Solemnities this week

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First, as a general comment, isn’t it so cool that we have four solemnities this week???!!! (Assuming you live in a jurisdiction where Corpus Christi was moved to today).

Second, for vespers tonight, I assume that, if Corpus Christi was celebrated today, it’s Evening Prayer II takes precedence over Evening Prayer I for the nativity of St John the Baptist?

Finally, just out of curiosity, if today was celebrated as a Sunday in ordinary time, does that change the answer to the above question?
 
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Second, for vespers tonight, I assume that, if Corpus Christi was celebrated today, it’s Evening Prayer II takes precedence over Evening Prayer I for the nativity of St John the Baptist?

Finally, just out of curiosity, if today was celebrated as a Sunday in ordinary time, does that change the answer to the above question?
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Yes to the first question, and I think yes to the second, also, but I don’t have the tables handy to check.

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I’ve checked the tables. If today were an Ordinary Time Sunday, Evening Prayer I for St John the Baptist should be said. As Corpus Christi, Evening Prayer II for today takes precedence.
 
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I follow the monastic ordo so Sunday evening was 1st Vespers of St. John the Baptist, as Corpus Christi was celebrated last Thursday.

Three times in the festival psalter, and the hymns and antiphons for today aren’t obvious (for chanting)… :roll_eyes:
 
With your expertise in these matters, could you confirm the situation for this coming Friday and Saturday night? I’m pretty confident Sacred Heart EPII will take precedence over Sts P and P EPI on Friday, but what about Saturday night with Sts P and P vs Sunday?
That one always confuses me. I remember when the Assumption fell on a Saturday. I understand that such solemnities outrank Sundays in ordinary time, yet the local parish still celebrated the anticipated Sunday Mass that Saturday evening, rather than an evening Mass for the Assumption.
 
Where I live, England, we’ve got three solemnities this week. The first was yesterday, Corpus Christi. The second is today: Nativity of St. John the Baptist. The third will be the Sacred Heat on Friday. Ss Peter & Paul whose feast day is 29th gets transferred to Sunday so that is next week.

Alternatively, if you follow the EF calendar there’s still three solemnities* this week. There’s the Nativity of S John the Baptist today, Sacred Heart on Friday and Ss Peter & Paul on Saturday.

*I know the EF calendar doesn’t have solemnities but the three feasts I list are first class feasts and they’re the equivalent.
 
Friday night is second Vespers of the Sacred Heart; Saturday night second Vespers of Saints Peter and Paul.
 
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Saturday night second Vespers of Saints Peter and Paul.
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This makes sense to me. Yet in a similar situation, as mentioned earlier, when the Saturday was the Assumption and the Sunday a Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Saturday evening Mass celebrated at my local parish was for the Sunday, not the Assumption. I asked on CAF at the time and a priest indicated that both were licit options. Shouldn’t the rules for “which Vespers?” and “which Mass?” correspond?
 
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