fair name for life and wit. There he embraced the religion of JESUS Christ, and made wonderful head-way in faith and love. He went oftentimes to Church, was careful in fasting and prayer, and set no price upon the pleasures and lusts of the world. When the name of Antony became famous in Egypt, Hilarion made a journey into the desert on purpose to see him. There he dwelt with him two months, to the end that he might learn all his way of life, and then returned home. After the death of his father and mother, he gave all that he had to the poor. Before he had completed the fifteenth year of his age, he went into the desert, and built there a little house, scarcely big enough to hold him, and wherein he was used to sleep on the ground. The piece of sackcloth wherewith alone he clad himself he never washed and never changed, saying that hair-cloth was a thing not worth the trouble of cleanliness. Second Responsory. If Monday or Thursday: "The righteous shall grow, &c.," (p. 856,) with this addition: Verse. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Answer. Yea, he shall flourish in the presence of the Lord for ever. If Tuesday or Friday: "The Lord loved him," &c., (p. 858,) with this addition: Verse. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Answer. And crowned him at the gates of Paradise. If Wednesday: "Let your loins, &c.," (p. 860.) Third Lesson. HE took great interest in reading and meditating on the Holy Scriptures. His food was a few figs and some porridge of vegetables, and this he ate not before set of sun. His self-control and lowliness were beyond belief. By these and other arms he overcame divers and fearful attacks of the devil, 1 The Martyrology says, "On the 21st day of October were born into the higher life, at Cologne, the holy Ursula and her Companions. These were women who were butchered by the Huns, because they were Christians, and because they insisted upon remaining pure. It was therefore by a martyrdom that they ended their lives. The bodies of a great many of them were buried at Cologne." and drave out countless evil spirits from the bodies of men in many parts of the world. He had built many monasteries, and was famous for miracles, when, in the eightieth year of his age, he fell sick. When he was gasping for his last breath, he said: "Go out-what art thou afraid of? Go out, my soul!wherefore shrinkest thou? Thou hast served Christ hard on seventy yearsand art thou afraid of death?' And so with these words he gave up the ghost. OCTOBER 25. The Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria. Simple. All from the Simple Office for Many Martyrs, (p. 841,) except the following. Prayer throughout the Office. LORD, we beseech Thee that the prayers of Thy blessed Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria may succour us, and they whom we honour, may make us feel the kindly power of their help. 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. MATTINS. of the sun, and thereafter chained hand and foot and cast into a dark prison, but the chains dropped off from him, and the place was filled with light. Meanwhile Daria was haled to a brothel, but God kept her from insult, a lion guarding her, and herself always rapt in prayer. Lastly they were both of them led to a sand-pit upon the Salarian Way, where they were thrown alive into an hole, and buried in stones, and so were not divided in winning the victory of Martyrdom. OCTOBER 26. The Holy Martyr, Pope Ebaristus. Simple. All from the Simple Office for One Martyr, (p. 828,) except the following. Prayer throughout, "Mercifully consider, &c.," (p. 823.) MATTINS. First and Second Lessons from Scripture according to the Season. Third Lesson. First Lesson from Scripture accord- EVARISTUS was by birth a Greek ing to the Season. Second Lesson. CHRYSANTHUS and Daria were an husband and wife, of noble birth, but glorious rather for their faith, which the wife learnt from the husband. They brought to Christ a great number of persons at Rome, she women, and he men. Therefore the Præfect Celerinus caused them to be taken, and gave them over to Claudius the Tribune, who bade Chrysanthus to be tormented by the soldiers, all bound as he was, but all his bonds brake, and so likewise the shackles wherein his feet were afterwards fastened. held the Popedom in the reign of the Emperor Trajan. He it was who divided among the Priests the titles of the Churches in the city of Rome, and commanded that seven Deacons should attend the Bishop when he was executing his office of Gospel preaching. He it was who commanded, in accordance with the tradition of the Apostles, that marriages should be celebrated openly, and that a Priest should be asked to invoke a blessing thereon. He ruled the Church for nine years and three months. He held four Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he ordained seventeen Priests, two Deacons, and fifteen Bishops. Having finished his testimony, he was buried upon the Vatican, hard by the grave of the Prince of the Apostles, upon the 26th day of October, [in the year of our Lord 112.] OCTOBER 27. Ebe of the Feast of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude. The Office of the Eve begins with Mattins. All of the Week-day, except the following. Lessons from John xv. 1, with the Homily of St. Austin, (p. 797.) At Lauds, Long Preces, kneeling. Prayer hroughout. ALMIGHTY God, grant, we beseech Thee, that as we are preventing Thine Apostles Simon and Jude, their glorious birth-day, so the same may prevent Thy Majesty to win Thy good things for 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. OCTOBER 28. The Holy Apostles Simon Double of the Second Class. All from the Common Office for Apostles, (p. 805,) except the following. Prayer throughout the Office. GOD, Who didst use Thine holy Apostles Simon and Jude to make known unto us Thy Name, grant unto us so to profit by their doctrine as to do honour to their everlasting glory, and so to honour that glory as to gain profit to ourselves. 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. MATTINS. FIRST NOCTURN. First Lesson. Here beginneth the Catholic Epistle of the Blessed Apostle Jude (1.) JUDE, the servant of JESUS Christ, and brother of James, to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in JESUS Christ, and called. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of your common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, (who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Sovereign and our Lord JESUS Christ. Second Lesson. I WILL therefore put you in remem brance, though ye once knew this, how that JESUS, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not: and the Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to uncleanness and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also, these defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Third Lesson. YET Michael the Archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him the judgment of his blasphemy, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them, for they have gone the way of Cain, and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves; clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees which wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. THE PROPER OFFICE OF THE SAINTS. SECOND NOCTURN. Fourth Lesson. SIMON the Canaanite, called also Zelotes, went through Egypt preaching the Gospel, whileas the like was done in Mesopotamia by Thaddeus, called also in the Gospel Judas the brother of James, and the writer of one of the Catholic Epistles. They met together afterwards in Persia, where they begat countless children in JESUS Christ, spread the faith far and wide in those lands, amid raging heathens, and glorified together by their teaching and miracles, and, in the end, by a glorious martyrdom, the most holy name of JESus Christ. Fifth and Sixth Lessons, the Fourth and Fifth of the Common, (p. 807.) THIRD NOCTURN. Seventh Lesson. The Lesson is taken from the Holy ᎪᎢ T that time: JESUS said unto His disciples These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. And so on. Homily by St. Austin, Bishop [of Hippo.] (87th Tract on John.) In the reading from the Gospel, the last before this, the Lord had said: "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you." And here He saith: "These things I command you, that ye love one another." And by this it is that we must understand what fruit from us it is, whereof He saith: "I have chosen, that ye should go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain," and so the words added "That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you." He will give unto us when we love one another, since this [mutual love] is itself the gift of Him Who hath chosen us when as yet we were fruitless, since it hath not been we who have chosen Him, [but He Who hath chosen us,] and ordained us, that we should go, and bring forth fruit, that is to say, should love one another. Eighth Lesson. LOVE, then, is the fruit which we should bring forth, and the Apostle Paul telleth us (1 Tim. i. 5) that this love is love "out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned." This is the love wherewith we love our neighbour, the love wherewith we love God, for we do not really love our neighbour unless we love God. For if any man love God, he loveth his neighbour as himself, since he that loveth not God loveth not himself. For on these two commandments hangeth all the law and the Prophets. Love, then, is the fruit which we should bring forth. And concerning this fruit, the Lord giveth us this commandment: "These things" (saith He) "I command you, that ye love one another." Hence also the Apostle Paul (Gal. v. 22) when he is about praising up the fruits of the Spirit as opposed to the works of the flesh, saith first of all: "The fruit of the Spirit is love." And from that as the beginning he draweth out a string of other fruits, as thence begotten and thereto bound, namely, "joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, chastity." Ninth Lesson. WHO is really joyful that loveth not the cause of his joy? Who can really be at one with another, unless he loveth that other? Who is cheerful under long toil for a good work, unless he loveth the aim? Who is kind, unless he love the object of his tenderness? Who is good, unless by the persuasion of love? Who is truly faithful, unless by the faith which worketh by love? Who is gentle to any use, unless love move him? Who turneth away from baseness unless he love honour? Well, then, doth the Good Master so often command us to love, as though that commandment were all-sufficient, for love is that gift without which all other good things avail nothing, and which cannot be without having every other good gift which maketh a good man good. LAMB most holy King most lowly! Golden chalice at Thy side, Blood is flowing red and glowing For the Church Thy Holy Bride. Church bells ringing, mortals singing, Hail Thee on Thine altar Throne; Angels pouring songs adoring At Thy Feet, and Thine alone! Mary-Mother, knows no other Saint of Preachers! Guide of Teachers! Prophets kneeling-He revealing Who in ways of darkness trod, Salt of nations! Twelve Foundations! Friend of JESUS-Blessed JohnFull of gladness-no more sadness Clouds the face Christ shines upon ! High Procession! Great Confession! 1 The translator has failed to find any version of the Placare, Christe, which appears to him to be worthy either of the occasion or of the office, and he has therefore ventured to represent it by the above Hymn in which the ideas of the Placare are reflected from the medium of Van Eyck's "Adoration of the Lamb." It is signed, "Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell," |