~ Semiduplex Dominica minor
Commemoratio: Ss. Marii, Marthæ, Audifacis et Abachum Martyrum
Sun, 1/19/25:
Today is the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday) and 1962 (II class Sunday) rubrics.
Mass: Proper Mass. Green. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Most Holy Trinity. Ite. Under 1954, commemoration of Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum, Mm, and of St. Canute, King & M. No commemorations or additional prayers under the 1962 rubrics.
Office: Sunday office. Green. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; I & II from occurring Scripture [Incipt Epistola secunda ... ad Corinthios] as in the 1st nocturn of the old Breviary [II = II & III combined]; III = lesson VII of the old Breviary). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of Sunday. All else from the Sunday office per annum. Invitatory at Matins Adoremus Dominum with hymn Primo die on all Sundays from today until Septuagesima Sunday exclusive. At Lauds, hymn Aeterne rerum Conditor on Sundays until the 1st Sunday in Lent exclusive. Collect of the Sunday. At Lauds, under 1954, commemoration of Ss. Marius et al. and of St. Canute. No commemorations under 1962. Suffrage of the saints (1954 only). At Prime, recite the Athanasian Creed (Quicumque) after the 3rd psalm (1954 only). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)
Liturgy: Second Sunday after Epiphany - The Wedding
Almighty God, faithful to His promise to Abraham and his children, sent His Son to save His people; while in His mercy He willed to redeem the heathen as well. Therefore Christ is the King whom, as its Redeemer, the whole world must hail and adore (Introit and Gradual).
In this miracle at Cana, a type of the Holy Eucharist, did our Lord formally manifest His divinity, i.e. His character as divine and therefore royal, and "His disciples believed in Him". The turning of water into wine is a type of transubstantiation, called by St. Thomas the greatest of all miracles, by which the wine of the Eucharist becomes the blood of the covenant of peace which God has made with His Church. Since also the divine King wishes to espouse our souls and since, as Bossuet says, it is through the Eucharist that this mystical marriage is consummated, the marriage feast at Cana also signifies the union of the Word with His spouse the Church.
"Having been invited to the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee," says St. Augustine, "our Lord attended, that being alone the author of the sacrament of Matrimony, He might confirm conjugal chastity." He also meant to make known to us the mystery of which these nuptials were the sign, that is, the union of Christ with His Church. For even those who, by a vow, have bound themselves to almighty God in the virginal state are not without nuptials since, with the whole Church, they have a part in the nuptials in which Christ Himself is the Spouse, and in this case, our Lord is typified by the bridegroom who kept to the end the good wine, that is, the Gospel.
Liturgical note: the Time after Epiphany begins on January 14 and lasts so far as the Temporal cycle is concerned, until Septuagesima, and in the Sanctoral cycle until the Purification, February 2.
Source: Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945, adapted and abridged.
Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Almighty, everlasting God, You Who govern both the heavens and the earth, graciously hear the humble prayers of Your people and grant us Your peace all the days of our life.
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 S. Maurii et Soc. Mart.
O Lord, hear Your people as they humbly pray in union with the patronal intercession of Your saints, that You would grant us to enjoy peace during our life on earth and to find help for life eternal.
Commemoration S. Canuti Regis et Martyrum
O God, Who for the glory of Your Church, have graciously honored blessed King Canute with the palm of martyrdom and glorious miracles, mercifully grant that, as he was an imitator of the Lord’s passion, so may we, walking in his footsteps, be found worthy to enter into everlasting joys.
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.
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