English: Joan of Arc enters Orléans.
Artist: Jean-Jacques Scherrer (1855-1916).
1887.
Source/Photographer:
Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Joan Of Arc.
Virgin.
Feast Day 30 May.
Local Feasts.
Feasts in some Religious Congregations and some places.
White Vestments.
Mass: Cantémus Dómino.
Joan, bride of Christ, Patron and Guardian of France (Magnificat) was raised up in a wonderful manner by God to defend The Faith and her Country (Collect).
White Vestments.
Mass: Cantémus Dómino.
Taught by Heavenly voices, and filled with the Light of Cross (Hymn), she was able, by her wisdom, to command the admiration of Princes and the great ones of this Earth, defeat foreign nations, and leave to posterity an eternal remembrance (Epistle).
Therefore, the Liturgy proclaims her “the honour of our people”. “Clothed with the armour of justice and her loins girt with truth” (Antiphon at Vespers), the “Maid” leaves, in obedience, her father and mother and becomes a soldier for Christ.
She rides fearlessly wherever the Archangel Michæl directs her (Hymn). In the midst of mortal dangers, she fears not, for the Lord Jesus is with her (Communion), and “fills her with His strength” (Alleluia), “nourishes her with his His Heavenly Bread, and grants her victory” (Postcommunion).
Surrounded by flames, she invokes the Holy Name of Jesus, and, embracing The Cross, she flies to Him like an innocent Dove (Hymn). She died in 1431.
Surrounded by flames, she invokes the Holy Name of Jesus, and, embracing The Cross, she flies to Him like an innocent Dove (Hymn). She died in 1431.
Let us ask The Holy Ghost, Who makes Souls holy and courageous, to give us to drink in, as Saint Joan did in Holy Communion, that strength of Soul, of which she has given such bright examples.
