01 September, 2026
The Holy Twelve Brothers. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 1 September. Red Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
The Holy Twelve Brothers.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 1 September.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
The Feast of The Holy Twelve Brothers.
Kyrie eleison. Christie. Cælorum Rex.
Schola Hungarica · Janka Szendrei · László Dobszay.
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The Feast Of The Holy Twelve Brothers.
Offertorium: Circuierunt sancti.
Schola Hungarica · Janka Szendrei · László Dobszay.
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Africans by birth, these Saints were Martyred in various places in the 3rd-Century A.D., under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian.
Mass: Clamavérunt justi.
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Beneventan Chant is a Liturgical Plainchant repertory of the Roman Catholic Church, used primarily in the orbit of the Southern Italian Ecclesiastical centres of Benevento and Monte Cassino. It is distinct from Gregorian Chant and related to Ambrosian Chant.
It was officially supplanted by the Gregorian Chant of the Roman Rite in the 11th-Century, although a few Beneventan Chants of local interest remained in use.
During the Lombard occupation of the 7th-Century A.D. and 8th-Century A.D., a distinctive Liturgical Rite and Plainchant Tradition developed in Benevento. It included Feasts of special local importance, such as The Holy Twelve Brothers of Benevento.
At the time, it was called Cantus Ambrosianus (Ambrosian Chant), although it is a separate Plainchant Tradition from the Chant of Milan, which we call Ambrosian Chant. The common use of the name Cantus Ambrosianus, the common influence of The Lombards in both Benevento and Milan, and musical similarities between the two Liturgies and Chant Traditions, suggest a Lombard influence in the origins of Beneventan Chant.
Join The Sodality Of The Blessed Sacrament. The Confraternity Of The Holy Eucharist. The Shrine Of The Blessed Sacrament, Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, London.
Corpus Christi Church,
Maiden Lane, London WC2E 7NB.
Photo: 3 December 2018.
Source: Own work.
Author: AndyScott
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Fostering Devotion.
“Of all Devotions, that of Adoring Jesus in The Blessed Sacrament is the greatest Devotion, after the Sacraments,
the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us”.
– Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
The Holy Eucharist.
The Church’s Beating Heart.
The Blessed Sacrament is the greatest gift Our Lord left to us
at The Last Supper. Since its institution, The Eucharist has been the source and summit of our Catholic life.
It is the mission of the Shrine and the Sodality
to help spread the joy of this great Sacrament
to the Secular World around us.
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Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, London,
was Founded in 1873 by Cardinal Manning
as a Sanctuary of The Blessed Sacrament.
Since then, millions of people have passed through
the Church’s doors and encountered Jesus Christ,
The Son of God, in the “tiny White Host” in the Monstrance (Venerable Fulton Sheen).
This Church, in the heart of London, has the Adoration and Veneration of The Blessed Sacrament as its sole purpose.
Corpus Christi Church has a rich Tradition of noble
Liturgical Celebrations and pious devotion to The Eucharist.
It was a former Parish Priest of the Parish, Fr. Francis Stanfield (1835-1914), who wrote “Sweet Sacrament Divine” – a Hymn much loved by Catholics Worldwide.
Mgr. Ronald Knox preached here on the Feast of
Corpus Christi, every year from 1926 until 1956, and his Sermons were compiled in the book “The Window in the Wall”.
The Sodality Celebrates a Divine Mass every month at
Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, which will be
offered for Members’ intentions.
Each month there is a different Guest Preacher, who will
offer a reflection on a certain aspect of The Blessed Sacrament. At the end of Mass, there is a period of Adoration, followed
by Benediction, after which will follow a Social Event at
a nearby pub or restaurant.
The Masses are usually on the First Thursday
of the Month at 6:30 p.m., though there
may be some exceptions to this.
Masses are also Live-Streamed.
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The address of Corpus Christi Church is:
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Telephone: 020 7836 4700.
Hierarchy Of Feast Days.
Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT
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There are degrees of Solemnity of the Office of the Feast Days of Saints.
In the 13th-Century, the Roman Rite distinguished three Ranks:
Simple;
Semi-Double;
Double.
With consequent differences in the recitation of the Divine Office or Breviary.
The Simple Feast Day commenced with the Chapter (Capitulum) of First Vespers, and ended with None. It had three Lessons and took the Psalms of Matins from the Ferial Office; the rest of the Office was like the Semi-Double Feast Day.
The Semi-Double Feast Day had two Vespers, nine Lessons in Matins, and ended with Compline. The Antiphons before the Psalms were only intoned.
In The Mass, the Semi-Double Feast Day always had at least three “Orationes”, or, Collects.
In The Mass, the Semi-Double Feast Day always had at least three “Orationes”, or, Collects.
On a Double Feast Day, the Antiphons were sung in their entirety, before and after the Psalms, while, in Lauds and Vespers, there were no Suffragia [Editor: Intercessory Prayers] of the Saints, and The Mass had only one “Oratio” (if no Commemoration was prescribed).
If Ordinary Double Feasts (referred to also as Lesser Doubles) occurred with Feasts of a higher Rank, they could be simplified, except the Octave Days of some Feasts, and the Feasts of The Doctors of The Church, which were Transferred.
To the existing distinction between Major and Ordinary or Minor Doubles, Pope Clement VIII added two more Ranks, those of First-Class, or, Second-Class, Doubles. Some of these two Classes were kept with Octaves.
To the existing distinction between Major and Ordinary or Minor Doubles, Pope Clement VIII added two more Ranks, those of First-Class, or, Second-Class, Doubles. Some of these two Classes were kept with Octaves.
This was still the situation when the 1907 Article Ecclesiastical Feasts in the Catholic Encyclopedia was written. In accordance with the rules then in force, Feast Days of any form of Double, if impeded by “Occurrence” (falling on the same day)[59] with a Feast Day of higher Class, were Transferred to another day.
Pope Saint Pius X simplified matters considerably in his 1911 reform of the Roman Breviary. In the case of Occurrence, the lower-Ranking Feast Day could become a Commemoration within the Celebration of the higher-Ranking one.
Until then, Ordinary Doubles took precedence over most of the Semi-Double Sundays, resulting in many of the Sunday Masses rarely being said.
While retaining the Semi-Double rite for Sundays, Pope Saint Pius X’s reform permitted only the most important Feast Days to be Celebrated on Sunday, although Commemorations were still made until Pope John XXIII’s reform of 1960.
Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT
The division into Doubles (of various kinds), Semi-Doubles, and Simples, continued until 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished the Rank of Semi-Double, making all the previous Semi-Doubles into Simples, and reducing the previous Simples to a mere Commemoration in the Mass of another Feast Day or of the Feria on which they fell (see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII).
Then, in 1960, Pope John XXIII issued the Code of Rubrics, completely ending the Ranking of Feast Days by Doubles, etc, and replacing it by a Ranking, applied not only to Feast Days but to all Liturgical Days, as I, II, III, and IV, Class Days.
The 1969 revision by Pope Paul VI divided Feast Days into “Solemnities”, “Feasts”, and, “Memorials”, corresponding approximately to Pope John XXIII’s I, II, and III, Class Feast Days. Commemorations were abolished.
While some of the Memorials are considered obligatory, others are optional, permitting a choice on some days between two or three Memorials, or between one or more Memorial(s) and the Celebration of the Feria.
Apparent Conflicts Of Interests Between Certain NGOs And Judges Of The European Court Of Human Rights. Surely, One Thinks, This Cannot Be Right. Can It ?
This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
THE EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR LAW AND JUSTICE
This Article is re-printed from 2022.
It reveals the insufficiency and opacity of their funding and exposes precisely the methods implemented by some private funders to influence these experts.
In its previous report, the ECLJ demonstrated the existence of conflicts of interest involving ECHR judges.
The accuracy of this first report has since been recognised by the ambassadors of the Council of Europe.[1] This time, the ECLJ has devoted several months to meticulously studying the public financing declarations of the UN’s experts.
The main conclusion of this report is that private foundations directly finance U.N. experts to write reports that align with these private foundations’ agendas.
These reports are then promoted as independent recommendations from the U.N., and used by governments and international courts to support or justify their decisions.
This is in flagrant contradiction with the code of conduct for experts and the resolutions of the Human Rights Council.
After having highlighted the conflicts of interest between certain NGOs and judges of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) publishes a new report (91 pages) analysing the functioning and financing of the U.N. Special Procedures Human Rights experts.
It also presents recommendations to restore the conditions that would better ensure their independence.
The ECLJ was also able to conduct interviews with 28 of these UN Special Procedures experts, and what emerged was revealing.
Experts should be independent not only from States, but also from private foundations that seek to align the experts’ agendas with their own.
Lincoln Cathedral. The Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Lincoln. (Part One).
Lincoln Cathedral.
Cathedral Church Of The
Blessed Virgin Mary Of Lincoln.
Photo: 16 March 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: DrMoschi
(Wikimedia Commons)
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unless stated otherwise.
Lincoln Cathedral (Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Lincoln) was the World’s tallest structure, at 160 metres, from 1311 - 1548.
Lincoln Cathedral, also called Lincoln Minster and the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, is a Church of England Cathedral in Lincoln, England.
It is the Seat of the Bishop of Lincoln and is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Lincoln. The Cathedral is governed by its Dean and Chapter, and is a Grade I Listed building.
The earliest parts of the current building date to 1072, when Bishop Remigius de Fécamp moved his Seat from Dorchester-on-Thames to Lincoln.
The building was completed in 1092, but severely damaged in an earthquake in 1185. It was rebuilt over the following Centuries in the Gothic Style. The Cathedral became the tallest building in the World upon the completion of its 160-metre-high (525 ft) Central Spire in 1311. It surpassed the Great Pyramid of Giza, and held the title until the Spire collapsed in 1548 and was not rebuilt.[2]
The Cathedral holds one of the four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta, which is now displayed in Lincoln Castle.
The Cathedral holds one of the four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta, which is now displayed in Lincoln Castle.
It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: “I have always held . . . that the Cathedral of Lincoln is, out and out, the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and, roughly speaking, worth any two other Cathedrals we have.”[4]
The first Bishop of Lincoln, Remigius de Fécamp, moved the Episcopal Seat (“Cathedra”) to Lincoln Cathedral “some time between 1072 and 1092”.[5]
About this, James Essex writes that “Remigius . . . laid the Foundations of his Cathedral in 1072” and “it is probable that he, being a Norman, employed Norman Masons to superintend the building . . . though he could not complete the whole before his death.”[6]
Before that, writes B. Winkles: “It is well known that Remigius appropriated the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Lincoln, although it is not known what use he made of it.”[7]
When Lincoln Cathedral was first built, William the Conqueror granted the Parish of Welton to Remigius in order to endow six Prebends which provided income to support six Canons attached to the Cathedral. These were subsequently confirmed by William II and Henry I.[8]
Before that, writes B. Winkles: “It is well known that Remigius appropriated the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Lincoln, although it is not known what use he made of it.”[7]
When Lincoln Cathedral was first built, William the Conqueror granted the Parish of Welton to Remigius in order to endow six Prebends which provided income to support six Canons attached to the Cathedral. These were subsequently confirmed by William II and Henry I.[8]
Lincoln Cathedral
Photo: 13 May 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: APW1981
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Choir, Lincoln Cathedral.
Date: 1896.
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/
Author: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923.
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PART TWO FOLLOWS.
“Faith Of Our Fathers”. “Hail, Queen Of Heaven”. “Sweet Heart Of Jesus”.
“Faith Of Our Fathers”.
Much-Loved Catholic Hymn.
Sung By: Frank Patterson.
Available on YouTube
Lyrics: HYMNAL.NET
Faith of our fathers, living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword,
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene’er we hear that glorious word!
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
How sweet would be their children’s fate,
If they, like them should die for thee:
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
Faith of our fathers, we will strive
To win all nations unto thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
Mankind shall then indeed be free.
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
Faith of our fathers, we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife,
And preach thee, too, as love knows how
By kindly words and virtuous life.
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
“Hail, Queen Of Heaven”.
Sung By: Regina Nathan.
Available on YouTube
Lyrics: WIKISOURCE
Hail, Queen of Heav'n, the ocean Star,
Guide of the wand'rer here below!
Thrown on life's surge we claim thy care,
Save us from peril and from woe.
Mother of Christ, Star of the sea,
Pray for the wanderer, pray for me.
O gentle, chaste, and spotless Maid,
We sinners make our prayers through thee
Remind thy Son that He has paid
The price of our iniquity.
Virgin most pure, Star of the sea,
Pray for the sinner, pray for me.
Sojourners in this vale of tears,
O thee, blest Advocate, we cry,
Pity our sorrows, calm our fears,
And soothe with hope our misery.
Refuge in grief, Star of the sea,
Pray for the mourner, pray for me.
And while to Him who reigns above,
In Godhead One, in Persons Three,
The source of life, of grace, of love,
Homage we pay on bended knee;
Do thou, bright Queen, Star of the sea.
Pray for thy children, pray for me.
Sweet heart of Jesus,
fount of love and mercy,
today we come, thy blessing to implore;
O touch our hearts, so cold and so ungrateful,
and make them, Lord, thine own for evermore.
Sweet heart of Jesus, we implore,
O make us love thee more and more.
Sweet heart of Jesus, make us know and love thee,
unfold to us the treasures of thy grace;
that so our hearts, from things of earth uplifted,
may long alone to gaze upon thy face.
Sweet heart of Jesus, we implore,
O make us love thee more and more.
Sweet heart of Jesus, make us pure and gentle,
and teach us how to do thy blessed will;
to follow close the print of thy dear footsteps,
and when we fall – sweet heart, oh, love us still.
Sweet heart of Jesus, we implore,
O make us love thee more and more.
Sweet heart of Jesus, bless all hearts that love thee,
and may thine own heart ever blessed be,
bless us, dear Lord, and bless the friends we cherish,
and keep us true to Mary and to thee.
Sweet heart of Jesus, we implore,
O make us love thee more and more.
Saint Giles. Abbot. Feast Day 1 September. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Giles.
Abbot.
Feast Day 1 September.
Simple.
White Vestments.
English: Stained-Glass Window depicting
Saint Giles. Parish Church of Notre-Dame-des-Marais,
La Ferte-Bernard, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.
Deutsch: Katholische Pfarrkirche Notre-Dame-des-Marais
in La Ferté-Bernard im Département Sarthe (Pays de la Loire/Frankreich), Bleiglasfenster (baie 10), mit
Fragmenten aus dem späten 15., dem 16. und dem
frühen 17. Jahrhundert; Darstellung: Szenen aus
dem Leben Jesu und Marias; Ausschnitt: Hl. Ägidius.
Photo: 15 August 2015.
Source: Own work.
Author: GFreihalter
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: “Saint Giles and the Hind”.
Church of Saint Giles, Marsaneix, Dordogne, France.
Français: Saint-Gilles, église Saint-Gilles, Marsaneix, Dordogne, France.
Photo: 3 November 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Père Igor
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Giles, born in Athens, distributed all his patrimony to The Poor and followed Jesus (Gospel). Several Miracles having made him celebrated, he fled to Provence, France, to escape away from honours. He lived in Prayer and Meditation (Introit) in the depths of a vast forest, with no other food but roots and the milk of a tame Hind.
One day, when pursued by the hounds of the Visigoth King, Wamba, The Hind fled to the grotto of the Saint, who, while trying to protect her, had his hand pierced by an arrow. The King, on his arrival, urgently begged the Saint to consent to the building of a Monastery on the spot.
English: Parish Church of Saint Giles,
Dietfurt, Bavaria, Germany.
Deutsch: Stadtpfarrkirche St. Ägidius
(Dietfurt a. d. Altmühl).
Date: 11 September 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: A. Reinsch (Unteroktav).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Holy Hermit undertook its governance and, like Moses among The People of God (Epistle), he became The Chief and Law-Giver of a numerous Monastic family which followed his leadership, his Doctrine, and his Counsels (Communion). This happened in 673 A.D.
The Abbey of Saint Giles, a marvel of architecture, became one of the most frequented resorts of Pilgrims in The Middles Ages, and a Town arose there. The Counts of Toulouse regarded it as an honour to bear this Saint's name.
The ancient Missals place him among "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints". He was invoked in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and England, where 146 Churches were built in his honour. Saint Giles died about 721 A.D. His tomb was discovered in 1865.
Mass: Os justi.
Commemoration: The Holy Twelve Brothers. Martyrs.
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31 August, 2026
Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. King Ludwig II Of Bavaria’s Creation. (Part Eleven).
Photo: 31 July 2013.
Source: Own work.
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© Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de
Author: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de
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The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published 1890 - 1900.
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
(Wikimedia Commons)
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unless stated otherwise.
It was designed as the Romantic ideal of a Knight’s Castle. Unlike real Castles, whose building stock is in most cases the result of Centuries of building activity, Neuschwanstein was planned from the inception as an intentionally-asymmetric building, and erected in consecutive stages.[33]
Typical attributes of a Castle were included, but real fortifications — the most important feature of a Mediæval aristocratic estate — were dispensed with.
The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published 1890 - 1900.
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Palace complex is entered through the symmetrical Gatehouse, flanked by two Stair Towers.
The Eastward-pointing Gate Building is the only structure of the Palace whose wall area is fashioned in high-contrast colours; the exterior walls are cased with Red Bricks, the Court Fronts with Yellow Limestone.
The Roof Cornice is surrounded by Pinnacles. The upper floor of the Gatehouse is surmounted by a Crow-Stepped Gable and held King Ludwig II’s first lodging at Neuschwanstein, from which he occasionally observed the building work before the Hall was completed.
The Ground Floors of the Gatehouse were intended to accommodate the Stables.
Pictures of the Lohengrin saga. Drawing Room, Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany. Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886. Postcard published circa 1890 — 1900. Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17481.
Source: Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17481); Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Library of Congress. Reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-00182.
Author: Josef Albert (1825 — 1886).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Courtyard has two levels; the lower one is defined to the East by the Gatehouse, and to the North by the foundations of the Rectangular Tower and the Gallery Building.
The Southern end of the Courtyard is open, imparting a view of the surrounding Mountain scenery.
At its Western end, the Courtyard is delimited by a Bricked Embankment, whose polygonally protracting bulge marks the Choir of the originally-projected Chapel; this three-Nave Church, never built, was intended to form the base of a ninety-metre (295-feet) Keep, the planned centrepiece of the architectural ensemble. A flight of steps at the side gives access to the upper level.
Pictures of the Tannhauser saga. Study (Arbeitszimmer), Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany. Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886. Postcard published circa 1890 — 1900. Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17480.
Source: Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17480); Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Library of Congres. Reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-00181.
Author: Josef Albert (1825 — 1886).
(Wikimedia Commons)
Today, the Foundation Plan of the Chapel-Keep is marked out in the Upper Courtyard pavement.
The most striking structure of the Upper Court level is the Rectangular Tower. Like most of the Court Buildings, it mostly serves a decorative purpose as part of the ensemble.
PART TWELVE FOLLOWS.
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