The Feast of the Transfiguration
Matins
O Lord, open thou my lips.
*And my mouth shall show forth thy praise*.
O God, make speed to save me.
*O Lord, make haste to help me*.
Glory be, &c.
As it was, &c. Amen. Hallelujah.
(a) Invitatory
Let us worship Christ Most High, the King of Glory.
Let us worship, &c.
Psalm 95.
O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice
in the strength of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and
show ourselves glad in him with psalms.
Let us worship Christ, &c.
For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all
gods.
In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the
strength of the hills is his also.
The King of Glory.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the
dry land.
O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before
the Lord our Maker;
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his
pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Let us worship Christ, &c.
Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the
wilderness.
When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw my
works.
The King of Glory.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and
said: It is a people that do err in their hearts: for they have
not known my ways.
Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they should not
enter into my rest.
Let us worship Christ, &c.
Glory be, &c.
The King of Glory.
Let us worship Christ Most High, the King of Glory.
(b) Hymn
[Quicunque
Christum quæ-
ritis.]
O ye who seek the Lord,
Lift up your eyes on high,
For there He doth the sign accord
Of His bright majesty.
We see a wondrous sight
That shall outlive all time,
Older than depth and starry height,
Limitless and sublime.
‘Tis He for Israel's fold
And heathen tribes decreed,
The King to Abraham pledged of old
And his eternal seed.
Prophets foretold His birth,
And witness'd when He came;
The Father speaks to all the earth,
To hear, and fear His name.
To Jesus, who displays
To babes His beaming face,
Be, with the Father, endless praise,
And with the Spirit of grace. *Amen*.
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Nocturn I.
(c) Antiphon
Thou madest Him a little lower than the Angels, to crown
Him with glory and worship. Thou makest Him to have
dominion of the works of Thy hands.
Psalm 8. (1)
O Lord our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all
the world thou hast set thy glory above the heavens!
Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou
ordained strength, because of thine enemies: that thou
mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
For I will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy
fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him: and the son
of man, that thou visitest him?
Thou madest him lower than the angels: to crown him
with glory and worship.
Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy
hands: and thou hast put all things in subjection under his
feet;
All sheep and oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field;
The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and what-
soever walketh through the paths of the seas.
O Lord our Governor: how excellent is thy Name in all
the world! Glory be, &c.
(c) Antiphon
Thou madest Him a little lower than the angels, to crown
Him with glory and worship. Thou makest Him to have
dominion of the works of Thy hands.
(d) Antiphon
The Lord discovereth the thick bushes: in His temple
doth every man speak of His honour.
Psalm 29. (2)
Bring unto the Lord, O ye mighty, bring your rams unto
the Lord: ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength.
Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name: worship the
Lord with holy worship.
It is the Lord that commandeth the waters: it is the glo-
rious God that maketh the thunder.
It is the Lord that ruleth the seas; the voice of the Lord
is mighty in operation: the voice of the Lord is a glorious
voice.
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar trees: yea, the
Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus.
He maketh them also to skip like a calf: Libanus also, and
Sirion, like a young unicorn.
The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire; the voice
of the Lord shaketh the wilderness: yea, the Lord shaketh
the wilderness of Cades.
The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring forth
young, and discovereth the thick bushes: in his temple doth
every man speak of his honour.
The Lord sitteth above the water-flood: and the Lord re-
maineth a King for ever.
The Lord shall give strength unto his people: the Lord
shall give his people the blessing of peace. Glory be, &c.