From a priest….
QUAERITUR:
I need an advice. I would like to say the Holy Mass on Tuesday in Vetus Ordo and I would like to use the texts from the Our Lady of Fatima feast (optional commemoration in Novus Ordo).
Can I do it?
Are there any special propria for this feast in Vetus Ordo somewhere?
Or should I use a votive Mass from Our Lady?
What about the feast of Robert Bellarmine? Can I just commemorate him in the Mass?
Sort of. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes, you can do it, but the second question applies.
As we all remember 13 May is the anniversary of Our Lady’s appearance Fatima, Portugal. Hence 13 May was designated for the event. However it is also in the traditional calendar (not the Novus Ordo) the Feast of the great Doctor of the Church St. Robert Bellarmine. So, St. Robert usually gets all the liturgical love on 13 May with the TLM.
In 2017 the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” granted to all priests of the Latin Rite (secular or religious) the possibility of celebrating on the 100th anniversary of the first apparition (13 May 2017) the Mass of Our Lady of Fatima as a Votive Mass of the II Class, using the exact same texts and prayers of the Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The letter didn’t say anything about future instances of 13 May. One might extrapolate from that that the grant applied to that single day, the 100th anniversary. Or not…. After all… this is a Votive Mass in honor of the Mother of God in one of her most important apparitions we are talking about. And honoring her doesn’t mean that we are slighting St. Robert Bellarmine.
Masses in honor of Our Lady of Fatima have long been celebrated in the Diocese of Leiria–Fátima where Fatima is located. The traditional propers for Our Lady of Fatima are those of the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on 22 August except for the following Collect, Secret, and Postcommunion orations:
COLLECT:
Peccatórum nostrórum, Dómine, multitúdine praevalénte, ad Beátae Mariae Virginis recúrrimus singuláre suffragium: ut, qui eiúsdem Cordis pietáte fovémur, tua misericórdia praeveniente, indulgéntiam delictórum consequámur. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum, …
SECRET:
Convérte, Dómine, quáesumus, nostras rebélles voluntátes et tríbue: ut, auxiliánte beatíssima Vírgine María, divina mysteria castis iucunditátibus celebrémus. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum …
POSTCOMMUNION:
Pórrige, quáesumus, Dómine, déxteram tuam pópulo deprecanti, et cui tríbuis supplicándi benígnus afféctum, intercedénte Vírgine María, praebe plácatus auxílium, ut cuncta mala declínet et ómnia bona apprehéndat. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum,…
If I used this form for Our Lady, I would commemorate St. Robert Bellarmine.
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In 2018, there was a (for some reason) little-known letter written to Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei which has come to be known as “29 Questions to Ecclesia Dei”. Question #4 pertained to this topic.
https://archive.org/details/pontificia-commissio-ecclesia-dei-responses-29-questions/mode/2up
I wis that there were an updated TLM Missal including the changes to the TLM from the small number of supplementary universal norms that apply to it.
I assume this collect could be used with the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the traditional breviary?
That ought to be a Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart, Mass of 22 August except for the commemorations.
I think there was on official say-so from Rome in 2017. In itself only for 2017, of course, but it won‘t I guess be difficult to make that as a 2nd class votive mass in every year. Pro re gravi and publica, right?
That being said, celebrating the feast of St. Robert, mentally adding a prayer that this doctor, the sort-of inventor of the theology of argumentative combat (I don’t know if „controversial theology“ is an expression in Emglish) aid a certain person who bears his name who has recently been promoted to some important position in the Church won‘t, I guess, be so wrong.