Sunday: For a Happy and Just Issue

[Intention: For a happy and just issue.]

)%i In the name of the Father, and of the

Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen,

Our Father. Hail Mary. I believe.

f. 0 God, come to my assistance. Bj. 0 Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Amen. Alleluia.

Ant. Ye holy angels, who stand always before God in heaven, defend us in battle, that we perish not in the tremendous judgement.

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Ps. lxxxix. Domine, refugium.

LORD, Thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity Thou art God.

Turn not man away to be brought low: and Thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

For a thousand years in Thy sight are as yesterday, which is past.

And as a watch in the night, as things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

In the morning man shall grow up like grass, in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry and wither.

For in Thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in Thy indignation.

Thou hast set our iniquities before Thy eyes: our life in the light of Thy countenance.

For all our days are spent; and in Thy wrath we have fainted away.

Our years shall be considered as a spider: the days of our years in them are threescore, and ten years.

But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow.

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For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Who knoweth the power of Thy anger, and for Thy fear can number Thy wrath?

So make Thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of Thy servants.

We were filled in the morning with Thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

We have rejoiced for the days in which Thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Look upon Thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct Thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do Thou direct.

Glory be.

Ant. Ye holy angels, who stand always before God in heaven, defend us in battle, that we perish not in the tremendous judgement.

The Chapter. Isa. lxi.

THE Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: He hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:

To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify Him.

And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old, and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities, that were destroyed for generation and generation.

And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandmen, and the dressers of your vines.

But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.

For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part: therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.

For I am the Lord that love judgement, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.

And they shall know their seed among the gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Bj. Thanks be to God. Lord, have mercy. Christy have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Our Father.

f. Save Thy servants.

Bj. Who hope in Thee, 0 my God.

y. Be unto them, O Lord, a tower of strength. Bj. From the face of the enemy. y. Let not the enemy prevail against them.

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37. Nor the son of hurt them. Lord, deal not with us according to our sins. Neither requite us according to our iniquities. f. Let us pray for our Sovereign Pontiff

Benedict. B?. The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon earth; and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. f. Let us pray for our benefactors.

Vouchsafe, O Lord, for Thy name's sake, to reward with eternal life all them that do us good.

Amen.

us pray for the faithful departed. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

For our absent brethren. Save Thy servants who hope in Thee,

O my God. Send them help, O Lord, from the sanctuary. And defend them out of Sion. O Lord, hear my prayer. And let my cry come unto Thee.

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Let us pray.

Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose hand lieth the scourge of war, and who dost dispose the passions of men and nations as seemeth good to Thy Divine Majesty; grant us grace, we beseech Thee, on whom Thou hast laid Thy heavy discipline, so to humble our hearts in acknowledgment of our sins that have merited so heavy a chastisement, that, purged by Thy wrath and Thy mercy from all our iniquities, we may better deserve the blessings of peace.

Look mercifully, O good Shepherd, on Thy flock; and suffer not the sheep which Thou hast redeemed with Thy precious Blood to be torn in pieces by the assaults of the devil.

Almighty, Everlasting God, have mercy upon Thy servant Benedict, our Sovereign Pontiff, and direct him, according to Thy clemency, into the way of everlasting salvation; that, by Thy grace, he may both desire those things that are pleasing to Thee, and perform them with all his strength.

O God, who by Thine ineffable Providence dost deign to send Thine angels to be the guardians of Thy children; grant to Thy servants always to be defended by their protection, and to dwell for ever in their fellowship.

For humility.

For the Church.

For the Sovereign Pontiff.

For our soldiers and sailors.

For victory.

O Lord God of battles, give strength to our arms; and, since we desire only Thy greater glory and the peace of Thy children, do Thou crown that strength with triumph.

Through Jesus Christ Thy Son, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

y. O Lord, hear my prayer.

37. And let my cry come unto Thee.

f. May the Almighty and merciful Lord graciously hear us. Bj. Amen. f. And may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of

God, rest in peace, itf. Amen.