[Rank]
S. Birgittae Viduae;;Duplex;;3;;vide C7a

[RankNewcal]
S. Birgittae Viduae;;Duplex optional;;2;;vide C7a

[Rule]
vide C7a;
Gloria

[Introitus]
!Ps 118:75; 118:120
v. I know, O Lord, that Your ordinances are just, and in Your faithfulness You~
have afflicted me. Pierce my flesh with Your fear; I fear Your ordinances.
!Ps 118:1
Happy are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.
&Gloria
v. I know, O Lord, that Your ordinances are just, and in Your faithfulness You~
have afflicted me. Pierce my flesh with Your fear; I fear Your ordinances.

[Oratio]
O Lord, our God, Who through your only-begotten Son revealed secrets to blessed~
Bridget, grant that through her kind intercession, we, Your servants, may~
rejoice and be glad in the revelation of Your eternal glory.
$Per eumdem

[Lectio]
Lesson from the first letter of St. Paul the Apostle to Timothy
!1 Tim. 5:3-10
Beloved: Honor widows who are truly widowed. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these first learn to provide for their own household and make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing to God. But she who is truly a widow, and left solitary, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. For she who gives herself up to pleasures is dead while she is still alive. And command them to be blameless. But if anyone does not take care of his own, and especially of his household, he has denied the Faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Let a widow who is selected be not less than sixty years old, having been married but once, with a reputation for her good works in bringing up children, in practicing hospitality, in washing the saints’ feet, in helping those in trouble, in carefully pursuing every good work.

[Graduale]
!Ps 44:3, 5
Grace is poured out upon your lips; thus God has blessed you forever.
V. In the cause of truth and mercy and for the sake of justice: may your right~
hand show you wondrous deeds. Alleluia, alleluia.
!Ps 44.5.
V. In your splendor and your beauty ride on triumphant, and reign. Alleluia.

[Evangelium]
Continuation + of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
!Matt 13:44-52
At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to His disciples: The kingdom of heaven~
is like a treasure hidden in a field; he who finds it hides it, and in his joy~
goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven~
is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. When he finds a single pearl of~
great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it. Again, the kingdom~
of heaven is like a net cast into the sea that gathered in fish of every kind.~
When it was filled, they hauled it out, and sitting down on the beach, they~
gathered the good fish into vessels, but threw away the bad. So will it be at~
the end of the world. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from among~
the just, and will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be the~
weeping, and the gnashing of teeth. Have you understood all these things? They~
said to Him, Yes. And He said to them, So then, every Scribe instructed in the~
kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings forth from his storeroom~
things new and old.

[Offertorium]
!Ps 44:3
Grace is poured out upon your lips; thus God has blessed you forever, and for~
ages of ages.

[Secreta]
O Lord, may the offerings of Your devoted people be pleasing to You in honor of~
Your saints, through whose merits they know they have received help in time of~
trial.
$Per Dominum

[Communio]
!Ps 44:8
You love justice and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you~
with the oil of gladness above your fellows. (Alleluia.)

[Postcommunio]
You have filled Your people, O Lord, with sacred gifts; ever comfort us, we~
beseech You, by the intercession of her whose festival we are celebrating.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio Oratio]
!For St. Sergius and Companions
May the blessed merits of Your holy Martyrs, Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus and~
Apuleius, continually benefit us, O Lord, and make us ever fervent in Your love.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio Secreta]
!For St. Sergius and Companions
By the worthy prayer of Your Saints, we beseech You, O Lord, may this victim,~
fitting for sacrifice, cause Your Majesty to be appeased in us.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio Postcommunio]
!For St. Sergius and Companions
May we be strengthened, O Lord, by the sacrament we have received, and protected~
through the intercession of Your holy Martyrs, Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus and~
Apuleius, by heavenly armor against all the wickedness besetting us.
$Per Dominum