Twenty-third Sunday After Pentecost by Leonard Goffine, 1871
(INSTRUCTION CONCERNING RIDICULE AND DERISION.) Twenty-third Sunday After Pentecost by Leonard Goffine, 1871 . . The Introit of the Mass consoles and incites us to confidence in God who is so benevolent towards us and will not let us pine away in tribulation. The Lord saith: I entertain thoughts of peace, not of affliction: you shall call on me, and I will hear you: and bring back your captive people from all places. Jer. xxix. 11.) Thou, O Lord, hast blessed Thy land: Thou hast brought back the captive children of Jacob. (Ps. lxxxiv.) Glory, &c. . PRAYER OF THE CHURCH. . Pardon, O Lord, we beseech Thee, the sins of Thy people: that we may be delivered by Thy goodness from the guilt we have contracted by our own weakness. Through our Lord &c. . EPISTLE, (Philipp. iii. 17 - 21.; iv. l - 3.) . Brethren: Be followers of me, and observe them who walk so as you have our model. For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the c...