Sunday, October 5, 2025

Dominica XVII Post Pentecosten II. Octobris ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor

Commemoratio: Ss. Placidi et Sociorum Martyrum

Sun, 10/5/25: Today is the 17th Sunday after Pentecost under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday) and 1962 (II class Sunday) rubrics. Mass: Proper Mass. Green. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Most Holy Trinity. Ite. Under 1954, commemoration of Ss. Placid and Companions, Mm. 3rd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints. No commemorations or additional prayers under 1962. Office: Sunday office. Under 1954, liturgical 2nd Sunday of October; under 1962, liturgical 1st Sunday of October. Green. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962: I & II = Incipit liber Machaebaorum, II = lessons II & III of the old Breviary combined, III = lesson VII of the old Breviary). Te Deum. Under 1962, at Matins, Invitatory Adoremus, hymn Primo die, and Lauds hymn Aeterne rerum from today through all Sundays before Advent that take the Sunday office. (NB: Under the 1954 rubrics, this change took place last Sunday, as it always occurs on the liturgical 1st Sunday of October.) Psalms and antiphons of Sunday (Prime = 117, 118.1, 118.2). All else from the Sunday office per annum. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Collect of the Sunday. Under 1954, commemoration of Ss. Placid and Companions at Lauds. No commemorations under 1962. Under 1954, suffrage of the saints. At Prime under 1954, recite the Athanasian Creed (Quicumque) after the 3rd psalm at Prime. (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Ps 118:137; 118:124
Justus es, Dómine, et rectum judícium tuum: fac cum servo tuo secúndum misericórdiam tuam.
Ps 118:1
Beáti immaculáti in via: qui ámbulant in lege Dómini.
℣. Glória Patri, …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech You, O Lord, that Your people may avoid the temptations of the devil, and with pure minds follow You, the only God.
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. Placidus and Companions Martyrs
O God, Who permits us to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Your holy Martyrs, Placid and his companions, grant that we may enjoy their companionship in everlasting happiness.

Collect of the Saints
From all perils of soul and body defend us, O Lord, we beseech thee, and by the intercession of blessed and gloriosus ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of blessed N. and all the Saints, graciously grant us safety and peace that all adversities and errors being overcome, thy Church may serve thee in security and freedom.
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 Matthew
Matt 22:34-46
At that time, the Pharisees came unto Jesus, and one of them, which was a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, saying: Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? And so on.

Homily by St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople.
72nd on Matthew.
When the Pharisees had heard that Christ had put the Sadducees to silence, they gathered themselves together for a fresh attack just when it behoved them to be quiet, they willed to contend and so they put forward one of themselves who professed skill in the law, not wishing to learn, but to lay a snare. This person therefore proposed the question: “Which is the great commandment in the law?” The first and great commandment is: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,” but they expected that He would make some exception or addition to this in His Own case, since He made Himself God. John x. 33.With this expectation they asked Him the question, but what said Christ? To show that they had adopted this course, because they were loveless, and sick with envy, He answered: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
By the workings of Your sanctifying power, almighty God, may our vices be cured and eternal remedies provided for us.
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. Placidus and Companions Martyrs
Grant, we beseech You, O almighty and merciful God, that through the intercession of Your holy Martyrs, Placid and his companions what we take into our mouths we may eat with pure heart.

Of the Saints
May the offering of this divine Sacrament cleanse and protect us, O Lord we beseech thee, and by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of blessed N. and all the Saints, may it purify us from all sin, and free us from all adversity.
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.

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