Dominica Pentecostes ~ Duplex I. classis

Sun, 6/8/25:

Today is Pentecost Sunday (Whitsunday) under the 1954 (double of the I clas w/privileged octave of the 1st order) and 1962 (I class w/I class octave) rubrics.

Mass: Pro populo. Proper Mass. Station church at St. Peter's. Red. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus. Credo. Preface of Pentecost (Hodierna die). Proper Communicantes and Hanc igitur for Pentecost in the Canon. Ite.

Under 1954, commemorations are not permitted at Mass until Wednesday in the octave; under 1962, commemorations are forbidden throughout the entire octave.

Office: Proper festal office. Red. Proper psalms (3 only) and antiphons at Matins. 1 nocturn of 3 lessons (NB: like Easter, this is a remnant of the earliest practice of the Church). Te Deum. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) w/proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Collect of the feast. No commemorations. Omit suffrage (1954). At Prime, V= Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris.

 Introitus

Sap 1:7.
Spíritus Dómini replévit orbem terrárum, allelúja: et hoc quod cóntinet ómnia, sciéntiam habet vocis, allelúja, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 67:2
Exsúrgat Deus, et dissipéntur inimíci ejus: et fúgiant, qui odérunt eum, a fácie ejus.
℣. Glória Patri …

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, You Who on this day have taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us by that Holy Spirit Himself, to know what is right and ever to rejoice in His help.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John
John 14:13-31
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: If a man love Me, He will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great
30th on the Gospels
Dearly beloved brethren, our best way will be to run briefly through the words which have been read from the Holy Gospel, and thereafter rest for a while quietly gazing upon the solemn subject of this great Festival. This is the day whereon “suddenly there came a sound from heaven,” and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles, and, for fleshly minds, gave them minds wherein the love of God was shed abroad and, while without “there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them,” within, their hearts were enkindled. While they received the visible presence of God in the form of fire, the flames of His love enwrapped them. The Holy Ghost Himself is love whence it is that John saith “God is love.” Whosoever therefore loveth God with all his soul, already hath obtained Him Whom he loveth, for no man is able to love God, if He have not gained Him Whom he loveth.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May the inpouring of the Holy Spirit cleanse our hearts, O Lord, and make them fertile through the dew He sprinkles upon them.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.