LITURGICAL READINGS FOR THE FEAST OF MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY

 

THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY SEPTEMEBR 12

Liturgical Colour: White.

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON cf. JUDITH 13: 18-19

Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, by the Lord God Most High, above all women on the earth; for he has so exalted your name that your praise shall be undying on our lips.

COLLECT

Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, for all who celebrate the glorious Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she may obtain your merciful favour. Through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

EITHER:

FIRST READING GALATIANS 4:4-7

When the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted as sons. The proof that you are sons is that God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries, Abba, Father, and it is this that makes you a son, you are not a slave any more; and if God has made you son, then he has made you heir.

OR:

Alternative First reading

EPHESIANS 1:3-6,11-12

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Christ. Before the world was made, he chose us, chose us in Christ, to be holy and spotless, and to live through love in his presence, determining that we should become his adopted sons, through Jesus Christ for his own kind purposes, to make us praise the glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved, And it is in him that we were claimed as Gods own, chosen from the beginning, under the predetermined plan of the one who guides all things as he decides by his own will; chosen to be, for his greater glory, the people who would put their hopes in Christ before he came.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM LUKE 1:46-55

Response: The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy is his name!

or

Response: Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

My soul glorifies the Lord,

my spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.

Response: The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy is his name!

or

Response: Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

He looks on his servant in her nothingness;

henceforth all ages will call me blessed.

The Almighty works marvels for me.

Holy his name!

Response: The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy is his name!

or

Response: Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

His mercy is from age to age,

on those who fear him.

He puts forth his arm in strength

and scatters the proud-hearted.

Response: The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy is his name!

or

Response: Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

He casts the mighty from their thrones

and raises the lowly.

He fills the starving with good things,

sends the rich away empty.

Response: The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy is his name!

or

Response: Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

He protects Israel, his servant,

remembering his mercy,

the mercy promised to our fathers,

to Abraham and his sons for ever.

Response: The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy is his name!

or

Response: Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION cf. LUKE 1:28

Alleluia, alleluia! Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Blessed art thou among women. Alleluia!

OR cf. LUKE 1:45

Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled. Alleluia!

OR cf. LUKE 2:19

Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who treasured the word of God and pondered it in her heart. Alleluia!

OR LUKE 11:28

Alleluia, alleluia! Happy are those who hear the word of God and keep it. Alleluia!

Or

Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise,

for the sun of justice, Christ our God, was born of you. Alleluia!

Or

Alleluia, alleluia! Happy is the Virgin Mary, who, without dying, won the palm of martyrdom beneath the cross of the Lord. Alleluia!

GOSPEL LUKE 1:39-47

Mary set out at and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went into Zechariahs house and greeted Elizabeth. Now as soon as Elizabeth heard Marys greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord? For the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy. Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled. And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

May the intercession of Blessed Mary ever-Virgin commend our offerings, we pray, O Lord, and may it make us acceptable to your majesty as we revere and venerate her Name. Through Christ our Lord.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON cf. LUKE 1:48

All generations will call me blessed, for God has looked on his lowly handmaid.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

May we obtain the grace of your blessing, O Lord, through the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God, that from her, whose holy Name we venerate, we may obtain help in our every need. Through Christ our Lord.