servant, and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for thy own sake. Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender mercies. O Lord hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken and do: delay not for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people, O Lord our God.

GRAD. Ps. lxix.-Be thou my helper and my deliverer: O Lord, delay not. V. Let my enemies who seek my soul, be put to confusion and shame.

*TRACT. Ps. cii.-Deal not, p. 117.

GOSPEL. John viii. 21. 29.-At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: I go and you shall seek me, and you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come. The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go, you cannot come? And he said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. The efore I say to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin. They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you. Many things I have to speak, and to judge of you. But he that sent me is true: and the things I have heard of him, the same I speak in the world. Now they understood not that he called God his Father. Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me, these things I speak. And he that sent me is with me, and he hath not left me alone: for I do always the things that please him.

OFFERT. Ps. xv.-1 will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.

SECRET. May this sacrifice of propitiation and praise make us, O Lord, worthy of thy protection. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. viii.-O Lord our God, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!

P. COMM. Hæc nos.-May this communion, O Lord, cleanse us from sin; and make us partakers of the heavenly remedy. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Adesto.-Hear our prayers and entreaties, O Almighty God; and grant that those, to whom thou givest hopes of thy mercy, may experience the effects of thy usual clemency. Thro'.

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TUESDAY.

INTROIT. Ps. xxvi.

My heart nath said to thee, my face hath sought

thee: thy face O Lord will I still seek: turn not away thy face from me. Ps. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? V. Glory.

COLLECT. Perfice.-Grant us, O Lord, we beseech thee, thy assistance, whereby we may go through the observance of this holy fast, that what we have undertaken by thy appointment, we may accomplish by thy grace. Thro'.

LESSON. 3 Kings xvii. 8. 16.—In those days: The word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go to Sarephta a city of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gather ing sticks, and he called her, and said to her

Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: Bring me, also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I inay go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it, and die. And Elias said to her: Fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me: and after make for thyself and thy son. For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day the pot of meal wasted not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

GRAD. Ps. liv.-Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. V. When I cried out to the Lord, he heard my voice against those who were coming upon me.

GOSPEL. Matt. xxiii. 1. 12. At that time: Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying: the Scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens: and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them. And all these works they do to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes. And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and salutations in the market-place, and to be called by men

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Rabbi. But be not you called Rabbi. your master and all you are brethren. none your father upon earth: for one is your father who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

OFFERT. Ps. 1.-Have mercy on me, O Lord: according to thy great mercy: O Lord, blot out my iniquity.

SECRET. Mercifully sanctify us, O Lord, by these mysteries: and let them cleanse us from all earthly vice, and bring us to the enjoyment of thy heavenly gifts. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. ix.-I will relate all thy wonders,I will be glad and rejoice in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

P. COMM. Ut sacris.-Make us always, we beseech thee, O Lord, obedient to thy commandments, that we may be worthy of thy gifts, which we have partaken of. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Propitiare. Be appeased, O Lord, by our prayers, and heal the infirmities of our souls; that our sins being forgiven, we may ever rejoice in thy blessings. Thro'.

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WEDNESDAY.

INTROIT. Ps. xxxviii.

ORSAKE me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me: attend unto my help O Lord, the God of my salvation. Ps. Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath. V. Glory.

COLLECT. Populum tuum.-Mercifully regard thy people, O Lord, we beseech thee; and grant that those whom thou commandest to abstain from flesh, may likewise cease from all sin. Thro'.

LESSON. Esther xiii. 8. 17.-In those days: Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works, and said: O Lord, Lord, almighty King, for all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save Israel. Thou hast made heaven and earth, and all things that are under the cope of heaven. Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist thy majesty. Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of pride and contempt, or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud Aman, (for I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel have kissed even the steps of his feet:) but I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a man, and lest I should adore any one except my God. And now, O Lord, O King, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance. Despise not thy portion which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt. Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and praise thy name, O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to thee, O Lord our God.

GRAD. Ps. xxvii.-Save O Lord thy people, and bless thy inheritance. To thee will I cry, O Lord; O my God be not thou silent to me, lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

* TRACT.-Deal not, p. 117.

GOSPEL. Matt. xx. 17. 28. At that time: Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and to be scourged, and to be crucified, and the third day he shall rise