Dominica III Adventus ~ Semiduplex Dominica II. classis

Commemoratio: De VII die Infra Octavam Immaculatæ Concept. Beatæ Mariæ Virginis

Sun, 12/14/25:

Today is the 3rd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday of the II class) and 1962 (I class Sunday) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Rose (violet if rose vestments are not available). Omit Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Most Holy Trinity (1962: optional Preface of Advent). Benedicamus (1954)/Ite (1962). Under 1954, commemoration of the octave day of the Immaculate Conception at all Masses. No commemorations or additional prayers under the 1962 rubrics.

At solemn Mass, under the 1954 rubrics, deacon and subdeacon wear rose (or violet) dalmatic and tunicle, respectively, in place of the folded chasubles they wear at all other Sundays and ferial days of Advent. (The use of folded chasubles in the Roman rite was initially suppressed in Holy Week under Pius XII's 1956 reforms, then eliminated from the Roman rite entirely under John XXIII's 1960 Code of Rubrics [effective Jan 1, 1961]). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Introitus
Phil 4:4-6
Gaudéte in Dómino semper: íterum dico, gaudéte. Modéstia vestra nota sit ómnibus homínibus: Dóminus enim prope est. Nihil sollíciti sitis: sed in omni oratióne petitiónes vestræ innotéscant apud Deum.
Ps 84:2
Benedixísti, Dómine, terram tuam: avertísti captivitátem Jacob.
V. Glória Patri, ...

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Lend Your ear to our prayers, O Lord, we beseech You; and brighten the darkness of our minds by the grace of Your coming.
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 Seventh Day Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
O God, Who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, and Who, by Your Son’s death, foreseen by You, preserved her from all taint, grant, we beseech You, through her intercession, that we too may come to You unstained by sin.

de S. Maria Advent
O God, Who, by the message of an Angel, willed to take flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant that we, your suppliants, who believe her to be truly the Mother of God, may be helped by her intercession with You.
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.
R. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to John

John 1:19-28
In that time were sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to John, to ask him: Who art thou? And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory (the Great)
7th on the Gospels
Dearly beloved brethren, the first thing which striketh us in today's Gospel is the lowly-mindedness of John. He was so great that it was thought he might be the Christ; yet he soberly chose rather to seem only what he really was, than to let the belief of men invest him with a dignity which did not belong to him; for he confessed, and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ, at the same time he would not deny what he was in reality; and thus his very truth-speaking made him a member of Him Whose title he would not by falsehood take. In that he arrogated not to himself the name of Christ, he became a member of Christ. While he humbly strove to confess his own weakness, he earned by his simplicity a part in the grandeur of his Master.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
We entreat You, merciful Lord, that these divine helps may cleanse us from our sins and prepare us for the coming festal season.
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.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Seventh Day Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
May the sacrament we have received, O Lord our God, heal in us the wounds of that sin from which by a singular privilege, You kept immaculate the conception of blessed Mary.

de S. Maria Advent
May this Communion, O Lord, cleanse us of sin, and by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, may it make us sharers of heavenly healing.
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.
R. Amen.