Thursday, October 9, 2014

10 October 2014 - Saint Francis Borgia, Confessor




Semi-Double - White


St. Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandia, was great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI. His mother was the daughter of the Archbishop of Zaragoza and grand-daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. He was in the court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and married a Portuguese noblewoman, with whom he had eight children. After the death of his wife, he entered the newly-formed Society of Jesus. He founded what became the Gregorian University in Rome and took part in many missions around the world. He was canonized in 1670 by Pope Clement X. 

INTROIT Ps. 36.30-31.

The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom and his tongue shall speak judgement: the law of his God is in his heart. Ps. 36.1. Be not emulous of evildoers: nor envy them that work iniquity. V.: Glory be.

COLLECT

O Lord Jesus Christ, who art the model of true humility and its reward: we beseech thee, that as blessed Francis took thee as model in condemning worldly honors, and thou hast glorified him: so thou wouldst associate us with him both in the contempt and in the glory: Through.

LESSON Ecclus. 31.8-11.

Blessed is the man that is found without blemish, and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? For he hath done wonderful things in his life. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting: he that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the Church of the Saints shall declare his alms.

GRADUAL Ps. 91.13,14.

The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus in the house of the Lord.

Alleluia, alleluia. V.: James 1.12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life. Alleluia.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke (12.35-40)

At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of Man will come.

OFFERTORY Ps. 88.25.

My truth and my mercy shall be with him, and in my Name shall his horn be exalted.

Secret

May holy Francis, we beseech thee, O Lord obtain by his prayers that the Sacrifice laid on thy holy altar may profit us unto salvation. Through.

Communion Matt. 24.46-47.

Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord cometh he shall find watching: amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods.

Postcommunion

May the pleasing of blessed Francis, as well as the reception of thy Sacrament, protect us, O Lord, that we may both share in the glory of his works, and receive the help of his intercession. Through.

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