What if your liturgical calendar had 9 Advent Sundays and No Ordinary Sundays? Well,my faithful readers, it is your African - Mozarabe Girl! You see since prayerfully answering the call to deepen my faith journey by leaving the comfort of the Latin Roman Catholic to joining the Latin Mozarabic Catholic Rite (a rite that seems to be in extinction, but larger than life itself however), I have been jouneying from the Roman Rite liturgical calendar to the Hispano - Mozarabe liturgical calendar, meanwhile exploring the very roots of the Mozarabic tradition in Africa and in Asia; The Saints' calendar on my blog gives you a hint of that.
I've been collecting for the past few years no longer with the mindset of just following the liturgical calendar, but allowing myself to think out visually. WHo knows where it would lead me? Trusting in the Holy Spirit WAS a Free of Charge opportunity...
See I've always wondered why we call the Ordinary Seasons of the Church "Ordinary times" when the truth is it is not really ordinary. After the Christmas Season, we would fall right back into Ordinary times, and I wondered what it would be like to have an Epiphany Season?
I had notice that some Catholic rites had instead Trinity Seasons, such as the Latin Ordinariate Catholic Rite (Anglican Communion). So I kept looking and searching into different liturgical calendars. At times, it was really overwhelming. Other times, it was sad because it literally caused me to envy certain rites. But there are moments that really made me perplexed because it either confirmed something I had in mind, or shed light on something I was not aware of. Such was the case when in my researches, I read that certain episcopalian traditions embraced an old tradition of the church while developing their own liturgical calendar. It does not have the Catholic Saints obviously, but the days after Easter are known as Pentecostide... (and not ordinary times). Research shows that the Pentecostide Season used to be known as well as Kingdomtide...
Thus with a smile on my face because I was begin to find these answers very interesting, I carried on creating a skeleton, but I would always get stucked it got close to the Advent Season in the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite vs the Advent Season in the Latin Roman Catholic Rite. It even got worse when I noticed that in the Latin Extraordinary rite, there is no ordinary times after Easter, it continues with a Pentecost Season, but they also had a different feast of Christ the King (feast that seals the liturgical year and launches the Advent Season). So I'd keep asking myself...
Lord, how were all these dates to honour your royal title chosen? So obviously, I would celebrate it all, but on my lil' homemade calendar, I could not figure out which one to pick.
And so I persevered again repeating the same process this year wondering how I would make further progress from last year, on a very blank secular (military to be exact) Canadian Calendar. It had no saints, just monetary prizes (and few worldwide religious celebrations), so there was no way I could be influenced by other rites. However, as I kept updating it, I felt this uneasiness again when came the time to add the feast of Christ the King. This time I had both dates (the date when the Latin Roman Extraordinary rite celebrate theirs (Oct 25, 2020) & the date known to all in the Latin Roman Ordinary Rite (Nov 22, 2020). Meanwhile I remembered the adoration I had offered for His Majesty, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, his family & his people had reached my goal the day before (October 18, 2020).
It is true I pray the funniest prayers, and I do not apologize for that, because it seems the heavenly court enjoys it, because I often get answers to those prayers. See at the time I dedicated this adoration by Father Cesar Augusto Calderon Caicedo the exorcist who allows me to collaborate with him via Megalunei TV, there were not many subscribers. So I told the Lord I will let wait for as long as it takes for the number of views to be equivalent to the number of subscribers... and that in the process I would be attentive to what He, my Lord and God, might tell me through this man (this simple act of offering to Him for the King of Morocco's Coronation anniversary). So suddenly I was taken aback, and became very attentive to the Calendar. Was the Lord wanting me to celebrate / put the the Feast of Christ the King on that Sunday? or on the same day of those of the Extraordinary rite (Sunday after the 25)... Or before... So although I wrote the name of the feast down as you may see I began to hesitate... I say *me* because it is just me having fun designing a liturgical calendar. I do not know who will join me in this or even how liturgical calendars get approved :-)... So to sort it out, I chose to believe that the Lord's answer was for the day Adoration was completed, although nothing had been posted and perpetual adoration continued... From there I was finally joyfull to start counting an Advent Season; This would give exactly nineteen (19) Pentecostide Sundays on my calendar. What a surprise suddenly! From the 20th Pentecostide Sunday being the Feast of Christ the King on my calendar Christmas (December 25th, 2020), I am getting exactly 9 Advent Sundays... Now tell me about an ADVENT NOVENA, and I am ready to salute the Holy Spirit... So this said, should you join me during this New Advent season of my life (with this skeleton of my ongoing design of a Liturgical Calendar till I post a full one...)
~~~ Advent 2020 with me ~~~
Advent Sunday I -----> October 25, 2020
Advent Sunday II ----> November 1, 2020 (All Saints' Day)
Advent Sunday III ---> November 8, 2020
Advent Sunday IV ---> November 15, 2020
Advent Sunday V ----> November 22, 2020
Advent Sunday VI ---> November 29, 2020
Advent Sunday VII --> December 6, 2020
Advent Sunday VIII -> December 13, 2020
Advent Sunday IX ---> December 20, 2020
Till I write to you next, thank you for your support and for journeying with me.
Have a Blessed Advent Season!!!
Fanny Magnificat, Your MoZaRaBe Girl
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