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Lectio .ij. Qvarum videlicet ebdomadarum dies .xl. et duo sunt. Ex
quibus dvm sex dies dominici ab abstinentia subtrahuntur non plus in
abstinentia quam .xxxvi. remanent.
PL 76, col. 1137,29-32; GNH, p. 75,6-8.
Lectio .iij. Dum vero per trecentos sexaginta dies annus ducitur nos
autem per .xxx. et .vi. [dies] affligimur quasi anni nostri deo decimas
damus ut qui nobismetipsis per exceptum (acceptum) annum viximus
auctori nostro nos in eius decimis per abstinentiam mortificemus.
PL 76, col. 1137,32-37; GNH, p. 75,8-14.
A translation of the three Monday lessons have also been partly incorporated in
Messuskyringar, op. cit., pp. 77,33-78,7.
FERIA V.
Lectio prima. Sibi quisque jejunat, si ea quæ sibi ad tempus subtrahit,
non pauperibus tribuit, sed ventri postmodum offerenda custodit.
PL 76, col. 1138,17-19; GNH, p. 77,17-19.
Lectio secunda. Hine per Johel dicitur. Sanctificate jejunium.
Jejunium quippe sanctificare est, adjunetis bonis operibus aliis dignam
deo abstinentiam ostendere.
PL 76, col. 1138,19-23; GNH, p. 77,9-12.
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Suffragia communia Ecclesiae Scaloltensis Saec. XV
In the medieval Church a series of suffrages were said after lauds
and vespers on ferial days from the Octave of Epiphany to Passion
Sunday and from Sunday after Pentecost (Trinity Sunday) to Advent,
except on feast days.7 Each suffrage consisted of an antiphon with
versicle, followed by a prayer of intercession. First in order was
generally an invocation of the Holy Cross, followed by invocations of
St. Mary, the angels, St. John the Baptist, the apostles and the
evangelists; the last invocation was generally for peace. The others
included the saint to whom the church in question was dedicated and
7 On their appearance in the breviaries from the eleventh century onwards, see P.
Salmon, L’Office divin au moyen åge = Lex orandi, 43 (Paris 1967), p. 112.