enemies, O Lord: to thee have I fled, teach me to do thy will: because thou art my God. SECRET. GRant, O Almighty God, that being purified by the powerful virtue of this facrifice, we may arrive with greater purity to the author and institutor thereof. Thro'. COMMUNION. Pf. 34. Let them blush and be afhamed, who rejoice at my misfortunes: let them be covered with confufion and fhame, who speak maliciously against me. POSTCOMMUNION. Præbeant nobis. ET thy holy myfteries, O Lord, inspire us with divine fervour: that we delight both in their effect and celebration. Thro'. LE Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God. PRAYER. Adjuva nos. Help us, O God, our falvation; and grant that Η we may celebrate with joy the memory of thefe benefits, by which thou hast been pleased to redeem us. Thro'. TUESDAY in HOLY WEEK. MASS. INTROIT. W E ought to glory in the cross Gal. 6. of our Lord Jefus Chrift: in whom is our falvation, life, and refurrection: by whom we have been saved and delivered. Pf. 66. May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may his countenance fhine upon us, and may he take pity on us. We ought to glory, &c. to Pf. COLLECT. Omnipotens. Almighty and Everlafting God, grant that we may fo celebrate the myfteries of our Lord's paffion, as to obtain thy pardon. Thro' the fame. LESSON. Jer. xi. 18, 20. IN thofe days: Jeremias faid: O Lord, thou haft fhewn it me, and I have known it: then thou didst discover to me their defigns. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be facrificed: and I knew not that they formed defigns against me, faying: Let us caft wood into his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more. But thou, O Lord of hofts, that judgeft justly, and searchest the reins and hearts, let me fee thy vengeance upon them: for to thee have I laid open my caufe, O Lord my God. GRADUAL. P. 34. When they were troublefome to me, I put on hair-cloth, and humbled my foul in fafting and I will yet continue to pour forth my prayer in my bofom. V. Judge thofe, O. Lord, who hurt me: defeat those that affault me: take thy armour and fhield, and come to my affift ance. The PASSION of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, according to Mark, Chap. xiv. AT that time: After two days was the feaft of the Passover and of unleavened bread, and the chief priests and Scribes fought how they might take Jefus by craft, and put him to death. But they faid: S. Not on the feaft-day, left there fhould be a tumult among the people. C. And when Jesus was at Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, at table, there came a woman having an alabafter box of very coftly ointment of spikenard; and breaking the alabafter box, the poured it out on his head. And there were fome that were vexed within themselves at it, and faid: S. Why was this ointment wafted? For it might have been fold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor, C. And they murmured against her. And Jefus faid: + Let her alone: Why do you difturb her? She hath done a f Expl. I will continue my bumble pofture of prayer, with my bead reclined on my breast. good work on me. For you have the poor always with you; and whenfoever you will, you may do them good; but me you have not always. She hath done what she could: and is come beforehand to anoint my body for it's burial. Amen I fay to you: Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this alfo, which the hath done, fhall be told for a memorial of her. C. Then Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray him to them. And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he fought how he might conveniently betray him. Now on the firft day of unleaven bread, when they killed the Paffover, his difciples fay to him: S. Where wilt thou have us go, and prepare for thee to eat the Paover? C. And he fendeth two of his difciples, and faith to them: + Go into the city, and there will meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water, follow him and wherever he goeth in, fay to the mafter of the house: The Master faith: where is the guest-room, in which I may eat the Passover with my difciples? And he will fhew you a large upper-room ready furnished; and there make ready for us. C. And his difciples went, and coming into the city, found every thing as he had faid to them, and made ready the Paffover. And in the evening he came with the twelve. And as they were at table, and eating, Jefus faith: † Amen I say to you: one of you that eateth with me, will betray me. C. And they began to be fad, and to fay to him feverally S. Is it I? C. He faith to them: + It is one of the twelve, that dippeth his hand with me in the dish. And the Son of Man indeed goeth as it is written of him: but wo to that man by whom the Son of Man fhall be betrayed. It had been better for that man if he had never been born, C. And while they were eating, Jefus took bread, VOL. II. LESSON. Jer. xi. 18, 20. IN thofe days: Jeremias faid: O Lord, thou haft fhewn it me, and I have known it: then thou didft discover to me their defigns. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be facrificed: and I knew not that they formed defigns against me, saying: Let us caft wood into his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more. But thou, O Lord of hosts, that judgest justly, and searchest the reins and hearts, let me fee thy vengeance upon them: for to thee have I laid open my caufe, O Lord my God. GRADUAL. Pf. 34. When they were troublefome to me, I put on hair-cloth, and humbled my foul in fafting: and I will yet continue to pour forth my prayer in my bofom. V. Judge thofe, O. Lord, who hurt me: defeat those that affault me: take thy armour and fhield,and come to my affift ance. The PASSION of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, according to Mark, Chap. xiv. AT T that time: After two days was the feaft of the Passover chief priests ar unleavened bread, and the fought how they might d put him to death. h the feast-dav. among the good work on me. For you have the poor always with you; and whenfoever you will, you may do them good; but me you have not always. She hath done what he could: and is come beforehand to anoint my body for it's burial. Amex I fay to you: Wherever this gofpel fhall be preached throughout the whole world, this also, which fhe hath done, fhall be told for a memorial of her. C. Then Judas the Ifcariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray him to them. And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he fought how he might conveniently betray him. 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