Tuesday 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

Ascéndit rex templum Dómini et omnes viri Juda universíque qui habitábant in Jerúsalem cum eo, sacerdótes et prophétæ et omnis pópulus a parvo usque ad magnum ; legítque cunctis audiéntibus ómnia verba libri fœderis, qui invéntus est in domo Dómini.  Stetítque rex super gradum et fœdus percússit coram Dómino, ut ambulárent post dóminum et custodírent præcépta ejus et testimónia et cæremónias in omni corde et in tota ánima, et suscitárent verba fœderis hujus, quæ scripta erant in libro illo.  Acquievítque pópulus pacto.

And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.  And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

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

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

R.  Dómine, si convérsus fúerit pópulus tuus, et oráverit ad sanctuárium tuum : * Tu exáudies de cælo, Dómine, et líbera eos de mánibus inimicórum suórum.
V.  Si peccáverit in te pópulus tuus, et convérsus égerit pœniténtiam, veniénsque oráverit in isto loco.
R.  Tu exáudies de cælo, Dómine, et líbera eos de mánibus inimicórum suórum.

R.  Lord, when thy people shall turn again to thee, and shall pray unto thee in this house, *  Then hear thou in heaven, O Lord, and deliver them out of the hand of their enemies.
V.  If thy people sin against thee, and turn again, and repent, and come and pray unto thee in this house.
R.  Then hear thou in heaven, O Lord, and deliver them out of the hand of their enemies.

Et præcepit rex Helcíæ pontífici et sacerdótibus secúndi órdinis et janitóribus, ut projícerent de templo Dómini ómnia vasa, quæ facta fúerant Baal et in luco et univérsæ milítiæ cæli, et combússit ea foris Jerúsalem in conválle Cedron et tulit púlverem eórum in Bethel.  Et delévit arúspices, quos posuérunt reges Juda ad sacrificándum in excélsis per civitátes Juda et in circúitu Jerúsalem, et eos qui adolébant incénsum Baal et soli et lunæ et duódecim signis et omni milítiæ cæli.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.  And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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

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

R.  Factum est, dum tólleret Dóminus Elíam per túrbinem in cælum, * Eliséus clamábat, dicens : Pater mi, pater mi, currus Israël, et auríga ejus.
V.  Cumque pérgerent, et incedéntes sermocinaréntur, ecce currus ígneus et equi ígnei divisérunt utrúmque, et ascéndit Elías per túrbinem in cælum.
R.  Eliséus clamábat, dicens : Pater mi, pater mi, currus Israël, et auríga ejus.

R.  And it came to pass when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind ;   *  Elisha cried, and said : My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
V.  And as they still went on, and talked, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
R.  Elisha cried, and said : My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

In Feastdays of Simple rank :

V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Eliséus clamábat, dicens : Pater mi, pater mi, currus Israël, et auríga ejus.

V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Elisha cried, and said : My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

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

Proper Third Lesson

Et efférri fecit lucum de domo Dómini foras Jerúsalem in conválle Cedron, et combússit eum ibi et redégit in púlverem et projécit super sepúlcra vulgi.  Destrúxit quoque ædículas effeminatórum, quæ erant in domo Dómini, pro quibus mulíeres texébant quasi domúnculas luci.  Congregavítque omnes sacerdótes de civitátibus Juda et contaminávit excélsa, ubi sacrificábant sacerdótes, de Gábaa usque Bersabée.

And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.  And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.  And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba.

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

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

R.  Ego te tuli de domo patris tui, dicit Dóminus, et pósui te páscere gregem pópuli mei : * Et fui tecum in ómnibus ubicúmque ambulásti, firmans regnum tuum in ætérnum.
V.  Fecíque tibi nomen grande, juxta nomen magnórum, qui sunt in terra : et réquiem dedi tibi ab ómnibus inimícis tuis.
R.  Et fui tecum in ómnibus ubicúmque ambulásti, firmans regnum tuum in ætérnum.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Et fui tecum in ómnibus ubicúmque ambulásti, firmans regnum tuum in ætérnum.

R.  I took thee from thy father's house to be Ruler over my people Israel, * And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, to establish the Throne of thy Kingdom forever.
V.  And I have made thee a great Name, above the name of great men that are in the earth, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies.
R.  And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, to establish the Throne of thy Kingdom forever.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, to establish the Throne of thy Kingdom forever.

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