FERIAL DAY
(Mass of preceding Sunday)
[Requiem or Votive Mass allowed]
VIGIL OF ALL SAINTS
SAINT WOLFGANG
SAINT QUENTIN
INTROIT (Dan 3:31, 29, 33)
All
that you have done to us, O Lord, you have done in just judgment,
because we have disobeyed Your Commandments; but give glory to Your own
name and deal with us in accord with Your bounteous mercy.
Ps. 118:1. Blessed are they who are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
Forget
Your anger, O Lord, and grant Your faithful pardon and peace, that they
may be cleansed from their sins and serve You without fear. Through our
Lord . . .
EPISTLE (Eph. 5:15-21)
See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise, But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit, Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord: Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father: Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.
GRADUAL (Ps. 144:15-16)
The eyes of all look hopefully to You, O Lord, and You give them food in due season.
V. You open Your hand, and fill every living creature with blessing.
Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 107:2
My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and praise You, my glory. Alleluia!
GOSPEL (St. John 4:46-53)
He
came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capharnaum. He
having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, sent to him
and prayed him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the point of
death.
Jesus therefore said to him: "Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not." The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die. Jesus saith to him: "Go thy way. Thy son liveth."
The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way. And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought word, saying, that his son lived. He
asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said
to him: "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." The father therefore knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him: "Thy son liveth." And himself believed, and his whole house.
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (Ps. 136:1)
By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept, when we remembered you, O Sion.
SECRET
O Lord, let this sacred rite bring us healing from heaven and cleanse our hearts of all sinfulness. Through our Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON (Ps. 118:49-50)
Remember Your promise to Your servant, O Lord, by which You have given me hope. This is my solace in my affliction.
POSTCOMMUNION
O
Lord, make us ever obedient to Your Commandments, that we may be
deserving of Your heavenly Gifts. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your
Son, who lives and rules with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one
God forever and ever.
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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