Although I have had to remind myself that sunrise isn't for another hour or so. Today is the feast of Pope Saint Linus, Martyr, first Successor of Saint Peter in the Chair of Rome, and the Friday Ember Day in September, feria sexta quattuor temporum Septembris. At Matins for the Ember Day, the lessons were from Saint Gregory (from his 33rd homily on the Gospel, 'post initium', the Breviary helpfully supplies, 'close to the beginning', in case I was checking my ever to hand volume of the Gregorian Homilies [am being facetious; alas, I don't have those books]) on the Gospel according to Saint Luke.
Luc 7:36-50 In illo témpore: Rogábat Jesum quidam de pharisǽis, ut manducáret cum illo. Et ingréssus domum pharisǽi discúbuit. Et réliqua.
At Matins for the feast of Saint Linus, the Gospel was also from Saint Luke, with lessons from Saint Gregory's 37th homily on the Gospels.
Luc 14:26-33 In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus turbis: Si quis venit ad me, et non odit patrem suum, et matrem, et uxórem, et fílios, et fratres, et soróres, adhuc autem et ánimam suam, non potest meus esse discípulus. Et réliqua.
I typically prefer the ferial Office of the Ember Days to a saint's Office that occurs on the same dates but, given Pope Saint Linus's great honor I said his Matins and Lauds earlier. Read Saint Gregory from both Matins, though the one post Horas. At Saint-Eugène, the Schola is singing for the Mass Laetetur cor quaerentium Deum of the Ember Day with the commemoration of the feast of Pope Saint Linus.
In the Pauline Rite, is also-- so the copies of the Martyrology I have aver-- the commemoration of Saints Zacharias and Elisabeth, the parents of Saint John the Baptist (Elisabeth being the cognata, cousin one supposes, of the Most Blessed Virgin, and Zacharias the prophet of the Nunc dimittis); tomorrow, the 24th, was in the Old English Calendar celebrated as the feast of the Conception of Saint John the Baptist. That feast in the East is more often celebrated on the 23rd and so I reckon the fabricators of the Pauline innovations chose today for the feast of Saint John's parents in a nod to the Byzantine custom. The feast of Saints Elisabeth and Zacharias was traditionally marked in the Martyrologium Romanum on November 5th; Saint Zacharias was called Sacerdos et Propheta Praecursoris Pater and Saint Elisabeth simply Praecursoris Mater. I don't know that it was ever commonly celebrated in many places.
Pink and mauve Dawn is chasing away the darkness but just above the edge of light the waning Crescent is remaining visible. Lovely.
Introitus. Ps. 104, 3-4. Lætétur cor quæréntium Dóminum: quærite Dóminum, et confirmámini: quǽrite fáciem ejus semper. Ps. ibid., 1. Confitémini Dómino et invocáte nomen ejus: annuntiáte inter gentes ópera ejus. ℣. Glória Patri.
Oratio. Præsta, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, observatiónes sacras ánnua devotióne recoléntes, et córpore tibi placeámus et mente. Per Dóminum.
Léctio Osee Prophétæ. Osee 14, 2-10. Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Convértere, Israel, ad Dóminum, Deum tuum: quóniam corruísti in iniquitáte tua. Tóllite vobíscum verba, et convertímini ad Dóminum et dícite ei: Omnem aufer iniquitátem, áccipe bonum: e reddémus vítulos labiórum nostrórum. Assur non salvábit nos, super equum non ascendémus, nec dicémus ultra: Dii nostri ópera mánuum nostrárum: quia ejus, qui in te est, miseréberis pupílli. Sanábo contritiónes eórum, díligam eos spontánee: quia avérsus est furor meus ab eis. Ero quasi ros, Israël germinábit sicut lílium, et erúmpet radix ejus ut Líbani. Ibunt rami ejus, et erit quasi olíva glória ejus: et odor ejus ut Líbani. Converténtur sedéntes in umbra ejus: vivent trítico, et germinábunt quasi vínea: memoriále ejus sicut vinum Líbani. Ephraim quid mihi ultra idóla? ego exáudiam, et dírigam eum ego ut abíetem viréntem: ex me fructus tuus invéntus est. Quis sápiens, et intélleget ista? intéllegens, et sciet hæc? Quia rectæ viæ Dómini, et justi ambulábunt in eis: prævaricatóres vero córruent in eis.
Graduale. Ps. 89, 13 et 1. Convértere, Dómine, aliquántulum, et deprecáre super servos tuos. ℣. Dómine, refúgium factus es nobis, a generatióne et progénie.
✠ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam. Luc. 7, 36-50. In illo témpore: Rogábat Jesum quidam de pharisǽis, ut manducáret cum illo. Et ingréssus domum pharisǽi, discúbuit. Et ecce, múlier, quæ erit in civitáte peccátrix, ut cognóvit, quod accubuísset in domo pharisǽi, áttulit alabástrum unguénti: et stans retro secus pedes ejus, lácrimis cœpit rigáre pedes ejus, et capíllis cápitis sui tergébat, et osculabátur pedes ejus et unguénto ungébat. Videns autem pharisǽus, qui vocáverat eum, ait intra se, dicens: Hic si esset Prophéta, sciret utique, quæ et qualis est múlier, quæ tangit eum: quia peccátrix est. Et respóndens Jesus, dixit ad illum: Simon, habeo tibi áliquid dícere. At ille ait: Magíster, dic. Duo debitóres erant cuidam fæneratóri: unus debébat denários quingéntos, et álius quinquagínta. Non habéntibus illis, unde rédderent, donávit utrisque. Quis ergo eum plus díligit? Respóndens Simon, dixit: Æstimo quia is, cui plus donávit. At ille dixit ei: Recte judicásti. Et convérsus ad mulíerem, dixit Simóni: Vides hanc mulíerem? Intrávi in domum tuam, aquam pédibus meis non dedísti: hæc autem lácrimis rigávit pedes meos et capíllis suis tersit. Oscuum mihi non dedísti: hæc autem, ex quo intrávit, non cessávit osculári pedes meos. Oleo caput meum non unxísti: hæc autem unguénto unxit pedes meos. Propter quod dico tibi: Remittúntur ei peccáta multa, quóniam diléxit multum. Cui autem minus dimíttitur, minus díligit. Dixit autem ad illam: Remittúntur tibi peccáta. Et cœpérunt, qui simul accumbébant, dícere intra se: Quis est hic, qui étiam peccáta dimíttit? Dixit autem ad mulíerem: Fides tua te salvam fecit: vade in pace.
oblivísci omnes retributiones ejus: et renovábitur, sicut áquilæ, tua juvéntus.
Secreta. Accépta tibi sint, Dómine, quǽsumus, nostri dona jejúnii: quæ et expiándo nos tua grátia dignos effíciant, et ad sempitérna promíssa perdúcant. Per Dóminum.
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