A Collect for the Assumption

Christ holding the soul of the Vigin Mary at her death, Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, Russia, ca. 1497.

Anonymous, 1497. Via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Source

Prayers and Creeds

A short prayer from the Sarum Missal, for the anniversary of the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary

From The Sarum Missal

Translated by Frederick E. Warren

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Introduction

This prayer was appointed in the Sarum Missal, the service book of the English Church in the Middle Ages, for the Feast of the Assumption, which remembers the day on which the Virgin Mary died. The Eastern churches call this day the Dormition or Falling-Asleep of Mary. Tradition says that Mary died a natural death, surrounded by the Apostles, but three days later her body was nowhere to be found.

LET the honoured festival of to-day, O Lord, bring us continued aid; on which the holy mother of God underwent temporal death, yet could not be holden by the bonds of death; because she bare incarnate of herself thy Son our Lord; Who livest and reignest God world without end.

From The Sarum Missal

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