Introit: Apocalypse vii. 14
These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Ps. Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him all ye people. ℣. Glory be.
Collect
O God, who hast hallowed the first-fruits of the faith in the northern regions of America by the preaching and blood of Thy blessed martyrs Isaac, John and their companions, grant in Thy mercy, that through their intercession the plentiful harvest of the faithful may increase everywhere from day to day. Through our Lord.
Commemoration of Sts. Cyprian & Justina:
Collect
O Lord, may Thy blessed martyrs Cyprian and Justina ever support us by their protection, for Thou never ceasest to look with mercy upon those to whom Thou givest the help of Thy saints. Through our Lord.
Epistle: 2 Corinthians xii. 11-15
Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Brethren: I ought to have been commended by you. ForI have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury. Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less.
Gradual: Psalms cxxiii. 7-8
Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. ℣. The snare is broken: and we are delivered. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Alleluia: 2 Corinthians i. 5
Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us; so also by Christ doth our comfort abound. Alleluia.
Gospel: Luke vi. 17-23
+ Continuation of the Gospel of St. Luke. At that time, Jesus coming down from the mountain, stood in a plain place, and the company of His disciples, and a very great multitude of people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the sea-coast both of Tyre and Sidon, who were come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases. And they that were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the multitudes sought to touch Him: for virtue went out from Him and healed all. And He, lifting up His eyes on His disciples, said: Blessed are ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh. Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast our your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Be glad in that day and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great in heaven.
Offertory: Wisdom iii. 6
As gold in the furnace, the Lord hath proved them and as a victim of a holocaust He hath received them.
Secret
Grant, O Lord, that with pure minds we may offer the spotless sacrifice, which their unsullied purity of life and desire for continual mortification made a banquet full of all sweetness for Thy holy martyrs. Through our Lord.
Commemoration of Sts. Cyprian & Justina:
Secret
We offer to Thee, O Lord, the gifts of our devotion, that they may be pleasing to Thee in honor of Thy saints, and be made salutary to us through Thy mercy. Through our Lord.
Communion: Philippians i. 20-21
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain.
Postcommunion
Almighty God, grant unto us who are refreshed by the bread of the strong, that as Thy blessed martyrs Isaac, John and their companions strengthened by the same, were ready to lay down their lives for their brethren, so also we, bearing one another's burdens, may love our neighbors in all deed and in truth. Through.
Commemoration of Sts. Cyprian & Justina:
Postcommunion
Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the intercession of Thy holy martyrs Cyprian and Justina, that what we take with our mouths we may receive with pure minds. 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