S. Annæ Matris B.M.V. ~ Duplex II. classis

Tempora: Sabbato infra Hebdomadam VI post Octavam Pentecostes

Sat, 7/26/25:

Today is the feast of St. Anne, Mother of Our Lady, under the 1954 (double of the II class) and 1962 (II class) rubrics.

Mass: Pro populo (1954 only). Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface. Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers.

Office: Under 1954, festal office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Mulierem fortem). Te Deum. At Matins, psalms and antiphons from the common of non-virgin holy women. At Lauds and the hours, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with antiphons from the common of non-virgin holy women. All else from the common. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage.

Introitus
Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino, diem festum celebrántes sub honóre beátæ Annæ: de cujus sollemnitáte gaudent Angeli et colláudant Fílium Dei.
Ps 44:2.
Eructávit cor meum verbum bonum: dico ego ópera mea Regi.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who in Your kindness gave blessed Anne the grace to be the mother of her who mothered Your only-begotten Son, graciously grant that we who keep her feast may be helped by her intercession with You.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 13:44
At that time Jesus spake unto His disciples this parable The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field. And so on.

Homily by Pope St Gregory the Great
11th on the Gospels
Dearly beloved brethren, the kingdom of heaven is likened unto the things of earth, to the end that by the mean of things which we know, our mind may rise to the contemplation of the things which we know not by the example of things which are seen, may fix her gaze on things which are not seen by the touch of things which she useth, may be warmed towards the things which she useth not; by things which she knoweth and loveth, to love also the things which she knoweth not. For, behold, “the kingdom of heaven is likened unto treasure hid in a field, the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and, for joy thereof, goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field.”

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Strengthened by the heavenly sacrament, we beseech You, O Lord our God, that, by the intercession of blessed Anne, whom You willed to be the mother of Your Son’s Mother, we may be found worthy of reaching eternal salvation.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.