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Summary of comments of this office by Dom Schuster, in his work L'année liturgique.
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Summary of comments of this office by Dom Schuster, in his work L'année liturgique.
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Summary of comments of this office by Dom Schuster, in his work L'année liturgique.
In this feast, the Church discovers to us the grandeurs of the Word Incarnate by singing the glories of His Name. It was on the occasion of the rite of circumcision that the Jews gave a name to their children; that is why the Church today repeats the Gospel of the feast of the Circumcision, while giving emphasis to its conclusion: “...His name was called Jesus, which was called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.” The name Jesus means “Savior,” and there is no other name, says St. Peter, given to men whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
The origin of the feast goes back to the 16th century, where it was celebrated by the Franciscan Order. In 1721, Pope Innocent XIII extended the solemnity to the whole world.
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The word epiphany signifies apparition, and in the beginning, this feast had the same meaning for the Orientals as Christmas did to the Romans. In the Roman liturgy, the entire feast retains something of its primitive signification, in such a way that, making almost an abstraction of Christmas, the principal mystery it celebrates seems to be in fact the first manifestation of the Word of God clothed with mortal flesh.
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Granted to certain dioceses by Pope Leo XIII, in 1893, and extended to the universal Church by Benedict XV, in 1921, the feast of the Holy Family took the place of the former Sunday in the octave of the Epiphany.
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