Ps 83:10-11
Behold, O God, our Protector, and look upon the face of Your Anointed. Better 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 pines for the courts of the Lord.
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.
Behold, O God, our Protector, and look upon the face of Your Anointed. Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere.
COLLECT
Protect Your Church by Your abiding mercy, we beseech You, O Lord,
and since all mortals fall without You, may Your help keep them from
danger and guide them to salvation.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord . . .
EPISTLE
Gal 5:16-24
Brethren: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lusts of the
flesh. For the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against
the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do
what 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 immorality,
uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities,
contentions, jealousies, anger, quarrels, factions, parties, envies,
murders, drunkenness, carousings, and suchlike. And concerning these I
warn you, as I have warned you, that they who do such things will not
attain the kingdom of God. But of the fruit of the Spirit is: charity,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, long-suffering, mildness,
faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such things there is no
law. And they who belong to Christ have crucified their flesh with its
passions and desires.
GRADUAL
Ps 117:8-9
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.
V. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes. Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps 94:1
V. Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the God of our salvation. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Matt 6:24-33
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: No man serve two masters; for
either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will stand
by the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you shall
eat; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life a
greater thing than the food, and the body than the clothing? Look at the
birds of the air: they do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you of much more value than
they? But which of you by being anxious about it can add to his stature a
single cubit? And as for clothing, why are you anxious? Consider how
the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I say to
you that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of
those. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which flourishes
today but tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more you, O you of
little faith! Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’
or, ‘What shall we drink?’ or, ‘What are we to put on?’ - for after all
these things the Gentiles seek; - for your Father knows that you need
all these things. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and
all these things shall be given you besides.
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON
Ps 33:8-9
The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them. Taste and see how good the Lord is.
SECRET
Grant us, Lord, we beseech You, that this salutary sacrifice may
be not only a cleansing from our sins but also a propitiation of Your
divine power.
Through Jesus Christ,
thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON
Matt 6:33
Seek first the Kingdom of God; and all things shall be given you besides, says the Lord.
POSTCOMMUNION
May Your sacrament, O God, ever cleanse and strengthen us, and bring us to everlasting salvation.
Through Jesus Christ . . .
The story and history of Saint Eleutherius. Simplicity and spirit of compunction were the distinguishing virtues of this holy man. He was chosen abbot of St. Mark's near Spoleto, and favored by God with the gift of miracles. A child who was possessed by the devil, being delivered by being educated in his monastery, the abbot said one day: "Since the child is among the servants of God, the devil dares not approach him." These words seemed to savor of vanity, and thereupon the devil again entered and tormented the child. The abbot humbly confessed his fault, and fasted and prayed with his whole community till the child was again freed from the tyranny of the fiend. St. Gregory the Great not being able to fast on Easter-eve on account of extreme weakness, engaged this Saint to go with him to the church of St. Andrew's and put up his prayers to God for his health, that he might join the faithful in that solemn practice of penance. Eleutherius prayed with many tears, and the Pope, coming out of the church, found his breast suddenly strengthened, so that he was enabled to perform the fast as he desired. St. Eleutherius raised a dead man to life. Resigning his abbacy, he died in St. Andrew's monastery in Rome, about the year 585.
BL. BERTRAND OF GARRIGUES (13th C. A.D.)
Also known as
- The Second Dominic
- 6 September
Priest. Worked with the Cistercians. Noted preacher. Fought Albigensianism. Worked with Saint Dominic de Guzman, and became his close friend and travelling companion. Joined the Dominicans in 1216 and helped them survive and thrive in their early years. Governed the first Dominican foundation in Paris, France, and helped establish their tradition of scholarship. Dominican provincial of Provence. Miracle worker. Died during the preaching of a mission to the Cistercian sisters of Saint Mary of the Woods.
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