In Octava Ascensionis ~ Duplex majus III. ordinis

Commemoratio: S. Bonifatii Episcopi et Martyris

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Color: White

Commemorations: St. Boniface, Bishop & Martyr

Mass

After Terce, Mass of the feast, Commemoration of St. Boniface, no 3rd. Orations.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Ascension

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Proper Communicantes of the Ascension

Office

Doxology: Ascension

Hymn Tone: Ascension

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Boniface

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Boniface

Prime: Verse = "Qui scandis super sidera"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the Octave Day, Commemorations of the following day and of St. Boniface

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 St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
O God, Who, through the zeal of blessed Boniface, Your Martyr and Bishop, graciously called a multitude of people to the knowledge of Your name, mercifully grant that we who keep his feast may also enjoy his patronage.
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.
The Prophet Habakkuk also hath spoken of the glory of Christ's Ascension in the words “The sun was lifted up on high, and the moon stood still in her habitation,” Who is here signified by the Sun, if not the Saviour or by the Moon, if not the Church? Until the Lord was withdrawn from her sight, (that is, by His Ascension,) His Holy Church was pale before the hostile glare of the world, but after He was ascended, she waxed stronger, and distinctly shed forth the beams of that faith which had hitherto dwelt hiddenly in her. “The sun was lifted up, and the moon stood still in her habitation” when the Lord was gone away into heaven, His holy Church waxed stronger in her enlightening power.

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 St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
Made holy by the sacrament of salvation, we beseech You, O Lord, that the prayers of blessed Boniface, Your Martyr and Bishop, under whose patronal care You have granted us to be ruled may never fail us.
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.