Catholic Church has feast days for three of its Mariology dogmas. Why there is no feast day for perpetual virginity of Mary?

[longnprosper]

Catholic Church has feast days for three of its Mariology dogmas. Why there is no feast day for perpetual virginity of Mary?

 

[longnprosper]

Alright. No one reply. Let me reply by myself.

Why not celebrate the perpetual virginity of Mary on, say, the birthday of the Pope?

From the Documents of Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church:
“63. By reason of the gift and role of divine maternity, by which she is united with her Son, the Redeemer, and with His singular graces and functions, the Blessed Virgin is also intimately united with the Church…”

(Did I post on the wrong forum?)

 

[john_ennis]

I guess the answer to both questions is, Why would we?

Feast days are not simply assigned to celebrate every doctrine or dogma.

 

[longnprosper]

Feast days are not simply assigned to celebrate every doctrine or dogma.

So what is the purposes of feast days instructed by the the magisterium of the Church? I haven’t read or learned about this topic.

According to the Wikipedia page of Dogma in the Catholic Church: “A dogma of the Catholic Church is defined as “a truth revealed by God, which the magisterium of the Church declared as binding.””

Currently I think celebrating the revelation of a truth that is fundamental to the salvation of the human race could be one of the purposes of feast days. But of course this is my personal thinking, I don’t have the magisterium.

 

[Neofight]

Because the perpetual virginity is not a singular event, but a lifelong, on going event…

The immaculate conception is;
The Virgin Birth is;
The Assumption is;

There are a few hundred dogmata, and not all are marked by Feast days.

Not having a feast day does not detract from the Truth.

Peace and all Good!

 

[Mattapoisett64]

Alright. No one reply. Let me reply by myself.

Why not celebrate the perpetual virginity of Mary on, say, the birthday of the Pope?

From the Documents of Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church:
“63. By reason of the gift and role of divine maternity, by which she is united with her Son, the Redeemer, and with His singular graces and functions, the Blessed Virgin is also intimately united with the Church…”

(Did I post on the wrong forum?)

Celebrating perpetual virginity on the day of a natural birth seems somehow off.

 

[longnprosper]

Because the perpetual virginity is not a singular event, but a lifelong, on going event…

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is not a singular event, but the Church has a feast day for it.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary is not a singular event, but the Church has a feast day for it.

 

[longnprosper]

Celebrating perpetual virginity on the day of a natural birth seems somehow off.

Then how about on the day of baptism or ordination of the pope?
There shall be a day of profound meaning to held such a celebration.

 

[Sirach2]

OP, you offered a ready rebuttal for posts that have been shared with you by others, as if you are disappointed with the Church for not instituting the feast you desire. Truly, as I’ve heard it expressed, this is a management decision, not that of the laity.

You mentioned three feasts, but there are many already that we celebrate to honor Mary under her many titles.

January 1, Mary Mother of God
Feb. 11, Our Lady of Lourdes
March 25, Annunciation
May 31, Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth
Sat. following Second Sun after Pentecost, Immaculate Heart of Mary
July 16, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Aug. 15, Mary’s Assumption
Aug. 22, Queenship of Mary
Sept. 8, Birth of Mary
Sept. 15, Our Lady of Sorrows
Oct. 7, Our Lady of the Rosary
Nov. 21, Presentation of Mary
Dec. 8, Immaculate Conception
Dec. 12, Our Lady of Guadalupe

And you would add another?

 

[patrick457]

Catholic Church has feast days for three of its Mariology dogmas. Why there is no feast day for perpetual virginity of Mary?

I guess it’s more of an accident of history.

You have to remember that the solemnity of Mary as Mother of God (January 1st) was also (before the 1960s) the commemoration of the Circumcision of Jesus, and originally, a more general, not specifically-defined feast of Mary (natale sanctae Mariae ‘(heavenly) birthday of St. Mary’). Meanwhile the stuff commemorated in the remaining two feasts (the Assumption, the Immaculate Conception) were not defined as dogma until recently.

 

[NeedImprovement]

@ Neofight : Thank you .

Although we don’t find a particular feast day for the perpetual virginity of our Blessed Mother , the Church most certainly does “celebrate” our Lady’s perpetual virginity in one of the Prefaces (PREFACE I OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY) to the Eucharistic prayer . . as often as it is prayed . . . ie. on the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God , on any of Our Lady’s Saturdays on any other feasts venerating our Blessed Mother:

PREFACE I OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (highlights mine) :

It is truly right and just,
our duty and our salvation,
always and everywhere to give you thanks,
Lord, holy Father,
almighty and eternal God,
and to praise, bless, and glorify your name
(on the Solemnity of the Motherhood /
on the feast day / on the nativity / in veneration)
of the Blessed ever-Virgin Mary

For by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit
she conceived your Only Begotten Son,
and without losing the glory of virginity,
brought forth into the world the eternal Light,
Jesus Christ our Lord.

Through him the Angels praise your majesty,
Dominions adore and Powers tremble before you.
Heaven and the Virtues of heaven
and the blessed Seraphim
worship together with exultation.
May our voices, we pray,
join with theirs in humble praise, as we acclaim:

Holy, Holy, Holy…

Similarly in the communicantes of Eucharistic Prayer I (Roman Canon) , we pray

• In union with the whole Church we honor Mary, the ever-virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God.

while in the 5 proper forms of the Communicantes, we pray

. . .and in communion with those whose memory we venerate,
especially the glorious ever-Virgin Mary,Mother of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ, †

Lex orandi lex credendi.

So in the holy Catholic Church we do indeed celebrate the perpetual virginity of our Blessed Mother frequently. Sometimes we just have to read between the lines a little bit to see it.

 

[LiamQ]

Why there is no feast day for perpetual virginity of Mary?

Unless we can find some sort of document explicitly discussing this, I’m not sure any of us can really answer that question. Are you aware of any such document?

 

[Sirach2]

Unless we can find some sort of document explicitly discussing this, I’m not sure any of us can really answer that question. Are you aware of any such document?

I believe it is implicitly contained in the dogma wherein Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary. In celebrating that feast, we honor in an indistinct way Mary’s perpetual virginity.

1. Hence the revered Mother of God, from all eternity joined in a hidden way with Jesus Christ in one and the same decree of predestination,(47) immaculate in her conception, a most perfect virgin in her divine motherhood, the noble associate of the divine Redeemer who has won a complete triumph over sin and its consequences, finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages.
   w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19501101_munificentissimus-deus.html