Monday in the Eleventh Week
after the Octave of Pentecost

COLLECT OF THE PRECEDING SUNDAY

Oremus.
Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui abundántia pietátis tuæ, et mérita súpplicum excédis et vota : effúnde super nos misericórdiam tuam ; ut dimíttas quæ consciéntia métuit, et adjícias quod orátio non præsúmit.  Per Dóminum.

Let us pray.
Almighty and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve, pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask.  Through.

SUFFRAGE OF ALL SAINTS if it is said

CLOSING VERSICLES AND THAT WHICH FOLLOWETH
 

Matins

De libro quarto Regum

The Lesson is taken from
the fourth Book of Kings

Octo annórum erat Josías cum regnáre cœpísset : trigínta et uno anno regnávit in Jerúsalem.  Nomen matris ejus Idida fília Hadaía de Bésecath.  Fecítque quod plácitum erat coram Dómino et ambulávit per omnes vias David patris sui : non declinávit ad déxteram sive ad sinístram.  Anno autem octávo décimo regis Josíæ misit rex Saphan fílium Aslía fílii Méssulam scribam templi Dómini dicens ei : Vade ad Helcíam sacerdótem magnum, ut conflétur pecúnia, quæ illáta est in templum Dómini, quam collegérunt janitóres templi a pópulo, detúrque febris per præpósitos domus Dómini ; qui et distríbuant eam his qui operántur in templo Domini.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.  And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.  And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,  Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: and let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Recordáre, Dómine, testaménti tui, et dic Angelo percutiénti : Cesset jam manus tua, * Ut non desolétur terra, et ne perdas omnem ánimam vivam.
V.  Ego sum qui peccávi, ego qui iníque egi : isti qui oves sunt, quid fecérunt?  Avertátur, óbsecro, furor tuus, Dómine, a pópulo tuo.
R.  Ut non desolétur terra, et ne perdas omnem ánimam vivam.

R.  Remember, O Lord, thy Covenant, and say unto the destroying Angel : Stay now thine hand, *  That the land be not utterly laid waste, and that thou destroy not every living soul.
V.  Lo, even I it is that have sinned, and done evil indeed : but these sheep what have they done?  Let thine anger, I pray thee, O Lord, be turned away from thy people.
R.  That the land be not utterly laid waste, and that thou destroy not every living soul.

Dixit autem Helcías póntifex ad Saphan scribam : Librum legis réperi in domo Dómini.  Dedítque Helcías volúmen Saphan, qui et legit illud.  Venit quoque Saphan scriba ad regem et renuntiávit ei quod præcéperat et ait : Conflavérunt servi tui pecúniam, quæ repérta est in domo Dómini, et dedérunt ut distribuerétur fabris a præféctis óperum templi Dómini.  Narrávit quoque Saphan scriba regi dicens : Librum dedit mihi Helcías sacérdos.

And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.  And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.  And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. 

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Exaudísti, Dómine, oratiónem servi tui, ut ædificárem templum nómini tuo : * Bénedic et sanctífica domum istam in sempitérnum, Deus Israël.
V.  Dómine, qui custódis pactum cum servis tuis, qui ámbulant coram te in toto corde suo.
R.  Bénedic et sanctífica domum istam in sempitérnum, Deus Israël.

R.  O Lord, thou who hast had respect unto the prayer of thy servant, that he should build a temple to thy Name, *  O Lord the God of Israel, bless and sanctify this thy House for ever.
V.  O Lord, thou who keepest Covenant with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart.
R.  O Lord the God of Israel, bless and sanctify this thy House for ever.

In Feastdays of Simple rank :

V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Bénedic et sanctífica domum istam in sempitérnum, Deus Israël.

V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  O Lord the God of Israel, bless and sanctify this thy House for ever.

And on such Feastdays of Simple rank, the Third Lesson is read according to the Proper.

Proper Third Lesson

Quem cum legísset Saphan coram rege, et audísset rex verba libri legis Dómini, scidit vestiménta sua.  Et præcépit Helcíæ sacerdóti et Ahícam fílio Saphan et Achóbor fílio Micha et Saphan scribæ et Asaíæ servo regis dicens : Ite et consúlite Dóminum super me et super pópulo et super omni Juda de verbis volúminis istíus, quod invéntum est ; magna enim ira Dómini succénsa est contra nos, quia non audiérunt patres nostri verba libri hujus, ut fácerent omne quod scriptum est nobis.

And Shaphan read it before the king.  And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.  And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,  Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Audi, Dómine, hymnum et oratiónem, quam servus tuus orat coram te hódie, ut sint óculi tui apérti, et aures tuæ inténtæ, * Super domum istam die ac nocte.
V.  Réspice, Dómine, de sanctuário tuo, et de excélso cælórum habitáculo.
R.  Super domum istam die ac nocte.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Super domum istam die ac nocte.

R.  Hearken unto the prayer, O Lord my God, which thy servant prayeth before thee today, that thine eyes may be open and thine ears attent * Toward this House day and night.
V.  Look down, O Lord, from thy holy place, and from thy dwelling place in the height of heaven.
R.  Toward this House day and night.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Toward this House day and night.

The Office of Matins ends after the Third Respond.  The Te Deum is not said, and Lauds normally follows immediately, beginning with the Opening Versicles.  Otherwise, the Conclusion of Matins is read, according to the Rubrics.

Conclusion of Matins
 

After the conclusion of the First Nocturn, the Second Nocturn is begun according to the current weekday.

Second Nocturn