In Dedicatione Basilicarum Ss. Apostolorum Petri et Pauli ~ Duplex majus

Tempora: Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam XXIII post Octavam Pentecostes IV. Novembris

Tues, 11/18/25: Today is the feast of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Ss. Peter and Paul, App, under the 1954 (double major) and 1962 (III class) rubrics. Mass: Terribilis for the dedication of a church. White. Gloria. Collect Deus qui nobis. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo (1954 only). Common Preface (1962: neo-Gallican Preface for the Dedication of a Church found in some editions of the 1962 Missal may be used where authorized.) Ite. No commemorations. Office: Under 1954, festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = proper lessons, 3rd nocturn = Ingressus Jesus with homily on today's Gospel). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons at Matins from the common of the dedication of a church. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with antiphons from the common. All else from the common. Collect Deus qui nobis. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage. (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Gen 28:17
Terríbilis est locus iste: hic domus Dei est et porta cœli: et vocábitur aula Dei.
Ps 83:2-3
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.
Prayer on the anniversary of the dedication:
O God, Who for us bring each year the recurrence of the consecration day of this Your holy temple, and always bring us back safely to the sacred rites, hear the prayers of Your people and grant that whoever enters this temple to pray for blessings, may rejoice in having obtained whatever he sought.
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 19:1-10
At that time: Jesus entering in, he walked through Jericho. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory (the Great)
Bk. xxviii of Moral Reflections on Job, ch. 27
If we would be truly wise, and behold wisdom herself, we must humbly acknowledge ourselves to be fools. Let us cast away harmful wisdom, and learn praiseworthy folly. For this reason indeed is it written God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise. 1 Cor. 1:27 And again it is said If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 3:18. And unto this doth the very Gospel bear witness, wherein it is said that Zacchaeus sought to see Jesus, Who He was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him; for He was to pass that way. For this name Sycamore, being interpreted, signifieth the Foolish Fig.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
On the day of dedication
We beseech You, almighty God, that in this place which we, all unworthy, have dedicated to Your name, You will give a favorable hearing to all who petition You.
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.