The fifth Sunday after Pentecost is of semi-double rite and its liturgical colour is green. The Gospel pericopes at Mattins and Mass are from St. Matthew. This year it is also the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
At Vespers yesterday afternoon the antiphons and psalms of Saturday were sung. The Office hymn was Jam sol recedit igneus. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations were sung of the preceding Office of SS John and Paul and of the Octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 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 Office hymn isNocte surgentes. In the first nocturn the lessons are the Incipit of the Second Book of the Kings. In the second nocturn the lessons are taken from St. Gregory the Great's Book on Morals. In the third nocturn the homily on St. Matthew's Gospel is from St. Augustine. The Te Deum is sung. At Lauds the Office hymn is Ecce jam noctis. After the collect of the Sunday a commemoration is sung of the Octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted.
At Prime (Pss. 117, 118i & 118ii) both Quicumque and the Dominical preces are omitted due to the Octave.
Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of St. John the Baptist. Today, being within an Octave, there is no third collect. The Creed is sung and the preface is of the Blessed Trinity.
Prior to end of the 1913 phase of the reform the fourth Sunday of June, the Sunday preceding the feast of SS Peter and Paul, 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 (due to the commemoration of the Sunday), the preface is of the Sunday and the last Gospel is of the Sunday.
At Vespers the antiphons and psalms of Sunday (109, 110, 111, 112 & 113) are sung. The Office hymn is Lucis creator. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations are sung of the following Office of St. Irenaeus and of St. John the Baptist. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted as are the Dominical preces at Compline.
In the 'liturgical books of 1962' there are no commemorations at either Vespers. The Octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist has been abolished. Mattins is cut down to a single nocturn of three lessons. At Lauds there are no commemorations. Mass has a but a single collect.
Art: Jerome Nadal
Wasn't the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist celebrated on the fourth Sunday of June only after 1911 and before 1913?
ReplyDeleteWas there ever a time in liturgical history (before 1960), when the Office of the Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul would actually have been recited? Of course, Saint Irenaeus was assigned to June 28, and before that the feast of Saint Leo II was kept on the same day, but was the ever a time when the Vigil was celebrated (as opposed to just commemorated)? Even without the saints' days, there still would have been the octave of Saint John the Baptist, which would also have outranked the Vigil.
ReplyDelete@Paulus,
ReplyDeleteWell De diebus festis was issued on 2nd July 1911 so I suppose it really is a question of when the reforms of 1911-13 began. I'll change the wording to say 'Prior to the end of the 1913 phase of the reforms'.
@Peter,
ReplyDeleteI believe St Leo II became a semi-double in the 1568 BR. I suspect the answer to your question is probably not.