S. Philippi Benitii Confessoris ~ Duplex

Tempora: Sabbato infra Hebdomadam X post Octavam Pentecostes III. Augusti

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Color: White

Flowers: Not at the Vigil Mass

Organ: Not at the Vigil Mass

Commemorations: Vigil of St. Bartholomew

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Vigil Mass

Mass

Mass of the feast after Terce, Commemoration and Proper Last Gospel of the Vigil. After None, where possible, Mass of the Vigil, 2nd. Orations of the BVM, 3rd. Orations "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino.. Folded Chasubles: No, dalmatic and tunicle are worn for Common Vigils

Gloria: Yes (No at the Vigil Mass). No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Ordinary (through None)

Matins: Lesson IX of the Vigil

Lauds: Commemoration of the Vigil

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemoration of the Saturday before the 4th. Sunday of August

Compline: Hymn sung in the Solemn Melody

Introitus
Ps 91:13-14
Justus ut palma florébit: sicut cedrus Líbani multiplicábitur: plantátus in domo Dómini: in átriis domus Dei nostri.
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 through St. Philip, Your Confessor, gave us an outstanding example of humility, grant that Your household may follow his example by scorning worldly prosperity and ever seeking the things of heaven.
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 Vigil of St. Bartholomew, Apostle
Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that the worshipful feast of thy blessed Apostle, Bartholomeus on the eve whereof we now stand, may avail us to the increase both of godliness toward thee, and of health to our own souls.
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 Luke
Luke 12:32-35
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. And so on.

Homily by the Venerable Bede, Priest at Jarrow, and Doctor of the Church.
Bk. iv. Ch. 54 on Luke xii.

The elect are called a little flock, perchance because the reprobate are far more in number than they, but, more probably, because they love to be lowly, since it is God's will that however much His Church should grow in numbers, she should grow with lowliness even unto the end of the world, and should enter lowly into that kingdom which is hers by His promise. That kingdom He promiseth to her here, when He biddeth her to seek only the kingdom of God, and, to comfort her in her travail, He doth so sweetly and so graciously say that her Father will give it to her. 

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
We pray You, almighty God, that we who have received heavenly nourishment may thereby, through the intercession of blessed Philip, Your Confessor, be sustained against all harm and danger.
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 Vigil of St. Bartholomew, Apostle
Be appeased, we beseech thee, O Lord, by the prayers of thy holy Apostle, Bartholomeus, and grant us pardon and unfailing remedies.
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.