S. Josephi de Cupertino Confessoris ~ Duplex

Tempora: Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam XIV post Octavam Pentecostes III. Septembris

Thurs, 9/18/25:

Today is the feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, C, under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics. Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers. Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = proper with proper responsories). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). Vespers: Under 1954, split Vespers. II Vespers of St. Joseph of Cupertino to the chapter exclusive. White. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. From the chapter onward, I Vespers of Ss. Januarius, B, and Companions, Mm (double). Change to red. All from the common of several martyrs outside Paschaltide. Proper collect. Commemoration of II Vespers of St. Joseph of Cupertino (proper Magnificat antiphon). Omit suffrage. Compline of Thursday. (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Eccli 1:14-15
Diléctio Dei honorábilis sapiéntia: quibus autem apparúerit in visu, díligunt eam in visióne et in agnitióne magnálium suórum.
Ps 83:2.
Quam dilécta tabernácula tua, Dómine virtútum! concupíscit, et déficit ánima mea in átria Dómini.
℣. Glória Patri, …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who willed that all things be drawn unto Your Son when He was raised above the earth, mercifully grant, by the merits and example of Your seraphic Confessor Joseph, that, having been raised above all earthly desires, we may be found worthy to come unto Him.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 22:1-14
At that time Jesus spake unto the chief priests and Pharisees by parables, and said The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great.
Bk. ii. Horn. 38, 9
Dearly beloved brethren, ye have already entered, at the Lord's bidding, into the house where the marriagefeast is being held, that is to say, into the Holy Church, and look ye well to it, that when the King cometh in to see the guests, he see nothing amiss in your soul's wedding-garment. For indeed it is with great searchings of heart that we are behoven to consider that which so soon cometh. “ And when the King came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding-garment.” Dearly beloved brethren, what are we to think is signified by this wedding garment Is it baptism or is it faith? But without baptism, or without faith, who could be seated at the marriage-feast? He that believeth not would still be without the house. What then, except love, must we understand by the wedding-garment He who hath faith and is in the Holy Church, but hath not charity, cometh in unto the wedding indeed, but hath not a wedding-garment. And charity is well called the wedding -garment, for it is the garment wherewithal our Maker decked Himself when He came to wed the Church unto Himself.

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.