Responsorium VII - Nocturn III
Second Sunday of Lent, Nocturn III, Responsory 1
About This Prayer
This responsory for the Second Sunday of Lent recounts the Transfiguration: 'Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun' (Matthew 17:1-2). The Transfiguration Gospel, read on the Second Sunday of Lent, reveals Christ's glory to sustain the disciples (and the faithful) through the coming Passion.
Prayer Text
LATINE
R. Assumpsit Jesus Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem, et duxit illos in montem excelsum seorsum, et transfiguratus est ante eos: * Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol, vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
V. Et ecce apparuerunt illis Moyses et Elias cum eo loquentes.
R. Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol, vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
V. Et ecce apparuerunt illis Moyses et Elias cum eo loquentes.
R. Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol, vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
ENGLISH
R. Assumpsit Jesus Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem, et duxit illos in montem excelsum seorsum, et transfiguratus est ante eos: * Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol, vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
V. Et ecce apparuerunt illis Moyses et Elias cum eo loquentes.
R. Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol, vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
V. Et ecce apparuerunt illis Moyses et Elias cum eo loquentes.
R. Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol, vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
Liturgical Notes
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Second Sunday of Lent, Nocturn III, Responsory 1
HORA
Matins
TEMPVS
lent
GENVS
Responsory