• Immaculate Heart of Mary (TLM);
• Queenship of Mary (NO)

It is always to be noted that feasts in the Novus Ordo usually do not coincide with those in the Tridentine Latin Mass, and tomorrow’s celebrations of the Memorial of the Queenship of Mary (in the Novus Ordo) and the Immaculate Heart of Mary (TLM) are concrete examples of such a variation in the said two forms of the Roman Rite. Since I mainly am devoted to the spirituality of the TLM whilst also an attendee in NO masses, this post consists of the Propers and Readings for both Forms.

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The Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

INTROIT ¤ Hebrews 4. 16

COLLECT.–Almighty and everlasting God, who in the heart of the blessed Virgin Mary didst prepare a dwelling worthy of the Holy Ghost; grant in Thy mercy, that we who with devout minds celebrate the festival of that immaculate heart, may be able to live accoding to Thine own Heart. Through our Lord Jesus Christ . . .

EPISTLE ¤ Wisdom 24. 23-31

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 12. 6

GOSPEL ¤ John 19. 25-27

OFFERTORY ¤ Luke 1. 46

SECRET.–We who offer to Thy majesty the Lamb without spot, beseech Thee, O Lord, that our hearts may be kindled by the divine fire which in an ineffable manner inflamed the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son . . .

PREFACE
Preface of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

COMMUNION ¤ John 19. 27

POSTCOMMUNION.–Refreshed by those divine Gifts, we humbly beseech Thee, O Lord, that by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the solemn feast of whose immaculate heart we now celebrate, we may be delivered from present dangers, and obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost . . .

Memorial of the Queenship of Mary

Reading 1
Ez 37:1-14
The hand of the LORD came upon me,
and led me out in the Spirit of the LORD
and set me in the center of the plain,
which was now filled with bones.
He made me walk among the bones in every direction
so that I saw how many they were on the surface of the plain.
How dry they were!
He asked me:
Son of man, can these bones come to life?
I answered, “Lord GOD, you alone know that.”
Then he said to me:
Prophesy over these bones, and say to them:
Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones:
See! I will bring spirit into you, that you may come to life.
I will put sinews upon you, make flesh grow over you,
cover you with skin, and put spirit in you
so that you may come to life and know that I am the LORD.
I prophesied as I had been told,
and even as I was prophesying I heard a noise;
it was a rattling as the bones came together, bone joining bone.
I saw the sinews and the flesh come upon them,
and the skin cover them, but there was no spirit in them.
Then the LORD said to me:
Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of man,
and say to the spirit: Thus says the Lord GOD:
From the four winds come, O spirit,
and breathe into these slain that they may come to life.
I prophesied as he told me, and the spirit came into them;
they came alive and stood upright, a vast army.
Then he said to me:
Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.
They have been saying,
“Our bones are dried up,
our hope is lost, and we are cut off.”
Therefore, prophesy and say to them: Thus says the Lord GOD:
O my people, I will open your graves
and have you rise from them,
and bring you back to the land of Israel.
Then you shall know that I am the LORD,
when I open your graves and have you rise from them,
O my people!
I will put my spirit in you that you may live,
and I will settle you upon your land;
thus you shall know that I am the LORD.
I have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

R. (1) Give thanks to the Lord; his love is everlasting.
Let the redeemed of the LORD say,
those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the foe
And gathered from the lands,
from the east and the west, from the north and the south.
R. Give thanks to the Lord; his love is everlasting.
They went astray in the desert wilderness;
the way to an inhabited city they did not find.
Hungry and thirsty,
their life was wasting away within them.
R. Give thanks to the Lord; his love is everlasting.
They cried to the LORD in their distress;
from their straits he rescued them.
And he led them by a direct way
to reach an inhabited city.
R. Give thanks to the Lord; his love is everlasting.
Let them give thanks to the LORD for his mercy
and his wondrous deeds to the children of men,
Because he satisfied the longing soul
and filled the hungry soul with good things.
R. Give thanks to the Lord; his love is everlasting.

Reading II
Rom 11:13-15, 29-32

Gospel
Mt 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them,
a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him,
“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
The second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

(N.B. I shall post the propers for the NO memorial later)

Today we commemorate one of the grandest and highest solemnities in the Church, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin into heaven. And as usual, the readings in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite for the said Feast are as follows:

August 15

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

INTROIT

COLLECT.–Almighty and Eternal God, who hast assumed the body and soul of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Thy Son, to celestial glory: grant, we beseech Thee, that always minded toward heavenly things, we may be sharers in the same glory. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord . . .

EPISTLE ¤ Judith 14. 22-25; 15.10

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 44. 11, 12, 14

GOSPEL ¤ Luke 1. 41-50

OFFERTORY

SECRET.–May the offering of our devotion ascend to Thee, O Lord, and through the intercession of the most Blessed Virgin Mary, assumed into heaven, may our hearts inflamed with the fire of love aspire to Thee for ever. Through Jesus Christ our Lord . . .

PREFACE
Preface of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

COMMUNION ¤ Luke 1. 48-49

POSTCOMMUNION.–Having received, O Lord, Thy most saving sacraments, grant, we beseech Thee, that through the intercession and merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary, assumed into heaven, we may persevere to the glory of the resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee . . .

I haven’t posted in a while (especially concerning yesterday’s TLM readings for the 12th week after Pentecost, to which our pastor did a very good job in his homily) as I have been very busy; so now I’ll be posting those pertaining to St. Dominic’s feast day (Introit, Collect & TLM readings) as well as St. John Vianney’s memorial (as culled from the Novus Ordo’s Roman Missal of 2002).

St. Dominic, Confessor

(White, Double Major)

INTROIT ¤ Ps. 36. 31, 30

COLLECT.–O God, who hast vouchsafed to make Thy Church illustrious by the merits and teaching of blessed Dominic, Thy Confessor: grant that, through his intercession, she may not be deprived of temporal help, and may ever advance in spiritual increase. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost. . .

EPISTLE ¤ II Timothy 4. 1-8
Lesson from the second Epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to Timothy.

[St. Paul admonishes Timothy to hold firm the sound doctrine of the Gospel. St. Dominic was also renowned for his orthodoxy and his theological learning.]

Dearly beloved, I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by His coming and His kingdom: preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou vigilant, labor in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry. Be sober. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord, the just Judge, will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love His coming.

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 91. 13, 14

GOSPEL ¤ Luke 12. 35-40
† Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Luke.

[Christ admonishes all to watch and to be ready for His Coming.]

At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands, and you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding: that when he cometh, shall find watching: amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready, for at what hour you think not the Son of Man will come.

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Memorial St. John Vianney

1st Reading: Jeremiah 28:1-17 (Jeremiah & Hananiah; the Lord’s warning to the latter for prophesying lies)

Responsorial Psalm: Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102 (Response: Lord teach me your statutes)

Gospel: Mt 14:22-36 (Jesus & his disciples withstanding a squall; Upon Jesus’ beckoning, Peter, driven by faith, walks on the water but soon sinks as he loses confidence)