[Officium]
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor

[Introitus]
!Ps 8:6
v. You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.
!Ps 148:2
Praise the Lord, all you His angels, praise Him, all you His hosts.
&Gloria
v. You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

[Oratio]
O God, bestower of heavenly gifts, Who in the angelic youth Aloysius joined wondrous innocence of life to an equally wondrous love of penance; grant, by his merits and prayers, that we who have not followed him in his innocence may imitate him in his penance.
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[Graduale]
!Ps 70:5-6
My trust, O Lord, from my youth; on You I depend from birth; from my mother’s womb You are my strength.
!Ps 40:13
V. But because of my integrity You sustain me and let me stand before You forever. Alleluia, alleluia.
!Ps 64:5
V. Happy the man You choose, and bring to dwell in Your courts. Alleluia.

[Evangelium]
Continuation + of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
!Matt 22:29-40
At that time, Jesus answered and said to the Sadducees, You err because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. For at the Resurrection they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as angels of God in heaven. But as to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the crowds heard this, they marveled at His teaching. But the Pharisees, hearing that He had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together. And one of them, a doctor of the Law, putting Him to the test, asked Him, Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’ This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.

[Offertorium]
!Ps 23:3-4
Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? or who may stand in His holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean.

[Secreta]
Make us take our place, O Lord, at Your heavenly banquet clothed in the wedding-garment which the loving preparation and constant tears of blessed Aloysius adorned with precious pearls.
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[Communio]
!Ps 77:24-25
He gave them heavenly bread; the bread of the angels was eaten by men.

[Postcommunio]
Grant, O Lord, that we who have been fed with the food of angels may also live angelic lives, and, following the example of him whom we honor today, may we spend our days in unceasing thanksgiving.
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