Feria II infra Octavam Ascensionis ~ Semiduplex III. ordinis

Commemoratio: Ss. Marcellini, Petri, atque Erasmi, Episcopi, Martyrum

Mon, 6/2/25:

Today is the 5th day in the octave of the Ascension under the 1954 (semi-double) rubrics.

Mass: As on the feast. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Ascension. Proper Communicantes for the Ascension in the Canon. Celebrant bows his head at the mention of Ss. Marcellinus and Peter in the Canon. Ite. Commemoration of Ss. Marcellinus, Peter, and Erasmus, B, Mm. 3rd prayer Concede nos of Our Lady.

Office: Festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (IX = of Ss. Marcellinus, Peter, and Erasmus). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons at Matins as on the feast of the Ascension (no doubling of the antiphons before each psalm and at the Benedictus and Magnificat). At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with antiphons as on the feast of the Ascension. All else as on the feast of the Ascension. Collect of the feast. Commemoration of Ss. Marcellinus et al. at Lauds. Omit suffrage. (LB236.)

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.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Sts. Marcellinus, Peter, and Erasmus, Martyrs
O God, Who gladden us each year by the feast of Your holy Martyrs, Marcellinus, Peter and Erasmus, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in their merits, we may be inspired by their example.
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.

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.
Same as before.
“So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.” We learn in the Old Testament, 4 Kings ii., that Elijah was taken up into heaven. But this word “heaven” may mean either the terrestrial atmosphere, or the space external to the sphere of this planet. Of these the atmosphere closely surrounds the earth, and we call the birds “the fowls of the heaven,” because we see them fly therein. It was only up into this that Elijah was taken, that he might be carried off suddenly into some part of the earth, to us unknown, and there live in profound peace of body and soul, until the end of the world, when he will return and pay the debt of nature. For him, therefore, death waiteth, but is not escaped. But our Redeemer made it not to wait for Him, but conquered it, and by rising again shattered it, and by His Ascension showed forth the glory of His Again-rising.

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.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Sts. Marcellinus, Peter, and Erasmus, Martyrs
We who have been filled with Your sacred gifts, humbly pray You, O Lord, that, what we celebrate as an act of our bounded duty, we may feel in the increase of Your saving grace.
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.