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on this Saturday of the Lenten Ember week, take
place IN SAINT PETER S, thus still more strongly accen
tuating the union with, and the complete dependence
of all the ministers of the altar on the Prince of the apostles,
to whom Jesus Christ gave the charge of feeding the
lambs and the sheep of His fold.
CHAPTER XIII
Second Sunday
of Lent.
Station at Saint Mary in Dominica. Sources of the liturgy :
Introit, Ps. xxiv, 6 and 22. Epistle, I Thessaionians,
iv, 1-7. Gradual, Ps. xxiv, 17-18. Tract, Ps. cv, 1-4.
Gospel, St. Matth., xvii, 1-9. Offertory, Ps. cxvin, 47-48.
Communion, Ps. v, 2-4.
In the time of Saint Gregory the Great, there was no
Station appointed for this Sunday, nor for the other
Sundays following Ember week. There was a vacancy
in the liturgy for these Sundays (hence the rubric, Domi
nica vacat), on account of the long fatiguing ceremonies
of the previous evening. Later, that is AFTER THE NINTH
CENTURY, A STATION was designated. This Station,
like that of the following Thursday, is made in some
Church dedicated to our Lady, in order to urge us to
place the work of our sanctification, at which we are
labouring in penance, under the protection of Mary.