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Traditional Holy Mass Proper Prayers for
The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

Missa Exáudi, Dómine
....go first to be reconciled to thy brother....
9 July 2006 A.D.

"All whatsoever you do in word or work, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
giving thanks to God and the Father by Jesus Christ our Lord," --- Blessed Apostle Saint Paul

T he week of the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost used to be called the week after the Feast of the Apostles, for it is among those which rather often coincide with the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The Mass as presented to us by the Church on this day contains a great lesson in Christian Charity. We must live in union. Having entered the Church - the Kingdom of the Father - we are the children of God, and we must love Him in our neighbor who participates - as we do in the divine - nature.

Indeed, the Epistle and Gospel show us that our prayer is of value only if we are all of one heart in unison with God's will, not man's. If not, our petitions are in vain, and the Collect makes us ask God to grant us His love, as it is our love for God which is the motive of our love for our neighbor.

A special 'Thank you' to the Friends of Fatima for these Proper resources. Sources: Saint Andrew Daily Missal and the Marian Missal 1945.

Colors: Green Vestments

Semi-Double Observance

Introit ¤ Psalm 26:7-9

Exáudi, Dómine, vocem qua clamávi ad te: adjútor meus esto, ne derelínquas me, neque despícias me, Deus salutáris meus.. Psalm 26:1. Dóminus iiluminátio mea, et salus mea quem timébo? v. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Repeat Exáudi, Dómine...

Hear, O Lord, my voice with which l have cried to Thee: be Thou my helper, forsake me not, nor do Thou despise me, O God, my Savior. Psalm 26:1. The Lord is my light, and my salvation, whom shall I fear? v. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Repeat Hear, O Lord...

COLLECT

Deus, qui diligéntibus te bona invisibília præparásti: infúnde córdibus nostris tui amoris afféctum; ut te in ómnibus, et super ómnia diligéntes, promissiónes tuas, quæ omne desidérium súperent, consequmur. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Collect For The Intercession Of The Saints

A cunctis nos quæsumus Dómine mentis et córporis defénde perículis: et intercedénte beáta et gloriósa semper Vírgine Dei Genitrice María, cum beáto Joseph, beátis Apóstolis tuis Petro et Paulo, et ómnibus Sanctis, salútem nobis tríbue benígnus et pacem; ut destrúctis adversitátibus et erróribus univérsis, Ecclésia tua secúra tibi sérviat libertáte. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Collect For God's Holy Church

Ecclésiæ tuæ, quæ-sumus, Dómine, preces placátus admítte: ut, destrúctis adversitát-ibus et erróribus univérsis, secura tibi sérviat libertáte. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

O God, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such good things as pass understanding: pour into our hearts such love towards Thee, that we, loving Thee in all things, and above all things, may obtain Thy promises which exceed all that we can desire. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

Collect For The Intercession Of The Saints

D efend us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, from all dangers of mind and body: and through the intercession of the blessed and glorious Mary, ever Virgin, mother of God, of St Joseph, of Thy holy apostles, Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy loving-kindness grant us safety and peace; that, all adversities and errors being overcome, Thy Church may serve Thee in security and freedom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

Collect For God's Holy Church

Graciously hear, O Lord, the prayers of Thy Church that, having overcome all adversity and every error, she may serve Thee in security and freedom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

EPISTLE ¤ Blessed Apostle Saint Peter ( 1 ) 3:8-16

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Romanos
Fratres, Exístimo quad non sunt condígnæ passiónes hujus tempóris ad futúram glóriam, quas revelábítur in nobis. Nam exspectátio creatúræ revelatiónem Fíliórum Dei exspéctat. Vanitáti enim creatúra subjécta est non volens, sed propter cum qui subjécit eam in spe: quia et ipsa creatúra liberábitur a servitúte corruptiónis in libertátem glóriæ filiórum Dei. Scimus enim quad omnis creatúra ingemíscit, et párturit usque adhuc. Non solum autem illa, sed et nos ipsi primitías Spíritus habéntes, et ipsi intra nos gémimus, adoptiónem filiórum Dei exspectántes, redemptiónem córporis nostri: in Christo Jesu Dómino nostro.

Lesson from the first Epistle of Blessed Apostle Peter to the Romans.
Dearly beloved Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble, not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this you are called, that you may inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him decline from evil and do good let him seek after peace, and pursue it because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and His ears unto their prayers, but the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things, And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good? But if also you suffer anything for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled: but sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts.

GRADUAL ¤ Psalm 83:9, 10

P rotéctor noster áspice, Deus: et réspice super servos tuos. V. Dómine Deus virtútum, exáudi preces servórum tuórum. Allelúja, allelúja. v. Psalm 20:1Dómine, in virtúte tua lætábitur rexet super salutáre tuum exsultábit veheménter. Allelúja.

Behold, O God our protector, and look on Thy servants. v. O Lord God of hosts, give ear to the prayers of Thy servants. Alleluia, alleluia. v. Psalm 20:1 In Thy strength, O Lord, the king shall enjoy and in Thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly. Alleluia.

GOSPEL - Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:20-24

† Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Matthaeum.
In illo témpore: "Nisi abundáverit justítia vestra plusquam scribárum et pharisæórum, non intrábitis in regnum cælórum. Audístis quia dictum est antíquis: Non occídes qui autem occíderet, reus erit judício. Ego autem dico vobis: quia omnis, qui iráscitur fratri suo, reus erit judício. Qui autem díxerit fratri suo: Raca, reus erit concílio. Qui autem dixérit: Fátue, reus erit gehénnæ ignis. Si ergo offers munus tuum ad altáre, et ibi recordátus fúeris quia frater tuus habet aliquid advérsum te relínque ibi munus tuum ante altáre, et vade prius reconciliári fratri tuo et tunc véniens ófferes munus tuum."

† Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew
At that time, At that time Jesus said to His disciples: "Except your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to his brother: Raca, shall be in danger of the council and whosoever shall say: Thou fool, shalt be in danger of hell fire. If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift."

Homily The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Missa Exáudi, Dómine
9 July 2006 A.D.
by Father Louis J. Campbell
A Branch Cut Off

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

The curses detailed in Leviticus, which God promised if the Jews ever broke their Covenant with Him, were carried out in the Apocalypse because of their rejection of the Messias and His teachings. In our times, are we not having a repeat of the very same consequences for those who have abandoned the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church in favor of Modernism, Humanism and Ecumenism? We pray for reconciliation with our brothers of all beliefs, but never compromise or concession. Stand unflinchingly for Christ and His True Church and nothing else!

Do we have any other evidence that the destruction of Jerusalem was the result of the Covenant curses? Well, we have the testimony of Blessed Apostle Saint John, who wrote the Book of the Apocalypse. Considered very difficult to interpret, the Apocalypse is generally understood to be prophetic of the events of the 'end times,' which may even now be upon us. But even if this is true, some Scripture scholars say it had an earlier fulfillment even before the death of the last Apostle, Blessed Apostle Saint John, who authored the book. The Apocalypse tells the story of the punishment of the unfaithful spouse (the earthly Jerusalem) and the purification of the faithful spouse (the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church) to be the Bride of Christ. The punishment is carried out in exact fulfillment of the Covenant curses found in the Book of Leviticus."

Note: In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, he focuses on today's Gospel in which our Lord reminds His disciples how important it is to heed the Lord thy God and not be as the Scribes and Pharisees. In the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday Jesus also speaks of being reconciled with thy brother. But at what cost, Father asks, to deny what Christ has taught? Never! But that is exactly what the current occupant of the Chair of Peter indicates in his constant heresy that a religion that rejected the Messias can still be saved by waiting for another to come and not only that, but there is no need now for them to convert as Christ commanded in Mark 16: 15-16 and Matthew 28: 19-20. Thus we have the conciliar compromise that carries so many Catholics further into apostasy. Benedict, who should be a Scripture scholar considering his background, seems to forget the curses in Leviticus which Father reminds and the correlation to the Book of the Apocalypse. Pray for those who have been deceived, pray the Offertory prayer today that says "I will bless the Lord, Who hath given me understanding." In these times we see history repeating itself for the God of Justice and Mercy has withdrawn His graces because a withered branch has no life, the salt has lost its savor, and thanks to the global apostasy of those who were once Catholic, as Father explains in his sermon, the conciliar church, the Newchurch of Vatican II is, like the Jews.

The word of God is "living and efficient and keener than any two-edged sword…" ( Hebrews 4:12 ). God speaks to us through the Prophet Isaiah: "So shall My word be, which shall go forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it" ( Isaiah 55:11 ).

According to Jesus Christ, the "Word made flesh," the Holy Scriptures are fulfilled in Him: "Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to destroy, but to fulfill" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:17 ). His word is truth. The Gospel for today ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:20-24 ) opens with Jesus warning His disciples; "Unless your justice exceeds that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:20 ). We must conclude that the Scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' time, except for those who believed in Him, would be unable to enter Heaven. They would not be saved because they rejected Him and denied His Divine authority.

In the light of this, we take note of recent words of Benedict XVI to a general audience on June 28, 2006 ( Zenit.org ), in which he speaks of the settlement of a dispute in the early Church between Christians of Jewish origin and those of pagan origin:

"On the one hand, the unbreakable relationship is recognized that links Christianity to the Jewish religion as its perennially living and valid matrix; on the other, Christians of pagan origin are allowed to preserve their own sociological identity, which they would have lost if they had been constrained to observe the so-called Mosaic ceremonial precepts: These now were no longer to be considered obligatory for converted pagans. In essence, a reciprocal praxis of esteem and respect was being initiated, which, notwithstanding subsequent unfortunate misunderstandings, sought by its nature to safeguard all that was characteristic of the two sides."

Can a religion that so adamantly rejects Jesus Christ and condemns Him as an apostate be at the same time the "perennially living and valid matrix" of Christianity? Impossible! Jesus Christ Himself is the one, true and perennially living Matrix out of Whom all true religion flows. A religion which has cut itself off from Him is like a branch cut off from the vine; it has no source of life; it withers and dies. But Jesus made this promise to the woman at the well in Samaria, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. He, however, who drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up unto life everlasting" ( Blessed Apostle Saint John 4:13,14 ).

Perennially living? The Jewish religion was already dead when Jesus Christ offered Himself to the Father, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, with the words: "For this is My Body; For this is the Chalice of My Blood of the new and eternal Covenant, the Mystery of faith, which shall be shed for you and for the many unto the forgiveness of sins" ( Consecration of the Traditional Latin Mass ).

The demise of the Jewish religion occurred because it rejected its Covenant with God, which it effectively did when it rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah. This incurred for the apostate Jews the Covenant curses enumerated in the Book of Leviticus ( Leviticus 26:14-39 ). The terrible consequences of breaking the Covenant are spelled out in Chapter 26, where a series of woes or curses are pronounced by God against the unfaithful: "But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments, if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees…I…will punish you with terrible woes…" ( Leviticus 26:14-16 ). The punishments would become seven times more intense each time the Covenant was broken again: "If then you become defiant in your unwillingness to obey Me, I will multiply My blows another sevenfold, as your sins deserve" ( Leviticus 26:21 ).

God must be true to His word. Although Jesus wept over Jerusalem and its fate, He would invoke the Covenant curses against the Pharisees with extreme severity, beginning each time with the words, "Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 23:13-36 ). ( There are eight woes recorded in Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew's Gospel, but Scripture scholars believe that one of them was not part of the original text). "Amen I say to you," Jesus prophesied, "all these things will come upon this generation" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 23:36 ). In fact, within forty years the words of Jesus were fulfilled when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., amid unimaginable horrors.

Do we have any other evidence that the destruction of Jerusalem was the result of the Covenant curses? Well, we have the testimony of St. John the Apostle, who wrote the Book of the Apocalypse. Considered very difficult to interpret, the Apocalypse is generally understood to be prophetic of the events of the "end times," which may even now be upon us. But even if this is true, some Scripture scholars say it had an earlier fulfillment even before the death of the last Apostle, Blessed Saint John, who authored the book. The Apocalypse tells the story of the punishment of the unfaithful spouse (the earthly Jerusalem) and the purification of the faithful spouse (the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church) to be the Bride of Christ. The punishment is carried out in exact fulfillment of the Covenant curses found in the Book of Leviticus.

As the Covenant curses unfold, seven seals are broken ( Apocalypse 6:7 ), seven trumpets are sounded (Apocalypse 8,9, and 10 ), and seven bowls of wrath are poured out ( Apocalypse 16 ), with horrendous disasters and the utter destruction of the great city "Babylon." "Babylon" is sometimes thought to represent pagan Rome, but it seems unlikely that these were punishments against Rome, since the Romans had no covenant with God and the Covenant curses would not apply to them. The Apocalypse itself, however, identifies the city for us as "the great city, which is called mystically Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified" ( Apocalypse 11:8 ), which is clearly Jerusalem. In the Apocalypse, then, we see depicted the falling of the Covenant curses upon unfaithful Jerusalem, so as to leave in it not "one stone upon another" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 19:44 ).

With all good will towards the Jews, and hope for their eternal salvation, they got sidetracked when they followed their religious leaders into apostasy. Is the same thing happening today to the world's Catholics? Will the Covenant curses now descend upon them? The horror of it, for us, is that the Vatican is now declaring, through its chief representative, that the Catholic Church is linked to the Jewish religion as its "perennially living and valid matrix." Don't believe it! If modern Judaism is the matrix of Vatican Catholicism, then Vatican Catholicism is as dead as its source. But the true Catholic religion finds its source in Jesus Christ, the Source of all grace and life, Who declared: "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last, and he who lives; I was dead, and behold, I am living forevermore…" ( Apocalypse 1:17-18 )

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

OFFERTORY ¤ Psalm 15:7-8

Benedicam Dominum, Qui tribuit mihi intellectum: providebam Deum in comspectu meo semper: quoniam a dextris es mihi, ne commovear.

I will bless the Lord, Who hath given me understanding; I set God always in my sight; for He is at my right hand, that I be not moved..

SECRET

Propitiáre, Dómine, supplicatiónibus nostris: et has oblatiónes famulórum famularúmque tuarum benígnus assúme, ut, quod sínguli obtulérunt ad honórem nominis tui, cunctis profíciat ad salútem. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Filium Tuum, Qui Tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Secret For The Intercession Of The Saints
Exaudi nos Deus salutáris noster: ut per hujus sacraménti virtútem, a cunctis nos mentis et córporis hóstibus tueáris, grátiam tríbuens in præsénti, et glóriam in futuro. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen..

Secret For God's Holy Church
Prótege nos, Dómine, tuis mystériis serviéntes: ut divínis rebus inhæréntes, et córpore tibi famulémur et mente. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

Be merciful, O Lord, to our humble pleading: and favorably receive these offerings of Thy servants and handmaidens, that what each of us has offered to the honor of Thy Name, may profit us all unto salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God Forever and ever. Amen.

Secret For The Intercession Of The Saints
Graciously hear us, O Heavenly Father, and, by virtue of this Sacrament, defend us from all enemies of soul and body, bestowing upon us Thy grace here and Thy glory hereafter. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

Secret For God's Holy Church
Protect us, O Lord, who assist at Thy mysteries, that, cleaving to things divine, we may serve Thee both in body and in mind. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

PREFACE OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare, nos tibi semper, et ubique gratias agere: Domine sancta, Pater omnipotens, aeterne Deus. Qui cum unigenito Filio: tuo et Spiritu Sancto, unus es Deus, unus es Dominus: non in uninus singularitate personae, sed in unius Trinitae substantiae. Quo denim de tua Gloria, revelante te, credimus, hoc de Filio tuo, hod de Spiritu Sancto, sine differentia discretionis sentimus. Ut in confessione verare, sempitiernaeque Deitatis, et in personis proprietas, et in essential unitas, et in majestate adoretur aequalitas. Quam laudant Angeli atque Archangeli, Cherubim, quoque ac Seraphim: qui non cessant clamare quotodie, una voce dicentes: SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS...

It is 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, together with Thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, are one God, one Lord: not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe by Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same do we believe of Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, distinction in persons, unity in essence, and equality in majesty may be adored. Which the Angels and Archangels, the Cherubim also and Seraphim do praise: who cease not daily to cry out with one voice saying: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY...

COMMUNION ¤ Psalm 24:4

Unam pétii a Dómino, hanc requíram: ut inhábitem in domo Dómini ómnibus diébus vitæ meæ.

One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

POSTCOMMUNION

Quos cælésti, Dómine, dono satiásti: præsta, quæsumus; ut a nostris mundémur occúltis, et ab hóstium liberémur insídiis. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Postcommunion For The Intercession Of The Saints
Mundet et múniat nos quáesumus Dómine dívini sacraménti munus oblátum: et intercedénte beáta Vírgine Dei Genitríce María, cum beáto Joseph, beátis Apóstolis tuis Petro et Paulo, et ómnibus Sanctis; a cunctis nos reddat et pervérsitátibus expiátos, et advérsitátibus expedítos. Per eúmdem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fiiium tuum: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spíritus Sancti, Deus. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Postcommunion For God's Holy Church
Quæsumus, Dómine Deus noster, ut quos divína tribuis participatióne gaudére, humánis non sinas subjacére perículis. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fiiium tuum: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spíritus Sancti, Deus. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

May the Mysteries which we have received, we beseech Thee, O Lord, purify us, and by their virtue defend us. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God. For ever and ever. Amen.

Postcommunion For The Intercession Of The Saints
May the gift of this Divine Sacrament which we have offered, cleanse us and defend us, we beseech Thee, O Lord; and through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, of St. Joseph, of Thy holy apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, free us from all iniquity and deliver us from all adversity. Through the Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God. Forever and ever. Amen.

Postcommunion For God's Holy Church
O Lord our God, we pray Thee that Thou suffer not to succumb to human hazards those whom Thou hast been pleased to make sharers of divine mysteries. Through the Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God. Forever and ever. Amen.

† - Holy Queen of Heaven and Earth, pray for us. - †