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Today’s Station: San Lorenzo in Lucina

Missa:FAC MECUM

INTROIT: Psalm 85:17
Show me, O Lord, a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded: because Thou, O Lord, hast helped me, and hast comforted me. V: (Psalm 85:1) Incline Thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor. 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:
Look down with merciful approval on our fasts, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that even as our bodies abstain from food, so too may we fast from vice in our minds. 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: Numbers 20:1, 3, 6-13
The people of Isra’el, the whole community, entered the Tzin Desert in the first month, and they stayed in Kadesh. There Miryam died, and there she was buried. The people quarreled with Moshe and said, “We wish we had died when our brothers died before ADONAI. Moshe and Aharon left the assembly, went to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces; and the glory of ADONAI appeared to them. ADONAI said to Moshe, “Take the staff, assemble the community, you and Aharon your brother; and before their eyes, tell the rock to produce its water. You will bring them water out of the rock and thus enable the community and their livestock to drink.” Moshe took the staff from the presence of ADONAI, as he had ordered him. But after Moshe and Aharon had assembled the community in front of the rock, he said to them, “Listen here, you rebels! Are we supposed to bring you water from this rock?” Then Moshe raised his hand and hit the rock twice with his staff. Water flowed out in abundance, and the community and their livestock drank. But ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon, “Because you did not trust in me, so as to cause me to be regarded as holy by the people of Isra’el, you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.” This is M’rivah Spring [Disputation Spring], where the people of Isra’el disputed with ADONAI, and he was caused to be regarded as holy by them.

GRADUAL: Psalm 27:7, 1
In God hath my heart confided, and I have been helped: and my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to Him. V. Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not Thou silent nor depart from me.

TRACT: Psalm 120: 10
O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. V. (Ps. 78: 8-9) O Lord, remember not our former iniquities: let Thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
(Here all kneel down) Help Us, O Lord our Saviour: and for the glory of Thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for Thy name’s sake.

GOSPEL: John 4: 5-42
He came to a town in Shomron called Sh’khem, near the field Ya`akov had given to his son Yosef. Ya`akov’s Well was there; so Yeshua, exhausted from his travel, sat down by the well; it was about noon. A woman from Shomron came to draw some water; and Yeshua said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” (His talmidim had gone into town to buy food.) The woman from Shomron said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for water from me, a woman of Shomron?” (For Jews don’t associate with people from Shomron.) Yeshua answered her, “If you knew God’s gift, that is, who it is saying to you, `Give me a drink of water,’ then you would have asked him; and he would have given you living water.” She said to him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this `living water’? You aren’t greater than our father Ya`akov, are you? He gave us this well and drank from it, and so did his sons and his cattle.” Yeshua answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I will give him will never be thirsty again! On the contrary, the water I give him will become a spring of water inside him, welling up into eternal life!” “Sir, give me this water,” the woman said to him, “so that I won’t have to be thirsty and keep coming here to draw water.” He said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” She answered, “I don’t have a husband.” Yeshua said to her, “You’re right, you don’t have a husband! You’ve had five husbands in the past, and you’re not married to the man you’re living with now! You’ve spoken the truth!” “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet,” the woman replied. “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that the place where one has to worship is in Yerushalayim.” Yeshua said, “Lady, believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Yerushalayim. You people don’t know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews. But the time is coming — indeed, it’s here now — when the true worshippers will worship the Father spiritually and truly, for these are the kind of people the Father wants worshipping him. God is spirit; and worshippers must worship him spiritually and truly.” The woman replied, “I know that Mashiach is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). “When he comes, he will tell us everything.” Yeshua said to her, “I, the person speaking to you, am he.” Just then, his talmidim arrived. They were amazed that he was talking with a woman; but none of them said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water-jar, went back to the town and said to the people there, “Come, see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could it be that this is the Messiah?” They left the town and began coming toward him. Meanwhile, the talmidim were urging Yeshua, “Rabbi, eat something.” But he answered, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” At this, the talmidim asked one another, “Could someone have brought him food?” Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion. Don’t you have a saying, `Four more months and then the harvest’? Well, what I say to you is: open your eyes and look at the fields! They’re already ripe for harvest! The one who reaps receives his wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the reaper and the sower may be glad together — for in this matter, the proverb, `One sows and another reaps,’ holds true. I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have done the hard labor, and you have benefited from their work.” Many people from that town in Shomron put their trust in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all the things I did.” So when these people from Shomron came to him, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed two days, and many more came to trust because of what he said. They said to the woman, “We no longer trust because of what you said, because we have heard for ourselves. We know indeed that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

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

Thus now are mysteries beginning. For Jesus is not wearied for nought. Nay verily. Nor for nought is God’s Mighty One wearied. Nor for nought is he wearied, by whom the weary are refreshed. Nor for nought is he wearied, whose absence causeth prostration, and whose presence maketh us strong. Nonetheless, Jesus is wearied. Nay more, he is wearied with his journey. More than this, he is fain to sit down and rest. More even than this, he sitteth down on the well. More even yet, he sitteth thus in weariness, about the sixth hour. There is a depth in all these little matters. They all have something to say to such as will learn. They excite our scrutiny. They exhort us to knock. O that he himself may open these matters to us and to you, even he who was pleased to exhort us and say : Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

It is for thy sake that Jesus was wearied with his journey. We find a Jesus who is strong, and we find a Jesus who is weak. Yea, both strong and weak! Strong ; for in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Wouldst thou know how strong this Son of God is? All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made. And when he thus made all things, he made them without labour. Now who can be stronger than one that without labour made all things? Wouldst thou know how weak he is? The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. The might of Christ created thee. The weakness of Christ re-created thee. The might of Christ made that to be which beforehand had no existence. The weakness of Christ so wrought, that, what was thus in existence, should not perish. In his strength he made us. In his weakness he saved us.

He therefore, being himself held in the bondage of weakness, nourisheth the weak, as doth a hen her chickens ; for he said that he himself was like to a hen. How often, saith he to Jerusalem, would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Consider now, my brethren, by what bondage of weakness a hen is held to her chickens. For in no other bird is motherhood so unmistakeable at first sight. We may watch the sparrows building their nests, or daily we me may see swallows, or even storks or doves, busy at such building. Yet unless we see them in their very nests, we know not if they have little ones. But the hen’s motherhood is so much a part of herself, by reason of her bondage of tender weakness toward her brood, that even when the little chickens are not following after her, even if we see not her children, nevertheless we see by her ways whether or not she is a mother. In such like fashion was Jesus.

OFFERTORY: Psalm 5:3-4
Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King, and my God: for to Thee will I pray, O Lord.

SECRET:
Look graciously, we beseech Thee, O Lord, upon the offerings we consecrate: that they may be pleasing unto Thee. 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

COMMUNION: John 4:13
He that shall drink of the water that I will give him, saith the Lord, it shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into life everlasting.

POSTCOMMUNION:
May the reception of this sacrament, O Lord, cleanse us from sin, and guide us to the kingdom of heaven. 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
Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who trust in Thy protection, may by Thy help overcome all things standing in our way. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen

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Today’s Station: Santi Cosma e Damiano

The Missal notes that to-day is mid-Lent Thursday. The Gospel relating several miraculous cures, was chosen in connexion with the stational church: St Cosmas and St Damian were physicians.

Missa: SALUS POPULI Ego sum

INTROIT:
I am the salvation of the people, saith the Lord: from whatever tribulation they shall cry to Me, I will hear them; and I will be their Lord forever. (Ps. 77: 1) Attend, O My people, to My law; incline your ear to the words of My mouth 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:
Let the blessed feast of Thy saints, Cosmas and Damian, magnify Thee, O Lord, for on this day Thou didst, in Thine ineffable providence, confer on them everlasting glory, and on us the resource of their help. 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: Jeremias 7:1-17
In those days, this word came to Yirmeyahu from ADONAI: “Stand at the gate of the house of ADONAI and proclaim this word: ‘Listen to the word of ADONAI, all you from Y’hudah who enter these gates to worship ADONAI! Here is what ADONAI-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “Improve your ways and actions, and I will let you stay in this place. Don’t rely on that deceitful slogan, ‘The temple of ADONAI, the temple of ADONAI – these [buildings] are the temple of ADONAI.’ No, but if you really improve your ways and actions; if you really administer justice between people; if you stop oppressing foreigners, orphans and widows; if you stop shedding innocent blood in this place; and if you stop following other gods, to your own harm; then I will let you stay in this place, in the land I gave to your ancestors forever and ever. Look! You are relying on deceitful words that can’t do you any good. First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba’al and go after other gods that you haven’t known. Then you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, ‘We are saved’ – so that you can go on doing these abominations! Do you regard this house, which bears my name, as a cave for bandits? I can see for myself what’s going on,” says ADONAI. “Go to the place in Shiloh that used to be mine, that used to bear my name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Isra’el. I spoke to you again and again, but you wouldn’t listen. I called you, but you wouldn’t answer. Now,” says ADONAI, “because you have done all these things, I will do to the house that bears my name, on which you rely, and to the place I gave you and your ancestors, what I did to Shiloh; and I will drive you out of my presence, just as I drove out all your kinsmen, all the descendants of Efrayim.”‘ “So you, [Yirmeyahu,] don’t pray for this people! Don’t cry, pray or intercede on their behalf with me; because I won’t listen to you. Don’t you see what they are doing in the cities of Y’hudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim?

GRADUAL: Psalm 144:15-16
The eyes of all hope in Thee, O Lord; and Thou givest them meat in due season. V. Thou openest Thy hand, and fillest every living creature with blessing.

GOSPEL: Luke 4:38-44
At that time, leaving the synagogue, he went to Shim`on’s house. Shim`on’s mother-inlaw was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him to do something for her. So, standing over her, he rebuked the fever; and it left her. She immediately got up and began helping them. After sunset, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to Yeshua, and he put his hands on each one of them and healed them; also demons came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But, rebuking them, he did not permit them to say that they knew he was the Messiah. When day had come, he left and went away to a lonely spot. The people looked for him, came to him and would have kept him from leaving them. But he said to them, “I must announce the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns too — this is why I was sent.” He also spent time preaching in the synagogues of Y’hudah.

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

See how long-suffering is the Lord our Saviour! His displeasure moved him not at all to desert Jewry, even though he was vexed by their guilt, and outraged by their insults. Nay, unmindful of insults, and remembering mercy only, he strove to soften their hard and unbelieving hearts, sometimes by his teaching, sometimes by freeing them from sin, sometimes by healing them. Rightly doth Luke first speak of a man who was delivered from an unclean spirit, and afterwards of the healing of a woman. For the Lord came to heal male and female both ; but that is fitly healed first which was created first ; and then must not woman be passed over, for we should remember that her first sin arose rather from permitting the serpent to deceive her than from malice in her heart.

That the Lord began to heal on the Sabbath Day sheweth in a figure how the new creation beginneth where the old ended. It sheweth, moreover, that the Son of God, who is come not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil, is not under, but above, the Law. For the world was not made by the Law, but by the Word, as it is written : By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made. Wherefore, the Law is not destroyed, but fulfilled, in the redemption of fallen man. Whence also the Apostle saith : Put off, concerning the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Rightly then doth he begin to heal on the Sabbath Day, that so he may shew himself to be the Creator. He carrieth out his works in due order and succession. Wherefore he continueth what he had already begun ; even as a workman, setting out to repair a house, beginneth not to remove that which is old from the foundations, but from the roof. Thus doth the Lord begin to lay-to his hand again, in that place whence last he left off. He beginneth with things lesser, that he may go on to things greater. Even men are able to cast out evil spirits by the Word of God. But to command the dead to rise again is for God’s power alone. Perchance, also, this woman, the mother-in-law of Simon and Andrew, was a type of our nature, stricken down with the great fever of sin, and burning with unlawful lusts after divers objects. Nor would I say that the fever of passion is a lesser thing than bodily fever. Avarice and lust and luxury and ambition and anger : these be our fevers.

OFFERTORY: Psalm 137: 7
If I shall walk In, the midst of tribulation, Thou wilt quicken me, O Lord: and Thou wilt stretch forth Thy hand against the wrath of my enemies; and Thy right hand shall save me.

SECRET:
We offer Thee, O Lord, in the meritorious death of Thy saints, this sacrifice, from which alone martyrdom hath sprung. 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 118: 4-5
Thou hast commanded Thy commandments to be kept exceedingly: O that my ways may be directed to keep Thy justifications.

POSTCOMMUNION:
May we be allotted, O Lord, the salvation pledged by Thy sacrament, which we implore by the merits of Thy blessed martyrs Cosmas and Damian. 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
May heavenly favor increase the people that is subject to Thee, O Lord, and ever make it to serve Thy bidding. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen.

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Today’s Station: San Sisto Vecchio

Missa: EGO AUTEM

INTROIT: Psalm 30:7-8
But I will hope in the Lord: I will be glad and rejoice in Thy mercy: for Thou hast regarded my humility. Ps. In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in Thy justice and rescue me. V. Glory be to the Father.

COLLECT:
Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that disciplined by wholesome fasting, and abstaining from all vices, we may more easily gain forgiveness. 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

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EPISTLE: Exodus 20:12-24
Thus saith the Lord God: Honor your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land which ADONAI your God is giving you. “Do not murder. “Do not commit adultery. “Do not steal. “Do not give false evidence against your neighbor. “Do not covet your neighbor’s house; do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” All the people experienced the thunder, the lightning, the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled. Standing at a distance, they said to Moshe, “You, speak with us; and we will listen. But don’t let God speak with us, or we will die.” Moshe answered the people, “Don’t be afraid, because God has come only to test you and make you fear him, so that you won’t commit sins.” So the people stood at a distance, but Moshe approached the thick darkness where God was. ADONAI said to Moshe, “Here is what you are to say to the people of Isra’el: ‘You yourselves have seen that I spoke with you from heaven. You are not to make with me gods of silver, nor are you to make gods of gold for yourselves. For me you need make only an altar of earth; on it you will sacrifice your burnt offerings, peace offerings, sheep, goats and cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you.

GRADUAL: Psalm 6:3-4
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord. V. All my bones are troubled: and my soul is troubled exceedingly.

TRACT: Psalm 120: 10
O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. V. (Ps. 78: 8-9) O Lord, remember not our former iniquities: let Thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
(Here all kneel down) Help Us, O Lord our Saviour: and for the glory of Thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for Thy name’s sake.

GOSPEL: Matthew 15:1-20
At that time some P’rushim and Torah-teachers from Yerushalayim came to Yeshua and asked him, “Why is it that your talmidim break the Tradition of the Elders? They don’t do n’tilat-yadayim before they eat!” He answered, “Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition? For God said, `Honor your father and mother,’ and `Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say, `If anyone says to his father or mother, “I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,” then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.’ Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God! You hypocrites! Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you, `These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me. Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.’” Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand this! What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!” The talmidim came to him and said, “Do you know that the P’rushim were offended by what you said?” He replied, “Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Let them be. They are blind guides. When a blind man guides another blind man, both will fall in a pit.” Kefa said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” So he said, “Don’t you under stand even now? Don’t you see that anything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and passes out into the latrine? But what comes out of your mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person unclean. For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders… These are what really make a person unclean, but eating without doing n’tilat-yadayim does not make a person unclean.”

A Homily on the Gospel Passage From Matins for the Day
by St. Jerome the Priest

Wondrous stupidity of the scribes and Pharisees! They rebuke the Son of God because he doth not observe the traditions and commandments of men, saying of his disciples : They wash not their hands when they eat bread. It behoveth us to cleanse, not the hands of the body, but the hands of the soul, namely, our works, that the word of God may be fulfilled in them. But he answered and said unto them : Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your Tradition? Thus he meeteth here their false accusation by a true. It is as if he had said : Ye who pass over the commandments of God, in order to keep to the traditions of men, ought not to rebuke my disciples, because they deem the Tradition of the elders of little moment in comparison with the doing of what they know to be the will of God.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and thy mother : and, He that curseth his father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother : It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me : and honour not his father of his mother, he shall be free. The word Honour is used in Scripture, not so much in the sense of rendering courtesies and services, as in that of giving alms and gifts. Honour widows, saith the Apostle, which are widows indeed. And here honour signifieth support. So again, Let the presbyters that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the Word and doctrine ; for the Scripture saith : Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn : and : The labourer is worthy of his hire.

The Lord, being mindful of the helplessness or old age or poverty of parents, gave commandment that children are to honour them by ministering to their necessities. The scribes and Pharisees scrupled not to make of none effect this prudent law, and to encourage ungodliness under the form of godliness. For they taught, for the benefit of unnatural children, that if any were to vow unto God (who is our true Father in heaven) the wherewithal of support to his parents, the duty of discharging his debt to his heavenly Father ought to come before that which he owed to his earthly father ; or, at least, that parents in such case incurred the guilt of sacrilege by taking for themselves what they knew had been made a gift to God. And so parents were left unsuccoured, and the offerings of such children, under pretence of being given to God and his temple, became the gain of the priests.

OFFERTORY: Psalm 103:21
O Lord, be merciful to me for Thy name’s sake: because Thy mercy is sweet.

SECRET:
Receive, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the prayers of Thy people with the oblation of sacrifice: and defend us from all dangers, we who celebrate Thy mysteries. 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

(Other Secrets on the Ash Wednesday Post)

The PREFACE for Lent is found on the Ash Wednesday Post

COMMUNION: Psalm 15:11
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance, O Lord.

POSTCOMMUNION:
May the heavenly table of which we have partaken, sanctify us, O Lord, and purifying us from all errors, render us worthy of heavenly promises. 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

(Other Postcommunion Prayers on the Ash Wednesday Post)

PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE
Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that we who seek the grace of Thy protection, being delivered from all evils, may serve Thee with a quiet mind. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen

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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

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Today’s Station: San Marco

Missa:
N DEO Laudabo verbum

INTROIT: Psalm 55:5
In God I will praise the word, in the Lord I will praise His speech: in God I will trust: I will not fear what man can do against me. V. Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot: all the day long he hath afflicted me, fighting against me. 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.
Repeat The law of the Lord…

COLLECT:
Pour forth in Thy mercy, we beseech Thee, O Lord, thy grace into our hearts, that as we abstain from carnal food, may we also restrain our senses from harmful excesses. 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 5: 1-15
In those days Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman’s wife. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath. Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and thus said the girl from the land of Israel. And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment; And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman, my servant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me. And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus: And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt be clean. Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me. Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation, His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean? Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a blessing of thy servant.

GRADUAL: Psalm 55:9, 2
O God, I have declared to Thee my life: Thou hast set my tears in Thy sight. V. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for man hath trodden me under foot: all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.

TRACT:Psalm 120: 10
O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. V. (Ps. 78: 8-9) O Lord, remember not our former iniquities: let Thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
(Here all kneel down) Help Us, O Lord our Saviour: and for the glory of Thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for Thy name’s sake.

GOSPEL: Luke 4: 23-30
At that time Jesus said to the pharisees: “Doubtless you will say to Me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.” And he said: “Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country. In truth I say to You, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth. And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.” And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger. And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong. But He passing through the midst of them, went His way.

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

No small spite is here displayed. What should have been to these men a reason for love is turned by them into an occasion of bitter hatred, clean contrary to the friendliness due a fellow-citizen. Thus there is here set forth, both by word and example, the truth that thou dost look in vain for God’s mercy for thyself, if thou dost envy the fruits of virtue in others. Verily the Lord despiseth the envious, and he cutteth off the mighty benefits of his power, from those who are bitter against God’s gifts to others. For the divine will of the Lord is made manifest in the works done in his humanity, and the unseen things thereof are shewed forth visibly in his deeds.

The Saviour then did not without reason excuse himself that he had wrought none of his mighty works in his own country. Concerning the love due our own country he would not have anyone think lightly. He who loved all men could not do other than love his own countrymen. It was they, and not he, who had abandoned such love, and that because of their very envy. And the Lord continued his teaching, saying : I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias. This he said, not that the said days belonged to Elias, but that they were the days when Elias lived and worked ; or else that Elias made day appear to them by means of his works whereby many souls were awakened spiritually from the night of sin to the day of grace, and turned to the Lord. In this latter sense that holy Prophet was the means whereby heaven was opened to such as looked for God’s eternal and divine mysteries. But they were shut up, and there was famine when there was no means of knowing God through outward ordinance. This matter, however, I have treated before at length, when I was writing the Treatise on Widows.

And many lepers were in Israel in the days of Eliseus the Prophet, and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. By these words of the Lord, we are plainly taught to be awake to the worship of God, since we see that none was healed or cleansed from bodily plagues, save him who took a religious means to regain health. For the blessings of God are not given to them that close their eyes in slumber, but to them that look to him. We have remarked in our other book, alluded to above, that the widow to whom Elias was sent was a type of the Church. And next after the mention of the type of the Church cometh meetly the mention of him who was a type of the Gentile people, her converts. Yea, the Gentiles were strangers and foreigners, by birth leprous, and covered with plague-spots, till they were baptized in the mystic Jordan. But from the sacramental waters they rise, lepers no more, but cleansed in body and soul, a glorious virgin Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.

OFFERTORY: Psalm 54: 2, 3
When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer. O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

SECRET:
Do Thou, O Lord, perfect the gift of our service, which we offer unto Thee, as a saving sacrament. 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 13:7
Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.

POSTCOMMUNION:
Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty and merciful God. that we may receive into a pure heart, that which we have taken with our mouths. 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
Let Thy mercy, O Lord, assist us: that, by Thy protection, we may deserve to be delivered from the threatening dangers of our sins, and by Thy deliverance be led unto salvation. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen