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.
Jer 1:9-10
Behold
I have given my words in thy mouth: Lo, I have set thee over the
nations, and over the kingdoms, to root up, and pull down, and to waste,
and to destroy, and to build, and to plant. Allelúja.
SECRET
By the offered gifts we beseech thee, O Lord, that thou kindly enlighten thy Church, so that thy flock may everywhere progress and prosper, and thy shepherds, under thy guidance may be pleasing to thy name. Through Jesus Christ . . .
Matt 16:18
Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Allelúja.
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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