Crowning of BVM - what do you do?
  • OlbashOlbash
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    Any interesting May crowning stories?

    Is the Order for Crowning Images of the BVM available on line anywhere? (OF)
  • ContinuousbassContinuousbass
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    Is this something done outside of the liturgy? Or during a mass?
  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
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    It can be done during Mass, during Vespers, or during the celebration of the word of God. There's music for the crowning and incensation, Magnificat antiphons, Litany of Loreto, and Introits, respectively.
    Thanked by 1Olbash
  • Liam
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    Obviously, the musical choices are not set forth in this way in the rite:

    http://www.rcan.org/images/worship/bvmpresider.pdf
    Thanked by 1Olbash
  • OlbashOlbash
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    This will be during/after Mass on Monday morning. The Newark document is helpful, but does anyone have anything like that for use during Mass?
  • Liam
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    The only way it can be done within a Mass is by a bishop, it appears:

    http://www.dio.org/uploads/files/Worship/May_Crowning_of_BVM_Intro.pdf
    Thanked by 1Olbash
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    And that, mon amis, is why we only do it after "Ite missa est." Thank you.
    I'm here all week
    Thanked by 1Olbash
  • RevAMG
    Posts: 162
    There is no official "May Crowning" rite. The Order of Crowning an Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary has a misleading title as it is used only when a new and significant image is installed in a place of worship (as says the Springfield-in-Illinois letter above). In the end, I think Fr. David Friel's article on the Views from the Choir Loft blog is helpful:

    http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/2014/may/4/parish-may-crownings/

    At the school to which I am assigned, I used the thanksgiving and invocation prayer and the general intercessions from the Order of Crowning an Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary since the prayer of blessing from the Book of Blessings is not to my liking.
    Thanked by 2Olbash Chrism
  • stanmetheny
    Posts: 12
    We have an abbreviated ceremony after the dismissal at Mass. Order may be found here: http://smov.info/index.php/gregorian-chant/242-4-may-2014-3rd-sunday-of-easter-year-a
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