Pope and Confessor
SAINT CUTHBERGA
DOUBLE / GREEN
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 SAINT PIUS X
The future pope and
saint, Joseph Sarto was born in poverty in the northern Italian village
of Riese in 1835. He was successively curate, parish priest, bishop of
Mantua, patriarch of Venice and Pope. As Vicar of Christ (1903-14) he
intrepidly defended the purity of Christian doctrine, his one aim being
to restore all things in Christ. He returned sacred music to its
rightful place in the liturgy; fostered Catholic popular action;
directed a codification of Canon Law; urged in his Eucharistic Degrees
early and daily Communion; and spent himself to sanctify the Catholic
clergy. In his universal charity, Pius X considered it his mission "to
have a care, not only for all the faithful, but for every soul for whom
Christ died."
O God, you filled Saint Pius, the supreme pontiff, with the wisdom of heaven and the courage of the apostles in order that he might defend the Catholic faith and restore all things to Christ. May we follow his teaching and example and attain to our eternal reward. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINTS HILDELITHA & CUTHBERGA
St. Heldelitha was Abbess of Barking. She died A.D. 717.
Cuthburga The first abbess of Wimborne, St. Cuthburga
was well-connected: she was the daughter, wife, and mother of kings.
She left her husband to become a nun under St. Hildelitha at Barking.
Sometime after 705, Cuthburga and her sister, St. Quenburga, founded a
double-monastery at Wimborne, from which a band of missionary nuns left for Germany, where they worked with St. Boniface. Hard on herself but kind to others, Cuthburga died c. 725.
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 SAINT PIUS X
O Lord, graciously accept our Sacrifice and grant that we may celebrate these divine mysteries with true devotion and receive them in perfect faith through the intercession of blessed Pope Pius. Through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINTS HILDELITHA & CUTHBERGA
May we who offer to Thee, O merciful God, this sacrifice of praise, be
commended to Thy Majesty by the prayer of Thy Blessed Virgins Hildelitha
and Cuthberga, who through deeds befitting their lives of chastity,
prepared for Thee a joyful dwelling. 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 SAINT PIUS X
We have been strengthened by the food of Your heavenly table, o Lord our God. Make us strong in faith and unite us in love of You through the intercession of blessed Pope Pius. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and rules with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
Commemoration of SAINTS HILDELITHA & CUTHBERGA
May the sacred receiving of Thy Body and Blood, O Lord, restrain us
from all perishable things, Thy blessed Virgins Hildelitha and Cuthberga
interceding for us, that we may progress in sincere love of Thee on
earth, and rejoice in the eternal vision of Thee in heaven. Who livest
and reignest . . .
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| Tomb of Pope Pius X, Basilica DI San Pietro (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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