Simple – Red
INTROIT Ps. 67. 4.
Let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with glad-ness. Ps. 67.2. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face. V.: Glory be.
COLLECT
O Lord, give ear to thy people, who humbly supplicate thee under the protection of thy Saints, that thou wouldst grant us to enjoy peace in this present life and to find help unto life eternal. Through.
O God, who, for the greater glory of thy Church, wast pleased to adorn blessed Canute the King with the palm of martyrdom and with glorious miracles: mercifully grant that, walking in the footsteps of him who followed our Lord in his sufferings, we may thereby deserve to attain to eternal joys. Through the same.
SEASONAL COLLECTS
Against the Persecutors of the Church and Of the B.V.M.
(As given after 29 December.)
EPISTLE Heb. 10. 32-38.
Brethren, call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions. And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazing-stock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort. For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance. Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward. For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay. But my just man liveth by faith.
GRADUAL Wis. 3. 1, 3.
The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. V.: In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: but they are in peace.
Alleluia, alleluia. V.: Ps. 67.36. God is wonderful in his Saints. Alleluia.
+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew (24. 3-13)
At that time, as Jesus was sitting on Mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world? And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you. For many will come in my Name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many. And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my Name's sake. And then shall many be scandalized: and shall betray one another: and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.
OFFERTORY Ps. 123. 7.
Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
SECRET
O Lord, have regard to the prayers and offerings of thy faithful people: that they may both be pleasing to thee on the feast-day of thy Saints, and obtain for us the help of thy propitiation. Through.
Commemoration: Of St. Canute
May our offering be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, and may it benefit us by the prayer of him on whose feast it is offered. Through.
SEASONAL COLLECTS
Against the Persecutors of the Church and Of the B.V.M.
(As given after 29 December.)
COMMUNION Luke 12. 4.
But I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those who persecute you.
POSTCOMMUNION
Be appeased, O Lord, by the intercession of thy Saints: and grant, we beseech thee, that what we celebrate by a temporal action, we may receive unto eternal salvation. Through.
Commemoration: Of St. Canute
We who are refreshed by the partaking of thy sacred Gift, beseech thee, O Lord, our God, that through the intercession of blessed Canute, thy Martyr, we may experience the fruits of that which we worship. Through.
SEASONAL COLLECTS
Against the Persecutors of the Church and Of the B.V.M.
(As given after 29 December.)
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