Dominica infra Octavam Ascensionis ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor

Commemoratio: S. Paschalis Baylon Confessoris

Sun, 5/17/26:

Today is the Sunday within the octave of the Ascension under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday) rubrics, retitled simply the Sunday after the Ascension in the 1962 (II class Sunday) books following the 1955 suppression of the Ascension octave.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Ascension. Proper Communicantes for the Ascension in the Canon (1954 only). Ite. Under 1954, commemoration of St. Paschal Baylon, C, and of the octave of the Ascension (orations of the feast). No commemorations under 1962. (LB236.)

Introitus

Ps 26:7; 26:8; 26:9
Exáudi, Dómine, vocem meam, qua clamávi ad te, allelúja: tibi dixit cor meum, quæsívi vultum tuum, vultum tuum, Dómine, requíram: ne avértas fáciem tuam a me, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 26:1
Dóminus illuminátio mea et salus mea: quem timébo?
℣. Glória Patri,  ...

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Almighty and eternal God, give us a will ever dedicated to You, and a true heart to serve Your majesty.
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. Pascal Baylon Confessor
O God, Who endowed blessed Paschal, Your Confessor, with a wondrous love for the sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood, mercifully grant that we may be found worthy to share in the same spiritual abundance he received in this divine banquet.
Pro Octava Ascensionis
Concéde, quǽsumus, oninípotens Deus: ut, qui hodiérna die Unigénitum tuum, Redemptórem nostrum, ad cœlos ascendísse crédimus; ipsi quoque mente in cœléstibus habitémus.
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.
R. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to John
John 15:26-27; 16:1-4
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: When the Comforter is come, Whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, Which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Tract 92 on John
The Lord Jesus, in that discourse which He addressed to His disciples after the Last Supper, when He was on the very eve of the Passion, when He was, as it were, about to go away and leave them as touching His bodily Presence, albeit as touching His spiritual Presence, He is with us alway even unto the end of the world, Matth. xxviii. 20, in that discourse He exhorted them to bear patiently the persecution of wicked men, of whom He speaketh as “the world”, out of which world, nevertheless, He saith that He hath chosen even His disciples themselves, xv. 19,that they might know that it was by the grace of God that they were what they were, 1 Cor. xv. 10, whereas it was by their own sins that they had been what they had been.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
We who have been filled with heavenly gifts beseech You, O Lord, grant us to continue giving thanks to You.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.
Commemoration St. Pascal Baylon Confessor

Refreshed with Heavenly food and drink, we humbly beseech Thee, our God, that we may be defended by her prayers, I whose memory we have partaken in these Mysteries. Through the Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God

Let us pray.
Pro Octava Ascensionis.
Præsta nobis, quǽsumus, omnípotens et miséricors Deus: ut, quæ visibílibus mystériis suménda percépimus, invisíbili consequámur efféctu.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.