Saint SabinaTHE BAPTIST
SAINT SABINA
Martyr
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INTROIT Ps. 83:10-11
O
God, our Protector, look, and gaze upon the face of Your Christ. Better
indeed is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere.
Ps. 83:2-3. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul yearns and faints for the courts of the Lord.
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
Keep
Your Church, O Lord, in Your everlasting mercy. Without Your assistance
our human nature is bound to fall, so help us to shun whatever is
harmful and guide us towards those things that will aid our salvation.
Through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of THE BEHEADING OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
To
our short vision, the beheading of St. John the Baptist to satisfy the
rancor of a wicked woman appears as a painfully ignominious death for
the "friend of the heavenly bridegroom." Yet never was the burning and
the shinning light (John 5:35) of the Precursor's lamp more radiant than
at this moment, when it was absorbed within the abyss of light that is
the Godhead. Because John's role in the economy of redemption was so
vital, the Church has made room for him in her glowing firmament of
saints next to the Mother of God herself. Today, as long ago on the
banks of the Jordan, John leads us to the fount of apostolic zeal -- the
divine simplicity of loving only Christ, and all men in and for Him.
May
the holy festival of Thy Forerunner and Martyr, St. John the Baptist,
we beseech Thee, O Lord, afford us help unto salvation; who lives and
rules with God the Father . . .
Commemoration of SAINT SABINA, MARTYR
St.
Sabina, who gave her name to the famous old church which is now
Dominican world headquarters, was probably martyred during the second
century.
O
God, one of the marvelous examples of Your power was granting the
victory of martyrdom even to delicate womanhood. May the example of the
blessed martyr Sabina, whose birthday we celebrate today, draw us closer
to You. Through our Lord . . .
EPISTLE Gal. 5:16-24
Brethren:
Walk in the Spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the
flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the
things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not
under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,
Idolatry,
witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels,
dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they
who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
But
the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity,
goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity.
Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified
their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.
GRADUAL Ps. 117:8-9
It is better to trust in the Lord than to confide in man.
V. It is better to have confidence in the Lord than to rely on princes.
Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 94:1
Come, let us praise the Lord with joy, let us sing joyfully to God our Saviour. Alleluia!
GOSPEL Matt. 6:24-33
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: "No
man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love
the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and mammon. "Therefore
I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor
for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the
meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air,
for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? "And
for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you,
that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And
if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into
the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? "Be
not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we
drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do
the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all
these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his
justice, and all these things shall be added unto you."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 33:8-9
The Angel of the Lord shall encamp around those who fear him, and shall deliver them. Taste and see how good is the Lord.
SECRET
O
Lord, grant that this offering of the Sacrifice of salvation may take
away our sins and appease Your majesty. Through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of THE BEHEADING OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTISTO
Lord, may the gifts we offer You in memory of the sufferings of Your
holy martyr John the Baptist bring us closer to salvation through his
prayers. through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINT SABINA
O
Lord, graciously accept the gifts we offer You in honor of Your blessed
martyr Sabina and help us find in them unending assistance. Through our
Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Matt. 6:33
"Seek first the kingdom of God, and all other things shall be given you besides," said the Lord.
POSTCOMMUNION
May Your Sacrament ever cleanse and strengthen us, O God, and lead us to eternal salvation. Through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of THE BEHEADING OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
O
Lord, may the feast of blessed John the Baptist teach us to reverence
the deep significance of the Holy Eucharist which we have received, and
to be filled with joy at the fulfillment of this promise in ourselves.
Through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINT SABINA
We
have been nourished by Your divine gift, O Lord our God. May the
reception of this Bread of Heaven bring us eternal life through the
intercession of Your blessed martyr Sabina. Through our Lord . . .
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