Introit: Psalms cii. 20

    Bless the Lord, all ye His angels; you that are mighty in strength and execute His word, hearkening to the voice of His orders. Ps. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all that is within me bless His holy name. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

Collect

    O God who to Tobias, Thy servant, when on his journey, didst give blessed Raphael the Archangel, as a companion; grant to us Thy servants, that we may be ever protected by his custody and strengthened by his help. Through our Lord.

Epistle: Tobias xii. 7-15

    Lesson from the book of Tobias. In those days, the angel Raphael said to Tobias: It is good to hide the secret of a king: but honorable to reveal and confess the works of God. Prayer is good with fasting and alms, more than to lay up treasures of gold: for alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting. But they that commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you. 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. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven who stand before the Lord.

Gradual: Tobias viii. 3

    The angel of the Lord, Raphael, took and bound the devil. ℣. Great is our Lord, and great is His power.

Alleluia: Psalms cxxxvii. 1-2

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. I will sing praise to Thee in the sight of the angels, I will worship towards Thy holy temple, and I will give glory to Thy name, O Lord. Alleluia.

Gospel: John v. 1-4

    + The continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. John. At that time there was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And an Angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond, and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water, was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

Offertory: Apocalypse viii. 3, 4

    An angel stood near the altar of the temple, having a golden censer in his hand; and there was given to him much incense, and the smoke of the perfumes ascended before God.

Secret

    We offer Thee, O Lord, the sacrifice of praise, most humbly beseeching Thee, that Thy holy angels pleading for us, Thou wouldst graciously receive it and make it to avail to our salvation. Through our Lord.

Communion: Daniel iii. 58

    All ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: sing a hymn, and exalt Him above all for ever.

Postcommunion

    Vouchsafe, O Lord our God, to send Thy holy archangel Raphael to our aid: and may he, whom we faithfully believe ever to stand before Thy majesty, present our humble prayers to Thee for Thy blessing. 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