Sacratissimi Cordis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi ~ Duplex I. classis

Fri, 6/27/25:

Today is the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus under the 1954 (double of the I class with privileged octave of the 3rd order) and 1962 (I class) rubrics, assigned to the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi.

Mass: Proper Mass. Gloria Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Sacred Heart. Ite. No commemorations.

Today, in all churches, public, and semi-public oratories,  by a 1928 decree of Pope Pius XI (Miserentissimus Redemptor) that raised the feast of the Sacred Heart to the I class and granted it an octave, the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart (O sweet Jesus, Whose overflowing charity for men, etc.) is to be recited before the Blessed Sacrament exposed after Mass, accompanied by the Litany of the Sacred Heart. (NB: This is not to be confused with the Act of Consecration of the Sacred Heart, which is to be recited on the feast of Christ the King.)

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 Corde (throughout the octave under 1954). (Source: LB236.)

 Introitus

Ps 32:11; 32:19
Cogitatiónes Cordis ejus in generatióne et generatiónem: ut éruat a morte ánimas eórum et alat eos in fame.
Ps 32:1
Exsultáte, justi, in Dómino: rectos decet collaudátio.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who in the Heart of Your Son, wounded by our sins, mercifully lavish upon us the infinite riches of love, grant, we beseech You, that as we offer Him the faithful service of our devotion, we may also show forth fitting reparation.
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 John
John 19:31-37
At that time: The Jews, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath Day, for that Sabbath Day was an high day, besought Pilate that their legs might broken, and that they might be taken away. And so on.

A Homily by St. Bonaventure the Bishop
Book of the Tree of Life, num. 30
In order that the Church might be taken out of the side of Christ, in his deep sleep on the Cross, and that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced: it was divinely ordained that one of the soldiers should pierce his sacred side with a spear, and open it. Then forthwith there came flowing out blood and water, which was the price of our salvation, pouring forth from its mountain-source, in sooth, from the secret places of his Heart, to give power to the Sacraments of the Church, to bestow the life of grace, and to be as a saving drink of living waters, flowing up to life eternal for those who were already quickened in Christ. Arise, then, O soul beloved of Christ. Cease not thy vigilance, place there thy lips, and drink the waters from the fount of salvation.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May Your sacrament, O Lord Jesus, give us holy zeal, so that, seeing the sweetness of Your most loving Heart, we may learn to despise the things of earth and love those of heaven.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen