Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non prævalébunt advérsus eam...

 

Today is the feast of Pope Saint Evaristus, Martyr. At Barroux, it is a feria and the Sunday Mass will be sung. 

It will be interesting to see which form of the 'Mass for Sovereign Pontiffs' they use at the Abbey. My understanding is that that Common in the Missale was a Pius XII innovation-- in the 1920 Missale pdf Si diligis me is tacked on after the Masses of the Virgin and before the votivae; previously, recourse would have been had to the Common of... I don't know: of a Martyr or of a Confessor and Pontiff. 

Obviously, all that is nonsense, as I let my mind wander in the wide wilderness, evidently: they are (as I noted to begin with) singing In voluntate tua Domine of Sunday. Now, as to which Mass Pater Thomas SJ says at Saint-Eugène....

Had a perfectly pleasant walk but have been freezing since my return, gosh (and it is now mostly sunny although with a vague skein of clouds)-- in anticipation, perhaps, of the approach of temperatures in the low 30s: in fact frost tomorrow and the days after. Am listening to Jean-Marie Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus between Masses (the new recording with Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij and Véronique Gens); while it hasn't itself been doing much to keep me warm it is permitting me to live in the imagination in an altogether more comfortable climate for a couple of hours.

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Lectio 3
Evarístus, Græcus, ex Judæo patre, Trajano imperatóre, pontificátum gessit. Qui ecclesiárum titulos urbis Romæ presbyteris divísit, et ordinávit ut septem diáconi episcopum custodírent dum evangelicæ prædicatiónis officio fungerétur. Idem constítuit, ex traditióne apostolica, ut matrimónium publice celebrétur et sacerdotis benedíctio adhibeátur. Præfuit Ecclésiæ annos novem, menses tres, presbyteris decem et septem, diáconis duobus, epíscopis quindecim, quater mense Decembri, ordinatis. Martyrio coronátus, prope sepúlcrum Principis Apostolórum in Vaticano sepúltus est septimo Kalendas Novembris.

Te Deum.

Pater Thomas SJ is indeed the celebrant of today's Holy Mass, and Dr Ratovondrahety is at the organ. He is saying the Si diligis me Simon Petre.

Introitus. Joann. 21, 15, 16 et 17. Si díligis me, Simon Petre, pasce agnos meos, pasce oves meas. Ps. 29, 2. Exaltábo te, Dómine, quóniam suscepísti me, nec delectásti inimícos meos super me. ℣. Glória Patri.

Oratio. Gregem tuum, Pastor ætérne, placátus inténde: et, per beátum Evaristum Mártyrem tuum atque Summum Pontíficem, perpétua protectióne custódi; quem totíus Ecclésiæ præstitísti esse pastórem. Per Dóminum.

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Petri Apóstoli.
l. Petri 5, 1-4 et 10-11.
Caríssimi: Senióres, qui in vobis sunt, obsécro consénior et testis Christi passiónum, qui et ejus, quæ in futúro revelánda est, glóriæ communicátor: páscite qui in vobis est gregem Dei, providéntes non coácte, sed spontánee secúndum Deum, neque turpis lucri grátia, sed voluntárie; neque ut dominántes in cleris, sed forma facti gregis ex ánimo. Et, cum appáruerit princeps pastórum, percipiétis immarcescíbilem glóriæ corónam. Deus autem omnis grátiæ, qui vocávit nos in ætérnam suam glóriam in Christo Jesu, módicum passos ipse perfíciet, confirmábit solidabítque. Ipsi glória et impérium in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

Graduale. Ps. 106, 32, 31. Exáltent eum in Ecclésia plebis: et in cáthedra seniórum laudent eum. ℣. Confiteántur Domino misericórdiæ ejus; et mirabília ejus fíliis hóminum.

Allelúja, allelúja. ℣. Matth. 16, 18. Tu es Petrus, et super hanc  petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam. Allelúja.

✠ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum.
Matth. 16, 13-19.
In illo témpore: Venit Jesus in partes Cæsaréæ Philíppi, et interrogábat discípulos suos, dicens: Quem dicunt hómines esse Fílium hóminis? At illi dixérunt: Alii Joánnem Baptístam, alii autem Elíam, alii vero Jeremíam aut unum ex prophétis. Dicit illis Jesus: Vos autem quem me esse dícitis? Respóndens Simon Petrus, dixit: Tu es Christus, Fílius Dei vivi. Respóndens autem Jesus, dixit ei: Beátus es, Simon Bar Jona: quia caro et sanguis non revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus, qui in cœlis est. Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non prævalébunt advérsus eam. Et tibi dabo claves regni cœlórum. Et quodcúmque ligáveris super terram, erit ligátum et in cœlis: et quodcúmque sólveris super terram, erit solútum et in cœlis.

Offertorium. Jerem. 1, 9-10. Ecce, dedi verba mea in ore tuo: ecce, constítui te super gentes et super regna, ut evéllas et destruas, et ædífices et plantes.

Secreta. Oblátis munéribus, quǽsumus, Dómine, Ecclésiam tuam benígnus illúmina: ut, et gregis tui profíciat ubique succéssus, et grati fiant nómini tuo, te gubernánte, pastóres. Per Dóminum.

Communio. Matth. 16, 18. Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam.

Postcommunio. Refectióne sancta enutrítam gubérna, quǽsumus, Dómine, tuam placátus Ecclésiam: ut, poténti moderatióne dirécta, et increménta libertátis accípiat et in religiónis integritáte persístat. Per Dóminum.

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