qui tecum c. AD COMPLETORIVM Vers. Spiritus sancti gratia illuminet sensus corda nostra Resp. Amen Versus COnuerte nos Deus salutaris noster Resp Et auerte iram tuam à nobis vers Deus in adiutoriuÌ„ meum intende Resp. Domine ad adiuuandum me festina Vers. Gloria Patri Filio c. Alleluia Hymnus SPiritus paraclitus nos velit iuuare Gressus nostros regere illuminare Vt cùm Deus venerit omnes indicare Nos velit ad dexteram suam appellare Ana. Veni Sancte Spiritus reple c. vers Emitte Spiritum tuum creabuntur Resp. Et renouabis faciem terrae Oremus ADSIT nobis quaesumus Domine c. COMMENDATIO HAS Horas canonicas cum deuotione Tibi sancte Spiritus piaâ— ratione Dixi vt nos visites inspiratione Et viuamus iugiter caelâ— regione MVNDAY THE LITTLE OFFICE OF THE HOLY GHOST AT MATTINS Vers. The grace of the holy Ghost enlighteÌ„ our our senses and harts â„Ÿ Amen Versus O Lord thou wilt open my lips â„Ÿ And my mouth shal shew forth thy prayse Vers. O God incline vnto myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father to the Son c. Resp. At it was in the beginning both now and euer and world without end Amen Alleluia From Septuagesima to Easter insteed of Alleluia is sayd Praise be to thee O Lord King of eternall glory The Hymne THY holy spirit grant to vs O Lord By which the virgin did conceaue the Word When Gabriel with his message to her came God became man and she coÌ„ceau'd the same Antiph Come O holy Spirit replenish the hartes of thy faythfull enkindle in them the fire of thy loue Vers. Send forth thy spirit and they shal be created â„Ÿ And thou shalt renew the face of the earth Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord that the power of the holy Ghost may be present with vs which may mercifully purge our harts and defend vs from all aduersityes through our Lord Iesus Christ thy Son c. AT PRIME vers The grace of the holy Ghost enlighteÌ„ our senses harts â„Ÿ Amen Versus O God incline to myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father c. Alleluia The Hymne THE body which to christ the virgin gaue Dead on the Crosse was buryed in the graue Rysing againe to his disciples eyes He shews himselfe so to heauen flyes Antiph Come o holy Spirit replenish c. â„£ Send forth thy spirit they shal be created â„Ÿ And thou shalt renew the face of the earth Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord c. AT THIRD vers The grace of the Holy Ghost enlighten our senses and harts Resp. Amen Versus O God incline vnto myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father c. Alleluia The Hymne ALmighty God sending the holy Ghost Strengthned the Apostls at the Pentecost Enflamed them with clouen tongues of fire Left them not orphans such was his desire Antiph Come o holy Spirit replenish c. â„£ Send forth thy Spirit they shal be created â„Ÿ And thou shalt renew the face of the earth Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord c. AT SIXTH Vers. The grace of the holy Ghost enlighteÌ„ our senses harts â„Ÿ Amen Versus O God incline vnto myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father c. Alleluia The Hymne THen they al receau'd the seauenfold grace And vnderstood the toÌ„gues of euery place Then to the corners of the earth they reached And all the world thoroughout the Ghospell preached Antiph Come o holy Spirit replenish c. â„£ Send forth thy spirit they shal be created â„Ÿ And thou shalt c. Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord c. AT NINTH Vers. The grace of the holy Ghost enlighteÌ„ our senses and harts â„Ÿ AmeÌ„ Versus O God incline vnto myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father c. Alleluia The Hymne THe spirit he was called comfort giuing Guift of God charity and fountaine liuing Vnction of the spirit fire enflamed Seauenfold grace free gift so was he named Antiph Come o holy Spirit replenish c. â„£ Send forth thy Spirit and they shal be created â„Ÿ And thou shalt renew the face of the earth Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord c. AT EVENSONGE Vers. The grace of the holy Ghost enlighteÌ„ our our senses and harts â„Ÿ Amen Versus O God incline vnto myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father c. Alleluia The Hymne FIngar of Gods right hand power of the spirit Defend and saue vs from all ill demerit That by the fiend of hel we may not perish Vnder thy wings protect vs still and cherish Antiph Come o holy Spirit replenish the harts of thy faythfull and enkindle in them c. v. Send forth thy spirit and they shal be created Resp. And thou shalt renew the face of the earth Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord that the power of the holy Ghost may be present with vs which may mercifully purge our harts and defend vs from all aduersityes throgh our Lord Iesus Christ thy Son c. AT COMPLINE Vers. The grace of the holy Ghost enlighteÌ„ our senses and harts Resp. Amen Versus COnuert vs. O Lord our Sauiour Resp. And auert thy anger from vs. Vers. O God incline vnto myne ayde Resp. O Lord make hast to help me Vers. Glory be to the Father c. Alleluia The Hymne SPirit of comfort help vs with thy grace Direct our steps shew vs thy shinning face That when God comes to iudge both great and small To his right hand he vs with mercy call Antiph Come o holy Spirit replenish c. â„£ Send forth thy spirit they shal be created â„Ÿ And thou shalt renew the face of the earth Let vs pray VVE beseech thee O Lord c. THE COMMENDATION THese houres o holy spirit of deuotion I haue rehearsed to thee by pious motion That we in heaueÌ„ grant vs thy inspiration Euer with thee may mak our habitation FERIA III. OFFICIVM PARVVM SS NOMINIS IESV AD MATVTINVM vers Sit nomen domini benedictum in saecula Resp. Amen Versus DOmine labia mea aperies Resp. Et os meum annuÌ„ciabit laudem tuam vers Deus in adiutoriuÌ„ meum intende Resp. Domine adiuuandum me festina vers Gloria Patri Filio â—piritui sancto Resp. Sicut erat in principio 〈◊〉 semper in saecula saeculorum Amen Alleluia A Septuagesima vsque ad Pascha loco Alleluia dicitur Laus tibi domine Rex aeternae gloriae Hymnus IESV dulcis memoria Dans vera Cordi Gaudia Sed super mel omnia Eius dulcis praesentia AnÌ„a
he was forced to flye into Aegypt because Herod sought his life to make him away Consider how many miseryes aduersityes the poore little child suffered in so long and paynfull a iourney and in Aepypt a strange and barbarous coūtrey wher he liued in a most poore manner for some yeares by the labours paines of S. Ioseph his poore Mother 3. Consider the patience that the Iewes put him vnto when they often called him a seducer of the people seditious a Magitian raiser vp of Diuels an enemy of God blasphemer a preuaricatour transgressour of the Law gaue out that he was a drinker of wine sometymes in a fury they rose against him and had a desire one tyme to stone him another tyme to thrust him downe headlong from the top of an hill but our meeke Iesus is not recorded either to haue reuenged himselfe of so great iniuryes or to haue been incensed at al against the ingratefull people but to haue studyed to do them good euery way 4. Consider how patient he was in al his dolourous passion When he was layed hand on in the garden and carryed away as a thiefe bound fast was in the sight of Annas censured for arrogant and receaued that vnworthy buffet at the hands of a most vile bound-slaue Caiphas held him for a blasphemer and Herod for a foole and being treated for such an one he endured all without any perturbation of mind and with exceeding patience Consider the singular acts of patience which our Sauiour exercised in the house of Pilate where he was boūd fast to a pillar scourged as some notorious malefactour scorned mocked in putting on the crowne of thornes vpon his head grieuously payned therewith his diuin face not only buffeted but also defiled with most loathsome spittle and when he had much a do to stand they forced him to carry his own crosse whereon he was nailed and did hang till death All this much more our Lord suffered with so great patience as he complained not at al. Of this Meditation you shall conceaue a confusion and shame for that you haue suffered so little or nothing at all for our Lord who hath suffered so much so great matters for vs. 1. THov who seeest how much thy Sauiour hath endured for thee say now who dost complayne so much what thou hast suffered for him 2. Thou hast not yet from the first instant of thy natiuity begun to suffer 3. Thou hast not yet beene persecuted vnto death nor against all equity and conscience 4. Thou hast not byn scourged nor crowned with thorns nor nayled to a crosse nor so much as shed one droppe of bloud for thy Creatour 5. What manner of patience is thyne when for euery little aduersity or word thou art troubled or fillest the ayre with complaints WEDNESDAY Of Christ his Meeknes 1. COnsider how the Scripture sayd of Christ to the Countrey of Iury Loe thy King commeth vnto thee meeke For where the worlds desert was that our lord shold haue come downe from heauen armed with the sword of Iustice to take vengeance on the iniquityes of it he descended all benigne and gentle that he might redresse it and giue a remedy vnto it by meeknes and not chasten it with the seuerity and rigour of his diuin iustice 2. Cōsider how Christ was most meek towards his disciples and gently bare with their defects when they contented about the primacy amōg themselues when they were angry with Mary Magdalen at her annoynting his head with precious oyntment whē they forsook him in the garden when-he was betrayed into the Iewes hands For in these and the like defects Christ out of his Gentlenes chose rather meekly and benignly to blame them the in a more seuere māner to checke them by shar◠reprehension 3. Consider the meeknes that he vsed towards the Scribes Pharisies his enemyes who calūniated his workes and iniustly persecuted him affirming that he droue out vncleane spirits in the power of Beelzebub when he pardoned him his sins who was troubled with the palsey and that he blasphemed that he had a diuell whē he reprehended them For our Lord by answering with mildnes to these other their like calumniatiōs confounded their ill meaning boldnes and ouermuch presumption 4. Consider further how our Lord discouered his meeknes in the presence of the Diuell For he permitted himselfe to be tempted of him and though he best knew the peruerse wil of the bad and malignant spirit and might at the first haue confounded him put him to silence and driuen him away yet he chose rather to ouercome him with mild answeres and in that manner to controle the extreme boldnes of the infernall friend 5. Consider the wonderfull signes of meekenes that Christ vsed towards Iudas who betrayed him For though he knew that he had sold him for money yet he louingly admitted him to his table washed his feete and when the houre was come that he deliuered him into the handes of his enemyes he friendly imbraced him permitted him to giue him a kisse and by calling him friend in a mild manner wished him to remember himselfe and did put him in mind of the sin that he then committed Finally like a meek lambe he suffered himselfe to be bound and to be lead whithersoeuer his Aduersaries thought best The fruit of this meditation shal be to vnderstand the defect and want of meeknes that lyeth hid in thee and to take paines for the gayning of it 1. HOw farre thou comest short of thy meeke master Iesus who art not able to bear with the very least defect in thy Neighbours 2. How little thy meekenes is who art angry at euery least word and threatnest therfore 3. What wouldst thou now doe if calumnyes were raised against thee or that thou wert iustly persecuted 4. What wouldst thou do if thou wert sold betrayed of him who had receaued singular benefits at thy hands as Christ our lord was sold and betrayed of his disciple Iudas vpon whom he had cōferred so great benefits THVRSDAY Of Christs contempt of the world 1. COnsider how our Sauiour cōtemned all those things that men of the world desire and seeke after For first he contemned the riches of this world and lead so poore a life as he would not haue possessiō of any earthly thing at all but liuing of almes was contented with those thinges that were necessary for his state of pouerty and for cloathing 2. Consider how he despised al pleasures and carnall delectations For the Iewes who had treated him ignominiously many wayes neuer durst infame him touching Chastity which he so plainely demonstrated in his very face as it induced and moued euery one who beheld him to chastity and purity of life 3. Consider how he not only contemned the honours dignityes of this world but also at what tyme the Iewes would once haue made him King he accepted it not but went away from them
workes 5. Consider how diligent and serious he was in prayer and when as by day by reason of his ouermuch busines wherwith he was detayned in preaching and in the conuersion of his neighbors he could not pray he attended to prayer by night and as S. Luke sayth he spent the night in the prayer of God And this is also manifest for that before he began his passion in great humility and earnestnes he addressed his prayer thrice vnto his heauenly Father and in the expiration of his life he pleased to end it and to dye in praying namely while he did hang vpon the Crosse he prayed first for his persecutours and in saying Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit he gaue vp his Ghost The fruit that is to be gathered of this Meditation 1. IF the Sonne of God were so diligent not for any profit that were to redound to himselfe why shouldst not thou be confoūded who art so negligent in matters of spirit that were prescribed for the good of thy soule 2. What will it help thee if thou be circumspect in temporall and transitory things shalt be negligent in prayer mortification pennance and other spirituall functions 3. Thou art also deceaued if thou be diligent in thy particuler deuotions and slouthfull and drowsy in the obseruation of the commandements of God of the Church 4. If thou desire to attaine to a diligence in spiritual matters endeauour to loue them for that the more thou shalt be affected vnto them the more diligent wilt thou be inprocuring thē ANNOTATIONS FOR the due performing of the former Meditations it is to be vnderstood that the Vertues of our Sauiour may be meditated vpon three manner of wayes 1. First that we may vnderstand their nature and perfection as the Philosophers vse to contemplate the heauens for the vnderstanding of their nature 2. Secondly for the praysing magnifying of him who had so excellent vertues And this second manner is both more noble and more gratefull to God for that it hath a more excellent and a more perfect end that is the praysing of Gods Godnes 3. Thirdly for imitation and purchasing of thē this is the best māner of all and more excellent then the other two and more pleasing to God For besides that that it comprehendeth the excellency of the two other it hath withall a most noble end which maketh a man like vnto the sonne of God And that is the greatest perfection of all that a reasonable creature hath or can haue in this life Moreouer in this manner be exercised the three powers of the soule The Memory layeth before the eyes Christs life as the acts of vertue◠which he exercised whiles he liued The Vnderstanding discourseth about the vertues and the qualityes of then◠And the Wil to the same vertues applyeth Affection which helpeth to the attayning of those vertues for in that in which a thing is loued in that it is sought for to be attained The vtilityes of his last manner be diuers 1. The first purgeth the soule from vices For while the vertues are planted the vices are destroyed in it 2. The second restoreth it to the former beauty and seemlynes and directeth it for that by the vertues the passions are brought backe againe to their naturall order that they doe no more then what they are swayed vnto by reason 3. The third illuminateth for that the soule informed and furnished with vertues and not troubled with passions both seeth discerneth iudgeth the better 4. The fourth maketh it gratefull to the Creatour and to all other creatures sith there is nothing that maketh a man so amiable as doth vertue which draweth the very enemyes to loue and admire it 5. The fifth enricheth it with merits for that all the vertuous acts of him who is in grace be meritorious And the way of reaping some fruit in these Meditations is this that a man put on an effectuall and earnest desire of attayning the said vertues for from this desire proceedeth the exercise therof which is the principall and only way to purchase them Wherfore vpon Sunday he who meditateth of the humility of Christ must exercise many acts of Humility Vpon Munday he must exercise acts of Obedience and so of the rest It is not euer necessary to meditate vpon all the fiue points of the Meditation but it is inough to insist vpon one or two and oftentymes in the day to exercise the vertue that be hath meditated vpon to craue grace of God to go forwardes therein euery day more and more LITANIAE DE D. VIRGINE IN AEDE LAVRETANA dici solitae KYRIE eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison Christe audi nos Christe exaudi nos Pater de caelis Deus Misere nobis Fili Redemptor mundi Deus Miserere nobis Spiritus Sancte Deus Miserere nobis Sācta Trinitas vnus Deus Miserere nobis Ora pro nobis Sancta Maria Sancta Dei Genitrix Sancta Virgo virginum Mater Christi Mater diuinae gratiae Mater purissima Mater castissima Mater inuiolata Mater intemerata Mater amabilis Mater admirabilis Mater Creatoris Mater Saluatoris Virgo Prudentissima Virgo Veneranda Virgo Praedicanda Virgo potens Virgo clemens Virgo fidelis Speculum iustitiae Sedes Sapientiae Causa nostrae laetitiae Vas spirituale Vas honorabile Vas insigne deuotionis Rosa mystica Turris Dauidica Turris eburnea Domus aurea Foederis arca Ianua Caeli Stella Matutina Salus infirmorum Refugium peccatorum Cōsolatrix afflictorum Auxilium Christianorum Regina Angelorum Regina Patriarcharum Regina Prophetarū Regina Apostolorū Regina Martyrum Regina Confessorū Regina Virginum Regina Sanctorum omnium Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Parce nobis Domine Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Exaudi nos Domine Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Miserere nobis Christe audi nos Christe exaudi nos Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison Pater noster Vers. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem Resp. Sed libera nos à malo Vers. Domine exaudi orationem meam Resp. Et clamor meus ad te veniat Oremus GRatiam tuam quaesumus Domine mētibus nostris infunde vt qui Angelo nunciante Christi Filij tui incarnationem cognouimus per passionem eius crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur DEfende quaesumus Domine beata Maria semper Virgine intercedēte istam ab omni aduersitate familiam toto corde tibi prostratā ab hostium propitiùs tuere clementer insidijs Per eumdem Dominum nostrum lesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum viuit regnat in vnitate Spiritus sancti Deus per omnia saecula saeculorū Amen THE LETANYES OF OVR B. LADY OF LORETO LOrd haue mercy on vs. Christ haue mercy on vs. Lord haue mercy on vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ graciously hear vs. God the Father of heauē haue