our hidden sins, and deliver us from the snares PRAYER. Mentes. Enlighten, we beseech thee, O Lord, our minds with the light to do it. Thro'. THURSDAY. INTROIT. Ps. xev. PRAISE and beauty are before him: to the and majesty in his sanctuary. Ps. Sing Lo COLLECT. Devotionem. We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to regard the devotion of thy peo ple; that mortifying their bodies by fasting, ther minds may be refreshed by good works. Thro. LESSON. Ezekiel xviii. 1, 9. In those days The word of the Lord came to me, saying, What the meaning that you use among you this parables a proverb in the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God. this parable shall be no more to you a proverb in Israe Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father. so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that site neth, the same shali die. And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice, and hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman: and hath not wronged any man, but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath with drawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and man: hath walked iu GRAD. Ps. xvi. Keep me, O Lord, as the ap- GOSPEL. Matt. xv. 21, 28. At that time: Jesus went from thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to im: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of Daid: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil. Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came, and besought inim, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us: and he answering, said, I was hot sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel. But she came and adored him, saying, Lord, help me. Who answering, said, It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters. Then Jesus answering, said to her, O woanan, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour. OFFERT. P. 33. The angel of the Lord shall Encamp around about them that fear him: and shall deliver them; taste and see that the Lord is sweet. SECRET. We beseech thee, O Lord, that the offerings which accompany this wholesome fast, may, Whrough thy mercy, save us. COMM. John vi. The bread, which I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world. thy gifts, O Lord, augment our temporal, and renew P.COMM. Tuorum. By the free grant of these our eternal helps. Thro'. Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God. Thro'. 88 EMBER-FRIDAY. PRAYER. Da quæsumus. Grant, O Londo bePRAYER, that all christian people may acknow ledge what they profess, and love the heavenly my tery they so often approach. Thro'. EMBER FRIDAY. INTROIT. Ps. xxiv. doet FROM my necessities, deliver me, O Lord my abjection and my labour, and forgive me all my sins. Ps. To thee O Lord have I lifted up my soul PA. in thee, O my God, do I put my trust, let me not be ashamed. V. Glory. COLLECT. Esto. Be propitious, O Lord, thy people, and mercifully strengthen those by thy Pre thee. Thro Thus saith the LESSON. Ezekiel xviii. 20, 28. Lord: The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the jus tice of the just shall be upon him, and the wicked ness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked do penance for all his sins, which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment and justice: living he shall live, and shall not die. I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live. Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be con verted from his ways, and live? But if the turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations, which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? All his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die. And you have said, The way of the Lord w is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your not right. Hear ye, therefore, house of Israel aid, whom thou fillest with devotion to just man away from his For when the just turneth himself justice, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought, he shall die. And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive. Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities, which he bath wrought, he shall surely live, and not 10 die, saith the Lord my Almighty. GRADUAL. Ps. Ixxxv. Save thy servant, O God, that trusteth in thee. V. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer. 25 TRACT. Ps. cii. Deal not, p. 72. GOSPEL. John v. 1, 15. At that time: There was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, and of withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And the angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond; and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water, was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under. And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity. Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him, Wilt thou be made whole? The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me. Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediateJesus saith to him: ly the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the Sabbath that day. The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the Sabbath, it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk. They asked ha him therefore, Who is that man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk? But he that was healed, D For Jesus went aside from knew not who it was. the multitude standing in the place. Afterwards Jesus findeth him in the temple, and saith to him Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some went his wate and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had made him whole. OFFERT. Ps. cii. Bless the Lord, O my soul ve and never forget all he hath done for thee: and thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's. SECRET. Receive, O Lord, we beseech thee the offerings of our homage, and mercifully sanchy thy own gifts. Thro'. COMM. Ps. vi. Let all my enemies be ashamed and very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily. of this the efficacy P. COMM. Per hujus. May sacrament, O Lord, cleanse us from our sins, and obtain for us the accomplishment of our just desires. Thro'. Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God. PRAYER. Exaudi. Graciously hear us, O mer ciful God, and manifest the light of thy grace, to our souls. Thro'. EMBER-SATURDAY. INTROIT. Ps. lxxxvii. LET my prayer come in before thee, încline v ear O Lord, to my petition. Ps. O Lord the Gol of my salvation I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. V. Glory. Immediately after Kyrie eleison, &c. is said: Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again, I. COLLECT. Populum tuum. Mercifully, O Lord, look down thy people, cn and in thy clemency |