Introit: Psalms xxvi. 8, 9

    My heart hath said to Thee: I have sought Thy face. Thy face, O Lord, will I still seek: turn not away Thy face from me. Ps. The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? ℣. Glory be.

Collect

    Of Thy goodness, we beseech Thee, O Lord, continue to help us in the observance of this holy fast, that having learned our duties from Thee, we may carry them out by the help of Thy grace. Through our Lord.

Epistle: 3 Kings xvii. 8-16

    Lesson from the book of Kings. In those days the word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow-woman there to feed thee. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow-woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elias said to her: Fear not, but go and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth-cake, and bring it to me: and after make for thyself and thy son. For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day the pot of meal wasted not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke in the hand of Elias.

Gradual: Psalms liv. 23, 17, 18, 19

    Cast thy care upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. ℣. When I cried to the Lord, He heard my voice from them that draw near to me.

Gospel: Matthew xxiii. 1-12

    + The continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. At that time Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: The scribes and the pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do; but according to their works do ye not; for they say and do not. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. And all their works they do for to be seen of men; for they make their phylacteries broad. and enlarge their fringes. And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and salutations in the market place, and to be called by men Rabbi. But be not you called Rabbi: for on your master, and all you are brethren. And call none your father upon earth: for on your father, who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself be humbled; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Offertory: Psalms l. 3

    Have mercy on me, O Lord, according to Thy great mercy: O Lord, blot out my iniquity.

Secret

    Mercifully effect, O Lord, Thy sanctification in us by these mysteries, that we may be purified of all earthly vices, and led unto our eternal reward. Through our Lord.

Communion: Psalms ix. 2-3

    I will relate all Thy wonders: I will be glad and rejoice in Thee: I will sing praise to Thy name, O Thou Most High.

Postcommunion

    That we may be deserving of Thy heavenly gifts, O Lord : make us, we beseech Thee, ever to keep Thy commands. 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