Author Topic: Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Read 1212 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** January 14, 2013, 10:51:45 PM »

From a Supplement containing the proper Masses for the Feasts observed throughout the Dioceses of the American Republic, found in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., and the Monks of the Abbey of St. Andrew (Saint Paul, MN: The E. M. Lohmann Co., 1959), here is the Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Prompt Succor.

Note how appropriate is the relative proximity of this Feast with the Second Sunday after the Epiphany of Our Lord, for they both share the same Gospel lesson which narrates the first public miracle wrought by Our Lord and Our Lady's only public pronouncement recorded in the Sacred Gospel: "Whatsoever He [that is, Our Lord Jesus] shall say to you, do ye" (St. John ch. ii., 5).

Is this not a marvelous summary of the message Our Blessed Mother would give again and again, not only by her illustrious examples in her most admirable life, but also, having been assumed unto Heaven, in her benevolent visitations to her children? The message of Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima is nothing more than a celestial echo of those immortal words: Quodcuмque dixerit vobis, facite.

Note also the beauty and theological depth of the Collects, and how devotion to Our Lady as it ought to be is presented and summarized so wondrously by Holy Mother Church in these hallowed prayers.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2013, 10:56:28 PM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the Preface for the Masses of the Feast Days of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2013, 11:01:25 PM »

Here is a beautiful adaptation of the celebrated Ambrosian Hymn Te Deum written by the great Seraphic Doctor, Saint Bonaventure: to be found in the latter of his works in the tome The Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis) and The Psalter of Our Lady (Psalterium Beatae Mariae Virginis) (trans. Sr. Mary Emmanual, O.S.B.; St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1932).

This is most appropriate for this Feast Day and for the devotion of all devout children and servants of Our Blessed Lady.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2013, 11:04:21 PM »

The tome The Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis) and The Psalter of Our Lady (Psalterium Beatae Mariae Virginis) (trans. Sr. Mary Emmanual, O.S.B.; St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1932), which contains these two opuscules of the Seraphic Doctor, St. Bonaventure, is to be highly recommended.

The Psalterium is the most interesting, since it is a Marian adaptation of the Roman Psalter. St. Bonaventure emended the initial verses of the Psalms so as to make them into praises and prayers to Our Lady. The Seraphic Doctor emended the Canticles of the Divine Office as well, and he even adapted the Athanasian Creed, the English translation of which follows:

Sigismund · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2013, 09:08:21 PM »