Feast of the Immaculate Conception with a Common Octave

 

The feast of the Immaculate Conception has a Common Octave!

This means the feast gives way to any other feast that occurs during it.  

Since this is Advent there are many lovely feasts, only Dec 9, 10 and the Octave Day on Dec 15 will be the Mass of the Immaculate Conception with the commemoration of Advent. 

 On the other feast days of St Damasus I, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and St Lucy, both the Immaculate Conception and Advent are commemorated.  

The Immaculate Conception would also be commemorated on Gaudete Sunday!

Ways to celebrate the Octave at home through Dec 15:  

Display a picture of the Immaculate Conception for the entire Octave

Read the entry in The Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger for each day

Pray a Hail Mary slowly and thoughtfully while pondering the phrase “full of grace”.

Pray the Litany of Loreto 

Pray a Rosary or a Decade of the Rosary (Annunciation)

Sing Immaculate Mary, Tota Pulchra Es or any Marian hymn 

Read the Collect, Secret and Postcommunion of the Immaculate Conception at Mass every day or privately in your home 

Eat a “white” dinner to symbolize Our Lady’s purity and immaculate soul---i.e. Chicken breasts, fettucine alfredo, cauliflower, Creamy basil chicken, etc

Turn on white lights of some Advent decorations, such as the mantlepiece or doorway

O Mary, conceived without sin, 

pray for us who have recourse to thee.