Thurs, 6/19/25:
Today is the feast of Corpus Christi under the 1954 (double of the I class with privileged octave of the 2nd order) and 1962 (I class) rubrics.
Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Sequence Lauda Sion. Credo. Preface of the Nativity (1954)/Common Preface (1962). (Where authorized, the neo-Gallican Preface of the Blessed Sacrament found in some editions of the 1962 Missal may be used.) Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers. It is customary after the principal (sung) Mass (in Catholic nations, at least, where today is a day of obligation), for a Eucharistic procession to follow Mass. If this occurs, under the 1962 rubrics, the celebrant (or deacon at solemn Mass) sings Benedicamus Domino in place of Ite, missa est. The Last Gospel is omitted under 1962.
Office: Festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons. Te Deum. Proper psalms and antiphons at Matins. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Proper collect of the feast. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). At Prime, V = Qui natus es (1954 only, throughout the octave). (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.
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
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
By use of meat and drink men would fain that “they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more,” Apoc. vii. 16, and yet there is but one Meat and one Drink, Which doth work in them that feed thereon that “this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality,” 1 Cor. xv. 53,namely communion with that general assembly and Church of God's holy children, who are “kept in perfect peace,” Isa. xxvi. 3, and are “all one,” John xvii. 11, fully and utterly. And therefore it is, as men of God before our time have taken it, that our Lord Jesus Christ hath set before us His Body and His Blood in the likeness of things which, from being many, are reduced into one. In one loaf are many grains of corn, and one cup of wine the juice of many grapes. And now He giveth us to know how that which He spake cometh to pass, and how indeed “this Man can give us His Flesh to eat,” and His Blood to drink.
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
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