Feast of the Annunciation

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What is your parish doing for the Feast of the Annunciation? if anything.
 
corsair said:
What is your parish doing for the Feast of the Annunciation? if anything.
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Well, usually my Parish simply says it on the bulletin with a pretty picture…Sad isn’t it?

But the Church I go to for the Latin Tridentine Mass usually has plenty of things for most Feast Days and days of that nature. A couple weeks ago we even had a few Prayers from Saint Francis Xavier for the Novena of Grace. So I am sure that Parish will do something.

Pius :knight1:
 
that has the become the date for our annual parish picnic which begins after Mass
 
Mass and a parish pitch-in dinner afterwards. It is our parish feast day.
 
I will be altar serving the Ordinary Form Latin ad orientem concelebrated Pontifical Mass to be celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston at the Church of the Holy Innocents at 6PM.😃
 
When my father was born, Annutiation was a day of obligation for Mass. In my time this was only recommended feast and traditionally the (transitory) deacons were ordained in this day.

Here my territorial parish has an entry

Friday, March 25, The Annunciation of the Lord ~ Day of Abstinence
Stations of the Cross: 7:00 p.m.—Church.

The parish where I attend masses will have a TLM at night.
 
Feast of the Annunciation is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the liturgical year in the Eastern Churches. You may know we have strict fasting (abstinance) from all meat, fish, dairy, eggs, from Meatfare Sunday until Pascha. However, Feast of the Annunciation is one of two days we may eat fish during the great Fast/Lent, the other being Palm Sunday/the Triumphal Entry. During Great Lent every Friday and often every Wed, we have Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, because the joyous character of Divine Liturgy is not appropriate other than Sundays in Lent. But the joy of the Feast of the Annunciation trumps all this and we will have Divine Liturgy on this Feast Day. I plan on having a late night salmon dinner after Divine Liturgy! I love that in the midst of what is a seriously penitential season for us we have this most joyous feast of the incarnation of our Lord God. 👍

My Latin Church parish and all the others in our deanery as far as I can tell will have Stations of the Cross as with every other Friday in Lent. This is contrary to the sense of the Annunciation I think. It’s kind of a mystery to me how such a huge event, the turning point in the history of mankind, the Incarnation, has become such a non-event in the Church so many places. Thanks be to God for ethnic parishes and for the parishes who celebrate the Extraordinary Form High Mass to give the Mother of God and her son Christ God appropriate honor and celebration.

Happy altar feast day for you in Annunciation parishes! 😃
 
tbt said: I will be altar serving the Ordinary Form Latin ad orientem concelebrated Pontifical Mass to be celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston at the Church of the Holy Innocents at 6PM.

Gave me goosebumps!

I was going to start this thread if it hadn’t already been available. I recall the words of Archbishop Dolan on EWTN that the Annunciation is equal in importance to Christmas. Yet how many Catholics are preparing for the Annunciation? Shouldn’t we all be praying a novena and pressing our finery and toning our voices to welcome Jesus Our Savior when He comes into this world on Friday?

I guess the pagan and secular festivities surrounding Christmas have had a great impact on the way we celebrate the Feastdays here in the United States. Yet those who have been educated in Catholic dogma – and that should be every person who attended Catholic school at any level – should be aware that Jesus’ Conception was the Day awaited for thousands of years. Those who argue about the precise date are only allowing minutia to distract from the true magnificence of the Feast. It is a feast of Jesus, the Father, the Holy Spirit, the Angel Gabriel, and the Blessed Virgin. It has lessons about faith, hope, and love, courage, selflessness, the value of unborn life, the beginning of the Church, poverty vs. wealth, and on and on. How can any pastor, bishop, Catholic publication, school, website not be proclaming the overwhelming joy we should feel with this Feast approaching?
 
Brownginger said:
I recall the words of Archbishop Dolan on EWTN that the Annunciation is equal in importance to Christmas. Yet how many Catholics are preparing for the Annunciation? Shouldn’t we all be praying a novena and pressing our finery and toning our voices to welcome Jesus Our Savior when He comes into this world on Friday?
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That’s not the Church’s view, however. Under the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar, the ranking of liturgical days begins:

  1. *]Easter triduum of the Lord’s passion and resurrection.
    .
    *]Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, and Pentecost.
    Sundays of Advent, Lent, and the Easter season.
    Ash Wednesday.
    Weekdays of Holy Week from Monday to Thursday inclusive.
    Days within the octave of Easter.
    .
    *]Solemnities of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and saints listed in the General Calendar.
    All Souls.

    So the Annunciation ranks below Christmas, and even below Sundays in Lent.
 
Now THAT IS sad! Perhaps something will be done to correct that in the next eon or so.😉
 
I am so happy that you are having a wonderful celebration. I will have to go to a small chapel tomorrow for Mass, but my heart will be full of love and gratitude for the opportunity to know the Mercy of God in sending us a Savior and to share Jesus’ first moment with His Blessed Mother. Come, Lord Jesus!
 
My new parish priest (my new Pastor for US readers) is having his induction ceremony with the Dean at Mas tonight. I’m gettin’ ready to go.
 
MarkThompson said:
That’s not the Church’s view, however. Under the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar, the ranking of liturgical days begins:

  1. *]Easter triduum of the Lord’s passion and resurrection.
    .
    *]Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, and Pentecost.
    Sundays of Advent, Lent, and the Easter season.
    Ash Wednesday.
    Weekdays of Holy Week from Monday to Thursday inclusive.
    Days within the octave of Easter.
    .
    *]Solemnities of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and saints listed in the General Calendar.
    All Souls.

    So the Annunciation ranks below Christmas, and even below Sundays in Lent.
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  1. You highlighted “the Blessed Virgin Mary,” but in the modern Roman calendar, Annunciation is primarily a Solemnity of the Lord (hence the name change to “Annunciation of the Lord” from the old “Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”) Of course, this doesn’t really change your overall point that Annunciation is still ranked well below Christmas. (A similar change occurred on February 2 - formerly Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, now Presentation of the Lord, but that’s a Feast, lower ranked.)

    I would suggest, though, that despite the relatively low ranking, the Mystery of the Incarnation, which we commemorate on this great Solemnity, is so central to our faith that in actual fact the Annunciation is far more important that its official rank suggests. I wish it tended to be celebrated much more solemnly than it usually is. Most people it seems barely notice it’s on the calendar, but as a Solemnity it’s liturgically equivalent to a Sunday minus the obligation. I feel that all the Solemnities that are neither Sundays nor Holy Days of Obligation tend to be neglected - but especially Annunciation should get better treatment.
 
Bbigam said:
You highlighted “the Blessed Virgin Mary,” but in the modern Roman calendar, Annunciation is primarily a Solemnity of the Lord (hence the name change to “Annunciation of the Lord” from the old “Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”)
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I didn’t consider that. Interesting. Is that the defining characteristic of what makes something a solemnity of the Lord, that the Missal says “of the Lord”?

Now if we could just get them to change it to the “Incarnation of the Lord” and put the emphasis where it belongs on the more important aspect of the day. 😃
 
Bbigam said:
You highlighted “the Blessed Virgin Mary,” but in the modern Roman calendar, Annunciation is primarily a Solemnity of the Lord (hence the name change to “Annunciation of the Lord” from the old “Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”)
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So Lady Day isn’t Lady Day anymore? :confused:
 
MarkThompson said:
I didn’t consider that. Interesting. Is that the defining characteristic of what makes something a solemnity of the Lord, that the Missal says “of the Lord”?
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Well, that’s a good question. If you read the propers, though, from the EF and the OF, the emphasis has certainly shifted more toward Our Lord. As an example, the Invitatory in the old Breviary is Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, but in the Liturgia Horarum it’s Verbum caro factum est, venite, adoremus. But the Blessed Virgin is talked about quite a bit too, and the hymn (in the Liturgia Horarum) at Second Vespers is still Ave Maris Stella, a Marian hymn. So I suspect that it’s a solemnity both of Our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin (but Our Lord outranks the Blessed Virgin).
 
In the Byzantine Rite(UGCC), its one of the 4 Great Feasts thats centers on the Theotokos. The clergy vest in blue.
 
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