Saint Giles (724 A.D.); Twelve Holy Brothers (258 A.D.); Saint Anna the Prophetess

  

 

Saint Giles

Martyrdom

SAINT GILES
Abbot

TWELVE HOLY BROTHERS
Martyrs

 

SAINT ANNA THE PROPHETESS

[Historical]

SIMPLE / WHITE
Tradition tells us that in the seventh century the Athenian Giles left his native Greece for a rough hermitage in far-distant Gaul. Hunters of a local ruler accidentally wounded Giles as he was shielding a fleeing deer. The ruler, Flavius said to him, "This must be the holy Giles! Come out of your hermitage, servant of God, and teach my Franks about heaven. They need you more than this forest does." Flavius built a monastery on the site of the hermitage; and under Giles' leadership it became a center of civilization and Christianity for all that sector of Gaul.

Mass of an  ABBOT, except

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Introit
Ps 36: 30-31
The mouth of the just shall meditate
wisdom and his tongue shall speak
judgment: the law of his God is in his
heart. (Ps. 36: 1) Be not emulous of
evildoers: nor envy them that work
iniquity. Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it
was in the beginning, is now, and ever
shall be, world without end. Amen.
The mouth of the just shall meditate
wisdom and his tongue shall speak
judgment: the law of his God is in his
heart.

COLLECT

Commemoration of SAINT GILES
Let the blessed abbot Giles intercede for us, O Lord. May his prayers win us Your help, since our own actions cannot merit it. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord . . .

Commemoration of the  TWELVE HOLY BROTHERS
These fourth-century apostles refused to offer sacrifice to pagan gods. After imprisonment in an African jail, they died for Christ in pagan spectacles at various places along the Italian coast.

O Lord, may the martyrdom of these brothers warm our hearts with joy, enliven our faith by an increase of virtue, and comfort us by the added number of intercessors we have in heaven. Through our Lord . . .

Lesson Ecclesiasticus 45: 1-6
Beloved of God, and men: whose
memory is in benediction. He made
him like the saints in glory, and
magnified him in the fear of his
enemies, and with his words he made
prodigies to cease. He glorified him in
the sight of kings, and gave him
commandments in the sight of his

people, and shewed him His glory. He
sanctified him in his faith, and
meekness, and chose him out of all
flesh. For he heard Him, and His
voice, and brought him into a cloud.
And He gave him commandments
before His face, and a law of life and
instruction.
 

Gradual
Ps 20: 4-5
 

Lord, Thou hast prevented him with
blessings of sweetness: Thou hast set
on his head a crown of precious
stones. He asked life of Thee, and
Thou hast given him length of days for
ever and ever.
Alleluia, alleluia. The just shall flourish
like the palm tree: he shall grow up
like the cedar of Libanus. Alleluia. 

Gospel
Continuation ✠ of the Holy Gospel according to Luke
R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
Luke  Matthew 5: 43-48
At that time Jesus said to his disciples:
You have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate
thy enemy. But I say to you, Love your
enemies: do good to them that hate
you: and pray for them that persecute
and calumniate you: That you may be
the children of your Father who is in
heaven, who maketh his sun to rise
upon the good, and bad, and raineth
upon the just and the unjust. For if you
love them that love you, what reward
shall you have? do not even the
publicans this? And if you salute your
brethren only, what do you more? do
not also the heathens this? Be you
therefore perfect, as also your
heavenly Father is perfect.
 

Offertory Psalms 20: 3-4 

Thou hast given him his heart's desire,
O Lord, and hast not withholden from
him the will of his lips: Thou hast set
on his head a crown of precious
stones.
 

SECRET

May the holy Abbot Giles, we beseech
Thee, O Lord, obtain by his prayers,
that the Sacrifice laid on Thy holy
altar, may profit us unto salvation.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy
Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
forever and ever.


Commemoration of the  TWELVE HOLY BROTHERS
O Lord, grant that we may celebrate these sacred mysteries with devotion to honor Your holy martyrs, so that through this sacrifice we may have new help and a deeper joy. Through our Lord . . .

Communion  Luke 12: 42

The faithful and wise servant, whom
his lord setteth over his family, to give
them their measure of wheat in due
season

POSTCOMMUNION

May the Sacrament we have received and the prayers of the blessed abbot Giles protect us, O Lord. Grant also that we may imitate the virtues of this saint who is our intercessor with You in heaven. 

Commemoration of the  TWELVE HOLY BROTHERS
O Almighty God, grant that we may grow in grace by emulating the faith of these martyrs whose memory we honor by the reception of Your Sacrament. Through our Lord . . .

SAINT ANNA THE PROPHETESS
[Historical]

  Saint Anna the Prophetess was the daughter of a man named Phanuel who was of the tribe of Aser, one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. She was one of the very, very few faithful Jewish girls who believed with all her heart in the revelations of God in the Old Testament, and who awaited their fulfillment in the New Testament. Saint Anna was married when she was fourteen. She became a widow at twenty-one. She was the one in charge of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the time Mary was presented in the Temple at the age of three until she was betrothed at the age of fourteen. Saint Anna was seventy-two years old when she first met Our Lady. She was eighty-four years old when Mary presented Jesus in the Temple. All other Jewish women in the Temple at that time ignored Jesus. Only Anna greeted Him. All the Jewish priests ignored Jesus. Only Simeon greeted Him and held Him in his arms, and declared while Anna was listening, “Now Thou dost dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, according to Thy word in peace.” Anna was the name of Mary’s mother. Anna was the name of Mary’s teacher in the Temple. The name Anna means grace. Mary was not only full of grace, but was companioned by grace all during her childhood.