* See Gospels and Epistles for all Sundays and festivals, p. 388 to 481.
At the end of the Epistle, the Clerk answers,
Whilst the Priest reads the Gradual, or the Tract, which differs every day, the following may be said:
How wonderful, O Lord, is thy name throughout the whole earth: I will bless our Lord at all times; his praise shall be always in my mouth. Be thou my God and my protector. In thee alone will I put my trust; O let me never be confounded.
Cleanse my heart and my lips, O almighty God, who didst cleanse the lips of the prophet Isaiah with a burning coal; and vouchsafe, through thy gracious mercy, so to purify me, that I may worthily attend to thy holy gospel: through Christ our Lord. Amen.
May the Lord be in my heart, and on my lips, that I may worthily and in a becoming manner, attend to his holy gospel. Amen.
P. Sequentia [_vel_ initium] sancti Evangelii secundum, &c.
P. The continuation [_or_ the beginning] of the holy Gospel according to St. &o.
Whilst the Priest reads the Gospel of the day, [Footnote 3] the following prayer may be said:
[Footnote 3: See Gospels and Epistles for all Sundays and festivals, pp. 388-481.]
It is not thy interpreters, O God, who are now to instruct me; it is thy only Son; it is his word I am about to hear. I most gratefully embrace this heavenly doctrine. I _stand up_ to declare in the face of heaven and earth, that I will walk faithfully in that way which he hath marked out for me. He tells me here, "that it will avail a man nothing to gain the whole world, if he lose his own soul; that the sensual, the covetous, the worldling, the libertine, the detractor, and such as are insensible to the miseries of the poor, shall have no share in his heavenly kingdom; and that in order to become his disciple, I must take up my cross and follow him." I receive with my whole heart all these sacred maxims. Grant me the grace to put them in practice; for to what purpose should I declare myself thy disciple, if I were not to live according to the maxims of thy gospel?
At the end of the Gospel, the Clerk answers,
Then say with the Priest, in a low voice, "May our sins be blotted out by the words of the Gospel."
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem cœli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium.