Remaining Confession times before Christmas
at OLOL:
Thursday: after 9.30am Mass and 6.30pm - 7pm
Christmas Eve: 9.30-10.30am & 4 - 4.30pm
In these last days of Advent the Church reflects on the place of Mary in our salvation. You might like find some time to listen to this modern setting of a mediaeval carol to prepare to celebrate the birth of the Lord:
There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu,
Alleluia.
For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space,
Res miranda. (wonderful thing)
By that rose we may well see
There be one God in persons three,
Pares forma. (Equal in form)
The angels sungen the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis Deo:
Gaudeamus. (Let us rejoice)
Leave we all this worldly mirth,
And follow we this joyful birth,
Transeamus. (Let us go [across]. - It is used in St Luke's Gospel where the shepherds say "Let us go to Bethlehem.")
