New Year 2020 welcomed with Adoration and the Feast of Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God


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By Dr. Eugene DSouza
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi/M’Belle, 31 Dec: New Year 2020 was ushered in by the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and celebration of the Feast of Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God in St. Lawrence Church, Moodubelle on Tuesday, 31 December 2019, the last day of the year 2019.

 

Fr. John Baptist Menezes, Rector of  Udupi Diocesan Minor Seminary conducted the Adoration of the Blessed sacrament from 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm.

 

The Feast of the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God was concelebrated by the Archbishop of Agra Archdiocese, Most Rev. Dr. Albert D’Souza along with Fr. Clement Mascarenhas, Parish Priest, Fr. Jithesh Castelino, Assistant Parish Priests and other priests from Moodubelle serving in various dioceses in North India.

 

Delivering the homily, Fr. Jithesh castelino highlighted the importance of motherhood and explained the meaning of the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. By giving various examples from the Gospels, Fr. Jithesh pointed out how Mother Mary participated in the various stages of the life, mission, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. He further said that Mother Mary has been the role model to all the mothers and her humility, simplicity, compassion and devotion have been the guiding principles of humanity.

 

At the end of the feast mass, Fr. Clement Mascarenhas conveyed the greetings of New Year 2020 to all the parishioners.

 

 

The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God is a feast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the aspect of her motherhood of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated by the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church on 1 January, the Octave (8th) day of Christmastide.

 

Christians of Byzantine Rite and of all West Syriac and East Syriac rites celebrate Mary as Mother of God on 26 December and the Coptic Church does so on 16 January. The Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Church observe the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ on 1 January. 

 

The Second Vatican Council stated: "Clearly from earliest times the Blessed Virgin is honoured under the title of Mother of God”. At an early stage the Church in Rome celebrated on 1 January a feast that it called the anniversary (Natale) of the Mother of God. When this was overshadowed by the feasts of the Annunciation and the Assumption, adopted from Constantinople at the start of the 7th century, 1 January began to be celebrated simply as the octave day of Christmas, the "eighth day" on which, according to Luke 2:21, the child was circumcised and given the name Jesus. 

 

In the 13th or 14th century, 1 January began to be celebrated in Rome, as already in Spain and Gaul, as the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the Octave of the Nativity, while still oriented towards Mary and Christmas, with many prayers, antiphons and responsories glorifying the maternity of Mary. Pope John XXIII’s 1960 rubrical and calendrical revision removed the mention of the circumcision of Jesus and called 1 January simply the Octave of the Nativity.




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