The Mozarabic Rite also has a six week Advent. The Mozarabic Rite was practiced freely by Catholics in Muslim Spain and has a great deal of affinity with Islamic culture and thought.
Beginning now this week, there are six weeks until Christmas.
Christmas prayer
We praise you, Lord Jesus Christ,
God-Saviour of men,
stupendously powerful with the Father;
we praise you, we invoke you, we pray to you; assist us with your pardon, with clemency give us your grace.
Awaken in our hearts desires deserving of fulfillment; suggest to us words that are worthy to be heard; grant that our actions may be worthy of blessing.
We beg you to renew your birth in human nature, penetrating us with your invisible Godhead
as you did in a unique way in Mary
and do now spiritually in the Church.
May you be conceived by our faith,
that a mind untouched by corruption may bring you forth, that the soul, ever confirmed by the power of the Most High, may offer you a dwelling place.
Be not born in us, but reveal yourself in us. Be truly for us the Emmanuel, God with us.
Deign to remain with us, to fight for us. Only so can we conquer.
Mozarabic liturgy
The 5th antiphon of St. Martin of Tours at Lauds of his feast day.
Martin is received triumphantly into Abraham's bosom: Martin, here poor and lowly, enters heaven rich, and is honored with celestial hymns.
Notice the ancient Church's reference to Abraham's bosom, the place where the faithful departed rest in peace until the resurrection of the just. This dates from before the invention of purgatory.
See: Luke 16:22
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.
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