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THE SARUM RITE Sarum Breviary Noted. Performing Edition. Volume B. Part . Pages -. Saint Felix, Priest and Martyr. Saint Maurus, Abbot. Saint Marcellus, Pope and Martyr. Saint Sulpicius, Bishop and Confessor. Saint Prisca, Virgin and Martyr. Edited by William Renwick. HAMILTON ONTARIO . THE GREGORIAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA . MMXV. The Sarum Rite is published by The Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada, Mercer Street, Dundas, Ontario, Canada LH N. The Gregorian Institute of Canada is affiliated with the School of the Arts, McMaster University. The Sarum Rite is distributed over the internet through .pdf files located at: www.sarum-chant.ca This document first published January , . All rights reserved. This publication may be downloaded and stored on personal computers, and may be printed for purposes of research, study, education, and performance. No part of this publication may be uploaded, printed for sale or distribution, or otherwise transmitted or sold, without the prior permission in writing of the Gregorian Institute of Canada. The Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada is a charitable organization registered by the Federal Government of Canada. www.gregorian.ca © The Gregorian Institute of Canada, . Saint Felix. Saint Felix. (January xiv. ) At Matins. Simple Invitatory. The Lord, the King of Martyrs. []. Ps. Venite. *. Hymn. Martyr of God. []. Three Lessons. Lesson j. N the time of the Emperors that such shall not be surrendered by I Diocletian and Maximian, an me. Therefore Anulinus the pro- edict went forth throughout consul : sent him to Rome to the all the provinces : that the sacred prefect of the Praetorium. The books should be taken away from the prefect sent him to Nola after the hands of the bishops and priests. emperors : and blessed Felix was Then blessed Felix, Bishop of the city fettered in hard bondage of chains as of Tibiuca, was arrested : he was sent he lay on a bench of the ship under to Carthage to Anulinus the pro- the feet of the horses for four days consul. To whom Anulinus said, and four nights neither eating bread Hast thou the unnecessary scriptures ? nor drinking water, and came fasting Felix the Bishop said, I have the to Nola. But thou, O Lord, have scriptures, however, those that thou mercy upon us. claimest are not unnecessary : know Lesson ij. HE attorney, thus mindful of means been brought thus far to me. Tthe citizens, unbound blessed Felix the Bishop said, Consequently Felix the Bishop from the heavy just as I have already responded chains : for him to be presented. previously to various investigations : Who saith thus, If in thine own city thus yet again to thee I most certainly or in Bapud Carthage thou hadst make known my manner, because in given over the deific scriptures to be no way shall I deliver up the sacred burned : thou should have by no scriptures. The attorney said, If thou 662 Saint Felix. refuse to surrender the deific scrip- Seeing that Felix the Bishop so tures : thou shalt be punished strongly remaineth in this confession : capitally. Felix the Bishop said, I am therefore according to the command prepared rather for capital punish- of the Emperor I resolve to put this ment : than that the books of the very same to the sword. But thou, O Lord be delivered to sacrilege. Then Lord, have mercy upon us. the aforementioned attorney said, Lesson iij. Lessed Felix the Bishop, raising led out by soldiers on the nineteenth Bhis eyes to heaven : said, O God of the Kalends of February and was I give thee thanks : because for six there beheaded : and his body was and fifty years thou hast vouchsafed placed at Nola, moreover by devout to keep my virginity in this present servants of God and sons of Mother world. And now O Lord I suffer this Church the remains of blessed Felix for thee and for thy law : and joyful I were carried to Carthage. In which bow my neck to the sacrifice. I place by the merits of blessed Felix therefore entreat that thou woudlst many miracles take place : through take my spirit from this mortal world : the goodness of the Lord our God, to because thou alone art the living God, whom be honour and glory through and abidest gloriously for ever and the endless ages of ages. Amen. But ever. This prayer completed, he was thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us. Chapter. Every high priest. []. Prayer. Grant, we beseech thee. []. and all the rest from the Common of one Martyr and Bishop. From this day until Ash Wednesday let a Memorial of Saint Mary and of All Saints be made at Vespers and at Lauds on Feasts of iij. Lessons and on ferias which are made without Rulers of the Choir . 663 Saint Maurus. Saint Maurus. (January xv. ) Let Vespers be of Saint Maurus, Abbot : and nothing of Saint Felix. At j. Vespers. Ferial Antiphons and Psalms. The Chapter The righteous man. and all the following from the Common of one Confessor and Abbot. [1055]. with this Prayer. God, who didst grant to thy us an entrance into the kingdom of Oblessed deacon and abbot heaven, through the intercession of Maurus to become a partaker of thine him by whose example we are taught eternal glory : mercifully grant unto to live aright. Through. Memorial of Saint Mary and of All Saints. Compline as in the Psalter. []. Here first let be made the Vigils of the Dead as in Advent : and let them be made until Maundy Thursday as is indicated above in the Advent of the Lord. []. At Matins. Simple Invitatory. Three Lessons. Lesson j. Lessed Maurus, coming Indeed Saint Benedict always loved BB forth from a family of him dearly above all and instructed illustrious senators, by al- him : and thus he was formed by mighty God nourished under regular servitude for almighty God, as no one instruction : at the age of twelve was after him hath followed in such holy given over by his parents to Saint monastic observance. Who indeed Benedict. Who while thus far still hath ever so austerely conquered the young and strong in good manners : body by individual fasting, abstinence, just as we likewise have seen him, and wakefulness, likewise by squalour began to be assistant to his master, and by excessive cold ? Frequently and to be co-worker in his miracles. indeed have we seen him in the days 664 Saint Maurus. of holy Lent, neither in a tunic nor a when he had been forced by his too cloak but clad only in a sackcloth of great exhaustion, he had been goat's hair : and only twice in a week accustomed to take a little sleep while rather taking a most small taste than sitting. No one ever saw him arise accepting food. That custom was of from bed with the other brethren : he course in the whole of life with Saint always took care to anticipate dili- Benedict. Thus blessed Maurus, gently the hymns of the Nocturns. called forth by the example of his Frequently fifty, often indeed more, master, mortified the flesh by very and not infrequently all of the series strong affliction : just as much as by of the Psalter : were completed by his own father he was allowed liberty. him before the office of the Nocturns On the other hand during all the began. Thus the aforesaid blessed other seasons of the year : under the man Maurus, overflowing with virtue, monk's tunic he was always clad from from that Saint Benedict and in the the shoulders to the kidneys in a assembly of the brethren mostly jagged scapular. In bed, to be sure suppressed his name as if another upon a mound of chalk and sand, he were being spoken of : he set himself always made use of a hair shirt (except to follow after the juniors and the in the season of Lent). Then indeed negligent. But thou, O Lord, have not reclining but rather standing : or mercy upon us. Lesson ij. E have seen (said blessed brethren would suppose that he W Benedict of Saint Maurus) in might be advanced by Saint Benedict your generation a certain most through eloquence : never did he vigorous youth of nobility, below the succumb to this, to the vice of years of adolescence, so suddenly boasting, always desiring the lofty and seized with the perfection all mon- holy, and striving by all effort to astic religion : that even by com- advance from strength to strength. parison with some of the older monks, When therefore blessed Maurus, in more than with his equals, in all the monastery of Father Benedict, respects he is deemed most worthy. was performing the duty of overseer But this blessed and beloved of God and deputy in his place, and in his Maurus, granted that some of his absence on a certain day returned 665 Saint Maurus. from the labour of the field : he Which man was desiring to find in found a certain lame and mute little this religion excellent men : with his boy in the way. Whose father and possessions to build a monastery, and mother, casting themselves down at to offer his only son to God, and so the feet of the blessed man, implored eventually to cast off all the affairs of by the terrible name of God, that by the world and in the same place to him their son should be restored to serve God. Now among those to health. And he, bathing in tears and whom these tidings were brought also prostrate in prayer : then making from the blessed man : was a certain the sign of the cross upon the cripple man named Arcleradus, a first cousin and also raising his eyes to heaven, of the aforesaid Florus.