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Saint Pius V gave Mary the title: "Help of Christians," after the
victory of the Christian fleet over the Turks at Lepanto on October 7,
1571, and he added this invocation to her litany. When Pius VII returned
to Rome on May 24, 1814, after spending five years of exile and
captivity, he established the Feast of Our Lady, Helper of the Papal
States.
The invocation of Mary as Help of Christians is part of the oldest
prayer addressed directly to Mary, the "Sub tuum praesidium," which was
found on a papyrus dating, at the latest, from the end of the third
century. This prayer was composed at a time of great danger for
Christians and for the Church. "Praesidium" is translated as "an
assistance given in time of war by fresh troops in a strong manner."
INTROIT Isa. 48:20
Declare
it with the voice of joy and let it be heard, alleluia! Announce it to
th eends of the earth: the Lord has delivered His people, alleluia,
alleluia!
Ps. 65:1-2. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth; sing a psalm to the glory of His name; proclaim His glorious praise.
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
O
God, the source of all good, grant us Your inspiration that we may have
proper thoughts, and Your guidance that we may carry them into
practice. Through Our Lord . . .
Commemoration of OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
O Almighty and merciful God, who didst wondrously appoint the most Blessed Virgin perpetual help for Christians in need of protection, grant in Thy mercy that after battling in life under such a protectress, we may be able to conquer our enemy at death.
Commemoration of ROGATION DAY 2
Grant,
we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that we, who in our affliction put our
trust in Thy mercy, may ever be defended by the protection against all
adversity. Through our Lord . . .
EPISTLE James 1:22-27
Beloved:
But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be
compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. For he
beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man
he was. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath
continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the
work: this man shall be blessed in his deed. And if any man think
himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own
heart, this man's religion is vain. Religion clean and undefiled before
God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their
tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
Alleluia, alleluia!
V. Christ has risen and has given light to us, whom He redeemed with His Blood. Alleluia!
V. John 16:28. I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father. Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 16:23-30
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: "Amen,
amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will
give it you. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask,
and you shall receive; that your joy may be full. "These
things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no
longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the
Father. In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that
I will ask the Father for you. For the Father himself loveth you,
because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God. I
came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the
world and I go to the Father."
His
disciples say to him: "Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest
no proverb. Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest
not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest
forth from God."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 65:8-9, 20
Bless
the Lord our God, you nations; loudly sound His praise. he has given
life to my soul, and has not let my feet falter. Blessed be the Lord who
has not refused my prayer nor His mercy to me, alleluia!
SECRET
Accept
the prayers and offering of the faithful, O Lord, and let our love and
devotion lead us to the glory of heaven. Through our Lord . . .
Commemoration of OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
For the triumph of the Christian faith we immolate to Thee, O
Lord, these victims of propitiation; may the Blessed Virgin's help
render them of profit to us, for such a perfect victory ever comes
through her.
Commemoration of ROGATION DAY 2
May
these oblations, O Lord, we beseech Thee, loosen the bonds of our
wickedness, and obtain for us the gifts of Thy mercy. Through our Lord .
. .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ps. 95:2
Sing to the Lord, alleluia! Sing to the Lord, and bless His name; announce His salvation day after day, alleluia, alleluia!
POSTCOMMUNION
Grant
that we, who have been fed at Your Heavenly Banquet, O Lord, may desire
only what is right and that we may fulfill these holy desires. Through
Our Lord . . .
Commemoration of OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
After refreshing Thy people with a participation of Thy Body and
Blood, O Lord, come to their aid, so that with the help of Thy Blessed
Mother they may be freed from all evil and danger, and preserved in good
works; Who livest and reignest . . .
Commemoration of ROGATION DAY 2
Favorably receive our prayers, O Lord, we beseech Thee; may we in our distress be consoled by Thy gifts and grow in love accordingly. Through our Lord . . .
SAINT JOANNA
Facts
Brothers of a Roman-Gallo noble family of Nantes, France. Donatian was arrested and soon joined by Rogatian. They were tortured and beheaded by Pictovarius under co-Emperor Diocletian.
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