¶ The Office Hymn may follow.
Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus
Come Holy Ghost, with God the Son,
And God the Father, ever One;
Shed forth thy grace within our breast,
and dwell with us, a ready guest.
By ev'ry power, by heart and tongue,
By act and deed, thy praise be sung;
Inflame with perfect love each sense,
That others' souls may kindle thence.
O Father, that we ask be done,
through Jesus Christ, thine only Son,
who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
doth live and reign eternally. Amen.
Attributed to St. Ambrose
Hymnal 1940 #160, Translation by J. M. Neale.
Psalm 120. Ad Dominum.
WHEN I was in trouble, I called upon the
Lord, * and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O
Lord, from lying lips, * and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue? * even
mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.
4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Meshech, * and to have
my habitation among the tents of Kedar!
5 My soul hath long dwelt among them * that are enemies unto peace.
6 I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof, * they make them
ready to battle.
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.
Psalm 121. Levavi oculos.
I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills; * from whence cometh my help?
2 My help cometh even from the
Lord, * who hath made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; * and he that keepeth thee will
not sleep.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel * shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The
Lord himself is thy keeper; * the
Lord is thy defence upon thy right
hand;
6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, * neither the moon by night.
7 The
Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; * yea, it is even he that
shall keep thy soul.
8 The
Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in, * from this
time forth for evermore.
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.
Psalm 122. Laetatus sum.
I WAS glad when they said unto me, * We will go into the house of the
Lord.
2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates, * O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is built as a city * that is at unity in itself.
4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the
Lord, * to testify
unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the
Lord.
5 For there is the seat of judgment, * even the seat of the house of David.
6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; * they shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, * and plenteousness within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, * I will wish thee prosperity.
9 Yea, because of the house of the
Lord our God, * I will seek to do thee
good.
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.
¶ The following collect, or the Collect of the Day as found
in the Proper, is said:
LORD Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who, at the third hour of the day
didst strengthen thine Apostles by the visitation of thy Holy Spirit; we
humbly beseech thee, that thou wilt deign to enlighten and guard our hearts
and bodies by his coming; who livest and reignest with the Father, in the
unity of the same Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end.
Amen.
May ✠ the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy
of God, rest in peace. Amen.