Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
(From the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany)
Commemoration
of
St. Didacus
Semi-double Green vestments
Missa ‘Dicit Dominus’
Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
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.
St. Didacus, Confessor
Didacus was born c. 1400 into a poor but
pious family in the small village of San Nicolás del Puerto in the Kingdom of
Seville. His parents gave him the name of Diego, a derivative of Santiago (St.
James), the patron saint of Spain. As a child, he embraced the hermit life and,
later, placed himself under the direction of a hermit priest living not far
from his native town. He then led the life of a wandering hermit. Feeling
called to the religious life, he applied for admission to the Observant (or
Reformed) branch of the Order of Friars Minor at the friary in Albaida and was
sent to the friary in Arruzafa, near Córdoba, where he was received as a lay
brother.
During his years living in that
location, he journeyed to the villages in the regions surrounding Córdoba,
Cádiz and Seville, where he would preach to the people. A strong devotion to
him still exists in those towns.
In 1450, Diego was recalled to Spain,
from which he went to Rome to be share in the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope
Nicholas V, and to be present at the canonization of Bernardine of Siena in
1450. In addition to the vast crowds of pilgrims arriving in Rome for Jubilee
Year, thousands of friars had headed to Rome to take part in the celebration of
one of the pillars of their Order. These travelers brought with them various
infections, which broke out into an epidemic in the city. Didacus spent three
months caring for the sick at the friary attached to the Basilica of Santa
Maria in Ara Coeli; and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom
he attended, through his pious intercession. He was then recalled again to
Spain and was sent by his superiors to the Friary of Santa María de Jesús in
Alcalá, where he spent the remaining years of his life in penance, solitude,
and the delights of contemplation. There he died on 12 November 1463 due to an
abscess. It was said that it amazed everyone that instead of a foul odor,
fragrance emitted from his infection. His body was also rumored to have
remained incorrupt, did not undergo rigor mortis and continued to emit a pleasant
odor.
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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. 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
St.
Didacus, Confessor
Almighty, eternal God, Who, in Thy
wonderful providence, dost choose the weak things of the world to confound the
strong: mercifully grant unto our lowliness that, by the prayers of blessed
Didacus, Thy Confessor. 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.
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.
Secret
St. Didacus, Confessor
Grant us, we beseech Thee, almighty God,
that the offering our humility may be pleasing to Thee in honour of Thy Saints,
and purify us alike in body and soul. Through Our 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
St. Didacus, Confessor
We beseech Thee, almighty God, that we
who have received Heavenly food may, through the intercession of blessed Didacus,
Thy Confessor, be protected by it from all harm. Through our Lord.
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