Category: Mother of the Church

  • A Lullaby

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Monday in the week after Pentecost (C1) The 10th week of Ordinary Time Genesis 3:9-15, 20 John 19:25-34 Behold your mother…The Magnificat is sung every night at Vespers in the western liturgy. It is sung at Matins in the East. This can mean 9AM in a parish church, but properly sung, it is well before dawn…

  • Shine! Shine, O New Jerusalem

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Mary, Mother of the ChurchMonday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) Genesis 3:9-15, 20 John 19:25-34 Diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob. Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei! Numquid Sion dicet : Homo et homo natus est in ea? et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus.The Lord loveth the…