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Wednesday 12 May 2027

Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter

Weekday · Easter Time 1962: Sts. Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, & Pancras, Class III

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Ordinary Form · Missal of Paul VI

Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter

Weekday · Easter Time · Sunday Cycle B · Psalter Week 3

Optional memorials: Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs; Saint Pancras, Martyr

First ReadingActs 20:28-38

From the Acts of the Apostles

28Take heed, therefore,to yourselves and to all the flock,in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers,to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and Godwhich he purchased with his own blood.29For I know that after my departure,vicious wolves will enter in among you,not sparing the flock.30Men will arise from among your own selves,speaking perverse things,to draw away the disciples after them.31Therefore watch, rememberingthat for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.32Now, brothers, I entrust you to Godand to the word of his grace,which is able to build upand to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.33I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.34You yourselves knowthat these hands served my necessities,and those who were with me.35In all things I gave you an example,that so laboring you ought to help the weak,and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,that he himself said,‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

36When he had spoken these things,he knelt down and prayed with them all.37They all wept freely,and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,38sorrowing most of allbecause of the word which he had spoken,that they should see his face no more.Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab

29Your God has commanded your strength.Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.30Because of your temple at Jerusalem,kings will bring presents to you.

33Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!Sing praises to the Lord34to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.35Ascribe strength to God!

35His excellency is over Israel,his strength is in the skies.36You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.Praise be to God!

GospelJohn 17:11b-19

From the Gospel according to John

11I am no more in the world,but these are in the world,and I am coming to you.Holy Father, keep them through your namewhich you have given me,that they may be one, even as we are.12While I was with them in the world,I kept them in your name.I have kept those whom you have given me.None of them is lost except the son of destruction,that the Scripture might be fulfilled.13But now I come to you,and I say these things in the world,that they may have my joy made full in themselves.14I have given them your word.The world hated them because they are not of the world,even as I am not of the world.15I pray not that you would take them from the world,but that you would keep them from the evil one.16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.17Sanctify them in your truth.Your word is truth.18As you sent me into the world,even so I have sent them into the world.19For their sakes I sanctify myself,that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

1962 Missal · Missale Romanum

Sts. Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, & Pancras

Class III · red · Feria IV after the Ascension

IntroitIntroitus

Ps 32:18; 32:19; 32:20

Ecce, óculi Dómini super timéntes eum, sperántes in misericórdia ejus, allelúja: ut erípiat a morte ánimas eórum: quóniam adjútor et protéctor noster est, allelúja, allelúja.

Ps 32:1

Exsultáte, justi, in Dómino: rectos decet collaudátio.

Glória Patri…

Ecce, óculi Dómini super timéntes eum, sperántes in misericórdia ejus, allelúja: ut erípiat a morte ánimas eórum: quóniam adjútor et protéctor noster est, allelúja, allelúja.

Ps. 32:18-20.

But see, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear Him, upon those who hope in His kindness, alleluia: to deliver them from death; for He is our help and our shield, alleluia, alleluia.

Ps 32:1

Exult, you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting.

Glory Be to the Father…

But see, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear Him, upon those who hope in His kindness, alleluia: to deliver them from death; for He is our help and our shield, alleluia, alleluia.

CollectOratio

Semper nos, Dómine, Mártyrum tuórum Nérei, Achíllei, Domitíllæ atque Pancrátii fóveat, quǽsumus, beáta solémnitas: et tuo dignos reddat obséquio.

Per Dominum…

May the holy feast of Your Martyrs, Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras, ever comfort us, we beseech You, O Lord, and make us worthy to serve You.

Through our Lord…

EpistleLectio

Léctio libri Sapiéntiæ

Sap 5:1-5

Stabunt justi in magna constántia advérsus eos, qui se angustiavérunt et qui abstulérunt labóres eórum. Vidéntes turbabúntur timore horríbili, et mirabúntur in subitatióne insperátæ salútis, dicéntes intra se, pœniténtiam agéntes, et præ angústia spíritus geméntes: Hi sunt, quos habúimus aliquándo in derísum et in similitúdinem impropérii. Nos insensáti vitam illórum æstimabámus insániam, et finem illórum sine honóre: ecce, quómodo computáti sunt inter fílios Dei, et inter Sanctos sors illórum est.

Lesson from the book of Wisdom

Wis. 5:1-5

The just shall stand with great assurance before their oppressors who set at nought their labors. Seeing this, these shall be shaken with dreadful fear, and amazed at the suddenness of the unlooked-for salvation. They shall say among themselves, rueful and groaning through anguish of spirit: These are they whom once we held as a laughingstock and as a type for mockery, fools that we were! Their life we deemed madness, and their death dishonored. See how they are accounted among the sons of God; how their lot is with the Saints!

GradualGraduale

Allelúja, allelúja.

℣.Hæc est vera fratérnitas, quæ vicit mundi crímina: Christum secúta est, ínclita tenens regna cœléstia. Allelúja.

℣.Te Mártyrum candidátus laudat exércitus, Dómine. Allelúja.

Alleluia, alleluia.

℣.This is the true brotherhood, which overcame the wickedness of the world; it followed Christ, attaining the noble kingdom of heaven. Alleluia.

℣.The white-robed army of Martyrs praises You, O Lord. Alleluia.

GospelEvangelium

Sequéntia ☩ sancti Evangélii secúndum Joánnem

Joannes 4:46-53

In illo témpore: Erat quidam régulus, cujus fílius infirmabátur Caphárnaum. Hic cum audísset, quia Jesus adveníret a Judǽa in Galilǽam, ábiit ad eum, et rogábat eum, ut descénderet et sanáret fílium ejus: incipiébat enim mori. Dixit ergo Jesus ad eum: Nisi signa et prodígia vidéritis, non créditis. Dicit ad eum régulus: Dómine, descénde, priúsquam moriátur fílius meus. Dicit ei Jesus: Vade, fílius tuus vivit. Crédidit homo sermóni, quem dixit ei Jesus, et ibat. Jam autem eo descendénte, servi occurrérunt ei et nuntiavérunt, dicéntes, quia fílius ejus víveret. Interrogábat ergo horam ab eis, in qua mélius habúerit. Et dixérunt ei: Quia heri hora séptima relíquit eum febris. Cognóvit ergo pater, quia illa hora erat, in qua dixit ei Jesus: Fílius tuus vivit: et crédidit ipse et domus ejus tota.

Continuation ☩ of the Holy Gospel according to John

John 4:46-53

At that time, there was a certain royal official whose son was lying sick at Capharnaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and besought Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe. The royal official said to Him, Sir, come down before my child dies. Jesus said to him, Go your way, your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and departed. But even as he was now going down, his servants met him and brought word saying that his son lived. He asked of them therefore the hour in which he had got better. And they told him, Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. The father knew then that it was at that very hour in which Jesus had said to him, Your son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole household.

OffertoryOffertorium

Ps 88:6

Confitebúntur cœli mirabília tua, Dómine: et veritátem tuam in ecclésia sanctórum, allelúja, allelúja.

Ps 88:6

The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints, alleluia, alleluia.

SecretSecreta

Sanctórum Martyrum tuórum, quǽsumus. Dómine, Nérei, Achíllei, Domitíllæ atque Pancrátii sit tibi grata conféssio: quæ et múnera nostra comméndet, et tuam nobis indulgéntiam semper implóret.

Per Dominum…

May the witnessing to the faith made by Your holy Martyrs, Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras, be pleasing to You, O Lord, both to commend our offerings to You and to assure us of Your everlasting mercy.

Through our Lord…

PrefacePrefatio

de Ascensione Domini

Vere dignum et justum est, æquum et salutáre, nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere: Dómine sancte, Pater omnípotens, ætérne Deus: per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Qui post resurrectiónem suam ómnibus discípulis suis maniféstus appáruit et, ipsis cernéntibus, est elevátus in cælum, ut nos divinitátis suæ tribúeret esse partícipes. Et ídeo cum Angelis et Archángelis, cum Thronis et Dominatiónibus cumque omni milítia cœléstis exércitus hymnum glóriæ tuæ cánimus, sine fine dicéntes:

Ascension

It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God: through Christ our Lord. Who, after His Resurrection, appeared openly to all His disciples, and, while they looked on, was taken up into heaven, that He might grant unto us to be sharers in His own divinity. And therefore, with Angels and Archangels, with Thrones and Dominations, and with all the hosts of the heavenly army, we sing the hymn of Thy glory, evermore saying:

CommunionCommunio

Ps 32:1

Gaudéte, justi, in Dómino, allelúja: rectos decet collaudátio, allelúja.

Ps 32:1

Rejoice in the Lord, ye just: praise becometh the upright, alleluia.

PostcommunionPostcommunio

Quǽsumus, Dómine: ut beatórum Mártyrum tuórum Nérei, Achíllei, Domitíllæ atque Pancrátii deprecatiónibus, sacraménta sancta, quæ súmpsimus, ad tuæ nobis profíciant placatiónis augméntum.

Per Dominum…

O Lord, we beseech You, that the holy sacrament we have received may, by the pleadings of Your blessed Martyrs, Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras, grant us always more of Your forgiveness.

Through our Lord…

In your hand missal: Angelus Press p. 1205 · Father Lasance p. 1016 · Baronius Press p. 1270