May see Dawn in a party dress later on...

But that's a couple of hours from now so who knows what might change in that space of time. Today is the Saturday Commemoration of Our Lady, the Mass Salve sancta Parens-- already celebrated at Saint-Eugène, as is their Saturday custom (it wouldn't make much sense to celebrate the Mass of the day of Saturday at 1900 when, by the traditional way of calculating, Sunday has already begun). I wonder if they do the 'vigil Mass' business; it's never occurred to me to look for this on their website. Indeed they do not; there are Masses at 0730 and 0930 in the Traditional Rite and one in the Pauline the hour it begins being unhelpfully omitted, however-- other weekdays it's said at 1230.




I'll add the texts shortly; haven't said Lauds yet et cetera.

A subdued Fall morning after a quiet Dawn; no rain, however. I got lost in meurtrière and potential English synonymy (if that is a word for 'the set of English words that are synonyms for') so am on to my glass of coffee and Obsidienne's incisive performance of Ave stella serena on their eponymous album that features the more or less 17th century organ of Saint-Julien-du-Sault (I noticed en passant that I've missed, alas, a grand concert there today). 

Introitus. Sedulius. Salve, sancta Parens, eníxa puérpera Regem: qui cœlum terrámque regit in sǽcula sæculórum. Ps. 44, 2. Eructávit cor meum verbum bonum: dico ego ópera mea Regi. ℣. Glória Patri.

Glória.

Collecta. Concéde nos fámulos tuos, quæsumus, Dómine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis sanitáte gaudére: et, gloriosa beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis intercessióne, a præsénti liberári tristitia, et aeterna perfrui lætítia. Per Dóminum nostrum.

Léctio libri Sapiéntiæ. Eccli. 24, 14-16. Ab inítio et ante sǽcula creáta sum, et usque ad futúrum sǽculum non désinam, et in habitatióne sancta coram ipso ministrávi. Et sic in Sion firmáta sum, et in civitáte sanctificáta simíliter requiévi, et in Jerúsalem potéstas mea. Et radicávi in pópulo honorificáto, et in parte Dei mei heréditas illíus, et in plenitúdine sanctórum deténtio mea.

Graduale. Benedícta et venerábilis es, Virgo María: quæ sine tactu pudóris invénia es Mater Salvatóris. ℣. Virgo, Dei Génetrix, quem totus non capit orbis, in tua se clausit víscera factus homo.

Allelúja, allelúja. ℣. Post partum, Virgo, invioláta permansísti: Dei Génetrix, intercéde pro nobis. Allelúja. 

Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam Luc. 11, 27-28. In illo témpore: Loquénte Jesu ad turbas, extóllens vocem quædam múlier de turba, dixit illi: Beátus venter, qui te portávit, et úbera, quæ suxísti. At ille dixit: Quinímmo beáti, qui áudiunt verbum Dei, et custódiunt illud.

Offertorium. Luc. 1, 28 et 42. Ave, María, grátia plena; Dóminus tecum: benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui. 

Secreta. Tua, Dómine, propitiatióne, et beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis intercessióne, ad perpétuam atque præséntem hæc oblátio nobis profíciat prosperitátem et pacem. Per Dóminum.

Præfatio de B. Maria Virgine. Et te in veneratione.

Communio. Beáta viscera Maríæ Vírginis, quæ portavérunt ætérni Patris Fílium, allelúja.

Postcommunio. Sumptis, Dómine, salútis nostræ subsídiis: da, quǽsumus, beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis patrocíniis nos ubíque prótegi; in cujus veneratióne hæc tuæ obtúlimus majestáti. Per Dóminum.



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