Christo confíxus sum Cruci: vivo ego, jam non ego, vivit vero in me Christus, allelúia...

Ignatius, Antiochenæ ecclésiæ tertius post Petrum Apostolum epíscopus, commovénte persecutiónem Trajano, damnatus ad bestias, Romam vinctus mittitur. Cumque navigans Smyrnam venísset, ubi Polycarpus, auditor Joánnis, epíscopus erat, scripsit unam epistolam ad Ephesios, álteram ad Magnesiános, tertiam ad Trallenses, quartam ad Romanos. Et inde egrédiens scripsit ad Philadelphios, et ad Smyrnæos, et propriam ad Polycarpum, commendans illi Antiochensem ecclésiam; in qua et de Evangelio, quod nuper a me translátum est, super persona Christi ponit testimónium.

ex libro sancti Hierónymi Presbýteri de Scriptóribus ecclesiásticis ad Matutinas







Fruméntum Christi sum: déntibus bestiárum molar, ut panis mundus invéniar.


The promised snow flurries didn't happen yesterday-- I must clear up any doubt that may exist about that deceit. Even after so many disappointments, yesterday's still hurt, O ye mages. Sometimes I think about maintaining a weather consultancy web site: I'm confident that I could give my $8.99 per month customers (only $100 per annum!) at least as much satisfaction as those mages do. Pft. It is the feast of Saint Ignatius, Martyr, Antiochenæ ecclesiae tertius post Petrum Apostolum epíscopus, Θεοφόρος and Apostolic Father, whose epistles I'll read today but later on. Yet again I have to go out to the late-opening pharmacy, tsk, to collect my hormone supplement (I believe that is what the levothyroxin is). The Apostle's Epistle to the Colossians was begun at Matins earlier and the Mass Mihi autem absit gloriari was sung at Barroux and will presumably be said at Saint-Eugène in four hours or so. 





Introitus. Gal. 6, 14. Mihi autem absit gloriári, nisi in Cruce Dómini nostri Jesu Christi: per quem mihi mundus crucifíxus est, et ego mundo. Ps. 131, 1. Meménto, Dómine, David: et omnis mansuetúdinis ejus. V. Glória Patri.

Oratio. Infirmitátem nostram respice, omnípotens Deus: et, quia pondus própriæ actionis gravat, beáti Ignátii Martyris tui atque Pontificis intercéssio gloriosa nos prótegat. Per Dóminum.

Léctio Epistolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Romános.
Rom. 8, 35-39.

Fratres: Quis nos separábit a cantáte Christi: tribulátio, an angustia, an fames, an núditas, an perículum, an persecútio, an gládius? (sicut scriptum est: Quia propter te mortificámur tota die: æstimáti sumus sicut oves occisiónis). Sed in his ómnibus superámus propter eum, qui diléxit nos. Certus sum enim, quia neque mors, neque vita, neque ángeli, neque principátus, neque virtútes, neque instántia, neque futúra, neque fortitúdo, neque altitúdo, neque profúndum, neque creatúra alia poterit nos separáre a caritáte Dei, quæ est in Christo Jesu, Dómino nostro.

Graduale. Eccli 44, 16. Ecce sacérdos magnus, qui in diébus suis plácuit Deo. V. Ibid , 20. Non est invéntus símilis illi, qui conserváret legem Excélsi.




Allelúja, allelúja. V. Gal 2, 19-20. Christo confíxus sum Cruci: vivo ego, jam non ego, vivit vero in me Christus. Allelúja.




+ Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Joánnem.
Joann. 12, 24-25.

In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis: Amen, amen, dico vobis, nisi granum fruménti cadens in terram, mórtuum fúerit, ipsum solum manet: si autem mórtuum fúerit, multum fructum affért. Qui amat ánimam suam, perdet eam: et qui odit ánimam suam in hoc mundo, in vitam ætérnam custódit eam. Si quis mihi mínistrat, me sequátur: et ubi sum ego, illic et miníster meus erit. Si quis mihi ministráverit, honorificábit eum Pater meus.

Offertorium. Ps 8, 6-7. Glória et honóre coronásti eum: et constituísti eum super ópera mánuum tuárum, Domine.




Secreta. Hóstias tibi, Dómine, beáti Ignátii Martyris tui atque Pontíficis dicatas méritis, benígnus assúme: et ad perpétuum nobis tríbue proveníre subsídium. Per Dóminum.

Am returned here at more or less 1030 and Fr Grodziski is preparing to distribute Holy Communion; perhaps he began a bit late. He is wearing the chasuble which the ether makes appear to be violet instead of its natural red so am certain enough that it is the Mass Mihi autem that he's been celebrating.

The Communion is Saint Ignatius's prayer (cited by Saint Jerome in the 6th lesson at Matins) before being attacked by the beasts: "I am Christ's wheat, and so let the beasts' teeth be my mill, that I may be ground, and be found to make good bread" (that is the Marquess of Bute's version).

Communio. Fruméntum Christi sum: déntibus bestiárum molar, ut panis mundus invéniar.




Postcommunio. Refécti participatióne múneris sacri, quǽsumus, Dómine, Deus noster: ut, cujus exséquimur cultum, intercedénte beáto Ignátio Mártyre tuo atque Pontífice, sentiámus efféctum. Per Dominum.



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