confide solely in the support of thy heavenly grace, may be always defended by thy protection. Through. EPISTLE. Colos. iii. 12. 17. Brethren: Put ye on therefore as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so you also. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection; and let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. All whatsoever you do in word, or in work, all things do ye in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord. GOSPEL. Matt. xiii. 24. 30. At that time: Jesus spoke this parable to the multitude, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. Then the servants of the good man of the house coming, said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Let both grow until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it in bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. SECRET. We offer thee, O Lord, this sacrifice of propitiation, that thou wouldst mercifully forgive us our sins, and guide our tottering hearts. Through. P. COMM. We beseech thee, O almighty God, that we may receive the effects of that salvation, of which we have received the pledge in these mysteries. Through. SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY. COLL. Grant, we beseech thee, O almighty God, that being always intent upon what is reasonable and just, we may, both in word and deed, perform what is acceptable to thee. Through. EPISTLE. 1 Thess. i. 2. 10. Brethren: We give thanks to God always for you all; making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing: being mindful of you in the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father; knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election. For our Gospel hath not been to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost; so that you were made a pattern to all that believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your faith, which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not speak any thing. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the ead) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come. GOSPEL. Matt. xiii. 31. 35. At that time: Jesus spoke to the multitude this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustardseed, which a man took and sowed in his field. Which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and dwell in the branches thereof. Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes, and without parables he did not speak to them; that the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world." CREDO. SECRET. May this oblation, O God, we beseech thee, cleanse, renew, govern, and protect us. Through. P. COMM. Being fed, O Lord, with heavenly dainties, we beseech thee that we may always hunger after them, as they preserve our life. Through. If there be not VI. Sundays between the Epiphany and Septua gesima, what remain are omitted, and taken in between the XXIII. and the last Sunday after Pentecost. SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY. Introit Ps. xvii. CIRCUMDEDE- THE groans of death RUNT me gemitus surrounded me, and mortis, dolores inferni the sorrows of hell en compassed me; and in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice from his holy temple. Ps. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: the Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. V. Glory. circumdederunt me; et in tribulatione meâ invocavi Dominum, et exaudivit de templo sancto suo vocem meam. Ps. Diligam te, Domine, fortitudo mea: Domínus firmamentum meum et refugium meum, et liberator meus. V. Gloria. COLL. Preces. Mercifully hear, we beseech thee, O Lord, the prayers of thy people; that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may be mercifully delivered for the glory of thy name. Through. EPISTLE. 1 Cor. ix. 24. and x. 1. Brethren: Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain. And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things; and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air: but I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest, perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a cast-away. [Chap. x. 1. 5.] For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all in Moses were baptised in the cloud, and in the sea: and did all eat the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink: (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.) But with the most of them God was not well pleased. GRAD. Ps. ix. A helper in due time, in tribulation: let them trust in thee who know thee, for thou dost not forsake them that seek thee, O Lord. V. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end; the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever: Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail. TRACT. Ps. cxxix. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. V. Let thine ears be attentive to the prayer of thy servant. V. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities; Lord, who shall stand it? For with thee there is merciful forgiveness; and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. From this day till Ash-Wednesday, the Tract is said on Sundays and Festivals only. GOSPEL. Matt. xx. 1. 16. At that time: Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured |