News Item: : The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Wednesday 25 March 2015 - 09:17:06

This Festival, in memory of the announcement made by the Angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Incarnation of the Son of God, is among the most ancient and most celebrated of the Christian year. It is noticed as early as the 5th Century.

At the High Mass, in the Traditional Liturgy for this day, as on Christmas Day, the celebrant and his ministers, rising from their seats, kneel on the Altar-steps during the singing of the Et incarnatus est, in the Nicene Creed.

Collect, Traditional Liturgy: O God, Who didst will that Thy Word, at the message of an angel, should take flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary: grant unto us Thy suppliants that we, who believe Her to be truly the Mother of God, may be helped by Her intercession with Thee. Through the same Lord.

Homily of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: ''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.'' 

Luke 1:38: And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to Thy word.

We wish all our readers a blessed Feast of the Annunciation!

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