WHEN THE SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FALLS ON A SUNDAY, AS IT DOES THIS YEAR, WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY CAN’T THE ORDINARY FORM SIMPLY FOLLOW THE COMMON SENSE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM? WHY OR WHY? WHAT IDEOLOGIES ARE PRESENT THAT PREVENT THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FROM BEING CELEBRATED ON THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT? AFTER ALL ISN’T EVERYTHING CONNECTED AS POPE FRANCIS MAKES ABUNDANTLY CLEAR AS DOES THE AMAZON SYNOD?

Oh, the humanity of it all, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8th, falls on the Second Sunday of Advent this year. Thus the Ordinary Form of the Mass’s rigid rules and regulations, the kind of Pharisaical Doctor of the Law sort of thing Pope Francis so despises, insists, demands and dictates that the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception be transferred, get this, transferred to December 9th, the Feast of Saint Juan Diego which is abrogated this year in the Ordinary Form!

The Diocese of Madison offers this: 

Eight days into the 2019-2020 liturgical year, Sunday, December 8, is the Second Sunday of Advent, and the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, patronal feast of the United States, is transferred to the following day. The obligation to attend Mass, however, does not transfer.

Because of the transfer, the optional memorial of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on December 9 is omitted in 2019. It would not be difficult to mention him, however, in the homily or the petitions on the Immaculate Conception, as he was a faithful servant of Mary in spreading her message from Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City.

Summary: 

Sunday, December 8, 2019 is the Second Sunday of Advent.

On Monday, December 9, 2019, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception will be celebrated.

It will not be a holy day of obligation. (Since it is a solemnity, the Glory to God and the Creed still will be included in the Mass.)

The Feast of Saint Juan Diego (December 9) will not be observed in 2019.

 But what about the Extraordinary Form, that flexible experience of the Latin Rite Mass, what is possible on December 8th this year, which also in the Extraordinary Form Calendar is the Second Sunday of Advent? The EXTERNAL CELEBRATION OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IS ALLOWED!!!!! HOW FLEXIBLE AND NON PHARISAICAL RIGID IS THAT?  HOW NON DOCTOR OF THE LAW IS THAT?!?

All that needs to be done is this: In addition to the Immaculate Conception Collect, Secret and Post Communion Prayers, the Celebrant also prays the Second Sunday of Advent Collect, Secret and Post Communion Prayers. The Propers, though, are from the Immaculate Conception as are the Epistle, Gradual/Alleluia and Gospel. However, a nod to the Second Sunday of Advent takes place at the Last Gospel when the Prologue of Saint John is replaced with the Second Sunday of Advent Gospel. 

How cool is that! How flexible and non rigid doctor of the law????

 Why or why can’t the Ordinary Form be as flexible as the Extraordinary Form this December 8th?