"Christmas Is Coming, The Goose Is Getting Fat". Have You Finished Baking ? Are The Cards Posted ? Which Mass Are You Going To ?

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"Christmas Shopping".

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"Christmas is coming,

the Goose is getting fat . . ."

Sung by: John Denver and The Muppets.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/-TW7NiFZlhI?list=RD-TW7NiFZlhI

Artist: Muriel Dawson 

(1897-1974).

Illustration: PINTEREST

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Postmen of the British Empire.

Postcard from the private collection of Jennifer Drury.

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Seventh Day Within The Octave Of The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. 14 December.

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

Seventh Day within The Octave
      of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.
14 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition « Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée duLouvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit) im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de " Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

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The Ancients said that White was a Divine Colour. Daniel (vii. 9) depicts God as appearing clothed in White. The Evangelists tell us that, at The Transfiguration, the garments of Jesus were of "dazzling Whiteness" (Mark, ix. 2).

The Liturgy of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception applies this Text to The Virgin, saying that the "garment of Salvation" (Introit), with which God has clothed her, is a "vesture as White as snow" (Second Antiphon at Vespers).

Let us, with The Church, ask The Blessed Virgin on her Feast that we may "by her intercession be purified from all our sins" (Collect), and let us be in readiness to receive Jesus.

Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Second Collect: Of The Feria.

Third Collect: Of The Holy Ghost.

Creed: On account of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Sixth Day Within The Octave Of The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. 13 December.

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

Sixth Day within The Octave
      of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.
13 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition « Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée duLouvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit) im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de " Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

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Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Commemoration: Of The Feria.

Commemoration: Of Saint Lucy from Mass: Dilexísti.

Creed: On account of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Fifth Day Within The Octave Of The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. 12 December.

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

Fifth Day within The Octave
      of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.
12 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition « Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée duLouvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit) im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de " Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

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To show that The Mother of Jesus occupies a special place in her worship, The Church reserves for her a Preface, which is said at each of her Feasts, and in which are noted, at each particular Feast, the different Mysteries of The Life of Mary.

Wherefore, during all this Octave, the Priest declares "that it is fitting and salutary to render thanks to God on this Feast of The Immaculate Conception of Blessed Mary Ever Virgin, who conceived His only Son by the operation of The Holy Ghost and who, without losing her Virginity, gave birth to Jesus Christ Our Lord."

Let us give thanks to God for this privilege off The Immaculate Conception and also for The Feast, which celebrates it each year, allowing us to imitate more and more this model of all purity.

Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Second Collect: Of The Feria.

Third Collect: Of The Holy Ghost.

Creed: On account of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Yet Another Choir Practice For Midnight Mass On Christmas Eve.

Illustration: DENIEUWEBOEKERIJ

Fourth Day Within The Octave Of The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. 11 December.

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

Fourth Day within The Octave
      of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.
11 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition « Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée duLouvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit) im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de " Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

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Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Commemoration: Of The Feria.

Commemoration: Of Saint Damasus from Mass: Sacerdótes tui.

Creed: On account of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Saint Damasus I. Pope. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 11 December.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Damasus I.

Pope and Confessor.

Feast Day 11 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: 19th-Century imagined portrait of Pope Saint Damasus I

(Papacy 366 A.D.-384 A.D.).

Português: Lithography of Pope Saint Damasus I (Lisboa, 1840).

Source: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal: http://purl.pt/6209/1/

Institution: National Library of Portugal.

Author: Pedro Augusto Guglielmi.

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Pope Saint Damasus I, of Spanish extraction, succeeded Pope Liberius in the See of Saint Peter in 366 A.D. He thus shared the dignity of thee one whom the Epistle calls "the Holy Pontiff, innocent without stain, higher than the heavens".

He governed The Church seventeen years and showed himself the faithful and prudent servant mentioned in the Gospel, to whom "The Lord entrusts His family to be nourished by him in due Season."

The Era of Persecution being over, that of heresy began with the 4th-Century A.D. Wherefore, Pope Saint Damasus I confirmed the Second Ecumenical Council, which, at Constantinople, had condemned Arianism and Macedonianism  (381 A.D.). Saint Jerome, by Pope Saint Damasus I's command, translated The New Testament into Latin (from Greek).

This holy Pope increased the beauty of worship by his rules for the singing of Psalms, and by decreeing that thee Gloria Patri should be said at the end of Psalms, thus Baptising them, so to speak, in The Trinity. He adorned the Catacombs with artistic inscriptions, and died in 384 A.D.

Mass: Sacerdótes tui.

Commemoration: Of The Octave of The Immaculate Conception.

Commemoration: Of The Feria.

The Creed is said: On account of The Octave of The Immaculate Conception.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Saint Melchiades. Pope. Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 10 December.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Melchiades.

Pope and Martyr.
Feast Day 10 December.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Pope Saint Melchiades
(the alternate spelling of his name, Miltiades, is used on this illustration)
was Pope from 311 A.D. - 314 A.D.
This illustration is from The Lives and Times of the Popes by Chevalier Artaud de Montor, New York: The Catholic Publication Society of America, 1911. It was originally published in 1842.
Date: 6 June 2013.
Source: http://archive.org/details/livesofpopes01artauoft
Author: Artaud de Montor (1772–1849).
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English: Emblem of The Papacy.

Triple Tiara and Keys.

Deutsch: Emblem des Pontifikats.

Français: emblème pontifical.

Italiano: emblema del Papato.

Português: Emblema papal.

Date: 19 January 2007.

Source: various elements taken from: 

File:Coat of arms Holy See.svg;

Image:Emblem of the Papacy.svg; 

Image:Escudo Benatae.svg

Author: Cronholm144 created this image using a file by User:Hautala - File:Emblem of Vatican City State.svg, who had created his file using PD art from Open Clip Art Library and uploaded

on 13 July 2006. User talk:F l a n k e ruploaded this version on 19 January 2007.

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"At Rome, the death of Saint Melchiades, Pope, who, after undergoing great sufferings in the Persecution of Maximian, saw Peace restored to The Church and died peacefully in 314 A.D." (Roman Martyrology).

Mass: Státuit.

Wikipedia states: "Melchiades was the first Pope to see the end of Roman Persecution of Christians".

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Advent Lessons And Carols. St. Mary Church, 669 West Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut. Friday, 11 December 2015. 1900 hrs.

Saint Mary Church,

Norwalk, Connecticut,

United States of America.

Saint Mary Norwalk, 1960 (stmarynorwalk.net)

Illustration: EXAMINER.COM

Saint Mary Church,

Norwalk, Connecticut,

United States of America.

The Mother Church of Norwalk (LeonardPorter.com)

Illustration: EXAMINER.COM

Saint Mary Norwalk, 1906.

(stmarynorwalk.net)

Illustration: EXAMINER.COM

Third Day Within The Octave Of The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception. 10 December.

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

Third Day within The Octave
      of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.
10 December.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition « Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée duLouvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit) im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de " Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

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Mass: As on The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Commemoration: Of The Feria.

Commemoration: Of Saint Melchiades from Mass: Státuit.

Creed: On account of The Feast of The Immaculate Conception.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris.

Basilica of Notre-Dame de Paris,

France.

Illustration: INDULGY

English: Lower part of the front façade of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, at night. On the upper part, the twenty-eight Kings of Judea and Israel. On the lower part, from Left to Right, The Portal of The Virgin, The Portal of The Last Judgement, and The Portal of Saint-Anne. This picture is a mosaic of twelve photos.

Français: Partie basse de la façade ouest de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. La rangée du haut représente les 28 rois d'Israël et Judée ayant précédé le Christ. En dessous, et de gauche à droite, le portail de la Vierge, le portail du Jugement Dernier et le portail Saint-Anne. Cette image est constituée de douze photos.

日本語: 夜のノートルダム大聖堂下部ファサード。上部にユダヤとイスラエルの王28名の彫像が並ぶ。左側から聖母マリア、最後の審判、聖アンナの門。

Tiếng Việt: Mặt trước nhà thờ Đức Bà Paris. Phía trên là hàng tượng 28 vị vua của Judea

và Israel. Phía dưới, từ trái sang phải, ba cánh cổng lớn: cổng Đức Mẹ, cổng Phán

quyết cuối cùng và cổng Thánh Anne.

Date: 28 October 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Benh LIEU SONG.

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Ireland Overtakes China.

Rev. Fr. Willie Doyle (R.I.P.)

Father Willie Doyle, S.J., MC, or William Joseph Gabriel Doyle

(3 March 1873 – 16 August 1917), was an Irish Jesuit Priest

who was Killed-in-Action during The First World War.

Source: http://fatherdoyle.com/

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May Fr. Willie Doyle watch over his beloved Ireland

and Pray that it grows ever stronger in The Faith.

May he intercede to return Ireland to providing the World

with many Priests and Religious.

May the Irish nation return to its deep love for

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

and Devotion to The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

God Bless Ireland.

Until fairly recently, Ireland didn't even show up on the "Country Hit Register" for Zephyrinus' Blog. 

The previously-Number-One-Powerhouse-in-the-World, for generating Priests and Religious to Serve God, was conspicuous by its total absence in the Blog's "Country Hit Register".

On the contrary, even China, the World's new Super-Power, was climbing rapidly in the Register of Countries viewing this Blog.

Then . . .

Zephyrinus put up a Post on . . .

. . . The Church of The Sacred Heart, Limerick, Ireland, being saved from destruction by The Institute of Christ The King, Sovereign Priest. Plus, a Link was given to an Article, covering the same subject, on RORATE CAELI

The imminent loss of such a beautiful and much-loved Church in Limerick, Ireland, and the subsequent last-minute saving of such a totemic building, obviously aroused the Irish people's awareness of how low their Catholic Tradition had become in today's secular and liberal lifestyle.

Zephyrinus became aware of an immediate interest from Irish Readers of Articles appearing on this Blog. With Articles generally carrying a heavy affection and devotion to The Traditional Latin Mass (Usus Antiquior), it became obvious that there is a deep-rooted and much-loved devotion in Ireland for The Traditional Mass.

The only question was would the new interest from Irish Readers remain and grow ?

Now, Readers in Ireland will be delighted to know that, within the next two weeks, Ireland will overtake China in the "Country Hit Register" for this Blog.

Ireland is on the move !!!

Ireland awakes !!!

Let us Pray that Irish Seminaries will soon, again, pour forth devoted Priests and Religious.

If Fr Willie Doyle has anything to do with it, Zephyrinus is very hopeful.

Deo Gratias.

Don't Let Commercialism Dominate Your Preparations For The Nativity Of Our Lord.

The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth.

Artist: Carl Heinrich Bloch.

Source: Brigham Young University Museum of Art.

Author: Carl Heinrich Bloch.

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Holy Is His Name.

The Magnificat.

Sung by

Robert Kochis.

Art: Carl Heinrich Bloch.

Available on YouTube at

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sHF7N5PdB0aAU2dcqn2N4bR9JyxlR

My Soul proclaims the greatness of The Lord

And my Spirit exalts in God my Saviour

For He has looked with mercy on my lowliness

And my name will be forever exalted

For The Mighty God has done great things for me

And His Mercy will reach from age to age

And Holy, Holy, Holy is His Name

He has Mercy in every generation

He has revealed His Power and His Glory

He has cast down the mighty in their arrogance

And has lifted up the meek and the lowly

He has come to help His servant Israel

He remembered His promise to our Fathers

And Holy, Holy, Holy is His Name

And Holy, Holy, Holy is His Name

The Dogma Of The Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Promulgated By Blessed Pope Pius IX, In The Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus", On 8 December 1854.

Zephyrinus commends to all Readers the Article in UMBLEPIE
on The Dogma of The Immaculate Conception,
and the promulgation of "Ineffabilis Deus".

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition « Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée duLouvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit) im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de " Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

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Blessed Pope Pius IX.

Source: Originally from hu.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Author: Original uploader was User:Czinitz at hu.wikipedia

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