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

The Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Artist: Leopold Kupelwieser (1796–1862).

Photo: 22 September 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diana Ringo

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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Saturday Within The Octave Of The Sacred Heart.       

   Feast Of The Most Pure Heart Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

(Local Feasts. Feasts kept
in some Religious Congregations
and in some places).

White Vestments.

Mass: Omnis glória.

Creed: Is Said.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in festivitáte.

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).