25 May 2015 - Whit Monday

MONDAY OF THE OCTAVE OF PENTECOST 

Double of the First Class – Red

¶ No Feasts may be celebrated or commemorated until Vespers of WhitTuesday, and no feasts whatsever may be said during the entirety of the Octave.

¶ The Feast of St. Gregory VII, P.C. and the Feast of St. Urban I, P.M. are not said or transferred this year due to their occurrence with WhitMonday.


INTROIT Ps. 80.17

HE fed them with the finest wheat, alleluia, and filled them with honey from the rock, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 80.2. Sing joyfully to God, our helper, sing aloud to the God of Jacob. V. Glory be.

COLLECT

O GOD, who didst send the Holy Spirit to thine apostles, answer the prayers of thy people. Bestow peace upon us, just as thou hast given us to believe. Through.

¶ No commemorations or Seasonal Collects at this mass.

LESSON Acts 10.34, 42-48

IN those days, Peter opening his mouth, said: Men, the Lord commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the dead. To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him. While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word. And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also. For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Alleluia, alleluia. V. Acts 2.4 The apostles began to speak in foreign tongues of the wondrous deeds of God. Alleluia. (All kneel.) V. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of thy love.

SEQUENCE
As on Pentecost.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John (3.16-21)

AT that time, Jesus said to Nicodemus: For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God. 

The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY Ps. 17.14, 16

The Lord thundered from heaven and the Most High gave forth his voice, and the fountains of water appeared, alleluia.

SECRET

MERCIFULLY bless this offering, O Lord. Receive the sacrifice of our spiritual victim, and may we ourselves become an eternal offering to thee. Through.

COMMUNICANTES
As at the Vigil of Pentecost.

COMMUNION John 14.26

The Holy Spirit will teach you, alleluia, alleluia; Whatever I have said to you, alleluia, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

STAY close to thy people, O Lord, and assist them. Nourish them with thine Heavenly Sacrament and defend them from the rage of their enemies. Through.