All Holy Monks and Nuns

 

A Blessed Feast of All Holy Monks and Nuns!

Below is the Introit with Tropes for today's Mass:

Today over all the Earth there hath dawned forth the Feast Day of the Holy Monastics; come ye, come ye, and sing: Rejoice we all, and praise the Lord, celebrating an Holy Day in honour of the Holy Monastics!  Today the Hosts of Martyred Monks and Nuns are surpassingly joyful in Heaven; and as for us upon the Earth, come ye, come and sing: In whose Solemnity the Angels are joyful, wherefore on this day we render honour and offer truly meet praises unto the Holy Monastics, and Glorify the Son of God. 

Ps.  Rejoice in the Lord, O Ye Righteous; for it becometh well the Just to be thankful! 

As such a star of glory do the Holy Monastics shine brilliantly; for having poured out their life-blood, they were deemed meet for the remission of sin in Thy Kingdom.  Rejoice we all, and praise the Lord, celebrating an Holy Day in honour of the Holy Monastics!  The Joys of Heaven now put forth supernal praise unto all them together for this day, in whose Solemnity the Angels are joyful, chanting their canticles unto Christ with melodious voices, and Glorify the Son of God. 

V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.  As it was in the beginning, both  now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.  Amen. 

Come ye, swiftly chanting the sounds of harmony with the device of melody.  Rejoice we all, and praise the Lord, celebrating an Holy Day in honour of the Holy Monastics; let the blossoming of virtues be in balanced conformity with our mouths; in whose Solemnity the Angels are joyful, as enduring companions of the radiant blooming on high, and Glorify the Son of God. 

Ps.  Great is the Lord, and highly to be Praised in the City of Our God, even upon His Holy Hill, and the joy of the whole Earth!

We that have been nourished with kindly sweetness within the embrace of Our Mother the Church, come ye and sing:  Rejoice we all, and praise the Lord, celebrating an Holy Day in honour of the Holy Monastics; for unto them is accorded the Highest Honour, and the Divine Vision of the King Who is the Highest, in whose Solemnity the Angels are joyful, for they behold their number in the Heights being rightly restored; and Glorify the Son of God.

[Introit Antiphon with Tropes from the Mass Propers for the Feast of All Holy Monks and Nuns]