Friday 17 February 2017
Thursday 16 February 2017
The Recent Guild Of Saint Clare Sewing Retreat Was A Huge Success.
This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, GUILD OF SAINT CLARE
Illustration: JOSEPH SHAW (FLICKR)
Our first ever Sewing Retreat finished, recently, and I,. for one (writes a Founding Member), enjoyed myself enormously. With snow falling outside over the panoramic views of the Oxfordshire countryside, an infinite supply of tea and biscuits, and good company, what could be more agreeable than a weekend of sewing, punctuated by Traditional Liturgy ?
Fr Richard Biggerstaff set the tone with his delightful and perceptive talks on Service (represented by the Amice), Authority (represented by the Stole), and the Distraction of the Laity (represented by the Chasuble).
He Celebrated Mass each day, as well as Compline and Benediction. He brought his own Vestments, including a beautiful Humeral Veil, with the Pelican in her Piety embroidered on it.
Illustration: GUILD OF SAINT CLARE
Wednesday 15 February 2017
How The Night-Office Is To Be Said On Sundays.
This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, VULTUS CHRISTI
Illustration: VULTUS CHRISTI
"Te Deum".
Fifth-Century A.D. Monastic Chant (Solemn).
In The Night Office, it is The Abbot who intones "The Te Deum".
Available on YouTube at
From Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.
The Te Deum (also known as Ambrosian Hymn or A Song of the Church) is an
Te Deum laudamus, rendered as "Thee, O God, we praise".
The Hymn remains in regular use in The Catholic Church in The Office of Readings found in The Liturgy of The Hours (The Divine Office), and in Thanksgiving to God for a special Blessing such as the Election of a Pope, the Consecration of a Bishop, the Canonisation of a Saint, a Religious Profession, the publication of a Treaty of Peace, a Royal Coronation, etc.
It is sung either after Mass or The Divine Office or as a separate Religious Ceremony. The Hymn also remains in use in The Anglican Communion and some Lutheran Churches in similar settings.
In The Traditional Office, The Te Deum is sung at the end of Matins on all days when the Gloria is said at Mass; those days are all Sundays outside Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide; on all Feasts (except The Triduum) and on all Ferias during Eastertide.
Before the 1961 Reforms of Pope John XXIII, neither the Gloria nor the Te Deum were said on The Feast of The Holy Innocents, unless it fell on Sunday, as they were Martyred before The Death of Christ and, therefore, could not immediately attain The Beatific Vision.
A Plenary Indulgence is granted, under the usual conditions,
How The Night-Office Is To Be Said On Sundays.
On Sunday, let The Brethren rise earlier for The Night-Office, which is to be arranged as follows.
When six Psalms and a Versicle have been sung (as already prescribed), all being seated in order in their Stalls, let four Lessons, with their Responsories, be read from The Book, as before; and to the last Responsory, only, let The Reader add a Gloria, all reverently rising as soon as he begins it.
After The Lessons, let six more Psalms follow in order, with their Antiphons and Versicle as before; and then let four more Lessons, with their Responsories, be read in the same way as the former.
Next, let three Canticles from the Prophets be said, as the Abbot shall appoint, which Canticles are to be sung with an Alleluia. After the Versicle, and the Blessing given by the Abbot, let four more Lessons from The New Testament be read as before; and, at the end of the fourth Responsory, let the Abbot begin the Hymn, Te Deum laudamus.
The "Te Deum" Stained-Glass Window,
at Saint Mary's Church, Ware, Hertfordshire.
Date: 2009.
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/
Author: Barking Tigs.
(Wikimedia Commons)
After the Hymn, let the Abbot read the Lesson from the Gospel, while all stand in awe and reverence.
The Gospel, being ended, let all answer Amen. Then, let the Abbot go on with the Hymn, Te decet laus; and, after the Blessing hath been given, let them begin Lauds. This order for The Night-Office is always to be observed on Sunday, alike in Summer and in Winter, unless per chance (which, God forbid) they rise too late, in which case the Lessons or Responsories must be somewhat shortened. Let all care, however, be taken that this do not happen; but, if it should, let him,, through whose neglect it hath come to pass, make satisfaction for it in the Oratory.
The Chanting of The Holy Gospel constitutes the summit of Sunday Matins; it is the moment that all anticipate after three long Nocturns (Night Watches) of Psalmody, Lessons, and Responsories. It is the παρουσία (Arrival and Presence) of “The Lord Christ, our True King” (Prologue: 3). At the Chanting of The Holy Gospel, all stand cum honore et timore (with honour and fear); it is The Voice of The Lord, the Vox Domini of Psalm 28.
Saint Faustinus And Saint Jovita. Martyrs. Feast Day 15 February.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Faustinus And Saint Jovita.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 15 February.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
English: Saint Faustinus and Saint Jovita with The Blessed Virgin Mary and Child.
Altarpiece artwork exhibited at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, in Brescia, Italy.
Italiano: Vincenzo Foppa, Pala della Mercanzia.
Opera esposta alla Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo a Brescia.
Date: 3 November 2011.
Artist: Vincenzo Foppa (1427–1515).
Source/Photographer: Bruno Passamani,
"Guida della Pinacoteca Tosio-Martinengo di Brescia", Grafo, Brescia 1988.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Faustinus and Saint Jovita, both born at Brescia, Italy, were brothers and of noble origin. During The Persecution, "they stood in the assault of sufferings, disgrace, and tribulations" (Epistle) in several Towns of Italy.
"They were tortured to death" (Gospel) at Brescia, Italy, at the beginning of Emperor Hadrian's reign in 117 A.D.
"Following the example of The Holy Martyrs, Faustinus and Jovita, let us apply ourselves with ardour to Penance, so that we may enjoy The Fruits of The Redemption."
Mass: Salus autem.
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Lidice. Never Forget.
Text and Illustration: HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND ARCHIVE RESEARCH TEAM
The Massacre at Lidice.
All surviving women and children were then deported to Concentration Camps, or, if found suitable to be "Germanised", sent to The Greater Reich. The Nazis then proudly proclaimed that the village of Lidice, its residents, and its very name, were now forever blotted from memory.
The most significant act of Czech resistance was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich during a mission, code-named "Operation Anthropoid". Two Czech patriots, Jan Kubis and Joseph Gabcik, serving with the Polish forces in Britain, volunteered to be dropped by parachute, near Prague.
Their mission, to assassinate SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The ambush took place on 227 May 27 1942, as Heydrich drove to his office. Severely wounded, he was rushed to Bulovka Hospital, where he died eight days later.
Soon after his death, the Nazi reprisals began when an enraged Hitler ordered Heydrich's underling, SS Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank, to initiate mass executions of the Czech populace, but Frank persuaded him first to search for the assassins.
The Germans raided 5,000 towns and villages arresting some 3,180 people, 1,344 were sentenced to be executed. This number however was far too small for Adolf Hitler, who ordered severe reprisals threatening to kill 30,000 Czechs.
Thankfully for many Czech civilians, Hitler's threat never materialised, however. Karl Hermann Frank, now Secretary of State for the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, reported from Berlin that the Führer had commanded the following concerning any village implicated in the Heydrich assassination:
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All adult males were to be executed.
All woman to be immediately
transported to Concentration Camps.
All children, suitable for "Germanising",
were to be placed with SS families in The Reich
and raised as Germans.
The village was to be destroyed and the area levelled.
This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
Men massacred in the village of Lidice, 10 June 1942.
Picture taken by a German soldier and initially kept by Gestapo.
Purpose of use: To Illustrate crime for which the subject of the Article was executed by hanging.
Replaceable: Impossible.
(Wikipedia)
Saint Valentine. Priest And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 14 February.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Valentine.
Priest and Martyr.
Feast Day 14 February.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
Stained-Glass Window depicting
Saint Valentine.
Illustration: GREG GARRISON
He co-operated in The Saviour's Redemption "by bearing The Cross after Him" (Gospel). "Having made the sacrifice of his life for Him, he finds it again" (Ibid.), for, "victorious in his terrible fight" (Epistle), God "Crowns him in Heaven with glory and honour" (Offertory).
Sharing in a spirit of penitence The Redeeming Sufferings of The Saviour, let us ask Him, "through the intercession of Saint Valentine, to be delivered from all the ills that threaten us" (Collect).
Mass: In virtúte.
Saint Valentine receives a Rosary from The Virgin Mary,
Artist: David Teniers III.
Date: 1600s.
Source: http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/David-III-Teniers/
St-Valentine-Kneeling-In-Supplication.html
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.
Saint Valentine (Latin: Valentinius) is a widely-recognised 3rd-Century Roman Saint, Commemorated on 14 February and associated, since The High Middle Ages, with a Tradition of courtly love.
All that is reliably known of the Saint is his name, and that he was Martyred and buried at a cemetery on the Via Flaminia, Rome, close to the Milvian Bridge, to the North of Rome, on 14 February. It is uncertain whether Saint Valentine is to be identified as one Saint or the conflation of two Saints of the same name. Several different Martyrologies have been added to later hagiographies that are unreliable.
Saint Valentine Baptising Saint Lucilla.
Artist: Jacopo Bassano.
Date: 1500s.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Because so little is known of him, in 1969 The Roman Catholic Church removed his name from The General Roman Calendar, leaving his Liturgical Celebration to Local Calendars. The Roman Catholic Church continues to recognise him as a Saint, listing him as such in the 14 February entry in The Roman Martyrology, and authorising Liturgical Veneration of him on 14 February in any place where that day is not devoted to some other obligatory Celebration.
English: Altar of Saint Valentine,
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church,
Dublin, Ireland.
Polski: Ołtarz z relikwiami św.
Walentego w Kościele Karmelitów przy
Whitefriar Street w Dublinie.
Photo: 27 August 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: blackfish.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Use of the Pre-1970 Liturgical Calendar is also authorised under the conditions indicated in the Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum" of 2007. Saint Valentine's Church in Rome, built in 1960 for the needs of The Olympic Village, continues as a modern, well-visited, Parish Church.
Saint Valentine's Day, the Feast of Saint Valentine, is an official Feast Day in the Anglican Communion, as well as in the Lutheran Church. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Valentine, the Presbyter of Rome, is celebrated on 6 July, and Hieromartyr Valentine (Bishop of Interamna, Terni in Italy) is celebrated on 30 July. Notwithstanding, because of the relative obscurity of these two Saints in the East, Members of The Greek Orthodox Church named Valentinos (male) or Valentina (female) may observe their "Name Day" on the Western Ecclesiastical Calendar date of 14 February.
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