contrition.
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