The Roman Missal: Advent to the Sundays after Epiphany (English) 1

The Masses of the Roman Rite from the First Sunday of Advent through the Christmas season, the Epiphany and its Octave, the Holy Name of Jesus, and the Sundays after the Epiphany, in English, as printed in the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth's Missal for the use of the Laity (London, 1853), in the form used from the Council of Trent until the liturgical reform of the 1960s. It includes the Ember days of Advent and the three Masses of Christmas Day. This is the English only; the Latin of the chants and prayers is to be added. The words in square brackets are the Missal's own headings and directions. A liturgy of the Catholic Church, not scripture.

1[Proper Masses for the Sundays and Moveable Feasts. First Sunday of Advent.]

2Introit. Ps. xxiv. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed. Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

3Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

4Glory 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.

5To thee, O Lord, &c.

6[Gloria in excelsis is not said (except on Feasts) from this Sunday till Christmas.]

7Prayer. Excita. Stir up thy might, we beseech thee, O Lord, and come: that, by thy protection, we may deserve to be delivered from the threatening dangers of our sins, and by thy deliverance be saved. Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

8[From this day till Christmas Eve, after the Prayer of the day, are said the two following: unless a commemoration is to be made of a saint; in which case, after the Prayer for the saint is said, the first of the following prayers only.]

9Prayer. Deus qui de Beatæ. O God, who didst please that thy Word should take flesh, at the message of an angel, in the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary; grant to thy suppliants, that we who believe her to be truly the Mother of God, may be helped by her intercession.

10For the Church. Ecclesiæ tuæ. We beseech thee, O Lord, in thy clemency admit the prayers of thy Church: that all errors and adversities being destroyed, she may serve thee with secure liberty. Through our Lord Jesus, &c.

11[Or the following:]

12For the Pope. Deus omnium. O God, the pastor and ruler of all the faithful, mercifully regard thy servant N. whom thou hast been pleased should preside as pastor over thy Church: grant him, we beseech thee, to benefit those over whom he is placed, by word and example; that, with the flock intrusted to him, he may arrive at everlasting life. Through our Lord, &c.

13[Of those feasts, called simples, which occur in Advent, a commemoration only is made; and the Mass is of the preceding Sunday, omitting the Alleluia and V. in the Gradual:]

14Epistle. Rom. xiii. 11—14. Brethren, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is passed, and the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.

15Gradual. None of them that wait on thee shall be confounded, O Lord. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths. Alleluia, alleluia.

16Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy: and grant us thy salvation. Alleluia.

17Gospel. St Luke, xxi. 25—33. At that time Jesus said to his disciples: There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves, men withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon them. For the powers of heaven shall be moved; and then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with great power and majesty. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand. And he spoke to them a similitude: See the fig-tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh; so you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. Amen I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

18[Credo.]

19Offertory. To thee have I lifted up my soul: in thee, O my God, I put my trust, let me not be ashamed: neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

20Secret. May these sacred mysteries, O Lord, make us come more pure to their source, being cleansed by thy powerful strength. Through our Lord, &c.

21Of the B. Virgin. Confirm, O Lord, in our minds, we beseech thee, the mysteries of the true faith: that we who confess him who was conceived of the Virgin to be true God and man, may deserve to arrive at eternal joy, by the power of his saving resurrection.

22For the Church. Protect us, O Lord, assisting at thy mysteries: that fixed upon divine things, we may serve thee both in body and mind. Through, &c.

23Or, for the Pope. Be thou appeased, O Lord, we beseech thee, by the gifts we offer: and govern by continual protection thy servant N. whom thou hast been pleased should preside as pastor over thy church. Through our Lord, &c.

24Communion. The Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.

25Postcom. Suscipiamus. May we receive thy mercy, O Lord, in the midst of thy temple: that we may anticipate with suitable honours the approaching solemnities of our reparation. Through, &c.

26Of the B. Virgin. Gratiam tuam. Pour forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may, by his passion and cross, be brought to the glory of his resurrection. Through, &c.

27For the Church. Quæsumus Domine. We beseech thee, O Lord our God, that thou wouldst not permit us to be subject to human dangers, to whom thou givest to rejoice in the participation of divine mysteries. Through, &c.

28Or, for the Pope. Hæc nos. May this partaking of a divine sacrament protect us, we beseech thee, O Lord; and ever save and defend thy servant N. whom thou hast been pleased should preside as pastor over thy church, together with the flock committed to him. Through our Lord, &c.

29[In all Masses of Saints in Advent, a commemoration is made of the Feria, by the Prayer of the preceding Sunday, except on the Ember days, which have proper Prayers.]