In Commemoratione Omnium Fidelium Defunctorum ~ Duplex

Tempora: Sabbato infra Hebdomadam XXIII post Octavam Pentecostes V. Octobris

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Sat, 11/2/24:

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 Rwitter/X.)

℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
O God, who art thyself at once the Maker and the Redeemer of all thy faithful ones, grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids remission of all their sins, making of our entreaties unto our great Father a mean whereby they may have that forgiveness which they have ever hoped for.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.

℟. Amen.