Pope adds feast of Our Lady of Loreto to Roman Calendar
Pope Francis decrees that the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto shall be observed as an optional memorial on December 10, coinciding with the start of the Holy Year of the Lauretan Jubilee.
The Solemn Proclamation of the Lauretan Jubilee "Maria Regina et Janua Coeli" took place during Mass at the Basilica of the Holy House on Thursday, in the Italian city of Loreto.
Afterwards, a decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was proclaimed which inscribed the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto into the General Roman Calendar.
The decree notes that the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto, venerated by generations of pilgrims and honoured by numerous Popes, “recalls the mystery of the Incarnation, leading all those who visit it to consider ‘the fullness of time’, when God sent his Son, born of a woman, as well as to meditate both on the words of the Angel announcing the Good News and on the words of the Virgin in response to the divine call”.
The Congregation has also published the liturgical texts for the memorial.
(Story updated at 4:46 PM)
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Prot. N. 404/19
DECREE
on the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loretoto be inscribed in the General Roman Calendar
Since the Middle Ages veneration for the Holy House of Loreto has been the origin of that particular shrine which still today is visited by many faithful pilgrims in order to nourish their faith in the Word of God made flesh for us.
This shrine recalls the mystery of the Incarnation, leading all those who visit it to consider “the fullness of time”, when God sent his Son, born of a woman, as well as to meditate both on the words of the Angel announcing the Good News and on the words of the Virgin in response to the divine call. Overshadowed by the Spirit, the humble handmaid of the Lord so became the dwelling-place of divinity, the purist image of the holy Church.
Closely bound to the Apostolic See this shrine, praised by Popes and known throughout the world, has, over the years and no less than Nazareth in the Holy Land, been able to illustrate powerfully the evangelical virtues of the Holy Family.
In the Holy House, before the image of the Mother of the Redeemer and of the Church, Saints and Blesseds have responded to their vocation, the sick have invoked consolation in suffering, the people of God have begun to praise and plead with Mary using the Litany of Loreto, which is known throughout the world. In a particular way all those who travel via aircraft have found in her their heavenly patron.
In light of this, Pope Francis has decreed, by his own authority, that the optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto should be inscribed in the Roman Calendar on 10 December, the day on which the feast falls in Loreto, and celebrated every year. This celebration will help all people, especially families, youth and religious to imitate the virtues of that perfect disciple of the Gospel, the Virgin Mother, who, in conceiving the Head of the Church also accepted us as her own.
Therefore the new memorial must appear in all Calendars and Liturgical Books for the celebration of Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours; the relative texts are attached to this decree and their translations, approved by the Episcopal Conferences, will be published after confirmation by this Dicastery.
Anything to the contrary nothwithstanding.
From the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 7 October 2019, the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary.
Robert Cardinal Sarah
Prefect
Prefect
8 comments:
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
This should make every Catholic tremble. Every single time Pope Francis does something good for the Church like this, it is always followed by something outrageous and dangerous.
It's coming. You've been warned.
Bee here:
Re: Anonymous' at October 31, 2019 at 1:46 PM comment above:
I noticed that too. Although I am happy he has placed this memorial on the calendar, it does not mitigate the fiasco that was the Amazon Synod.
The Pope's behavior reminds me of that of a serial abuser; a guy punches his wife in the face and gives her the beating of her life, and the next day he brings home flowers and says, "Oh Honey, these are for you. I love you..."
God bless.
Bee
Anonymous, I heard that claim frequently during the reigns of Popes Saint John Paul II and Benedict.
I never noted anything that validated said claim. The same has applied during Pope Francis' reign.
But his critics have denounced almost everything that he's said and/or done.
Therefore, whatever he does next — eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, looks at a cat, walks past an out-of-order vending machine — will be judged "bad."
In their minds, your prediction will prove true.
:-)
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Francis should establish the feast of Our Lady of La Salette, who told us about the present times when she said, “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist.”
Should I feel consoled that the Pope thinks that I am a dog and he is throwing me a bone?
And Our Lady of Akita, she did say it would be bishop against bishop, priest against priest, Francis seems to relish what is taking place in our Church. We miss you Pope Benedict the XVI.
A bone to the masses...
At this point I couldn’t care less what that man says or does.
That man allowing demon pagan worship within the Vatican and being present for it was the last straw.
They can start ordaining donkeys for all I care.
I am clinging to Tradition. It is crystal clear to me now that all this change for the sake of change isn’t only self destructive it’s diabolical. I will only attend the Traditional Mass or the Ordinariate Mass (and yes the priest has a wife, but he believes in God and the Catholic Faith). Oh and these modernists aren’t getting anymore of my money either. I don’t care if all their churches close down and become mosques! They deserve what happens to them for being unfaithful. I only know of 4 bishops who had the spine to speak out against paganism: Burke, Schneider, Meuller, and Brandmuller. That’s it. The rest have said volumes with their silence. And I keep thinking of Our Lord’s words, “when the Son of Man returns will He find Faith on the earth”. I don’t think He will find much of it left. Oh they want a Church with an Amazon face, then let those pagans in the jungle pay the bills.
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