Sarx

Note the parts that are repeated daily on the Ash Wednesday Post

Today’s Station: Santa Pudenziana

Missa:
GO CLAMAVI

INTROIT: Psalm 16:6, 8
I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words. Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee. From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings. v. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

COLLECT:
Graciously hear us, O almighty and merciful God : and favorably grant to us the gifts of wholesome self-denial. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen

EPISTLE: 4 Kings 4:1-7
In those days a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me. And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbors empty vessels not a few. And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full take them away. So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood. And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

GRADUAL: Psalm 18:13-14
From my secret sins, cleanse me, O Lord: and fro those of others spare Thy servant. V. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.

GOSPEL: Matthew 18:15-22
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: “But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. And if he will not hear them: tell the Church. And if he will not hear the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican. Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in Heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in Heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father Who is in Heaven. For where there are two or three gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.” Then came Peter unto him and said: “Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?” Jesus saith to him: “I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.”

A Homily on the Gospel Passage From Matins for the Day
by St. Augustine the Bishop

Why tell him his fault? Is it because he hath made thee to smart by trespassing against thee? God forbid. For if out of love for thyself thou dost tell him his fault, thou hast done nothing of any worth. But if only out of love for him, thou dost tell him his fault, then thou hast done exceedingly well. Hear now, from the very words of the Gospel, for whose sake thou oughtest to do this thing, whether from love of thyself, or from love of him. The Lord saith : If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Wherefore charge theyself always to do such a thing rather for his sake than for thine own, to the end that thou mayest gain him. If thou doest this thing on this wise, perchance thou mayest attain this great end, to wit, of gaining him. Whereas, if thou doest otherwise, perchance, he may perish. Why then are there so many who do reckon but lightly such a trespass against their brother, and say : I have done no great offence, for I have sinned only against my fellow-man? Deem it not a light offence. For thou hast surely sinned in that thou hast sinned against thy fellow-man.

Couldest thou know how that sinning against thy brother doth cause thee to perish? If he against whom thou hast sinned doth tell thee thy fault between himself and thee alone, and thou hear him, he hath gained thee. Note this well, He hath gained thee! What signify these words, He hath gained thee, save that thou wouldst have perished, if he had not gained thee? For if thou wouldst not have perished, in what sense can he be said to have gained thee? Wherefore let none deem it is a light thing when he sinneth against his brother. For the Apostle saith in a certain place : When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. How then canst thou fail to sin against Christ, when thou sinnest against one of the members of Christ?

Therefore let none say : I have not sinned against God, but against a brother : in that I have sinned against man, and not against God, the sin is light, or mayhap is no sin at all. Perchance thou dost argue that it is a light offence because it is quickly mended. If thou hast sinned against thy brother, and canst straightway make satisfaction, and be right again, nonetheless thou hast done a deadly thing and done it quickly, and hast but quickly found a remedy. O my brethren, which of us can hope for the kingdom of heaven, seeing that the Gospel saith : Whoseoever shall say to his brother, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire? This indeed is a thought full of dread! But in the same place behold the remedy : If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. God is not wroth that thou delayest to offer thy gift. For God desireth thyself more than thy gift.

OFFERTORY: Psalm 117:16-17
The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength. I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.

SECRET:
May the effect of our redemption be applied unto us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by means of this sacrament, eve restraining us from human escesses and conducting us to the gift of salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen

COMMUNION: Psalm 14: 1-2
Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill? He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice.

POSTCOMMUNION:
Being purified by these holy mysteries, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that we may obtain both pardon and grace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen

PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE
Defend us, O Lord, by Thy protection, and ever preserve us from all iniquity. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen