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from me, shall profit thee. And he shall not honour his father or mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition. Hypocrites, well has Isaias prophesied of you, saying: "This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men. And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and understand. Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized? he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit. And Peter answering said to him: Expound to us this parable. But he said; Are you also yet without understanding? Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy? But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man. For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth

not defile a man.

OFFERT. Ps. cviii.-Shew us, O Lord,thy mercy, for the glory of thy name: for thy mercy is sweet. SECRET. Receive, O Lord, we beseech thee, the prayers of thy people, together with the offering of these hosts; and while we celebrate these thy mysteries, defend us from all dangers. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. xv.--Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt fill me with joy with hy countenance.

P. COMM. Sanctificet nos.-May the heavenly ood, which we have taken, sanctify us, O Lord, and freeing us from all errors, make us worthy of thy heavenly promises. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Concede.-Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we who beg the favour of thy protection, being delivered from all evils, may serve thee with a secure mind. Thro'.

THURSDAY.

INTROIT. Ps. lxvii.-I am the salvation of my people, saith the Lord: in whatever tribulation they cry out to me, I will hear them; and I will be their Lord for ever. Ps. Attend, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. V. Glory.

COLLECT. Magnificet.-May this sacred solemnity of thy servants, Cosmas and Damian, shew thy greatness, O Lord; by which, in thy unspeakable providence, thou hast granted them eternal glory, and us the aid of their prayers. Thro'.

LESSON. Jer. vii. 1. 7.—In those days: The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good; and I will dwell with you in this place. Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. For if you will order well your ways and your doings; if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour, if you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt. I will dwell with you in this place; in the land

which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore, saith the Lord Almighty.

GRAD. Ps. cxliv.-The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord, and thou givest them meat in due season. V. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with thy blessing every living creature.

GOSPEL. Luke iv. 38. 44.-At that time: Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her. And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them to him. But he laying his hands on every one of them, healed them. And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was Christ. And when it was day, going out he went into a desart place; and the multitude sought him, and came to him; and they stayed him that he should not depart from them. To whom he said: To other cities I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent. And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

OFFERT. Ps. cxxxvii.-If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me, O Lord; and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies; and thy right hand hath saved

me.

SECRET. We offer thee, O Lord, on occasion of the precious death of thy holy servants, this saorifice, from which their martyrdom, and that of all others, took its beginning. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. cxviii.-Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. O that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.

P. COMM. Sit nobis. May this thy sacrament, O Lord, procure for us that salvation which we beg for by the merits of thy blessed martyrs Cosmas and Damian. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Subjectum.-May thy heavenly mercy, O Lord, always increase thy people, and make them ever obedient to thy commandments. Thro'.

FRIDAY.

INTROIT.-Ps. lxxxv.-Shew me, O Lord, a token for good: that they who hate me may see it. and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and comforted me. Ps. Bow down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me, for I am needy and poor. 7. Glory.

COLLECT. Jejunia. Let thy kind favour, O Lord, accompany our fast, that as we abstain from corporal food, so we may likewise refrain from all vice. Thro'.

LESSON. Numb. xx. 2. 13.-In those days: The children of Israel came together against Moses and Aaron; and making a sedition they said: Give us water to drink. And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to the Lord and said: O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur. the glory of the Lord appeared over them. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying: Take the rod and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink. Moses therefore took the

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rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him, and having gathered together the mul titude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: can we bring you forth water out of this rock? And when Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land which I will give them. This is the water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them. GRAD. Ps. xxvii.-My heart trusted in the Lord, and I found relief: my flesh is healed, and I will with pleasure return him thanks. V. To thee, O Lord, have I cried out: answer me, O my God, and depart not from me.

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

GOSPEL. John iv. 5. 41.-At that time; Jesus came to a city of Samaria which is called Sichar; near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.) Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans. Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have

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