Cloudy skies and 60 degrees F. with humidity at 95%...

And no sighting of Dawn, who was doubtless grumpy, as is Phoebus also, apparently. The clouds seem the fat rain-bearing sort but we shall see about that. Today is the feast in Dedicatione Sancti Michaelis Archangelis ('the Consecration of Saint Michael's Church', in the Old English Martyrology). The Mass Benedicite Dominum omnes Angeli eius will be live-streamed from Saint-Eugène in Paris beginning in about twenty minutes.

Errands being completed, I managed to detour into Internet hunting in re the Wade ceramic figurines that the Canadian Red Rose Tea people put into their boxes of tea. I have a Sydney Opera House (a very, very pale blue), two Golden Gate Bridges (a splendid red), and today's delight, a lovely shade of green... but I don't know what it is meant to be; it appears to be a castle keep with battlements. Tweeted to the Red Rose folks; I figure it's going to be embarrassing that I failed to identify the monument but I'd rather be embarrassed and know rather than remain embarrassed in my not knowing. They, in cooperation with Wade's in England, have been doing this for over fifty years. 

I do remember when it was 'a thing' for manufacturers to include premiums of one sort or another in their products' containers. The one I can recall at the moment is the tiny toys in the boxes of Cracker Jacks-- I have no idea if that still happens. Breakfast cereal boxes, also, had premiums included, sometimes; I remember impatiently consuming bowl after bowl of some variety or another in order to more quickly reach the 'prize'. Corn Pops, perhaps. 

Ah, Dr Ratovondrahety is at the organ this morning. And Pater Thomas SJ looks to be celebrant.

Introitus. Ps. 102, 20. Benedícite Dóminum, omnes Angeli ejus: poténtes virtúte, qui fácitis verbum ejus, ad audiéndam vocem sermónum ejus. Ps. ibid., 1. Benedic, ánima mea. Dómino: et ómnia, quæ intra me sunt, nómini sancto ejus. V. Glória Patri. 

Collecta. Deus, qui, miro órdine, Angelórum ministéria hominúmque dispénsas: concéde propítius; ut, a quibus tibi ministrántibus in cœlo semper assístitur, ab his in terra vita nostra muniátur. Per Dóminum. 

Léctio libri Apocalýpsis beáti Joánnis Apóstoli. Apoc. 1, 1-5. In diébus illis: Significávit Deus, quæ opórtet fíeri cito, mittens per Angelum suum servo suo Joánni, qui testimónium perhíbuit verbo Dei, et testimónium Jesu Christi, quæcúmque vidit. Beátus, qui legit et audit verba prophetíæ hujus: et servat ea, quæ in ea scripta sunt: tempus enim prope est. Joánnes septem ecclésiis, quæ sunt in Asia. Grátia vobis et pax ab eo, qui est et qui erat et qui ventúrus est: et a septem spirítibus, qui in conspéctu throni ejus sunt: et a Jesu Christo, qui est testis fidélis, primogénitus mortuórum et princeps regum terræ, qui diléxit nos et lavit nos a peccátis nostris in sánguine suo. 

Graduale. Ps. 102, 20 et 1. Benedícite Dóminum, omnes Angeli ejus: poténtes virtúte, qui fácitis verbum ejus. V. Benedic, ánima mea, Dóminum, et ómnia interióra mea, nomen sanctum ejus. 

Allelúja, allelúja. V. Sancte Míchaël Archángele, defénde nos in prǿlio: ut non pereámus in treméndo judício. Allelúja. 

+ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum. Matth. 18, 1-10. In illo témpore: Accessérunt discípuli ad Jesum, dicéntes: Quis, putas, major est in regno cœlórum? Et ádvocans Jesus parvulum, statuit eum in médio eórum et dixit: Amen, dico vobis, nisi convérsi fuéritis et efficiámini sicut párvuli, non intrábitis in regnum cælorum. Quicúmque ergo humiliáverit se sicut párvulus iste, hic est major in regno cœlórum. Et qui suscéperit unum párvulum talem in nómine meo, me súscipit. Qui autem scandalizáverit unum de pusíllis istis, qui in me credunt, expédit ei, ut suspendátur mola asinária in collo ejus, et demergátur in profúndum maris. Væ mundo a scándalis! Necésse est enim, ut véniant scándala: verúmtamen væ hómini illi, per quem scándalum venit! Si autem manus tua vel pes tuus scandalízat te, abscíde eum et prójice abs te: bonum tibi est ad vitam íngredi débilem vel cláudum, quam duas manus vel duos pedes habéntem mitti in ignem ætérnum. Et si óculus tuus scandalízat te, érue eum et prójice abs te: bonum tibi est cum uno óculo in vitam intráre, quam duos óculos habéntem mitti in gehénnam ignis. Vidéte, ne contemnátis unum ex his pusíllis: dico enim vobis, quia Angeli eórum in cœlis semper vident fáciem Patris mei, qui in cœlis est. 

Offertorium. Apoc. 8, 3 et 4. Stetit Angelus juxta aram templi, habens thuríbulum áureum in manu sua, et data sunt ei incénsa multa: et ascéndit fumus aromátum in conspéctu Dei, allelúja. 

Secreta. Hóstias tibi, Dómine, laudis offérimus, supplíciter deprecántes: ut easdem, angélico pro nobis interveniénte suffrágio, et placátus accípias, et ad salútem nostram proveníre concédas. Per Dóminum. 

Communio. Dan. 3, 58. Benedícite, omnes Angeli Dómini, Dóminum: hymnum dícite et superexaltáte eum in sǽcula.

Postcommunio. Beáti Archángeli tui Michaelis intercessióne suffúlti: súpplices te, Dómine, deprecámur; ut, quod ore prosequimur, contingamus et mente. Per Dóminum.

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