Incline Thy ear, o Lord, and hear me; save Thy servant, O my God, who hopeth in Thee; have mercy on me, o Lord, for to Thee have I cried to Thee all the day. Ps. 85 Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to Thee, o Lord, I have lifted up my soul. Glory be... Incline Thy ear... (The Introit of the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. This very nice recording omits the doxology, following the custom of the post-Conciliar rite, which is more Trinitarian, and therefore refers to the Trinity much less often.)
Introitus Inclína, Dómine, aurem tuam ad me, et exaudi me: salvum fac servum tuum, Deus meus, sperantem in te: miserére mihi, Dómine, quoniam ad te clamávi tota die. Ps 85 Laetífica ánimam servi tui: quia ad te, Dómine, ánimam meam levávi. Glória Patri ... Inclína, Dómine...From the Breviarium in Psalmos, a commentary on the psalms often attributed (erroneously) to either St Jerome or St Augustine, which was very influential on the composers of the Roman chants: “ ‘Incline Thy ear, o Lord, and hear me, for I am holy.’ According to the frailty of the body which He had taken on, pours forth a prayer to the Father. But according to the godhead, He calls Himself holy, as once He had said to Moses, ‘Be ye holy, for I am holy.’ (Lev. 19 passim)
‘Save Thy servant, that hopeth in Thee. Have mercy on me, o Lord, for I have cried to Thee all the day.’ He took on the form of a servant, which he prays may be saved in every time of the present life; for He knows that even if the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. ‘Give joy to the soul of Thy servant,’ which is saddedn by the present tribulations, ‘for to Thee, o Lord, have I lifted up my soul’, to Thee, believing that it will be raised.”
The Gospel, Luke 7, 11-16: At that time, Jesus went into a city that is called Naim, and there went with him his disciples, and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her. And when the Lord had seen her, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her, “Weep not.” And he came near and touched the bier, and they that carried it, stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to thee, arise.” And he that was dead sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet is risen up among us, and God hath visited his people.” |
| An ivory plaque carved between 1025 and 1060 in the area of the Meuse valley, known as the Ivory of the Three Resurrections, which depicts in the upper register the raising of the daughter of Jairus, in the middle, of the widow of Naim’s son, and at the lower register, of Lazarus. The plaque is kept at the Treasury Museum of the cathedral of St Paul in Liège. (Image from Wikimedia Commons by Okapi071, CC BY-SA 4.0.) |
