To Anonymous:
Thank you for your interest in times for Holy Mass.  I can publish times but I need to know where you are located.  If you are in the Milwaukee area and would be attending Our Lady of the Rosary in Waubeka, Mass will be on Jan 1 at 5:00 pm.  If you are elsewhere, please contact Bishop Giles at father@friarsminor.org and ask about the different locations.  Thank you also for reading our humble little blog!  Blessed Christmas Season to you!

Behold the dear Infant Jesus, and adore Him fervently. Contemplate
His poverty, and humility, in imitation of His most holy Mother and of
Saint Joseph. Repose near Him as sweetly as you can, He will not fail to love
your heart, void as you find it of tenderness and feeling. Nothing will be
wanting to you, since you will be in the presence of that holy Infant.
Abide there, and learn of Him how meek and humble He is, how simple
and amiable. See how lovingly He has written your name in the
depth of His Divine Heart, which beats on that couch of straw from the
impassioned zeal it has for our advancement, and heaves not one single sigh
unto His Father in which you have not a part, nor a single movement of His
spirit except for your happiness.
                                                                         
--Saint Francis de Sales

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
From “The St. Andrew Daily Missal” (1937)


 
    Having decided from all eternity to make Mary Mother of the Incarnate
Word (Epistle), God willed that she should crush the head of the serpent
from the moment of her conception. He covered her “with a  mantle of
holiness” (Introit) and, “preserving her soul from all stain, He made
her a worthy dwelling place for His Son” (Collect). The feast of the
“Conception” of the Virgin was, from the eighth century, celebrated in
the East on December 9th, from the ninth century in Ireland and May 3rd,
and in the eleventh century in England on December 8th. The Benedictines
with St. Anselm, and the Franciscans with Duns Scotus (1308) favoured the
feast of the “Immaculate Conception,” which in 1128 was kept in
Anglo-Saxon monasteries. In the fifteenth century Pope Sixtus IV, a
Franciscan, erected at the Vatican the Sistine Chapel in honour of the
Conception of the Virgin. And on December 8th, 1854, Pius IX officially
proclaimed this great dogma, making himself the mouthpiece of all the
Christian tradition summed up in the words of the Angel: “Hail Mary, full
of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women: (Gospel) “
Thou art all beautiful, O Mary, and the original stain is not in thee “
says in truth the alleluia verse. Like the dawn which announces the day,
Mary precedes the Sun of Justice which will soon illumine the world of
souls. Bringing to us her Son, it is she who first appears in the
liturgical cycle. Let us ask God “to heal us and to deliver us from all
our sins” (Secret, Postcommunion) in order that by the graces which
specially belong to the feast of the “Immaculate” we may become more
worthy of receiving Jesus in our hearts when He comes into them on December
25.