My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Septuagesima and Lent, to the Saturday of the Fourth Week (English) 1
The Masses of the Roman Rite from Septuagesima Sunday through Ash Wednesday (with the blessing and giving of the ashes) and the weekdays and Sundays of Lent, to the Saturday of the fourth week, in English, as printed in the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth's Missal for the use of the Laity (London, 1853), in the form used from the Council of Trent until the liturgical reform of the 1960s. It includes the Ember days of Lent and the long Old Testament lessons and Gospels of the Lenten weekdays. Passion Sunday and Passion Week, Holy Week and the Triduum are in separate books. This is the English only; the Latin of the chants and prayers is to be added. The words in square brackets are the Missal's own headings and directions. A liturgy of the Catholic Church, not scripture.
1[Septuagesima Sunday.]
3[Gloria in excelsis is not said from this day till Maunday Thursday, except on Feasts.]
4Prayer. Preces populi. Graciously hear the prayers of thy people, we beseech thee, O Lord, that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may be mercifully delivered, for the glory of thy name. Through our Lord, &c.
5[Second Prayer, A cunctis, as on the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, p. 102; third Prayer at the choice of the Priest.]
6Epistle. 1 Cor. ix. 24, to x. 5. Brethren, know you not they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty; I so fight, not as one beating the air: but I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a cast-away. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea; and all did eat the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink, (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.) But with the most of them God was not well pleased.
7Gradual. The helper in due time, in tribulation: let them trust in thee, who know thee: for thou dost not forsake them that seek thee, O Lord. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever: arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened.
8Tract. From the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord; Lord hear my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to the prayer of thy servant. If thou shalt observe iniquities, O Lord, Lord, who shall endure it? For with thee is propitiation, and by reason of thy law I have expected thee, O Lord.
9Gospel. St Matthew, xx. 1—16. At that time, Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle, and he said to them, Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just: and they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour, he went out, and found others standing; and he saith to them, Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them, Go you also into my vineyard. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the labourers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more; and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it, they murmured against the master of the house, saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. But he answering said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good? So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.
10[Credo.]
11Offertory. It is good to give praise to the Lord, and to sing to thy name, O Most High.
12Secret. Receive, O Lord, we beseech thee, our offerings and prayers; and cleanse us by heavenly mysteries, and mercifully hear us. Through our Lord, &c.
13[Second and third Secrets, as directed above.]
15Postcom. Fideles tui. May thy faithful, O God, be strengthened by thy gifts: that by receiving them they may seek after them, and by seeking, partake of them for ever. Through our Lord, &c.
16[Second and third Postcommunions as above.]