Dec 10 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: The Holy House of Loreto – Model of All Family Homes
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Homily #111210 (
07min) Play - On this feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Fr. Bonaventure explains that the home of the Holy Family in Nazareth would become the exemplar of all family life, of the entire human family. Let us commend today all families to the love of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Joseph, making Christ central in all our lives and families.Ave Maria!
Mass: Our Lady of Loreto - Feast - Form: OF
Readings:
1st: 1ch 15:3-4, 15-16, 16:1-2
Resp: psa 84:3, 4, 5-6, 8, 11
Gsp: luk 1:26-38
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The Proper Mass of The Holy House of Loreto, one of those lovely Masses celebrated by special grant in certain places.
Introit
This is a fearsome place:
it is the house of God, the gate of heaven;
it shall be named the palace of God (Gen 28:17).
V. O Lord of hosts, how I love thy dwelling-place!
For the courts of the Lord’s house, my souls faints with longing (Ps 83:2-3).
Collect
O God, who in thy mercy didst sanctify the Blessed Virgin Mary’s house by the mystery of the Word made flesh,
and didst miraculously place it in the heart of thy Church,
grant that we may shun the abodes of sinners
and become worthy to dwell in thy own holy house.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord
who is God living and reigning with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
forever and ever.