Saturday Mass of the BVM - 1962 Calendar
  • Palestrina
    Posts: 503
    Does anyone know of a quick and easy resource that sets out the specific Saturdays each year when this is permitted according to the 1962 rubrics and calendar?

    Weekends are normally the best time for Latin Mass communities to have Sung Mass.

    A Votive Mass on the BVM on a Saturday is probably more practical in contexts where there are few singers and little rehearsal time on account of the propers being repeated throughout each relevant season.

    Having the specific Saturdays where this is possible set out somewhere would be very handy.
  • Palestrina
    Posts: 503
    I'd also add, it would be handy to know what feasts occur on Saturdays every year and do not change. Again, for small communities, this kind of information would be really useful.

    So far, I have: the four Ember Days, the Vigil of Easter, Saturday within the Octave of Easter, the Vigil of Pentecost, Saturday within the Octave of Pentecost.

    After this, I guess the only other possibility would be in some places to have Mass on Friday night, in which case it would be the same exercise all over again just with Fridays.
  • iMalton
    Posts: 6
    https://propria.org/votive-masses/

    This may be the thing you're looking for. Section E notes that Masses for Our Lady's Saturday are 4th class, and proper to every Saturday unless a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class takes precedence. Keep in mind also that there are four different sets of propers for Our Lady's Saturdays, depending on the liturgical season. They're all beautiful, I've sung them many times (though mostly for some Latin NO First Saturday Masses).
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,215
    Yeah it’s a bit weird because Saturdays in the 1960 aren’t votive Masses in the sense that they are still the Mass of the day connected to the office. But they are on other ferial days when there is no requirement to say some other Mass.

    Doesn’t your priest and serving team have an Ordo? You should get one ordered with theirs (or everyone can use the 1960/62 ordo from the FSSPX online).

    Where this is confusing is First Saturday: traditionally you wouldn’t be allowed to just replace the BVM on Sat with the votive Mass of another mystery of the same saint.

    But in any case, 1960 communities probably expect Immaculate Heart on Saturdays where that privileged Mass is permitted, and all of that is also in an Ordo. And ditto First Friday (much to my chagrin in both cases but…)
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