Introit: Jeremias ii. 11

    My liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the child and the suckling fainted away in the streets of the city. Ps. Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

Collect

    O God, the Father of mercies, grant, by the merits and prayers of blessed Jerome, whom Thou didst raise up to be the father and helper of orphans, that we may faithfully keep the spirit of adoption, whereby we are both in name and in deed Thy children. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Margaret

Collect

    May blessed Margaret Thy virgin and martyr, we beseech Thee, O Lord, implore for us Thy forgiveness; for she was ever pleasing unto Thee, both by the merit of her chastity, and by her confession of Thy power. Through our Lord.

Epistle: Isaias lviii. 7-11

    Lesson from the book of Isaias. The Lord says: Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harborless into thy house; when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and He shall say: Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise upin darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon-day. And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Gradual: Proverbs v. 16; Psalms cxi. 5-6

    Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters! ℣. Acceptable is the man that showeth mercy and lendeth, he ordereth his words with judgment; because he shall not be moved for ever.

Alleluia: Psalms cxi. 9

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor; his justice remaineth for ever and ever. Alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew xix. 13-21

    + The continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. At that time, little children were presented to Jesus, that He should impose hands upon them, and pray. And the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to Me; for the kingdom of heaven is for such. And when He had imposed hands upon them, He departed from thence. And behold one came to Him, and said to Him: Good Master, what good shall I do, that I may have life everlasting? Who said to him: Why askest thou Me concerning good? One is good, God. But of thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said to Him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, honor thy father and thy mother; and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The young man saith to Him: All these things have I kept from my youth; what is yet wanting to me? Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.

Offertory: Tobias xii. 12

    When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

Secret

    Most merciful God, who didst destroy the old man in blessed Jerome and renew him after Thine own image; grant that through his merits, we in like manner may be renewed in spirit; and that our offering of this atoning victim, may rise up as a most sweet odor unto Thee. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Margaret

Secret

    Graciously accept, O Lord, the offerings dedicated unto Thee through the merits of blessed Margaret Thy virgin and martyr: and grant that they may be unto us a perpetual support. Through our Lord.

Communion: James i. 27

    Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Postcommunion

    Comforted, O Lord, with the bread of angels, most humbly we ask of Thee, that we who, year by year, rejoice in keeping the memory of blessed Jerome, Thy confessor, may also imitate his example and thus obtain a most ample reward in Thy kingdom. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Margaret

Postcommunion

    Filled with the diving gift of Thy bounty, we beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that by the intercession of blessed Margaret Thy virgin and martyr, we may ever live by the participation thereof. Through our Lord.

+ Taken from St. Andrew Daily Missal, by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., Imprimi Potest 11-18-1945 P. Joannes Delacroix, O.S.B., Imprimatur 11-22-1945 Joseph Van Der Meersch