24 May 2014 - Saturday Mass of Our Lady

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From the Saturday after Low Sunday to the Saturday after the Fourth Sunday in Easter, this mass is said on ferial Saturdays or Saturdays on which a feast of simple rank occurs. Likewise, the Office is the Saturday Office of Our Lady from Vespers the preceding day through None of Saturday.

INTROIT Sedulius

Hail, holy Parent, that didst bring forth the King who ruleth Heaven and earth for ever and ever. Alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 44. 2. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak of my works to the King. V.: Glory be.

COLLECT

Grant to us, thy servants, we beseech thee, O Lord God, that we may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body: and through the intercession of Blessed Mary ever-Virgin may be delivered from present sorrow and enjoy everlasting gladness. Through.

LESSON Ecclus. 24.14-16.

From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. And I took root in an honorable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of Saints.

Alleluia, alleluia. V.: The rod of Jesse hath blossomed: a Virgin hath brought forth God and man: God hath restored peace, reconciling in himself the lowest with the highest. Alleluia. V. Luke 1.28. Hail Mary, full of grace: the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women. Alleluia.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John (19.25-27)

At this time: his mother, and his mother’s sister Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen, had taken their stand beside the cross of Jesus. And Jesus, seeing his mother there, and the disciple, too, whom he loved, standing by, said to his mother: Woman, this is thy son. Then he said to the disciple: This is thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his own keeping.

OFFERTORY

Blessed art thou, virgin Mary, who didst bear the creator of the world; thou gavest birth to him who made thee, yet remainest ever virgin. alleluia.

SECRET

By thy gracious mercy, O Lord, and by the inter-cession of Blessed Mary ever Virgin, may this oblation avail us for peace and welfare both now and for evermore. Through.

Preface: Of the Blessed Virgin, with In the Festivity.

Communion

Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the Eternal Father. Alleluia, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, grant, we beseech thee, that we who have received these aids unto salvation, may be always and everywhere protected by the intercession of Blessed Mary ever Virgin, in veneration of whom we have offered up these gifts to thy Majesty. Through.