The Seventh Day Within The Octave Of The Immaculate Conception. 14 December.

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

The Seventh Day Within The Octave Of The Immaculate Conception.
   14 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.

The Ancients said that White was a Divine Colour. Daniel (Chapter vii, Verse 9) depicts God as appearing clothed in White. The Evangelists tell us that, at The Transfiguration, the garments of Jesus were of "dazzling Whiteness" (Mark, Chapter ix, Verse 2).

The Liturgy of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception applies this Text to The Virgin, saying that: "The Garment of Salvation" (Introit), with which God has clothed her, is a "Vesture as White as Snow" (Second Antiphon at Vespers).

Let us, with The Church, ask The Blessed Virgin on her Feast, that we may "by her intercession, be purified from all our sins" (Collect), and let us be in readiness to receive Jesus.

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.