December 28th

Go to Octave of Holy Innocents
 

Double of II CLass with Simple Octave
 
INTROIT

Ex ore infantium (Psalm 8)

Priest:   Out of the mouth of very babes, O God, and of sucklings hast thou perfected praise:
People:  Because of thine adversaries.  §

Priest:    O Lord our Governour:
People:   How excellent is thy Name in all the world.
Priest:   Glory be ...
People:   As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

COLLECT

Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by theor deaths: mortify and kill all vices in us; and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith even unto death, we may glorify thy Holy Name.  Through Jesus Christ our Lord.  [Who.]

COLLECT Of the Nativity

Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: grant that we, being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit.  Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end.
 

THE  EPISTLE

Revelation 14.1-5

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.   And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:   And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.   These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.  And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

 
GRADUAL AND ALLELUIA

Priest:    (Psalm 124)  Our soul is escaped:
People:   Even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler.
Priest:    The snare is broken
People:   And we are delivered.
Priest:    Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord,
People:   Who hath made heaven and earth.

§ The following Alleluia with its verse is said whenever this Feast falls on a Sunday, or has the rank of Double of I Class.  But it is always said on the Octave Day, and in Votive Masses before Septuagesima, and after Pentecost.

Priest:    Alleluia.
People:   Alleluia.
Priest:    (Psalm 113)  Praise the Lord, ye children:
People:   O praise the Name of the Lord
All:        Alleluia!

§ The Tract is not said when Alleluia is said as above.

TRACT

Priest:    (Psalm 79)  The blood of thy Saints have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem.
People:    And there was no man to bury them.
Priest:    Avenge, O Lord, the blood of thy Saints,
People:   That is shed upon the earth.

§ In Votive Masses in Eastertide, instead of the Gradual is said he Alleluia as above, and then

Priest:    (Ecclesiasticus 39)  Thy Saints, O Lord, shall flourish like the lily,
People:    And shall be even as the odour of balsam before thee.
All:         Alleluia
 

THE GOSPEL

St. Matthew 2.13-18

At that time: the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young Child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy him.   When he arose, he took the young Child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:   And was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have I called my Son.  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth; and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.   Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying:   In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
 
The creed is said on account of the Octave.

OFFERTORY

Psalm 124

Our soul is escaped even as a birs out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken and we are delivered.

SECRET

Grant, O Lord, we pray thee, that the devout prayers of thy Saints may never fail to succour and defend us: that these our oblations may be rendered acceptable in thy sight; and that we may be made worthy to obtain for our sins the pardon of thy mercy.  Through.

SECRET Of the Nativity

We beseech thee, O Lord, that by this new Birth of thy only-begotten Son thou wouldest vouchsafe to sanctify these our oblations: and to cleanse us from the defilements of all our iniquities.  Through the same.

PREFACE AND CANON Of Christmas
 

COMMUNION  St. Matthew 2

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

POSTCOMMUNION

We beseech thee, O Lord, that the gifts which we have received in these holy mysteries: may at the intercession of thy Saints, effectually avail for our succour both in this life and in that which is to come.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION Of the Nativity

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that like as thy Son, born this day the Saviour of the world, hath been made the author of our heavenly birth; so he may bestow upon us the gift of everlasting life.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee.

§ Within the Octave of Holy Innocents nothing is said of that Feast.
 

Octave of the Holy Innocents

January 4th

Simple

Mass as on the Feas (above), with Preface of Christmas but no other Commemoration of it.  Gloria in excelsis, Alleluia with its Verse, and Depart in peace, are said.  The Creed is not said.

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