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The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 1962 Missal | Latin Mass Readings | 8/22/2026 · Vox Liturgica

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  Vox Liturgica: The propers of the day according to the 1962 Roman Missal. The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 22 in the year year of our Lord 2026.
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  Although today in the 1962 Missal, the feast is of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the commentary presented is an abridged version of Dom Gueranger's writing on the Octave Day of the Assumption. The proppers for that Mass can be heard in the episode for the pre-nineteen fifty five Missal. An unabridged reading of Garenge's commentary can also be found in a separate video both of which are linked in the description.
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  He alone who could understand Mary's holiness could appreciate her glory. But wisdom who presided over the formation of the abyss has not revealed to us the depth of that ocean beside which all the virtues of the just and all the graces lavished upon them are but streamlets. Nevertheless, the immensity of grace and merit whereby the Blessed Virgin's supernatural perfection stands quite apart from all others gives us a right to conclude that she has an equal superiminence in glory which is always proportioned to the sanctity of the elect. Whereas all the other predestined of our race are placed among the various ranks of the celestial hierarchy, the holy mother of God is exalted above all the choirs forming by herself a distinct order, a new heaven where the harmonies of angels and saints are far surpassed. In Mary, God is more glorified, better known, more loved than in all the rest of the universe.
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  On this ground alone according to the order of creative providence which subordinates the less to the more perfect Mary is entitled to be queen of earth and heaven. In this sense it is for her next to the man God that the world exists. As mother of God and at the same time his firstborn she had a right and title over his goods. As bride she ought to share his crown. The glorious Virgin says Saint Bernardine of Siena has as many subjects as the Blessed Trinity has.
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  Every creature whatever be its rank in creation spiritual as the angels, rational as man, material as the heavenly bodies or the elements, heaven and earth, the reprobate in the blessed, all that springs from the power of God is subject to the Virgin. For he who is the Son of God and of the Blessed Virgin wishing so to say to make his mother's principality in some sort equal to his father's became God as he is the servant of Mary. If then it be true to say that everyone even the Virgin obeys God We may also convert the proposition and affirm that everyone, even God, obeys the Virgin. The Empire of Eternal Wisdom comprises, so the Holy Spirit tells us, the heavens, the earth, and the abyss. The same then is the appendage of Mary on this her crowning day.
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  Like the divine wisdom to whom she gave flesh, she may glory in God. He whose magnificence she once chanted today exalts her humility. The blessed one by excellence has become the honor of her people, the admiration of the saints, the glory of the armies of the most high. Together with the spouse, let her in her beauty march to victory. Let her triumph over the hearts of the mighty and the lowly.
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  The giving of the world's scepter into her hands is no mere honor void of reality. From this day forward she commands and fights, protects the church, defends its head, upholds the ranks of the sacred militia, raises up saints, directs apostles, enlightens doctors, exterminates heresy, crushes hell. Let us hail our queen. Let us sing her mighty deeds. Let us be docile to her.
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  Above all let us love her and trust in her love. Let us not fear that amidst the great interests of the spreading of God's kingdom she will forget our littleness or our miseries. She knows all that takes place in the obscure corners in the furthest limits of her immense domain. From her title of universal cause under the Lord is rightly deduced the universality of her providence. Her charity could not possibly be defective as her love of God surpasses the love of all the elect.
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  So the tenderness of all mothers united centered upon an only child is nothing to the love wherewith Mary surrounds the least, the most forgotten, the most neglected of all the children of God who are her children too. In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. The introit. Let us come boldly before the throne of grace to meet with mercy and win that grace which will help us in our needs.
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  Joyful are the thoughts that well up from my heart, a king's honor for my theme. 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. Amen. Let us come boldly before the throne of grace to meet with mercy and win that grace which will help us in our needs. The Collect, let us pray.
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  Almighty everlasting God, who didst prepare a worthy dwelling place for the Holy Ghost in the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant us this grace that in devoutly keeping the feast of her Immaculate Heart, we may have strength to live according to thy heart's desire. A commemoration of many martyrs. O Lord, we beseech thee, mercifully lend us thy help and through the intercession of thy blessed martyrs, Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, stretch over us the right hand of thy indulgence. 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.
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  A lesson from the wisdom of Sirach. No vine ever yielded fruit so fragrant. The enjoyment of honor and riches is the fruit I bear. It is I that give birth to all noble loving, all reverence, all true knowledge in the holy gift of hope. From me comes every grace of faithful observance.
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  From me all promise of life and vigor. Hither turn your steps all you that have learned to long for me. Take your fill of the increase I yield. Never was honey so sweet as the influence I inspire. Never honeycomb as the gift I bring.
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  Mine is a renowned that endures age after age. Eat of this fruit and you will yet hunger for more. Drink of this wine and your thirst for it is still unquenched. He who listens to me will never be disappointed. He who lives by me will do no wrong.
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  He who reads my lesson aright will find in it life eternal. The gradual, mine is the heart to triumph when thou wilt grant redress. Then my song shall be of the goodness the Lord has shown me. My psalm shall praise the name of the Lord, the most high. While time lasts, thy name will never be forgotten.
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  Nations will do the honor age after age. Alleluia. Alleluia. My soul magnifies the Lord. My spirit has found joy in God who is my savior.
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  Alleluia. A continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke. At that time Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his mother's sister Mary, the wife of Clopus, and Mary Magdalene had taken their stand beside the cross of Jesus. And Jesus seeing his mother there and the disciple too whom he loved standing by said to his mother, woman, this is thy son. Then he said to the disciple, this is thy mother.
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  And from that hour, the disciple took her into his own keeping. The Offeratory My spirit has found joy in God who is my savior because he who is mighty, he whose name is holy, has wrought for me his wonders. The secret. Lord, as we offer to thy majesty the lamb without blemish, we pray that our hearts may be kindled by that divine fire which burned so marvelously in the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary 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. Amen.
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  A commemoration of Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian. May this sacrifice of thy dedicated people be accepted by thee, O Lord, in honor of thy saints, to whose merits we attribute the help afforded us in tribulation. 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.
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  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 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 humble praise. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts.
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  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. Hosanna in the highest. The communion.
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  Jesus said to his mother, woman, this is thy son. Then he said to the disciple, this is thy mother. The post communion. Let us pray. Refreshed by thy divine gifts, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord, that we who have kept the worshipful feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary may by her intercession be delivered from present dangers and attain the joys of everlasting life.
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  A commemoration of many martyrs. We who are filled with the bounty of this divine gift beseech thee, O Lord our God, that through the intercession of thy holy martyrs Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, we may partake thereof 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. In the name of the Father, and of the son and of the holy ghost. Amen.
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  And Mary said, my soul magnifies the Lord. My spirit has found joy in God who is my savior because he has looked graciously upon the lowliness of his handmaid. Behold, from this day forward all generations will count me blessed because he who is mighty, he whose name is holy, has wrought for me his wonders. He has mercy upon those who fear him from generation unto generation. He has done valiantly with the strength of his arm driving the proud astray in the conceit of their hearts.
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  He has put down the mighty from their seat and exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty handed. He has protected his servant Israel keeping his merciful design in remembrance according to the promise which he made to our forefathers, Abraham, and his posterity forever more. Amen. Saint Timothy, pray for us.
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  Saint Hippolytus, pray for us. Saint Symphorian, pray for us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.