THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

Christ Feeding the Four Thousand

THE MISSAL MASS PROPERS FOR THE DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JAMES ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF THE WEST

INTROIT

Psalm 47

Omnes Gentes

O CLAP your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto God with the voice of melody. For the Lord is high and to be feared: he is the great king upon all the earth.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

O clap your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto God with the voice of melody…

THE COLLECTS 

O LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things: graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, who didst inspire the holy martyrs and saints of Kyiv with the light of thy truth and the courage to endure, grant, we beseech thee, that we who now commemorate their illustrious examples may be inspired by their love and dedication to thy Gospel. May their intercessions strengthen us in our pilgrimage, that we too may shine as lights in the world and bring glory to thy Holy Name. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, Whose Son called Lazarus to life from the grave. and was pleased to be welcomed in Martha's house as a guest, grant, we pray, that, serving faithfully our brothers and sisters, we may merit, with Martha, to serve in Thy Holy Church and be fed by meditating on Thy Holy Word. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord, Who livest and reignest with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, Who didst take to Thyself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Thy only Son, both in body and soul: Grant, we beseech Thee, that we, who celebrate her dormition, may be delivered from present evil and eternal death; and at the last, may share with her in the glory of Thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, who didst bestow Thy grace upon Thy faithful servants, the Holy Maccabee martyrs, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar, granting them the courage to endure cruel tortures and death rather than forsake Thy holy Law: Grant us, we beseech Thee, the same steadfast faith and constancy in our trials, that we may be faithful witnesses to Thy truth, even unto death; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

O ALMIGHTY GOD, who gavest grace unto thy servant Joseph of Arimathea boldly to crave the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and didst vouchsafe unto him the honour of laying it in his own new tomb: Grant unto us, thy faithful people, that like him we may take courage to confess Christ before men, and, being cleansed by His most precious death and burial, may rise with Him to newness of life; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

OLD TESTAMENT LESSON

Exodus 40:16–38

Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses. And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. And he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses. And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses. And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the Lord commanded Moses. And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.

And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses. And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON

I Corinthians 7:29–8:13

Brethren: This I say, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man love God, the same is known of him. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

THE EPISTLE.

Romans 6:19-23

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

GRADUAL

Psalm 34 & 47

Come, ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. They had an eye unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Alleluia, alleluia.

O clap your hands together, all ye people: sing unto God with the voice of melody.

Alleluia.

HOLY GOSPEL

St. Mark 8:1–9

At that time: The multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them. So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

OFFERTORY

Psalm 18

Thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, O Lord: and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud: for who is God, but the Lord?

SECRET

WE BESEECH thee, O Lord, to have compassion on our prayers, and graciously to accept the oblations of thy faithful people: and to the intent that none may ask amiss or fail in his petitions, grant, we beseech thee, that what we ask faithfully, we may obtain effectually; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

COMMUNION

Psalm 31

Bow down thine ear: make haste to deliver us.

POSTCOMMUNION

O LORD, who hast vouchsafed to satisfy us with these thy gifts: grant, we beseech thee; that the same may ever cleanse us by their operation, and defend us by their succour; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.