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The Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 8 December.
Double of The First-Class
with an Octave.
White Vestments.
The Immaculate Conception.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
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Feast of The Immaculate Conception
of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
unless otherwise stated.
He covered her “with a Mantle of Holiness” (Introit) and, “preserving her Soul from all stain, He made her a worthy dwelling place for His Son” (Collect).
The Feast of “The Conception” of The Virgin was:
From the 8th-Century A.D., Celebrated in The East on
9 December;
From the 9th-Century A.D., Celebrated in Ireland on 3 May;
In the 11th-Century, in England, Celebrated on 8 December.
The Benedictines, with Saint Anselm, and The Franciscans, with Duns Scotus (1308), favoured the Feast of “The Immaculate Conception,” which, in 1128, was kept in Anglo-Saxon Monasteries.
The Benedictines, with Saint Anselm, and The Franciscans, with Duns Scotus (1308), favoured the Feast of “The Immaculate Conception,” which, in 1128, was kept in Anglo-Saxon Monasteries.
Feast of The Immaculate Conception
of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
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In the 15th-Century, Pope Sixtus IV, a Franciscan, erected, at The Vatican, the Sixtine (Sistine) Chapel in honour of The Conception of The Virgin. And, on 8 December 1854, Blessed Pope Pius IX officially proclaimed this great Dogma, making himself the mouthpiece of all the Christian Tradition summed up in the words of the Angel: “Hail Mary, full of Grace, The Lord is with thee, Blessed art thou among women” (Gospel). “Thou art all beautiful, O Mary, and the original stain is not in thee”, says, in truth, the Alleluia Verse.
Like the Dawn, which announces the day, Mary precedes The Sun of Justice, which will soon illumine the World of Souls. Bringing to us her Son, it is she who first appears in The Liturgical Cycle.
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Gaudens gaudébo.
Commemoration: Of the Feria.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin: “Et te in Conceptióne Immaculáta”, which is said during the Octave.
THE SAINT ANDREW DAILY MISSAL
THE SAINT ANDREW DAILY MISSAL
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SILVERSTREAM PRIORY
This magnificent Collect from the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, states in prayer fashion a summary of the great doctrine of Duns Scotus:
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“ Let us pray:
ReplyDeleteO God, Who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, and Who, by Your Son’s death, foreseen by You, preserved her from all taint, grant, we beseech You, through her intercession, that we too may come to You unstained by sin.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.”
(R. Amen.)
(We can thank the great Scottish Franciscan, John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) for this beautiful brief, concise summary of Catholic belief.) -Note by Dante Peregrinus
A marvellous addition to Our Lady's Feast Day. Thank you, Dante P.
DeleteJohn Duns Scotus is, indeed, worthy of study.