It’s time to print out your December 2017 calendar. Thanks to the good folks at mprp-roc.org for providing these calendars freely available to all on the Internet.
Also, here are the Holy Father’s prayer intentions for December:
|The Elderly.
That the elderly, sustained by families and Christian communities, may apply their wisdom and experience to spreading the faith and forming the new generations.
Please remember in your prayers, Father Richard Schatzel
Enjoy Christmastide: Lent begins on Valentine’s Day (Ash Wednesday.) And for those who follow it, Septuagesima is Jan. 28th.
CHRISTMASTIDE
In the older tradition (which is still kept in the liturgical calendar of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass) Christmas lasts until Candlemas, or the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of the Lord, which isn’t until February 2nd.
Today’s readings in the Novus Ordo anticipate the Purification, and it seems the earlier ending of Christmastide.