Liturgical Reminders for Advent

Invitatory: 

Remember to turn to page 687* (Christian Prayer) to use the proper antiphons for Advent.
I like Psalm 24 (page 728) for the Invitatory during Advent.

Hymns

Turn to the index on page 1502 and choose hymns for Advent
The hymn O Come, O Come Emmanuel, based on the O Antiphons,
is fitting for use from December 16 to 23.

Psalms and Canticle

As in Ordinary (Four Week Cycle).

Readings etc.

Turn to Proper of Seasons.  Advent starts on page 41.

Feasts and Solemnities

Feasts and Solemnities are celebrated as usual on the weekdays of Advent. 

Memorials

Memorials falling on December 16 to December 24 are optional and may be omitted or observed as commemorations.

Commemorations (GILH #239b.)

If you wish to observe a Commemoration at Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer use the following procedure:

The ending of the concluding prayer is omitted and the saint's antiphon (from the Proper or the Common), and prayer is added.

Example: December 21 Peter Canisius page 1342,

The ending of the concluding prayer for the day is omitted (i.e. the part that goes something like this: "We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ..." )

The antiphon for St. Peter Canisius is added:

"Those who are learned will be radiant as the sky ... "

The prayer of St. Peter is added:

Lord,
you gave Saint Peter Canisius
wisdom and courage to defend the Catholic faith...
 

Antiphon in Honor of the Blessed Virgin for Night Prayer

Alma Redemptoris Mater (play the chant)


Alma Redemptoris Mater
Quae pervia caeli
Porta manes et Stella Maris
Succurre cadenti
Surgere qui curat populo:
Tu quae genuisti
Natura mirante
tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo Prius ac posterius
Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave
peccatorum miserere.
 


Loving mother of the Redeemer,
gate of heaven, star of the sea,
assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again.
To the wonderment of nature you bore your creator,
yet remained a virgin after as before.
You who received Gabriel’s joyful greeting,
have pity on us poor sinners.

 


 

My (very unofficial) Advent Mysteries

I. The proto-evangelium.

“I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
He will strike at your head,
while you strike at his heel." Gen 3:15


II. The Sacrifice of Isaac.

Isaac spoke to his father Abraham.
"Here are the fire and the wood,
but where is the lamb for the holocaust?"
"Son," Abraham answered,
"God himself will provide the lamb for the holocaust."
Gen 22:7-8


III. The Immaculate Conception.

You are all beautiful O Mary,
in you there is no trace of original sin.
Ant. from EP II of Sol. of  IC.


IV. The annunciation of St. John the Baptist.

The angel said to Zechariah,
"Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,
and you shall name him John.
He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb,
and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah
to turn the hearts of fathers toward children
and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous,
to prepare a people fit for the Lord." Luke 1:13-17


V. The Annunciation.

“Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
and of his kingdom there will be no end." Luke 1:31-33


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* Page numbers refer to pages in the One Volume Christian Prayer.