In Nativitate S. Joannis Baptistæ ~ Duplex I. classis

Commemoratio: Feria Tertia infra Octavam Corporis Christi

Nativity of S John the Baptist, Murillo

Tues, 6/24/25:

Today is the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist under the 1954 (double of the I class w/common octave) and 1962 (I class) rubrics.

Mass: Pro populo. Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo (1954: for the octave of Corpus Christi; 1962: as on a normal I class feast). Preface of the Nativity (1954)/Common Preface (1962). Celebrant bows his head at mention of St. John (2nd) in the Canon. Ite. Under 1954, commemoration of the octave of Corpus Christi. No commemorations under 1962.

By ancient tradition, the Credo is omitted today (and throughout the octave) under the 1954 rubrics, even though today is of the I class, unless this feast falls on Sunday or St. John the Baptist is the titular of the local church. However, it is said today due to this feast falling within the octave of Corpus Christi this year. Under 1962, the Credo is said today as on any other feast of the I class. The Preface of the Nativity is used today under 1954 for the octave of Corpus Christi. Also under 1962, the neo-Gallican preface of St. John the Baptist found in some editions of the 1962 Missal may be said where authorized; alternatively, the preface introduced in 2020 may be used.

Office: Proper festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons. Proper psalms and antiphons at Matins. Te Deum. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Collect of the feast. Under 1954, commemoration of the octave of Corpus Christi at Lauds. No commemorations at Lauds under 1962. Omit suffrage (1954). (LB236.)

Introitus
Isa 49:1; 49:2
De ventre matris meæ vocávit me Dóminus in nómine meo: et pósuit os meum ut gládium acútum: sub teguménto manus suæ protéxit me, et pósuit me quasi sagíttam eléctam.
Ps 91:2
Bonum est confitéri Dómino: et psállere nómini tuo, Altíssime.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who made this a day most worthy of our celebration because of blessed John; grant Your people the grace of spiritual joys and direct the minds of all the faithful into the path of eternal salvation.
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 Feria Tertia infra Octavam Corporis Christi
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.
26/A Tract on John.
“Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead.” Wherefore did they eat and die Because they believed only that which they saw and that which they saw not, they understood not. Therefore were they your fathers, because ye are like unto them. Doth this death, my brethren, mean that death which is outward and bodily And do not we also die, who eat of that Bread Which cometh down from heaven That death died they, and so shall we also, as far, as I have said, as is meant that death which is outward and bodily.

Postcommunio
S. Dóminus vobíscum.
℟. Et cum spíritu tuo.
Orémus.
Sumat Ecclésia tua, Deus, beáti Joánnis Baptístæ generatióne lætítiam: per quem suæ regeneratiónis cognóvit auctórem, Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum:
Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

Orémus.
Commemoratio Feria Tertia infra Octavam Corporis Christi
Fac nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, divinitátis tuæ sempitérna fruitióne repléri: quam pretiósi Corporis et Sanguinis tui temporalis percéptio præfigúrat:
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.