S. Joannis a Capistrano Confessoris ~ Semiduplex

Commemoratio: Sabbato infra Hebdomadam Passionis

Sat, 3/28/26:

Today is the feast of St. John of Capistrano, C, under the 1954 (semi-double) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Lenten feria. 3rd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints.

In private (low) Masses offered in parish churches, the Mass of the Lenten feria may be offered in place of the Mass of the feast. Proper Mass. Violet. Station church at St. Lawrence in Lucina. Omit Gloria. Gradual/Tract with genuflection at Adjuva nos. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of St. John of Capistrano. 3rd prayer A cunctis.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Beatus vir with proper responsories, IX = of the feria). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema I). All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper collect. Commemoration of the Lenten feria at Lauds (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Suffrage.

Introitus
Habac 3:18-19
Ego autem in Dómino gaudébo: et exsultábo in Deo, Jesu meo: Deus Dóminus fortitúdo mea.
Ps 80:2
Exsultáte Deo, adjutóri nostro, jubiláte Deo Jacob.
V. Glória Patri, ...

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who, through blessed John, made Your faithful people conquer the enemies of the cross by the power of the most holy name of Jesus, grant, we beseech You, that by his intercession we may avoid the snares of our spiritual enemies, and may be found worthy to receive from You the crown of justice.
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 Sabbato infra Hebdomadam Passionis
O Lord, may the people dedicated to You desire to serve You more and more, that, taught by these sacred rites, they may be enriched by more precious gifts as they grow in favor with Your majesty.
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.

Luke 9:1-6
At that time: Jesus called the twelve Apostles together and gave power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And so on.

Homily by St. Bonaventure, (Cardinal) Bishop of Albano.
On Luke ix.
Apostles are so called as a mark of their authority, for this word Apostle signifieth sent, and they were sent out to preach, as it is written: 1 Cor. i. 17, “Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel.” They were sent to preach not any small thing but a very great thing, even the Kingdom of God, whereby we may understand the teaching of the truth, as it is said, Matth. xxi. 43, The Kingdom of God should be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. The Kingdom of God may also be understood to signify the grace of the Holy Ghost, as it is written: Rom. xiv. 17, “The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost”; as also it was said: Luke xvii. 21, “The Kingdom of God is within you.” The Kingdom of God may also be understood to signify eternal glory, as it is said: John iii. 5, “Amen, I say unto thee, except a man be born again of water and of the Holy Ghost he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Filled with heavenly food and invigorated by the spiritual chalice, we beseech You, almighty God, by the intercession of St. John, Your Confessor, to protect us against our wicked enemy and keep Your Church in lasting peace.
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 Sabbato infra Hebdomadam Passionis
O Lord, our God, we beseech You, that we who have been filled with the riches of Your divine gift may always find life when we partake of it.
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.