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The propers of the day according to the 1962 Roman Missal. A Feria of the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost with commemoration of Saint Agapitus. August 18 in the year of our Lord, 2026. Commemorated today is Saint Agapitus. In Palestine, says the Roman martyrology, the birth unto heaven of Saint Agapitus, who, when only 15 years old, was put to death at Prinesta in Italy by the stroke of the sword thus winning the crown of immortality in the year of our Lord 02/1975.
Vox Liturgica:In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. The introit. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.
Vox Liturgica:Let mine enemies be confounded and ashamed who seek my soul. Let them be turned backward and blush for shame who desire evils to me. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning is now and will be through all ages of ages. Amen. O God, come to my assistance.
Vox Liturgica:O Lord, make haste to help me. Let mine enemies be confounded and ashamed who seek my soul. The Collect, let us pray. Almighty and merciful God, of whose gift it comes that Thy faithful do unto Thee true and laudable service, grant we beseech Thee that we may run without stumbling toward the attainment of Thy promises. A commemoration of Saint Agapitus.
Vox Liturgica:May thy Church, O God, be gladdened by the intercession of blessed Agapitus, thy martyr, in which she trusts, and through his glorious prayers may she ever remain devoted to thee and ever abide in safety through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages. Amen. A lesson from the second letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Such, brethren, through Christ is the confidence in which we make our appeal to God, Not that, left to ourselves, we are able to frame any thought as coming from ourselves. All our ability comes from God since it is He who has enabled us to promulgate His new law to men.
Vox Liturgica:It is a spiritual, not a written law. The written law inflicts death, whereas the spiritual law brings life. We know how that sentence of death, engraved in writing upon stone, was promulgated to men in a dazzling cloud so that the people of Israel could not look Moses in the face for the brightness of it. Although that brightness soon passed away. How much more dazzling then must be the brightness in which the spiritual law is promulgated to them.
Vox Liturgica:If there is a splendor in the proclamation of our guilt, there must be more splendor yet in the proclamation of our acquittal. The gradual. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall ever be in my mouth. In the Lord shall my soul be praised.
Vox Liturgica:Let the meek hear and rejoice. Alleluia. Alleluia. O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried in the day and in the night before thee. Alleluia.
Vox Liturgica:A continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke. At that time Jesus said to his disciples, blessed are the eyes that see what you see. I tell you, there have been many prophets and kings who have longed to see what you see and never saw it, to hear what you hear and never heard it. It happened once that a lawyer rose up, trying to put him to the test. Master, he said, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
Vox Liturgica:Jesus asked him, What is it that is written in the law? What is thy reading of it? And he answered, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with the love of thy whole heart, and thy whole soul, and thy whole strength, and thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. Thou hast answered right, he told him. Do this, and thou shalt find life.
Vox Liturgica:But he, to prove himself blameless, asked, And who is my neighbor? Jesus gave him his answer. A man who was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell in with robbers who stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead. And a priest, who chanced to be going down by the same road, saw him there, and passed by on the other side. And a Levite who came there saw him and passed by on the other side.
Vox Liturgica:But a certain Samaritan who was on his travels saw him and took pity at the sight. He went up to him and bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine into them. And so mounted him upon his own beast and brought him to an inn where he took care of him. And the next day he took out two silver pieces which he gave to the innkeeper and said, Take care of him, and on my way home I will give thee whatever else is owing to thee for thy pains. Which of these thinkest thou proved himself a neighbor to the man who had fallen in with robbers?
Vox Liturgica:And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then Jesus said, Go thy way, and do thou likewise. The Offeratory Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord his God, and said, Why, O Lord, is thine indignation enkindled against thy people? Let the anger of thy mind cease. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom thou didst swear to give a land flowing with milk and honey.
Vox Liturgica:And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken of doing against his people. The secret. Look graciously, we beseech thee, O Lord, upon the offerings which we lay upon thy sacred altars, that they may obtain for us pardon and glory. A commemoration of Saint Agapitus. Receive, O Lord, the gifts which we present to thee on the feast day of him by whose patronage we hope to be delivered through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages.
Vox Liturgica:Amen. The common preface: Just it is indeed and fitting, 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, through whom the angels praise thy majesty, the dominions worship it, the powers stand in awe, the heavens and the hosts of heaven together with the blessed Seraphim joyfully do magnify, we entreat thee that thou command it be permitted us to join with them in confessing thee while we say with lowly praise. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. The heavens and the earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Vox Liturgica:Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. The communion. The earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works, O Lord, that thou mayest bring bread out of the earth, and that wine may cheer the heart of man, that he may make the face cheerful with oil, and that bread may strengthen man's heart. The post communion, let us pray.
Vox Liturgica:May the holy reception of this mystery, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Restore us, and may it defend us under thy protection from all adversity. A commemoration of Saint Agapitus. Thou hast satisfied, oh Lord, thy household with holy gifts. Ever cherish us, we beseech thee, through the intercession of him whose festival we are keeping, through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, through all ages of ages. Amen.
Vox Liturgica:In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Let us bless the Lord. Saint Agapitus, pray for us.