Friday, April 11, 2025

Septum Dolorum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis ~ Duplex majus

Commemoratio: S. Leonis I Papæ Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris



Fri, 4/11/25:

Today is the feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady under the 1954 (double major, assigned to the Friday after Passion Sunday) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual. Tract. Sequence Stabat Mater. Credo. Preface of Our Lady (et te in Transfixione). Ite. Commemoration of St. Leo I, P, C & D (collect Gregem tuum). Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Passiontide feria.

Under 1954, in parish churches, the Mass of the Passiontide feria may be offered at private (low) Masses, either in place of the Mass of the feast (if only one Mass is offered) or as a second Mass. Station church at St. Stephen on the Caelian Hill. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Tract with genuflection at Adjuva nos. Omit Credo. Preface of the Holy Cross. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. Commemoration is also made of St. Leo I (collect Gregem tuum).
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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, in Whose Passion the sword, according to the prophecy of blessed Simeon, pierced through the soul of Mary, the glorious Virgin and Mother, mercifully grant that we, who reverently commemorate her piercing through and her suffering, may, by the interceding glorious merits of all the saints faithfully standing by the Cross, obtain the abundant fruit of Your passion.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen

Let us pray.
For the Feria
Graciously pour forth Your grace into our hearts, we beseech You, O Lord, that, keeping our sinful inclinations under control by self-denial, we may suffer for a brief while rather than be condemned to everlasting punishment.
Commemoration St. Leo the Great, Pope, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Look forgivingly on thy flock, Eternal Shepherd, and keep it in thy constant protection, by the intercession of blessed Leo thy Sovereign Pontiff, whom thou didst constitute Shepherd of the whole Church.
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 John
John 19:25-27.
In that time stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
11th Tract on John.
This is that hour whereof Jesus, when He was about to turn water into wine, had said unto His Mother Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. John ii. 4. He had spoken of this hour, which then was not yet come, wherein, being about to die, it should be His duty to acknowledge her of whom He had been born in a dying Body. Then, since He was about to work the works of God, He thrust from Him, as though He knew her not, her who was His Mother, not in that nature as touching which He is equal to the Father, but in that as touching which He is inferior to the Father. But now, since He is suffering the pains of Man, He careth, with a Man's love, for her of whom He hath been made Man. And herein He giveth us a lesson. He doth that which He would have us to do. The Good Master, by His Own example, commandeth that among His disciples, dutiful children should succour their parents, as though even that Tree whereupon His dying Limbs were nailed, even that Tree were to be a pulpit for His teaching.

Let us pray.
For FERIA
May the abiding protection of the sacrament we have received, O Lord, never forsake us, and always keep us from all things harmful.
Commemoration St. Leo the Great, Pope, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Being appeased, O Lord, guide thy Church, which has been nourished by holy refreshment, that under thy direction and powerful rule it may receive increase of liberty and may continue in religious integrity.
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.

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