The Nativity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ: December 25, 2022
Gaudete, quoniam Christus est natus!
From the liturgies of Christmas day at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary!
Gaudete, quoniam Christus est natus!
From the liturgies of Christmas day at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary!
It’s one of the biggest days of the year for us here at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary! We enjoyed the annual festivities—our Lady’s altar decorated with beautiful bouquets of flowers; Marian hymns sung late into the night the eve of the feast; a lovely Solemn High Mass the morning of; Pontifical Vespers with Bishop Conley and the seminarians of Saint Greg’s in the evening; and, to top it all off, a fiesta complete with tacos, a mariachi band, and a piñata.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of our seminary & Patroness of the Americas, pray for us.
We celebrated a wonderful Solemn High Mass at the the Carmel for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Mary Immaculate, Patroness of The United States of America, pray for us.
“Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justum. Aperiatur terra, et germinet salvatorem.”
Drop down dew, ye heavens, and let the clouds rain down the just one. May the earth open up, and bud forth the savior.
From the Rorate Mass of the first Saturday of Advent.
Here at the seminary, we began Advent with the 40 Hours Devotion. Spending this time with our Lord in Adoration was the perfect way to enter into the new liturgical year, and to begin this season of preparation and expectation. As we approach Christmas in four weeks’ time, may we be ceaselessly preparing for the coming of our Savior.