The Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, August (English) 21

1[August 20. St Bernard, Abbot, Confessor, Doctor.—Double.]

2[Mass.—In medio Ecclesiæ, as in the Common of Doctors, page XXXII.]

3[Commemoration of the Assumption, as on the Feast, page 670.]

4[Epistle. The just man will give his heart, &c. as on the Feast of St Leo the Great, April 11, page 562. Credo is said.]

5Epistle. Ecclesiasticus xxxix. 6—14. The just man will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray in the sight of the Most High. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for his sins. For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the Spirit of understanding; and he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in his prayer he will confess to the Lord; and he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge: and in his secrets shall he meditate. He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord. Many shall praise his wisdom, and it never shall be forgotten. The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation. Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the church shall shew forth his praise.

6[A commemoration of the Assumption, as on the Feast, page 670. Credo is said.]