[Officium]
Sancta Maria Sabbato ex Purificatione ad Paschae; Salve Sancta parens

[Comment]
# III Mass of the B. V. M. – Salve, Sancta Parens
! From Feb 3 until Holy Wednesday

[Graduale]
Blessed and venerable are you, O Virgin Mary, who, with unsullied virginity, were found to be the Mother of the Saviour.
V. O Virgin, Mother of God, He Whom the whole world does not contain, becoming man, shut Himself in your womb. Alleluia, alleluia.
!Num 17:8
The rod of Jesse has blossomed: a Virgin has brought forth God and man: God has given peace, reconciling in Himself the lowest with the highest. Alleluia.

[Tractus]
Blessed and venerable are you, O Virgin Mary, who, with unsullied virginity, were found to be the Mother of the Saviour.
V. O Virgin, Mother of God, He Whom the whole world does not contain, becoming man, shut Himself in your womb. 
!  
Rejoice, O Virgin Mary; alone you have put an end to all heresies.
V. You who believed the words of the Archangel Gabriel.
V. Still a virgin, you brought forth God and man; and after childbirth you remained an inviolate virgin.
V. O Mother of God, intercede for us.

[Offertorium]  
You are happy, O holy Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise; since out of you has risen the sun of justice, Christ our God.
