never sleep in death; lest at any time my enemy say I have prevailed against him.

SECRET. Mercifully grant us, O Lord, by this holy sacrifice, that we, who desire to be freed from our own sins, may not be burdened with those of others. Thro'.

COMM. Luke xv.-Son, thou oughtest to rejoice because thy brother was dead, and is come to life again: he was lost, and is found.

P. COMM. Sacramenti.-May the sacred taste of this thy sacrament, O Lord, penetrate the innermost recesses of our hearts, and make us plentifully partake of its effects. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Familiam.-Protect, O Lord, we beseech thee, thy family by thy continual goodness, that as it relieth on the hopes of thy heavenly grace, so it may be defended by thy heavenly aid. Thro'.

COLLECT. Quæsumus.-Be attentive, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, to the prayers of thy servants: and stretch forth the arm of thy divine majesty in our defence. Thro'.

EPISTLE. Ephes. v. 1. 9.-Brethren: Be ye

therefore followers of God, as most dear children : and walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God, for an odour of sweetness. But fornication and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks. For know ye this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, (which is serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk ye as children of the light. For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and truth.

GRAD. Ps. ix.-Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the gentiles be judged in thy sight. V. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.

TRACT. Ps. cxxii.-Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in cœlis. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. V. Behold as the

eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters. V. And as the eyes of the hand-maid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God until he have mercy on us. V. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.

GOSPEL. Luke xi. 14. 28.-At that time: Jesus was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb, and when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke and the multitude were in admiration at it. But some of them said: he casteth out devils, by Belzebub the prince of devils. An 1 others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. But he seeing

their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself, shall be brought to desolation, and house upon house shall fall. And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand because you say, that through Belzebub I cast out devils. Now if I cast out devils by Belzebub: by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. But if I by the finger of God cast out devils: doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth. But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his spoils. He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then he goeth and taketh with him seven others spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there. And the last state of that man becorneth worse than the first. And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it. CREDO.

OFFERT. Ps. xviii.-The justices of the Lord are right rejoicing hearts: his ordinances are sweeter than honey and the honey-comb: therefore thy servant observeth them.

SECRET. May this offering, O Lord, we be Beech thee, cleanse us from our sins, and sanctify the bodies and souls of thy servants for the celebrating of this sacrifice. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. lxxxiii.-The sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest where she may lay her young ones; in like manner, O Lord of armies, my King and my God, let my abode be near thy altar: blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

P. COMM. A cunctis.-Mercifully, O Lord, we beseech thee, deliver us from all guilt and from all danger, since thou admittest us to be partakers of this great mystery. Thro'.

MONDAY.

INTROIT. Ps. lv.-In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speed: In God I will put my trust, I will not fear what man can do against me. Ps. Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot all the day, warring he hath afflicted me. V. Glory.

COLLECT.

Cordibus.-We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to pour forth thy grace into our hearts: that, as we abstain from flesh, so we may keep our senses from all noxious excesses. Thro'.

LESSON. 4 Kings v. 1. 15.-In those days: Naaman, general of the army of the King of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man and rich, but a leper. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's wife. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria: he would cer tainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath. Then Naaman went into his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and thus saith the girl, that came from the land of Israel. And the King of Syria said to him: Go, and I will send a letter to the

King of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment, and brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman my servant, that thou mayest heal him of his leprosy. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and to give life, that this man hath sent to me, to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me. And when Eleus the man of God had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying; Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to me and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus: and Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying; Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt be clean. Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me. Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation, his servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean? Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child, and was made clean. And