Mary expectation

Madonna del parto , unknown 15th century painter

The feast of Mary expectation , completely fixed the expectation of Christ's birth , lat. Exspectatio Partus Beatae Mariae Virginis , is a Marian feast on 18 December. The festival mystery looks at the joyful anticipation of the birth of Jesus Christ by Mary .

The festival originated in Spain. After the Spanish Church moved the feast of the Annunciation to Advent , the tenth council of Toledo in 656 set December 18th as the date. After returning to the earlier feast date of the solemn feast of the Annunciation in March, the festive secret in Spain was commemorated on both days, March 25th and December 18th; the December festival even had its own octave and antiphons for each day of the octave.

Pope Gregory XIII confirmed the date for the Mozarabic rite in 1573. It is unclear when the term Exspectatio partus BVM came up for the festival in December, since the liturgical books of the Mozarabic rite do not use this term. Toledo has had the privilege since 1634 of celebrating the Feast of the Expectation even if it falls on the fourth Sunday of Advent . From Spain, the festival spread to Italy and France. In 1702 it was included in the Cistercians ' own calendar . Pope Benedict XIII introduced the festival in 1727 in the general Roman calendar . Following a recommendation in 1741, the Breviary Congregation under Pope Benedict XIV and his successors abolished various “lower” Marian feasts, including the feast of Exspectatio Partus Beatae Mariae Virginis .

literature

Joseph Ratzinger , Hans Urs von Balthasar : Maria, church in the origin . 4th expanded edition. Johannes Verlag Einsiedeln, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-89411-338-3

Individual evidence

↑ Sleumer, Church Latin Dictionary; Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim, Zurich, New York. 1926
↑ Suitbert Bäumer OSB, The History of the Breviary - Attempt at a source-based representation of the development of the early church and Roman offices up to our days , Herder, 1895, p. 301
↑ Suitbert Bäumer OSB, The History of the Breviary - Attempt at a source-based representation of the development of the early church and the Roman offices up to our days , Herder, 1895, pp. 563, 569

[1] Sleumer, Church Latin Dictionary; Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim, Zurich, New York. 1926

[2] Suitbert Bäumer OSB, The History of the Breviary - Attempt at a source-based representation of the development of the early church and Roman offices up to our days , Herder, 1895, p. 301

[3] Suitbert Bäumer OSB, The History of the Breviary - Attempt at a source-based representation of the development of the early church and the Roman offices up to our days , Herder, 1895, pp. 563, 569