[Rank]
In Octava Assumptionis B.M.V.;;Duplex;;3;;vide Sancti/08-15

[Rule]
vide Sancti/08-15;
9 lectiones

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoratio Ss. Timothei, Hippolyti and Symphoriani Mart.
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$Oremus
v. Mercifully help us, O Lord, we beseech thee, and at the pleading of thine holy Martyrs Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, stretch forth over us the right hand of thy favour.
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[Lectio1]
Lesson from the book of Canticles
!Song 8:5-6
5 Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.
6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.

[Lectio2]
!Song 8:7-9
7 Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.
8 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
9 If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar

[Lectio3]
!Song 8:10-13;
10 I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.
11 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.

[Lectio4]
From the Sermons of St. Bernard, Abbat of Clairvaux.
!4th on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
There is nothing which giveth me keener pleasure or keener fear than to have to speak of the glory of the Virgin Mary. Behold if I praise her virginity, many virgins come before me, who bear her company, and, after her, are brought unto the King. (Ps. xliv. 16.) If I proclaim her lowliness, there will some be found, few though they may be, who have learnt of her Son to be meek and lowly in heart. (Matth. xi. 29.) If I extol the multitude of her mercies, there are men who are also merciful yea, and women. But there is one thing wherein Neither before nor henceforth hath there been or shall be such another, The joy of a Mother was hers, remaining a virgin unsullied. This is the peculiar grace of Mary, which will never be another's. This standeth alone, and what it is words can never really tell.

[Lectio5]
Neverthless, if thou gazest thoughtfully upon her, thou wilt see that her virgin motherhood was not the only grace which was peculiar to Mary alone, although, at first sight, her graces other than her motherhood seem to have been possessed by others as well as by herself. Where, for example, even among Angels, canst thou find any purity such as that of her maidenhood, her maidenhood, which was meet to become the shrine of the Holy Ghost, and the dwelling of the Son of God Again, what must have been the greatness and price of lowliness in one, whose purity and whose guilelessness were what her's were, whose conscience never could or did, ever so gently, reproach her with anything, and who was actually filled full of grace (Lukei. 28.) Blessed being how came it that, thou couldest be lowly at all, far less, lowly as thou wast Worthy in good sooth was His handmaiden that the Lord should regard her lowliness (48), that the King should greatly desire her beauty, (Ps. xliv. 13,) and that the unspeakable savour of her perfumes should lure Him from His eternal rest in the bosom of the Father.

[Lectio6]
Behold, blessed maiden with what congratulations we have been able, though from so far off, to follow and cheer thee on thy way as thou goest up unto thy Son May it be the work of thy kindness to show to the world what grace thou hast found with God, by procuring, through thy holy prayers, pardon for the guilty, health for the sick, courage for the faint-hearted, help and deliverance for the endangered. Yea, in this solemn day of His joy and of the gladness of His Heart, (Cant. iii. 11,) may our Lord JESUS Christ thy Son be pleased to make a special out-pouring of His grace through thee, O merciful Queen upon all who are calling upon the sweet name of Mary. He is over all, God, blessed for ever. Amen.

[Lectio7]
From the Holy Gospel according to Luke
!Luke 10:38-42
At that time Jesus entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house. And so on.
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Homily by St. Bernard, Abbat (of Clairvaux.) (2nd on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.) Why should we speak of JESUS having entered into a village? He entered even into the narrow lodging of a Virgin's womb. And a certain woman received Him into her house. Happy was that woman whose house the Saviour, Whom she received therein, found clean but not empty. For how can any man say that she was empty whom an Angel hailed as full of grace Nor this only, but also declared that the Holy Ghost was about to come upon her. And wherefore, thinkest thou, should He come but to fill her unto overflowing Wherefore, but that she who was full when He came, should, when He came upon her, and the power of the Highest overshadowed her, brim over and overflow upon us

[Responsory7]
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[Lectio8]
Met the Saviour then enter into that house. Let Him oftentimes resort to that home cleansed by the repentant Lazarus, adorned by Martha, and hallowed by Mary to inward contemplation. But perchance some curious enquirer will ask why in the passage now read from the Gospel there is no mention made of Lazarus. I opine that it was to avoid anything which could mar the perfection of this house as a figure (of the womb of Mary.) The Holy Spirit willing to set forth a maidenly dwelling, hath been meetly silent touching repentance, which implieth the thought of evil. Let not this house be spoken of as ever having had any defilement for the broom of Lazarus to seek.

[Lectio93]
!Commemoratio for the Holy Martyrs.
Timothy came from Antioch to Rome in the time of Pope Melchiades. He had preached the faith of Christ there for a year, when he was thrown into irons by Tarquinius, Praefect of the city. After suffering a long imprisonment he was brought to the idols to offer them sacrifice. He refused right boldly to commit this great sin, and was thereupon savagely scourged, and his raw body covered with quick-lime. He steadily persisted in his testimony under these and other tortures, and at last was beheaded, (in the year 311.) His body is buried upon the road to Ostia, hard by the sepulchre of the blessed Apostle Paul. On the same day, under the Emperor Alexander, and at Ostia, Hippolytus, Bishop of Porto, on account of his illustrious confession of the faith, had his hands and feet bound, and was thrown into a deep pit full of water, and so received the crown of his testimony. The Christians buried him there. Also on the same day, ~(in the year 180,) under the Emperor Aurelian, and at Autun, the young lad Symphorian was tortured in diverse ways for professing the same faith. As he was being led to die, he heard his mother crying out to him My child, my child think of life eternal Look to heaven and to Him That reigneth there! thy life is not being taken away, but changed for a better. And so, for Jesus Christ's sake, he bravely offered his neck to the executioner.
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