Category: The Liturgical Year

17.iv.22 Easter Sunday / Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Guéranger / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church / The Liturgical Year

Easter Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

The night between Saturday and Sunday has well nigh run its course, and the day-dawn is appearing. The Mother of sorrows is waiting, in courageous hope and patience, for the blissful moment of her Jesus’ return. Magdalene and the other holy women have spent the night in watching, and are preparing to start for the sepulcher. In limbo, the Soul of our crucified Lord is about to give the glad word of departure to the myriads of the long-imprisoned holy souls, who cluster round Him in adoring love…

06.iii.22 Quadragesima I / Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Guéranger / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church / The Liturgical Year

The History of Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

The Forty Days’ Fast, which we call Lent [In most languages the name given to this Fast expresses the number of the day, Forty. But our word Lent signifies the Spring-Fast; for Lenten-Tide, in the ancient English-Saxon language, was the season of Spring. Translator.], is the Church’s preparation for Easter, and was instituted at the very commencement of Christianity… 

06.ii.22 Epiphany V / Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lifestyle / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church / The Liturgical Year

On Septuagesima; the history, mystery & praxis ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

The Season of Septuagesima comprises the three weeks immediately preceding Lent. It forms one of the principal divisions of the Liturgical Year, and is itself divided into three parts, each part corresponding to a week: the first is called Septuagesima… 

19.xii.21 Advent IV / Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. / Advent / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Lifestyle / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church / The Liturgical Year

The Fourth Sunday of Advent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

To-day, again, the Church is full of joy, and the joy is greater than it was. It is true that her Lord has not come; but she feels that He is nearer than before, and therefore she thinks it just to lessen some what the austerity of this penitential season by the innocent cheerfulness of her sacred rites. And first, this Sunday has had the name of Gaudete given to it, from the first word of the Introit; it also is honoured with those impressive exceptions which belong to the fourth Sunday of Lent, called Laetare…