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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Liturgical Proprioception

An important observation I almost missed.

From Psallite Sapienter:

... just as the Octave Day of Christmas is ... the feast of the Circumcision ..., so the Octave Day of the Epiphany is the feast of the Lord's Baptism: so the liturgy passes from Christ's Birth to his Circumcision, he being born a subject of the Law, and then on from the Epiphany, or the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, to his Baptism, a baptism of repentance which he vicariously undertook on our behalf at the hands of his cousin the Baptist, which sanctified the waters of the Jordan, and presaged his later institution of sacramental Baptism for all nations, by the power of his Passion applied to souls through the laver of regeneration.

The sense of movement.
David Sullivan at 12:32 PM
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