Vexilla Regis Author:Robert Hugh Benson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TUESDAY [Intention: For the dying, the wounded, and those who tend them.] |J In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Our Fa... more »ther. Hail Mary. I believe. T. O God, come to my assistance. bj. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia. Ant. Hear my cry, 0 Lord. Ps. Ixxxvii. Domine, Deus salutis. OLORD, the God of my salvation : I have cried in the day, and in the night before Thee. Let my prayer come in before Thee : incline Thy ear to my petition. For my soul is filled with evils : and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom Thou rememberest no more : and they are cast off from Thy hand. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. Thy wrath is strong over me : and all Thy waves Thou hast brought in upon me. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me : they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth : my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to Thee, O Lord : I stretched out my hands to Thee. Wilt Thou shew wonders to the dead ? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to Thee ? Shall any one in the sepulchre declare Thy mercy: and Thy truth in destruction ? Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark; and Thy justice in the land of for- getfulness ? But I, O Lord, have cried to Thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent Thee. Lord, why easiest Thou off my prayer : why turnest Thou away Thy fa...« less