Christmas Lasts 'til Candlemas!
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Christmastide: The Traditional Christmas Season Begins on Christmas Day & continues until Feb. 2. Forty days which goes back to the Law of Moses. The penitential Advent season (a small Lent) is a preparation for Christmas by penance, sacrifice, & mortification just as Lent is a time of preparation for Easter. In Catholic Traditions, children are told to make many acts of penance & self-abnegation, sacrifices, special devotions, & to have a crib for the Baby Jesus in which to put a piece of straw for each penitential act performed. The idea was to have a comfy bed ready for Baby Jesus by Christmas Day. During Advent, we reflect upon the death of the world. Mortification means ‘to make dead’, it's the struggle against our evil inclinations in order to subject them to the will of God & our will, by it we establish the right order of all our faculties & prepare ourselves for a higher life. The destruction of this world helps strike holy fear into our hearts & reminds that man can’t construct a heaven upon earth, but rather must die to the gluttony, lust, pride & anger so prevalent in this world. The better we observe Advent, the more joyous our Christmas will be.
In the secular world, Christmas carols & decorations spring up as early as Halloween & after Thanksgiving, & those same decorations are thrown out & the carols cease the day after Christmas. Why do some celebrate Christmas before Christmas & forget the penance which our Faith & Tradition tell us we must do? Do Catholics celebrate Easter on Ash Wednesday & forget the Lenten penance? The Liturgy & Discipline of the Church tell us otherwise. We prepare for Christmas, or for Easter, by mortification. Advent is a time to perform acts of fasting & abstinence, & to be counter-cultural by preparing for Christmas. Christmas parties & feasts should be during, & not before Christmas. Christmas Eve (before the Vigil Mass) is a day of fasting & abstinence. The 1983 Code of Canon Law eliminated this fast, but traditional Catholics still keep the fast & abstinence. (Taken from: https://www.fisheaters.com/customschristmas1.html ) This, not Advent, is the true Christmas Season. As most people in secular or Protestantized countries are putting away "Christmas-y" things, & as shopping malls stop blaring "Here Comes Santa Claus," Catholics are just getting started. The cleaning & baking during penitential Advent pays off now, & the feasting & caroling begin!
The entire Christmas Cycle is a crescendo of Christ's manifesting Himself as God and King to the shepherds, to the Magi, at His Baptism, to Simeon & the prophetess, Anna (Luke 2). The days from the Feast of the Nativity to the Epiphany are known as "The Twelve Days of Christmas," with Christmas itself being the first day, & Twelfthnight-5 Jan.-being the last of the twelve days. Christmastide liturgically ends on 13 Jan., the Octave of the Epiphany & the Baptism of Christ (at which time the season of Time After Epiphany begins). But Christmas doesn't end spiritually--i.e., the celebration of the events of Christ's life as a child don't end, & the great Christmas Cycle doesn't end-until Candlemas on 2 Feb. & the beginning of the Season of Septuagesima.
In this way, just as from Ash Wednesday on, we commemorate Christ in the desert for forty days, & just as after Easter we celebrate for forty days until the Ascension, after Christmas we celebrate the Child Jesus for forty days-all through the season of Time After Epiphany-until Candlemas. The schema of those Christ Child celebrations looks like this:
Christmas-Christ is born
Feast of the Holy Innocents- Herod slaughters the baby boys in order to kill the Christ Child
The Circumcision (the Octave of Christmas)-Jesus follows the Law
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus-After He is circumcised, He is named and becomes a part of the Holy Family
Twelfth Night-The Twelve Days of Christmas as a Feast come to an end
Feast of the Epiphany-Jesus reveals His divinity to the three Magi, & during His Baptism, & at the wedding at Cana
Baptism of Our Lord/Octave of the Epiphany-Christmas liturgically ends with the Octave of the Epiphany
Feast of the Holy Family-Jesus condescends to be subject to His parents
Feast of the Purification (Candlemas)-40 days after giving birth, Mary goes to the Temple to be purified & to "redeem" Jesus per the Old Testament Law of the firstborn. Christmas truly ends as a Season with Candlemas & the beginning of Septuagesima.
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Allhallowtide
+J.M.J.+ All Hallows' Eve, All Saints' Day (also known as All Hallow's Day), and All Souls' Day (Oct.31st, Nov.1st, Nov.2nd) are referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time of honoring the Saints and praying for all departed souls. The term "hallow" means "holy". It is recited in The Lord's Prayer, "Our Father Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name" (Mt 6:9).
All Hallows' Eve
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Indulgences for the Holy Souls In Purgatory:
The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory and is a privileged time to pray for them. The Church commemorates all her faithful children who have departed from this life but have not yet attained the joys of Heaven. St. Paul warns us that we must not be ignorant concerning the dead, nor sorrowful, "even as others who have no hope…the Lord Himself shall come down from heaven…and the Dead who are in Christ shall rise." The Church has always taught us to pray for those who have gone into eternity. Even in the Old Testament prayers and alms were offered for the souls of the dead by those who thought "well and religiously concerning the resurrection." It was believed that "they who had fallen asleep with godliness had great grace laid up for them" and that "it is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." We know that a defiled soul cannot enter into heaven.
God, Lord of mercies, grant to the souls of your servants and handmaids, the place of refreshment, the bliss of eternal rest, and the splendor of your light. Amen
From Nov.1st through Nov.8th, if we visit a cemetery in a spirit of piety and devotion, and pray, even just mentally, for the dead, we may gain a plenary indulgence for one holy soul on each day of the Octave (on the usual conditions). This special indulgence is only applicable to the dead. We can pray any of the Raccolta prayers #582-600 to accomplish this end, and especially the Dies irae sequence (Raccolta #587). Using a Traditional Missal, one can pray a number of the prayers from the Nov. 2nd Mass or Requiem Mass. In the Catholic Bible (Douay Rheims), it is ideal to pray Psalm 129 De Profundis.
Also, on November 2nd we can gain a plenary indulgence for the Holy Souls by visiting a Church and piously praying for the dead, (One Our Father and Creed suffice), and fulfilling all the usual conditions for a plenary indulgence.
The usual conditions for a plenary indulgence are:
1) Pray for the Pope (usually one Our Father one Hail Mary)
2) Worthily receive Holy Communion the day of the indulgence
3) Make a Sacramental Confession within a week (before or after)
4) Be free from all attachment to sin, even venial sin. A sincere and devout act of the will to this end suffices.
*If we fail in the usual conditions, there is still merit in our good pious act, but usually only amounts to a partial indulgence.
It should be noted that according to Traditional Church Discipline and Practice, fasting and partial abstinence are OBLIGATORY on the Vigil of Pentecost and ALL SAINTS DAY. To read more about what the Catholic Church traditionally teaches on Fasting and Abstinence, visit this website: http://www.fisheaters.com/fasting.html
NOVEMBER - DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS
From Fr. Schouppe's book entitled Purgatory:
"There is in Purgatory, as in Hell, a double pain - the pain of loss and the pain of sense. The pain of loss consists in being deprived from a time of the sight of God... It is a moral thirst which torments our soul. The pain of sense, of sensible suffering, is the same as that which we experience in our flesh." (p.32)
"Speaking in general, the Doctors [of the Church] agree in saying that the pains are most excruciating. The same fire, says St. Gregory, torments the damned and purifies the elect. 'Almost all theologians', says St. Robert Bellarmine, 'teach that the reprobate and the souls in Purgatory suffer the action of the same fire.' It must be held as certain, writes the same Bellarmine, that there is no proportion between the sufferings of this life and those of Purgatory. St. Augustine declares precisely the same... They will be saved no doubt, after the trial of fire, but that trial will be terrible, that torment will be more intolerable than all the most excruciating sufferings in this world. Behold what St. Augustine says, and what St. Gregory, Venerable Bede, St. Anselm, and Bernard have said after him. St. Thomas Aquinas goes even further; he maintains that the least pain of Purgatory surpasses all the sufferings of this life, whatsoever they may be." (p.33-4)
Let us, therefore, offer fervent prayers for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
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Adoro Te, O Panis Caelice-Quito Pilgrimage
+J.M.J.+ Composed by Johann Michael Haydn 1737-1806. Sung in the Conceptionist Monastery Church (Iglesia de La Limpia Concepcion) while on pilgrimage to Quito, Ecuador to attend the Feast of Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification, Feb. 2nd. Mass was offered daily in the Conceptionist Church & Convent--home of Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification. The miraculous statue of Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification is taken from the cloistered upper choir three times a year and placed above the main altar of the Convent Church, so that it can be venerated by the people of Quito. Learn more about Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification on these sites:
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Ave Maris Stella (Éd. vaticane)
+J.M.J.+ Ave Maris Stella is Latin for, Hail Star of the Sea. It is a Vespers hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maris_Stella
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Sequence for Pentecost-Veni Sancte Spiritus, Men's Duo
+J.M.J.+ Veni Sancte Spiritus, referred to as the Golden Sequence, is a sequence in the Roman Liturgy for the Masses of Pentecost and its octave, exclusive of the following Sunday. It is usually attributed to either the thirteenth-century Pope Innocent III or to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, although it has been attributed to others as well. It is one of only four medieval Sequences which were preserved in the Roman Missal published in 1570 following the Council of Trent (1545–63). Before Trent many feasts had their own sequences.
Chanted during a High Mass while on the May 2015 Paris/Chartres Pilgrimage in the Vaduz Cathedral, or Cathedral of St. Florin (German: St. Florinskirche in Vaduz or Kathedrale St. Florin), a neo-Gothic Catholic Church located in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, (located between Switzerland and Austria), and the center of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vaduz. Originally a parish church, it has held the status of cathedral since 1997.
The Gregorian Chant notation is taken from the Liber Usualis (1961) pp. 880-881.
English translation:
1. Come, Thou Holy Ghost, come,
And from Thy celestial home,
Shed a ray of light divine.
2. Come, Thou Father of the poor,
Come, Thou source of all our store,
Come, within our bosoms shine.
3. Thou, of Comforters the best,
Thou, the soul's delightful guest,
Sweet refreshment here below.
4. In our labor rest so sweet,
Pleasant coolness in the heat,
Solace in the midst of woe.
5. O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of Thine,
And our inmost being fill.
6. Where Thou art not, man hath naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
7. Heal our wounds, our strength renew,
On our dryness pour Thy dew,
Wash the stains of guilt away.
8. Bend the stubborn heart and will,
Melt the frozen, warm the chill,
Guide the steps that go astray.
9. On Thy faithful who adore,
And confess Thee evermore,
In Thy sevenfold gifts descend.
10. Give them virtue’s sure reward,
Give them Thy salvation, Lord,
Give them joys that never end.
Amen. Alleluia.
Latin text:
1. Veni, Sancte Spiritus,
et emitte coelitus,
Lucis tuae radium.
2. Veni, pater pauperum,
Veni, dator munerum:
Veni, lumen cordium.
3. Consolator optime,
Dulcis hospes animae,
Dulce refrigerium.
4. In labore requies,
In aestu temperies,
In fletu solatium.
5. O lux beatissima,
Reple cordis intima,
Tuorum fidelium.
6. Sine tuo numine,
Nihil est in homine,
Nihil est innoxium.
7. Lava quod est sordidum,
Riga quod est aridum,
Sana quod est saucium.
8. Flecte quod est rigidum,
Fove quod est frigidum,
Rege quod est devium.
9. Da tuis fidelibus,
In te confidentibus,
Sacrum septenarium.
10. Da virtutis meritum,
Da salutis exitum,
Da perenne gaudium.
Amen. Alleluia.
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Ave Maria (Arcadelt/Dietsch) Marian Hymn
+J.M.J.+ Sung by the Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Chapel Choir http://jesusandmarychapel.weebly.com/
Arranged by Pierre-Louis Dietsch from the original chanson "Nous voyons que les hommes" composed by Jacob Arcadelt for female voices. The bass part in particular is entirely Dietsch's work. Various editors have changed barlines, note lengths, and word underlay to reflect what they considered correct Latin word stress.
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Kyrie-William Byrd, Mass for Three Voices
+J.M.J.+ Sung in the Cristo Rey Monastery Chapel, El Paso, Texas.
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Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above
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Text attributed to Blessed Herman Contractus (11th century)
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Regina Coeli (Mauro-Cottone) Easter Hymn
+J.M.J.+ Sung by the Jesus and Mary Chapel choir, El Paso, Texas:
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Regina Coeli "Queen of Heaven” is a Latin Marian Hymn written by Melchiorre Mauro-Cottone appropriate for the Easter Season.
Latin text:
Regina cæli, lætare, Alleluia:
Quia quem meruisti portare, Alleluia,
Resurrexit, sicut dixit, Alleluia,
Ora pro nobis Deum, Alleluia.
English translation:
Queen of Heaven, rejoice, Alleluia.
For He Whom thou didst deserve to bear, Alleluia.
Hath risen, as He said, Alleluia.
Pray for us to God, Alleluia.
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Haec Dies (Healey Willan) Easter Hymn
+J.M.J.+ Sung on Easter Sunday, April 20th, 2014, at St. Gianna Oratory/Holy Family Catholic Church and Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, located in Tucson, Arizona. Thanks to Mr. Eric Ramos for his kind invitation.
Hymn translation:
"This day, the Lord has made, rejoice, and be glad in it. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good: For His Mercy is everlasting. Alleluia, alleluia."
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Haec Dies- Men's Quartet
+J.M.J.+ Haec Dies (Healey Willan) Easter hymn sung on Easter Sunday, April 20th, 2014, at St. Gianna Oratory/Holy Family Catholic Church and Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, located in Tucson, Arizona. Thanks to Mr. Eric Ramos for his kind invitation.
Hymn translation:
"This day, the Lord has made, rejoice, and be glad in it. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good: For His Mercy is everlasting. Alleluia, alleluia."
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Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
+J.M.J.+ Sung by the Jesus and Mary Chapel choir, El Paso, Texas:
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This hymn is a composite of two 18th-century English translations & interpretations of the 14th-century Latin hymn "Surrexit Christus hodie". The hymn tune is called "Easter Hymn", first appearing in 1708 by an unknown composer.
Lyrics:
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
Who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia!
Suffer to redeem our loss, Alleluia!
Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
Sinners to redeem and save, Alleluia!
(But the pain which He endured, Alleluia!
Our salvation have se-cured, Alleluia!
Now above the sky He's king, Alleluia!
Where the angels ever sing, Alleluia!
Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!
Praise eternal as His love, Alleluia!
Praise Him, all ye heav’nly host, Alleluia!
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia!
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Te Joseph Celebrent (by Oreste Ravanello 1871-1938)
+J.M.J.+ Sung by the Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Chapel Choir http://jesusandmarychapel.weebly.com/
Oreste Ravanello (August 25, 1871 Born in Venice – July 2, 1938 Died in Padua), was an Italian composer and organist.
Ravanello studied organ and composition at the Liceo Musicale in Venice before he was appointed organist of the San Marco Cathedral at the age of seventeen. He also taught at the (now Benedetto Marcello) Conservatory of Music in Venice and, then, became director of Instituto Musicale in Padua (now the "Cesare Pollini" Conservatory of Music).
He became a well-known recitalist well known for his improvisations. He was above all remembered for his compositions which are especially intended for The Church: ca. 30 Masses, Te Deums etc. but also numerous works for organ and piano.
Latin text
1. Te, Joseph, celebrent agmina caelitum
Te cuncti resonent christiadum chori
Qui clarus meritis junctus et inclytae
Casto foedere Virgini.
2. Almo cum tumidam germine conjugem
admirans dubio tangeris anxius,
afflatu superi flaminis angelus
conceptum puerum docet.
3. Tu natum Dominum stringis ad dexteras,
Aegipti profugum tu sequeris plagas:
amissum Solymis qaeris et invenis,
miscens gaudia fletibus.
4. Post mortem reliquos sors pia consecrat,
Palmanque emeritos gloria suscipit:
Tu vivens, superis par, frueris Deo
Mira sorte beatior.
5. Nobis Summa Trias parce precantibus:
da Joseph meritis sidera scandere,
ut tandem liceat nos tibi perpetim,
gratum promere canticum.
English translation
1. Let the hosts of heaven celebrate you, Joseph,
Let all the choirs of Christendom resound you
who, famous for your merits,
was joined to the glorious Virgin in chaste wedlock.
2. When your betrothed became great with precious seed,
amazement and doubt made you anxious.
It is by the breath of the divine Spirit,
an Angel tells you, that the son has been conceived.
3. You did embrace the new-born Lord,
and to the furthest Egypt coasts you followed Him in exile,
Lost in Jerusalem, you sought and found Him,
mixing joy with tears.
4. After death most are blest by a loving destiny
and, when they have won the palm, they are welcomed into glory.
But you, while you lived, like the saints above, were with God,
blest more than others by this wondrous lot.
5. Spare us, highest Trinity, as we pray,
Grant that through Joseph's merits we may rise to heaven,
So that at last we may offer perpetually
our grateful songs.
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Salve Regina (Solemn Tone)
+J.M.J.+ On October 19th, 2013, we were prompted to record this as a special request by one of the newly tonsured seminarians. Immediately after receiving their tonsure (within the Solemn Pontifical Mass with Conferral of First Clerical Tonsure), the tonsured seminarians of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary chanted this prayer of thanksgiving to the Mother of God before the altar of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the seminary chapel of Sts. Peter and Paul,
The twelve seminarians promoted to the First Clerical Tonsure were:
Mr. John William Erwin Jr., F.S.S.P.
Pickerington, Ohio, USA
Mr. Christopher Hattrup, F.S.S.P.
Cottonwood, Idaho, USA
Mr. John Killackey, F.S.S.P.
Wayne, New Jersey, USA
Mr. Matthew Palmer, F.S.S.P.
Abergavenny, South Wales, UK
Mr. Andrew Curtis, F.S.S.P.
Arlington, Washington, USA
Mr. Ralph Oballo, F.S.S.P.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mr. Michael Hattrup, F.S.S.P.
Cottonwood, Idaho, USA
Mr. Luc Poirier, F.S.S.P.
Irish Town, New Brunswick, Canada
Mr. Daniel Powers, F.S.S.P.
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mr. Michael Burns, F.S.S.P.
Maple Hill, Kansas, USA
Mr. John Streff. F.S.S.P.
Salem, South Dakota, USA
Mr. Daniel Alloy, F.S.S.P.
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Our photos of the FSSP seminary can be viewed here: http://jmjhfproductions.weebly.com/fssp-seminary-photos.html
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Salve Regina (Solemn Tone) Sacred Music-Quito Pilgrimage
+J.M.J.+ Dedicated to Our Beloved Heavenly Mother Mary. This particular Gregorian Chant can be found in the 1962 Liber Usualis- page 276 and is our version of the Solemn Tone Salve Regina. After achieving our version of this chant, someone asked us what “harmonization" technique was used. We asked a very good friend to help us explain and he provided this info:
Gregorian Chant is monophonic ("single-voiced). Harmony can only arise with a plurality of voices each singing different but complimentary notes. Gregorian Chant does not have harmony written into its various compositions as found in the liturgical texts, but you can certainly harmonize with Gregorian Chant. You can harmonize with any choral form. Harmonizing with Gregorian Chant through the use of a prolonged single note is typically referred to as a "drone". The Byzantine tradition refers to this note as an "ison". This ison can remain fixed on a single note within the Do-scale of Gregorian Chant or it can go up and down at certain points within the main melody. This is referred to as "modulating". Additionally, the choosing of a particular note for an ison is largely based on the various tones that are assigned to a certain piece of Gregorian Chant (the mode number is typically written next to the first portion of the chant's staff). Below is a handy table which shows which ison is assigned to each mode:
Mode Ison Final Dominant Range Mood
I Re (or do with mi/sol) Re La re-re Gravis
II La (or re/do) Re Fa (or La) la-la Tristis
III Mi Mi Ti mi-mi Mysticus
IV La Mi La ti-ti Harmonicus
V Fa and Do Fa Do fa-fa Laetus
VI Fa Fa La do-do Devotus
VII Sol Sol Re sol-sol Angelicus
VIII Sol Sol Do re-re Perfectus
Further complexity can be added in several ways. One way is to incorporate several isons/drones that harmonize both with each other and the Gregorian melody. Another way is to sing the Gregorian melody at a different musical interval (i.e. a 5th, Major 3rd, etc.). The latter is typically referred to as Organum. Organum differs from an ison in that it maintains the same tempo and melody of the Gregorian Chant whereas an ison can be sung independently (although even an ison is dependent upon the melody of the Chant in order to achieve a proper harmony).
While in Quito, Ecuador, to attend the Feast of Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification, Feb. 2nd., Fr. Michael Rodríguez offered daily Traditional Latin Mass in the Conceptionist Church & Convent--home of Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification. The technical name of the Church is, "Iglesia de La Limpia Concepcion". This first monastery in Quito was established in September of 1575.
The miraculous statue of Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification is taken from the cloistered upper choir three times a year and placed above the main altar of the Convent Church so that it can be venerated by the public.
Fr. Rodriguez also led pilgrims daily in praying the Holy Rosary and Novena to Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification in front of the miraculous statue and gave spiritual conferences every evening on the major themes of Grace, Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Blessed be Jesus Christ and His most pure Mother!
More on Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification:
Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification appeared to a Conceptionist nun, Venerable Mariana de Jesús Torres (1563–1635), in Quito, Ecuador, who was allowed to see what would occur in the 20th century and therefore offered her life and sufferings for the crisis within the Church. Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres was bestowed with many singular gifts from heaven and received numerous prophecies of the future, especially in the 20th century. Many are amazed at how accurate Our Lady's predictions for the 20th century have been.
Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification commanded that a statue be made. In her right hand, she carries a Crosier as Abbess of the convent and Queen of Heaven and Earth. In her left arm, she carries her Divine Son so that "all will know that I am merciful and understanding. Let them come to me for I will lead them to Him." The statue was completed miraculously by the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Saint Francis of Assisi.
Many people have never heard of her message, apparitions or prophecies. Yet she is a powerful complement to the Message of Our Lady of Fatima (1917) and indispensable for understanding what is taking place in our own time (20th/21st century).
Learn more about Mary of Buen Suceso of the Purification on these sites:
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Why Buen Suceso Instead Of Good Success? https://youtu.be/Lg8VVG5sODA
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Veni, Veni, Emmanuel-Advent Hymn, Anonymous
+J.M.J.+ Sung by the choir of Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Chapel: http://jesusandmarychapel.weebly.com/
The liturgical Season of Advent consists of 4 weeks that immediately precede the Christmas Season. Contrary to popular belief, Christmas Day is the BEGINNING of the Christmas Season and not its end. The Advent Season is considered a penitential time, and traditionally The Church encourages the faithful to practice penance as a means of spiritually preparing for the solemnity that is to come with the birth of our Infant King.
The circular wreath symbolizes eternity and the eternal Kingdom of Heaven which was ushered into our midst with the birth and incarnation of our Holy Redeemer. The use of evergreen signifies the everlasting life and salvation we all work and strive to obtain with a lively faith in Christ, fidelity to His Holy Catholic Church, and cooperation with His abundant graces. The four candles represent the four weeks/Sundays that pave our anticipation of Christmas Day. Violet is the customary color used by the Church to denote penance, atonement, and a more melancholic spiritual demeanor. The third Sunday is marked with a pink or rose-colored candle to express a jovial anticipatory excitement at being halfway through the Advent Season and ever closer to the exuberance of the birth of our Savior.
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