Ferial Day – St. Marius and Companions – St. Canute
Introit • Ps. 67, 4
And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and delighted with gladness. Ps. 67, 2. Let God arise, and let His enemies by scattered, and let them that hate Him flee from before his face. Glory be …
Collect (Prayer)
Harken, O Lord, to Thy people who make supplication in union with the intercession of Thy saints, that Thou mayest grant us to rejoice in peace during this life on earth and to find the help of the life eternal. Through our Lord.
Collect (Prayer)
O God, Who for the enlightenment of Thy Church didst vouchsafe to distinguish blessed King Canute with the palm of martyrdom and with glorious miracles, mercifully grant, that as he was an imitator of the Lord’s passion, so we, walking in his footsteps, may deserve to enter into everlasting joys.
Epistle • Heb. 10, 32-38
Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Philippians.
[Because of the insufficiency of the sacrifices of the law, Christ our high priest shed his own blood for us, offering up once for all the sacrifice of our redemption. He exhorts them to perseverance.]
BRETHREN, call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions. And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort. For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance. Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.
For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay. But my just man liveth by faith.
Gradual • Wis. 3, 1
The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of malice shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise thy seemed to die, but they are in peace.
Lesser Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 67, 36. Wonderful is our God in His saints. Alleluia.
Gospel • Matt. 24, 3-13
Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew.
[Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, with the signs that shall come before it and before the last judgment. We must always watch.]
At that time, as Jesus was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world? And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you: For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.
And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name’ s sake. And then shall many be scandalized: and shall betray one another: and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.
Offertory • Ps. 123, 7
Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are delivered.
Secret
Have regard, O Lord, to the prayers and offerings of Thy faithful, that thy may be both pleasing to Thee for the festival of Thy saints and may bring us the help of Thy mercy. Through our Lord.
Secret
May our devout offerings, O Lord, be acceptable in Thy sight; and by the intercession of the holy martyr o whose festival thy are laid before Thee, may thy profit us unto salvation. Through our Lord.
Communion • Luke 12, 4
But I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those who persecute you.
Postcommunion
Be appeased by the prayers of Thy saints, O Lord, and grant, we beseech Thee, that the rites we perform here on earth may avail for our everlasting salvation. Through our Lord.
Postcommunion
Our strength renewed from having shared in Thy sacred gift, we beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that, by the intercession of blessed Canute Thy martyr, we may ever feel the mighty power of the Sacrament we worship. Through our Lord.