Semi-double– White
INTROIT Habak.3.18-19.
YET I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. Ps. 80.2. Sing we merrily unto God our strength, make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob. V. Glory be.
COLLECT
O God, who by thy blessed servant John didst cause thy faithful people in the power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus to triumph over the enemies of the Cross: grant, we pray thee; that by his intercession, we may overcome the crafts and assaults of all spiritual enemies, and be found worthy to obtain of thee the crown of righteousness.
Then under one ending commemorate Feria VI after Lent III.
COLLECT
May our Lenten fast please thee, O Lord. May we keep our minds free from sin as we deprive our bodies of food. Through.
LESSON Wis. 10.10-14.
The Lord conducted the just through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours. In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable. She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit. And in bands she left him not.
GRADUAL Ps. 21.24-25.
O praise the Lord ye that fear him: magnify him all ye of the seed of Jacob. V. And fear him all ye seed of Israel: for he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor.
TRACT Ex. 15.2,3.
The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will exalt him. V. The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his Name.
V. Jud. 16.3. The Lord hath broken the battle: the Lord is his Name.
+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke (9.1-6)
At that time: Then calling together the twelve apostles, Jesus gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And he said to them: Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats. And whatsoever house you shall enter into, abide there and depart not from thence. And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off even the dust of your feet, for a testimony against them. And going out, they went about through the towns, preaching the Gospel and healing everywhere.
OFFERTORY Ecclus. 46.5.
He called upon the Most High, when the enemies pressed upon him on every side, and the great Lord heard him.
SECRET
We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to look upon this our sacrifice: that at the intercession of blessed John thy Confessor, we may so tread under foot all the snares of our adversaries, that we may ever be established with thy sure defense.
Then under one ending commemorate Feria VI after Lent III.
SECRET
O Lord, look kindly upon these gifts we offer, so that they may please thee and always prove helpful to us. Through.
COMMUNION Wis. 10.20.
The righteous have praised thy holy Name, O Lord, and have magnified with one accord thy hand that fought for them.
POSTCOMMUNION
Almighty God, who hast vouchsafed to satisfy us with heavenly meat, and to refresh us with spiritual drink: we humbly beseech thee; that, at the intercession of blessed John thy Confessor, thou wouldst defend us against all the crafts and assaults of the enemy, and preserve thy Church in continual peace and security.
Then under one ending commemorate Feria VI after Lent III.
POSTCOMMUNION
O Lord, cleanse us from sin through the reception of this Sacrament and lead us toward the kingdom of heaven. Through.
PROPER LAST GOSPEL
+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John (4.5-42)
At that time, Jesus cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle? Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever. But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting. The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw. Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly. The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him. God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee. And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her? The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there: Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ? They went therefore out of the city and came unto him. In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat. But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not. The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat? Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work. Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours. Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done. So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days. And many more believed in him, because of his own word. And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.
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