Mother Cabrini in 1880Virgin
In All Dioceses of the United States
DOUBLE, SECOND CLASS / WHITE
From
childhood Frances Cabrini desired to become a missionary for Christ.
After some unsuccessful starts, she founded the Missionary Sisters of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Codogna, Italy; and in 1889 at the urging
of Pope Leo XIII, she accepted the invitation of New York's Archbishop
Corrigan to work among the numerous Italian immigrants of that era.
Mother Cabrini founded orphanages, schools, and hospitals all over the
United States, and extended her institute to Central and South America,
France, Spain, and England. Everywhere her work succeeded only through
her unbounded trust in God's providence. Though always in poor health,
she traveled constantly, crossing the Atlantic 25 times in spite of a
great fear of ocean voyages. A naturalized citizen of the United States,
Mother Cabrini died in 1917 in the convent of her great hospital in
Chicago, and was canonized in 1946, the first American citizen-saint.
The chapel of the high school in Fort Washington, New York, where her body is enshrined, is a place of pilgrimage.
INTROIT Ps. 72:24
You have held me by my right hand, and guided me by Your counsel, and in the end You have received me in glory.
Ps. 72:1. How good God is to Israel, to those whose hearts are upright.V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
O
Lord, Jesus Christ, You enkindled the fire of Your Sacred Heart in the
holy virgin Frances Xavier so that she might win souls for You in many
lands, and establish a new religious congregation of women in Your
Church. Grant that we too may imitate the virtues of Your Sacred Heart
through her intercession, so that we may be worthy of the haven of
eternal happiness, who lives and rules with God the Father . . .
Commemoration of the preceding SUNDAY
Put forth Your power, O Lord, we beseech You, and
delay not: and with Your great might come to our aid, so that what is
hindered by our sins may be hastened by Your merciful goodness.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.
R. Amen
EPISTLE I Cor. 1:26-31
Brethren:
For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according
to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble. But the foolish things
of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the "wise": and the
weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the
strong. And the base things of the world and the things that are
contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might
bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his
sight. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us
wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption: That, as it is
written: "He that glorieth may glory in the Lord."
GRADUAL Ps. 17:33-34
God has girded me with strength and made my way sinless.
V. He has made my feet swift as those of a stag and set me on the heights.
Alleluia, alleluia! V. I Cor. 9:22
I became all things to all men, that I might save all.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL Matt. 11:25-30
At that time Jesus answered and said: "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."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 72:28
It
is good for me to hold fast to God, to put my hope in the Lord God,
that I may proclaim all Your praises at the gates of the daughter of
Sion.
SECRET
Accept
our offerings in honor of the holy virgin Frances Xavier, O Lord, and
grant that we too may imitate the Sacred Heart of Your Son and make
ourselves an acceptable sacrifice to You. Through the same Jesus Christ .
. .
Commemoration of the preceding Sunday
Look with favor, O Lord, we beseech You, upon the
offerings here present, that they may be profitable for our devotion and
for our salvation.
Through Jesus Christ,
thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Matt. 11:28
Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
POSTCOMMUNION
From
the fullness of the Sacred Heart of Your beloved Son, O God, You have
bestowed heavenly gifts upon us. Grant that we may follow Saint Frances
Xavier's example and seek the glory of Your Son so that we may attain to
the rewards of His kingdom; who lives and rules with You in the unity
of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
Commemoration of the preceding Sunday
Having received Your gifts, we beseech You, O Lord,
that each partaking of this sacrament may increase within us its saving
effect.
Through Jesus Christ,
thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
SAINTS CHAEREMON & ISCHYRION
The third century was marked by Roman persecutions of the Church.
Today’s saints were martyred during the reign of Emperor Decius. They
lived in Egypt.
St. Chaeremon was a priest and bishop of Nilopolis. He was very old when the persecution became extreme.
St.
Ischyrion worked for an official in one of Egypt’s cities. It may have
been Alexandria. His employer required that he sacrifice to the gods.
Ischyrion refused because this was against the first commandment. The
official was angry and insulted. He had Ischyrion killed. A great many
other martyrs are included here who gave their lives for Jesus at this
time in Egypt.
In his letter to Fabian, the Bishop of Antioch,
St. Dionysius of Alexandria speaks of Christians who suffered martyrdom
under the Emperor Decius. Many were driven to flee into the desert where
they suffered hunger, exposure, and died prey to either wild beasts, or
at the hand of men just as wild. A good number were also sold into
slavery.
St. Dionysius particularly mentions a very old man, the
Bishop of Nilopolis, by name of Chaeremon who, with a companion,
disappeared into the mountains of Arabia. Though a search was carried
out, not even their bodies were found. In the same letter St. Dionysius
also mentions the name of Ischyrion, the procurator of a magistrate of
Egypt.
