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John Briggs wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
> >(6. January, the feast day of The Epiphany)
>
> In the York Calendar, a Principal double feast.
In the Local Kalendar of the Church of the Epiphany, in Shreveport (where I
am on sabbatical) the Feast of the Epiphany is the "Feast of Title" (and is
a feast of the Lord, in his Epiphany) which is a "Principal Super-Duper
Double-Bubble Feast": Sung Morning Prayer, with the Epiphany Antiphon on the
_Venite, exsultemus Domino_. Then comes Sung High Mass with Incense. It will
be _Missa Coram Episcopo_. All of the which is followed by ham, red
potatoes in butter dill sauce, broccoli florets in a rosemary cream sauce,
corn (maize) casserole, cauliflower-paprikash soup, beans, Alaskan Smoked
Salmon dip, hot breads, and two desserts. In other words, a parish "pig
out," after Mass.
It was an old Medieval Custom (Look, George, I did get "medieval" in!) That
upon the Feast of the Epiphany, the Deacon of the Mass would read the
Epiphany Proclamation, to inform the faithful when the Major Holy Days and
Season would be. (Needless to say, in the Middle Ages, one could not run
down to the local Catholic Supply Store, and purchase an Ordo Kalendar.)
Anyhow, the Proclamation will be read by the Deacon. (The Deacon is a
retired Sergeant Major of Marines, and when he "proclaims," people listen!)
The text for A. D. 2007 is:
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Dear Brothers and sisters:
As we have with joy celebrated the Birth and Epiphany of our Lord Jesus
Christ, so through the year we will continue to celebrate the mysteries of
our salvation, culminating in Christ’s Resurrection on Easter Day. From the
date of Easter are derived the dates or our other feasts and commemorations,
and it is an ancient custom at this time to proclaim the times and the
seasons of the liturgical year.
In this year of our Lord two thousand seven, there will be four Sundays
after the Epiphany, Until Septuagesima Sunday on the fourth day of February.
On the twenty-first day of February, the day called Ash Wednesday, will
commence the great and holy fast of Lent. On the sixth day of April, the
Church will mark with appropriate solemnity the crucifixion and death of the
Lord Jesus, and on the eighth day of April we will gather to celebrate with
all joy his glorious Resurrection from the dead.
The Ascension of our Lord into heaven will be recalled forty days
thereafter, on the seventeenth day of May; and the descent of the Holy
Spirit upon the Apostles at Pentecost will be celebrated on the
twenty-seventh day of May. The feast of the Most Holy Trinity will be
observed on the third day of June.
There will be twenty-five Sundays after Trinity, until on the second day of
December a new year of grace will begin. And so through the times and the
seasons the pilgrim Church on earth proclaims the Paschal Mystery of our
Saviour Jesus Christ, who was, and is, and is to come, who is the Lord of
all time and all history, to whom be ceaseless praise, world without end!
Amen.
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Unfortunately, here, the entire Observance, of the Feast of the Epiphany,
this year, will have to be Transferred to the Sunday following, i. e.,
January 7th, in order for the "episcopo" to be "coram" at the "missa."
Transference to the Sunday following is now invariably, in the USA, the way
that the parishes of the Roman Communion observe Epiphany, I am told. I
don't know if UK parishes still observe Epiphany on January 6th.
Ecce advenit
Terrill
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