OCD Memorial

 

(In addition, in 2004, John Paul II the Great, reminded us: "According to an

old tradition, today (Sept. 12) is celebrated the feast of the Name of

Mary."

 

Born in 1560 at Tartanedo (Spain) she took the Discalced Carmelite habit at

Toledo in 1577 and made her profession the following year.  She spent the

rest of her life serving God in that Carmel, except for a brief period in

1585 when she helped with a foundation at Cuerva.  She died at Toledo on

Sept. 13, 1640.  St. Teresa of Jesus thought extremely highly of her.  She

was a great contemplative, intensely devoted to our Lord, and often drawing

inspiration from the liturgy.

 

From the Common of Virgins

 

Office of Readings

Second Reading

 

A reading from Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Jesus

 

What I mean by meditation is to busy one's understanding in the following

way.  We begin to think about God's goodness to us in giving us His only

Son, but we don't stop

there:  we go on to all the other mysteries of His glorious life.  Or we

begin with His prayer in the garden, and our understanding doesn't stop

until we picture Him nailed to the cross.  Or we take a single scene from

the passion, and go on thinking about that one mystery, working out in

detain everything that can be thought or felt about it.  It is a very

admirable and meritorious kind of prayer.

 

No soul that has received so much from God, such precious proofs of His

love, can forget them.  They are live sparks that can only intensify what we

feel for our Lord.

Anyone who says he can't dwell on these mysteries is quite mistaken.  He

will often have them in mind, especially when they are being celebrated by

the Catholic Church.

 

The company of our beloved Jesus, and His blessed Mother, is far too good to

be given up.  For my own part I could not wish for any blessing that had not

been won for us by Him, through whom every good thing comes to us.

 

Our Lord said Himself, "No one can come to the Father except through me,"

and "Whoever sees me, sees my Father."  So if we never look at Him, or think

about what we owe Him and the death He underwent for our sake, I don't see

how we can hope to know Him or do anything to serve Him.  (Without such good

works, what good is faith?  And what good are works unless they are joined

to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good, which alone have any

worth?)  And how can anyone persuade us to love our Lord?

 

 

Responsory

R/.  Let your hearts be comforted in the knowledge of Christ, God's mystery:

*in Him lies hidden every treasure of wisdom and knowledge.

V/.  You must live in Him, be rooted in Him, built up on Him; * in Him lies

hidden every treasure of wisdom and knowledge.

 

Canticle of Zechariah

Blessed be God, Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing.

 

Prayer

Lord,

You enabled Bl. Mary of Jesus

to contemplate the mysteries of Your Son and become a living image of His

love.

Give us through her prayers

the burning faith to seek Jesus in all things and the love to prove by our

actions the presence within us of Him Who lives and reigns with You and the

Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

 

Canticle of Mary

If you gladly share Christ's sufferings, you will have far greater joy when

His glory is revealed.

 

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for Mass

 

 

Entrance Antiphon

Come, bride of Christ, and receive the crown, which the Lord has prepared

for you for ever.

 

Opening Prayer

(same as above)

 

Prayer over the Gifts

Lord,

receive our worship in memory of

Bl. Mary of Jesus, the virgin.

By this perfect sacrifice

make us grow in unselfish love for You

and for our brothers and sisters.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

 

Communion Antiphon

Whoever loves Me will be loved by my Father.  We shall come to Him and make

our home with Him.

 

Prayer after Communion

Almighty God,

may we who are strengthened by the power of this sacrament learn from the

example of Bl. Mary of Jesus to seek You above all things and to live in

this world as your new creation.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

 

First Reading

Romans 8: 31-39

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not

also give us all things with him?  Who shall bring any charge against God's

elect? It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who

died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God,

who indeed intercedes for us?  Who shall separate us from the love of

Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or

nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, "For thy sake we are being

killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."  No,

in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,

nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth,

nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love

of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Responsorial Psalm

R/. Taste and see that the Lord is good.

I will bless the Lord at all times,

His praise always on my lips;

in the Lord my soul shall make its boast.

The humble shall hear and be glad.  R/.

 

Glorify the Lord with me.

Together let us praise His name.

I sought the Lord and He answered me;

from all my terror He set me free.  R/.

 

Look towards Him and be radiant;

let your faces not be abashed.

This poor man called; the Lord heard him and rescued him from all his

distress.  R/.

 

The angel of the Lord is encamped

around those who revere Him, to rescue them.

Taste and see that the Lord is good.

He is happy who seeks refuge in Him.  R/.

 

Revere the Lord, you His saints.

They lack nothing, those who revere Him.

Strong lions suffer want and go hungry

but those who fear the Lord lack no blessing. R/.

 

Gospel

John 14: 13-21

Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified

in the Son; if you ask anything in my name, I will do it.

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father,

and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the

Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him

nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you. "I

will not leave you desolate; I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the

world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will

live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me,

and I in you.

He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who

loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself

to him."