S. Francisci Caracciolo Confessoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: Feria IV infra Octavam Ascensionis

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Color: White

Commemorations: Octave of the Ascension

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration of the Octave, no 3rd. Orations.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Ascension

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Proper Communicantes of the Ascension

Office

Doxology: Ascension

Hymn Tone: Ascension

Lauds: Commemoration of the Octave

Prime: Verse = "Qui scandis super sidera"

Vespers: FIrst Vespers of the following day, Commemorations of St. Francis and of St. Boniface (Restorethe54.com)

Introitus
Ps 68:10.
Factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquéscens in médio ventris mei: quóniam zelus domus tuæ comédit me. Allelúja, allelúja
Ps 72:1
Quam bonus Israël Deus: his, qui recto sunt corde!
℣. Glória Patri,

Ps 68:10.
Factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquéscens in médio ventris mei: quóniam zelus domus tuæ comédit me. Allelúja, allelúja
Ps 72:1
Quam bonus Israël Deus: his, qui recto sunt corde!
℣. Glória Patri,

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who endowed blessed Francis, the founder of a new Order, with zeal for prayer and love of penance, grant that Your servants may make such progress in imitating him, that, praying constantly and bringing their bodies under control, they may be found worthy to attain heavenly glory.
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 IV infra Octavam Ascensionis
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.

From the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 12:35-40
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great.
13th on the Gospels.
Dearly beloved brethren, the words of the Holy Gospel, which have just been read, lie open before you, and, lest their very plainness should make them seem to some to be hard, we will go through them with such shortness as that neither may they which understand not remain unenlightened, nor they which understand be wearied. The Lord saith Let your loins be girded about. Now, we gird our loins about, when by continency we master the lustful inclination of the flesh. But, forasmuch as it sufficeth not for a man to abstain from evil deeds, if he strive not to join thereto the earnest doing of good works, it is immediately added And your lights burning. Our lights burn when, by good works, we give bright example to our neighbour; concerning which works the Lord saith Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Which is in heaven. Matth. v. 16.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O Lord, may the most holy sacrifice, which we have today offered unto Your majesty on the feast of blessed Francis leave in our minds an enduring memory and lasting results.
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 IV infra Octavam Ascensionis
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.