The Most Pure Heart Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day: Saturday Within The Octave Of The Sacred Heart.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

The Most Pure Heart Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day: Saturday Within The Octave Of The Sacred Heart.

White Vestments.

The Virgin in Prayer.

Artist: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609 – 1685).

Date: Between 1640 and 1650.

Current location: National Gallery, London.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art.

(Wikimedia Commons)

[Editor: How apt that, within the Octave of The Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Feast Day also Commemorates The Most Pure Heart Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, His Mother. Two Hearts, so close, they cannot be separated. Ever.]

These are the characteristics of the Heart of Our Blessed Lady, which we set forth from the Texts of the Mass:

1.      All her Holiness proceeds from her Heart (Introit);

2.      Her grief, when she lost the Child, Jesus, in the Temple (Gospel);

3.      Her Heart is filled with the Love of God (Epistle, Secret, Communion);

4.      Mary's Heart is Pure, therefore it is pleasing to God (Collect, Gradual);

5.      Her Heart is courageous (Offertory);

6.      Mary's intercession (Postcommunion).

[Editor: Note that this Feast Day is in addition to The Immaculate Heart Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated on 22 August.]