Getting It Right

I whinge about the "reformed" liturgy on a regular basis here so as a matter of fairness I ought also to point out an occasion when it seems to me that the new liturgy gets it exactly right.

Yesterday - August 22 - used to be the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, being also the octave day of the Assumption. This was fitting enough, the octave itself being bracketed by feasts of Our Lady. But now August 22 is redesignated as the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen. So the two feasts of the Assumption and the Queenship of Our Lady follow the order of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. The feast of the Immaculate Heart far from being eliminated, now follows on the Saturday after the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in June.

A pleasing re-alignment in my occasionally humble opinion.

Regina mundi dignissima, Maria virgo perpetua, tu genuisti Christum Dominum, salvatorem omnium. Ad Benedictus, ant.