Die VI infra Octavam Nativitatis

~ Semiduplex III. ordinis

Mon, 12/30/24:

Today is the 6th day in the octave of Christmas under the 1954 (semi-double) and 1962 (II class) rubrics.

Mass: Mass of the day(s) within the octave of Christmas, formerly assigned to December 30 in older Missals and assigned to December 29-31 inclusive in the 1962 Missal. All as at the 3rd Mass of Christmas (Puer natus est) with Epistle and Gospel of the 2nd Mass of Christmas. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Nativity. Proper Communicantes for Christmas in the Canon. Ite. Under 1954, 2nd prayer Deus qui salutis of Our Lady. 3rd prayer either Ecclesiae tuae for the Church or Deus omnium for the pope. No additional prayers under 1962.

Office: Proper festal (1954)/semi-festal (1962) office for the day(s) within the octave of Christmas. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; lessons = 1st nocturn from the Epistle to the Romans assigned to the 1st nocturn of December 30 in the old Breviary). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons at Matins as at Matins of Christmas Day. At Lauds, all as on Christmas Day (psalms of Sunday, proper antiphons, proper collect). No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). Under 1954, at Prime and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons; all else from the proper. Under 1962, psalms and antiphons of the feria; all else from the proper.

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that the new birth, in the flesh, of Your only-begotten Son may deliver us whom the bondage of old keeps under the yoke of sin.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.