Ss. Nerei, Achillei et Domitillæ Virg. atque Pancratii Martyrum ~ Semiduplex

Tempora: Feria Tertia in Rogationibus

Tues, 5/12/26:

Today is the feast of Ss. Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, V, and Pancras, Mm, under the 1954 (semi-double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Red. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Omit Credo. Preface of Easter. Ite. Under 1954, commemoration is made of Rogation Tuesday (prayer of the Mass Exaudivit). 3rd prayer Concede nos of Our Lady. No commemorations or additional prayers under 1962.

Under 1954, if the procession precedes Mass, the sung Mass of Rogation Tuesday is to be celebrated. All as on Rogation Monday (Mass Exaudivit, etc.). Station church at St. John Lateran. Commemoration is made of Ss. Nereus et al. 3rd prayer Concede nos.

Under 1962, provided the local ordinary has not transferred the observance of the Rogation Days within the diocese to a different set of three consecutive days, the Mass of Rogation Tuesday may be offered as a II class votive Mass provided it is preceded by the procession. All as on Rogation Monday (Mass Exaudivit, etc.) Commemoration of Ss. Nereus et al. at low Mass only. No 3rd prayer. Under 1962, the prayers at the foot of the altar are omitted entirely following the procession at both sung and low Mass. (LB236)

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May the holy feast of Your Martyrs, Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras, ever comfort us, we beseech You, O Lord, and make us worthy to serve 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.

Let us pray.
de S. Maria
Grant us, Your servants, O Lord God, we beseech You, to enjoy lasting health of mind and body; and by the intercession of glorious and blessed Mary, ever Virgin, may we be delivered from present sorrow and partake to the full of eternal happiness.

for the Church
Mercifully hear the prayers of thy Church, we beseech thee, O Lord, that all adversities and errors being overcome, she may serve thee in security and feedom.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to John
John 4:46-53
At that time There was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great.
28th Sermon, viz. that preached on the Birth-day and in the Church of these Holy Martyrs.
Wherefore was it that when this nobleman besought the Lord to come down where his child died, the Lord (albeit He healed him) would not come, and yet, when the Centurion prayed Him to heal his servant, albeit not asked to come down, He went with them He deemed not that the nobleman's son was worthy of His bodily presence, but He refused not to go to help the Centurion's servant. What is this but a rebuke to earthly pride, which maketh us to respect in men their honours and riches rather than that Divine image wherein they are created It was not so with our Redeemer, who would not go to the son of the nobleman, but was ready to come down for the Centurion's servant, to show that to Him the things which are great among men are but of little moment, and the things which are little esteemed among men are not beneath His notice.

Nereus and Achilles were brethren, eunuchs belonging to Flavia Domitilla, who were baptized by blessed Peter, along with her and her mother Plautilla. They had advised Domitilla to consecrate her virginity to God, and on this account Aurelian, to whom she was betrothed, accused them of being Christians. They nobly confessed the faith, and were banished to the island of Ponza. Then they were again put to the torture, and after being scourged, were taken to Terracina. At Terracina, Minutius Rufus tormented them with the rack and with fire, but as they constantly affirmed that having once been baptized by the blessed Apostle Peter, no torture could ever make them sacrifice to idols, they were beheaded. Auspicius, their own disciple and the tutor of Domitilla, took their bodies to Rome, where they were buried on the road to Ardea. (Breviarium Romanum)

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O Lord, we beseech You, that the holy sacrament we have received may, by the pleadings of Your blessed Martyrs, Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras, grant us always more of Your forgiveness.
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.
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Grant, O Lord, that we, who had partaken of the aids of salvation, may be everywhere protected by the patronage of blessed Mary ever Virgin, in whose honor we have offered these gifts of thy majesty.

for the Church
We beseech thee, O Lord, our God, that thou permit not those, to whom thou hast given a participation of divine things to be subjected to human dangers.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Feria Secunda in Rogationibus

  ~ Feria major

Mon, 5/11/26:

Today is a Pashcaltide feria under the 1954 rubrics, as well as Rogation Monday (non-privileged major feria).

Mass: Of Rogation Monday. Station church at St. Mary Major. Violet. Omit Gloria. Paschaltide Alleluia. Omit Credo. Preface of Easter. Benedicamus. 2nd prayer Concede nos of Our Lady. 3rd prayer either Ecclesiae tuae for the Church or Deus omnium for the pope.

At conventual Mass today (sung after None) and other sung Masses, the Litany of the Saints is chanted before the procession, with celebrant vested in violet cope and deacon/subdeacon vested in folded violet chasubles. After the Litany is chanted, the procession takes place under the usual norms. When the ministers return to the sanctuary, the celebrant dons his chasuble and maniple, while deacon and subdeacon put on their maniples. The Mass of Rogation Monday is then sung as above.

It is not permitted, if the procession precedes Mass, for any other Mass formulary to be used other than that of the Rogation Days (cf. Matters Liturgical 1938 ed., nos. 620-630 for a full summary of all the rubrics regarding the Rogation Days).

(LB236)

Introitus
Ps 17:7.
Exaudívit de templo sancto suo vocem meam, allelúja: et clamor meus in conspectu ejus, introívit in aures ejus, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 17:2-3
Díligam te, Dómine, virtus mea: Dóminus firmaméntum meum et refúgium meum et liberátor meus.
V. Glória Patri, ...

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we who in our tribulation are yet of good cheer because of thy loving-kindness, may find thee mighty to save from all dangers.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.


Let us pray.
de S. Maria
Grant us, Your servants, O Lord God, we beseech You, to enjoy lasting health of mind and body; and by the intercession of glorious and blessed Mary, ever Virgin, may we be delivered from present sorrow and partake to the full of eternal happiness.

for the Pope
O God, the shepherd and ruler of all the faithful, graciously look upon thy servant Leo, who thou hast willed to be chief pastor of thy Church; grant him we beseech thee, by word and example to profit those over whom he rules, that together with the flock entrusted to him, he may attain to life everlasting.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 11:5-13
At that time Jesus said unto His disciples Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him Friend, lend me three loaves. And so on.

Homily by St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.
Book vii. on Luke xi.
We gather from this commandment, among other things, that we ought to pray, not only by day, but also by night. Thou seest how that he which arose at midnight to ask three loaves of his friend, and endured in supplication, was not disappointed of that which he sought. Of what are these three loaves a figure, but of that our Mysterious Bread Which cometh down from heaven Thou seest that if thou lovest the Lord thy God, thou mayest win His bounty, not only for thyself, but for others likewise. And who can deserve more to be called our “Friend” than He Which gave His Own Body for us

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Mercifully grant our prayers, we beseech thee, O Lord, that while we receive thy gifts in tribulation, we may be conforted, and so increase in thy love.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.


Let us pray.
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Grant, O Lord, that we, who had partaken of the aids of salvation, may be everywhere protected by the patronage of blessed Mary ever Virgin, in whose honor we have offered these gifts of thy majesty.

for the Pope
Let the reception of this divine Sacrament protect us, O Lord, we beseech theee: and may thy servant Leo, whom thou has chosen as the chief pastor of thy Church, along with the flock committed to him derive always from it protection and help.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Dominica V Post Pascha ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor

Commemoratio: S. Antonini Episcopi et Confessoris

Sun, 5/25/25:

Today is the 5th Sunday after Easter under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday) and 1962 (II class Sunday) rubrics. 

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of Easter. Ite. Under 1954, commemoration of S. Antonini Episcopi et Confessoris . No commemorations under 1962.

Office: Sunday office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; lesson II = II & III of the old Breviary combined, III = lesson VII of the old Breviary). Te Deum. Psalms of Sunday with Paschaltide antiphon. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon at Lauds. Under 1954, commemoration of S. Antonini Episcopi et Confessoris and Ss Gordian and Epimachus at Lauds. No commemorations at Lauds under 1962. Omit suffrage (1954 only).

Introitus
Isa 48:20
Vocem jucunditátis annuntiáte, et audiátur, allelúja: annuntiáte usque ad extrémum terræ: liberávit Dóminus pópulum suum, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 65:1-2
Jubiláte Deo, omnis terra, psalmum dícite nómini ejus: date glóriam laudi ejus.
℣. Glória Patri, 

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, from Whom all good things do come, grant to us thy humble servants that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same.
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 St. Antoninus, Bishop and Confessor
O Lord, may the merits of St. Antoninus, Your Confessor and Bishop, help us; and just as we praise You for the wonders You have wrought in him, so may we glory in Your mercy toward us.
Commemoration Sts. Gordian and Epimachus, Martyrs
Grant, almighty God, we beseech You, that we who keep the feast of Your blessed Martyrs Gordian and Epimachus, may be helped by their intercession with 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.
R. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to John
John 16:23-30
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: Amen, Amen, I say unto you: Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He will give it you. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
102nd Tract on John.
We have now to consider these words of the Lord “Amen, Amen, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He will give it you.” It hath already been said in the earlier part of this discourse of the Lord, for the sake of some who ask the Father in Christ's Name and receive not, that whatsoever is asked, which tendeth not to salvation, is not asked in the Name of the Saviour. By the words “In My Name” we must not understand the vocalization of letters and syllables, but the meaning of what is said, the honest and true meaning.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant us, O Lord, fed with the virtue of a heavenly table, to desire what is right, and to gain what we desire.
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. Gordian and Epimachus, Martyrs
We who have eaten of the heavenly food beseech You, almighty God, that it may protect us from all harm by the intercession of Your holy Martyrs, Gordian and Epimachus.

of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Grant, O Lord, that we, who had partaken of the aids of salvation, may be everywhere protected by the patronage of blessed Mary ever Virgin, in whose honor we have offered these gifts of thy majesty.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

S. Gregorii Nazianzeni Episcopi Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: De III die infra Octavam S. Joseph

Sat, 5/9/26:

Introitus
Eccli 15:5
In médio Ecclésiæ apéruit os ejus: et implévit eum Dóminus spíritu sapiéntiæ et intelléctus: stolam glóriæ índuit eum. Allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 91:2
Bonum est confitéri Dómino: et psállere nómini tuo, Altíssime.
V. Glória Patri, 

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, who didst give blessed Gregory to be thy people’s minister in eternal salvation; grant, we pray, that we who have him for teacher of life here on earth, may also deserve now that he is in heaven, to have him for an advocate.
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 Die III infra Octavam Patrocinii St Joseph
God, Who in thine unspeakable foreknowledge didst choose thy blessed servant Joseph to be the husband of thine Own most holy Mother; mercifully grant that now that he is in heaven with thee, we who on earth do reverence him for our Defender, may worthily be holpen by the succour of his prayers to thee on our behalf;
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 5:13-19
At that time: Jesus said unto his disciples: Ye are the salt of the earth: But if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? And so on, and that which followeth.

A Homily by St. Augustine the Bishop
Lib. 1 de Sermóne Dómini in monte, cap. 6
The Lord would have us understand how that men do lose their power of savouring others with righteousness when they are willing to place their eternal welfare in jeopardy for the sake of any témporal advantage, like as attainment of ease or luxury, or escape from suffering or toil. For that which is eternal, unlike things of this world, can neither be bestowed by men, nor by them taken away. Hence, when he asketh: If the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? he would have us understand the question to be: If ye, by whom mankind is preserved from corruption, be willing to lose the kingdom of heaven so as to escape trials or persecutions in this world, who is there to preserve you from corruption, seeing ye are they that God hath chosen to preserve all others from corruption?

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May blessed Gregory thy Bishop and illustrious Doctor intercede for us, O Lord, that this thy sacrifice may obtain for us salvation.
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.

In Apparitione S. Michaëlis Archangeli ~ Duplex majus

Tempora: Feria Sexta infra Hebdomadam IV post Octavam Paschæ

Fri, 5/8/26:

Ps 102:20
Benedícite Dóminum, omnes Angeli ejus: poténtes virtúte, qui tácitis verbum ejus, ad audiéndam vocem sermónum ejus, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 102:1
Bénedic, ánima mea, Dómino: et ómnia, quæ intra me sunt, nómini sancto ejus.
V. Glória Patri, 

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.

℟. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

O God, Who hast ordained and constituted the services of angels and men in a wonderful order, mercifully grant that as thy holy angels alway do thee service in heaven, so, by thy appointment, they may succour and defend us on earth.

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 came the disciples unto Jesus, saying: Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And so on.

Homily by St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers.
Com. 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.

That the blessed Archangel Michael hath oftentimes been seen of men is attested on the authority of the Holy Bible, and also by the ancient traditions of the Saints. For this reason such visions are held in remembrance in many places. As of old time did the Synagogue of the Jews, so now doth the Church of God venerate Michael as her watcher and defender. But during the papacy of Gelasius I. the summit of Mount Gargano in Apulia, at whose foot lieth the town of Siponto, was the scene of an extraordinary appearance of this same Archangel Michael.

And it came to pass on this wise. A certain man had a bull grazing with the flock upon Mount Gargano, and it strayed. And when they had sought it for a long while they found it jammed in the mouth of a cavern. Then one that stood there shot an arrow at it to slay it, but the arrow turned round and came back against him that had shot it. They therefore that saw it, and all those that heard it, were sore afraid because of that which had come to pass, so that no man dared any more to draw near to the cavern. But when they had sought counsel of the Bishop of Siponto, he answered, that it behoved to seek the interpretation from God, and proclaimed three days of fasting and prayer.

After three days the Archangel Michael gave warning to the Bishop that that place was under his protection, and that he had thus pointed out by a sign that he wished that worship should be offered to God there, with remembrance of himself and of the Angels. Then the Bishop and the citizens made haste and came to the cavern and when they found that the form thereof was somewhat after the fashion of a Church, they began to perform the public worship of God therein which sanctuary hath been glorified with many miracles. It was not long after these things that Pope Boniface IV. hallowed the Church of St. Michael on Hadrian's Mole at Rome, on the 29th day of September, on the which day the Church also holdeth in remembrance All Angels. But this present day is hallowed in remembrance of the manifestation of the Archangel Michael.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Relaying on the intercession of blessed Michael the archangel, we humbly entreat thee, O Lord, that the service we pray with our lips, we may lay hold of with our minds.
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.

S. Stanislai Episcopi et Martyris

 Scriptura: Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam IV post Octavam Paschæ

Thurs, 5/7/26:

Today is the feast of St. Stanislaus, B & M, under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Protexisti of one martyr in Paschaltide with proper collect. Red. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Omit Credo. Preface of Easter. Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers. (LB236)

Introitus
Ps 63:3
Protexísti me, Deus, a convéntu malignántium, allelúja: a multitúdine operántium iniquitátem, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps. 63:2
Exáudi, Deus, oratiónem meam cum déprecor: a timóre inimíci éripe ánimam meam.
V. Glória Patri,  ...

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, in defense of Whose honor Stanislaus, the glorious Bishop, died by the swords of wicked men, grant, we beseech You, that all who seek his help may obtain salvation as a result of his 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.
R. Amen.

From the holy Gospel according to John
John 15:1-7
In that time Jesus said to his disciples: I an the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
Tract 80 on John
Dearly beloved brethren, this passage of the Gospel, wherein the Lord saith that He is the vine, and that His disciples are the branches, is to be taken in that sense wherein it is also said, that He is the Head of the Church, Eph. v. 23, and that we are the members of Him 30 Who is the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. ii. 5. The vine and his branches are of one and the same nature. Therefore, seeing that He was God, of which nature we are not, He was made man, to the end that He might have in Himself this vine, that is, the manhood, whereof we men can be made branches.

This Stanislaw was a Pole. He was born of a noble family, on the 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1030, at (Szcrepanow, in the diocese of) Cracow. His godly parents, who had been childless for thirty years, obtained him from God by prayer, and from his earliest years he gave token of the holiness of life which afterwards marked him. When he was a young man he applied himself heartily to all useful learning, and was deeply read in the sacred teaching of the Canons and of Theological science. After the death of his parents he inherited great possessions, but he sold them, and distributed the price to the poor, purposing himself to become a monk. However, by the Providence of God, Lampert, Bishop of Cracow, named him Canon of the Cathedral Church of that diocese, and Preacher in the same and afterwards, in 1072, he was elected, against his own will, to succeed to Lampert's place. In this office he was a bright and shining light of all virtues that become a shepherd of souls, especially of tenderness toward the poor.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May this Communion, O Lord, cleanse us of sin, and through the intercession of blessed Stanislaus, Your Martyr and Bishop, may it make us sharers of heavenly healing.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

S. Joannis Apostoli ante Portam Latinam ~ Duplex majus

Tempora: Feria Quarta infra Hebdomadam IV post Octavam Paschæ

Wed, 5/6/26:

Today is the feast of St. John, Ap, Before the Latin Gate under the 1954 (double major) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Red. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Apostles. Celebrant bows his head at the mention of St. John in the Canon. Ite. No commemorations.

(LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Introitus
Ps 63:3
Protexísti me, Deus, a convéntu malignántium, allelúja: a multitúdine operántium iniquitátem, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps. 63:2
Exáudi, Deus, oratiónem meam cum déprecor: a timóre inimíci éripe ánimam meam.
V. Glória Patri, ...

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Which seest that sins and sufferings do on every side rise up to trouble us, grant, we beseech thee, that we may find a shield in time of need through the glorious intercession of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist John.
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.

John was both an Apostle, and an Evangelist, and a Prophet. He was an Apostle, in that he wrote to the Churches, as their Teacher. He was an Evangelist, in that he wrote one of the Gospels, the like whereto was not done by any other of the twelve Apostles, save Matthew. He was a Prophet, in that when he was in the isle of Patmos, whither he had been banished by Domitian on account of his uplifting of his testimony for the Lord, he saw there that Apocalypse which containeth such unfathomable mysteries concerning “things which shall be hereafter.” Apoc. i. 19. Tertullian also saith that when he was at Rome, he was put into a vessel of boiling oil, but that he came out cleaner and healthier than he went in.

-S Jerome

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 20:20-23
AT that time: Came to Jesus the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshipping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him. And so on.

Homily by St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
Comment, on Matt. xx. Bk. 3
Whence had the mother of Zebedee's children gotten her idea of the Lord's kingdom He had but just said “The Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him.” He had told His trembling disciples of the outrages that awaited Him in His Passion and yet that mother came to Him to ask for her sons a share in the glory of His Triumph. I think it was because the Lord, after He had said all the rest, had said also “And the third day He shall rise again.” The woman supposed that after His resurrection His kingdom would immediately be established, and that that would be fulfilled at His first coming which is promised at His second. And so, with womanly haste, she forgetteth the future, and catcheth at the present…

…The question ariseth, how the two sons of Zebedee, James namely and John, drank of the cup of contention even unto blood against sin, seeing that though we know by the Scriptures that “Herod the king killed James the brother of John with the sword,” yet John ended his earthly life by a natural death. But if we read the Records of the Church, we shall find there told how that John, on account of his testifying to the truth, was cast into a vessel of boiling oil, and although the holy champion came out unhurt and continued his pilgrimage here for a while longer, before he received his crown from Christ's hand, being straightway banished into the isle of Patmos, yet we see that he had the soul of a martyr, and drank the same cup of martyrdom that was drunk by the three children in the burning fiery furnace, albeit the persecutor did not actually shed his blood.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Fed with bread from heaven, we ask O Lord, that it may be our nourishment unto life eternal.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

More on church of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina: https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2022/06/minor-roman-basilicas-san-giovanni.html

S. Pii V Papæ et Confessoris ~ Duplex

Tempora: Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam IV post Octavam Paschæ

The Battle of Lepanto

Mon, 5/4/26:

Today is the feast of St. Pius V, P & C, under the 1954 (double; mtv) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Si diligis me of a supreme pontiff with proper collect. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Omit Credo. Preface of the Apostles (1954)/Easter (1962). Ite. No commemorations.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (II = II & III of occurring Scripture combined, III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms of the feria with Paschaltide antiphon. All else from the common of a confessor bishop. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954).  (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O, God, Who graciously chose blessed Pius as Supreme Pontiff, to crush the enemies of Your Church and to restore divine worship, grant that we may be guarded by his help and remain so steadfast in Your service that, having overcome the snares of all enemies, we may enjoy a lasting peace.
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 16:13-19
At that time: When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And so on.

A Homily by St. Leo the Pope
Sermo 2 in anniversario assumpt. suæ ante medium
When the Lord, as we read in the Gospel, asked his disciples who did men, amid their diverse speculations, believe him the Son of Man to be, blessed Peter answered and said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And the Lord answered and said unto him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven: and I say also unto thee: That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. But the dispensation of truth perdures, and blessed Peter, persevering in the strength of the rock which he hath received, hath not relinquished the position he assumed at the helm of the Church.

The Turkish Sultan Selim was bloated with many victories, and had got together an huge fleet in the Gulf of Lepanto, but Pius V. crushed him, on the 7th of October, 1571, not so much by force of arms as by dint of the prayers wherein he pleaded with God. At the hour that the victory was won, Pius knew it by the inward revelation of God, and stated the fact to his servants. He was busied with the preparations for a new expedition against the Turks, when he was laid down by grievous sickness. He bore most sharp sufferings with the gentlest patience, and when the end came, he received the Sacraments as is usual, and with great peace yielded his spirit to God, on the 1st of May, in the year of salvation 1572, and of his own age the 68th, having sat as Pope six years, three months, and twenty-four days. His body is buried in the Church of St. Mary, where the Manger from Bethlehem is, and is there held in great respect by the faithful, who have obtained from God by his prayers, many evident miracles. The said miracles having been proved by a judicial investigation Pope Clement XI enrolled his name among those of the Saints.

(Breviarium Romanum)

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that as we thank You for the favors we have received, we may, by the intercession of blessed Pius, Your Confessor and Bishop, obtain still greater blessings.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Tomb of Pope S. Pius V, Church of S. Maria Maggiore  

S. Monicæ Viduæ ~ Duplex

Scriptura: Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam IV post Octavam Paschæ

Mon, 5/4/26:

Today is the feast of St. Monica, Wid, under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Omit Credo. Preface of Easter. Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954; 1st nocturn = Incipit Epistola beati Jacobi of the 4th Sunday after Easter [impeded by the feast of the Holy Cross this year])/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; II = II & III of occurring Scripture [for Monday of the 4th week after Easter] combined, III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms of the feria with Paschaltide antiphon. All else from the common of non-virgin holy women. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage. (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Introitus
Ps 118:75; 118:120
Cognóvi, Dómine, quia ǽquitas judícia tua, et in veritáte tua humiliásti me: confíge timóre tuo carnes meas, a mandátis tuis tímui. Allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 118:1
Beáti immaculáti in via: qui ámbulant in lege Dómini.
V. Glória Patri, ...

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, the consoler of those Who mourn and the safety of those who put their trust in You; Who mercifully accepted the holy tears of blessed Monica for the conversion of Augustine, her son; grant us through the intercession of both to bewail our sins and to obtain the grace of Your forgiveness.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Luke 7:11-16
At that time Jesus went into a city called Naim; and His disciples went with Him, and much people. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
44th Discourse on the Words of the Lord.
That her son was called, again to life was the joy of that widowed mother that souls of men are every day called to life is the joy of our Mother the Church. He was dead in body they have been dead in mind. His death was outward, and was outwardly bewailed their inward death hath been neither mourned for nor seen. But He hath sought for them, Who hath seen that they are dead, and He only hath seen that they are dead, Who hath been able to make them alive. If He had not come to raise the dead, the Apostle had not said: “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” Eph. v. 14.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Thou hast fed thy servants, O Lord, with the holy gifts; comfort us ever we pray, by her intercession whose festival we celebrate.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.

Inventione Sanctæ Crucis ~ Duplex II. classis

Commemoratio: Dominica IV Post Pascha

Sun, 5/3/26:

Today is the feast of the Invention (Finding) of the Holy (True) Cross under the 1954 (double of the II class) rubrics. Commemorate Dominica IV post Pascha and Ss Alexander & Companions, Mm.

Mass: Pro populo. Proper Mass. Red. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Holy Cross. Commemoration of Dominica IV post Pascha and Ss Alexander & Compns, Mm. Ite. Last Gospel of Dominica IV post Pascha.

Office: Festal office. Red. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons. Te Deum. Proper psalms and antiphons at Matins. 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 of the feast. Omit suffrage.

Introitus
Gal 6:14.
Nos autem gloriári opórtet in Cruce Dómini nostri Jesu Christi: in quo est salus, vita et resurréctio nostra: per quem salváti et liberáti sumus, allelúja, allelúja.
Ps 66:2.
Deus misereátur nostri, et benedícat nobis: illúminet vultum suum super nos, et misereátur nostri.
V. Glória Patri, ...

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst cause that the Cross of our salvation should in most honourable wise be found again, and Who didst manifest thereby the marvellous efficacy of thy sufferings, mercifully grant that by the Ransom which Thou didst pay upon that tree of life we may finally attain unto life eternal .
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
R. Amen

Let us pray.
Commemoration Dominica IV Post Pascha
O God, of Whom it cometh that the minds of thy faithful people be all of one will, grant unto the same thy people that they may love the thing which Thou commandest, and desire that which Thou dost promise, that so, amid the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found.
Commemoration Sts. Alexander and Companions, Martyrs
Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that we who commemorate the anniversary of the death of Your saints, Alexander, Eventius, Theodulus and Juvenal, may by their intercession be freed from all the evils that threaten 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.
R. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to John
John 3:1-15
At that time There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto Him Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from God. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
11th Tract on John.
Nicodemus was one of them which believed in the Name of Jesus, when they saw the signs and wonders which He did. So hath John given us to understand a few words before our text: “Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast-day, many believed in His Name” And wherefore did they believe in His Name John telleth us immediately: “When they saw the miracles which He did.” And now, what saith he touching Nicodemus? “There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto Him Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from God.” Nicodemus therefore believed in His Name. And why did he believe He saith “For no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be with him.”

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Repléti alimónia coelésti et spiritáli poculo recreáti, quaesumus, omnípotens Deus: ut ab hoste malígno deféndas, quos per lignum sanctæ Crucis Fílii tui, arma justítiæ pro salúte mundi, triumpháre jussísti.
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.
R. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Dominica IV Post Pascha
Stand by us, O Lord, our God, that by what we have faithfully received we may be cleansed from our vices and rescued from all dangers.
Commemoration Sts. Alexander and Companions, Martyrs
With our strength renewed from having shared in Your sacred gift, we beseech You, O Lord our God, that by the intercession of Your saints Alexander, Eventius, Theodulus, and Juvenal we may feel the benefit of the worship we are offering.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.