The Lesson from the Holy Gospel According to S. John

IN THE THIRD NOCTURN

The Lesson from the Holy Gospel according to S. John

Lesson ix Ch. 15

T that time: Jesus said unto his disciples: These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. And the rest.

Homily by S. Augustine, Bishop Homily 87 on John

N the Gospel lesson which comes before this, the Lord had said, Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and set you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Of which words ye remember we have already discoursed what the Lord gave. But here he saith, namely, in the following lesson which ye have just heard read: These things I command you, That ye love onc another. And by this we are to understand that this is our fruit, of which he saith: I have chosen you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.

 These are they who, while yet they lived in the flesh, planted the Church in their own blood. * They drank of the Lord's cup, and became the friends of God.

 Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words into the ends of the world. They drank.

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HEREAS he also further said: That whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you; it means, he will give it us, if we love one another, albeit this very thing is his giving to us, who chose us not having fruit, for we had not chosen him, and set us that we should bring forth fruit, that is, love one another: which fruit without him we cannot have, even as the branches without the Vine can do nothing. Our fruit, therefore, is charity, which the Apostle defineth: Of a pure heart and a good conscicnce, and love unfeigned. By this we love one another, by this we love God. For we could not with a true love love one another, except we lovcd God. For one loves his neighbour as himself, if he love God: since if he love not God, he loves not himself. For: On these two commandments (of charity) hang all the law and the prophets: this is our fruit.

 These men are Saints, whom the Lord hath chosen in love unfeigned, and hath given them everlasting glory. * By whose teaching the Church is illumined, as the moon by the light of the sun.

 The Saints through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness. By whose.

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IVING, therefore, a commandment concerning fruit, he saith, These things I command you, That ye love one another. Whence also the Apostle Paul, when with the works of the flesh he would contrast the works of the Spirit, put this as the head of all: The fruit, saith he, of the Spirit is love: and then strings all the rest together in their connection, as all rising out of that their head: namely: Joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

 Who are these which fly as a cloud, * And as the doves to their windows?

 Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words into the ends of the world. And as the doves.

Lesson xij

N fact, who rejoices aright, that loves not the good whereof he rejoices? Who can have true peace but with him whom he truly loveth? Who is longsuffering by perseveringly continuing in that which is good, except he be fervent in love? Who is good, except he be made so by loving? Who savingly faithful, except by the faith which worketh by love? Who serviceably gentle, that is not tamed to the

discipline of love? Who continent from that which debaseth, except he love that which ennobleth? With good reason, therefore, doth our good Master so often insist upon love, as if it alone needed to be enjoined, as that without which other good things cannot profit, and which one cannot have without having the other things by which a man is made good.

 There is neither speech, nor language, but their voices are heard among them. * Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words into the ends of the world.

 Exceedingly honoured are thy friends, O God: firmly stablished is their princedom. Their sound. Glory be. Their sound.

The Continuation ofthe Holy Gospel according to S. John Ch. 15

T that time: Jesus said unto his disciples: These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world. the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. If 1 had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

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THE THIRTIETH OF OCTOBER

In Commemoration of the Saints, whose Bodies and Relics are preserved

in the Churches of our Order.

GREATER DOUBLE

AT VESPERS

Antiphons of Lauds, omitting the fourth. Psalms 110, 111, 112, 113 of Sunday.

Chapter Romans 8, 11

F the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Short  Let the righteous rejoice * Before God. Let the righteous. . Let them also be merry and joyful. Before God. Glory be. Let the righteous.

Hymn. ADESTE Sancti, plurimo

Dum thure, vestra dum piis

Coluntur ossa ritibus

Votis favete supplicium.

Non illa, quamquam tristibus

Imum redacta in pulverem

Dudum sepulkchris squalleant

Divina virtus deserit.

Sed sancta præsenti fovet,

Impletque templa numine;

Sed et futuræ Spiiritus

Post sæcla servat gloriæ.

Hinc ille, qui nostris latet

Cinis sub aris conditus,

Ægris medetur efficax,

Torquet fugatque dæmones.

Sit summa Christe laus tibi,

Venture judex sæculi,

Cum Patre cumque Spiritu

In sæculorum sæcula. Amen.

¶ In place of the above, here and in Matins, and of O vos unanimes below in Lauds, of which no translation is known, the Hymns of the Common may be used.

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 The Lord shall keep all their bones.

 Not one of them shall be broken.

On Magnificat, Antiphon. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven, * who despised worldly living: who have won the rewards of the kingdom, and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb.

COLLECT

GOD, who hast willed that this most holy Church should be adorned by the Relics of of so mant Saints: increase in us the faith of the Resurrection; and make us partakers of the immortal glory, of which we venerate a pledge in their ashes. Through.

AT MATINS

Invitatory. The living God, in whom the hehart and flesh of the Saints rejoice, * O come, let us worship. Psalm Venite, adoremus.

Hymn Adeste Sancti, as above.

IN THE FIRST NOCTURN

Antiphons, Psalms and  from the Common of Many Martyrs, p. xlvij.

 They sleep in the dust of the earth.  They shall wake to life eternal.

Lessons Brethren: we are debtors, with the , p. xlvij.

IN THE SECOND NOCTURN

Antiphons and Psalms, p. xlix.

 The just shall spring up like a green tree.

 Their root shall not be removed.

Instead of the Sermon of the Abbot Bernard, not given here, may be read the Lessons Whenever, in the Common of many Martyrs, with the , p. xlix.

IN THE THIRD NOCTURN

Antiphon. Give praise,ye who dwell in the dust: when I shall bring you out of youir graves, ye shall know that I am the Lord, alleluia. Canticles The souls of the righteous, from the Common of Many Martyrs, p. lj.

Homily on the Gospel Jesus came down, in the 2nd place, p. lviij.

¶ If today there shall occur the anticipated Vigil of All Saints, then the Homily of the Vigil shall be omitted, since it has been said for the iij. Nocturn of this Feast, and no other Homily shall be substituted for the aforesaid Homily; but in such case suffiicient observance shall be made of it by a commemoration in Lauds only.

AT LAUDS

and through the Hours,

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Antiphon 1. O how great torments * have all the Saints endured, that they might

surely attain to the palm of martyrdom. Psalm 93 Dominus regnavit and the rest.
Antiphon 2. The Blessed * with their palms have entered into the kingdom; they

have earned their diadems of glory from the hand of God.

Antiphon 3. The bodies of the Saints * are buried in peace: and their name liveth

for evermore.
Antiphon 4. O ye Martyrs of the Lord, * bless ye the Lord for ever and ever.
Antiphon 5. O choir of martyrs,* praise ye the Lord of heaven, alleluia.

Chapter Romans 8, 11

F the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Short  Be glad, O ye righteous, * And rejoice in the Lord. Be glad.  And be joyful, all ye that are true of heart. And rejoice. Glory be. Be glad.

Hymn. O vos unamimes Christiadum chori

Sanctorum tumulos et cineres Patrum,

Charas exuvias, pignora cælitum

Lætis dicite cantibus.

Cælo quando piis æqua laboribus

Felices animæ gaudia possident,

Pænarum sociis debita redditur

Hic lacus et decus ossibus.

Passim sparsa Deus, polliciti memor

Custos, ne pereant, pignora colligit;

Electosque suis providus aggerit

Aptandos lapides locis.

Quin et reliquias, et tumulos sibi

Aras ipse Deus consecrat hostia;

Conjungensque suis se caput artubus,

Hos secum simul immolat.

Vos, quorum cineres supplicibus pia

Tutum præsidium plebs colit osculis,

Si vos nostra movent, subsidium boni

Vestris ferte clientibus.

Ut cum nostra novis splendida dotibus

Surget juncta choris spiritum caro,

Indivisa Trias sit Deus omnia

Nobis semper in omnibus. Amen.

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 The memory of the righteous shall be blessed.

 And their bones shall spring forth in their place.

Antiphon on Benedictus. Let us shew forth * our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God: always bearing about the death of Jesus in our body, that the life of Jesus may be manifest also in our bodies.

COLLECT

AT TERCE

Antiphon. The blessed

Chapter Phil 3, 20

UR converstaion is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body.

 The peoples tell the wisdom of the Saints.

 And the congregation proclaimeth their praise.

AT SEXT

Antiphon. The bodies of the saints.

Chapter I Peter 4. 14

F ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

 The Lord shall not forsake his Saints.  They shall be preserved for ever.

AT NONE

Antiphon. O choir of Martyrs.

Chapter I Peter 3

ND who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye.

 The Lord is glorious in his Saints.  Marvellous in majesty, doing wonders.

AT II VESPERS

Antiphons These are, and Psalm 110 The Lord said, and the other Antiphons and Psalms from ij. Vespers of Many Martyrs, p. lvj.

Chapter If the Spirit, with the Short  and Hymn as above in j. Vespers.

 I shall comfort you, and your heart shall rejoice.

 And your bones shall spring up like the grass.

On Magnificat, Antiphon. In the heavenly kingdom * rejoice the souls of the

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Blessed, who followed the footsteps of Christ their Master: and since for love of him they poured forth their life-blood, therefore do they exult for ever.
Collect O God, above.

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The Thirty-first of October

On the Vigil of All Saints

The Lesson from the Holy Gospel according to. S.Luke
Lesson ix Ch 6

T that time: Jesus came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast or Tyre and Sidon. And the rest.
Homily by S.Ambrose, Bishop Bk. V. on S. Luke, Ch. 6

AKE careful note that Jesus went up into the mountain with the Apostles, and came down to the multitudes. How else could the multitudes see Christ, but on a lower level? They do not follow him to lofty heights, they go not up to things sublime. Therefore he came down to the place where men were infirm; for there cannot be infirmity on the heights.

  from the preceding Sunday from the same Nocturn from which is the Absolution; and after the j. Sunday of November from the occurrent Feria.