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Traditional Catholic Faith => The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers => Topic started by: Fifteen Decades Daily on January 30, 2026, 05:27:55 PM
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For Saturday, January 31, 2026
Excerpts from Dom Gueranger's The Liturgical Year, Volume 4, pp. 106 ff.
On this day, the eve of Septuagesima, the Church uses a powerful means for infusing her own spirit into the minds of her children. She takes the song of heaven away from us: she forbids our further uttering that Alleluia which is so dear to us.
It is not a mere word, nor a profane, unmeaning melody; it is the song that recalls the land we are banished from, it is the sweet sigh of the soul longing to be at home.