Am reaching the end of my day...

But wanted to note that now-- Tuesday at 1930-- it is pouring down rain. I'll make it through another 20 minutes or so of an episode of Commissaire Magellan and then say Compline and go to sleep. 

The rain has stopped and has left this morning's 44 degrees feeling cold, whatever the Feels like nonsense on the weather mages' sites may indicate. I'll wear a jacket when I go out to vote later on and to the supermarket-- yes, today is the day when I shall drop my ballot into the ballot box; it is like a differently decorated mail box only rather stouter in its proportions.  Today is the feast of Pope Saint Evaristus, martyr (or, after 1955, the Wednesday after the 20th Sunday post Pentecosten with the commemoration of the Holy Martyr). Am going to presume that at Saint-Eugène the priest will say the Sunday Mass with the commemoration. But we shall see.

It didn't much feel cold after all, once I had a shower and moved out of the house; but I froze whilst saying Matins and Lauds. Am imbibing a second cup of tea as I catch up with the mail but voting was as portentous as it ought to be; I prayed to Our Lady Immaculate who is Patroness and Saint Michael and our own Angel-- of course I had already marked the ballot so if some inspiration had suddenly overcome me... there is a procedure for 'fixing' an already sealed ballot but it is of Byzantine (in the pejorative sense) complexity. Back to the mail.

Ha; M. l'Abbé is vested in what I believe is violet, so not Sunday's Mass. It is Si diligis me for Saint Evaristus; perhaps those are really red vestments not violet, the video nonsense playing a trick. My ordo, so far as the colors go, is marked R  and V i.e. red or green; perhaps it is just that Saint-E. doesn't possess an acceptably 'nice' set of 'ordinary' red vestments? I know that there is a set of them for Solemn Masses (or at least I believe I do). 

Introitus. Ioann. 21, 15, 16 et 17. Si díligis me, Simon Petre, pasce agnos meos, pasce oves meas. Ps. 29, 2. Exaltábo te, Dómine, quóniam suscepísti me, nec delectásti inimícos. V/.Glória Patri.

Collecta. Gregem tuum, Pastor ætérne, placátus inténde : et, per beátum Evaristum Mártyrem tuum atque Summum Pontíficem, perpétua protectióne custódi ; quem totíus Ecclésiæ præstitísti esse pastórem. Per Dóminum nostrum.

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Petri Apóstoli. l. Petri 5, 1-4 et 10-11.

Caríssimi : Senióres, qui in vobis sunt, obsécro consénior et testis Christi passiónum, qui et eius, quæ in futúro revelánda est, glóriæ communicátor : páscite qui in vobis est gregem Dei, providéntes non coácte, sed spontánee secúndum Deum, neque turpis lucri grátia, sed voluntárie ; neque ut dominántes in cleris, sed forma facti gregis ex ánimo. Et, cum appáruerit princeps pastórum, percipiétis immarcescíbilem glóriæ corónam. Deus autem omnis grátiæ, qui vocávit nos in ætérnam suam glóriam in Christo Iesu, módicum passos ipse perfíciet, confirmábit solidabítque. Ipsi glória et impérium in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

Graduale. Ps. 106, 32, 31. Exáltent eum in Ecclésia plebis : et in cáthedra seniórum laudent eum. V/. Confiteántur Dómino misericórdiæ eius ; et mirabília eius fíliis hóminum.

Allelúia, allelúia. V/. Matth. 16, 18. Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam. Allelúia.

+ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum. Matth. 16, 13-19.

In illo témpore : Venit Iesus in partes Cæsaréæ Philíppi, et interrogábat discípulos suos, dicens : Quem dicunt hómines esse Fílium hóminis ? At illi dixérunt : Alii Ioánnem Baptístam, alii autem Elíam, alii vero Ieremíam aut unum ex prophétis. Dicit illis Iesus : Vos autem quem me esse dícitis ? Respóndens Simon Petrus, dixit : Tu es Christus, Fílius Dei vivi. Respóndens autem Iesus, dixit ei : Beátus es, Simon Bar Iona : quia caro et sanguis non revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus, qui in cælis est. Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non prævalébunt advérsus eam. Et tibi dabo claves regni cælórum. Et quodcúmque ligáveris super terram, erit ligátum et in cælis : et quodcúmque sólveris super terram, erit solútum et in cælis.

Offertorium. Ierem. 1, 9-10. Ecce, dedi verba mea in ore tuo : ecce, constítui te super gentes et super regna, ut evéllas et destruas, et ædífices et plantes. 

Secreta. Oblátis munéribus, quǽsumus, Dómine, Ecclésiam tuam benígnus illúmina : ut, et gregis tui profíciat ubique succéssus, et grati fiant nómini tuo, te gubernánte, pastóres. Per Dóminum.

Communio. Matth. 16, 18. Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam.

Postcommunio. Refectióne sancta enutrítam gubérna, quǽsumus, Dómine, tuam placátus Ecclésiam : ut, poténti moderatióne dirécta, et increménta libertátis accípiat et in religiónis integritáte persístat. Per Dóminum nostrum.

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