Sept. 7th Ferial Day, Saint Cloud (560 A.D.) Hermit; Saint Regina (286 A.D.) Virgin Martyr

St. Cloud 

Confessor, Hermit 

 

FERIAL DAY

(Mass of preceding Sunday)

 

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 CLOUD

On the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, in the year 511 his kingdom was divided between his four sons, of whom the second was Clodomir. Thirteen years later he was killed fighting against his cousin, Gondomar, leaving three sons to share his dominions. The youngest of these sons of Clodomir was St. Clodoald, a name more familiar to English people under its French form of Cloud from the town of Saint-Cloud near Versailles. When Cloud was eight years old, his uncle Childebert plotted with his brother, to get rid of the boys and divide their kingdom. The eldest boy, Theodoald was stabbed to death. The second, Gunther fled in terror, but was caught and also killed. Cloud escaped and was taken for safety into Provence or elsewhere.

Childebert and his brother Clotaire shared the fruits of their crime, and Cloud made no attempt to recover his kingdom when he came of age. He put himself under the discipline of St. Severinus, a recluse who lived near Paris, and he afterwards went to Nogent on the Seine and had his heritage where is now Saint-Cloud. St. Cloud was indefatigable in instructing the people of the neighboring country, and ended his days at Nogent about the year 560 when he was some thirty-six years old. St. Cloud's feast day is September 7th.

 

O God, Who, by the gift of the priesthood and the splendor of his virtues, didst glorify blessed Cloud humbling himself for Thy sake upon earth, grant us by his example to minister worthily unto Thee, and by his intercession ever to advance in merit and grace. Though 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 SAINT CLOUD  
 We beseech Thee, O Lord, Whom with the holy priest Cloud we confess to be  the author of our faith and salvation, to receive in Thy mercy this sacrifice from our hands, and to grant that we may render our vows with the same devotion wherewith he rended his unto Thee. 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 CLOUD

We who receive the divine mysteries on the festival of holy Cloud the Priest, beseech Thee, O Lord, that, our hearts being lifted up to heavenly things, we may appraise all things as loss, for the sake of Him Who gave Himself for us, Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord . . . 

Saint Regina 

(Martyr) [Historical]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saint Regina
Statue of St. Regina at church dedicated to her atDrensteinfurt.
Born	Autun, France
Died	Alesia, France
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Feast	September 7
Attributes	depicted as experiencing the torments of martyrdom, or as receiving spiritual consolation in prison by a vision of adove on a luminous cross.
Patronage	against poverty, impoverishment, shepherdesses, torture victims[1]

Saint Regina (Regnia, French: Sainte Reine) (3rd century) was a virgin martyr and saint of the Catholic Church. She was born in Autun, France, to a pagan named
Clement. Her mother died at her birth and her father repudiated her.
She then went to live with a Christian nurse who baptized her. Regina
helped out by tending the sheep. She communed with God in prayer and
meditated on the lives of the saints. She was betrothed to the proconsulOlybrius, but refused to renounce her faith to marry him, for which she was tortured and wasbeheaded at Alesia in the diocese of Autun, called Alise-Sainte-Reine after her.

Her martyrdom is considered to have occurred either during the persecution of Decius, in 251, or under Maximian in 286.

[edit]Veneration

Honored in many ancient Martyrologies, Regina's feast is celebrated on 7 September or in the Archdiocese of Paderborn on 20 June. In the past, a procession was held in her honor in the town of Dijon. However, her relics were transferred to Flavigny Abbey in 827. The history of the translation of Regina was the subject of a 9th century account.

There are many places in France named Sainte-Reine after her.