Dominica II Post Pascha ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor

Commemoratio: S. Monicæ Viduæ

℟.br. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúja, allelúja.
℟. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúja, allelúja.
℣. Et appáruit Simóni.
℟. Allelúja, allelúja.
℣. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúja, allelúja.

℣. Gavísi sunt discípuli, allelúja.
℟. Viso Dómino, allelúja.

Sun, 5/4/25:

Today is the 2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday) and 1962 (II class Sunday) rubrics. 

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of Easter. Ite. Under 1954, commemoration of St. Monica, Wid. No commemorations under 1962.

Office: Sunday office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; lesson II = II & III of the old Breviary combined, III = lesson VII of the old Breviary). Te Deum. Psalms of Sunday with Paschaltide antiphon. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon at Lauds. Under 1954, commemoration of St. Monica at Lauds. No commemorations under 1962. Omit suffrage (1954 only). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.

℟. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

O God, who, by the humility of Thy Son, didst lift up a fallen world, grant unending happiness to Thy faithful: that those whom Thou hast snatched from the perils of endless death, Thou mayest cause to rejoice in everlasting days.

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.

Let us pray.

Commemoration S. Monicae Viduae

O God, the consoler of those Who mourn and the safety of those who put their trust in You; Who mercifully accepted the holy tears of blessed Monica for the conversion of Augustine, her son; grant us through the intercession of both to bewail our sins and to obtain the grace of Your forgiveness.

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.

From the Holy Gospel according to John

John 10:11-16

At that time, Jesus said unto the Pharisees: I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth His life for His sheep. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great.

14th on the Gospels

Dearly beloved brethren, ye have heard from the Holy Gospel what is at once your instruction, and our danger. Behold, how He Who, not by the varying gifts of nature, but of the very essence of His being, is Good, behold how He saith: I am the Good Shepherd. And then He saith what is the character of His goodness, even of that goodness of His which we must strive to copy: The Good Shepherd giveth His life for the Sheep. As He had foretold, even so did He; as He had commanded, so gave He example. The Good Shepherd gave His life for the sheep, and made His Own Body and His Own Blood to be our Sacramental Food, pasturing upon His Own Flesh the sheep whom He had bought.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant unto us, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that having received the grace of a new life, we may ever glory in Thy gift.
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 S. Monicae Viduae
Thou hast fed thy servants, O Lord, with the holy gifts; comfort us ever we pray, by her intercession whose festival we celebrate.
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.