Dom Guéranger's 'The Liturgical Year - THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT - Vespers

The Psalms and Antiphons are given above.

CAPITULUM

Fratres: Estote imitatoros Dei, sicut filii charissimi: et ambulate in dilectione, sicut et Chritus dilexit nos, et tradidit semetipsum pro nobis, oblationem et hostiam Deo in odorem suavitatis.

Brethren: Be ye followers of God, as most dear children and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

For the hymn and Versicle, see above.

ANTIPHON OF THE MAGNIFICAT

Extollens vocem quaedam mulier de turba, dixit: Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera quae suxisti. At Jesus ait illi: Quinimo beati qui audiunt verbum Dei, et custodiunt illud.

A certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But Jesus said to her: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

OREMUS. Quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, vota humilium respice: atque ad defensionem nostram, dexteram tuae majestatis extende. Per Dominum.

LET US PRAY. Be attentive, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, to the prayers of thy servants, and stretch forth the arm of thy divine Majesty in our defence. Through, &c.

 

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The Mozarabic Breviary offers its this beautiful Prayer for the commencement of the third week of Lent.

PRAYER

(In Dominica III. Quadragesimae.)

Quarti nunc et decimi diei de nostrorum dierum decimis curriculo jam peracto, ad te levamus oculos nostros, Domine, qui habitas in coelis; impende jam et misericordiam miseris, et medelam porrige vulneratis; tu nobis adgressum iter placidum effice: tu cor nostrum in mandatorum tuorum semitis dirige: per te lucis inveniamus viam: per te luminosa amoris tui capiamus incendia; tu laboribus requiem, tu laborantibus tribue mansionem; ut horum dierum observatione tibi placentes, gloriae tuae mereamur esse participes.

Having now passed the fourteenth day of this Season, which forms the tithe of one year, we lift up our eves to thee, O Lord, who dwellest in heaven. Show mercy to the miserable, and heal them that are wounded. Grant that the journey we have begun, may be prosperous. Direct our hearts in the way of thy commandments. Through thee may we find the way of light; through thee may we be inflamed with the bright burning of thy love. Grant rest to our labours, and a home to us that labour; that having gained thy good-pleasure by our observance of these days, we may deserve to be partakers of thy glory.