St, Augustine of Hippo

The Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo
Readings for the Eucharist

Catholic

Entrance Antiphon:Sirach 15:5
First Reading: 1 John 4:7-16
Psalm Response:Psalm 119:12
Gospel:Matt 23:8-12
Communion Song: Matt 23:10,8

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Opening Prayer:Lord, renew in your church the spirit you gave Saint Augustine. Filled with spirit, may we thirst for you alone as the fountain of wisdom and seek you as the source of eternal love.

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Episcopal

Old Testament: Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29
Psalm: Psalm 87or 84:7-12
Gospel: John 14:6-15

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Collect: Lord God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the hearts that serve you: Help us, following the example of your servant Augustine of Hippo, so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom.

Propers for Catholic Mass

Entrance Antiphon
The Lord opened his mouth in the assembly, and filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and clothed him in a robe of glory. - Sirach 15:5

Opening Prayer
Lord, renew in your church the spirit you gave Saint Augustine. Filled with spirit, may we thirst for you alone as the fountain of wisdom and seek you as the source of eternal love. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy spirit, on God, forever and ever. Amen.

First Reading

1 John 4:7-16

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.

In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.

No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.

This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.

Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God.

We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

Psalm Response
Lord, teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:12

Gospel

Matt 23:8-12

Jesus said, "As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven. Do not be called 'Master'; you have but one master, the Messiah. The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
Lord,
as we celebrate the memorial of our salvation,
we pray that this sacrament may be for us
a sign of unity and a bond of love.
We ask this in the name of Christ our Lord.

Communion Song
Christ is your only teacher: and all of you are brothers - Matt 23:10,8

Prayer after Communion
Lord,
make us holy by our sharing at the table of Christ.
As members of this body,
help us to become what we have received.
Grant this through Christ our Lord.

The Liturgy of the Hours
St. Augustine

BENEDICTUS (Canticle of Zechariah)
Antiphon:
You inspire us, O Lord, to delight in praising you, because you have made us for yourself; our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

MAGNIFICAT (Canticle of Mary)
Antiphon: Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you. You called, you shouted and you shattered my darkness.

From the Office of Readings

From the Confessions of St. Augustine, bishop (Lib. 7,10,18; 10,27: CSEL 33,157-163,255).

O eternal truth, true love, and beloved eternity

Urged to reflect upon myself, I entered under your guidance the innermost places of my being; but only because you had become my helper was I able to do so. I entered, then, and with the vision of my spirit, such as it was, I saw the incommutable light far above my spiritual ken and transcending my mind: not this common light which every carnal eye can see, nor any light of the same order; but greater, as though this common light were shining much more powerfully, far more brightly, and so extensively as to fill the universe. The light I saw was not the common light at all, but something different, utterly different, from all those things. Nor was it higher than my mind in the sense that oil floats on water or the sky is above the earth; it was exalted because this very light made me, and I was below it because by it I was made. Anyone who knows truth knows this light.

O eternal Truth, true Love, and beloved Eternity, you are my God, and for you I sigh day and night. As I first began to know you, you lifted me up and showed me that, while that which I might see exists indeed, I was not yet capable of seeing it. Your rays beamed intensely on me, beating back my feeble gaze, and I trembled with love and dread. I knew myself to be far away from you in a region of unlikeness, and I seemed to hear your voice from on high: “I am the food of the mature: grow, then, and you shall eat me. You will not change me into yourself like bodily food; but you will be changed into me”.

Accordingly I looked for a way to gain the strength I needed to enjoy you, but I did not find it until I embraced "the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who is also God, supreme over all things and blessed for ever." He called out, proclaiming "I am the Way and Truth and the Life," nor had I known him as the food which, though I was not yet strong enough to eat it, he had mingled with our flesh, for "the Word became flesh" so that your Wisdom, through whom you created all things, might become for us the milk adapted to our infancy.

Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made
I rushed headlong – I, misshapen.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being,
were they not in you.
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you;
I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.

Eucharist
Episcopal Church

Collect: Lord God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the hearts that serve you: Help us, following the example of your servant Augustine of Hippo, so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

First Reading

Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29

You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

Psalm 87 Fundamenta ejus

¹ He has founded it upon a holy hill *
  and the Lord loves the gates of Zion
     more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

² Glorious things shall be spoken of you *
   O Zion, city of our God.

³ I might speak of my kinsmen in Egypt or in Babylon *
   in Philistia, Tyre or Nubia, where each was born.

⁴ But of Zion it shall be said *
   many were born in her, he that is Most High has established her.

⁵ When the Lord draws up the record of the nations *
   he shall take note where every man was born.

⁶ And the singers and the dancers together *
   shall make their song to your name.

or

Psalm 84:7-12

Quam dilecta!

⁷ They go from strength to strength *
  they appear, every one of them, before the God of gods in Zion.

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer *
   give ear, O God of Jacob.

⁹ Behold, O God, him who reigns over us *
   and look upon the face of your anointed.

¹⁰ One day in your courts is better than a thousand *
   I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
      than dwell in the tents of ungodliness.

¹¹ For the Lord God is a rampart and a shield,
      the Lord gives favour and honour *
   and no good thing will he withhold
      from those who walk in innocence.

¹² O Lord God of hosts *
   blessed is the man who puts his trust in you.

Gospel

John 14:6-15

Jesus said to Thomas, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."

Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, `Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments."

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