15th Sunday after Pentecost

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

DOUBLE / GREEN 

Human
weakness requires help in sharing the weight of life's distress. In what
manner should one person bear the burdens of another? First of all,
there should be compassion, a suffering-with, in view of each one's own
weakness and many failures. A sense of personal superiority often
poisons well-meant pity and renders it worse than useless. Secondly,
there should be meekness in any sort of counseling; not ridicule or
harshness. Finally, one should begin with persons who are united in
Christian belief. All of this charity, done for Christ, who is the
greatest bearer of mankind's burdens, is a continual spiritual sowing
for an eternal harvest.



INTROIT Ps. 85:1, 2-3

Incline Your ear, O
Lord, and answer me. Save Your servant who trusts in You. Have pity on
me, O Lord, for to You I call all the day.

Ps. 85:4. Gladden the soul of Your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to You, O Lord.

V. Glory be . . .



COLLECT

O Lord, let
Your abiding mercy purify and defend the Church. Govern her always by
Your care, for without Your assistance she cannot remain safe. Through
our Lord . . . 





EPISTLE Gal. 5:25-26; 6:1-10

Brethren: If we live
in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be made
desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren,
and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual,
instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest
thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall
fulfill the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some
thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one
prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not
in another. For every one shall bear his own burden. And
let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that
instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked.
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that
soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that
soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in
doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.
Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but
especially to those who are of the household of the faith.



GRADUAL Ps. 91:2-3

It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing to Your name, O Most high.

V. To proclaim Your mercy in the morning and Your truth throughout the night. 



Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 94:3

For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all the earth. Alleluia!



GOSPEL Luke 7:11-16

At that time, Jesus
went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his
disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of
the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother:
and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.
Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said
to her:"Weep not." And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: "Young man, I say to thee, arise." And
he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his
mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: "A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people."



OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 39:2, 3, 4

I have waited and waited for the Lord, and He inclined toward me and heard my cry. And He out a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. 



SECRET 

O Lord, may Your Sacrament safeguard and defend us always against the attacks of the devil. through our Lord . . . 





COMMUNION ANTIPHON John 6:52  

The Bread that I will give is My flesh for the life of the world.



POSTCOMMUNION

Let the grace
of your Heavenly gift rule our minds and bodies, O Lord, that we may
overcome the unruly impulses of our nature. Through our Lord . . .