[Rank]
S. Clementis Papae et Martyris;;Duplex;;3;;vide C2

[Rank1570]
S. Clementis Papae et Martyris;;Semiduplex;;2;;vide C2

[RankNewcal]
S. Clementis Papae et Martyris;;Duplex optional;;2;;vide C2

[Rule]
vide C2;
9 lectiones
OPapaM=Clement;

[Ant Vespera]
While St. Clement prayed, * there appeared unto him the Lamb of God.;;109
Not for my own merits * hath the Lord sent me unto you, that I may share your crowns.;;110
I saw on the mountain * the Lamb standing, from beneath whosefoot flowed a fountain of living waters.;;111
From beneath whose foot * a fountain of living waters flowed forth: the stream of the river that maketh glad the city of God.;;112
All the nations * round about believed in Christ the Lord.;;116

[Ant 1]
Let us all * pray Our Lord Jesus Christ to open a spring for those that own His Name.

[Oratio]
O God, Who dost gladden us by the yearly Feast-day of thine holy Martyr, Clement mercifully grant unto us who keep their birthday, the strength to imitate their patience under suffering.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoration of St. Felicity, Martyr
@Commune/C7:Oratio proper
$Oremus.
Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that in calling to mind the victory of thy blessed Martyr Felicity, we may find shelter both for her sake and in her prayers.
$Per Dominum

[Responsory1]
R. While Holy Clement was at prayer, there appeared unto him the Lamb of God;
* With the river of the water of life proceeding from under His Feet, even that river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God.
V. And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount.
R. With the river of the water of life proceeding from under His Feet, even that river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God.

[Responsory2]
R. They all said with one voice Holy Clement, pray for us;
* That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
V. For no worthiness of mine own hath the Lord sent me unto you, to become a partaker in your crowns.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

[Responsory3]
R. Lord, Thou hast given unto thy Martyr Clement a tabernacle in the sea, after the fashion of a temple of marble, builded by the hands of Angels.
* And Thou givest a way thither unto the people on the land, that they may tell of thy marvellous works.
V. Lord, Thou didst give unto thy Saints a way in the sea, and a path through the mighty waters.
R. And Thou gavest a way thither unto the people on the land, that they may tell of thy marvellous works.
&Gloria
R. And Thou gavest a way thither unto the people on the land, that they may tell of thy marvellous works.

[Lectio4]
Clement, the son of Faustinus, was a Roman, from the quarter of the Coelian Mount. He was a disciple of the blessed Peter, and is the same concerning whom Paul saith, writing to the Philippians And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are written in the book of life. ~(iv. 3.) (He succeeded Cletus as Bishop of Rome.) He it was who divided the seven quarters of the city among seven scribes, one to each, whose duty it was to search out most carefully, and record in writing the sufferings and acts of the Martyrs. He himself also wrote much, and that most orthodox and healthy, whereby he clearly explained the Christian Religion.

[Lectio5]
His teaching and the holiness of his life brought many to believe in Christ, and he was therefore exiled by the Emperor Trajan to Kherson, in the Crimea, where he found two thousand Christians, who had been condemned by the same Trajan. There they all worked in the marble quarries. During their labour they suffered for want of water, and Clement prayed, and then went up an hill hard by, on the top whereof he saw a Lamb standing, touching with its right foot a flowing spring of sweet waters. Therewith they all quenched their thirst, and by this miracle many unbelievers were brought to believe in Christ, and began to honour the holiness of Clement.

[Lectio6]
These things moved Trajan to send a messenger to the Crimea, who tied an anchor about Clement's neck, and cast him into the deep of the sea. After it had been done, while the Christians were praying on the shore, the sea went back three miles, and when they followed it, they found a grotto of marble, in form like a temple, and therein a stone coffin wherein was laid the body of the Martyr, and, hard by, the anchor wherewith he had been sunk. Then were the country people moved to receive the faith of Christ. The body of Clement was afterwards brought to Rome, in the time of Pope Nicholas I, and buried in his own Church. A Church was also built in the Crimea, in the place where God had made the water to break forth. Clement lived as Pope nine years, six months, and six days. He held two Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he made ten Priests, two Deacons, and fifteen Bishops for diverse places.

[Lectio93]
!Commemoration for the Holy Martyr Felicity.
The Lesson is taken from the Sermons of Pope St. Gregory (the Great.)
!3rd Horn, on the Gospels.
That blessed woman Felicity, whose Birth-feast we are keeping today, had as much dread of leaving her seven sons living after her in the flesh, as have carnal-minded mothers of seeing them go dead before them. When she was taken in the strong pains of persecution, she braced up the hearts of her children by bidding them cleave to the Fatherland above, and became their mother for the spiritual, as she had aforetime been for the fleshly life, bringing them forth for God by her exhortation, as she had brought them forth for the world by her body. And shall I not call this woman a Martyr? Nay, more than Martyr. The seven whom she trusted to God were seven children sent before her to death. She suffered first and triumphed last.
&teDeum

[Ant Laudes]
@:Ant Vespera:s/;;.*//g

[Ant 2]
As he began to move toward the sea * the people cried out with a loud voice: O Lord Jesus Christ, deliver him! And Clement wept, and said: Father, receive my spirit!

[Ant Vespera 3]
@:Ant Vespera:s/116/115/