Matutinum - Lectio
25 December, 2022
Lectio
Agnósce, o Christiáne, dignitátem tuam: et divínæ consors factus natúræ,
O Christian, be aware of your nobility-it is God’s own nature that you share:
noli in véterem vilitátem degéneri conversatióne redíre.
do not then, by an ignoble life, fall back into your former baseness.
Meménto, cujus cápitis et cujus córporis sis membrum.
Think of the Head, think of the Body of which you are a member.
Reminíscere, quia érutus de potestáte tenebrárum,
Recall that you have been rescued from the power of darkness,
translátus es in Dei lumen et regnum.
and have been transferred to the light of God, the kingdom of God.
Per baptísmatis sacraméntum Spíritus Sancti factus es templum:
Through the sacrament of baptism you have been made a temple of the Holy Spirit;
noli tantum habitatórem pravis de te áctibus effugáre, et diáboli te íterum subjícere servitúti:
do not, by evil deeds, drive so great an indweller away from you, submitting yourself once more to the slavery of the devil.
quia prétium tuum sanguis est Christi.
For you were bought at the price of Christ’s blood.