Introit: John xix. 25, 26-27

    There stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother's sister Mary of Cleophas, and Salome and Mary Magdalen. ‌{snippet veriscle}. Woman, behold thy son, said Jesus; to the disciple however: Behold thy mother. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

Collect

    O God, at whose Passion, as Simeon foretold, the most sweet soul of Mary, Thy glorious Virgin Mother, was pierced by a sword of sorrow; mercifully grant that we who reverently meditate upon her sorrows may reap the happy fruit of Thy Passion: Who livest and reignest.

Commemoration of St. Nicomedes:

Collect

    Be nigh, O Lord, to Thy people, that they may profit by the glorious merits of blessed Nicomedes Thy martyr, and may ever be helped by his prayers to win Thy mercy. Through our Lord.

Epistle: Judith xiii. 22, 23-25

    Lesson from the book of Judith. The Lord hath blessed thee by His power, who by thee hath brought our enemies to nought. Blessed art thou, o daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, because He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of man, who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever; for that thou hast not spared thy life by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God.

Gradual

    Thou art sorrowful and tearful, O Virgin Mary, standing by the cross of the Lord Jesus, thy Son, our Redeemer. ℣. O Virgin Mother of God, He whom the whole world doth not contain, beareth this punishment of the cross; He the author of life made man.

\1Alleluia

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. Holy Mary, the queen of heaven and mistress of the world, stood by the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, full of grief.

Sequence: Stabat Mater

    At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, / Close to Jesus to the last. / Through her heart, His sorrow sharing, / All His bitter anguish bearing, / Now at length the sword had pass' d. / Oh, how sad and sore distress'd / Was that Mother highly blest /Of the sole-begotten One! / Christ above in torment hangs; / She beneath beholds the pangs / Of her dying glorious Son. / Is there one who would not weep, / Whelm'd in miseries so deep / Christ's dear Mother to behold? / Can the human heart refrain / From partaking in her pain, / In that Mother's pain untold? / Bruis'd, derided, curs'd, defil'd, / She beheld her tender child: All with bloody scourges rent. / For the sins of His own nation, / Saw Him hang in desolation, / Till His spirit forth He sent. / O thou Mother! fount of love! / Touch my spirit from above; / Make my heart with thine accord. / Make me feel as thou hast felt; / Make my soul to glow and melt / With the love of Christ our Lord. / Holy Mother! pierce me through; / In my heart each wound renew / Of my Savior crucified. / Let me share with thee His pain, / Who for all my sins was slain, / Who for me in torments died. / Let me mingle tears with thee, / Mourning Him who mourn'd for me, / All the days that I may live. / By the cross with thee to stay, / There with thee to weep and pray, / Is all I ask of thee to give. / Virgin of all virgins best, / Listen to my fond request : / Let me share thy grief divine. / Let me, to my latest breath, / In my body bear the death Of that dying Son of thine. / Wounded with His every wound, / Steep my soul till it hath swoon'd / In His very blood away. / Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, / Lest in flames I burn and die, In His awful Judgment day. / Christ, when Thou shalt call me hence, / Be Thy Mother my defense, / Be Thy cross my victory. / While my body here decays, / May my soul Thy goodness praise, / Safe in Paradise with Thee. Amen. ‌

Gospel: John xix. 25-27

    + The continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. John. At that time, there stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother's sister Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen His mother and the disciple standing, whom He loved, He saith to His mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that He saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.

Offertory: Jeremias xviii. 20

    Be mindful, O Virgin Mother of God, when thou standest in the sight of the Lord, to speak good things for us, and to turn away His anger from us. ‌

Secret

    We offer unto Thee our prayers and oblations, O Lord Jesus Christ,humbly beseeching Thee, that we who recall in our prayers the piercing of the most sweet soul of blessed Mary, through the merits of Thy death and the manifold intercession of Thy Mother and her holy companions at the foot of the cross, may share the reward of the blessed. Who livest.

Commemoration of St. Nicomedes:

Secret

    Graciously receive, O Lord, the gifts which we offer; and may the prayer of the blessed martyr Nicomedes make them acceptable to Thy majesty. Through.

Communion

    Happy the senses of the blessed Virgin Mary, which without dying earned the palm of martyrdom beneath the cross of our Lord. ‌

Postcommunion

    May the divine sacrifice, O Lord Jesus Christ, of which we, commemorating the transfixion of Thy virgin Mother, have partaken,obtain for us from Thy mercy every good and salutary gift. Who livest and reignest.

Commemoration of St. Nicomedes:

Postcommunion

    May the sacrament which we have received cleanse us, O Lord, and through the intercession of blessed Nicomedes Thy martyr loose us from all sin. Through our Lord.

+ Taken from St. Andrew Daily Missal, by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., Imprimi Potest 11-18-1945 P. Joannes Delacroix, O.S.B., Imprimatur 11-22-1945 Joseph Van Der Meersch