The light rain of much of the night and earlier...

Morning stopped, five minutes ago. A real pleasure, having awakened twice to it. The magi stellae fuscae are predicting seven days of rain; perhaps, although am not rushing out to buy this season's umbrella on their account. 50 degrees of heat at present but, if the serial wetness does in fact happen, I'm resigned to succumbing to the use of the electric heater in the coming week. Today, in each of the iterations of the Roman Calendar from 1570 onward, and even in the redecorating done by Ioannes XXIII, is the commemoratio Sanctae Mariae in Sabbato-- the Mass Salve sancta Parens. The rising Dawn is obscured by a thick band of cloud.





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.






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.

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.

Praefatio Beatae Virginis Mariae. 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.





The skies have largely cleared but there is still cloudiness in the East that's preventing Phoebus's splendor from brightening the morning. And-- I forget again-- since Holy Mass at Saint-E. was said seven hours ago the video recording ought to be available to add here, supra.






LDVM



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