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Thursday 20 August 2026

Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

Memorial · Ordinary Time 1962: St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Class III

From the archive · Ireland · back to today

All of AugustThe year 2026

Ordinary Form · Missal of Paul VI

Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

Memorial · Ordinary Time · Sunday Cycle A · Psalter Week 4

First ReadingEzekiel 36:23-28

From the Book of Ezekiel

23I will sanctify my great name,which has been profaned among the nations,which you have profaned among them.Then the nations will know that I am the Lord,”says the Lord GOD,“when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

24“‘“For I will take you from among the nationsand gather you out of all the countries,and will bring you into your own land.25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean.I will cleanse you from all your filthinessand from all your idols.26I will also give you a new heart,and I will put a new spirit within you.I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,and I will give you a heart of flesh.27I will put my Spirit within you,and cause you to walk in my statutes.You will keep my ordinances and do them.28You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers.You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19

12Create in me a clean heart, O God.Renew a right spirit within me.13Don’t throw me from your presence,and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

14Restore to me the joy of your salvation.Uphold me with a willing spirit.15Then I will teach transgressors your ways.Sinners will be converted to you.

18For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.You have no pleasure in burnt offering.19The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

GospelMatthew 22:1-14

From the Gospel according to Matthew

1Jesus answeredand spoke to them again in parables, saying,2“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king,who made a wedding feast for his son,3and sent out his servants to call thosewho were invited to the wedding feast,but they would not come.4Again he sent out other servants,saying, ‘Tell those who are invited,“Behold, I have prepared my dinner.My cattle and my fatlings are killed,and all things are ready.Come to the wedding feast!”’5But they made light of it,and went their ways,one to his own farm,another to his merchandise;6and the rest grabbed his servants,treated them shamefully, and killed them.7When the king heard that,he was angry, and sent his armies,destroyed those murderers,and burned their city.

8“Then he said to his servants,‘The wedding is ready,but those who were invited weren’t worthy.9Go therefore to the intersections of the highways,and as many as you may find,invite to the wedding feast.’10Those servants went out into the highwaysand gathered together as many as they found,both bad and good.The wedding was filled with guests.

11“But when the king came in to see the guests,he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,12and he said to him,‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’He was speechless.13Then the king said to the servants,‘Bind him hand and foot,take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness.That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’14For many are called, but few chosen.”

Readings in the World English Bible (Catholic Edition), chosen by the Lectionary for Mass. The prayers of the Mass are in the Roman Missal.

Celebrations follow the Ireland. Your diocese may keep additional feasts.

1962 Missal · Missale Romanum

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Class III · white · Feria V after XII Sunday after Pentecost

IntroitIntroitus

Eccli 15:5

In médio Ecclésiæ apéruit os ejus: et implévit eum Dóminus spíritu sapiéntiæ et intelléctus: stolam glóriæ índuit eum. (Allelúja, allelúja.)

Ps 91:2

Bonum est confitéri Dómino: et psállere nómini tuo, Altíssime.

Glória Patri…

In médio Ecclésiæ apéruit os ejus: et implévit eum Dóminus spíritu sapiéntiæ et intelléctus: stolam glóriæ índuit eum. (Allelúja, allelúja.)

Sir 15:5

In the midst of the assembly he opened his mouth; and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding; He clothed him with a robe of glory. (Allelúja, allelúja.)

Ps 91:2

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to Your name, Most High.

Glory Be to the Father…

In the midst of the assembly he opened his mouth; and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding; He clothed him with a robe of glory. (Allelúja, allelúja.)

CollectOratio

Deus, qui pópulo tuo ætérnæ salútis beátum Bernárdi minístrum tribuísti: præsta, quǽsumus; ut, quem Doctórem vitæ habúimus in terris, intercessórem habére mereámur in cœlis.

(sed communi Summorum Pontificum)

Deus, qui pópulo tuo ætérnæ salútis beátum Bernárdi minístrum tribuísti: præsta, quǽsumus; ut, quem Doctórem vitæ habúimus in terris, intercessórem habére mereámur in cælis.

Per Dominum…

O God, who didst give blessed Bernard to be thy people’s minister in eternal salvation; grant, we pray, that we who have him for teacher of life here on earth, may also deserve now that he is in heaven, to have him for an advocate.

Through our Lord…

EpistleLectio

Léctio libri Sapiéntiæ

Eccli 39:6-14

Justus cor suum tradet ad vigilándum dilúculo ad Dóminum, qui fecit illum, et in conspéctu Altíssimi deprecábitur. Apériet os suum in oratióne, et pro delíctis suis deprecábitur. Si enim Dóminus magnus volúerit, spíritu intellegéntias replébit illum: et ipse tamquam imbres mittet elóquia sapiéntiæ suæ, et in oratióne confitébitur Dómino: et ipse díriget consílium ejus et disciplínam, et in abscónditis suis consiliábitur. Ipse palam fáciet disciplínam doctrínæ suæ, et in lege testaménti Dómini gloriábitur. Collaudábunt multi sapiéntiam ejus, et usque in sǽculum non delébitur. Non recédet memória ejus, et nomen ejus requirétur a generatióne in generatiónem. Sapiéntiam ejus enarrábunt gentes, et laudem ejus enuntiábit ecclésia.

Lesson from the book of Ecclesiasticus

Ecclus 39:6-14

The just man will give his heart to resort early to the Lord his Maker, and he will pray in the sight of the Most High. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will ask pardon for his sins. Then, if it pleases the Lord Almighty, He will fill him with the spirit of understanding; and he will pour forth his words of wisdom as showers, and in prayer give thanks to the Lord, Who will direct his knowledge and his counsel, as he meditates upon His mysteries. He will show the wisdom of what he has learned and glory in the Law of the Lord’s covenant. Many will praise his understanding; his fame can never be effaced; unfading will be his memory, through all generations his name will live; peoples will speak of his wisdom, the assembly will sing his praises.

GradualGraduale

Ps 36:30-31

Os justi meditábitur sapiéntiam, et lingua ejus loquétur judícium.

℣.Lex Dei ejus in corde ipsíus: et non supplantabúntur gressus ejus.

Allelúja, allelúja.

Eccli 45:9

Amávit eum Dóminus, et ornávit eum: stolam glóriæ índuit eum. Allelúja.

Ps 36:30-31

The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom and his tongue shall speak judgment.

℣.The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted. Allelúja, allelúja

Sir 45:9

And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, Allelúja.

GospelEvangelium

Sequéntia ☩ sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum

Matt 5:13-19

In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis: Vos estis sal terræ. Quod si sal evanúerit, in quo saliétur? Ad níhilum valet ultra, nisi ut mittátur foras, et conculcétur ab homínibus. Vos estis lux mundi. ¶ Non potest cívitas abscóndi supra montem pósita. Neque accéndunt lucérnam, et ponunt eam sub módio, sed super candelábrum, ut lúceat ómnibus, qui in domo sunt. Sic luceat lux vestra coram homínibus, ut vídeant ópera vestra bona, et gloríficent Patrem vestrum, qui in cœlis est. Nolíte putáre, quóniam veni sólvere legem aut prophétas: non veni sólvere, sed adimplére. Amen, quippe dico vobis, donec tránseat cœlum et terra, jota unum aut unus apex non præteríbit a lege, donec ómnia fiant. Qui ergo sólverit unum de mandátis istis mínimis, et docúerit sic hómines, mínimus vocábitur in regno cœlórum: qui autem fécerit et docúerit, hic magnus vocábitur in regno cœlórum.

Continuation ☩ of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew

Matt 5:13-19

In that time Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

OffertoryOffertorium

Ps 91:13

Justus ut palma florébit: sicut cedrus, quæ in Líbano est, multiplicábitur. (Allelúja.)

Ps 91:13

The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. (Allelúja.)

SecretSecreta

Sancti Bernárdi Confessóris tui atque Doctóris nobis, Dómine, pia non desit orátio: quæ et múnera nostra concíliet; et tuam nobis indulgéntiam semper obtíneat.

Per Dominum…

May the pious prayer of holy Bernard thy Bishop and illustrious Doctor be not wanting to us, O Lord, but make our offerings acceptable to thee and ever win for us thy mercy.

Through our Lord…

PrefacePrefatio

Communis

Vere dignum et justum est, æquum et salutáre, nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere: Dómine sancte, Pater omnípotens, ætérne Deus: per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Per quem majestátem tuam laudant Angeli, adórant Dominatiónes, tremunt Potestátes. Cæli cælorúmque Virtútes ac beáta Séraphim sócia exsultatióne concélebrant. Cum quibus et nostras voces ut admítti jubeas, deprecámur, súpplici confessione dicéntes:

Common

It is truly meet and just, and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks to Thee, O Holy Lord, Father Almighty, eternal God, through Christ, our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominions adore it, the Powers are in awe. Which the heavens and the hosts of heaven together with the blessed Seraphim joyfully do magnify. And do Thou command that it be permitted us to join with them in confessing Thee, while we say with lowly praise:

CommunionCommunio

Luc 12:42

Fidélis servus et prudens, quem constítuit dóminus super famíliam suam: ut det illis in témpore trítici mensúram. (Allelúja.)

Luke 12:42

The faithful and prudent servant whom the master will set over his household to give them their ration of grain in due time. (Allelúja.)

PostcommunionPostcommunio

Ut nobis, Dómine, tua sacrifícia dent salútem: beátus Bernárdus Conféssor tuus et Doctor egrégius, quǽsumus, precátor accédat.

Per Dominum…

May blessed Bernard thy Bishop and illustrious Doctor intercede for us, O Lord, that this thy sacrifice may obtain for us salvation.

Through our Lord…