My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Septuagesima and Lent, to the Saturday of the Fourth Week (English) 14
1[Saturday, Ember Day.]
3[After Kyrie eleison, is said, Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
4Prayer. Populum tuum. Favourably look down upon thy people, we beseech thee, O Lord, and mercifully turn away from them the scourges of thy anger. Through, &c.
5Lesson. Deuteronomy, xxvi. 12—19. In those days, Moses spoke to the people, saying, When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I have taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given it to the Levite and to the stranger, and to the fatherless and to the widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, nor forgotten thy precepts. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast commanded me. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments; and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his ways, and keep his ceremonies, and precepts and judgments, and obey his command. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments; and to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayest be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
7[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
8Prayer. Protector noster. Look upon us, O God, our protector; that we who are oppressed by the weight of our evils, having experienced thy mercy, may serve thee with a free mind. Through our Lord, &c.
9Lesson. Deuteronomy, xi. 22—25. In those days, Moses said to the children of Israel, If you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him; the Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you. Every place that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders. None shall stand against you: The Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you; the Lord your God.
10Gradual. Behold, O God, our protector, and look upon thy servants. O Lord God of hosts, graciously hear the prayers of thy servants.
11[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
12Prayer. Adesto. Have regard, we beseech thee, O Lord, to our supplications, that, by thy bounty, we may both deserve to be humble in prosperity and secure in adversity. Through, &c.
13Lesson. 2 Machabees, i. 23—27. In those days all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering. And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: O Lord God, Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone art the good king, who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers, and didst sanctify them; receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy own portion, and sanctify it; that the gentiles may know that thou art our God.
14Gradual. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.
15[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
16Prayer. 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, &c.
17Lesson. Ecclesiasticus, xxxvi. 1—10. Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies: and send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after thee; that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew forth thy wonders. Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power. For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence, that they may know thee, as we also have known that there is no God beside thee, O Lord. Renew thy signs, and work new miracles. Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm. Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath. Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy. Hasten the time, and remember the end; that they may declare thy wonderful works, O Lord our God.
18Gradual. Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight, O Lord. The lifting up of my hands as even sacrifice.
19[Let us pray. Let us kneel down. Rise up again.]
20Prayer. Actiones. Prevent our actions, we beseech thee, O Lord, by thy grace, and carry them on by thy assistance, that all our prayers and works may always begin from thee, and by thee what we have begun may be accomplished. Through, &c.
21Lesson. Daniel, iii. 49. In those days, the Angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace, and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace, and made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew. But the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forty cubits: and it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans the king's servants as it found heating it. And the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them nor did them any harm. Then these three, as with one mouth, praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace, saying,
22Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
23And blessed is the name of thy glory: which is holy, and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
24Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
25Blessed art thou on the holy throne of thy kingdom: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
26Blessed art thou upon the sceptre of thy divinity: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
27Blessed art thou that sittest upon the cherubim, beholding the depths: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
28Blessed art thou who walkest upon the wings of the wind, and upon the waves of the sea: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
29Let all thy angels and saints bless thee. And praise thee and glorify thee for ever.
30Let the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them bless thee, and praise thee and glorify thee for ever.
32As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen: And worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
33Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers. And worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.
34[Here is said, Dominus vobiscum. Let us pray.]
35Prayer. Deus qui tribus. O God, who didst cool the flames of fire in behalf of the three children, mercifully grant that the flame of vice may not consume us thy servants. Through our Lord, &c.
36[Second and Third Prayers as on Ash Wednesday, p. 118.]
37Epistle. 1 Thess. v. 14—23. Brethren, we beseech you, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men. See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good towards each other, and towards all men. Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In all things give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all. Extinguish not the spirit. Despise not prophecies. But prove all things; hold fast that which is good. From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves. And may the God of Peace himself sanctify you in all things, that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
38Tract. O praise the Lord all ye nations: and praise him together all ye people. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.
40Offertory. O Lord the God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee: let my prayer come in before thee, O Lord.
41Secret. Sanctify, we beseech thee, O Lord, our fasts by this sacrifice, that what our observance exteriorly professes, it may effect interiorly. Through our Lord, &c.
42[Second and Third Secrets as above, page 120.]
43Communion. O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
44Postcom. Sanctificationibus. O Almighty God, may our vices be cured by thy sacred mysteries, and may we receive everlasting remedies. Through our Lord, &c.
45[Second and Third Postcommunions as above, page 121.]
46[Over the People. Let us pray. Bow down your heads before God.]
47Prayer. Fideles. May the desired blessing confirm thy faithful, O God, which may keep them from ever departing from thy will, and grant them ever to rejoice in thy benefits. Through our Lord, &c.