Sanctæ Mariæ Sabbato ~ IV. classis

Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: SS. Faustini et Jovitæ Martyrum

Sat, 2/15/25:

Today is the anticipated 6th Sunday after Epiphany under the 1954 (semi-double) rubrics. Under the Divino afflatu rubrics, whenever there are not enough Sundays in November before Advent for the Sundays after Epiphany that could not be observed before Septuagesima to be celebrated, that Sunday must be anticipated on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday with all rights and privileges of an ordinary Sunday.

Mass: Proper Mass. Green. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Most Holy Trinity. Ite. Commemoration of Ss. Faustinus and Jovita, Mm. 3rd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints.

Office: Ferial office. Green. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Incipit Epistola ad Hebraeos for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany, 2nd and 3rd nocturns = of the anticipated Sunday) with responsories of the anticipated Sunday. Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of Saturday. All else from the Saturday office per annum. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Collect of the anticipated Sunday. Commemoration of Ss. Faustinus and Jovita at Lauds. Suffrage of the saints. At Prime, announce at the beginning of the martyrology Dominica Septuagesimae, etc. (Source: LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant us, Your servants, O Lord God, we beseech You, to enjoy lasting health of mind and body; and by the intercession of glorious and blessed Mary, ever Virgin, may we be delivered from present sorrow and partake to the full of eternal happiness.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration SS. Faustini et Jovitae
O God, Who gladden us each year by the feast of Your holy Martyrs, Faustinus and Jovita, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in their merits, we may be inspired by their example.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.