Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Monday 13 October 2014

Requiescat In Pace. Richard Collins, R. I. P.




Illustration: LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW


Saint Edward (1003 - 1066). King And Confessor. Feast Day 13 October.


Roman Text and Illustrations from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Italic Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Edward.
King and Confessor.
Feast Day 13 October.

Semi-Double.


White Vestments.




Saint Edward the Confessor.
Date: 13th-Century.
Source: http://molcat1.bl.uk/IllImages/
Kslides%5Cmid/K066/K066609.jpg
Author: Anonymous.
(Wikimedia Commons)



Edward, called "The Confessor", was a grand-son of Saint Edward, King and Martyr.

When he was raised to the Throne of England, "it was seen," says a historian, "what can be done by a King, who is the true father of his Subjects. All those who approached him endeavoured to regulate their lives according to his. Neither ambition, nor the love of riches, nor any of the passions which are unfortunately so common among Courtiers, were known at his Court."

He was everywhere called the father of the orphans and of the poor, and he was never happier than when he could distribute alms (Epistle). He always granted, what was requested of him, in the name of Saint John the Evangelist.

He died in 1066.


Mass: Os justi.



A sealed Writ of Edward the Confessor,
issued in favour of Westminster Abbey.
This File: 16 April 2007.
User: Canley.
(Wikipedia)



The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Edward the Confessor (1003-1066), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon Kings of England and is usually regarded as the last King of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

Edward has traditionally been seen as unworldly and pious, and his Reign is notable for the disintegration of Royal power in England and the advance in power of the Godwin family.




Edward's seal: SIGILLVM EADWARDI ANGLORVM BASILEI
(Seal of Edward. Crowned King of the English).
First Great Seal of Edward the Confessor.
Date: 1915.
Author: HISTORY OF ENGLAND by SAMUEL R. GARDINER.
(Wikimedia Commons)



Edward succeeded Cnut the Great's son, Harthacnut, restoring the Rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish Rule since Cnut conquered England in 1016. When Edward died in 1066, he was succeeded by Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, at the Battle of Hastings.

Edward is called Confessor, the name for someone believed to have lived a Saintly life, but who was not a Martyr, in Latin S. Eduardus Confessor rex Anglorum, as opposed to S. Eduardus Martyr rex Anglorum. He was Canonised in 1161 by Pope Alexander III, and is Commemorated on 13 October by both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Saint Edward was one of the national Saints of England, until King Edward III adopted Saint George as Patron Saint, in about 1350.




English: Bayeux Tapestry. Scene 1:
King Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson at Winchester.
Français: Tapisserie de Bayeux. Scène 1:
le roi Édouard le Confesseur reçoit son beau-frère
Harold Godwinson dans son palais de Winchester
et lui confie une mission.
Photo: 7 March 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Myrabella.
(Wikimedia Commons)



Alma Redemptoris Mater (Loving Mother Of Our Saviour). Diego Ortiz. 16th-Century Maestro Di Capella, Chapel Royal Of Naples.




The Virgin of the Lilies
(La Vierge au lys).
Date: 1899.
Source: PaintingHere.com
Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).
(Wikimedia Commons)



Alma Redemptoris Mater,
by Diego Ortiz.
Performed by Cantar Lontano.
Director: Marco Mencoboni.
Available on YouTube at



The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Alma Redemptoris Mater (English: Loving Mother of Our Saviour) is a Marian Hymn,
written in Latin hexameter, and one of four Seasonal Liturgical Marian Antiphons
sung at the end of the Office of Compline (the other three Antiphons being

Hermannus Contractus (also called Herman the Cripple, 1013–1054) is said to have
authored the Hymn, based on the writings of Saints FulgentiusEpiphanius and
Irenaeus of Lyon. Alma Redemptoris Mater is mentioned in "The Prioress's Tale",
one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Formerly, it was recited at Compline only
from the First Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification (2 February)

Diego Ortiz (1510 – 1570) was a Spanish composer and musicologist, in service to the
Spanish Viceroy of Naples, and, later, to Philip II of Spain. Ortiz published influential
treatises on both instrumental and vocal performance.



Portrait of Diego Ortiz
from the Title Page of his
"Trattado de Glosas" (1553).
This File 19 June 2009.
User: Capmo.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Sunday 12 October 2014

Beata Es Virgo (Blessed Is The Virgin). Diego Ortiz, 16th-Century Maestro Di Capella Of The Chapel Royal Of Naples.





The Annunciation.
Date: 1712.
Current location: Saint Louis Art Museum,
Missouri, United States of America.
(Wikimedia Commons)





Portrait of Diego Ortiz
from the Title Page of his
"Trattado de Glosas" (1553).
This File 19 June 2009.
User: Capmo.
(Wikimedia Commons)



Diego Ortiz (1510 – 1570) was a Spanish composer and musicologist, in service to the Spanish Viceroy of Naples, and, later, to Philip II of Spain. Ortiz published influential treatises on both instrumental and vocal performance.

The following YouTube rendition, of Beata es Virgo, is taken from Vespers,
for all Feasts of The Blessed Virgin Mary, in Naples in 1565.

The Versicle, Deus in aduitorium, is followed by
the Antiphon, Ave Maria,
then Psalm 109, Dixit Dominus,
then the Motet, Beata es Virgo.




Beata es Virgo,
by Diego Ortiz.
Available on YouTube at



Saturday 11 October 2014

Requiescat In Pace. Richard Collins, R. I. P.




Thank You and Credit to




Feast Of The Maternity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 11 October.


Feast of The Maternity of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 11 October.

Double of the Second-Class.

White Vestments.

Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.

Feast of The Maternity of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Illustration: Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium,
Used With Permission.


The Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God is a Feast Day of The Blessed Virgin Mary under the aspect of her Motherhood of Jesus Christ, whom Christians see as the Word, God the Son.

Christians of Byzantine Rite and of both West and East Syrian Rites celebrate Mary as Mother of God on 26 December and the Coptic Church does so on 16 January.

The Feast is a Celebration of Mary's Motherhood of Jesus. The English Title "Mother of God" is a translation of the Latin Title Dei Genetrix, which means "She Who Generated God", as the corresponding Greek Title Θεοτόκος (Theotokos) means "She Who Gave Birth to God". This Title was dogmatically adopted at The First Council of Ephesus, in 431 A.D., as a way to assert that Jesus is God, and that his Mother can therefore be called Mother of God. The Title that the Feast celebrates is, thus, not only Mariological, but also Christological.



Ave Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea)
is the Hymn at Vespers for the
Feast of The Maternity of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Available on YouTube
at
The Second Vatican Council stated: "Clearly, from earliest times, The Blessed Virgin is honoured under the Title of Mother of God." and, at an early stage, the Church in Rome celebrated on 1 January a Feast that it called The Anniversary (Natale) of The Mother of God. When this was overshadowed by the Feasts of The Annunciation and The Assumption, adopted from Constantinople at the start of the 7th-Century, 1 January began to be celebrated simply as the Octave Day of Christmas, the "eighth day", on which, according to Luke 2:21, The Child was Circumcised and given the name Jesus.

In the 13th- or 14th-Century, 1 January began to be Celebrated in Rome, as already in Spain and Gaul, as the Feast of the Circumcision of The Lord and The Octave of The Nativity, while still oriented towards Mary and Christmas, with many Prayers, Antiphons and Responsories glorifying The Maternity of Mary. Pope Saint John XXIII's 1960 Rubrical and Calendrical revision removed the mention of The Circumcision of Jesus and called 1 January, simply, The Octave of The Nativity.

The Feast of "The Maternity of The Blessed Virgin Mary" was established in Portugal, in 1914, for Celebration on 11 October, and was extended to the entire Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI in 1931. The 1969 revision of the Liturgical Year and the Calendar states: "1 January, The Octave Day of The Nativity of The Lord, is The Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God, and also the Commemoration of the conferral of The Most Holy Name of Jesus." It removed the 11 October Feast, even for Portugal, stating: "The Maternity of The Blessed Virgin Mary is Celebrated on 1 January in The Solemnity of Mary, The Mother of God." (The 11 October Feast is now celebrated only by some Traditionalist Catholic individuals and groups.)



Ave Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea)
is the Hymn at Vespers for the
Feast of The Maternity of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Available on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/NOipola4doE


In his Apostolic Letter, Marialis Cultus, Pope Paul VI explained: "This Celebration is meant to Commemorate the part played by Mary in this Mystery of Salvation. It is meant also to exalt the singular dignity which this Mystery brings to The "Holy Mother . . . through whom we were found worthy to receive The Author of Life."

Roman Catholic Mariology is the systematic study of the person of The Blessed Virgin Mary and of her place in the economy of Salvation, within the Theology of The Catholic Church.

In the Catholic perspective, Mary has a precise place in the plan of Salvation and a special place within Tradition and Devotion. She is seen as having a singular dignity, and receives a higher level of Veneration than all other Saints. Roman Catholic Mariology thus studies not only her life, but also the Veneration of her in daily life, Prayer, Hymns, art (where she has been a favourite topic), music, and architecture in modern and ancient Christianity throughout the ages.





The four Dogmas, of Perpetual Virginity, Mother of God, Immaculate Conception and Assumption, form the basis of Mariology. However, a number of other Catholic Doctrines about The Virgin Mary have been developed by reference to Sacred Scripture, Theological Reasoning and Church Tradition.

The development of Mariology is on-going and, since the beginnings, it has continued to be shaped by Theological analyses, writings of Saints, and Papal statements, e.g. while two Marian Dogmas are ancient, the other two were defined in the 19th- and 20th-Centuries; and Papal teachings on Mary have continued to appear in recent times.


Friday 10 October 2014

Dies Irae. Gregorian Chant Sequence In The Requiem Mass.



Attributed to Hans Memling (1440-1494).
"Last Judgement Triptych" (central panel) in Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk, Poland. http://www.wga.hu/preview/m/memling/1early3/02last2.jpg
Date: 16 June 2006 (Original Upload Date).
Author: Original uploader was Stroika at en.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)


"Dies Irae" (Day of Wrath) is a Latin Hymn attributed to, either, Thomas of Celano, of the Franciscan Order (1200 – 1265), or to Latino Malabranca Orsini († 1294), Lector at the Dominican Studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Angelicum in Rome. 

The Hymn dates from at least the 13th-Century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to Saint Gregory the Great († 604 A.D.), Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), or Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274).

It is a Mediaeval Latin poem, characterised by its accentual stress and its rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The poem describes the Day of Judgment, the Last Trumpet summoning Souls before the Throne of God, where the Saved will be Delivered and the Unsaved Cast into Eternal Flames.

The Hymn is best known from its use as a Sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass (Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion Service Books.



Dies Irae.
Gregorian Chant.
Available on YouTube at


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