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Post by Clotilde on Nov 27, 2016 16:22:12 GMT -5
I will be trying to post and discuss this topic. I hope to put up some references and links, plus personal thoughts and observations.
Honestly, I have a lot going on during Advent with homeschooling, birthdays, feast days, etc. so I find that getting to where I want to be (tradition, devotion, and penance-wise) requires small steps. I've never been able to establish many good habits or changes in this season, so I think for me the key is small, gradual changes to my thinking and practice. Anything too big becomes overwhelming.
Today, I'm getting out the Advent items I own and setting them out, like a wreath candles, and missal for the Advent wreath prayers (the Collect from Sunday).
Please add anything you might like to this discussion, including personal observations, stories, or questions. I'd like to know if anyone decorates their own Advent wreath and how they do it.
Happy New (Liturgical) Year!
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Nov 27, 2016 17:12:21 GMT -5
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Nov 27, 2016 17:16:36 GMT -5
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Nov 27, 2016 17:24:52 GMT -5
The beginning of Christmas has become such a different and melancholic time now that my children are all for all intents and purposes Adults. I implore all you with young ones to embrace them and hold and retain all the sweetness of them....burn these times into your heart. Truly did Jesus compare little Children to Angels
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Post by Clotilde on Nov 27, 2016 18:32:26 GMT -5
It just got real here, books are out
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Post by Clotilde on Nov 27, 2016 18:34:18 GMT -5
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Post by Clotilde on Nov 27, 2016 19:30:10 GMT -5
ewtn.com/library/FAMILY/HOUSE.TXT Family Liturgy and Religious Practices by Rev. Bernward Stokes O.F.M. There are some new to me traditions surrounding this time of year, surrounding Sts. Nicholas and Barbara.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 0:23:10 GMT -5
I have an Advent playlist on my iPod that I play through a "boombox" in the living room. We have an Advent wreath on the dining room table and also the Nativity set is in a central location in the living room. I need to find an Advent calendar for my granddaughter who lives with us.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Nov 29, 2016 11:58:08 GMT -5
My wife decorates the interior so beautifully at advent.
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Post by RitaMarita on Nov 29, 2016 18:17:25 GMT -5
The Saint Andrew's Christmas Novena starts tomorrow!
“Hail and blessed be the hour and the moment when the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in a stable, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires,through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ,and of His Blessed Mother. Amen." (15 times a day)
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Post by Clotilde on Nov 30, 2016 12:22:16 GMT -5
Notes from "Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs" by Weiser. For those who dont know, Fr. Weiser is pretty much the expert when it comes to Catholic traditions involving family life, or the domestic Church, I feel you will. His parish was the one that brought and displayed the first Christmas tree in the US. He truly had a dedication to recording and explaining practices and I hope that through his efforts they can be retained and, in some cases revived. Below are my notes from chapter on Advent: -4th c. December 25th was kept as a feast in Rome, as the Nativity -5th c. feast takes hold in Spain and Gaul This does not mean that the Nativity was not celebrated until then, like the Protestants might assert but that this is the process by which it became a universal feast kept on the calendar in the West. -490 AD first known established period of Advent fasting, three days per week from the Feast of St. Martin (November 11) called Quadragesima Sancti Marti -Advent took on a penetential character in France, Spain, and later Germany but the fast started at different times and it was not uniform from one country to another. There were also no special sets for Advent, in Gaul masses for Lent were used. -Advent was not established in Rome until the 6th c., and there was no established fast except Ember Week -Rome took on a joyful, less penitential nature as compared with other places regarding Advent -when the Frankish Church adopted the Roman liturgy, there was a conflict between the two characters of Advent as it was celebrate during in various places -it was not universally four weeks at this point, and in some cases it was 7 or 9 weeks, eventually all places adopted the current 4 weeks, as that was the Roman custom -never was the fast anything like Lent, different abstinences were prescribed--foods, weddings, amusements, traveling for amusement, and there were penances for married people -by 1216 most of the fast was lessened to two days per week through papal indults -in the Eastern Church it is known as Phillip's fast, which is from November 15, the feast of the Apostle Phillip. --the Quadragesima of St. Phillip, if one is taking as a Latin rite Catholic -at the time of publication, other rites kept different fasts and had shorter or longer Advents -------- I will post some notes of the liturgy during Advent, as time permits. This is all so fascinating. It truly shows how the Church keeps the faithful close to her liturgy in the best and most fitting way possible for the times. I think we also are often ignorant about the roots of our feasts and customs so it eye-opening when we find out just how little we know!
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Post by Clotilde on Dec 7, 2016 13:05:43 GMT -5
Did anyone celebrate St.Nicholas Day this week?
My children set out their shoes at the fireplace and they were filled and gifts were left in honor of the Wonderworker. Later, we said some special prayers to the good Saint.
I know I am going to repeat myself but it is so important to keep these traditions that tie us to the liturgy. They are being lost as this world reverts into paganism.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Dec 7, 2016 18:36:52 GMT -5
Alas as my Children have grown up and out...no shoes with chocolate coins.....sigh
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Post by RitaMarita on Dec 7, 2016 19:08:26 GMT -5
My family did celebrate with all my little nephews and one of my nieces...
We had stockings instead of shoes though... :-)
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Nov 29, 2017 23:21:12 GMT -5
The Saint Andrew's Christmas Novena starts tomorrow! “Hail and blessed be the hour and the moment when the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in a stable, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires,through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ,and of His Blessed Mother. Amen." (15 times a day) I've heard it a little differently: "Hail and Blessed be the hour and the moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe O my God to hear my prayers and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ and of His blessed mother, Amen. " Begin tomorrow.
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