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Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham under the patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman

ORDER FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST AND THE

LITURGY OF THE HOURS CONTAINING

A SHORT LECTIONARY FOR USE IN ORDINARY TIME

2012 – 2013

YEAR OF FAITH

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www.ordinariate.org.uk

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Calendar Feasts, etc., are given here as they appear in the Ordinariate’s proper Calendar. Where there are two or more optional memorials on the same day, local, geographical, and pastoral considerations will dictate which Mass is celebrated.

Readings Readings in bold are the readings from the One-Year Lectionary of the Divine Office. It is permissible, for pastoral reasons, to use this long reading at either or both Morning and Evening Prayer on any one day.

Longer readings not in bold are either readings from Years I or II (where they diverge from the One-Year Lectionary of the Divine Office) or supplementary readings, usually drawn from elsewhere in the Divine Office, to complete the pattern of Old Testament and New Testament readings at Morning and Evening Prayer. At Morning or Evening Prayer, the reading in bold, even when it is from the New Testament, may always be used as the first reading when the custom is to read the post-biblical reading in the Divine Office or the Customary as the second reading.

Where there is a choice of readings, a decision may be made on the basis of appropriate length (it may not be necessary at any one office to have two long readings). Similarly, where a book is read in course, a decision may be made on the basis of continuity. On Sundays and solemnities, a Gospel reading is offered as an alternative second reading at Evening Prayer I.

The Customary Where material is provided in the Customary, a page reference is given (in the form See p. X). Further information is in the appendix to this Ordo.

Abbreviations

G – Green; W – White; P – Purple/Violet; R – Red; B – Black; * - Rose. EP – Evening Prayer (I or II); MP – Morning Prayer. LH – Liturgy of the Hours

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DECEMBER SATURDAY 1 December

In the Ordinariate: St Edmund Campion, Priest, Martyr, memorial (See p. 654)

MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT Dan 12:1-13 or Deut 32:1-12 NT Jude 1-8, 12-13, 17-25 or Rom 12:14-16a

Mass of the memorial (Common of Martyrs), Pref. of weekdays [or of Martyrs]

EP I (and First Mass) of ADVENT SUNDAY LECTIONARY FOR SUNDAYS & FEASTS: YEAR C WEEKDAY CYCLE: YEAR I

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SUNDAY 2 December

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Ad te levavi (See pp. 170, 178) LH Ps Wk 1 EP I Pss 144, 145 (146, 147) OT Is 40:1-11, NT 1Thess 5:12-14 or Lk 24:1-12

MP Pss 93, 63, 118, 148-150 OT Is 1:1-18 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass Proper, Cr, Advent Pref. I

EP Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Is 6:1-13 NT Phil 4:4-9

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MONDAY 3 December

St Francis Xavier, Priest, memorial MP Pss 15; 16; 17 OT Is 1:21-27; 2-15 NT 1 Thess 3:(7b-10), 11-13

Mass of the memorial. Advent Pref. I [or of Pastors]

EP Ps 18 OT Is 7:1-17 NT Phil 3: (17-19), 20b-21

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TUESDAY 4 December

St John Damascene, Priest, Doctor, optional memorial

MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT Is 2:6-22; 4:2-6 NT 2 Thess 1:5-12

Mass of the weekday or of the memorial. Advent Pref. I

EP Pss 22; 23 OT Is:8:1-18 NT 1 Cor 1:3-9

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WEDNESDAY 5 December

Feria MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Is 5:1-7 NT Rev 21:1-4

Mass Proper, Advent Pref. I

EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT Is 9:1-6, NT 1 Cor 4:1-5

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THURSDAY 6 December

St Nicholas, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 459) MP Pss 30; 31 OT Is 16:1-5; 17:4-8 NT Acts 28:26-28


EP Pss 32; 33; 34 OT Is 10:5-21 NT Jas 5:7-11

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FRIDAY 7 December

St Ambrose, Bishop, Doctor, memorial (See p. 459) MP Pss 35; 36 OT Is 19:16-25 NT 2 Pet 2:3-7

Mass of the memorial. Advent Pref. I [or of Pastors]

EP I (and First Mass) of the IMMACULATE

CONCEPTION

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SATURDAY 8 December

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, solemnity (See p. 460) Gaudens gaudebo EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Mic 5:2-4 NT Gal 4:1-7 or Matt 1:18-23 (or other Gospel from the Common of the BVM)

MP Pss (24; 46; 87) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Is 61:9-11 NT Rom 5:12-21

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Proper Pref.

EP I (and First Mass) of ADVENT II (EP II of the Immaculate Conception is omitted)

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SUNDAY 9 December

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Populus Sion

(See pp. 171, 178) LH Ps Wk 2 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 Is 21:6-12 or Is 13:1-22 NT 2 Thess 5:12-24 or Lk 24:13-35

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 146; 147 OT Is 22:8b-23 NT Rom 13:8-14


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Is 14:1-21 NT Phil 4:4-9

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MONDAY 10 December

Feria ( Monday of the Second Week of Advent) In Wales: St John Roberts, Priest, Martyr, optional memorial MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Is 24:1-18 NT 1 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13

Mass of the weekday or of the memorial, Advent Pref. I

EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT Is 34:1-17 NT Phil 3: (17-19), 20b-21

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TUESDAY 11 December

St Damasus I, Pope, optional memorial MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Is 24:19 – 22:5 NT 2 Thess 1:5-12


EP Pss 59; 60; 61 OT Is 35:1-10 NT 1 Cor 1:3-9

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, optional memorial MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Is 25:6 – 26:6 NT Rev 21:1-4


EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT Ruth 1:1-22 NT 1 Cor 4:1-5

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THURSDAY 13 December

St Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, memorial (See p. 461) MP Ps 68 OT Is 26:7-21 NT Acts 28:26-28

Mass of the memorial. Advent Pref. I [or of Virgins or Martyrs]

EP Pss 69; 70 OT Ruth 2:1-13 NT Jas 5:7-11

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FRIDAY 14 December

St John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor, memorial (See p. 462) MP Pss 71; 72 OT Is 27:1-13 NT 2 Pet 3:3-7

Mass of the memorial. Advent Pref. I [or of Pastors or Holy Men]

EP Pss 73; 74 OT Ruth 2:14-23 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-11

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SATURDAY 15 December

Feria MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Is 29:1-8 NT Rev 18:2-5

Mass Proper, Advent Pref. I

EP I (and First Mass) of ADVENT III * Rose vestments may be worn

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SUNDAY 16 December

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT Gaudete (See pp. 172, 178-9) LH Ps Wk 3 * Rose vestments may be worn EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Ruth 3:1-18 NT 1 Thess 5:12-24 or Lk 24:35-53

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Is 29:13-24 NT Rom 13:8-14


EP Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Ruth 4:1-22 NT Phil 4:4-9

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MONDAY 17 December

O Sapientia MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Is 45:1-13 NT Rev 18:2-5

Mass Proper, Advent Pref. II

EP Ps 89 OT Is 40:1-11 NT 1 Thess 5:12-24

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TUESDAY 18 December

O Adonai MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Is 46:1-13 NT Rom 13:8-14


EP Pss 93; 94 OT Is 40:12-18, 21-31 NT Phil 4:4-9

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O Radix Jesse MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Is 47:1-15 NT 1 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13


EP Pss 98-101 OT Is 41:8-20 NT Phil 3: (17-19), 20b-21

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O Clavis David MP Pss 102; 103 OT Is 48:1-11 NT 2 Thess 1:5-12


EP Ps 104 OT Is 41:21-29 NT 1 Cor 1:3-9

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FRIDAY 21 December

O Oriens or St Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church MP Ps 105 OT Is 48:12-21; 49:8-13 NT Rev 21:1-4

Mass Proper, Advent Pref. II (see GIRM 355a)

EP Ps 106 OT Is 42:10-25 NT 1 Cor 4:1-5

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O Rex Gentium MP Ps 107 OT Is 19:14 – 50:1 NT Acts 28:26-28


EP I (and First Mass) of ADVENT IV

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SUNDAY 23 December

O Emmanuel FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Rorate cæli (See pp. 174, 179) LH Ps Wk 4 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Is 43:1-13 NT Jas 5:7-11

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Is 51:1-11 NT 2 Pet 3:3-7

Mass Proper, Cr, Advent Pref. II

EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Is 42:18-28 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-11

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MONDAY 24 December

CHRISTMAS EVE (See p. 179) MP Pss 116; 117; 118 OT Is 51:17 – 52: 2, 7-10 NT Rev 18:2-5

Morning Mass of the Day Proper, Advent Pref. II

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TUESDAY 25 December Holy Day of Obligation

NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS) Dominus dixit ad me

Lux fulgebit (See pp. 198, 212) Puer natus est

Vigil Mass Proper, Gl, Cr (genuflection at ‘Et incarnatus’) Christmas Pref. I-III, Proper Communicantes

EP I Pss 113; 147-12-20 OT Is 9:1-6 NT Gal 4:1-7 or Mt 1: (1-17), 18-25

Three Masses of Christmas Day (Midnight, Dawn, Day) Gl, Cr (genuflection at ‘Et incarnatus’), Christmas Pref. I-III, proper Communicantes

MP Pss (2; 19:1-6; 45) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Is 11:1-10 NT Heb 1:1-9

EP II Pss 110; 130 OT Is 52:1-6 NT 1 Jn 1:1-5

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St Stephen, the First Martyr, feast (See p. 462) Etenim sederunt MP Pss 2; 11; 17 OT 2 Chron 24:20-24 NT Acts 6:8 – 7:2, 44-60

Mass Proper, Gl, Christmas Pref. I-III, proper Communicantes

EP Pss 110; 130 OT Is 11:1-10 NT 1 Jn 1:5b-10

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St John, Apostle and Evangelist, feast (See p. 465) In medio Ecclesiæ MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 66; 148-150 OT Ex 33:7-11a NT 1 Jn 1 – 2:3


EP Pss 110; 130 OT Is 9:1-6 Rom 8:1-4

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FRIDAY 28 December

The Holy Innocents, Martyrs, feast (See p. 467) Ex ore infantium MP Pss 2; 33; 148-50 OT Ex 1:8-16, 22 NT Rev 14:1-5


EP Pss 110; 130 OT Is 40:1-8 NT Eph 2:3b-10

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St Thomas of Canterbury, Bishop and Martyr (Feast in England) (See p. 656) Loquebar de testimoniis tuis MP Pss 21:1-7; 13; 148-150 OT Sir 51:1-12 NT 1 Thess 2:1-13, 19-20


EP I (and First Mass) of the HOLY FAMILY

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JANUARY

SUNDAY 30 December

THE HOLY FAMILY, feast Deus in loco sancto

(See p. 202, 212) LH Ps Wk 1 EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 NT Eph 5:21 – 6:4 or Lk 2:41-52

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Christmas Pref. I-III, proper Communicantes

MP Pss (24; 46; 74) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Is 63:7-9 NT Col 3:12-17

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Gen 15:1-6; 21:1-3 NT Phil 2:5-16

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MONDAY 31 December

Seventh Day within the Octave of Christmas Commemoration of St Sylvester I, Pope MP Pss 96; 97; 98 OT Song 2:8 – 3:5 NT Col 2:4-15


EP I (and First Mass) of MARY, MOTHER OF

GOD

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TUESDAY 1 January

MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, solemnity (See p. 204) Salve, sancta Parens EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Is 61:10-11 NT Heb 2:9-17 or Mt 2:13-15, 19-23

MP Pss (24; 87; 99) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Mic 4:3-4, 5a NT Heb 2:9-17

Mass Proper, Gl, Pref of the BVM I, proper Communicantes

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Zeph 3:14-15 NT Gal 4:1-7

-End of the Christmas Octave-

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WEDNESDAY 2 January

Ss Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors, memorial (See p. 470)

LH Ps Wk 1 MP Pss 39; 52 OT Song 4:1 – 5:1 NT Col 1:13-15

Mass of the memorial, Christmas Pref. I-III [or of Pastors]

EP Pss 62; 67 OT Is 49:8-9 NT Col 2:16 – 3:4

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THURSDAY 3 January

The Most Holy Name of Jesus, optional memorial (See pp. 207, 212) MP Pss 44 17 OT Song 5:2 – 6:1 NT Acts 3:1-16

Mass of the weekday or of the memorial, Christmas Pref. I-III

EP Ps 56 OT Is 29:22-24 NT Col 3:5-16

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FRIDAY 4 January

of Christmastide before Epiphany (See p. 212) MP Pss 38 OT Song 6:2 – 7:1 NT Rom 8:3-4

Mass of the weekday. Christmas Pref. I-III

EP Pss 59; 60; 116; 121 OT Is 45:22-24 NT Col 3:17 – 4:1

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SATURDAY 5 January

of Christmastide before Epiphany (See p. 212) MP Pss 106 OT Song 7:11 – 8:7 NT 1 Jn 5:11-14

Mass of the weekday. Christmas Pref. I-III

EP I (and First Mass) of the EPIPHANY

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SUNDAY 6 January

THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD, (The Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles) (See pp. 226-232) Ecce advenit EP I Pss 22; 135 OT Bar 4:30 – 5:9 NT 2 Tim 1:8-10 or Jn 1:1-18 or Jn 2:1-12

MP Pss (72; 96; 97) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Is 52:7-10 NT Rev 15:1-4

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Pref. of Epiphany, proper Communicantes. The moveable feasts of the year may be announced after the Gospel.

EP Pss 110; 112 OT Is 60:1-22 NT Tit 3:4-7

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MONDAY 7 January

St Raymond of Peñafort, Priest, optional memorial

LH Ps Wk 2 MP Pss 35; 36 OT Is 61:1-11 NT 1 Jn 4:14-17

Mass of the weekday or of the memorial. Pref. of Epiphany.

EP Ps 37 OT Is 54:1-17 NT 2 Pet 1:3-4

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TUESDAY 8 January

Tuesday after the Sunday of the Epiphany MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT Is 62:1-12 NT Eph 2:1-7

Mass proper. Pref of Epiphany.

EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT Is 55:1-13 NT Eph 2:8-10

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WEDNESDAY 9 January

Wednesday after the Sunday of the Epiphany MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT Is 63:7-19 NT Rev 21:22-27


EP Pss 47; 48; 49 OT Is 56:1-8 NT Col 1:13-15

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THURSDAY 10 January

Thursday after the Sunday of the Epiphany MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Is 63:19b – 64:11 NT 1 Jn 1:5-7


EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT Is 59:15-21 NT 1 Jn 1:8-10

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FRIDAY 11 January

Friday after the Sunday of the Epiphany MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Is 65:13-25 NT 1 Jn 5:1-4


EP Pss 59; 60; 61 Bar 4:5-29 NT Rom 8:1-4

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SATURDAY 12 January

In the Ordinariate: St Benedict Biscop, Abbot, optional memorial (See p. 554) or St Ælred of Rievaulx, Abbot (See p. 552) MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Is 66:10-14, 18-23 NT 1 Jn 5:13-15

Mass of the weekday or of the memorial. Pref of Epiphany.

EP I (and First Mass) of the BAPTISM OF THE LORD

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SUNDAY 13 January

The Baptism of the Lord, feast (See p. 233) Dilexisti EP I Pss 22; 135 OT Bar 4:30 – 5:9 NT Acts 10:34-43 or Lk 3:15-16, 21-22

MP Pss 63:1-9, 148-150 OT Is 61:1-2a NT 1 Jn 5:1-9

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Proper pref.

EP Pss 110; 112 OT Is 42:1-9, 49:1-9 NT Acts 10:34-43 (as at EP I)

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MONDAY 14 January

Feria (Monday of Week 1 of the Year) LH Ps Wk 1

MP Pss 71; 72 OT Sir 1:1-20 or 1 Chron 29:10-13 NT 2 Thess 3:6-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 73; 74 OT Jer 17:7-10 NT Rom 1:1-17 or Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 15 January

Feria MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Sir 11:11-28 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Ps 78 OT Job 5:17-18 NT 1 Rom 1:18-32 or 1 Jn 3:1-3 Anniversary of establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and of the appointment of The Rt Rev’d Mgr Keith Newton as first Ordinary, 15.i.2011

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WEDNESDAY 16 January

Feria MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Sir 24:1-23 or Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 1 Pet 1:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT Tob 4:16-20 NT Rom 2:1-16 or Jas 1:22-25

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THURSDAY 17 January

St Antony of Egypt, Abbot, memorial (See p. 471) MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Sir 42:15 – 43:12 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Holy Men]

EP Ps 89 OT Is 66:1-2 NT Rom 2:17-29 or 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 18 January

Feria

Beginning of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity.

MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Sir 43:13-33 or Is 45:15-22 NT Eph 4:29-32

Mass at choice

EP Pss 93; 94 OT Is 45:22-25 NT Rom 3:1-20 or Rom 15:1-3

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SATURDAY 19 January

St Wulstan, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 558) or Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Sir 44:1-2, 16 – 45:5 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of EPIPHANY II

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SUNDAY 20 January

SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY (Second Sunday per annum) Omnis terra (See pp. 241, 254) LH Ps Wk 2 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Wis 7:27a – 8:1 NT Rom 3:21-31 or Col 1:3-6a or Mk 16:1-20

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Deut 1:1, 6-18 or Ezek 36:25-27 NT Rom 5:1-5

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Pref. of Sundays in Ordinary Time

EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Deut 15:7-8, 10-11, NT Rom 4:1-25 or 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 21 January

St Agnes, Virgin, Martyr, memorial (See p. 471) MP Ps 105 OT Deut 4:1-8, 32-40 or Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 or Jer 15:15-21 NT Eph 1:3-10

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Virgins or Martyrs]

EP Ps 106 OT Is 55:1-5 NT Rom 5:1-11 or 1 Thess 2:9-13

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TUESDAY 22 January

St Vincent, Deacon, Martyr, optional memorial MP Ps 107 OT Deut 6:4-25 or Is 38:10-14, 17-20 NT 1 Thess 5:4-11

Mass at choice

EP Pss 108; 109 OT Is 55:6-9 NT Rom 5:12-21 or Rom 3:21-26

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Feria (Wednesday of Week 2 per annum) MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Deut 7:6-14, 8:1-6 or Is 55:10-12 NT Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Pss 113; 114; 115 OT Is 55:10-12 NT Rom 6:1-11 or 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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THURSDAY 24 January

St Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor, memorial (See p. 472) MP Pss 116; 117; 118 OT Deut 9:7-21, 25-29 or Is 12:1-6 NT Rom 14:17-19

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors]

EP Ps 119:1-32 OT Deut 1:16-18 NT Rom 6:12-23 or 1 Pet 1:22-25

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FRIDAY 25 January

The Conversion of St Paul the Apostle, feast (See p. 472) Scio cui credidi MP Ps 19:1-6; 64; 97; 148-150 OT Is 45:18-25 NT Gal 1:11-24

Mass proper, Gl, Pref. of Apostles I or II

EP Ps 116; 126 OT Sir 39:1-10 NT 1 Cor 15:1-11

End of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity

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SATURDAY 26 January

Ss Timothy & Titus, Bishops, memorial (See p. 474) MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Deut 16:1-17 or Deut 32:1-12 NT Rom 12:14-16a

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors], First Reading & Psalm of the memorial, Alleluia & Gospel of the weekday or memorial.

EP I (and First Mass) of SEPTUAGESIMA

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SUNDAY 27 January

THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE LENT (Septuagesima) Adorate Deum (Third Sunday per annum) LH Ps Wk 3 (See pp. 249, 255) EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Deut 8:5-10 NT Rom 7:14-25 or Lk 24:1-12

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Deut 18:1-22 NT Rom 8:9-11


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Ezek 37:12b-14 NT Rom 8:1-17

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MONDAY 28 January

St Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor, memorial (See p. 475) MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT Deut 24:1 – 25:4 or Is 2:2-5 NT Jas 2:12-13

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors]

EP Pss 136; 137; 138 OT Jer 22:1-4 NT Rom 8:18-39 or Jas 4:11-12

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TUESDAY 29 January

Feria (Tuesday of Week 3 per annum) MP Pss 139; 140 OT Deut 26:1-19 or Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 141; 142; 143 OT Is 26:7-12 NT Rom 9:1-18 or Rom 12:9-12

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FEBRUARY


Feria MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Deut 29:1-5 or Is 33:13-16 NT 1 Cor 13:4-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 147-150 OT Job 1:20-22; 2:9-10 NT Rom 9:19-33 or Eph 3:14-21

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THURSDAY 31 January

St John Bosco, Priest, memorial MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Deut 30:1-20 or Is 40:10-17 NT 1 Pet 4:7-11

Mass of the memorial. Pref of weekdays [or of Pastors of Holy Men]

EP Pss 147-150 OT Deut 4:7-8 NT Rom 10:1-21 or Eph 3:14-21

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FRIDAY 1 February

In the Ordinariate: St Brigid of Kildare, Abbess, optional memorial (See p. 560) MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT Deut 31:1-15, 23 or Jer 14:17-21 NT 2 Cor 12:9b-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 6; 7; 8 OT Jer 18:1-6 NT Rom 11:1-12 or Jas 1:2-6

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SATURDAY 2 February

The Presentation of the Lord, feast (Candlemas) Suscepimus (See p. 236) MP Pss (2; 19:1-6; 45; 63:1-9) 148-150 OT Ex 13:1-3a, 11-16 NT 1 Jn 1:5b-10

Blessing of Candles with Procession or Solemn Entrance, Mass Proper, Penitential Rite omitted, Gl, Proper Pref. Either the First or Second Reading is omitted.

EP I (and First Mass) of SEXAGESIMA

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SUNDAY 3 February

SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT (Sexagesima) Lætetur cor (Fourth Sunday per annum) LH Ps Wk 4 (See pp. 250, 255) EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Is 25:6-10a NT Rom 11:13-24 or Lk 24:13-35

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Deut 10:12-15 NT 1 Thess 1:1 – 2:11


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Song 8:5-7 NT Rom 11:25-36

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MONDAY 4 February

In the Ordinariate: St Gilbert of Sempringham, Religious, optional memorial (See p. 561) MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT Judith 9:24-27 or Is 42:10-16 NT 1 Thess 2:13 – 3:13 or Rom 12:3-8

Mass at choice

EP Pss 22; 23 OT Bar 4:21-22 NT Rom 12:1-21 or 1 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13

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TUESDAY 5 February

St Agatha, Virgin, Martyr, memorial MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Is 55:1-5 or Dan 3:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 NT 1 Thess 4:1-14 or 1 Jn 3:17-18

Mass of the memorial. Pref of weekdays [or of Virgins or Martyrs]

EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT Deut 30:11-14 NT Rom 13:1-14 or Col 3:12-16

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WEDNESDAY 6 February

St Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs, memorial MP Pss 30; 31 OT Deut 4:39-40 or Is 55:10-12 or Is 61:10 – 62:5 NT 1 Thess 5:1-28

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Martyrs]

EP Pss 32; 33; 34 OT Is 55:10-12 NT Rom 14:1-23 or 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 7 February

Feria (Thursday of Week 4 per annum) MP Pss 35; 36 OT Is 66:10-14a NT 2 Thess 1:1-12 or Rom 8:18-21

Mass at choice

EP Ps 37 OT Wis 1:1-5 NT Rom 15:1-13 or Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 8 February

St Jerome Emiliani, Priest, optional memorial St Josephine Bakhita, Virgin, optional memorial MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT Wis Tob 13:8-16 NT 2 Thess 2:1-17 or Gal 2:19-20

Mass at choice

EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT Wis 1:6-11 NT Rom 15:14-32 or Rom 8:1-6

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SATURDAY 9 February

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday or In Wales: St Teilo, Bishop, optional memorial MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT Ezek 36:34-28 NT 2 Thess 3:1-18 or 2 Pet 3:8b-15a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of QUINQUAGESIMA

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SUNDAY 10 February

SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE LENT (Quinquagesima) Venite, adoremus Deum (Fifth Sunday per annum) LH Ps Wk 1 (See pp. 252, 256) EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Dan 6:26b-27 NT Rom 16:1-27 or Lk 24:35-53

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Ex 20:1-17 NT Gal 1:1-12


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Is 43:16-21 NT 1 Cor 1:1-17

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MONDAY 11 February

Our Lady of Lourdes, optional memorial MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Deut 28:1-6 or1 Chron 29:10-13 NT Gal 1:13 – 2:10 or 2 Thess 3:6-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 59; 60; 61 OT Jer 17:7-10 NT 1 Cor 18:18-31 or Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 12 February

Feria (Tuesday of Week 5 per annum) MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Prov 3:13-15 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Gal 2:11 – 3:14 or Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT Job 5:17-18 NT 1 Cor 2:1-16 or 1 Jn 3:1-3

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WEDNESDAY 13 February Day of Fasting & Abstinence

ASH WEDNESDAY (See p. 258) MP Pss 51; 100 OT Is 58:1-12 NT Phil 2:12-18

Mass Proper, Lent Pref. IV. Blessing & distribution of Ashes after Gospel & Homily.

EP Pss 94; 139 OT Deut 7:6-9 NT 1 Tim 6:6-19

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THURSDAY 14 February

Ss Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Patrons of Europe, feast (See p. 476) Sacerdotes tui MP Pss 21; 92 OT Wis 5:15-16 NT Tit 1:7-11, 2:1-8

Mass Proper, Gl, Pref. of Pastors

EP Pss 15; 112 OT Wis 5:1-16, NT 1 Pet 5:1-4

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FRIDAY 15 February

Friday after Ash Wednesday (See p. 270, 271) MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Ex 2:1-22 NT Eph 5:1-4

Mass Proper, Lent Pref. I-IV

EP Ps 78 OT Deut 4:1-8, 32-40 NT Jn 5:16-20

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SATURDAY 16 February

Saturday after Ash Wednesday (See p. 270, 271) MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Ex 3:1-20 NT Rev 3:14-22

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV

EP I (and First Mass) of LENT I

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SUNDAY 17 February

FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT Invocabit me (See pp. 271, 275, 284) LH Ps Wk 1 EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Ex 3:1-20 NT 2 Cor 6:1-4a or Lk 13:22-23

MP Pss 51; 63; 118 148-150 OT Ex 5:1 – 6:1 NT 1 Thess 4:1-8

Mass Proper, Cr, Proper Pref.

EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Deut 6:4-25 NT 1 Cor 9:19-27

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MONDAY 18 February

of the First Week of Lent MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Ex 6:2-12 NT Jas 1:22-27


EP Pss 93; 94 OT Deut 7:6-14; 8:1-6 NT Rom 12:1-8

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TUESDAY 19 February

of the First Week of Lent MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Ex 6:29 – 7:25 NT Rom 12:9-12


EP Pss 98-101 OT Deut 9:7-21, 25-29 NT Jas 2:14-18

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of the First Week of Lent MP Pss 102; 103 OT Ex 10:21 – 11:10 NT 2 Cor 6:4-10


EP Ps 104 OT Deut 10:12 – 11:7, 26-28 NT Phil 2:12-18

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of the First Week of Lent (commemoration of St Peter Damian, Bishop) MP Ps 105 OT Ex 12:1-20 NT Heb 10:32-26

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV (See GIRM 355a)

EP Ps 106 OT Deut 12:1-14 NT Jas 54:7-10

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FRIDAY 22 February

The Chair of St Peter the Apostle, feast (See p. 477) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97; 148-150 OT Exek 3:4-11 NT Acts 11:1-18 Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Apostles I-II EP Pss 116; 126 OT Ezek 34:11-16 NT 1 Pet 1:3-5

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SATURDAY 23 February

of the First Week of Lent (commemoration of St Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr) (See p. 478) MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Ex 12:37-49; 13:11-16 NT Rev 3:14-22


EP I (and First Mass) of LENT II

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SUNDAY 24 February

SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT Tibi dixit (See pp. 271, 276, 284) LH Ps Wk 2 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Deut 16:1-17 NT 2 Cor 6:1-4a or Mk 8:27-38

MP Pss 51; 63; 118 148-150 OT Ex 14:17 – 14:9 NT 1 Thess 4:1-8


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Deut 18:1-22 NT 1 Cor 9:19-27

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MONDAY 25 February

of the Second Week of Lent MP Ps 119:33-72 OT Ex 14:10-31 NT Jas 1:22-27


EP Ps 119:73-104 OT Deut 24:1 – 25:4 NT Rom 12:1-18

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TUESDAY 26 February

of the Second Week of Lent MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Ex 16:1-18, 35 NT Rom 12:9-12


EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Deut 26:1-19 NT Jas 2:14-18

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MARCH


of the Second Week of Lent MP Pss 120-125 OT Ex 17:1-16 NT 2 Cor 6:4-10


EP Pss 126-131 OT Deut 29:1-5, 9-28 NT Phil 2:12-18

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of the Second Week of Lent MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT Ex 18:13-27 NT Heb 10:32-36


EP Pss 136; 137; 138 OT Deut 30:1-20 NT Jas 4:7-20

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FRIDAY 1 March

St David, Patron of Wales, feast (In Wales: SOLEMNITY) (See p. 563) MP Pss 21; 92; 148-150 OT Wis 5:15-16 NT Eph 4:1-24

Mass Proper, Gl, Pref. of Holy Men

EP Pss 6; 7; 8 OT Wis 5:1-15 NT Rom 28:30

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SATURDAY 2 March

of the Second Week of Lent MP Pss 9; 10; 11 OT Ex 20:1-17 NT Rev 3:14-22


EP I (and First Mass) of LENT III

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SUNDAY 3 March

THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT Oculi mei (See pp. 271, 278, 284) LH Ps Wk 3 EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Deut 32:48-52, 34:1-12 NT 2 Cor 6:14a or Mk 9:30-48 MP Pss 51; 63; 118 148-150 OT Ex 22:20 – 23:9 NT Heb 1:1-9

Mass Proper, Cr, Pref. Lent I or II (or Proper Pref. if the Gospel is Jn 4:5-25 – The Samaritan Woman)

EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Deut 4:29-31 NT 1 Cor 9:19-27

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MONDAY 4 March

of the Third Week of Lent (commemoration of St Casimir) MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT Ex 24:1-18 NT Jas 1:22-27


EP Pss 22; 23 OT Ex Ex 19:4-6a NT Heb 2:5-18

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TUESDAY 5 March

of the Third Week of Lent (In the Ordinariate: commemoration of St Piran, Abbot) (See p. 565) MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Ex 32:1-20 OT Rom 12:9-12


EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT Joel 2:12-17 NT Heb 3:1-19

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WEDNESDAY 6 March

of the Third Week of Lent MP Pss 30; 31 OT Ex 33:7-11, 18-23; 34:5-9, 29-35 NT 2 Cor 6:4-10


EP Pss 32; 33; 34 OT Deut 7:6-9 NT Heb 4:1-13

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THURSDAY 7 March

of the Third Week of Lent (commemoration of Ss Perpetua and Felicity and their Companions, Martyrs) (See p. 479) MP Pss 35; 36 OT Ex 34:10-28 NT Heb 10:32-36


EP Ps 37 OT 1 Kings 8:51-53a NT Heb 4:14 – 5:10

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FRIDAY 8 March

of the Third Week of Lent (commemoration of St John of God, Religious) MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT Ex 35:30 – 36:1; 37:1-9 NT Eph 5:1-4


EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT Is 52:11b-12 NT Heb 5:11 – 6:8

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SATURDAY 9 March

of the Third Week of Lent (commemoration of St Frances of Rome, Religious) MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT Ex 40:16-38 NT Rev 3:14-22


EP I (and First Mass) of LENT IV *Rose vestments may be worn

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SUNDAY 10 March

FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT (Mothering Sunday) Lætare (See pp. 271, 279, 285) LH Ps Wk 4 *Rose vestments may be worn EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Ex 40:16-38 NT Heb 6:9-20 or Mk 10:32-45

MP Pss 51; 63; 118 148-150 OT Is 1:16-18 NT 1 Thess 4:1-8

Mass Proper, Cr, Pref. Lent I or II (or Proper Pref. if the Gospel is Jn 9:1-41 – The man born blind)

EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Lev 8:1-17; 9:22-24 NT Heb 7:1-11

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MONDAY 11 March

of the Fourth Week of Lent MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Lev 16:2-28 NT Jas 1:22-27


EP Pss 59; 60; 61 OT Ex 19:4-6a NT Heb 7:11-28

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TUESDAY 12 March

of the Fourth Week of Lent MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Lev 19:1-18, 31-37 NT Rom 12:9-12

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT Joel 2:12-17 NT Heb 8:1-13

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WEDNESDAY 13 March

of the Fourth Week of Lent MP Ps 68 OT Num 11:4-6, 10-30 NT Phil 2:12-18

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV EP Pss 69; 70 OT Deut 7:6-9 NT Heb 9:1-10

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THURSDAY 14 March

of the Fourth Week of Lent MP Pss 71; 72 OT Num 12:16 – 13:3, 17-33 NT Heb 10:32-26

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV EP Pss 73; 74 OT 1 Kings 8:51-53a NT Heb 9:11-28

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FRIDAY 15 March

of the Fourth Week of Lent MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Num 14:1-25 NT Eph 5:1-4

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV EP Ps 78 OT Is 53:11b-12 NT Heb 10:1-10

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SATURDAY 16 March

of the Fourth Week of Lent MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Num 20:1-13; 21:4-9 NT Rev 3:14-22

Mass proper, Lent Pref. I-IV EP I (and First Mass) of PASSION SUNDAY

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SUNDAY 17 March

FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT (Passion Sunday) Iudica me, Deus (See pp. 287, 290, 294) LH Ps Wk 1 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Num 20:1-13; 21:4-9 NT Heb 10:11-25 or Mt 21:33-46

MP Pss 51; 63; 118 148-150 OT Lev 23:4-7 NT Acts 13:26-30

Mass Proper, Cr, Pref. of Lent I or II (or Proper if the Gospel is Jn 11:1-45 – The raising of Lazarus)

EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Num 12:1-15 NT Heb 1:1 – 2:4

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MONDAY 18 March

of the Fifth Week of Lent (commemoration of St Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor of the Church) MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Jer 11:19-20 NT Heb 2:5-18 or Rom 5:8-11

Mass proper, Passion Pref. I (See GIRM 355a) EP I (and First Mass) of ST JOSEPH

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ST JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, solemnity (See p. 479) Iustus ut palma EP I Pss 113; 146 OT Wis 10:1-21 NT Col 3:23-24 or the Gospel read at Mass

MP Pss (2:1-7, 13) 63:1-9, 148-150 OT Is 63:7-16 NT Heb 11:1-16

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Pref. of St Joseph

EP Pss 15; 112 OT 2 Chron 6:12-17 NT Eph 3:14-21

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WEDNESDAY 20 March

of the Fifth Week of Lent MP Pss 102; 103 OT Is 50:5-7 NT Heb 6:9-20 or Eph 4:32 – 5:2

Mass proper, Passion Pref. I

EP Ps 104 OT Num 16:1-11, 16-24, 28-35 NT Heb 11:32-40

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THURSDAY 21 March

of the Fifth Week of Lent MP Ps 105 OT 1 Kings 8:51-53a NT Heb 7:1-10 or Heb 2:9b-10

Mass proper, Passion Pref. I EP Ps 106 OT Num 20:1-13; 21:4-9 NT Heb 12:1-13

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FRIDAY 22 March

of the Fifth Week of Lent MP Ps 107 OT Is 52:13-15 NT Heb 7:11-18 or 1 Pet 2:21-24

Mass proper, Passion Pref. I EP Pss 108; 109 OT Num 22:1-8, 20-35 NT Heb 12:14-29

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SATURDAY 23 March

of the Fifth Week of Lent (commemoration of St Turibius of Mongrovejo, Bishop) MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Is 65:1b-3a NT Heb 8:1-13 or 1 Pet 1:18-21

Mass proper, Passion Pref. I (See GIRM 355a) EP I (and First Mass) of PALM SUNDAY

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SUNDAY 24 March

PALM SUNDAY (See p. 295) LH Ps Wk 2 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Num 24:1-19NT Heb 13:1-25 or Jn 8:21-30

MP Pss 51; 63; 118 148-150 OT Is 50:4-51:3 NT 2 Cor 4:10-12


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Jer 22:1-9; 23:1-8 NT Heb 10:1-18

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MONDAY 25 March

Monday in Holy Week Iudica, Domine (See pp. 298-300) The Annunciation is transferred to Monday, 8th April. MP Ps 119:33-72 OT Jer 11:19-20 NT Heb 10:19-39 or Heb 10:35-39

Mass Proper, Pref. of the Passion II

EP Ps 119:73-104 OT Is 52:13 – 53:12 NT Rom 5:8-9

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TUESDAY 26 March

Tuesday in Holy Week Ego autem (See pp. 298-300) MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Zech 12:10-11a NT Heb 12:1-13 or Rom 6:3-5


EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Lam 1:1-12, 18-20 NT 1 Cor 1:18-30

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WEDNESDAY 27 March

Wednesday in Holy Week (See pp. 298-300) In nomine Domini MP Pss 120-125 OT Is 50:5-7 NT Heb 12:14-29 or 1 Jn 4:9-11


EP Pss 126-131 OT Lam 2:1-10 NT Eph 4:32 – 5:2

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EASTER TRIDUUM

THURSDAY 28 March

MAUNDY THURSDAY Nos autem (See p. 301) MP Ps (69) 80; 81 OT Lam 2:10-22 NT Heb 2:9-10 or Heb 2:9-10 __________________ EP is said only by those who do not attend the Mass of the Lord’s Supper: EP Pss 56; 72 OT Ex 12:1-8, 11-14 NT Heb 13:12-13 or 1 Cor 11:23-26 __________________

Mass Proper, Gl, Pref, of the Eucharist I Proper Communicantes, Hanc igitur & Qui, pridie

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FRIDAY 29 March

GOOD FRIDAY (See p. 306) MP No Invitatory Pss (2; 22; 38) 51; 147:12-20 OT Lam 3:1-33 NT Heb 9:11-28 __________________ EP is said only by those who do not attend the Afternoon Liturgy of the Passion EP Pss 116; 143 OT Is 52:13 – 53:12 NT Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9 or Lk 23:1-49 __________________

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (see Missal)

The sacraments are not celebrated today, except for Penance and the Anointing of the Sick.

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SATURDAY 30 March

HOLY SATURDAY (Easter Eve) (See p. 311) MP No Invitatory Pss (4; 16; 24; 95) 64; 150 OT Lam 5:1-22 NT Heb 4:1-13 The sacraments are not celebrated today, except for Penance and the Anointing of the Sick. EP Pss 116; 143 OT Lam 5:1-22 NT 1 Pet 1:18-21 or Lk 23:50-56

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SUNDAY 31 March

EASTER SUNDAY Resurrexi (See pp. 317, 342)

Easter Vigil: Mass Proper, Easter Pref. I, Proper Communicantes, proper Hanc igitur

MP Pss 63; 93; 118; 148-150 OT Ex 5:1b-2 NT Acts 10:4-43 (or, for those who have not attended the Easter Vigil: OT Ex 14:15 – 15:1 NT Rom 6:3-11)

Mass Proper Gl, Sequence, [Cr], Easter Pref. I, Proper Communicantes, proper Hanc igitur, double Alleluia at the dismissal

EP Pss 110-115 OT Is 43:1-21 NT Heb 10:12-14 or Lk 24:13-35

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APRIL

MONDAY 1 April

Monday of Easter Week Introduxit vos Dominus

(See pp. 317, 320, 342) MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ex 15:1b-2 or Gen 22:1-8 NT 1 Pet 1:1-21

Mass Proper Gl, [Sequence,] Easter Pref. I, Proper Communicantes, proper Hanc igitur, double Alleluia at the dismissal

EP Pss 110; 114 OT Song 1:9 – 2:7 NT Acts 1:1-26

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TUESDAY 2 April

Tuesday of Easter Week Aqua sapientiæ (See pp. 317, 322, 342) MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ex 15b-2 or Is 54:5-14 NT 1 Pet 1:22 – 2:10


EP Pss 110; 114 OT Song 2:8-17 NT Acts 2:1-21

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WEDNESDAY 3 April

Wednesday of Easter Week (See pp. 317, 323, 342) Venite benedicti MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ex 15:1b-2 or Is 55:1-11 NT 1 Pet 2:11-25


EP Ps 110; 114 OT Song 3 NT Acts 2:22-41

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THURSDAY 4 April

Thursday of Easter Week (See pp. 317, 324, 342) Vitricem MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ex 15:1b-2 or Bar 3:9-15, 32 – 4:4 NT 1 Pet 3:1-17


EP Pss 110; 114 OT Song 5:2 – 6:3 NT Acts 2:42 – 3:11

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FRIDAY 5 April

Friday of Easter Week (See pp. 317, 325, 342) Eduxit eos MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ex 15:1b-2 or Ezek 36:16-28 NT 1 Pet 3:18 – 4:11


EP Pss 110; 114 OT Song 7:10 – 8:4 NT Acts 3:12 – 4:4

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SATURDAY 6 April

Saturday of Easter Week (See pp. 317, 327, 342) Eduxit Dominus MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ex 15:1b-2 NT 1 Pet 4:12 – 5:14


EP I (and First Mass) of Second Sunday of Easter

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SUNDAY 7 April

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (Divine Mercy Sunday) Quasimodo (See pp. 331, 342) EP I Pss 110; 114 OT Song 8:5-7 NT Acts 4:5-31 or Mk 16:1-21

MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Hos 6:1-2 or Ex 14:10-31; 15:20-21 NT Acts 10:40-43

Mass Proper Gl, [Sequence,] Cr, Easter Pref. I, Proper Communicantes, proper Hanc igitur, double Alleluia at the dismissal

EP II Pss 110; 114 OT Is 52:13 – 53:12 NT Col 3:1-17

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MONDAY 8 April

THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD (Lady Day), feast (See p. 481) Rorate, cæli MP Pss (2; 19:1-6; 45) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT 1 Chron 17:1-15 NT Heb 2:5-10

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Genuflection at ‘Et incarnatus’ Proper Pref.

EP Pss 110; 130 OT Wis 9:1-12 NT Gal 4:1-7

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TUESDAY 9 April

of the Second Week of Easter LH Ps Wk 2 MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT Hos 6:1-2 NT Rev 2:1-11

Mass of the Easter weekday, Easter Pref. II-V

EP Pss 47; 48; 49 OT Gen 7:11-18 NT Acts 5:17-42

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WEDNESDAY 10 April

of the Second Week of Easter MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Hos 6:1-2 NT Rev 2:12-29



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THURSDAY 11 April

St Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, memorial MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Hos 6:1-2 NT Rev 3:1-22

Mass of the memorial. Easter Pref. II-V [or of Martyrs]


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FRIDAY 12 April

of the Second Week of Easter MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Hos 6:1-2 NT Rev 4:1-11



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SATURDAY 13 April

St Martin I, Pope and Martyr, optional memorial MP Ps 68 OT Hos 6:1-2 NT Rev 5:1-14

Mass of the Easter weekday or of the memorial, Easter Pref. II-V

EP I (and First Mass) of EASTER III

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SUNDAY 14 April

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER Iubilate Deo (See pp. 333, 343) LH Ps Wk 3 EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Zeph 3:24-30 NT Rev 5:1-14 or Lk 24:1-12

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 6:1-17

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Easter Pref. II-V

EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Is 38:9-20 NT Acts 8:4-25

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MONDAY 15 April

of the Third Week of Easter MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 7:1-17


EP Ps 78 OT Jon 1:1-10 NT Acts 8:26-40

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TUESDAY 16 April

In the Ordinariate: St Magnus of Orkney, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 568) MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 8:1-13


EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT Jon 1:11-17 NT Acts 9:1-22

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WEDNESDAY 17 April

of the Third Week of Easter MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 9:1-12


EP Ps 89 OT Jon 2:1-10 NT Acts 9:23-43

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THURSDAY 18 April

of the Third Week of Easter MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 9:13-21


EP Pss 93; 94 OT Jon 3:1-10 NT Acts 10:1-33

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FRIDAY 19 April

In the Ordinariate: St Alphege, Bishop, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 570) MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 10:1-11


EP Pss 98-101 OT Jon 4:1-11 NT Acts 10:34 – 11:4, 18 Anniversary of the Election of the Holy Father, 19.iv.2005

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SATURDAY 20 April

of the Third Week of Easter or In Wales: St Beuno, Abbot, optional memorial MP Pss 102; 103 OT Zeph 3:11-12 NT Rev 11:1-19


EP I (and First Mass) of EASTER IV

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SUNDAY 21 April

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Misericordia Domini (See pp. 335, 343) LH Ps Wk 4 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Gen 7:1-24 NT Acts 11:19-30 or Lk 24:13-35

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Is 63:1-6 NT Rev 12:1-18

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Easter Pref. II-V

EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Wis 1:1-15 NT Acts 12:1-23

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MONDAY 22 April

of the Fourth Week of Easter MP Ps 107 OT Is 63:1-6 NT Rev 13:1-18


EP I (and First Mass) of ST GEORGE

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TUESDAY 23 April

ST GEORGE, MARTYR, PATRON OF ENGLAND, solemnity (See p. 573) EP I Ps 118 OT 1 Macc 2:59-64 NT Rev 3:10-12 or the Gospel read at Mass

MP Pss (2; 11; 17) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Josh 1:1-9 NT Eph 6:10-20

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Pref. of Martyrs, Second Reading from the Common of Martyrs

EP Pss 113; 114; 115 OT Is 43:1-7 NT Rev 7:9-17

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WEDNESDAY 24 April

In the Ordinariate: St Mellitus, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 575) or St Adalbert, Bishop, Martyr, optional memorial or St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest, Martyr, optional memorial

MP Pss 116; 117; 118 OT Is 63:1-6 NT Rev 14:14 – 15:4

Mass of the Easter weekday or the memorial, Easter Pref. II-V

EP Ps 119:1-32 OT Wis 4:16 – 5:8 NT Acts 13:44 – 14:7 Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, 24.iv.2005

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THURSDAY 25 April

St Mark the Evangelist, feast (See p. 484) MP Pss 19:1-6; 67; 97; 148-150 OT Sir 2:1-11 NT Eph 4:1-16

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Apostles II

EP Pss 116; 126 OT Is 62:6-12 NT 2 Tim 4:1-11

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FRIDAY 26 April

of the Fourth Week of Easter MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Is 63:1-6 NT Rev 17:1-18


EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Wis 6:12-23 NT Acts 15:5-35

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SATURDAY 27 April

of the Fourth Week of Easter MP Pss 120-125 OT Is 63:1-6 NT Rev 18:1-20


EP I (and First Mass) of EASTER V

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SUNDAY 28 April

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Cantate Domino (See pp. 336, 343) LH Ps Wk 1 EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Bar 3:9-15, 32-36; 4:1-3 or Wis 7:1-14 NT Acts 15:36 – 16:15

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Is 12:1-6 NT Rev 18:21 – 19:10

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Easter Pref. II-V EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Wis 7:21 – 8:1NT Acts 16:16-40

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MONDAY 29 April

St Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Patron of Europe, feast Dilexisti iustitiam (See p. 486) MP Pss 21:1-7, 13; 92 OT Song 8:5-7 NT 1 Cor 7:25-40

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Virgins

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Wis 7:7-16, 22-30 NT 1 Cor 2:1-16

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TUESDAY 30 April

St Pius V, Pope, optional memorial MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Is 12:1-6 NT Rev 19:11-21


EP Pss 147-150 OT Wis 9:1, 7-18 NT Acts 17:19-34

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MAY

WEDNESDAY 1 May

St Joseph the Worker, optional memorial MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT Is 12:1-6 NT Rev 21:1-8


EP Pss 6; 7; 8 OT Wis 13:1-9 NT Acts 18:1-28

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THURSDAY 2 May

St Athanasius, Bishop, Doctor, memorial (See p. 487) MP Pss 9; 10; 11 OT Is 12:1-6 NT Rev 21:9-27

Mass of the memorial, Easter Pref. II-V [or of Pastors]

EP Pss 12; 13; (14) OT Wis 14:27 – 15:3 NT Acts 19:1-20

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FRIDAY 3 May

Ss Philip & James, Apostles, feast (See p. 487) MP Pss 19:1-6l 64; 97 OT Job 23:1-12 NT Acts 5:12-32

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Apostles I or II

EP Ps 116; 126 OT Prov 4:5-18 NT Eph 4:11-16

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SATURDAY 4 May

Holy English Martyrs, feast (See p. 577) MP Pss 2; 33 OT Wis 3:1-15 NT Rev 7:9-17

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Martyrs

EP I (and First Mass) of EASTER VI

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SUNDAY 5 May

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (Rogation Sunday) Vocem iucunditatis (See pp. 337, 343) LH Ps Wk 2 EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Wis 19:1-8, 18-22 NT Rev 22:1-21

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Is 55:6-9 NT Acts 20:17-38

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Easter Pref. II-V EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Sir 43:1-2, 27-32 NT 1 Jn 1:1-10

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MONDAY 6 May

Rogation Day In the Ordinariate: St John the Apostle in Eastertide (formerly St John ante portam Latinam) (See pp. 344, 578) MP Pss 30; 31 OT Is 55:6-9 NT 1 Jn 2:1-11

Mass of the Easter weekday or of the memorial, Easter Pref. II-V [or of the Apostles]

EP Pss 32; 33; 34 OT Dan 6:1-9 NT Acts 21:1-26

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TUESDAY 7 May

Rogation Day of the Sixth Week of Easter (See p. 344) MP Pss 35; 36 OT Is 55:6-9 NT 1 Jn 2:12-17


EP Ps 37 OT Dan 6:10-14 NT Acts 21:27-39

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WEDNESDAY 8 May

Rogation Day of the Sixth Week of Easter (See p. 344) MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT Is 55:6-9 NT 1 Jn 2:18-29


EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT Dan 6:15-18 NT Acts 21:40 – 22:21

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THURSDAY 9 May

of the Sixth Week of Easter MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT Is 55:6-9 NT 1 Jn 3:1-10


EP Pss 47; 48; 49 OT Dan 6:19-23 NT Acts 22:22 – 23:11

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FRIDAY 10 May

of the Sixth Week of Easter MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Is 55:6-9 NT 1 Jn 3:11-17


EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT Dan 6:19-28 NT Acts 23:12-35

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SATURDAY 11 May

of the Sixth Week of Easter MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Is 55:6-9 NT 1 Jn 3:18-24


EP I and Vigil Mass of the ASCENSION

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SUNDAY 12 May

ASCENSION OF THE LORD, solemnity (See p. 346) Viri Galilæi

EP I Pss 113; 117 OT 2 Kings 2:1-15 NT Eph 2:4-6 or Lk 24:46-53

Vigil Mass Gl, Cr, Ascension Pref. I or II, Proper Communicantes

MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Dan 7:9-14 NT Heb 9:24-28; 10:19-23

Mass Proper, Gl, Cr, Ascension Pref I or II, proper Communicants

EP II Pss 110; 147 OT 2 Kings 2:1-15 NT Eph 4:1-24

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MONDAY 13 May

Our Lady of Fatima, optional memorial (See pp. 349-59) LH Ps Wk 3 MP Ps 68 OT Ezek 37:4-7 NT 1 Jn 4:1-10

Mass of the Easter weekday or of the memorial, Ascension Pref. I-II

EP Pss 69; 70 OT Gen 11:1-9 NT Acts 25:1-27

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TUESDAY 14 May

St Matthias the Apostle, feast (See p. 489) Vocem iucunditatis MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97; 148-150 OT 1 Sam 16:1-3 NT Acts 5:12-32


EP Pss 116; 126 1 Sam 12:1-5 NT Acts 20:17-35

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WEDNESDAY 15 May

of the Seventh Week of Easter (See pp. 349-59) MP Pss 75; 76; 77OT Ezek 37:4-7 NT 1 Jn 5:1-12

Mass of the Easter weekday, Ascension Pref. I-II

EP Ps 78 OT Ezel 37:1-14 NT Acts 27:1-20

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THURSDAY 16 May

of the Seventh Week of Easter (See pp. 349-59) MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Ezek 37:4-7 NT 1 Jn 5:13-21


EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT Ezek 37:4-7 NT 1 Jn 5:13-21

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FRIDAY 17 May

of the Seventh Week of Easter (See pp. 349-59) MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Ezek 37:4-7 NT 2 Jn


EP Ps 89 OT Dan 3:8-13, 19b-23, 24-30 (verses as in RSV-2CE Bible) NT Acts 28:1-14

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SATURDAY 18 May

St John I, Pope, Martyr, optional memorial (See pp. 349-59) MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Ezek 37:4-7 NT 3 Jn

Mass of the Easter weekday or the memorial Ascension Pref. I-II

EP I and Vigil Mass of PENTECOST

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SUNDAY 19 May

PENTECOST (Whit Sunday) Caritas Dei (See pp. 349-59) Spiritus Domini EP I Pss 113; 147:1-11 OT Ezek 36:16-28 NT Acts 28:15-31 or Mt 28:16-20

Vigil Mass (the extended Vigil may be celebrated) Gl, Cr, Proper Pref, proper Communicantes, double Alleluia at dismissal.

MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Joel 3:1-5 NT Rom 8:5-27

Mass of the Day: Gl, Cr, Proper Pref, proper Communicantes, double Alleluia at dismissal.

EP II Pss 110; 114 OT Num 11:24-30 NT Eph 4:3-6

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MONDAY 20 May

NB The Ordinariate Calendar makes provision for keeping the Octave of Pentecost on the midweek ferias following the Sunday. The colour of the office is red. Where appropriate, a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit may be said.

LH Ps Wk 3 Monday in Whitsun Week (See pp. 360, 370) or St Bernardine of Siena, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 102; 103 OT Ezek 11:14-20 NT Acts 2:12-36

Mass at choice

EP Ps 104 OT Wis 1:1-7 NT Acts 2:37-47

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TUESDAY 21 May

In the Ordinariate: St Helena (See p. 582) In the Ordinariate: St Godric of Finchale (See p. 583) MP Ps 105 OT Ezel 37:1-14 NT 1 Cor 12:1-13

Mass at choice

EP Ps 106 OT Wis 7:15 – 8:1 NT 1 Cor 12:27 – 13:13

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WEDNESDAY 22 May

Ember Day St Rita of Cascia, Religious, optional memorial (See pp. 363, 370) MP Ps 107 OT 1 Kings 19:1-18 NT 1 Cor 2:1-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 108; 109 OT Wis 9:1-18 NT 1 Cor 3:1-23

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THURSDAY 23 May

In the Ordinariate: St Petroc, Abbot, optional memorial (See p. 585) MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT 2 Sam 23:1-5 NT Eph 6:10-20

Mass at choice

EP Pss 113; 114; 115 OT Ex 35:50 – 36:1 NT Acts 18:24 – 19:7

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FRIDAY 24 May

Ember Day In the Ordinariate: St Aldhelm, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 586) MP Pss 116; 117; 118 OT Num 11:16-17, 24-29 NT 2 Cor 5:14 – 6:10

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:1-32 OT Jer 31:31-34 NT 2 Cor 3:1-18

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SATURDAY 25 May

Ember Day The Venerable Bede, Priest, Doctor of the Church, memorial (See p. 588) MP Pss 21:1-7, 13; 92 OT Sir 39:1-10 NT 1 Pet 5:1-4

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors or Holy Men]

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY SUNDAY

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SUNDAY 26 May

TRINITY SUNDAY Benedicta sit (See pp. 371-3) EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Is 6:1-8 (9-13) NT Rom 11:33-36 or Jn 16:12-15

MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Gen 1:1-5 NT 1 Cor 12:4-6


EP II Pss 110; 114 OT Is 40:12-17, 27-31 OT 1 Cor 2:1-16

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MONDAY 27 May

LH Ps Wk 4 St Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop, feast (See p. 589) MP Pss 21:1-7, 13; 92 OT Is 6:1-6 NT Acts 20:17-36

Mass Proper, Gl, Pref. of Pastors

EP Pss 15; 112 OT Jer 1:4-9 NT 1 Thess 2:2b-8

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TUESDAY 28 May

Feria (Tuesday of Week 8 per annum) MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT Job 3:1-26 or Dan 3:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Jn 3:17-18

Mass at choice

EP Pss 136; 137; 138 OT Deut 4:39-40 NT 1 Cor 15:20-35 or Col 3:12-16 Anniversary of Episcopal Ordination of the Holy Father, 28.v.1977

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JUNE

WEDNESDAY 29 May

Feria MP Pss 139; 140 OT Job 7:1-21 or Is 61:10 – 62:5 or Deut 4:39-40 NT Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass at choice

EP Pss 141; 142; 143 OT Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Cor 15:35-58 or 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 30 May

Feria MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Job 11:1-20 or Is 66:10-14a NT Rom 8:18-21

Mass at choice

EP Pss 147-150 OT Wis 1:1-5 NT 1 Cor 16:1-24 or Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 31 May

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, feast Gaudeamus (See p. 491) MP Pss 24; 46; 87; 148-150 OT Song 2:8-14; 8:6-7 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

Mass Proper, Gl, Preface of the BVM

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Zech 2:10-13 NT Heb 2:11-18

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SATURDAY 1 June

St Justin, Martyr, memorial (See p. 494) MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT Job 13:12 – 14:6 or Ezek 36:24-28 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-15a

Mass of the memorial. Pref of weekdays [or of Martyrs]

EP I (and First Mass) of CORPUS CHRISTI

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SUNDAY 2 June

CORPUS CHRISTI, solemnity Cibavit eos (See p. 374) EP I Pss 11; 147:12-20 OT Ex 24:1-11 or Prov 9:1-6, 10-12 NT 1 Cor 10:16-17 or Lk 9:11-17

MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Gen 14:18-20 NT Acts 2:42-47

Mass Proper, Gl, [Sequence,] Cr, Pref. of the Eucharist I or II

EP II Pss 110; 116 OT Ex 24:4-11 NT 1 Cor 11:23-25

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MONDAY 3 June

LH Ps Wk 1 St Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs, memorial MP Pss 15; 16; 17 OT Job 29:1-10; 30:1, 9-23 or 1 Chron 29:10-13 NT 2 Thess 3:6-13


EP Ps 18 OT Jer 17:7-10 or Deut 28:1-6 NT Jas 2:14-26 or Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 4 June

Feria (Tuesday of Week 9 per annum) MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT Job 31:1-8, (9-12), 13-32, 35-37 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Pss 22; 23 OT Job 5:17-18 NT Jas 3:1-12 or 1 Jn 2:1-3

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WEDNESDAY 5 June

St Boniface, Bishop, Martyr, memorial (See p. 591) MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Job 32:1-6; 33:1-22 or Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 1 Pet 1:13-16


EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT Tob 4:16-20 NT Jas 3:13-18 or NT Jas 1:22-25

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THURSDAY 6 June

St Norbert, Bishop, optional memorial MP Pss 30; 31 OT Job 38:1-30 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of the SACRED HEART

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FRIDAY 7 June

MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS, solemnity Cogitationes (See p. 382) EP I Pss 113; 146 OT Jer 31:2-4 NT Rom 8:28-39

MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Jer 31:34 NT Rom 5:8-10


EP II Pss 110; 111 OT Jer 32:37-42 NT Eph 2:4-7

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SATURDAY 8 June

The Immaculate Heart of Mary, memorial MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT Job 42:7-17 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of the BVM]. First reading of the weekday or of the memorial, Gospel of the memorial.

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY II

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SUNDAY 9 June

SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 10 per annum) Dominus illuminatio (See pp. 403, 437) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Wis 7:271 – 8:1 NT Col 1:3-6a or Jas 5:12-20 or Mt 16:1-20

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Sir 46:1-12 or Ezek 26:25-27 NT Rom 5:1-5


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 NT 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 10 June

Feria (Monday of Week 10 per annum) MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Josh 1:1-18 or Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 or Jer 15:15-21 NT Eph 1:3-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Thess 2:9-13

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TUESDAY 11 June

St Barnabas the Apostle, memorial (See p. 494) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 96 OT Sir 31:1-11 NT 1 Cor 4:1-16

Mass of the memorial, First Reading and Psalm of the memorial, Gospel of the memorial or weekday, Pref. of Apostles I or II

EP Pss 116; 126 OT Job 29:1-16 NT Col 1:3-14

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WEDNESDAY 12 June

Feria MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Josh 3:1-17 (4:14-19; 5:10-12)* or 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT Josh (3:1-17) 4:14-19; 5:10-12* or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7 * Both sections of the reading from Joshua should be read within the day.

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THURSDAY 13 June

St Anthony of Padua, Priest, Doctor, memorial MP Ps 68 OT Josh 5:13 – 6:21 or Is 12:1-6 NT Rom 14:17-19


EP Pss 69; 70 OT Deut 1:16-18 NT 1 Pet 22:2-5

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FRIDAY 14 June

Feria MP Pss 71; 72 OT Josh 10:1-14; 1:15-17 or Hab 3:2-19 NT Eph 2:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 73; 74 OT Is 57:15-19 or Josh 7:4-26 NT 1 Cor 2:7-10a

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SATURDAY 15 June

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Josh 24:1-7, 13-28 or Deut 32:1-12 NT Rom 12:14-16a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY III

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SUNDAY 16 June

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 11 per annum) Exaudi Domine (See pp. 405, 437) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Deut 8:5-10 or Josh 10:1-14; 11:15-17 NT Heb 13:20-12 or Lk 24:1-12

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Judg 2:6 – 3:4 or 1 Kings 2:1-4 NT Rom 8:14-23


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Ezek 37:12b-14 NT 1 Pet 1:3-9

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MONDAY 17 June

Feria (Monday of Week 11 per annum) MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Judg 4:1-24 or Is 2:2-5 NT Jas 4:11-12

Mass at choice

EP Ps 89 OT Jer 22:1-4 or Judg 2:6 – 3:4 NT Jas 4:11-12

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TUESDAY 18 June

Feria MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Judg 6:1-6, 11-24a or Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 93; 94 OT Is 26:7-12 or Judg 4:1-24 NT Rom 12:9-12

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WEDNESDAY 19 June

St Romuald, Abbot, optional memorial MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Judg 6:33-40; 7:1-8, 16-22 or Is 33:13-16 NT 1 Cor 13:4-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 98-101 OT Job 1:20-22. 2:9-10 or Judg 6:1-6, 11-24 NT Eph 3:13-21

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THURSDAY 20 June

St Alban, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 596) MP Pss 102; 103 OT Judg 9:1-20 or Is 40:10-17 NT 1 Pet 4:7-11

Mass at choice EP Ps 104 OT Deut 4:7-8 or Judg 6:33 – 7:8, 16-22 or 1 Pet 3:8-12

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FRIDAY 21 June

St Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious, memorial MP Ps 105 OT Judg 13:1-25 or Jer 14:17-21 NT 2 Cor 12:9b-10

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Religious]

EP Ps 106 OT Jer 18:1-6 or Judg 9:1-20 NT Jas 1:2-6

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SATURDAY 22 June

Ss John Fisher, Bishop & Thomas More, Martyrs, feast (See p. 596) MP Pss 2; 33; 148-150 OT 2 Chron 24:17-21 NT Rom 8:18-39


EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY IV

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SUNDAY 23 June

FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 12 per annum) Dominus fortitudo (See pp. 407, 437) LH Ps Wk 4

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 Is 25:6-10a or Judg 11:1-9, 29-40 NT 2 Pet 1:16-21 or Lk 24:13-35

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT 1 Sam 16:1-13 or Deut 10:12-15 NT 2 Tim 2:8-13


EP I (and Vigil Mass) of the NATIVITY OF ST

JOHN THE BAPTIST NB In choosing Mass texts, precedence is given to the Mass of obligation. A regularly-scheduled Sunday evening Mass would thus normally be of the Sunday. A Vigil Mass could be specially scheduled. See Notitiæ 20 (1984), 603

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MONDAY 24 June

NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, solemnity De ventre matris meæ (See p. 497) EP I Pss 113; 146 OT Mal 3:1-5 NT 1 Pet 1:8-12 or Jn 3:22-30

MP Pss (21:1-7, 13; 92) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Jer 1:4-10, 17-19 NT Acts 13:14b-26

Mass of the Day, Gl., Cr., Pref. of St John the Baptist

EP Pss 15; 112 OT Mal 4:1-6 NT Acts 13:16-26

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TUESDAY 25 June

Feria (Tuesday of Week 12 per annum) MP Ps 119:33-72 OT Is 55:1-5 or Dan 3:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 or 1 Sam 17:57 – 18:9, 20-30 NT 1 Jn 3:17-18

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:73-104 OT Deut 4:39-40 or 1 Sam 1:1-19 NT Col 3:12-16

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WENDESDAY 26 June

Feria MP Ps 119:105-144 OT 1 Sam 19:8-10; 20:1-17 or Is 61:10 – 62:5 or Deut 4:39-40 NT Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Is 55:10-12 or 1 Sam 1:20-28; 2:11-21 NT 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 27 June

St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop, Doctor, optional memorial MP Pss 120-125 OT 1 Sam 21:1-9; 22:1-5 or Is 66:10-14a NT Rom 8:18-21

Mass at choice

EP Pss 126-131 OT Wis 1:1-5 or 1 Sam 2:22-36 NT Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 28 June

St Irenæus, Bishop, Martyr, memorial (See p. 499) MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT 1 Sam 25:14-24a, 28-39a or Tob 13:8-15 NT Gal 2:19-20

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors or Martyrs]

EP Pss 136; 137; 138 OT Wis 1:6-11 or 1 Sam 3:1-21 NT Rom 8:1-6

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SATURDAY 29 June

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday The Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul is transferred to Sunday.

MP Pss 139; 140 OT 1 Sam 16:5-25 or Ezek 36:24-28 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-15a

Mass at choice

Anniversary of priestly ordination of the Holy Father (26.vi.1951)

EP I (and Vigil Mass) of SS Peter & Paul (see tomorrow)

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JULY

SUNDAY 30 June

SS PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES, solemnity Dicit Dominus Petro (See p. 500) EP I Pss 117; 147:12-20 OT Is 61:1-9 NT Acts 11:1-18 or the Gospel read at Mass

Mass of the Vigil, Gl, Cr, Proper Pref.

MP Pss (19:1-6; 64; 97) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Ezek 2:1-7 NT Gal 1:15 – 2:10

Mass of the Day, Gl, Gr, Proper Pref.

EP II Pss 116; 126 OT Is 49:1-6 NT Gal 2:1-9

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MONDAY 1 July

LH Ps Wk 1 St Oliver Plunket, Bishop, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 600) MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT 1 Sam 31:1-4; 2 Sam 1:1-10 or 1 Chron 29:10-13 NT 2 Thess 3:6-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 6; 7; 8 OT 1 Sam 7:15 – 8:22 or Jer 17:7-10 NT Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 2 July

Feria MP Pss 9; 10; 11 OT 2 Sam 1:1-11; 3:1-5 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Pss 12; 13; (14) OT 1 Sam 9:1-6, 14-27; 10:1 or Job 5:17-18 NT 1 Jn 3:1-3

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WEDNESDAY 3 July

St Thomas the Apostle, feast Mihi autem (See p. 504) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97 OT Job 42:1-6 NT 1 Cor 4:1-16


EP Pss 116; 126 OT Is 43:8-13 NT Eph 4:11-16

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THURSDAY 4 July

St Elizabeth of Portugal, optional memorial MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT 2 Sam 6:1-23 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 22; 23 OT 1 Sam 12:1-25 or Is 66:1-2 NT 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 5 July

St Anthony Zaccaria, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT 2 Sam 7:1-25 or Is 45:15-22 NT Rom 15:1-3

Mass at choice

EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT 1 Sam 15:1-23 or Is 45:22-25 NT Rom 15:1-3

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SATURDAY 6 July

St Maria Goretti, Virgin, Martyr, optional memorial MP Pss 30; 31 OT 2 Sam 11:1-17, 26-27 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY VI

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SUNDAY 7 July

SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 14 per annum) Suscepimus (See pp. 410, 438) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Wis 7:27a – 8:1 or 1 Sam 16:1-13 NT Col 1:3-6a or Jn 20:1-18

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT 2 Sam 12:1-25 or Ezek 36:25-27 NT Rom 5:1-5


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 or 1 Sam 17:1-10, 23-26, 40-51 NT 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 8 July

Feria (Monday of Week 14 per annum) MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT 2 Sam 15:7-14, 24-30; 16:5-13 or Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 or Jer 15:15-21 NT Eph 1:3-10

Mass at choice EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT 1 Sam 17:57 – 18:9, 20-23 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Thess 2:9-13

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TUESDAY 9 July

St Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, optional memorial MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT 2 Sam 18:6-17, 24 – 19:4 or Is 38:10-14, 17-20 NT 1 Thess 5:4-11

Mass at choice

EP Pss 47; 48; 49 OT 1 Sam 19:8-10, 20:1-17 or Is 55:6-9 NT Rom 3:21-26

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WEDNESDAY 10 July

Feria MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT 2 Sam 24:1-4, 10-18, 24b-25 or 1 Sam 2:1-10 or Jer 15:15-21 NT Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT 1 Sam 21:1-10, 22:1-5 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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THURSDAY 11 July

St Benedict, Abbot, Patron of Europe, feast Os iusti (See p. 506) MP Pss 21:1-7, 13; 92 OT Sir 45:1-5; 47:8-10 NT Phil 3:7 – 4:1, 4-9

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Holy Men

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Sir 50:1-13 NT Rom 12:1-21

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FRIDAY 12 July

Feria or In Wales: St John Jones, Martyr, optional memorial MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT 1 Kings 1:11-35; 2:10-12 or Hab 3:2-19 NT Eph 2:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT 1 Sam 26:5-25 or Is 57:15-19 NT 1 Cor 2:7-10a

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SATURDAY 13 July

St Henry, optional memorial or Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Ps 68 OT Sir 47:12-25 or Deut 32:1-12 NT Rom 12:14-16a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY VII

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SUNDAY 14 July

SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 15 per annum) Dum clamarem (See pp. 411, 438) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Deut 8:5-10 or 1 Sam 28:3-25 NT Heb 13:20-21 or Jn 20:19-31

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT 1 Kings 16:29 – 17:16 or 1 Kings 2:1-4 NT Rom 8:14-23


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT 1 Sam 31:1-4; 2 Sam 1:1-16 or Ezek 37:12b-14 NT 1 Pet 1:3-9

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MONDAY 15 July

In the Ordinariate: St Swithun, Bishop, optional memorial NB St Bonaventure(memorial) is optional in the Ordinariate MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT 1 Kings 18:16b-40 or Is 2:2-5 NT Jas 2:12-13

Mass at choice

EP Ps 78 OT 2 Sam 2:1-11; 3:1-5 or Jer 22:1-4 NT Jas 4:11-12

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TUESDAY 16 July

In the Ordinariate: St Osmund, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 602) or Our Lady of Mount Carmel MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT 1 Kings 19:1-9a, 11-21 or Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT 2 Sam 4:2 – 5:7 or Is 26:7-12 NT Rom 12:9-12

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WEDNESDAY 17 July

Feria (Wednesday of Week 15 per annum) MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT 1 Kings 21:1-21, 27-29 or Is 33:13-16 NT 1 Cor 13:4-13

Mass at choice

EP Ps 89 OT 2 Sam 6:1-23 or Job 1:20-22; 2:9-10 NT Eph 3:14-21

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THURSDAY 18 July

Feria MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT 1 Kings 22:1-9, 15-23, 29, 34-38 or Is 40:10-17 NT 1 Pet 4:7-11

Mass at choice

EP Pss 93; 94 OT 2 Sam 7:1-25 or Deut 4:7-8 NT 1 Pet 3:8-12

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FRIDAY 19 July

Feria MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT 2 Chron 20:1-9, 13-24 or Jer 14:17-21 NT 2 Cor 12:9b-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 98-101 OT 2 Sam 1:11-17, 26-27 or Jer 18:1-6 NT Jas 1:2-6

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SATURDAY 20 July

In the Ordinariate: St Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, optional memorial MP Pss 102; 103 OT 2 Kings 2:1-15 or Wis 9:1-6, 9-11 NT Phil 2:14-15

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY VIII

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71

SUNDAY 21 July

EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 16 per annum) Ecce Deus adiuvat (See pp. 413, 438) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT 2 Sam 12:1-25 or Is 25:6-10a NT 2 Pet 1:16-21 or Jn 21:1-14

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Deut 10:12-15 NT2 Cor 1:1-14 or 2 Tim 2:8-13


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT 1 Sam 15:7-14, 24-30, 16:5-3 or Song 8:5-7 NT 2 Tim 2:8-13

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MONDAY 22 July

St Mary Magdalen, memorial (See p. 506) MP Pss 19:1-6; 45 OT 1 Sam 16:15-23 NT Rom 12:1-21

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Holy Women] First Reading and Psalm of the memorial, Gospel of the memorial or weekday

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Zeph 3:14-20 NT Rom 8:28-30

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TUESDAY 23 July

St Bridget of Sweden, Abbess, Patron of Europe, feast Cognovi, Domine (See p. 507) MP Pss 19:1-6; 45 OT Song 8:5-7 NT Phil 3:7 – 4:1, 4-9

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Holy Women

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Wis 8:17-21a NT Rom 8:38-30

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72

WEDNESDAY 24 July

St Charbel Makhlouf, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 116; 117; 118 OT Deut 4:39-40 or Is 61:10 – 62:5 NT 2 Cor 3:7 – 4:4 or Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:1-32 OT 1 Chron 22:5-19 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 25 July

St James the Apostle, feast Mihi autem (See p. 507) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97 OT Jer 16:14-21 NT 1 Cor 4:1-16


EP Pss OT Jer 26:1-15 NT Eph 4:11-16

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FRIDAY 26 July

SS Joachim and Anne, Parents of the BVM, memorial (See p. 509) MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Tob 13:8-15 NT 2 Cor 5:1-21 or Gal 2:19-20

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Holy Men and Women]

EP Ps 119:145-176 OT 1 Kings 3:5-28 or Wis 1:6-11 NT Rom 8:1-6

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SATURDAY 27 July

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 120-125 OT Ezek 36:24-28 NT 1 Cor 6:1 – 7:1 or 2 Pet 3:8b-15a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY IX

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73

SUNDAY 28 July

NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 17 per annum) Deus in loco sancto (See pp. 415, 439) LH Ps Wk 1

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT 1 Kings 8:1-21 or Dan 6:26b-27 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-15a or Mt 28:1-10, 16-20


MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Ex 20:1-17 NT 2 Cor 7:2-16 or Rev 7:9-12

EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT 1 Kings 8:22-34, 53-61 or Is 43:16-21 NT 2 Cor 1:3-7

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MONDAY 29 July

St Martha, memorial (See p. 510) MP Pss 139; 140 Deut 28:1-6 NT 2 Cor 8:1-24 or 2 Thess 3:6-13

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Holy Women]

EP Pss 141; 142; 143 OT 1 Kings 10:1-13 or Jer 17:7-10 NT Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 30 July

St Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Doctor, optional memorial MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Prov 3:13-15 NT 2 Cor 9:1-15 or Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Pss 147-150 OT 1 Kings 11:1-4, 26-43 or Job 5:17-18 NT 1 Jn 3:1-3

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74

AUGUST

WEDNESDAY 31 July

St Ignatius of Loyola, Priest, memorial MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 2 Cor 10:1 – 11:6 or 1 Pet 1:13-16


EP Pss 147-150 OT 1 Kings 12:1-19 or Tob 4:16-20 NT Jas 1:22-25

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THURSDAY 1 August

St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, Bishop, Doctor, memorial MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT Is 66:1-2 or Jer 31:10-14 NT 2 Cor 11:7-29 or Rom 2:14-16

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors]

EP Pss 6; 7; 8 OT 1 Kings 12:20-23 or Amos 4:13; 5:8; 9:6 NT 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 2 August

St Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop or St Peter Julian Eymard, Priest or In Wales: St Germanus of Auxerre, Bishop MP Pss 9; 10; 11 OT Is 45:15-22 NT 1 Cor 11:30 – 12:13 or Eph 4:29-32

Mass at choice

EP Pss 12; 13; (14) OT 1 Kings 16:29 – 17:16 or Is 45:22-25 NT Rom 15:1-3

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SATURDAY 3 August

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 15; 16; 17 OT Wis 7:27a – 8:1 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Cor 12:14 – 13:13 or 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY X

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75

SUNDAY 4 August

TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 18 per annum) Deus in adiutorium (See pp. 416, 439) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Wis 7:27a – 8:1 or 1 Kings 18:16-40 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11 or Mk 16:1-20

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Amos 1:1 – 2:3 or Ezek 36:25-27 NT Rom 5:1-5


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT 1 Kings 19:1-9, 11-21 or Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 NT 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 5 August

In the Ordinariate: St Oswald, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 605) MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Amos 2:4-16 or Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 or Jer 15:15-21 NT Eph 1:3-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT 1 Kings 21:1-21, 27-29 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1Thess 2:9-13

R

TUESDAY 6 August

Transfiguration of the Lord, feast (See p. 511) Tibi dixit cor meum MP Pss 84; 97; 99 OT Ezek 24:12-18 NT 2 Cor 3:7 – 4:6

Mass Proper, Gl., Proper Pref.

EP Pss 110; 121 OT Dan 7:9-10, 13-14 NT Rom 8:15b-21

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76

WEDNESDAY 7 August

St Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs, optional memorial or St Cajetan, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 35; 36 OT Amos 9:1-15 or 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Ps 37 OT 2 Chron 20:1-9, 13-24 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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THURSDAY 8 August

St Dominic, Priest, memorial (See p. 515) MP Pss 38; 39; 400 Hos 1:1-9, 3:1-5 or Is 12:1-6 NT Rom 14:17-19


EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT 2 Kings 2:1-15 or Deut 1:16-18 NT 1 Pet 1:22-25

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FRIDAY 9 August

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin, Martyr, Patron of Europe, feast (See p. 515) MP Pss 19:1-6; 45 OT Song 8:5-6 NT 2 Cor 4:7 – 5:8

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Martyrs [or of Virgins]

EP Pss 122; 127 OT Wis 3:1-9 NT Rom 8:31-19

R

SATURDAY 10 August

St Lawrence, Deacon, Martyr, feast (See p. 516) Confessio et pulchritudo MP Pss 2; 11; 17 OT 2 Macc 6:18-31 NT Acts 6:1-6; 8:1b, 4, 8


EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XI

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77

SUNDAY 11 August

ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 19 per annum) Respice, Domine (See pp. 418, 439) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT 2 Kings 4:8-37 or Deut 8:5-10 NT Heb 13:20-21 or Lk 24:1-12

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Hos 11:1-11 or 1 Kings 2:1-4 NT Rom 8:14-23


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT 2 Kings 4:38-44; 6:1-7 or Ezek 37:12b-14 NT 1 Pet 1:3-9

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MONDAY 12 August

St Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious, optional memorial MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Hos 14:2-10 or Is 2:2-5 NT Jas 2:12-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT 2 Kings 5:1-19 or Jer 22:1-4 NT Jas 4:11-12

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TUESDAY 13 August

SS Pontian, Pope, and Hippolytus, Priest, Martyrs, optional memorial MP Ps 68 OT Mic 3:1-12 or Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 69; 70 OT 2 Kings 6:8-23 or Is 26:7-12 NT Rom 12:9-12

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78

WEDNESDAY 14 August

St Maximilan Mary Kolbe, Priest, Martyr, memorial MP Pss 71; 72 OT Mic 4:1-7 or Is 33:13-16 NT 1 Cor 13:4-13

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Martyrs or Pastors]

EP I (and Vigil Mass) of the ASSUMPTION

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THURSDAY 15 August Holy Day of Obligation

ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, solemnity Vultum tuum (See p. 517) Signum magnum EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Jer 31:1-14 NT Rom 8:28-31 or Lk 11:27-28

Mass of the Vigil, Gl., Cr., Proper Pref.

MP Pss (24; 46; 87) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT Eph 1:16 – 2:10

Mass of the Day, Gl., Cr., Proper Pref.

EP II Pss 122; 127 OT Zech 2:10-13 NT Acts 1:6-14

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FRIDAY 16 August

St Stephen of Hungary, optional memorial MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Mic 6:1-4, 6-15 or Jer 4:17-21 NT 2 Cor 12:9b-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT 2 Kings 11:1-21 or Jer 18:1-6 NT Jas 1:2-6

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SATURDAY 17 August

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Mic 7:7-20 or Wis 9:1-6, 9-11 NT Phil 2:14-15

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XII

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79

SUNDAY 18 August

TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 20 per annum) Protector noster (See pp. 420, 439) LH Ps Wk 4

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT 2 Kings 13:10-25 or Is 25:6-10a NT 2 Pet 1:16-21 or Lk 24:13-35

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Is 6:1-13 or Deut 10:12-15 NT 2 Tim 2:8-13


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Deut 10:12-15 NT Eph 1:1-14 or Heb 12:18-24

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MONDAY 19 August

St John Eudes, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Is 31:1-15 or Is 42:10-16 NT Rom 12:1-8

Mass at choice

EP Pss 98-101 OT Bar 4:21-22 or Is 42:10-16 NT Eph 1:15-23 or 1 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13

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TUESDAY 20 August

St Bernard, Abbot, Doctor, memorial (See p. 518) MP Pss 102; 103 OT Is 7:1-17 or Is 55:1-5 or Dan 33:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 NT 1 Jn 3:17-18


EP Ps 104 OT Deut 4:39-40 NT Eph 2:1-10 or Col 3:12-16

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80

WEDNESDAY 21 August

St Pius X, Pope, memorial MP Ps 105 OT Is 9:8 – 10:4 or Deut 4:39-40 NT Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass of the Memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors] EP Ps 106 OT Is 55:10-12 NT Eph 2:11-12 or 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 22 August

The Queenship of the BVM, memorial MP Ps 107 OT Is 11:1-16 or Is 66:10-14a NT Rom 8:18-21

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of the BVM]

EP Pss 108; 109 OT Wis 1:1-5 NT Eph 3:1-13 or Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 23 August

St Rose of Lima, Virgin, optional memorial MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Is 30:1-18 or Tob 13:8-15 NT Gal 2:19-20

Mass at choice

EP Pss 113; 114; 115 OT Wis 1:6-11 NT Eph 3:14-32 or Rom 8:1-6

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SATURDAY 24 August

St Bartholomew the Apostle, feast (See p. 519) Mihi autem MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97 OT Gen:28-10-17 NT 1 Cor 1:18 – 2:5


EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XIII

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81

SUNDAY 25 August

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 21 per annum) Inclina, Domine (See pp. 421, 440) LH Ps Wk 1

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Dan 6:26b-27 NT Eph 4:1-16 or Rom 11:33-36 or Lk 24:35-53

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Zeph 1:1-7, 13 – 2:3 or Ex 20:1-17 NT Rev 7:9-12


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Is 43:16-21 NT Eph 4:17-24 or 2 Cor 1:3-7

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MONDAY 26 August

In England: Bl Dominic of the Mother of God, Priest, optional memorial (See p. 607) or In Wales: St David Lewis, Martyr, optional memorial MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Zeph 3:8-21 or 1 Chron 29:10-13 NT 2 Thess 3:6-13

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Jer 17:7-10 or Deut 28:1-6 NT Eph 4:25 – 7:7 or Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 27 August

St Monica, memorial (See p. 520) MP Pss 120-125 OT Jer 1:1-19 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Holy Women]

EP Pss 126-131 OT Job 5:17-18 NT Eph 5:8-21 or 1 Jn 3:1-3

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82

WEDNESDAY 28 August

St Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Doctor, memorial (See p. 521) MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT Jer 2:1-13, 20-25 or Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 1 Pet 1:13-16


EP Pss 136; 137; 138 OT Tob 4:16-20 NT Eph 5:22-33 or Jas 1:22-25

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THURSDAY 29 August

The Beheading of St John the Baptist, memorial (See p. 522) MP Pss 139; 140 OT Jer 3:1-5, 19 – 4:4 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of St John the Baptist. First Reading and Psalm of the weekday or of the memorial, Gospel of the memorial.

EP Pss 141; 142; 143 OT Is 66:1-2 NT Eph 6:1-9 or 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 30 August

SS Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward, Virgin, Martyrs, optional memorial (See p. 608) MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Jer 4:5-8, 13-28 or Is 45:15-22 NT Eph 4:29-32

Mass at choice

EP Pss 147-150 OT Is 45:22-25 NT Eph 6:10-24 or Rom 15:1-3

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SATURDAY 31 August

St Aidan, Bishop, and Saints of Lindisfarne, optional memorial (See p. 610) MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Jer 7:1-20 or Ex 15:1-8 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XIV

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83

SEPTEMBER

SUNDAY 1 September

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 22 per annum) Miserere mihi (See pp. 423, 440) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Wis 7:27a – 8:1 NT Philem 13:1-25 or Col 1:3-6a or Jn 20:1-18

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Jer 11:18-20; 12:1-13 or Ezek 36:25-27 NT Rom 5:1-5


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT 2 Kings 14:1-27 or Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 NT 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 2 September

Feria (Monday of Week 22 per annum) MP Pss 9; 10; 11 OT Jer 19:1 – 20:6 or Jer 15:15-21 or Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 NT Eph 1:3-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 12; 13; (14) OT Amos 1:1-3 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Thess 2:9-13

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TUESDAY 3 September

St Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor, feast (See p. 612) Sacerdotes Dei MP Pss 21:1-7, 13; 92 OT Ezek 34:11-16 NT Tit 1:7-11; 2:1-8

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Pastors

EP Pss 15; 112 OT Is 52:7-10 NT 1 Thess 2:2b-8

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84

WEDNESDAY 4 September

St Cuthbert, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 614) MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT Jer 26:1-15 or 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Pss 22; 23 OT Amos 3:1-15 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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THURSDAY 5 September

Feria MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Jer 29:1-14 or Is 12:1-6 NT Rom 14:17-19

Mass at choice

EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT Amos 4:1-13 or Deut 1:16-18 NT 1 Pet 1:22-25

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FRIDAY 6 September

Feria MP Pss 30; 31 OT Jer 10:18 – 31:9 or Hab 3:2-19 NT Eph 2:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 32; 33; 34 OT Amos 5:1-17 or Is 57:15-19 NT 1 Cor 2:7-10a

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SATURDAY 7 September

Feria MP Pss 35; 36 OT Jer 31:15-22, 27-34 or Deut 32:1-12 NT 12:14-16a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XV

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85

SUNDAY 8 September

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 23 per annum) Iustus es Domine (See pp. 424, 440) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Amos 5:18 – 6:15 or Deut 8:5-10 NT Heb 13:20-21 or Jn 20:19-31

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Jer 37:21; 28:14-28 or 1 Kings 2:1-4 NT Rom 8:14-23


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Amos 7:1-17 or Ezek 37:12b-14 NT 1 Pet 1:3-9

G

MONDAY 9 September

St Peter Claver, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 44; 45; 46 OT Jer 42:1-16; 43:4-7 or Is 2:2-5 NT Jas 2:12-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 47; 48; 49 OT Amos 8:1-14 or Jer 22:1-4 NT Jas 4:11-12

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TUESDAY 10 September

Feria (Tuesday of Week 23 per annum) MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Hab 1:1-2,4 or Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT Amos 9:1-15 or Is 26:7-12 NT Rom 12:9-12

G

86


Feria or In Wales: St Deiniol, Bishop, optional memorial MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Hab 2:5-20 or Is 33:13-16 NT 1 Cor 13:4-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 59; 60; 61 OT Hos 1:1-9; 3:1-5 or Job 1:20-22; 2:9-10 NT Eph 3:14-21

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The Most Holy Name of Mary, optional memorial (See p. 526) MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Lam 1:1-12, 18-20 or Is 40:10-17 NT 1 Pet 4:7-11

Mass at choice

EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT Hos 2:4, 8-25 or Deut 4:7-8 NT 1 Pet 3:8-12

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FRIDAY 13 September

St John Chrysostom, Bishop, Doctor, memorial (See p. 526) MP Ps 68 OT Lam 3:1-33 or Jer 14:17-21 NT 2 Cor 12:9b-13


EP Pss 69; 70 OT Hos 4:1-10; 5:1-7 or Jer 18:1-6 NT Jas 1:2-6

G


Exaltation of the Holy Cross Nos autem (Holy Cross Day), feast (See p. 527) MP Pss (2; 8; 96) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Num 21:4-9 NT Gal 2:19 – 3:7, 13-14; 6:14-16

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of the Triumph of the Cross or Passion I. Either the First or Second Reading is omitted.

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XVI

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87

SUNDAY 15 September

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 24 per annum) Da pacem (See pp. 426, 440) LH Ps Wk 4

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Hos 5:15 – 7:2 or Is 25:6-10a NT 2 Pet 1:16-21 or Jude 1-25 or Jn 21:1-14

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Ezek 1:3-14, 22 – 2:1a or Deut 10:12-15 NT 2 Tim 2:8-13


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Hos 8:1-14 or Deut 10:12-15 NT Heb 12:18-24

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MONDAY 16 September

SS Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, memorial MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Ezek 2:8 – 3:21 or Is 42:10-16 NT Rom 12:1-8

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Martyrs or Pastors]

EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT Hos 9:1-14 or Bar 4:21-22 or Is 42:10-16 NT 2 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13

R


In the Ordinariate: St Ninian, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 616) or In the Ordinariate: St Edith of Wilton, Religious, optional memorial (See p. 618) or St Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, Doctor, optional memorial MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Ezek 8:1-6, 16 – 9:11 or Dan 3:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Jn 3:17-18

Mass at choice

EP Ps 89 OT Hos 10:1-15 or Deut 4:39-40 NT Col 3:12-16

W W W

88


Feria (Wednesday of Week 24 per annum) MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Ezek 10:18-22; 11:14-25 or Deut 4:39-40 or Is 61:10 – 62:5 NT Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass at choice

EP Pss 93; 94 OT Hos 11:1-9 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Jn 2:3-6

R


In England: St Theodore of Canterbury, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 619) or St Januarius, Bishop, Martyr, optional memorial MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Ezek 12:1-16 or Is 66:10-14a NT Rom 8:18-21

Mass at choice

EP Pss 98-101 OT Hos 13:1 – 14:1 or Wis 1:1-5 NT Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 20 September

SS Andrew Kim Taegŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs, memorial MP Pss 102; 103 OT Ezek 16:3-15, 35-43 [59-63] or Tob 13:8-15 NT Gal 2:19-20


EP Ps 104 OT Ezek [16:3-15, 35-43] 59-63 or Hos 14:2-10 NT Rom 8:1-6

R


St Matthew the Apostle, feast Os iusti (See p. 529) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97 OT Is 8:11-20 NT Eph 4:1-16


EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XVII

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89

SUNDAY 22 September

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 25 per annum) Salus populi (See pp. 427, 440) LH Ps Wk 1

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT 2 Kings 15:1-5, 32-25; 16:1-8 or Dan 6:26b-27 NT Rom 11:33-36 or Mt 28:1-10, 16-20

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Ezek 24:15-27 or Ex 20:1-17 NT Rev 7:9-12


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Is 6:1-13 or Is 43:16-21 NT 2 Cor 1:3-7

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MONDAY 23 September

St Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Is 3:1-15 or Jer 17:7-10 NT Col 1:9b-14

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of OUR LADY OF

WALSINGHAM

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OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM, solemnity in the Ordinariate Salve, sancta Parens (See p. 621) EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Zeph 3:14-20 NT Gal 3:22 – 4:7 or the Gospel read at Mass

MP Pss (24; 46; 87) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Is 7:10-14; 8:10; 11:1-9 NT Gal 4:4-5

Mass: see appendix

EP II Pss 122; 127 OT Judith 13:31 NT Gal 3:22 – 4:7

W

90


Feria (Wednesday of Week 25 per annum) MP Ps 119:33-72 OT Ezek 37:1-14 or Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 1 Pet 1:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:73-104 OT Is 7:1-17 or Tob 4:16-20 NT Jas 1:22-25

G


SS Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Ezek 37:15-28 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Is 9:7 – 10:4 or Is 66:1-2 NT 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 27 September

St Vincent de Paul, Priest, memorial (See p. 531) MP Pss 120-125 OT Ezek 40:1-4; 43:1-12; 44:6-9 or Is 45:15-22 NT Eph 4:29-32


EP Pss 126-131 OT Is 28:1-6, 14-22 or Is 45:22-25 NT Rom 15:1-3

W


St Wenceslaus, Martyr, optional memorial or St Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs, optional memorial or Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT Ezek 47:1-12 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XVIII

R R W G

91

OCTOBER

SUNDAY 29 September

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 26 per annum) Omnia quæ fecisti (See pp. 428, 441) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Mic 1:1-9, 2:1-11 or Wis 7:27a – 8:1 NT Col 1:3-6a or Mk 16:1-20

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Ezek 36:25-27 NT Phil 1:1-11 or Rom 5:1-5


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Mic 3:1-12 or Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 NT 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 30 September

St Jerome, Priest, Doctor, memorial MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Sir 36:1-7, 36-16 or Jer 15:15-21 NT Phil 1:12-26 or Eph 1:3-10


EP Pss 147-150 OT Mic 6:1-15 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Thess 2:9-13

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TUESDAY 1 October

St Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor, memorial MP Pss 1;2;3;(4);5 OT Is 38:10-14, 17-20 NT Phil 1:27 – 2:11 or 1 Thess 5:4-11

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Virgins/Religious]

EP Pss 6; 7; 8 OT 2 Kings 17:1-18 or Is 55:6-9 NT Rom 3:21-26

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WEDNESDAY 2 October

The Holy Guardian Angels, memorial MP Pss 9; 10; 11 OT 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT Phil 2:13-30 or Rom 8:35-39

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of the Angels. First reading and psalm of the memorial or weekday, Gospel of the memorial.

EP Pss 12; 13; (14) OT 2 Kings 17:24-41 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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THURSDAY 3 October

In the Ordinariate: St Thomas of Hereford, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 624) MP Pss 15; 16; 17 OT Wis 1:12-15 or Is 12:1-6 NT Phil 3:1-16 or Rom 14:17-19

Mass at choice

EP Ps 18 OT 2 Chron 29:1-2, 30:1-16 or Deut 1:16-18 NT 1 Pet 1:22-25

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FRIDAY 4 October

St Francis of Assisi, memorial (See p. 533) MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT Is 57:15-19 or Hab 3:2-19 NT Phil 3:17 – 4:9 or Eph 2:13-16

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Holy Men]

EP Pss 22; 23 OT Is 20:1-6 or Is 57:15-19 NT Eph 2:13-16

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SATURDAY 5 October

Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT Deut 32:1-12 NT Phil 4:10-23 or Rom 12:14-16a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XIX

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SUNDAY 6 October

NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 27 per annum) In voluntate tua (See pp. 430, 441) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT 2 Kings 20:1-19 or Deut 8:5-10 NT Rom 12:14-16a or Lk 24:1-12

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT 1 Kings 2:1-4 NT 1 Tim 1:1-20 or Rom 8:9-11


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Is 22:1-14 or Ezek 37:12b-14 NT Rom 8:14-23

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MONDAY 7 October

Our Lady of the Rosary, memorial MP Pss 35; 36 OT Deut 28:1-6 or Is 2:2-5 NT 1 Tim 2:1-15 or Jas 2:12-13

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of the BVM I or II

EP Ps 37 OT Is 30:1-18 or Jer 22:1-4 NT Jas 2:12-13

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TUESDAY 8 October

Feria (Tuesday of Week 27 per annum) MP Pss 38; 39; 40 OT Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Tim 3:1-16 or 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 41; 42; 43 OT 2 Kings 18:17-36 or Is 26:7-12 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

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WEDNESDAY 9 October

Blessed John Henry Newman, Priest, Patron of the Ordinariate, Feast in the Ordinariate (See p. 625) MP Pss (21:1-7, 13; 92) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Wis 5:15-16 NT 1 Pet 5:1-11 or Heb 13:7-9a

Mass: see appendix

EP Pss 15; 112 OT Prov 8:1-11 NT 1 Pet 5:1-4

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THURSDAY 10 October

St Paulinus of York, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 628) MP Pss 50; 51; 52 OT Is 66:1-2 or Is 40:10-17NT 1 Tim 5:3-25 or 1 Pet 4:7-11

Mass at choice

EP Pss 53; 54; 55 OT Is 37:21-35 or Deut 4:7-8 NT 1 Pet 4:7-11

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FRIDAY 11 October

In the Ordinariate: St Ethelburga, Abbess, optional memorial (See p. 630) MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT 1 Sam 15:22 or Jer 14:17-21 NT 1 Tim 6:1-10 or 2 Cor 12:9b-10

Mass at choice

EP Pss 59; 60; 61 OT 2 Kings 21:1-18, 23-26, 22:1 or Jer 18:1-6 NT Jas 1:2-6

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SATURDAY 12 October

St Wilfrid, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 631) MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Wis 9:1-6, 9-11 NT 1 Tim 6:11-21 or Phil 2:14-15

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XX

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SUNDAY 13 October

TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 28 per annum) Si iniquitates (See pp. 431, 441) LH Ps Wk 4

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Zeph 1:2-7, 14-18; 2:1-3 or Is 25:6-10a NT 2 Pet 1:16-21 or Lk 24:13-35

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Hag 1:1 – 2:9 or Deut 10:12-15 NT 2 Tim 2:8-13


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Zeph 3:8-20 or Song 8:5-7 NT Heb 12:18-24

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MONDAY 14 October

St Callistus I, Pope, Martyr, optional memorial MP Pss 71; 72 OT Hag 2:10-23 or Is 42:10-16 NT Rom 12:1-8

Mass at choice

EP Pss 73; 74 OT Jer 1:1-19 or Bar 4:21-24 NT 1 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13

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TUESDAY 15 October

St Teresa of Jesus, Virgin, Doctor, memorial (See p. 535) MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Zech 1:1 – 2:4 or Dan 3:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Jn 3:17-18

Mass of the memorial. Pref. of weekdays [or of Virgins/Religious]

EP Ps 78 OT Jer 2:1-13, 20-25 or Deut 30:11-14 NT Col 3:12-16

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WEDNESDAY 16 October

St Hedwig, Religious, optional memorial or St Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin, optional memorial MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Zech 3:1 – 4:14 or Deut 4:39-40 or Is 61:10 – 62:5 NT Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass at choice

EP Pss 82; 83; 84; 85 OT Jer 3:1-5, 9-25; 4:1-4 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 17 October

St Ignatius, Bishop, Martyr, memorial (See p. 536) MP Pss 86; 87; 88 OT Zech 8:1-17, 20-23 or Is 66:10-14a NT Rom 8:18-21

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors or Martyrs]

EP Ps 89 OT Jer 4:5-8, 13-29 or Wis 1:1-5 NT Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 18 October

St Luke the Evangelist, feast Mihi autem (See p. 536) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 96; 148-150 OT Ezek 47:1-12 NT Acts 9:37-31; 11:19-26

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Apostles II

EP Pss 116; 126 OT Is 52:7-10 NT Acts 1:1-8

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SATURDAY 19 October

In the Ordinariate: St Frideswide, Abbess, optional memorial (See p. 634) or SS John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs, optional memorial or St Paul of the Cross, optional memorial or Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Mal 3:1-24 or Ezek 36:24-28 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-15a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XXI

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SUNDAY 20 October

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 29 per annum) Ego clamavi (See pp. 433, 441) LH Ps Wk 1

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Jer 9:1-11, 16-21 or Dan 6:26b-27 NT Rom 11:33-36 or Lk 24:35-53

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Esther 1:1-3, 9-14, 16, 19; 2:5-10, 16-17 or Ex 20:1-17 NT Rev 7:9-12


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT 2 Kings 22:8, 10 – 23:4, 21-23 or Is 43:16-21 NT Cor 1:3-7

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MONDAY 21 October

Feria (Monday of Week 29 per annum) MP Ps 105 OT Esther 3:1-15 or 1 Chron 29:10-13 NT 2 Thess 3:6-14

Mass at choice

EP Ps 106 OT Nahum 1:1-8, 3:1-7, 12-15 or Jer 17:7-10 NT Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 22 October

Feria MP Ps 107 OT Esther 4:1-17 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Pss 108; 109 OT 2 Chron 35:20 – 36:12 or Job 5:17-18 NT 1 Jn 3:1-3

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WENDESDAY 23 October

St John of Capistrano, Priest, optional memorial MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Esther 4:17k-17z or Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 1 Pet 1:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 113; 114; 115 OT Hab 1:1-2, 4 or Tob 4:16-20 NT Jas 1:22-25

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THURSDAY 24 October

St Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop, optional memorial MP Pss 116; 117; 118 OT Esther 5:1-8, 7:1-10 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:1-32 OT Hab 2:5-20 or Is 66:1-2 NT 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 25 October

Feria or In Wales: Six Welsh Martyrs and their Companions, feast in Wales

MP Ps 119:33-72 OT Bar 1:14 – 2:5; 3:1-8 or Is 45:15-22 NT Eph 4:29-32

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:73-104 OT Jer 22:10-30 or Is 45:22-25 NT Rom 15:1-3

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SATURDAY 26 October

Feria or SS Chad & Cedd, Bishops (See p. 636) or Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Bar 3:9-15, 24 – 4:4 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XXII

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SUNDAY 27 October

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 30 per annum) Lætetur cor (See pp. 434, 441) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Jer 19:1-5, 10-15; 20:1-6 or Wis 7:27a – 8:1 NT Col 1:3-6a or Jn 20:1-18

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Wis 1:1-15 or Ezek 36:25-27 NT Rom 5:1-5


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Jer 23:9-17, 21-29 or Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 NT 2 Thess 2:13-14

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MONDAY 28 October

Ss Simon & Jude, Apostles, feast (See p. 538) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97; 148-150 OT Is 28:9-16 NT 1 Cor 1:18 – 2:5


EP Pss 116; 126 OT Is 42:2-6 NT Eph 2:19-22

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TUESDAY 29 October

Feria (Tuesday of Week 30 per annum) MP Pss 139; 140 OT Wis 3:1-19 or Is 38:10-14, 17-20 NT 1 Thess 5:4-11

Mass at choice

EP Pss 141; 142; 143 OT Jer 26:1-10, 21-32 or Is 55:6-9 NT Rom 3:21-26

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NOVEMBER

WEDNESDAY 30 October

Feria MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Wis 6:1-27 or 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Pss 147-150 OT Jer 24:1-10 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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THURSDAY 31 October

Feria MP Pss 144; 145; 146 OT Wis 7:15-30 or Is 12:1-6 NT Rom 14:17-19

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of ALL SAINTS

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FRIDAY 1 November Holy Day of Obligation

ALL SAINTS, solemnity Gaudeamus omnes (See p. 541) EP I Pss 113; 147:12-20 OT Wis 3:1-9 NT Heb 12:22-24a or the Gospel read at Mass

MP Pss (8; 15; 16) 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Wis 4:14-17 NT Rev 5:1-14

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Proper Pref.

EP Pss 110; 116 OT Wis 5:1-5; 14-16 NT 2 Cor 6:16b – 7:1

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SATURDAY 2 November

ALL SOULS (See p. 544) MP Pss (40; 42) 51; 146 or 150 OT Is 25:6-10a NT 1 Cor 15:12-34

Masses Proper, Pref. of the Dead. Priests may celebrate three Masses, the second and third without stipend, for All the Faithful Departed and for the Holy Father’s Intentions respectively

EP (and First Mass) of TRINITY XXIII

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SUNDAY 3 November

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 31 per annum) Misereris omnium (See pp. 443, 449) LH Ps Wk 3

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Jer 29:1-14 or Deut 8:5-10 NT Heb 13:20-21 or 1 Jn 20:19-31

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT 1 Mac 1:1-24 or 1 Kings 2:1-4 NT Rom 8:14-23


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT 2 Kings 24:20; 25:1-13, 18-21 or Ezek 37:12b-14 NT 1 Pet 1:3-9

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MONDAY 4 November

St Charles Borromeo, Bishop, memorial MP Pss 19; 20; 21 OT 1 Mac 1:41-64 or Is 2:2-5 NT Jas 2:12-13


EP Pss 22; 23 OT Jer 37:21; 38:14-28 or Jer 22:1-4 NT Jas 4:11-12 Anniversary of Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, 2009

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TUESDAY 5 November

Feria (of Week 31 per annum) MP Pss 24; 25; 26 OT 1 Mac 2:1, 15-28, 42-50, 65-70 or Is 26:1b-4 NT 1 Jn 4:13-17

Mass at choice

EP Pss 27; 28; 29 OT Jer 32:6-10, 16, 24-40 or Is 26:7-12 NT Rom 12:9-12

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WEDNESDAY 6 November

Feria or In Wales: St Illtud, Abbot, optional memorial MP Pss 30; 31 OT 2 Mac 3:1-26 or Is 33:13-16 NT 1 Cor 13:4-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 32; 33; 34 OT Jer 30:18 – 31:9 or Job 1:20-22; 2:9-10 NT Eph 3:14-21

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THURDAY 7 November

St Willibrord, Abbot, optional memorial (See p. 640) MP Pss 35; 36 OT 1 Mac 4:36-59 or Is 40:10-17 NT 1 Pet 4:7-11

Mass at choice

EP Ps 37 OT Jer 31:15-22, 27-34 or Deut 4:7-8 NT 1 Pet 3:8-12

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FRIDAY 8 November

All Saints and Martyrs of England, Feast in the Ordinariate (See p. 642) MP Pss 63:1-9; 148-150 OT Wis 4:10-17 NT Rev 5:1-14 or Rev 21:1-4, 22 – 22:5 or 2 Cor 6:15b – 7:1 Mass: a Votive Mass of All the Saints may be said, with Gl. EP Pss 110; 116 OT Wis 5:1-5, 14-16 NT Rev 21:1-4, 22 – 22:5 or 2 Cor 6:15b – 7:1

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SATURDAY 9 November

Dedication of St John Lateran, feast (See p. 384) Deus in loco sancto suo MP Pss 24; 84; 87 OT Is 49:1-6 NT 1 Pet 2:1-17

Mass Proper, Gl., Pref. of Dedication. Either the First or Second Reading is omitted.

EP (and First Mass) of TRINITY XXIV

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SUNDAY 10 November

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 32 per annum) Intret oratio mea (See pp. 445, 449) LH Ps Wk 4

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Ezek 1:3-14, 22-28 or Is 25:6-10a NT 2 Pet 1:16-21 or Jn 21:1-14

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT Dan 1:1-21 or Deut 10:12-15 NT 2 Tim 2:8-13


EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Ezek 2:8-10, 3:1-11, 15-21 or Song 8:5-6 NT Heb 12:18-24

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MONDAY 11 November

St Martin of Tours, Bishop, memorial (See p. 547) MP Pss 56; 57; (58) OT Dan 2:26-47 or Is 42:10-16 NT Rom 12:1-8

Mass of the Memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Pastors]

EP Pss 59; 60; 61 OT Ezek 5:1-17 or Bar 4:21-24 NT 1 Thess 3: (7b-10), 11-13

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TUESDAY 12 November

St Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr, memorial MP Pss 62; 63; 64 OT Dan 3:8-13, 19b-23 (or 24), 24-30 or Dan 3:3-6, (7-10), 11-18 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Jn 3:17-18

Mass of the Memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Martyrs or Pastors]

EP Pss 65; 66; 67 OT Ezek 8:1-6, 16-18, 9:1-11or Deut 4:39-40 NT Col 3:12-16

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Feria (Wednesday of Week 32 per annum) MP Ps 68 OT Dan 5:1-2, 5-9, 13-17, 25-31 or Dey 4:39-40, or Is 61:10 – 62:5 NT Col 3:17, 23-24

Mass at choice

EP Pss 69; 70 OT Ezek 10:18-22; 11:14-25 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Jn 2:3-6

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THURSDAY 14 November

Feria MP Pss 71; 72 OT Dan 9:1-4a, 18-27 or Is 66:10-14a NT Rom 8:18-21

Mass at choice

EP Pss 73; 74 OT Ezek 12:1-16 or Wis 1:1-5 NT Col 1:21-23

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FRIDAY 15 November

St Albert the Great, Bishop, Doctor, optional memorial MP Pss 75; 76; 77 OT Dan 10:1-21 or Tob 13:8-15 NT Gal 2:19-20

Mass at choice

EP Ps 78 OT Ezek 13:1-16 or Wis 1:6-11 NT Rom 8:1-6

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SATURDAY 16 November

In England: St Edmund of Abingdon, Bishop, optional memorial (See p. 644) or St Margaret of Scotland, optional memorial (See p. 646) or St Gertrude, Virgin, optional memorial MP Pss 79; 80; 81 OT Dan 12:1-13 or Ezek 36:24-28 NT 2 Pet 3:8b-15a

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of TRINITY XXV

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SUNDAY 17 November

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Sunday 33 per annum) Dicit Dominus See pp. 256, 450) LH Ps Wk 1

EP I Pss 144; 145 (146; 147) OT Ezek 14:12-23 or Dan 6:26b-27 NT Rom 11:33-36 or Mt 28:1-10, 16-20

MP Pss 93; 63; 118 (148-150) OT Joel 2:21-32 or Ex 20:1-17 NT Rev 7:9-12


EP II Pss 110-113 (114; 115) OT Ezek 16:3, 5-15, 37, 40-43, 59-63 or Is 43:16-21 NT 2 Cor 1:3-7

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MONDAY 18 November

The Dedication of the Basilicas of SS Peter and Paul, Apostles, optional memorial MP Pss 90; (91); 92 OT Joel 3:1-3, 9-21 or 2 Chron 29:10-13 NT 2 Thess 3:6-13

Mass at choice

EP Pss 93; 94 OT Ezek 17:3-15, 19-24 or Jer 17:7-10 NT Col 1:9b-14

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TUESDAY 19 November

Feria (Tuesday of Week 33 per annum) MP Pss (85); 96; 97 OT Zech 9:1 – 10:2 or Tob 13:1b-8 NT Rom 13:8-14

Mass at choice

EP Pss 98-101 OT Ezek 18:1-13, 20-32 or Job 5:17-18 NT 1 Jn 3:1-3

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In the Ordinariate: St Edmund, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 651) MP Pss 102; 103 OT Zech 10:3 – 11:3 or Judith 16:2-3a, 13-15 NT 1 Pet 1:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Ps 104 OT Ezek 20:27-44 or Tob 4:16-20 NT Jas 1:22-25

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The Presentation of the BVM, memorial (See p. 548) MP Ps 105 OT Zech 11:14 – 12:8 or Jer 31:10-14 NT Rom 2:14-16

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of the BVM I or II]

EP Ps 106 OT Ezek 24:15-27 or Is 66:1-2 NT 1 Pet 1:6-9

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FRIDAY 22 November

St Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr, memorial (See p. 548) MP Ps 107 OT Zech 12:9-12a; 13:1-9 or Is 45:15-22 NT Eph 4:29-32

Mass of the memorial, Pref. of weekdays [or of Martyrs or Virgins]

EP Pss 108; 109 OT Ezek 28:1-19 or Is 45:15-25 NT Rom 15:1-3

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St Clement, Pope, Martyr, optional memorial (See p. 549) or St Columban, Abbot, optional memorial or Our Lady St Mary on Saturday MP Pss 110; 111; 112 OT Zech 14:1-21 or Ex 15:1-18 NT 2 Pet 1:5b-11

Mass at choice

EP I (and First Mass) of CHRIST THE KING

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SUNDAY 24 November

CHRIST THE KING Dignus est Agnus (Sunday next before Advent) (See p. 451) LH Ps Wk 2

EP I Pss (144; 145) 146; 147 OT Ezek 34:1-6, 11-16, 23-31 or Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 NT Eph 1:15-23 or Lk 23:35-43

MP Pss (93; 63; 118) 148-150 OT 2 Sam 23:1-7 NT Rev 1:4-6, 19, 12-18; 2:26, 28; 3:5, 12, 20-21 or Rev 1:5-8

Mass Proper, Gl., Cr., Proper Pref.

EP II Pss (110-113) 114; 115 OT Dan 7:1-27 NT 1 Cor 15:20-28

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MONDAY 25 November

Feria (Monday of Week 34 per annum) (See p. 454) MP Ps 119:33-72 OT Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 or Jer 15:15-21 NT 1 Pet 1:1-11 or Eph 1:3-10

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:73-104 OT Ezek 36:16-36 or Is 55:1-5 NT 1 Thess 2:9-13

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TUESDAY 26 November

Feria (See p. 454) MP Ps 119:105-144 OT Is 28:10-14, 17-20 NT 2 Pet 1:12-21 or 1 Thess 5:4-11

Mass at choice

EP Ps 119:145-176 OT Ezek 37:1-14 or Is 55:6-9 NT Rom 3:21-26

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Feria (See p. 454) MP Pss 120- 125 OT Is 55:10-12 or 1 Sam 2:1-10 NT 2 Pet 2:1-9 or Rom 8:35-39

Mass at choice

EP Pss 126-131 OT Ezek 37:15-28 or Is 55:10-12 NT 1 Pet 5:5b-7

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Feria (See p. 454) MP Pss 132; 133; (134); 135 OT Wis 1:12-15 or Is 12:1-6 NT 2 Pet 2:9-22 or Rom 14:17-19

Mass at choice

EP Pss 136; 137; 138 OT Ezek 38:14 – 39:10 or Deut 1:16-18 NT 1 Pet 1:22-25

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FRIDAY 29 November

Feria (See p. 454) MP Pss 139; 140 OT Is 57:15-19 or Hab 3:2-19 NT 2 Pet 3:1-18 or Eph 2:13-16

Mass at choice

EP Pss 141; 142; 143 OT Ezek 40:1-4; 43:1-12; 44:6-9 or Is 57:15-19 NT 1 Cor 2:7-10a

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St Andrew, Apostle, feast (See p. 457) MP Pss 19:1-6; 64; 97 OT Is 49:1-6 NT 1 Cor 1:18 – 2:5


EP I (and First Mass) of ADVENT SUNDAY

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Appendix

a) Mass Propers

1) Our Lady of Walsingham

Introit Salve, sancta parens Hail, Holy Mother, who gave birth to the King: who rules heaven and earth for ever. Collect Grant, we pray, almighty God, that as in the mystery of the Incarnation the Blessed and ever Virgin Mary conceived your Son in her heart before she conceived him in the womb, so we, your pilgrim people, rejoicing in her motherly care, may welcome him into our hearts and become a holy house fit for his eternal dwelling. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. First Reading Sirach 24:1, 2-4, 8-12, 19-22 Responsorial Psalm Magnificat R/. Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the son of the eternal Father. Second Reading Gal 4:4-7 Alleluia Alleluia. Alleluia. Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who treasured the word of God, and pondered it in her heart. Alleluia.

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Gospel John 19:25-27 Offertory Beata es Blessed are you, Virgin Mary, for you have borne the Creator of all: you have birth to the one who created you, and you remain for ever a Virgin. Prayer over the Offerings Receive, O Lord, we ask, the prayers of your people with the sacrificial offerings, that, through the intercession of Blessed Mary, the Mother of your Son, no petition may go unanswered, no request be made in vain. Through Christ our Lord. Preface of the BVM I-II Communion Beata viscera Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary: which bore the Son of the eternal Father. Post-communion Prayer As we receive this heavenly Sacrament, we beseech, O Lord, your mercy, that we, who rejoice in commemorating the Blessed Virgin Mary, may by imitating her serve worthily the mystery of our redemption. Through Christ our Lord.

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2) Blessed John Henry Newman

Introit The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me and sent me to preach the good news to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted. [First] Reading Jer 1:4-9 Psalm 96 R/. Proclaim the wonders of the Lord among all the peoples. [Second Reading] 2 Tim 4:1-5 Alleluia V/. I am the vine, you are the branches, says the Lord: whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty. Gospel John 15:9-17 Prayer over the Offerings We humbly implore your majesty, almighty God, that just as the offerings made in honour of blessed John Henry Newman bear witness to the glory of divine power, so may they impart to us the effects of your salvation. Through Christ our Lord. Preface of Holy Pastors Communion Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age, says the Lord (Mt 28:20)

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Post-communion Prayer May the mysteries we have received, O Lord, prepare us, we pray, for the eternal joys that, as a faithful steward, blessed John Henry came to deserve. Through Christ our Lord.

b) Psalms i) The omission of Psalms

The following psalms may be omitted from the Psalter in Course for these reasons:

4 Used daily at Compline. 14 Similar to Ps 53 24 When used as the Invitatory, it is not repeated that day. 58 A ‘cursing psalm’ 67 When used as the Invitatory, it is not repeated that day. 91 Used daily at Compline. 95 When used as the Invitatory, it is not repeated that day. 100 When used as the Invitatory, it is not repeated that day. 134 Used daily at Compline.

Other psalms in brackets may be omitted where they occur.

ii) Modification of the Psalmody

In Catholic as in Jewish worship, the Tetragrammaton is never to be said aloud (see Liturgiam authenticam 41 c). Three modifications are needed therefore to the Coverdale Psalter, and are given in the Customary: in Pss 35:12 and 68:4, the abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton should simply be omitted; in Ps 83:18, the normal English biblical convention of substituting ‘the LORD’ for the Divine Name should be followed.

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c) Readings

Versions of Scripture to be used:

For the reading of lessons, the Revised Standard Version should be used in either the first Catholic Edition or the second Catholic Edition (RSV-2CE). Though the Jerusalem Bible is the basis of the Lectionary in most Catholic churches in England and Wales, that version of the Bible itself (and similarly the New Jerusalem Bible) is not suitable for reading aloud in public because of the frequent occurrence of the Tetragrammaton.

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A SHORT LECTIONARY FOR

MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER

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A SHORT LECTIONARY FOR MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER FOR USE IN ORDINARY TIME

Week 1 Sunday Evening Prayer I

Is 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven. And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I! Send me.

Rom 11:33-36 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen. or

Gospel Reading: Lk 24:35-53 The two disciples told the Eleven what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, Peace to you. But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have. And when he had said this he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he

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said to them, Have you anything here to eat? They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them. Then he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled. Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high. Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God. Sunday Morning Prayer

Ex 20:1-17 God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. You shall not covet your

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neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbours wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbours.

Rev 7:9-12

I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb! And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen. Sunday Evening Prayer II

Is 43:16-21 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild beasts will honour me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

2 Cor 1:3-7

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

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Monday (1) Morning Prayer 1 Chron 29:10-13

David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; and said: Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might; and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

2 Thess 3:6-13 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you, we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying, but with toil and labour we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you. It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If anyone will not work, let him not eat. For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living. Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing.

Monday (1) Evening Prayer

Jer 17:7-10 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

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Col 1:9b-14 We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Tuesday (1) Morning Prayer

Tob 13:1b-8 Blessed is God who lives for ever, and blessed is his kingdom. For he afflicts, and he shows mercy; he leads down to Hades, and brings up again, and there is no one who can escape his hand. Acknowledge him before the nations, O sons of Israel; for he has scattered us among them. Make his greatness known there, and exalt him in the presence of all the living; because he is our Lord and God, he is our Father for ever. He will afflict us for our iniquities; and again he will show mercy, and will gather us from all the nations among whom you have been scattered. If you turn to him with all your heart and with all your soul, to do what is true before him, then he will turn to you and will not hide his face from you. But see what he will do with you; give thanks to him with your full voice. Praise the Lord of righteousness, and exalt the King of the ages. I give him thanks in the land of my captivity, and I show his power and majesty to a nation of sinners. Turn back, you sinners, and do right before him; who knows if he will accept you and have mercy on you? I exalt my God; my soul exalts the King of heaven, and will rejoice in his majesty. Let all men speak, and give him thanks in Jerusalem.

Rom 13:8-14

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law. The commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Besides this you

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know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light; let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. Tuesday (1) Evening Prayer

Job 5:17-18 Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.

1 Jn 3:1-3

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Wednesday (1) Morning Prayer

Judith 16:2-3a Begin a song to my God with tambourines, sing to my Lord with cymbals. Raise to him a new psalm; exalt him, and call upon his name. For God is the Lord who crushes wars. I will sing to my God a new song:. O Lord, you are great and glorious, wonderful in strength, invincible. Let all your creatures serve you, for you spoke, and they were made. You sent forth your Spirit, and it formed them; there is none that can resist your voice. For the mountains shall be shaken to their foundations with the waters; at your presence the rocks shall melt like wax, but to those who fear you you will continue to show mercy.

1 Pet 1:13-16

Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your

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former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; since it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. Wednesday (1) Evening Prayer

Tob 4:16-20 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your clothing to the naked. Give all your surplus to charity, and do not let your eye begrudge the gift when you made it. Place your bread on the grave of the righteous, but give none to sinners. Seek advice from every wise man, and do not despise any useful counsel. Bless the Lord God on every occasion; ask him that your ways may be made straight and that all your paths and plans may prosper.

Jas 1:22-25 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in his doing. Thursday (1) Morning Prayer

Jer 31:10-14 Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands afar off; say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock. For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him. They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more. Then shall the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord.

Rom 2:14-16

When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their

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hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. Thursday (1) Evening Prayer

Is 66:1-2 Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.

1 Pet 1:6-9

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls. Friday (1) Morning Prayer

Is 45:15-22 Truly, you are a God who hide yourself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together. But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity. For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord, and there is no other. I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, Seek me in chaos. I the Lord speak the truth, I declare what is right. Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and

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a Saviour; there is none besides me. Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Eph 4:29-32

Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and slander be put away from you, with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Friday (1) Evening Prayer

Is 45:22-25 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed, all who were incensed against him. In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory.

Rom 15:1-3

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves; let each of us please his neighbour for his good, to edify him. For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me. Saturday (1) Morning Prayer

Ex 15:1-18 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying: I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea. The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your

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adversaries; you send forth your fury, it consumes them like stubble. At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. You blew with your wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders? You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. You have led in your merciful love the people whom you redeemed, you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia. Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are as still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. You will bring them in, and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established. The Lord will reign for ever and ever.

2 Pet 1:5b-11 Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these things are yours and abound, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these things is blind and short-sighted and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be the more zealous to confirm your call and election, for if you do this you will never fall; so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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Week 2 Sunday Evening Prayer I

Wis 7:27a - 8:1 Wisdom can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things; in every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets; for God loves nothing so much as the man who lives with wisdom. For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with the light she is found to be superior, for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail. She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well.

Col 1:3-6a We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing. or

Gospel Reading: Jn 20:1-18 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him. Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had

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lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him. Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek? Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus said to her, Mary. She turned and said to him in Hebrew, Rabboni! (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, I have seen the Lord; and she told them that he had said these things to her. Sunday Morning Prayer

Ezek 36:25-27 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

Rom 5:1-5

Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. Sunday Evening Prayer II

Deut 15:7-8, 10-11 If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his

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need, whatever it may be. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.

2 Thess 2:13-14

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Monday (2) Morning Prayer

Sir 36:1-7, 13-16 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, the God of all, and look upon us, and show us the light of your mercy; send fear of you upon the nations. Lift up your hand against foreign nations and let them see your might. As in us you have been sanctified before them, so in them may you be magnified before us; and let them know you, as we have known that there is no God but you, O Lord. Show signs anew, and work further wonders; make your hand and your right arm glorious. Rouse your anger and pour out your wrath; destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy. Have pity on the city of your sanctuary, Jerusalem, the place of your rest. Fill Zion with the celebration of your wondrous deeds, and your temple with your glory. Bear witness to those whom you created in the beginning, and fulfil the prophecies spoken in your name. Reward those who wait for you, and let your prophets be found trustworthy. or

Jer 15:15-21 O Lord, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach. Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation. Why

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is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? Therefore thus says the Lord: If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them. And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the Lord. I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.

Eph 1:3-10 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us. For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. Monday (2) Evening Prayer

Is 55:1-5 Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, merciful love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

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1 Thess 2:9-13 You remember our labour and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our behaviour to you believers; for you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. Tuesday (2) Morning Prayer

Is 38:10-14, 17-20 I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world. My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end; I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. Like a swallow or a crane I clamour, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security! Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. The Lord will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the Lord.

1 Thess 5:4-11

You are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for

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wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. Tuesday (2) Evening Prayer

Is 55:6-9 Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Rom 3:21-26 Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus. Wednesday (2) Morning Prayer

1 Sam 2:1-10 Hannah prayed and said, My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. There is none holy like the Lord, there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts. He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts

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the needy from the dung heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honour. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world. He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed.

Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Wednesday (2) Evening Prayer

Is 55:10-12 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I intend, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

1 Pet 5:5b-7

Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you. Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.

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Thursday (2) Morning Prayer Is 12:1-6

You will say in that day: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you did comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in that day: Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations, proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Rom 14:17-19

The kingdom of God does not mean food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. Thursday (2) Evening Prayer

Deut 1:16-18 Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien that is with him. You shall not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s; and the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.

1 Pet 1:22-25

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart. You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for, All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord abides for ever. That word is the good news which was preached to you.

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Friday (2) Morning Prayer Hab 3:2-19

O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, I fear. In the midst of the years renew it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind. He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills sank low. His ways were as of old. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian trembled. Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea, when you did ride upon your horses, upon your chariot of victory? You stripped the sheath from your bow, and put the arrows to the string. You split the earth with rivers. The mountains saw you, and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice, it lifted its hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear. You bestrode the earth in fury, you trampled the nations in anger. You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. You pierced with your shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret. You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters. I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like deer’s feet, he makes me tread upon my high places.

Eph 2:13-16 Now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing

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in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. Friday (2) Evening Prayer

Is 57:15-19 Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. For I will not contend for ever, nor will I always be angry; for from me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life. Because of the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, I struck him, I hid my face and was angry; but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and repay him with comfort, creating for his mourners the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near, says the Lord; and I will heal him.

1 Cor 2:7-10 We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him, God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. Saturday (2) Morning Prayer

Deut 32:1-12 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Ascribe greatness to our God! The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. They have dealt corruptly with him, they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation. Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

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Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage. He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him.

Rom 12:14-16 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly; never be conceited. Week 3 Sunday Evening Prayer I

Deut 8:5-10 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

Heb 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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or Gospel Reading: Jn 20:19-31

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, Peace be with you. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe. Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, Peace be with you. Then he said to Thomas, Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing. Thomas answered him, My Lord and my God! Jesus said to him, Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe. Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. Sunday Morning Prayer

1 Kings 2:1-4 When David’s time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn; that the Lord may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

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Rom 8:14-23 All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, Abba! Father! it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning with labour pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. Sunday Evening Prayer II

Ezek 37:12b-14 Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done it, says the Lord.

1 Pet 1:3-9 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and

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exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls. Monday (3) Morning Prayer

Is 2:2-5 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. or

1 Chron 29:10-13 David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; and said: Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might; and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Jas 2:12-13

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment. Monday (3) Evening Prayer

Jer 22:1-4 Thus says the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, O King of Judah, who sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and

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your people who enter these gates. Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their servants, and their people.

Jas 4:11-12 Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbour? Tuesday (3) Morning Prayer

Is 26:1b-4 We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

1 Jn 4:13-17

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. Tuesday (3) Evening Prayer

Is 26:7-12 The way of the righteous is level; you make smooth the path of the righteous. In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your memorial name is the desire of our soul. My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn

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righteousness. If favour is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the Lord. O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they see it not. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them. O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, you have wrought for us all our works.

Rom 12:9-12 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honour. Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Wednesday (3) Morning Prayer

Is 33:13-16 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defence will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him, his water will be sure.

1 Cor 13:4-13

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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Wednesday (3) Evening Prayer Job 1:20-22; 2:9-10

Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshipped. And he said, Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die. But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Eph 3:14-21

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen. Thursday (3) Morning Prayer

Is 40:10-17 Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as his counsellor has instructed him? Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust. Lebanon would not suffice

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for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

1 Pet 4:7-11

The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers. Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins. Practise hospitality ungrudgingly to one another. As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who utters oracles of God; whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies; in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Thursday (3) Evening Prayer

Deut 4:7-8 What great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?

1 Pet 3:8-12

Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind. Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing. For, He that would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile; let him turn away from evil and do right; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil. Friday (3) Morning Prayer

Jer 14:17-21 You shall say to them this word: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is struck down with a great wound, with a very grievous blow. If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I

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enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge. Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror. We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you. Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake; do not dishonour your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us.

2 Cor 12:9b-10

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. Friday (3) Evening Prayer

Jer 18:1-6 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words. So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me: O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Jas 1:2-6 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

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Saturday (3) Morning Prayer Wis 9:1-6, 9-11

O God of my fathers and Lord of mercy, who have made all things by your word, and by your wisdom have formed man, to have dominion over the creatures you have made, and rule the world in holiness and righteousness, and pronounce judgment in uprightness of soul, give me the wisdom that sits by your throne, and do not reject me from among your servants. For I am your slave and the son of your maidservant, a man who is weak and short-lived, with little understanding of judgment and laws; for even if one is perfect among the sons of men, yet without the wisdom that comes from you he will be regarded as nothing. With you is wisdom, who knows your works and was present when you did made the world, and who understands what is pleasing in your sight and what is right according to your commandments. Send her forth from the holy heavens, and from the throne of your glory send her, that she may be with me and toil, and that I may learn what is pleasing to you. For she knows and understands all things, and she will guide me wisely in my actions and guard me with her glory.

1 Thess 2:14-15

Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. Week 4 Sunday Evening Prayer I

Is 25:6-10a On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined. And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and

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rejoice in his salvation. For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain.

2 Pet 1:16-21 We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honour and glory from God the Father and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased, we heard this voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have the prophetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. or

Gospel Reading: Jn 21:1-14 Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberi-as; and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, I am going fishing. They said to him, We will go with you. They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, Children, have you any fish? They answered him, No. He said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some. So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord! When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, Bring some of the fish that you have just caught. So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, Come and have breakfast. Now none of the disciples

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dared ask him, Who are you? They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. Sunday Morning Prayer

Deut 10:12-15 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I command you this day for your good? Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it; yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.

2 Tim 2:8-13 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel, the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation which in Christ Jesus goes with eternal glory. The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful - for he cannot deny himself. Sunday Evening Prayer II

Song 8:6-7 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.

Heb 12:18-24

You have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was

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given, If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned. Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, I tremble with fear. But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel. Monday (4) Morning Prayer

Is 42:10-16 Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. The Lord goes forth like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes. For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant. I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools. And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Rom 12:1-8

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him. For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in

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his teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. Monday (4) Evening Prayer

Bar 4:21-24 Take courage, my children, cry to God, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemy. For I have put my hope in the Everlasting to save you, and joy has come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which soon will come to you from your everlasting Saviour. For I sent you out with sorrow and weeping, but God will give you back to me with joy and gladness for ever. For as the neighbours of Zion have now seen your capture, so they soon will see your salvation by God, which will come to you with great glory and with the splendour of the Everlasting.

1 Thess 3: 7b-13 In all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith; for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God, praying earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you; and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you, so that he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Tuesday (4) Morning Prayer

Dan 3:3-18 The satraps, prefects, and governors, the counsellors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, were assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And the herald proclaimed aloud:, You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up; and whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning, fiery furnace. Therefore, as soon as

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all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshipped the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews. They said to King Nebuchadnezzar: O king, live for ever! You, O king, have made a decree, every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image; and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning, fiery furnace. There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no heed to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up. Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar said to them, Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image which I have set up? Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well and good; but if you do not worship you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace; and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hands, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you set up. or

Is 55:1-5 Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, merciful love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,

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a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

1 Jn 3:17-18 If any one has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth. Tuesday (4) Evening Prayer

Deut 4:39-40 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you for ever.

Col 3:12-16 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Wednesday (4) Morning Prayer

Is 61:10 – 62:5 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. For Zion’s sake I will not keep

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silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch. The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord will give. You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My delight is in her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Col 3:17, 23-24

Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you are serving the Lord Christ. Wednesday (4) Evening Prayer

Is 55:10-12 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I intend, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

1 Jn 2:3-6

By this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He who says I know him but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps his word, in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him: he who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

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Thursday (4) Morning Prayer Is 66:10–14a

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may suck and be satisfied with her consoling breasts; that you may drink deeply with delight from the abundance of her glory. For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall suck, you shall be carried upon her hip, and fondled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and it shall be known that the hand of the Lord is with his servants.

Rom 8:18-21 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. Thursday (4) Evening Prayer

Wis 1:1-5 Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth, think of the Lord with uprightness, and seek him with sincerity of heart; because he is found by those who do not put him to the test, and manifests himself to those who do not distrust him. For perverse thoughts separate men from God, and when his power is tested, it convicts the foolish; because wisdom will not enter a deceitful soul, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin. For a holy and disciplined spirit will flee from deceit, and will rise and depart from foolish thoughts, and will be ashamed at the approach of unrighteousness.

Col 1:21-23a You who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not

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shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven. Friday (4) Morning Prayer

Tob 13:8-15 Bless the Lord, all you his chosen one, all of you, praise his glory. Celebrate days of joy, and give thanks to him. O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will afflict you for the deeds of your sons, but again he will show mercy to the sons of the righteous. Give thanks worthily to the Lord, and praise the King of the ages, that his tent may be raised for you again with joy. May he cheer those within you who are captives, and love those within you who are distressed, to all generations for ever. Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God, bearing gifts in their hands, gifts for the King of heaven. Generations of generations will give you joyful praise. Cursed are all who hate you; blessed for ever will be all who love you. Rejoice and be glad for the sons of the righteous; for they will be gathered together, and will praise the Lord of the righteous. How blessed are those who love you! They will rejoice in your peace. Blessed are those who grieved over all your afflictions; for they will rejoice for you upon seeing all your glory, and they will be made glad for ever. Let my soul praise God the great King.

Gal 2:19-20 I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Friday (4) Evening Prayer

Wis 1:6-11 Wisdom is a kindly spirit and will not free a blasphemer from the guilt of his words; because God is witness of his inmost feelings, and a true observer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. Because the Spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said; therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will escape notice, and justice, when it punishes, will not pass him by. For inquiry will be made into the counsels of an ungodly man, and a report of his words will come to the Lord, to convict him of his lawless deeds; because a jealous ear hears all things, and the sound of murmurings does not go unheard. Beware then of useless murmuring,

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and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret word is without result, and a lying mouth destroys the soul.

Rom 8:1-6

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. Saturday (4) Morning Prayer

Ezek 36:24-28 I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

2 Pet 3:8b-15a With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire! But according to his

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promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation.

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Office of the Dead Morning Prayer

Wis 1:12-15 Do not invite death by the error of your life, nor bring on destruction by the works of your hands; because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. For he created all things that they might exist, and the generative forces of the world are wholesome, and there is no destructive poison in them; and the dominion of Hades is not on earth. For righteousness is immortal. or

Wis 3:1-9 The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them. In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever. Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.

1 Thess 4:14-18 Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangels call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds

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to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. Evening Prayer

Lam 3:17-26 My soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the Lord. Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. or

Job 19:25-27a I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

2 Cor 4:16 – 5:10 We do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling, so that by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, and we would rather be

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away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body. or

1 Cor 15:51-57 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revised Standard Version Bible, Ignatius Edition, copyright © 2006, by the

Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of

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Hymns

Morning Prayer (General)

Iam lucis orto sidere 1.Now that the daylight fills the sky, we lift our hearts to God on high, that he, in all we do or say, would keep us free from harm today. 2.Would guard our hearts and tongues from strife, from anger’s din would hide our life, from all ill sights would turn our eyes; would close our ears from vanities 3.Would keep our inmost conscience pure our souls from folly would secure, would bid us check the pride of sense with due and holy abstinence. 4.So we, when this new day is gone, and night in turn is drawing on, with conscience by the world unstained shall praise his name for victory gained 5.All laud to God the Father be; all praise, eternal Son, to thee; all glory, as is ever meet, to God the holy Paraclete. Amen.

5th cent. Tr. J.M. Neale

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Evening Prayer (General)

Rerum Deus tenax vigor

1.O Strength and Stay upholding all creation,

who ever dost thyself unmoved abide;

yet day by day the light in due gradation

from hour to hour through all its changes guide.

2.Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,

an eve untouched by shadows of decay,

the brightness of a holy deathbed blending

with dawning glories of the eternal day.

3.Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,

through Jesus Christ thy co-eternal Word,

who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living

now and to endless ages art adored. Amen.

Ascribed to St Ambrose, Tr. J. Ellerton, F. J. A. Hart

Tune: Strength and Stay, J. B. Dykes

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Sunday Evening Prayer I

Deus creator omnium1.Creator of the earth and sky, ruling the firmament on high, clothing the day with robes of light, blessing with gracious sleep the night, 2.That rest may comfort weary men, and brace to useful toil again, and soothe awhile the harassed mind, and sorrow’s heavy load unbind: 3.Day sinks; we thank thee for thy gift; night comes; and once again we lift our prayers and vows and hymns, that we against all ills may shielded be.

4.Thee let the secret heart acclaim, thee let our tuneful voices name, round thee our chaste afflictions cling, thee sober reason own as King. 5.That when black darkness closes day, and shadows thicken round our way, faith may no darkness know, and night from faith’s clear beam may borrow light. 6.Rest not, my heaven-born mind and will; rest, all ye thoughts and deeds of ill; may faith its watch unwearied keep, and cool the dreaming warmth of sleep.

7.From cheats of sense, Lord, keep me free, and let my heart’s depth dream of thee; let not my envious foe draw near, to break my rest with any fear. 8.Pray we the Father and the Son, and Holy Ghost: O Three in One,

blest Trinity, whom all obey,

guard thou thy sheep by night and day. Amen.

St Ambrose, Tr. Charles Bigg

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Sunday Morning Prayer

Æterne rerum conditor 1.Transcendent God in whom we live, the Resurrection and the Light,

we sing for you a morning hymn to end the silence of the night. 2.When early cock begins to crow and everything from sleep awakes, new life and hope spring up again while our of darkness colour breaks. 3.Creator of all things that are, the measure and the end of all, forgiving God, forget our sins, and hear our prayers before we call. 4.Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost, blest Trinity and source of grace, who call us out of nothingness to find in you our resting-place. Amen.

St Ambrose, Tr. Stanbrook Abbey Hymnal

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Sunday Evening Prayer II

Lucis creator optime 1.O blest Creator of the light, who mak’st the day with radiance bright, and o’er the forming world didst call the light from chaos first of all. 2.Whose wisdom joined in meet array the morn and eve, and named them day: night comes with all its darkling fears; regard thy people’s prayers and tears. 3.Lest, sunk in sin, and whelmed with strife, they lose the gift of endless life; while thinking but the thoughts of time, they weave new chains of woe and crime. 4.But grant them grace that they may strain the heavenly gate and prize to gain: each harmful lure aside to cast, and purge away each error past. 5.O Father, that we ask be done, through Jesus Christ, thine only Son; who, with the Holy Ghost and thee, doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

6th cent. Tr. J. M. Neale

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Monday Morning Prayer

Splendor paternæ Gloria

1.O splendour of God’s glory bright,

O thou that bringest light from light;

O Light of light, light’s living spring,

O day, all days illumining.

2.O thou true Sun, on us thy glance

let fall in royal radiance;

the Spirit’s sanctifying beam

upon our earthly senses stream.

3.The Father, too, our prayers implore,

Father of glory evermore;

the Father of all grace and might,

to banish sin from our delight.

4.To guide whate’er we nobly do,

with love all envy to subdue;

to make ill fortune turn to fair,

and give us grace our wrongs to bear.

5.Our mind be in his keeping placed

our body true to him and chaste,

where only faith her fire shall feed,

to burn the tares of Satan’s seed.

6.And Christ to us for food shall be,

from him our drink that welleth free,

the Spirit’s wine, that maketh whole,

and, mocking not, exalts the soul.

7.Rejoicing may this day go hence;

like virgin dawn our innocence,

like fiery noon our faith appear,

nor known the gloom of twilight drear.

8.Morn is in rosy chariot borne;

let him come forth our perfect morn,

the Word in God the Father one,

the Father perfect in the Son.

9.All laud to God the Father be;

all praise, eternal Son, to thee;

all glory, as is ever meet,

to God the holy Paraclete.

St Ambrose, Tr. Yattendon Hymnal

165

Monday Evening Prayer

Immenase cæli conditor

1.O boundless Wisdom, God most high,

O Maker of the earth and sky,

who bid’st the parted waters flow

in heaven above, on earth below.

2.The streams on earth, the clouds in heaven,

by thee their ordered bounds were given,

lest ’neath the untempered fires of day

the parched soil should waste away.

3.E’en so on us who seek thy face

pour forth the waters of thy grace;

renew the fount of life within,

and quench the wasting fires of sin.

4.Let faith discern the eternal Light

beyond the darkness of the night,

and through the mists of falsehood see

the path of truth revealed by thee.

5.O Father, that we ask be done,

through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;

who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,

doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

c.6th cent. Tr. Gabriel Gillett (1873-1948)

166

Tuesday Morning Prayer

Ales diei nuntius

1.The wingèd herald of the day

proclaims the morn’s approaching ray:

and Christ the Lord our souls excites,

and so to endless life invites.

2.Take up thy bed, to each he cries,

who sick or wrapped in slumber lies;

and chaste and just and sober stand

and watch: my coming is at hand.

3.With earnest cry, with tearful care,

call we the Lord to hear our prayer;

while supplication, pure and deep,

forbids each chastened heart to sleep.

4.Do thou, O Christ, our slumbers wake;

do thou the chains of darkness break:

purge thou our former sins away,

and in our souls new light display.

5.All laud to God the Father be,



to God the holy Paraclete

Prudentius, Tr. J. M. Neale

167

Tuesday Evening Prayer

Telluris ingens conditor

1.Earth’s mighty Maker, whose command

raised from the sea the solid land,

and drove each billowy heap away,

and bade the earth stand firm for ay.

2.That so, with flowers of golden hue,

the seeds of each it might renew;

and fruit trees bearing fruit might yield--

and pleasant pasture of the field;

3.Our spirit’s rankling wounds efface

with dewy freshness of thy grace:

that grief may cleanse each deed of ill,

and o’er each lust may triumph still.

4.Let every soul thy law obey,

and keep from every evil way;

rejoice each promised good to win

and flee from every mortal sin.





c.7th cent. Tr Anon (1854)

168

Wednesday Morning Prayer

Nox et tenebræ et nubile

1.Ye clouds and darkness, hosts of night,

that breed confusion and affright,

begone! o’erhead the dawn shines clear,

the light breaks in, and Christ is here.

2.Earth’s gloom flees broken and dispersed,

by the sun’s piercing shafts coerced:

the day-star’s eyes rain influence bright,

and colours glimmer back to sight.

3.Thee, Christ, alone we know; to thee

we bend in pure simplicity;

our songs with tears to thee arise;

prove thou our hearts with thy clear eyes.

4.Though we be stained with blots within,

thy quickening rays shall purge our sin;

light of the Morning Star, thy grace

shed on us from thy cloudless face.

5.All laud to God the Father be,



to God the holy Paraclete. Amen.

Prudentius, Tr. Robert Martin Pope (1865-1944)

169

Wednesday Evening Prayer

Cæli Deus sanctissime

1.Most holy Lord and God of Heaven,

who to the glowing sky hast given

the fires that in the east are born

with gradual splendours of the morn;

2.Who, on the fourth day, didst reveal

the sun’s enkindled flaming wheel,

didst set the moon her ordered ways,

and stars their ever-winding maze;

3.That each in its appointed way

might separate the night from day,

and of the seasons through the year

the well-remembered signs declare;

4.Illuminate our hearts within,

and cleanse our minds from stain of sin;

unburdened of our guilty load

may we, unfettered, serve our God.





4th or 5th cent. Tr. Maurice Frederick Bell (1862-1931)

170

Thursday Morning Prayer

1. Lo! golden light rekindles day: Let paling darkness steal away, Which all too long o’erwhelmed our gaze And led our steps by winding ways.

2.We pray Thee, rising Light serene, E’en as Thyself our hearts make clean; Let no deceit our lips defile, Nor let our souls be vexed by guile.

3.O keep us, as the hours proceed, From lying word and evil deed; Our roving eyes from sin set free, Our body from impurity.

4.For Thou dost from above survey The converse of each fleeting day; Thou dost foresee from morning light Our every deed, until the night.

5.All laud to the God the Father be, All praise, eternal Son, to Thee; All glory, as is ever meet, To God the holy Paraclete. Amen

Prudentius, Tr. Robert Martin Pope (1865-1944)

171

Thursday Evening Prayer

Magnæ Deus potentiæ

1.Almighty God, who from the flood

didst bring to light a twofold brood;

part in the firmament to fly,

and part in ocean’s depths to lie;

2.Appointing fishes in the sea,

and fowls in open air to be,

that each, by origin the same,

its separate dwelling place might claim:

3.Grant that thy servants, by the tide

of blood and water purified,

no guilty fall from thee may know,

nor death eternal undergo.

4.Be none submerged in sin’s distress,

none lifted up in boastfulness;

that contrite hearts be not dismayed,

nor haughty souls in ruin laid.


through Jesus Christ thine only Son;



6th or 7th cent. Tr. J. M. Neale

172

Friday Morning Prayer

Æterna cæli gloria 1.Eternal Glory of the sky, blest Hope of frail humanity, the Father’s sole begotten One, yet born a spotless Virgin’s Son! 2.Uplift us with thine arm of might, and let our hearts rise pure and bright, and, ardent in God’s praises, pay the thanks we owe him every day. 3.The day-star’s rays are glittering clear, and tell that day itself is near: the shadows of the night depart; thou, holy Light, illume the heart! 4.Within our senses ever dwell, and worldly darkness thence expel; long as the days of life endure, preserve our souls devout and pure. 5.The faith that first must be possessed, root deep within our inmost breast; and joyous hope in second place, then charity, thy greatest grace. 6.All laud to God the Father be, all praise, eternal Son, to thee; all glory, as is ever meet, to God the holy Paraclete. Amen.

t Ambrose, Tr. J. M. Neale

173

Friday Evening Prayer

Plasmator hominis Deus 1.Maker of man, who from thy throne dost order all things, God alone; By whose decree the teeming earth To reptile and to beast gave birth: 2.The mighty forms that fill the land, instinct with life at thy command, are giv’n subdued to humankind for service in their rank assigned. 3.From all thy servants drive away whate’er of thought impure today hath been with open action blent, or mingled with the heart’s intent. 4.In heaven thine endless joys bestow, and grant thy gifts of grace below; from chains of strife our souls release, bind fast the gentle bands of peace. 5.O Father, that we ask be done, through Jesus Christ, thine only Son; who, with they Holy Ghost and thee, doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

c.7th cent. Tr. J. D. Chamber (1805-93)

174

Saturday Morning Prayer

Aurora iam spargit polum

1.Dawn purples all the east with light;

day o’er the earth is gliding bright;

morn’s sparkling rays their course begin;

farewell to darkness and to sin!

2. Each evil dream of night, depart,

each thought of guilt, forsake the heart!

let every ill that darkness brought

beneath its shade, now come to naught!

3. So that last morning, dread and great,

which we with trembling hope await,

with blessèd light for us shall glow,

who chant the song we learnt below.

4. To God the Father glory be,

and to his sole-begotten Son;

glory, O Holy Ghost, to thee,

while everlasting ages run. Amen.

PECUSA Hymnal 1871 (Tr. Anon.)

Doxology: E. Caswall (English Hymnal)

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