NOTE: That the Prayers are sung to the ferial tone unless the Mass be a privileged Votive (see Ribrics on page G1), for which reason the pointings of the Prayers should be disregarded in all Votives of simple rite, but on Saturdays Gloria in excelsis is isaid.
 

III. After Purification

From the Saturday after Candlemas (February 2) to the Saturday after Sexagesima, or in Votive Masses to the Saturday after Passion Sunday, inclusive, in accordance with teh Rubrics.
 

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.   §

(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 souils: 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.

COLLECT 2, of the Holy Ghost; 3 for the Church, according to the Rubrics.
 

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 honourable 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.

ALLELUIA

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.
All:        Alleluia.

After Septuagesmia, 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.
 
 
 

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

Blessed art thou, O holy Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise: for out of thee arose the Sun of righteousness, Christ our God.
 

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.

SECRET 2, of the Holy Ghost; 3 for the Church, according to the Rubrics.
 
 

PREFACE of Our Lady  And that in the Veneration.
 

COMMUNION

Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, that bore the Son of the everlasting Father.
 

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 protection be preserved both in body and soul.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION 2, of the Holy Ghost; 3 for the Church, according to the Rubrics.
 
 

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