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of the Annunciation, P. C. P. A . Abbess Emerita, Our Lady of the Angels Monastery

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Hanceville, Alabama

THurSdAy, MArCH 31, 2016

Solemn Vespers 5:00pm

Vigil and Holy rosary 7:00pm Vigil of Prayer for

Mother Mary Angelica

of the Annunciation, P.C.P.A.

April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016

Table of Contents Solemn Vespers for the deceased 1 Vigil for the deceased 13 The Holy rosary 21 Biography 26 Solemn Vespers for the Deceased Processional Spes Christe (L.M. Duguet) O Christ, our Pardon and our Hope, Our Resurrection and our Life, All eyes and hearts to you must turn When saddened by approaching death.

You also bore its dreadful pangs, In suff’rings deeper far than ours, Into the Father’s loving hands With head bowed low Your spirit fled.

Good Shepherd, merciful and kind, Who knew our fragile, human state, You give us grace Your death to share, And in the Father’s love to die.

Since You once broke the gates of hell, And opened Heaven’s portal wide, Raise up our hope as now we mourn, As You will raise us after death.

May this our sister who now sleeps, In everlasting rest and peace, By Your sweet favor live to You, And sing Your praises ever more. Amen.

2 Introductory Verse V: God, come to my assistance.* R: O Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,* world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

Hymn Remember those, O Lord, Who in Your peace have died, Yet may not gain love’s high reward Till love is purified.

With you they faced death’s night Sealed with your vict’ry sign; Soon may the splendor of Your light On them forever shine!

Sweet is their pain, yet deep, Till perfect love is born; Their lone night-watch they gladly keep Before Your radiant morn.

Your love is their great joy, Your will their one desire; As finest gold without alloy, Refine them in love’s fire.

For them we humbly pray; Perfect them in Your love. O may we share eternal day With them in heaven above!

3 Ant. I:

Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the mountains:* from where shall come my help? My help shall come from the Lord* Who made heaven and earth.

May He never allow you to stumble!* Let Him sleep not, your guard. No, He sleeps not nor slumbers,* Israel’s guard.

The Lord is your guard and your shade;* at your right side He stands. By the day the sun shall not smite you* nor the moon in the night.

The Lord will guard you from evil,* He will guard your soul. The Lord will guard your going and coming* both now and forever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,* world without end. Amen.

4 Ant. I (Repeated): The Lord will keep you from all evil,* He will guard your soul.

Ant. 2:

Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,* Lord, hear my voice! O let your ears be attentive* to the voice of my pleading.

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,* Lord who would survive? But with you is found forgiveness:* for this we revere you.

My soul is waiting for the Lord,* I count on His word. My soul is longing for the Lord* more than watchman for daybreak. Let the watchman count on daybreak* and Israel on the Lord.

5 Because with the Lord there is mercy* and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed He will redeem* from all its iniquity.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,* world without end. Amen.

Ant. 2 (Repeated): If You kept a record of our sins,* Lord, who could escape condemnation?

Ant. 3:

Philippians 2:6-11 Though He was in the form of God,† Jesus did not deem equality with God* something to be grasped at.

Rather, He emptied Himself,† And took the form of a slave,* being born in the likeness of men.

He was known to be of human estate,* And it was thus that He humbled Himself,

6 Obediently accepting even death,* death on a cross!

Because of this,* God highly exalted Him

and bestowed on Him the name* above every other name,

so that at Jesus’ name every knee must bend* in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth,

and every tongue proclaim to the glory of God the Father:* JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,* world without end. Amen.

Ant. 3 (Repeated): As the Father raises the dead and gives them life,* so the Son gives life to whom He wills.

Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no man might boast before God. It is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.

7 Homily

Responsory

V: Lord, in Your steadfast love,* give her eternal rest. R: Lord, in Your steadfast love,* give her eternal rest.

V: You will come to judge the living and the dead. R: Give her eternal rest.

V: Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit. R: Lord, in Your steadfast love,* give her eternal rest.

8 Magnificat Ant.:

Magnificat Luke 1: 46-55 My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my savior

For He has looked with favor on His lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed:

The Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His Name.

He has mercy on those who fear Him in every generation.

He has shown the strength of His arm, He has scattered the proud in their conceit.

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.

9 He has come to the help of His servant Israel for He has remembered His promise of mercy,

The promise He made to our fathers, to Abraham and His children for ever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,* world without end. Amen.

Magnificat Ant. (Repeated): All that the Father gives me will come to me,* and whoever comes to me I shall not turn away.

Intercessions Celebrant: We acknowledge Christ the Lord through whom we hope that our lowly bodies will be made like His in glory, and we say:

R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

Christ, Son of the living God, who raised up Lazarus, your friend, from the dead – raise up to life and glory Mother Mary Angelica whom You have redeemed by Your Precious Blood. R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

Christ, consoler of those who mourn, you dried the tears of the family of Lazarus, of the widow’s son, and the daughter of Jairus – comfort those who mourn. R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

10 Christ, Savior, destroy the reign of sin in our earthly bodies, so that just as through sin we deserved punishment – through You we may gain eternal life. R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

Christ, Redeemer, look on those who have no hope because they do not know You – may they receive faith in the resurrection and in the life of the world to come. R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

You revealed Yourself to the blind man who begged for the light of his eyes – show Your Face to the dead who are still deprived of Your light. R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

When at last our earthly home is dissolved – give us a home, not of earthly making, but built of eternity in Heaven. R: Lord, You are our life and resurrection.

Celebrant: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

11 Celebrant: Lord of mercy, hear our prayer. May Mother Mary Angelica whom You called Your daughter on earth, enter the kingdom of peace and light, where Your saints live in glory. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. R: Amen.

Celebrant: May Almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son + and the Holy Spirit. R: Amen.

Celebrant: Go in peace. R: Thanks be to God.

Hymn Jesu dulcis memoria SCHOLA

Jesu, dulcis memoria, dans vera cordis O Jesus, sweet memory giving true joy gaudia: sed super mel et omnia ejus to the heart: sweeter still than honey and dulcis praesentia. Sis, Jesu, nostrum all other things is the sweetness of thy gaudium, Qui es futurus praemium: continuing presence. Be, O Jesus, our joy, Sit nostra in te Gloria, Per cuncta thou who art our future reward. Let our semper saecula. glory be in thee, throughout all eternity. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

12 Vigil for the Deceased Processional Exsultabunt Domino, Gregorian plainsong SCHOLA

ANT: Exultabunt Domino ANT: The bones that have been humbled ossa humiliata. shall rejoice in God.

PS 50: Miserere mei Deus, secumdum PS 50: Have mercy on me, O God, magnam misericordiam tuam…. according to thy great mercy… -- Ps 50 (Lauds for the Dead)

Introductory Rites Celebrant: May the Father of mercies, the God of all consolation, be with you. R: And with your spirit.

Hymn O Christ our King SCHOLA & PEOPLE Immensae Rex (L.M. Eisenach)

O Christ our King, supreme in power, The Father’s glory and delight, Our fallen nature You restored, By dying You defeated death.

In triumph risen from the tomb You bring Your people back to life Through Your great Paschal mystery, We who were dead and lost by sin.

Increase in us the life of grace That when as Bridegroom You return, With lamps well trimmed we be prepared To follow You at once with joy.

14 Receive us as a judge serene Into the realms of peace and light, Whom faith and love have bound to You, Adoring Your great Trinity.

Your servant who has left this world With soul from body now set free, Call swiftly to our Father’s home To praise You for eternity. Amen.

Invitation to Prayer Celebrant: My brothers and sisters, we believe that all the ties of friendship and affection which knit us as one throughout our lives do not unravel with death. Confident that God always remembers the good we have done and forgives our sins, let us pray, asking God to gather Mother Angelica to Himself:

Pause for silent prayer.

O God, glory of believers and life of the just, by the death and resurrection of your Son, we are redeemed: have mercy on your servant Mother Mary Angelica, and make her worthy to share the joys of paradise, for she believed in the resurrection of the dead. We ask this through Christ our Lord. R: Amen.

Liturgy of the Word

First Reading 2 Corinthians 3:17-4:1, 5-6 A reading from the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians

We are being transformed from glory to glory.

The Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. All of us, gazing with unveiled faces on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into

15 the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit. Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy shown us, we are not discouraged. For we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus. For God who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the Face of Jesus Christ.

V: Verbum Domini. R: Deo Gratias.

Responsorial Psalm 27 I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord SCHOLA & PEOPLE Rev. Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.

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R: I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The Lord is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?

R: I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: To dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, That I may gaze on the loveliness of the Lord and contemplate his Temple.

16 R: I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Hear, O Lord, the sound of my call; have pity on me, and answer me. Your presence, O Lord, I seek. Hide not your Face from me.

R: I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

R: I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Gospel Luke 24:13-16, 28-35 A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke

Were not our hearts burning within us while He spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?

That very day, the first day of the week, two of the disciples of Jesus were going to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus Himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him.

As they approached the village to which they were going, He gave the impression that He was going on farther. But they urged Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

And it happened that, while He was with them at table, He took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, but He vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other,

17 “Were not our hearts burning within us while He spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

V: Verbum Domini. R: Laus Tibi Christe.

Homily

Prayer of Intercession Celebrant: Let us turn to Christ Jesus with confidence and faith in the power of his cross and resurrection:

Risen Lord, pattern of our life for ever: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

Promise and image of what we shall be: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

Son of God who came to destroy sin and death: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

Word of God who delivered us from the fear of death: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

Crucified Lord, forsaken in death, raised in glory: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

Lord Jesus, gentle Shepherd who bring rest to our souls, give peace to Mother Mary Angelica for ever: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

18 Lord Jesus, you bless those who mourn and are in pain. Bless Mother Angelica’s communities, family and friends who gather around her today: Lord, have mercy. R: Lord, have mercy.

The Lord’s Prayer Celebrant: Brothers and sisters, our true home is heaven. Therefore let us pray to our heavenly Father as Jesus taught us:

Celebrant: Lord Jesus, our Redeemer, you willingly gave yourself up to death, so that all might be saved and pass from death to life. We humbly ask you to comfort your servants in their grief and to receive Mother Mary Angelica into the arms of your mercy. You alone are the Holy One, you are mercy itself; by dying you unlocked the gates of life for those who believe in you. Forgive Mother Angelica her sins, and grant her a place of happiness, light, and peace in the kingdom of your glory for ever and ever. R: Amen.

Concluding Rite Celebrant: Blessed are those who have died in the Lord; let them rest from their labors for their good deeds go with them.

V: Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord. R: And let perpetual light shine upon her.

19 V: May she rest in peace. R: Amen.

V: May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. R: Amen.

Celebrant: May the peace of God, which is beyond all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. R: Amen.

Celebrant: May almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit. R: Amen.

20 The Holy Rosary The Glorious Mysteries

With Meditations by Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, P.C.P.A. from “My Life in the Rosary” mini-book The First Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of our Lord (To remember the joys to come and to persevere to the end) The joy of Your Resurrection fills my soul with exultation and the realization that my body, too, will rise some day. Like Your Five Wounds, my suffering will also shine for all to see. The Wisdom of the Father will be glorified forever as all men see how His plan and will in my life marked out the glory that would be mine for all eternity. All the trials, sufferings, heartaches, and disappointments will seem as nothing compared to the glory Your sufferings merited for me. They shall all seem like a dream, and the vision of Your Face will fill my soul with exquisite joy. . . . I will roam freely in the love of the Spirit forever and ever.