# Standard de-Communi commemoration for common-of-a-virgin-martyr (`[Ant 2]`+`[Versum 2]`
# from the reference engine's Commune files -- the tags actually used for
# a mere commemoration, confirmed against this exact category via an
# independently live-verified precedent elsewhere in this app). st-thecla has
# no proper antiphon of his/her own in the source (a plain "vide C..."
# reference), so this reuses the Common's own text, same as every other
# saint of this category with nothing proper. Collect is the saint's own
# real proper (st-thecla-collect.yml), unchanged.
id: st-thecla-commemoration
text:
  la: |
    Ant. Símile est regnum cælórum * hómini negotiatóri quærénti bonas margarítas: invénta una pretiósa, dedit ómnia sua, et comparávit eam.
    V. Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis.
    R. Proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum.
    Orémus.
    Da, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, qui beátæ Theclæ Vírginis et Mártyris tuæ natalícia cólimus; et ánnua solemnitáte lætémur, et tantæ fídei proficiámus exémplo.
    Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
    R. Amen.
  en: |
    Ant. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman * seeking goodly pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
    V. Grace is poured into thy lips.
    R. Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
    Let us pray.
    Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, unto all thy servants who do here keep the birthday of thy blessed Virgin and Martyr Thecla, and do year by year rejoice at her solemn commemoration, that they may have grace to follow after the pattern of her great faith.
    Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
    R. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified