The Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, July (English) 19

1[July 22. St Mary Magdalen.—Double.]

2Introit. Ps. cxviii. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; I have understood thy testimonies, O Lord: I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad. Ps. Blessed are the undefiled in the way: who walk in the law of the Lord. Glory, &c.

3Prayer. Beatæ Mariæ. We beseech thee, O Lord, that we may be helped by the intercession of blessed Mary Magdalen, entreated by whose prayers thou didst raise up again to life her brother Lazarus, who had been dead four days. Who livest, &c.

4Lesson. Canticle iii. 2-5.—viii. 6-7.—I will rise and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not. The watchmen who keep the city found me. Have you seen him whom my soul loveth? When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and I will not let him go till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor wake my beloved till she please. Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is hard as hell; the lamps thereof are lamps of fire and flames. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it; if a man shall give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.

5Gradual. Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity.—Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness. Alleluia, alleluia.—Grace is poured abroad in thy lips: therefore hath God blessed thee for ever. Alleluia.

6[Gospel. St Luke vii. 36—50. One of the Pharisees, as page 232. Credo.]

7Offertory. The daughters of kings in thy glory: the queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing surrounded with variety.

8Secret. We beseech thee, O Lord, that the glorious merits of blessed Mary Magdalen may render our offerings acceptable to thee, the service of whose offering when paid thy only-begotten Son mercifully accepted. Who lives, &c.

9Communion. I have done judgment and justice, O Lord, let not the proud calumniate me; I was directed to all thy commandments; I have hated all wicked ways.

10Postcom. Sumpto. Having received the only and salutary remedy, thy precious body and blood, we beseech thee, O Lord, that we may be delivered from all evils by the intercession of holy Mary Magdalen. Who livest and reignest, &c.