2 April 2016 - Saturday in White (Commemoration of St. Francis de Paul, C.)

Of the First Class Octave – White

INTROIT Ps. 104.43

The Lord led forth his people with joy, alleluia, and his chosen ones with rejoicing, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 104.1. Praise the Lord and invoke his Name; make his deeds known among the nations. V. Glory be.

COLLECT

We pray, Almighty God, that our reverent cele-bration of the Easter Feast may win for us the joys of eternal life. Through.

Commemorate Saint Francis de Paul, Confessor

O God, thou art the reward of the humble; thou didst crown the blessed confessor Francis with the glory of sainthood. Through his merits and prayers let us obtain the happiness thou didst promise to those who are humble of heart. Through.

EPISTLE I Peter 2.1-10.

Beloved: Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God: Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded. To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: And, a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.

Alleluia, alleluia. V. Ps. 117.24 This is the day that the Lord hath made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia. V. Ps. 112.1. Praise the Lord, ye his servants, praise the Name of the Lord.

SEQUENCE – Victimae Paschali
As on Easter Sunday

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John (20.1-9.)

At that time, on the first day of the week, Mary Mag-dalene cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre: and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre: and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple: and they came to the sepulchre. And they both ran together: and that other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre. And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre: and saw the linen cloths lying, And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place. Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the sepulchre: and he saw and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. 

The Creed is said. 

OFFERTORY Ps. 117.26-27

Blessed is he who cometh in the Name of the Lord. We bless thee from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God, and he hath given us light, alleluia, alleluia.

SECRET

May we always be made joyful by this Easter ceremony, O Lord, and may the actual accomplishment of our redemption be a source of endless happiness for us. Through.

Commemorate Saint Francis de Paul, Confessor

O Lord, may these gifts, which thy devoted people have placed upon thine altar, please thee through the merits of blessed Francis. Mercifully grant that they may aid our salvation. Through.

Communicantes
As given for Easter Sunday.

COMMUNION Gal. 3.27

All ye who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

We have come to a new life by thy gift of redemption, O Lord. Let us always be strong in faith through this aid to our eternal salvation. Through.

Commemorate Saint Francis de Paul, Confessor

O Lord, may this sacrament of Heaven which we have received help us in this life and in the life to come through the intercession of thy blessed confessor Francis. Through.