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SUMMARY:Assumption of Mary
DESCRIPTION:Today\, Catholics and many other Christians celebrate the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This significant feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth\, when both her soul and her body were taken into the presence of God. \nVenerable Pope Pius XII confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as the perennial teaching of the Church when he defined it formally as a dogma of Catholic faith in 1950\, invoking papal infallibility to proclaim\, “that the Immaculate Mother of God\, the ever-Virgin Mary\, having completed the course of her earthly life\, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” \nHis Apostolic Constitution “Munificentissimus Deus” (Most Bountiful God)\, which defined the dogma\, \ncontained the Pontiff’s accounts of many longstanding traditions by which the Church has celebrated the Assumption throughout its history. \nThe constitution also cited testimonies from the early Church fathers on the subject\, and described the history of theological reflection on many Biblical passages which are seen as indicating that Mary was assumed into heaven following her death. \nAlthough the bodily assumption of Mary is not explicitly recorded in Scripture\, Catholic tradition identifies her with the “woman clothed with the sun” who is described in the 12th chapter of the Book of Revelation. \nThe passage calls that woman’s appearance “a great sign” which “appeared in heaven\,” indicating that she is the mother of the Jewish Messiah and has “the moon under her feet\, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” Accordingly\, Catholic iconography of the Western tradition often depicts the Virgin Mary’s assumption into heaven in this manner. \nEastern Christians have also traditionally held Mary’s assumption into heaven as an essential component of their faith. Pius XII cited several early Byzantine liturgical texts\, as well as the eighth-century Arab Christian theologian St. John of Damascus\, in his own authoritative definition of her assumption. \n“It was fitting\,” St. John of Damascus wrote in a sermon on the assumption\, “that she\, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth\, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death\,” and “that she\, who had carried the creator as a child at her breast\, should dwell in the divine tabernacles.” \nIn Eastern Christian tradition\, the same feast is celebrated on the same calendar date\, although typically known as the Dormition (falling asleep) of Mary. Eastern Catholic celebration of the Dormition is preceded by a two-week period of fasting which is similar to Lent. Pius XII\, in “Munificentissimus Deus\,” mentioned this same fasting period as belonging to the traditional patrimony of Western Christians as well. \nThe feast of the Assumption is always a Holy Day of Obligation for both Roman and Eastern-rite Catholics\, on which they are obliged to attend Mass or Divine Liturgy.
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SUMMARY:Solemnity of All Saints
DESCRIPTION:The earliest certain observance of a feast in honor of all the saints is an early fourth-century commemoration of “all the martyrs.” In the early seventh century\, after successive waves of invaders plundered the catacombs\, Pope Boniface IV gathered up some 28 wagon-loads of bones and reinterred them beneath the Pantheon\, a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods. The pope rededicated the shrine as a Christian church. According to Venerable Bede\, the pope intended “that the memory of all the saints might in the future be honored in the place which had formerly been dedicated to the worship not of gods but of demons” (On the Calculation of Time). \nBut the rededication of the Pantheon\, like the earlier commemoration of all the martyrs\, occurred in May. Many Eastern Churches still honor all the saints in the spring\, either during the Easter season or immediately after Pentecost. \nHow the Western Church came to celebrate this feast\, now recognized as a solemnity\, in November is a puzzle to historians. The Anglo-Saxon theologian Alcuin observed the feast on November 1 in 800\, as did his friend Arno\, Bishop of Salzburg. Rome finally adopted that date in the ninth century.
URL:https://ourladyofapostles.org.ng/event/solemnity-of-all-saints/
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SUMMARY:Nativity of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:From the very beginning\, Christians celebrated what the Lord Jesus accomplished for the salvation of humanity. They did this every Sunday\, the day of the Lord’s resurrection\, and as an annual feast on the Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox\, Easter Sunday. \nAt the beginning of the 4th century\, the liturgical calendar began to evolve\, giving value to the “historical” Jesus as well. Good Friday was added to recall Jesus’ death\, and the Last Supper…. In that trajectory\, the Nativity\, the Birth of Jesus\, was added. The first evidence of the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord dates back to the year 336. Soon after\, in the Eastern Church\, the Christmas feast of the Epiphany began to be celebrated on the 6th of January. The date was connected to the civil pagan festival of the birth of the invincible sun (Natale Solis Invicti)\, introduced by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 in honor of the Syrian Sun god of Emesa\, celebrated on 25 December. \nChristmas is the only liturgical celebration with four Masses\, the Vigil Mass\, the Mass during the Night\, the Mass at Dawn and the Mass during the Day. The readings are the same for each of these Masses for all three liturgical years. This choice seeks to demonstrate and enhance\, almost in slow motion\, that Event that changed the course of human history: God became man.
URL:https://ourladyofapostles.org.ng/event/nativity-of-the-lord/
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