Sunday III Post Pentecost; commemoration of the Octave of the Nativity of St John the Baptist: Missa “Réspice in me“ The liturgy celebrates today the mercy of God towards us, poor sinners. (Collect, Postcommunion) Jesus has come not to call the just but sinners, and the Holy Ghost comes to establish the reign of God in…
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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Nativity of St John the Baptist
The Nativity of St John the Baptist: Missa “De ventre matris“ The Precursor of Christ was filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother’s womb. After an austere life as a hermit, he announced the Advent of Christ, preached penitence, and baptized in the Jordan. He was beheaded during the reign of Herod. The day…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; S. Etheldreda Queen, Virgin, Abbess
St. Etheldreda, Queen, Virgin, Abbess; commemoration of the Vigil of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: Missa “Dilexisti” Etheldreda (Æthelthryth, Ediltrudis, Audrey) (d.679), queen, foundress and abbess of Ely. She was the daughter of Anna, king of East Anglia, and was born, probably, at Exning, near Newmarket in Suffolk. At an early age she was…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; The Octave Day of Corpus Christi
The Octave Day of Corpus Christi (Feast of St Barnabas, Apostle transferred post Octave): Missa “Cibávít eos“ The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the Office) or transferred to after the Octave. The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; In the Octave of Corpus Christi
Octave of Corpus Christi: Missa “Cibávít eos“ The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the Office) or transferred to after the Octave. The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ), also known as Corpus Domini, is a Latin…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; In the Octave of Corpus Christi
Octave of Corpus Christi; Commemoration of S. Silverius Pope & Martyr: Missa “Cibávít eos“ The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the Office) or transferred to after the Octave. The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ), also…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; In the Octave of Corpus Christi
Octave of Corpus Christi; Commemoration of SS Gervase & Protase, Martyrs: Missa “Cibávít eos“ The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the Office) or transferred to after the Octave. The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ), also…
Carissimi; Sunday’s Mass: Within the Octave of Corpus Christi
Sunday II Post Pentecost, within the Octave of Corpus Christi: Missa “Factus est“ Wherever the solemn celebration of Corpus Christi is observed on the Sunday, one high Mass is celebrated as on the feast itself, with commemoration and last Gospel of the second Sunday. After this Mass the procession takes place. For the feast of Corpus…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; In the Octave of Corpus Christi
Octave of Corpus Christi: Missa “Cibávít eos“ The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the Office) or transferred to after the Octave. The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ), also known as Corpus Domini, is a Latin…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; In the Octave of Corpus Christi
Octave of Corpus Christi: Missa “Cibávít eos“ The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the Office) or transferred to after the Octave. The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ), also known as Corpus Domini, is a Latin…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi: Missa “Cibávít eos“ This feast is celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday and is the feast where we celebrate the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar – the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ confected in the Roman Canon of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feria of Sunday I Post Pentecost
Feria of Sunday I Post Pentecost: Missa “Domine, in Tua” The Mass of the First Sunday after Pentecost has been replaced by the Mass of Trinity Sunday. However for ferias the following week, the First Sunday after Pentecost is commemorated as the Feria Mass. INTROIT Psalm 67: 6, 7, 36 O Lord, I have trusted in thy mercy….
