Popes and Martyrs
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
[In some places]
SIMPLE/RED
Cletus was third in the succession of popes after Peter. He died a
martyr about A.D. 91, during the reign of Emperor Domitian. Like Pope
Cletus, Pope Marcellinus was a Roman. He was Vicar of Christ from 296
to 304, and acquired great glory during the stormy persecution of
Diocletian, who ordered his beheading.
Mass of a POPE
Introit
John 21:15-17
If thou lovest me, Simon Peter, feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Allelúja, allelúja
Ps 29:2
I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.
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.
If thou lovest me, Simon Peter, feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Allelúja, allelúja.
COLLECT
Look forgivingly on thy flock, Eternal Shepherd, and
keep it in thy constant protection, by the intercession of blessed
Cletus and Marcellinus thy Martyrs and Sovereign Pontiffs, whom thou
didst constitute Shepherds of the whole Church.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord . . .
Commemoration of OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
The devotion of Our Lady of Good Counsel originated at Gennazzano
in Italy A.D. 1467. A picture of Our Lady originally at Scutari in
Albania, was miraculously transferred to the Augustinian church, then in
course of construction. This Church, in which is enshrined the
miraculous picture, became a place of popular pilgrimage.
O God, who didst give us the Mother of Thy beloved Son for our
Mother, and wert pleased by a wondrous apparition to glorify a beauteous
picture of her, grant, we beseech Thee, that ever hearkening to her
counsels, we may be enabled to live according to Thy Heart, and happily
to reach our home in heaven. Through our Lord . . .
Lesson
Lesson from the first letter of St Peter the Apostle
1 Pet 5:1-4; 5:10-11.
Dearly beloved brethren: The ancients therefore that are among you, I
beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings
of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in
time to come: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of
it, not by constraint, but willingly, according to God: not for filthy
lucre's sake, but voluntarily: Neither as lording it over the clergy,
but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart. And when the
prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown
of glory. But the God of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal
glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself
perfect you, and confirm you, and establish you. To him be glory and
empire for ever and ever. Amen.
Alleluia
Allelúja, allelúja
Matt 16:18
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church
Ps 44:17-18.
Thou shalt make them
princes over all the earth. They shall remember thy name throughout all
generations. Therefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever
and ever. Allelúja.
GOSPEL
Continuation ✠ of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
Matt 16:13-19
In that time: Jesus
came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples,
saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? But they said: Some
John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of
the prophets. Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon
Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And
Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because
flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in
heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I
will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And
whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in
heaven.
SECRET
Through Jesus Christ . . .
Commemoration of OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL Sanctify, O Lord, the Sacrifice we bring; and by the most salutary intercession of Blessed Mary Mother of God, Mother of Good Counsel, grant that it may avail us unto salvation. Through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth . . .
Through Jesus Christ . . .
Commemoration of OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
O Lord, may the venerable intercession of Thy glorious Mother, Mary ever Virgin, be our hope. May she who has showered upon us continual benefits ever make us see what it behoveth us to do, and strengthen us to fulfill the same: Who livest and reignest . . .
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