In Commemoratione Omnium Fidelium Defunctorum ~ Duplex

Tempora: Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam XXI post Octavam Pentecostes I. Novembris

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Mon, 11/3/25:

Today is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day) under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (I class) rubrics.

By permission granted by Pope Benedict XV in 1915, all priests of the Roman rite have the privilege of celebrating three Requiem Masses today (trination), under the following conditions:

-- Each Mass must follow the proper formulary (orations, Epistle, and Gospel) as listed for each Mass in the Missal.

-- If a Mass is sung, it is to be the first (principal) Mass found in the Missal on Nov. 2. The other two Masses may be said as private (low) Masses and anticipated, if desired, before the principal Mass.

-- If a priest is to binate or trinate two or three Masses without interruption, he is to follow the special rubrics in the Missal and the Ritus Servandus regarding the purification of the chalice and the ablutions, as well as the other variations contained therein.

-- Only the principal Mass may be offered for the priest's personal intention. The second Mass, if offered, must be for all the faithful departed, while the third must be offered for the intention of the Supreme Pontiff.

Mass: For the dead, as found in the Missal for Nov. 2. Black. Omit prayers at the foot of the altar as typical at Requiems. Omit Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Sequence Dies irae (1962: obligatory at the first/principal Mass only, optional at any other Masses offered today). Omit Credo. Preface of the Dead. Requiescant in pace/Amen in place of Ite.

Office: Of the dead. Black. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (all of the Office the Dead). Omit Te Deum. Proper psalms and antiphons of the Office of the Dead. Collect Fidelium. Omit suffrage (1954). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Introitus
4 Esdr 2:34; 2:35
Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine: et lux perpétua lúceat eis.
Ps 64:2-3
Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddétur votum in Jerúsalem: exáudi oratiónem meam, ad te omnis caro véniet.
Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine: et lux perpétua lúceat eis.

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, grant to the souls of Your servants and handmaids the remission of all their sins, that they may obtain by our loving prayers the forgiveness which they have always desired.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
R. Amen

Let us pray.
Commemoration Third Day Within the Octave of All Saints
Almighty, eternal God, Who granted us to honor the merits of all Your Saints in a single solemn festival, bestow on us, we beseech You, through their manifold intercession, that abundance of Your mercy for which we yearn.
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.

Continuation + of the Holy Gospel according to John
R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
John 5:25-29
At that time, Jesus said to the multitudes of the Jews, Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is here, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. For as the Father has life in Himself, even so He has given to the Son also to have life in Himself; and He has granted Him power to render judgment, because He is Son of Man. Do not wonder at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And they who have done good shall come forth unto resurrection of life; but they who have done evil unto resurrection of judgment.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May the prayer of Your suppliants, O Lord, benefit the souls of Your servants and handmaids, that You may deliver them from all sins and make them sharers in Your redemption.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
R. Amen

Let us pray.
Commemoration Third Day Within the Octave of All Saints
Grant Your faithful people, we beseech You, O Lord, ever to rejoice in the veneration of all the Saints, and to be protected by their unceasing prayers.
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.