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Our Lady of Ransom | 1962 Missal | Traditional Latin Mass Readings | 09/24/2026 · Vox Liturgica

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  Vox Liturgica: The propers of the day according to the 1962 Roman Missal. The feast of Our Lady of Ransom, September 24 in the year of our Lord 2026. Of today's feast, Dom Gaspar Lefevre writes, the blessed virgin appeared in the thirteenth century to Saint Peter in Alaska to Saint Raymond of Penafort and to James King of Aragon requesting them to found a religious institute with the object of delivering Christian captives from the barbarous Saracens who then held a great part of Spain. In consequence, on 08/10/1218, King James established by decree the royal military and religious order of Our Lady of Ransom and granted to its members the privilege of bearing on their breasts his own arms. Most of them were knights.
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  And while the clerics recited divine office in the commanderies, they guarded the coasts and delivered prisoners. This pious work spread everywhere and produced heroes of sanctity and men of incomparable charity and piety who devoted themselves to the collection of alms for the ransom of Christians and who often gave themselves up as ransoms to deliver captives. This feast originally kept by the order was extended to the whole church by innocent the twelfth in the seventeenth century. In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen.
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  The introit. Hail holy mother who did spring forth the king who rule of heaven and earth forever and ever. My heart hath uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. Glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy ghost as it was in the beginning is now and will be through all ages of ages.
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  Amen. Hail holy mother who did spring forth the king who rule of heaven and earth forever and ever. The Collect Let us pray. O God, for the deliverance of Christians from the power of the heathen was pleased through the glorious mother of thy son to enrich the church with a new family. We pray thee grant that we who devoutly venerate her as the founders of this great work may likewise be delivered by her merits and intercession from all our sins and from bondage to the power of hell through the same Jesus Christ, thy son, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages.
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  Amen. A lesson from the wisdom of Sirach. At the beginning of time, before the world was, I was created, and to all eternity I shall not cease to be, mine to minister before him in his holy dwelling. So according to his word, I made Zion my stronghold, the holy city my resting place, Jerusalem my throne, my roots spread out among the people that enjoy his favor. My God has granted me a share in his own domain where his faithful servants are gathered.
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  There I love to linger. The gradual. Blessed and venerable art thou, O Virgin Mary, who without loss of purity wart found to be the mother of our savior. Virgin mother of God, he whom the whole world cannot hold, enclosed himself in thy womb and became man. Alleluia.
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  Alleluia. After his birth, a virgin entire thou didst remain. O mother of God, intercede for us. Alleluia. A continuation of the holy gospel according to Luke.
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  At that time Jesus was speaking to the crowd, a woman in the multitude said to him aloud, blessed is the womb that bore thee, the breast which thou hast sucked. And he said, shall we not say blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it? The Offeratory. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
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  The secret by thy gracious mercy, O Lord, in the intercession of blessed Mary ever Virgin, may this offering be of avail to us for welfare and peace now and forevermore through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages. Amen. The preface of Our Lady. 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 in the festivity of blessed Mary ever virgin, who also conceived thine only begotten son by the overshadowing 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 dominions worship it, The power stand in awe. The heavens and the heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it.
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  Together with them we entreat thee that thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted while we say with humble praise. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. The heavens and the earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
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  Hosanna in the highest. The communion. Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary which bore the son of the eternal father. The post communion. Let us pray.
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  Having received, o Lord, these aids unto salvation, grant we beseech thee that we may be everywhere protected by the intercession of blessed Mary ever virgin in whose honor we have offered this sacrifice to thy majesty through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages. Amen. In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
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  Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.