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We light four Candles on the Advent Wreath. Signing our lips with

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We light three Candles on the Advent Wreath.  Signing our lips with a small sign of the Cross we say or sing:

O Holy ONE + open my lips,  … Read the rest

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* Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete:

modestia vestra nota sit omnibus hominibus; Dominus prope est!

Nihil sollicitisitis, sed in omni oratione petitiones vestrae innotescant apud Deum. 

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We light two Candles  on the Advent Wreath.  Signing our lips with a small sign of the Cross we say or sing:

 O Holy ONE + open my lips,

~And my … Read the rest

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Sancta Lucia (283-304)

We light Three Candles on the Advent Wreath. 

Signing our lips with a small sign of the Cross we say or sing:

O Holy ONE + open … Read the rest

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Today’s feast commemorates the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in December of 1531 to the Aztec peasant, St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin.  The story is well-known and retold in countless communities … Read the rest