tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363578682024-03-19T00:30:32.429-04:00TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISHWelcome to my Blog! I read where there was a need for English Propers for the Traditional (1962 Missale Romanum - Tridentine) Latin Mass, so I will try posting the prayers and readings each day, if they are available. I will also post some other writings regarding the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the greatest Act of Worship we can offer to Almighty God and the closest we can get to Heaven!Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.comBlogger4083125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-28699610779020533392024-03-19T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-19T00:30:00.142-04:00 SAINT JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY; Tuesday of Passion Week <p> </p><div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Confessor</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph,
a member of the royal family of David, was leading the obscure life of
a village carpenter when God chose him to be th espouse of the Blessed
Virgin and the foster father of the Incarnate Word. Scripture tells us
that Joseph was just, pure, gentle, prudent, and a lover of holy
silence. Above all, this humble guardian of the Child Jesus was
unfailingly obedient to the divine will.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph is not mentioned after he and
Mary lost the twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple and, following three
days of agonized search, found their boy discoursing divinely with the
learned doctors of the Law. The great task of the foster father of
Christ must have been finished before the marriage feast at Cana and the
beginning of the Savior's public ministry. Untold millions have since
then invoked <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph" rel="wikipedia" title="Saint Joseph">St. Joseph</a> as the patron of a happy death.</span><br />
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INTROIT</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> (Ps. 91:13-14)<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The just man shall flourish like
the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar of Lebanon planted in the
house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.<br />
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 91:2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing to Your name, O Most High. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. Glory be . . .</span></span></span></div><div class="post-body"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="post-body"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">GLORIA </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may the merits of the spouse of
Your most Holy Mother assist us, so that what we cannot obtain through
our own efforts we may have through his intercession; who lives and
rules with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May our fasting be acceptable to You, O
Lord. Let it atone for our sins, make us worthy of Your grace and
lead us to eternal life. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></div><div class="post-body"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(Eccli. 45:1-6) [Sirac]</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in benediction.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">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.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, You made him excel by Your choicest blessings; You placed on his head a crown of precious stones.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. He asked life of You and You gave him length of days forever.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT<span style="font-style: italic;"> Ps. 111:1-3</span></span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commandments.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth; the righteous generation shall be blessed.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory and wealth shall be in his house, and his righteousness shall endure forever.</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Matt. 1:18-21</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">When as his mother Mary was espoused to
Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the
Holy Ghost. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not
willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.
But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord
appeared to him in his sleep, saying: "Joseph, son of David, fear not to
take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is
of the Holy Ghost.</span> <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins."</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 88:25</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">My truth and My mercy shall be with him; and in My name shall his power be exalted.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">We worship You, O Lord, as it is our
duty. Guard the gifts You have bestowed upon us through the prayers of
blessed Joseph, the spouse of the Mother of Jesus, Your Son and our
Lord. We offer You this sacrifice of praise on his feast day. Through
the same Jesus Christ, our Lord . . .</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><b><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, we offer You as a sacrifice
these gifts, which are symbols of our consolation in this life. May
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Through Our Lord . . .</span> </span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON (</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Matt. 1:20</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Do not be afraid, Joseph, son of David, to take to thee Mary thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Be close to us, O merciful God, and
through the prayers of Your blessed confessor Joseph, watch over the
gifts You have given us. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></div><div class="post-body"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Almighty God, may our ceaseless search of divine things make us worthy of the reward of heaven. Through Our Lord . . .</span> </span></span></span> </div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-89541557086512397002024-03-18T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-18T00:30:00.178-04:00Monday of Passion Week; Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (A.D. 386); Saint Edward the Martyr (A.D. 979) <p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><i>Bishop & Doctor</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Death_of_edward_martyr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="292" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Death_of_edward_martyr.jpg" width="263" /></a></span></div>[Commemoration]<br style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;" /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>SAINT EDWARD THE MARTYR</span></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have pity on me, O Lord, for men trample upon me; all the day long they press their attack against me.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 55:3.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> My enemies trample upon me all the day long; they are many indeed who war against me.</span><span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Have pity on me, O Lord . . .</span></span> <br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span><span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">We pray You, O Lord, sanctify our lenten fast and mercifully pardon all our faults. Through our Lord . . .</span> </span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Commemoration of</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">After
Cyril (c. 315-86) had been ordained to the priesthood in Jerusalem, he
was appointed to the vital duty of instructing and preparing the
candidates for baptism. We still have one series of his instructions,
and they are the earliest extant record of the systematic teaching of
the Church on the Creed and the Sacraments. Having been chosen bishop of
Jerusalem, he served as one of God's instruments in combating
widespread contemporary heresy. Cyril was several times persecuted and
driven from his see city because of his defense of the Catholic Faith.
He remained at peace, recalling that his Lord had said, "No disciple is
above his teacher, nor is the servant above his master" (Matt. 10:25)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Almighty God, may the prayers of Your blessed bishop Cyril help us to
know You, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent, so that
we may be numbered among the flock that obeys His voice. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span><i>Commemoration of </i>SAINT EDWARD</span><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><span><i>St.
Edward, called the Martyr, succeeded his father, King Edgar, on the
throne of England and ruled that country in a stormy period. He suffered
much at the hands of his unnatural step-mother and was murdered by her
command, A.D. 979.</i></span><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><span>O
God, the Conqueror of an everlasting kingdom, behold with mercy Thy
servants who commemorate blessed King Edward, Thy Martyr and by his
merits and prayers grant that we who do glory in his triumph, may
receive the same rewards. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON <span style="font-style: italic;">Jonas 3:1-10</span><br />And
the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time saying: "Arise, and
go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid
thee." And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the
Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey. And Jonas
began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said:
"Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed."<br />And the men of Ninive
believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from
the greatest to the least. And the word came to the king of Ninive: and
he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was
clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be
proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of
his princes, saying: "Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste
anything: let them not feed, nor drink water. And let men and beasts be
covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and
let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that
is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will
turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?" And God saw
their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had
mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 53:4, 3</span></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">V. </span>O Lord, by Your name save me, and by Your might deliver me.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. <i><br />V</i>. O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. (<i>All Kneel</i>.)<br /><i>V</i>. Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your name's sake.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">John 7:32-39</span><br />The
Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and
the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him. Jesus
therefore said to them: <span style="color: red;">"Yet a
little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me. You shall
seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot
come."</span> The Jews therefore said among themselves: "Whither will he
go, that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the
Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? What is this saying that he hath said:
You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot
come?"<br />And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: <span style="color: red;">"If
any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. He that believeth in me,
as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water."</span> Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him.<br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 6:5</span><br />Turn to me, O Lord, and save my life; in Your mercy rescue me.<br /><br />SECRET<br />O
Lord, our God, grant that this offering of the Sacrifice of salvation
may take away our sins and appease Your majesty. Through our Lord . . .</b></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Look
with favor upon the immaculate gift we offer You, O Lord. may we always
receive it with clean hearts through the intercession of Your blessed
confessor bishop Cyril. </span></span></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span><i>Commemoration of </i>SAINT EDWARD </span></span><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><b>May
our offering be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord and may it benefit us
by the prayer of him on whose feast it is offered. Through our Lord . . .</b></span> </span></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 23:10</span><span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Lord of hosts, He is the king of glory.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, purify us and heal us through the reception of this Sacrament of salvation. Through our Lord . . .</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of </span>SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord Jesus Christ, sanctify our hearts and minds by the Sacrament of
Your own Body and Blood which we have received. Make us worthy to share
in Your divine nature through the intercession of the holy bishop Cyril.</span></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span><span><i>Commemoration of </i>SAINT EDWARD</span></span><br /></b><span><span><b>Refreshed
by partaking of Thy sacred Gift, we beseech Thee, O Lord, our God, that
through the intercession of blessed Edward, Thy Martyr, we may perceive
the fruit of the rite which we celebrate. Through our Lord . . . </b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> </span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O
Lord, grant Your people health of soul and body. May we be fervent in
doing good and so deserve to be protected by Your mighty power. Through
our Lord . . .</span></span></div>
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</div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-55398921266262287002024-03-17T00:30:00.007-04:002024-03-17T06:09:30.183-04:00PASSION SUNDAY; SAINT PATRICK<p> </p><h2 class="date-header"><span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>SAINT PATRICK</span></span></span></span> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bishop and Confessor</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">DOUBLE, FIRST CLASS / PURPLE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Jesus,
eternal God, became mortal man in order to mediate our redemption, to
form a new people that would be His Mystical Self, and to bring all men
into an eternal union with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There can be
no living of Christ without living the price of mediation for souls.
That price may vary, from mere fidelity in the performance of
monotonous duty, to bearing with loneliness and misunderstanding, or
even to suffering violence and death. Sin continues, and therefore
suffering for sin must continue. Since Christians share Christ's
priesthood through Baptism and Confirmation, His passion becomes their
passion, for an "eternal inheritance."</span></span></span></b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">[From
this day until Maundy Thursday, in Masses of the Season the Ps. Judica
me . . . is omitted on Sundays and Ferias, as also the Gloria Patri at
the Introit and at the Lavabo; but on Feasts they are said as usual.] </span></span></span></b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">INTROIT</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Ps. 42:1-2)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Do
me justice, O God, and fight against a faithless people; from the
deceitful and impious man rescue me. For You, O God, are my strength. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
Ps. 42:3</span>. Send forth Your light and Your truth; they shall lead
me on and bring me to Your holy mountain, to Your dwelling place. Do me
justice, O God . . .</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">COLLECT</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">O
Almighty God, look with mercy upon Your family. Guide and guard us in
body and soul by Your bounteous grace and protection. Through Our Lord .
. .</span></span></b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></span><br /><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT PATRICK<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Toward the close of
the fourth century, the pagan Irish captured during a slave-hunting
raid the Christian youth who would become St. Patrick. The lad was put
to work in Ireland as a pigherd for six years. Then he escaped, but with
the <span>intention</span> of returning to the land of his captivity as an apostle.
The former pigherd was ordained to the priesthood, and in 432 was made
a bishop. The Pope himself commissioned Patrick to carry the Faith to
Ireland. In his apostolic travels St. Patrick covered the length and
breathe of the island. He overcame heartbreaking difficulties and
sorrows, because he made Christ his sole changeless friend and helper.</span><br />
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 20px;">O
God, You sent Your blessed confessor bishop Patrick to preach Your
glory among the nations. May we fulfill all the duties commanded of us
through his merits and intercession. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span> </span></span></b></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">EPISTLE (<span style="font-style: italic;">Heb. 9:11-15</span>)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Brethren:
But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not
of this creation: Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by
his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal
redemption. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an
heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing
of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy
Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from
dead works, to serve the living God?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">And
therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of
his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under
the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">(Ps. 142:9, 10; 17:48-49)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord. Teach me to do Your will.<br />
V. O Lord, who preserved me from the wrathful nations, You will exalt me
above my adversaries,You will rescue me from the man of violence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">TRACT <span style="font-style: italic;">(Ps. 128:1-4)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Often they have fought against me from my youth. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
V</span>. Let Israel now say, "Often have they fought against me from my youth. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
V</span>. Yet they could not prevail over me. The wicked have furrowed my back. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
V</span>. They have continued their iniquity, but the Lord, who is just, will humble the pride of the sinners."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">(John 8:46-59)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">At that time, Jesus said to the crowds of the Jews, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red;">"Which
of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you
not believe me: He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore
you hear them not, because you are not of God."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The Jews therefore answered and said to him: "Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?" Jesus answered: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red;">"I
have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And you have dishonoured me.
But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see
death for ever." </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The
Jews therefore said: "Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is
dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he
shall not taste death for ever. Art thou greater than our father Abraham
who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Jesus answered: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red;">"If
I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth
me, of whom you say that he is your God. And you have not known him:
but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like
to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red;">Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it and was glad."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> The Jews therefore said to him: "Thou art not yet fifty years old. And hast thou seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red;">"Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">CREED </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON<span style="font-style: italic;"> (Ps. 118:17, 107)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I
will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart. Be good to Your servant,
that I may live and keep Your words. O Lord, give me life according to
Your word.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">O Lord, may these offerings free us from the bondage of sin and win for us the gift of Your mercy. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></b></span><br /></span>
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O Lord, may Your Saints everywhere be a
source of joy for us, and may we feel the power of their intercession
with You as we solemnly recall the deeds of their lives. Through our
Lord . . .</span></span></span>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">(I Cor. 11:24, 25)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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is My Body which shall be given up for you; this cup is the New
Covenant in My Blood," said the Lord. "Do this as often as you receive
it, in remembrance of Me."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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Be close to us, O Lord our God, and with Your unfailing help defend
those who have been renewed through Your Sacrament. Through Our Lord . .
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O Almighty God, may the expression of
our gratitude to You for all Your gifts bring us even greater benefits,
through the intercession of Your blessed Confessor bishop Patrick.
Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></div></div></div></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-81596579725818926152024-03-16T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-16T00:30:00.138-04:00SATURDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-style: italic;">A
true lover, God takes the initiative in the shepherding of souls. It is
God who seeks, and man who is sought. When God has chosen man, only
then does the individual respond. That is the moment of mercy. Such a
moment is given to every soul at some time in life, for God "wishes all
men to be saved" </span>(I Tim. 2:4). <span style="font-style: italic;">"In this is the love, not that we have loved God, but that He has first loved us" </span>(I John 4:10)<span style="font-style: italic;">.
This is part of the "light of life" that is Jesus. It means that, when a
person wants to love God, God has already given him the grace to love
Him. It means that, when someone desires God's mercy, he has already
received mercy. God loves with "an everlasting love."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Isa. 55:1</span><br />"All you who thirst, come to the waters," said the Lord, "and you who have no money, come and drink with joy."<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 77:1.</span> Hearken, My people, to My law; incline your ears to the words of My mouth.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>O
Lord, may Your grace bring us the fruitful effects of our devoted love,
for the lenten fast that we observe will be of profit to us only if it
pleases You. Through Our Lord . . .</b><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON <span style="font-style: italic;">Isa. 49:8-15</span><br />Thus
saith the Lord: "In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the
day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and
given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up
the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed: That thou
mightest say to them that are bound: 'Come forth': and to them that are
in darkness: 'Shew yourselves.' They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures shall be in every plain. They shall not hunger, nor thirst,
neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for he that is merciful
to them, shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he
shall give them drink. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
paths shall be exalted.<br />Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country."<br />Give
praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise
with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will
have mercy on his poor ones. And Sion said: "The Lord hath forsaken me,
and the Lord hath forgotten me." "Can a woman forget her infant, so as
not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet
will not I forget thee," says the Lord almighty.<br />
<br />GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 9:14, 1-2</span><br />The poor man is dependent upon You, O Lord; You are the helper of the fatherless.<br />
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Why, O Lord, do You stand aloof? Why disdain us in time of distress?
While the wicked man is puffed up, the needy man is consumed.<br />
<br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">John 8:12-20</span><br />At that time, Jesus spoke to the multitudes of Jews, saying: <span style="color: red;">"I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life."</span> The Pharisees therefore said to him: "Thou givest testimony of thyself. Thy testimony is not true."<br />Jesus answered and said to them: <span style="color: red;">"Although
I give testimony of myself, my testimony is true: for I know whence I
came and whither I go. You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any
man. And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone,
but I and the Father that sent me. And in your law it is written that
the testimony of two men is true. I am one that give testimony of
myself: and the Father that sent me giveth testimony of me."</span> They said therefore to him: "Where is thy Father?" Jesus answered: <span style="color: red;">"Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also."</span> These
words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man
laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.<br />
<br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 17:3</span><br />The Lord is my support, my refuge, and my deliverer; in Him I will place my trust.<br />
<br />SECRET<br />Accept our gifts as a peace offering, O Lord, and by the
constraint of Your mercy make our rebellious wills submit to You.
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON<span style="font-style: italic;"> Ps. 22:1-2</span><br />The Lord rules over me, I shall want for nothing. He has set me in a place of pasture; He has led me to refreshing waters.<br />
<br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />We pray You, O Lord, purify us through this Sacrament and make us pleasing to You by its grace. Through our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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God, it is Your will to show mercy rather than anger to those who trust
in You. May we have proper sorrow for our sins so that we may be worthy
of Your comfort. Through our Lord . . .</span></span><br />
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miracle reveals the world as it really is, with God in complete control
of His world and re-commanding natural law in order to relieve human
suffering. God is above all a God of human hearts; and He made us the
world by a free act of love to serve His own glory and man's need. A
miracle, then raises the natural laws of the world and of life to their
highest fulfillment. Their momentary change is their glory. At the great
shrines of Our Lady, God continues to work miracles in response to the
pleading of her maternal love, just as Jesus, in His own love for
Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, answered the pleading of the sister's love.</i></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 18:15</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The thoughts of my heart are always before You, O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 18:2.</span> The heavens show forth the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
God, You renew the world through the miracle of Your Sacraments. May
Your Church be faithful to Your eternal commands and be assisted by You
in this life. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON (<span style="font-style: italic;">I Kings 17:17-24</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In
those days, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick,
and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in
him. And she said to Elias: "What have I to do with thee, thou man of
God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and
that thou shouldst kill my son?"</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And
Elias said to her: "Give me thy son." And he took him out of her bosom,
and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him
upon his own bed. And he cried to the Lord, and said: "O Lord, my God,
hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort
maintained, so as to kill her son?" And he stretched, and measured
himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: "O
Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into
his body."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And the Lord heard
the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he
revived. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper
chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to
her: "Behold thy son liveth." And the woman said to Elias: "Now by this
I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy
mouth is true."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 117:8-9</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It is better to trust in the Lord than to confide in man. <span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. It is better to have confidence in the Lord than to rely on princes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. <span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low <span style="font-style: italic;">(All kneel.) V.</span> Help us, O God our Saviour, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your name's sake.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (<span style="font-style: italic;">John 11:1-45</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">At
that time, there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of
the town of Mary and of Martha her sister. (And Mary was she that
anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: whose
brother Lazarus was sick.) His sisters therefore sent to him, saying:
Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. And Jesus hearing it, said to
them: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Now
Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus. When he had heard
therefore that he was sick, he still remained in the same place two
days. Then after that, he said to his disciples: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Let us go into Judea again."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> The disciples say to him: "Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone thee. And goest thou thither again?" Jesus answered: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Are
there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day he
stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world: But if he walk
in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him."</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">These things he said; and after that he said to them:<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> His
disciples therefore said: "Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well." But
Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of the repose
of sleep. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Lazarus is dead. And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you may believe. But, let us go to him."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: "Let us also go, that we may die with him."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesus
therefore came: and found that he had been four days already in the
grave. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them
concerning their brother. Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that
Jesus was come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Martha
therefore said to Jesus: "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had
not died. But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God
will give it thee." Jesus saith to her: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Thy brother shall rise again."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>Martha saith to him: "I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"I
am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he
be dead, shall live: And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall
not die for ever. Believest thou this?"</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> She saith to him: "Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And
when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary
secretly, saying: "The master is come and calleth for thee." She, as
soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to him. For Jesus was
not yet come into the town: but he was still in that place where Martha
had met him. The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house and
comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up speedily and went
out, followed her, saying: "She goeth to the grave to weep there." When
Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at
his feet and saith to him. "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother
had not died." Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews
that were come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and troubled
himself, And said:<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Where have you laid him?"</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> They
say to him: Lord, come and see. And Jesus wept. The Jews therefore
said: "Behold how he loved him." But some of them said: "Could not he
that opened the eyes of the man born blind have caused that this man
should not die?"</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesus
therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. Now it was
a cave; and a stone was laid over it. Jesus saith: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Take away the stone."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Martha,
the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: "Lord, by this time he
stinketh, for he is now of four days." Jesus saith to her: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Did not I say to thee that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?"</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes, said: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Father,
I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou
hearest me always: but because of the people who stand about have I said
it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: </span><span color="rgb(255 , 0 , 0)" style="font-weight: bold;">"Lazarus, come forth."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> And
presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with
winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to
them: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Loose him and let him go."</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 17:28, 32</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You will save the humble, O Lord, but the eyes of the proud You will bring low; for who is God except You, O Lord?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, purify us through the gifts we offer You and let us be reconciled with You forever. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">John 11:33, 35, 43, 44, 39</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When
the Lord saw the sisters of Lazarus weeping at the tomb, He wept before
the Jews, and cried out, "Lazarus, come forth!" And he who had been
dead four days came forth, bound hands and feet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord, may the reception of this Sacrament cleanse us forever from our
sins and shield us from all adversity. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord, we are aware of our own weakness but we trust in Your strength.
May we always rejoice in Your loving care. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-78432639801195824612024-03-14T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-14T00:30:00.244-04:00 THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT; SAINT MATILDA (MAUD) (968 A.D.)<p> <br /></p><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/ScrbwEtxDjI/AAAAAAAAOOk/8TSvyfb1FLo/s1600-h/luke7.jpg" style="font-weight: bold;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317303929010196018" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/ScrbwEtxDjI/AAAAAAAAOOk/8TSvyfb1FLo/s400/luke7.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>SIMPLE / PURPLE<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Man's
cleverest technique cannot synthesize life nor restore it. Man can
frustrate life or destroy it but he cannot compound it. Life's mystery
escapes human genius. Only God is the author and lord of life. From Him
it comes; to Him it returns. He alone can give or restore human life,
either directly or, more commonly, through human agents. He alone gives
and restores the supernatural life of the soul. As shared divine life
surpasses human life, so the marvel of restoring a soul, through the
sacraments of Baptism or Penance from the death of sin to the life of
grace surpasses the miracle of restoring physical life. It is the
mission of the Church to give soul-life to all men.</span><br /><br />INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 104:3-4</span><br />Let every heart that seeks the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord and find strength; seek the Lord evermore.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 104:1. </span>Give glory to the Lord and invoke His Name; make known His deeds among the nations.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br /><br />COLLECT<br />O
Almighty God, grant that we may be happy in chastising our bodies
through fasting. May we bring our passions under control, and thus more
easily attain the rewards of heaven. Through Our Lord . . .<br /><br />LESSON <span style="font-style: italic;">IV Kings 4:25-38 [2 Kings 4:25-38]</span><br />In
those days, a Sunamite woman came to Eliseus to mount Carmel: and when
the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his servant:
"Behold that Sunamitess. Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is
all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son?" And she
answered: "Well."<br />And when she came to the man of God, to the mount,
she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man
of God said: "Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord
hath hid it from me, and hath not told me." And she said to him: "Did I
ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: 'Do not deceive me?' "<br />Then
he said to Giezi: "Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand,
and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute
thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child." But
the mother of the child said: "As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee." He arose, therefore, and followed her.
But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the
child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet him,
and told him, saying: "The child is not risen."<br />Eliseus, therefore,
went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed: And going
in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the
Lord. And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon his
mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he
bowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm. Then he
returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he went up, and
lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened his eyes. And
he called Giezi, and said to him: "Call this Sunamitess." And she being
called, went in to him: and he said: "Take up thy son." She came and
fell at his feet, and worshiped upon the ground: and took up her son,
and went out. And Eliseus returned to Galgal.<br /><br />GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 73:20, 19, 22</span><br />Be mindful of Your covenant, O Lord, and forget not forever the lives of Your poor.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Arise, O Lord, defend Your own cause; remember the abuse hurled against Your servants.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Luke 7:11-16</span><br />At
that time, Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went
with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to
the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of
his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was
with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards
her, he said to her: <span style="color: red;">"Weep not."</span> And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: <span style="color: red;">"Young man, I say to thee, arise."</span> And
he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his
mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God
saying: "A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his
people."<br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 69:2, 3, 4</span><br />O Lord, make haste to help me. Let all be put to shame who plot evil against Your servants.<br /><br />SECRET<br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Cleanse
us, O merciful God. Let the prayers of the Church, which are so
pleasing to You when they are accompanied by this offering, be even more
acceptable to You because our souls are free from sin. Through Our Lord
. . .<br /><br />COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 70:16, 17, 18</span><br />O
Lord, I will be mindful of Your singular justice. O God, You have
taught me from my youth, and when I am old and gray, O God, forsake me
not.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">O
Lord, let us not be condemned by unworthily receiving this Gift of
Heaven which was instituted for the spiritual health of Your faithful.
Through Our Lord . . .<br /><br />PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O God, Creator
and Ruler of Your people, free Your own from the temptations assailing
them, so that they may please You and be protected by You. Through Our
Lord Jesus Christ . . .</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><h2 align="center"><span style="color: #3399ff; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times;"><span style="color: #ff9933;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs.ecrater.com%2Fstores%2F177466%2F4ce822018acbe_177466b.jpg&f=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs.ecrater.com%2Fstores%2F177466%2F4ce822018acbe_177466b.jpg&f=1" width="181" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></span></h2><h1 align="center"><span style="color: #3399ff; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times;"><span style="color: #336666;">Saint Matilda</span></span></h1><h1 align="center"><span style="color: #3399ff; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times;"><span style="color: #336666;">(Saint Maud)</span></span></h1><h2 align="center"><span style="color: #3399ff; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times;"><span style="color: #ff9933;"><table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"></span><br /></td><td style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Patron Saint of Misbehaving Children</span></span></h2><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #336666;">Saint Matilda</span></b> was born into nobility in the Westphalia province of Prussia and was raised by her grandmother, an abbess, in an abbey.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #336666;"><b>Saint Matilda</b></span> married
King Henry the Fowler, the first German king from Saxony, and had five
children including Saint Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #336666;"><b>Saint Matilda</b></span> interceded with the king on behalf of criminals, nursed the sick, taught the unschooled, and was generous in almsgiving.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium;">Upon King Henry I's, also known as King Henry the Fowler, death, <span style="color: #336666;"><b>Saint Matilda</b></span> inherited much of his land. Two of her children, King Otto I, and Henry, accused <span style="color: #336666;"><b>Saint Matilda</b></span> of
fiscal irresponsibility because of her generosity to the poor. Her
oldest son, now Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, confiscated Saint Matilda's
property causing her to flee to a convent.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holy
Roman Emperor Otto I found out pretty quickly that ruling an empire was
not easy, so he and Henry sought out their mother's advice with
contrition, restoring her lands, and reconciling, and <span style="color: #336666;"><b>Saint Matilda</b></span> resumed caring for the poor.</span></div></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></span></div></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-6515467681079908502024-03-13T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-13T00:30:00.143-04:00WEDNESDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT; BLESSED AGNELLUS OF PISA (1236 A.D.)<p> </p><div class="post-header">
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<span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> BLESSED AGNELLUS OF PISA</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 28.8px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">SIMPLE / PURPLE</span></span><br /><i><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The
Church of the New Testament continues the Israel of the Old Testament.
The faithful of God are one social, religious unit that extends backward
to our first parents and forward over the world to the end of time. All
derive grace from Christ. Hence all, by grace, are brothers in Christ.
Old and New Testament saints are celebrated in the one Sacrifice of
Christ.</span></span></i><br /><i><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesus
came to cleanse His people anew, to give them a new and vastly higher
dignity, to make them charitable and apostolic. It is now their
conscience mission to bring all men to a baptized brotherhood in Christ
-- a brotherhood that reaches across every line of nation, race, or
color.</span></span></i><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ezech. 36:23-26</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When
I shall be sanctified in you, I will gather you from every land; and I
will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from your
filthiness, and I will give you a new spirit.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 33:2.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall ever be in my mouth.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. Glory be . . .</span></span><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /></span><b><span style="color: red;"><i>L</i></span>et us pray.<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>V.</i></span> Let us kneel.<br /><span style="color: red;"><i>R.</i></span> Arise.</b><br /><br /><span><b>COLLECT</b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
God, You reward the just man and grant pardon to the sinner if he does
penance by fasting. Be merciful to Your people who implore You, and
forgive us our sins through our confession of guilt. Through our Lord . .
.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />LESSON</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ezech. 36:23-28</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thus
says the Lord God: "And I will sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among the Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of
them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, when I shall be
sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the
Gentiles, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and
will bring you into your own land. And I will pour upon you clean water,
and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse
you from all your idols. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">And I
will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will
take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart
of flesh. And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause
you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.
And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you
shall be my people, and I will be your God," says the Lord Almighty.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 33:12, 6</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Come, children, hear me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. Turn to Him that you may be enlightened, and your faces may never blush with shame.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Almighty God, grant that we may be happy in chastising our bodies
through fasting. May we bring our passions under control, and thus more
easily attain the rewards of heaven. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span><i>Commemoration of </i>BLESSED AGNELLUS</span></span><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Blessed Agnellus of Pisa was in 1195 AD. He was born to the Italian
nobility. Agnellus was Received into the Franciscans by Saint Francis
himself. Blessed Agnellus was a Deacon. He was the guard of Saint-Denis,
the first Franciscan friary in Paris, France.</i><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>
</i><i>Agnellus Worked with the University of Paris. He was then appointed
by Saint Francis to introduce the Franciscans into England in 1224. Him
together with eight associates, he established houses in Canterbury and
London, and finally a school for friars in Oxford. </i><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>
</i><i>Friend of King Henry III. He helped prevent civil war between Henry
and Earl Marshall. Known for his personal piety and his strict adherence
to the <a href="http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-agnellus-of-pisa/franciscans">Franciscan</a> Rule, especially on the matter of poverty.</i><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>He died on 7 May 1236 AD at Oxford, England of dysentery. His body was
reported incorrupt up to the time the Oxford house was dissolved by King
Henry VIII. </i><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span>O
Lord Jesus Christ, who didst set blessed Agnellus free from the world's
snares to follow Thy cross, make us so follow in his footsteps that we
may earn a crown of glory along with him in heaven. Who livest . . .</span></span><br /> <span></span></b><span><b><span></span></b><br /><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Isa. 1:16-19</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thus
says the Lord God: "Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of
your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, Learn to do well:
seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend
the widow. And then come, and accuse me", saith the Lord: "If your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red
as crimson, they shall be white as wool. If you be willing, and will
hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land," says the Lord
Almighty.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 32:12, 6</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen for His own inheritance!</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all the celestial bodies thereof were created.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span><br /><b>O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities.<i><br />V.</i> O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. <i>(All kneel.)<br />V.</i> Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your names sake.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">John 9:1-38</span><br />At
that time Jesus, passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him: "Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his
parents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus answered: <span style="color: red;">"Neither
hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should
be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me,
whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I
am in the world, I am the light of the world."</span><br />When he had
said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle
and spread the clay upon his eyes, And said to him: <span style="color: red;">"Go, wash in the pool of Siloe,"</span> which is interpreted, 'Sent.' He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing.<br />The
neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a
beggar, said: "Is not this he that sat and begged?" Some said: "This is
he." But others said: "No, but he is like him." But he said: "I am he."
They said therefore to him: "How were thy eyes opened?" He answered:
"That man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said
to me: 'Go to the pool of Siloe and wash.' And I went: I washed: and I
see." And they said to him: "Where is he?" He saith: "I know not."<br />They
bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees. Now it was the sabbath,
when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Again therefore the
Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. But he said to them:
"He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and I see." Some therefore of
the Pharisees said: "This man is not of God, who keepeth not the
sabbath." But others said: "How can a man that is a sinner do such
miracles?" And there was a division among them. They say therefore to
the blind man again: "What sayest thou of him that hath opened thy
eyes?" And he said: "He is a prophet."<br />The Jews then did not believe
concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until
they called the parents of him that had received his sight,<br />And
asked them, saying: "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How
then doth he now see?" His parents answered them and said: "We know that
this is our son and that he was born blind: But how he now seeth, we
know not: or who hath opened his eyes, we know not. Ask himself: he is
of age: Let him speak for himself."<br />These things his parents said,
because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among
themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be
put out of the synagogue. Therefore did his parents say: "He is of age.
Ask himself."<br />They therefore called the man again that had been
blind and said to him: "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a
sinner." He said therefore to them: "If he be a sinner, I know not. One
thing I know, that whereas I was blind. now I see." They said then to
him: "What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?" He answered them:
"I have told you already, and you have heard. Why would you hear it
again? Will you also become his disciples?" They reviled him therefore
and said: "Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses. We
know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from
whence he is." The man answered and said to them: "why, herein is a
wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened
my eyes. Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a
server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth. From the beginning of
the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of
one born blind. Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything."
They answered and said to him: "Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost
thou teach us?" And they cast him out.<br />Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him: <span style="color: red;">"Dost thou believe in the Son of God?"</span> He answered, and said: "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?" And Jesus said to him: <span style="color: red;">"Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that talketh with thee."</span> And he said: "I believe, Lord." And falling down, he adored him.<br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 65:8-9, 20</span><br />Bless
the Lord our God, you nations; loudly sound His praise. He has given
life to my soul, and has not let my feet falter. Blessed be the Lord,
who has not refused my prayer nor His mercy to me!<br /><br />SECRET<br />O
Almighty God, wash away our sins through these sacrificial gifts so that
we may receive Your blessings of true health of mind and body. Through
our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span> <i>Commemoration of </i>BLESSED AGNELLUS</span></span><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span>In
memory of Thy Saints, O Lord, we offer Thee the sacrifice of praise, by
which we trust to be freed from both present and future evils. Through
our Lord . . . </span></span></b><span><b><span></span></b><br /><br /><span><b>COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Jo. 9:11</span><br />The Lord made clay with spittle and anointed my eyes, and I went and washed, and I saw; and I believed in God.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />O
Lord our God, may the Sacrament we have received nourish us with
spiritual food and comfort us with bodily aid. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><i>Commemoration of </i>BLESSED AGNELLUS</span></span></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Refreshed
by meat and drink from heaven, o God, we humbly entreat Thee, that we
may be protected by the prayers of him in whose memory we have partaken.
Through our Lord . . . </span></span></span><span><span><b></b></span><br /><br /><span><b>PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O
Lord, in Your mercy hear the prayers of those who call upon You. Make
their wills like Your will so that You may fulfill their every desire.
Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-36947420195284593862024-03-12T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-12T00:30:00.125-04:00Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Saint Gregory the Great<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 21px;">SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Pope and Doctor of the Church</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">SIMPLE / PURPLE<br />
INTROIT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 54:2-3</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hearken, O God, to my prayer and turn not away from my pleading; give heed to me, and answer me. <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 54:3-4</span>. I am tossed about in my grief, and am troubled at the uproar of th enemy and the oppression of the wicked. <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may our observance of the
Lenten fast increase our piety and bring us Your continued merciful
help. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of </span>SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Pope Gregory I (c.
540-604) had founded seven Benedictine monasteries on his ancestral
estates, and he himself had become a monk in one of them -- St. Andrew's
on the Coelian Hill. In the sixth year of his pontificate, he sent to
England forty Benedictine monks of St. Andrew's, with St. Augustine,
their prior, as leader of the pioneer mission band. Gregory also dealt
courageously with the conquering Lombards, enlightened the whole Church
by his teaching, governed both East and West with vigorous humility, and
gave to the world a perfect pattern of pastoral rule.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O God, You rewarded the soul of Your
servant Gregory with eternal happiness. Mercifully relieve us from the
oppressive weight of our sins through the intercession of this saint.
Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ex. 32:7-14</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">In those days, the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying: "Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought
out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned. They have quickly strayed from
the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a
molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have
said: 'These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt.' "</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And again the Lord said to Moses: "I
see that this people is stiffnecked: Let me alone, that my wrath may be
kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of
thee a great nation." But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying:
"Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom
thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a
mighty hand? Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: 'He craftily
brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and
destroy them from the earth': let thy anger cease, and be appeased
upon the wickedness of thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: 'I
will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land
that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess
it for ever' ": And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which
he had spoken against his people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 43:26, 2</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arise, O Lord, and help us, and save us for Your name's sake. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
V</span>. O God, our ears have heard, our fathers have declared to us the deeds You performed in their time, in the days of old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (<span style="font-style: italic;">John 7:14-31</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">At that time, about the midst of the
feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the Jews wondered,
saying: "How doth this man know letters, having never learned?" Jesus
answered them and said: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"My
doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do the
will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own
glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true
and there is no injustice in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and
yet none of you keepeth the law? </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Why seek you to kill me?" </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The multitude answered and said: "Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?" Jesus answered and said to them: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"One
work I have done: and you all wonder. Therefore, Moses gave you
circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on
the sabbath day you circumcise a man. If a man receive circumcision on
the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you
angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?
Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Some therefore of Jerusalem said: "Is not this he whom they seek to
kill? And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have
the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? But we know
this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth,
whence he is."</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"You
both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself:
but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. I know him, because I
am from him: and he hath sent me."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him,
because his hour was not yet come. But of the people many believed in
him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 39:2, 3, 4</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">I have waited and waited for the Lord,
and He inclined towards me and heard my cry. And He put a new song
into my mouth, a hymn to our God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">May this offering cleanse us from our
sins, O Lord, and may it sanctify Your servants in body and soul for
the celebration of this Sacrifice. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May this sacrifice, which You offered
to wash away the sins of the whole world, O Lord, help us through the
intercession of blessed Gregory. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 19:6</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">We will rejoice at your salvation, and in the name of our God we shall be lifted up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION </span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, cleanse us from sin through the
reception of this Sacrament and lead us toward the kingdom of heaven.
Through Our Lord . . .</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O God, You bestowed the merits of the
saints upon the blessed Pope Gregory. May we who celebrate this feast in
his memory also follow the example of his life. Through our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, have mercy on Your people and strengthen them in their daily trials and labors. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-87088782997073775072024-03-11T00:30:00.024-04:002024-03-11T00:30:00.179-04:00MONDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT; SAINT CONSTANTINE (576 A.D.) King, Martyr<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">MONDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.orthodoxwiki.org/images/thumb/1/1e/ScsConstantinus-of-Govan-AHart.jpg/300px-ScsConstantinus-of-Govan-AHart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="300" height="374" src="https://commons.orthodoxwiki.org/images/thumb/1/1e/ScsConstantinus-of-Govan-AHart.jpg/300px-ScsConstantinus-of-Govan-AHart.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span><b>[Commemoration]</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SAINT CONSTANTINE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>King, Martyr</b></span></div><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span style="font-weight: bold;">The wisdom of God is always saving
men from their human weaknesses. Man succeeds in a particular task by
concentrating on the particular; but he fails in his high destiny when
he lets the particular need, or desire, or project, crowd out the rights
of God and of his fellow men. The eternal vision of God rectifies the
limited human vision which sees everything in days or months or years.
The eternal law of God lays down man's duty of worshiping God and also
his duty of speaking the truth, of rendering justice, and of practicing
charity towards everyone. God's wisdom prevails to man's eternal gain.</span></i></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 53:3-4</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O God, by Your name save me, and by Your might deliver me. O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 53:5</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. For strangers have risen up against me, and the powerful have sought my life.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. Glory be . . .</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Almighty God, may we please You with
our bodies and our souls by keeping this yearly fast with devotion.
Through our Lord . . .</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT CONSTANTINE</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>St.
Constantine, a British king, had joined St. Columba in preaching the
Faith of Christ among the Picts. In extreme old age, he received the
Martyr's crown, being cruelly put to death by pagans.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>O
God, who didst wonderfully adorn the blessed King Constantine Thy
Martyr with the triumph of his glorious passion, grant we beseech Thee,
that, imitating him, we may despise all worldly splendor, and ever fully
love the things of Heaven. Through our Lord . . .</b></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />LESSON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">III Kings 3:16-28 [I King 3:16-28]</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then there came two women that were
harlots, to the king, and stood before him. And one of them said: I
beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was
delivered of a child with her in the chamber. And the third day after I
was delivered, she also was delivered; and we were together, and no
other person with us in the house; only we two. And this woman's child
died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him. And rising in the
dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I, thy
handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child
in my bosom. And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck,
behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was
clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">And
the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayst, but thy child is
dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou liest: for my
child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove
before the king.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Then said the
king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy child is dead. And the
other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and mine liveth. The king
therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had brought a sword
before the king, Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half
to the one and half to the other.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">But
the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels
were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child
alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine
nor thine; but divide it. The king answered, and said: Give the living
child to this woman, and let it not be killed; for she is the mother
thereof. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged,
and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do
judgment.</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Be a God of protection to me, a place of shelter to give me safety.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. I have placed my trust in You, O God; O Lord, let me never be put to shame.</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />TRACT </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. <i><br />V.</i> O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. <i>(All kneel.)<br />V.</i> Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your names sake.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">John 2:13-25</span><br />At that time, the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<br />And
he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of money sitting. And when he had made, as it were, a scourge
of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and
the oxen: and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables
he overthrew. And to them that sold doves he said: <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">"Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic."</span></span> And his disciples remembered, that it was written: 'The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.'<br />The
Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: "What sign dost thou shew
unto us, seeing thou dost these things?" Jesus answered and said to
them: <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">"Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up."</span></span>
The Jews then said: "Six and forty years was this temple in building;
and wilt thou raise it up in three days?" But he spoke of the temple of
his body. When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and
the word that Jesus had said.<br />Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the
pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his
signs which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that
he knew all men, And because he needed not that any should give
testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.<br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 99:1-2</span><br />Sing joyfully to God all the earth; serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful song, for the Lord is God.<br /><br />SECRET<br />May the Sacrifice that we offer You, O Lord, always bring us new life and keep us from harm. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT CONSTANTINE</b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Receive
our gifts and our prayers, we beseech Thee, O Lord, cleanse us by the
heavenly Mysteries and mercifully hear us. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 18:13-14</span><br />Cleanse me from my hidden faults, O Lord, and spare Your servants from those of others.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />O Lord, may the reception of Your Sacrament bring us ever nearer to our eternal redemption. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT CONSTANTINE</b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Grant,
we beseech Thee, O Lord, our God, that as we rejoice on earth in
keeping the memory of Thy saints, so also we may enjoy their company for
evermore. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O
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<span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LAETARE SUNDAY</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #cc8800; font-weight: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310933844732604258" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/SbQ6MXji72I/AAAAAAAAN84/SBnwBx_DoYs/s400/fortymartyrs.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 250px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding: 4px; width: 152px;" /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">[Commemoration]</span></i></span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #cc8800; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">FORTY HOLY MARTYRS</span></span></b></span></span></span></div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DOUBLE, FIRST CLASS / ROSE or PURPLE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lent
is half over, and Easter is enticingly near. This Sunday is a foretaste
of Easter joy. Knowing the ebb and flow on intensity even in our best
efforts, God deals with us tenderly in rhythms of consolation and
desolation. So today, the thoughts of freedom and joy come in the middle
of Lent. But the joy does more than cushion our failing energies and
needle our lagging spirits. It is a positive, meaningful joy, born of
our fruitful life in Christ and of our sweet freedom as His purchased
children. The Eucharistic banquet of heavenly Bread, foreshadowed by the
multiplied loaves and fishes and become now the Bread of Life for the
whole Christian world, adds to our Laetare joy the quiet gladness of
every festive meal.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> (Isa. 66:10-11)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rejoice,
O Jerusalem, and come together all you who love her. rejoice with joy,
you who have been in sorrow, that you may exalt, and be filled from the
abundance of your consolation.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 121:1</span>. I rejoice at the tidings that were told me, "We shall go into the house of the Lord."<span style="font-style: italic;"><br />V</span>. Glory be . . .</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Almighty God, we are being justly punished for our sins, but comfort us
with Your grace, that we may live. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span></span></span></b></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of </span></span><span>THE FORTY HOLY MARTYRS</span><span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">The
Forty Martyrs were soldiers belonging to various nationalities, who
were quartered at Sebaste, Armenia, in A.D. 320. According to tradition,
these Christians were condemned to lie naked on the frozen surface of a
pond until they should die of exposure. The forty witnesses to Christ
united in prayer, asking God that all of them might persevere to the
end. Then one soldier weakened. But a pagan guard was inspired to
confess Christ and take the place of the apostate, and again the number
of forty martyrs was complete.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span>We
pay honor to the bravery of Your glorious martyrs in bearing witness to
You, O Almighty God. Grant that we may feel the power of their
intercession with You. Through Our Lord . . .</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EPISTLE (<span style="font-style: italic;">Gal. 4:22-31</span>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brethren:
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and
the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born
according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise. Which
things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The
one from Mount Sinai, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar. For Sina
is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now
is: and is in bondage with her children. But that Jerusalem which is
above is free: which is our mother. For it is written:</span></span>
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<b>Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry thou that
travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of
her that hath a husband.</b></span></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now
we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he
that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was after the
spirit: so also it is now. But what saith the scripture? "Cast out the
bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir
with the son of the free woman." So then, brethren, we are not the
children of the bondwoman but of the free: by the freedom wherewith
Christ has made us free.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 121:1, 7</span>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I rejoice at the tidings that were told me, "We shall go into the house of the Lord." <span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your towers.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 124:1-2</span>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">They who trust in the Lord are like Mount Sion; he who dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />V</span>. Mountains are round about it, and the Lord is round about His people, from henceforth and forever.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (<span style="font-style: italic;">John 6:1-15</span>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At
that time, After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which
is that of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they
saw the miracles which he did on them that were diseased. Jesus
therefore went up into a mountain: and there he sat with his disciples.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now
the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. When Jesus
therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude
cometh to him, he said to Philip: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> And this he said to try him: for he himself knew what he would do.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Philip
answered him: "Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for
them that every one may take a little." One of his disciples, Andrew,
the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him: "There is a boy here that hath
five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?"
Then Jesus said: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Make the men sit down."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now,
there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in
number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had
given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down. In like manner
also of the fishes, as much as they would. And when they were filled, he
said to his disciples: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> They
gathered up therefore and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of
the five barley loaves which remained over and above to them that had
eaten.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now
those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said:
"This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world." Jesus
therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force and
make him king, fled again into the mountains, himself alone.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 134:3, 6</span>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Praise
the Lord, for He is good; sing praise to His name, for He is sweet. All
He has willed, He has done in heaven and on earth.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Look
with favor upon these offerings, O Lord, that they may be an aid to our
devotion and to our salvation. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> THE FORTY MARTYRS<br />Look
favorably on the prayers and offerings of Your people, O Lord. May this
celebration of the feast of Your saints please You and bring us Your
merciful help. Through Our Lord . . .</span></i></span></span></b></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 121:3-4</span>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jerusalem
was built as a city with compact unity; to it the tribes went up, the
tribes of the Lord, to give praise to Your name, O Lord.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
merciful God, we never fail to be nourished by Your Sacrament. May we
offer it with true devotion and receive it always with faith. Through
Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> THE FORTY MARTYRS</span></i></span></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">May
the prayers of Your saints win forgiveness for us, O Lord. Grant that
the Sacrifice we offer in this life may be our everlasting possession in
the life to come. Through Our Lord . . .</span></i></span></span></b></span><span><b><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-87372576117574096792024-03-09T00:30:00.009-05:002024-03-09T00:30:00.144-05:00SATURDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT; SAINT FRANCES OF ROME (1440 A.D.) Widow; SAINT DOMINIC SAVIO (1857 A.D.)
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<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/R8do8qtfstI/AAAAAAAAFjM/V_ljGVZMNlo/s1600-h/john8.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="250" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172218088524853970" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/R8do8qtfstI/AAAAAAAAFjM/V_ljGVZMNlo/s0-d/john8.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"><i>The painting is by</i> <i><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/guercino-1">Guercino</a></i><i> (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; Italian, ca. 1591-1666),</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1621.</i></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SATURDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 28.8px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 23px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 28.8px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310930969421125554" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/SbQ3lAL3l7I/AAAAAAAAN8w/xP669aMmhyU/w254-h400/francesofrome.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; height: 250px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 159px;" width="254" /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>[Commemoration]</i><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span>SAINT </span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span><span>FRANCES OF ROME</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Widow</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">
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<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/San_Domenico_Savio.jpg/220px-San_Domenico_Savio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="220" height="293" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/San_Domenico_Savio.jpg/220px-San_Domenico_Savio.jpg" width="220" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span>SAINT DOMINIC SAVIO</span> </span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><i>(HISTORICAL)</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">SIMPLE / PURPLE</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><i><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesus
said: "Do not judge, that you may not be judged. For with what
judgement you judge, you shall be judged. . . . But why dost thou see
the speck in thy brother's eye, and yet dost not consider the beam in
thine own eye? . . . Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam from thine
own eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the speck from thy
brother's eye" (Matt. 7:1-3,5).</span></span></i><br />
<span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>It
is common tendency to favor ourselves and condemn others precisely in
proportion to our own guilt. Conversely, the innocent find it easy to
believe in the innocence of others, and to sympathize with their
failures.</i></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 5:2-3</span><br />Hear my words, O Lord; consider my cry. Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my king and my God.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 5:4.</span> For to You I pray, O Lord; in the morning You hear my voice.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br /><br />COLLECT<br />O
Almighty God, while Your servants mortify their bodies by fasting, may
they also follow after righteousness and avoid sin. Through our Lord . .
.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT FRANCES OF ROME</b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Frances
was born in Rome in 1384. When she was thirteen years of age, her
parents married her to Lorenzo Ponziano, a man of outstanding virtue.
Frances brought up her children in the love and fear of God. She was
zealous in the performance of every household duty, saying, "A married
woman must often leave God at the altar to find Him in her domestic
cares." While her husband was still living, she founded an order of
Oblates affiliated with the Benedictines; and when she became a widow
she was elected superior of those religious women. Frances died on March
9, 1440, her face radiant with an unearthly glory.</span><span><br /></span><span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
God, among the many gifts of grace You bestowed on Your blessed servant
Frances, You granted her an intimate friendship with an angel. May we
be worthy of fellowship with the angels through her intercession.
Through Our Lord . . .</span>
<span><br /></span><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON <span style="font-style: italic;">Dan. 13:1-9, 15-17, 1930, 33-62</span><br />Now
there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim: And he
took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a very
beautiful woman, and one that feared God. For her parents being just,
had instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses.<br />Now
Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews
resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all. And
there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year,
of whom the Lord said: 'That iniquity came out from Babylon, from the
ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.' These men frequented
the house of Joakim, and all that had any matters of judgment came to
them. And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and
walked in her husband's orchard. And the old men saw her going in every
day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:<br />And
they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they
might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.<br />And it fell
out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and
the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in
the orchard: for it was hot weather. And there was nobody there, but
the two old men that had hid themselves, and were beholding her. So she
said to the maids: "Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors
of the orchard, that I may wash me."<br />Now when the maids were gone
forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: "Behold the doors
of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with
thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. But if thou wilt not, we
will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and
therefore thou didst send away thy maids form thee." Susanna sighed, and
said: "I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is
death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands. But it
is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin
in the sight of the Lord." With that Susanna cried out with a loud
voice: and the elders also cried out against her. And one of them ran to
the door of the orchard, and opened it. So when the servants of the
house heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by the back door, to
see what was the matter. But after the old men had spoken, the servants
were greatly ashamed: for never had there been any such word said of
Susanna. And on the next day, When the people were come to Joakim, her
husband, the two elders also came full of wicked device against Susanna,
to put her to death. And they said before the people: "Send to Susanna,
daughter of Helcias, the wife of Joakim." And presently they sent. And
she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred.<br />Therefore
her friends, and all her acquaintance wept. But the two elders rising
up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head. And she
weeping, looked up to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord.
And the elders said: "As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came
in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, ans sent away the
maids from her. Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and
lay with her. But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this
wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.<br />And him
indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening
the doors, he leaped out: But having taken this woman, we asked who the
young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are
witnesses."<br />The multitude believed them, as being the elders, and the
judges of the people, and they condemned her to death. Then Susanna
cried out with a loud voice, and said: "O eternal God, who knowest
hidden things, who knowest all things before they come to pass, Thou
knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must
die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have
maliciously forged against me."<br />And the Lord heard her voice. And
when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit
of a young boy, whose name was Daniel: And he cried out with a loud
voice: "I am clear from the blood of this woman." Then all the people
turning themselves towards him, said: "What meaneth this word that thou
hast spoken?" But he standing in the midst of them, said: "Are ye so
foolish, ye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of
the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel? Return to judgment,
for they have borne false witness against her."<br />So all the people
turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: "Come, and sit thou
down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath given thee the honour of
old age." And Daniel said to the people: "Separate these two far from
one another, and I will examine them." So when they were put asunder one
from the other, he called one of them, and said to him: "O thou that
art grown old in evil days, now are thy sins come out, which thou hast
committed before: In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent,
and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent
and the just thou shalt not kill. Now then if thou sawest her, tell me
under what tree thou sawest them conversing together?": He said: "Under a
mastic tree." And Daniel said: "Well hast thou lied against thy own
head: for behold the angel of God having recieved the sentence of him,
shall cut thee in two."<br />And having put him aside, he commanded that
the other should come, and he said to him: "O thou seed of Chanaan, and
not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy
heart: Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear
conversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your
wickedness. Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree didst thou take
them conversing together?" And he answered: "Under a holm tree." And
Daniel said to him: "Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for
the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to
destroy you."<br />With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice,
and they blessed God, who saveth them that trust in him. And they rose
up against the two elders, (for Daniel had convicted them of false
witness by their own mouth) and they did to them as they had maliciously
dealt against their neighbour, To fulfil the law of Moses: and they put
them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 22:4</span></span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me, O Lord.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">V. Your rod and Your staff, these give me courage.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">John 8:1-11</span></span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">At
that time, Jesus went unto mount Olivet. And early in the morning he
came again into the temple: and all the people came to him. And sitting
down he taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a
woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst, And said to him:
"Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. Now Moses in the
law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?" And this
they said tempting him, that they might accuse him.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But
Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground. When
therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said to
them: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: 700;">"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But
they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And
Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst. Then Jesus
lifting up himself, said to her: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: 700;">"Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Who said: "No man, Lord." And Jesus said: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: 700;">"Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no more."</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 118:133</span></span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Direct my footsteps according to Your promise, O Lord, and let no iniquity rule over me.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Almighty God, grant that our sacrificial offering may cleanse and protect our frail nature from all evil. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRANCES OF ROME<br />Accept
this gift, O Lord, from a people dedicated to You. We offer it in honor
of Your saints for the help we have received from them when we were in
trouble. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">John 8:10, 11</span></span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Has no one condemned thee, woman? No one, Lord. Neither will I condemn thee. From now on sin no more.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Almighty God, may we, who have received the Body and Blood of Christ in
Communion, be numbered among the members of His Mystical Body; who
lives and rules with You . . .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">FRANCES OF ROME<br />O
Lord, You have feasted Your family with the Food of heaven. May we
always be refreshed through the intercession of Your saint whose feast
we celebrate this day. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAY OVER THE PEOPLE</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord, stretch out Your helping hand from heaven to all the faithful who
seek You with all their hearts. May they be worthy of receiving that
which they rightly ask for. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><div class="document__title-container">
<h1 class="document__title" style="text-align: center;">St. Dominic Savio</h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>Here is a boy-saint who died at the age of fourteen, was
one of the great hopes of St. John Bosco for the future of his
congregation, and was canonized in 1954.</span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He was studying to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest" title="Priest">priest</a> when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurisy" title="Pleurisy">pleurisy</a>.<span> <br /></span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>He was one of ten
children of Carlo and Birgitta Savio. Carlo was a blacksmith and
Birgitta was a seamstress. When Don Bosco was looking for young men to
train as priests for his Salesian Order, his parish priest suggested
Dominic Savio. Dominic became more than a credit to Don Bosco's
school—he single-handedly organized those who were to be the nucleus of
Don Bosco's order.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>St. Dominic Savio was twelve when he met Don
Bosco and organized a group of boys into the Company of the Immaculate
Conception. Besides its religious purpose, the boys swept and took care
of the school and looked after the boys that no one seemed to pay any
attention to. When, in 1859, Don Bosco chose the young men to be the
first members of his congregation, all of them had been members of
Dominic's Company.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>For all that, Dominic was a normal,
high-spirited boy who sometimes got into trouble with his teachers
because he would often break out laughing. However, he was generally
well disciplined and gradually gained the respect of the tougher boys in
Don Bosco's school.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>In other circumstances, Dominic might have
become a little self-righteous snob, but Don Bosco showed him the
heroism of the ordinary and the sanctity of common sense. "Religion must
be about us as the air we breathe," Don Bosco would say, and Dominic
Savio wore holiness like the clothes on his back.</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><em>(Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia) EWTN.COM</em></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-37338632227458020202024-03-08T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-08T00:30:00.141-05:00FRIDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT; SAINT JOHN OF GOD (1550 A.D.)<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post uncustomized-post-template"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">SAINT JOHN OF GOD</span></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Confessor</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>INTROIT (<i>Ps. 85:17</i>)</b></span><br /><span><b>
Show me, O Lord, a sign of Your beneficence, that my enemies may see,
to their confusion, that You, O Lord, have helped and comforted me. <i>Ps. 85:1</i>. Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am needy and poor. <i>V</i>. Glory Be . . .</b></span><br /><span><b>
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COLLECT</b></span><br /><span><b>
May our Lenten fast please You, O Lord. May we keep our minds free from
sin as we deprive our bodies of food. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT JOHN OF GOD</span><br />
<b><i>At the age of 40, John of God (1495-1550) reformed his
undisciplined life, obtained alms for the erection of two large
hospitals at Granada, and staffed them with a new order, the Brothers
Hospitallers. Successors of the first Brothers have continued to the
present time their apostolic work of healing bodies and souls. The
Prayer recalls how when a neighboring hospital was on fire, John of God
passed miraculously through the flames until he had rescued all the poor
sufferers.</i></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i><br />
</i></b><b>O God, You brought blessed John unharmed through fire,
burning only with love of You. You also enriched Your Church by his
establishment of a new religious order. May the fire of Your love burn
away our sins and heal us for eternal life through his merits. Through
Our Lord . . .</b></span><span><br /></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>LESSON (<i>Num. 20:1-3, 6-13</i>)<br />
In those days, the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into
the desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades.
And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place.<br />
And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:
And making a sedition, they said: "Would God we had perished among our
brethren before the Lord." And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude,
went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the
ground, and cried to the Lord, and said. "O Lord God, hear the cry of
this people, and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of living water,
that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur." And the glory of the
Lord appeared over them. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: "Take the
rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and
speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when
thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and
their cattle shall drink."<br />
Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had
commanded him, And having gathered together the multitude before the
rock, he said to them: "Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we
bring you forth water out of this rock?" And when Moses bad lifted up
his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth
water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank,
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: "Because you have not believed
me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring
these people into the land, which I will give them." This is the Water
of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words
against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.<br />
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GRADUAL (<i>Ps. 27:7, 1)</i><br />
My heart has trusted in God, and I have found help. I have thrived once
again, and with all my will I shall give praise to Him. V. To You, O
Lord my God, I cry; be not deaf to me, nor depart from me.<br />
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TRACT (<i>Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</i>)<br />
O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. <i>V.</i> O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. <i>(All kneel.) V.</i> Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your names sake.<br />
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GOSPEL (<i>John 4:5-42</i>)<br />
At that time, Jesus cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is
called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.<br />
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: <span style="color: red;">"Give me to drink."</span>
For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. Then that
Samaritan woman saith to him: "How dost thou, being a Jew; ask of me to
drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with
the Samaritans." Jesus answered and said to her: <span style="color: red;">"If
thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give
me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have
given thee living water." </span><br />
The woman saith to him: "Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and
the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water? Art thou
greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof,
himself and his children and his cattle?" Jesus answered and said to
her: <span style="color: red;">"Whosoever
drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of
the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever. But the water
that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water,
springing up into life everlasting." </span><br />
The woman said to him: "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw." Jesus saith to her: <span style="color: red;">"Go, call thy husband, and come hither."</span> The woman answered and said: "I have no husband." Jesus said to her: <span style="color: red;">"Thou
hast said well: I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands:
and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said
truly."</span><br />
The woman saith to him: "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our
fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the
place where men must adore." Jesus saith to her:<span style="color: red;">"Woman,
believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this
mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father. You adore that which you
know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews. But
the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the
Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore
him. God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit
and in truth."</span> The woman saith to him: "I know that the Messias
cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will
tell us all things." Jesus saith to her:<span style="color: red;"> "I am he, who am speaking with thee."</span><br />
And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked
with the woman. Yet no man said: "What seekest thou?" Or: "Why talkest
thou with her?" The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way
into the city and saith to the men there: "Come, and see a man who has
told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?" They
went therefore out of the city and came unto him.<br />
In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them: <span style="color: red;">"I have meat to eat which you know not."</span> The disciples therefore said one to another: "Hath any man brought him to eat?" Jesus saith to them: <span style="color: red;">"My
meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his
work. Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest
cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries.
For they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth
wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that
soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. For in this is the
saying true: 'That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that
reapeth.' I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour.
Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours." </span><br />
Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word
of the woman giving testimony: "He told me all things whatsoever I have
done." So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he
would tarry there. And he abode there two days. And many more believed
in him, because of his own word. And they said to the woman: "We now
believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him and know
that this is indeed the Saviour of the world."<br />
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OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (<i>Ps. 5:3-4</i>)<br />
Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God; for to You I pray, O Lord.<br />
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SECRET </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>O
Lord, look kindly upon these gifts we offer, so that they may please
You and always prove helpful to us. Through Our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT JOHN OF GOD</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">We
offer You, O Lord, this Sacrifice of praise in memory of Your Saints.
Free us from evil now and in the future through their intercession.
Through our Lord . . .</span></b><span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>COMMUNION ANTIPHON (<i>John 4:13, 14</i>)<br />
"He who drinks of the water that I will give him," said the Lord, "it
shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up unto life
everlasting."<br />
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POSTCOMMUNION </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>O
Lord, cleanse us from sin through the reception of this Sacrament and
lead us toward the kingdom of heaven. Through Our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT JOHN OF GOD </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Refreshed
with Heavenly Food and Drink we humbly pray You, our God, that we may
be strengthened by the prayers of Your Saint, in whose memory we have
received this Sacrament. Through our Lord . . .</span></span><span><br /></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />
O Almighty God, we trust in Your protection. Help us to overcome all the difficulties that face us. Through Our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-10032357895708651162024-03-07T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-07T00:30:00.159-05:00THURSDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT; SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1274 A.D.)<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><b>THURSDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT</b></span></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div align="center"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/proxy/k20CS1Gcd1UQSZ2pnwGQFzOmYMXmCDdE8F_ccp3z-KgLixHHuRV3VpaQ6dnuthPyw-rLhslrFrEnNeRn9IDaxx2Y13HI2-W9ieMzvPaZa1T7kx57gYslo3LEwQ8dSJzYxYq9RABT8oUEQRoE5A=s308-d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="241" height="308" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/proxy/k20CS1Gcd1UQSZ2pnwGQFzOmYMXmCDdE8F_ccp3z-KgLixHHuRV3VpaQ6dnuthPyw-rLhslrFrEnNeRn9IDaxx2Y13HI2-W9ieMzvPaZa1T7kx57gYslo3LEwQ8dSJzYxYq9RABT8oUEQRoE5A=s0-d" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><i>[Commemoration]</i></b><br style="font-size: large;" /><div><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Confessor and Doctor of the Church</span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">SIMPLE/PURPLE</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Man's
entire being cries out for the presence of God -- a God who knows,
loves, protects, forgives, and heals. The man whose life is God-centered
will be God's agent of charity toward the oppressed, the abandoned, the
sick, the stranger, regardless of race or nationality. Such
God-centered agents of charity were Saints Cosmas and Damian, martyred
physicians in whose honor the "stational church" of today's liturgy was
built.</span></b></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">INTROIT</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">"I
AM the salvation of the people," said the Lord. "In whatever distress
they shall cry to me, I will hear them; and I will be their Lord
forever."</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Ps. 77:1 Hearken, my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">V. Glory be . . .</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">COLLECT</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">We
honor You, O Lord, in the celebration of the feast of Your blessed
Cosmas and Damian. Help us through these saints upon whom, in Your
wondrous providence, You have bestowed eternal glory. Through Our Lord .
. .</span> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS</b></span></span><br /><span></span><span><span><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Thomas
Aquinas (1226-74), a child of noble lineage, was educated at the Abbey
of Monte Cassino and as a youth entered the new Dominican Order at the
University of Naples, to become one of the greatest philosophers and
theologians of all times, and in his day one of Europe's most popular
preachers and teachers. To extraordinary gifts of mind he added a
prodigious capacity for work, complete singleness of purpose, and a
profoundly mystical holiness of life. His </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summa Theologica</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summa contra Gentiles </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">constitute
the most reasonable and comprehensive defense of Christian doctrine
ever produced, and his Eucharistic prayers and poetry are enshrined in
the Church's liturgy. He is the patron of Catholic education.</span></span></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">O
God, the wondrous learning of Your blessed confessor Thomas enlightened
Your Church and still makes her fruitful because of his holy efforts.
Grant that we may understand his teachings and put them into practice.
Through Our Lord . . .</span></i></b></span></span></p></span></span></span><span><span><b>LESSON Jer. 7:1-7</b></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>In those days, the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: <br />
"Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this
word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that
enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts
the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will
dwell with you in this place. <br />
"Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of
the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. For if you will order well your
ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and
his neighbour, If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after
strange gods to your own hurt, I will dwell with you in this place: in
the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for
evermore, says the Lord Almighty."</b></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b> </b></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span><b>GRADUAL Ps. 144:15-16</b></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>The eyes of all look hopefully to You, O Lord, and You give them food in due season.</b></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>V. You open Your hand, and fill every living creature with blessing.</b></span><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>GOSPEL Luke 4:38-44</b></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b> And Jesus rising up out of the
synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken
with a great fever: and they besought him for her. And standing over
her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising,
she ministered to them. <br />
And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers
diseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of
them, healed them. And devils went out from many, crying out and saying:
"Thou art the son of God." And rebuking them he suffered them not to
speak; for they knew that he was Christ. <br />
And when it was day, going out he went into a desert place: and the
multitudes sought him, and came unto him. And they stayed him that
should not depart from them. To whom he said: <span style="color: red;">"To other cities also I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent."</span> And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. </b></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><br />
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<span><b>OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 137:7</b></span><br />
<span><b>Though I walk in the midst of
tribulation, you shall preserve my life, O Lord. You will stretch forth
Your right hand against the anger of my enemies, and Your right hand
shall save me.</b></span><br />
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<span><b>SECRET</b></span><br />
<span><b>We honor the glorious death of Your
saints, O Lord, in the offering of this sacrifice which has given
meaning to all martyrdom. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;"><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS</b></span><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>O
Lord, let Your blessed Confessor and Doctor Thomas always help us, and
through his intercession accept our offering and pardon our sins.
Through our Lord . . .</b></span></b></span></span></span> </span></span><span><span><b></b></span><br />
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<span><b>COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ps. 118:4-5</b></span><br />
<span><b>You have commanded that Your precepts be kept most diligently. Oh, that my ways may be steadfast in keeping Your statutes!</b></span><br />
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<span><b>We beg You, O Lord, through the
merits of Your blessed Martyrs Cosmas and Damian, to let this Sacrament
be a sure promise of our salvation. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord, may this sacrifice bring us closer to our salvation through the
intercession of Your blessed Confessor and illustrious Doctor Thomas.
Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span> </span></span><span><span><b></b></span><br />
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<span><b>Draw all nations to Yourself by Your
divine mercy, O Lord, and make them always obedient to Your
commandments. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-61026838267146129092024-03-06T13:47:00.002-05:002024-03-06T13:47:46.382-05:00The FSSP Suffers for the Long Game<p> <img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZJFFKZVyKs2o4qEi6Jo0HtgKUL9e_detOwRPEL65OBUb5SXTe4ITAFUlqWN0oKV6ZPXO76RmrQDzdihoHYGOFnbOd5HKtHikrbc157XMf0AgtFGNwGX8gi4Oxu5-m0E20lUOk=s0-d-e1-ft#https://onepeterfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/00314_29022024-300x200.jpg" style="border: 0; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; width: 100%;" tabindex="0" width="300" />The
eyes of the Trad world were on Rome last week when the Holy Father
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of St. Peter, including Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, Superior General of the
FSSP, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and
Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary ... <a aria-label="Read more about The FSSP Suffers for the Long Game" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://crisismagazine.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dc1a2aa6c287472d5eecbb249d%26id%3D98c6ca70a9%26e%3Df2c992dfe6&source=gmail&ust=1709827380683000&usg=AOvVaw0b4tuT1YBoQYB49Bjs60p7" href="https://crisismagazine.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c1a2aa6c287472d5eecbb249d&id=98c6ca70a9&e=f2c992dfe6" style="color: #d11a25; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The FSSP Suffers for the Long Game">Read more</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://onepeterfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/00314_29022024.jpg" target="_blank">https://onepeterfive.com/the-fssp-suffers-for-the-long-game/ </a><br /></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-71932335292624664982024-03-06T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-06T00:30:00.140-05:00Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent; Saints Perpetua and Felicitas<p> </p><div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 30:7-8</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">I will hope in the Lord. I shall rejoice and be glad because of Your mercy, for You have regarded my humility. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
Ps. 30:2</span>. In You, O Lord, have I hoped.Let me never be put to shame. In Your justice rescue me and set me free.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may our fasting and our avoidance of sin win for us Your readier forgiveness. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINTS PERPETUA & FELICITAS</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Vivia
Perpetua, a young wife and mother of noble birth, and Felicitas, a
slave girl who was with child, were among the Christians arrested in
Carthage (Africa) during the year 203. Felicitas gave birth to a
daughter in prison, and the baby was adopted by a fellow Christian.
Three days later the martyrs were exposed to wild beasts in the arena.
The people soon tired of seeing the young mothers tortured and demanded
that they should be slain by the sword. Greater devotion no human beings
can have than to prefer Christ to the children of their love.<br /></span></span><span><span></span><br /><span>O
Lord Our God, grant that we may always honor the victories of Your
blessed martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas. Although we are unable to pay
them the honor that is due, may we at least offer them our humble
tribute. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> </i></span></b><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ex. 20:12-24</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thus says the Lord God: "Honour thy
father and thy mother, that thou mayst be long-lived upon the land
which the Lord thy God will give thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt
not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his
handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his."</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And all the people saw the voices and
the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and
being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off, Saying to
Moses: "Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the Lord speak to
us, lest we die."</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And Moses said to the people: "Fear
not; for God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be
in you, and you should not sin."</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And the people stood afar off. But
Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was. And the Lord said to
Moses: "Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen
that I have spoken to you from heaven. You shall not make gods of
silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold. You shall make
an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts
and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the
memory of my name shall be."</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 6:3-4</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Have pity on me, O Lord, for I am weak; heal me, O Lord.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. For my body is in terror, and my soul. too, is utterly terrified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
V.</span> O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past, let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. <span style="font-style: italic;">(All Kneel.)<br />
V.</span> Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your name's sake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Matt. 15:1-20</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">At that time, then came to him from
Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: "Why do thy disciples
transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands
when they eat bread." But he answering, said to them: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Why
do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For
God said: 'Honour thy father and mother': And: 'He that shall curse
father or mother, let him die the death.' But you say: 'Whosoever shall
say to father or mother, "The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall
profit thee." And he shall not honour his father or his mother': and
you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.
Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: 'This people
honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me. And in
vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.' "</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Hear ye and understand. </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Then came his disciples, and said to
him: "Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word,
were scandalized?" But he answering, said: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Every
plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the
blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit." </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And Peter answering, said to him: "Expound to us this parable." But he said: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Are
you also yet without understanding? Do you not understand, that
whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast
out into the privy? But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come
forth from the heart, and those things defile a man. For from the heart
come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man.
But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man."</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 108:21</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, be merciful to me for Your name's sake, because Your mercy is sweet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, accept the prayers and
sacrifice Your people offer You. May we who celebrate Your sacred rites
be guarded from all danger. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINTS PERPETUA & FELICITAS</span><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></span></span></p><div><div align="left" style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span>O
Lord, see the gifts we offer at Your altar in honor of the feast of
Your holy martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas. May this sacred rite, which
honors them, forgive us our sins. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span> <br /></span></span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 15:11</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">You have made known to me the path of life; You shall fill me with the joy of Your presence, O Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may the heavenly banquet of
which we have partaken sanctify us, free us of all error, and make us
worthy of Your promise of heaven. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINTS PERPETUA & FELICITAS</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span>We
have been filled with spiritual gifts and joy, O Lord. May we always
profit spiritually from the service we perform here on earth, through
the intercession of Your holy martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas. Through
Our Lord . . .</span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Almighty God, may we who seek the
help of Your protection be delivered from all evil, to serve You with
untroubled minds. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-3680933559389829312024-03-05T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-05T00:30:00.298-05:00TUESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>SIMPLE / PURPLE</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span>The
point at which we most quickly become Pharisees is in refusing
forgiveness. Failing often in greater or lesser ways, everyone must
constantly ask forgiveness of God and men. Besides, the duty of
forgiveness is binding upon all souls, and in regard to all. Only when
fraternal correction fails and the common good requires, does authority
step in to heal the damage of scandal by corrective action. Everyone
else must forgive and love and keep strong the bond of brotherhood.
United in love and worship, especially at Mass and Holy Communion, we
are one in Christ and sure to be heard by His Father when we pray.</span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><br />INTROIT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 16:6, 8</span>)</span></span><span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">I cry to You, for You will answer me, O
God. Incline Your ear and hear my words. Keep me as the apple of Your
eye, O Lord; protect me under the shadow of Your wings.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Ps. 16:1.</span> Hear, O Lord, a just cause; hearken to my supplication. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />V</span>. Glory be . . .</span></span> <span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Almighty and merciful God, hear our
prayers, and in Your kindness grant us Your grace as a result of our
self-denial. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span> <span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">In those days, a certain woman of the
wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: "Thy servant, my
husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared
God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve
him." And Eliseus said to her: "What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell
me, what hast thou in thy house?" And she answered: "I, thy handmaid,
have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me." And he said to
her: "Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few. And go
in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out
thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them
away."</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">So the woman went, and shut the door
upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she
poured in. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: "Bring
me yet a vessel." And he answered: "I have no more." And the oil stood.
And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: "Go, sell the oil,
and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest."</span></span> <span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 18:13-14</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleanse me from my hidden faults, O Lord, and spare Your servant from those of others. <span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. If they be not master of me, then I shall be blameless, and I shall be free of the most serious sin.</span></span> <span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Matt. 18:15-22</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: </span></span> <span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"But
if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between
thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.
And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in
the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. And if he will
not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let
him be to thee as the heathen and publican. Amen I say to you,
whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven: and
whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven. </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Again
I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning
anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my
Father who is in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered
together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Then came Peter unto him and said:
"Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him?
till seven times?" Jesus saith to him: </span></span> <span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times."</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 117:16-17</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The right hand of the Lord has
exercised power, the right hand of the Lord has lifted me up. I shall
not die, but live,and declare the works of the Lord.</span></span> <span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET </span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may this Sacrament bestow on us
the effects of redemption by restraining our human passions and
bringing us always closer to our salvation. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span> <span></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 14:1-2</span>)</span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lord, who shall abide in Your dwelling place? Who shall dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks blamelessly and does justice.</span></span> <span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION </span></span> <span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, cleanse us by this sacred Rite and grant us Your pardon and grace. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span> <span></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, shield us by Your protection and keep us always from committing sin. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-77681583609362945012024-03-04T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-04T00:30:00.327-05:00Monday of the Third Week of Lent; Saint Casimir (1484 A.D.); Saint Lucius I (254 A.D.)<p> </p><div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><span>SIMPLE / PURPLE<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">God
will not force His grace upon anyone. He insists only that every person
accept His ordinary channels of grace: the Sacraments, sacramentals,
people, circumstances, events, things. When a man does not believe in
God's power to use anything or anybody as His instrument, God gives His
grace to other men who do so believe. To disbelieve, and to reject God's
way and time for answering prayer, is to be like the Nazarene's who
rejected Christ. Souls in mission lands, as well as thousands
everywhere, await the faith to see God at work in everything, especially
through the Sacraments and the Mass.</span><br /><br />INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 55:5</span><br />Through
God I will glory in this word, through the Lord I will praise this
speech: in God I trust, and I will not fear what man can do to me.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 55:2. </span>Have pity on me, O God, for men trample upon me; all the day they press their attack against me.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br /><br />COLLECT<br />O
Lord, mercifully fill our hearts with Your grace. We mortify our bodies
by abstaining from food; may we also guard our senses from the danger
of unbridled pleasures. Through Our Lord . . .</span></b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span><br /><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT CASIMIR<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Amid
the luxuries of court life in 15th-century Poland, Prince Casimir
managed to practice heroic virtue. Such was his love of the needy that
the Polish people called him "the father and defender of the poor and
unfortunate." He would neither break his vow of celibacy for marriage,
nor accept the proffered throne of Hungary--much to the displeasure of
his father, King Casimir IV. He also refused to bear arms, believing
resolutely in the folly of war among Christians, and is thus referred to
as the "Peacemaker." Devoting his days to contemplation and charity, he
died at 23. "Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long
time, for his soul pleased God"</span> (Wisdom 4:13,14).<br /><br />O God,
You strengthened blessed Casimir to persevere in virtue even among royal
surroundings and worldly pleasures. May all Your faithful despise
earthly things and seek those of heaven through the intercession of this
saint.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT LUCIUS<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Pope
Lucius I was a true shepherd of his flock during a time of violent
persecution. He laid down his life for Christ in the year 254.</span><br /><br />O
Eternal Shepherd, who appointed blessed Lucius shepherd of the whole
Church, let the prayers of this martyr and supreme pontiff move You to
look with favor upon Your flock and to keep it under Your continual
protection. Through our Lord . . .</span></b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />LESSON<span style="font-style: italic;"> IV Kings 5:1-15 [2 Kings]</span><br />In
those days, Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave
deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.<br />Now
there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of
the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's wife.
And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet
that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy
which he hath.<br />Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying:
Thus and thus said the girl from the land of Israel. And the king of
Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.
And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six
thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment; And brought the
letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When thou shalt receive
this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman, my servant, that thou
mayst heal him of his leprosy.<br />And when the king of Israel had read
the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill
and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his
leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.<br />And when
Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel
had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy
garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet
in Israel.<br />So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at
the door of the house of Eliseus: And Eliseus sent a messenger to him,
saying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall
recover health, and thou shalt be clean. Naaman was angry, and went
away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing,
would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his
hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me. Are not the Abana, and the
Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel,
that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was
going away with indignation, His servants came to him, and said to him:
Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou
shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee:
Wash, and thou shalt be clean?<br />Then he went down, and washed in the
Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his
flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child: and he was made
clean. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and
stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in
all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a
blessing of thy servant.<br /><br />GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 55:9 2</span><br />O God, I have recounted my life to You; You have placed my tears before You.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Have pity on me, O God, for men trample upon me; all the day they press their attack against me.<br /><br />TRACT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span><br />O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. <span style="font-style: italic;">(All kneel.)</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name. O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your name's sake.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Luke 4:23-30</span><br />At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees: <span style="color: red;">"Doubtless
you will say to me this similitude: 'Physician, heal thyself. As great
things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own
country.' "</span> And he said: <span style="color: red;">"Amen
I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country. In truth I
say to You, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when
heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great
famine throughout all the earth. And to none of them was Elias sent, but
to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman. And there were many lepers in
Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed
but Naaman the Syrian." </span><br />And all they in the synagogue,
hearing these things, were filled with anger. And they rose up and
thrust him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill
whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.<br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 54:2-3</span><br />Hearken, O Lord, to my prayer and turn not away from my pleading; give heed to me, and answer me.<br /><br />SECRET<br />O Lord, transform this gift we offer You in worship into the Sacrament of our salvation. Through Our Lord . . .</span></b><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT CASIMIR<br />We
offer You, O Lord, this Sacrifice of praise in memory of Your saints.
Free us from evil now and in the future through their intercession.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT LUCIUS<br />We
have offered our gifts to You, O Lord. Let Your light graciously shine
upon Your Church, so that this flock may everywhere prosper, and its
pastors, under Your guidance, may be truly pleasing to You. Through our
Lord . . .</span></b><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 13:7</span><br />Who
shall bring out of Sion the salvation of Israel? When the Lord shall
have restored His people from captivity, then shall Jacob rejoice and
Israel be glad.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />Almighty and merciful God, may we cherish with our hearts the Sacrament we have received with our lips. Through Our Lord . . </span></b><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT CASIMIR<br />Refreshed
with heavenly Food and Drink we humbly pray You, our God, that we may
be strengthened by the prayers of Your saint, in whose memory we have
received this Sacrament.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Commemoration of</span> SAINT LUCIUS<br />O
Lord, govern the Church, which You have been pleased to nourish with
Your heavenly Food. Guide her by Your powerful direction, so that she
may enjoy greater freedom and remain unshaken in the fullness of faith.
Through our Lord . . .</span></b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O
Lord, aid us by Your mercy. Protect us from the dangers that threaten
us because of our sins, and lead us to salvation. Through our Lord . . .</span></b></span></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-10981184508700370402024-03-03T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-03T00:30:00.309-05:00THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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we worship Jesus as the Prince of Light, the "stronger" One, who casts
out a devil, defends His authority over the whole kingdom of devils, and
demands that we declare our allegiance to Him. Loyalty is in our very
blood because God put it there; it is meant to hold us firm when truant
desires tempt us. Loyalties reveal where we have put our securities.
False loyalties can be given to lofty ideals as well as to earthly
pleasures. As "children of the light," be wise. "Hear the word of God
and keep it." Above everything, be loyal as love. "Walk in love."<br /><span><br /></span></span><b>INTROIT</b><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> (Ps. 24:15-16)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">My
eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He shall free my feet from the
snare. Look upon me, and have pity on me, for I am alone and wretched. <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 24:1-2</span>. I have lifted up my soul to You, O my God; in You I place my trust. Let me not be put to shame.<span style="font-style: italic;"> V</span>. Glory be . . .</span><br /><br /><b>COLLECT</b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Almighty God, fulfill the petitions of the humble; and defend us with Your right hand of power. Through</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">READING (<span style="font-style: italic;">Eph. 5:1-9</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brethren:
Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: And walk in
love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an
oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But
fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as
be named among you, as becometh saints: Or obscenity or foolish talking
or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks. For
know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous
person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because
of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.
Be ye not therefore partakers with them. For you were heretofore
darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.
For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 9:20, 4</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arise,
O Lord, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your
presence. V. When my enemies shall be turned back, they shall be
weakened and destroyed before you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 122:1-3</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To You who are enthroned in heaven, have I lifted up my eyes. <span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters. <span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. And as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress, so are our eyes on the Lord, our God, until He have pity on us. <span style="font-style: italic;">V.</span> Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL (<span style="font-style: italic;">Luke 11:14-28</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">At
that time, Jesus was casting out a devil: and the same was dumb. And
when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes, were
in admiration at it. But some of them said: "He casteth out devils by
Beelzebub, the prince of devils." And others tempting, asked of him a
sign from heaven. But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Every
kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and
house upon house shall fall. And if Satan also be divided against
himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because you say that through
Beelzebub I cast out devils. Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by
whom do your children cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your
judges. But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, doubtless the
kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his
court, those things are in peace which he possesseth. But if a stronger
than he come upon him and overcome him, he will take away all his armour
wherein he trusted and will distribute his spoils. He that is not with
me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. When the
unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without
water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my
house whence I came out. And when he is come, he findeth it swept and
garnished. Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more
wicked than himself: and entering in they dwell there. And the last
state of that man becomes worse than the first."</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And
it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the
crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: "Blessed is the womb that bore
thee and the paps that gave thee suck." But he said: </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it."</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">CREED <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY HYMN</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> ( Ps. 18:9, 10, 11, 12)</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The
precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart, and His judgments
are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb; for Your servant observes
them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET PRAYER</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">May
this offering cleanse us from our sins, O Lord, and may it sanctify
Your servants in body and soul for the celebration of this sacrifice.
Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION HYMN (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 83:4-5</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The
sparrow has found herself a home, and the turtledove a nest in which to
lay her young -- Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God!
Blessed are they who dwell in Your house; they shall praise You forever
and ever.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION PRAYER</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
God, You have allowed us to share in this great Sacrament. In Your
mercy free us also from all guilt and danger of sin. Through Our Lord . .
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"I show favors to whom I will. . . . I grant mercy to whom I will" </span><span>(Ex. 33:19).<span style="font-style: italic;">
God's mercy to sinners seems to be governed principally by two things:
His infinite love for each person and His quick response to genuine
sorrow and humility. God, in fact, tenders the very grace that brings a
sinner back to Him, "giving wisdom to little ones." The important thing
is to become the humble little one, the dependent child before God. Do
that, and Heaven and earth are yours for the asking.</span></span><br />
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INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 16:8</span><br />
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls. The testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 18:2</span>. The heavens show forth the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br />
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O Lord, may our fasting attain its saving effect so that the
mortification of our bodies may bring a new life to our souls. Through
Our Lord . . .</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br />
</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Commemoration of </i>SAINT CHAD</span><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: bold;">St. Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, was a
disciple of St. Aidan. He traveled over Ireland and Britain, seeking to
spread everywhere the knowledge and charity of Christ. His
characteristic virtue was his boundless charity to the poor. He died,
A.D. 672.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Almighty and everlasting God who dost
gladden us on this, day's feastday of blessed Chad, Thy Confessor and
Bishop, we humbly implore Thy clemency, that we, who by this devout
office venerate his Feast, may by his loving support, obtain the
remedies of eternal life. Through our Lord . . . <br /></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> </b></span><span><br /></span>
LESSON <span style="font-style: italic;">Gen. 27:6-40</span><br />
In those days Rebecca said to her son Jacob: "I heard thy father talking
with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him: 'Bring me of thy hunting,
and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the
Lord, before I die.' Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel: And go
thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of
them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth. Which when thou hast
brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die." And he
answered her: "Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I
am smooth: If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he
will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse
instead of a blessing." And his mother said to him: "Upon me be this
curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things
which I have said."<br />
He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats,
such as she knew his father liked. And she put on him very good garments
of Esau, which she had at home with her: And the little skins of the
kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck. And she
gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.
Which when he had carried in, he said: "My father?" But he answered: "I
hear. Who art thou, my son?" And Jacob said: "I am Esau, thy firstborn: I
have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison,
that thy soul may bless me." And Isaac said to his son: "How couldst
thou find it so quickly, my son?" He answered: "It was the will of God,
that what I sought came quickly in my way:" And Isaac said: "Come
hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my
son Esau, or no." He came near to his father, and when he had felt him,
Isaac said: "The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are
the hands of Esau." And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made
him like to the elder.<br />
Then blessing him, He said: "Art thou my son Esau?" He answered: "I am."
Then he said: "Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul
may bless thee." And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he
offered him wine also, which after he had drunk, He said to him: "Come
near me, and give me a kiss, my son." He came near, and kissed him. And
immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing
him, he said: "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a
plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed. God give thee of the dew
of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.
And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy
brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be
he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with
blessings."<br />
Isaac had scarce ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out abroad,
Esau came, And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had
taken in hunting, saying: "Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's
venison; that thy soul may bless me." And Isaac said to him: "Why! who
art thou?" He answered: "I am thy firstborn son, Esau." Isaac was struck
with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and wondering beyond what can be
believed, said: "Who is he then that even now brought me venison that
he had taken, and I ate of all before thou camest? and I have blessed
him, and he shall be blessed."<br />
Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry; and,
being in a consternation, said: "Bless me also, my father." And he said:
"Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing." But he said again:
"Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this
second time: My birthright he took away before, and now this second time
he hath stolen away my blessing." And again he said to his father:
"Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?" Isaac answered: "I have
appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I
have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do
more for thee, my son?" And Esau said to him: "Hast thou only one
blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also." And when he wept with a
loud cry, Isaac being moved, said to him: "In the fat of the earth, and
in the dew of heaven from above,<br />
Shall thy blessing be."<br />
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GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 91:2-3</span><br />
It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing to Your name, O Most High.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. To proclaim Your mercy in the morning and Your truth throughout the night.<br />
<br />
GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Luke 15:11-32</span><br />
At that time, Jesus spoke to the Pharisees and Scribes this parable: <span style="color: red;">"A
certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father:
'Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me.' And he
divided unto them his substance. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">"And not many days after, the younger son,
gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted
his substance, living riotously. And after he had spent all, there came
a mighty famine in that country: and he began to be in want. And he
went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him
into his farm to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly
with the husks the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And
returning to himself, he said: 'How many hired servants in my father's
house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger! I will arise and
will go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against
heaven and before thee. I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as
one of thy hired servants.' And rising up, he came to his father. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">"And when he was yet a great way off, his
father saw him and was moved with compassion and running to him fell
upon his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him: 'Father: I have
sinned against heaven and before thee I am not now worthy to be called
thy son.' And the father said to his servants: 'Bring forth quickly the
first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on
his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat
and make merry: Because this my son was dead and is come to life again,
was lost and is found.' And they began to be merry. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">"Now his elder son was in the field and when
he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he
called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he
said to him: 'Thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted
calf, because he hath received him safe.' And he was angry and would not
go in. His father therefore coming out began to entreat him. And he
answering, said to his father: 'Behold, for so many years do I serve
thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast
never given me a kid to make merry with my friends. But as soon as this
thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast
killed for him the fatted calf.' But he said to him: 'Son, thou art
always with me; and all I have is thine. But it was fit that we should
make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead and is come to
life again; he was lost, and is found.' " </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 12:4-5</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Give light to my eyes that I may never sleep in death, that my enemy may never say, "I have overcome him."</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">SECRET</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, be appeased by this Sacrifice.
We seek forgiveness for our own sins; let us not be burdened with the
sins of others. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Commemoration of </i>SAINT CHAD</span></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Be
propitious unto our supplications, we beseech Thee, O Lord, and through
the intercession of blessed Chad, Thy Confessor and Bishop, grant that
we who serve the altar of Thy heavenly Sacraments, may be free from all
sin, that by Thy purifying grace we may be renewed by the very Mysteries
which we serve. Through our Lord . . . </span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br /><span>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Luke 15:32</span><br />You ought to rejoice, my son, for your brother was dead, and has come to life; he was lost, and is found.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />May
this sacramental libation of Your Sacrament fill our hearts, O Lord,
and impart its own strength to us. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Commemoration of </i>SAINT CHAD</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vouchsafe,
we beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that being cleansed by the divine
Mysteries, we may, by the intercession of blessed Chad, Thy Confessor
and Bishop, progress towards the fullness of that heavenly Sacrament in
which we have shared. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O Lord, watch
over Your household with constant, loving care. Let Your protection
forever shield those who place their trust solely upon the hope of Your
heavenly grace. Through our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>BLESSED CHARLES THE GOOD</b></span></span></div>
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<b>Martyr (1124 A.D.)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>[Historical]<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Charles was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark">Denmark</a>, only son of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_IV_of_Denmark" title="Canute IV of Denmark">King Canute IV</a> (Saint Canute) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_of_Flanders">Adela of Flanders</a>. His father was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassinated</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odense_Cathedral" title="Odense Cathedral">Odense Cathedral</a> in 1086, and Adela fled back to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flanders</a>, taking the very young Charles with her. Charles grew up at the comital court of his grandfather <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I_of_Flanders" title="Robert I of Flanders">Robert I</a> and uncle <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_II_of_Flanders" title="Robert II of Flanders">Robert II</a>. In 1092 Adela went to southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy">Italy</a> to marry <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Borsa">Roger Borsa</a>, duke of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apulia">Apulia</a>, leaving Charles in Flanders.</b><br />
<b>In 1111 Robert II died, and Charles' cousin <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_VII_of_Flanders" title="Baldwin VII of Flanders">Baldwin VII</a>
became count. Charles was a close advisor to the new count (who was
several years younger), who around 1118 arranged Charles' marriage to
the heiress of the count of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiens">Amiens</a>, Margaret of Clermont. The childless count Baldwin was wounded fighting for the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_France" title="King of France">king of France</a> in September 1118, and he designated Charles as his successor before he died on the 19th of July 1119.</b><br />
<b>Charles was noted for his kindness and generosity towards the poor,
and during a time of famine he distributed bread to them. He also took
action to prevent grain from being hoarded and sold at excessively
high prices. Prodded by his advisors, he also began proceedings to
reduce the influential Erembald family, which was heavily engaged in
this activity, to the status of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfs" title="Serfs">serfs</a>. As a result, Fr. Bertulf FitzErembald, provost of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Donatian%27s_Cathedral" title="St Donatian's Cathedral">church of St. Donatian</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I,_Count_of_Flanders#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> the most important church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges">Bruges</a>, masterminded a conspiracy to assassinate Charles and his advisors.</b><br />
<b>On the morning of March 2, 1127, as Charles knelt in prayer in the
church of St. Donatian, a group of knights answering to the Erembald
family entered the church and hacked him to death with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming_sword" title="Arming sword">broadswords</a>.
The brutal and sacrilegious murder of the popular count provoked a
massive public outrage, and he was almost immediately regarded popularly
as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr">martyr</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint">saint</a>, although not formally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatification" title="Beatification">beatified</a> until 1884.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I,_Count_of_Flanders#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup></b><br />
<b>The Erembalds, who had planned and carried out the murder of
Charles, were arrested and tortured to death by the enraged nobles and
commoners of Bruges and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent">Ghent</a>. King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_VI_of_France">Louis VI of France</a>, who had supported the revolt against the Erembalds, used his influence to select his own candidate, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clito">William Clito</a>, as the next Count of Flanders.</b></span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></p>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-8357477486701361962024-03-01T00:30:00.003-05:002024-03-01T00:30:00.156-05:00FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT; SAINT DAVID OF WALES (601 A.D.)<p style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/SbnPZS1V1KI/AAAAAAAAOBg/X6vNTZD9GAg/s1600-h/matt21.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312505268919456930" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/SbnPZS1V1KI/AAAAAAAAOBg/X6vNTZD9GAg/s400/matt21.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 246px;" /></a><br /></span></b>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span>FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1FvHH2fiHnM/TWwY50WrXUI/AAAAAAAAUrs/MCgSlO0d6S0/s320/saint-david-of-wales-00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="320" height="277" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1FvHH2fiHnM/TWwY50WrXUI/AAAAAAAAUrs/MCgSlO0d6S0/s320/saint-david-of-wales-00.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">[Commemoration]</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">[Wikimedia.org image]</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 30px;">ST. DAVID OF WALES </span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></div><div>
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</span><span style="font-size: medium;">SIMPLE / PURPLE<br /></span></b>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Souls
are bought dearly. They never come cheaply. There is always enough
human weakness and malice at hand to blind men to the need of
repentance. The same forces oppose, even violently at times, any attempt
to change people. Envy is sometimes the reason for the opposition, as
in the cases of Joseph and Jesus.</span><span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">If
consistent Christian integrity and a zealous apostolate seem
unreasonably difficult, a meditation on the crucifix should recall that
the death of the God-man was not considered too high a price to pay for
the redemption and winning of souls.</span><span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />
INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 16:15</span><br />
But I shall appear before you in justice; I shall be content when your glory shall be made manifest.<br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 16:1.</span><span> Hear, O Lord, a just cause; hearken to my supplication.<br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span><span>. Glory be . . .<br /></span></b></span>
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COLLECT<br />
O Almighty God, cleanse us by this holy fast, so that we may celebrate the coming feast with pure hearts. Through our Lord . . .</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT DAVID</span></b><br /></span>
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<i><span>Born to the <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-wales" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Welsh</a> royalty, the son of <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-kings" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">King</a> Sandde, <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-prince" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Prince</a> of Powys, and of <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saints" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Saint</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saint-non" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Non</a>, the daughter of a chieftain of Menevia (western <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-wales" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Wales</a>). Grandson of Ceredig, <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-princes" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Prince</a> of Cardigan. </span></i></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span>Uncle of <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-kings" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">King</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/king-arthur" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Arthur</a>. <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-priests" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Priest</a>. <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-students" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Studied</a> under <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saints" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Saint</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saint-paul-aurelian" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Paul Aurelian</a>. Worked with <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saints" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Saint</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saint-columbanus" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Columbanus</a>, <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saints" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Saint</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saintg31.htm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Gildas the Wise</a>, and <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saints" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Saint</a> Finnigan. <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-missionaries" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Missionary</a> and founder of <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/monastery" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">monasteries</a>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span>Following his contribution to the synod of Brevi in Cardiganshire, he was chosen <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/primate" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">primate</a> of the Cambrian Church. <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/archbishop" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Archbishop</a>of <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd01545.htm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Caerleon</a> on Usk, he moved the see to <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/diocese-of-menevia-wales" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Menevia</a>. Presided at the Synod of Brefi which condemned the <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/pelagianism" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Pelagian</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/heresy" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">heresy</a>. Encouraged and founded <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/monastery" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">monasteries</a>. First to build a <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/chancel" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">chancel</a> to <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saints" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Saint</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/saint-joseph-of-arimathea" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Joseph of Arimathea</a>‘s wattle church at Glastonbury.</span></i></div>
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<i><span>After a vision in his <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/monastery" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">monastery</a> in the Rhos Valley, he set out next day with two <a class="score-0" href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-monks" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">monks</a> to <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/jerusalem" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Jerusalem</a> to aid the Patriarch. While there his <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-preachers" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">preaching</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-converts" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">converted</a> <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/anti-" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">anti</a>-<a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/christianity" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">Christians</a>. Legend says that once while he was <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-preachers" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">preaching</a>, a <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-doves" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">dove</a> descended
to his shoulder to show he had the blessings of the Spirit, and that
the earth rose to lift him high above the people so that he could be
heard by them all. Another time when was <a href="http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-david-of-wales/patrons-of-preachers" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #225588; text-decoration: none;">preaching</a> to
a crowd at Llandewi Brefi, people on the outer edges could not hear, so
he spread a handkerchief on the ground, stood on it, and the ground
beneath rose up in a pillar so all could hear.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial", "tahoma", "helvetica", "freesans", sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span><b>Grant,
we entreat Thee, almighty God, that the loving intercession of blessed
David, Thy Confessor and Bishop, might ever protect us, and that while
we keep his feast we may also imitate his perseverance in defending the
Catholic Faith. Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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LESSON <span style="font-style: italic;">Gen. 37:6-22</span><br />
In those days, Joseph said to his brethren, "Hear my dream which I
dreamed. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf
arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down
before my sheaf." His brethren answered: "Shalt thou be our king? or
shall we be subject to thy dominion?" Therefore this matter of his
dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.<br />
He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: "I
saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars
worshipping me." And when he had told this to his father, and brethren,
his father rebuked him and said: "What meaneth this dream that thou hast
dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the
earth?" His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered
the thing with himself.<br />
And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father's flocks,
Israel said to him: "Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will
send thee to them." And when he answered: "I am ready:" he said to him:
"Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle:
and bring me word again what is doing." So being sent from the vale of
Hebron, he came to Sichem:<br />
And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he
sought. But he answered: "I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed
the flocks." And the man said to him: "They are departed from this
place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain." And Joseph went
forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.<br />
And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought
to kill him: And said one to another: "Behold the dreamer cometh. Come,
let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: 'Some
evil beast hath devoured him:' and then it shall appear what his dreams
avail him:" And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of
their hands, and said: "Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood:
but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your
hands harmless": now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of
their hands and to restore him to his father.<br /></span></b></span>
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GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 119:1-2</span><br />
In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me.<br />
V. O Lord, deliver me from lying lips and from a treacherous tongue.<br /></span></b></span>
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TRACT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span><br />
O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities.<br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span><span>.
O Lord, remember not our iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come
quickly to us, for we are being brought very low. (All kneel.)<br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span><span>. Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name. O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your name's sake.<br /></span></b></span>
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GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Matt. 21:33-46</span><br />
At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to the multitude of the Jews and the chief priests, <span style="color: red;"><span color="rgb(255 , 0 , 0)">"There
was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge
round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to
husbandmen and went into a strange country. And when the time of the
fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might
receive the fruits thereof. And the husbandmen laying hands on his
servants, beat one and killed another and stoned another. Again he sent
other servants, more than the former; and they did to them in like
manner. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: 'They will
reverence my son.' But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among
themselves: 'This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have
his inheritance.' And taking him, they cast him forth out of the
vineyard and killed him. </span></span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span color="rgb(255 , 0 , 0)">"When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen?"</span> </span><span>They
say to him: "He will bring those evil men to an evil end and let out
his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit in due
season." Jesus saith to them: <span style="color: red;"><span color="rgb(255 , 0 , 0)">"Have
you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders
rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this
has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.' </span></span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span color="rgb(255 , 0 , 0)">"Therefore
I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall
be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall
fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it
shall grind him to powder." </span></span><span><br />
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they
knew that he spoke of them. And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared
the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.<br /></span></b></span>
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OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 39:14, 15</span><br />
Look down, O Lord, to help me. Let them be put to shame and confusion
who seek to snatch away my life. Look down, O Lord, to help me.<br /></span></b></span>
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SECRET<br />
O God, may this sacrifice remain in us, and may it increase the good effect it has accomplished. Through our Lord . . .</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><span><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT DAVID</span></b></b></span></b></span><br /><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span>May Thy Saints, we beseech Thee, O Lord, in all places bring us joy,
that while we recall their merits, we may experience their patronage.
Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 11:8</span><br />
O Lord, You will keep us, and preserve us always from this generation.<br /></span></b></span>
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POSTCOMMUNION<br />
O Lord, may our lives always be guided by this promise of eternal
salvation, so that we may eventually attain our goal. Through our Lord .
. .</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><b><span><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT DAVID</span></b></b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><b><span><b>Grant,
we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who give thanks for the
gifts that we have received, may through the intercession of blessed
David, Thy Confessor and Bishop, obtain still greater blessings.
Through our Lord . . . </b> </span></b> </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />
O Lord, grant Your people health of soul and body. May we be fervent in
doing good and so deserve to be protected by Your mighty power. Through
our Lord . . .</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span></b></span></div><div><br /></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-10843207209062349062024-02-29T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-29T00:30:00.253-05:00THURSDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT; SAINT OSWALD (992 A.D.)<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span><span>Bishop, Confessor</span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>SIMPLE / PURPLE</b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>The natural joys and comforts of life are blessings from God. Kept
within limits, they help men to bear life's burdens and to do God's
will. But where pleasure-seeking dominates life, a man becomes his own
worst enemy; God and eternity seem unreal, hardly worth the bother.
There is little thought of God's poor or of the world's sufferers. Lent
recalls everyone to the wisdom of restraint in all pleasure. Trust
rather in God for eternity's happiness.</i><br /> </b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 69:2-3</span><br />O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let my enemies who seek my life be put to shame and confounded.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 69:4.</span> Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br /><br />COLLECT<br />O
Lord, help us by Your grace to be diligent in fasting and prayer, that
we may be shielded against the enemies of our soul and body. Through our
Lord . . .</b><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT OSWALD </b><br />
<i><b>St. Oswald, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, England,
seconded to St. Dunstan in his efforts to reform monastic discipline and
to restore the Christian religion to England. He fell asleep in the
peace of Christ on February 29, A.D. 992.</b></i><br />
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<b>Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the solemn feast of
blessed Oswald, Thy Confessor and Bishop, may both increase our devotion
and advance our salvation. Through our Lord . . .</b>
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saith the Lord: "Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh
flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be
like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come:
but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not
inhabited.<br />"Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the
Lord shall be his confidence. And he shall be as a tree that is planted
by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it
shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be
green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither
shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.<br />"The heart is
perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it? I am the
Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one
according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices."<br /><br />GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 78:9-10</span><br />Pardon us our sins, O Lord, lest the nations ever say, "Where is their God?"<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Help us, O God our Saviour, and for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Luke 16:19-31</span><br />At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees, <span style="color: red;">"There
was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and
feasted sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named
Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, Desiring to be filled with
the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him:
moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. "And it came to pass that
the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And
the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. And lifting up his
eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his
bosom: And he cried and said: 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me and
send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my
tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.' And Abraham said to him:
'Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and
likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art
tormented. And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a
great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor
from thence come hither.' And he said: 'Then, father, I beseech thee
that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five
brethren, That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this
place of torments.' And Abraham said to him: 'They have Moses and the
prophets. Let them hear them.' But he said: 'No, father Abraham: but if
one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.' And he said to
him: 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they
believe, if one rise again from the dead.' "</span><br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ex. 32:11, 13-14</span><br />Moses
prayed before the Lord his God, saying, "Why, O Lord, should Your wrath
blaze up against Your own people? Let Your anger die down. Remember
Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, and how You swore to give them a land flowing
with milk and honey." And the Lord relented in the punishment He had
threatened to inflict on His people.<br /><br />SECRET<br />O Lord, may the
fast we observe in Your name sanctify us through this Sacrifice, so that
our acts of penance may accomplish within us the effects they outwardly
signify. Through our Lord . . .</b><br /></span>
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May Thy Saints, we beseech Thee, O Lord, in all places bring us joy,
that while we recall their merits, we may experience their patronage.
Through our Lord . . .</b></span></span></p></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">John 6:57</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"He who eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, abides in me and I in him," said the Lord.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />Let
us not be wanting of Your grace, O Lord. May it fire us with devotion
to Your service and bring us Your assistance. Through our Lord . . .</b><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> SAINT OSWALD </b><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who give thanks for the
gifts that we have received, may through the intercession of blessed
Oswald, Thy Confessor and Bishop, obtain still greater blessings.
Through our Lord . . . </b></span></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE<br />O
Lord, come to the assistance of Your servants and be merciful to those
who implore Your mercy. Bind up the wounds of sin in those who glory in
You as their creator and ruler, and keep them whole and sinless. Through
our Lord . . .</b></span>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-2665541600775964192024-02-28T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-28T00:30:00.144-05:00Wednesday of the Second Week in Lent, Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows<p> </p><div class="post-header">
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[COMMEMORATION]</span></i></b></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">SAINT GABRIEL OF<br />
OUR LADY OF SORROWS</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 37:22-23</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Forsake me not, O Lord, my God; be not far from me! Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 37:2.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Rebuke me not in Your anger, O Lord, and chastise me not in Your wrath.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. Glory be . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, look mercifully upon Your
people. We abstain from food at Your command; may we also turn away from
the spiritual poison of sin. Through our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><em><strong>Gabriel
Possenti (1838-62), the son of a distinguished Italian lawyer, entered
the novitiate of the Passionist Fathers, receiving in religion the name
of Brother Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. The story of the remaining
six years of this young saint's life is largely a record of an
extraordinary effort to attain spiritual perfection in small things, but
his devotion to Mary was exceptional. Pope Leo XIII said of him:
"Because of his filial love for Mary at the foot of the cross, he
deserves to take his place by St. John, the beloved disciple, to whom
Jesus in His dying hour commended His Mother."</strong></em></span></strong></span></div>
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God, You taught blessed Gabriel to meditate constantly on the sorrows
of Your most sweet Mother, and You exalted him by glorious virtues and
miracles. Through his prayers and example may we share the sorrows of
Your Mother and come to eternal life under Her motherly care; who lives
and rules with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God
forever and ever.</strong></span></strong></em></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Esther 13:8-11; 15-17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">But Mardochai besought the Lord,
remembering all his works, And said: "O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for
all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will,
if thou determine to save Israel. Thou hast made heaven and earth and
all things that are under the cope of heaven. Thou art Lord of all, and
there is none that can resist thy majesty. And now, O Lord, O king, O
God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve
to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance. Despise not thy portion,
which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt. Hear my
supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn our
mourning into joy, that we may live and praise thy name, O Lord, and
shut not the mouths of them that sing to thee."</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 27:9, 1</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Save Your people, O Lord, and bless Your inheritance.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">V</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. To You, O Lord my God, I cry; be not deaf to me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 102:10; 78:8-9</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. O Lord, remember not our
iniquities of the past; let Your mercy come quickly to us, for we are
being brought very low. (All kneel.)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Help us, O God our Savior, and for the glory of Your name. O Lord, deliver us; and pardon us our sins for Your name's sake. </span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Matt. 20:17-28</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At that time. as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart and said to them: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Behold
we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the
chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn him to death. And
shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and
crucified: and the third day he shall rise again."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him. Who said to her: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"What wilt thou?"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> She
saith to him: "say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy
right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom." And Jesus
answering, said: </span>They say to him: "We can." He saith to them: <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"You
know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall
drink?""My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or
left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is
prepared by my Father."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And the ten, hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren. But Jesus called them to him and said: </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"You
know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they
that are the greater, exercise power upon them. It shall not be so
among you: but whosoever is the greater among you, let him be your
minister. And he that will be first among you shall be your servant.
Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to
minister and to give his life a redemption for many."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFERTORY ANTIPHON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 24:1-3</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have lifted up my soul to You, O
Lord; in You, O my God, I place my trust. Let me not be put to shame,
nor let my enemies exalt over me. No one who waits for You shall be left
in confusion.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, look with favor upon the
sacrifices we offer You. May this holy exchange of gifts free us from
the bondage of our sins. Through our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>We
offer You, O Lord, this life-giving sacrifice in memory of blessed
Gabriel. make us always remember the sacrifice of Your death, and let us
share in the abundant effects of that sacrifice through the merits of
the sorrowing Virgin; who lives and rules with God the Father . . .</strong></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ps. 10:8</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Lord is just, and He has loved justice; the upright shall see His face.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may the reception of Your Sacrament bring us ever nearer to our eternal redemption. Through our Lord . . .</span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>O
Lord, on this feast of Your holy confessor Gabriel, we give thanks for
all we have received from You. Graciously accept our gratitude through
the hands of the glorious Ever-Virgin Mary, from whom You took
flesh--the same flesh that we have received in this Banquet of
Salvation; who lives and rules with God the Father . . .</strong></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O God, You love innocence and have
restored it to us. Turn the hearts of Your people towards Yourself. Set
them on fire with Your Spirit, that they may be firm in faith and
zealous in virtues. Through our Lord . . .</span></span>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-88182720581223816392024-02-27T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-27T00:30:00.142-05:00TUESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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clear will of God is the light and the salvation of all men. No one can
desire anything good unless God desires it. Even the best of
intentions, even seemingly worthy projects, are no good if they are not
God's will at the moment. Distress, suffering, even death, can be
accepted as His mysterious will. His creative love is always at work
drawing the greatest possible good out of everything. Be the humble
servant of God's will and you will be truly wise and always at peace.</i><br /> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 26:8, 9</span><br />My heart has spoken to You; I have sought You. Your presence, O Lord, I will still seek; hide not Your face from me.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 26:1. </span>The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear?<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .<br /><br />COLLECT<br />O
Lord, help us keep the holy lenten fast. Teach us our duties and assist
us with Your grace to perform them. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /><br /></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LESSON</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">III Kings 17:8-16 [I King 17:8-16]</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In
those days, the word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite, saying:
"Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have
commanded a widow woman there to feed thee."<br />He arose, and went to
Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow
woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: "Give me a
little water in a vessel, that I may drink." And when she was going to
fetch it, he called after her, saying: "Bring me also, I beseech thee, a
morsel of bread in thy hand." And she answered: "As the Lord thy God
liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a
little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go
in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die."<br />And
Elias said to her: "Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said but first
make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me,
and after make for thyself and thy son. For thus saith the Lord, the God
of Israel: 'The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be
diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face
of the earth.' "<br />She went, and did according to the word of Elias:
and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day The pot of meal
wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the
word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.<br /><br />GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 54:23, 17, 18, 19</span><br />Cast your care upon the Lord, and He will support you.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. When I called upon the Lord, He heard my voice and delivered me from those who war against me.<br /><br />GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Matt. 23:1-12</span><br />At that time Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, Saying: <span style="color: red;">"The
scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. All things
therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but
according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not. For they
bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders:
but with a finger of their own they will not move them. And all their
works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries
broad and enlarge their fringes. And they love the first places at
feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues, And salutations in the
market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi. But be not you called
Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you are brethren. And call none
your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. He that is
the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt
himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be
exalted."</span><br /><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 50:3</span><br />Have mercy on me, O Lord; in the greatness of Your compassion, O Lord, blot out my sinfulness.<br /><br />SECRET</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord, sanctify us by this sacred rite so that we may be cleansed from
earthly sinfulness and come to our eternal reward. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 9:2-3</span><br />I will declare all Your wondrous deeds; I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">POSTCOMMUNION</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, make us ever obedient to Your commandments so that we may be deserving of Your heavenly gifts. Through Our Lord . . .</span><br /><br /></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="post-body"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
Lord, be moved by our prayers and heal the sickness of our souls. Grant
us pardon for our sins and make us always joyous in Your blessings.
Through our Lord . . .</span></span></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-21834964801494254562024-02-26T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-26T00:30:00.170-05:00SAINT MATTHIAS, Apostle (transferred); Monday of the Second Week of Lent<p> </p><div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>After the Ascension of Jesus,
St. Peter proposed to the assembled faithful that they choose a
disciple of Christ to fill the place of the traitor Judas in the first
missionary band. Lots were drawn, with the result in favor of
Matthias. According to one ancient tradition, this missioner labored
in Ethiopia and was martyred there. Thus did <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Matthias" rel="wikipedia" title="Saint Matthias">St. Matthias</a> receive "the crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him"</i> (James 1:12).</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>INTROIT (<i>Ps. 138:17</i>)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Your friends are greatly honored by me, O God; their pre-eminence is definitely established.<br />
<i>Ps. 138:1</i>. O Lord, You have proved me and You know me; You know when I sit and when I stand.<br />
<i>V</i>. Glory be . . .</b></span></span></div><p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>GLORIA<br /></b>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>COLLECT</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>O God, You made blessed Matthias
one of the group of Your apostles. May his intercession enable us to
feel the effects of Your mercy. Through Our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> MONDAY 2nd WEEK OF LENT</b></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Almighty God, while Your servants
mortify their bodies by fasting, may they also follow after
righteousness and avoid sin. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>In those days Peter rising up in
the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together
was about an hundred and twenty): "Men, brethren, the scripture must
needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of
David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended
Jesus: Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this
ministry. And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of
iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his
bowels gushed out. And it became known to all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem: so that the same field was called in their tongue,
Haceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. For it is written in
the book of Psalms: 'Let their habitation become desolate, and let
there be none to dwell therein.' And 'His bishopric let another take.'<br />
" Wherefore of these men who have companied with us, all the time that
the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, Beginning from the
baptism of John, until the day wherein he was taken up from us, one of
these must be made a witness with us of his resurrection."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>And they appointed two, Joseph,
called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. And praying,
they said: "Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all men, shew whether
of these two thou hast chosen, To take the place of this ministry and
apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he
might go to his own place." And they gave them lot, and the lot fell
upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>GRADUAL (<i>Ps. 138:17-18</i>)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Your friends are greatly honored, O God; their pre-eminence is definitely established. <i><br />
V</i>. Were I to try to number them, they would be more numerous than the sands.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>You have granted him his heart's desire; You have not refused him the wish of his lips. <i><br />
V.</i> You have made him excel by Your choicest blessings.<br />
<i>V</i>. You have placed on his head a crown of precious stones.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>At that time Jesus answered and said: <span style="color: red;">"I
confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou
hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed
them to little ones. Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy
sight. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth
the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the
Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him. Come to me
all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up
my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of
heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and
my burden light."</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>You shall make them princes through all the land; they shall remember Your name, O Lord, in every generation and age.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>May Your blessed apostle Matthias
join his prayers to the sacrifice we offer to Your name, O Lord, so
that it may win Your pardon and protection for us. Through Our Lord . .
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, protect us through this sacrifice which we offer to atone for our sins and to give glory to You. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>O Almighty God, may our reception
of Your Holy Sacrament and the intercession of Your blessed apostle
Matthias bring us Your pardon and peace. Through Our Lord . . .</b></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i>Commemoration of</i> MONDAY 2nd WEEK OF LENT</b></span><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Lord, may this Communion cleanse us from sin, and bestow upon us spiritual health from heaven. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span><b> </b><b><br /></b></span></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36357868.post-36574853989837431282024-02-25T00:30:00.003-05:002024-02-25T00:30:00.142-05:00SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT<p> <br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/R7UFbatfrkI/AAAAAAAAFYs/b64KlxoOiG0/s1600-h/transfig2.jpg" style="color: #668844; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167042116062260802" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_0bZ1KPLegkk/R7UFbatfrkI/AAAAAAAAFYs/b64KlxoOiG0/s0-d/transfig2.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;" /></a></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span>DOUBLE, FIRST CLASS / PURPLE<br />Knowing
what Christ taught and lived, we perceive the contrast between what we
are and what we are meant to be. What we are, if patiently accepted, is a
help toward that Christian humility which is the foundation of personal
holiness. Original sin and personal sins have upset our inner harmony.
Still, even though appetites are greedy, they are not our masters.<br />"God
has called us unto holiness" -- that is, to be mature, balanced, happy
Christians who share the responsibility of bringing persons of every
race to holiness in Christ. Inner transformation ought to shine
outwardly in apostolic zeal. resurrection to glory is life's reward.</span></span></span><span><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INTROIT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Ps. 24:6, 3, 22</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remember,
O Lord, Your compassion and Your mercy are from of old, that my enemies
may never rule over us. Deliver us from all our distress, O God of
Israel. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Ps. 24:1-2</span>. I have lifted up my soul to You, O Lord; in You, O my God, I place my trust. Let me not be put to shame.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Glory be . . .</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COLLECT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O
God, You see that we are completely powerless of ourselves. Protect us
from bodily and spiritual dangers, so that we may not be harmed by
physical misfortunes and evil thoughts. Through our Lord . . .</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EPISTLE <span style="font-style: italic;">I Thess. 4:1-7</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brethren:
For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord
Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to
please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For
you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus. For this
is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from
fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel
in sanctification and honor, Not in the passion of lust, like the
Gentiles that know not God: And that no man overreach nor circumvent his
brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these
things, as we have told you before and have testified. For God hath not
called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification, in Christ Jesus Our
Lord.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GRADUAL <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 24:17-18</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The cares of my heart are multiplied; deliver me from my distress, O Lord.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. See my wretchedness and my suffering, and forgive all my sins.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRACT <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 105:1-4</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Give glory to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Who shall tell the mighty deeds of the Lord; who shall proclaim all His praises? <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />V.</span> Blessed are they who keep the precepts, who do what is just at all times.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">V</span>. Remember us, O Lord, in Your benevolence towards Your people; visit us with Your saving help.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL <span style="font-style: italic;">Matt. 17: 1-9</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At
that time, Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother,
and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: And he was
transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his
garments became white as snow. And behold there appeared to them Moses
and Elias talking with him. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it
is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three
tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And
as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo
a voice out of the cloud, saying: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased: hear ye him." And the disciples hearing fell upon their
face, and were very much afraid. And Jesus came and touched them: and
said to them: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Arise, and fear not."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> And they lifting up their eyes, saw no one, but only Jesus.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><br />OFFERTORY ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 118:47, 48</span><br />I will meditate on Your commandments, which I love dearly; and I will lift up my hands to Your commands, which I cherish.<br /><br />SECRET<br />Look
with favor upon these offerings, O Lord, that they may be an aid to our
devotion and to our salvation. Through Our Lord . . .<br /><br />COMMUNION ANTIPHON <span style="font-style: italic;">Ps. 5:2-4</span><br />Hear my call for help and hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God; for to You I pray, O Lord.<br /><br />POSTCOMMUNION<br />Almighty
God, we humbly ask that those who are nourished with Your Sacrament may
live a life of worthy service pleasing to You. Through Our Lord . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Deacon Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17122314555763113859noreply@blogger.com0