Feria Secunda infra Octavam Corporis Christi ~ Semiduplex II. ordinis

Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: In Vigilia S. Joannis Baptistæ

Mon, 6/23/25:

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

Mass: As on the feast. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Sequence Lauda Sion (optional at private [low] Masses). Credo. Preface of the Nativity. Celebrant bows his head at the mention of St. John the Baptist in the Canon. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the vigil of St. John the Baptist. 3rd prayer Concede nos of Our Lady.

It is not permissible, per the General Rubrics of the Missal (1920 editio typica, section III [on ferias and vigils], for the Mass of the vigil of St. John the Baptist to be offered today, as it falls within the octave of Corpus Christi this year. The Mass of the octave of Corpus Christi is obligatory at private, parochial, and conventual Masses.

Office: Festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (IX = of the vigil). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons (not doubled) at Matins as on the feast. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with antiphons (not doubled) as on the feast. All else as on the feast of Corpus Christi. Proper collect of the feast. Commemoration of the vigil of St. John the Baptist at Lauds. Omit suffrage. (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Ps 80:17.
Cibávit eos ex ádipe fruménti, allelúja: et de petra, melle saturávit eos, allelúja, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 80:2
Exsultáte Deo, adjutóri nostro: jubiláte Deo Jacob.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, O Lord, that we may always fear and love Your holy Name, for You never fail to guide those whom You firmly establish in Your love.
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 Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that Your household may walk in the way of salvation and, by following the counsels of blessed John the Herald, safely come to our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Whom he foretold.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen

From the Holy Gospel according to John

John 6:56-59

At that time, Jesus said unto the multitudes of the Jews: My Flesh is meat indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

26th Tract on John.

“This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,” v. 50. By “this bread” the Lord here signifieth both the manna, and That Which we receive at the Altar of God. Both these are, as it were, Sacramental signs, differing indeed somewhat in their outward and visible part, but pointing to the Same Thing signified. Hear what the Apostle saith: “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and did all eat the same spiritual meat.” 1 Cor. x. 1-3. This meat was the same spiritually but not really they ate manna we eat Something else. Spiritually they ate What we eat but our fathers not their fathers; unto whom we are like not unto whom they are like. And it is added “And did all drink the same Spiritual drink.” They drank one thing, and we drank Another, the difference being in the outer show, the sameness in that the Same Thing is pointed to by both. And what was that Same Drink? “They drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” Him did bread and rock alike signify. The Rock was a figure, but by the Word and in the Flesh there is the very Christ Himself. And how came they to drink of that rock “Moses lift up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice, and the water came out abundantly.” Num. xx. 11. These two strokes of the rod upon the rock are a figure of the two beams whereof the Cross was made.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
We beseech You, O Lord, that having received Your gifts, each partaking of this sacrament may increase within us its saving 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 Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
May the powerful prayer of blessed John the Baptist go with us, O Lord, and may he plead with our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Whose coming he foretold, to be merciful unto us.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen