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Offline Sigismund

First Sunday of Advent
« 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:
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Offline Capt McQuigg

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First Sunday of Advent
« 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?
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Offline Hobbledehoy

First Sunday of Advent
« 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.
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