Archangel
GREATER DOUBLE / WHITE
Archangel Raphael
is known through the Book of Tobias in the Old Testament. He there
appeared in human form as a gracious young man called Azarias, to
protect the younger Tobias on his journey from Ninive to a city of the
Medes. In the process he found a wife for Tobias, and later delivered
her from an evil spirit; he also healed the elder Tobias of blindness.
Raphael is "one of the seven who stand before the Lord" (Tob. 12:15).
Today's Prayer speaks of him as a companion in journeys. The Reading
shows him as presenting our prayers to God. The Gospel is a reminder of
Raphael's healing powers, for his name means "God has healed."
INTROIT Ps. 102:20
Bless the Lord all you His angels, you mighty in strength who do His bidding, obeying the voice of His commands.
Ps. 102:1. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all my being bless His holy Name.
V. Glory be . . .
GLORIA
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COLLECT
O God, who sent the blessed Archangel
Raphael to accompany Your servant Tobias on his journey, grant that we,
Your servants, may also be guarded by him always and strengthened by
his assistance. Through our Lord.
Commemoration of SAINT MAGLOIRE
St.
Magloire was trained in the monastery of St. Illtyd in South Wales. He
succeded St. Samson as second Bishop of Dol. He resigned his bishopric
after some years and founded a monastery at Jersy where he ended his
days, A.D. 586.
On this feastday of blessed Magloire, Thy Confessor and Bishop hear our prayers to Thee, O Lord, and since he gave Thee such worthy service, be mindful of his merits and blot out all our sins. Through our Lord . . .
LESSON Tob. 12:7-15
In those days, the angel Raphael said
to Tobias: "For it is good to hide the secret of a king: to reveal and
confess the works of God. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than
to lay up treasures of gold. For alms delivereth from death, and the
same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life
everlasting. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to
their own soul. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide
the secret from you.
" When thou didst pray with tears, and
didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by
day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the
Lord. And because thou wast
acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.
And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy
son's wife from the devil. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven,
who stand before the Lord."
GRADUAL Tob. 8:3; pS. 146:5
Raphael, the angel of the Lord, took the devil and bound him.
V. Great is our Lord, and great His power!
Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 137:1-2
I will sing Your praise in the sight of the angels; I will worship in
Your holy temple and give glory to Your Name, O Lord. Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 5:1-4
After these things was a festival day
of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem a
pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having
five porches. In these lay a
great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for
the moving of the water. And an angel of the Lord descended at certain
times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down
first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of
whatsoever infirmity he lay under.
CREED
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Apoc. 8:3, 4
An Angel stood before the altar of the
temple, having in his hand a golden censer; and there was given to him
much incense, and the smoke of the incense went up before God.
SECRET
O Lord, graciously accept the sacrifice
of praise we offer You. May it bring us closer to our salvation
through the angel's prayers of intercession. Through Christ, our Lord .
. .
Commemoration of SAINT MAGLOIRE
May this annual feast of Saint Magloire, Thy Confessor and Bishop,
make us in Thy kindness acceptable to Thee, O Lord, and may this present
rite duly appease Thee, bring happy recompense to him and assure gifts
of Thy grace to us. Through our Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Dan. 3:58
All you Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord; sing a hymn of praise and exalt Him above all forever.
POSTCOMMUNION
O Lord God, send the holy Archangel
Raphael to help us, so that he, who we believe stands always before Your
Throne, may present our humble prayers for Your blessing. Through our
Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINT MAGLOIRE
O God, the Rewarder of faithful souls, grant, that by the prayers of blessed Magloire, Thy Confessor and Bishop, whose venerable feast we celebrate, we may obtain pardon. Through our Lord . . .
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