Introit: Psalms cxxxviii. 17

    To me, Thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honorable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened. Ps. Lord, Thou hast proved me and known me; Thou hast known my sitting down and my rising up. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

Collect

    We beseech Thee, O Lord, keep and sanctify Thy people; that strengthened by the help of Thine apostle James, they may please Thee by their conduct and serve Thee with a quiet mind. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Christopher:

Collect

    Grant we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who celebrate the festival of blessed Christopher, Thy martyr, may by his intercession be strengthened in the love of Thy name. Through our Lord.

Epistle: Corinthians iv. 9-15

    Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Brethren, I think that God hath set forth us apostles the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honorable, but we without honor. Even unto this hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode, and we labor, working with our own hands. We are reviled, and we bless: we are persecuted, and we suffer it: we are blasphemed, and we entreat: we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now. I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children: for if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus by the gospel I have begotten you.

Gradual: Psalms xliv. 17-18

    Thou shalt make them princes over all the earth: they shall remember Thy name, O Lord. ℣. Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: therefore shall people praise thee.

Alleluia: John xv. 16

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. I have chosen you out of the world, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain. Alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew xx. 20-23

    + Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. At that time, the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, worshiping, and asking something of Him. Who said to her: What wilt thou ? She saith to Him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on Thy right hand, and the other on Thy left, in Thy kingdom. And Jesus answering said: You know not what you ask, can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to Him: We can. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on My right or left hand is not Mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by My Father.

Offertory: Psalms xviii. 5

    Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth; and their words unto the ends of the world.

Secret

    May the glorious passion of blessed James, Thine apostle, move thee to look indulgently upon the offerings of Thy people; and through his prayers, may our gifts which we unworthily present unto Thee, be made wellpleasing in Thy sight. Through.

Commemoration of St. Christopher:

Secret

    Receive our offerings and prayers, we beseech Thee, O Lord; and purify us by Thy heavenly mysteries, and mercifully hear us. Through our Lord.

Communion: Matthew xix. 23

    You that have followed Me shall sit upon seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Postcommunion

    Come to our help, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the intercession of Thy blessed apostle James, on whose festival we have joyfully received Thy holy mysteries. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Christopher:

Postcommunion

    Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that we who in this life joyfully honor the memory of Thy saints, may rejoice in beholding them for all eternity. 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