The Fifth Day Within The Octave Of The Immaculate Conception. 12 December.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

The Fifth Day Within The Octave Of The Immaculate Conception.
   12 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Anonymous.

Date: 17th-Century.

Current location: Museo Carmen Thyssen, Malaga, Spain.

Source: http://www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org/

Author: Anonymous.

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The Church prolongs within eight days The Feast of Mary's Victory over the devil and repeats The Mass Celebrated on The Feast, itself.

The most important Feasts of The Virgin are The Assumption and The Immaculate Conception, both of The First Class and both with an Octave.

That is why each day The Creed is said, that Profession of Faith fixed at The Council of Constantinople, which was only Chanted when the attendance in Church was very large.

Let us prepare for The Birth of Christ, in our hearts, by adorning them with a little of His Mother's Purity.

To show that The Mother of Jesus occupies a special place in The Church's Worship, The Church reserves for The Blessed Virgin Mother a Preface, which is said at each of her Feast Days, and, in which, are noted, at each particular Feast, the different Mysteries of The Life of Mary.

Wherefore, during all of this Octave, the Priest declares that: "It is fitting and salutary to render thanks to God on this Feast of The Immaculate Conception of Blessed Mary Ever Virgin, who conceived His only Son by the operation of The Holy Ghost and who, without losing her Virginity, gave birth to Jesus Christ Our Lord."

Let us give thanks to God for this privilege of The Immaculate Conception and, also, for The Feast which Celebrates it each year, allowing us to imitate more and more this Model of All Purity.

Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Second Collect: Of The Feria.

Third Collect: Of The Holy Ghost.

Creed: Is said.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.