Friday, December 3, 2021

St. Francis Xavier (First Friday)

Confessor

III class
White

General info:

The First Friday votive Masses may be said: “two Masses of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the first Friday of each month, in churches and oratories in which special devotions are held on that day in honor of the Sacred Heart” (Rubricæ generales, 385b).

Mass:

Sacred Heart votive: (White) Mass of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Gloria, commemoration of the feria and of the saint, no Credo, proper preface

OR

Mass of the feast, Gloria, commemoration of the feria, no Credo, common preface

Breviary:

Matins: Invitatorium Regem Confessorum Dominum; Hymn Iste Confessor; ferial psalms and antiphons; Lesson 3 of the feast; Te Deum

Lauds: Ferial psalms of the 1st scheme with antiphons; Hymn Iesu, Redemptor; proper oration; commemoration of the feria

Hours: Ferial psalms with antiphons per annum; proper oration

Vespers: Ferial psalms and antiphons; Hymn Iste Confessor; proper oration; commemoration of the feria

Compline: Of the feria