Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 12/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 99

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 86 : 

Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97

Here is an excerpt from the commentary on Psalm 99:

confitemini Illi.

Confess ye unto Him.

Confess ye unto Him. St. Augustine teaches us that repentance must be the outset of the service of God, unto

Whose gates we enter with the confession of sins, not attempting to burst forth in the language of praise till,

growing in holiness, we penetrate into His courts. Another writer, reminding that our Lord calls Himself “ the

Door,” explains the gates of our Lady, the Apostles, and others, by whom men enter into Him, making

confession first and renunciation of all their sins.

Laudate nomen Ejus : quoniam suavis est Dominus, in æternum misericordia Ejus, et usque in generationem et generationem veritas Ejus.

Praise His name, for the Lord is sweet : His mercy is for ever, and His truth from generation to generation.

Three reasons are here given us for praising the name of God : His sweetness, His everlasting mercy, and His

abiding truth.

• He is sweet; for in Him is no bitter at all ; He is sweet ; for never can He be so angry with a sinner as not at once to be appeased by sincere sorrow.
• His mercy is for ever. Because, says Honorius, on the one hand, He extends the acceptable time, the day of salvation, to the end of the world for all, to the end of life for each sinner, rejecting none, and not closing the door of grace till the very last necessary moment ; and, on the other, He will keep His Redeemed in heaven for ever the objects of His boundless mercy.
• And His truth from generation to generation. Because the promise He made to the Patriarchs He fulfilled to their descendants by coming in person, no longer in type and prophecy ; because His words in Holy Writ shall never pass away, even when heaven and earth are gone ; because He keeps to the uttermost in this world, and the next, the pledges given to His disciples of bestowing everlasting blessedness.

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Veni Creator Spiritus [To see the Latin text and translations, click here : 👉 Veni Creator Spiritus ]

Ave Maris Stella

 

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Gloria 

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.