St. Albert the Great – Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of
the Church
Albertus Magnus, O.P. (1207-1280), also known as
Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne. He was a German Dominican friar and a
Catholic bishop. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and
doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his
name.
Biography
Albert was probably educated principally at the
University of Padua, where he received instruction in Aristotle's writings. A
late account by Rudolph de Novamagia refers to Albertus' encounter with the
Blessed Virgin Mary, who convinced him to enter Holy Orders. In 1223 (or 1229)
he became a member of the Dominican Order, and studied theology at Bologna and
elsewhere. Selected to fill the position of lecturer at Cologne, Germany, where
the Dominicans had a house, he taught for several years there, and at
Regensburg, Freiburg, Strasbourg, and Hildesheim. During his first tenure as
lecturer at Cologne, Albert wrote his Summa de bono after discussion with
Philip the Chancellor concerning the transcendental properties of being. In
1245, Albert became master of theology under Gueric of Saint-Quentin, the first
German Dominican to achieve this distinction. Following this turn of events,
Albert was able to teach theology at the University of Paris as a full-time
professor, holding the seat of the Chair of Theology at the College of St.
James. During this time Thomas Aquinas began to study under Albertus.
In 1254 Albert was made provincial of the Dominican
Order, and fulfilled the duties of the office with great care and efficiency.
During his tenure he publicly defended the Dominicans against attacks by the
secular and regular faculty of the University of Paris, commented on St. John,
and answered what he perceived as errors of the Islamic philosopher Averroes.
In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him bishop of Regensburg,
an office from which he resigned after three years. During the exercise of his
duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horse, in
accord with the dictates of the Order, instead traversing his huge diocese on
foot. This earned him the affectionate sobriquet "boots the bishop"
from his parishioners. In 1263 Pope Urban IV relieved him of the duties of
bishop and asked him to preach the eighth Crusade in German-speaking countries.
After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between
conflicting parties. In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of
Germany's oldest university there, but also for "the big verdict"
(der Große Schied) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the
citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.
After suffering a collapse of health in 1278, he died
on November 15, 1280, in the Dominican convent in Cologne, Germany. Since
November 15, 1954, his relics are in a Roman sarcophagus in the crypt of the
Dominican St. Andreas Church in Cologne. Although his body was discovered to be
incorrupt at the first exhumation three years after his death, at the
exhumation in 1483 only a skeleton remained.
Albert was beatified in 1622. He was canonized and
proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on December 16, 1931, by Pope Pius XI and the
patron saint of natural scientists in 1941.
SECOND LAST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Twenty Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
(From the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany)
Easter being variable, the number of
Sundays from Pentecost, to the first Sunday of Advent is, of course, variable
also; but there cannot be less than twenty-three, nor more than twenty-eight.
The Mass for the Last Sunday: after Pentecost is always said on the Sunday
preceding Advent. If there are more than twenty-four Sundays after Pentecost,
the Introit, Gradual, and Communion of the twenty-third Sunday are repeated on
all the remaining Sundays. But the Prayers, the Epistle and the Gospel are
taken from the Masses of the Sundays omitted after the Epiphany.
Commemoration
for St. Albert the Great
Semi-Double/Green
Missa ‘Dicit Dominus’
INTROIT - Jer. 29: 11, 12, 14
Dicit Dóminus: Ego cógito
cogitatiónes pacis, et non afflictiónis: invocábitis me, et ego exáudiam vos:
et redúcam captivitátem vestram de cunctis locis. Ps. 84: 2 Benedixísti,
Dómine, terram tuam: avertísti captivitátem Jacob.
V. Gloria Patri.
The Lord saith: I think thoughts of
peace, and not of affliction: you shall call upon Me, and I will hear you; and
I will bring back your captivity from all places. Ps. Lord, Thou
hast blessed Thy land: Thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. V. Glory
be to the Father.
COLLECT
Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty
God, that thinking everything over in our minds, we may accomplish, both in
words and works, that which is pleasing in Thy sight. Through our Lord.
COLLECT – Commemoration for St. Albert the Great
O God, who to subject human wisdom
to divine faith hast made great Thy Bishop and Doctor blessed Albert: grant us,
we beseech Thee, so to follow in the path of his teaching as to enjoy perfect
light in Heaven. Through our Lord.
EPISTLE – I Thess. 1, 2-10
Brethren: We give thanks to God
always for you all, making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,
being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity, and of the
enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father:
knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election: for our Gospel hath not been
unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much
fullness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.
And you became followers of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much
tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost: so that you were made a pattern to all
that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you was spread abroad the
word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place
your faith, which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak
any thing. For they themselves relate of us what manner of entering in we had
unto you; and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true
God, and to wait for His Son from heaven (whom He raised up from the dead),
Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.
GRADUAL - Psalm 43: 8-9
Thou hast delivered us, O Lord,
from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us. V. In God we will glory all the day:
and in Thy name we will give praise for ever.
ALLELUIA - Psalm 129: 1-2
Alleluia, alleluia. V. From
the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my prayer. Alleluia.
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
GOSPEL - Matthew 13: 31-35
At that time Jesus spoke to the
multitudes this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took and sowed in his field: which is the least indeed of all seeds: but when
it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs and becometh a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and dwell in the branches thereof. Another
parable He spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in
three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without
parables He did not speak to them: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by the Prophet, saying: I will open my
mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
OFFERTORY Psalm 129: 1-2
From the depths I have cried out to
Thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my prayer: from the depths I have cried out to Thee, O
Lord.
SECRET
May this offering, O God, we
beseech Thee, cleanse and renew us, guide and protect us. Through our Lord.
St. Albert the Great was the mentor of St. Thomas Aquinas.
SECRET - Commemoration for St. Albert the Great
Mercifully regard this our
sacrifice, O Lord, that what we offer up in the mystery of the Passion of Thy
Son our Lord, we may, through the intercession and example of blessed Albert,
receive with pious affection. Through the same Lord.
PREFACE OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
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:
SANCTUS
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus,
Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis.
Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.
COMMUNION - Mark 11: 24
Amen I say to you, whatsoever you
ask when you pray, believe that you shall receive, and it shall be done to you.
POSTCOMMUNION
We have been fed, O Lord, with
heavenly delights, and beseech Thee, that we may ever hunger after those things
by which we truly live. Through our Lord.
POSTCOMMUNION - Commemoration for St. Albert the Great
Through this holy nourishment which
we have consumed, defend us, O Lord, from the onslaughts of our enemies, and
grant that through the prayers of blessed Albert, Thy Confessor and Bishop, we
may be gladdened by perpetual peace. Through our Lord.
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