Roman Breviary, 1954 (Divino Afflatu)

Friday, 6 November 2026

Sexta die infra Octavam Omnium SanctorumSixth Day Within the Octave of All Saints

Semiduplex

Lectio I

Lesson I

De Ezechiéle Prophéta

Lesson from the book of Ezekiel

Ezek 15:1-5

Et factus est sermo Dómini ad me, dicens: Fili hóminis, quid fiet de ligno vitis, ex ómnibus lignis némorum, quæ sunt inter ligna silvárum? Numquid tollétur de ea lignum, ut fiat opus, aut fabricábitur de ea paxíllus, ut depéndeat in eo quodcúmque vas? Ecce igni datum est in escam: utrámque partem ejus consúmpsit ignis, et medíetas ejus redácta est in favíllam. Numquid útile erit ad opus? Etiam cum esset íntegrum, non erat aptum ad opus: quanto magis cum illud ignis devoráverit et combússerit: nihil ex eo fiet óperis?

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests? Shall wood be taken of if, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon? Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work? Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of it?

℟. Super muros tuos, Jerúsalem, constítui custódes; * Tota die et nocte non tacébunt laudáre nomen Dómini.

℟. I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; * Which shall never hold their peace day nor night, to praise the name of the Lord.

℣. Prædicábunt pópulis fortitúdinem meam, et annuntiábunt géntibus glóriam meam.

℣. They shall proclaim My might unto the nations, and declare My glory unto the Gentiles.

℟. Tota die et nocte non tacébunt laudáre nomen Dómini.

℟. Which shall never hold their peace day nor night, to praise the name of the Lord.

Lectio II

Lesson II

Ezek 15:6-8

Proptérea hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Quómodo lignum vitis inter ligna silvárum, quod dedi igni ad devorándum, sic tradam habitatóres Jerúsalem. Et ponam fáciem meam in eos: de igne egrediéntur, et ignis consúmet eos: et sciétis quia ego Dóminus, cum posúero fáciem meam in eos, Et dédero terram ínviam et desolátam, eo quod prævaricatóres exstíterint, dicit Dóminus Deus.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them. And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.

℟. Muro tuo inexpugnábili circumcínge nos, Dómine, et armis tuæ poténtiæ prótege nos semper: * Líbera, Dómine, Deus Israël, clamántes ad te.

℟. Hedge us about with thy wall that cannot be broken down, O Lord, and shield us continually with the arms of thy might. * O Lord God of Israel, deliver them that cry unto thee.

℣. Erue nos in mirabílibus tuis, et da glóriam nómini tuo.

℣. Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works, and give glory to thy Name.

℟. Líbera, Dómine, Deus Israël, clamántes ad te.

℟. O Lord God of Israel, deliver them that cry unto thee.

Lectio III

Lesson III

Ezek 16:1-5

Et factus est sermo Dómini ad me, dicens: Fili hóminis, notas fac Jerúsalem abominatiónes suas, Et dices: Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus Jerúsalem: Radix tua et generátio tua de terra Chánaan, pater tuus Amorrhǽus, et mater tua Cethǽa. Et quando nata es, in die ortus tui, non est præcísus umbilícus tuus, et aqua non es lota in salútem, nec sale salíta, nec involúta pannis. Non pepércit super te óculus, ut fáceret tibi unum de his, misértus tui, sed projécta es super fáciem terræ in abjectióne ánimæ tuæ, in die qua nata es.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite. And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with clouts. No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.

℟. Sustinúimus pacem, et non venit: quæsívimus bona, et ecce turbátio: cognóvimus, Dómine, peccáta nostra; * Non in perpétuum obliviscáris nos.

℟. We looked for peace, and it came not we asked for good, and behold trouble. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness. * Forget us not for ever.

℣. Peccávimus, ímpie géssimus, iniquitátem fécimus, Dómine, in omnem justítiam tuam.

℣. O Lord (our God) we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.

℟. Non in perpétuum obliviscáris nos.

℟. Forget us not for ever.

℣. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

℟. Non in perpétuum obliviscáris nos.

℟. Forget us not for ever.

Lectio IV

Lesson IV

Sermo sancti Bernardi Abbatis

From the Sermons of St. Bernard, Abbot (of Clairvaux)

Serm. 2 de Festo Omn. Sanct.

2nd for All Saints' Day

Quia Sanctorum omnium festivam hodie, dilectissimi, omnique dignissimam devotione memoriam celebramus, operæ pretium puto, de communi eorum felicitate, in qua beata jam requie perfruuntur, et futura quam præstolantur consummatione adjuvante Spiritu sancto, sermonem facere caritati vestræ. Fidelis quippe sermo, et omni acceptione dignus: ut quos solemni veneratione prosequimur, étiam simili conversatione sequamur: quos beatissimos prædicamus, ad eorum beatitudinem tota aviditate curramus: quorum delectamur præconiis, sublevemur eorum patrociniis.

Dearly beloved brethren, since we keep on this day the memory of all the Saints, that memory so joyous and so worthy of all our thoughts, it seemeth to me worth the while, the Holy Ghost helping me, to address to your kind indulgence some remarks upon that happiness which they are all enjoying in blessed restfulness, and that final consummation they are awaiting. It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that if we thus solemnly honour them, we should follow the example of their conversation; if we proclaim them so blessed, we should strive our best to reach the same blessedness; if we are well pleased to hear them praised, we should be bettered by their prayers.

℟. Præcúrsor Dómini venit, de quo ipse testátur: * Nullus major inter natos mulíerum Joánne Baptísta.

℟. The Fore-runner of the Lord cometh, to whom He Himself bare witness, saying: * Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.

℣. Hic est enim prophéta, et plus quam prophéta, de quo Salvátor ait.

℣. A Prophet? Yea, and much more than a Prophet. This is he of whom the Saviour saith:

℟. Nullus major inter natos mulíerum Joánne Baptísta.

℟. Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.

Lectio V

Lesson V

Sermo 5. de eodem Festo, circa medium.

Ad quid ergo Sanctis laus nostra? ad quid glorificatio nostra? ad quid nostra hæc ipsa solemnitas? Quo eis terrenos honores, quos juxta veracem Filii promissionem honorificat Pater cælestis? Quo eis præconia nostra? Pleni sunt. Prorsus ita est, dilectissimi: bonorum nostrorum Sancti non egent, nec quidquam eis nostra devotione præstatur. Plane, quod eorum memoriam veneramur, nostra interest, non ipsorum. Vultis scire quantum interest nostra? Ego in me (fateor) ex hac recordatione sentio desiderium vehemens inflammari, et desiderium triplex.

What is it to the Saints that we should praise them? What to them that we should glorify them? What is this our Feast to them? What are honours on earth to them whom, according as the Son hath faithfully promised, His Father is honouring? What are our eulogies to them? They are full. Verily, dearly beloved brethren, of our goods the Saints have no need, and our devotion toward them doth nothing for them. Our honouring their memory hath to do with ourselves and not with them. Would ye know what it hath to do with us? In me I confess that at their remembrance I feel kindled a vehement longing, yea, a three-fold longing.

℟. Isti sunt qui vivéntes in carne, plantavérunt Ecclésiam sánguine suo: * Cálicem Dómini bibérunt, et amíci Dei facti sunt.

℟. These are they who while yet they lived in the flesh, planted the Church in their own blood; * They drank of the Lord's cup, and became the friends of God.

℣. In omnem terram exívit sonus eórum, et in fines orbis terræ verba eórum.

℣. Their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

℟. Cálicem Dómini bibérunt, et amíci Dei facti sunt.

℟. They drank of the Lord's cup, and became the friends of God.

Lectio VI

Lesson VI

Vulgo dicitur: Quod non videt oculus, cor non dolet. Oculus meus, memoria mea: et cogitare de Sanctis, quodammodo eos videre est. Sic nempe portio nostra in terra viventium; nec modica sane portio, si tamen, ut decet, memoriam affectio comitetur: sic, inquam, conversatio nostra in cælis est. Verumtamen non sic nostra, sicut illorum. Ipsorum enim substantia ibi est, nostra autem desideria: ipsi per præsentiam, nos per memoriam ibi sumus.

It is a common saying that out of sight, out of mind. The memory is a kind of sight, and to think of the Saints, is to call them up before the mind's eye. Such is our portion in the land of the living, but it is not a little portion, if love, (as it ought to do,) be joined with remembrance; it is in such sense that we must say that our conversation is in heaven. (Phil. iii. 20.) Very differently to what is theirs. For they are there actually, where we are only in desire; they in very presence, we only in thought.

℟. Sancti mei, qui in carne pósiti, certámen habuístis: * Mercédem labóris ego reddam vobis.

℟. O ye My Saints, who, being in the flesh, didst have striving * I will render unto you a reward of your labours.

℣. Veníte benedícti Patris mei, percípite regnum.

℣. Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom

℟. Mercédem labóris ego reddam vobis.

℟. I will render unto you a reward of your labours.

℣. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

℟. Mercédem labóris ego reddam vobis.

℟. I will render unto you a reward of your labours.

Lectio VII

Lesson VII

Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew

Matt 5:1-12

In illo témpore: Videns Jesus turbas, ascendit in montem, et cum sedisset, accesserunt ad eum discipuli ejus. Et réliqua.

At that time, Jesus seeing the multitudes, went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him. And so on.

De Homilia sancti Augustíni Epíscopi

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop (of Hippo.)

Liber 1. de Sermone Domini in monte, Cap. 4.

Bk. i. on the Lord's Sermon. Ch. 4

Quapropter, si gradatim tamquam ascendentes numeremus, primus ibi est timor Dei, secunda pietas, tertia scientia, quarta fortitudo, quintum consilium, sextus intellectus, septima sapientia. Timor Dei congruit humilibus, de quibus hic dicitur: Beati pauperes spiritu: quoniam ipsorum est regnum cælorum; id est, non inflati, non superbi, de quibus Apostolus dicit: Noli altum sapere, sed time; id est, noli extolli. Pietas congruit mitibus. Qui enim pie quærit, honorat sanctam Scripturam, et non reprehendit quod nondum intelligit, et propterea non resistit; quod est mitem esse. Unde hic dicitur: Beati mites: quoniam ipsi hereditate possidebunt terram.

Wherefore, if we reckon up the Beatitudes as ascending steps, the first is the fear of God; the second, godliness; the third, knowledge; the fourth, firmness; the fifth, counsel; the sixth, understanding; the seventh, wisdom. The fear of God pertaineth unto the lowly, as it is said Blessed are the poor in spirit, for their's is the kingdom of heaven, that is, it is for them that are not puffed up, for them that are not proud, as also saith the Apostle Be not highminded, but fear, (Rom. xi. 20,) that is, Be not puffed up. Godliness pertaineth unto the meek; for he that seeketh after a godly sort, honoureth the Holy Scripture, and when he findeth therein that which he doth not yet understand he blameth not the Scripture, nor gainstandeth. And this is to be meek. Therefore is it said here Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

℟. Sint lumbi vestri præcíncti, et lucérnæ ardéntes in mánibus vestris: * Et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis.

℟. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; * And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding.

℣. Vigiláte ergo, quia nescítis qua hora Dóminus vester ventúrus sit.

℣. Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

℟. Et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis.

℟. And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding.

Lectio VIII

Lesson VIII

Scientia congruit lugentibus, qui jam cognoverunt in Scripturis, quibus malis vincti teneantur, quæ tamquam bona et utilia ignorantes appetierunt; de quibus hic dicitur: Beati qui lugent nunc. Fortitudo congruit esurientibus et sitientibus: laborant enim desiderantes gaudium de veris bonis, et amórem a terrenis et corporalibus avertere cupientes; de quibus hic dicitur: Beati qui esuriunt et sitiunt justitiam. Consilium congruit misericordibus: hoc enim unum remedium est de tantis malis evadendi, ut dimittamus, sicut nobis dimitti volumus: et adjuvemus, in quo possumus, alios, sicut et nos, in quo non possumus, cupimus adjuvari; de quibus hic dicitur: Beati misericordes: quoniam ipsorum miserebitur Deus.

Is knowledge pertaineth unto them that mourn, who have already learnt from the Scriptures amid what ills they are entangled, even in those things which once in their ignorance they affected as being good and useful. Of such is it said Blessed are ye that weep now. (Luke vi. 21.) Firmness pertaineth unto such as hunger and thirst after righteousness. These are they who toil bravely, animated by the longing for that joy which is caused by real blessedness, and striving therefore to wean their love away from so-called joys whose origin is merely earthly and fleshly. Of them is it said Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Counsel pertaineth unto the merciful, for our only way of escape from the horrors of our own guilt's punishment is that we should forgive even as we hope to be ourselves forgiven, and should help others as much as we can, even as we would fain be holpen in that wherein we can ourselves do nothing. And of such as so do, it is said Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy from God.

℟. Média nocte clamor factus est: * Ecce sponsus venit, exíte óbviam ei.

℟. At midnight there was a cry made: * Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.

℣. Prudéntes vírgines, aptáte vestras lámpades.

℣. Trim your lamps, O ye wise virgins.

℟. Ecce sponsus venit, exíte óbviam ei.

℟. Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.

℣. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

℟. Ecce sponsus venit, exíte óbviam ei.

℟. Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.

Lectio IX

Lesson IX

Intellectus congruit mundis corde, tamquam purgato oculo, quo cerni possit, quod corporeus oculus non vidit, nec auris audivit, nec in cor hominis ascendit; de quibus hic dicitur: Beati mundo corde: quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt. Sapientia congruit pacificis, in quibus jam ordinata sunt omnia, nullusque motus adversus rationem rebellis est, sed cuncta obtemperant spiritui hominis cum et ipse obtemperet Deo; de quibus hic dicitur: Beati pacifici. Unum autem præmium, quod est regnum cælorum, pro his gradibus varie nominatum est.

Understanding pertaineth unto the pure in heart, for these are they whose clear eye can see that which the fleshly eye hath not seen, neither the ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive; and therefore of them it is said: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Wisdom pertaineth unto the peacemakers, even unto them in whom all things are well ordered, and passion no longer maketh insurrection against reason, but all things are subject unto human common sense, even as the same again is made subject unto God. And of such is it said: Blessed are the peacemakers. But for all these forms of blessedness there is one and the same reward, although diversely named, and that reward is the kingdom of heaven.

Te Deum