Thursday, August 2, 2018


St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church

III class
White

First Thursday

Commemoration of St. Stephen I, Pope and Martyr


General info:

The First Thursday votive Mass may be said: “one Mass of our Lord Jesus Christ, eternal High Priest, on the first Thursday or the first Saturday of each month, in churches and oratories in which special devotions are held on that day for the sanctification of the clergy” (Rubricæ generales, 385a).


Mass:

First Thursday votive: (White) Mass of our Lord Jesus Christ, eternal High Priest, Gloria, commemoration of St. Alphonsus and St. Stephen, no Credo, common Preface

OR

Mass of the feast (White), Gloria, commemoration of St. Stephen, no Credo, common preface


Breviary:

Ordinary Office of the feast

Matins: Invitatorium and Hymn from the Common; psalms and antiphons of the feria; first two lessons of the occurring Scripture (second and third joined); lesson 3 of the feast; Te Deum

Lauds: Antiphons and psalms of the feria (first schema), remainder from the Common; commemoration added

Hours: Antiphons and psalms of the feria, remainder from the Common

Vespers: Antiphons and psalms of the feria, remainder from the Common

Compline: Of the feria