Dedication of Our Lady of the Snows
Greater Double · White
Kept on August 5
The next eight years
Each date opens that day, with its hours.
Proper of the feast
Proper to the feast; texts marked Common are from the Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As said on Thursday, August 5, 2027.
At I Vespers · Magnificat
O holy Mary, * help thou the suffering, strengthen the faint-hearted, comfort the sorrowful; pray for the people, entreat for the clergy, intercede for all womankind vowed unto God: may all acknowledge the help of thy prayer, who celebrate thy holy festival.
Versicle at Vespers Common
℣.Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O holy Virgin.
℟.Give me strength against thine enemies.
At Lauds · Benedictus Common
Blessed art thou, * O Mary, for thou hast believed: and there shall be a performance in thee of those things which were told thee from the Lord, alleluia.
Versicle at Lauds Common
℣.Full of grace are thy lips.
℟.Because God hath blessed thee for ever.
At II Vespers · Antiphon
O holy Mary, * help thou the suffering, strengthen the faint-hearted, comfort the sorrowful; pray for the people, entreat for the clergy, intercede for all womankind vowed unto God: may all acknowledge the help of thy prayer, who celebrate thy holy festival.
Collect Common
Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord God, that we thy servants may rejoice in continual health of mind and body: and that by the glorious intercession of blessed Mary ever Virgin we may be delivered from this present heaviness, and have the fruition of eternal joy. Through thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth God, world without end.
℟.Amen.
The whole office: the hours of Thursday, August 5, 2027