Ss. Angelorum Custodum ~ Duplex majus

Tempora: Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam XVI post Octavam Pentecostes I. Octobris

Thurs, 10/2/25: Today is the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels under the 1954 (double major) and 1962 (III class) rubrics. Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo (1954 only). Common Preface. Ite. No commemorations. Office: Under 1954, festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = proper with proper responsories). Te Deum. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage. Under 1962, ordinary office. White. Matins of 1 nocturn of 3 lessons (I & II = proper lessons [1st nocturn of the old Breviary, II = II & III of old Breviary combined], III = lesson IV of the old Breviary). Te Deum. At Lauds, psalms of Sunday with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. At Prime and the hours, psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the proper. (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Ps 102:20
Benedícite Dóminum, omnes Angeli ejus: poténtes virtúte, qui fácitis verbum ejus, ad audiéndam vocem sermónum ejus.
Ps 102:1
Benedic, ánima mea, Dómino: et ómnia, quæ intra me sunt, nómini sancto ejus.
℣. Glória Patri, …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who in Your wondrous providence graciously send Your Angels to watch over us, grant that we who pray to You may be ever under their protection and may rejoice in their unending companionship.
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 18:1-10
At that time, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And so on.

Homily by St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers.
Comm. on Matth. xviii.
Unless ye become as little children, saith the Lord, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, that is, unless by the uprooting of bodily and mental depravity, we bring our souls to the innocency of childhood. But He giveth the name of children to all such as believe by the hearing of faith. Children follow their father, love their mother, know not how to wish evil to their neighbours, are not careful for earthly riches; they insult not, they hate not, they lie not, they believe what they are told, and take for truth what they hear. Us then it behoveth to return to the simpleness of little children, for when we are well rooted therein, we shall so far bear about in ourselves an image of the sublime simpleness of the Lord Jesus.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Rejoicing on the feast of Your holy Angels, O Lord, we have received the divine sacrament; we pray that we may ever be freed, by their protection, from the snares of the enemy and be preserved from all harm.
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.