Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 17/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

 King David, author of the Psalms, by
Willem Vrelant, Bruges, Belgium.

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 112

Here is an excerpt from the commentary:

A solis ortu usque ad occasum : laudabile Nomen Domini. 

From the rising of the sun to the going down : the Lord’s Name is worthy of praise.

Here is a further instruction. God’s praise is to be not merely ceaseless but universal ; not restricted by the limits of Judea, but extending to the utmost bounds of the earth. This is achieved by the Sacrifice of the Mass which was foretold by the prophet Malachias : From the rising of the sun till the going down of the same My Name shall be great among the Gentiles : and in every place incense shall be offered to My Name and a clean oblation : For My Name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts. In which prophecy there is exactly the same three-fold proclamation of the Holy Name, pointing, as in the Psalm, to the same mystery.

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Litany of the Holy Ghost

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maris Stella

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 53 : Psalm 62 : Psalm 84 : Psalm 86 : Psalm 92 : 

Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97 : Psalm 99 : Psalm 109 

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 16/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 109

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 53 : 

Psalm 62 : Psalm 84 : Psalm 86 : Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95

Psalm 96 : Psalm 97 : Psalm 99

👈 Taken from a book of hours, this is an image of King David, author of the Psalms, by Willem Vrelant (early 1460s), Bruges, Belgium.

Here is an excerpt from the commentary:

 

Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae in splendoribus sanctorum; ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te.

With Thee is the beginning, in the day of Thy power, in the splendours of the saints : from the womb before the morning star have I begotten Thee.

     With Thee, inherent in Thy Nature. In the day of Thy power, when taking on Thee our flesh. In the splendours of the saints, when Thou shalt give light unto the world by the beauty and radiance of Thine Apostles and disciples ; or when Thou shalt come to judge and display Thy force and power in marvellous fashion and make the splendours of Thy rising saints more glorious than that of the sun. Such exalted power is in Thee, because Thou art of the same substance with Me and partake of the same Nature, seeing that I begot Thee from the womb before the morning star. From the womb. The Sonship of our Lord is not an adoption, but natural and inherent. Some see here a reference to that “Fruit of the generous womb” of which the Angelical sings in the Pange Lingua, and to the Immaculate Conception, which made of Mary’s womb a sanctified tabernacle for the operations of the Holy Ghost. The Birth of our Lord was in the splendour of the saints, because of the glorious vision of the angelic hosts which proclaimed His Nativity, because of the presence of the Queen of Saints, and St. Joseph, the just man. 

St. Augustine thus explains this difficult verse : The beginning means the Eternal Father, the Source of all things, even of the Son and Holy Ghost ; and that His union with the Son, always perfect, though hidden, will be disclosed and revealed in the day of the Son's power at the Judgment, amidst the glories of the risen saints. The Doctor of Grace takes the last clause to denote not only the eternal Generation of the Word before the stars of heaven, but also the miraculous Birth of Christ in the early morning of Christmas day ; or, as others will have it, of her who looketh forth as the morning in her beauty and purity.

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Litany of the Holy Ghost

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maris Stella

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 15/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 84

👈 Taken from a book of hours, this is an image of King David, author of the Psalms, by Willem Vrelant (early 1460s), Bruges, Belgium.

Here is an excerpt from the commentary: 

Converte nos Deus salutaris noster : et averte

iram Tuam a nobis.

Turn us, God, our Saviour ; and turn away Thine

anger from us.

Turn away Thine anger from us. How is it that the weight of God’s wrath is kept from falling on the sinful

world ? It is the power of the Mass which stays His hand. It is also those hidden lives of sacrifice, of penance, of

prayer, which, unknown to the world, are passed in the cloister, and, through the merits of the Reedemer, go far

to appease the anger of the Lord.

Veritas de terra orta est : et justitia de cœlo

prospexit.

Truth hath sprung from the earth : and righteousness

hath looked down from heaven.

The very Truth, the Son of God, hath sprung out of the earth, being born of His Maiden-mother.

Righteousness looked down from heaven when the Eternal Word stooped from His Throne of Glory and united

Himself in hypostatic union to the Nature of Man. Thus was fulfilled that prayer : Drop down ye heavens from

above, and let the clouds pour down the Righteous One : Let the earth open and let it bring forth a Saviour.

There is another sense, says St. Augustine, for these words : Now that man has been brought near to God, he is

moved to confession of his sins, so that the truth springs up in frank acknowledgment of transgressions from the

sinner who is but earth, and righteousness then looks down from heaven to pardon and wash away the offences.

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 53

Psalm 62 : Psalm 86 : Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96

Psalm 97 : Psalm 99

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Litany of the Holy Ghost

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maris Stella

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 14/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 53

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 62

Psalm 86 : Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97 : 

Psalm 99

👈 Taken from a book of hours, this is an image of King David, author of the Psalms, by Willem Vrelant (early 1460s), Bruges, Belgium.

Here is an excerpt from the commentary:

 

Voluntarie sacrificabo Tibi et confitebor
Nomini Tuo, Domine ! quoniam bonum est.

Right willingly will I sacrifice to Thee, and praise Thy
Name, O Lord ! because it is good.

These words refer to the freewill offering of Christ Himself upon the Cross ; and to that which is continually
being presented by Him, our Great High Priest, in the Adorable Sacrifice of the Mass. Again, this verse, coming
as it does in the Morning Office, reminds us of the Mass we are so soon to assist at. We must join willingly in
that Sacrifice if we would profit by it. 

For it is good. What ? The Name of the Lord, or that which we are going to offer ? In the latter sense our offering is indeed good; for it is nothing else but the Body and Blood of the God-Man, a better gift than which cannot be found. It is simply good. 

The verse also reminds us of our own freewill consecration to God when we made, to the praise of His Name, the sacrifice of our persons, our wealth, and our wills in the clean oblation of religion. And how good it is ! For day by day our Vocation grows dearer as we grow more and more in intimacy with the Spouse of our soul ; and we taste and see how good He is. The
Sacrifice we made to follow His Call is so small beside the gain, that we should do it over and over again,
counting all things loss if we can gain Christ.

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Litany of the Holy Ghost

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maris Stella

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 13/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 62

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 86 : 

Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97 : Psalm 99

👈 Taken from a book of hours, this is an image of King David, author of the Psalms, by Willem Vrelant (early 1460s), Bruges, Belgium.

Here is an excerpt from the commentary:

Deus, Deus, meus: ad Te de luce vigilo. 

O God, my God : from daybreak do I watch unto Thee.

My God. The repetition of the name of God and the claiming Him for the Psalmist’s very own denote,

observes St. John Chrysostom, deep love and eager pressing towards God, to the neglect of all earthly things. It

is therefore taken chiefly of Him Who alone could, with truth, call God His Own, as being One with Him,

consubstantial, co-eternal. Jesus did use these words, My God, in that mysterious cry from the cross : My God,

My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me ?

 

From day-break do I watch unto Thee. He Who made the Light rose with it on the first Easter morning. The

words are spoken of the faithful soul which turns eagerly to the first rays of the light and opens its powers to the

Sun of Righteousness, to work for Him and to be filled with His warmth. There is, says St. Augustine, a sleep of

the soul as there is a sleep of the body. This last we all ought to have ; but let us take care that our soul sleep not,

for sin is the sleep of the soul. Good for the body is sleep, which serves for the health thereof ; but the soul’s

sleep is forgetfulness of its Maker. Therefore doth the Apostle say : Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the

dead ; and Christ shall give thee light. Was the Apostle waking up one oppressed with bodily sleep ? Nay, but

he was waking up a soul sleeping, in order that she might be enlightened by Christ. And therefore doth the

Spouse in the Canticles answer to this appeal : I sleep, but my heart is waking 

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Litany of the Holy Ghost

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maris Stella

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 12/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 99

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 86 : 

Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97

Here is an excerpt from the commentary on Psalm 99:

confitemini Illi.

Confess ye unto Him.

Confess ye unto Him. St. Augustine teaches us that repentance must be the outset of the service of God, unto

Whose gates we enter with the confession of sins, not attempting to burst forth in the language of praise till,

growing in holiness, we penetrate into His courts. Another writer, reminding that our Lord calls Himself “ the

Door,” explains the gates of our Lady, the Apostles, and others, by whom men enter into Him, making

confession first and renunciation of all their sins.

Laudate nomen Ejus : quoniam suavis est Dominus, in æternum misericordia Ejus, et usque in generationem et generationem veritas Ejus.

Praise His name, for the Lord is sweet : His mercy is for ever, and His truth from generation to generation.

Three reasons are here given us for praising the name of God : His sweetness, His everlasting mercy, and His

abiding truth.

• He is sweet; for in Him is no bitter at all ; He is sweet ; for never can He be so angry with a sinner as not at once to be appeased by sincere sorrow.
• His mercy is for ever. Because, says Honorius, on the one hand, He extends the acceptable time, the day of salvation, to the end of the world for all, to the end of life for each sinner, rejecting none, and not closing the door of grace till the very last necessary moment ; and, on the other, He will keep His Redeemed in heaven for ever the objects of His boundless mercy.
• And His truth from generation to generation. Because the promise He made to the Patriarchs He fulfilled to their descendants by coming in person, no longer in type and prophecy ; because His words in Holy Writ shall never pass away, even when heaven and earth are gone ; because He keeps to the uttermost in this world, and the next, the pledges given to His disciples of bestowing everlasting blessedness.

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Veni Creator Spiritus [To see the Latin text and translations, click here : 👉 Veni Creator Spiritus ]

Ave Maris Stella

 

Magnificat

 

Gloria 

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 11/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 92

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 86 : 

Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97

Here is an excerpt from the commentary on Psalm 92:

Parata sedes Tua ex tunc : a sæculo Tu es.

Ever since then hath Thy throne been prepared : Thou art from everlasting.

Then, that is, from the making of the round world so sure. The throne of our King is everlasting ; and as St. Bonaventure says, all the hoarded wisdom of eternity is His very Own. His seat, says the Carthusian with the Carmelite, is five-fold :

1. His divine throne, co-equal with the Father : for thus saith the Lord ; The heaven is My throne and earth

My footstool;

2. His hallowed resting-place in the most pure womb of His Mother ;

3. His cross ;

4. the hearts of all who love Him ; and

5. the throne of Doom.

domum Tuam decet sanctitudo, Domine, in longitudinem.

holiness becometh Thy house for ever.

Holiness becometh Thy house ; that is, says Agelli, it is the fit and peculiar attribute of that sacred shrine of His most

pure Body wherein the Godhead dwelt ; it is the fit adornment of the soul of our ever dear and blessed Lady who

for nine months bore her Maker ; it is the peculiar and distinguishing mark of the Church ; it is the token of

Christians who bear in mind the Apostle’s saying : Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit

of God dwelleth in you ? It is no mere passing holiness, but is for ever ; hallowed by the abiding presence of 

God in the Beatific vision.

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Veni Creator Spiritus [To see the Latin text and translations, click here : 👉 Veni Creator Spiritus ]

Ave Maris Stella

 

Magnificat

 

Gloria 

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 10/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 97

Here is an excerpt:

Notum fecit Dominus Salutare Suum : in

conspectu gentium revelavit justitiam Suam.

The Lord hath made known His salvation, and hath

revealed His righteousness in the sight of the heathen.

It is the manifestation of the only-begotten Son, the Saviour of Mankind, the Light to enlighten the Gentiles of whom Simeon chanted his dying song while doubtless thinking of this Psalm. And observe, it is not said that God showed, but that He made known His salvation. For He had shown it in mystery of old to the Patriarchs. Adam knew Him as the Redeemer to come ; and so did Abel, who offered Him a lamb ; and Seth, who called on His Name ; and Noe, who was His type, saving mankind in the Ark ; and Abraham, who offered up his own son. But the world had forgotten Him, and therefore the Father made Him known. So the Carmelite. And the Carthusian points out that God did this with care that the Birth should not pass unnoticed ; for He made it known to shepherds by the angels, to the wise men by the star, to Zacharias by the angel Gabriel, to Simeon and Anna by the Holy Ghost. But to the Gentiles, who had no previous knowledge to be recalled, He revealed His righteousness in their sight. So we may notice that the Apostles never address their Gentile congregations in parables, as our Lord did the Jews. They make direct proclamation of the Gospel.

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8            Psalm 18            Psalm 23            Psalm 44            Psalm 45            Psalm 86            Psalm 94

Psalm 95        Psalm 96

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Veni Creator Spiritus [To see a translation of this hymn to the Holy Spirit, click here:  👉 Veni Creator Spiritus ]

Ave Maris Stella

 

Magnificat

 

Gloria 

+       +        +

The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.