Here are the Latin Mass propers for the traditional feast day of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More (Double of the 1st Class - Red vestments). They are taken from a pre-1955 missal (see citation below). Unfortunately, I was unable to put it in the accent marks with Blogger.
Introit: Ps. xxxiii, 20-21
Multae tribulationes justorum, et de his omnibus liberavit eos Dominus: Dominus custodit omnia ossa eorum: unum ex his non conteretur. Ps. ibid. 2. Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore: semper laus ejus in ore meo.
V. Gloria Patri.
Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them. The Lord keepeth all their bones: not one of them shall be broken. Ps. I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall be always in my mouth. V. Glory be.
Collect:
Deus, qui beatos Martyres tuos Joannem et Thomam, verae fidei et Romanae Ecclesiae principatus propugnatores, inter Anglos suscitasti; eorum meritis ac precibus concede; et ejusdem fidei professione, unum omnes in Christo efficiamur et simus.
Per Dominum.
O God, who didst raise up Thy blessed martyrs, John and Thomas, from among the English to be defenders of the true faith and of the primacy of the holy Roman Church, grant that through their merits and prayers, we may all become and remain one by the profession of the same faith. Through our Lord.
Epistle: II Machab. vi. 18-28
Gradual: Ps.xxxiii, 6, 16
Accedite ad eum et illuminamini et facies vestrae non confundentur. v. Oculi Domini super justos, et aures ejus in preces eorum.
Alleluia, alleluia. v. Haec est vita aeterna, ut cognoscant te solum Deum verum, et, quem misisti, Jesum Christum. Alleluia.
Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded. V. The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.
Alleluia, alleluia. V. This is eternal life: That they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.
Gospel: John x. 23-28
Offertory: Ps. ixvii. 36
Mirabilis Deus in sanctis suis: Deus Israel, ipse dabit virtutem, et fortitudinem plebi suae: benedictus Deus.
God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is He who will give power and strength to his people: blessed be God.
Secret:
Oblationibus nostris, quaesumus, Domine, placatus intende: ut martyrum tuorum interveniente suffragio, gratiae tuae nobis dona concilient. Per Dominum.
Mercifully regard our offerings, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that through the intercession of Thy martyrs they may obtain us Thy gracious gifts. Through our Lord.
Communion: John x. 27-28
Oves meae vocem meam audiunt et ego cognosco eas, et sequuntur me; et ego vitam aeternam do eis, et non peribunt in aeternum.
My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow Me. And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever.
Postcommunion:
Caelesti convivio refecti, quaesumus, Domine Deus noster: ut, intercedentibus beatis Martyribus tuis Joanne et Thoma, ad eorum consortium pervenire mereamur. Per Dominum.
Refreshed by the heavenly banquet, we beseech Thee, O Lord, our God, that by the intercession of Thy blessed martyrs John and Thomas, we may be made worthy to be numbered in their company, Through our Lord.
Source of text:
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O.S.B., p. 1846
[This missal was originally publishd by E.H. Lohmann Co. and republished by St. Bonaventure Publications (www.libers.com), July 1999.]
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Traditional Feast Day for St. Thomas More (July 9)
For the traditional Latin Mass propers for this day, please see the post at this link.
Unfortunately, when I first published this post I confused the Votive Mass for St. Thomas More with the feast day Mass. As of 3 July 2015, I have corrected this. For the Votive Mass for St. Thomas More, please see another of my 2015 posts at this link.
Also, the Benedictine office (in Latin) for the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher is posted here.
And, the entry in the old Lives of the Saints for Thomas More, can be found at EWTN here.
Image: Historical portrait of Sts. Thomas More & John Fisher. English school. From Wikimedia Commons. In the public domain.
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Christian Heroes - SS. John Fisher & Thomas More - July 9 Feast
Here is the text from the pre-1955 St. Andrew Missal,
introducing the July 9 Feast Day Mass of SS. John Fisher & Thomas More:
Among the Christian heroes who fought resolutely against heresy and laid down their lives rather than adhere to the schism in England, a place of honor is due to Cardinal John Fisher and to the Chancellor Thomas More.Source of Text: Dom Gaspar Levebre, O.S.B., The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, republished by St. Bonaventure Publications (1999), p. 1846 (St. Bonaventure Internet site: www.libers.com)
John Fisher, born at Beverley in 1469, chancellor of the academy of Cambridge, later for 33 years bishop of Rochester, refuted in many books the protestant errors (Brev.)
Thomas More, born in London in 1478, a layman, married and the father of a family, learned jurist and scholar, was made High Chancellor of England by Henry VIII.
Both were imprisoned in the Tower of London by order of the king because they were opposed to his illegitimate union with Anna Boleyn and because they refused him the usurpated title of supreme head of the Church of England in matters spiritual as well as temporal.
John Fisher, created cardinal by Pope Paul III, ascended the scaffold on the 22th of June 1535 and was beheaded after reading this sentence of the Gospel: "This is eternal life that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou has sent." (All.)
Thomas More was beheaded in his turn on the 6th July 1535 for having resisted, after the example of the great doctor of the law Eleazar (Ep.) all solicitations on the part of his own family and which he deemed contrary to his conscience and to the rights of God, of Christ and the Church (Gosp.)
Image: Commemorative plaque at Tower Hill, from Wikimedia Commons
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