S. Joannis Gualberti Abbatis ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: Ss. Naboris et Felicis Martyrum

Sat, 7/12/25:

Today is the feast of St. John Gualbert, Ab, under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass (most from Os justi of an abbot). White. Collect Intercessio nos of an abbot. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. Commemoration of Ss. Nabor and Felix, Mm, at all Masses (1954)/conventual and low Mass only (1962).

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; II = II & III of occurring Scripture, III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Collect Intercessio nos of an abbot. Commemoration of Ss. Nabor and Felix at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Ps 36:30-31
Os justi meditábitur sapiéntiam, et lingua ejus loquétur judícium: lex Dei ejus in corde ipsíus.
Ps 36:1
Noli æmulári in malignántibus: neque zeláveris faciéntes iniquitátem.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who gladden us with the annual feast of blessed John, Your Confessor, mercifully grant that, while honoring the anniversary of his death, we may also imitate his deeds.
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 Sts. Nabor and Felix Martyrs
Grant we beseech You, O Lord, that as we never fail to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Your holy Martyrs, Nabor and Felix, so may we always be accompanied by their prayers.
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 Matthew
Matt 5:43-48
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy. And so on.

Homily by St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
Bk. i., Cowan. on Matth. v. and vi.
But I say unto you Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you. There are many who judge of the commandments of the Lord by their own weakness, and not by the strength of His Saints and so deem Him to have commanded things impossible. These are they who think that not to hate their enemies is all that they are able to do and that to command us to love them, is to command more than man's nature can bear. It behoveth then to know, that this which Christ commandeth is not impossible, albeit perfect. This is what David did in respect of Saul and Absalom the martyr Stephen also prayed for his enemies, even while they were stoning him and Paul could wish that himself were accursed from Christ for his persecutors. (Rom. ix. well as taught, when He said Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Luke xxiii. 34.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Refreshed with heavenly food and drink, we humbly pray You, our God, that we also may be helped by his prayers in memory of whom we have partaken of these gifts.
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 Sts. Nabor and Felix Martyrs
On the anniversary of the death of Your Saints, we beseech You, O Lord, that, being strengthened by the gift of the sacrament, we may enjoy forever the good things with which, through Your grace, we are now comforted.
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.