St. Joseph Calasanctius - Mass Propers

                 St. Joseph Calasanctius

        Confessor and Religious Founder

St. Joseph Calasanctius was born in Aragon in 1556. Having become a priest it was revealed to him that he should teach the children of the poor. He founded the Order of the Poor Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools of the Mother of God. He was ever a devout pilgrim at the shrines of the martyrs, and daily visited the seven Churches of Rome, where he lived for fifty years. He died August 25, 1648.

From the Liturgical Year, Dom Gueranger, O.S.B.

You will be the helper of the fatherless; it is that the poor have been left. This word that already had seen the beautiful Venice performed in the person of his noble son Jerome Emilian today fixed the sanctity of another famous person counting among his ancestors the first princes of Navarre, but became more of a lineage strain high in the realm of charity.

God watering the shrubs of the plain as the cedars of Lebanon, because he has all planted neglects point either passerines nor gather into barns: he forget the child, which is better than the birds of the air? Or, nourishing his body, he neglects in his soul which is more, the hungry for the bread of the science of salvation that strengthens the heart of man soul? Alas! In the sixteenth century, who rose to such ruin, it seemed as if the old family man reserves were exhausted. Wonderful probably manifested soon revenge of the Spirit who makes the Saints, who raises the dead by them; but abandoned the resurgent charity which could not suffice, in his zeal too overwhelmed by the thousands of care in the first hour! How many children of all, unlike schools where only the rich had entered, demanded food from the most elementary, the most indispensable to their obligations, their nobility as a son of God, and no one might present to break their bread intelligence!

Happier than many other nations where heresy undermined all social forces, Spain, at its peak, had the hundredfold promised to anyone looking for first the kingdom of God. For a moment she seemed to become the inexhaustible resource of the Lord lately, it was Ignatius she gave to the world; it comes through the precious death of Teresa of Avila, to enrich the sky; today, it is still in abundance that the Spirit uses to raise the opulence of the capital of the Christian world, and provide, under the eyes of the Church mistress and mother, the needs of the humblest of the extended family.

The descendant of Calasanz of Peralta de la Sal, the apostle which the people of Aragon, Catalonia and Castile prepare the highest offices in their grateful admiration, hears ringing in the ear of his soul a mysterious voice: Go to Rome; leave the land of your birth; soon you will appear in the beauty of the heavens which is the companion for you, holy poverty, calling you at this hour to the austere delight of his covenant; will, without knowing the road leads you where I; I will make you the father of a great posterity; I will show you everything he must suffer for my name.

Joseph understood the dignity of his mission as recommended by the holy Doctor during fifty-two years he must live again, nothing will seem to him contemptible or vile in serving the least of this world; nothing will cost him to get by teaching elements of letters, to infuse the children who come to him without fear of the Lord number. Soon, St. Pantaleon, his residence, magpies Schools cover all Italy: and from the sea and the mountains, they spread through Sicily, Spain, while kings and peoples argue they are too few in Moravia, Bohemia, Poland and the Nordic countries.

This is also the historical feast of the Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are the Annunciation, the Nativity of Christ, Epiphany, the Resurrection, the Ascension, Pentecost and Mary’s Coronation as Queen of Heaven and earth. You’ll note how the first two correlate with the Joyful Mysteries and four comprise the Glorious Mysteries. This originated with the Franciscans and balance the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Mass Propers - St. Joseph Calasanctius

Thursday in the Thirteenth Week after Pentecost

Double/ White                              

Missa “Veníte”

INTROIT: Psalm 33:12

Come, children, harken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. (Ps. 33: 2) I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall be ever in my mouth. 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.

COLLECT

O God, who for the teaching of youth in the spirit of understanding and godliness didst through thy blessed Confessor Saint Joseph vouchsafe to provide thy Church with a new succour: grant, we pray thee; that by his example and intercession we may learn so to do and to teach, that we may be found worthy to attain to the reward of everlasting felicity.  Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

EPISTLE - Ecclesiasticus 31: 10-14

Lesson from the Book of Wisdom

The Lord conducted the just through the right ways, and showed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things; made him honorable in his labors, and accomplished his labors. In the deceit of them that overreached him, He stood by him, and made him honorable. He kept him safe from his enemies, and defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit, and in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him; and showed them to be liars that had accused him: and the Lord our God gave him everlasting glory.

GRADUAL - Psalm 36: 30-31

The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue will be talking of judgment.

The law of his God is in his heart, and his goings shall not slide.

ALLELUIA - James 1: 12

Alleluia, alleluia.  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he hath been proven, he shall receive the crown of life.  Alleluia.

Unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

GOSPEL - Matthew 18: 1-5

At that time, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who, thinkest Thou, is the greater in the kingdom of Heaven?” And Jesus calling unto Him a little child, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of Heaven; and he that shall receive one such little child in My name, receiveth Me.”

OFFERTORY - Psalm 9: 17

The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: Thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.

SECRET

We heap Thine altar, O Lord, with gifts offered to Thee, that they may be made effectual for mercy by his supplication by whose patronage Thou hast granted us to be assisted. 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  Common Preface

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: through Christ our Lord. Through Whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the Heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with them we entreat Thee, that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted, while we say in lowly praise:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dóminus Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

COMMUNION - Mark 10:14

Suffer little children to come to Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.

POSTCOMMUNION

Sanctified by the mystery of salvation, O Lord, we pray that, by the intercession of St. Joseph, Thy confessor, we may ever progress to a greater increase of piety. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, For ever and ever. R. Amen.

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