The Roman Missal: Advent to the Sundays after Epiphany (English) 28

1[Sixth Sunday after Epiphany.]

2[The Introit, Gradual, Offertory, and Communion, as on the third Sunday, p. 97.]

3Prayer. Præsta quæsumus. Grant we beseech thee, Almighty God, that ever fixing our thoughts on reasonable things, we may perform, both in words and works, the things that are pleasing to thee. Through, &c.

4[Second Prayer, A cunctis, as on the Fifth Sunday, p. 102.]

5Epistle. 1 Thess. i. 2—10. Brethren, we give thanks to God for you all, making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing; being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father: knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election; for our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. And you became followers of us and of the Lord; receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost: so that you were made a pattern to all that believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place, your faith which is towards God, is gone forth; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised from the dead) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

6Gospel. St Matthew, xiii. 31—35. At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to the multitudes: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree; so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof. Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes, and without parables he did not speak to them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

7[Credo.]

8Secret. May this oblation, O God, we beseech thee, purify, and renovate, govern and protect us. Through, &c.

9[Second and third Secrets, as directed above.]

10Postcom. Cælestibus. Having fed on heavenly delights, we beseech thee, O Lord, that we may ever seek after these things by which we truly live. Through our Lord, &c.

11[Second and third Postcommunions as above.]