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12th Sunday after Pentecost

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12th Sunday after Pentecost


Today is the 12th Sunday after Pentecost according to the traditional (1962) Roman calendar. The arrangement of Sundays after Pentecost belongs to the Temporal Cycle, the core structure of the Church’s year rooted in the mysteries of Christ’s life, particularly focusing on how the Holy Spirit works in the Church and in souls since the first Pentecost. The liturgical season after Pentecost is marked by its green color, symbolizing hope, faith, and spiritual growth, inviting the faithful to live out the fruits of the Holy Spirit in daily life. On this Sunday, the Church draws attention through her prayers and readings (assigned in the Missal but not given here) to the theme of Divine grace, mercy, and the call to practical charity in Christian living, often referencing the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospel. This Sunday does not commemorate a saint, but rather continues the journey of sanctification begun at Pentecost, as Christians are exhorted to persevere in virtue, guided and strengthened by the Sacraments and the teaching of the Church. The traditional Roman calendar keeps these numbered Sundays to sustain the faithful in the journey of the liturgical year, fostering a rhythm of conversion and deepening relationship with God between the cycle of feasts. While the specific texts and prayers vary by year, the overall purpose is to call hearts again to the core mysteries of salvation and to the life of grace.

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IntroitPs 69:2-3

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Ps 69:2-3
Deus, in adiutórium meum inténde: Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína: confundántur et revereántur inimíci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam.
Ps 69:4
Avertántur retrórsum et erubéscant: qui cógitant mihi mala.
℣. Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
℟. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Deus, in adiutórium meum inténde: Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína: confundántur et revereántur inimíci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam.

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Ps 69:2-3
Deign, O God, to rescue me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my life.
Ps 69:4
Let them be turned back in disgrace, who desire my ruin.
℣. 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.
Deign, O God, to rescue me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my life.
Collect

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Orémus.
Omnípotens et miséricors Deus, de cuius múnere venit, ut tibi a fidélibus tuis digne et laudabíliter serviátur: tríbue, quǽsumus, nobis; ut ad promissiónes tuas sine offensióne currámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

Orémus.
Commemoratio S. Ioachim Confessoris, Patris B. M. V.
Deus, qui præ ómnibus Sanctis tuis beátum Ióachim Genetrícis Fílii tui patrem esse voluísti: concéde, quǽsumus; ut, cuius festa venerámur, eius quoque perpétuo patrocínia sentiámus.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

English

Let us pray.
Almighty and merciful God, by Whose grace Your faithful people serve You worthily and righteously, grant, we beseech You, that we may hasten without stumbling to those things You have promised us.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration St. Joachim, Confessor, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary
O God, Who, in preference to Your other Saints, willed St. Joachim to be the father of Your Son’s Mother; grant, we beseech You, that we may ever enjoy the spiritual help of him whose feast we celebrate.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
Lesson2 Cor 3:4-9

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Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Corínthios
2 Cor 3:4-9
Fratres: Fidúciam talem habémus per Christum ad Deum: non quod sufficiéntes simus cogitáre áliquid a nobis, quasi ex nobis: sed sufficiéntia nostra ex Deo est: qui et idóneos nos fecit minístros novi testaménti: non líttera, sed spíritu: líttera enim occídit, spíritus autem vivíficat. Quod si ministrátio mortis, lítteris deformáta in lapídibus, fuit in glória; ita ut non possent inténdere fili Israël in fáciem Moysi, propter glóriam vultus eius, quæ evacuátur: quómodo non magis ministrátio Spíritus erit in glória? Nam si ministrátio damnatiónis glória est multo magis abúndat ministérium iustítiæ in glória.
℟. Deo grátias.

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Lesson from the second letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
2 Cor. 3:4-9
Brethren: Such is the assurance I have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God. He also it is Who has made us fit ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. Now if the ministration of death, which was engraved in letters upon stones, was inaugurated in such glory that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses on account of the transient glory that shone upon it, shall not the ministration of the spirit be still more glorious? For if there is glory in the ministration that condemned, much more does the ministration that justifies abound in glory.
℟. Thanks be to God.
GradualPs 33:2-3

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Ps 33:2-3
Benedícam Dóminum in omni témpore: semper laus eius in ore meo.
℣. In Dómino laudábitur ánima mea: áudiant mansuéti, et læténtur. Allelúia, allelúia
Ps 87:2
Dómine, Deus salútis meæ, in die clamávi et nocte coram te. Allelúia.

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Ps 33:2-3
I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be ever in my mouth.
℣. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear and be glad. Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps 87:2
O Lord, the God of my salvation, by day I cry out, at night I clamor in Your presence. Alleluia.
GospelLuc 10:23-37

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Sequéntia + sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam
℟. Glória tibi, Dómine.
Luc 10:23-37
In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus discípulis suis: Beáti óculi, qui vident quæ vos videtis. Dico enim vobis, quod multi prophétæ et reges voluérunt vidére quæ vos videtis, et non vidérunt: et audire quæ audítis, et non audiérunt. Et ecce, quidam legisperítus surréxit, tentans illum, et dicens: Magister, quid faciéndo vitam ætérnam possidébo? At ille dixit ad eum: In lege quid scriptum est? quómodo legis? Ille respóndens, dixit: Díliges Dóminum, Deum tuum, ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota ánima tua, et ex ómnibus víribus tuis; et ex omni mente tua: et próximum tuum sicut teípsum. Dixítque illi: Recte respondísti: hoc fac, et vives. Ille autem volens iustificáre seípsum, dixit ad Iesum: Et quis est meus próximus? Suscípiens autem Iesus, dixit: Homo quidam descendébat ab Ierúsalem in Iéricho, et íncidit in latrónes, qui étiam despoliavérunt eum: et plagis impósitis abiérunt, semivívo relícto. Accidit autem, ut sacerdos quidam descénderet eádem via: et viso illo præterívit. Simíliter et levíta, cum esset secus locum et vidéret eum, pertránsiit. Samaritánus autem quidam iter fáciens, venit secus eum: et videns eum, misericórdia motus est. Et apprópians, alligávit vulnera eius, infúndens óleum et vinum: et impónens illum in iuméntum suum, duxit in stábulum, et curam eius egit. Et áltera die prótulit duos denários et dedit stabulário, et ait: Curam illíus habe: et quodcúmque supererogáveris, ego cum redíero, reddam tibi. Quis horum trium vidétur tibi próximus fuísse illi, qui íncidit in latrónes? At ille dixit: Qui fecit misericórdiam in illum. Et ait illi Iesus: Vade, et tu fac simíliter.

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Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke
℟. Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
Luke 10:23-37
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I say to you, many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, and they have not heard it. And behold, a certain lawyer got up to test Him, saying, Master, what must I do to gain eternal life? But He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read? He answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole strength, and with your whole mind; and your neighbor as yourself. And He said to him, You have answered rightly; do this and you shall live. But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? Jesus answered and said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell in with robbers, who after both stripping him and beating him went their way, leaving him half-dead. But, as it happened, a certain priest was going down the same way; and when he saw him, he passed by. And likewise a Levite also, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by. But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came upon him, and seeing him, was moved with compassion. And he went up to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And setting him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I, on my way back, will repay you.’ Which of these three, in your opinion, proved himself neighbor to him who fell among the robbers? And he said, He who took pity on him. And Jesus said to him, Go and do also in like manner.
OffertoryExod 32:11

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Orémus.
Exod 32:11 32:13; 32:14
Precátus est Moyses in conspéctu Dómini, Dei sui, et dixit: Quare, Dómine, irásceris in pópulo tuo? Parce iræ ánimæ tuæ: meménto Abraham, Isaac et Iacob, quibus iurásti dare terram fluéntem lac et mel. Et placátus factus est Dóminus de malignitáte, quam dixit fácere pópulo suo.

English

Let us pray.
Ex 32:11, 13-14.
Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord his God and said, Why, O Lord, is Your indignation enkindled against Your people? Let the anger of Your mind cease; remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom You swore to give a land flowing with milk and honey. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which He had spoken of doing against His people.
Secret

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Hóstias, quǽsumus, Dómine, propítius inténde, quas sacris altáribus exhibémus: ut, nobis indulgéntiam largiéndo, tuo nómini dent honórem.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
Commemoratio S. Ioachim Confessoris, Patris B. M. V.
Súscipe, clementíssime Deus, sacrifícium in honórem sancti Patriarchæ Ióachim, patris Maríæ Vírginis, maiestáti tuæ oblátum: ut, ipso cum cóniuge sua et beatíssima prole intercedénte, perféctam cónsequi mereámur remissiónem peccatórum et glóriam sempitérnam.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

English

O Lord, we beseech You, graciously look upon the offerings which we lay upon Your sacred altar; so that they may bring us plentiful forgiveness while they give honor to Your name.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
Commemoration St. Joachim, Confessor, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Graciously accept, most merciful God, the sacrifice offered to Your majesty in honor of the holy Patriarch Joachim, father of the Virgin Mary, that by his intercession, together with that of his spouse and most blessed child, we may be found worthy to obtain full forgiveness of our sins and everlasting glory.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
CommunionPs 103:13

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Ps 103:13; 103:14-15
De fructu óperum tuórum, Dómine, satiábitur terra: ut edúcas panem de terra, et vinum lætíficet cor hóminis: ut exhílaret fáciem in óleo, et panis cor hóminis confírmet.

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Ps 103:13-15
The earth is replete with the fruit of Your works, O Lord; You produce bread from the earth, and wine to gladden men’s hearts, so that their faces gleam with oil, and bread fortifies the hearts of men.
Post Communion

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Orémus.
Vivíficet nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, huius participátio sancta mystérii: et páriter nobis expiatiónem tríbuat et múnimen.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

Orémus.
Commemoratio S. Ioachim Confessoris, Patris B. M. V.
Quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut per hæc sacraménta, quæ súmpsimus, intercedéntibus méritis et précibus beáti Ióachim patris Genetrícis dilécti Fílii tui, Dómini nostri Iesu Christi, tuæ grátiæ in præsénti et ætérnæ glóriæ in futúro partícipes esse mereámur.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

English

Let us pray.
May the holy reception of this sacrament, we beseech You, O Lord, restore us to life, and bestow upon us forgiveness and protection.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration St. Joachim, Confessor, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary
We beseech You, almighty God, that by this sacrament which we have received, and by the pleading merits of holy Joachim, father of the Mother of Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, we may be found worthy to share Your grace in the life, and eternal glory in the life to come.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

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