My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Septuagesima and Lent, to the Saturday of the Fourth Week (English) 31
1[Tuesday, Fourth Week of Lent.]
2Introit. Ps. liv. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: be attentive to me, and hear me.—I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. Glory, &c.
4[Other Prayers as on Ash Wednesday, page 118.]
5Lesson. Exodus, xxxii. 7—14. In those days, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Go down from the mountain; thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned. They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them; and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it and sacrificing victims to it, have said, These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. And again the Lord said to Moses, I see that this people is stiff-necked: let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying, Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand? Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee, He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and destroy them from the earth; let thy anger cease; and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people: remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and this whole land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.
6Gradual. Arise, O Lord, bring help to us, and deliver us for thy name's sake.—O God, we have heard with our ears; and our fathers have declared to us the work which thou didst work in their days, in the days of old.
7Gospel. St John, vii. 14—31. At that time, about the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews wondered, saying, How doth this man know letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who seeketh to kill thee? Jesus answered and said to them, One work I have done, and you all wonder. Therefore Moses gave you circumcision, (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and on the sabbath-day you circumcise a man. If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath-day? Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment. Some therefore of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill? and behold he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? But we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying, you both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. I know him, because I am from him and he hath sent me. They sought therefore to apprehend him, and no man laid hands on him because his hour was not yet come. But of the people many believed in him.
8Offertory. With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he looked upon me: and he heard my prayer: and he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God.
9Secret. May this victim, O Lord, we beseech thee, cleanse away our sins; and sanctify the bodies and minds of thy servants, to celebrate this sacrifice. Through our Lord, &c.
10[Other Secrets as above, page 120.]
12Postcom. Hujus nos. May the reception of this sacrament, O Lord, cleanse us from sin, and conduct us to an eternal kingdom. Through our Lord, &c.
13[Other Postcommunions as above, page 121.]
14[Over the People. Let us pray. Bow down your heads before God.]
15Prayer. Miserere. Have mercy, O Lord, on thy people, and mercifully grant them relief, who labour under continual tribulations. Through our Lord, &c.