Easter Friday. The Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Mary-Of-The-Martyrs (The Pantheon).

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Easter Friday.
   Station at Saint Mary of The Martyrs (The Pantheon).

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Pantheon is a Roman Catholic Church, 

Dedicated to "Saint Mary of The Martyrs",

but informally known as "Santa Maria della Rotonda.

Photo: January 2007.

Vatican Museum photo by: Roberta Dragan.

User: Droberta.

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After bringing her Neophytes together on successive days at Saint John Lateran, Saint Mary Major, Saint Peter's, Saint Paul's, Saint Laurence's, and The Twelve Apostles, The Church, today, made a Lenten Station at the Basilica Dedicated to all The Martyrs and to their Queen, where was made most manifest The Triumph of Christ over paganism.

For the Pantheon, the temple consecrated to the worship of all the gods, was, in the 7th-Century A.D., Dedicated to Mary and to The Martyrs of The Catacombs, a large number of whose bones Pope Boniface IV caused to be Transferred to this Basilica.

The High Altar, 

Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: February 2013.

Source: Flickr: DSC_0931.

Author: Bengt Nyman.

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English: The Pantheon and the Piazza della Rotunda, Rome, Italy.

Deutsch: Das Pantheon und die Piazza della Rotonda in Rom.

An 1835 view of the Pantheon 

by Rudolf von Alt,

showing the twin Bell Towers, 

often incorrectly attributed to Bernini.

Artist: Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905).

Current location: Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

Source: Repro from artbook.

This File: April 2010.

User: Mefusbren69.

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The Basilica 

of Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: October 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Maros M r a z (Maros).

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The Feast of The Dedication of this Church soon afterwards became known as The Feast of All Saints. (Feast Day 1 November.)

The Introit, the Collect and the Epistle remind us that the Covenant established by God with Noe and his seed, after their escape from The Flood, and later renewed with Moses and his people after their Passage through The Red Sea, is a figure of The New Covenant, under which The Neophytes were brought from The Baptismal Font unto the adoption of Children of God.

Jesus on The Cross virtually killed sin (Alleluia, Epistle), and, by His Resurrection, of which The Apostles were Witnesses, (Gospel), He gave us The Life of Grace. Baptism brought home to our Souls this twofold effect of Life and Death. Let us ever remain faithful to it.

Mass: Edúxit eos.

Easter Thursday. The Station Is At The Basilica Of The Twelve Apostles.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Easter Thursday.
   Station at The Twelve Apostles.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The Apse. 

The Basilica of The Twelve Apostles, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Luc.

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On this day, The Church used to gather together in the Church of The Twelve Apostles witnesses of The Risen Christ, her New-Born Children, in order that they might Sing The Praises of The Lord, Who had associated them with His Triumph (Introit, Communion). In this Lenten Stational Basilica, are the bodies of Saint Philip and Saint James.

The Gospel tells of the appearance of Jesus to Magdalen, who was the first to inform The Apostles of the disappearance of Our Lord's Body, and who, after seeing The Risen Christ, was deputed by Him to proclaim to them The Double Mystery of The Resurrection and The Ascension.

The Epistle tells of one of the first seven Deacons, called Philip. [This Deacon must not be confused with Saint Philip, the Apostle.] He Baptises a heathen eunuch, who, in a transport of joy, Preaches everywhere the Gospel of Jesus.

The Baroque Ceiling.

The Church of The Twelve Apostles, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: August 2005.

Source: http://flickr.com/photos/antmoose/34649457/

Author: Anthony Majanlahti.

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The Basilica of The Twelve Apostles, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: January 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

(Wikimedia Commons)

This is what The Church has done for The Catechumens, "who have just been born again in The Font of Baptism" (Collect). "God hath made the tongues of those infants eloquent" (Introit), and, by their Faith and their good actions (Collect), they sing The Triumph of Jesus over death (Alleluia) and over their own Souls (Communion).

Let us remember that, by Baptism, we have become united in one and the same Faith to The Risen Christ (Collect), Whose Father is now Our Father.

Mass: Victrícem manum.

Interior of Santi Apostoli, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Easter Wednesday. Station At The Basilica Of Saint Laurence-Without-The-Walls.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Easter Wednesday.
   Station at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The spelling of this Saint's name can be either Laurence or Lawrence.

English: Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Italiano: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

Photo: February 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Panairjdde.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Lenten Station is at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls. The Church puts before her New-Born Children, as a model, the illustrious Roman Deacon, to whom this Basilica is Dedicated.

Like Saint Paul, yesterday, Saint Peter tells us that The Prophets foretold the Death of Jesus and that The Apostles were witnesses of His Resurrection (Epistle). The Alleluia further reminds us that "The Lord hath appeared to Peter"; while the Gospel shows us Saint Peter directing the fishing operations of his companions, in expectation of the hour, now fast approaching, when he will direct their labours as fishers of men. More devoted to Jesus than the others, he cast himself into the sea to rejoin Him, and it was he who drew to land the net, full of one hundred and fifty-three big fishes.

The Cloisters,

San Lorenzo fuori-le-mura 

(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls), 

Rome, Italy.

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853).

Date: 1824.

Current location: Art Institute of Chicago,

(Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection).

Photo: April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: user:Rlbberlin

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According to The Fathers, these fishes, brought by Peter to The Feet of The Risen Christ, represented the Neophytes, for The Catechumens were born to Supernatural Life in The Font of Baptism. Called by God to receive His Kingdom (Introit), they eat The Bread of Angels, The Bread of Heaven (Offertory, Secret), which transforms them into New Creatures (Postcommunion), the "Agni Novelli" or "New-Born Lambs".

[The "Agnus Dei", or figures of The Lamb of God, stamped on the wax which remains from The Paschal Candle of the previous year, were formerly Blessed by the Pope on this day. Cherished in a spirit of Reverence and Faith, they are a protection against sickness and danger.]

Let us Celebrate these Festivities of The Resurrection of Our Lord in a Spirit of Holy Rejoicing, a foretaste of the joy we shall experience at The Eternal Pasch (Collect).

Mass: Veníte, benedícti.

Easter Tuesday. Station At The Papal-Basilica Of Saint Paul-Without-The Walls.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Easter Tuesday.
   Station at Saint Paul-without-the-Walls.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Double of The First-Class.

White Vestments.

English: Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls, 

Rome, Italy.

Deutsch: Rom, Sankt Paul vor den Mauern.

Italiano: Statua di San Paolo di fronte alla facciata

della 

Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura a Roma.

Photo: May 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner.

(Wikimedia Commons)

After the Testimony to Our Lord's Resurrection given by The Angels (Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday), and by The Prince of The Apostles (Easter Monday), today's Liturgy brings before us that of The Apostle of the Gentiles.

So it is in The Papal-Basilica of Saint Paul, on the Via Ostia, that The Church used to gather her New-Born Children around the tomb of this same Apostle (Collect), there to teach them, out of his mouth, The Words of Divine Wisdom ((Introit).

The Epistle consists of a portion of the address in which Saint Paul announced to the Jews of the Synagogue of Antioch, in Pisidia, The Resurrection of Christ, foretold by The Prophets and witnessed by The Apostles.

The Gospel gives us a new proof of Our Lord's Resurrection, telling us of an appearance of Jesus in The Cenacle on the very day that He Rose from The Dead. Jesus makes his Disciples touch Him. He eats in their presence and demonstrates from The Scriptures that it was necessary that Christ should die to save the World.

The Neophytes, "redeemed out of the hand of the enemy and united to God's own people" (Gradual), and all Christians with them, must, continues Saint Paul, henceforth live, like The Risen Christ, none but a Heavenly Life (Communion), and by their manner of living proclaim their Faith in Christ (Collect).

Let us renew our Faith in The Risen Christ and show it by living, like Jesus, an entirely New Life.

Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Aqua sapiéntiae.

English: Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls, 

Rome, Italy.

With its length of 432 feet, this Basilica ranks 

eleventh among the largest Churches in the World.

Français: Basilique Saint-Paul-hors-les-Murs, Vatican, située à Rome. 

Avec sa longueur de 131,66 mètres, cette Basilique 

se classe au 11è rang parmi les plus grandes églises au monde.

Photo: September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Easter Monday. Station At The Papal-Basilica Of Saint Peter's.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Easter Monday.
   Station at Saint Peter's.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Double of The First-Class.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Peter's Basilica, seen from the River Tiber. 

The iconic Dome dominates the skyline of Rome. 

Christianity became the dominant Religion of Western Civilisation 

when The Roman Empire converted to Christianity.

Italiano: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano.

Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri.

Magyar: Vatikánváros látképe.

Photo: January 2005.

Source: Flickr.

Author: Sébastien Bertrand from Paris, France.

Reviewer: Andre Engels.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome.

Artist: Giovanni Paolo Panini (1692–1765).

Date: 1731.

Current location: Saint Louis Art Museum,

Missouri, United States of America.

Source/Photographer: Saint Louis Art Museum official site.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Octave of Easter, during which, formerly, no servile work was done, was one continual Feast. Each day, the Neophytes attended Mass at a Station, at which they received Holy Communion. In the evening, they went to Saint John Lateran for The Office of Vespers.

On the first day of the week, The Station was at Saint Peter's, which contains the tomb of The Temporal Head of The Church. We hear his voice in the Epistle. He proclaims to the World The Resurrection of Christ, of which he was a witness.

Likewise, the Gospel, after describing the appearance of The Risen Christ to The Disciples at Emmaus, mentions His apparition to Peter on the very day of His Resurrection.

Receiving, as we do during these Easter Festivities, one and the same Sacrament, the milk of our Souls, which were born to The Life of God and brought into the promised land by Baptism (Introit), let us all be one in heart and Soul (Postcommunion) in proclaiming together our Faith in The Risen Christ.

Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Introdúxit.

The Marian Anthem Is Now "Regina Caeli".

The Blessed Virgin Mary

is Crowned "Queen of Heaven"

by Her Beloved Son,

Illustration: CALEFACTORY.ORG

"Regina Caeli".

As from Compline on Holy Saturday,

The Marian Anthem is now "

Regina Caeli".

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Resurrexit Sicut Dixit. Alleluia.

Resurrexit Sicut Dixit.

Alleluia.

CHRISTUS VINCIT.

CHRISTUS REGNAT.

CHRISTUS IMPERAT.

A Very Happy Eastertide !

Illustration: ESPADA CATOLICA