S. Vincentii Ferrerii Confessoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: Sabbato infra Hebdomadam IV in Quadragesima 

Sat, 4/5/25:

Today is the feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, C, under the 1954 (double) rubrics.

Mass: Os justi of a confessor not a bishop with proper collect. White. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Lenten feria.

In parish churches, at private (low) Masses, the Mass of the Lenten feria (Sitientes Saturday) may be offered in place of the Mass of the feast. Proper Mass. Station church at St. Nicholas in Prison. Violet. Omit Gloria. Omit Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of St. Vincent Ferrer.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Beatus vir with proper responsories, 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. Commemoration of the Lenten feria at Lauds (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Omit suffrage. At Prime, announce Dominica Passionis at the start of the martyrology.

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who graciously enlightened Your Church by the virtues and preaching of blessed Vincent, Your Confessor, grant that we, Your servants, may be taught by his example and delivered from all harm by his intercession.
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 Sabbato infra Hebdomadam IV in Quadragesima
Make fruitful, we beseech You, O Lord, the zeal of our fervent devotion; for only if it pleases You shall the fasting we have undertaken be of benefit to 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.