DOUBLE / WHITE
Today's
Mass has a touch of Good Friday, a sense of loss, a note of resignation
that Christ's visible presence was not meant to continue. There was
also a brave facing of the real world of Christian mystery, wherein
charity is a constant need and violent opposition is a possible threat.
But grace in the human heart is divine life shared with men: it is the
seed of glory, the beginning of heaven. Mysteriously, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit -- tabernacled in every soul that is alive with grace -- are
with every Christian as he goes on his missionary way to heaven.
INTROIT Ps. 26:7, 8, 9
Hear, O Lord, my voice as I cry to You, alleluia! my heart has spoken to
You; I have sought You. Your presence, O Lord, I will seek; hide not
Your face from me, alleluia, alleluia!
Ps. 26:1. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
O Almighty and Eternal God, make our
wills devoted to You so that our hearts may sincerely serve Your
majesty. Through Our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINT JOHN HALE
Blessed John Hale was an English martyr who suffered martyrdom at the same time as the Holy Cathusians.
He
was a secular priest who became Rector of Cranford on 11th September
1505. On 20th April 1521 he was appointed Vicar of Isleworth. It was
there that he was arrested on the orders of King Henry VIII, being
accused of treason for speaking out against the King's divorce from
Katherine of Aragon and his subsequent remarriage to Anne Boleyn.
Father Hale was executed at Tyburn where he was hanged, drawn and quartered on 4th May 1535.
He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.
Beloved: Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers. But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins. Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring, As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any minister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 46:9
God reigns over all the nations, God sits on His holy throne. Alleluia!
V. John 14:18. I will not leave you orphans; I go away, but I will come to you, and your heart shall rejoice. Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 15:26-27; 16:1-4
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: "When the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me. And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning."These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me. But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 46:6
God ascends His throne amid shouts of joy, the Lord is taken up with the sound of trumpets, alleluia!
SECRET
Cleanse us through this spotless offering, O Lord, and let our souls be made strong by Your heavenly grace. Through Our Lord . . .
May our offering be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, and may it benefit us by the prayer of him on whose feast it is offered. Through our Lord . . .
Father, while I was with them, I kept them whom You gave Me, alleluia! but now I am coming to You; I do not pray that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from evil, alleluia, alleluia!
POSTCOMMUNION
Grant, O Lord, that we may always be grateful for the Sacramental Gift that we have just received. Through Our Lord . . .
Saint Godric of Finchale (1170)
Pilgrim to Jerusalem and the holy lands, Saintiago de Compostela, the shrine of Saint Gaul in Provence, and to Rome. As a self-imposed austerity, and a way to always remember Christ's lowering himself to become human, Godric never wore shoes, regardless of the season. Lived as a hermit in the holy lands, and worked in a hospital nearJerusalem. Hermit for nearly sixty years at Finchale, County Durham, England, first in a cave, then later in a more formal hermitage; he was led to its site by a vision of Saint Cuthbert. It was a rough life, living barefoot in mud and wattle hut, wearing a hair shirt under a metal breastplate, standing in icy waters to control his lust, living for a while off berries and roots, and being badly beaten by Scottish raiders who strangely thought he had a hidden treasure.
Noted for his close familiarity with wild animals, his supernatural visions, his gift of prophecy, and ability to know of events occurring hundreds or thousands of miles away. Counseled Saint Aelred, Saint Robert of Newminster, Saint Thomas Beckett, and Pope Alexander III. Wrote poetry in Medieval English. The brief song Sainte nicholaes by Godric is one of the oldest in the English language, and is believed to be the earliest surviving example of lyric poetry. He was said to have received his songs, lyrics and music, complete during his miraculous visions. He died of natural causes on May 11, 1170.
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