Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
The Octave Day Of The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception.
15 December.
Greater-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 date of Mary's Nativity on 8 September caused her Conception to be Celebrated during Advent, the Season when The Church awaits "The Emmanuel, whom a Virgin shall conceive" (Communion of The Wednesday in Advent Ember Week).
Devotion to The Mother of God holds an important place in The Liturgy of Advent. One may say that the period comprising Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, constitutes the real Season, or Month, of Mary.
The Church does not yet possess Jesus, but she already has His Mother, "the beginning of Christ" as Bossuet calls her. This period represents the first phase of the existence of The Saviour on Earth. The Divine Infant rests gently in Mary, a Living Tabernacle, which the pious Sculptors of The Middle Ages wished to honour when they made a statue of The Virgin as a Tabernacle, where The Eucharist would be preserved.
During this Season of Advent, let us fix our eyes on The Virgin, who is to give us Christ.
The date of Mary's Nativity on 8 September caused her Conception to be Celebrated during Advent, the Season when The Church awaits "The Emmanuel, whom a Virgin shall conceive" (Communion of The Wednesday in Advent Ember Week).
Devotion to The Mother of God holds an important place in The Liturgy of Advent. One may say that the period comprising Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, constitutes the real Season, or Month, of Mary.
The Church does not yet possess Jesus, but she already has His Mother, "the beginning of Christ" as Bossuet calls her. This period represents the first phase of the existence of The Saviour on Earth. The Divine Infant rests gently in Mary, a Living Tabernacle, which the pious Sculptors of The Middle Ages wished to honour when they made a statue of The Virgin as a Tabernacle, where The Eucharist would be preserved.
During this Season of Advent, let us fix our eyes on The Virgin, who is to give us Christ.
Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.
Second Collect: Of The Feria.
Creed: Is Said or Sung.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
