My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, July (English) 22
2Introit. Ps. cxxxviii. To me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
4Prayer. Esto Domine. Be thou, O Lord, the sanctifier and guardian of thy people; that defended by the protection of thy apostle James, they may please thee by their conduct, and serve thee with secure minds. Through our Lord, &c.
5[In private, but not in solemn Masses, a Commemoration is made of St Christopher, Martyr, by the prayer Præsta quæsumus from the Mass, In virtute tua, for a Martyr only, page VIII.]
6Epistle. 1 Corinth. iv. 9—15. Brethren, I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. Even unto this hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode, and we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled, and we bless: we are persecuted, and we suffer it: we are blasphemed, and we entreat: we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now. I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children: for if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus by the gospel I have begotten you.
7Gradual. Thou shalt make them princes over all the earth: they shall remember thy name, O Lord.—Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: therefore shall people praise thee. Alleluia, alleluia.—I have chosen you out of the world, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain. Alleluia.
8Gospel. St Matthew xx. 20—23. At that time, The mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, adoring, and asking something of him. Who said to her, What wilt thou? She saith to him, Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. And Jesus answered, and said, You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him, We can. He saith to them, Of my chalice indeed you shall drink: but to sit on my right hand or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father. Credo.
9Offertory. Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth; and their words unto the ends of the world.
10Secret. We beseech thee, O Lord, that the holy sufferings of blessed James, the apostle, may render acceptable the offerings of thy people; and, unworthy as they are by any merit of ours, may they become pleasing by his prayers. Through our Lord, &c.
11[Secret for St Christopher, as directed above.]
12[Preface for Apostles, as in the Ordinary, page 22.]
14Postcom. Beati. Help us, we beseech thee, O Lord, by the intercession of thy blessed Apostle James; on whose festival we have joyfully received thy holy mysteries. Through our Lord, &c.
15[Postcommunion for St Christopher as directed above.]