The smoke of the incense ascended up before the Lord.

Answer. The smoke of the incense ascended up before the Lord

Verse. Out of the Angel's hand.
Answer. Before the Lord.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Answer. The smoke of the incense ascended up before the Lord.

Verse. Before the Angels will I sing praise unto Thee, O my God.

Answer. I will worship toward Thy holy Temple, and praise Thy Name.

NONE.

Antiphon. O ye Angels, &c., (Fifth Antiphon at Lauds.)

Chapter as at the end of Prime.

Short Responsory.

Before the Angels will I sing praise unto Thee, O my God.

Answer. Before the Angels will I sing praise unto Thee, O my God.

Verse. I will worship toward Thy holy Temple, and praise Thy Name.

Answer. O my God.

Verse. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Answer. Before the Angels will I sing praise unto Thee, O my God. Verse. Worship God. Answer. All ye His Angels.

SECOND VESPERS.

All as the First, except the following.

Last Psalm.

Ps. cxxxviii. I will praise Thee, &c., (p. 164.)

Verse. Before the Angels will I sing praise unto Thee, O my God.

Answer. I will worship toward Thy holy Temple, and praise Thy Name.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed Virgin. O thou Prince most glorious, Michael the Archangel, remember usand here, and everywhere, alway entreat for us the countenance of the Son of God. Alleluia, Alleluia.

A Commemoration is made of the following. Antiphon, "O right excellent, &c." Prayer from Lauds.

was the son of one Eusebius, JEROME and was born at Sdrigni, [a small town upon the confines] of Dalmatia, in the reign of the Emperor Constantius. He was baptized at Rome when a lad, and studied there, under the instruction of Donatus and other very learned personages. He travelled in Gaul for the sake of improving his mind, and there sought the friendship of divers godly men learned in the Scriptures, and made with his own hand many copies of the holy books. He afterwards betook himself to Greece, where he attained eminence as a philosopher and orator, in the following of the most

Upon the place and date (which latter

famous theologians. At Constantinople, in especial, he sat at the feet of Gregory of Nazianzus, from whom he professeth himself to have learnt his theology. Then, for godliness' sake, he went to see the home of the Lord Christ, and so throughout all Palestine. He witnesseth that this pilgrimage, wherein he got the help of the most learned of the Jews for the understanding of the Holy Scriptures, did him much good.

Fifth Lesson.

withdrew himself into the wild

He deserts of Syria, where he passed four years in studying the Holy Scriptures and in considering the blessedness of heaven, afflicting his body by alway denying himself, by bitter tears, and by chastisement of the flesh. He was ordained Priest by Paulinus, Patriarch of Antioch. He went to Rome on account of the quarrelling of certain Bishops with Paulinus and Epiphanius, and there helped Pope Damasus in the writing of his letters upon Church affairs. But the longing for his old solitude came upon him, and he went back to Palestine, where, in the monastery at Bethlehem, built beside the cradle of the Lord Christ by the Lady Paula of Rome, he set himself to enter on earth upon the life of heaven, serving God in reading and writing without ceasing, regardless of the sufferings of a body tormented by divers diseases and pains.

Sixth Lesson.

HARD questions upon the interpreta

tion of the Holy Scripture were sent to him from all parts of the earth, as to an oracle. He was oftentimes consulted by Pope Damasus and by the holy Augustine upon the meaning of the most obscure passages of the Scriptures, because of his extraordinary learning, and that he knew not the Latin and Greek tongues only, but also the Hebrew and Chaldee, and, as the same Augustine testifieth, had read nearly all writers. He attacked heretics with keen publications, and ever undertook the defence of the godly and Catholic. He translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into Latin, and,

at the command of Damasus, reformed, according to the original Greek, the existing version of the New. Upon great part of the Scriptures he wrote commentaries. He translated likewise into Latin the works of many learned men, and himself contributed to the Christian life many monuments of his own wit. He lived to an extreme old age, and passed away to heaven, famous for learning and holiness, in the reign of the Emperor Honorius, [upon the 30th day of September, in the year of our Lord 420.] His body was buried at Bethlehem, but hath since been brought to Rome, where it lieth in the Church of St. Mary-at-the-Manger.1

THIRD NOCTURN.

Seventh Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew (v. 13.)

T that time: JESUS said unto His disciples: Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? And so on.

Homily by St. Jerome, Priest [at Bethlehem.] (Book i. Comm. on Matth. v.)

Apostles and teachers are called salt, for it is by them that the whole mass of mankind is seasoned. "But if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?" If the teacher have gone astray, by what other teacher is he to be corrected? "It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." This is a figure taken from farming. Salt is used to savour food withal, and to preserve meat, but it hath no other use. In sooth, we read in the Scriptures of some cities which were sown with salt in the fury of their conquerors, that no bud of life might ever spring there again.

Eighth Lesson.

LET teachers and Bishops, then, look

well to it, seeing that "mighty men shall be mightily tormented,' (Wisd. vi. 7.) And there is no help for

them, but they fall into hell with a greater crash.

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that it may give light unto all that are in the house." Here He teacheth boldness in preaching, lest the Apostles should shrink away from fear, and be like unto candles under a bushel; but contrariwise should come forward with all freedom, and should proclaim upon the house-tops that which had been spoken in the ear in closets. (Luke xii. 3.)

Eighth Responsory.

In the midst of the congregation, &c., (p. 860.)

Ninth Lesson.

"THINK not that I am come to destroy

the Law or the Prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." The meaning is, either that He was come to fulfil those things which others had prophesied concerning Him, or that He was come to give the full measure of those things which had been spoken darkly and imperfectly on account of the weakness of their hearers, making away with anger, forbidding to take eye for eye and tooth for tooth, and condemning the secret lusting of the heart.

"Till heaven and earth pass, [one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled.]" But there are promised unto us new heavens and a new earth, which the Lord God shall make. And if new things are to be created, old things must pass away.

Prayer throughout the Office.

GOD, Who wast pleased to give unto Thy Church Thy blessed Confessor Jerome to be unto her a great teacher in the way of expounding Thine Holy Scriptures, be entreated, we beseech Thee, for that Thy servant's sake, and grant unto us the strength to put in practice what he taught both by his doctrine and by his life. Through our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth

and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

SECOND VESPERS.

Antiphon at the Song of the Blessed Virgin. O right excellent, &c.

A Commemoration is made of St. Remy. Prayer, "Grant, we beseech Thee, &c.," (p. 849.)

FEAST-DAYS IN OCTOBER.

On the first day on which nine Lessons are not read, is said the Office of the Dead.

OCTOBER 1.

St. Remy, Archbishop of
Rheims, Confessor.

Simple, but may be said as a Semidouble if the reciter pleases, unless it fall on a Sunday or within an Octave.

All from the Common Office for a Bishop and Confessor, (p. 854,) except the following.

MATTINS.

The first verse of the Hymn is altered.

First and Second Lessons from Scripture, according to the Season.

Third Lesson.

'REMY, Archbishop of Rheims, flou

rished in the time of Klodwig, King of the Franks, whom he baptized, and was the first who, by his preaching and miracles, brought the Franks to believe in the Lord Christ. At his prayers, a dead maiden was raised to life. He expounded many books of the Holy Scriptures. He ministered to the Church of Rheims with the utmost acceptance for above three score and ten years, and the holiness of his life and death were witnessed by many signs and wonders which befell afterward.

Prayer throughout the day, "Grant, we beseech Thee, &c.," (p. 849.)

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Second Antiphon. My God hath sent His Angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me.

Ps. x. In the LORD, &c., (p. 8.)

Third Antiphon. Go prosperously, and the Lord be with you in your journey, and His Angel keep you company.

Ps. xv. LORD, who shall abide, &c., (p. 10.)

Verse. An Angel stood at the Altar of the Temple,

Answer. Having a golden censer in his hand.

If by any circumstance the Book of Esther would be to be begun on this day, it is so done, instead of the following Lessons.

First Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of Exodus (xxiii. 20.)

BEHOLD, I send Mine Angel before

thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, and think not lightly of him. For he will not pardon your transgressions; and My Name is in him. But if thou wilt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries, and Mine Angel shall go before thee.

5 Dan. vi. 22.

• Gen. xxiv. 7.

7 Apoc. viii. 3.

First Responsory.

'God hath given His Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest haply thou dash thy foot against a

stone.

Verse. Thousands of thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times hundreds of thousands stood before Him.

Answer. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Second Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Book of the Prophet Zechariah (i. 7.) THE Word of the LORD came unto

Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the Prophet, saying: saw by night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse; and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom. And behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. Then said I: O my lord, what are these? And the angel that spake in me said unto me: I will show thee what these be. And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered, and said: These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said: We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.

Second Responsory.

Then the angel of the LORD answered, and said: 0 LORD of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, against which Thou hast had indignation

Verse. These three score and ten years?

Answer. How long wilt Thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, against which Thou hast had indignation?

1 Ps. xc. 11, 12.

Third Lesson. (ii.)

LIFTED up mine eyes again, and looked. And, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I: Whither_goest thou? And he said unto me: To measure Jerusalem, and see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. And, behold, the angel that talked in me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, and said unto him: Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as a town without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle therein. For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be in glory in the midst of her.

First Antiphon. When I came unto you, by the will of God I came; bless Him, and give Him thanks.

Ps. xviii. The heavens declare, &c., (p. 16.)

Second Antiphon. The Angel of the Lord, which went before the camp of Israël, removed, and went behind them.

Ps. xxiii. The earth is the LORD'S, &c., (p. 124.)

Third Antiphon. The Angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.

Ps. xxxiii. I will bless the LORD, &c., (p. 26.)

Verse. The smoke of the incense ascended up before the LordAnswer. Out of the Angel's hand.

Cf. Baruch vi. 3-6. 7 Ps. xxxiii. 8.

6 Exod. xiv. 19.