Papal decree states that the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto will be celebrated on Dec. 10.

Source: Pope Francis Adds New Marian Feast to Roman Calendar

VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis has decreed that the feast of Our Lady of Loreto be included in the Roman Calendar as an optional memorial to be celebrated on Dec. 10.

“This celebration will help all people, especially families, youth and religious, to imitate the virtues of that perfect disciple of the Gospel, the Virgin Mother, who, in conceiving the Head of the Church also accepted us as her own,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, stated in the decree published Oct. 31.

With the decree, the optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto must appear in all calendars and liturgical books for the celebration of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.

Catholic pilgrims travel to the small Italian town of Loreto to stand inside the Holy House of Mary, preserved in a basilica, in which Tradition holds that the Virgin Mary was born, raised and greeted by the Gabriel the Archangel at the Annunciation.

“This shrine recalls the mystery of the Incarnation, leading all … Pope Francis Adds New Marian Feast to Roman Calendar

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on Dec 10, 2022, the feast of Our Lady of Loreto, on how the Respect for Marriage Act redefines the notion of family that is based on the Holy Family that lived in the Holy House of Loreto. This part of the idea that freedom should also be freedom from religion as opposed to freedom of religion, which is a founding principle of freedom of our nation.

Distorts not only family but also God, on which the family is an image.

He distinguishes between the disorder of same-sex attraction, which is not a sin, and acting on that, which is a sin.

Yet all things work for our good, even such distortions and redefinitions of such central human things as marriage. By continuing to share the truth, we will become the shining light in dark times.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Our Lady of Loreto (Isa) – Feast
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/121022.cfm
1st: isa 7:10-14; 8:10
Resp: luk 1:46-55
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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