In Apparitione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis

Wed, 2/11/26

Today is the feast of the Apparition of Our Immaculate Lady at Lourdes under the 1954 (double major) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White vestments. Gloria/Tract. Credo (1954 only). Preface of Our Lady (et te in Conceptione immaculata). Ite. No commemorations or additional prayers.

Office: Under 1954, festal office. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = proper with proper responsories). Te Deum. At Matins, psalms and antiphons from the common of Our Lady. At Lauds, psalms of Sunday (Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper Magnificat antiphon. Proper collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage. At Prime, V = Qui natus es.

Under 1962, ordinary office. White. Matins of 1 nocturn of 3 lessons (I & II = as at the 1st nocturn of the old Breviary [II = II & III combined], III = short hagiography). Te Deum. At Matins, psalms and antiphons from the common of Our Lady. At Lauds, psalms of Sunday with proper antiphons. All else from the proper. Proper collect. No commemorations. At Prime and the hours, psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the proper. At  Prime, V = Qui natus es. (Source: LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Introitus
Apoc 21:2
Vidi civitátem sanctam, Jerúsalem novam, descendéntem de cœlo a Deo, parátam sicut sponsam ornátam viro suo.
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 by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, we humbly beseech You that, recalling the apparition of the same Virgin, we may obtain health for both soul and body.
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 Luke

Luke 1:26-28
In that time the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And so on.

Homily by St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux.
2nd on this text.
Rejoice, father Adam, and yet more thou mother Eve, ye that are the source of all, and the ruin of all, and the unhappy cause of their ruin before ye gave them birth. Be comforted both in your daughter, and such a daughter; but chiefly thou, O woman, of whom the first evil came, and who hast cast thy slur upon all women. The time is come for the slur to be taken away, and for the man to have nothing to say against the woman. At the first, when he unwisely began to make excuse, he scrupled not to throw the blame upon her, saying, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Wherefore, O Eve, betake thyself to Mary Mother, betake thyself to thy daughter let the daughter answer for the mother let her take away her mother's reproach; let her make up to her father for her mother's fault for if man be fallen by means of woman, it is by means of woman that he is raised up again.

Post Communion
P. The Lord be with you.
S. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
May the right hand of Your Immaculate Mother support us, O Lord, whom You have filled with heavenly food, that by her help we may be found worthy to enter our eternal homeland.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen