My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Common of Saints, Confessors to the Dedication of a Church (English) 10
1[Another Mass for a Virgin only.]
4Epistle. 1 Corinth. vii. 25—34. Brethren, Concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, for a man so to be. Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. This therefore I say, brethren, The time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God; but he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife; and he is divided: and the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; in Christ Jesus our Lord.
6[After Septuagesima, instead of the Alleluia and Verse, the following is said:]
7Tract. Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: for the King hath greatly desired thy beauty. All the rich among the people shall entreat thy countenance: the daughters of kings in thy honour.—After her shall virgins be brought to the King: her neighbours shall be brought to thee. They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the King.
8[In Paschal Time, the Gradual is omitted, and the following is said:]
9Alleluia, alleluia.—This is a wise virgin, and one of the number of the prudent. Alleluia.—O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory! Alleluia.
10Gospel. St Matthew xiii. 44—52. At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field: which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had and bought it. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes; which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth; so shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out and shall separate the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him, Yes. He said unto them, Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man who is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.
11Offertory. After her shall virgins be brought to the King: her neighbours shall be brought to thee with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple, to the King our Lord.
12Secret. May the offering of thy holy people be accepted by thee, O Lord, in honour of thy saints, by whose merits they are sensible of having received help in tribulation.
13Communion. The kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, gave all that he had, and bought it.
14Postcom. Satiasti. Thou hast fed thy family, O Lord, with holy gifts; we beseech thee ever to comfort us by her intercession, whose festival we celebrate. Through our Lord, &c.