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Monday 16 July 2012

Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel





The following text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal for 16 July, The Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Greater-Double
White Vestments

According to a pious tradition authorised by the Liturgy, on the day of Pentecost a number of men who walked in the footsteps of the holy prophets, Elias and Eliseus, and whom John the Baptist had prepared for the advent of Jesus, embraced the Christian faith, and erected the first Church to the Blessed Virgin on Mount Carmel, at the very spot where Elias had seen a cloud rise, a figure of the fecundity of the Mother of God (Lesson of Second Nocturn at Matins).

They were called: Brethren of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel (Collect). These Religious came to Europe in the 13th-Century and, in 1245, Pope Innocent IV gave his approbation to their rule under the generalship of Simon Stock, an English Saint.

On 16 July 1251, Mary appeared to this fervent servant [Simon Stock] and placed in his hands the habit which was to be their distinctive sign. Pope Innocent IV blessed this habit and attached to it many privileges, not only for the members of the Order, but also for those who entered the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. By wearing the scapular, which is in smaller form than that of the Carmelite Fathers, they participate in all their merits and may hope to obtain through the Virgin a prompt delivery from Purgatory, if they have faithfully observed abstinence, chastity (according to their state), and said the Prayers prescribed by Pope John XXII, in the Sabbatine Bull, published on 3 March 1322.

The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at first celebrated only in the Churches of the Order, was extended to all Christendom by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726.

Saturday 14 July 2012

Solemn High Masses for the Feast of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel


This information has been provided by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny.
Their Blog can be found at http://sthughofcluny.org/


For our American readers, please be aware that the following Churches in Newark, New Jersey, and Stamford, Connecticut, and New York, have scheduled Traditional Masses, to observe the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on Sunday, 15 July 2012, Monday, 16 July 2012, and also Saturday, 21 July 2012.





Monday, 16 July 2012, at 7:30 p.m.

SOLEMN HIGH MASS FOR THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL

Gregorian Chant with music by Victoria and Morales.

Light refreshments to follow in Parish Meeting Room

Church of Saint Gabriel, 914 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, Connecticut.



Sunday, 15 July 2012, and Monday, 16 July 2012, both at 12 noon

Solemn High Masses with Procession through the streets of the neighborhood with Italian Marching band.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 259 Oliver Street, Newark, NJ 07105.



Saturday, 21 July 2012, at 11 a.m.

Solemn High Mass at the Altar of the Pontifically Crowned Madonna.

Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 449 East 115th Street, New York, New York.
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