My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Sundays after Pentecost, with the September Ember Days (English) 8
1[Ember Saturday.]
3[After Kyrie eleison, the Priest says, Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
5Lesson. Leviticus xxiii. 27—32. In those days, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement, it shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy; and you shall afflict your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the Lord. You shall do no servile work in the time of this day; because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you. Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people: and every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people. You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations and dwellings. It is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls, beginning on the ninth day of the month; from evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths; saith the Lord Almighty.
6Gradual. Forgive us our sins, O Lord; lest they should say at any time among the gentiles, Where is their God? Help us, O God our Saviour, and for the glory of thy name, O Lord deliver us.
7[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
8Prayer. Da nobis. Grant us, we beseech thee, O almighty God, that while we fast, we may be filled with thy grace, and by abstinence be rendered stronger than all our enemies. Through our Lord, &c.
9Lesson. Leviticus xxiii. 39—43. In those days, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, From the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days; on the first day and the eighth shall be a sabbath, that is a day of rest. And you shall take to you, on the first day, the fruit of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God; and you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year: it shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast; and you shall dwell in bowers seven days; every one that is of the race of Israel shall dwell in tabernacles; that your posterity may know, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
10Gradual. Behold, O God our protector; and look on thy servants.—O Lord God of hosts, graciously hear the prayers of thy servants.
11[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
12Prayer. Tuere quæsumus. Defend thy servants, we beseech thee, O Lord, that by thy bounty we may obtain those remedies of eternal salvation which we seek, inspired by thee. Through our Lord, &c.
13Lesson. Micheas vii. 14—20. O Lord our God, feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, according to the days of old. The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength. Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? He will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, and have mercy on us; he will put away our iniquities, and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old, O Lord our God.
14Gradual. Return, O Lord, a little; and be entreated in favour of thy servants.—Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from generation to generation.
15[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
16Prayer. Præsta quæsumus. Grant us, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we may so abstain from carnal feasts, that we may also fast from the vices which violently assault us. Through our Lord, &c.
17Lesson. Zacharias viii. 14—19. In those days, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I purposed to afflict you when your fathers had provoked me to wrath, and I had no mercy; so turning again, I have thought in these days to do good to the house of Juda, and Jerusalem: fear not. These then are the things which you shall do, Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates; and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend; and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities; only love ye truth, and peace: saith the Lord of hosts.
19[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
20Prayer. Ut nobis Domine. As thou permittest us, O Lord, to offer thee a solemn fast, so grant us, we beseech thee, the comfort of thy pardon. Through our Lord, &c.
21[Lesson. Daniel iii. 49. As above, page 149.]
22[Here is said, The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit.]
23Prayer. Deus qui tribus. O God, who didst cool the flames of fire in behalf of the three children, mercifully grant that the flame of vice may not consume us thy servants. Through our Lord, &c.
24[Second Prayer, A cunctis, as page 102.]
25[Third Prayer at the choice of the Priest.]
26Epistle. Hebrews xi. 2—12. Brethren, There was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having the gold censer, and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna, and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed, and the tables of the testament, and over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly. Now these things being thus ordered; into the first tabernacle the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices. But into the second the high-priest alone, once a year, not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance; the Holy Ghost signifying this, that the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing: which is a parable of the time present, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks, and divers washings, and justices of the flesh, laid on them until the time of correction. But Christ being come, a high-priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, neither by the blood of goats nor of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
27Tract. O praise the Lord, all ye nations: and praise him together, all ye people. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.
28Gospel. St Luke xiii. 6—17. At that time, Jesus spoke to the multitude this parable, A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none; and he said to the dresser of the vineyard, Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and I find none. Cut it down, therefore: why cumbereth it the ground? But he answering, said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and manure it; and if happily it bear fruit; but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. And he was teaching in their synagogue on the sabbath: and behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at all. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her, Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity; and he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath) answering, said to the multitude, Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. And the Lord answering him, said, Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water? And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed; and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.
29Offertory. O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee; let my prayer come in before thee, O Lord.
30Secret. Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that the offering made to the eyes of thy majesty may obtain for us the grace of devotion, and procure the effect of a happy eternity. Through our Lord, &c.
31[The Second and Third Secrets as directed above.]
32Communion. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast, as I made the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
33Postcom. Perficiant. May thy mysteries, we beseech thee, O Lord, perfect in us what they contain; that we may receive in truth what we now outwardly celebrate. Through our Lord, &c.
34[Second and Third Postcommunions as directed above.]