In Ascensione Domini ~ Duplex I. classis

Thurs, 5/29/25:

Today is the feast of the Ascension of Our Lord under the 1954 (double of the I class with privileged octave of the 3rd order) and 1962 (I class) rubrics.

Mass: Pro populo. Proper Mass. Station church at St. Peter's. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Ascension. Proper Communicantes for the Ascension in the Canon (said throughout the octave under 1954). Ite. No commemorations. At the principal Mass, the Paschal candle is extinguished after the Gospel has been chanted; it is removed from the sanctuary at the conclusion of the last Mass of the day.

Office: Festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons. Te Deum. Proper psalms and antiphons at Matins. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Proper collect of the feast. At Prime, V= Qui scandis super sidera from today until the vigil of Pentecost inclusive.

Introitus

Acta 1:11
Viri Galilǽi, quid admirámini aspiciéntes in cœlum? allelúja: quemádmodum vidístis eum ascendéntem in cœlum, ita véniet, allelúja, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 46:2
Omnes gentes, pláudite mánibus: jubiláte Deo in voce exsultatiónis.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thine Only-Begotten Son our Saviour to have this day ascended into the heavens, so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with Him continually dwell.
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.

From the Holy Gospel according to Mark
Mark 16:14-20
At that time, Jesus appeared unto the eleven disciples as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen Him after He was risen. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great
29th on the Gospels
I may be allowed to say that the disciples' slowness to believe that the Lord had indeed risen from the dead, was not so much their weakness as our strength. In consequence of their doubts, the fact of the Resurrection was demonstrated by many infallible proofs. These proofs we read and acknowledge. What then assureth our faith, if not their doubt? For my part, I put my trust in Thomas, who doubted long, much more than in Mary Magdalene, who believed at once. Through his doubting, he came actually to handle the holes of the Wounds, and thereby closed up any wound of doubt in our hearts.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant us, we beseech thee, almighty and merciful God, that what we have taken and received in visible mysteries, may profit us by its invisible effects.
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.