VIGIL of Class I

Take advantage of our resources for priests for formulating your homily. We offer a breakdown of the theological themes, useful meditations, material from great saints, popes and Church fathers.

This is the final day of the First Great Novena since The Ascension and is a day of Fasting and Abstinence in the Traditional Rite by the Precepts of the Church.

Divine Office

Antiphons:

1. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. [Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.]
2. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. [Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.]
3. Date magnitudinem Deo nostro, alleluia. [Ascribe greatness to our God, alleluia.]
4. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. [Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.]

• Ben: Ascendo ad Patrem meum, et Patrem vestrum: Deum meum, et Deum vestrum, alleluia, alleluia. [I ascend unto My Father and your Father, to My God and to your God. Alleluia, alleluia.]

Collect: O Almighty and everlasting God, grant that our will be ever meekly subject unto Thy will, and our heart ever honestly ready to serve Thy majesty. Through our Lord.

Holy Mass

Vestments: Purple or Red

Introit: (Wisdom 1:7) Cum sanctificatus fuero in vobis, congregabo vos de universis terris, et effundam super vos aquam mundam, et mundabimini ab omnibus inquinamentis vestris; et dabo vobis spiritum novum, alleluia, alleluia. Ps 33.2. Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore: semper laus ejus in ore meo. Gloria Patri… [When I prove My holiness through you, I will gather you from all the foreign lands and I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities; and I will give you a new spirit, alleluia, alleluia. Ps 33.2. I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be ever in my mouth. Glory be to the Father…]

Collect: Grant we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the brightness of Thy glory may shine upon us, and that the light of Thy light may, through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, strengthen the minds of those who are reborn through Thy grace.  Through the our Lord.

Epistle: Acts 19:1-8

Gospel: John 14:15-21

Post-communion: May the outpouring of the Holy Spirit cleanse our hearts, O Lord, and make them fertile through the dew He sprinkles upon them.  Through our Lord.