In Apparitione S. Michaëlis Archangeli ~ Duplex majus

Commemoratio: De II die infra Octavam S. Joseph

Thurs, 5/8/25:

Today is the feast of the Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel, under the 1954 (double major) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of St. Joseph. Ite. The orations from the votive Mass pro eligendo summo pontifice (for the election of a pope) may be added to the orations of the Mass of St. Michael under one conclusion. Commemoration of the octave of St. Joseph under a separate conclusion.

With permission of the local ordinary, a solemn votive Mass pro eligendo summo pontifice may be offered today in red vestments, with Gloria and Credo. The preface of St. Joseph is used (et te in Festivitate), but no commemoration of the octave is made at Mass, nor is commemoration made of St. Michael (cf. Matters Liturgical 1938 ed., nos. 219-223). This Mass should be sung (it is not necessary that deacon and subdeacon be present), but with permission of the ordinary, it may be offered as a low Mass instead if deemed appropriate. (LB236)

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.

℟. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

O God, Who hast ordained and constituted the services of angels and men in a wonderful order, mercifully grant that as thy holy angels alway do thee service in heaven, so, by thy appointment, they may succour and defend us on earth.

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 Die II infra Octavam Patrocinii St Joseph

God, Who in thine unspeakable foreknowledge didst choose thy blessed servant Joseph to be the husband of thine Own most holy Mother; mercifully grant that now that he is in heaven with thee, we who on earth do reverence him for our Defender, may worthily be holpen by the succour of his prayers to thee on our behalf;

Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.

℟. Amen

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 18:1-10
At that time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying: Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And so on.

Homily by St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers.
Com. on Matth. xviii.
Unless ye become as little children,” saith the Lord, “ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven,” that is, unless by the uprooting of bodily and mental depravity, we bring our souls to the innocency of childhood. But He giveth the name of children to all such as believe by the hearing of faith. Children follow their father, love their mother, know not how to wish evil to their neighbours, are not careful for earthly riches they insult not, they hate not, they lie not, they believe what they are told, and take for truth what they hear. Us then it behoveth to return to the simpleness of little children, for when we are well rooted therein, we shall so far bear about in ourselves an image of the sublime simpleness of the Lord Jesus.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Relaying on the intercession of blessed Michael the archangel, we humbly entreat thee, O Lord, that the service we pray with our lips, we may lay hold of with our minds.
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 Die II infra Octavam Patrocinii St Joseph
Refreshed at the fount of divine blessing, we beseech thee, O Lord our God, that as thou dost gladden us by the protection of blessed Joseph, so by his merits and intercession thou woulds make us partakers of his heavenly glory.
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.