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we may be made worthy digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi. of the promises of Christ.

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Let us pray. Omnipotens sempiterne.

Almighty and eternal God, who, by the co-operation of the Holy Ghost, didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin Mary, that she might become an habitation worthy of thy Son: grant that as with joy we celebrate her memory, so, by her pious intercession, we may be delivered from present evils and R. Amen. eternal death. Thro' the same.

V. May the divine as

V. Divinum auxilium sistance always remain with maneat semper nobiscum.

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I Hoped, therefore have I

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spoken; though I was

brought exceeding low.

REDIDI,propter quod

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Clocutus sum; ego

autem humiliatus sum nimis.

I said in my surprize; * Ego dixi in excessu meo ;

all mankind are liars.

What shall I render to

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the Lord, for all he hath done for me?

* omnis homo mendax.

Quid retribuam Domino,

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+ Expl, The Lord will be ever true to his promise.

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Expl. I will pour out a libation on his altar in thanksgiving for his having saved me.

+ Lit. We were. But the context directs it to be in the future, and St. Augustin interprets the whole psalm of our future and final deliverance from the bondage of corruption,

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LORD, thou hast tried

me, and hast known me; * thou hast known my sitting down, and rising up.t

Thou hast known my thoughts afar off;*my path and my line hast thou examined.

And thou hast foreseen all my ways;*when there was no speech on my tongue.

Behold, O Lord, thou knowest all things, the last, and those of old;*thou formedst me, and laid'st thy hand upon me.

Thy knowledge is too wonderful for me;*it is great, and I cannot reach it.

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§ Expl. Bring back thy people from their captivity, which will fill them with joy, as a torrent of fresh water doth the inhabitants of the hot, burnt-up countries of the south.

+ Expl. Both at rest, and in action. My conduct of life, the rule of my actions. 'Tis an allusion to the line and plummet of the mason. Expl. Even in the womb of my mother, as soon as I was formed, thou laid'st hold of me, as thy own.

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And I said; perhaps darkness may conceal me;* even night itself will shine on me in my pleasures.

For darkness shall not be dark to thee and the night shall be light as day;*the darkness of the one and the light of the other are the same to thee.

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For thou art in possession of my reins † ; thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.

I will acknowledge to thee, that thou art awful in thy greatness ;* wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth it right well.

Not a bone of mine is hid from thee, which thou formedst in secret ; and my whole substance in the lower parts of the earth§.

Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book were all parts written ;*they were formed day

Quò ibo a spiritu tuo ? * et quò a facie tua fugiam?

Si ascendero in cœlum, tú illic es; * si descendero in infernum, ades.

Si sumpsero pennas meas diluculo, et habitavero in extremis maris;

Etenim illuc manus tua deducet me; et tenebit me dextera tua.

Et dixi, forsitan tenebræ conculcabunt me; * et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.

Quia tenebræ non obscurabuntur a te, et nox sicut dies illuminabitur; * sicut tenebræ ejus, ita et lumen ejus.

Quia tu possedisti renes meos: * suscepisti me de utero matris meæ.

Confitebor tibi, quia terribiliter magnificatus es; * mirabilia opera tua, et anima mea cognoscit nimis.

Non est occultatum os meum a te, quod fecisti in occulto ;* et substantia mea in inferioribus terræ.

Imperfectum meum viderunt occuli tui, et in libro tuo omnes scribentur ; * dies formabuntur, et nemo

+ Expl. Thou hast always known the most secret thoughts of my soul. Expl. In the womb of my mother, as much secreted from the sight of man, as if in the bowels of the earth.

by day, and none of them in eis. before.

But to me, O God, thy friends are exceeding honourable ;*exceeding mighty is their power.

I will set about to number them, but they will be found more than the sands of the sea; * I rose up, and am still with thee. ||

If thou, O God, wilt kill the wicked; * ye men of blood begone from me.

Because you say in your thoughts; they shall receive thy cities in vain.§

Lord, have I not hated them that hated thee? * and pined away at thy enemies?

I have hated them with a perfect hatred; and they are become enemies

to me.

Try me, O God, and know my heart; * examine me, and know my paths.

And see if a way of iniquity be in me; and lead me in the everlasting way.

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Mihi autem nimis honorificati sunt amici tui, Deus ; * nimis confortatus est principatus eorum.

Dinumerabo eos, et super arenam multiplicabuntur; * exurrexi, et adhuc sum tecum.

Si occideris, Deus, peccatores; * viri sanguinum declinate a me.

Quia dicitis in cogitatione; * accipient in vani

tate civitates tuas.

Nonne qui oderunt te, Domine, oderam ? * et super inimicos tuos tabescebam ?

Perfecto odio oderam illos: * et inimici facti sunt mihi.

Proba me, Deus, et scito cor meum ;* interroga me, et cognosce semitas meas.

Et vide si via iniquitatis in me est ;*deduc me in viâ æternâ,

Psalm cxxxi.

EMEMBER David, O

Lord; * and all his MEMENTO, Domine

meekness in suffering.

David; * et omnis

mansuetudinis ejus.

Expl. Thou didst behold me, when I was still an embryo in the womb of my mother. Every part of my body was noted down, as it were in a book: the formation was progressive day after day, and no part completed before its appointed time.

Expl. I attempted it, but was still where I was, lost in the contemplation of thy power.

§ Expl. All the promises of an eternal abode in heaven are vain to the wicked.

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