"Rejoice and be glad that so great and good a Lord, on coming into the Virgin's womb, willed to appear despised, needy, and poor in this world, so that men who were in dire poverty and suffering great need of heavenly food might be made rich in Him" (St. Clare of Assisi).
Advent Information:
- What is Advent?
- Advent: Beginning of the Liturgical Year and Source of Rich Liturgical Meditations
- Advent Traditions
- Advent Resolution Sheet
- Jesus' Birthday Present: Go to Confession
- O Antiphons
- The Rorate Mass: A Dawn Mass Said Only By Candlelight
- St. Martin's Lent and the Advent Fast
- Midnight Mass & The Traditional Eucharistic Fast
- Mass Propers: Mass of Midnight, Mass of Dawn, Mass of the Day
- The Comites of Christ (Dec 26, 27, and 28) as Former Holy Days of Obligation
- Indulgences for Praying the Divine Office on Christmas Day
- The Twelve Days of Christmas Song
- St. John Chrysostom's Christmas Homily
Feastdays / Fast days During Advent/ & Christmastide:
- November 30: St. Andrew
- December 6: St. Nicholas
- December 7: St. Ambrose & the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception
- December 8: Immaculate Conception
- December 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe
- December 13: St. Lucy
- Date Varies: Advent Embertide
- December 15: Octave Day of the Immaculate Conception
- December 18: Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mass in Some Places)
- December 21: St. Thomas the Apostle
- December 24: Vigil of the Nativity
- December 25: Christmas
- December 26: St. Stephen the Martyr
- December 27: St. John the Apostle
- December 28: Holy Innocents
- December 29: St. Thomas Becket
- December 31: St. Sylvester I
- Date Varies: Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity
- Jan 1st Feast of the Circumcision of Jesus
- Jan 2nd Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus; Octave Day of St. Stephen Protomartyr
- Jan 3rd Octave Day of St. John
- Jan 4th Octave Day of the Holy Innocents
- Jan 5th Vigil of the Epiphany
- Jan 6th The Epiphany of Our Lord
- Jan 13th Octave Day of the Epiphany / Baptism of the Lord
- Blessings for Advent Wreath
- St. Andrew Christmas Novena (Nov. 30 - Dec. 24)
- Immaculate Conception Novena (Nov. 30 - Dec. 8)
- Christmas Novena (Dec. 16 - 24th)
- Traditional Prayer of Blessing for a Christmas Tree
- Traditional Blessing for the Nativity (Creche) Scene
- Novena to the Magi
- Pray for the Souls in Purgatory (Dec. 25)
- Holy Family Prayer
- Epiphanytide
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