On this day in 1914, Our Most Holy Father, Pope (later Saint) Pius X issued his exhortation Dum Europa to the Christian peoples of Europe appealing to them to hold back from the war that was about to engulf them.
Sancte Pie Decime, Gloriose Patrone, ora pro nobis!
Liturgical Notes on the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
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Advent is considered the start of the Roman Rite’s liturgical year as a
matter of logic and convention, but is not formally designated as such in
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