Dominica IV Post Pascha ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor

Commemoratio: S. Venantii Martyris

Sun, 5/18/25:

Today is the 4th Sunday after Easter 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. Venantius, M. 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 the octave of St. Venantius at Lauds. No commemorations at Lauds under 1962. Omit suffrage (1954 only). (Source: LB236.)

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, of Whom it cometh that the minds of thy faithful people be all of one will, grant unto the same thy people that they may love the thing which Thou commandest, and desire that which Thou dost promise, that so, amid the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found.
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 St. Venantius, Martyr
O God, Who made this day holy by the triumph of blessed Venantius, Your Martyr, listen to the prayers of Your people, and grant that we, who honor his noble deeds, may imitate the constancy of his faith.
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 16:5-14

At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: I go My way to Him That sent Me, and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou? And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

94th Tract on John

The Lord Jesus told His disciples what things they should suffer after that He was gone away from them, and then He said: “These things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you; but now I go My way to Him That sent Me.” Let us first see whether it had been that He had not told them before this what they were to suffer in time coming. That He had done so amply before the night of the last Supper, is testified by the three first Evangelists, but it was when that Supper was ended that, according to John, He said: “These things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.”

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Stand by us, O Lord, our God, that by what we have faithfully received we may be cleansed from our vices and rescued from all dangers.
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 St. Venantius, Martyr
We have partaken of the sacrament of eternal life, humbly entreating You, O Lord, that, through the prayer of blessed Venantius in our behalf, it may gain for us pardon and grace.
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.