Should the Feast of Our Lady on Guadalupe on 12/12 have a Creed, according to pre-1955 rules? There seem to be good arguments for either side but no definite answer!
Our Lady gets the Credo except on Saturdays (and at votive Masses although some forms of the Rorate indult had a Credo). And she’s either a patron or secondary patron of the places where she was inscribed in the calendar (continental patrons are not that important in the liturgy; I’m talking about the dioceses where the feast was on the calendar as a double of the I or II class).
From comments under a Peter Kwasniewksi post on FB:
According to Innocentius Wapelhorst, the old rule was that DAP days/feasts had the Credo and MUC (or MVC) feasts didn’t.
DAP - credit: D - Festa Domini, Dominæ, Doctorum, Dominicæ - Feasts of Our Lord, Our Lady, Doctors, and Sundays. A - Festa Angelorum, Apostolorum -- Feasts of the Angels and of Apostles. Under this, St. Mary Magdalen would be included as "Apostle to the Apostles." P - Festa Patronum or Titularium Principalium -- Feasts of Patron (of the Church) or Feast of Principal Title.
MUC (or MVC) - non credit: M - Festa Martyrum - Feasts of Martyrs. U/V - Festa (non) Virginum - Feasts of Virgins and non-Virgins (widows). C - Festa Confessorum - Feasts of Confessors.
The octave of the Holy Innocents didn’t get a Credo (being outside of the Octave of Christmas).
Most Old Testament Saints didn’t get a Credo, but the above rule seems to apply much more generally.
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