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

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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.

Feast of The Immaculate Conception

of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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

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., 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.

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.

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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“Gaudens Gaudébo In Domino, Et Exultábit Ánima Mea In Deo Meo”. “I Will Greatly Rejoice In The Lord, And My Soul Shall Be Joyful In My God”.

“I Am The Immaculate Conception”.

“Ego Sum Immaculata Conceptio”.

Author: Lawrence OP on FLICKR

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“Gaudens Gaudébo In Domino,

Et Exultábit Ánima  Mea In Deo Meo”.

“I Will Greatly Rejoice In The Lord,

And My Soul Shall Be Joyful In My God”.

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

Volume 1.
   Advent.
     8 December.
         The Immaculate Conception of The Most Blessed Virgin.

At length, on the distant horizon, rises, with a soft and radiant light, the aurora of the Sun which has been so long desired.

The happy Mother of the Messias was to be born before the Messias, Himself; and this is the day of the Conception of Mary.

The Earth already possesses a first pledge of the Divine Mercy; The Son of Man is near at hand. Two true Israelites, Joachim and Anne, noble branches of the family of David, find their union, after a long barren-ness, made fruitful by the Divine Omnipotence.

Glory be to God, Who has been mindful of His promises, and Who deigns to announce, from the high Heavens, the end of the deluge of iniquity, by sending upon the Earth the sweet White Dove that bears the tidings of Peace !

The Feast of The Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most Solemn of all those which The Church Celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the Cycle had to offer us the Commemoration of some one of the Mysteries of Mary, there was none whose object could better harmonise with the spirit of The Church in this Mystic Season of Expectation.

Let us, then, Celebrate this Solemnity with joy; for the Conception of Mary tells us that the Birth of Jesus is not far off.

The intention of The Church, in this Feast, is not only to Celebrate the anniversary of the happy moment in which began, in the womb of the pious Anne, the life of the ever-glorious Virgin Mary, but also to honour the sublime privilege, by which Mary was preserved from the original stain, which, by a sovereign and universal decree, is contracted by all the children of Adam the very moment they are conceived in their mother’s womb.

The Faith of The Catholic Church on the subject of the Conception of Mary is this: That, at the very instant when God united the Soul of Mary, which He had created, to the body which it was to animate, this Ever-Blessed Soul did not only not contract the stain, but was filled with an immeasurable Grace which rendered her, from that moment, the Mirror of the Sanctity of God, Himself, as far as this is possible to a creature.

The Church, with her infallible authority, declared, by the lips of Blessed Pope Pius IX, that this Article of Faith had been revealed by God, Himself.

The Definition was received with enthusiasm by the whole of Christendom, and the 8th of December of the year 1854 was thus made one of the most memorable days of The Church’s history.

The following is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Mass: Gaudens Gaudébo In Domino.
Commemoration of the Feria is made.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin. “Et te in Conceptióne Immaculáta”, which is said during the Octave.

“ What Is The Immaculate Conception ? ”

“ What Is The Immaculate Conception ? ”

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Divine Solemn High Mass. The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. 8 December 2023. Church Of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

Divine Solemn High Mass.

Feast Of The Immaculate Conception.

8 December 2023.

Church Of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

Available on YouTube

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First Vespers Of The Immaculate Conception. Premières Vêpres De l'Immaculée Conception.

First Vespers Of The Immaculate Conception.

Premières Vêpres De l'Immaculée Conception.

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HERE

Requiem Pour Napoleon III Et l’Imperatrice Eugénie. Requiem For Napoleon III And Empress Eugénie. Farnborough Abbey. 22 August 2019.

Requiem pour Napoleon III 

et l’Imperatrice Eugenie.

Introit et Kyrie.

Farnborough Abbey.

22 August 2019.

Sung by: Schola Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

Available on YouTube

HERE

“De Profundis”.

Sung by: Schola Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

Available on YouTube

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Messe de Requiem célébrée par le Révérendissime Père Abbé de l'Abbaye de Farnborough (Angleterre), Dom Cuthbert Brogan, le 22 août 2019 lors de notre pèlerinage en Angleterre. 

Dans la crypte de l'Abbaye de Farnborough, fondée par l'Impératrice Eugènie au cours de son exil, sont inhumés l'empereur Napoléon III, l'impératrice et leur fils unique, le Prince Impérial Louis-Napoléon, tragiquement tué en Afrique du Sud sous l'uniforme anglais. 

L'impératrice Eugénie fut la marraine de notre paroisse Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile lors de sa fondation en 1855, dont elle a contribué au financement de la construction. 

Il était juste de lui rendre le témoignage 

de notre gratitude par notre prière. 

Musique : Introït et Kyrie de la Messe de Requiem 

composée par le chanoine Nicolas-Mammès Couturier 

(1840 † 1911), maître de chapelle de la cathédrale de Langres (messe composée pour les funérailles des évêques de Langres car elle met en musique les cinq absoutes réservées 

aux princes et aux évêques).

“Pulcherrima Rosa”. 15th-Century Motel To The Blessed Virgin Mary. Played By: Jan Garbarek And The Hilliard Ensemble.

“Pulcherrima Rosa”.

15th-Century Motet To The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Played By: Jan Garbarek And The Hilliard Ensemble.

Available On YouTube

HERE

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

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

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

Satan Has No Creativity.

The Vigil Of

The Immaculate Conception

Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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The Carthusian Office Of Vigils.

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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 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.

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

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

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Ambrose, born at Treves (Trier, Germany) 335 A.D., is 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.

Saint Ambrose.

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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 of the Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

   Volume 1.
   Advent.

      Saint Ambrose.

      Bishop.

      Doctor Of The Church.

      7 December.

This illustrious Pontiff was deservedly placed in the Calendar of The Church side by side with the glorious Bishop of Myra [Editor: Saint Nicholas].

Saint Nicholas confessed, at Nicæa, the Divinity of The Redeemer; Saint Ambrose, in his City of Milan, was the object of hatred of the Arians, and, by his invincible courage, triumphed over the enemies of Christ.

Let Ambrose, then, unite his voice, as Doctor of The Church, with that of Saint Peter Chrysologus, and Preach to the World the glories and humiliations of The Messias.

But, as Doctor of The Church, he has a special claim to our veneration; It is, that among the bright luminaries of The Latin Church, four great masters head the list of Sacred Interpreters of The Faith: Saint Gregory; Saint Augustine; Saint Jerome; and, then, our glorious Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, makes up the mystic number.

Ambrose owes his noble postion in the Calendar of The Church to the ancient custom of The Church, whereby, in the early ages, no Saint’s Feast was allowed to be kept in Lent.

The day of Ambrose’s departure from this World, and of his entrance into Heaven, was the fourth of April, which, more frequently than not, comes during Lent; so that it was requisite that the memory of his Sacred death should be solemnised on some other day, and the seventh of December naturally presented itself for such a Feast, inasmuch as it was the anniversary-day of Ambrose’s Consecration as Bishop.

But, independently of these considerations, the road which leads us to Bethlehem [Editor: “House of Bread”] could be perfumed by nothing so fragrant as this Feast of Saint Ambrose.

Does not the thought of this Saintly and amiable Bishop impress us with the image of dignity and sweetness combined, and of the strength of the Lion united with the gentleness of the Dove ?

Time removes the deepest human impressions; but the memory of Ambrose is as vivid and dear in men’s minds as though he were still among us. Who can ever forget the young, yet staid and learned Governor of Liguria and Emilia, who comes to Milan as a simple Catechumen, and finds himself forced, by the acclamations of the people, to ascend the Episcopal throne of this great City ?

And how indelibly impressed upon us are certain touching incidents of his early life ! For instance, that beautiful presage of his irresistible eloquence — the swarm of Bees coming round him as he was sleeping one day in his father’s garden, and entering into his mouth, as though they would tell us how sweet that babe’s words would be !

And the prophetic gravity with which Ambrose, when quite a boy, would hold out his hand to his mother and sister, bidding them kiss it, for that one day it would be the hand of a Bishop !

Procession In Paris For The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. Sunday, 8 December 2024.

Illustration: 

Saint-Eugène - Sainte Cécile Catholic Parish

As every year on 8 December, we Celebrate 

The Immaculate Conception with a Procession, 

twinned with the Saint-Roch Parish.

In the heart of the streets of Paris, this public manifestation 

of our Devotion to The Holy Virgin is an important and strong testimony: Let us not miss this opportunity, and offer this time for the Souls we will meet.

Sunday, 8 December 2024.

5:45 p.m: Gregorian Vespers at Saint-Eugène, Paris.

6:30 p.m: Start of the Procession.

7:15 p.m: Arrival at Saint-Roch, Paris.

Zephyrinus Has Been Invited To Spend Christmas With Friends In The Highlands, Scotland. He’s Travelling On The Caledonian Railway And Perkins (Chauffeur) Wants To Come Along !!!

Illustration: PINTEREST

Zephyrinus is looking forward to spending Christmas with several very good friends in The Highlands, Scotland.

Divine Midnight Mass for Christmas, good company, good fishing, excellent Scottish Whisky, and lots of bracing walks among the beautiful mountains.

However, Perkins (Chauffeur) is insisting on coming along

“to ensure the brandy and whisky keys do not get lost, Sir”.

Zephyrinus is worried !!!

Perkins (Chauffeur), looking “ever so ’umble”, offers

to look after the keys to the brandy and whisky cabinets !!!

Image: Punch’s Almanack 1869.

Illustration: ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

If Readers have any helpful opinions or tips on how to deal with Perkins, please leave your suggestions (polite ones, please) in the Comments Section. Thank You.

Gregorius Magnus 18 Now Published.

Gregorius Magnus 18 is now published !!!

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In this issue, we commemorate Michael Davies,

20 years after his death.

The Petitions in favour of The Traditional Mass.

Plus news, comment, and features from 

Australia, Nigeria, France, and around the World.

The Divine Sung Holy Mass For The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. Sainte Messe De La Fête De L'Immaculée Conception. 8 December 2022.

The Divine Sung Holy Mass

For The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception.

Sainte Messe De La Fête De L'Immaculée Conception.

The 2022 Mass was shown on YouTube

HERE

“Requiem Officium Defunctorum”. The Tallis Scholars. Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611).

“Requiem Officium Defunctorum”

(Requiem Mass Of The Dead).

Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria 

(1548 - 1611).

Sung By: The Tallis Scholars.

Director: Peter Phillips.

Available on YouTube at

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Tomás Luis de Victoria (Italianised as “da Vittoria” (1548 – 1611) was the most famous Composer in 16th-Century Spain, and was one of the most important Composers of The Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.

Victoria was not only a Composer but also an accomplished Organist and Singer, as well as a Catholic Priest. However, he preferred the life of a Composer to that of a performer.[1]

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

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

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

Double.

White Vestments.

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

written for the De Grey family, Ruthin, Wales, circa 1390.

Cymraeg: Llyfr Llyfr Oriau “De Grey”.

Collection: National Library of Wales.

Source/Photographer:

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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.

This Is The Latin Mass.

This Is The Latin Mass.

Available on YouTube

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Christmas Services at Gloucester Cathedral.

Christmas Services at Gloucester Cathedral

Can be found

HERE

Gloucester Cathedral.

Illustrations: GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

Christmas Services At Durham Cathedral.

Illustration: DURHAM CATHEDRAL

Christmas Services

at Durham Cathedral

can be found HERE

Saint Sabbas. Abbot. Feast Day 5 December.

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

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

Cardinal Burke Invites You For A Nine-Day Novena. The Culmination Of The Nine-Month Novena To Our Lady Of Guadalupe.

Cardinal Burke Invites You For A Nine-Day Novena.

The Culmination Of The Nine-Month Novena 

To Our Lady Of Guadalupe.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Plus, Cardinal Burke’s Web-Site,

HERE

The First Wednesday Of Advent.

 

Text is from “The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

   Volume 1.

   Advent.

Jerusalem is tending to her destruction; therefore, she is losing all power, and, with the rest, the power of understanding. She no longer knows whither she is going, and she sees not the abyss into which she is plunging.

Such are all those men, who never give a thought to the coming of the Sovereign Judge; they are men of whom Moses said in his Canticle: “They are a nation without counsel and without wisdom. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end !”

The Son of God comes now in the swaddling-clothes of a weak Babe, in the humility of a servant, and, to speak with the Prophets, as the dew which falls softly drop by drop; but it will not always be so.

This Earth also, which now is the scene of our sins and our hard-heartedness, will perish before the face of the angry Judge; and, if we have made it the one object of our love, to what shall we then cling ?

“A sudden death which has happened in your presence,” says Saint John Chrysostom, “or an earthquake, or the bare threat of some dire calamity, terrifies and prostrates you: What then shall it be when the whole Earth shall sink beneath your feet; when you shall see all nature in disorder; when you shall hear the sound of the last trumpet; when the Sovereign Master of the universe shall appear before you in the fullness of His Majesty ?

“Perchance you have seen criminals dragged to punishment; Did they not see to die twenty times before they reached the place of execution, and before the executioner could lay his hands on them, fear had crushed out life ?”

Oh !, the terror of that last day ! How is it that men can expose themselves to such misery, when to avoid it, they have but to open their hearts to Him, Who is now coming to them in gentlest love, asking them to give Him a place in their Souls, and promising to shelter them from the wrath to come, if they will but receive Him !

Oh, Jesus, who can withstand Thy anger at the last day ? Now, Thou art our Brother, our Friend, a little Child Who is to be born for us: We will therefore make covenant with Thee; so that, loving Thee now in Thy first coming, we may not fear Thee in the second.

When Thou comest in that second one, bid Thy Angels to approach us, and say to us those thrilling words: “It is well !”

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

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
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.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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 encyclopædia.

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.

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

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

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

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

Mass: Loquébar.

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

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Barbara.

Available on YouTube at

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Saint Barbara (Greek: Αγία Βαρβάρα, Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ), whose Feast Day is 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 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.