sins, and delivered from the snares of our enemies. Thro'. VI. SUNDAY after PENTECOST. INTROIT. Ps. xxvii. Dominus fortitudo, &c. THE Lord is the strength of his people; the Protector of the Salvation of his anointed. Save, o Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance, and govern them for ever. Ps. To thee, O Lord, will I cry out. O my God, be not silent: refuse not to answer me, lest I become like those who descend into the pit. V. Glory. COLLECT. Deus virtutum. O God of all power to whom entirely belongeth whatever is best : implant in our hearts the love of thy name, and grant uis an increase of religion that thou mayest improve in us what is good, and preserve what thou thus improvest by the practice of piety. Thro'. EPISTLE. “Rom. vi. 3. Brethren: All we who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death. For we are buried together with him by baptism unto death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in flewness of life. For if we have been planted tom 12? Sether in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, and that we may serve sin no longer. For he that is dead is justified from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him. For in that he died to sin, he died once : but in that le liveth, he liveth unto God. So do you also recka na yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Tel. ber ' GRAD. Ps. Ixxxix. Turn to us a little, O Lo tr let me never be put to share : save me by tby tice, and rescue me: bend thine ear to me: 1 baste to save me. Alleluia. GOSPEL. Mark viü. 1, 9. At that time: 1 there was a great multitude with Jesus, and ha thing to eat: calling his disciples together, he to them, I have compassion on the multitude behold they have now been with me three days have nothing to eat: and if I send them away to to their own home, they will faint in the wa some of them came afar off. And his disciple swered him, From whence can any one till here with bread in the wilderness? And he them, How many loaves have ye? Who said, And he commanded the people to sit down ground: and taking the seven loaves, giving he broke, and gave to his disciples for to set them, and they set them before the people. they had a few little fishes; and be blessed the commanded them to be set before them. Ar did eat and were filled. And they took in which was left of the fragments, seven And they that had eaten were about four the and he sent them away. The Creed. OFFERT. Ps. xvi. Protect thou my g SECRET. Be appeased, O Lord, by our ask. Thro'. COMM. Ps. xxvi. I will go up and sacrifice in his tabernaclə, a victim of praise : I will sing and repeat a psalm to the Lord. P. COMM. Repleti. We are filled, O Lord, with thy gifts: grant, therefore, we beseech thee, that we may be cleansed by their efficacy, and strengthened by their aid. Thro'. گن و VII. SUNDAY after PENTECOST. INTROIT. Ps. xlvi. Omnes Gentes, &c. CLAP your hands all ye Gentiles: Shout unto God with the voice of joy. For the Lord is most high, he is terrible: he is a great King over all the earth. V. Glory, COLLECT. 'Deus cujus. O God, whose provi. dence is never deceived in what it appointeth: we humbly beseech thee to remove whatever may be prejudicial to us: and grant us whatever may be to the advantage of our souls. Thro'. EPISTLÉ. Rom. vi. 19. Brethren: I speak a human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from justice. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord. GRAD. Ps. xxxiii. Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. V. Come ye to him, and be enlightened : and your faces shall not be confounded. Alleluia, Alleluia. V. Clap your hands all ye Gentiles : shout untù GOSPEL. Matt. vii. 15, 21. Al that time: Je- , who come to you in the cloathing of sheep, but in wardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringet forth cvil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evi fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit . Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Where fore by their fruits you shall know them. Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king. dom of heaven : but he that doth the will of my father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. The Creed. OFFERT. Dan. iii. As in holocausts of rains SECRET. O God, who in one perfect saerifice COMM. P&. xxx. Bow down tby ear to me P. COMM. Tra nos. as thou didst the Grant, O Lord, that the VIII. SUNDAY after PENTECOST. INTROIT. * Ps. xlvii. Suscepimus Deus, &c. WE have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple : According to thy name, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth : thy right hand is full of justice. Ps. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised; in the city of our God, on his holy mountain. y. Glory. COLLECT. Largire nobis. Grant us, O Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit of thinking and doing what is right, that we, who cannot even subsist without thee, may live according to thee. Thro'. EPISTLE. Rom. viii. 12. Brethren: We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in lear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba, (Father.) For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God. And if sons, heirs also : heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ. GRAD. Ps. XXX. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of refuge to save me. V. O God, on thee have I relied ; let me never, O Lord, be put to shame. Alleluia, Alleluia. V. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, on his holy mountain. GOSPEL. Luke xvi. 1, 9. At that time : Jesus spoke lo his disciples this parable: There was a certain rich man who had a steward : and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said to him: How Alleluia. * Introit for Candlemas-Day also. |