Author Topic: First Sunday of Advent (Read 2354 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** December 01, 2012, 03:23:22 AM »

From the Winter 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 for the first Sunday of Advent.

Note the exceedingly beautiful Responsories, especially the first and celebrated Responsory Aspiciens a longe!

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:26:59 AM »

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 first Sunday of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:30:17 AM »

From The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite in Latin and English for Every Day in the Year (Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1953), here is the Preface of the Most Holy Trinity.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:34:06 AM »

Here is a commentary upon the Mass for the first Sunday of Advent, taken from the late Cardinal Schuster's The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal (vol. I, trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1924).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:39:11 AM »

From the celebrated work of Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, The Liturgical Year (Vol. I; trans. Dom Laurence Shepherd; Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1949), here is a commentary upon the Mass for the first Sunday of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:43:29 AM »

From the great Rev. Father Cornelius J. Ryan's The Epistles of the Sundays and Festivals with an Introduction, Notes and Moral Reflections, (Vol. I; Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1932), here is a commentary upon the Epistle lesson for the Mass of the first Sunday of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:47:20 AM »

From the work of the great scholar Rev. Father Cornelius J. Ryan, The Gospels of the Sundays and Festivals with an Introduction, Parallel Passages, Notes and Moral Reflections (Vol. I; Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd., 1914), here is a commentary upon the Gospel lesson for the Mass of the first Sunday of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** December 01, 2012, 07:38:12 PM »

Del Misal completo latino-español para uso de los fieles, editado por los sacerdotes Jesuitas Valentín M. Sánchez Ruiz y Eduardo Espert (Madrid: Editorial Apostolado de la Prensa, S. A., 1958), he aquí la Misa del Domingo primero de Adviento, para los católicos de habla hispana.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #8 on:** December 01, 2012, 07:42:24 PM »

From The Dominican Missal in Latin and English (Oxford: Blackfriars Publications, 1948), here is the Mass of the first Sunday of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #9 on:** December 01, 2012, 07:58:14 PM »

From The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite in Latin and English for Every Day in the Year (Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1953), here is the Mass of the first Sunday of Advent.

Note the Gospel lesson proper to the Carmelite Rite: the account of Our Lord's glorious entrance unto the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday according to Saint Matthew. This is fitting indeed, as this Gospel lesson coalesces the reminiscence of the sacred Mysteries which Holy Mother Church now presents for the contemplation of the faithful during Advent, and which she will present during Passiontide: to wit, the Incarnation and Nativity, together with the dolorous Passion and Death of Our Lord.

Jesus Christ can never be separated from the Cross for which His Sacred Heart yearned since the moment of the Incarnation.

Sigismund · « **Reply #10 on:** December 01, 2012, 10:36:59 PM »

A blessed Advent to all your Latin rite folks who are just getting started. :smile:

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #11 on:** December 02, 2012, 11:08:28 AM »

Quote from: Sigismund

A blessed Advent to all your Latin rite folks who are just getting started. :smile:

When does the Byz rite start?

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #12 on:** December 03, 2012, 12:12:03 AM »

During the recitation of the Holy Rosary today, whilst making petitions as I prayed Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis..., it suddenly entered into my mind to implore Our Lady for the graces and interior irradiation requisite to persevere in the cultivation of the interior life during Advent in such wise so as to adapt the words of the Introit of today's Mass:

Ad te levavi anima mea, Sancta Maria, Mater Dei mei, in te confido, non erubescam; vias Filii tui, demonstra mihi, et semitas tuas edoce me, quia a temporibus antiquis tu dixisti in scripturis sacris, "Beati qui custodiunt vias meas" (Prov. cap. viii., 32), "Unto thee do I lift up my soul, O Holy Mary, Mother of my God: in thee do I confide, and I shall not be confounded; do thou show unto me the ways of thy Son, and do thou instruct me in thy paths, for of old thou didst say in the Sacred Scriptures, 'Blessed are they who keep my ways' (Prov. cap. viii., 32)."

It also entered into my mind how marvelous is the wisdom of Holy Mother Church in inaugurating the ecclesiastical year and the Season of Advent at the Station of Santa Maria Maggiore, that we may behold that just as by the Blessed Virgin did the only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father ingress unto the world by operation of the Holy Ghost in the redemptive Incarnation, and thus began the salvation of mankind, so is the Blessed Trinity to sanctify souls by means of the patronage and tutelage of the same glorious Mother of God.

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort did not teach any new doctrine in his treatises upon the holy slavery of the soul to Jesus through Mary, but merely epitomized the teachings of Sacred Scripture and Holy Tradition, of the Roman Pontiffs, Œcuмecial Councils, Fathers, Doctors, Saints and approved teachers of sacred doctrine, as enshrined and illustrated in the texts of the ancient liturgical books of the Churches of the Latin Occident and of the Orient (the Catholic Byzantines, Coptics, Armenians, &c.): the grand epitome of St. Louis-Marie was promulgated by Our Lady herself in her celestial visitation at Fatima in a simplified and practical matter, so that the best and easiest manner whereby one may fulfill Our Lady's requests and persevere in these tumultuous times in the profession and practice of the Catholic faith is to give oneself over entirely to the Blessed Virgin Mary; that we may renovate all the more perfectly our baptismal vows and belong more purely and entirely to Jesus, our Lord and King.