Doctors of the Church
In Commons
About this day
The Common of Doctors of the Church in the Roman Missal gives Mass texts for saints whom the Church has named Doctors for their holiness and teaching, such as Saint Bede the Venerable. It is used when they have no proper texts of their own.
Music
Mass
- Common of Doctors of the Church – Entrance, Communion (2019) [17. Common of Doctors. 11.16.19] DetailsIntroit (Entrance) · Communion
- Organ Propers, Book 20: Common of Commons to Psalms and Tones (Organ) [20. Offertory. 1936-2164. 01.08.20] DetailsOffertory
- Common of Doctors of the Church – Entrance, Communion (2018) [Common Doctors. The mouth. He who ponders. 07.09.18 Philadelphia] DetailsIntroit (Entrance) · Communion
- Common of Commons to Votive Mass – Holy Angels – Propers (English & Latin) [Gradual Saints. Outside PT. 2016] DetailsIntroit (Entrance) · Offertory · Communion
- Saints of Thanksgiving Day to Dec 14 – St John of the Cross – Propers (English & Latin) [Propers. III. SANC full. 06.04.20] DetailsIntroit (Entrance) · Offertory · Communion
Divine Office: Lauds (Morning Prayer)
- Common of Doctors of the Church – Lauds & First Vespers (English & Latin) [LAUDS. COMMON DOCTORS. summer 2023] DetailsOffice Hymn · Reading · Responsory · Benedictus
From the Missal
- Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “In the midst of the Church…” Cf. Sir 15: 5
- Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “The mouth of the just man…” Ps 36: 30-31
- Communion — Roman Missal “Behold a faithful and prudent steward…” Cf. Lk 12: 42
- Communion — Roman Missal “He who ponders the law of…” Cf. Ps 1: 2-3
- Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “Those who are wise will shine…” Cf. Dn 12: 3
- Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “Let the peoples recount the wisdom…” Cf. Sir 44: 15, 14
- Communion — Roman Missal “We proclaim Christ crucified; Christ, the…” Cf. 1 Cor 1: 23-24
Days that take this Common
- Saint Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Bede the Venerable, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
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- Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Alphonsus Mary Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- Saint John Damascene, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- Saint Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- Saint John Henry Newman, Priest and Doctor of the Church