Saturday, September 20, 2025

Ss. Eustachii et Sociorum Martyrum ~ Duplex

Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: Sabbato Quattuor Temporum Septembris

Sat, 9/20/25: Today is the feast of Ss. Eustace and companions, Mm, under the 1954 (double) rubrics. Mass: Sapientiam of several martyrs outside Paschaltide. Red. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Ember Saturday of September. Commemoration is also made of the vigil of St. Matthew, Ap & Ev. At private (low) Masses offered, in parish churches, the celebrant may elect to offer the Mass of the Ember Saturday. Proper Mass. Violet. Omit Gloria. Additional prophecies, tracts, etc., before the Epistle. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Benedicamus. Commemoration of Ss. Eustace et al. and of the vigil of St. Matthew. Last Gospel of the vigil of St. Matthew. Under the same conditions, the celebrant may elect to offer a private Mass of the vigil of St. Matthew. Proper Mass. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual with neither Alleluia nor Tract. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Benedicamus. Commemoration of Ss. Eustace et al and of the Ember Saturday. Last Gospel of the Ember Saturday. Office: Ordinary office. Red. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = occurring Scripture from Tuesday of the 3rd week of September with responsories of the occurring feria, IX = of the Ember Saturday). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of several martyrs outside Paschaltide. Commemoration of the Ember Saturday at Lauds (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect); no commemoration is made of the vigil of St. Matthew in the Office. Omit suffrage. (Source: LB236.)

 Introitus

Eccli 44:15; 44:14
Sapiéntiam Sanctórum narrent populi, et laudes eórum núntiet ecclésia: nómina autem eórum vivent in sǽculum sǽculi.
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 permits us to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Your holy Martyrs, Eustache and his companions, grant that we may enjoy their companionship in everlasting happiness.
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 Sabbato Quattuor Temporum Septembris
Almighty, everlasting God, You Who cure body and soul through healing self-denial, we humbly entreat Your majesty to hear favorably the devout prayer of those who fast, and to grant us help for the present and the future.
Commemoration In Vigilia S. Matthew Apostle
Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that the worshipful feast of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist, Matthew 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 6:17-23
At that time, Jesus came down from the mountain, and stood in the plain, and the company of His disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea, and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon. And so on.

Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.
Bk. v. on Luke vi.
Mark well how Jesus goeth upward with His disciples, and downward to the multitude. How should the multitude behold Christ, save in a lower place? Such go not up to the things which are above; such attain not to the things which are high. And when Jesus cometh down, He findeth such as are diseased for such like go not up to the heights. Hence also Matthew saith that there were there all sick people, iv. 23. Of these every man had need of healing, that, when he had received strength, by and by, he might go up into the mountain. And therefore, being Himself come down, He healeth them in the plain, that is to say, He calleth them away from their lust, and freeth them of their blindness. He cometh down to our wounds, to the end that by a certain use of His nature, and by the abundance thereof, He might make us joint-heirs of the kingdom of heaven.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech You, O almighty and merciful God, that through the intercession of Your holy Martyrs, Eustache and his companions what we take into our mouths we may eat with pure heart.
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 Sabbato Quattuor Temporum Septembris
May Your sacrament, we beseech You, O Lord, produce in us what it contains, and may we share in reality what we now perform as a sacramental rite.
Commemoration In Vigilia S. Matthew Apostle
Be appeased, we beseech thee, O Lord, by the prayers of thy holy Apostle and Evangelist, Matthew, 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.i

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