The third Sunday in Lent is a semi-double Sunday of the first class and its liturgical colour is violet. The Gospel pericope from St. Luke at Mattins and Mass recounts the LORD casting out evil from a demoniac.
At Vespers yesterday morning the antiphons and psalms of Saturday were sung. The chapter was proper to the Sunday and the Office hymn was Audi, benigne conditor. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations were sung of the preceding feast of SS Perpetua & Felicity and of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Suffrage of the Saints was omitted as were the Dominical preces at Compline.
At Mattins the invitatory is Non sit vobis and the Office hymn is Ex more, as on the other Sundays in Lent. The antiphons and psalms of Sunday are sung. In the first nocturn the lessons are taken from Genesis and the story of Joseph, his coat of many colours and his brothers casting him into a pit. In the second nocturn the lessons are taken from the Book of St. Augustine on Joseph. In the third nocturn the lessons are a homily of the Venerable Bede on St. Luke's Gospel. A ninth responsory, Lamentabatur Jacob, is sung in place of the Te Deum.
At Lauds the antiphons are proper to the Sunday, Fac benigne etc., sung with the second scheme of Psalms (50, 117, 62, Benedictus es, 148). The chapter is proper to the Sunday and the Office hymn is O sol salutis. After the collect of the Sunday a commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas is sung. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted.
At Prime and the Hours the antiphons are proper to the Sunday, Et cum ejecisset Jesus etc. At Prime the psalms are Pss. 92, 99 (displaced from Lauds) and the first two divisi of Ps. 118. The Dominical preces are omitted.
Mass is sung after Terce. The deacon and subdeacon wear violet folded chasubles. There is no Gloria. The second collect is of St. Thomas Aquinas. Today there is no third collect. A Tract is sung after the Gradual, the Credo is sung, the preface is of Lent and the dismissal is Benedicamus Domino, sung by the deacon facing the altar and celebrant.
At Vespers the antiphons and psalms of Sunday are sung at the normal time. The Office hymn is Audi, benigne Conditor. After the collect of the Sunday commemoration are sung of the following feast of St. John of God and of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted as are the Dominical preces at Compline.
In 'liturgical books of 1962' Vespers were sung in the afternoon as at any other time of the year. There are no commemorations at either Vespers. Mattins is cut down to a single nocturn of three lessons. At Lauds there are no commemorations. At Prime the psalms are Pss.53, 118(i) & 118(ii) as on feasts. At Mass the ministers wear dalmatic and tunicle, as in Septuagesima etc. There is but a single collect and the dismissal is Ite, missa est.
Art: Jerome Nadal
If a confessor's feast is transferred, does it become m. t. v.? Also, what do "m", "t" and "v" stand for?
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Before December 1964,was the Sanctus candle largely ignored within the Roman Rite?
ReplyDeleteThank you for this blog & all of your hard work.
God bless -Andrew
@Andrew,
ReplyDeleteYes, the Sanctus candle was quite a rarity. One was used at St. Etheldreda's, Ely Place in the days of Fr. Charles-Roux and Mgr. Gilbey had two at his private chapel.
@Paulus,
ReplyDeleteYes, if a confessor's feast is transferred so it is not the dies natalis the third line is changed from Meruit beatas to Meruit supremos. 'mtv' mutatur tertius versus see p.16 of the Ordo.
The form became Meruit supremos always following the changes of Cum nostra, Tit. IV, 5.
March 12th is St. Gregory the Great & the Lenten Feria. But there was a Privileged/Solemn Votive Mass with the rank of Duplex Majus celebrated on that day at the parish. So, is St. Gregory the Great and the Lenten feria commemorated? or Just the Lenten feria?
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@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteSolemn Votive Masses are, basically, almost equivalent to doubles of the first class. What Mass was celebrated?
Mass of the Holy Wounds assigned to the Friday within the Third Week of Lent.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure it was a privileged Votive and not a Solemn Votive. There is difference between the two correct? I think Solemn Votive is one celebrated with extrinsic solemnity for a grave and public cause by order of the Ordinary of the place; and the privileged votive is one celebrated by permission of the Holy See, or the rubrics not for a grave and public cause. I think the Votive Mass of the Holy Wounds assigned during Lent falls into the privileged category, if it's not in the local calendar of the Diocese. But I could be wrong. I don't know if there are special rules concerning Masses found in the Aliquibus Locis section, aside from the fact that generally it should be in the local Diocesan calendar.
@Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThank you. To answer your first question both St Gregory and the Lenten feria should have been commemorated.
WRT the second to be honest I have never formed a definitive conclusion about the series of Masses relating to the Passion in Septuagesima and Lent. I have about thirty or so original Ordines from various dioceses from 1912 to 1953 and have never seen any of the series appear on the respective Fridays as an option.
You are correct that a Solemn Votive Mass, in the sense of the rubrics, is not a Votive Mass celebrated with ministers but a Mass for a public cause and indeed requires the consent of the Ordinary. Privileged Votive Masses are those like that of the Sacred Heart on the first Friday of the month, the Nuptial Mass, Mass for the anniversary of the Election and Consecration of the Ordinary etc.