The Roman Missal: Supplement, Masses Authorized for England (English) 23

1[October 24. St. Raphael, Archangel.—Greater Double.]

2Introit. Bless the Lord, all ye his angels; you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. Ps. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and let all that is within me bless his holy name. Glory, &c.

3Prayer. Deus qui beatum. O God, who didst give the Blessed Archangel Raphael as a companion on the way to thy servant Tobias: grant to us thy servants, to be ever protected by his custody, and defended by his assistance. Through our Lord, &c.

4Lesson. Tobias xii. 7—15. In those days, the angel Raphael said to Tobias: It is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God. Prayer is good with fasting and alms, more than to lay up treasures of gold: for alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil. For I am the Angel Raphael, one of the seven who stand before the Lord.

5Gradual. The angel of the Lord Raphael took, and bound the devil. Great is our Lord, and great is his power. Alleluia, alleluia. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of the angels, I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name, O Lord. Alleluia.

6Gospel. St. John v. 1—4. At that time there was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And an Angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond: and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water, was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under. Credo.

7Offertory. An angel stood near the altar of the temple, having a golden censer in his hand, and there was given to him much incense, and the smoke of the perfumes ascended before God.

8Secret. We offer thee, O Lord, a sacrifice of praise, suppliantly beseeching thee to be appeased and accept it, by the suffrage of thy angel interceding for us, and to grant it to be profitable to our salvation. Through our Lord, &c.

9Communion. All ye angels of the Lord bless the Lord: sing a hymn, and exalt him above all for ever.

10Postcommunion. Dirigere. Vouchsafe, O Lord God, to direct the holy Archangel Raphael to our help: and may he, whom we believe to be ever in attendance on thy majesty, present our poor prayers to thee for thy blessing. Through our Lord, &c.