At Vespers yesterday afternoon the antiphons and psalms of the feast of Corpus Christi, Sacerdos in aeternum etc, were sung, not doubled, with psalms 109, 110, 115, 127 & 147. The chapter was of the Sunday, the Office hymn, Pange, lingua, as on the feast. The antiphon on the Magnificat and collect were of the Sunday. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations were sung of the Octave and of St. Norbert. The Suffrage was omitted being within an Octave etc. At Compline Te lucis was sung with the melody and Doxology of the Incarnation, Jesu tibi sit gloria, Qui natus es de Virgine, Cum Patre et almo Spiritu, In sempiterna saecula. The Dominical preces were omitted.
At Mattins the invitatory is Christum Regem adoremus dominantem Gentibus: Qui se manducantibus dat spiritus pinguedinem. The Office hymn is Sacris solemnis. The antiphons and psalms are as on the feast of Corpus Christi but the antiphons are not doubled. The lessons are proper to the Sunday. In the first nocturn these are taken from the First Book of Kings. In the second nocturn they are taken from a sermon of St. Chrysostom to the people of Antioch and the homily in the third nocturn is from St. Gregory on St. Luke's Gospel. The Te Deum is sung. At Lauds the antiphons are those sung on the feast of Corpus Christi, Sapientia etc but they are not doubled. The chapter is of the Sunday, the Office hymn is Verbum supernum prodiens as on the feast. The antiphon on the Benedictus and collect are of the Sunday. After the collect of the Sunday commemorations are sung of the Octave and SS Marcellinus etc. The Suffrage is omitted.
At the Little Hours the hymns are sung to the same tone as on the feast of the Nativity of the LORD (there of course being a deep link between the Incarnation and Corpus Christi) with the Doxology Jesu tibi sit gloria etc. At Prime, Pss. 53, 118(i) & 118(ii), the versicle in the short responsory is Qui natus es for the feast and Octave and the short lesson is Filioli mei, of the Sunday.
Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of the Octave. The Creed is sung and the preface is of the Nativity.
In Collegiate and Cathedral Churches a Mass of the feast of Corpus Christi is sung after None with Gloria, the second collect of the Sunday etc, the Sequence Lauda Sion, Creed, preface of the Nativity and last Gospel of the Sunday. After this a Procession is made as on the feast. Likewise in those countries where the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi is observed on the Sunday following the feast Masses are of the feast with a commemoration of the Sunday.
At Vespers the antiphons Sacerdos in aeternum etc, are sung, not doubled, with psalms 109, 110, 115, 127 & 147. The chapter is of the Sunday and the Office hymn is Pange, lingua. After the collect of the Sunday a commemoration is sung of the following day within the Octave. The Suffrage is omitted as are the Dominical preces at Compline.
In the 'liturgical books of 1962' Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi, and the Octave itself, have been abolished and the second Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated as a 'green' Sunday. The Ordinary Doxology is used at the hymns. There are no commemorations at Vespers. Mattins is stripped down to a single nocturn of three lessons with the invitatory and antiphons of the Sunday. At Lauds there are no commemorations. At Mass there is a single collect. At Vespers there are no commemorations.
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Could you provide a source for the the Cibavit Mass after None in cathedral and collegiate churches? In my research I found a SRC decree, which concerns a somewhat different case, but it orders that the Mass of the Sunday or of the occurring feast be said - 2552 ad 4. On the other hand, the pre-conciliar ordo of my diocese prescribes the Cibavit mass in all churches where a procession is held and even directs that commemorations be omitted if there is another sung Mass of the Sunday. In my country, Corpus Christi is still a holy day of obligation on Thursday, so it cannot be treated as an external solemnity:
"Cras ubi Process. solemnis Ss. Corp. peragit., Missa canitur de festo Gl. Cr. un. or. Sequ., Pf. Nat. (si una tt. M. cantata habeatur add. 2 or. et U.E. Dom.)
Thank you for your interesting comment. The reference is a decree of the SRC of 24 July 1911 signed by the Prefect, Cardinal Martinelli published in AAS 3 (1911) pp. 350-351. Paragraph VI is almost identical to the rubric in the Ordo. The original compiler of the Ordo, the late Mr John Tyson, took the rubric from a Burns Oates Ordo he owned.
Thank you for your answer. If I had found only the 1911 decree and had not known about similar rubrics in other ordos, I would have assumed that it was a short-lived provision that was abrogated when Corpus Christi was restored as a day of obligation on Thursday.
Mr/Fr Wojciechowski,
There clearly is variation in extant ordines. Whatever, I believe it a good praxis particularly in the difficult times in which we live.
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