MONDAY

Dixit Dóminus Dómino meo:

sede a dextris meis.

The Lord’s revelation to my Master:

          ‘Sit on my right:’

Donec ponam inimícos tuos:

   scabéllum pedum tuórum.

       your foes I will put beneath your feet.’

Virgam virtútis tuæ emíttet Dóminus ex Sion:

domináre in médio inimicórum tuórum.

       The Lord will wield from Sion, your sceptre of power:

          rule in the midst of all your foes.

Tecum princípium in die virtútis tuæ
in splendóribus sanctórum:

   ex útero ante lucíferum génui te.

       A prince from the day of your birth on the holy mountains;

          from the womb before the dawn I begot you.

Iurávit Dóminus, et non pœnitébit eum:

Tu es sacérdos in ætérnum secúndum

órdinem Melchísedech.

       The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change. 

  ‘You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old’.

Dóminus a dextris tuis:

   confrégit in die iræ suæ reges.

The Master standing at your right hand  

   will shatter kings in the day of his wrath.

Iudicábit in natiónibus, implébit ruínas:

conquassábit cápita in terra multórum.

He, the Judge of the nations, will heap high the bodies;

   heads shall be shattered far and wide.

De torrénte in via bibet:

   proptérea exaltábit caput.

He shall drink from the stream by the wayside

  and therefore he shall lift up his head.   

Glória Patri, et Fílio:

et Spirítui Sancto.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son,

   and to the Holy Spirit.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper:

   et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,

   world without end. Amen.