S. Mariæ Magdalenæ Pœnitentis ~ Duplex

Tempora: Feria tertia infra Hebdomadam VI post Octavam Pentecoste

Tues, 7/22/25:

Today is the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, Penitent, under the 1954 (double) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Alleluia. Credo (1954 only). Common Preface. Ite.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954; 1st nocturn = proper lessons and responsories)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; II = II & III of occurring Scripture combined, proper responsories of the feast for lessons I & II, III = short hagiography). Te Deum. Proper Invitatory and hymn at Matins. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the proper. Proper Benedictus antiphon. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). (Source: LB236.)

Introitus
Ps 118:95-96
Me exspectavérunt peccatóres, ut pérderent me: testimónia tua, Dómine, intelléxi: omnis consummatiónis vidi finem: latum mandátum tuum nimis.
Ps 118:1
Beáti immaculáti in via: qui ámbulant in lege Dómini.
℣. Glória Patri …

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May the prayers of blessed Mary Magdalen help us, O Lord, Who were moved by her prayers and brought back alive from the grave her brother Lazarus, dead for four days.
Through 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 Luke
Luke 7:36-50
At that time One of the Pharisees desired Jesus that He would eat with him. And He went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
Bk. 1. Hom. 23, tom. x.
Ye have listened carefully to the Gospel while it was being read, so that the thing told hath, as it were, passed before the eyes of your heart. Ye have seen in your mind's eye, albeit not with bodily sight, the Lord Jesus Christ sitting down to meat in the Pharisee's house, and not refusing when He is bidden of him. Ye have seen also an infamous woman of the city, one of utterly bad character, a sinner, thrusting herself in an uninvited guest, to the banquet where her Healer was sitting, and seeking health at His hands with godly shamelessness; thrusting herself in eager for mercy, as though eager for the feast. She knew under what a disease she laboured, and she knew that He unto Whom she came was mighty to cure it.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
After receiving Your Body and precious Blood, the one and only saving remedy, we beseech You, O Lord, that, under the protection of blessed Mary Magdalen, we may be freed from all evils.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen