Feria Sexta infra octavam Corporis Christi ~ Semiduplex II. ordinis

Commemoratio: S. Silverii Papæ et Martyris

Fri, 6/20/25:

Today is the 2nd 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. Ite. Comm emoration of St. Silverius, P & M. 3rd prayer Concede nos of Our Lady.

Office: Festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons. 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 St. Silverius at Lauds (collect Gregem tuum). Omit suffrage.

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.
O God, You Who in this wondrous sacrament have left us a memorial of Your passion, grant us, we beseech You, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood that we may ever experience within us the effect of Your redemption.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen

Let us pray.
Commemoration St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr
Look forgivingly on thy flock, Eternal Shepherd, and keep it in thy constant protection, by the intercession of blessed Silverius thy Martyr and Sovereign Pontiff, whom thou didst constitute Shepherd of the whole Church.
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 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
27th Tract on John.
We have heard from the Gospel the words of the Lord which follow [those that formed the subject of my earlier discourse. To your ears and understandings we owe a discourse on these also, and to-day it becometh very well, for it is upon that Body of the Lord, Which He professeth Himself that He “will give for the life of the world,” “that a man may eat thereof and not die.” He hath made manifest how He giveth, and What is His Gift, where He saith: “He that eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood, dwelleth in Me and I in him.” The sign to show whether a man hath or hath not eaten that Flesh and drunk that Blood, is whether or not he dwelleth in Christ and Christ in him, whether or not he is a guest of Christ and Christ of his, whether or not he so cleaveth unto Christ, that Christ be not parted from him.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech You, O Lord, that we may be filled with that everlasting enjoyment of Your Godhead, as foreshadowed here on earth by the partaking of Your precious Body and Blood.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen

Let us pray.
Commemoration St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr
Being appeased, O Lord, guide thy Church, which has been nourished by holy refreshment, that under thy direction and powerful rule it may receive increase of liberty and may continue in religious integrity.
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.