The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day, Today, 8 September.

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

The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
   Feast Day 8 September.

Double of The Second-Class
   with a Simple Octave.

White Vestments.

“Birth of The Virgin”.

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682).

Date: 1660.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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The Birth of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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This very ancient Feast was already Solemnised in the 7th-Century A.D., and Pope Innocent IV, to fulfil the Vow made by the Cardinals before the Election of his predecessor, gave it an Octave at The First Council of Lyons in 1245.

Today's date (8 September) has served to fix The Feast Day of The Immaculate Conception on 8 December.

Mary is inseparable from Jesus in The Divine Plan, wherefore The Liturgy applies to her what Holy Scripture says of The Eternal Wisdom, which is The Word "by Whom all was made".

The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church, located along State Route 119, in Cassella, in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1858, the Church and its Rectory were listed together on The National Register of Historic Places as a part of the 

Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources

Photo: 27 May 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Nyttend

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Like Christ, The Virgin presides over the whole work of Creation, for, having been chosen of All Eternity to give us The Saviour, it is she, with her Son, whom God had chiefly in view when He created the World.

Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.
Commemoration: Saint Adrian.

Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in Nativitáte.