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Commemorate the Octave of the Ascension with the Collects as on the Feast of the Ascension after the Collect, Secret, and Postcommunion of the mass of the Saint and Sunday.
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. Alleluia. Ps. 36.1. Be not emulous of evildoers: nor envy them that work iniquity. V.: Glory be.
COLLECT
O God, who didst adorn blessed Paschal, thy Confessor, with a wonderful love for the Sacred Mysteries of thy Body and Blood, mercifully grant that we, too, may be worthy to feel the same unction of the spirit which he received from this divine banquet. Who livest and reignest.
Commemoration: Sunday within the Octave
O almighty and everlasting God, make us bear towards thee always a devoted will, and serve thy majesty with a sincere heart. 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.
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. V.: Ecclus. 45.9. The Lord loved him and adorned him: He clothed him with a robe of glory. 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. Alleluia.
SECRET
In memory of thy Saints, O Lord, we offer thee the sacrifice of praise, by which we trust to be freed from both present and future evils. Through.
Commemoration: Sunday within the Octave
May these spotless Sacrifices purify us, O Lord, and give to our minds the strength of heavenly grace. 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. Alleluia.
POSTCOMMUNION
Refreshed by meat and drink from heaven, O God, we humbly entreat thee, that we may be protected by the prayers of him in whose memory we have partaken. Through.
Commemoration: Sunday within the Octave
Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that being filled with thy sacred gifts, we may ever remain in thanksgiving for them. Through.
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