XIX Sunday after Pentecost - Mission Sunday

The nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost is of semi-double rite and its liturgical colour, from Mattins this year, is green. This year it is the fourth Sunday of October and Mission Sunday. At the request of the Superior Council of the Pontifical Work for the Propagation of the Faith the Sacred Congregation of Rites directed in 1926 that the prayer, from the Votive Mass Pro Propagatione Fidei, be added to all Masses today as an oratio imperata pro re gravi. The Gospel pericopes contain the parable of the wedding feast from St. Matthew's Gospel with the sobering concluding words of the LORD Multi enim sunt vocati, pauci vero electi.

Yesterday afternoon second Vespers of the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist were sung. The antiphons Juravit Dominus etc were sung, doubled, with psalms 109, 112, 115, 125 & 138. The Office hymn was Exsultet orbis gaudiis. After the collect of the feast commemorations were sung of the Sunday, (the antiphon on the Magnifcat being Exaudiat Dominus for the Saturday before the fourth Sunday of October), and of St. Peter of Alcantara. The Suffrage of the Saints was omitted. At Compline the Dominical preces were omitted.

At Mattins the invitatory is Adoremus Dominum and the Office hymn isPrimo die. In the first nocturn the lessons are the Incipit of the Second Book of the Machabees. In the second nocturn the lessons are from a tract of St. Chrysostom on the forty-third psalm. In the third nocturn the homily is from St. Gregory on St. Matthew's Gospel. At Lauds the Office hymn is Aeterne rerum. After the collect of the Sunday a commemoration of St. Peter of Alcantara is sung. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted.

At Prime, Pss. 117, 118(i) & 118(ii) both Quicumque and the Dominical preces are omitted .

Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of St. Peter of Alcantara, the third collect is Deus, qui nos homines - for the propagation of the faith. This is taken from the Votive Mass Pro Propagatione Fidei. The Creed is sung and the preface of the Blessed Trinity.

Vespers are of the Sunday, Pss. 109, 110, 111, 112 & 113, and the Office hymn is Lucis creator. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations are sung of the following Office of St. John Cantius and of St. Peter of Alcantara. The Suffrage of the Saints is omitted as are the Dominical preces at Compline.

In the 'liturgical books of 1962' at Vespers on Saturday only the Sunday was commemorated. The third Sunday of October and its week are omitted this year (vide: rubric pro loco before the III Sunday of October, BR1961. When the III Sunday occurs between 18th and 21st October, it and its week are omitted). Mattins is cut down to a single nocturn and three lessons. At Lauds there are no commemorations. At Mass the collect etc for the Propagation of the Faith is added to the collect of the Sunday under one conclusion. At Vespers there are no commemorations.

Art: Jerome Nadal