INTROIT
Ps 53:6-7
Behold, God is my helper, the Lord sustains my life. Turn back the evil upon my foes; in Your faithfulness destroy them, O Lord, my protector.
Ps 53:3
O God, by Your name save me, and by Your might deliver me.
Glory Be to the Father…
Behold, God is my helper, the Lord sustains my life. Turn back the evil upon my foes; in Your faithfulness destroy them, O Lord, my protector.
COLLECT
May Your merciful ears be open, O Lord, to the prayers of those who humbly entreat You; grant that they may ask for what pleases You so that You may fulfill their desires.
Through our Lord…
COMMEMORATION COLLECT
Commemoration St. Christina
May Blessed Christina, Your Virgin and Martyr, we beseech You, O Lord, implore pardon for us; for, by the merit of her chastity and by her confession of Your power, she was ever pleasing to you.
Through our Lord…
EPISTLE
Lesson from the first letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Cor. 10:6-13
Brethren: We should not lust after evil things even as they lusted. And do not become idolaters, even as some of them were, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, even as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. Neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and perished at the hands of the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as a type, and they were written for our correction, upon whom the final age of the world has come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. May no temptation take hold of you but such as man is equal to. God is faithful and will not permit you to be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also give you a way out that you may be able to bear it.
GRADUAL
Ps 8:2
O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is Your name over all the earth!
℣. You have elevated Your Majesty above the heavens.
Ps 58:2
℣. Rescue me from my enemies, O my God; from my adversaries defend me.
GOSPEL
Continuation ☩ of the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 19:41-47
At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it, saying, If you had known, in this your day, even you, the things that are for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a rampart about you, and surround you and shut you in on every side, and will dash you to the ground and your children within you, and will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you have not known the time of your visitation. And He entered the temple, and began to cast out those who were selling and buying in it, saying to them, It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of thieves. And He was teaching daily in the temple.
OFFERTORY
Ps 18:9-12
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart, and His ordinances sweeter than syrup or honey from the comb; therefore Your servant is careful of them.
SECRET
Grant us, we beseech You, O Lord, to take part worthily and frequently in this sacramental action: for as often as this sacrifice of commemoration is offered, the work of our redemption is performed.
Through our Lord…
COMMEMORATION SECRET
Commemoration St. Christina
Graciously receive, O Lord, the sacrifices offered to You, by the merits of Blessed Christina, Your Virgin and Martyr, and grant that they may become for us an abiding source of strength.
Through our Lord…
PREFACE
Common
It is truly meet and just, and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks to Thee, O Holy Lord, Father Almighty, eternal God, through Christ, our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominions adore it, the Powers are in awe. Which the heavens and the hosts of heaven together with the blessed Seraphim joyfully do magnify. And do Thou command that it be permitted us to join with them in confessing Thee, while we say with lowly praise:
COMMUNION
John 6:57
He who eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, abides in Me, and I in him, says the Lord.
POSTCOMMUNION
May the partaking of Your sacrament, we beseech You, O Lord, cleanse us and unite us.
Through our Lord…
COMMEMORATION POSTCOMMUNION
Commemoration St. Christina
Filled with the abundance of Your divine gift, we beseech You, O Lord our God, that, by the intercession of Blessed Christina, Your Virgin and Martyr, we may live forever by the participation thereof.
Through our Lord…