Friday 9 October 2026 (other days)
Saint John Henry Newman, Priest, Doctor
on Friday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
on Friday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
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If you have already recited the Invitatory Psalm today, you should use the alternative opening.Based on the liturgy for the Common of Doctors.
Dómine, lábia mea apéries.
Et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.
| Lord, open our lips.
And we shall praise your name.
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Fontem sapiéntiæ, Dóminum, veníte, adorémus.
(repeat antiphon*)
1Dómini est terra et plenitúdo eius,*
orbis terrárum et qui hábitant in eo.
2Quia ipse super mária fundávit eum*
et super flúmina firmávit eum.
(repeat antiphon*)
3Quis ascéndet in montem Dómini,*
aut quis stabit in loco sancto eius?
4Innocens mánibus et mundo corde,†
qui non levávit ad vana ánimam suam,*
nec iurávit in dolum.
5Hic accípiet benedictiónem a Dómino*
et iustificatiónem a Deo salutári suo.
6Hæc est generátio quæréntium eum,*
quæréntium fáciem Dei Iacob.
(repeat antiphon*)
7Attóllite, portæ, cápita vestra,†
et elevámini, portæ æternáles,*
et introíbit rex glóriæ.
8Quis est iste rex glóriæ?*
Dóminus fortis et potens, Dóminus potens in prœ́lio.
(repeat antiphon*)
9Attóllite, portæ, cápita vestra,†
et elevámini, portæ æternáles,*
et introíbit rex glóriæ.
10Quis est iste rex glóriæ?*
Dóminus virtútum ipse est rex glóriæ.
(repeat antiphon*)
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
(repeat antiphon*)
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The Lord is the source of all wisdom: come, let us adore him.
(repeat antiphon*)
The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness,
the world and all who live in it.
He himself founded it upon the seas
and set it firm over the waters.
(repeat antiphon*)
Who will climb the mountain of the Lord?
Who will stand in his holy place?
The one who is innocent of wrongdoing and pure of heart,
who has not given himself to vanities or sworn falsely.
He will receive the blessing of the Lord
and be justified by God his saviour.
This is the way of those who seek him,
seek the face of the God of Jacob.
(repeat antiphon*)
Gates, raise your heads. Stand up, eternal doors,
and let the king of glory enter.
Who is the king of glory?
The Lord of might and power.
The Lord, strong in battle.
(repeat antiphon*)
Gates, raise your heads. Stand up, eternal doors,
and let the king of glory enter.
Who is the king of glory?
The Lord of hosts
– he is the king of glory.
(repeat antiphon*)
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
(repeat antiphon*)
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* If you are reciting this on your own, you can choose to say the antiphon once only at the start of the psalm and not repeat it.
Ætérne sol, qui lúmine
creáta comples ómnia,
supréma lux et méntium,
te corda nostra cóncinunt.
Tuo fovénte Spíritu,
hic viva luminária
fulsére, per quæ sǽculis
patent salútis sémitæ.
Quod verba missa cǽlitus,
natíva mens quod éxhibet,
per hos minístros grátiæ
novo nitóre cláruit.
Horum corónæ párticeps,
doctrína honéstus lúcida,
hic vir beátus splénduit
quem prædicámus láudibus.
Ipso favénte, quǽsumus,
nobis, Deus, percúrrere
da veritátis trámitem,
possímus ut te cónsequi.
Præsta, Pater piíssime,
Patríque compar Unice,
cum Spíritu Paráclito
regnans per omne sǽculum. Amen.
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In ancient times God spoke to us
Through prophets, and in varied ways,
But now he speaks through Christ his Son,
His radiance through eternal days.
To God the Father of the world,
His Son through whom he made all things,
And Holy Spirit, bond of love,
All glad creation glory sings.
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Ps 68:2-13
| Psalm 68 (69)
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Ps 68:14-22Dedérunt in escam meam fel et in siti mea potavérunt me acéto.
14Ego vero oratiónem meam ad te, Dómine,*
in témpore benepláciti, Deus.
In multitúdine misericórdiæ tuæ exáudi me,*
in veritáte salútis tuæ.
15Eripe me de luto, ut non infígar,†
erípiar ab iis, qui odérunt me,*
et de profúndis aquárum.
16Non me demérgat fluctus aquárum,†
neque absórbeat me profúndum,*
neque úrgeat super me púteus os suum.
17Exáudi me, Dómine, quóniam benígna est misericórdia tua;*
secúndum multitúdinem miseratiónum tuárum réspice in me.
18Et ne avértas fáciem tuam a púero tuo;*
quóniam tríbulor, velóciter exáudi me.
19Accéde ad ánimam meam, víndica eam,*
propter inimícos meos rédime me.
20Tu scis oppróbrium meum*
et confusiónem meam et reveréntiam meam.
In conspéctu tuo sunt omnes, qui tríbulant me;*
21oppróbrium contrívit cor meum, et elángui.
Et sustínui, qui simul contristarétur, et non fuit,*
et qui consolarétur, et non invéni.
22Et dedérunt in escam meam fel,*
et in siti mea potavérunt me acéto.
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Dedérunt in escam meam fel et in siti mea potavérunt me acéto.
| Psalm 68 (69)For food they gave me poison, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
But I turn my prayer to you, Lord,
at the acceptable time, my God.
In your great kindness, hear me,
and rescue me with your faithful help.
Tear me from the mire, before I become stuck;
tear me from those who hate me;
tear me from the depths of the waters.
Do not let the waves overwhelm me;
do not let the deep waters swallow me;
do not let the well’s mouth engulf me.
Hear me, Lord, for you are kind and good.
In your abundant mercy, look upon me.
Do not turn your face from your servant:
I am suffering, so hurry to answer me.
Come to my soul and deliver it,
rescue me from my enemies’ attacks.
You know how I am taunted and ashamed;
how I am thrown into confusion.
You can see all those who are troubling me.
Reproach has shattered my heart – I am sick.
I looked for sympathy, but none came;
I looked for a consoler but did not find one.
They gave me bitterness to eat;
when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
For food they gave me poison, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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Ps 68:30-37Quǽrite Dóminum et vivet ánima vestra.
30Ego autem sum pauper et dolens;*
salus tua, Deus, súscipit me.
31Laudábo nomen Dei cum cántico*
et magnificábo eum in laude.
32Et placébit Dómino super taurum,*
super vítulum córnua producéntem et úngulas.
33Vídeant húmiles et læténtur;*
quǽrite Deum, et vivet cor vestrum,
34quóniam exaudívit páuperes Dóminus*
et vinctos suos non despéxit.
35Laudent illum cæli et terra,*
mária et ómnia reptília in eis.
36Quóniam Deus salvam fáciet Sion†
et ædificábit civitátes Iudæ;*
et inhabitábunt ibi et possidébunt eam.
37Et semen servórum eius hereditábunt eam*
et, qui díligunt nomen eius, habitábunt in ea.
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Quǽrite Dóminum et vivet ánima vestra.
| Psalm 68 (69)Seek the Lord, and he will give life to your soul.
I am weak and I suffer,
but your help, O God, will sustain me.
I will praise the name of God in song
and proclaim his greatness with praises.
This will please the Lord more than oxen,
than cattle with their horns and hooves.
Let the humble see and rejoice.
Seek the Lord, and your heart shall live,
for the Lord has heard the needy
and has not despised his captive people.
Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and all that swims in them.
For the Lord will make Zion safe
and build up the cities of Judah:
there they will live, the land will be theirs.
The seed of his servants will inherit the land,
and those who love his name will dwell there.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
Seek the Lord, and he will give life to your soul.
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℣. Audies de ore meo verbum.
℟. Et annuntiábis eis ex me.
| ℣. You will hear the word from my mouth.
℟. You will speak to them in my name.
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De servis. De falsis doctoribusCaríssime: 1Quicúmque sunt sub iugo, servi dóminos suos omni honóre dignos arbitréntur, ne nomen Dei et doctrína blasphemétur. 2Qui autem fidéles habent dóminos, non contémnant, quia fratres sunt, sed magis sérviant, quia fidéles sunt et dilécti, qui benefícii partícipes sunt. Hæc doce et exhortáre.
3Si quis áliter docet et non accédit sanis sermónibus Dómini nostri Iesu Christi et ei, quæ secúndum pietátem est, doctrínæ, 4supérbus est, nihil sciens, sed languens circa quæstiónes et pugnas verbórum, ex quibus oriúntur invídiæ, contentiónes, blasphémiæ, suspiciónes malæ, 5conflictatiónes hóminum mente corruptórum et qui veritáte priváti sunt, existimántium quæstum esse pietátem.
6Est autem quæstus magnus píetas cum sufficiéntia. 7Nihil enim intúlimus in mundum, quia nec auférre quid póssumus; 8habéntes autem aliménta et quibus tegámur, his conténti érimus. 9Nam qui volunt dívites fíeri, íncidunt in tentatiónem et láqueum et desidéria multa stulta et nocíva, quæ mergunt hómines in intéritum et perditiónem; 10radix enim ómnium malórum est cupíditas, quam quidam appeténtes erravérunt a fide et inseruérunt se dolóribus multis.
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Concerning slaves. Concerning false teachersAll slaves ‘under the yoke’ must have unqualified respect for their masters, so that the name of God and our teaching are not brought into disrepute. Slaves whose masters are believers are not to think any the less of them because they are brothers; on the contrary, they should serve them all the better, since those who have the benefit of their services are believers and dear to God.
This is what you are to teach them to believe and persuade them to do. Anyone who teaches anything different, and does not keep to the sound teaching which is that of our Lord Jesus Christ, the doctrine which is in accordance with true religion, is simply ignorant and must be full of self-conceit – with a craze for questioning everything and arguing about words. All that can come of this is jealousy, contention, abuse and wicked mistrust of one another; and unending disputes by people who are neither rational nor informed and imagine that religion is a way of making a profit. Religion, of course, does bring large profits, but only to those who are content with what they have. We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it; but as long as we have food and clothing, let us be content with that. People who long to be rich are a prey to temptation; they get trapped into all sorts of foolish and dangerous ambitions which eventually plunge them into ruin and destruction. ‘The love of money is the root of all evils’ and there are some who, pursuing it, have wandered away from the faith, and so given their souls any number of fatal wounds.
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℟. Ne sollíciti sitis ánimæ vestræ quid manducétis, neque córpori vestro quid induámini.* Nonne ánima plus est quam esca et corpus quam vestiméntum?
℣. Habéntes autem aliménta et quibus tegámur, his conténti érimus.* Nonne.
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℟. Do not worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and how you are to clothe it.* Surely life means more than food and the body more than clothing!
℣. As long as we have some food and clothing, let us be content with that.* Surely life means more than food and the body more than clothing!
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Tamquam fluctibus agitatum in portum me tandem venisse videbaturEx illa die qua catholicus factus sum et deinceps, nihil plane sententiarum de religione narrandum plus habeo. Mentem autem nequaquam pigram reliqui neque a ratiocinationibus theologicis abstinui, sed neve variationes in cogitatione neve sollicitudines in corde referre valeo. Omnis dubii expers, in pace perfecta atque tranquillitate hucusque vivo. De intellectu vel moribus a die conversionis meae mutatis nihil conscius sum. Etenim, nec fidem in veritates Revelationis principales firmiorem, nec mei compotiorem, nec meipsum ferventiorem sentiebam. At tamquam fluctibus agitatum in portum me tandem venisse videbatur; unde meipsum usque ad hodiernam diem beatum iugiter aestimo.
Neque articulos insuper qui de symbolo anglicano desunt difficiles receptu inveni. Nonnullos enim iamdudum acceperam; omnibus autem absque periclitatione consensi. Quos in die receptionis sine ulla disceptatione professus sum, eosdem etiam nunc ita confiteor. Sunt enim difficultates intellegendi in omnibus symboli christiani articulis sive a catholicis sive a protestantibus professis quas neque negare neque simpliciter me solvere posse assevero. Ac tametsi multi sunt qui difficultates in Religione sentiant, quorum ego unus sum, coniunctionem tamen numquam videre potui inter apprehensionem illarum difficultatum, quamvis acute et quotquot sint, et dubitationem doctrinarum cum quibus coniunctae sunt. Decem milia enim difficultates ne singulum quidem dubium gignere posse mihi videtur, eo quod difficultates nequaquam dubiis commetiuntur. Difficultates enimvero in argumentis prorsus adesse possunt; hic autem de difficultatibus in ipsis doctrinis intrinsecis vel quoad earundem doctrinarum relationes in alterutras loquor. Scilicet ut aliquis vexatur dum quaestionem mathematicam solvere non potest, etiam cum solutio illi sive praestita sive retenta est, sed non dubitat quin solutio admitti possit vel solutio quaedam vera exsistat. Ex omnibus fidei dogmatibus, mea sententia valde difficillimum est quod Deus exsistat, sed mentibus nostris quam potentissime imprimitur.
Sunt tamen qui doctrinam Transubstantiationis difficilem creditu aiunt. Ego quidem, quum illae doctrinae non credideram donec catholicus essem, nihilominus simul ac Ecclesiam Romanam Catholicam esse oraculum Dei cognoveram, atque eam docuisse istam doctrinam ab origine esse revelatam, facillime credidi. Quod hanc doctrinam mente concipere sit arduum, immo impossibile, libenter concedo; sed quomodo sit difficile huic credere, quaeso. Toto vero dogmati revelato, ab Apostolis docto et Ecclesiae tradito et ab Ecclesia mihi declarato, credo; atque ut nunc interpretatur et, implicite, sicut ab illa auctoritate cui commissum est praeterea simili modo interpretabitur usque ad consummationem saeculi, idem accipio. Insuper illis traditionibus semper et ubique in Ecclesia receptis, in quibus res continetur definitionum dogmaticarum interdum declaratarum, et quae in omnibus saeculis dogmati Catholico iam declarato textum et exemplum praebent, adhaereo. Aliis quoque Sanctae Sedis sententiis, sive theologicis sive non, per instrumenta a se statuta procedentibus, quaestione utrum infallibilitate sint praeditae praetermissa, quibus saltem parere atque obtemperare debeo, me submitto. Existimanda est porro, ut opinor, Catholicae fidei investigatio paulatim per saecula species certas et varias assumpsisse, in formam scientiae se exstruxisse, ratione et locutione sibi propriis a doctissimis sicut Athanasio, Augustino atque Thoma de Aquino evolutis, se ornasse; neque talem hereditatem intellectualem nobis his posterioribus diebus legatam ullo modo dirumpere vellem.
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It was like coming into port after a rough sea.From the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever. I have been in perfect peace and contentment; I never have had one doubt. I was not conscious to myself, on my conversion, of any change, intellectual or moral, wrought in my mind. I was not conscious of firmer faith in the fundamental truths of Revelation, or of more self-command; I had not more fervour; but it was like coming into port after a rough sea; and my happiness on that score remains to this day without interruption.
Nor had I any trouble about receiving those additional articles, which are not found in the Anglican Creed. Some of them I believed already, but not any one of them was a trial to me. I made a profession of them upon my reception with the greatest ease, and I have the same ease in believing them now. I am far of course from denying that every article of the Christian Creed, whether as held by Catholics or by Protestants, is beset with intellectual difficulties; and it is simple fact, that, for myself, I cannot answer those difficulties. Many persons are very sensitive of the difficulties of Religion; I am as sensitive of them as any one; but I have never been able to see a connexion between apprehending those difficulties, however keenly, and multiplying them to any extent, and on the other hand doubting the doctrines to which they are attached. Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. There of course may be difficulties in the evidence; but I am speaking of difficulties intrinsic to the doctrines themselves, or to their relations with each other. A man may be annoyed that he cannot work out a mathematical problem, of which the answer is or is not given to him, without doubting that it admits of an answer, or that a certain particular answer is the true one. Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.
People say that the doctrine of Transubstantiation is difficult to believe; I did not believe the doctrine till I was a Catholic. I had no difficulty in believing it, as soon as I believed that the Catholic Roman Church was the oracle of God, and that she had declared this doctrine to be part of the original revelation. It is difficult, impossible, to imagine, I grant — but how is it difficult to believe?…
I believe the whole revealed dogma as taught by the Apostles, as committed by the Apostles to the Church, and as declared by the Church to me. I receive it, as it is infallibly interpreted by the authority to whom it is thus committed, and (implicitly) as it shall be, in like manner, further interpreted by that same authority till the end of time. I submit, moreover, to the universally received traditions of the Church, in which lies the matter of those new dogmatic definitions which are from time to time made, and which in all times are the clothing and the illustration of the Catholic dogma as already defined. And I submit myself to those other decisions of the Holy See, theological or not, through the organs which it has itself appointed, which, waiving the question of their infallibility, on the lowest ground come to me with a claim to be accepted and obeyed. Also, I consider that, gradually and in the course of ages, Catholic inquiry has taken certain definite shapes, and has thrown itself into the form of a science, with a method and a phraseology of its own, under the intellectual handling of great minds, such as St Athanasius, St Augustine, and St Thomas; and I feel no temptation at all to break in pieces the great legacy of thought thus committed to us for these latter days.
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℟. Evangelii factus sum minister secundum donum gratiae Dei, quae data est mihi secundum operationem virtutis eius,* ut innotescat per ecclesiam multiformis sapientia Dei.
℣. Cum autem venerit ille, Spiritus veritatis, deducet vos in omnem veritatem.* Ut innotescat per ecclesiam multiformis sapientia Dei.
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℟. Of this Gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace which was given me by the working of his power,* that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known.
℣. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.* That through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known.
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Oremus.
Deus, qui sanctum Ioánnem Henrícum, presbýterum,
lumen benígnum tuum sequéntem
pacem in Ecclésia tua inveníre contulísti,
concéde propítius,
ut, eius intercessióne et exémplo,
ex umbris et imagínibus
in plenitúdinem veritátis tuae perducámur.
Per Dominum.
| Let us pray.
O God, who bestowed on your Priest
Saint John Henry Newman
the grace to follow your kindly light
and find peace in your Church;
graciously grant that, through his intercession and example,
we may be led out of shadows and images
into the fullness of your truth.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Benedicámus Dómino.
– Deo grátias.
| Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.
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Dates
Today
(Automatic)Fri 9 October
Saint John Henry Newman, Priest, DoctorSun 11 October
Nineteenth Sunday after TrinityMon 12 October
Monday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinityor Saint Wilfrid, Bishop and Missionary
Thu 15 October
Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgin, DoctorFri 16 October
Friday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinityor Saint Hedwig, Religious
or Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin