thou who, from the beginning, hast received from God
the power and the mission to crush the head of Satan,
we humbly beseech thee to send thy Holy Legions, that,
under thy command and by thy power, they may pursue
the evil spirits, encounter them on every side, resist their
bold attacks, and drive them hence into Eternal woe.
Who is like unto God ?
O good and tender Mother,
thou willest always to be our love and our hope.
O Mother of God, send thy Holy Angels to defend us
and drive far from us the cruel enemy.
Holy Angels and Archangels, defend us and keep us.
Amen.
. . . There is one other thing that I want to share with you in this regard: Five years ago, I read Yves Chiron’s biography of Blessed Louis–Edouard Cestac (1801–1868), a French Priest Beatified in May 2015.
Monseigneur Marc Aillet wrote the Introduction to the book. On
13 January 1864, Blessed Father Cestac was suddenly struck by a ray of Divine Light. He saw devils scattered throughout the Earth, wreaking inexplicable ravages. At the same time, The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him.
The Mother of God told Blessed Father Cestac that devils had
indeed been let loose in the World, and that the hour had come
to Pray to her as Queen of Angels.
The Mother of God invited Blessed Father Cestac to Pray her
to send out Legions of Angels to fight and rout The Powers of Hell.
“Mother”, said Father Cestac, no mean Theologian,
“thou, who art so good, couldst thou not send them without being asked ? ”
“No”, answered The Blessed Virgin Mary.
“Prayer is a condition set by God Himself to obtain Graces”.
“So, Mother”, replied the Priest,
“wouldst thou thyself teach me how one must Pray to thee ? ”
Aurelia Petronilla was the Spiritual daughter of The Prince of The Apostles in the 1st-Century A.D.
God delivered her, by sudden death, from the snares laid to imperil her Virginity. Her body rests in the Basilica Dedicated to Saint Peter who had taught her The Faith.
Born at Desenzano, on the Lake of Garda, Italy, in 1474, of pious parents, Angela, from her childhood, ever tried to please Jesus, the Spouse of her Soul (Epistle, Gospel, Communion). She adopted the rule of The Third Order of Saint Francis and united evangelical poverty to the merit of Virginity.
She "loved justice and hated iniquity" (Introit) and subjected her body to the severest austerities to atone for the sins of the World. "The disorders of society." she used to say, "are caused by those in families; there are few Christian mothers, because the education of young girls is neglected."
In consequence of a vision, she successfully formed, in 1535, in The Church, a new Society of Holy Virgins (Collect). Its object being the Christian education of youth, she placed it under the Patronage of Saint Ursula, the chief of an Army of Virgins.
She died in 1540 at Brescia, Italy, with the name of Jesus on her lips.
Mass:Dilexisti. Commemoration of Saint Petronilla, by the Collects of The Mass: Vultum tuum.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.
Angela Merici, or Angela de Merici, 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540, was an Italian Religious Educator. She Founded The Company of Saint Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, Italy, in which women dedicated their lives to the Service of The Church through the education of girls.
From this organisation later sprang The Monastic Order of Ursulines, whose Nuns established places of Prayer and Learning throughout Europe and, later, Worldwide, most notably in North America.
A Feast and Mass granted by Pope Benedict XV to many Dioceses.
"The Will of God is that we should have everything through Mary," says Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The Father has sent us His Son, but His Will was to make His Coming depend upon The Fiat of The Virgin, which He commanded The Angel Gabriel to solicit on The Day of The Annunciation.
The Father and The Son send us The Holy Ghost, but it is through Mary that He comes down to men. On The Day of Pentecost, according to an ancient Tradition, The Heavenly Fire, which descended on The Cenacle, first rested on Mary, and then on The Apostles. This is a figure of what happens every day in The Church, where The Holy Ghost is sent invisibly into our Souls.
"All The Gifts of The Holy Ghost are distributed by Mary to those whom she chooses, whenever she wishes and as much as she wishes", says Saint Bernadine of Siena.
The Graces, which The Holy Ghost pours down on us, are due to The Merits of Christ on Calvary; but in order that God may bestow them on the World, it is necessary that Mary should intervene. Having co-operated by her Divine Maternity and by her sufferings at The Foot of The Cross in The Incarnation and Redemption, she has deserved to co-operate when they are continually applied to creatures by The Most High,
"By The Communion of Sorrows and of Will, between Christ and Mary," says Pope Saint Pius X, "she has deserved to become the dispenser of all the Blessings which Jesus acquired for us by His Blood" (Encyclical, 2 February 1904).
Such is His Will, but it is essential that she should constantly intercede for each one of us. This, she does, relying on The Blood of Christ, by Whom she was herself saved, and Who alone saves us. This actual intervention of Mary plays a preponderating part in The Salvation of The World. It is important that we should realise this, and it is the object of The Feast of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces. A clear idea of the fact may be obtained by simply reading the Texts of The Mass and Vespers.
"Through The Virgin," says Saint Bernadine of Siena, "Life-Giving Graces flow from Christ, Who is The Head, into His Mystical Body"."Through her," adds Saint Antoninus, "come from Heaven all The Graces granted to The World." "What all The Saints united to thee may obtain for us by their Intercession," writes Saint Anselm, "thy pleading, alone, may obtain without the help of their Prayers."
The Maternal Solicitude of Mary, for The Whole Human Race, is therefore continual, and it is because of this that, unceasingly, through The Mass, The Sacraments, the hierarchy and other channels of Grace, The Merits of Calvary are applied to our Souls. "We may affirm," declares Pope Leo XIII, "that, by The Will of God, nothing is given to us without Mary's Mediation, in such a way that, just as no-one can approach The Almighty Father but through His Son, so no-one, so to speak, can approach Christ but through His Mother." (Encyclical, 22 September 1891.)
Let us therefore not consider as of small importance the efforts made to establish this point of Doctrine of Mary's Mediation, since this Doctrine enables us to understand The Divine Plan, and clearly manifests The Mediation of The Son of God, of which it is a corollary.
Mass: Adeamus.
Creed.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin: Et te in festivitáte.
The Solemn Celebration of this Feast is, in some places, observed on the following Sunday.
After the Dogma of The Holy Trinity, The Holy Ghost reminds us of the Dogma of The Incarnation of Our Lord, in Celebrating with The Church the greatest of all Sacraments, summing up the whole Life of The Redeemer, giving Infinite Glory to God and applying The Fruits of The Redemption at all times to ourselves (Collect).
It was on The Cross that Our Lord redeemed us, and The Holy Eucharist, instituted on the night before Our Lord's Passion, remains its Memorial (Collect). The Altar is the extension of Calvary ["The Celebration of The Mass has the same value as The Death of Jesus Christ on The Cross", Saint John Chrysostom.]; The Mass "shows The Death of The Lord" (Epistle).
Jesus is there in the State of a Victim, for the words of the Double Consecration mean only that the Bread is changed into The Body of Christ and the Wine into His Blood. On account of this double action with different effects, which constitutes The Sacrifice of The Mass, we are entitled to speak of Our Lord's Presence, under the appearance of Bread, as that of The Body of Christ, although, since He can die no more, the whole Christ is there contained; similarly, we may speak of the Presence under the appearance of Wine as that of His Blood, although He is contained there whole and entire.
"The Eucharist in a Fruit Wreath ",
by Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1648,
(from the Blog "Ars Orandi: The Art and Beauty
of Traditional Catholicism")
Through His Priests, Our Lord, Himself, The Principal Priest of The Mass, offers in an unbloody manner His Body and Blood, Which were really separated on The Cross, but, on the Altar only in a representative or Sacramental sense, the matter and words used and the effect produced being different in the two Consecrations.
Besides, The Eucharist was instituted under the form of food (Alleluia), that we may be united with The Victim of Calvary, so that The Sacred Host becomes the "wheat" which feeds our Souls (Introit).
THE SEQUENCE FOR CORPUS CHRISTI.
Solemnity of The Body and Blood of Christ.
Holy Mass, Procession to Saint Mary Major
and Eucharistic Blessing.
Basilica of Saint John Lateran, 23 June 2011.
Solennità del Santissimo Corpo e Sangue di Cristo.
Santa Messa, Processione a Santa Maria Maggiore
e Benedizione Eucaristica.
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, 23 Giugno 2011.
Moreover, Christ, as The Son of God, receives The Eternal Life of The Father; in the same way, Christians share in that Eternal Life by uniting themselves to Christ, through The Sacrament, which is the symbol of unity (Secret), and this possession of The Divine Life, already realised on Earth through The Eucharist, is the pledge and the beginning of that in which we shall fully rejoice in Heaven (Postcommunion). As The Council of Trent puts it: "That same Heavenly Bread that we eat now, under the Sacred Veils, we shall feed upon in Heaven without Veil."
We should regard The Mass as The Centre of all Eucharistic Worship, seeing in Holy Communion the means instituted by Our Lord to enable us to share more fully in this Divine Sacrifice. In this way, our Devotion to Our Lord's Body and Blood will effectively obtain for us The Fruits of His Redemption (Collect).
Concerning the Procession, which regularly should follow The Mass, we remember how the Israelites revered The Ark of The Covenant, which was the Presence of God among them. When they carried on their victorious marches, the Ark went before, borne by the Levites in the midst of a cloud of incense, accompanied by the sound of musical instruments and of the songs and shouts of the multitude.
We Christians have a treasure far more precious, for, in The Eucharist, we possess God Himself. Let us feel a holy pride in forming His Escort and extolling His Triumphs, while He is in our midst.
Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Cibávit eos.
Sequence: Lauda Sion.
Preface: Of Christmas. Also, throughout The Octave.
Regularly, The Sacred Host, carried in The Procession, has been Consecrated in The Mass and exposed in The Monstrance immediately after The Communion of the Priest.
Sometimes, however, The Procession is a separate function in the afternoon.
Capilla de Música de la Catedral de Pamplona: "Sacris Solemnis".
When the Priest leaves the Altar, the Choristers intone the Vesper Hymn Pange Lingua. If time allows, other Eucharistic Hymns are also sung, to be found among The Benediction Hymns, e.g: Sacris Solemniis and Verbum Supernum. Also, the Hymns for The Ascension, Salutis Humanae, the Canticles Benedictus or Magnificat. On the return of The Procession, The Te Deum is usually sung.
When the Celebrant is arrived at the Altar, the Choristers intone the Tantum Ergo and Benediction is given.
Our Society will be sponsoring a Solemn Mass at Saint Agnes Church, in Brooklyn, New York, for The Feast of Saint Joan of Arc, on Wednesday, 30 May 2018. at 7 p.m.
A historic Church, lovingly called the “Cathedral of Brooklyn,” by locals, Saint Agnes is located at 433 Sackett Street, in Carroll Gardens. This will be the first Traditional Mass in this Church since The Second Vatican Council.
The F and G Trains, and the B57 Buses, are a short walk from the Church, on the next street over (Smith Street).
