24 January 2016 - Septuagesima (Commemoration of St. Timothy, B.M.)

Sunday of the Second Class – Purple

¶ During Septuagesimatide, also known as Pre-Lent, the color of the season is purple. The Gloria in Excelsis is omitted from all masses of the season, but not at masses for feasts. Ite Missa Est (Depart in Peace) is also exchanged for Benedicamus Domino (Let us bless the Lord) in masses of the season, but not at masses for feasts. Flowers remain upon the altar until Ash Wednesday exclusive.

¶ Seasonal collects for masses during Septuagesimatide are either as given for masses before 2 February or for masses after 2 February, depending on when the mass falls.


INTROIT Ps. 17. 5-7

The sorrows of death surrounded me, the sorrows of hell encompassed me; and in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice from his holy temple. Ps.17.2,3. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: the Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. V.: Glory be.

¶The Gloria in Excelsis is not said at this mass, and also when it is resumed during the week as a ferial mass.

COLLECT

Graciously hear, we beseech thee, O Lord, the prayers of thy people, that we, who are justly afflicted for our sins, may for the glory of thy Name, be mercifully delivered. Through.

Commemoration: St. Timothy, Bishop & Martyr

Look down on our weakness, almighty God; and since the weight of our own deeds beareth us down, may the glorious intercession of blessed Timothy, thy Bishop and Martyr, protect us. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECTS
According to the season

EPISTLE I Cor.9.24-27; 10.1-5

Brethren, Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things; and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty; I so fight, not as one beating the air: but I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea: and did all eat the same spiritual food, and drank the same spiritual drink: (that they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.) But with most of them God was not well pleased.

GRADUAL Ps. 9.10-11,19-20.

A helper in due time in tribulation: let them trust in thee who know thee: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord. V.: For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever: arise, O Lord, let not man prevail.

¶ The Tract is omitted when this mass is resumed as a ferial mass during the week.

TRACT Ps. 129. 1-4

Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: Let thine ears be attentive to the prayer of thy servant. V.: If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it? V.: For with thee there is merciful forgiveness, and by reason of thy law I have waited for thee, O Lord.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew (20. 1-16)

At that time Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of God is like to a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers in his vineyard. And having agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle, and he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour: and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the laborers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen. 

Creed.

OFFERTORY Ps. 91. 2

It is good to give praise to the Lord, and to sing to thy Name, O Most High.

SECRET

Receive our offerings and prayers, we beseech thee, O Lord, and both cleanse us by these heavenly mysteries, and graciously hear us. Through.

Commemoration: St. Timothy, Bishop & Martyr

Graciously receive, O Lord, the sacrifice offered to thee by the merits of blessed Timothy, thy Martyr and Bishop, and grant that it may be to us an unfailing help. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECTS
According to the season

COMMUNION Ps. 30. 17-18

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant, and save me in thy mercy: let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee.

POSTCOMMUNION

May thy faithful people, O God, be strengthened by thy gifts; that in receiving them, they may seek after them the more, and in seeking them, may receive them for ever. Through.

Commemoration: St. Timothy, Bishop & Martyr

We, who are refreshed by partaking of thy holy Gift beseech thee, O Lord our God, that through the intercession of blessed Timothy, thy Martyr and Bishop, we may experience fruits of that which we worship. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECTS
According to the season