Friday, January 05, 2007

Feast days of the week 7 - 13 January 2007 (1962 liturgical calendar).

First part of the Liturgical Year: The Christmas Cycle.
Octave of the Epiphany.

Sunday, 7 January, 2007
: First Sunday after the Epiphany - The Feast of the Holy Family.
"The special devotion which sets forth the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph as the model of virtue for all Christian households began in the seventeenth century. It commenced almost simultaneously in Canada and France: - the Association of the Holy Family being founded in Montreal in 1663, and the Daughters of the Holy Family in Paris in 1674. Numerous other congregations and associations under the Patronage of the Holy Family have been established since that time, and they are spread over the world. The archconfraternity was established by Bl. Pius IX in 1847. In 1893 Leo XIII approved a Feast for Canada, and Pope Benedict XV extended the Feast of the Holy Family to the whole Church and ordered its celebration to take place on the Sunday after Epiphany."
Epistle: Col 3:12-17.
Gospel: Luke 2:42-52.

Monday, 8 January 2007: Ferial.
Epistle: Col 3:12-17.
Gospel: Luke 2:42-52.

Tuesday, 9 January 2007: The Most Holy Name of Jesus.
Epistle: Col 3:12-17.
Gospel: Luke 2:42-52.

Wednesday, 10 January 2007:Ferial
Epistle: Col 3:12-17.
Gospel: Luke 2:42-52.

Thursday, 11 January 2007: Ferial
Epistle: Col 3:12-17.
Gospel: Luke 2:42-52.

Friday, 12 January 2007: Ferial
Epistle: Col 3:12-17.
Gospel: Luke 2:42-52.

Saturday, 13 January 2007: Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lesson: Isaias 60:1-6 (as on the Feast of the Epiphany).
Gospel: John 1:29-34.


Remarks are abstracted from The Daily Missal and Liturgical Manual, from Editio Typica of the Roman Missal and Breviary, 1962
(Baronius Press Limited, London, 2004, in conjunction with the Fraternal Society of St. Peter, www.baroniuspress.com)

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