The Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe was yesterday, but I was travelling and unable to do much online. Thus, I missed a question from a reader about the Latin orations so that he could be more properly celebrated in the traditional Roman Rite.
I’ll give you the prayers, but there is a problem. In the traditional Roman Rite, 14 August is the Vigil of the Assumption and it is 2nd class. Hence, you can’t celebrate St. MK.
But, perhaps for a commemoration in the Office, and I don’t think that St. Eusebius would mind scrunching over a bit…
COLLECT
Deus, qui sanctum Maximilianum Mariam, presbyterum et martyrem, amore Virginis Immaculatae succensum, animarum zelo et proximi dilectione replevisti, concede propitius, ut, eo intercedente, pro tua gloria in servitio hominum strenue laborantes, usque ad mortem Filio tuo conformari valeamus.
SECRET
Munera nostra tibi, Domine, exhibemus, suppliciter exorantes, ut sancti Maximiliani Mariae exemplo, vitam nostram tibi discamus offerre.
POSTCOMMUNION
Quaesumus, Domine, ut refecti Corpore et Sanguine Filii tui, eo caritatis igne accendamur, quem ex hoc convivio sanctus Maximilianus Maria accepit.
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In the Liturgy of the Hours, still stuck in the 70s the reference to love for our Lady was expunged!
All-powerful, ever-living God, you gave Saint Maximilian Kolbe
the courage to witness to the Gospel of Christ
even to the point of giving his life for it.
By his prayers, help us to endure all suffering for love of you
and to seek you with all our hearts,
for you alone are the source of life.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Deus, qui sanctum Maximilianum Mariam, presbyterum et martyrem, amore Virginis Immaculatae succensum, animarum zelo et proximi dilectione replevisti, concede propitius, ut, eo intercedente, pro tua gloria in servitio hominum strenue laborantes, usque ad mortem Filio tuo conformari valeamus.
When will they ever fix the vernacular Liturgy of the Hours.
Our Lady is still in the Ordinariate’s collect for S.Maximilian Kolbe –
Most gracious God, who didst fill thy holy Priest and Martyr Maxinilian Kolbe with zeal for thine house and love of his neighbour: vouchsafe that, holpen by the prayers of this devoted servant of the immaculate Mother of God, we too may strive to serve others for thy glory, and become like unto thy dear Son, who loved his own even to the end; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
But wouldn’t his Mass be said, for example, at the local St. Maximilian Kolbe parish? It would be a 1st Class feast for that parish.