Salve, Regina, Mater Misericordiae.
The memorial to the Blessed Virgin on Saturday are privileged votive masses that have a long
and venerable tradition in the church and is a custom that is widespread throughout
the church from the Middle Ages onward.
In some places like England, it was not only on Saturday but every day that the votive
mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin was offered.
The so-called Lady Mass was a mass that was offered very early every morning for working
people, working men.
Before the conventional mass that was offered at the main altar, there was either a side
chapel or a side altar, which was called the Lady Chapel or the Lady Altar, where this
mass was offered.
Even here in America, sometimes in large cathedrals such as St. Patrick's in New York, there's
the so-called Lady Mass.
There's a so-called Lady Chapel behind the main sanctuary, which is a sort of a holdover
from that tradition, but they had a separate altar, in fact, where the Mass of the Blessed
Virgin was celebrated every day.
So the church turned and continues to turn to the Blessed Mother for strength and protection
on her people.
In a particular way, however, though, the Saturday votive mass in honor of the Blessed
Virgin is in one way we could look at it as a kind of preparation for Sunday.
Saturday is the vigil of Sunday, and Sunday is the celebration of the Resurrection.
So every Saturday is a little holy Saturday that we remember, we live to remember, the
passion of our Lord in preparation for the celebration of the Resurrection.
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for the celebration of easter and in a particular way we call to mind and invoke
our lady's faith the faith by which she waited for the resurrection
in the lesson today from ecclesiasticus we hear about wisdom and in the liturgy these passages
about wisdom are applied to our lady and it says i rested and my power was in jerusalem and
in this we think about how our lady was there at the foot of the cross in a preeminent way
not simply as a bystander but as the one that our lord had called to share in his suffering
in a unique way and to offer his sacrifice with him to the father
and how she
gathered with the apostles or perhaps we could say more more accurately that she gathered the
apostles around her in the cenacle and waited for the resurrection and was blessed by god
for her faith you know at the end of the stations of the cross we um we end with the um
the entombment of our lord and uh
and the idea is that after we've gone through this remembrance of what our lord has done for
us and have seen the horror of sin and the sorrow of his suffering that even though he is buried
and no longer alive we are with our lady and we are waiting for the coming of his power
on on easter and a lot of our lives are like that a lot of the time during our life is a kind of a
waiting period a vigil for the coming of our lord in power and we do this also in the holy sacrifice
the mass but we also experience the transformation of the resurrection and the power of the
resurrection that is here to transform our souls so we're always invoking our lady we're asking her
to be present we're asking her to allow us to have her dispositions to have her heart you know to have
our hearts toται are blessed so deeply i was so happy by the way resilient wise i was clarity
i was very spiritual much like when people'a little bit scared by things that they get
thoughts of what this is going to happen around when they getesten and those things that that
they're going to be affected by and and you know she just uh who i want to say thank you
rest in justice and�ento amen
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mother of the church, and her pilgrimage of faith must become our pilgrimage of faith
as we wait for our Lord and rejoice in his coming.
Amen.