INTROIT

Salve, sancta parens.  Sedulius

Hail, O Mother most holy, who didst give birth to the monarch,
Reigning o'er heaven and earth, world without end
( Alleluia)
( Alleluia.)  §

(Psalm 45) My heart is inditing of a good matter:
I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.
Glory be ...
As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

O Lord God Almighty, we beseech thee to keep us thy servants both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls: that by the glorious intercession of blessed Mary Ever-Virgin, we may be delivered from our present heaviness and attain in the end to everlasting gladness.  Through.
 
 

THE LESSON

Ecclesiasticus 24.9 – 12

He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.  In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.  Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.  And I took root in an honorable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.
 
 

GRADUAL

Blessed and worshipful art thou, O Virgin Mary:
Who a maiden undefil'd hast our Savior for thy child.
Virgin Mother of God, the whole world cannot contain him:
Yet, made man for our sake, hidden he lies in thy womb.

Except in Advent:

Alleluia,
Alleluia.
After childbearing, thou remainedst a pure Virgin:
Mother of God, intercede for us.
All:        Alleluia.

§ In Advent, in place of the aforegoing Alleluia and verse, there is said the following:

Alleluia,
Alleluia.
Hail Mary, full of grace: the Lord is with thee:
Blessed art thou among women.
All:        Alleluia.

After Septuagesima, instead of the Alleluia,  and verse following, is said:

TRACT

Rejoice, O Mary, thou alone all heresy dost slay.
Thou the Archangel Gabriel's message didst obey.
He who is God and man was born thy son: yet art thou still a maid, O spotless One.
Mother of God, intercede for us.

In Eastertide, instead of the Alleluia,  and verse following, is said:

Alleluia,
Alleluia.
(Numbers 17) Now hath blossomed Jesse's rod:
A Virgin bears both Man and God:
God restoreth peace to men,
High and low are one again.  Alleluia.
(St. Luke 1)  Hail Mary, full of grace: the Lord is with thee:
Blessed art thou among women.
All:        Alleluia.
 
 

THE GOSPEL

St. Luke 11.27 – 28

At that time: It came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
 
 

OFFERTORY  St. Luke 1

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

SECRET

We beseech thee, O Lord, that by the bountiful goodness of thy mercy and by the intercession of blessed Mary Ever-Virgin, these our oblations may be acceptable in thy sight; that we, being delivered in this present life from all adversities, may obtain in that which is to come peace everlasting.  Through.
 

PREFACE of Our Lady  And that in the Festivity.
 

COMMUNION

Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary that bore the Son of the everlasting Father (alleluia).
 
 

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, who hast appointed this holy Sacrament, which we have here received, to be the means of our salvation: mercifully grant that we which have offered these our gifts unto thy divine majesty in honor of blessed Mary Ever-Virgin, may by her intercession be preserved both in body and soul.  Through.
 

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