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Showing posts with label Our Lady. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Lady. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2017

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Feb 2)

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Presentation at the Temple by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1342 This feast has acquired several names over the centuries - the Purification o...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Our Lady of Guadelupe (December 12)

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In 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared four times before Juan Diego and one more before Juan Diego's uncle. The first apparition occurr...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Class I

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From Ineffabilis Deus , the Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius IX on the Immaculate Conception (December 8, 1854):  "We declare,...
Monday, November 21, 2016

November 21: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, Class III; St Columbanus, Memorial

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c1460-5 The basis for the feast of the Presentation lies in the infancy narrative contained in the  Protoevangelium of James , which wa...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

St Stephen of Hungary (OF)/St Joachim (EF), Aug 16

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In the ordinary form, today is the feast of St Stephen of Hungary (c967-1038), of whom the martyrology (of 15 August) says: "At ...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

August 15: The Assumption of Our Lady

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The Assumption is perhaps the most important of the Marian feast of the year, and a Holy Day of Obligation (even in countries that h...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Presentation of the BVM (November 21)

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It is also today the memorial of St Columba: "In the monastery of Bobio, the departure from this life of St. Columban, abbot, wh...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Seven Sorrows of the BVM (EF/Ben62)/Our Lady of Sorrows (OF)

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This is one of those rare feasts that still (even in the Ordinary Form, at least as an option) retain a sequence, viz the Stabat Mater.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Most Holy Name of Mary (EF/OF), September 12

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Not, for some reason, included in the 1962 Benedictine calendar, but certainly in the calendar of the Universal Church. C17th Battle o...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

St Timothy (Benedictine)/Immaculate Heart of Mary (EF)/Queenship of the BVM - Aug 22

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 Jacopo di Montepulciano, c1340  From the martyrology: "At Rome, on the Ostian road, the birthday of the holy martyr Timothy....
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Assumption of the BVM (Aug 15)

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St Maximilian Kolbe (OF)/Vigil of the Assumption (EF/Benedictine), Aug 14

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Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, O.F.M. Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in th...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

SS Anne and Joachim, parents of the BVM

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Tradition, drawing on the (non-canonical but very early) Gospel of James, gives us Saints Joachim and Anne as the names of the father ...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Feast of the Visitation (July 2)

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Jacques Daret c1434 In Verbum Domini, Pope Benedict XVI commented on the story of the Visitation as follows: "This close relations...
Monday, April 16, 2012

St Bernadette Soubirous (April 16): visions of Our Lady

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From the martyrology: "In the city of Nevers in France, St. Mary Bernard Soubirous of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity, a...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Feast of Mary, Mother of God? (aka New Year, aka Circumcision of Christ aka Octave Day of Christmas)

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This Sunday's feast is curious in that it has undergone a number of name changes in recent years - yet retained its key text, viz  St ...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

September 8: Nativity of the BVM, Class II

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

July 2: The Visitation, Class II

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Monday, May 23, 2011

May 24: Our Lady Help of Christians: world day of prayer for China

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Today is the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, patroness of Australia and New Zealand and other places, so do spare a prayer for the co...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

May 7: Office of Our Lady on Saturday in Eastertide***

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Just a little note to point out that the Monastic Diurnal omits an important rubric in the Office of Our Lady during Eastertide, namely the ...