Tuesday 15 July 2025 (other days)
Saint Swithun, Bishop
on Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time
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If you have already recited the Invitatory Psalm today, you should use the alternative opening.Dómine, lábia mea apéries.
Et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.
| Lord, open our lips.
And we shall praise your name.
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Christum, pastórum príncipem, veníte, adorémus.
(repeat antiphon*)
1Veníte, exsultémus Dómino;
iubilémus Deo salutári nostro.
2Præoccupémus fáciem eius in confessióne
et in psalmis iubilémus ei.
(repeat antiphon*)
3Quóniam Deus magnus Dóminus
et rex magnus super omnes deos.
4Quia in manu eius sunt profúnda terræ,
et altitúdines móntium ipsíus sunt.
5Quóniam ipsíus est mare, et ipse fecit illud,
et siccam manus eius formavérunt.
(repeat antiphon*)
6Veníte, adorémus et procidámus
et génua flectámus ante Dóminum, qui fecit nos,
7quia ipse est Deus noster,
et nos pópulus páscuæ eius et oves manus eius.
(repeat antiphon*)
8Utinam hódie vocem eius audiátis:
«Nolíte obduráre corda vestra,
9sicut in Meríba secúndum diem Massa in desérto,
ubi tentavérunt me patres vestri:
probavérunt me, etsi vidérunt ópera mea.
(repeat antiphon*)
10Quadragínta annis tæduit me generatiónis illíus,
et dixi: Pópulus errántium corde sunt isti.
11Et ipsi non cognovérunt vias meas;
ídeo iurávi in ira mea:
Non introíbunt in réquiem meam».
(repeat antiphon*)
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
(repeat antiphon*)
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Christ is the chief shepherd, the leader of his flock: come, let us adore him.
(repeat antiphon*)
Come, let us rejoice in the Lord,
let us acclaim God our salvation.
Let us come before him proclaiming our thanks,
let us acclaim him with songs.
(repeat antiphon*)
For the Lord is a great God,
a king above all gods.
For he holds the depths of the earth in his hands,
and the peaks of the mountains are his.
For the sea is his: he made it;
and his hands formed the dry land.
(repeat antiphon*)
Come, let us worship and bow down,
bend the knee before the Lord who made us;
for he himself is our God and we are his flock,
the sheep that follow his hand.
(repeat antiphon*)
If only, today, you would listen to his voice:
“Do not harden your hearts
as you did at Meribah,
on the day of Massah in the desert,
when your fathers tested me –
they put me to the test,
although they had seen my works.”
(repeat antiphon*)
“For forty years they wearied me,
that generation.
I said: their hearts are wandering,
they do not know my paths.
I swore in my anger:
they will never enter my place of rest.”
(repeat antiphon*)
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
(repeat antiphon*)
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* If you are reciting this on your own, you can choose to say the antiphon once only at the start of the psalm and not repeat it.
Christe, pastórum caput atque princeps,
géstiens huius celebráre festum,
débitas sacro pia turba psallit
cármine laudes,
Strénuum bello púgilem supérni
chrísmatis pleno tuus unxit intus
Spíritus dono, posuítque sanctam
páscere gentem.
Hic gregis ductor fuit atque forma,
lux erat cæco, mísero levámen,
próvidus cunctis pater omnibúsque
ómnia factus.
Christe, qui sanctis méritam corónam
reddis in cælis, dócili magístrum
fac sequi vita, similíque tandem
fine potíri.
Æqua laus summum célebret Paréntem
teque, Salvátor, pie rex, per ævum;
Spíritus Sancti résonet per omnem
glória mundum. Amen.
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Worship, glory, praise and honour
To our God, high-throned above:
We, with many generations
Join to praise thy name of love.
In the scriptures, by the Spirit,
May we see the Saviour’s face,
Hear his word and heed his calling,
Know his will and grow in grace.
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Ps 67:2-11
| Psalm 67 (68)
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Ps 67:12-24Deus noster, Deus ad salvándum; et Dómini sunt éxitus mortis.
12Dóminus dat verbum;*
vírgines annuntiántes bona sunt agmen ingens:
«13Reges exercítuum fúgiunt, fúgiunt,*
et spécies domus dívidit spólia.
14Et vos dormítis inter médias caulas:*
alæ colúmbæ nitent argénto, et pennæ eius pallóre auri.
15Dum dispérgit Omnípotens reges super eam,*
nive dealbátur Selmon».
16Mons Dei mons Basan,*
mons cacúminum mons Basan.
17Ut quid invidétis, montes cacúminum,†
monti, in quo beneplácitum est Deo inhabitáre?*
Etenim Dóminus habitábit in finem.
18Currus Dei decem mília mílium:*
Dóminus venit de Sínai in sancta.
19Ascendísti in altum, captívam duxísti captivitátem;†
accepísti in donum hómines,*
ut étiam rebélles hábitent apud Dóminum Deum.
20Benedíctus Dóminus die quotídie;*
portábit nos Deus salutárium nostrórum.
21Deus noster, Deus ad salvándum;*
et Dómini, Dómini éxitus mortis.
22Verúmtamen Deus confrínget cápita inimicórum suórum,*
vérticem capillátum perambulántium in delíctis suis.
23Dixit Dóminus: «Ex Basan redúcam,*
redúcam de profúndo maris,
24ut intingátur pes tuus in sánguine,*
lingua canum tuórum ex inimícis portiónem invéniat».
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Deus noster, Deus ad salvándum; et Dómini sunt éxitus mortis.
| Psalm 67 (68)This God of ours is a God who saves. The Lord holds the keys of death.
The Lord gives out the word,
and a great army of maidens brings the news:
“The kings of the armies are fleeing, they are fleeing,
and the fair one at home is dividing the spoils.
While you sleep among the sheepfolds,
the wings of the dove shine with silver,
her feathers glow with green gold.
Through her the Almighty scatters the kings,
and the mountain of Zalmon is white with snow.”
The mountain of Bashan is God’s mountain;
the mountain of God is a high-peaked mountain.
Why do you envy it, you high-peaked mountains,
envy the mountain that God has chosen?
The Lord will dwell there for ever.
The chariots of God are ten thousand thousand:
the Lord has come from Sinai to his holy sanctuary.
You have scaled the heights, you have taken captives,
you have received men as gifts
so that even the rebels live with the Lord God.
Blessings on the Lord, day after day!
God will carry us, God our saviour.
Our God is a God of salvation,
our Lord is a Lord who rescues from death.
Truly God will break the heads of his enemies,
take the scalps of those who tread the path of crime.
The Lord has spoken:
“I shall bring them back from Bashan,
I shall bring them back from the depths of the sea,
so that your feet may be dipped in blood
and the tongues of your dogs receive food from your enemies.”
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
This God of ours is a God who saves. The Lord holds the keys of death.
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Ps 67:25-36Regna terræ, cantáte Deo; psállite Dómino.
25Vidérunt ingréssus tuos, Deus,*
ingréssus Dei mei, regis mei in sancta.
†26Præcédunt cantóres,†
postrémi véniunt psalléntes,*
in médio iuvénculæ tympanístriæ.
«27In ecclésiis benedícite Deo,*
Dómino, vos de fóntibus Israel».
28Ibi Béniamin adulescéntulus ducens eos,†
príncipes Iudæ cum turma sua,*
príncipes Zábulon, príncipes Néphthali.
29Manda, Deus, virtúti tuæ;*
confírma hoc, Deus, quod operátus es in nobis.
30A templo tuo in Ierúsalem*
tibi áfferent reges múnera.
31Increpa feram arúndinis,†
congregatiónem taurórum in vítulis populórum,*
prostérnant se cum láminis argénti.
Díssipa gentes, quæ bella volunt.†
32Vénient optimátes ex Ægýpto,*
Æthiópia prævéniet manus suas Deo.
33Regna terræ, cantáte Deo, psállite Dómino,†
psállite Deo, 34qui fertur super cælum cæli ad oriéntem;*
ecce dabit vocem suam, vocem virtútis.
35Tribúite virtútem Deo.†
Super Israel magnificéntia eius*
et virtus eius in núbibus.
36Mirábilis, Deus, de sanctuário tuo!†
Deus Israel ipse tríbuet virtútem et fortitúdinem plebi suæ.*
Benedíctus Deus!
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Regna terræ, cantáte Deo; psállite Dómino.
| Psalm 67 (68)Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God, praise the Lord.
They have seen your processions, O God,
the processions of God, my king, to his sanctuary.
First came the singers, last the musicians,
between them the maidens playing their drums.
“Bless God in the assemblies:
bless the Lord, you who spring from Israel!”
There was young Benjamin, leading them,
the princes of Judah in their rich robes,
the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
O God, command in your strength;
make firm what you have achieved in us.
From your temple in Jerusalem,
kings shall bring you tribute.
Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds,
the herd of bulls, the lords of peoples.
Let them lie prostrate before you with tribute of silver.
Scatter the peoples that delight in war.
Nobles will come from Egypt,
Ethiopia will stretch out its hands to God.
Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;
celebrate the Lord.
Sing to God who rides on the highest heavens,
at the origin of all things.
Listen! – he speaks, a voice of power.
Acknowledge the strength of the Lord:
his majesty is over Israel,
his strength is in the clouds.
God inspires awe in his holy place;
he, the God of Israel, gives power to his people;
he gives them strength.
Blessed be God!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God, praise the Lord.
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℣. Audies de ore meo verbum.
℟. Et annuntiábis eis ex me.
| ℣. You will hear the word from my mouth.
℟. You will speak to them in my name.
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Dominus Eliæ se revelatIn diébus illis: 1Nuntiávit Achab Iézabel ómnia, quæ fécerat Elías et quómodo occidísset univérsos prophétas gládio. 2Misítque Iézabel núntium ad Elíam dicens: «Hæc mihi fáciant dii et hæc addant, nisi hac hora cras posúero ánimam tuam sicut ánimam uníus ex illis». 3Tímuit ergo Elías et surgens ábiit, ut ánimam suam salváret, venítque in Bersabée Iudæ et dimísit ibi púerum suum. 4Et perréxit in desértum via uníus diéi; cumque venísset et sedéret subter unam iuníperum, petívit ánimæ suæ, ut morerétur, et ait: «Súfficit mihi, Dómine! Tolle ánimam meam; neque enim mélior sum quam patres mei». 5Proiecítque se et obdormívit in umbra iuníperi; et ecce ángelus tétigit eum et dixit illi: «Surge, cómede!». 6Respéxit, et ecce ad caput suum subcinerícius panis et vas aquæ; comédit ergo et bibit et rursum obdormívit. 7Reversúsque est ángelus Dómini secúndo et tétigit eum dixítque illi: «Surge, cómede! Grandis enim tibi restat via». 8Qui, cum surrexísset, comédit et bibit et ambulávit in fortitúdine cibi illíus quadragínta diébus et quadragínta nóctibus usque ad montem Dei Horeb.
9Cumque venísset illuc, mansit in spelúnca. Et ecce sermo Dómini ad eum. 11Et ait ei: «Egrédere et sta in monte coram Dómino». Et ecce Dóminus transit, et ventus grandis et fortis subvértens montes et cónterens petras ante Dóminum: non in vento Dóminus. Et post ventum, commótio: non in commotióne Dóminus. 12Et post commotiónem, ignis: non in igne Dóminus. Et post ignem, síbilus auræ ténuis. 13Quod cum audísset Elías, opéruit vultum suum pállio et egréssus stetit in óstio spelúncæ; et ecce vox ad eum dicens: «Quid agis hic, Elía?». 14Et ille respóndit: «Zelo zelátus sum pro Dómino Deo exercítuum, quia dereliquérunt pactum tuum fílii Israel, altária tua destruxérunt et prophétas tuos occidérunt gládio: et derelíctus sum ego solus, et quærunt ánimam meam, ut áuferant eam».
15Et ait Dóminus ad eum: «Vade et revértere in viam tuam per desértum in Damáscum; cumque pervéneris, unges Házael regem super Sýriam, 16et Iehu fílium Namsi unges regem super Israel, Eliséum autem fílium Saphat, qui est de Abelméhula, unges prophétam pro te. 17Et erit: quicúmque fúgerit gládium Házael occídet eum Iehu, et qui fúgerit gládium Iehu interfíciet eum Eliséus. 18Et relínquam mihi in Israel septem mília: universórum génua, quæ non sunt incurváta ante Baal, et omne os, quod non osculátum est eum».
19Proféctus ergo inde répperit Eliséum fílium Saphat arántem duódecim iugis boum; et ipse cum duodécimo erat. Cumque venísset Elías ad eum, misit pállium suum super illum, 20qui statim, relíctis bobus, cucúrrit post Elíam et ait: «Osculer, oro, patrem meum et matrem meam, et sic sequar te». Dixítque ei: «Vade et revértere; quid enim feci tibi?».
21Revérsus autem ab eo tulit par boum et mactávit illud et in iugo boum coxit carnes et dedit pópulo, et comedérunt. Consurgénsque ábiit et secútus est Elíam et ministrábat ei.
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The Lord reveals himself to ElijahWhen Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to the sword, Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, ‘May the gods do this to me and more, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like the life of one of them!’ He was afraid and fled for his life. He came to Beersheba, a town of Judah, where he left his servant. He himself went on into the wilderness, a day’s journey, and sitting under a furze bush wished he were dead. ‘O Lord,’ he said ‘I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down and went to sleep. But an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat.’ He looked round, and there at his head was a scone baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. But the angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat, or the journey will be too long for you.’ So he got up and ate and drank, and strengthened by that food he walked for forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
There he went into the cave and spent the night in it. Then he was told, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.’ Then the Lord himself went by. There came a mighty wind, so strong it tore the mountains and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind came an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire. But the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there came the sound of a gentle breeze. And when Elijah heard this, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, which said, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ He replied, ‘I am filled with jealous zeal for the Lord of Hosts, because the sons of Israel have deserted you, broken down your altars and put your prophets to the sword. I am the only one left and they want to kill me.’
‘Go,’ the Lord said ‘go back by the same way to the wilderness of Damascus. You are to go and anoint Hazael as king of Aram. You are to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king of Israel, and to anoint Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel Meholah, as prophet to succeed you. Anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael will be put to death by Jehu; and anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu will be put to death by Elisha. But I shall spare seven thousand in Israel: all the knees that have not bent before Baal, all the mouths that have not kissed him.’
Leaving there, he came on Elisha son of Shaphat as he was ploughing behind twelve yoke of oxen, he himself being with the twelfth. Elijah passed near to him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left his oxen and ran after Elijah. ‘Let me kiss my father and mother, then I will follow you’ he said. Elijah answered, ‘Go, go back; for have I done anything to you?’ Elisha turned away, took the pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He used the plough for cooking the oxen, then gave to his men, who ate. He then rose, and followed Elijah and became his servant.
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℟. Dixit Dóminus ad Móysen: Cum transíbit glória mea, ponam te in forámine petræ et prótegam déxtera mea donec tránseam. * Non enim vidébit Deum homo et vivet.
℣. Deum nemo vidit umquam; unigénitus Deus, qui est in sinu Patris, ipse enarrávit. * Non enim.
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℟. The Lord said to Moses: While my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by;* for no mortal man may see God and live.
℣. No-one has ever seen God, but God’s only Son, who is nearest to the Father’s heart, has made him known;* for no mortal man may see God and live.
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Omnia in figura contingebant illisTe Apóstolus docet quóniam patres nostri omnes sub nube fuérunt et omnes mare transiérunt et omnes in Móysen baptizáti sunt in nube et in mari. Dénique et ipse Móyses dicit in cántico: Misísti spíritum tuum et coopéruit eos mare. Advértis quod in illo Hebræórum tránsitu iam tunc sacri baptísmatis figúra præcésserit, in quo Ægýptius intériit et Hebrǽus evásit. Quid enim áliud in hoc cotídie sacraménto docémur, nisi quia culpa demérgitur et error abolétur, píetas autem et innocéntia tota pertránsit?
Audis quia sub nube fuérunt patres nostri, et bona nube quæ carnálium refrigerávit incéndia passiónum, bona nube: obúmbrat quos revísit Spíritus Sanctus. Dénique supervénit in Maríam Vírginem, et virtus Altíssimi obumbrávit ei, quando redemptiónem genti generávit humánæ. Et illud miráculum per Móysen in figúra factum est. Si ergo in figúra fuit Spíritus, non adest in veritáte cum Scriptúra tibi dicat quia lex per Móysen data est, grátia autem et véritas per Iesum Christum facta est?
Mara fons amárus erat, misit in eum Móyses lignum et dulcis est factus. Aqua enim sine prædicatióne domínicæ crucis ad nullos usus futúræ salútis est; cum vero salutáris fúerit crucis mystério consecráta, tunc ad usum spiritális lavácri et salutáris póculi temperátur. Sicut ergo in illum fontem Móyses lignum misit, hoc est prophéta, et in hunc fontem sacérdos prædicatiónem domínicæ crucis mittit et aqua fit ad grátiam dulcis.
Non ergo solis córporis tui credas óculis: magis vidétur quod non vidétur, quia istud temporále illud ætérnum. Magis aspícitur quod óculis non comprehénditur, ánimo autem ac mente cérnitur.
Dénique dóceat te decúrsaRegnórum léctio. Náaman Syrus erat et lepram habébat nec ab ullo mundári póterat. Tunc ait puélla ex captívis quóniam esset prophéta in Israel qui posset eum a lepræ contagióne mundáre. Sumpto, inquit, auro et argénto perréxit ad regem Israel. Qui, cógnita advéntus eius causa, scidit vestiménta sua, dicens quod tentarétur magis cum de se ea quæ non essent potestátis régiæ posceréntur. Eliséus autem regi intimávit ut ad se dirígeret Syrum, quo cognósceret quod esset Deus in Israel. Et cum venísset, mandávit ei ut sépties mérgeret in Iordáne flúvio. Tunc ille secum tractáre cœpit quod melióres aquas flúmina habérent pátriæ suæ in quibus sæpe mersísset et numquam a lepra esset ablútus, eóque revocátus non obœdiébat mandátis prophétæ. Sed admónitu et persuasiónibus servulórum acquiévit et mersit, mundatúsque íllico intelléxit non aquárum esse quod unusquísque mundátur, sed grátiæ.
Et ille dubitávit ántequam sanarétur; tu iam sanátus es et ídeo dubitáre non debes.
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The many prefigurations of baptism in ScriptureListen to the Apostle’s teaching: For all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. Moreover, Moses himself sings in triumph You sent your Spirit and the sea covered them. As you see, holy baptism was prefigured even then at the crossing of the sea, where the Egyptians perished but the Hebrews escaped. What else, after all, are we daily taught about baptism? That with the immersion in water, guilt is swallowed up and error done away with, but that virtue and innocence remain unharmed.
You hear that our fathers were under the cloud, a kindly cloud which cooled the heat of carnal passions. That kindly cloud overshadows those whom the Holy Spirit visits. Finally it came upon the Virgin Mary, and the Power of the Most High overshadowed her, when she conceived Redemption for the race of men. The miracle worked by Moses was a prefiguration of this miracle. But then – if the Spirit was in the figure, how can he not be present in the reality? As Scripture says, The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Marah was a spring of unendurably bitter water: Moses threw wood into it and it became sweet. For you see: water without the preaching of the Cross of the Lord is of no use for future salvation, but, after it has been consecrated by the mystery of the wood of the saving Cross, it is made suitable for the use of the spiritual cleansing and of the cup of salvation. So as Moses (that is, the prophet) threw wood into that fountain, so the priest utters over this font the proclamation of the Lord’s cross, and the water is made sweet for the purpose of grace.
You must not trust, then, wholly to your bodily eyes. What is not seen is in reality seen more clearly; for what we see with our eyes is temporal whereas what is eternal (and invisible to the eye) is discerned by the mind and spirit.
There is a final lesson to be learned from the book of the Kings which we have just been reading. Naaman was a Syrian, and suffered from leprosy, and there was no-one who could cleanse him. Then a maiden from among the captives said that there was a prophet in Israel, who could cleanse him from the defilement of the leprosy. And it is said that, having taken silver and gold, Naaman went to the king of Israel. And the king, when he heard why Naaman had come, tore his garments, saying that this was an attempt to put him in the wrong, since healing leprosy was not in the power of kings. Elisha, however, sent word to the king that he should send the Syrian to him, so that he might know there was a God in Israel. And when he had come, he told him to dip himself seven times in the river Jordan.
Naaman doubted until the time when he was cleansed; but you are cleansed by now, and so you should not have doubts.
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℟. Abstulit Dóminus sicut oves pópulum suum et dedúxit eos in spe et non timuérunt;* Et inimícos eórum opéruit mare.
℣. Omnes in Móyse baptizáti sunt in nube et in mari.* Et inimícos.
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℟. The Lord led out his own people like sheep. He led them in safety and they were not afraid,* and the sea closed over their enemies.
℣. They all received baptism into the fellowship of Moses in cloud and sea,* and the sea closed over their enemies.
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Oremus.
Deus, qui beátum N. divína caritáte flagrántem fidéque, quæ vincit mundum, insígnem sanctis pastóribus mirabíliter aggregásti, præsta, quǽsumus, ut, ipso intercedénte, nos quoque, in fide et caritáte perseverántes, eius glóriæ consórtes fíeri mereámur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum,
qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus,
per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
| Let us pray.
God our Father,
in Saint Swithun your Bishop you gave a light to your faithful people.
You made him a pastor of the Church
to feed your sheep with his word
and to teach them by his example.
Help us by his prayers
to keep the faith he taught
and follow the way of life he showed us.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Benedicámus Dómino.
– Deo grátias.
| Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.
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