SAINT LOUIS IX (1270 A.D.); SAINT PATRICIA (665 A.D.)

Detail of 'St-Louis IX at the Battle of Taillebourg',

painted by Eugène Delacroix in 1837 (at 'Galerie des Batailles',
Versailles). The decisive engagement of this brief, but critical war
was fought on 21 or 22 July 1242, near the strategic bridge over the
Charente river just south of the château of Taillebourg.

SAINT LOUIS IX

King and Confessor

SAINT PATRICIA

Virgin (665 A.D.)

[Historical]

SIMPLE / WHITE 


King Louis IX of France (1215-70) is acknowledged the ideal Christian
monarch. Not only was his private life marked by a spirit of
contemplation and asceticism overflowing in Christ-like charity toward
all men, from fellow kings to the lowest of his subjects; he also gave
his country a rule of unprecedented peace, justice, and material and
spiritual prosperity. He fostered the flowering of Gothic architecture,
developed the University of Paris. So great was his apostolic zeal that
when he joined the Crusades he
personally prepared Saracen converts for baptism and sent their
children to France for a Catholic education. In a message to the Sultan
of Tunis he wrote: "I desire so strongly the salvation of your soul that
to secure it I would gladly spend the rest of my life in a Saracen prison. . . ." He died of plague at Tunis during his second campaign to save the Holy Land.







Introit


Ps 36:30-31

The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom, and his tongue utters what is right. The law of his God is in his heart.

Ps 36:1

Be not vexed over evildoers, nor jealous of those who do wrong.

V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom, and his tongue utters what is right. The law of his God is in his heart. 



Mass of a CONFESSOR OF THE FAITH, except



 COLLECT

O God, You raised the blessed confessor Louis from an
earthly throne to the glory of Your kingdom in heaven. May the merits
and prayers of this saint bring us to share in the kingdom of Jesus
Christ, Your Son, the King of kings; who lives and rules with You . . .



LESSON Wisdom 10:10-14

The Lord conducted the just through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours. In the deceit of them that overreached him, he stood by him, and made him honourable.
He kept him safe from his enemies, and he defended him from seducers,
and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that
wisdom is mightier than all. He forsook not the just when he was sold,
but delivered him from sinners: he went down with him into the pit. And
in bands he left him not, till he brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.





Gradual


Ps 91:13-14

The just man shall flourish like the palm tree, like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow in the house of the Lord.

Ps 91:3

V. To proclaim Your kindness at dawn and Your faithfulness throughout the night. Alleluia, alleluia.

James 1:12

V. Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been tried, he will receive the crown of life. Alleluia.



GOSPEL Luke 19:12-26

At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to His disciples, "A
certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a
kingdom and to return. And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten
pounds and said to them: 'Trade till I come.' But his citizens hated him
and they sent an embassage after him, saying: 'We will not have this
man to reign over us.' "And it
came to pass that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he
commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money,
that he might know how much every man had gained by trading, And the
first came saying: 'Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.' And
he said to him: 'Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been
faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities.' And the
second came, saying: 'Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.' And he
said to him: 'Be thou also over five cities.' And another came, saying:
'Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin.
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what
thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not
sow.' "He saith
to him: 'Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou
knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and
reaping that which I did not sow. And why then didst thou not give my
money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with
usury?' And he said to them that stood by: 'Take the pound away from him
and give it to him that hath ten pounds.' And they said to him: 'Lord,
he hath ten pounds.' But I say to you that to every one that hath shall
be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that
which he hath shall be taken from him."



SECRET

O Almighty God, may we be made acceptable to You through the prayers of
Your blessed confessor Louis, who spurned the pleasures of this world
and sought only to please Christ the King. Through the same Jesus
Christ, our Lord . . .



POSTCOMMUNION

O God, may the Church have as her defender the blessed confessor Louis,
on whom You bestowed renown on earth and glory in heaven. Through our
Lord . . .

 

Virgin 

{Historical}

 Patron of Naples, Italy

Saint Patricia of Naples, or Patricia of Constantinople (Italian: Santa Patrizia) (d. ca. 665 AD), is an Italian virgin martyr and saint. Tradition states that she was noble; she may have been related to the Roman Emperor. Some sources say that she was a descendant of Constantine the Great.^[1]

Wishing to escape an marriage arranged by Constans II and become a nun, she went to Rome. There she received the veil from Pope Liberius.
Upon the death of her father, she returned to Constantinople and,
renouncing any claim to the imperial crown, distributed her wealth to
the poor. She then planned to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

However, a terrible storm shipwrecked her on the shores of Naples. Finding refuge on the tiny island of Megarides (the site of the present-day Castel dell'Ovo), the site of a small hermitage, Patricia died shortly after from disease.

Like St. Januarius there, a vial believed to be filled with her blood reportedly liquefies thirteen hundred years after her death.

TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH: Saint Patricia