S. Silvestri Abbatis ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: S. Petri Alexandrini Martyris

Tues, 11/26/24:

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

Mass: Os justi of an abbot with proper orations. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. Commemoration of St. Peter of Alexandria, B & M, 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. Peter of Alexandria)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; 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. Commemoration of St. Peter of Alexandria at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954).

℣. O Lord, hear my prayer.
℟. And let my cry come unto thee.
Let us pray.
Most merciful God, Who when the holy Abbot Sylvester was devoutly meditating upon the vanity of this world beside an open grave, graciously willed to call him into the desert and enrich him with unusual merits, we humbly pray that, following his example, despising the things of earth, we may thoroughly enjoy Thy everlasting presence.
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.