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O Lord, give us divine fervour, that we may joyfully receive both them and their effects. Thro'.

TRINITY SUNDAY.

INTROIT. Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas. BLESSED be the holy Trinity and undivided Unity. We will praise it, because it hath shewn his mercy to us.

Ps. O Lord, our God, how wonderful is thy name over the utmost boundaries of the earth.

V. Glory.

COLLECT. Omnipotens. O Almighty and ever lasting God who has granted thy servants, in the confession of the true faith to acknowledge the glory of an Eternal Trinity, and in the power of majesty, to adore an Unity; we beseech thee that, by the strength of this faith, we may be defended from all adversity. Thro'.

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COLLECT. (Deus, in te,) of the I. Sunday after Pentecost. O God, the strength of such as hope in thee: mercifully hear us calling on thee: and since mortal weakness can do nothing without thee, grant us the assistance of thy grace; that in observing

thy commandments, we may please thee both in will

and action. Thro'.

EPISTLE. Rom. xi. 33, 36. O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him? For of him, and by him, and in hum are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen. Dan. iii. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who beholdest the deep, and sittest on the cherubim. V. Blessed art thou, O Lord, in the firmament of the heaven, and worthy of praise for ever. Alleluia.

GRAD.

Alleluia.

OFFER

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V. Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our Fathers, and worthy of praise for ever. Alleluia. GOSPEL. Matt. xxviii. 18, 20. At that time; Jesus said to his disciples: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going, therefore, teach all nations: BAPTIZING IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. The Creed.

OFFERT. Blessed be God the Father, and the only begotten Son of God, as likewise the Holy Ghost; for he has shewn his mercy to us.

SECRET. Sanctify, we beseech thee, O Lord, our God, by the invocation of thy holy name, the victim of this oblation; and by it make us an eternal offering to thee. Thro'.

SECRET of the I. Sunday after Pentecost.

Mercifully receive, we beseech thee, O Lord, the sacrifice we offer thee, and grant that it may be a continual help to us.

Thro'.

COMM. We bless the God of Heaven, and we will praise him in the sight of all the living; because he hath shewn us his mercy.

P. COMM. Proficiat. May the receiving of this sacrament, O Lord our God, avail us to the salvation of body and soul; together with the confession of an everlasting Holy Trinity, and of the undivided unity thereof. Thro'.

P. COMM. Tantis of the I. Sund. after Pentecost. Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that the great sacrifice we have partaken of, may avail us to salvation, and make us never cease praising thee. Thro'. GOSPEL, of the I. Sund. after Pentecost. Luke vi. 36, 41. At that time; Jesus said to his disciples; Be ye merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not be judged.

Condemn

not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven. Give, and it shall be given

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to you; good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall be given into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal it shall be measured

you again. And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch' The disciple is not above his master; but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master. And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye; but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not? or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote from thy bre ther's eye. Deo gratias.

CORPUS CHRISTI.

THIS Festival (instituted about the middle of the thirteenth century by a Bull of Urban IV.) was received and confirmed by the General Council of Vi enne, anno 1311, in opposition to the errors of some, who then, as well as now, preferred a false philoso phy to the belief of all Christians in the preceding

ages.

INTROIT.

Ps. lxxx.

HE fed them with the fat of wheat, Alleluia; and filled them with honey out of the rock. Allel. Al lel. Allel. Ps. Exult in God our help; joyfully V. Glory. sing to the God of Jacob.

COLLECT. Deus, qui. O God, who in this

wonderful sacrament, has left us a perpetual

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rial of thy Passion; grant us, we beseech thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of thy body and of the fruit of the redemption thou hast purchased blood, that in our souls we may always be sensible

for us.

Who livest.

EPISTLE.

1 Cor. xi, 23. Brethren: I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered to

you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat; this is my body which shall be delivered for you; this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This Chalice is the New Testament in my blood; this do ye, as often as you shall drink it, for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink this chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink of the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a

man prove himself; and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the celebration

of the Lord.

GRAD. Ps. cxliv. The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord, and thou givest them food in due season. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with thy blessing every living creature. Alleluia, Alleluia.

V. My flesh is truly meat, and my blood is truly drink; he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, remaineth in me, and I in him.

LAUDA SION.

BREAK forth, O Sion! thy sweet Saviour sing, Thy heav'nly guide, thy pastor, and thy king: Exalt his name; loudly resound his praise, In tuneful organs, and in vocal lays.

Attempt the arduous theme, ascend on high, As soaring thought, or wings of faith can fly; The wonder then, above all praise confess, Immensely greater, than thou cant express.

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Behold the living, and life-giving bread!
With solemn pomp on holy altars spread,
Now fills our song, a subject all divine,
In which the wonders of th' Almighty shine,
As in a focus, rays of light divine.

The bread, of life, which ev'ry faithful breast
Believes was broken, at the royal feast;
When to the sacred college it was given,
Alike to Judas, and the dear eleven.

With heart inflam'd, now raise thy tuneful voice.
In nobler strains, and let thy soul rejoice;
Let every thing within thee jointly move,
To bless the sweet invention of his love.

Let age to age, record the solemn day,
And constant homage for the bounty pay,
When he first gave himself in humble guise,
At once both sacrament and sacrifice.

At this mysterious table all is new,
New kings, new laws, present themselves to view
New heav'nly light, the veil of clouds unfold,
And, by new phases, terminates the old.

Figures and types take wing, and fly away,
As darkness does, at the approach of day;
When truth and substance, after clouded night,
Appear in all the majesty of light.

What Christ then did, we celebrate the same,
In his own words, and in his sacred name :
As he commanded the dread mystery
Should be repeated, to his memory.

And thus by Him, who spoke, and all was made,
Divinely taught, we consecrate the bread
And wine, into the soul's all-saving food,
His glorious body and atoning blood.

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