Wednesday, May 14, 2025

In Octava Patrocinii S. Joseph ~ Duplex majus

Commemoratio: S. Bonifatii Martyris

Wed, 5/14/25:

Today is the octave day of St. Joseph under the 1954 (double major) rubrics.

Mass: As on the feast. White. Gloria. Paschal Alleluia. Credo. Preface of St. Joseph (et te in Festivitate). Ite. Commemoration of St. Boniface, M.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = occurring Scripture, 2nd & 3rd nocturns = of the octave [lesson IX = short hagiography of St. Boniface]). Te Deum. Psalms of the feria with Paschaltide antiphon. All else from the proper (as on the feast). Proper Benedictus antiphon (as on the feast). Collect of the feast. Commemoration of St. Fidelis at Lauds. Omit suffrage. (Source: LB236.)

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
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

Let us pray.
Commemoration St. Boniface, Martyr
Grant, almighty God, we beseech You, that we who keep the feast of Your blessed Martyr Boniface may be helped by his 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.
℟. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 3:21-23
At that time: When all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened. And so on, and that which followeth.

A Homily by St. Augustine the Bishop
Serm. 36 de Temp. Bapt. Christi
The day of his baptism is, as it were, a second birthday of the Saviour. For we know that he was born with signs and wonders like to those of his baptism, and that in the latter is a great mystery like to his birth. For God saith: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. This second birth is indeed more glorious than the first. For then, he was born in silence, and without witnesses. Now, the Lord is baptized with a proclamation of his divinity. Then, Joseph, who was supposed to be his father, denied that he was. Now, his true Father, who was not believed to be so, proclaimeth himself so to be. Then, the Mother was enduring suspicion, because no father was acknowledged. Now she that bore him is honoured because the Divinity maketh him known as his Son.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Refreshed at the fount of divine blessing, we beseech thee, O Lord our God, that as thou dost gladden us by the protection of blessed Joseph, so by his merits and intercession thou woulds make us partakers of his heavenly glory.
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. Boniface, Martyr
With our strength renewed from having shared in Your sacred gift, we beseech You, O Lord our God, that by the intercession of blessed Boniface, Your Martyr, 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.
℟. Amen.

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