precibus complacatus, dexteram invicta potentiæ tuæ ad depulsionem nocivorum et largitatem proficuorum semper et ubique propitius extende. Per eumdem Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate ejusdem Spiritus sancti Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. Amen. wicked designs of evil men,do thou, being appeased by the prayers of the same thy Saints, mercifully stretch forth, always and everywhere, the right hand of thine invincible power, to drive away all that is evil, and to shed abroad all benefits. Through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen. Lastly, not to forget our dear dead on any of the days of this Octave, let us end with this ancient and tender supplication, used by the churches of Séez, le Mans, Angers, and Rennes, for the Commemoration of the departed. SEQUENCE. De profundis clamantes ge mimus Et gemendo preces effundi mus: Exaudi nos, Domine. Miserere misertus miseris, Qui Salvator et Salus diceris, Competente munere. Sicut cervus ad fontes properat, Sic anima ad Te desiderat, Fons misericordiæ. Fontis hujus aquis nos abluas, Nec secundum culpas retribuas, Deus indulgentiæ. From the depths crying out we groan, and groaning we pour forth our prayer: hear us O Lord. Pitifully have pity on the pitiable, O thou who art called the Saviour and Salvation, and thy function corresponds to thy name. As the hart speeds to the fountains, so does the soul yearn after thee, O fount of mercy; wash us with the waters of this fountain, and deal not with us according to our sins, O God of pardon. Mark not the measure of our crimes, and count not the number of our sins, but make way for indulgence. Guilty as we are, it is not judgment we need; but we are afflicted, grant us forgiveness by the free gift of thy grace. Thou hast said: All ye that are heavily laden with labours and with burdens, I will refresh you. Behold how op pressed we flee to thee; from thee alone we seek refreshment, through thine own clemency. Oh! despise not the work of thy hands; but look tenderly upon the suppliant, and give healing remedies to the guilty. Thou, who art to come as Judge of all, grant to all the souls of the faithful everlasting joys. Amen. PENT. VI, N SAME DAY. SAINT HUBERT BISHOP AND CONFESSOR. ROME, wishing to admit as few interruptions as possible into the present great Octave, gives but a brief notice of St. Hubert in the Martyrology. It is fitting that we should imitate her reserve. Were we, however to omit all mention of him, Christian hunters, so faithful in proclaiming their glorious Patron, would not forgive us. It is right also to satisfy popular piety, and the gratitude of numberless clients saved from hydrophobia, and led to the feet of the Saint by a tradition of a thousand years' standing. A few words suffice to recount his life. After the mysterious stag had revealed Christ to him, he became, from a hunter of wild animals, a hunter of souls; and merited to be called the Apostle of Ardenne, whose forests had often echoed to the baying of his hounds. He became the disciple and successor of St. Lambert; and transferring from Maestricht both the relics of the holy Martyr-Bishop and the Episcopal See, he raised Liège from an obscure village to a great town. His blessed death took place on May 30th 727; and on November 3rd 743, his precious remains were taken up for the first time, which led to the celebration of his feast on this day. In the following century, the Abbey of Andain was put in possession of the sacred deposit; and took from him the name of St. Hubert, as did likewise the town which sprang up around and soon became a centre for pilgrimages. Two orders of knighthood were established in honour of St. Hubert; the first perished with the fall of the Bourbons its last chiefs; the other still exists, and the kings of Bavaria are its Grand-Masters. Propitiare, quæsumus Domine, nobis famulis tuis per sancti Huberti Confessoris tui atque Pontificis merita gloriosa, ut ejus pia intercessione ab omnibus semper protegamur adversis. Per Dominum. Be propitious, we beseech thee O Lord, to us thy servants, through the glorious merits of St. Hubert thy Confessor and Bishop, that by his loving intercession we may ever be protected from all adversities. Through our Lord. 1 Proper Office of the Abbey of St. Scholastica of Juvigny-lesDames, where a tooth of St. Hubert was kept. NOVEMBER 4. SAINT CHARLES. BISHOP AND CONFESSOR. HUMILITAS. This word already stood, crowned with gold, upon his family escutcheon,1 when Charles was born at the castle of Arona. It had been said of the Borromeos that they knew nothing of humility, except to bear it on their coat of arms: but the time had now come, when the mysterious device was to be justified by the most illustrious scion of that noble family; and when, at the zenith of his greatness, a Borromeo would learn to void his heart of self, in order that God might fill it. Far, however, from abjuring the high-mindedness of his race, the humble Saint was the most intrepid of them all, while his enterprises were to eclipse the noble exploits of a long line of ancestors. One more proof that humility never debases. Charles was scarcely twenty-two years of age, when Pius IV, his maternal uncle, called him to the difficult post of Secretary of State, shortly afterwards created him Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, and seemed to take pleasure in heaping honours and responsibilities on his young shoulders. The late Pontiff, Paul IV., had been ill requited for placing a similar confidence in his nephews the Caraffas, On a chief argent the word HUMILITAS sable, crowned or. |