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The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety: Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, and Solid Instructions, Adapted to Every State of Life. To Which is Annexed a Supplement, Containing Excellent and Approved Devotions, With the Epistles and Gospels for All the Sundays and Festivals of the Year.Gahan, William

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The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety: Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, and Solid Instructions, Adapted to Every State of Life. To Which is Annexed a Supplement, Containing Excellent and Approved Devotions, With the Epistles and Gospels for All the Sundays and Festivals of the Year.

Name: The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety: Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, and Solid Instructions, Adapted to Every State of Life. To Which is Annexed a Supplement, Containing Excellent and Approved Devotions, With the Epistles and Gospels for All the Sundays and Festivals of the Year.
Author: Gahan, William

Gahan, William

Catholic Church -- Liturgy; Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- English

How wonderful, O Lord, is thy name throughout the whole earth: I
will bless our Lord at all times; his praise shall be always in
my mouth. Be thou my God and my protector. In thee alone will I
put my trust; O let me never be confounded.


            The Prayer Before The Gospel.

Cleanse my heart and my lips, O almighty God, who didst cleanse
the lips of the prophet Isaiah with a burning coal; and
vouchsafe, through thy gracious mercy, so to purify me, that I
may worthily attend to thy holy gospel: through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Bless me, O Lord.

May the Lord be in my heart, and on my lips, that I may worthily
and in a becoming manner, attend to his holy gospel. Amen.

P. Dominus vobiscum:

  P. The Lord be with you:

R. Et cum spiritu tuo,

  R. And with thy spirit.

P. Sequentia [_vel_ initium] sancti Evangelii secundum, &c.

  P. The continuation [_or_ the beginning] of the holy
  Gospel according to St. &o.

R. Gloria tibi, Domine.

  R. Glory be to thee,  O Lord.

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  Whilst the Priest reads the Gospel of the day, [Footnote 3] the
  following prayer may be said:

    [Footnote 3: See Gospels and Epistles for all Sundays and
    festivals, pp. 388-481.]

It is not thy interpreters, O God, who are now to instruct me; it
is thy only Son; it is his word I am about to hear. I most
gratefully embrace this heavenly doctrine. I _stand up_ to
declare in the face of heaven and earth, that I will walk
faithfully in that way which he hath marked out for me. He tells
me here, "that it will avail a man nothing to gain the whole
world, if he lose his own soul; that the sensual, the covetous,
the worldling, the libertine, the detractor, and such as are
insensible to the miseries of the poor, shall have no share in
his heavenly kingdom; and that in order to become his disciple, I
must take up my cross and follow him." I receive with my whole
heart all these sacred maxims. Grant me the grace to put them in
practice; for to what purpose should I declare myself thy
disciple, if I were not to live according to the maxims of thy
gospel?


  At the end of the Gospel, the Clerk answers,

R. Laus tibi Christe.

  R. Praise be to thee, O Christ.


  Then say with the Priest, in a low voice, "May our sins be
  blotted out by the words of the Gospel."


             The Nicene Creed.

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem cœli et terrae,
visibilium omnium et invisibilium.

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