XXV. St. CATHARINE. V. and M. Double. VESPERS. all as in the COMMON, p. xlix. Prayer. Collect at Mass.

V.

The COMMEM. of St. JOHN. Anth. This man. The Lord led. COMMON, P. xlv. Prayer. Collect as above, p. 477.

MASS. INTROIT, I spake. With the rest. CoмMON, p. li.except :

COLLECT. Deus, qui. O God, who gavedst the law to Moses on Mount Sinai, and wonderfully translatedst, by the ministry of thy holy Angels, the body of blessed Catharine, thy Virgin and Martyr, to the same place; mercifully grant, by her merits and prayers, we may safely come to the holy mount, which is Christ. Who liveth.

The second Vespers are, from the LITTLE CHAPTER of the following Feast.

XXVI St. FELIX VALOIS, Conf. Double. VESPERS. all as p. xlii. In the HYMN is said: Deserves that we. Prayer. Collect at Mass.

The COMMEM. of St. CATHARINE. Anth. Come, O spouse. COMMON, p. li. V. Grace, ib. p. liii. Prayer. Collect at Mass.

Of St. PETER, Bishop and Martyr. Anth. This saint. V. Thou hast crowned. COMMON, P. XV. Prayer. Infirmitatem, ib. p. xvi.

MASS. INTROIT. The righteous man, &c. p. xlv.

COLLECT. Deus, qui. O God, who, by thy hes venly inspiration, didst call blessed Felix, thy Confessor, out of the desert to exercise his charity in the redemption of captives; grant that, by his intercession, having ob tained thy grace, we may be freed from the captivity of sin, and brought sare to our heavenly country. Thro'.

Of St. PETER. COLLECT. Infirmitatem, with the following Secret and PosтCOMM. p. xvi. &c.

In the second Vespers is made a Commemoration of the following Feast.

XXVII. St. GREGORY THAUMATURGUS, Bishop

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and Confessor. A Semidouble.

At VESPERS. The Commem. Anth. O Priest. V. The Lord, p. xxxiv. Prayer. Da, quæsumus. ib. MASS. INTROIT. The Lord settled, &c. p. xxxiv. except:

GOSPEL. Mark xi. 22.

T that time:

Jesus answering said to his disciples:

Have faith in God. Verily I say unto you: Whoever shall say to this mountain: Be thou removed, and cast into the sea; and shall not stagger in his heart, but believe that whatever he saith shall be done: it shall be done unto him. Wherefore I say unto you: Whatsoever things ye shall ask with prayer, believe that ye shall receive them, and they shall be granted you.

LITANY for a happy Death: composed by a Young Lady, who, at ten years of age, was converted to the Catholic Faith, and died at eighteen, in the odour of sanctity.

O LORD Jesus, God of goodness and Father of mercies, I approach to thee with a contrite and humble heart: to thee I recommend the last hour of my life, and the decision of my eternal doom.

When my feet, benumbed with death, shall admonish me that my mortal course is drawing to an end, Merciful Jesus have mercy on me.

When my eyes, dim and troubled at the approach of death, shall fix themselves on thee my last and only support, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my face, pale and livid, shall inspire the beholders with pity and dismay; when my hair, bathed in the sweat of death, and stiffening on my head, shall forebode my approaching end, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my ears, soon to be for ever shut to the discourse of men, shall be open to hear the irrevocable decice, which is to cut me off from the number of the living, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my imagination, agitated by dreadful spectres, shall be sunk in an abyss of anguish; when my soul, affrighted with the sight of my iniquities and the terrors of thy judgments, shall have to fight against the angel of darkness, who will endeavour to conceal thy mercies from my eyes, and to plunge me into despair, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my poor heart, yielding to the pressure, and exhausted by its frequent struggles against the enemies of its salvation, shall feel the pangs of death, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.'

When the last tear, the fore-runner of my dissolution, shall drop from my eyes, receive it as a sacrifice of expiation for my sins; grant that I may expire the victim of penance, and in that dreadful moment, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my friends and relations, encircling my bed, shall shed the tear of pity over me, and invoke thy clemency in my behalf, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When I shall have lost the use of my senses, when the world shall have vanished from my sight, when my agonizing soul shall feel the sorrows of death, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my last sigh shall summon my soul to burst from the embraces of the body, and to spring to thee on the wings of impatience and desire, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my soul, trembling on my lips, shall bid adieu to the world, and leave my body lifeless, pale and cold, receive this separation as a homage, which I willingly pay to thy Divine Majesty, and in that last moment of my mortal life, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When at length my soul, admitted to thy presence, shall first behold the splendor of thy Majesty, reject me not, but receive me into thy bosom, where I may for ever sing thy praises, and in that moment, when eternity shall begin to me, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

Let us pray.

O God, who hast doomed all men to die, but hast concealed from all the hour of their death, grant that I may pass my days in the practice of holiness and justice, and that I may deserve to quit this world in the peace of a good conscience, and in the embraces of thy love, thro' Christ our Lord. Amen.

THE COMMON OF APOSTLES AND MARTYRS IN THE PASCHAL TIME.

I. and II. VESPERS.

In the First Vespers both of Apostles and Martyrs, the Psalms, as on Sundays, p. 69, except the last, which is Psalm cxii. Laudate Dominum, p. 90.

In the II. Vespers of Apostles, the Psalms as in the Common of Apostles after the Paschal time, below p.

x.

In the II. Vespers of Martyrs, the Psalms, as on Sundays, p. 69. except the last, which is Psalm cxv. Credidi, p. 90.

Anth.

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HY saints, O Ant.

Lord, shall flourish like the lily, Alleluia; and they shall be in thy sight like the sweet perfume of the balsam, Alleluia.

Anth. The abode of the saints is in the kingdom of heaven, Alleluia: and their rest is for eternity, Alleluia. Anth. Thy saints, O Lord, cried out from behind the veil, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Anth. Ye spirits and souls of the righteous sing a hymn to our God, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Anth. The righteous shall shine like the sun in the presence of God, Alleluia.

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ANCTI tui, Domine, florebunt sicut lilium, Alleluia; et sicut odor balsami erunt ante te, Alleluia.

Ant. In cœlestibus regnis sanctorum habitatio est, Alleluia; et in æternum requies eorum, Alleluia.

Ant. In velamento clamabant sancti tui, Domine, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Ant. Spiritus et animæ justorum hymnum dicite Deo nostro, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Ant. Fulgebunt justi sicut sol in conspectu Dei, Alleluia.

LITTLE CHAPTER. Wisd. v.

HE righteous shall stand up with great constancy