Introit: Psalms xxxvi. 30-31

    The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment: the law of his God is in his heart. HyacinthPs. Be not emulous of evildoers: nor envy them that work iniquity. ℣. Glory be. The mouth of...

Collect

    O God, who dost gladden us by the annual solemnity of blessed Thy confessor, mercifully grant that we who celebrate his heavenly birthday, may also imitate his example. Through our Lord.

Commemoration within the Octave of the Assumption

Collect

    Almighty and everlasting God, who hast taken up the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of Thy Son, with body and soul into heavenly glory: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may always, intent on higher things, deserve to be partakers of her glory. Through the same our Lord.

Commemoration of the Octave of St. Lawrence 

Collect

    Stir up within Thy Church, O Lord, the Spirit which blessed Lawrence Thy deacon obeyed: that therewith we too may be filled and may strive to love what he loved and may put in practice what he taught. Through our Lord... in the unity of the same.

Epistle: Ecclesiasticus xxxi. 8-11

    Lesson from the Book of Ecclesiasticus. Blessed is the man that is found without blemish, and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting: he that could do evil things, and hath not done them: therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the Church of the saints shall declare his alms.

Gradual: Psalms xci. 13, 14, 3

    The just shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus in the house of the Lord. ℣. To show forth Thy mercy in the morning and Thy truth in the night.

Alleluia: James i. 12

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life. Alleluia.

Gospel: Luke xii. 35-40

    + Continuation of the Gospel of St. Luke. At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands, and you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return fro the wedding: that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the lord, when he cometh, shall find watching: amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready, for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Offertory: Psalms lxxxviii. 25

    My truth and My mercy shall be with him: and in My name shall his horn be exalted.

Secret

    We offer unto Thee, O Lord, the sacrifice of praise, in remembrance of Thy saints; through whose intercessions we trust to be delivered both from present and future ills. Through our Lord.

Commemoration within the Octave of the Assumption

Secret

    May the offering of our devotion ascend to Thee, O Lord; and through the intercession of the most blessed Virgin Mary, who was taken up into heaven, may our hearts be inflamed with the fire of love, and continually long for Thee. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of the Octave of St. Lawrence

Secret

    Let the holy prayers of blessed Lawrence recommend our sacrifice to Thee, O Lord, we beseech Thee; so that it may be received by Thee through the merits of him in whose memory it is solemnly offered. Through our Lord.

Communion: Matthew xxiv. 46-47

    Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find watching: amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods.

Postcommunion

    Refreshed with this heavenly food and drink, we humbly beseech Thee, our God, that we may be protected by his prayers in whose remembrance we have received them. Through our Lord.

Commemoration within the Octave of the Assumption

Postcommunion

    Now that we have received, O Lord, the Sacrament of salvation, grant, we beseech Thee, that through the merits and the intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary, who was taken up into heaven, we may be brought to the glory of the resurrection. Through.

Commemoration of the Octave of St. Lawrence

Postcommunion

    We humbly beseech Thee, almighty God, through the intercession of blessed Lawrence Thy martyr, to keep under Thy protection forevermore those whom Thou hast fed with these gifts from heaven. Through.

+ 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