TRACT. Ps. cxvI.-Praise the Lord, as p. 327. Prose, Veni Sancte Spiritus, as before, p. 376.

GOSPEL. Luke iv. 38. 44.-At that time: Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her.And standing over her he commanded the fever, and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them to him. But he laying his hands on every one of them, healed them. And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. And when it was day, going out he went into a desart place: and the multitudes sought him, and came unto him: and they stayed him that he should not depart from them. To whom he said: to other cities also, I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent. And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. CREdo.

OFFERT. Ps. lxxxvii.-O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried out to thee day and night: let my prayer, O Lord, come before thee. Alleluia.

SECRET.-To the end that our fasts may be acceptable to thee, O Lord, grant us, we beseech thee, to offer thee a heart purified by the efficacy of this sacrament. Thro'.

COMM. John iii.-The spirit breatheth where he will, and you hear his voice, Alleluia, Alleluia: but you know not when he cometh, nor whither he goeth, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

P. COMM. Præbeant.-May thy sacred mysteries O Lord, give us divine fervour, that we may joyfully receive both them and their effects. Thro'.

TRINITY SUNDAY.

INCE without a belief of the existence of 'Three adorable Persons in the Godhead, we cannot be Christians, let us this day beseech Almighty God to strengthen our faith in the mystery of the ever blessed Trinity, and teach us implicity to submit to whatever other dogma the Church proposes to our belief. Let us also pray for those, who, taking weak reason for their guide in matters of religion, refuse to believe what God himself has revealed concerning his own incomprehensible Majesty.

INTROIT.

BLESSED be the holy Trinity and undivided Unity. We will praise it, because it hath shewn his mercy to us.

Ps. O Lord, our God, how wonderful is thy name over the utmost boundaries of the earth. V. Glory.

BENEDICTA sit sancta Trinitas, atque indi→ visa Unitas: Confitebi mur ei, quia fecit nobis

cum misericordiam suam.

Ps. Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra.

V. Gloria.

COLLECT. Omnipotens.—O almighty and everlasting God who has granted thy servants, in the confession of the true faith to acknowledge the glory of an Eternal Trinity, and in the power of majesty, to adore an Unity: we beseech thee that, by the strength of this faith, we may be defended from all adversity. Thro'.

COLLECT. (Deus, in te,) of the I. Sund. after Pentecost.-O God, the strength of such as hope in thee: mercifully hear us calling on thee: and since mortal weakness can do nothing without thee, grant us the assistance of thy grace; that in observing thy commandments, we may please thee both in will and action. Thro'.

EPISTLE. Rom. xi. 33. 36.-O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how

unsearchable his ways! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and recompence shall be made him? For of him, and by him, and in him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

GRAD. Dan. iii.-Blessed art thou, O Lord, who beholdest the deep, and sittest on the cherubim. V. Blessed art thou, O Lord, in the firmament of the heaven, and worthy of praise for ever. Alleluia. Alleluia.

V. Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our Fathers, and worthy of praise for ever. Alleluia.

V. Benedictus es Domine, Deus Patrum nostrorum, et laudabilis in sæcula. Alleluia.

GOSPEL. Matt. xxviii. 18. 20.- At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going, therefore, teach all nations: BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. CREDO.

OFFERT.-Blessed be God the Father, and the only begotten Son of God, as likewise the Holy Ghost; for he has shewn his mercy to us.

SECRET.-Sanctify, we beseech thee, O Lord, our God, by the invocation of thy holy name, the victim of this oblation: and by it make us an eternal offering to thee. Thro'.

SECRET of the I. 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, Thro'.

COMM. We bless the God of heaven, and we will praise him in the sight of all the living: because he hath shewn us his mercy.

P. COMM. Proficial.-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. Thro'.

P. COMM. Tantis of the I. Sund. 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. Thro'.

GOSPEL. of the I. Sund. 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 considerest 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 thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye. Deo gratias.

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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.

COLLECT. Deus, qui.-O God, who in this wonderful sacrament, has 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 shew 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