One can't mourn for whom God mourns (His faithful who have nothing to do with the great apostasy) and apostasize at the same time.
Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. One of the best ways to mourn for others is to pray with and for them even if they are not present.
PRAYING WITH GOD AND HIS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
MATINS (MIDNIGHT OR ON RISING) THE HOUR OF THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST WHO IS THE FIRST BORN OF GOD AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ON EARTH, AND WHO IS OUR ONLY SAVIOUR BY HIS MOST HOLY CROSS, AND THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH AT HIS SACRED RESURRECTION
PRAYER:
KEEP US O LORD FROM USELESS FIGHTING WITH WORDS AND GRANT THAT WE ALWAYS SPEAK THE TRUTH, PRESERVE US IN THE FAITH, TRUE AND UNDEFILED, SO THAT WE MAY ALWAYS HOLD ON TO WHAT WE PROFESSED WHEN WE WERE BAPTISED IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. GRANT THAT WE MAY HAVE YOU FOR OUR FATHER AND THAT WE LIVE IN YOUR ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST AND IN THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE THROUGH THE SAME JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD
LAUDS (3 AM OR ON RISING AFTER MATINS ABOVE) THE HOUR OF THE RESURRECTION
PRAYER:
O GRACIOUS AND HOLY FATHER, GIVE US WISDOM TO PERCEIVE YOU, INTELLIGENCE TO UNDERSTAND YOU, DILIGENCE TO SEEK YOU, PATIENCE TO WAIT FOR YOU, EYES TO BEHOLD YOU, A HEART TO MEDITATE ON YOU, AND A LIFE TO PROCLAIM YOU THROUGH WITH AND IN YOUR BELOVED AND ONLY BEGOTTEN FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR IN THE POWER AND UNITY OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE
PRIME (6 AM) THE HOUR OF THE EPIPHANY AND ALSO THE RESURRECTION
PRAYER:
O GOD, TO SAVE US YOU GAVE YOUR BELOVED AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO A MOST PAINFUL AND BITTER DEATH ON THE MOST HOLY CROSS CLEANSING THE WATERS, AND BY HIS GLORIOUS RESURRECTION IN THE FLESH DELIVERED US FROM ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY AND ALL IT'S MINIONS. GRANT US TO DIE DAILY TO SIN SO THAT WE MAY LIVE CLOSER TO HIM IN THE JOY OF THE RESURRECTION THROUGH THE SAME JESUS CHRIST IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE
TERSE (9 AM) THE HOUR OF THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST
PRAYER:
OPEN OUR HEARTS, O LORD AND ENLIGHTEN US BY THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WE MAY SEEK WHAT IS PLEASING TO YOUR WILL AND SO ORDER OUR LIVES ACCORDING TO YOUR COMMANDMENTS THAT WE MAY BE FOUND WORTHY TO ENTER YOUR UNENDING JOYS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND MOST LOVING SAVIOUR, WHO WE BESEECH TO REVEAL YOURSELF TO US WHO ASK YOU, SO THAT KNOWING YOU WE MAY LOVE YOU ALONE BY DAY AND BY NIGHT AND EVER HOLD YOU IN OUR THOUGHTS. FILL US WITH YOUR LOVE AS IS FITTING FOR YOU TO BE LOVED AND HONOURED AS OUR GOD, SO THAT LOVE MAY FILL THE INNER DEPTHS OF OUR BEING AND YOUR LOVE MAY OWN US ALL AND YOUR AFFECTION MAY FILL ALL OUR SENSES SO THAT WE MAY KNOW NO OTHER LOVE APART FROM YOU, THE FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE ALWAYS TO BE DESIRED AND DRUNK, SPRINGING UP TO ETERNAL LIFE UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME
SEXT (NOON) THE HOUR OF THE CRUCIFIXION AND HELP FOR THE NEEDY OF CHRIST
PRAYER:
WE BRING BEFORE YOU LORD GOD OUR FATHER THE TROUBLE AND DANGERS OF PEOPLE AND NATIONS; THE SIGHING OF PRISONERS,THE SORROWS OF THE BEREAVED, THE NECCESSITIES OF STRANGERS, THE DEPENDENCY OF THE WEARY, THE FAILING POWERS OF THE AGED, LORD DRAW NEAR TO EACH FOR THE SAKE OF AND THROUGH YOUR BELOVED AND ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, COME O HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE CONSOLATION OF THE SORROWFUL, DOWN TO US AT THIS TIME WITH YOUR MIGHTY POWER INTO THE DEPTHS OF OUR HEARTS. GLADDEN THERE WITH YOUR BRIGHTNESS EVERY DARK CORNER AND MAKE ALL RICH WITH YOUR COMFORT. GIVE US INNER WARMTH THAT OUR PRAYERS AND PRAISES MAY GO UP TO YOU, OUR GOD, THROUGH YOUR BELOVED AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS CHRIST
NONE (3 PM) THE HOUR OF THE END OF OUR LORD’S PASSION THE END OF HIS CRUCIFIXION
PRAYER:
THANKS TO YOU, OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, FOR ALL THE GIFTS YOUR HAVE WON FOR US, FOR ALL THE PAINS AND INSULTS YOU HAVE BORN FOR US. O MERCIFUL REDEEMER, FRIEND AND BROTHER, MAY WE KNOW YOU MORE CLEARLY, LOVE YOU MORE DEARLY, AND FOLLOW YOU MORE NEARLY, WHO REIGNS WITH THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME
VESPERS (6 PM) THE HOUR OF THE END OF THE DAY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT DAY AS GOD INDEED CREATED THE EARTH IN ONE DAY AND IN THE REST OF THE FIRST SIX DAYS FINISHED THE FORMATION THEREOF AND RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY
PRAYER:
WATCH O LORD WITH THOSE WHO WAKE OR WATCH OR WEEP TONIGHT, AND GIVE YOUR ANGELS CHARGE OVER THOSE WHO WAKE OR SLEEP. TEND YOURSICK ONES, O LORD CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR BELOVED AND ONLY SON OF THE LIVING GOD, O HOLY FATHER ALMIGHTY, IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE, O WELCOME COMFORTER; REST YOUR WEARY ONES; BLESS YOUR DYING ONES; SOOTHE YOUR SUFFERING ONES; PITY YOUR AFFLICTED ONES; SHIELD YOUR JOYOUS ONES; AND ALL FOR YOUR LOVE'S SAKE; AND HAVE US DO THE SAME FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR MOST HOLY NAME BLESSED LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY RIGHTEOUSNESS UNCEASINGLY IN THE HUMBLE JOY OF YOUR WILLING SERVANTS TO LIFE EVERLASTING UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES TO COME
COMPLINE (9 PM) THE HOUR OF EARLY NIGHT PRAYER THE EIGHTH HOUR OF DAILY PRAYER AS INDEED ALL MEN WILL RISE TO ETERNAL JUDGEMENT, UNTO THE EIGHTH DAY, THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES, THAT IS, AT THE PAROUSIA OF CHRIST, HIS RETURN FROM HEAVEN WITH THE ELECT ANGELS AT THE END OF THIS AGE OF GRACE
PRAYER:
FIERY CREATOR OF FIRE, LIGHT GIVER OF LIGHT, LIFE AND AUTHOR OF LIFE, SALVATION AND BESTOWER OF SALVATION, IN CASE THE LAMPS SHOULD ABANDON THE JOYS OF THIS NIGHT, YOU WHO DO NOT DESIRE OUR DEATH, GIVE LIGHT TO OUR BREAST. TO THOSE WANDERING FROM EGYPT, YOU BESTOW THE DOUBLE GRACE, YOU SHOW THE VEIL OF CLOUD, AND GIVE THE NOCTURNAL LIGHT. WITH A PILLAR OF CLOUD IN THE DAY, YOU PROTECT THE PEOPLE AS THEY GO, WITH A PILLAR OF FIRE AT EVENING, YOU DISPEL THE NIGHT WITH LIGHT. YOU CALL OUT TO YOUR SERVANT FROM THE FLAME, YOU DO NOT SPURN THE BUSH OF THORNS, AND THOUGH YOU ARE CONSUMING FIRE, YOU DO NOT BURN WHAT YOU ILLUMINE. NOW IT IS TIME THAT THE CLOUDY BEE-BREAD SHOULD BE CONSUMED, ALL IMPURITY BOILED AWAY, AND THE WAXEN FLESH SHOULDSHINE WITH THE GLOW OF THEHOLY SPIRIT. YOU STORE NOW IN THE RECESSES OF THE COMB THE SWEET FOOD OF THE DIVINE HONEY,AND PURIFYING THE INMOST CELLS OF THE HEART, YOU HAVE FILLED THEM WITH YOUR WORD; THAT THE SWARM OF THE NEW BROOD, CHOSEN BY YOUR MOUTH AND SPIRIT, MAY LEAVE THEIR BURDENS AND WIN HEAVEN ON WINGS NOW FREE FROM CARE.
MAY YOUR HOLY ANGELS, O CHRIST JESUS, SON OF THE LIVING GOD, TEND OUR SLEEP, OUR REST, OUR BRIGHT BED. LET THEM REVEAL TRUE VISIONS TO US IN OUR SLEEP, O HIGH PRINCE OF THE UNIVERSE, O GREAT AND MYSTERIOUS KING. MAY NO DEVILS, NO DEMONS, NO SPIRITS OF SORCERY OR MAGIC, NO EVIL SPIRITS OF ANY SORT VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE, NO INJURY OR TERRIFYING DREAMS DISTURB OUR REST, OUR PROMPT AND SWIFT REPOSE. MAY OUR WAKING, OUR WORK, AND OUR LIVING BE HOLY; OUR SLEEP, OUR REST, WITHOUT HINDRANCE OR HARM. O HOLY LORD GOD OF CREATION, WE INVOKE YOU. YOU ARE OUR GRACIOUS COUNSELOR. LEAD US IN YOU ALWAYS, FOR YOU ARE OUR JUDGEMENT WITHOUT BETRAYAL. YOU ARE OUR KING. YOU ARE OUR LAW. YOURS ARE OUR SPIRITS, SOULS AND BODIES, WE LOVE YOU, BLESSED CHRIST JESUS, FOR OUR SPIRITS SOULS AND BODIES ARE YOURS TONIGHT, TOMORROW AND AT ALL TIMES UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND AT THE RESURRECTION OF ALL MEN AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME.
O HOLY KING. KEEP US IN YOUR ROYAL DWELLING ALL OUR DAYS. EATING THE FEAST FROM YOUR TABLE. KEEP US IN YOU, O HOLY JESUS, GENTLE FRIEND, MORNING STAR, MIDDAY SUN ADORNED, BRILLIANT FLAME OF RIGHTEOUNESS, LIFE EVERLASTING AND ETERNITY, FOUNTAIN EVER-NEW, EVER-LIVING, EVER-LASTING, HEART'S DESIRE OF PATRIARCHS, ESPECIALLY ST. ENOCH IN THE FLESH, LONGING OF PROPHETS, ESPECIALLY ST. ELIJAH IN THE FLESH, WITH ST. ENOCH, YOUR HOLY PROPHETS YET TO COME, BELOVED MASTER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GABRIEL,YOUR LOYAL WARRIORS, HOLY ARCHANGELS, MASTER OF APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES, ESPECIALLY ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL GIVER OF THE LAW, PRINCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, SAVIOUR OF THE FAITHFUL, JUDGE OF ALL, SON OF THE MERCIFUL FATHER WITHOUT MOTHER IN HEAVEN, SON OF THE TRUE VIRGIN MARY, WITHOUT FATHER ON EARTH, TRUE AND LOVING BROTHER, KEEP US IN YOU O HOLY GOD AT ALL TIMES UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME, BLESSED VIRGIN WHO BORE GOD AND TOOK CARE OF HIMWITH TENDER LOVE, BRIGHT, WITH GOODNESS FULL, MARY MIRACLE, THE LION'S PRECIOUS LOVE, VIRGIN ONCE, MOTHER OF CHRIST JESUS AND VIRGIN STILL, ALL YE ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS OF GOD, PRAY FOR AND WITH US UNCEASINGLY; OUR FATHER AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE DELIVER US UNCEASINGLY; WITH AND BY THE PRAYER AND COMPANY OF ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS FOR AND WITH US UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME.
See:
The Final Trial
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