The seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost is of semi-double rite and its liturgical colour is green. This year it is the fourth Sunday of September. The Gospel pericopes at Mattins and Mass come from the twenty-second chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel and have the Pharisees asking the LORD what is the greatest commandment.
As Vespers yesterday afternoon the antiphons and psalms of Saturday were sung. The Office hymn was Jam sol recedit igneus sung with the Doxology of the Incarnation (Jesu, tibi...Qui natus etc). The antiphon on the Magnificat was Adonai, Domine for the Saturday before the fourth Sunday of September. After the collect of the Sunday a commemoration was sung of the preceding Office of St. Linus and of Our Lady of Ransom. The Suffrage of the Saints was omitted. At Compline Te lucis was sung with the Doxology of the Incarnation and the Dominical preces were omitted.
At Mattins the invitatory is Dominum qui fecit nos and the Office hymn is Nocte surgentes. In the first nocturn the lessons are the Incipit of the Book of Judith. In the second nocturn the lessons are from a sermon of St. Ambrose on Elias and fasting. In the third nocturn the homily is from St. Chrysostom on St. Matthew's Gospel. The Te Deum is sung. At Lauds the Office hymn is Ecce jam noctis. After the collect of the Sunday a commemoration of Our Lady of Ransom is sung. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted.
At Prime (Pss. 117, 118i & 118ii) and the Hours the hymns have the Doxology and melody of the Incarnation. At Prime both Quicumque and the Dominical preces are omitted and the short responsory the verse is Qui natus es.
Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of Our Lady of Ransom. Today there is no third collect. The Creed is sung, the preface is of the Blessed Trinity and the last Gospel is of the BVM.
At Vespers the antiphons and psalms of Sunday (109, 110, 111, 112 & 113) are sung. The Office hymn is Lucis creator sung with the Doxology of the Incarnation. After the collect of the Sunday a commemorations is sung of Our Lady of Ransom. 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 Doxology of the hymns is not changed. Mattins is cut down to a single nocturn. At Lauds there are no commemorations. At Prime the verse is Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris. At Mass there is but a single collect.
Art: Jerome Nadal
The Gospel for Our Lady of Ransom is taken from the Common; it is not a proper Gospel, and therefore, does not qualify as a "Proper Last Gospel". Please advise.
ReplyDeleteOn https://ordo.restorethe54.com/ordo/2023/9/24/ it says: "No Proper Last Gospel because OL of Ransom's Gospel is taken from the Common." So what now? Proper or not proper?
ReplyDeleteOn https://ordo.restorethe54.com/ordo/2023/9/24/ it says: "No Proper Last Gospel because OL of Ransom's Gospel is taken from the Common". What is right? Proper Gospel or 'In principio'?
ReplyDeleteJoannes, Julian,
ReplyDeleteWrong. The last Gospel on such a day is of the BVM even if it be from the Common.
The rubrics of Additiones et Variationes, IX, 3 which did exclude Gospels from Commons as being proper was modified by a rescript of the SRC in 1922, no. 4369 (also vide: AAS (14), pp 356-7) which declared the special dignity of certain persons made their Gospels proper: the Lord, the BVM, the Angels, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph and the Twelve Apostles.
ReplyDeleteSo in 'The Celebration of Mass', Vol.1, J.B. O'Connell writes in reference to proper last Gospels "Accordingly the Masses of the feasts of the following persons, of special dignity have a strictly proper Gospel: [...] (ii) our Lady, even when the Gospel Loquente Jesu (as on July 16 or November 21, which is the Gospel used in the Common of the BVM, or the pericope Missus est Gabriel, [my emphasis] which is used for several feasts of our Lady." He, like the rescript, excludes the Gospel of the Assumption as that is 'appropriated'.
In a traditional (pre-Pius XII) altar missal I looked at, the Gospel on 24 September was marked with a red "P," which I assume stands for "proper."
ReplyDeleteIn a traditional (pre-1955) altar missal I looked at, the Gospel on 24 September was marked with a red "P," which I assume indicates "proper."
ReplyDelete@Peter,
ReplyDeleteThank you. Yes, the 1924 Missal had such indications following the rescript I refer above. O'Connell also comments on Gospels becoming more proper in it.
Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware of this rescript. I also looked in my missal (from 1940) and it also says that the Gospels of the feasts of the Lord, the BVM, the Angels, John the Baptist, Joseph and the Apostles are to be treated as proper. I probably should have read better.
ReplyDelete@Julian,
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. It is all rather a learning curve with something new further on.