A cloudy morning as we approach...

The astronomers' calculated hour of sunrise; Eos is sulking behind the clouds and no Phoebus is in sight, tsk. Today is the feast of Saint Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus, of Lisieux; this was yesterday the occasion of a certain vexation because I got her feast today, in the Traditional Rite, confused with her feast on Saturday, in the Pauline Rite. Some of this has to do with the fact that since I'm usually thinking about the Martyrology at Prime for tomorrow which I am none the less reading and typing about two days previously for this my corner of the Interwebz-- it confuses me even to try to write it out-- and of course some was just my general haziness, ha, particularly that certain haziness that sometimes perdures even after the Office in the early morning but before my first cup of tea. Holy Mass is Veni de Libano-- am not sure of my dates here (beyond the fact that the petite Thérèse died in 1897) but I suspect that it's not in the 1920 Missal, tsk, so very convenient for copying/pasting. I see that she was beatified in 1923 and canonised in 1925, thus don't even have to open the 1920 pdf. 





Dr Ratovondrahety is at the organ this morning and M. l'Abbé Grodzisky appears to be the celebrant.


Introitus. Cant. 4, 8-9. Veni de Líbano, sponsa mea, veni de Líbano, veni : vulnerásti cor meum, soror mea sponsa, vulnerásti cor meum. Ps 112, 1. Laudáte, púeri, Dóminum : laudáte nomen Dómini. V/. Glória Patri.





Collecta. Dómine, qui dixisti : Nisi efficiámini sicut párvuli, non intrábitis in regnum cælórum : da nobis, quǽsumus : ita sanctæ Teresiæ Vírginis in humilitáte et simplicitáte cordis vestígia sectári, ut prǽmia consequámur ætérna. Qui vivis. 

Léctio Isaíæ Prophétæ. Is. 66, 12-14. Hæc dicit Dóminus : Ecce, ego declinábo super eam quasi flúvium pacis, et quasi torréntem inundántem glóriam géntium, quam sugétis : ad úbera portabímini, et super génua blandiéntur vobis. Quómodo si cui mater blandiátur, ita ego consolábor vos, et in Ierúsalem consolabímini. Vidébitis, et gaudébit cor vestrum, et ossa vestra quasi herba germinábunt, et cognoscétur manus Dómini servis eius. 

Graduale. Matth. 11, 25. Confíteor tibi, Pater, Dómine cæli et terræ, quia abscondísti hæc a sapiéntibus, et prudéntibus, et revelásti ea párvulis. V/. Ps. 70, 5. Dómine, spes mea a iuventúte mea.



 

Allelúia, allelúia. Eccli. 39, 17-19. Quasi rosa plantáta super rivos aquárum fructificate : quasi Libanus odórem suavitátis habete : florete, flores, quasi lílium, et date odórem, et frondete in grátiam, et collaudate cánticum, et benedicite Dóminum in opéribus suis. Allelúia. 





+ Sequéntia sancti Evangélii secundum Matthǽum. Matth. 18, 1-4. In illo témpore: Accessérunt discípuli ad Iesum, dicéntes : Quis, putas, maior est in regno cælórum ? Et advocans Iesus párvulum, státuit eum in médio eórum, et dixit ; Amen, dico vobis, nisi convérsi fuéritis, et efficiámini sicut párvuli, non intrábitis in regnum cælorum. Quicúmque ergo humiliáverit se sicut párvulus iste, hic est maior in regno caelorum.

Offertorium. Luc. 1, 46-48 et 49. Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum : et exsultávit spíritus meus in Deo salutári meo : quia respéxit humilitátem ancíllæ suæ : fecit mihi magna qui potens est. 





Secreta. Sacrifícium nostrum tibi, Dómine, quǽsumus, sanctæ Terésiæ Vírginis tuæ precátio sancta concíliet : ut, in cuius honóre sollémniter exhibétur, eius méritis efficiátur accéptum. Per Dóminum. 

Communio. Deut. 32, 10-12. Circumdúxit eam, et dócuit : et custodívit quasi pupíllam óculi sui. Sicut aquila expándit alas suas, et assúmpsit eam, atque portávit in húmeris suis. Dóminus solus dux eius fuit. 





Postcommunio. Illo nos, Dómine amóris igne cæléste mystérium inflámmet : quo sancta Teresia Virgo tua se tibi pro homínibus caritátis víctimam devóvit. Per Dóminum.

I don't know why M. l'Abbé didn't say the Leonine Prayers after Mass; perhaps in the French way of looking at things, the organ playing throughout and the Salve Regina sung at the Last Gospel made this not-quite-a-low-Mass. This is just idle curiosity on my part of course.







LDVM


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