Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Quinta die infra Octavam Omnium Sanctorum ~ Semiduplex

Tempora: Feria Quarta infra Hebdomadam XXI post Octavam Pentecostes I. Novembris


Die 5 Novembris: Sancta Missa Sacrarum Reliquiarum

Wed, 11/5/25: Today is the 5th day in the octave of All Saints under the 1954 (semi-double) rubrics. Mass: As on the feast. White. Gloria. Credo. Common Preface. Ite. 2nd prayer Deus qui corda of the Holy Ghost. 3rd prayer either Ecclesiae tuae for the Church or Deus omnium for the Pope.

N.B. M.P.A.L. Sancta Missa Sacrarum Reliquiarum (Ed.) Under the 1954 rubrics, one sung Requiem Mass (for the anniversary) may be celebrated today if the devotion of the faithful calls for it. Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons. Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the proper for the octave. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Collect of the feast. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage. (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino, diem festum celebrántes sub honóre Sanctórum ómnium: de quorum sollemnitáte gaudent Angeli et colláudant Fílium Dei.
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.
Almighty, eternal God, Who granted us to honor the merits of all Your Saints in a single solemn festival, bestow on us, we beseech You, through their manifold intercession, that abundance of Your mercy for which we yearn.
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 5:1-12
At that time Jesus seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
Bk. i. on the Lord's Sermon, Ch. 4
First, Blessed are the poor in spirit. Secondly, Blessed are the meek. Thirdly, Blessed are they that mourn. They that are blessed under this third head, having knowledge, do mourn that they possess not yet the Highest Good, which possession belongeth unto the end of their course. But in the fourth place, Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Here there is that earnest striving, wherewith the mind doth struggle to tear herself away from those things whose deathful sweetness would make her fain to cling unto them. Here is hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and there is sore need of firmness, for what it is a joy to have, it must be a grief to lose. But the fifth head is the declaration that Blessed are the merciful, and in these words a door of comfort and reward is opened unto the toiling. Entangled in such straits a man can be of no use to himself, unless One That is stronger than he help him; and if he be helped of the Stronger, it is but just that he in turn should help such as is weaker than himself. And so, Blessed are the merciful, for, in their turn, they shall obtain mercy from God.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant Your faithful people, we beseech You, O Lord, ever to rejoice in the veneration of all the Saints, and to be protected by their unceasing prayers.
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.

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