S. Francisci Confessoris ~ Duplex majus

Scriptura: Feria Sexta infra Hebdomadam XIX post Octavam Pentecostes I. Octobris

Saint Francis of Assisi, depicted by the Spanish painter Jusepe de RibePhotograph by Leemage / UIG via Getty

Today is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, C, under the 1954 (double major) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. No commemorations.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; II = II & III of occurring Scripture combined, III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954).

V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who by the good works of blessed Francis enriched Your Church by establishing a new religious family, grant us to imitate him by emulation of him, by looking upon the things of earth as nought and ever to rejoice in sharing Your heavenly gifts.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.