Advent. Part One.

Text taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)

Advent. Volume 1. St. Bonaventure Publications, www.libers.com

Originally published 1949.

Republished by St. Bonaventure Publications, July 2000.

Illustrations taken from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

who reproduce them, with the kind permission of St. Bonaventure Press, from 

The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 1952 Edition.

"See the fig tree and all the trees; when they now shoot forth their fruit, 

you know that Summer is nigh; 

so you, also, when you shall see these things come to pass, 

know that the Kingdom of God is at hand."

CHAPTER THE FIRST

The History of Advent

The name, Advent, (from the Latin word, Adventus, which signifies a Coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year during which The Church requires the Faithful to prepare for the Celebration of The Feast of Christmas, the Anniversary of the Birth of Jesus Christ.

The Mystery of that Great Day had every right to the honour of being prepared for, by Prayer and Works of Penance; and, in fact, it is impossible to state, with any certainty, when this Season of Preparation (which had long been observed before receiving its present name of Advent) was first instituted.

It would seem, however, that its observance first began in the West, since it is evident that Advent could not have been looked on as a Preparation for The Feast of Christmas, until that Feast was definitively fixed to the 25th of December; which was done in the East only towards the close of the 4th-Century; whereas it is certain that The Church of Rome kept the Feast on that day at a much earlier period.

John sent two of his Disciples to Christ.

We must look upon Advent in two different lights: First, as a time of Preparation, properly so called, for the Birth of Our Saviour, by works of Penance; and, secondly, as a series of Ecclesiastical Offices drawn up for the same purpose.

We find, as far back as the 5th-Century, the custom of giving exhortations to the people in order to prepare them for the Feast of Christmas. We have two Sermons of Saint Maximus of Turin on this subject, not to speak of several others, which were formerly attributed to Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, but which were probably written by Saint Cesarius of Arles.

If these documents do not tell us what was the duration and what the exercises of this Holy Season, they at least show us how ancient was the practice of distinguishing the time of Advent by special Sermons.

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PART TWO FOLLOWS

Ave Maria. Olga Szyrowa (Soprano). 2004. Pasja / The Passion Of The Christ. How Not To Love You, Maria (Diana Navarro - "Mare Mine" In Latin And Spanish).

Illustration: IN CAELO ET IN TERRA

"Ave Maria".

Olga Szyrowa (Soprano).

Pasja / The Passion of the Christ.

2004.

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Ave Maria - Olga Szyrowa (Sopran) (M.Lorenc) ścieżka dźwiękowa z film - Prowokator Fragmenty z filmu Mela Gibsona - Pasja / Passion of the Christ, The (2004).

Ave Maria performed by the Russian opera singer, Olga Szyrowa.

The soundtrack comes from the Polish movie, Prowokator (1995).

Composer of all songs for the movie is Michał Lorenc.

"How Not To Love You, Maria".

(Diana Navarro - "Mare mine" in Latin and Spanish).

Album: "24 Rosas" (Diana Navarro, 2007)

Available on YouTube at

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The Church Of The Holy Innocents, New York, Is Now Saved. Deo Gratias.

Illustration: THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS

Illustration: THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS

There was a highly-successful Petition to Save Holy Innocents Church.

See the Video on YouTube that contributed to the Saving Of Holy Innocents Church.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/6I6YWal0Fdk.

It might be a good thing to write to Cardinal Dolan,

to thank him for Saving Holy Innocents Church, New York.

You can write to the Cardinal at this address:

His Eminence

Timothy Cardinal Dolan,

Cardinal Archbishop of New York,

1011 First Avenue,

New York NY 10022,

United States of America.

His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan,

Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York.

Date: 19 May 2009.

Source: ARCHBISHOP TIMOTHY DOLAN (13)

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Author: Cy White from Milwaukee, Milwaukee.

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English: Coat-of-Arms of U.S. Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan,

Archbishop of New York.[1]

Español: Escudo de armas del cardenal estadounidense Timothy Michael Dolan,

Arzobispo de Nueva York.

Blazon: 

Arms impaled. Dexter: Argent; upon a saltair between four crosses Gules a mill-sail of the field. Sinister: Azure, upon a fess Argent a crown Gules between two scrolls Proper; in chief two crescents, the one to dexter of the second, the one to sinister Or; in base another crescent of the last.

Date: 17 January 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: SajoR.

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Consider The Lilies Of The Field, How They Grow: They Labour Not, Neither Do They Spin. But I Say To You, That Not Even Solomon In All His Glory Was Arrayed As One Of These.

Text from Saint Matthew,
Chapter 6,
Douay-Rheims Version.

Field of Lilies.

Tiffany Studios.

Circa 1910.

Photo: May 2006.

Source: I took this photo at the Richard H. Driehaus Gallery

of Stained Glass, on the Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Author: Daderot.

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Behold the birds of the air,

For they neither sow,

Nor do they reap,

Nor gather into barns,

And your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Are not you of much more value than they ?

And which of you by taking thought,

Can add to his stature one cubit ?

And for raiment why are you solicitous ?

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;

They labour not, neither do they spin.

But I say to you,

That not even Solomon in all his glory,

Was arrayed as one of these.

And if the grass of the field,

Which is today,

And tomorrow is cast into the oven,

God doth so clothe:

How much more you,

O ye of little faith ?

I'll Have What She's Having.

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The Blessed Virgin Mary. Queen Of Heaven. Queen Of The Angels.

   

English: Crowning of The Virgin Mary in Heaven

by The Holy Trinity.

Español: Coronación de la Virgen.

Deutsch: Die Krönung Marias.

Artist: Diego Velázquez (1599–1660).

Date: Circa 1645.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/

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The Presentation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 21 November.

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

The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 21 November.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Presentation of The Virgin Mary (detail).

Titian (1490–1576).

Italiano: Tiziano. Presentazione al Tempio (dettaglio).

Date: 1534 - 1538.

Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.

Source: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.

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After having Solemnised, on 8 September, the Nativity of The Blessed Virgin, and, four days later, the Feast of The Holy Name of Mary, a name given to her a short time before her Birth, the Cycle celebrates on this day The Presentation in the Temple of The Child of Benediction.

These first three Feasts of Mary's Cycle are an echo of the Christological Cycle, which, likewise, celebrates: The Birth of Jesus, 25 December; the Imposition of His Holy Name, 2 January; and His Presentation in the Temple, 2 February.

English: The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple.

Italiano: Presentazione di maria al tempio.

Artist: Alfonso Boschi.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di), 

La chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano, 

Becocci Editore, Firenze 2006.

Author: sailko.

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The Feast of The Presentation of Mary is founded on a pious tradition, originated by two apocryphal Gospels, which relate that The Blessed Virgin was Presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, when three years old, and that she lived there, with other girls and the Holy Women, who had them in their care. Already in the 6th-Century, the event is Commemorated in the East and the Emperor, Michael Comnenus, alludes to it in a Constitution of 1166.

Deutsch: de:Klosterkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Dillingen an der Donau) 

der Dillinger Franziskanerinnen in Dillingen an der Donau, 

Fresko mit der Darstellung des Tempelganges Mariens.

English: Fresco of The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Monastery Church of the Assumption, 

Dillingen-on-the-Danube, Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 26 September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

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A French nobleman, Philippe de Maizières, who was Chancellor at the Court of the King of Cyprus, having been sent in 1372 as Ambassador to Pope Gregory XI, at Avignon, related to the Pope with what magnificence the Feast was Solemnised in Greece, on 21 November. His Holiness introduced the Feast at Avignon and Pope Sixtus V introduced it at Rome in 1585. Pope Clement VIII raised it to the Rank of Greater-Double and re-arranged the Office.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

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