Author Topic: The Season of Advent (Read 1839 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2012, 01:06:46 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 follows an explanation of the Season of Advent, which commences the ecclesiastical year.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2012, 01:15:14 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 sacred mysteries that Holy Mother Church presents for the consideration of her children during the Season of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2012, 01:20:58 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 the counsels vouchsafed by the great Benedictine luminary unto us, that following his devout and profound suggestions we may be made worthy of the sacred mysteries of the Season of Advent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2012, 07:56:24 PM »

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 are the counsels vouchsafed by the great Benedictine luminary unto us for due preparation for the devout reception of Holy Communion during Advent, and fitting thanksgiving thereafter, which ought never to be omitted.

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #5 on:** December 02, 2012, 03:00:02 PM »

A Blessed Advent to everyone!

God Bless.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2012, 11:05:27 PM »

The best way to avail oneself of the Season of Advent is to attend Holy Mass worthily, attentively and devoutly, meditating upon the dread and hallowed Mysteries of the sacred Altar and abandoning oneself to in filial confidence and relentless self-abnegation unto the Providence of Our Lord and the patronage of His Blessed Mother, so that the Holy Ghost may guide us unto the cultivation and progress of the interior life, together with perseverance therein unto a holy death; that we may attain unto the purification of the senses and of the soul as we ascend the ways of prayers until we are ready to be led more by the influence and operation of the theological virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost than by self and other created things; all the while, consecrating oneself unto Eternal Wisdom through the Blessed Virgin Mary by the perfect renovation of the Baptismal vows which constitutes the Holy Slavery as taught by St. Louis-Marie.

This is the best and easiest manner wherewith one may free oneself from the obfuscation and perils inexorably concomitant with the present tumultuous times that assail Christendom with the chicanery and machinations of the devil and his agents.

I think it best to peruse carefully a very important chapter of the useful and devout tome Catholic Liturgy: Its Fundamental Principles authored by the Very Rev. Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B. (of the Saint Andrew Daily Missal and Vesperal fame), published at London by Sands & Co. in 1924, with a new and revised edition published in 1954.

Sigismund · « **Reply #7 on:** December 03, 2012, 12:58:48 PM »

This is all wonderful stuff.

On a very minor point: It says above that the deacon and subdeacon don't wear the dalmatic or tunicle during Advent. I have been at TLM's during Advent, and have never witnessed this practice. Did it change with the 1962 Missall?

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2012, 07:37:02 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):