The Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 8 December.

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unless otherwise stated.

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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.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Having decided, from all Eternity, to make Mary The Mother of The Incarnate Word (Epistle), God willed that she should crush the head of the serpent from the moment of her Conception.

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., in Ireland, on 3 May; and, in the 11th-Century, in England, 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.

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, 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.

Let us ask God "to heal us and to deliver us from all our sins" (Secret, Postcommunion)
in order that, by the Graces which specially belong to The Feast of The "Immaculate", we may become more worthy of receiving Jesus in our hearts when He comes into them
on 25 December.

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.

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Fröhliche Unbefleckte Empfängnis. A Very Happy Feast Day Of The Immaculate Conception To All Readers.

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 Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 8 December.

The Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
   Feast Day 8 December.

Double of The First-Class
   with an Octave.

White Vestments.

Illustration: THOMPSON AND MORGAN

WHAT A WONDERFUL FEAST DAY

FOR THE MOTHER OF GOD.

Illustration from HOLY CARD HEAVEN

The Moment A Baby Daughter's New Hearing Aids Are Turned On. See How She Reacts To Her Mother's Voice. Deo Gratias. God Bless Georgina !!!

Video: BBC NEWS

The moment a baby daughter's new hearing aids are turned on.

A father has shared the moment he turns his daughter's hearing aids on in the morning. Paul Addison, from Harrogate, Yorkshire, tweeted a video of his four-month-old daughter, Georgina, reacting to her mother's voice. Georgina was diagnosed as severely deaf in September 2019 and wears a hearing aid in each ear. Mr Addison said: "You use these hearing aids and it's like the lights have been switched on." Deo Gratias, indeed.

God Bless Georgina !!!

The Vigil Of The Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. 7 December.

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unless otherwise stated.

The Vigil of The Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

7 December.

Violet Vestments.

"I Am The Immaculate Conception".

"Ego Sum Immaculata Conceptio".

Author: Lawrence OP on FLICKR

Illustration: PINTEREST

The following Text is from Lawrence OP on FLICKR

Our Lady of Lourdes.

In 1858, The Immaculate Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, near Lourdes, in France, in the cavern called “de Massabielle.” When asked to describe The Lady of The Vision, Bernadette said:

"She has the appearance of a young girl of sixteen or seventeen. She is dressed in a White Robe, girdled at the waist with a Blue Ribbon, which flows down all along Her Robe. She wears upon Her head a Veil, which is also White; this Veil gives just a glimpse of Her hair and then falls down at the back below Her waist. Her feet are bare, but covered by the last folds of Her Robe, except at the point where a Yellow Rose shines upon each of them. She holds on Her right arm a Rosary of White Beads with a Chain of Gold, shining like the two Roses on Her feet."

This Stained-Glass Window of Our Lady of Lourdes (see, below) is in Llandudno Catholic Church, Wales.

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

This Vigil was, in 1879, extended by Pope Leo XIII to the whole Church.

Let us, on this day, ask The Immaculate Virgin to purify our hearts still more for tomorrow's Solemnity (Collect).

Mass: Veníte audíte.
The Gloria in Excélsis is not said.
Second Collect: Of The Feria.
Third Collect: Of The Holy Ghost.
Preface: Common Preface.

Saint Ambrose. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 7 December.

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Saint Ambrose.
   Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of The Church.
   Feast Day 7 December.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Ambrose barring Emperor Theodosius I from Milan Cathedral.

Artist: Anthony van Dyck

Date: 1619.

Source: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/anthony

-van-dyck-st-ambrose-barring-theodosius-from-milan-cathedral

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Saint Ambrose, born at Treves (Trier, Germany) towards 335 A.D., was one of The Four Great Doctors of The Latin Church [Editor: The Four Great Doctors of The Latin Church are: Saint Ambrose; Saint Gregory the Great; Saint Augustine; Saint Jerome]. When he was still in his cradle, some bees settled in his mouth, as if to make honey there, presaging his future great eloquence.

While he was Governor of Milan, Ambrose was providently chosen as Bishop by the voice of a child, and he became the indefatigable Preacher mentioned in the Epistle and Gospel.

He opposed the heretics, humbled the Emperor Theodosius, and brought into The Church Saint Augustine, whose Conversion was worth that of entire Kingdoms. He enriched The Divine Office with Sacred Hymns, to be Chanted by the whole Congregation. The Milanese Liturgy is still known as The Ambrosian Rite.

This great Bishop died in 397 A.D., during the night of Saturday in Holy Week, after having received The Adorable Body of Jesus, Who received him into Eternal Beatitude.

Like Ambrose, let us always, with gentle firmness, maintain God's Rights.

Mass: In médio.
Commemoration: Of The Feria.
Commemoration: Of The Vigil of The Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Last Gospel: Of The Vigil.

First Mass For The Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest, Fortwilliam And Macrory Church, Antrim Road, Belfast.

Fortwilliam and Macrory Church, Antrim Road, Belfast,

the new home for The Institute of Christ The King Sovereign Priest, in Belfast.

First Mass on Wednesday, 11 December 2019, 1800 hrs.

Illustration: CATHOLIC IRELAND.NET

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The first Mass at The Institute's newly-acquired Church in Belfast

will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 December 2019.

It will be a Solemn High Mass Celebrated by Mgr Wach, Prior General

of The Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest, and in the presence of

His Lordship Noel Treanor, Bishop of Down and Connor.

Saint Nicholas. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 6 December.

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unless stated otherwise.

Saint Nicholas. 
   Bishop And Confessor. 
   Feast Day 6 December.

Double.

White Vestments.

Cymraeg: Llyfr Llyfr Oriau 'De Grey'.

English: Saint Nicholas, depicted in a Mediæval Book of Hours,

probably written for The De Grey family, of Ruthin, Wales, circa.1390.

Collection: National Library of Wales.

Source/Photographer:

Author: Unknown.

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Having become Archbishop of Myra, the wants of his flock were the first object of his Pastoral care. He took part in The Council of Nicea, which condemned Arianism.

Putting to profit the talents of which the Gospel speaks, he practiced both Spiritual and Temporal Works of Mercy, as when he discreetly threw Alms in at a window to save the honour of three young girls, an act still commemorated, nowadays, in Santa Claus, when the children thank Saint Nicholas for presents found on the hearth.

He died in 324 A.D. His Relics are preserved at Bari, Italy.

Let us help our neighbour in his Spiritual and Temporal needs.

Mass: Státuit.

Commemoration: Of The Feria.

Le Monastère Saint-Benoît. The Monastery Of Saint Benedict, La Garde-Freinet, France. “Come And See” (Saint John 1:39).

Illustration: SAINT BENEDICT MONASTERY

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Forty Hours Devotion (Quarant'Ore). The Oratory Of Saint Philip Neri (Birmingham). Friday, 13 December 2019. 1930 hrs.

Illustration: @FatherTF

Saint Sabbas. Abbot. Feast Day 5 December.

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Saint Sabbas.
   Abbot.
   Feast Day 5 December.

Simple.

White Vestments.

The Relics of Saint Sabbas in the Catholicon

(Main Church) of Mar Saba Monastery, West Bank.

Photo: 21 January 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: adriatikus.

(Wikimedia Commons)

He organised Monastic Communities in Palestine and Founded, among others, the Celebrated Monastery which bears his name.

He died 531 A.D. at the age of ninety-four.

Mass: Os justi.
Commemoration: Of Saint Sabbas, in The Ferial Mass, by the Collects

   from the Mass: Os justi (Of Abbots).

Saint Barbara. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 4 December.

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Saint Barbara.
   Virgin And Martyr.
   Feast Day 4 December.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Barbara Altarpiece.

Artist: Wilhelm Kalteysen (1420–1496).

Date: 1447.

Collection: National Museum in Warsaw.

Note: Painted for Saint Barbara's Church, Wrocław, Poland (today an Orthodox Church).

Initially a Polyptych. The Wings were lost during World War II.

Source/Photographer: GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE

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Saint Barbara died in Asia Minor about 235 A.D. She is included in "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints".

Mass: Loquébar.

Combined pictures of Front and Back of Order of Saint Barbara Medallion,

Patron Saint of Artillerymen.

Photo: 29 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Hardnfast

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Saint Barbara.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Saint Barbara (Greek: Αγία Βαρβάρα, Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ), Feast Day 4 December, known in The Eastern Orthodox Church as The Great Martyr Barbara, was an Early-Christian Greek Saint and Martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd-Century A.D. in Heliopolis, Syria, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon.

There is no reference to her in the authentic Early-Christian writings, nor in the original Recension of Saint Jerome's Martyrology. Her name can be traced to the 7th-Century A.D., and Veneration of her was common, especially in The East, from the 9th-Century A.D.

Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was removed from The General Roman Calendar in The 1969 Revision, though not from The Catholic Church's List of Saints.

Saint Barbara is often portrayed with miniature Chains and a Tower. As one of The Fourteen Holy Helpers, Barbara continues to be a popular Saint in modern times, perhaps best known as The Patron Saint of Armourers, Artillerymen, Military Engineers, Miners, and others who work with Explosives, because of her old legend's association with Lightning, and also of Mathematicians. Many of the thirteen Miracles in a 15th-Century French version of her story turn on the security she offered, that her devotees would not die without making Confession and receiving Extreme Unction.

Saint Peter Chrysologus. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 4 December.

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unless stated otherwise.

Saint Peter Chrysologus.
   Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church.
   Feast Day 4 December.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Peter Chrysologus.

Artist: School of Guercino.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source/Photographer: it.wikipedia.org

Collection: Diocesan Museum Blessed Pope Pius IX, Imola, Italy.

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Saint Peter Chrysologus gained the name Chrysologus, which means "Speech of Gold", by his great eloquence. As The Collect reminds us, his promotion to The See of Ravenna (433 A.D.), owing to an apparition of the Apostle Saint Peter to Pope Sixtus III, was miraculous.

"You are The Salt of The Earth . . . and The Light of The World," says the Gospel. "Preach The Word; be instant in Season, out of Season; reprove, entreat, rebuke . . . do the work of an Evangelist," continues the Epistle.

That was what Saint Peter Chrysologus did: He composed more than one hundred and sixty Homilies, full of learning, which earned him the Title of Doctor of The Church.

It was he who wrote this well-known saying: "He who amuses himself with Satan cannot rejoice with Christ."

He died at Imola in 450 A.D.

Let us listen lovingly to The Word of God.

Mass: In médio.
Commemoration: Of The Feria.

Commemoration: Of Saint Barbara.

The following Text is form Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Peter Chrysologus (Greek: Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Χρυσολόγος, Petros Chrysologos, meaning Peter The "Golden-Worded") (circa 380 A.D. – circa 450 A.D.), was Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 A.D. until his death. He is known as "The Doctor of Homilies” for the concise, but theologically rich, reflections that he delivered during his time as The Bishop of Ravenna.

He is revered as a Saint by The Roman Catholic Church and The Eastern Orthodox Church; he was declared a Doctor of The Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729.

Experience The Beauty And Tranquillity, And The Profundity And Sanctity, Of The Missa Cantata. Every Second Sunday Of Every Month. At Saint Simon Stock Church, Ashford, Kent. No Guitars. No Waving At Everybody.

“The Mass Of The Foundation Of The Trinitarian Order”.

Artist: Juan Carreño de Miranda.

Illustration: LOUVRE

The Victoria Consort sing

“In Dedicatione Templi”.

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English: “Ite Missa Est”.

High Tridentine Mass.

Italiano: “Ite Missa Est”.

Messa tridentina solenne.

Photo: June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lumen roma

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Saint Francis Xavier. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 3 December.

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

Saint Francis Xavier.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 3 December.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

Statue of Saint Francis Xavier, at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church,

in Superior, Wisconsin, United States of America.

Photo: 20 April 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Billertl

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), was touched, after a long resistance, by the words constantly repeated to him by Saint Ignatius Loyola: "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole World, and suffers the loss of his own Soul ?" He then became one of Saint Ignatius' most zealous fellow-workers in the newly-formed Society of Jesus (The Jesuits).

"Go ye into the whole World, and Preach the Gospel to every creature," says the Gospel. "Their sound hath gone forth into all the Earth, and their words unto the ends of the whole World," adds the Epistle.

This was the programme of the whole life of Saint Francis Xavier," whose Preaching and Miracles added to The Church the Nations of The Indies" (Collect). He Preached the Gospel there, and in Japan, to more than fifty Kingdoms, and converted innumerable pagans.

Let us share in the Apostolic zeal of this Saint, who has earned the glorious Title of Patron of The Propagation of The Faith; and let us help this work with our Prayers and our Alms.

Mass: Loquébar.
Commemoration: Of The Feria.

Saint Francis Xavier.

The Patron Saint of Missionaries.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Saint Francis Xavier, S.J. (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta, 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552), was a Navarrese-Basque Roman Catholic Missionary, born in Javier (Xavier in Navarro-Aragonese or Xabier in Basque), Kingdom of Navarre (now part of Spain), and a co-founder of The Society of Jesus. He was a companion of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits who took vows of Poverty and Chastity at Montmartre, Paris in 1534.

He led an extensive Mission into Asia, mainly in The Portuguese Empire of the time, and was influential in Evangelisation work, most notably in India. He also was the first Christian Missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, The Maluku Islands, and other areas. In those areas, struggling to learn the local languages and in the face of opposition, he had less success than he had enjoyed in India. Xavier was about to extend his Missionary Preaching to China, but died in Shangchuan Island shortly before he could do so.

Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Superior, Wisconsin, United States of America.

Illustration: SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH WEB-SITE

He was Beatified by Pope Saint Paul V on 25 October 1619 and was Canonised by Pope Gregory XV on 12 March 1622. In 1624, he was made Co-Patron of Navarre, Spain. Known as "The Apostle of The Indies," and "The Apostle of Japan", he is considered to be one of the greatest Missionaries since Saint Paul.

In 1927, Pope Pius XI published the Decree "Apostolicorum in Missionibus", naming Saint Francis Xavier, along with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Co-Patron of all Foreign Missions. He is now Co-Patron Saint of Navarre, Spain, with San Fermin. The Day of Navarre (Día de Navarra) marks the Anniversary of Saint Francis Xavier's death, on 3 December 1552.