THE 12TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (SEPTEMBER 7TH)

A Byzantine Mosaic Icon of Christ Opening the Mouth of the Deaf and Dumb

THE MISSAL MASS PROPERS FOR THE LITURGY OF SAINT JAMES OF JERUSALEM ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF THE WEST

INTROIT

Deus in adjutorium. Ps. 79

HASTE thee, O God, to deliver me: make haste to help me, O Lord: let them be ashamed and confounded, that seek after my soul. Ps. ibid. Let them be turned backward, and put to confusion: that wish me evil. V. Glory be.

COLLECTS

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. AMEN.

ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, POPE AND DOCTOR (SEPTEMBER 3)

O GOD, who didst give blessed Gregory to be a minister of the heavenly mysteries unto thy people: grant, we pray thee; that we who have had him for a teacher of godliness on earth, may finally be crowned with him in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

ST. MOSES THE PROPHET AND PATRIARCH (SEPTEMBER 4)

O GOD, who didst through thy servant Moses deliver thy law unto thy people Israel, and by him didst show forth thy mighty power and loving-kindness: grant that we, who keep his feast, may be defended by his prayers, and may be led by thy grace into the land of thine eternal promise. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

ST. ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET (SEPTEMBER 5)

ALMIGHTY God, who by thy servant the Prophet Zechariah didst foretell the coming of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, and gavest him grace to call thy people to repentance and hope: grant that we, being warned and comforted by his word, may be made ready to behold thy glory. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

A COLLECT FOR ST. SHARBEL, BISHOP AND MARTYR (SEPTEMBER 6TH)

O GOD of truth and might, who didst strengthen thy blessed Bishop and Martyr Sharbel of Persia to confess the Name of thy Son before tyrants, and to seal his witness with the shedding of his blood: grant unto us, we beseech thee, such constancy in the Faith, that we may never be moved by the terrors of this world, but may stand fast in Christ unto the end, and at length attain unto the crown of life which fadeth not away. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. AMEN.

THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (SEPTEMBER 8)

O GOD, who wast pleased that thy Word should take flesh at the message of an Angel in the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary: grant to us thy humble servants; that we, who do believe her to be in very truth the Mother of God, may be holpen by her intercessions in thy sight. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 16:29-34

AND this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you. For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments. And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses.

EPISTLE

2 Corinthians 3:4-9

BRETHREN: such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

GRADUAL

Ps. 34

I will alway give thanks unto the Lord: his praise shall ever be in my mouth. V. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad.

Alleluia, alleluia. V. Ps. 88. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee. Alleluia.

THE HOLY GOSPEL

St. Mark 7:31-37

AT that time: Jesus, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

OFFERTORY

Ex. 32

Moses besought the Lord his God, and said: Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people? Turn from thy fierce wrath: remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest to give a land flowing with milk and honey. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

SECRET

REGARD, O Lord, we pray thee, this our bounden duty and service: that this sacrifice may be an oblation acceptable unto thee, and effectually avail for the succour of our frailty. [Through.]

COMMUNION

Ps. 104

The earth, O Lord, is filled with the fruit of thy works: that thou mayest bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man: and oil to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to strengthen man’s heart.

POSTCOMMUNION

WE beseech thee, O Lord, that we which have received this holy sacrament: may in such wise feel the effectual succour of the same; that we being preserved both in body and soul may glory in the fulness of thy heavenly healing. [Through.]