S. Thomæ de Aquino Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: Feria VI post Cineres

Fri, 3/7/25:

Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, C & D, under the 1954 (double) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Credo (for feasts of doctors). Preface of Lent. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Lenten feria.

Under 1954, in parish churches, the Mass of the Friday after Ash Wednesday may be offered at private (low) Masses, either in place of the Mass of the feast (if only one Mass is offered) or as a second Mass. Station church at Ss. John and Paul. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Tract (with genuflection at Adjuva nos). Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas.

In cathedrals, monasteries, etc., under the 1954 rubrics, the festal Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas is sung after Terce without commemoration of the Lenten feria. The Mass of the Lenten feria is sung after None, without commemoration of St. Thomas and with the seasonal orations A cunctis for the intercession of the saints and Omnipotens for the living and the dead.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Sapientiam, lesson IX = of the feria). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema I). All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper collect. At Lauds, commemoration of the Friday after Ash Wednesday (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Omit suffrage. No displaced psalm added at Prime.

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Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.

℟. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

O God, Who dost enlighten thy Church by the wonderful learning of thy blessed Confessor Thomas, and quickenest her through his godly labours, grant unto thy people, we humbly beseech thee, ever to apprehend by their understanding what he teacheth, and in their life faithfully to practice 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 Feria VI post Cineres

May Your kindly favor, we beseech You, O Lord, accompany the fast we have begun, that we may be able to practice with a pure mind what we perform bodily.

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.