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Announcement of the Feast of Devotion and in Northampton of next Sunday's Collection
+26 Sunday Twenty-sixth and last after Pentecost. St Felix of Valois Confessor, double (from 20 November). Commemoration of the Sunday and of St Peter of Alexandria. White.
27 Monday St Gregory Thaumaturge Confessor Bishop, double (from 17 November). White.
28 Tuesday St Martin Pope Martyr, semidouble (from 12 November). Second prayers A cunctis, third prayers at priest's choice. Red.
29 Wednesday Vigil of St Andrew. Mass of the Vigil with second prayers Fidelium (from first Mass for the Dead) and third prayers of St Saturninus. Violet.
‡30 Thursday Feast of Devotion. Mass Pro Populo. St Andrew Apostle, double of the second class. In Mass, Creed, Preface of the Apostles. Red.
1 Friday Feria. Mass of Last Sunday after Pentecost without Gloria or Creed. Second prayers Fidelium (from first Mass for the Dead) and third prayers A Cunctis. Violet.
2 Saturday St Bibiana Virgin Martyr, semidouble. Second prayers A cunctis, third prayers at priest's choice. Red.
From First Vespers of the first Sunday of Advent this evening no solemn Nuptials may be celebrated before 7 January next year.
The Gloria is not said at Mass during Advent. In Cathedrals
and major churches at solemn Masses (except on the third Sunday of Advent and
the Vigil of the Nativity) the sacred ministers wear folded chasubles instead
of dalmatic and tunicle.
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It's still on the list to reply to those comment, but here's again for the "with new feasts" edition:
Sunday 26th. Of the Sunday, semidouble, Com. of St. Peter, 3rd prayers as "usual". Green. Vespers of the following, Com. of the Sunday, white.
The day jumps off the days "free for feasts to be fixed to a later date", so is not given to St. Felix (why by the way were St. Felix and St. Gregory in that order and not the other way round?) because of a feast we have not seen yet, which is only a semidouble, so jumps on the "feasts to be transferred to a later date" list.
Monday 27th. Our Lady Immaculate of the Miraculous Medal, double.
Tuesday 28th. St. Gregory the Thaumaturge Cf Bp, double, fixa ex 17 huius. (Why was he fixed later than the following, in reality?)
Wednesday 29th. St. Felix of Valois Cf double, fixa ex 20 huius, Commemoration of the Vigil. Vespers of the following, Com. of the Saint.
Alas, alas. Yet another Vigil gone. I have a feeling that he ought to be put on the 5th generally; his natalis is the 4th, the Octave of All Saints no where near as prominent as it once may have been, and celebrating specific saints seems a good manner to celebrate it, and (for the general Calendar) one feria definitely before Advent in the month with the very ferial topic of praying for the departed (and saying the Officio Defunctorum) would not be to much. Which would of course mix up the rest again.
Thursday 30th, as given. At Vespers Com. of the following.
Friday 1st. St. Silvester Abbot, semidouble, transferred (not fixed) from the 26th of the previous month. Com. of St. Charles de Foucault, who originally would have a simple feast. This makes four bold assumptions, see below.
Saturday 2nd as given. In the Evening, Solemn First Vespers of Advent I with blessing of the Advent wreath (let's import good Protestant inventions) strongly suggested; which would have Com. of the saint.
Assumptions for the 26th/1st:
1. St. Silvester gets a feast (on the 26th originally), but only a semidouble; which in turn makes the day out of bounds for "fixations to a later day" but gives itself way to the Sunday. Historically, St. Silvester got a double, but only after 1911. I admit that founders of orders usually got doubles, though St. Giovanni Leonardi is an exception apparently. It is admittedly something I rather think should, rather than would be done. The Sunday of Last Judgment should be *sometimes* heard in the main parish mass. Yes, it is a fine thing to hear on this day about our Lady's offering up her own life to service in the Temple, or about the patroness of Church music, St. Cecily, with the Gospel of the Ten Virgins. Think of: music in heaven, and such. It may also be a fine thing to hear about St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, or about the Saint we mostly associate with mystical getting nearer my God to Thee, St. John of the Cross; though this peculiar Advent Saint could just go to his natalis on Dec 14, or about one of the first Popes, especially if the old Gospel Mt 24,42to45 is used. Finally, even St. Silvester, particularly because he nicely shares his name with the saint of the last feast on the civil year, and because he went out (spiritually) to the desert (of a monastery) to meet God apart from the world, would, somehow, fit. But the Sunday of Last Judgment ought to be said some time with his own texts nonetheless.
2. Feasts are not transferred across the bounds of one ecclesial year. (Makes sense).
3. Usually, the "feasts to be transferred waiting for a day to be transferred to" list is, if the ranks a equal, processed "first in, first out" as we know. But if at the end, there simply are not enough days, then it's not the feasts first in the list, but the feasts nearest to the free day that gets the feast, while the others are commemorated on their original day. I have no other reason for that except "makes sense".
4. St. Charles, if he does get a feast, gets a simple only. Makes sense, though; simples are commemorated in Advent, and there are pretty many feasts in Advent before the start of High Advent already.
Differences in Beverley and Shrewsbury:
Sunday. Add a Commemoration of St. Silvester Abbot between the Sunday and the martyr; no third prayers. Vespers of our Lady with Commemoration of the Sunday and St. Silvester.
Friday. St. Anthony Mary Claret, fixed from October 29th (though now on the 23rd, actual natalis on the 24th), Com. of St. Charles.
We did manage to fix dates for all the fixed feasts; if, perhaps, only in years as long as this one (are fixed feasts transferred to the new ecclesial year?).
Actually, St. Sylvester was made a double by Leo XIII. I have his feast in 1905 and 1906 in my diurnals. And it is said explicitly in his historical lessons, that Leo XIII made his feast universal and double.
I think I have commented before but the older arrangement for the insertion of Fielium seems far superior. According to the post-1911 changes the Mass on Friday has the second oration A cunctis, the third Fidelium, and the fourth chosen by the celebrant. It does seem a pointless change.
Dear Paul,
thanks for the correction. I had assumed wrongly that what you find in Divinum Officum as "Tridentine 1910" (as it was called until very recently) is what was immediately before the Breviary reform. They corrected themselves, actually, and say "Tridentine 1888" now.
But I do disagree with Pope Leo XIII there. Other than with other Sundays, where you have a "well, the Easter date and the catching up of Sundays after Epiphany will make them wander through the Calendar" situation, the Ultimate Sunday after Pentecost is precisely the one between November 20th and November 26th. Hence, however much we may disagree with the "post-1911 Sabbatarianism" as our host, I believe, has called it (*), it is obvious in my view that not all of those days should be occupied by doubles; assuming those to outrank the Sunday.
[* I do admit that I feel there was some overcrowding of the Calendar. I guess the preferable solution would be to bite into the sour apple of actually downranking feasts, of saying "this minor double will remain one and this other won't", something actually along the lines of what the CDF did in 2020 of all years. But maybe more on that later...]
One unrelated question:
>>In Cathedrals and major churches at solemn Masses (except on the third Sunday of Advent and the Vigil of the Nativity) the sacred ministers wear folded chasubles instead of dalmatic and tunicle.
So, it's folded chasubles for cathedrals and major churches (except for Gaudete which is understood). But what about minor churches?
After all, they might get a deacon and subdeacon every now and then; e. g. for their titular feast and such; and this is the situation our old-Rite chapels are now in. I see four options:
1. Folded chasubles too, it's just that the writers of the Ordo did not think of the possibility that those minor churches would actually do Levitated Masses.
2. Alb, amict and cingulum (or even just cassock and surplice), plus the stole for the deacon and the maniple for the subdeacon.
3. Dalmatic and tunicle - which would be somewhat strange when Cathedrals are not allowed them, but it would seem to be what the words literally imply.
4. Minor churches are actually forbidden to do Levitated Masses, at least at the times where major ones put on folded chasubles.
Which of those applies? I don't know.
Folded chasubles: according to the 1943 edition of O'Connell's Ceremonies, greater churches are cathedrals, collegiate churches and parish churches, as well as the chief churches of Regulars. He comments that this means 'nearly all churches in England'. Folded chasubles are permitted in any church per Rubricae Generales Missalis. He also suggests that these might simply be folded vestments rather than those designed to represent them.
>>Folded chasubles are permitted in any church per Rubricae Generales Missalis. He also suggests that these might simply be folded vestments rather than those designed to represent them.
Ah, that makes sense.
So, there really are specific folded-chasubles? I had not thought there were. I have seen folded chasubles, yes, but I had assumed (and maybe those were... it's not as if this were general practice now) that those were produced ad hoc by means of a chasuble and two safety-pins (or some such). The stola latior though is obviously a distinct vestment of its own.
When I get a chance I'll scan the relevant pages.
Thank you, but please no pressure at all...
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