I the feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Dec. 18 still celebrated? I came across it on a website but never heard of it before five seconds ago.
Pax
I the feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Dec. 18 still celebrated? I came across it on a website but never heard of it before five seconds ago.
Pax
It was a feast that was very popular at one time such that the old Catholic Encyclopedia described it as being “Celebrated on 18 December by nearly the entire Latin Church”. It was one of those feasts that was strictly speaking for local calendars only but with time eventually was adopted by nearly all dioceses and religious orders. Along with similar feasts, it was expunged from many of these calendars at the time of St. Pius X. In the calendars where they remained they were ordered expunged in 1961, unless there were special reasons for retention. I think that it would be unlikely that it would be celebrated any more for this reason.
The feast survives in those few Anglican parishes that use the English Missal (essentially an English translation of the traditional Roman Rite), such as S. Clement’s, Philadelphia.
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