he fhall multiplicabitur in domo Domini. V. Ad annun tiandum manè mifericordiam tuam, & veritatem tuam per no&tem. palm-tree; TRACT. Bleffed is the man, as p. lxxxiv. T a At that time Jefus faid to his difciples: Let your loins be girt, and lamos burning in your hands; and be you like men looking for their Lord, when he fhall return from the wedding: that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Bleffed are thofe fervants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, fhall find watching. Amen, I fay to you, that he will gird himself, and make them fit down, and he will come forth and serve them. And if he come at the second watch, or if he come at the third watch, and find them fo, bleffed are those servants. But know ye this, that if the mafter of the house did know at what hour the thief would come; he would certainly watch, and would not fuffer his houfe to be broken open. Be you then alfo ready for at what hour you think not, the Son of Man will come. OFFERTORY. P. lxxxviii. My truth, as p. cxii. WE SECRET. E offer thee, O Lord, in honour of thy faints, a facrifice of praife, by which we hope to be delivered from all prefent and future evils. Thro'. COMMUNION. Bleffed is the fervant, as p. ciii. a Expl. Tie a towel, or apron before him, as Chrift did when he wafbed the difciples feet. POSTCOMMUNION. Refecti cibo. Eing refreshed, O Lord, with this heavenly meat and drink, we humbly befeech thee, that we may be affifted by his prayers, on whose feaft we have received thefe facred myfteries. Thro'. II. VESPERS. The PSALMS, ANTHEMS, LITTLE CHAPTER, and HYMN, as in the first Vespers, p. cxvii. V. The Lord led the just man through right ways. R. And he hath fhewn him the kingdom of God. V. Juftum deduxit Dominus per vias rectas. R. Et oftendit illi regnum Dei. At the MAGNIFICAT. Anth. This man defpifing the world, and triumphing over all things on earth, laid up riches in heaven both by word and deed. Ant. Hic vir defpiciens mundum, & terrena triumphans: divitias cœlo condidit ore, manu. Another M ASS of the fame. THE INTROIT. P. xci. HE righteous man fhall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall thrive like the cedar of Libanus, being planted in the houfe of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. Pf. It is good to praife the Lord, and to fing to thy name, O thou the Moft High. V. Glory. A Uftus ut palma florebit; ficut cedrus Libani multiplicabitur; plantatus in domo Domini, in atriis domûs Dei noftri. P. Bonum eft confiteri Domino; & pfallere nomini tuo, Altiffime. V. Gloria. prayers we Ttend, O Lord, to the humble thy Confeffor; that we, who have no confidence in our own righteoufnefs, may have the help of his prayers, who was fo pleafing to thee. Thro'. BR EPISTLE. I Cor. iv. 9, 14. Rethren: We are made a fpectacle to the world, and to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's fake; but you are wife in Chrift: we are weak, but you are ftrong; you are honourable, but we without honour. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirft, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode. And we labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and we blefs. We are perfecuted, and we fuffer it. We are ill spoken of, and we intreat: we are become as the refuse of this world, the off-fcouring of all even till now. I write not these things to fhame you; but I admonifh you as my dearest children, in Chrift Jefus our Lord. GRADUAL. P. xxxvi. The mouth of the righteous man fhall utter wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment. The law of God is in his heart, and his feet fhall not be tript up. Os jufti meditabitur fapientiam, & lingua ejus loquetur judicium. Lex Dei ejus in corde ipfius, & non fupplantabuntur pedes ejus. TRACT. Bleffed is the man, as p. cvii. GOSPEL. Luke xii. 32, 34. T that time Jefus faid to his difciples: Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleafed your Father to. give you a kingdom. Sell what you poffefs, and give alms. Make to yourfelves bags, that grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not; where no thief approacheth, nor moth confumeth. For where your treaure is, there will your heart be alfo. VOL. II. 1 OFFERTORY. Pf. xx. The righteous man, O Lord, hall rejoice in thy power; and he fhall rejoice exceedingly that thou haft faved him: thou haft granted him his foul's defire. G In virtute tuâ, Domine, lætabitur juftus, & fuper falutare tuum exultabit vehementer: defiderium animæ ejus tribuifti ei. SECRET. RANT, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that our humble offerings may be acceptable to thee, for the honour of thy faints, and purify us both in body and mind. Thro'. COMMUNION. Matt. xix. Amen, I fay to you: that you, who have forfook all things, and followed me; fhall receive an hundred-fold, and obtain eternal life. WE Amen, dico vobis: quod vos, qui reliquiftis omnia, & fecuti eftis me; centuplum accipietis, & vitam æternam poffidebitis. POSTCOMMUNION. Quafumus. E beseech thee, O Almighty God, that, by the interceffion of thy holy Confeffor N. the heavenly food we have received, may defend us from all adverfity. Thro'. Another EPISTLE. Philip iii. 7, 12. BRethren: The things that were gain to me, those I have accounted lofs for Chrift. Farthermore I count all things to be but lofs, for the excellent knowledge of Jefus Chrift my Lord: for whom I have fuffered the lofs of all things, and count them but as dung, that I may gain Chrift, and may be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus: which is of God, righteousness in faith. That I may know him, and the power of his refurrection, and the fellowship of his füfferings, being made conformable to his death if by any means I may attain to the refurrection, which is from the dead. Not as tho' I had already attained to that, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may by any means lay hold of that, whereunto I was alfo laid hold of by Jefus Christ. * All as in the Common of a Confeffor, not a Bishop, p. cxvii. MASS. INTROIT. The mouth of the righteous, as p. cxviii. MAX COLLECT. Interceffio. WAY the interceffion, O Lord, of bleffed N.. the Abbot, recommend us to thee; that what we cannot hope for through any merits of our own, we may obtain by his prayers. Thro'. H LESSON. Ecclef. xlv. 1, 6. E was beloved of God and men: whofe memory is in benediction. God made him like the faints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies and with his words he made prodigies to ceafe. He glorified him in the fight of kings, and gave him commandments in the fight of his people, and fhewed him his glory. He fanctified him in his faith and meeknefs, and chofe him out of all flesh. For he heard him and his voice, and brought him into a cloud. And he gave him his precepts face to face, and a law of life and inftruction. GRADUA L. Pf. xx. Lord, thou waft be Domine, prævenifti fore-hand with him with eum in benedictionibus Expl. I may lay hold of or obtain that crown of glory, for the obtaining of which Jefus Chrift took me into the number of bis fer Danis |