My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, November (English) 26
1[June 21. St Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor.—Double.]
2Introit. Psalm viii. Thou hast made him a little lesser than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour. Ps. Praise ye the Lord, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Glory, &c.
3Prayer. Cælestium. O God, the distributer of heavenly gifts, who, in the angelical youth Aloysius, didst unite a wonderful innocence of life with equally wonderful penance: grant through his merits and prayers, that we who have not followed him in innocence, may imitate him in penance. Through our Lord, &c.
4[Lesson. Ecclus. xxxi. 8—11. Blessed is the man, &c. as in the Mass Os Justi, for a Confessor, page XXXV.]
5Gradual. My hope, O Lord, from my youth: by thee have I been confirmed from the womb; from my mother's womb thou art my protector.—But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence, and hast established me in thy sight for ever. Alleluia, alleluia.—Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen, and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. Alleluia.
6Gospel. St Matthew, xxii. 29—40. At that time, Jesus answering, said to the Sadducees: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married: but shall be as the angels of God in heaven. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And the multitudes hearing it, were in admiration at his doctrine. But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together: and one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
7Offertory. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? the innocent in hands, and clean of heart.
8Secret. Grant us, O Lord, to sit down at the heavenly banquet clothed in the wedding-garment: which the pious preparation and continual tears of blessed Aloysius adorned with inestimable pearls. Through our Lord, &c.