St. John on Tuesdays

[Ite_ad_Ioseph]

I heard St John the Baptist is commemorated on each Tuesday in the Divine Liturgy. I know Mary is on Saturday- at least in the roman rite- St. Joseph on Wednesday, etc. Does someone know the origin of this and why it is not done in the Roman Rite?
Pax

 

[Deacon_Lance]

The Byzantine Church has a daily commemoration for each day:
Sunday: The Resurrection
Monday: The Angels
Tuesday: St. John the Foreunner
Wedensday: The Cross and the Theotokos
Thursday: The Apsotles and St. Nicholas
Friday: The Cross
Saturday: The Faithful Departed and All Saints

I am not aware that liturgically the Roman Rite has anything like this other than the option to celebrate the optional memorial for Our Lady in Saturdays in ordinary time for Morning Prayer and Mass.

Fr. Deacon Lance

 

[Woodstock]

Here is one Roman Catholic list of commemorations I’ve found. I do not know the origins of why they were put on the days they were.

Monday - The Holy Spirit and the Souls in Purgatory
Tuesday - The Holy Angels
Wednesday - St. Joseph
Thursday - The Blessed Sacrament
Friday - The Passion of Christ and His Sacred Heart
Saturday - Our Lady and Her Immaculate Heart
Sunday - The Resurrection and the Blessed Trinity

 

[LilyM]

Here is one Roman Catholic list of commemorations I’ve found. I do not know the origins of why they were put on the days they were.

Monday - The Holy Spirit and the Souls in Purgatory
Tuesday - The Holy Angels
Wednesday - St. Joseph
Thursday - The Blessed Sacrament
Friday - The Passion of Christ and His Sacred Heart
Saturday - Our Lady and Her Immaculate Heart
Sunday - The Resurrection and the Blessed Trinity

:yup:

We have something called ‘Little Offices’ (officia parva) in honour of, for example, St Joseph, the Holy Spirit, the Sacred Heart and the Blessed Sacrament, that are basically addenda to the Liturgy of the Hours of the day.

So these commemorations can be included in the liturgical prayer of the Church, if not actually within the Mass of the Day.

 

[Ite_ad_Ioseph]

I appreciate all your replies. I find it curious as to how these weekday commemorations differ. Eastern Catholicism is very interesting to me. Maybe I’ll attend St. John Chrysostom’s Liturgy, after my first extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.
Pax et bonum

 

[Ite_ad_Ioseph]

As to why the Roman Rite days were out on the day they were, I know St. Joseph is on Wednesday due it being on the middle day of the week-an equal number of days from Sunday, Our Lord’s Day, and Saturday, Our Lady’s Day, making an interesting symbolism.
I forgot I was on the Eastern forum- The Theotokos’s Day. I like that title.
And also, in the old rite of the church, today is St. Joseph’s Patronage Feast with an Octave. Happy St. Joseph’s Day

 

[Ite_ad_Ioseph]

Sorry to post 3 times in a row, but I would like some clarification.
Do these commemorations mean there is something like a votive mass on these days? Or the saint is just especially mentioned in the liturgy?
Pax