Dawn rose quite presentably well-clad in demeure mauve and lilac; there are plenty of small, quite irregularly shaped black clouds, though. A second Monday in Lent; it is the feast of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs, although the page at the Barroux site doesn't mention it, so after Terce is completed we shall see. The Roman Mass for the feast is Me expectaverunt; the Mass for the Monday in Lent is Redime me, Domine, et miserere.
At Barroux, the monks sang Redime me, the celebrant adding the orations in commemoration of the Holy Martyrs.
Lectio 1
Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Joánnem
Joannes 8:21-29
In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus turbis Judæórum: Ego vado, et quærétis me, et in peccáto vestro moriémini. Et réliqua.
Homilía sancti Augustíni Epíscopi
Tract. 38 in Joann. post init.
Locútus est Dóminus Judǽis, dicens: Ego vado. Christo enim Dómino mors proféctio fuit illo, unde vénerat, et unde non discésserat. Ego, inquit, vado, et quærétis me, non desidério, sed ódio. Nam illum póstea quam abscéssit ab óculis hóminum, inquisiérunt et qui óderant, et qui amábant: illi persequéndo, isti habére cupiéndo. In Psalmis ait ipse Dóminus per Prophétam: Périit fuga a me, et non est qui requírat ánimam meam. Et íterum ait álio loco in Psalmo: Confundántur et revereántur requiréntes ánimam meam.
R. Dum iret Jacob de Bersabée, et pérgeret Haram, locútus est ei Dóminus, dicens:
* Terram, in qua dormis, tibi dabo, et sémini tuo.
V. Ædificávit ex lapídibus altáre in honórem Dómini, fundens óleum désuper: et benedíxit eum Deus, dicens.
R. Terram, in qua dormis, tibi dabo, et sémini tuo.
Lectio 2
Culpávit, qui non requírerent: damnávit requiréntes. Bonum est enim quǽrere ánimam Christi, sed quo modo eam quæsiérunt discípuli: et malum est quǽrere ánimam Christi, sed quo modo eam Judǽi quæsiérunt: illi enim ut habérent, isti ut pérderent. Dénique istis, quia sic quærébant more malo, corde pervérso, quid secutus adjúnxit? Quærétis me; et ne putétis, quia bene me quærétis, in peccáto vestro moriémini. Hoc est Christum male quǽrere, in peccáto suo mori: hoc est illum odísse, per quem possit solum salvus esse.
R. Appáruit Deus Jacob, et benedíxit eum, et dixit: Ego sum Deus Bethel, ubi unxísti lápidem, et votum vovísti mihi:
* Créscere te fáciam, et multiplicábo te.
V. Vere Dóminus est in loco isto, et ego nesciébam.
R. Créscere te fáciam, et multiplicábo te.
Lectio 3
Cum enim hómines, quorum spes in Deo est, non débeant mala réddere nec pro malis; reddébant isti mala pro bonis. Prænuntiávit ergo illis Dóminus, dixítque senténtiam prǽscius, quod in suo peccáto moreréntur. Deínde adjúnxit: Quo ego vado, vos non potéstis veníre. Hoc et discípulis suis álio loco dixit: nec tamen eis dixit: In peccáto vestro moriémini. Quid autem dixit? quod et istis: Quo ego vado, vos non potéstis veníre. Non ábstulit spem, sed prædíxit dilatiónem. Quando enim hoc discípulis Dóminus loquebátur, tunc non póterant veníre, quo ille ibat, sed póstea ventúri erant: isti autem nunquam, quibus prǽscius dixit, In peccáto vestro moriémini.
R. Det tibi Deus de rore cæli et de pinguédine terræ abundántiam: sérviant tibi tribus et pópuli:
* Esto dóminus fratrum tuórum.
V. Et incurvéntur ante te fílii matris tuæ.
R. Esto dóminus fratrum tuórum.
V. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
R. Esto dóminus fratrum tuorum.
Collecta at SS Cosmas and Damian
Statio at St Clement
The basilica of the two holy physicians (Anargyri) stands in the Forum, having been adapted by Felix IV in the ancient aula of the Eroon [i.e. ἡρῷον, the name of a temple of a hero, in this case the presumed founder of the City, I suppose] of Romulus, and the temple Sacrae Urbis where the catastal archives of the city were kept. In the Byzantine period it was celebrated as a famous sanctuary where the two martyrs worked all manner of marvellous cures for their clients.
The Basilica of St Clement rises on the site of an ancient Roman domus, which a well-founded tradition connects with the Pope of that name. There is nothing unlikely in the story that Clement, in the days following the Neronian persecution, gathered together the scattered flock of Christians under the very roof of the house which we visit today, and encouraged them to persevere in the faith. It appears that later, during the final persecution, there was a deliberate attempt to profane the spot sanctified by Christian worship, by erecting here an altar to Mithras, which, however, under Constantine, gave place once more to the Cross of Christ. A careful study of the plan of the basilica allows us to infer that the architect wished to make the position of the altar correspond with that of an ancient aula beneath it, which was probably known to be the one used by Clement.
St Jerome particularly mentions the dominicum Clementis, and as in early days basilicas were not erected in Rome to the martyrs except over their tombs, or on the site of their dwellings, the tradition concerning the house of Clement does not appear to be in any way doubtful.
The actual basilica was built on a higher level by Paschal II (1099-1118), after the first had been seriously damaged in the great conflagration on the entry of Robert Guiscard into Rome in 1084. (Liber Sacramentum)
In antiquity, this gentle rise of the Caelian Hill was densely packed with homes and temples. After Nero set Rome ablaze in 64, he cleared the area and began construction of his mammoth residence, the Domus Aurea. Roman riots and Nero’s death halted work in 68, but the property remained an imperial possession. In 70, Vespasian began building his amphitheater a few blocks down the street, along with the gladiator barracks situated next door to the present basilica.
The remains of two buildings dating from this era lie two stories below St. Clement’s Cosmatesque floor. The decorations are faded and the rooms are dank, but two millennia ago, these spaces were busily occupied by two rival religions. The first rooms housed a cult dedicated to the Persian god Mithras; the ceremonial area, with its altar to a deity beloved by Roman soldiers, remains. Next to the Mithraeum, and distinguishable by its tufa walls, is a sturdier, more cumbersome structure, often identified as an imperial ministry. Another persuasive argument, however, suggests that the property was built by T. Flavius Clemens, Vespasian’s nephew-in-law, who, having converted to Christianity with his wife Domitilla, gave the site to their freedman Clement, the third pope after St. Peter. If this version of the story is true, these musty chambers were once a kind of proto-Vatican. (What is known is that T. Flavius Clemens and Domitilla were executed by Domitian as Christians.)
The ancient church of St. Clement was destroyed during [Robert Guiscard's Normans'] Sack of Rome of 1084, and a third construction was built in the 12th c upon the walls of the earlier buildings. The 6th c marble choir, given by Pope John II, was salvaged from the lower church and is still used today. The crowning glory of the new basilica is the apse mosaic, featuring the oldest extant image in Roman art of the lifeless Christ, the Christus Patiens. The inscription records that the work conceals a piece of the True Cross. (Elizabeth Lev, Roman Pilgrimage)
At Saint-Eugène, M l'Abbé is saying the Mass Redime me, Domine, without commemorating the Holy Martyrs.
Introitus. Ps. 25, 11-12. Rédime me, Dómine, et miserére mei: pes enim meus stetit in via recta: in ecclésiis benedícam Dóminum. Ps. ibid., 1. Júdica me, Dómine, quóniam ego in innocéntia mea ingréssus sum: et in Dómino sperans, non infirmábor. ℣. Glória Patri.
Oratio. Præsta, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut fámilia tua, quæ se, affligéndo carnem, ab aliméntis ábstinet: sectándo justítiam, a culpa jejúnet. Per Dóminum.
Léctio Daniélis Prophétæ.
Dan. 9, 15-19.
In diébus illis: Orávit Dániel Dóminum, dicens: Dómine, Deus noster, qui eduxísti pópulum tuum de terra Ægýpti in manu forti, et fecísti tibi nomen secúndum diem hanc; peccávimus, iniquitátem fécimus, Dómine, in omnem justítiam tuam: avertátur, óbsecro, ira tua et furor tuus a civitáte tua Jerúsalem et monte sancto tuo. Propter peccáta enim nostra et iniquitátes patrum nostrórum. Jerúsalem et pópulus tuus in oppróbrium sunt ómnibus per circúitum nostrum. Nunc ergo exáudi, Deus noster, oratiónem servi tui et preces ejus: et osténde fáciem tuam super sanctuárium tuum, quod desértum est, propter temetípsum. Inclína, Deus meus, aurem tuam, et audi: áperi óculos tuos, et vide desolatiónem nostram et civitátem, super quam invocátum est nomen tuum: neque enim in justificatiónibus nostris prostérnimus preces ante fáciem tuam, sed in miseratiónibus tuis multis. Exáudi, Dómine, placáre, Dómine: atténde et fac: ne moréris propter temetípsum, Deus meus: quia nomen tuum invocátum est super civitátem et super pópulum tuum, Dómine, Deus noster.
Graduale. Ps. 69,6 et 3. Adjútor meus et liberátor meus esto: Dómine, ne tardáveris. ℣. Confundántur et revereántur inimíci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam.
Graduale. Ps. 69,6 et 3. Adjútor meus et liberátor meus esto: Dómine, ne tardáveris. ℣. Confundántur et revereántur inimíci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam.
Tractus. Ps. 102, 10. Dómine, non secúndum peccáta nostra, quæ fécimus nos: neque secúndum iniquitátes nostras retríbuas nobis. ℣. Ps. 78, 8-9. Dómine, ne memíneris iniquitátum nostrárum antiquárum: cito antícipent nos misericórdiæ tuæ, quia páuperes facti sumus nimis. [Hic genuflectitur] ℣. Adjuva nos, Deus, salutáris noster: et propter glóriam nóminis tui, Dómine, líbera nos: et propítius esto peccátis nostris, propter nomen tuum.
✠ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Joánnem.
Joann. 8, 21-29.
In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus turbis Judæórum: Ego vado, et quærétis me, et in peccáto vestro moriémini. Quo ego vado, vos non potéstis veníre. Dicébant ergo Judǽi: Numquid interfíciet semetípsum, quia dixit: Quo ego vado, vos non potéstis veníre? Et dicébat eis: Vos de deórsum estis, ego de supérnis sum. Vos de mundo hoc estis, ego non sum de hoc mundo. Dixi ergo vobis, quia moriémini in peccátis vestris: si enim non credidéritis, quia ego sum, moriémini in peccáto vestro. Dicébant ergo ei: Tu quis es? Dixit eis Jesus: Princípium, qui et loquor vobis. Multa habeo de vobis loqui et judicáre. Sed qui me misit, verax est: et ego quæ audívi ab eo, hæc loquor in mundo. Et non cognovérunt, quia Patrem ejus dicébat Deum. Dixit ergo eis Jesus: Cum exaltavéritis Fílium hóminis, tunc cognoscétis quia ego sum, et a meípso fácio nihil: sed, sicut dócuit me Pater, hæc loquor: et qui me misit, mecum est, et non relíquit me solum: quia ego, quæ plácita sunt ei, fácio semper.
O sinners! you who, so far, have turned a deaf ear to the admonitions of the Church, and have refused to be converted to the Lord your God, tremble at these words of Jesus: I go. If this Lent is to be spent like so many others, and leave you in your present state, are you not afraid of that terrible threat: You shall die in your sin? By remaining in your sins, you number yourselves with those who cried out against Jesus: Crucify him, Crucify him! Oh! if he chastised a whole people, a people that he had loaded with favours, and protected and saved innumerable times, think you, he will spare you? He must triumph.... (L'Année Liturgique)
Offertorium. Ps. 15, 7 et 8. Benedícam Dóminum, qui tríbuit mihi intelléctum: providébam Dóminum in conspéctu meo semper: quóniam a dextris est mihi, ne commóvear.
Secreta. Hæc hóstia, Dómine, placatiónis et laudis, tua nos protectióne dignos effíciat. Per Dóminum.
Communio. Ps. 8, 2. Dómine, Dóminus noster, quam admirábile est nomen tuum in univérsa terra!
Postcommunio. Hæc nos commúnio, Dómine, purget a crímine: et cœléstis remédii fáciat esse consórtes. Per Dóminum.
Oratio super populum. Humiliáte cápita vestra Deo. Adésto supplicatiónibus nostris, omnípotens Deus: et, quibus fidúciam sperándæ pietátis indúlges; consuétæ misericórdiæ tríbue benígnus efféctum. Per Dóminum.
Oratio super populum. Humiliáte cápita vestra Deo. Adésto supplicatiónibus nostris, omnípotens Deus: et, quibus fidúciam sperándæ pietátis indúlges; consuétæ misericórdiæ tríbue benígnus efféctum. Per Dóminum.
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As it happens, I chose the Mass to begin with here correctly earlier; it was bound to happen sooner or later, ha.
Introitus. Ps. 118, 95-96. Me exspectavérunt peccatóres, ut pérderent
me: testimónia tua. Dómine, intelléxi: omnis consummatiónis vidi finem: latum mandátum tuum nimis. Ps. ibid., 1. Beáti immaculáti in via: qui ámbulant in lege Dómini. ℣. Glória Patri.
Oratio. Da nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine, Deus noster, sanctarum Mártyrum tuárum Perpétuæ et Felicitátis palmas incessábili devotióne venerári: ut, quas digna mente non póssumus celebráre, humílibus saltem frequentémus obséquiis. Per Dóminum.
Léctio libri Sapiéntiæ.
Eccli. 51, 1-8 et 12.
Confitébor tibi, Dómine, Rex, et collaudábo te Deum, Salvatórem meum. Confitébor nómini tuo: quóniam adjútor et protéctor factus es mihi, et liberásti corpus meum a perditióne, a láqueo linguæ iníquæ
et a lábiis operántium mendácium, et in conspéctu astántium factus es mihi adjútor. Et liberásti me secúndum multitúdinem misericórdiæ nóminis tui a rugiéntibus, præparátis ad escam, de mánibus quæréntium ánimam meam, et de portis tribulatiónum, quæ circumdedérunt me: a pressúra flammæ, quæ circúmdedit me, et in
médio ignis non sum æstuáta: de altitúdine ventris ínferi, et a lingua coinquináta, et a verbo mendácii, a rege iníquo, et a lingua injústa: laudábit usque ad mortem ánima mea Dóminum: quóniam éruis sustinéntes te, et líberas eos de mánibus géntium, Dómine, Deus noster.
Graduale. Ps. 44, 8. Dilexísti justítiam, et odísti iniquitátem. ℣.
Proptérea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, óleo lætítiae.
Tractus. Veni, Sponsa Christi, áccipe corónam, quam tibi Dóminus præparávit in æternum: pro cujus amóre sánguinem tuum fudísti. ℣. Ps. 44, 8 et 5. Diléxisti justítiam, et odísti iniquitátem: proptérea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, óleo lætítiae præ consórtibus tuis. ℣. Spécie tua et pulchritúdine tua inténde, próspere procéde et regna.
✠ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum.
Matth. 13, 44-52.
In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis parábolam hanc: Símile est regnum cœlórum thesáuro abscóndito in agro: quem qui invénit homo, abscóndit, et præ gáudio illíus vadit, et vendit univérsa, quæ
habet, et emit agrum illum. Iterum símile est regnum cœlórum
homini negotiatóri, quærénti bonas margarítas. Invénta autem una pretiósa margaríta, ábiit, et véndidit ómnia, quæ hábuit, et emit eam. Iterum símile est regnum cœlórum sagénæ, missæ in mare et ex omni génere píscium cóngreganti. Quam, cum impléta esset educéntes, et secus litus sedéntes, elegérunt bonos in vasa, malos autem foras misérunt. Sic erit in consummatióne sǽculi: exíbunt Angeli, et separábunt malos de médio justórum, et mittent eos in camínum ignis: ibi erit fletus et stridor déntium. Intellexístis
hæc ómnia? Dicunt ei: Etiam. Ait illis: Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno cœlórum símilis est hómini patrifamílias, qui profert de thesáuro suo nova et vétera.
Offertorium. Ps. 44, 3. Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis: proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum, et in sǽculum sǽculi.
Secreta. Inténde, quǽsumus, Dómine, múnera altáribus tuis pro sanctárum Mártyrum tuárum Perpétuæ et Felicitatis festivitáte propósita: ut, sicut per hæc beáta mystéria illis glóriam contulísti; ita nobis indulgéntiam largiáris. Per Dóminum.
Communio. Ps. 118, 161-162. Príncipes persecúti sunt me gratis, et a verbis tuis formidávit cor meum: lætábor ego super elóquia tua, quasi qui invénit spólia multa.
Postcommunio. Mýsticis, Dómine, repléti sumus votis et gáudiis:
præsta, quǽsumus; ut intercessiónibus sanctárum Mártyrum tuárum Perpétuæ et Felicitátis, quæ temporáliter ágimus, spirituáliter consequámur. Per Dóminum.
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