24 September 2015 - Our Lady of Ransom

Greater Double - White or Marian Blue

INTROIT Sedulius

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

COLLECT

O God, who by means of the most glorious Mother of thy Son, wast pleased to give new offspring to thy Church for the deliverance of Christians from the power of the heathen: grant, we beseech thee, that we too, who love and honor her as the foundress of so great a work, may by her merits and intercession be ourselves delivered from all our sins and from the bondage of the evil one. Through the same.

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.

Gradual
Thou art blessed and venerable, O Virgin Mary, who without any violation of purity wert found the Mother of our Savior. V. Virgin Mother of God, he whom the whole world cannot hold enclosed himself in thy womb, being made man.

Alleluia, alleluia. V.: After childbirth thou didst remain a Virgin: O Mother of God, intercede for us. Alleluia.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke (11.27-28)

At that time, as Jesus was speaking to the multitudes, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it. 

The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY Luke 1.28,42.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

SECRET

By thy gracious mercy, O Lord, and the intercession of blessed Mary ever Virgin, may this offering be of avail to us for welfare and peace 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.

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 whose honor we offered this Sacrifice to thy Majesty. Through.