The Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, March and April (English) 15

1[Feasts of April. April 2. St Francis of Paula, Confessor.—Double.]

2Introit. Ps. xci. The just shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus: planted in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. Ps. It is good to give praise to the Lord, and to sing to thy name, O most High. Glory, &c.

3Prayer. Deus humilium. O God, the exaltation of the humble, who hast placed on high the blessed confessor Francis in the glory of thy saints, grant, we beseech thee, that, by his merits and the imitation of him, we may happily obtain the rewards promised to the humble. Through our Lord, &c.

4[Epistle. The things that were gain to me, as page 509.]

5[The rest as in the Mass, Justus ut palma, for a Confessor only, page xxxvii, except—]

6Secret. May these offerings of a devoted people, with which we cover thy altar, O Lord, be rendered by the merits of blessed Francis pleasing to thee, and by thy mercy salutary to us. Through our Lord, &c.

7Postcom. Sumpta Domine. We pray thee, O Lord, that the sacrament we have received may, by the intercession of blessed Francis, thy confessor, confer upon us help for life temporal and eternal. Through our Lord, &c.