[Officium]
St. John the Apostle Before the Latin Gate

[Oratio]
O God, Which seest that sins and sufferings do on every side rise up to trouble us, grant, we beseech thee, that we may find a shield in time of need through the glorious intercession of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist John.
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[Graduale]
Allelúja, allelúja
!Ps 91:13
v. The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. Allelúja
!Hos 14:6
v. The just shall spring as the lily, and flourish forever before the Lord. Allelúja.

[Evangelium]
Continuation + of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
!Matt 20:20-23
In that time: came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him. Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.

[Postcommunio]
Fed with bread from heaven, we ask O Lord, that it may be our nourishment unto life eternal.
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