SAINT JOHN BEFORE THE LATIN GATE
GREATER DOUBLE / RED
Jesus told St. John and his brother, St. James, that the sincerity of their love for Him would be put to trial by their partaking of the chalice of His sufferings. St. James was the first of the Apostles to be martyred; St. John was the last of the Twelve to die. Emperor Domitian caused John to be brought to Rome and condemned him to be cast into a cauldron of boiling oil; but God preserved the Apostle from injury. St. John thus suffered a far greater martyrdom than death; his longing to be reunited with Christ in heaven had to be endured with an increasingly loving patience. So, we, too, must learn to wait lovingly on God's will.
INTROIT Ps. 63:3
You have protected me, O God, from the throng of evildoers, alleluia; from the multitude of malefactors, alleluia, alleluia!
Ps. 63:2. Hear, O god, my prayer of supplication; deliver me from the fear of the enemy.
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
O God, you see how we are tossed about by the misfortunes that surround us. May Your blessed Apostle and Evangelist John intercede for us and protect us. Through our Lord . . .
LESSON Wisd. 5:1-5
Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours. These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation, Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
ALLELUIA
Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 91:13; Os. 14:6
The just man shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar of Lebanon. Alleluia!
V. The just man shall blossom as the lily, and shall flourish forever before the Lord. Alleluia!
GOSPEL Matt. 20:20-23
At that time, then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him. Who said to her: "What wilt thou?" She saith to him: "say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom." And Jesus answering, said: "You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink?" They say to him: "We can." He saith to them: "My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 88:6
The heavens proclaim Your wonders, o Lord, and Your truth in the assembly of the saints, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
SECRET
Accept our offerings and prayers, O Lord. Cleanse us by this heavenly rite, and in Your mercy hear our petitions. Through our Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ps. 63:11
The just man rejoices in the Lord and trusts in Him; and all the upright of heart glory in Him, alleluia, alleluia!
POSTCOMMUNION
O Lord, may the Bread of Heaven that refreshes us strengthen us unto life everlasting. Through our Lord . . .
I don't believe this feast is celebrated in the 1962 (John XXIII) missale according to the missale I downloaded at sanctamissa.org. Is this correct? Was this Feast eliminated from the 1962 missale (and therefore would not be celebrated in the extraordinary form under summorum pontificum)?
ReplyDeleteIt is listed in the calendar for Traditional Masses at: http://www.traditio.com/calendar/cal1105.htm
ReplyDeleteIt is also listed in my Saints calendar from Tan publishers.
In the 'liturgical books of 1962' the feast of St. John before the Latin Gate has been abolished from the Calendar despite its appearance in seventh century liturgical texts and a fifth century church being dedicated to the event.
The delightful feast of St. John before the Latin Gate is of greater-double rite. The feast appears in the Gregorian Sacramentaries on May 6th and and is the dedication festival for the fifth century church in Rome named after the feast. The feast commemorates the 'martyrdom' of St. John the Evangelist as described by Tertullian in the year AD 92. On the orders of Domitian St. John was cast into a cauldron of hot oil yet emerged unscathed and was exiled to the island of Patmos.
The church, in Rome, of San Giovanni a Porta Latina was dedicated in honour of this feast and used to be a liturgical station on Saturday in Passion Week.
From http://ordorecitandi.blogspot.com/2011/05/st-john-before-latin-gate.html