Author Topic: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Read 2355 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** September 06, 2013, 07:47:05 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):

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2013, 08:31:52 PM »

From Byzantine Daily Worship: With Byzantine Breviary, the Three Liturgies, Propers of the Day and Various Offices, being the work of Most. Rev. Joseph Raya, Archbishop of Aka, Haifa, Nazareth and all Galilee, and Baron José de Vinck (Allendale, NJ: Alleluia Press, 1969):

poche · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2013, 09:36:46 PM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2013, 02:02:08 AM »

Del Misal completo latino-español para uso de los fieles, editado por los sacerdotes Jesuitas Valentín M. Sánchez Ruiz y Eduardo Espert (Madrid: Editorial Apostolado de la Prensa, S. A., 1958):

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2013, 08:36:48 AM »

From The Lessons of the Temporal Cycle and the Principle Feasts of the Sanctoral Cycle according to the Monastic Breviary: Compiled and Adapted for the Office of the Brothers of St. Meinrad's Abbey (St. Meinrad, Indiana: St. Meinraid's Abbey, 1943), here is the English translation of the the lessons of the Second and Third Nocturns at Matins for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2013, 12:15:29 PM »

From The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite in Latin and English for Every Day in the Year (Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1953) here is the formulary of the Mass for the Feast of the Most Pure Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary as found in the Carmelite Missal.

Note the difference between the Collect and Introit of this Mass and the ones found in the Roman Missal.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2013, 07:30:22 PM »

From Daily Breviary Meditations: Meditations for Every Day on the Scriptural Lessons of the Roman Breviary, in accordance with the Encyclical "Divino Afflante," vol. 4, written by His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Angrisani, Bishop of Casale-Monferrato, and translated by Rev. Father Joseph A. McMullin of St. Charles Seminary at Philadelphia, PA (New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1954):

poche · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2013, 10:35:50 PM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2013, 11:16:33 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:

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #9 on:** September 08, 2013, 07:34:59 AM »

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 #10 on:** September 08, 2013, 01:52:09 PM »

From St. Bernard's Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year: Translated from the Original Latin by a Priest of Mount Melleray, (Vol. III.; Westminster, MD: The Carroll Press, 1950), here is the celebrated Sermon De aquæductu preached on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and which many Saints and spiritual masters have cited when speaking of Our Lady as Mediatress of all graces.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2013, 07:36:24 AM »

From Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944):