immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envy, murders, drunkeness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh with the vices and concupiscences.

GRAD. Ps. exvii.—It is better to trust in the Lord, than to trust in man. V. It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes. Alleluia.

V. Come let us rejoice in the Lord; let us joyfully sing to God our Saviour. Alleluia.

V. Venite, exultemus Domino; jubilemus Deo Salutari nostro. Alleluia.

GOSPEL. Matt. vi. 24. 33.--At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat, and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you, by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to-day and tomorrow is cast into the oven, God doth so cloathe:

how much more you. O ye of little faith. Be not solicitous therefore, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be cloathed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. CREDO.

OFFERT. Ps. xxxiii.-The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him, and shall deliver them: taste and see, that the Lord is sweet.

SECRET.--Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that this victim of salvation may both cleanse us from our sins, and render thy Majesty propitious to us. 'Thro'.

COMM. Mutt. vi.-Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given to you over and above, saith the Lord.

P. COMM. Purificent.-May these thy mysteries, O God, continually purify us and strengthen us: and procure us eternal salvation. Thro'.

COLLECT. Ecclesiam.-May thy continual mercy purify and defend thy church: and since without thee it cannot he safe, may it always be directed by the influence of thy grace. Thro'.

EPISTLE. Gal. v. 25. vi. 1. 10.--Brethren: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. (Chap. vi.) Brethren, if a man be overtaken in any fault, you. who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work, and so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden. And let him, that is instructed in the word, communicate to him, that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he, that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap not failing, Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

GRAD. Ps. xci.-It is good to give praise to the Lord and to sing to thy name, O Most High. V. To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night. Alleluia, Alleluia.

V. For the Lord is a V. Quoniam Deus maggreat God, and a great nus Dominus, et Rex King over all the earth. magnus super omnem terAlleluia. ram. Alleluia. GOSPEL. Luke vii.-See p. 202.

OFFERT. Ps. xxxix.-With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me: and he heard iny prayer, and he put a new canticle into my mouth: a hymn to our God.

SECRET.-May thy mysteries, O Lord, preserve us, and always defend us against the attacks of the devil.

COMM. John vi.-The bread which I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.

P. COMM. Mentes.-May the efficacy of these divine mysteries, O Lord, possess both our souls and bodies that their effects, not our own sensuality, may always take the lead in us.

HA

Thro'.

XVI. SUNDAY after PENTECOST.
INTROIT.

JAVE mercy on me
O Lord, for I have
cried to thee all the day:
for thou, O Lord, art
sweet and mild, and
plenteous in mercy to all
that call upon thee. Ps.
Bow down thy ear, O
Lord, and hear me: for
I am needy and poor.
V. Glory.

Ps. lxxxv.

MISERERE mihi, Domine, quoniam ad te clamavi tota die: quia tu, Domine, suavis ac mitis es, et copiosus in misericordia omnibus invocantibus te. Ps. Inclina, Domine, aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi me: quoniam inops et pauper sum ego. V. Gloria.

COLLECT. Tua nos.-May thy grace, O Lord, always prevent and follow us; and make us constantly zealous in the practice of good works. Thro'.

EPISTLE. Ephes. iii. 13. 21.-Brethren: I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this cause I bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the in

ward man. That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that being rooted and founded in charity, you may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length, and height and depth: to know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh m us: to him be glory in the church, and in Christ Jesus, unto all` generations world without end. Amen.

GRAD. Ps. ci.-The Gentiles, O Lord, shall fear thy name, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. V. For the Lord has built up Sion: and he shall be there seen in his glory. Alleluia, Alleluia.

V. Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord hath done wonderful things. Alleluia.

V. Cantate Domino

canticum novum: quia mirabilia fecit Dominus. Alleluia.

GOSPEL. Luke xiv. 1. 11.-At that time: When Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees on the Sabbath-day to eat bread, they watched him. And behold there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him, and sent him away. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallinto a pit; and will not immediately draw him out?! on the Sabbath-day? And they could not answers him to these things. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: When ⚫ thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him; and he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: