Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of the Apostle St. Andrew! (Read 1214 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** November 29, 2012, 10:44:40 PM »

Happy Feast Day of the Apostle St. Andrew!

From the Autumn volume of the Roman Breviary in English: Restored by the Sacred Council of Trent; Published by Order of the Supreme Pontiff St. Pius V, and Carefully Revised by Other Popes; Reformed by Order of Pope Pius X; According to the Vatican Typical Edition, with the New Psalter of Pope Pius XII; Compiled from Approved Sources (Ed. Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph A. Nelson; New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1950), here is the Office of the Apostle St. Andrew.

Note the exceedingly beautiful Responsories!

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:15:40 PM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the Mass and Vespers for the Feast Day of the Apostle St. Andrew.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:29:58 PM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the Preface recited or chanted at the Mass for the Feast Days of the Apostles and the Evangelists.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:58:43 PM »

Here is a commentary upon the Mass for the feast of the Apostle St. Andrew, taken from the late Cardinal Schuster's The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal (vol. III, trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1927).

St. Andrew is the Patron of Scotland. Please pray for the conversion of the Scottish people, that they may return to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and acknowledge the social sovereignty of Christ the King.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 30, 2012, 12:03:15 AM »

The Feast of St. Andrew commences the recitation of the miraculous Advent Prayer, which commemorates the Nativity of Our Lord for which we shall anon be preparing during the course the Advent season, and shall do so in a manner most pleasing before God if we imitate Saint Andrew in his heroic love of the Cross.

The text of the prayer is taken from tome Carmelite Devotions and Prayers for Special Feasts of the Liturgical Year, compiled by a Carmelite Tertiary (Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1956), which bears the Imprimatur of the Archbishop of Milwaukee, + Albert G. Meyer (dated 17 August 1956).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2012, 09:43:53 PM »

In the celebrated fourteenth chapter of his classic work The Love of the Eternal Wisdom (trans. A. Somers S.M.M.; Philadelphia, Penn.: The Peter Reilly Company, 1949), St. Louis-Marie de Montfort cites the Office of Saint Andrew given above.

Herein is the adorable wisdom and sweetness wherewith the Holy Ghost guides Holy Mother Church in her Sacred Liturgy to be seen and admired: the great Apostle Saint Andrew, with the illustrious example of his love for the Cross crimsoned with Martyred glory, begins the Sanctoral cycle of the Roman Breviary and Missal, and oftentimes is as a herald announcing the imminent commencement of the sacred season of Advent; that the faithful may bear in mind that the Passion and Cross of Our Lord is ever to be remembered even whilst venerating the Mysteries of the Incarnation and Nativity.

For Jesus Christ can never be separated from His beloved Cross, for which His Sacred Heart yearned ardently even from the moment He took abode in the immaculate womb of His Virgin Mother: for by the Cross He would repair the injustices whereby the majesty and sanctity of His Father had been outraged, and redeem fallen mankind. The Cross reconciled the love the Sacred Heart has for the God the Father, co-substantial and co-equal unto Himself, who together with the Holy Ghost, is the God of infinite majesty and ineffable holiness, and for the which reason the slightest sin is the worst catastrophe possible; and the love He bore to man, who by reason of his own fault had doomed himself and his progeny to the reprobation from which only a God all maddened by a love rivaling his omnipotence (as Saint Alphonsus often wrote) would and could save by bestowing graces infinitely greater than his primeval innocence in Eden in such a wondrous manner.

Sigismund · « **Reply #6 on:** November 30, 2012, 10:40:50 PM »