St. Jerome
Jerome, born in Dalmatia,
A.D. 329, was sent to school at Rome. His boyhood was not free from fault. His
thirst for knowledge was excessive, and his love of books a passion. He had
studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities, and devoted himself to
the pursuit of science. But Christ had need of his strong will and active
intellect for the service of His Church. St. Jerome felt and obeyed the call,
made a vow of celibacy, fled from Rome to solitude, penance, and prayer a new
lesson of divine wisdom. This was his novitiate. The Pope soon summoned him to
Rome, and there put upon the now famous Hebrew scholar the task of revising the
Latin Bible, which was to be his noblest work. Retiring thence to his beloved
Bethlehem, the eloquent hermit poured forth from his solitary cell for thirty
years a stream of luminous writings upon the Christian world.
St. Jerome
Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Double - White Vestments
Missa “In medio Ecclesiae”
INTROITUS
In medio Ecclesiae aperuit
os ejus: et implevit eum Dominus epiritu sapientiae, et intellectus: stolam
gloriae induit eum. Ps. 91: 2 Bonum est confiteri Domino: et psallere nomini tuo,
Altissime. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancti sicut erat in principio
et nunc, et semper, et saecula saeculorum. Amen.
INTROIT: Ps. 36: 30, 31
In the midst of the Church
the Lord opened his mouth: and filled him with the spirit of wisdom and
understanding: He clothed him with a robe of glory. Ps.
91: 2 It is good to give praise
to the Lord: and to sing to Thy Name, O Most High. 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. Amen.
COLLECT
O God, Who didst vouchsafe
to provide for Thy Church blessed Jerome, Thy confessor, a great Doctor for the
expounding of the Sacred Scriptures, grant, we beseech Thee, that through his
merits we may be enabled, by Thine assistance, to practise what both by word
and deed he hath taught us. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth
and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without
end. Amen.
EPISTLE: 2 Timothy 4: 1-8
Lesson from the Epistle of
blessed Paul the Apostle to Timothy
Dearly beloved, I charge
thee before God and Jesus Christ, Who shall judge the living and the dead, by
His coming, and His Kingdom. Preach the word: be instant in season: reprove,
entreat, rebuke in all patience, and doctrine. For there shall be a time, when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but according to their own desires they
will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and will indeed turn
away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou
vigilant, labor in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy
ministry. Be sober. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed; and the time of
my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the Faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown
of justice, which the Lord, the just Judge, will render to me in that day; and
not only to me, but to them also that love His coming.
GRADUAL:
Psalm 36: 30-31
The mouth of the just man
shall meditate wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment. The law of his
God is in his heart; and his steps shall not be supplanted.
ALLELUIA: Ecclus.
45: 9
Alleluia, alleluia. The
Lord loved him and adorned him: he clothed with a robe of glory. Alleluia.
GOSPEL: Matthew 5: 13-19
At that time, Jesus said to
His disciples,“You are the salt of the earth: but if the
salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any
more but to be cast out, and to be trodden by men. You are the light of the
world. A city seated on a mountain can not be hid. Neither do men light a
candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to
all that are in the house; so let your light shine before men, that they may
see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven. Do not think
that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy,
but to fulfill. For, amen I say unto you, till Heaven and earth pass, one jot
or one tittle shall not pass of the law till all be fulfilled. He therefore
that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall
be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven: but he that shall do and teach,
he shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven.”
OFFERTORY: Psalm 88: 25
My truth and My mercy shall
be with him: and in My name shall his horn be exalted.
SECRET
By Thy heavenly gifts, O
Lord, grant us, we pray, to serve Thee with untrammeled minds, that the
offerings we bring may, by the intercession of blessed Jerome, Thy confessor,
effect our healing and our glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God.
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
Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria Tua. Hosanna in
excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.
COMMUNION: Luke 12: 42
A faithful and wise
steward, whom the Lord set over His family; to give them their measure of wheat
in due season.
POSTCOMMUNION
Filled with Heavenly
nourishment, we pray Thee, O Lord, that by the intercession of blessed Jerome,
Thy confessor, we may be found worthy to obtain the favor of Thy mercy. Through
our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity
of the Holy Ghost, one God.
