Deus, tu convérsus vivificábis nos, et plebs tua lætábitur in te: osténde nobis, Dómine, misericórdiam tuam, et salutáre tuum da nobis...

Deus, qui per immaculátam Vírginis Conceptiónem dignum Fílio tuo habitáculum præparásti: quǽsumus; ut, qui ex morte ejúsdem Filii tui prævísa eam ab omni labe præservásti, nos quoque mundos ejus intercessióne ad te perveníre concédas. Per eúndem Dóminum.

Excita, Dómine, corda nostra ad præparándas Unigéniti tui vias: ut, per ejus advéntum, purificátis tibi méntibus servire mereámur: Qui tecum.

Today is Tuesday in the 2nd week of Advent, an Advent feria, the 2nd day infra Octavam. Between 1863 and 1955 the Octave of the Immaculate Conception was kept (as Gregory DiPippo observed yesterday, there were long-existing Offices of the feast prior to 1863); this is one (the one, perhaps) of the 'notional octaves' which I prefer to ignore in my 'own' Office, only because it consumes such a large part of the Advent season. The Sunday Mass, Populus Sion ecce Dominus veniet, may be found here.

M le Curé is celebrating Holy Mass at Saint-Eugène today, the Mass Populus Sion ecce Dominus veniet.

The Roman Martyrology today, for tomorrow December 10, the 4th day before the Ides of December.

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Concéde, miséricors Deus, fragilitáti nostræ præsídium; ut, qui sanctæ Dei Genitrícis memóriam ágimus; intercessiónis ejus auxílio, a nostris iniquitátibus resurgámus. Per Christum Dóminum nóstrum.

Deus, a quo sancta desidéria, recta consília, et justa sunt ópera: da servis tuis illam, quam mundus dare non potest, pacem; ut et corda nostra mandátis tuis dédita, et hóstium subláta formídine, témpora sint tua protectióne tranquílla. Per Dóminum.

Deus, qui caritátis dona per grátiam Sancti Spíritus tuórum fidélium córdibus infudísti: da fámulis et famulábus tuis, pro quibus tuam deprecámur cleméntiam, salútem mentis et córporis; ut te tota virtúte díligant, et quæ tibi plácita sunt, tota dilectióne perfíciant. Per Dóminum.

Laus Deo Virginique Matri