Italic Text taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal
Illustrations taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless stated otherwise.
Double of the Second Class
White Vestments
The Blessed Virgin Mary surrounded by her Seven Sorrows.
Nederlands: Linkerluik van een diptiek Onze-Lieve-Vrouw der Zeven Weeën
door Adriaen Isenbrant (circa 1490-1551); KMSKB, Brussel.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan) - artwork by Adriaen Isenbrant.
Photo: June 2009.
(Wikimedia Commons).
PLEASE NOTE:
THERE WILL BE A
MISSA CANTATA
AT
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,
BLACKFEN, SIDCUP,
KENT,
ENGLAND,
ON
SATURDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2012,
AT
1030 HRS.
Contact Details:
Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church,
330A, Burnt Oak Lane,
Sidcup,
Kent DA15 8LW,
England.
Tel: 020 8300 2697.
Mary stood at the foot of the Cross, where Jesus was hanging (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Sequence, Gospel), and, as Simeon had prophesied (Collect), a sword of sorrow pierced her Soul (Secret).
Powerless, "she saw her sweet child desolate in the anguish of death, and she received His last breath" (Sequence). The compassion, which her maternal heart felt at the foot of the Cross, obtained for her as its reward the palm of martyrdom without death (Communion).
This Feast was celebrated with great solemnity by the Servites in the 17th-Century. In 1817, it was extended by Pope Pius VII to the whole Church, so as to recall the sufferings she (the Church) had undergone in the person of her exiled and captive head (Pope Pius VII), delivered by the protection of the Blessed Virgin.
Just as the first Feast of the Sorrows of Mary, in Passiontide, shows us how she had her share in the sacrifice of Jesus, the second Feast, in the Season after Pentecost, tells us of all the compassion which the Mother of the Saviour feels for the Church, the spouse of Jesus, who is crucified in her turn and whose devotion to the Sorrows of Mary increases in these calamitous times.
Powerless, "she saw her sweet child desolate in the anguish of death, and she received His last breath" (Sequence). The compassion, which her maternal heart felt at the foot of the Cross, obtained for her as its reward the palm of martyrdom without death (Communion).
This Feast was celebrated with great solemnity by the Servites in the 17th-Century. In 1817, it was extended by Pope Pius VII to the whole Church, so as to recall the sufferings she (the Church) had undergone in the person of her exiled and captive head (Pope Pius VII), delivered by the protection of the Blessed Virgin.
Just as the first Feast of the Sorrows of Mary, in Passiontide, shows us how she had her share in the sacrifice of Jesus, the second Feast, in the Season after Pentecost, tells us of all the compassion which the Mother of the Saviour feels for the Church, the spouse of Jesus, who is crucified in her turn and whose devotion to the Sorrows of Mary increases in these calamitous times.
His Holiness, Pope Saint Pius X, in 1908 raised this Feast to the rank of a Solemnity of the Second Class.
