This week we celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday, December 8th.
A few notes for the week:
PHONE SERVICE DISRUPTION: We are porting our office number to a new provider. There may be a temporary disruption in service around 10:30 AM Central on 12/5/22.
CLASS SCHEDULE: No Class Meetings or Tutor Times on Thursday, December 8th.
WORK: Just as on All Saints, the workload for classes is adjusted to reduce work by one day. Please see the note in each course suite for specific changes.
ADVENT CHALLENGE: If you hadn't noted, the first part of our Advent Challenge is up in the League (as well as Chapter 1 of our adventure). More to follow!
ICON CONTEST: The deadline is the end of the day on the Feast of the Immaculate -- putting aside some of your extra time on that day to write and pray an icon is a wonderful idea!
Have a great week!
Wisdom of the Dom: "Raise up your heads, then, ye children of Adam, and shake off your chains! This day, the humiliation, which weighed you down, is annihilated. Behold! Mary, she who is of the same flesh and blood as yourselves, has seen the torrent of sin, which swept along all the generations of mankind, she has seen it flow back at her presence and not touch her; the infernal dragon has turned away his head, daring not to breathe his venom upon her; the dignity of your origin is given to her in all its primitive grandeur. This happy day, then, on which the original purity of your race is renewed, must be a Feast to you. The Second Eve is created, and from her own blood (which, with the exception of the element of sin, is the same as that which makes you to be the children of Adam), she is shortly to give you the God-Man, who proceeds from her according to the flesh, as he proceeds from the Father according to the eternal generation."
~The Liturgical Year, Vol. 1, "The Feast of the Immaculate Conception," Dom Prosper Gueranger