Père Vincent Feroldi of France and the Bishop Conference - just more of Mahomet's useful idiots!

Will there be a France in twenty years? Will there be any Catholics left? Well, if there are, they will all be worshipping the One, True God according to the traditional Roman liturgy - the only part of the Church that is growing is in the traditional communities, including the SSPX. Of course, they will be battling the false religion of Mahomet for what is left of the dying French culture. Either that, or France will go hard on its bloody reign of terror and revolutionary past and ban all religion, including Islam. and come down in force as Fascists on everyone in order to protect "The Republic." The Freemasons are responsible for this curse upon the Eldest Daughter of the Church.

However, when the history of this era is written, the blame will fall squarely on the leaders of the Catholic Church in France, the cardinals, bishops and priests who have betrayed Her and Her children.

Here we have a report from the Catholic Church in France web page of their Conference of Bishops. 

It seems that some heresiarch priest named Vincent Feroli thinks Catholic should join with Mohammedans and celebrate old Moe's birth along with the WORD MADE FLESH.

Truly, these men are malefactors.

From Catholicculture.org:

December 23, 2015

For the first time since 1558, Mawlid—the Muslim celebration of Muhammad’s birth—will fall this year on December 24 and 25.

Christians and Muslims “should give thanks to God, each in his own tradition, for the good news that is the birth of Jesus or Muhammad,” Father Vincent Feroldi wrote on the French episcopate’s website.

Cautioning against “syncretism in comparing Jesus and Muhammad,” the priest, who directs the National Service for Relations with Muslims, said that it is a fitting time for Christians and Muslims to meet in “fraternity and amity” and in “mutual respect and recognition.”

It is also an apt time for Christians “to discover the place given to Jesus and Mary in the Qur’an,” he added.

- See more at: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=27024#sthash.mTvb96EK.dpuf




http://www.eglise.catholique.fr/actualites/412417-mawlid-et-noel-celebres-le-meme-jour-en-2015/

Mawlid et Noël célébrés le même jour en 2015

Publié le 21 décembre 2015

 

 

 

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En 2015, la célébration de la naissance de Jésus, le Verbe fait chair, coïncide avec celle du Prophète Mohammed. Le Mawlid aura lieu le 24 décembre pour la totalité du monde arabe et le 25 décembre pour le reste de la planète. Eclairage du Père Vincent Feroldi, Directeur du Service National pour les Relations avec les Musulmans (SNRM) avant l’émission Islam, sur France 2, le 27 décembre.

Depuis plusieurs jours, les médias algériens et marocains en parlent. L’émission Islam de France 2 du 27 décembre 2015 (8h45-9h15) en fera son thème. Des diocèses (Metz, Angers, Lille…) se sont mobilisés autour de l’événement. Chrétiens et musulmans s’en réjouissent en Belgique, en France, au Maghreb…

Cette année, la célébration de la naissance de Jésus, le Verbe fait chair, coïncide avec celle du Prophète Mohammed. Le Mawlid aura lieu le 24 décembre pour la totalité du monde arabe et le 25 décembre pour le reste de la planète. Cette fête permet aux musulmans d’exprimer leur reconnaissance au Prophète, de se rappeler ses vertus, de prier et de vivre un heureux temps familial.

Communautés chrétienne et musulmanes auront ainsi le cœur en fête. Elles rendront grâce à Dieu, chacune dans sa tradition, pour cette bonne nouvelle qu’est la naissance de Jésus ou de Mohammed, naissances qui vont être source d’une rencontre entre des hommes et femmes croyants et Celui qui Source de vie, source de la Vie.

Dans cette unité de date rarissime, beaucoup veulent y voir un signe de Dieu, en ces temps difficiles où la paix annoncée par les anges, la nuit de Noël, est malmenée par la folie des hommes.

Mawlid et Noël 2015 : Fêtons ce qui nous unit sans ignorer ce qui nous différencie

C’est en effet la première fois depuis 457 années que ces fêtes de Mawlid – ou Mouloud – et de Noël seront célébrées au même moment. Il faut en effet remonter à l’année 1558 pour trouver une configuration comparable (c’était le 12 Rabiaa Al-Awal de l’an 966 de l’Hégire), alors qu’en 1852, le Mawlid coïncidait avec le 25 (c’était l’an 1269 de l’Hégire).

Pour tous, il ne s’agit pas de verser dans un quelconque syncrétisme, en comparant Jésus et Mohammed. Nous sommes conscients de ce qui nous unit et de ce qui nous différencie. Mais cette simultanéité des fêtes est une très belle opportunité de rencontres et d’échanges. Elle offre la possibilité de se dire que nous sommes heureux d’être ensemble, croyants, dans une même attitude spirituelle et humaine où, d’une part, nous nous tournons vers Dieu dans la prière et, d’autre part, nous vivons des temps de fraternité et d’amitié, en famille et avec nos proches voisins et amis.

Heureux sommes-nous donc de pouvoir nous accueillir mutuellement entre chrétiens et musulmans en cette période de Noël !

Heureux sommes-nous de pouvoir exprimer en cette fin d’année, par la parole, par un vœu, par des gâteaux offerts, le respect et la reconnaissance mutuels des deux traditions religieuses.

Heureux sommes-nous de pouvoir donner à nos contemporains un signal majeur sur le « vivre ensemble » en cette époque où, au nom de la religion et de Dieu, certains prêchent la haine ou commettent des attentats.

Profitons aussi de ce moment, pour nous chrétiens, de découvrir la place donnée à Jésus et Marie dans le Coran ! Une sourate entière – la sourate 19 Maryam – est dédiée à la Vierge Marie. Nous y lisons au verset 16 : « Mentionne dans le Livre (le Coran), Marie, quand elle se retira de sa famille dans un lieu vers l’Orient ». Et le verset 21 parle de son fils : « Nous ferons de lui un signe pour les gens, et une miséricorde de notre part. C’est une affaire déjà décidée ».

Oui ! En 2015, Jésus le Sauveur est bien signe, grâce et miséricorde pour tous les hommes ! Il est le Prince de la Paix !

Père Vincent Feroldi

Directeur du Service National pour les Relations avec les Musulmans (SNRM)

Jorge Bergoglio, why are you using Protestant Heretical terminology to describe the Catholic Church?

Allow me to refer to two paragraphs from a post one below which will explain the reason that in this title, I have called the Bishop of Rome by his name, Jorge Bergoglio:

I once asked an erudite religious superior and author about Paul VI, the greatest disaster on the Church in 500 years only eclipsed by Francis, how was it possible that a Pope could issue Humanae Vitae and the Credo of the People of God and then do so much other damage to the Faith which in every other aspect of his Papacy is clear and unequivocal? He replied that "Humanae Vitae and the Credo were issued by Paul VI, the rest was Giovanni Montini." How interesting that these Modernists waited until Father Luigi Villa died before announcing the "Beatification" of Paul VI. Perhaps, they knew he was right and would have rained on their parade.

I think that this is a good comparison to what we are experiencing now and a good explanation of what I intend when I refer to Pope Francis as Jorge Bergoglio, Bishop of Rome. When he is in communion with his predecessors and the Magisterium of two-thousand years, then he is Pope Francis, When he is not, then he is Jorge Bergoglio.

Presumably, you've heard him say the Latin phrase, as he did a month ago in Milan and just yesterday before the Curia, "ecclesia semper reformanda" - the church is always to be reformed.

Have you heard this term before? Do you know from whence it originates?

I didn't, at least not until a few minutes ago as I read the comment box at Southern Orders. 

It seems that this is a Protestant, heretical term used quite often by that infamous Catholic heretic, Hans Kung.

Why is Jorge Bergoglio quoting Protestant theologians and heretical Catholics in describing the Church? What exactly is this man's ecclesiology? -- because from what this simple man can determine, it is not Catholic? Which Cardinal or Bishop will call out Jorge Bergoglio on the use of this phrase or is it up to fundamentalist laity and seminarians that bite?

Hey, Jorge; you want "dialogue" well, let's say that you and I jaw-jaw a little. what do you say?  Now, when you can act like a Pope, then I will humbly call you and submit to you as Pope Francis. but when you talk like a Protestant, then you're just old George.

To think, how far we've drifted in three years from that great address ten years ago on the hermeneutic of continuity, makes one want to weep. 

God help us.

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/semper-reformanda/

http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/today/reformed/ 

Appeal for financial sponsorship for Seminarian

Friends, with two donations this morning of $3,200.00 we are nearing our goal of $10,000 but still short by $3675

Could you spare $10, $20 or $50 or $100 to help us fund this man's seminary education for the rest of this year?

The end of the year is coming and your tax receipt is waiting. Thank you and God bless you. Vox

A few months ago, the readers of this blog raised over $8000.00 to build a house for a Deacon's impoverished parents in India. He will be ordained to the priesthood on December 30 for the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India. 

I am writing this post with another appeal for a Abbé Joseph Heppelle, a seminarian from the Archdiocese of Toronto studying at the Seminary of St. Philip Neri in Gricigliano, Tuscany, Italy. This is the main seminary of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest. 

I've know Abbé Heppelle for a number of years and his family. He is the eldest of eight home-schooled musically-gifted children. He is now an Acolyte and will, God-willing, be ordained to the Subdiaconate next spring.

I am reprinting below an appeal from the Toronto Traditional Mass Society - UNA VOCE TORONTO. If you are able to send financial support, there is an online charity called CanadaHelps that will receive the donation and provide you with a Canadian charitable tax receipt. 

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/support-for-seminarian-jh-at-icrss-seminary-in-gri/

You can also donate directly by mailing a donation to:

Toronto Traditional Mass Society-Una Voce Toronto

3701 Lakeshore Boulevard West

STATION LONG BRANCH

P.O. Box 48577

Toronto, Ontario M8W 4Y6

A tax-receipt will be issued in that case by the Society.

Thank you for your consideration.

Seminarian Fundraising Campaign for Abbé Joseph Heppelle

The Toronto Traditional Mass Society - Una Voce Toronto is established to promote the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, (the Traditional Catholic Latin Mass) and Gregorian chant in the Archdiocese of Toronto.

Abbé Joseph Heppelle is the eldest of eight from a home-schooled family here in the Archdiocese. He grew up serving and singing the chant for the Traditional Roman Liturgy. He is studying for the Catholic priesthood at the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest Seminary of St. Philip Neri in Gricigliano, Italy. Abbé Heppelle is now an Acolyte and will, God-willing, be ordained to the Subdiaconate in the spring of 2016.

This is the third year now that we have assisted in fundraising for Abbé Heppelle. Seminary cost is expensive as you can imagine and challenging in that all his classes are in French and Italian.

Please give consideration to donating for this young-man's education as he prepares to serve Jesus Christ, Sovereign Priest and His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and the community of faithful which belong to Her.

Donations through CanadaHelps are tax-deductible and you will be receipted directly by them. For a small fee, they send the funds on to us (saving us the paperwork) and we will send 100% of the funds to Abbé Heppelle. 

You may visit our web page at www.unavocetoronto.com or write us directly at unavocetoronto@gmail.com to arrange a donation directly to the Toronto Traditional Mass Society with 100% sent to him with a tax-receipt provided directly by us.

May God bless you and thank you

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/support-for-seminarian-jh-at-icrss-seminary-in-gri/

These men will dialogue straight into Hell

A few weeks ago, the Vatican issued a non-magisterial document on our relationship with the Jewish people in commemoration of the Second Vatican Council's document Nostra Aetate. It was a disgrace to the Church and its mission to "go into the world" and convert it. 

It is a betrayal of the Jewish people and the Truth and it is, as I wrote then, I believe it to be fundamentally, anti-Semitic.

Jews must come to Jesus Christ to be saved. He is their Messiah every much as He is ours. He came as the WORD MADE FLESH on Christmas 2,015 or so years ago depending on the calendric accuracy. Yet, we have under the current Bishop of Rome, Jorge Bergoglio, a renunciation of the mission to convert the Jews, that they are already saved under the Old Covenant.

There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. No Protestants. No Jews. No Muslims, No Hindus. No Buddhists. No Mormans. No Jehovah's Witnesses. No animists, no atheists, no pagans. None will get to Heaven. All will go to Hell for all eternity and no puerile little videos by James Martin, EssJay will change that. 

Now, can these Protestants, Jews and Muslims and others be saved by God? That is up to Him. God is not bound by His Sacraments, we are. If one of these is saved, it is not because of their false religion, it is in spite of it and because of the grace that flows from the Catholic Church and Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We cannot know who these are, who are saved or if in fact they will be. We can only give them to God in his Divine Mercy and the rest is up to Him.

How sad then with Jews for Jesus and Christianity Today seem to understand this more than our own Catholic leaders.They continue to report on the disgraceful document from Rome. Catholics have either ignored it or forgotten about it quickly enough.

When one puts into a search engine "Pope Francis dialogue" it is amazing how many times he has used that word. There is a blog called "Shaping the future with "dialogue" where they endorse the Vatican's latest.

They will dialogue themselves straight into Hell for this betrayal. It is a disgrace that a Catholic Pope betray the Church's mission with so much disregard for the Truth. We, as Catholics, must call him out and the bishops and cardinals who have put this document together. They are wrong. It is not breaking communion with the Church to state this. It is they who have broken communion with us. 

I once asked an erudite religious superior and author about Paul VI, the greatest disaster on the Church in 500 years only eclipsed by Francis, how was it possible that a Pope could issue Humanae Vitae and the Credo of the People of God and then do so much other damage to the Faith which in every other aspect of his Papacy is clear and unequivocal? He replied that "Humanae Vitae and the Credo were issued by Paul VI, the rest was Giovanni Montini." How interesting that these Modernists waited until Father Luigi Villa died before announcing the "Beatification" of Paul VI. Perhaps, they knew he was right and would have rained on their parade.

I think that this is a good comparison to what we are experiencing now and a good explanation of what I intend when I refer to Pope Francis as Jorge Bergoglio, Bishop of Rome. When he is in communion with his predecessors and the Magisterium of two-thousand years, then he is Pope Francis, When he allows documents such as the one discussed here which is a  profound betrayal and an embarrassment, a Modernist, Masonic diabolical betrayal, then he is Jorge Bergoglio.

On this document about Jews, just as the nonsense that he can bind us to believe junk-science at worst and scientific theory at best, I dissent. The Old Covenant to the Jews no longer applies. it is fulfilled in the New and in Christ. Jorge Bergoglio is wrong; and so are the Jews.

Ever-virgin Mary's "yes" was the beginning of our salvation

Today's Second Reading from the Office of Readings, more traditionally known as Matins, is a lesson for all Protestants and those Catholics who downplay, or disdain in the case of some, the Blessed Virgin Mary's role in our salvation. When one reads this sermon by St. Bernard one can readily see that our Salvation by Our Lord Jesus Christ was totally dependant on her yes. True, if she said no, God would have found someone else but it may have not happened even to now. I recall in the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich's writings that she asked her angel why it took so long for the Father to send His Son, the Messiah. She was told that it took 4000 years for a man and wife, Sts. Joachim and Anna, to be holy enough to bear Mary - the Immaculate Conception, who was conceived as all of us would have been had there been no Fall of our first parents, also something noted by Blessed Anne in her book, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

They embraced each other with holy joy, and each told the other their good tidings. They were in a state of ecstasy and enveloped in a cloud of light. I saw this light issuing from a great host of angels, who were carrying the appearance of a high shining tower and hovering above the heads of Anna and Joachim. The form of this tower was the same as I see in pictures, from the litany of the Blessed Virgin, of the Tower of David, the Tower of Ivory, and so forth. I saw that this tower seemed to disappear between Anna and Joachim, who were enveloped in a glory of brightness. I understood that, as a result of the grace here given, the conception of Mary was as pure as all conceptions would have been but for the Fall. I had at the same time an indescribable vision. The heavens opened above them, and I saw the joy of the Holy Trinity and of the angels, and their participation in the mysterious blessing here bestowed on Mary's parents. Anna and Joachim returned, praising God, to the exit under the Golden Gate; …

It was explained to me here that the Blessed Virgin was begotten by her parents in holy obedience and complete purity of heart, and that thereafter they lived together in continence in the greatest devoutness and fear of God. I was at the same time clearly instructed how immeasurably the holiness of children was encouraged by the purity, chastity, and continence of their parents and by their resistance to all unclean temptations; and how continence after conception preserves the fruit of the womb from many sinful impulses. In general, I was given an overflowing abundance of knowledge about the roots of deformity and sin.

Let us thank the Blessed Mother, for her, "be it done unto me according to thy word."

The whole world awaits Mary's reply     

You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of compassion; the sentence of condemnation weighs heavily upon us. 

The price of our salvation is offered to you. We shall be set free at once if you consent. In the eternal Word of God we all came to be, and behold, we die. In your brief response we are to be remade in order to be recalled to life.         

Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs this of you, O loving Virgin, in their exile from Paradise. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy patriarchs, your ancestors, ask it of you, as they dwell in the country of the shadow of death. This is what the whole earth waits for, prostrate at your feet. It is right in doing so, for on your word depends comfort for the wretched, ransom for the captive, freedom for the condemned, indeed, salvation for all the sons of Adam, the whole of your race.   

Answer quickly, O Virgin. Reply in haste to the angel, or rather through the angel to the Lord. Answer with a word, receive the Word of God. Speak your own word, conceive the divine Word. Breathe a passing word, embrace the eternal Word.   

Why do you delay, why are you afraid? Believe, give praise, and receive. Let humility be bold, let modesty be confident. This is no time for virginal simplicity to forget prudence. In this matter alone, O prudent Virgin, do not fear to be presumptuous. Though modest silence is pleasing, dutiful speech is now more necessary. Open your heart to faith, O blessed Virgin, your lips to praise, your womb to the Creator. See, the desired of all nations is at your door, knocking to enter. If he should pass by because of your delay, in sorrow you would begin to seek him afresh, the One whom your soul loves. Arise, hasten, open. Arise in faith, hasten in devotion, open in praise and thanksgiving. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, she says, be it done to me according to your word.

Responsory       

Virgin Mary, receive the word of the Lord brought to you by the angel: You will conceive and bear a son, both God and man. You will be called, Blessed among all women.

You will indeed bear a son, yet suffer no loss of virginity; you will be with child, yet remain a mother ever undefiled. You will be called, Blessed among all women.

Bishop Sorondo says Pope Bergoglio can bind Catholics under sin to believe junk science and globalist manipulations

These men are stupid or they think we are? Bishop Sorondo; pictured here with the globalist-masonic UN Secretary General and the Pope, say that the Pope has the authority to bind us to believe junk science at worst and theory at best but he cannot. How dare he equate this manipulation of globalists with magisterial teaching with abortion? What kind of fool is he to raise to a level unheard before of the infallibility of a pope as declared at the First Vatican Council. 

When challenged the Papal friend and advisor said:

"When the Pope has assumed this, it is Magisterium of the Church whether you like it or not -- it is the Magisterium of the Church just as abortion is a grievous sin - equal (it is the same)... it is Magisterium of the Church... whether you like it or not."

No, it isn't it.


Sorondo is a liar. He is either a manipulative deceptive, heresiarch or his is just incredibly stupid. Either way, he is wrong and so are all of those who believe what he does including the Pope himself should this be, in fact, what he thinks. 

Besides, who are you all to judge?

Evil clowns. Moronic men. Idiots these churchmen are.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-bishop-popes-view-on-global-warming-is-as-authoritative-as-the-cond

Vatican bishop: Pope’s view on global warming is as authoritative as the condemnation of abortion

 Abortion , Catholic , Climate Change , Laudato Si’ , Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo , Pope Francis

ROME, December 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – A heated exchange regarding global warming and magisterial teaching between a top Vatican official and various other presenters ended a December 3 Acton Institute conference in Rome.  Argentinean Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, a close advisor to Pope Francis and the Chancellor of both the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences stressed that the pope’s declarations on the gravity of global warming as expressed in the encyclical Laudato Si’ are magisterial teaching equivalent to the teaching that abortion is sinful.

Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, the founder of Ignatius Press who obtained his doctorate in theology under Joseph Ratzinger prior to his elevation to the pontificate, told LifeSiteNews, “Neither the pope nor Bishop Sorondo can speak on a matter of science with any binding authority, so to use the word ‘magisterium’ in both cases is equivocal at best, and ignorant in any case.” Fr. Fessio added, “To equate a papal position on abortion with a position on global warming is worse than wrong; it is an embarrassment for the Church.”

Ember Saturday of Advent

A few years ago, I was to assist in Schola for a Rorate Mass scheduled for the Saturday after Gaudete. Both the pastor and myself totally forgot the rest of the calendar and after it was scheduled and promoted, we realised that it could not be done as it fell on the Ember Saturday, a day of higher rank with its own dedicated liturgy. We went ahead with the candle light Mass at 5:30AM but read and chanted the Ember Saturday liturgy. The chants for this Mass are little known but are some of the most beautiful in the Liber. The Graduals are all from Mode II, similar to the Absolve of the Requiem Mass as here. One can thank the composer of this Mass that he had mercy on the singers given the number of chants and the difficulty of different modes for each one. As beautiful as these are, the Hymn, or Canticle of the Three Children comes right out of the reading, similar to how the Sanctus flows from the "dicentes" of the Preface.

The Ember Days have been lost in the new calendar but interestingly, they are in the new Ordinariate Missal. The Embers occur four time per year. Perhaps, this is a recognition by the Church that the reform of Paul VI was in fact, a disaster that we can see corrected in the near future, as far as the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is concerned. When you read below the text of today's liturgy, it should bring home all the more the evil these men did in their destruction of the liturgy. When you sing it as I did a few years ago, you will realise it even more. 

Meanwhile, I shall shun the reformed as often as possible and attend the traditional Roman Rite where one does not have to live a life of liturgical regret for what these malefactors did to our liturgical life; and if you like the Japanese delicacy, tempura, thank the Church for Her ancient liturgy.

What are the Ember days?

The Ember days are true Catholic tradition dating actually dating back to the Apostles, (Pope Leo The Great claims it was instituted by the Apostles).  Pope Callistus (217-222) in the “Liber Pontificalis” has laws ordering all to observe a fast three times a year to counteract the hedonistic and pagan Roman rites praying for:

-a good harvest (June),

-a good vintage (September),

-a good seeding in December.

By the time of Pope Gelasius, (492-496), he already writes about there being four times a years, including Spring.  He also permitted the conferring of priesthood and deaconship on the Saturdays of Ember week.  This practice was mostly celebrated around Rome, from Pope Gelasius’ time, they began to spread throughout the Church.

St. Augustin brought them to England and the Carolingians into Gaul and Germany.  In the eleventh century, Spain adopted them.

It was not until Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), that these Ember days were prescribed for the whole Catholic Church as days of fast and abstinence.  He placed these “four mini Lents” consisting of three days; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday:

-after St. Lucy’s Feast Dec. 13,

-after Ash Wednesday,

-following Whitsunday, (Pentecost),

-and after Sept. 14, the Exaltation of the Cross.

The purpose of these “mini Lents” were to pray, fast and to thank God for the gifts He gives us through nature.  They follow the four seasons of the year with the beauty and uniqueness of each particular season.   They are here for us to teach us to use, with moderation, what God gives us through nature, and to also share these gifts with the poor.

Traditionally, these are the days on which priests were ordained.

The Ember Saturday Liturgy

INTROIT ¤ Ps. 79. 4, 2

Come, O Lord, and show us Thy face, Thou that sittest upon the Cherubim: and we shall be saved. -- (Ps. 79. 2). Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. V.: Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Come, O Lord, and show us Thy face, Thou that sittest upon the Cherubim: and we shall be saved.

COLLECT

Priest: Let us pray. Deacon: Let us kneel. Subdeacon: Arise.

O God, who seest that we are afflicted because of our iniquity, mercifully grant that we may be conforted by Thy visitation. Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

LESSON ¤ Isaias 19. 20-22

Lesson from the Book of the Prophet Isaias.

[God will send a Redeemer and a Defender to deliver our souls.]

In those days they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor, and He shall send them a Savior and a defender to deliver them. And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship Him with sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord and perform them. And the Lord shall stike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it: and they shall return to the Lord, and He shall be pacified towards them, and the Lord our God shall heal them.

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 18. 7, 2

His going out is from the end of heaven: and His circuit even to the end thereof. V.: The heavens show forth the glory of God: and the firmament declareth the work of His hands.

COLLECT

Priest: Let us pray. Deacon: Let us kneel. Subdeacon: Arise.

Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who are bowed down by our old bondage under the yoke of sin, may be freed by the new Birth of Thine only begotten Son, for which we look. Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

LESSON ¤ Isaias 35. 1, 7

Lesson from the Book of the Prophet Isaias.

[God Himself will come and will save you.]

Thus saith the Lord: The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice and shall flourish like the lily. It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and praise: the glory of Libanius is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and Saron, they shall see the glory of the Lord and the beauty of our God. Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. Say to the faint hearted: Take courage, and fear not. Behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God Himself will come and will save you. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in the wilderness. And that which was dry land shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: saith the Lord almighty.

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 18. 6, 7

He hath set His tabernacle in the sun: and He is as a bridegroom coming out of His bridechamber. V.: His going out is from the end of heaven: and His circuit even to the end thereof.

COLLECT

Priest: Let us pray. Deacon: Let us kneel. Subdeacon: Arise.

We beseech Thee, O Lord, gladden by the coming of Thine only-begotten Son, us Thine unworthy servants, who are made sorrowful by the guilt of our own deeds. Who liveth and reigneth, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

LESSON ¤ Isaias 40. 9-11

Lesson from the Book of the Prophet Isaias.

[Behold your God. The Lord God shall come with strength, and His arm shall rule: behold His reward is with Him, and His work is before Him.]

Thus saith the Lord: Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God: behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and His arm shall rule: behold His reward is with Him, and His work is before Him. He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather together the lambs with His arm, and shall take them up in His bosom, the Lord our God.

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 79. 20, 3

O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and show Thy face, and we shall be saved. V.: Stir up Thy might, O Lord, and come to save us.

COLLECT

Priest: Let us pray. Deacon: Let us kneel. Subdeacon: Arise.

Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the coming solemnity of Thy Son, may both bestow upon us healing in this present life and grant to us rewards in the life to come. Through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

LESSON ¤ Isaias 45. 1-8

Lesson from the Book of the Prophet Isaias.

["Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above and let the clouds rain the Just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Savior."]

Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus: whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. I will go before thee: and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, adn will burst the bars of iron. And I will give thee hidden treasures and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel. For the sake of My servant Jacob, and Israel My elect, I have even called Thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not known Me. I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides Me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known Me: that they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is none else: I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil: I, the Lord, that do all these things. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Savior: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created Him.

GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 79. 3, 2

Stir up Thy might, O Lord, and come to save us. V.: Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep: Thou that sittest upon the Cherubims, shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.

COLLECT

Priest: Let us pray. Deacon: Let us kneel. Subdeacon: Arise.

Mercifully hear, O Lord, we beseech Thee, the prayers of Thy people: that we who are justly afflicted for our sins may be conforted by the visitation of Thy loving kindness. Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

LESSON ¤ Daniel 3. 47-51

Lesson from the Book of the Prophet Daniel.

[Azarias and his companions in the fiery furnace: the Angel of the Lord drove forth the flame of fire. With one mouth they praised, glorified and blessed God.]

In those days the Angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace, and made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew. And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forty cubits: and it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans as it found near the furnace, the king's servants that heated it. And the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them nor did them any harm. Then these three as with one mouth praised and glorified and blessed God in the furnace, saying:

HYMN ¤ Daniel 3. 52-56

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.           

And blessed is the name of Thy glory, which is holy: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.      

Blessed art Thou in the holy temple of Thy glory: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.            

Blessed art Thou on the holy throne of Thy kingdom: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.    

Blessed art Thou upon the sceptre of Thy divinity: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.          

Blessed art Thou that sittest upon the Cherubims, beholding the depths: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.               

Blessed art Thou that walkest upon the wings of the wind, and on the waves of the sea: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.            

Let all Thy Angels and Saints bless Thee: and praise Thee and glorify Thee for ever.         

Let the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all the things that are in them, bless Thee: and praise Thee and glorify Thee for ever.    

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, who is worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.            

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. And worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.    

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers: and worthy to be praised and glorified for ever.

COLLECT

O God, who didst deaden the flames of fire for the three children: mercifully grant that the flame of vice may not consume us Thy servants. Through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

EPISTLE ¤ II Thess. 2. 1-8

Lesson from the second Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians.

[Let us prepare for the near approach of our Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, and for the coming of our Judge.]

Brethren, We beseech you by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto Him: that you be not easily moved from your sense, nor be terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God showing himself as if he were God. Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.

TRACT ¤ Ps. 79. 2, 3

Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. V.: Thou that sittest upon the Cherubims, shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. V.: Stir up Thy might, O Lord, and come and save us.

GOSPEL ¤ Luke 3. 1-6

† Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Luke.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina, under the high priests Annas and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins, as it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight His paths: every valley shall be filled; and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways plain: and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

OFFERTORY ¤ Zacharias 9. 9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold thy King will come to thee, the holy and Savior.

SECRET

O Lord, we beseech Thee, look down favorably upon these present Sacrifices: that they may profit us both unto devotion and salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

PREFACE

The Common Preface

It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God, through Christ our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, the Powers stand in awe. The heavens and the heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with them, we entreat Thee, that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted, while we say in lowly praise: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus…

COMMUNION ¤ Ps. 18. 6, 7

He hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way: His going out is from the end of heaven, and His circuit even to the end thereof.

POSTCOMMUNION

We beseech Thee, O Lord, our God, that the most holy Mysteries, which Thou hast given us for a safeguard of our renewal, may become our remedy both now and for time to come. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.