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Friday, October 18, 2019

Office canticles: Ecclesiasticus 31

The canticle below is the third in the Common of Confessors.


Canticum Ecclesiastici (31:8-11)
Beátus vir, qui invéntus est sine mácula,† et qui post aurum non ábiit,* nec sperávit in pecúnia et thesáuris.
Blessed is the man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, * nor put his trust in money nor in treasures.
Quis est hic, et laudábimus eum? * fecit enim mirabília in vita sua.
Who is he, and we will praise him? * for he hath done wonderful things in his life.
Qui probátus est in illo, et perféctus est, * erit illi glória ætérna:
Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, * he shall have glory everlasting.
Qui pótuit tránsgredi, et non est transgréssus; * fácere mala, et non fecit.
He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: * and could do evil things, and hath not done them.
Ideo stabilíta sunt bona illíus in Dómino, * et eleemósynas illíus enarrábit omnis ecclésia sanctórum.
Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, * and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.
Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.