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Watch Video – (Mostly Audio By Candlelight )  Of The Beautiful Rorate Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Jersey City – 12-16-17 – On YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9F_xftrIQ&list=PLdCnJKmyHqa6BhrGdNwoWKdjxqL81WiOw&index=1

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Gaudete and Rorate Photopost 2017 (Part 1) On Novus Motus Liturgicus

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/12/gaudete-and-rorate-photopost-2017-part-1.html#.WjrS9XlryUk

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New Video Released – Saint Benedict Center – Two Women Profess Their Vows To The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary On The Feast Of The Immaculate Heart Of Mary – Posted Through Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/247613546

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Immaculate Conception Photopost 2017 – Italy and Belgium

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/12/immaculate-conception-photopost-2017.html#.WjkyC3lryUk

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Lourdes – 16th apparition: “I am the Immaculate Conception” – The Beautiful 5 Minute Highlights From Bernadette – On YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=FtKrTrEDDsI

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The Little Drummer Boy-the little boy became known as ‘the drummer boy’

http://www.returntoorder.org/2016/12/little-drummer-boy/

The Story of the Christmas Tree- symbol of Christianity, the ‘Tree of Christ’

http://www.returntoorder.org/2016/12/the-story-of-the-christmas-tree/

Silent Night: The origin of the song -the most symbolic of Christmas carols – On Return To Order

http://www.returntoorder.org/2016/12/origin-song-silent-night/

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A New CNS Series about Gregorian Chant – On Novus Motus Liturgicus

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/12/a-new-cns-series-about-gregorian-chant.html

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What Happened to Advent? On CMTV

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/what-happened-to-advent

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Why is St. Francis Xavier’s arm flying across Canada? :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/why-is-st-francis-xaviers-arm-flying-across-canada-73850

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Five Things to Thank God for on Thanksgiving – Crisis Magazine

Concludes with the most important Thanksgiving for our Mother

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/five-things-thank-god-thanksgiving

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The history of the Rockettes: From St. Louis to Radio City | 6sqft

Including their Union strike in the 1960s and the abandonment of the famous old style hybrid- movies- live show with intermissions

https://www.6sqft.com/the-history-of-the-rockettes-from-st-louis-to-radio-city/

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The Secret Piano Lounge Continues At The Bus Terminal Of  NYC’s Port Authority Hidden In Plain Sight  | Untapped Cities

https://untappedcities.com/2017/12/04/secret-piano-bringing-color-nycs-port-authority-bus-terminal/

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O Root of Jesse Painting @ The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam BY Geertgen tot Sint Jans 1455AD ( click within for larger image /higher resolution )

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From a homily In Praise of the Virgin Mother by Saint Bernard, abbot
The whole world awaits Mary’s reply

You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of compassion; the sentence of condemnation weighs heavily upon us.

The price of our salvation is offered to you. We shall be set free at once if you consent. In the eternal Word of God we all came to be, and behold, we die. In your brief response we are to be remade in order to be recalled to life.

Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs this of you, O loving Virgin, in their exile from Paradise. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy patriarchs, your ancestors, ask it of you, as they dwell in the country of the shadow of death. This is what the whole earth waits for, prostrate at your feet. It is right in doing so, for on your word depends comfort for the wretched, ransom for the captive, freedom for the condemned, indeed, salvation for all the sons of Adam, the whole of your race.

Answer quickly, O Virgin. Reply in haste to the angel, or rather through the angel to the Lord. Answer with a word, receive the Word of God. Speak your own word, conceive the divine Word. Breathe a passing word, embrace the eternal Word.

Why do you delay, why are you afraid? Believe, give praise, and receive. Let humility be bold, let modesty be confident. This is no time for virginal simplicity to forget prudence. In this matter alone, O prudent Virgin, do not fear to be presumptuous. Though modest silence is pleasing, dutiful speech is now more necessary. Open your heart to faith, O blessed Virgin, your lips to praise, your womb to the Creator. See, the desired of all nations is at your door, knocking to enter. If he should pass by because of your delay, in sorrow you would begin to seek him afresh, the One whom your soul loves. Arise, hasten, open. Arise in faith, hasten in devotion, open in praise and thanksgiving. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, she says, be it done to me according to your word.