FERIAL DAY
(Mass of preceding Sunday)
[Requiem or Votive Mass allowed]
VIGIL OF ALL SAINTS
SAINT WOLFGANG
SAINT QUENTIN
Introit
Ps 129:3-4
If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? But with You is forgiveness, O God of Israel.
Ps 129:1-2
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!
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 You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? But with You is forgiveness, O God of Israel.Lesson
Lesson from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
Phil 1:6-11
Brethren: We are confident in the Lord Jesus that He Who has begun a
good work in you will bring it to perfection until the day of Christ
Jesus. And I have the right to feel so about you all, because I have you
in my heart, all of you, alike in my chains and in the defense and
confirmation of the Gospel, as sharers in my joy. For God is my witness
how I long for you all in the heart of Christ Jesus. And this I pray,
that your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and all
discernment, so that you may approve the better things, that you may be
upright and without offense unto the day of Christ, filled with the
fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Gradual
Ps 132:1-2
Behold how good it is, and how pleasant where brethren dwell as one!
V. It is as when the precious ointment upon the head runs down over the beard, the beard of Aaron.
Gospel
Continuation ✠ of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
Matt 22:15-21
At that time, the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might trap
Jesus in His talk. And they sent to Him their disciples with the
Herodians, saying, Master, we know that You are truthful, and that You
teach the way of God in truth, and that You care naught for any man; for
You do not regard the person of men. Tell us, therefore, what do You
think: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? But Jesus,
knowing their wickedness, said, Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? Show
Me the coin of the tribute. So they offered Him a denarius. Then Jesus
said to them, Whose are this image and the inscription? They said to
Him, Caesar’s. Then He said to them, Render, therefore, to Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.
R. Praise be to Thee, O Christ.Offertory
Esther 14:12-13
Remember me, O Lord, You Who rule above all power: and give a
well-ordered speech in my mouth, that my words may be pleasing in the
sight of the prince.
Secret
Grant, O merciful God, that this saving sacrifice may always free us from sin, and protect us from all that works against us.
Through Jesus Christ,
thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.
Communion
Ps 16:6
I call upon You, for You will answer me, O God; incline Your ear to me; hear my word.
Post Communion
We who have received the gift of Your blessed sacrament, O Lord, humbly
pray that what You have taught us to do in commemoration of You, may
profit and help us in our weakness.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg
Bishop (924-994 A.D.)
[Historical]
Wolfgang
(d. 994) + Bishop and reformer. Born in Swabia, Germany, he studied at
Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a
teacher in the cathedral school of Trier. He soon entered the
Benedictines at Einsiedeln (964) and was appointed head of the
monastery school, receiving ordination in 971. He then set out with a
group of monks to preach among the Magyars of Hungary, but the
following year (972) was named bishop of Regensburg by Emperor Otto II
(r. 973-983). As bishop, he distinguished himself brilliantly for his
reforming zeal and his skills as a statesman. He brought the clergy of
the diocese into his reforms, restored monasteries, promoted education,
preached enthusiastically, and was renowned for his charity and aid to
the poor, receiving the title Eleemosynarius Major (Grand Almoner).
He also served as tutor to Emperor Henry II (r. 1014-1024) while he was
still king. Wolfgang died at Puppingen near Linz, Austria. He was
canonized in 1052 by Pope St. Leo IX (r. 1049-1054). Feast day: October
31.
Saint Quentin was a Roman, descended from a senatorial
family. Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, he left his
country and went into Gaul, accompanied by eleven other
apostles sent from Rome. They separated to extend their campaign of
evangelization to the
various regions of France. Saint Quentin remained at Amiens and
endeavored by his prayers and
labors to make that region part of Our Lord’s inheritance. By the force
of his words and works he preluded the glory of his martyrdom. He gave
sight to the blind, vigor to paralytics, hearing to the deaf, and
agility to the infirm, in the name of Our Lord, simply by the sign of
the Cross. At all hours of the day he invoked his God in fervent
supplications.
But this apostolate could not escape the notice of
Rictiovarus, the Roman prosecutor who at that time represented Maximian
Herculeus in Gaul. Saint Quentin was seized at Amiens, thrown into
prison, and loaded with chains. Rictiovarus asked him: “How does it
happen that you, of such high nobility and the son of so distinguished a
father, have given yourself up to so superstitious a religion, a folly,
and that you adore an unfortunate man crucified by other men?” Saint
Quentin replied: “It is sovereign nobility to adore the Creator of
heaven and earth, and to obey willingly His divine commandments. What
you call folly is supreme wisdom. What is there that is wiser than to
recognize the unique true God, and to reject with disdain the
counterfeits, which are mute, false and deceiving?”
When the holy preacher was found to be invulnerable to
either promises or threats, the prosecutor condemned him to the most
barbarous torture. He was stretched on the rack and flogged. He prayed
for strength, for the honor and glory of the name of God, forever
blessed. He was returned to the prison when the executioners who were
striking him fell over backwards, and
told Rictiovarus they were unable to stand up, and could scarcely speak.
An Angel released the
prisoner during the night, telling him to go and preach in the city, and
that the persecutor would
soon fall before the justice of God.*
His sermon, a commented paraphrase of the Apostles’ Creed, has been
conserved. To his profession of faith in the Holy Trinity, he added
that Our Lord Jesus Christ, whom he adored, “gave sight to the blind,
hearing to the deaf, health to the sick and even life to the dead. At
His voice, the lame leaped up and ran, paralytics walked, and water was
changed into wine... He has promised to be forever with those who hope
in Him, and He never abandons those who place their hope in Him; by His
omnipotence He delivers them, whenever it pleases Him, from all their
tribulations.” His guardians discovered that he had disappeared, though
all doors were barred, and found him in the city preaching. They were
converted by the prodigy. But Rictiovarus was furious and said to them:
“You, too, have become magicians?”
Brought back before the tribunal as a sorcerer, Saint
Quentin said: “If by persevering in my faith, I am put to death by you,
I will not cease to live in Jesus Christ; this is my hope, I maintain
it with confidence.” He was again placed on the rack and beaten, and
tortured with other demoniacal means; his flesh pierced with two iron
wires from the shoulders to the thighs, and iron nails were thrust into
his fingers, his skull and body. Finally, this glorious martyr was
decapitated, after praying and saying: “O Lord Jesus, God of God, Light
of Light..., for love of whom I have given up my body to all the
torments... ah! I implore Thee, in Thy holy mercy, receive my spirit and
soul, which I offer Thee with all the ardor of my desires. Do not
abandon me, O most kind King, most clement King, who livest and reignest
with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, forever and ever!”
His death occurred on October 31, 287.
His body was twice buried secretly, and twice it was
rediscovered miraculously — in the years 338 and 641, first by Saint
Eusebie of Rome, on a marshy island, where it had remained intact; later
near the city of Augusta, by Saint Eloi. Saint Quentin remains in
great honor in France above all, where more than fifty-two churches and
as many localities were, at the
beginning of the 20th century, dedicated to his memory; he is
honored also in Belgium and in Italy. Charlemagne and the kings of
France have gone to venerate the relics of Saint Quentin.
Source: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 13.
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