Introit: Psalms xxv. 11-12

    Redeem me, O Lord, and have mercy on me for my foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless the Lord. Ps. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened. ℣. Glory be.

Collect

    Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that Thy family, while afflicting the flesh by fasting from food, may follow justice and abstain from sin. Through our Lord.

Epistle: Daniel ix. 15-19

    Lesson from the book of Daniel. In those days Daniel prayed to the Lord, saying: O Lord our God, who hast brought forth Thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made Thee a name as at this day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity, O Lord, against all Thy justice: let Thy wrath and Thy indignation be turned away, I beseech Thee, from Thy city Jerusalem and from Thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are a reproach to all that are round about us. Now therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of Thy servant and his prayers: and show Thy face upon Thy sanctuary which is desolate. for Thy own sake. Incline, O my God, Thy ear and hear: open Thy eyes and see our desolation and the city upon which Thy name is called: for it is not for our justification that we present our prayers before Thy face, but for the multitude of Thy tender mercies. O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken and do: delay not for Thy own sake, O my God: because Thy name is invocated upon Thy city and upon Thy people, O Lord our God.

Gradual: Psalms lxix. 6, 3

    Be Thou my helper and my deliverer: O Lord, make no delay. ℣. Let my enemies be confounded and ashamed, that seek my soul.

Tract: Psalms cii. 10; lxxviii. 8-9

    O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities. ℣. O Lord, remember not our former iniquities, let Thy mercies speedily prevent us: for we are become exceeding poor. (Here kneel.) ℣. Help us, O God, our Savior, and for the glory of Thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for Thy name's sake.

Gospel: John viii. 21-29

    + The continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. John. At that time Jesus said to the multitudes of the Jews: I go and you shall seek Me, and you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come. The Jews therefore said: Will He kill Himself, because He said: Whither I go, you cannot come? And He said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sin. They said therefore to Him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you. Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But He that sent Me is true: and the things I have heard of Him, these same I speak in the world. And they understood not that He called God His Father. Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall you know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as the Father hath taught Me, these things I speak: and He that sent Me is with Me, and He hath not left Me alone: for I do always the things that please Him.

Offertory: Psalms xv. 7, 8

    I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: I set the Lord always in my sight: for He is at my right hand, that I be not moved.

Secret

    May this sacrifice of propitiation and praise, O Lord, make us worthy of Thy protection. Through our Lord.

Communion: Psalms viii. 2

    O Lord our Lord, how admirable is Thy name in the whole earth!

Postcommunion

    May this communion, O Lord, purify us from sin, and make us partakers of the heavenly remedy. 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