cend unto the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?-innocent hands and a pure heart. For the whole secular clergy in the provinces of Belgium, the mass from the common of many martyrs, without the time of Pasch. Secret.-Grant us, O Lord, at the celestial banquet, to sit down clothed with the nuptial robe, as the pious preparations of the blessed Aloyse, and his continual tears were ornaments more precious than pearls. Through happiness of their society. our Lord. Communion, Psalm lxxvii..-He gave them the bread from heaven; man eat angels' bread. Post-communion.-O Lord, as we are nourished by food given to us to live the life of angels, may we ever in gratitude of heart follow his example whom we celebrate in his festival. Through our Lord. 29TH DAY of JUNE.-MOST HOLY APOSTLES, PETER AND PAUL. Commemoration is made of all the Apostles in the mass after the prayer of the day. The prayer as in the Feast of S. S. Simon and Jude, the proper names being omitted. 9TH DAY OF JULY. OF THE MOST BIS. Prayer.—O God, who didst give us to celebrate the solemnity of thy holy martyrs, Leonardus and his companions, grant to us to rejoice in the eternal Through our Lord. 4TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER.-S. ROSALIA, VIRGIN, OF PALERMO.1 For all the subjects of the king of Spain, the mass from the common of Virgins. Prayer.-Hearken to us, O God our Saviour, that as we rejoice in the festival of thy blessed virgin Rosalia, so we may be instructed by her pious devotion, and mercifully delivered by her intercession from the scourge of thine anger. Through our Lord. 22D DAY of September.-B. MARY OF For all Seculars and Regulars of all the Kingdoms and Provinces of the Empire. his austerities. Butler tells us that he had acquired so great a power of attention, that he declared to his superiors, "that if all the involuntary distractions at his devotions were put together, they would not amount, during six months, to the space of one Hail Mary." When unwell, if a bitter draught was given him by his physicians, he would sip it drop by drop, that he might have the full benefit of the mortification. No wonder, after arriving at this ecclesiastical perfection, he should die at twenty-three. The revival of his memory at this day must be designed to present modern princes and nobles with a model of what Rome calls perfection, and to teach that the way to heaven is by making this life as miserable as possible. 1 This Rosalia is said to be a Sicilian lady of noble rank, who made herselfan abode in a cave three miles from Palermo, and died about the year 1160. She is the patroness of that city, and her life and miracles occupy 140 pages of the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists. The pretence of some recent miracles performed at her shrine, probably has renewed these church honours. The mass is from the common of virgin only. Prayer. O God, who dost know that we cannot exist amidst so many dangers because of our frailty, mercifully grant, that through the blessed Mary, thine handmaid, interceding for us, we may escape from the billows of the present life, and arrive at the haven of eternal salvation. Through our Lord. 10TH DAY OF OCTOBER.-S. FRANCIS BORGIA, CONfessor. For all the subjects of the King of Spain, and the members of the Society of Jesus, wherever residing, double of second class, the mass of the feast of 10th October is said. 10TH DAY OF OCTOBER.-S. LOUIS BERTRAND,1 For all the subjects of the King of Spain, the mass of common of confessor not a bishop is used. Prayer. O God, who didst raise to the glory of the saints thy blessed confessor Louis, by the mortification of his body, and as a herald of the faith, grant, that as we are profited by his faith, we may be continually filled with like works of piety. Through our Lord. 24TH DAY OF OCTOBER.-S. RAPHAEL, ARCHANGEL. For all subjects of the King of Spain. Introit, Psalm cii.-Bless the Lord, all ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commands, and hearken to the voice of his word. Ps. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Glory be to the Father, &c. Prayer. O God, who didst give to thy servant Tobias, the blessed Archangel Raphael, as a companion by the way, grant that we may be protected by his guardianship, and fortified by his assistance. Through our Lord. Lesson, Book of Tobias xii. 7–15.— The angel Raphael said to Tobias, It is good to hide the secret of a king, but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God, &c. 1 Louis Bertrand was a Spaniard, who lived between 1526 and 1580. He belonged to the Dominican order. In 1562, he embarked for Spanish South America on a mission, where he continued three years on the Isthmus of Panama, labouring with great success. The next mission he undertook, was among the Caribbees, and other Indians; and unable to restrain the cruelties of the Spanish adventurers in those quarters, he returned to Europe to seek redress. The rest of his life he seems to have passed as a preacher in Spain, itinerating from place to place, and exerting his gift of tender and moving appeals to the feelings of his hearers. He was canonized in 1671. Contemporary with him in Spain, Butler tells us, was another preacher, Louis of Granada, and a Bartholomew de Martyribus, who, refusing ecclesiastical dignities, exercised their gifts and graces in reviving throughout Spain, by their writings and discourses, the religious spirit. Without such men, Rome had not lived so long, nor revived after so many blows, and in spite of her corruptions. Offertory, Apocalypse viii. 3.-An angel stood, &c. Secret.-O Lord, we offer thee the sacrifice of praise, humbly entreating, that, through the intercession of the angel, thou wouldst both receive us, well pleased, and come to our eternal salvation. Through our Lord. Communion. Angels, archangels, principalities and powers, and virtues of heaven, dominions and thrones, cherubim and seraphim, bless the Lord for ever. Post-communion. Filled, O Lord, with heavenly blessing, we humbly entreat, that what we celebrate in our weakness, we may experience to be for our profit through the assistance of the proper of saints, from which the Gospel is read at the end of mass. FESTIVAL OF THE PATRONAGE OF THE To be celebrated by all the subjects of the King of Spain on any Sunday of November, to be selected by the Ordinary of the place. The mass, as in votive from Pentecost to Advent, with, Glory in the highest; and the Creed is said, and commemoration of the Sunday occurring, from which the Gospel is read at the end of mass. Preface, as in feast of B. Mary. holy angels and archangels. Through THE MASS OF THE MOST HOLY SACRA our Lord. 31ST DAY OF OCTOBER.-S. WOLFGANG, BISHOP OF RATISBON, AND CONFESSOR.1 For all Germany, the mass from the common of confessor and bishop. Prayer. O God, who didst bestow on us as the minister of our salvation, the blessed Wolfgang thy bishop, grant, we beseech thee, that he whom we have had on earth as a teacher of life, we may have as an intercessor in heaven. Through our Lord. Commemoration is made of the vigil of All Saints everywhere, as in the masses MENT.3 Which, according to the indulgence of Clement XI., is to be on the V. Feria of each week without the time of Advent, Quadragesima, and vigil, not hindered by the office of the new lessons; also, when translated, it may be performed with a semi-double rite by all in the kingdoms of her majesty, and in the lordships and hereditary states of the august house of Austria, at the canonical hours. The mass of the feast of Corpus Christi is used, omitting Alleluia in the Introit, Offertory, and Communion. The Gradual as in votive masses. The Creed is not said; and the third prayer, according to difference of time, as in semid. 1 Wolfgang was a native of Suabia, and flourished in the tenth century. He was twenty-two years bishop of Ratisbon, to which he was chosen for the zeal he had shown in a preaching mission to Hungary. He seems to have been a man of devoted zeal and piety according to the manner of his time, and to have done much to commend at least the forms of religion to the people of Bohemia. His memory is now revived in Germany as a model missionary bishop. 2 How to distinguish this feast from that of Corpus Christi, we know not. See notes on that feast. It seems to us a mass in honour of the mass, and to betray an utter exhaustion of the inventive faculty, that deceives itself with novelty in names when the things are identical. THE MASS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE B. VIRGIN MARY, Which, Pope Benedict XIII.appointed to be on any Sabbath of the year, exclud ing Advent, Quadragesima, the Sabbath of vigil, Quatuor Tempora, not hindered by the festival of new lessons; also, translated, he granted it to be celebrated by the whole clergy, secular and regular, in all kingdoms, lordships and authorities of his majesty, Cesar, without Italy. The mass, as in the Feast of Conception, the prayers excepted. The Creed is not said. Prayer. O Lord, we beseech thee, to bestow on thy servants the gift of heavenly grace, that to whom the offspring of the blessed Virgin has brought the beginning of salvation, the votive commemoration of his conception, may bring increase of peace. Through our Lord. Secret.-O Lord, may the humanity of thy only begotten Son be our succour, and grant that he who, when born of a virgin, did not diminish, but consecrate, the purity of his mother, may, in this commemoration of her conception, putting off our sins by expiation, make our oblation acceptable to thee. Who lives with thee. The Preface, as in commemoration of conception. Post-communion.-O Lord, we have received the votive sacraments of this holy solemnity, grant, we beseech thee, that it may afford to us a remedy both for the life temporal and eternal. Through our Lord.1 1 Here ends the Missal with its masses, new and old, for the living and the dead. If the reader is weary of wandering in this ancient wood, so are we; yet where, except by going at once into a religious retreat of Rome, could any one obtain more briefly a valuation so unexceptionable, of the religion of Rome, and of Ritualism, in their best estate? In these masses, their saints and legends, are to be seen those self-evidencing contrasts and contradictions, truths and errors, that reveal the natural history of Romanism and Ritualism from their first beginnings. They have written their own confutation in giving us the means of tracking their steps from the simplicity of Christ, to the newest device of Mariolatry. As surely as we can tell by the print on the sand whether a man or a beast has passed that way, the reader of the Missal may tell, as he winds his weary way through the masses and saints of the ecclesiastical year, whether God or man has, for these eighteen hundred years, been intermeddling with the religion of Jesus; and whether the Missal and Breviary, the highest expression and fullest development of Romanism and Ritualism, more truly reflect the glory of God in Christ, and tend more to form Christ-like men on earth, than "the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible." FINIS. 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