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victim of this oblation: and by it make us an eternal offering to thee. Through.

SECRET of the First 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. Through.

COMM. We bless the God of heaven, and we will give glory to him in the sight of all that live: because he hath shown his mercy to us.

P. COMM. 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. Through.

P. COMM. Of the First Sunday 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. Through.

GOSPEL of the First Sunday 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 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 to 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 considereth 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 thy own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother'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 Vienne, anno 1311, in opposition to the errors of some, who then, as well as now, preferred a false philosophy to the belief of all Christians in the preceding ages.

The Processions in Catholic countries on this day, and during its Octave, were instituted as triumphs of Christ and his church over the obstinate enemies of this adorable mystery; and as public testimonies of the faith, love, and gratitude of the true children of God,

Introit. Ps. lxxx.

CIBAVIT eos ex adipe HE fed them with the

frumenti, Alleluia: et de petrâ melle saturavit eos. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Ps. Exultate Deo adjutori nostro: jubilate Deo Jacob. V. Gloria.

fat of wheat, Alleluia: and filled them with honey out of the rock, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Ps. Exult to God our helper; sing aloud to the God of Jacob. V. Glory.

COLL. O God, who in this wonderful sacrament, hast left us a perpetual memorial of thy passion; grant us, we beseech thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of thy body and blood, that in our souls we may always be sensible of the fruit of the redemption thou hast purchased 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 show 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 Lord.

season.

GRAD. Ps. cxliv. The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord, and thou givest them meat in due V. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with thy blessing every living creature. Alleluia, Alleluia. V. My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed: he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

The Prose.

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In hac mensâ novi Regis,
Novum Pascha novæ legis,
Phase vetus terminat.
Vetustatem novitas.
Umbram fugat veritas,

Noctem lux eliminat.

Quod in cœna Christus ges-
sit,
Faciendum hoc expressit
In sui memoriam.
Docti sacris institutis,
Panem, vinum in salutis
Consecramus hostiam.
Dogma datur Christianis,
Quod in carnem transit pa-
nis,

Et vinum in sanguinem. Quod non capis, quod non vides,

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