Commemoration of the First Sunday after Pentecost

O God, the strength of such as hope in thee : mercifully hear us calling on thee : and since mortal weakness can do nothing without thee, grant us the assistance of thy grace ; that, in observing thy commandments, we may please thee, both in will and action. Through, etc.

Deus in te sperantium fortitudo, adesto propitius invocationibus nostns : et quia sine te nihil potest mortalis infirmita, prsesta auxilium gratiee tuse, ut in exsequendis mandatis tuis, et voluntate tdbi et actione placeamus. Per Dominum.

EPISTLE.

Lesson of the Epistle of Lectio Epistolae beati Saint Paul to the Romans. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos.

Ch. xi.

0 the depths of the riches of the wisdom and of the know-

Cap, xi,

0 altitudo divitiarum sapientisB et scientiae Dei:

TIME AFTER PENTECOST. quam iricomprehenfeibilia sunt judicia ejus, et investigabiles viae ejus ! Quis enim cognovit sensum Domini P aut quis consiliarius ejus fait? aut quis prior dedit illi, et retribuetur ei ? Quoniam ex ipso, et per ipsum, et in ipso sunt omnia : ipsi honor et gloria in saecula. Amen. ledffe of God ! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? Or who hath been his counsellor P Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him ? For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things : to him be glory for ever. Amen.

We cannot fix our thoughts upon the divine judgments and ways, without feeling a sort of bewilderment. The eternal and infinite dazzle our weak reason ; and yet this same reason of ours acknowledges and confesses them. Now, if even the ways of God With his creatures surpass our understanding, how can we pretend to disoover, of ourselves, the inmost nature of this sovereign Being P And yet, in this uncreated essence, we do distinguish the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost from eaoh other, and we glorify them. This comes from the Father's having revealed himself, by sending us his Son, the object of his eternal delight ; it comes from the Son's showing us his own Personality, by taking our Flesh, whioh the Father and the Holy Ghost did not ; it comes from the Holy Ghost's being sent by the Father and the Son, and his fulfilling the Mission he received from them. Our mortal eye respeotfully gazes upon these divine depths of truth, and our heart is touohed at the thought, that it is through his benefits to us that he has given us to know him, and that our knowledge of what he is, came through what he gave us. Let us lovingly prize this Faith, and confidently wait for that happy moment, when it will make way for the eternal vision of that whioh we have believed here below.

The Gradual and Verse are full of joy

TRINITY SUNDAY. and admiration, at the presence of that sovereign majesty, who has vouchsafed to send forth his rays into the darkness of our minds.

Blessed art thou 0 Lord, who beholdest the deep, and sittest on the Cherubim. y. Blessed art thou 0 Lord, in the firmament of heaven, and worthy of praise for ever.

Alleluia, alleluia. f. Blessed art thou, 0 Lord, the God of our Fathers, and worthy of praise for ever. Alleluia.

Benedictus es, Domine, qui intueris abyssos, et sedes super cherubim.

^. Benedictu8es, Domine, in firmamento coali, et laudabilis in ssecula.

Alleluia, alleluia.

Benedictus es, Domine, Deus patrum nostrorura, et laudabilis in ssecula. Alleluia.

GOSPEL.

Sequel of the Holy Gospel Sequentia sancti Evanaccording to Matthew. gelii secundum Matthseum.

Ch. xxviii.

At that time : Jesus said to his disciples : All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going, therefore teach all nations : baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost : teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold! I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

Cap. xxviii.

In illo tempore: Dixit Jesus discipulis suis : Data est mihi omnis potestas in ccelo et in terra. Euntes ergo docete omnes gentes : baptizantes eos in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus sancti : docentes eos servare omnia qusecumque mandavi vobis. Et ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus, usque ad consummationem sseculi.

The mystery of the blessed Trinity, which was taught us by the mission of the Son of Q-od into this world, and by the promise of the speedy sending of the Holy Spirit, is announced to men by these solemn words, uttered by Jesus just before his ascension into heaven. He had said : Me that shall believe, and

TIME AFTER PBNTECOST. shall be baptised, shall be saved; 1 but he adds, that Baptism is to be given in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Henceforward man must not only confess the unity of God, by abjuring a plurality of gods, but he must, also, adore a Trinity of Persons in Unity of Essence. The great secret of heaven is now a truth which is published through the whole world.

But, whilst humbly confessing the God whom we have been taught to know as he is in himself, we must, likewise, pay a tribute of eternal gratitude to the ever glorious Trinity. Not only has It vouchsafed to impress Its divine image on our soul, by making her to Its own likeness ; but, in the supernatural order, It has taken possession of our being, and raised it to an incalculable pitch of greatness The Father has adopted us in his Son become Incarnate ; the Word illumines our minds with his light ; the Holy Ghost has chosen us for his dwelling : and this it is that is expressed by the form of holy Baptism. By those words pronounced over us, together with the pouring out of the water, the whole Trinity took possession of Its creature. We call this sublime marvel to mind as often as we invoke the Three divine Persons, making upon ourselves, at the same time, the sign of the Cross. When our mortal remains are carried into the house of God, there to receive the last blessings and farewell of the Ghuroh on earth, the Priest will beseech the Lord " not to enter into judgment with his servant ; " and in order to draw down the divine meroy upon this Christian, who has gone to his eternity, he will say to the Sovereign Judge, that this member of the human family "was marked, whilst in this life, with the sign of the Holy Trinity." Let us respeot this divine impress which we bear upon us , it is to be eternal ;

1 St. Mark, xvi. 16,

TRINITY SUNDAY. hell itself will not be able to blot it out. Let it, then, be our hope, our dearest title ; and let us live for the glory of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen !

In the Offertory the Church begins the immediate preparation of the Sacrifice, bv invoking on the oblation the Name of the Three Persons, and again proclaiming the mercy of God.

OFFERTORY.

Blessed be God the Father, and the Only Begotten Son of God, likewise the Holy Ghost : for he hath shown his mercy unto us.

Benedictus sit Deus Pater, unigenitusque Dei Films, sanctus quoque Spiritus : quia fecit nooiscum misencordiam suam.

In the Secret, holy Church asks, that the homage we are making, in this Sacrifice, of ourselves to the sacred Trinity, may be presented to It not to-day only, but may beoome eternal by our being admitted into heaven, where we shall contemplate, and without a veil, the glorious mystery of God, One in Three Persons.

SECRET.

Sanctify, we beseech thee, 0 Lord, our God, by the invocation of thy holy Name, the victim of this oblation : and, by it, make us an eternal offering to thee. Through, etc.

Sanctifica, qusssumus Domine Deus noster, per tui sancti Nominis invocationem hujus oblationis hostiam : et per earn nosmetipsos tibi perfice munus seternum. Per Dominum.

COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST.

Hostias nostras, quaesusacri- mus Domine, tibi dicatas et ad perpetuum nobis tribue etc. nire subsidium. Per Dominum,

Mercifully receive, we beseech thee, 0 Lord, the fice we offer thee : and grant placatus assume : that it may be a continual provehelp to us. Through,

TIME AFTER PENTBOOST. suram bonam, et confertam, et coagitatam, Jet supereffluentem dabunt in 8inum vestmm. Eadem quippe mensura, qua mensi rueritis, remetietur vobis. Dicebat autem illis et similitudinem : Numquid potest caecus caecum ducere ? nonne ambo in foveam cadunt? Non est diBoipulu super magistrum : perfectus autem omnis erit, si sit sicut magister ejus. Quid autem vides festucam in oculo fratris tui, trabem autem, quae in oculo tuo est, non consideras ? Aut quomodo potes dicere fratri tuo : Erater, sine, ejiciam festucam de oculo tuo : ipse in oculo tuo trabem non videns ? Hypoorita, ejice piimum trabem de oculo tuo: et tunc perspicies ut educas festucam de oculo fratris tui. ft. Deo gratias. measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again. And he spoke also to them a similitude : Can the blind lead the blind ? do they not both fall into the ditch? The disciple is not above his master : but every one shall be perf ect,if he be as his master. And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye; but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not ? or how canst thou say to thy brother ; Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye ? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye.

Thanks be to God.

SEXT.

Ant. Gloria laudis resonet Ant. in ore omnium, Patri, Genitaeque Proli, Spiritui sancto pariter resultet laude per-

Let the glory of praise sound in every mouth, to the Father, and to the Son begotten of him ; to the Holy Ghost, enni. also, let perpetual praise be given.

CAPITULUM.

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Gratia Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et charitas Dei, et communicatio sancti Spiritus sit cum omnibus vobis. Amen.

»\ XIII.)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the charity of God, and the communication of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

TBINITt BTJNDAT. breve. — Blessed art thou, 0 Lord, * In the firmament of heaven. Blessed. f. And worthy of praise, and glorious for ever. * In the firmament. Glory. Blessed. y. By the word of the Lord, the heavens were established.

&. And all the power of them, by the spirit of his mouth.

&. breve. — Benediotus es, Domine, * In firmamento coeli. Benedictus.

^. Etlaudabilis et gloriosus in saecula. * In firmamento. Gloria. Benedictus.

Verbo Domini coeli firmati sunt.

£ Et spiritu oris ejus omnis virtus eorum.

The Prayer is the Collect of the Maes, page 123.

NONE.

Ant. Prom Ant. Ex quo omnia, per omnia, in quo omnia : ipsi gloria in ssecula. whom are all things, by whom all things, in quern whom all things, — to him be glory for ever.

CAPITTJLUM.

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• There are three who give testimony in heaven ; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; ' and these three are one. breve. — By the word of the Lord, * The heavens were established. By the word. f. And all the power of them, by the spirit of his mouth. * The heavens. Glory. By the word. f. May the name of the Lord be blessed,

&< From henceforth, now, and for ever.

The Prayer is the Colle< hn, y.J

Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in ccelo, Pater, Verbum, et Spirit us sanotus ; et hi tres unum sunt. breve. — Verbo Domini, * Cceli firmati sunt. Verbo.

Et spiritu oris ejus omnis virtus eorum. * Coeli. Gloria. Verbo.

J\ Sit nomen Domini benedictum,

&. Ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum.

; of the Mass, page 123.

VESPERS.

Ant. Gloria tibi, Trinitas Ant. ®qualis, una Deitas, et ante omnia ssecula, et nunc et in perpetuum.

Glory be to thee, 0 equal Trinity, one Deity, both before all ages, and now, and for ever.

Ps. Dixit Dominus, page 89.

Ant. Laus et perennis Ant. Praise and perpetual gloria Deo, Patri, et Filio, glory be to God, Father, and sancto 8imul Paraclito, in Son, together with the Holy sflBoulorum ssecula. Paraclete, for ever and ever.

Ps. Confitebor tibi, page 90.

Ant. Gloria laudisresonet Ant. in ore omnium Patri, genitaeque Proli ; Spiritui sancto panter resultet laude per- gotten

Let the glory of praise sound in every mouth, to the Father, and to the Son beof him; to the Holy enni. Ghost, also, let perpetual praise be given.

Ps. Beatus vir, page 91.

Ant. Laus Deo Patri, Ant. Let praise be given parilique Proli, et tibi sane- to God the Father, and to his te studio perenni Spiritus, equal Son ; and may our lips nostro resonet ab ore omne celebrate thee unceasingly, O per sevum. Holy Spirit, for all ages.

Ps. Laudate pueri, page 92. 1

Ant. Ex quo omnia, per Ant. From whom are all quern omnia, in quo omnia : things, by whom all things, in ipsi gloria in ssecula. whom all things, — to him be glory for ever.

Ps. In exitu Israel, page 93. capitulum.

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O altitudo divitiarum sa- 0 pientiae et scientiae Dei : quam incomprehensibilia sunt judicia ejus, et inves- hensible tigabiles vise ejus !

the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God : how incompreare his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways I

TRINITY STTODAY.

HYMN.

Now is the burning sun retreating ; do thou, O everlasting Unity, 0 blessed Trinity, our Light, pour forth love into our hearts.

It is to thee we pray, at morn and eve, in our songs of praise: grant us, thy ^suppliants, that we may praise thee in the company of the citizens of heaven.

To thee, O God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ! may glory be, as it hath ever been, for ever and for endless ages. Amen. y. Blessed art thou, 0 Lord, in the firmament of heaven ; ft. And worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.

Jam sol recedit igneus, Tu lux perenni XJnitas, Nostris, beata Trinitas, Infunde amorem cordibus.

Te mane laudum carmine, Te deprecamur vespere ; Digneris ut te supplices Laudemus inter Coalites.

Patri simulque Filio, Tibique sancte Spiritus, Sicut fuit, sit jugiter Sseclum per omne gloria. Amen.

^. Benedictuses.Domine, in firmamento cceli ; ft. Et laudabilis et gloriosus in saecula. antiphon of the Magnificat Thee God the Father unbe- Te Deum Patrem ingeni- gotten, thee the Only Begotten Son, thee the Holy Ghost the Comforter, holy and undivided Trinity, with all our heart and mouth, we confess, praise, and bless : to thee be glory for ever. turn, te Filium unigenitum, te Spiritum sanctum Paraclitum, sanctam et individuam Trinitatem, toto corde et ore confitemur, laudamus, atque benedicimus : tibi gloria in scecula.

• In the Monastic Rite, it is given thus, and is preceded by a Responsory : —

I^. breve. — Benedicamus Patrem, et Filium, * Cum Sancto Spiritu. Benedicamus. ft. Laudemus et superexaltemus eum in saecula. Cum. Gloria Patri, etc. Benedicamus.

0 Lux beata Trinitas, Et principalis Unitas, Jam sol recedit igneus, Infunde lumen cordibus,

Te mane laudum carmine, Te deprecamur vespere ; Te nostra supplex gloria Per cuncta laudet saecula.

Deo Patri sit gloria, Ejusque soli Filio, Cum Spiritu Paraclito Et nunc et in perpetuum.

Amen.

OBEMtTS.

Omnipotens sempiterne Dens, qui dedisti famulis tuis in confeseione vera fidei setemse Trinitatis gloriam agnosoere, et in potentia majestatis adorare Unitatem ; ausesumus ut ejusdem fidei firmitate, ab omnibus semper muniamur adverais. Per Dominum.

LET US PRAY.

0 Almighty and everlasting God, who hast granted thy servants, in the confession of the true faith, to acknowledge the glory of an eternal Trinity, and, in the power of majesty, to adore an unity : we beseech thee that, by the strength of this faith, we may be defended from all adversity. Through, etc.