# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds live
# query. Fixed year-round, same shape as nunc-dimittis.yml — the framing
# antiphon is resolved separately, by day (see hours/resolve-common.ts's
# getBenedictusAntiphon), not stored here. The closing Gloria Patri isn't
# stored here either — it's attached centrally (hours/index.ts) so it can
# be omitted during the Sacred Triduum (live-verified: Divino Afflatu 1954
# and Tridentine 1906 both omit it at Lauds of Holy Thursday).
id: benedictus
text:
  la: |
    Benedíctus ✠ Dóminus, Deus Israël: * quia visitávit, et fecit redemptiónem plebis suæ:
    Et eréxit cornu salútis nobis: * in domo David, púeri sui.
    Sicut locútus est per os sanctórum, * qui a sǽculo sunt, prophetárum ejus:
    Salútem ex inimícis nostris, * et de manu ómnium, qui odérunt nos.
    Ad faciéndam misericórdiam cum pátribus nostris: * et memorári testaménti sui sancti.
    Jusjurándum, quod jurávit ad Ábraham patrem nostrum, * datúrum se nobis:
    Ut sine timóre, de manu inimicórum nostrórum liberáti, * serviámus illi.
    In sanctitáte, et justítia coram ipso, * ómnibus diébus nostris.
    Et tu, puer, Prophéta Altíssimi vocáberis: * præíbis enim ante fáciem Dómini, paráre vias ejus:
    Ad dandam sciéntiam salútis plebi ejus: * in remissiónem peccatórum eórum:
    Per víscera misericórdiæ Dei nostri: * in quibus visitávit nos, óriens ex alto:
    Illumináre his, qui in ténebris, et in umbra mortis sedent: * ad dirigéndos pedes nostros in viam pacis.
  en: |
    Blessed be the Lord ✠ God of Israel; * because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:
    And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, * in the house of David his servant:
    As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, * who are from the beginning:
    Salvation from our enemies, * and from the hand of all that hate us:
    To perform mercy to our fathers, * and to remember his holy testament,
    The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, * that he would grant to us,
    That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, * we may serve him without fear,
    In holiness and justice before him, * all our days.
    And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: * for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:
    To give knowledge of salvation to his people, * unto the remission of their sins:
    Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, * in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:
    To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: * to direct our feet into the way of peace.
citation:
  la: "Luc. 1:68-79"
  en: "Luke 1:68-79"
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified