Welcome to the Latin Mass illuminated.
Today we listen to the readings for the 14th Sunday after pentecost. In this year of Our Lord 2025 it falls on the 14TH SEPTEMBER
Welcome to the Latin Mass illuminated.
Today we listen to the readings for the 14 th Sunday after pentecost. And the exaltation of the Holy Cross.
IN this year of Our Lord 2025 it falls on the fourteenth of SEPTEMBER.
To day we learn form the Gospel that Christian people should attend to their temporal interests without exaggerated preoccupation for such anxiety offense God who is our father in heaven.
We cannot serve two masters the flesh and the spirit at the same time
But let us serve the spirit given to us by the Holy Ghost who inclined us to supernatural life
Before we listen to the readings lets be ready to meditate on the theme Holy Mother Church presents to us in celebration of this day.
The Liturgy shows us that by faith we put all our hope in Jesus, for He is our refuge; and we ask for the virtue of charity, which makes us lovers of the divine law and practisers of it.
Let us pray for an increase of faith, hope and charity.
Now we will listen to The Propers of the Mass red for us beginning with the Introit
Introit
Behold or God our Proctor and look on the face of thy Christ for better is one day in thy courts above thousands.
How lovely are they Tabernacles oh Lord of hosts. My soul longeth and Fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
Callect
Keep we beseech the oh Lord thy church with thy perpetual mercy and because without thee the frailty of man is want to fall, save it ever by dying aid from all things hurtful, and lead it to all things profitable to salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ. amen
Epistle
Galatians chapter five verses sixteen to twenty-four
Brethren: Walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh : for these are contrary one to another : so that you do not the things that you would.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envy, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which
I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do
such things, shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity,
goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency,
chastity.
Against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ’s, have crucified their flesh with the vices and concupiscences. Amen.
Father Goofine ads a prayer or ASPIRATION.
Intercede for me, Oh St. Paul, that God may give me the grace to crucify my flesh together with its lusts, and thus I may have part with thee in Christ.
Referring to the Epistle Fr Leonard Goofing asks us to consider: What is it to walk in the spirit?
It is to obey the inspirations of the Holy Ghost always and in
all things. He who does this, says St. Paul, will not do the evil
works of the flesh, which are here enumerated, but he will rather
suppress and mortify all sensual desires,
in this manner crucify his flesh together with its vices and lusts, and make himself worthy of the fruits of the Holy Ghost, which are likewise here enumerated;
he will belong to Christ, and assure himself of his eternal happiness.
On the contrary, he who lives according to the flesh, that is, gives way to the desires of the flesh and commits the things here described, has no hope of salvation.
It is strange, that all Christians wish to belong to Christ and
become heirs of His kingdom, but few wish to crucify the flesh and its lusts, though Christ says to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself (battle with his evil inclinations), and take up his cross and follow me. Matthew sixteen verse twenty-four
Gradual
It is good to confide in the Lord rather than to have confidence in man. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princess.
Hallelujah hallelujah
Come let us praise the Lord with joy, let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Hallelujah
GOSPEL. Matthew chapter six verses twenty-four to thirty-three
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat, and the body more than the raiment ?
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you, by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit ?
And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
And if the grass of the field, which is to-day and to-morrow
is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe, how much more
you, Oh ye of little faith?
Be not solicitous therefore, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all
these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and
his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. Amen
And for the meditation Father Gadding asks us:
What is meant by serving God?
It means to do the will of God, or to perform all that God
asks of us in our age and condition, faithfully and zealously for
love of Him.
Who are the two masters, whom we cannot serve alike ?
God and mammon, or riches, whereby also the other goods
and pleasures of the world are understood.
These we cannot serve at the same time, because they command things diametrically opposed to each other; for instance, God prohibits usury, theft, deceit; the desire for wealth impels to them.
God. commands,
that we should keep holy Sundays and Holidays, and spend them in His service; the desire for riches tempts man to omit religious worship and to seek temporal gain ; it makes man restless in the
Church, so that he is only present with his body, but with the heart he remains with his temporal goods and business.
To whom can riches be useful?
To those who like so many saints perform works of mercy with them, and thus lay up a treasure for themselves in heaven.
Why does Christ call our attention to the birds of the air and the
lilies of the field?
In order to excite in us confidence in the providence of God,
which preserves even the birds and the flowers. Surely, if God
feeds the young ravens which cry to Him if He nourishes the birds which neither sow, nor reap, nor gather in barns, if He vests the flowers of the field so beautifully: how much more will He care for men, whom He has made to His own image and likeness, and whom He has made His children, if they only act as His children, keep His commandments, and always entertain a filial confidence in Him.
Should we, therefore, lay aside all care and never work?
This does not follow from what has been said. Christ only
condemns the superfluous cares, which cause man to forget God
and to neglect the salvation of his soul. Besides, God has Him-
self ordered, that man should eat the fruits of the earth with much labor, that he should earn his bread with the sweat of his brow, and St. Paul says: If any man will not work, neither let him eat.
What can take away superfluous cares ?
A firm and living faith, that God can and will help us. That He can do it, is evident, because He is almighty ; that He will do it, is certain, because He promises it in so many passages of holy Writ, and because He is infinitely faithful in all His promises.
Christ encourages us to this lively confidence with these words :
All things whatsoever you ask when ye pray, believe that you shall receive them, and they shall come unto you.
Therefore the apostle also commands us to throw all cares upon the Lord, who cares for us.
And why should God not care for us, since He sent us His Son and with Him all; for which reason St. Augustine says: “How can you doubt, that God will give you good things, since He vouchsafed to assume evil for you !”
PRAYER. 0 Lord Jesus! give me a firm confidence in
Thy Divine Providence, and increase it daily in me, that I
may confidently believe in all my concerns, that if I above
all seek the kingdom of God and His justice, the rest shall
be added unto me.
Offertory
psalm thirty three, versus eight and nine
The angel of the Lord shall camp around about them that fear him and shall deliver them or taste and see that the Lord is sweet!
Secret Prayer
Grant onto us we beseech the oh Lord that this saving victim may both be the cleansing of our sins and the appeasing of thy might through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
Preface:
The preface today is the preface of the Holy Trinity
It is truly meat and just right and for our salvation that we should at all times and in all places give thanks onto thee oh holy Lord father Almighty everlasting God who together with the only begotten son and the Holy Ghost art one God one Lord not in the oneness of a single person but in the Trinity of one substance.
For what we believe by the revelation of the glory the same do we believe of the son the same of the Holy Ghost without difference or separation
So that in confessing the true and everlasting God head distinction in persons unity in essence and equality in Majesty may be adored.
Which the angels and archangels the cherubim and Seraphim do praise who says not daily to cry out with one voice saying holy holy holy.
Communion Antiphon
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added onto you sayth the Lord. Amen
Postcommunion Prayer