[Rank]
Ss. Simonis and Judae Apostolorum.;;Duplex classis;;5.1;;ex C1

[Rule]
ex C1;
9 lectiones
Psalmi Dominica
Antiphonas horas

[Oratio]
O God, Who didst use thine holy Apostles Simon and Jude to make known unto us~
thy Name, grant unto us so to profit by their doctrine as to do honour to their~
everlasting glory, and so to honour that glory as to gain profit to ourselves.
$Per Dominum

[Lectio1]
Beginning of the letter of the blessed Apostle Judas
!Jude 1:1-4
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James: to them that are~
beloved in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and charity be fulfilled.
3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common~
salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend~
earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
4 For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto~
this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness,~
and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

[Lectio2]
!Jude 1:5-8
5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus,~
having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them~
that believed not:
6 And the angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own~
habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the~
judgment of the great day.
7 As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having~
given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an~
example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
8 In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and~
blaspheme majesty.

[Lectio3]
!Jude 1:9-13
9 When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body~
of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but~
said: The Lord command thee.
10 But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever~
they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.
11 Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of~
Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves, and have perished in the~
contradiction of Core.
12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding~
themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the~
autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion; wandering stars, to~
whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

[Lectio4]
Simon the Canaanite, called also Zelotes, went through Egypt preaching the~
Gospel, whileas the like was done in Mesopotamia by Thaddaeus, called also in~
the Gospel Judas the brother of James, and the writer of one of the Catholic~
Epistles. They met together afterwards in Persia, where they begat countless~
children in Jesus Christ, spread the faith far and wide in those lands, amid~
raging heathens, and glorified together by their teaching and miracles, and, in~
the end, by a glorious martyrdom, the most holy name of Jesus Christ.

[Lectio5]
@Commune/C1:Lectio4

[Lectio6]
@Commune/C1:Lectio5

[Lectio7]
From the holy Gospel according to John
!John 15:17-25
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hate you,~
know ye, that it hath hated me before you. And so on.
_
Homily by St Austin, Bishop (of Hippo.)
!87th Tract on John.
In the reading from the Gospel, the last before this, the Lord had said Ye~
have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go,~
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye~
shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you. And here He saith~
These things I command you, that ye love one another. And by this it is that we~
must understand what fruit from us it is, whereof He saith I have chosen,..~
that ye should go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain, and~
so the words added That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may~
give it you. He will give unto us when we love one another, since this (mutual~
love) is itself the gift of Him Who hath chosen us when as yet we were fruitless,~
since it hath not been we who have chosen Him, (but He Who hath chosen us,) and~
ordained us, that we should go, and bring forth fruit, that is to say, should~
love one another.

[Lectio8]
Love then, is the fruit which we should bring forth, and the Apostle Paul~
telleth us (1 Tim. i. 5) that this love is love out of a pure heart, and of a~
good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. This is the love wherewith we love our~
neighbour, the love wherewith we love God, for we do not really love our~
neighbour unless we love God. For if any man love God, he loveth his neighbour~
as himself, since he that loveth not God loveth not himself. For on these two~
commandments hangeth all the law and the Prophets. Love, then, is the fruit~
which we should bring forth. And concerning this fruit, the Lord giveth us this~
commandment These things (saith He) I command you, that ye love one another.~
Hence also the Apostle Paul (Gal. v. 22) when he is about praising up the fruits~
of the Spirit as opposed to the works of the flesh, saith first of all The~
fruit of the Spirit is love. And from that as the beginning he draweth out a~
string of other fruits, as thence begotten and thereto bound, namely, joy, peace,~
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, chastity.

[Lectio9]
Who is really joyful that loveth not the cause of his joy? Who can really be at~
one with another, unless he loveth that other? Who is cheerful under long toil~
for a good work, unless he loveth the aim? Who is kind, unless he love the~
object of his tenderness? Who is good, unless by the persuasion of love? Who is~
truly faithful, unless by the faith which worketh by love? Who is gentle to any~
use, unless love move him? Who turneth away from baseness unless he love honour?~
Well, then, doth the Good Master so often command us to love, as though that~
commandment were all-sufficient, for love is that gift without which all other~
good things avail nothing, and which cannot be without having every other good~
gift which maketh a good man good.
&teDeum

[LectioE]
v. Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John
!John 15:17-25
15:17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
15:18 If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.
15:19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
15:20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
15:21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him who sent me.
15:22 If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
15:23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause.
$Te decet
