without parables he did not speak to them: that the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world." CREDO.

SECRET. May this oblation, O God, we beseech thee, cleanse, renew, govern and protect us.

P. COMM. Calestibus.-Being fed, O Lord, with heavenly dainties, we beseech thee, that we may always hunger after them, as they preserve our life. Thro.'

If there be not VI. Sundays between the Epiphany and Septuagesima, what remains are omitted, ana taken in between the XXIII. and the last Sunday after Pentecost.

SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY.
INTROIT. Ps. xvii.

THE groans of death,

Ircumdederunt me gesurrounded me: and mitus mortis, dolores the sorrows of hell en- inferni circumdederunt compassed me: and in me: et in tribulatione mea my affliction I called upon invocavi Dominum, et exthe Lord, and he heard my audivit de templo sancto voice from his holy tem- suo vocem meam. Ps. Diple. Ps. I will love thee, ligam te Domine, fortituO Lord, my strength: do mea: Dominus firmathe Lord is my firmament mentum meum et refugium my refuge, and my deli- meum, et liberator meus. verer. V. Glory. V. Gloria. COLLECT. Preces.-Mercifully hear, we beseech thee, O Lord, the prayers of thy people: that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may be mercifully delivered for the glory of thy name. Thro'.

EPISTLE. 1 Cor. ix. 24. and x. 1.-Brethren: Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain. And every one that striveth

for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air: but I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway. Chap. x. 1. 5. For 1 would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. And all in Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea and did all eat the same spiritual food: and all drank the same spiritual drink: (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.) But with the most of them God was not well pleased.

GRAD. Ps. ix.-A helper in due time in tribulation.-Let them trust in thee who know thee: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee O Lord. V. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor man shall not perish for ever. Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail.

TRACT. Ps. cxxix.-De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine; Domine, exaudi vocem meam. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. V. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. V. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities; Lord, who shall stand it. For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy Law, I have waited for thee, O Lord.

From this day till Ash-Wednesday, the Tract is said on Sundays and Festivals only.

GOSPEL. Matt. xx. 1. 16.-At that time: Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when having agreed with the labourers for a penny

a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into iny vineyard. And when evening was come, the Lord of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should have received more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day, and the heats. But he answering said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine, and go thy way: I wil also give to this last even as to thee. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good? So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen. CREDO.

OFFERT. Ps. 91.- It is good to give praise to the Lord, and to sing to thy name, O Most High.

SECRET. Having received, O Lord, our offerings and prayers, cleanse us, we beseech thee, by these heavenly mysteries, and mercifully hear us.

COMM. Ps. 30.-Make thy face to shine upon

thy servant; save me in thy mercy. Let me not be confounded, for I have called upon thee.

P. COMM. Fideles.-May thy faithful, O God, be strengthened by these thy mysteries; that receiving them, they may still desire them; and desiring them may eternally receive them. Thro'.

SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY.
INTROIT. Ps. xliii.

ARISE, why sleepest Exurge, quare obdor

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thou, Arise, and cast us not off to the end. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our tribulation. Our belly cleaveth the earth: Arise, O Lord, help us, and deliver us. Ps. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us thy wonders. V. Glory.

mis, Domine? Exurge, et ne repellas in finem. Quare faciem tuam avertis ? Oblivisceris tribulationem nostram? Adhæsit in terra venter noster : Exurge, Domine, adjuva nos, et libera nos. Ps. Deus, auribus nostris audivimus: Patres nostri annuntiaverunt nobis. V. Gloria.

COLLECT. Deus qui.-O God, who seest that we place no confidence in any thing we do: mercifully grant that, by the protection of the Doctor of the Gentiles, we inay be defended against all adversity. Thro'.

EPISTLE. 2 Cor. xi. 19. 33. and xii. 1. 9.—Brethren: You gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face. I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly) I dare also. They are Hebrews so am I. They are Israelites: so am I.

They are the seed of Abraham: so am I. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise) I am more: in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren. In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides these things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire? If I must needs glory I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not. At Damascus the governor of the nation under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me: and through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands. [Chap. xii. 1.] If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed :) but I will come to the visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth,) such a one rapt even to the third heaven. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth) how he was caught up into paradise; and heard secret words, which is not granted to man to utter. For such a one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say