[Rank]
Decollatione S. Joannis Baptistae;;Duplex majus;;4;;ex C2

[Rank1960]
Decollatione S. Joannis Baptistae;;Duplex;;3;;vide C2

[Rule]
ex C2;
Gloria

[Introitus]
!Ps 118:46-47
v. I will speak of Your decrees before kings without being ashamed. And I will~
delight in Your commands, which I love exceedingly.
!Ps 91:2
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing to Your name, Most High.
&Gloria
v. I will speak of Your decrees before kings without being ashamed. And I will~
delight in Your commands, which I love exceedingly.

[Oratio]
May the great festival of St. John the Baptist, Your Precursor and Martyr, we~
beseech You, O Lord, assure for us the results of Your saving help.
$Qui vivis

[Commemoratio Oratio]
!For St. Sabina
O God, Who among the other miracles of Your power bestowed the victory of~
martyrdom even upon the weaker sex, graciously grant that we who commemorate the~
anniversary of blessed Sabina, Your Martyr, may come unto You by the path of her~
example.
$Per Dominum

[Lectio]
Lesson from the book of Jeremias
!Jer 1:17-19
In those days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Gird your loins; stand up and tell Juda all that I command you. Be not crushed on their account, as though I would leave you crushed before them; for it is I this day Who have made you a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of brass, against the whole land; against Juda’s kings and princes, against its priests and people. They will fight against you, but not prevail over you, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.

[Graduale]
!Ps 91:13-14
The just man shall flourish like the palm tree, like a cedar of Lebanon shall he~
grow in the house of the Lord.
!Ps 91:3
V. To proclaim Your kindness at dawn and Your faithfulness throughout the night.~
Alleluia, alleluia.
!Osee 14:6
V. The just shall blossom like the lily; and flourish forever before the Lord.~
Alleluia.

[Evangelium]
Continuation + of the Holy Gospel according to Mark
!Mark 6:17-29
At that time, Herod had sent and taken John, and bound him in prison, because of~
Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married. For John had said to~
Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife. But Herodias laid~
snares for him, and would have liked to put him to death, but she could not. For~
Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and protected him;~
and when he heard him talk, he did any things, and he liked to hear him. And a~
favorable day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to the officials,~
tribunes and chief men of Galilee. And Herodias’ own daughter having come in and~
danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, Ask of~
me what you will, and I will give it to you. And he swore to her, Whatever you~
ask, I will give you, even though it be the half of my kingdom. Then she went~
out and said to her mother, What am I to ask for? And she said, The head of John~
the Baptist. And she came in at once with haste to the king, and asked, saying, I~
want you right away to give me on a dish the head of John the Baptist. And~
grieved as he was, the king because of his oath and his guests, was unwilling to~
displease her. But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head be brought~
on a dish. Then he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head on a dish,~
and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. His disciples,~
hearing of it, came and took away his body, and laid it in a tomb.

[Offertorium]
!Ps 20:2-3
O Lord, in Your strength the just man is glad; in Your victory how greatly he~
rejoices! You have granted him his heart’s desire.

[Secreta]
We pray, O Lord, that the offerings we bring You in memory of the agonizing~
death of Your holy Martyr, John the Baptist, may, by his help, be of profit for~
our salvation.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio Secreta]
!For St. Sabina
Graciously accept the sacrificial gifts offered You, O Lord, through the merits~
of blessed Sabina, Your Virgin and Martyr, and grant they may prove an unfailing~
aid for us.
$Per Dominum

[Communio]
!Ps 20:4
You placed on his head, O Lord, a crown of pure gold.

[Postcommunio]
May the solemn festival of St. John the Baptist bring us the grace, O Lord, both~
to venerate the foreshadowing of the wondrous sacrament we have received and to~
rejoice because it has been fulfilled in us.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio Postcommunio]
!For St. Sabina
We who have been refreshed by the richness of Your divine sacrament, beseech You, O~
Lord our God, that through the intercession of blessed Sabina, Your Virgin and~
Martyr, we may forevermore abide in its participation.
$Per Dominum