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| English: A more recent and accurate picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Taken in 2009 using my own Camera, approved by the Parish at Saint Alphonse in Roma, Italia. 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Today is the Traditional Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help which can be said in place of the Feria Mass. In the thirteenth century, a beautiful picture of Our Lady holding the Child Jesus, with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel on
either side of her, was painted in the East. In the fifteenth century,
this picture was brought from the Island of Crete and was taken to Rome.
It was placed in the Church of Saint Matthew in Rome. There, for three
hundred years, pilgrims came to reverence and pray before this holy
picture, because everyone loved its simplicity, its beauty and its
truth. After the French Revolution, when the vicious Napoleon desecrated
thirty Catholic Churches in Rome, this precious picture of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help was hidden away, but it was rediscovered in 1862.
It was then placed in the Church of Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori,
founder of the Redemptorist Order, in Rome, where it is now kept. The
purpose of this lovely picture is by way of simple and innocent symbol
to teach us that
Our Lady is our help in all things, and our help at all times.
Many Catholic churches in all countries are called by the name, Our
Lady of Perpetual Help.
- Resources: We are grateful to Friends of Our Lady of Fatima for providing the Propers for the faithful. Sources: Saint Andrew Daily Missal and the Marian Missal , 1945
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us all rejoice in the Lord, celebrating a feast in honor of the
Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary: at whose solemnity the angels
rejoice and join in praising the Son of God (Ps. 44: 2) My heart hath uttered a good word; I speak my works to the King. v. Glory
be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the
beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. RepeatLet us all rejoice... | ||||||
| The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit.Let us pray. Almighty
and merciful God, Who hast given us a picture of Thy most blessed
Mother to venerate under the special title of Perpetual Succor,
mercifully grant us to be so fortified, among all the vicissitudes of
this wayfaring life, by the protection of the same immaculate, ever Virgin Mary, that we may deserve to attain the rewards of Thine
everlasting redemption. Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in
the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. R.Amen. | ||||||
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| Lesson
from the Book of Wisdom. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant
odor, and my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches. I am the mother
of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is
all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of
virtue. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my
fruits; for my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above
honey and the honeycomb. My memory is unto everlasting generations. They
that eat me, shall yet hunger; and they that drink me, shall yet
thirst. He that hearkeneth to me shall not be confounded, and they that
work by me shall not sin. They that explain me shall have life
everlasting. Thanks be to God. | ||||||
| Thou art all lovely and sweet, O daughter of Sion, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army in battle array. V. (Judith 13: 22) The Lord hath blessed thee by His power, because by thee He hath brought to naught our enemies. Alleluia, alleluia. V. (Luke 1: 28) Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women. Alleluia. | ||||||
| The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. The continuation of the holy Gospel according to John. R. Glory to Thee, O Lord Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen His mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, He saith to His mother: "Woman, behold thy son." After that, He saith to the disciple: "Behold thy mother." And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. Praise be to Christ | ||||||
| The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Remember, O Virgin Mother, that thou speak good things for us in the sight of God, that He turn away His wrath from us. | ||||||
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Thy clemency, O Lord, and the intercession of blessed Mary, ever a
virgin, may this oblation profit us unto eternal and also present well
being and peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord, Who
liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God Forever and ever. R.Amen. O Lord, look with favor upon the offerings of Your Church as she prays to You. Bless these gifts, that the faithful who receive them may attain salvation. Through our Lord . . . | ||||||
| The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts. R.We have lifted them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. R. It is meet and just. It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God and that we should praise and bless, and proclaim Thee, on the Visitation of the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin: Who also conceived Thine only-begotten Son by the over-shadowing of the Holy Ghost, and the glory of her virginity still abiding, gave forth to the world the everlasting light, Jesus Christ our Lord. Through whom the angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, and the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the Heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with them we entreat Thee, that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted, while we say with lowly praise: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY... | ||||||
| O Mary, ever Virgin, who because of thy great worth, God set up as Queen of the whole world, pray for our peace and salvation, for Thou hast brought forth Christ the Lord, the Savior of us all. | |||||
| The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. May the august intercession of Mary, Thy glorious Mother, ever a virgin, help us, O Lord, that those whom it hath heaped with benefits it may deliver from all peril and by her tender kindness, make to be of one mind. Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, For ever and ever. R. Amen. | ||||||
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