Tempora: Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam II post Octavam Paschæ
Tues, 5/6/25:
Today is the feast of St. John, Ap, Before the Latin Gate under the 1954 (double major) rubrics.
Mass: Proper Mass. Red. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Apostles. Celebrant bows his head at the mention of St. John in the Canon. Ite. No commemorations.
Office: Festal office. Red. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Quod fuit [incipit of the 1st Epistle of St. John], taken from the Sunday in the octave of the Ascension with responsories from the common of apostles in Paschaltide). Te Deum. At Matins, psalms and antiphons from the common of apostles in Paschaltide. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with antiphons from the common of apostles in Paschaltide. All else from the common of apostles in Paschaltide. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage. At Prime, announce at the beginning of the martyrology Solemnitas sancti Joseph etc. (LB236 on Twitter/X.)
Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Which seest that sins and sufferings do on every side rise up to trouble us, grant, we beseech thee, that we may find a shield in time of need through the glorious intercession of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist John.
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.
John was both an Apostle, and an Evangelist, and a Prophet. He was an Apostle, in that he wrote to the Churches, as their Teacher. He was an Evangelist, in that he wrote one of the Gospels, the like whereto was not done by any other of the twelve Apostles, save Matthew. He was a Prophet, in that when he was in the isle of Patmos, whither he had been banished by Domitian on account of his uplifting of his testimony for the Lord, he saw there that Apocalypse which containeth such unfathomable mysteries concerning “things which shall be hereafter.” Apoc. i. 19. Tertullian also saith that when he was at Rome, he was put into a vessel of boiling oil, but that he came out cleaner and healthier than he went in.
-S Jerome
From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 20:20-23
AT that time: Came to Jesus the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshipping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him. And so on.
Homily by St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
Comment, on Matt. xx. Bk. 3
Whence had the mother of Zebedee's children gotten her idea of the Lord's kingdom He had but just said “The Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him.” He had told His trembling disciples of the outrages that awaited Him in His Passion and yet that mother came to Him to ask for her sons a share in the glory of His Triumph. I think it was because the Lord, after He had said all the rest, had said also “And the third day He shall rise again.” The woman supposed that after His resurrection His kingdom would immediately be established, and that that would be fulfilled at His first coming which is promised at His second. And so, with womanly haste, she forgetteth the future, and catcheth at the present…
…The question ariseth, how the two sons of Zebedee, James namely and John, drank of the cup of contention even unto blood against sin, seeing that though we know by the Scriptures that “Herod the king killed James the brother of John with the sword,” yet John ended his earthly life by a natural death. But if we read the Records of the Church, we shall find there told how that John, on account of his testifying to the truth, was cast into a vessel of boiling oil, and although the holy champion came out unhurt and continued his pilgrimage here for a while longer, before he received his crown from Christ's hand, being straightway banished into the isle of Patmos, yet we see that he had the soul of a martyr, and drank the same cup of martyrdom that was drunk by the three children in the burning fiery furnace, albeit the persecutor did not actually shed his blood.
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