Introit: Psalms lxvii. 4

    Let the just feast and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness. Ps. Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered: and let them that hate Him flee from before His face. ℣. Glory be. Let the just...

Collect

    Hear Thy people, O Lord, supplicating Thee through the intercession of Thy saints: that Thou wouldst grant us to enjoy peace in this life, and obtain help unto life eternal. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Canute:

Collect

    O God, who for the glory of Thy Church didst vouchsafe to honor the blessed king Canute, by bestowing upon him the crown of martyrdom, and the working of glorious miracles: grant, we beseech Thee, that walking in his footsteps, we may ever follow our suffering Lord, and thereby deserve to enter into everlasting joy. Through the same our Lord.

Epistle: Hebrews x. 32-38

    Lesson from the Book of Hebrews. Brethren, call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions. And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazing-stock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort. For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance. Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward. For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. For yet a little and a very little while, and He that is to come will come, and will not delay. But my just man liveth by faith.

Gradual: Wisdom iii. 1, 2, 3

    The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. ℣. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: but they are in peace.

Alleluia: Psalms lxvi. 36

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. Our God is wonderful in His saints. Alleluia.

Gospel: Luke xii. 1-8

    + Continuation of the Gospel of St. Luke. At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor hidden that shall not be known. For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers shall be preached on the house-tops. And I say to you, My friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you shall fear: Fear ye Him who, after He hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you: Fear Him. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows. And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.

Offertory: Psalms cxxiii. 7

    Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of a snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

Secret

    Graciously look upon the prayers and offerings of Thy faithful, O Lord, that they may both be pleasing to Thee on the festival of Thy saints, and confer upon us the help of Thy mercy. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Canute:

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: Luke xii. 4

    But I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those who persecute you.

Postcommunion

    Appeased by the intercession of Thy Saints, grant, O Lord, we beseech Thee, that what we celebrate in time, we may receive in eternal salvation. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Canute:

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