saith to him: There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves, and two fishes; but what are they among so many? Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were sat down. In like manner also of the fishes, as much as they would, and when they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. They gathered up therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten. Now these men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world. Jesus therefore when he knew that they would come to take him by force and make him king, fled again into the mountain himself alone. CREDO.

OFFERT. Ps. cxxxiv.-Praise ye the Lord, for he is good: sing ye to his name, for it is sweet: what he pleased he hath done, in heaven and on earth.

SECRET. We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully regard this present sacrifice, that it may both increase our devotion, and advance our salvation. Thro'.

COMMUNION. Ps. cxxi.-Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together: for thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord; to praise thy name, O Lord.

P. COMM. Da nobis.-Grant, we beseech thee, O merciful God, that we may sincerely respect, and receive with faith thy holy mysteries, with which thou daily feedest us.

MONDAY

INTROIT. Ps. liii.-Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength: O God, hear

my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth. Ps. For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul. V. Glory.

COLLECT. Præsta.-Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we, who annually celebrate this holy fast, may be well pleasing to thee both in body and mind. Thio'.

LESSON. 3 Kings i. 16. 28.-In those days: Two women that were harlots, came to king Solomon, and stood before him: and one of them said: I beseech thee, my Lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber. And the third day after that I was delivered, she also was delivered; and we were together and no other person with us in the house, only we two. And this woman's child died in the night. For in her sleep she overlaid him. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while thy handmaid was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead; but considering him more diligently when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary she said: Thou liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove before the king. Then saith the king: The one saith, my child is alive, and thy child is dead. And the other answereth, Nay, but thy child is dead, and mine liveth. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had brought a sword before the king, divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king (for her bowels were moved upon her child), I beseech thee, my Lord, give her the

child alive and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. The king answered and said: Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed, for she is the mother thereof. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

GRAD. Ps. xxx.-Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge to save me. V. Ps. lxx. In thee, O God, have I hoped: O Lord, let me never be confounded.

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

GOSPEL. John ii. 13. 25.-At that time: The pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and he found in the temple them that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. And when he had made as it were a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew. And he said to them that sold doves: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. And his disciples remembered that it was written: "The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up." Then the Jews answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew us, seeing thou dost these things? Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it in three days? But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had said Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs

which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, and because he needed not that any should give testimony of man, for he knew what was in man.

OFFERT. Ps. xcix.-Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exceeding great joy, for he the Lord himself is God.

SECRET. May the sacrifice we have offered thee, O Lord, always give us life, and defend us.

Thro.' COMM. Ps. xviii.-From my secret sins cleanse me, O Lord, and from those of others: spare thy

servant.

P. COMM. Sumptis.-May the receiving of these saving mysteries, we beseech thee, O Lord, advance our eternal redemption. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God. PRAYER. Deprecationem.-We beseech thee, O Lord, hear our prayer, and grant us thy protection, as it is thou who inspirest us to ask it. Thro'.

TUESDAY.

INTROIT. Ps. liv.-Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: be attentive to me and hear me. Ps. I am grieved in my exercise; and troubled at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. V. Glory.

COLLECT. Sacra.-We beseech thee, O Lord, that the holy fast we observe may be to our improvement in holy conversation, and draw down upon us the constant succours of thy mercy. Thro'.

LESSON. Exod. xxxii. 7. 14.-In thos、 days: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned. They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have R

said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is stiff-necked: let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. But Moses. besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

GRAD. Ps. xliii.-Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for thy name's sake. V. We have heard, O God, with our ears; our fathers have declared to us the work thou hast wrought in their days; in the days of old.

GOSPEL. John. vii. 14. 31. At that time: About the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice it him. Did not Moses give you the law? and yet.