Decree for a special mass for the pandemic

The following decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments enables a special mass to be offered.

The official English translation:

I will offer Holy Mass for the Pandemic on Saturday at 12noon, in the Ordinariate rite. You all will be very much in my prayers.

PROPERS

IN TIME OF PANDEMIC


This Mass can be celebrated, according to the rubrics given for Masses and Prayers for Various Needs and Occasions, on any day except Solemnities, the Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter, days within the Octave of Easter, the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), Ash Wednesday and the days of Holy Week.

Entrance Antiphon                                       Is 53:4

Truly the Lord has borne our infirmities, and he has carried our sorrows.

Collect

Almighty and eternal God, our refuge in every danger, to whom we turn in our distress; in faith we pray look with compassion on the afflicted, grant eternal rest to the dead, comfort to mourners, healing to the sick, peace to the dying, strength to healthcare workers, wisdom to our leaders and the courage to reach out to all in love,  so that together we may give glory to your holy name. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

Prayer over the Offerings

Accept, O Lord, the gifts we offer in this time of peril. May they become for us, by your power, a source of healing and peace. Through Christ our Lord.

Communion Antiphon                                  Mt 11:28

Come to me, all who labour and are burdened, and I will refresh you, says the Lord.

Prayer after Communion

O God, from whose hand we have received the medicine of eternal life, grant that through this sacrament  we may glory in the fullness of heavenly healing. Through Christ our Lord.

Prayer over the People

O God, protector of all who hope in you, bless your people, keep them safe, defend them, prepare them, that, free from sin and safe from the enemy, they may persevere always in your love. Through Christ our Lord.

IN LATIN:

Adnexus decreto diei 30 martii 2020 (Prot. N. 156/20)


IN TEMPORE UNIVERSALIS CONTAGII


Hæc Missa celebrari potest, iuxta rubricas Missarum et Orationum pro variis necessitatibus vel ad diversa, omnibus diebus, exceptis sollemnitatibus, dominicis Adventus, Quadragesimæ et Paschæ, diebus infra octavam Paschæ, Commemoratione omnium fidelium defunctorum et feriis IV Cinerum et Hebdomadæ sanctæ.

Ant. ad introitum                                                                                                                         Is 53, 4

Vere languóres nostros ipse tulit et dolóres nostros ipse portávit.

Collecta

Omnípotens sempitérne Deus,  in omni perículo singuláre præsídium, qui fílios tuos in tribulatióne fide supplicántes exáudis, nobis propitiáre benígnus, et præsta, quǽsumus, defúnctis réquiem ætérnam, solámen plorántibus, salútem infírmis, moriéntibus pacem, operántibus pro fratrum sanitáte robur, spíritum sapiéntiæ illis qui nos in potestáte moderántur, et ánimum ad omnes benévole accedéndi ut cuncti nomen sanctum tuum glorificáre valeámus. Per Dóminum.

Super oblata

Súscipe, Dómine, múnera quæ, in hodiérnis perículis, tibi offérimus, et fac, quǽsumus, ut, omnipoténtia tua, in fontem sanitátis pacísque convertántur. Per Christum.

Ant. ad communionem                                                                                                            Mt 11, 28

Veníte ad me, omnes, qui laborátis et oneráti estis, et ego refíciam vos, dicit Dóminus.

Post communionem

Deus, a quo recépimus vitæ ætérnæ medicínam, concéde, quǽsumus, ut, per hoc sacraméntum de cæléstis remédii plenitúdine gloriémur. Per Christum.

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Oratio super populum

Protéctor in te sperántium, Deus, bénedic pópulum tuum, salva, tére, dispóne, ut, a peccátis liber, ab hoste secúrus, in tuo semper amóre persevéret. Per Christum.