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Happy Feast of the Circumcision/Holy Name!

ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
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Since I just realized that it is already January 1 for some of our shipmates, not only Happy New Year, but for all who celebrate, happy Feast of the Circumcision/Holy Name!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Circumcision_of_Christ

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  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Since I just realized that it is already January 1 for some of our shipmates, not only Happy New Year, but for all who celebrate, happy Feast of the Circumcision/Holy Name!
    Or, per the RC calendar, the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God.


  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Since I just realized that it is already January 1 for some of our shipmates, not only Happy New Year, but for all who celebrate, happy Feast of the Circumcision/Holy Name!
    Or, per the RC calendar, the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God.

    Amen!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Yes, it was Mary The Mother Of God at Our Place this morning - retimed to 10am instead of the usual Wednesday 8am - but I don't know how many (or if any) of the Faithful attended, given the Wind and Rain in this part of the UK today...
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Has anyone ever thought that if they'd stuck to the Feast of the Circumcision - surely the most obvious acknowledgment of the fact that Christ was Jewish, maybe some of the church's antisemitism might have been strangled at birth?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Fair comment.

    It's *The Circumcision of Christ* in the 1662 BCP, but *The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus* in the Common Worship calendar.

    Turning it into yet another Mary-fest seems to detract from its significance, but YMMV.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Turning it into yet another Mary-fest seems to detract from its significance, but YMMV.
    I’ve long thought that, though it’s my understanding that observing the day as the Holy Mother of God goes way back.

    It’s “Holy Name of Jesus” in the calendar in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Book of Common Worship. I suspect the percentage of Presbyterians aware of that is very, very low.


    Meanwhile, an interesting question, @TheOrganist.


  • ForthviewForthview Shipmate
    The Feast day on 1st January entitled Mary, Mother of God is a fairly recent renaming of a Feast held many, many centuries ago. For centuries it was called in the RC church the Circumcision and that didn't seem to stop antisemitism. The story of the Circumcision is still the passage of the Gospel read on 1st January.
    Pope Gregory XIII in 1584 ? decreed that this day should be counted as the first day of the New Year. New Year's Day had previously been 25th March.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    In the Orthodox Church, the feast of the Circumcision of our Lord is NOT referred to as Brismas.
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Clutch thy crotch and be grateful.
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    @Forthview my understanding, and given that we had the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (i.e. the circumcision) on 2nd January is that The feast of the Mother of God, though with fairly deep historical roots has only been kept in recent years on 1st January. So it is a displacement of an older feast with a more recent one rather than a renaming which is why "Holy Name of Jesus" is kept on 2nd January.
  • ForthviewForthview Shipmate
    And you are right @Jengie Jon. About 1500 years ago the Romans kept the 1st January as a day in honour of the Mother of God. With other Marian feasts coming on the scene 1st January was then simply styled Octave of the Nativity and then later Circumcision of the Lord.
    Later on there was a festal day celebrating the divine Maternity of Mary which pope Pius XI
    in 1931 fixed on the 11th October. Pope John XXIII had a special devotion to this feast and opened the Second Vatican Council on that day. He also restyled the Feast of the Circumcision in a revision of the General roman Calendar in 1960 as Octave of the Nativity.
    In 1969 pope Paul VI renamed it as Mary, Mother of God. He reminded the faithful that Mary gave us the author of Peace and directed that 1st January should be a special day for World Peace., These directions should, with various abrogations, be followed by churches of the Roman Rite.
  • WormInTheGrassWormInTheGrass Shipmate
    Thank you, @Forthview. That coincides with my childhood memories. 11th October is now John XXIII’s feast day.
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    St Basil the Great is also commemorated in the Orthodox church on that day. Some hymns combine the two:
    As the Master over all has undergone circumcision, so He cuts away the sins of humankind in His goodness. On this day, upon the world He bestows salvation. And on high does the Creator’s hierarch Basil now rejoice, for he is known as a most divine and light-bearing mystic of Christ.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Climacus wrote: »
    St Basil the Great is also commemorated in the Orthodox church on that day. Some hymns combine the two:
    As the Master over all has undergone circumcision, so He cuts away the sins of humankind in His goodness. On this day, upon the world He bestows salvation. And on high does the Creator’s hierarch Basil now rejoice, for he is known as a most divine and light-bearing mystic of Christ.

    ❤️
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