The fourth Sunday after Pascha is of semi-double rite and its liturgical colour is white. The Gospel pericopes are from the sixteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel where the LORD talks of His ascending to Heaven and the coming of the Paraclete.
At Vespers yesterday afternoon the psalms of Saturday were sung under the single antiphon Alleluia. The Office hymn was Ad regias Agni dapes. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations were sung of the preceding Office of St. Venantius, of St. Peter Celestine and of St. Pudentiana. The Paschal Commemoration of the Cross was omitted due to the double feasts. At Compline Te lucis was sung with the Paschaltide Doxology and the Dominical preces were omitted.
At Mattins the invitatory and hymn are sung as previous Sundays of Paschaltide. In the first nocturn the lessons are the Incipit of the Epistle of St. James. In the second nocturn the lessons are taken from the Treatise of St. Cyprian on the boon of patience. In the third nocturn the homily is from St. Augustine. The Te Deum is sung. At Lauds the Sunday psalms are sung under a single antiphon, Alleluia. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations are sung of St. Peter Celestine and of St. Pudentiana. The Paschal Commemoration of the Cross is omitted.
At the Hours the hymns have the Paschaltide Doxology, the psalms are sung under a single antiphon consisting of a triple Alleluia. At Prime the Dominical psalms are sung (Pss. 117, 118i & 118ii). The Dominical preces are omitted.
Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of St. Peter Celestine. The third collect is of St. Pudentiana. The Creed is sung and the preface is of Paschaltide.
At Vespers the Dominical psalms are sung under the single antiphon, Alleluia. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations are sung of the following Office of St. Bernardine of Sienna and of St. Peter Celestine. The Paschal Commemoration of the Cross is omitted due to the double feasts. At Compline the Domincal preces are omitted due to the double feasts.
In the 'liturgical books of 1962' there are no commemorations at either Vespers. Mattins is reduced to a single nocturn. At Lauds there are no commemorations. The hymns at the Little Hours do not have the Paschal Doxology. At Mass there is but a single collect.
Art: Jerome Nadal
A query: How do we explain the First Nocturn's lesson beginning with the Incipit of St. James, when this was read on 1st May; and the rubrics direct that, if already read on the Feast of SS Philip and James, this Sunday's First Nocturn is to use Moonday's lessons with Sunday's responsories?
ReplyDelete@+DM,
ReplyDeleteThe rubrics direct that if yesterday was the feast of St. Philip & James then Monday's lessons move to the Sunday (as they would not be read on the Monday due to proper first nocturn lessons for the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross). As SS Philip and James was celebrated over two weeks ago this rubric does not apply this year and the Incipit is read again.
Thanks for your input here. ALWAYS having observed the rubric, I wonder why "heri" is not included in the rubrics' directing that so as to make it clear that it applies only if SS Philip and James had been celebrated the day before. The rubrics simply direct if it was previously read; not the day before.
ReplyDelete@+DM,
ReplyDeleteThe rubric given in BR for the IV Sunday is clear regarding the celebration of SS P&J falling the day before:
'Si sequentes Lectiones I Nocturni pridie dictae fuerint in Festo SS. Apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi...'
Do not confuse with the rubric given in BR on 1st May stating that if the Epistle of James is being read at the time (i.e. if the feast of SS P&J occurred during the IV week) then the lessons of the weekday are read in the first nocturn of the feast.