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Laudate_Dominum
I've only been doing Sundays or other big days but I just felt like doing a daily Mass for no particular reason. smile.gif

Extraordinary form Mass propers.

Introit
The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my Helper. -- (Ps. 29. 2). I will extol Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me. V.: Glory be to the Father... -- The Lord hath heard...

Collect
Further with Thy gracious favor, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the fasts which we have begun: that the bodily observance which we keep, we may be able also to practice with sincere minds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost...

Epistle
Thus saith the Lord God: Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their wicked doings and the house of Jacob their sins. For they seek Me from day to day and desire to know My ways, as a nation that hath done justice and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: the ask of Me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God. Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and Thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found and you exact of all your debtors. Behold you fast for debate and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high. Is this such a fast as I have chosen, for a man to afflict his soul for a day? Is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Wilt thou call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? Loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harborless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thine own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear; thou shalt cry, and He shall say: Here I am. For I the Lord thy God am merciful.

Gradual
One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord. V.: That I may see the delight of the Lord, and be protected by His holy temple.

Tract
O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed nor according to our iniquities. V.: (Ps. 78. 8, 9) O Lord, remember not our former iniquities, let Thy mercies speedily prevent us; for we are become exceedingly poor.
[Here kneel]
Help us, O God, our Savior: and for the glory of Thy Name, O Lord, deliver us: and forget us not for Thy Name's sake.

Gospel
At that time Jesus saith to His disciples: You have heard that it hath been said: Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thy enemy. But I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you; and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: that you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh His sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? Do not even the publicans this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? Do not also the heathens this? Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have reward of your Father who is in heaven. Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth: that thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will repay thee.

Offertory
O Lord, quicken Thou me for Thy word's sake, that I may know Thy testimonies.

Secret
O Lord, we beseech Thee, to grant that the sacrifice of our Lenten observance which we offer up to Thee may both render our souls acceptable to Thee, and give us the power of more ready continence. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth...

Preface
It it truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; Who by this bodily fast, dost curb our vices, dost lift up our minds and bestow on us strength and rewards; through Christ our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with these we entreat Thee that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted while we say with lowly praise:

Communion
Serve ye the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto Him with trembling: embrace discipline, lest you perish from the just way.

Postcommunion
Pour forth upon us, O Lord, the spirit of Thy love: that those whom Thou hast fed with the one Bread from heaven, Thou mayest, in Thy mercy, make to be of one mind. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost...

Prayer over the people
Let us pray. -- Bow down your heads before God.
O Lord, preserve Thy people and in Thy mercy cleanse them from all their sins: for no adversity shall harm them if no wickedness hold sway over them. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth...
Laudate_Dominum
At that time : Jesus said unto his disciples: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. And so on, and that which followeth.

A Homily by Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Dearly beloved brethren, the lesson of the Holy Gospel, which has just been read to you, is plain. But lest the plain should perchance seem to some of you to be a mountain, we will go through it so quickly and easily that they which have not already explored it may come to know something about it, and they which already know it need not be wearied. The Lord saith : Let your loins be girded about. We gird our loins about when by continency we master the lustful inclination of the flesh. But it is of small profit to abstain from evil unless we also strive right earnestly to do good works. Therefore the Lord added that we should keep our lights burning, that is, by good works should give a good example to our neighbour ; concerning which the Lord saith : Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Here then are two commandments, to gird our loins about, and to keep our lights burning ; which is to keep our bodies in chastity and to do all our work in the daylight of truth. For the one without the other can in no wise please our Redeemer. We cannot please him by good works if we persist in the pollutions of lust, nor can we please him by our chastity if we do no good works for others. Chastity is not a great thing without good works, and good works without chastity are nothing worth. And if any man would do both, he must needs set his hope on our fatherland above. For of what good is it to refrain from evil in hope of being honoured in this present world?

And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. The Lord cometh at the hour of judgment. He knocketh when by the pains of sickness he warneth us that death is nigh. To him we open immediately, if we receive him in love. Whosoever he be that feareth to go forth from the body is such an one as cannot open readily to the Judge when he knocketh, for he dreadeth to see that Judge, whom he knoweth that he hath despised. But whosoever is confident through hope and by reason of works done for God, when he heareth the Judge knock, openeth to him immediately, for to such an one that coming is blessed. Yea, when the hour of death is at hand, such an one is of good cheer in expectation of the blessedness which will follow on judgment.

V. Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R. Deo grátias.
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