Ss. Fabiani et Sebastiani Martyrum ~ Duplex

Scriptura: Feria II infra Hebdomadam II post Epiphaniam

Mon, 1/20/25:

Today is the feast of Ss. Fabian, P, and Sebastian, Mm, under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Red. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers.

Office: Ordinary office. Red. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (I & II = occurring Scripture [II = II & III comined], III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of several martyrs outside Paschaltide. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954).

Prayer {from the Proper of Saints}
℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
Be mindful of our weakness, almighty God, and since the burden of our sins weighs heavily upon us, may the glorious intercession of thy holy Martyrs Fabian and Sebastian sustain 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.

Dominica II post Epiphaniam - "Núptiæ factæ sunt in Cana Galilǽæ: et erat Mater Jesu ibi."

  ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor
Commemoratio: Ss. Marii, Marthæ, Audifacis et Abachum Martyrum

Sun, 1/19/25:

Today is the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany 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. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum, Mm, and of  St. Canute, King & M. No commemorations or additional prayers under the 1962 rubrics.

Office: Sunday office. Green. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; I & II from occurring Scripture [Incipt Epistola secunda ... ad Corinthios] as in the 1st nocturn of the old Breviary [II = II & III combined]; III = lesson VII of the old Breviary). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of Sunday. All else from the Sunday office per annum. Invitatory at Matins Adoremus Dominum with hymn Primo die on all Sundays from today until Septuagesima Sunday exclusive. At Lauds, hymn Aeterne rerum Conditor on Sundays until the 1st Sunday in Lent exclusive. Collect of the Sunday. At Lauds, under 1954, commemoration of Ss. Marius et al. and of St. Canute. No commemorations under 1962. Suffrage of the saints (1954 only). At Prime, recite the Athanasian Creed (Quicumque) after the 3rd psalm (1954 only). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Liturgy: Second Sunday after Epiphany - The Wedding 

Almighty God, faithful to His promise to Abraham and his children, sent His Son to save His people; while in His mercy He willed to redeem the heathen as well. Therefore Christ is the King whom, as its Redeemer, the whole world must hail and adore (Introit and Gradual).

In this miracle at Cana, a type of the Holy Eucharist, did our Lord formally manifest His divinity, i.e. His character as divine and therefore royal, and "His disciples believed in Him". The turning of water into wine is a type of transubstantiation, called by St. Thomas the greatest of all miracles, by which the wine of the Eucharist becomes the blood of the covenant of peace which God has made with His Church. Since also the divine King wishes to espouse our souls and since, as Bossuet says, it is through the Eucharist that this mystical marriage is consummated, the marriage feast at Cana also signifies the union of the Word with His spouse the Church.

"Having been invited to the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee," says St. Augustine, "our Lord attended, that being alone the author of the sacrament of Matrimony, He might confirm conjugal chastity." He also meant to make known to us the mystery of which these nuptials were the sign, that is, the union of Christ with His Church. For even those who, by a vow, have bound themselves to almighty God in the virginal state are not without nuptials since, with the whole Church, they have a part in the nuptials in which Christ Himself is the Spouse, and in this case, our Lord is typified by the bridegroom who kept to the end the good wine, that is, the Gospel.

Liturgical note: the Time after Epiphany begins on January 14 and lasts so far as the Temporal cycle is concerned, until Septuagesima, and in the Sanctoral cycle until the Purification, February 2. 

Source: Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945, adapted and abridged.

Collect
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Almighty, everlasting God, You Who govern both the heavens and the earth, graciously hear the humble prayers of Your people and grant us Your peace all the days of our life.
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.
Commemoration S. Maurii et Soc. Mart.
O Lord, hear Your people as they humbly pray in union with the patronal intercession of Your saints, that You would grant us to enjoy peace during our life on earth and to find help for life eternal.

Commemoration S. Canuti Regis et Martyrum
O God, Who for the glory of Your Church, have graciously honored blessed King Canute with the palm of martyrdom and glorious miracles, mercifully grant that, as he was an imitator of the Lord’s passion, so may we, walking in his footsteps, be found worthy to enter into everlasting joys.
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.

Cathedræ S. Petri Romæ ~ Duplex majus

Commemoratio: S. Priscæ Virginis et Martyris

The chair of Saint Peter

Sat, 1/18/25:

Today is the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Ap, at Rome under the 1954 (double major) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass (duplicated on February 22, the feast of St. Peter's Chair at Antioch). White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo. Preface of the Apostles. Ite. Commemoration of St. Paul, Ap, and of St. Prisca, V & M.

Office: Festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn proper [Petrus, Apostolus] with proper responsories, IX = of St. Prisca). Te Deum. Proper psalms and antiphons at Matins. At Lauds, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper collect. At Lauds, commemoration of St. Paul (proper Benedictus antiphon and V) and of St. Prisca. Omit suffrage. (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Oratio {ex Proprio Sanctorum}
℣. Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.
℟. Et clamor meus ad te véniat.
Orémus.
Deus, qui beáto Petro Apóstolo tuo, collátis clávibus regni cæléstis, ligándi atque solvéndi pontifícium tradidísti: concéde; ut, intercessiónis ejus auxílio, a peccatórum nostrórum néxibus liberémur:
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

Commemoratio S. Pauli Apostoli
Ant. Sancte Paule Apóstole, prædicátor veritátis et doctor Géntium, intercéde pro nobis ad Deum, qui te elégit.

℣. Tu es vas electiónis, sancte Paule Apóstole.
℟. Prædicátor veritátis in univérso mundo.

Orémus.
Deus, qui multitúdinem géntium beáti Pauli Apóstoli prædicatióne docuísti: da nobis, quǽsumus; ut, cujus commemoratiónem cólimus, ejus apud te patrocínia sentiámus.

Commemoratio S. Priscæ Virginis et Martyris
Ant. Veni, Sponsa Christi, áccipe corónam, quam tibi Dóminus præparávit in ætérnum.

℣. Spécie tua et pulchritúdine tua.
℟. Inténde, próspere procéde, et regna.

Orémus.
Da, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, qui beátæ Priscæ Vírginis et Mártyris tuæ natalícia cólimus; et ánnua solemnitáte lætémur, et tantæ fídei proficiámus exémplo.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

Altar of the Chair of Peter with reliquary at the center containing the chair relic.

S. Antonii Abbatis ~ Duplex

Scriptura: Feria VI infra Hebdomadam I post Epiphaniam

Fri, 1/17/24:

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

He is also known as “Anthony the Great”.

Mass: Os justi of an abbot with proper Gospel (printed as a proper Mass in the 1962 typical edition of the Missal). White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. No commemorations.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; I & II = occurring Scripture [II = II & III combined], III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Collect Intercessio nos of an abbot. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Prayer {from the Proper of Saints}
℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
May the pleading of blessed Anthony the Abbot make us acceptable unto thee, O Lord, we pray; that what we may not have through any merits of ours, we may gain by means of his patronage.
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. Marcelli Papæ et Martyris ~ Semiduplex

Scriptura: Feria V infra Hebdomadam I post Epiphaniam

Thurs, 1/16/24:

Today is the feast of St. Marcellus I, P & M, under the 1954 (semi-double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Si diligis me of a supreme pontiff with proper collect (Preces populi). Red. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Preface of the Apostles (1954)/Common Preface (1962). Ite. Under 1954, 2nd prayer Deus qui salutis of Our Lady. 3rd prayer either Ecclesiae tuae for the Church or Deus omnium for the pope. No additional prayers under 1962.

Office: Ordinary office. Red. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954; responsory VIII = Domine, praevenisti)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (I & II = occurring Scripture [II = II & III combined], III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of one martyr outside Paschaltide. Proper collect (Preces populi). No commemorations at Lauds. Under 1954, suffrage of the saints at Lauds.

Prayer {from the Proper of Saints}
℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
O Lord, we pray thee, mercifully give ear unto the prayers of thy people who rejoice at the memory of the victory through suffering of thy blessed Martyr and Bishop Marcellus, and for his sake succour 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.

S. Pauli Primi Eremitæ et Confessoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: S. Mauri Abbatis

Wed, 1/15/25:

Today is the feast of St. Paul, First Hermit & C (mtv), under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. Commemoration of St. Maurus, Ab, at all Masses (1954)/conventual and low Mass only (1962).

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954; IX = of St. Maurus)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (II = II & III of occurring Scripture combined; III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper collect. At Lauds, commemoration of St. Maurus. Omit suffrage (1954).

℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
O God, who, year by year, dost gladden us by the solemn Feast day of thy blessed Confessor Paul, mercifully grant unto all that keep his birthday, grace to imitate his godly example.
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. Hilarii Episcopi Confessoris Ecclesiæ Doctoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: S. Felicis Presbyteri et Martyris

Tues, 1/14/25:

Today is the feast of St. Hilary, B, C & D (mtv), under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass In medio for a doctor. White. Gloria. Credo (1954 only; said on feasts of doctors). Common Preface. Ite. Commemoration of St. Felix, Pr & M, at all Masses (1954)/conventual and low Mass only (1962).

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954: 1st nocturn of feria III [Tuesday] of the week after the 1st Sunday after Epiphany; IX = of St. Felix)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; I & II = occurring Scripture from feria III as for 1954 [II = II & III combined], III = short hagiography). Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the common of a confessor bishop. Collect Deus qui populo. Commemoration of St. Felix at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
O God, who didst give blessed Hilary 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.