Traditional Holy Mass Proper Prayers for
The Feast Of The Visitation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
( The Fourth Sunday After Penecost )
Missa Salve, sancta parens
2 July 2006 A.D.
"All whatsoever you do in word or work, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
giving thanks to God and the Father by Jesus Christ our Lord," --- Blessed Apostle Saint Paul
T oday is the Double of the Second Class Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth which supersedes this year the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost. In his sermon today Father Louis Campbell provides the rationale why this feast is so beautiful in our understanding of Mary's vital role in salvation. He shares the wisdom of the saints with readers today as well. We also revisit the meditation presented earlier by John Gregory on the Second Joyful Mystery. Today is the Third Day in the nine-day Novena to Our Lady Queen of Peace. Traditionally ever since July 9, 1906 when Pope Saint Pius X gave his papal approval for the Litany to the Blessed Mother as Our Lady Queen of Peace in the Chapel of the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart this devotion has spread and now in 2006 it is as urgent as ever to pray for peace - the peace only her divine Son Jesus can provide, not man or temporal organizations such as the U.N. or any secular government. That is the reason there can be no peace today because the world has forgotten Christ and forsaken His role as our Sovereign King - our only Sovereign King! We can see the effects of this turmoil because of that as satan assaults every soul from Europe to Iraq to Afghanistan to Hollywood to modern Rome and everywhere in between, and with our soldiers enmeshed in a war with infidels in the Middle East and sodomy being elevated to a virtue where anyone speaking against it must be subjected to 'sensitivity training' because the sinner is offended, we had better pray that God will stay His hand for the time of mercy has long passed and we are living on borrowed time - time one would think has only been provided by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary because of the Rosaries said in reparation. Let us continue those marching orders and pray from the foxholes her Novena from today through next Saturday that there may truly be peace - God's peace. A special 'Thank you' to the Friends of Fatima for these Proper resources. Sources: Saint Andrew Daily Missal and the Marian Missal 1945.
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Double of the Second Class Feast
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Introit ¤ Sedulius
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Salve, sancta parens, eníxa puérpera Regem: qui coelum, terrámque regit in sæcula sæculórum. Psalm 44:2. Eructávit cor meum verbum num: dico ego ópera, mea regi. v. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Repeat Salve, sancta parens... |
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Hail, holy Mother, who in childbirth didst bring forth the King Who ruleth Heaven and earth, world without end. Psalm 44:2. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works unto the King. v. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Repeat Hail, holy Mother...
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COLLECT
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Fámulis tuis, quæsumus, Dómine, coeléstis grátiæ munus impertíre: ut, quibus beátæ Vírginis partus éxstitit salútis exórdium: Visitatiónis ejus votiva solémnitas, pacis tríbuat incrémentum. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.Collect For The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Da nobis, quæsumus Dómine, ut et mundi cursus pacífice nobis tuo órdine dirigétur: et Ecclésia tua tranquílla devotióne lætétur. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti,Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen. |
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Impart unto Thy servants, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the gift of Heavenly grace, that to us, to whom the childbirth of the Blessed Virgin hath been the beginning of salvation, the votive solemnity of her visitation may bring an increase of peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen. Collect For The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that both the course of this world may be peacefully ordered for us by Thy governance, and that Thy Church may rejoice in quiet devotion. Through the same our , Lord Jesus Christ who livest and reignest with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.
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EPISTLE ¤ Canticle 2:8-14 |
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Léctio líbri Sapiéntiæ
Ecce iste venit sáliens in móntibus, transíliens colles: símilis est diléctus meus cápreæ, hinnulóque cervórum. En ipse stat post paríetem nostrum, respíciens per fenéstras, prospíciens per cancéllos. En diléctus meus lóquitur mihi: Surge, própera, amica mea, colúmba mea, formósa mea, et veni. Jam enim hiems tránsiit, imber ábiit, et recéssit. Flores apparuérunt in terra nostra, tempus putatiónis advénit: vox túrturis audita, est in terra nostra: ficus prótulit grossos suos: vineæ floréntes dedérunt odórem suum. Surge, amica mea, speciósa mea, et veni: colúmba mea in foramínibus petræ, in cavérna macériæ, osténde mihi fáciem tuam, sonet vox tua in áuribus meis: vox enim tua dulcis, et fácies tua decóra. |
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Lesson from the Book of Wisdom
Behold He cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold He standeth behind our wall; looking through the windows, looking through the lattices. Behold, my beloved speaketh to me, Arise, make haste, My love, my dove, my beautiful one; and come. For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone, The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning Is come, the voice of the turtle is heard in our land: the fig-tree hath put forth her green figs, the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise my love, my beautiful one; and come. My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, show Me thy face, let thy voice sound in My ear; for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.
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GRADUAL
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B enedícta et venerábilis es, Virgo Maria: quæ sine tactu pudóris, invénta es Mater Salvatóris. v. Virgo Dei Génitrix, quem totus non capit orbis, in tua se clausit viscera factus homo. Allelúja, allelúja. v. Felix es, sacra Virgo Maria, et omni laude digníssima: quia ex te ortus est sol justítiæ, Christus Deus noster. Allelúja. |
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Blessed and venerable art thou, O Virgin Mary, who without spot wast found the Mother of the Savior. v. O Virgin Mother of God, He, Whom the whole world can not contain, hath shut Himself within thy womb, becoming man. Alleluia, alleluia. v. Happy art thou, O sacred Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise, for out of thee hath risen the sun of justice, Christ, our God. Alleluia.
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GOSPEL - Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 1:39-47
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† Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam
In illo témpore: exsúrgens María ábiit in montána cum festinatióne in civitátem Juda: et intrávit in domum Zacharíæ, et salutávit Elísabeth. Et factum est, ut audívit salutatiónem Maríæ Elísabeth, exsultávit infans in útero ejus: et repléta est Spíritu Sancto Elísabeth, et exclamávit voce magna et dixit: Benedícta tu inter mulíeres, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui. Et unde hoc mihi, ut véniat mater Dómini mei ad me? Ecce enim, ut facta est vox salutatiónis tuæ in áuribus meis, exsultávit in gáudio infans. in útero meo. Et beáta, qui credidísti, quóniam perficiéntur ea, quæ dicta sunt tibi a Dómino. Et ait María: Magnificat ánima mea Dóminum: et exsultávit spíritus meus in Deo salutári meo. |
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† Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Blessed Apostle Saint Luke
At that time, Mary rising up, went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda. And she entered into the house of Zachary, and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: and she cried out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord. And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord; and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
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Homily The Feast of The Visitation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
Missa Salve, sancta parens
2 July 2006 A.D.
by Father Louis J. Campbell
Theotokos, the God-Bearer
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
The Visitation is a reminder of the reason why Mary is so necessary in what her divine Son says, "Knock and it shall be opened to you." Jesus is the Door, His Blessed Mother as Mediatrix holds the key to the Door for she is the Portal to beholding the Beatific Vision. With that kind of joy we should leap, as the Baptist did, at the opportunity to grow in grace so we can be assured our visitation to Heaven will be in perpetuity.
"See her in your mind's eye, in your spirit, our Immaculate Mother, filled with the Holy Spirit, reaching out to you with heavenly gifts and graces. They are yours for the asking. Don't be afraid to go to her, to contemplate her spiritual beauty - she comes as she came to Elizabeth, 'full of grace,' bringing Jesus with her. She is accompanied by the Holy Ghost, with Whose Divine presence we are filled, like Saint Elizabeth, and we leap for joy in our spirits, like Saint John the Baptist in his mother's womb."
Note: In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, which this year is superseded by the Feast of the Visitation, he focuses on this joyful mystery when Elizabeth immediately recognized Mary as Theotokos - the Greek word for Bearer of God. Thus she is the Mother of God. Even the child in Elizabeth's womb recognized this truth - having been granted the grace to identify God even before both were physically born. More proof of the fact that life begins at conception and that abortion during any part of the pregnancy cycle is murder. What greater attribute to motherhood than these two holy women with child embracing in all Christian love and fidelity? Father shares the truth of Sacred Scripture passages and the teachings of several saints who confirm the importance of the Visitation in affirming Mary as Theotokos and our heavenly Mother as well. Father refutes through these holy saints those who do not follow what Christ wills, those who dismiss Mary as a Catholic fable or think Mary is not necessary for salvation. She is very necessary as Father points out in his sermon.
When the Blessed Virgin Mary hurried through the hills of Judea to visit her cousin Elizabeth she had just entertained a visit from the Angel Gabriel. Fresh in her mind were his words: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 1:28 ). She had given her consent, her "Fiat", and was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost, conceiving the Son of God in her womb. Upon hearing her words of greeting Elizabeth was "filled with the Holy Spirit, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb! And how have I deserved that the mother of my Lord should come to me?'" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 1:42,43 ).
By her Fiat Mary consented to being the Mother of the Savior, and to all that was implied in being such. Her future role in the Church was immediately foreshadowed by what transpired as she arrived at the home of her cousin. Her words of greeting mediated, like a sacrament, the grace of the Holy Spirit from her Divine Son to Elizabeth, and the child John the Baptist in her womb: "For the moment that your greeting sounded in my ears the infant in my womb leapt for joy" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 1:44 ). This was the sanctification of the child John through the presence of the Holy One, Jesus Christ and the grace of the Holy Ghost. Some thirty years later John would baptize in the Jordan waters Him by Whom he had been sanctified.
Many see the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary as limited to her human function of childbearing, failing to grasp the spiritual dimension of her motherhood. They blasphemously assert that she and St. Joseph had other children, citing Scripture passages that speak of the brothers and sisters of Jesus, which actually means other close relatives like cousins. We could ask, if Mary and Joseph had other children, where were they when the Child Jesus accompanied His parents to Jerusalem at the age of twelve? And especially where were they when Jesus entrusted His Mother to the disciple John moments before His death on the Cross. It would have been the right and the duty of His brothers and sisters to take care of their Mother.
Mary, of course, was the Ever-Virgin Mother of God's only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and Spouse of the Holy Spirit. No man, especially her chaste and holy spouse, St. Joseph, would have the temerity to touch the holy, immaculate and Ever-Virgin Mary. She herself told us, "I do not know man" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 1:34 ). But not being the natural mother of other children allowed Mary to become "mother of all the living" ( Genesis 3:20 ). We are children of Eve in the order of nature; we are children of Mary in the order of grace.
We see that Mary acted as an intermediary between her Divine Son and Saint Elizabeth, or, as we say more familiarly, a Mediatrix. This was only the beginning of her role in the Church as the Spouse of the Holy Ghost and "Theotokos", the God-Bearer, a living Tabernacle bringing God to us. Saint Elizabeth was the first to call Mary "Mother of my Lord," ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 1:43 ). Saint Ephraim the Syrian comments: "It is essential for us to confess that the holy Ever-Virgin Mary is actually Theotokos ( Birth-giver of God ), so as not to fall into blasphemy. For those who deny that the Holy Virgin is actually Theotokos are no longer believers, but disciples of the Pharisees and Sadducees" ( To John the Monk ).
Blessed Peter Julian Eymard explains: "Mankind was unworthy to receive the Word directly from God, so Mary was our Mediatrix in the Incarnation, and she continues to exercise that function. No one comes to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and embraces His holy law except through her; no one obtains the saving gift of faith except by her prayers. Her mission, to which she is ever faithful, is to give us Jesus. He must be received from her hands, and in vain do we seek Him elsewhere."
Saint Louis de Montfort agrees: "To Mary, His faithful spouse, God the Holy Ghost has communicated His unspeakable gifts; and He has chosen her to be the dispensatrix of all He possesses, in such sort that she distributes to whom she wills, as much as she wills, as she wills and when she wills, all His gifts and graces. The Holy Ghost gives no heavenly gift to men which does not pass through her virginal hands."
And Saint Alphonsus: "God, who gave us Jesus Christ, wills that all graces that have been, that are, and will be dispensed to men to the end of the world through the merits of Jesus Christ, should be dispensed by the hands and through the intercession of Mary" ( The Glories of Mary ).
"All the saints," says Saint John Vianney, "have a great devotion to Our Lady: no grace comes from Heaven without passing through her hands. We cannot go into a house without speaking to the doorkeeper. Well, the Holy Virgin is the doorkeeper of Heaven."
By contemplating the beauty of our Holy Mother, our glorious Queen, we learn to aspire to noble things, heroic things, heavenly things, things the world cannot understand because it is immersed in the carnal pleasures of this world that are offensive to God. We must resolve to live without sin, "For perverse counsels separate a man from God, and his power, put to the proof, rebukes the foolhardy; because into a soul that plots evil wisdom enters not, nor dwells she in a body under debt of sin" ( Bok of Wisdom 1:3,4 ).
See her in your mind's eye, in your spirit, our Immaculate Mother, filled with the Holy Spirit, reaching out to you with heavenly gifts and graces. They are yours for the asking. Don't be afraid to go to her, to contemplate her spiritual beauty - she comes as she came to Elizabeth, "full of grace," bringing Jesus with her. She is accompanied by the Holy Ghost, with Whose Divine presence we are filled, like St. Elizabeth, and we leap for joy in our spirits, like Saint John the Baptist in his mother's womb.
With Saint Bonaventure we invoke the Holy Mother of God: "The foundations of life in the soul of the just: are to persevere in charity unto the end. Thy grace raises up the poor man in adversity: and the invocation of thy name inspires him with confidence. Paradise is filled with thy tender mercies: and by the fear of thee the infernal enemy is confounded. He who hopes in thee, will find treasures of peace: and he who invokes thee not in this life, will not attain to the kingdom of God. Grant, O Lady, that we may live in the grace of the Holy Ghost: and lead our souls to a holy end. Amen." ( Psalter of the B.V.M., Psalm 86 ).
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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OFFERTORY ¤ I Corinthians 10:16 |
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Beáta es, Virgo María, quæ ómnium. portásti Creatórem: genuísti qui te fecit, et in ætérnum pérmanes Virgo. |
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B lessed art thou, O Virgin Mary, who didst bear the Creator of all things; thou didst bring forth Him Who made thee, and remainest a virgin forever.
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SECRET
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Unigéniti tui, Dómine, nobis succúrrat humánitas: ut, qui natus de Vírgine, matris integritátem non minuit, sed sacrávit; in Visitatiónis ejus solémniis, nostris nos piáculis éxuens, oblatiónem nostram tibi fáciat accéptam Jesus Christus Dóminus noster: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Secret For The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Réspice, Dómine, munera supplicántis Ecclésiæ: et salúti credéntium perpétua sanctifi-catióne suménda concéde. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen. |
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Let the humanity of Thine only-begotten Son succor us, O Lord, that He, Who, born of a virgin, did not diminish, but consecrated, the virginity of His mother, may, on this solemn festival of her visitation, deliver us from our sins and make our offering acceptable, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Who with Thee livest and reignest, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God Forever and ever. Amen. Secret For The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
May the offering, to be dedicated to thy Name, O Lord, purify us, and day by day, carry us on the observances of a heavenly life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.
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PREFACE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
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Vere dignum et justum est, æqum et salutáre, nos tibi semper, et ubique grátias ágere: Dómine sancte, Pater omnípotens, ætérne Deus. Et te in Visitatione beátæ Mariæ semper Vírginis collaudáre, benedícere, et prædicáre. Quæ et Unigénitum tuum Sancti Spíritus obumbratióne concépit, et virginitátis glória permanénte, lumen ætérnum mundo effúdit, Jesum Christum Dóminum nostrum. Per quem majestátem tuam laudant Angeli, adórant Dominatiónes, tremunt Potestátes coeli coelorúmque Virtútes, ac beáta Séraphim, sócia exsultatióne concélebrant. Cum quibus et nostras voces ut admitti júbeas deprecámur, súpplici confessióne dicéntes: SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS... |
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It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God and that we should praise and bless, and proclaim Thee, on the Visitation of the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin: Who also conceived Thine only-begotten Son by the over-shadowing of the Holy Ghost, and the glory of her virginity still abiding, gave forth to the world the everlasting light, Jesus Christ our Lord. Through whom the angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, and the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the Heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with them we entreat Thee, that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted, while we say with lowly praise: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY...
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COMMUNION ¤ Hebrews 9: 28
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Regina mundi digníssima, María Virgo perpétua, intercéde pro nostra pace et salúte, quæ genuísti Christum Dóminum, Salvatórem ómnium. |
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O Mary, ever Virgin, who because of thy great worth, God set up as Queen of the whole world, pray for our peace and salvation, for Thou hast brought forth Christ the Lord, the Savior of us all.
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POSTCOMMUNION
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Sancta tua nos, Dómine, sumpta vivíficent: et misericórdiæ sempitérnæ præparent expiátos. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.Postcommunion For The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Mystéria nos, Dómine, quæsumus, sumpta puríficent, et suo múnere tueántur. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, Filium Tuum, Qui Tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen. |
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We have received, O Lord, the votive sacrament of this annual solemnity; grant, beseech Thee, that it may afford us a remedy both for temporal and for eternal life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, For ever and ever. Amen. Postcommunion For The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
May the Mysteries which we have received, we beseech Thee, O Lord, purify us, and by their virtue defend us. Through the Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, Forever and ever. Amen.
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† - Holy Queen of Heaven and Earth, pray for us. - †
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