FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

INTROIT

AD TE LEVÁVI ánimam meam: Deus meus, in te confído, non rubéscam: neque irrídeant me inimíci mei: tenim univérsi qui te exspéctant, non confundéntur. Ps. 24, 4. Vias tuas, Dómine, demónstra mihi: et sémitas tuas édoce me. V. Gloria Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculórum. Amen. Ant: Ad te levavi, etc.

TO THEE, O Lord have I lifted up my soul: In Thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed. Neither let my enemies laugh at me; for none of them that wait on Thee shall be confounded. Ps. 24, 4. Show, O Lord, Thy ways to me, and teach me Thy paths. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Ant: To Thee, O Lord, etc.

GRADUAL

UNIVÉRSI, qui te exspéctant, non confundéntur Dómine. V. Vias tuas Dómine notas fac mihi: et sémitas tuas édoce me.

NONE OF them that wait on Thee shall be confounded. V. Show, O Lord, Thy ways to me, and teach me Thy paths.

ALLELUIA

ALLELÚJA, allelúja. V. Ps. 84, 8. Osténde nobis Dómine misericórdiam tuam: et salutáre tuum da nobis. Allelúja.

ALLELUIA, alleluia. V. Ps. 84, 8. Show us, O Lord, Thy mercy: and grant us Thy salvation. Alleluia.

OFFERTORY

AD TE LEVÁVI ánimam meam: Deus meus in te confído, non erubéscam: neque irrídeant me inimíci mei: étenim univérsi, qui te exspéctant, non confundéntur.

TO THEE have I lifted up my soul: in Thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed: neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on Thee shall be confounded.

COMMUNION

DÓMINUS dabit benignitátem: et terra nostra dabit fructum suum.

THE LORD will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.