The fourth Sunday after Pentecost is of semi-double rite and its liturgical colour, until Vespers, is green. This year it is also the Sunday within the Octave of St. John the Baptist. The Vigil of SS Peter and Paul was anticipated yesterday.
At Vespers yesterday afternoon the antiphons and psalms of Saturday were sung. The chapter was O altitudo, from Romans, and the Office hymn was Jam sol recedit igneus. This chapter and hymn are used now on all of the 'green' Sundays after Pentecost. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations were sung of the preceding day within the Octave of St. John the Baptist and of St. Irenaeus. The Suffrage of the Saints was omitted as were the Dominical preces at Compline.
At Mattins the invitatory is Dominum qui fecit nos and the 'summer' Office hymn Nocte surgentes is sung. In the first nocturn the lessons are taken from the First Book of Kings. In the second nocturn the lessons are from a sermon of St. Augustine and in the third nocturn the homily is from St. Ambrose on the Gospel account from St. Luke on the huge catch of fish at the lake of Genesareth. At Lauds the Office hymn is Ecce jam noctis. After the collect of the Sunday commemoration are sung of SS Irenaeus and the Octave of St. John the Baptist. The Suffrage is omitted.
At Prime both Quicumque and the Dominical preces are omitted due to the occurring double feast and Octave.
Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of St. Irenaeus, the third collect is of the Octave of St. John the Baptist. The Creed is sung and the preface is of the Blessed Trinity.
Prior to the reform of 1911-13 the fourth Sunday of June was the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. All Masses, other than the Conventual Mass, may be of the feast and the liturgical colour is white. The Mass De ventre is sung, the second collect is of the Sunday, the Creed is sung, the preface is of the Blessed Trinity and the last Gospel is of the Sunday.
In the afternoon there is a colour change to red and first Vespers of the feast of SS Peter and Paul are sung. The antiphons Petrus et Joannes etc are sung, doubled, with psalms 109, 110, 111, 112 and 116. The Office hymn is Decora lux. After the collect of the feast a commemoration is sung of the Sunday. The Suffrage and the Dominical preces are omitted.
In the 'liturgical books of 1962' the Octave of St. John the Baptist has been abolished. The Vigil of SS Peter and Paul is omitted this year. At Vespers there are no commemorations. Mattins is cut down to a single nocturn of three lessons. At Lauds there are no commemorations. At Mass there is a single collect.
Art: Jerome Nadal
Sermon during a Trad-Rite ordination Holy Mass this past week.
ReplyDeleteIt's very pertinent to the collapse of the former Catholic West.
Thank you for your efforts concerning the pre-Pius XII
liturgical revolution.
God bless.
-Andrew
I am 100% sure you are more knowledgeable than me about this, so I should just take your word for this...but here goes anyway:
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember a discussion (maybe it was on thecurrenttridentineordo blog) about the issue of the quicumque and preces, etc on Sundays infra octavam, and the conclusion being made that on a Sunday such as today, both the Quicumque and Dominical preces (and perhaps suffrages? Not sure) are said. Is it not true that the "Sunday within the Octave of St. John the Baptist" does not exist liturgically? At least not in the same way as the last 2 Sundays, within the Octaves of CC and Sacred Heart? For lack of better terms, today is a "green Sunday" with the Sunday office; the past 2 Sundays were "white/festal Sundays" with a festal Office. I am well aware that divinumofficium.org is incorrect sometimes; but for what it is worth, "tridentine 1910" setting has the Quicumque and preces today, as it is a "green Sunday" with the Dominical Office - which I thought was the only condition necessary for at least the Quicumque to be said.
Thoughts?
-Charles Sercer
@Charles Sercer,
ReplyDeleteThe Dominical preces are not said within Octaves R.G. XXXIV, 2, nor Suffrages R.G. XXXV.
Pre-1911/13 Quicumque was said on all Sundays when the Office is of the Sunday except within the Octaves of the Nativity, Epiphany, Ascension, Corpus Xti; nor at Easter and Pentecost. R.G. XXXIII, 2. Additiones et Variationes removed it from a Sunday within any Octave.
@Charles Sercer/cont'd
ReplyDeleteThe rubrics of both the Breviary and Missal talk of Sundays within Octaves. The Sundays within the Octaves of the Nativity, Epiphany, Ascension, Corpus Christi and the Sacred Heart have most of their Office coming from the feast so are different to Sundays within other Octaves. However, it is not correct to say Sundays within other Octaves do not liturgically exist as they certainly do. Prior to 1911-13 Sundays within the other Octaves took their colour from the feast so Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist would be white, Sunday within the Octave of SS Peter and Paul red and so on (notwithstanding occurring feasts), MR R.G. XVIII, 4. Even after that reform they were differentiated from ferial days within Octave by only having the Octave commemorated and omitting the usual third collect at Mass (again, excepting any occurring feasts), R.G. IX, 10.
Thank you for the reply! I was not very precise in my terminology; I am not sure how else to say it, but my point (which you confirmed) still stands, in that on most Sundays within octaves, aside from the ones mentioned, the Sunday office is said. I am aware that traditionally the color of the Octave would be used/worn on the Sundat within, but still: as you noted above, the Quicumque was/is said whenever the Office is of the Sunday, and this past Sunday was the Office of Sunday, so I am not understanding why the Quicumque would be omitted. This past Sunday, "Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of St. John," is not listed as an exception above; in fact I find it strange that the Sundays within the Octaves of Nativity, Epiphany, Ascension, and CC (not to mention Easter and Pentecost Sundays) are even listed above as exceptions, since all of those Sundays are clearly not days on which the Sunday office is said.
DeleteIs my understanding of what "the Office of Sunday" is not correct? Was this past Sunday not considered to be the Sunday office, thus not requiring the Quicumque as is noted in your post?
Perhaps the liturgical color also must be green for the Quicumque to be said? Even though it is entirely the office of Sunday
My apologies for all of the questions...I'm just trying to make sure I understand.
-Charles
@Charles,
ReplyDeleteNo apologies necessary.
Your understanding is indeed correct of the rubrics, and their effect, on Sundays prior to 1911-13. To confirm pre-1911 last Sunday would have had Quicumque<.
Additiones et Variationes VIII, 3 excluded Quicumque from Sundays when any double feast or octave was commemorated. A&V VIII, 2 further restricts its recital to Sundays after the Epiphany and Pentecost i.e. excluding it from the Sundays of Advent, Lent and Septuagesima.
Link to sermon.
ReplyDelete'Priest for a ruined Jerusalem."
https://youtu.be/0M7PgrJYqHg
-Andrew