Introit: Psalms lxxx. 17

    He fed them with the fat of n wheat alleluia; and filled them with honey out of the rock alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. Rejoice unto God our helper; sing aloud to the God of Jacob. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

Collect

    O God, who in this wonderful sacrament has left us a memorial of Thy passion, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of Thy Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within us the fruit of Thy redemption. Who livest.

Commemoration of St. John of San Facundo:

Collect

    O God, the author of peace, and lover of charity, who didst adorn blessed John, Thy confessor, with a wonderful grace for reconciling those at variance; grant by his merits and intercession, that, being established in Thy charity, we may not by any temptations be separated from Thee. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Basilides & Companions:

Collect

    O Lord, may the keeping of this festival of the heavenly birthday of Thy holy martyrs, Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius, shed brightness on our lives; and may the eternal glory granted them, be increased by the devout service we pay Thee. Through.

Epistle: 1 Corinthians xi. 23-29

    Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Brethren, I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye and eat, this is My Body which shall be delivered for you; this do for the commemoration of Me. In like manner also the chalice, after He had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in My Blood; this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of Me. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink this chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord until He come. Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink of the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and the Blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself; and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord.

Gradual: Psalms cxliv. 15-16

    The eyes of all hope in Thee, o Lord, and Thou givest them meat in due season. ℣. Thou openest Thy hand, and fillest every living creature with Thy blessing.

Alleluia: John vi. 56-57

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. My Flesh is meat indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed: he that eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood, abideth in Me, and I in him.

Sequence: Lauda Sion

    Sion, lift thy voice and sing; / Praise thy Savior and thy King; / Praise with hymns thy Shepherd true. / Strive thy best to praise Him well, / Yet doth He all praise excel; / None can ever reach His due. / See to-day before us laid / The living and life-giving Bread, / Theme for praise and joy profound. / The same which at the sacred board / Was by our incarnate Lord, / Giv'n to His apostles round. / Let the praise be loud and high; / Sweet and tranquil be the joy / Felt to-day in every breast; / On this festival divine, / Which records the origin Of the glorious Eucharist. / On this table of the King, / Our new paschal offering | Brings to end the olden rite. / Here, for empty shadows fled, / Is reality instead; / Here, instead of darkness, light. / His own act, at supper seated, / Christ ordained to be repeated / In His memory divine; / Wherefore now, with adoration, / We the Host of our salvation / Consecrate from bread and wine. / Hear what holy Church maintaineth, / That the bread its substance changeth / Into flesh, the wine to blood. / Doth it pass thy comprehending? / Faith, the law of sight transcending, / Leaps to things not understood. / Here, beneath these signs are hidden / Priceless things, to sense forbidden; / Signs, not things are all we see: / Flesh from bread, and blood from wine, / Yet is Christ in either sign / All entire, confessed to be. / They too who of Him partake, / Sever not, nor rend, nor break, / But entire their Lord receive. / Whether one or thousands eat, / All receive the selfsame meat, / Nor the less for others leave. / Both the wicked and the good / Eat of this celestial food; / But with ends how opposite! / Here 't is life, and there 't is death, / The same, yet issuing to each, / In a difference infinite. / Nor a single doubt retain, / When they break the host in twain, / But that in each part remain, / What was in the whole before. / Since the simple sign alone / Suffers change in state or form, / The signified remaining one / And the same for evermore, / Lo! upon the altar lies, / Hidden deep from human eyes, Bread of angels from the skies, / Made the food of mortal man: / Children's meat, to dogs denied: / In old types foresignified: / In the manna heav'n-supplied, / Isaac, and the paschal Lamb. / Jesu! Shepherd of the sheep! / Thou Thy flock in safety keep. / Living Bread! Thy life supply: / Strengthen us, or else we die; / Fill us with celestial grace: / Thou, who feedest us below! / Source of all we have or know! / Grant that with Thy saints above, / Sitting at the feast of love, / we may see Thee face to face. / Amen. Alleluia.

Gospel: John vi. 56-59

    + Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. John. At that time Jesus said to the multitudes of the Jews: My Flesh is meat indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My Flesh, and drinketh My Blood, abideth in Me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me, the same also shall live by Me. This is the bread that came down from Heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this Bread shall live for ever.

Offertory: Leviticus xxi. 6

    The priests of the Lord offer incense and loaves to God, and therefore they shall be holy to their God, and shall not defile His name. Alleluia.

Secret

    We beseech Thee, O Lord, mercifully grant to Thy Church the gifts of unity and peace, which are mystically signified beneath the gifts we offer. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. John of San Facundo:

Secret

    We offer unto Thee, O Lord, the sacrifice of praise, in remembrance of Thy saints; through whose intercessions we trust to be delivered both from present and future ills. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Basilides & Companions:

Secret

    We venerate, O Lord, this day, the blood shed by Thy holy Martyrs; and in their honor we offer up this solemn sacrifice celebrating the miracles of Thy grace, by which so great a victory was won. Through our Lord.

Communion: 1 Corinthians xi. 26-27

    As often as you shall eat this Bread and drink the Chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord until He come: therefore whosoever shall eat this Bread or drink the Chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. Alleluia.

Postcommunion

    Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, to be filled with the everlasting enjoyment of Thy divinity, which is prefigured by the temporal reception of Thy precious Body and Blood. Who livest.

Commemoration of St. John of San Facundo:

Postcommunion

    Refreshed with this heavenly food and drink, we humbly beseech Thee, our God, that we may be protected by his prayers in whose remembrance we have received them. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of St. Basilides & Companions:

Postcommunion

    Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that we who year by year keep the festival of Thy holy martyrs Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius, may at all times enjoy their protection. Through our Lord.

+ Taken from St. Andrew Daily Missal, by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., Imprimi Potest 11-18-1945 P. Joannes Delacroix, O.S.B., Imprimatur 11-22-1945 Joseph Van Der Meersch