What Is The Greater Advent Ferias?

[BlyssfulDreamer]

I noticed on the bulletin for this coming week that Monday and Tuesday are listed as the Greater Advent Ferias. What are these and what readings would be used for those two days?

As always thank you for your help.

:heart:Blyss

 

[AJV]

I noticed on the bulletin for this coming week that Monday and Tuesday are listed as the Greater Advent Ferias. What are these and what readings would be used for those two days?

As always thank you for your help.

:heart:Blyss

A feria is a day on which no feast is celebrated.

The Greater Advent Feriae are sometimes known as the ‘O Antiphon’ days- or the Greater antiphon days. (you can read the text of the O Antiphons here)

The O antiphons are special antiphons said before the Canticle of Our Lady, the Magnificat, in the Divine Office, at Evening Prayer (Vespers). Many of these antiphons are present in the hymn ‘O come O come Emmanuel’

It is a time of preparation for Christmas when, in the breviary, the Church specially awaits, or rather, longs for, the coming Christ as shown in the antiphons.

Normally, feriae do not outrank feasts but these are so special that they do for most feasts.

I presumed you were talking about the Traditional liturgy- in the EF Missal there is no special Mass attached, but in the OF there is.