The Way Of The Cross. The Eleventh Station. The Perfect Undertaking For Lent.

“O, Beloved Wood”.

“O, Blessed Nails”. 

“O, Sweet Burden”.

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Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

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Indulgences: One Plenary Indulgence each time; another Plenary Indulgence if Holy Communion is received on the same day, or ten times within the month following that exercise.

If it remained unfinished, Ten Years and Ten Quarantines for each Station visited.

(20 October 1931).

Conditions:

1. To visit each Station, unless it is impossible owing to the crowd.

[Pictures of the fourteen several Mysteries are very useful, but are not indispensable. Wooden Crosses, indicating the fourteen Stations of The Cross, are sufficient and are absolutely required.]

2. To meditate, as best one can, on The Passion of The Saviour.

No vocal Prayers are required. The Popes recommend the recitation of a Pater, an Ave, and an Act of Contrition, at each Station (April 1731).

When The Way of The Cross is made in public, a Verse of “The Stabat Mater” may be sung between each Station.

The Eleventh Station.

Jesus Is Nailed To The Cross.

Versicle: We adore Thee, O, Christ, and we bless Thee.

Response: Because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

Priest.

The Cross is laid upon the ground, and Jesus is stretched upon His bed of death. At one and the same time, He offers His bruised limbs to His heavenly Father on behalf of sinful man, and to His fierce executioners to be nailed by them to the disgraceful wood.

The blows are struck ! The blood gushes forth !

Prayer.

O, Jesus, nailed to the Cross, fasten our hearts there, also, that they may be united to Thee until death shall strike us with its fatal blow, and with our last breath we shall have yielded up our Souls to Thee.

An Act of Contrition.

O, God, we love Thee with our whole hearts, and above all things, and are heartily sorry that we have offended Thee.

May we never offend Thee any more. O, may we love Thee without ceasing, and make it our delight to do in all things Thy Most Holy Will.

Our Father . . .

Hail Mary . . .

Glory Be To The Father . . .

Have mercy on us, O, Lord. Have mercy on us.

Versicle: May the Souls of the Faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Response: Amen.

This Act of Contrition is to be repeated after each Station.

While passing from one Station to another, a Verse of the “Stabat Mater” is sung or said.

Versicle:

Sancta Mater, istud agas,

Crucifíxi fige plagas,

Cordi meo válide.

Response:

Sancta Mater, istud agas,

Crucifíxi fige plagas,

Cordi meo válide.

Proceed to The Twelfth Station.

Saturday Of Ember Week In Lent. Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Peter’s. Violet Vestments.

Peterborough Cathedral.

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Saturday of Ember Week in Lent.

Station at Saint Peter’s.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome.

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Date: 1731.

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The Station for The Saturday of Ember Week is always at the great Basilica erected by Emperor Constantine and rebuilt by The Popes in the 16th- and 17th-Centuries. It is on The Hill of The Vatican, on the spot where Saint Peter died on The Cross and where his body rests. Besides, the Gospel is about The Transfiguration, of which Saint Peter was the chief witness.

It was in this Basilica that Ordinations took place, preceded, during the night, by Twelve Lessons. We have a trace of these Lessons in those occurring in The Mass for today. The Introit Verse alludes to this Nocturnal Vigil: “I have cried in the day and in the night before Thee.”

Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome.

The Apse, showing the Cathedra of Saint Peter,

supported by four Doctors of The Church, and The Glory.

Designed by Bernini.

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Like The Apostles selected to be present on Mount Thabor at The Manifestation of The Divine Life of Jesus (Gospel), the new Priests will ascend the steps of the Altar to enter into communication with God. It is they who, in His name, will exhort us to Prayer, Patience, and Charity.

Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome.

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If we abstain during Lent from even the appearance of evil, our Souls and our bodies will be preserved unstained for The Day of The Eternal Pasch, when Christ (Epistle) will allow us to participate in The Glory of His Transfiguration for all Eternity.

Let us Pray to God to fortify us with His Blessing, so that, during this Lent, we may never depart from His Holy Will (Prayer over the people).

Mass: Intret orátio.
Preface: Of Lent.

Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,

Baguio, Philippines.

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Wells Cathedral.

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The Twenty-Six Mediæval Cathedrals Of England (Part Twenty-Three).

 

Bristol Cathedral.

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The researches of John Harvey have uncovered the names of many English Mediæval architects, and, by tracing stylistic characteristics, it has sometimes proved possible to track their careers from one building to another.

Leading architects were highly paid - especially those employed in the King’s works - and they can often be identified from regular payments in Cathedral accounts.[20]

No architectural drawings survive for any English Cathedral earlier than 1525 (although an engineer’s design for a proposed new water supply at Canterbury Cathedral Priory exists in a 12th-Century Plan).

Bristol Cathedral.

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Architectural details, such as window tracery designs, were not executed as scale drawings, but were incised full-size onto a large flat, gypsum, Tracing-Floor, examples of which survive at York Minster and Wells Cathedral.

Mediæval construction was seasonal, work on-site being undertaken only in the Spring and Summer, when the light was good and the weather more reliable.

Each Autumn, all exposed surfaces were covered and lagged against frost damage. The architects worked over Winter in the Tracing House (that of York Minster has both a fireplace and a privy) to prepare designs for the next season’s campaign.

“800 Years In Eight Minutes”.

Bristol Cathedral.

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They translated the designs into sets of Planed Oak cross-sectional templates, which were given to the Stone-Cutters. Construction of Cathedrals and major Churches almost invariably started at the Eastern End, and then proceeded Westwards, with Towers erected last.

Mediæval Masons:

Robert the Mason, circa 1100, Saint Alban’s Abbey;
William of Sens, ☩ 1184, Canterbury Choir;
William the Englishman ☩ 1214, Canterbury Choir;
Elias of Dereham ☩ 1246, Salisbury;
Michael of Canterbury ☩ 1321, Canterbury;
Henry Wy circa 1324, Saint Alban’s Nave;
John de Ramsey ☩ 1349, Norwich; Ely;
William de Ramsey ☩ 1349, Norwich; Ely; Old Saint Paul’s Chapter House; Lichfield Presbytery;
William Hurley ☩ 1354, Ely Lantern;

Worcester Cathedral.

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Richard of Farleigh ☩ 1364, Salisbury North-East Gate and Wall around the Close; Exeter;
Alan of Walsingham ☩ 1364, Ely Octagon;
John Clyve ☩ 1374, Worcester Nave, Tower, West Front;
Henry Yevele ☩ 1400, Canterbury Nave; Durham Neville Screen;
William Wynford ☩ 1405, Winchester Nave; Wells West Towers;
Thomas Mapilton ☩ 1438, Canterbury South-West Tower;
William Smyth ☩ 1490, Wells Crossing Tower Fan Vault;
William Orchard (architect) ☩ 1504, Oxford Vaults;
John Wastell ☩ 1515, Canterbury Tower; Peterborough Retro-Choir; Manchester.

PART TWENTY-FOUR FOLLOWS.

“Inventionis Pueri Jesu In Medio Doctorum”. The Finding Of The Child Jesus In The Temple. Feast Day 28 February. White Vestments.

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“Inventionis Pueri Jesu In Medio Doctorum”. 

   The Finding Of The Child Jesus In The Temple. 

   

   Feast Day 28 February. 

   

   White Vestments.

Formerly Dominica IV Post Epiphaniam 

   (Fourth Sunday After The Epiphany).

Formerly Sunday Within The Octave Of The Epiphany.

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Breviarium Romanum.

Roman Breviary.

Date: 1906.

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The Office for the Feast can be found in the Roman Breviary Translated by John, MARQUESS OF BUTE, K.T.

Music can be found in the Roman Antiphonale 1912, Pro aliq. locis. pg. [138].

The full text of the Office for today can be found in the Breviarum Romanum 1906.

Pope Alexander II (1010 - 1073). (Part Seven). Authorised The 1066 Norman Invasion Of Britain.

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Five successive Popes, Leo, Victor, Stephen, Nicholas, and Alexander, himself, had sent Legates to England, who excommunicated Stigand. Stigand was therefore not able to Crown William as King, as this was the right of the Archbishop of Canterbury.[49]

Nonetheless, Stigand and William remained on good terms, until, during a visit of William to the Continent in 1067, the Normans in England behaved with particular brutality. Stigand switched sides, and, with Edgar the Atheling, fled to safety in the camp of refuge in Ely, East Anglia.

They were besieged by William the Conqueror, and Stigand was captured.[50] Pope Alexander’s Legates, as instructed, demanded the deposition of Stigand, and, at a General Council held at Winchester after King William’s Coronation, the deposition was duly voted.[51] Stigand was imprisoned at Winchester, where he died.

King William determined that he would not have his brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, as his new Archbishop, nor would he promote his Chaplain and Chancellor, Herfast. He assembled a Council of Bishops, Abbots, and other Nobles, in order to discuss a suitable candidate for the vacant Archbishopric.

After this consultation, William offered the Archbishopric to Lanfranc, the Abbot of the Royal Monastery of Saint Stephen at Caen, France, to whom he had once offered the Archbishopric of Rouen, which Lanfranc had refused.

When Lanfranc also refused the See of Canterbury, the determined King sent his Queen, Matilda, and his son, Robert (a former pupil of Lanfranc), accompanied by a contingent of Norman Nobles, to persuade him, to no avail.

Abbot Herluin of Bec, Normandy, was called upon to exert his influence, again without result. William then ordered the Papal Legates to go to Normandy, and convene a Council of Bishops, Abbots, and Nobles, to prevail upon Lanfranc to accept the Kings offer. Reluctantly, Lanfranc crossed to England, where he engaged in intensive talks with William, who only persuaded him by invoking the recommendation which had been expressed by Pope Alexander.[52]

Lanfranc was finally elected by a Council on 15 August 1070, the Feast of the Assumption, and Consecrated on 29 August, the Feast of Saint John the Baptist.[53]

When Lanfranc wrote to Pope Alexander and to the Archdeacon Hildebrand that they defend him against the pretensions of the Archbishop of York, and that they send him the Pallium as his symbol of primacy, Hildebrand wrote a Letter in reply, claiming that it was not the custom to send the Pallium, but that the recipient come to Rome to have it bestowed; and besides, he and the Pope wanted to confer personally with Lanfranc about pressing matters.

In 1071, therefore, Lanfranc and Archbishop Thomas of York travelled to Rome to receive their Pallia.[54]

Subsequently, Pope Alexander wrote to Archbishop Lanfranc, ordering him to see to the state of the Monastery of Winchester, and expressing annoyance that he had not yet procured the release of the Bishop (Stigand), perhaps out of negligence, perhaps out of disobedience, perhaps fearing punishment by King William.[55]

In 1072, Alexander commanded the reluctant Canon of Kraków Cathedral, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, who had been elected unanimously by the Cathedral Chapter, to accept appointment as the ninth Bishop of Kraków in succession to Bishop Lampert.[56]

PART EIGHT FOLLOWS.

“Memory”. Barbra Streisand And Elaine Paige.

“Memory”.

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and, for comparison,

“Memory”.

Sung By: Elaine Paige.

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Aelred Of Rievaulx. (Part Fifteen).

Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire.

Date: 2011.

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Dr. Marsha Dutton.

The Saint Aelred Of Rievaulx Conference.

“A Certain Wonderful Miracle: The Nun of Watton”

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PART SIXTEEN FOLLOWS.

True Devotion.

True Devotion.

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“Soul Of My Saviour”.

“Soul Of My Saviour”.

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“The Rogation Days”. From “The Liturgical Year”. By: “Servant Of God”, Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

Abbot Prosper Guéranger, O.S.B.

1805-1875.

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Published 1878, or earlier.

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Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger (referred to as Dom Guéranger, 4 April 1805, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France – 

30 January 1875, Solesmes, France) was a French 

Benedictine Monk and Priest, who served for nearly forty years as the Abbot of Solesmes Abbey (which he Founded 

in the abandoned Priory of Solesmes).

Through his efforts, he became the Founder of the French Benedictine Congregation (now The Solesmes Congregation), which re-established Monastic Life in France after it had been wiped out by The French Revolution.

Guéranger was the author of “The Liturgical Year”, which covers every day of The Catholic Church’s Liturgical Cycle in fifteen volumes. He was well regarded by Blessed Pope Pius IX, and was a proponent of the Dogmas of Papal Infallibility and The Immaculate Conception.

Guéranger is credited with reviving The Benedictine Order in France, and the implementation of The Tridentine Mass in France, though he is also regarded as the grand-father of The Liturgical Movement, which led to further reform of The Mass of The Roman Rite beyond its Tridentine Form.

The cause for his Canonisation is currently being studied by The Holy See, which has approved the Title for him of “Servant of God”.

“The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

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By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

   Volume 9.

   Paschal Time - Book III.

MONDAY.

It seems strange that there should be anything like mourning during Paschal Time: And yet these three days [Editor: Rogation Monday; Rogation Tuesday; Rogation Wednesday] are Days of Penance.

A moment’s reflection, however, will show us that the institution of the Rogation Days is a most appropriate one. 

True, Our Saviour told us, before His Passion, that “the children of the Bridegroom should not Fast whilst the Bridegroom is with them”; but is not sadness in keeping with these last hours of Jesus’s presence on Earth ? 

Were not His Mother and disciples oppressed with grief at the thought of their having so soon to lose Him, Whose company had been a foretaste of Heaven ?

Let us see how The Liturgical Year came to have inserted in its Calendar these three days [Editor: Rogation Monday; Rogation Tuesday; Rogation Wednesday], during which Holy Church, though radiant with the joy of Easter, seems to go back to her Lenten observances.

The Holy Ghost, Who guides her in all things, willed that this completion of her Paschal Liturgy should owe its origin to a devotion peculiar to one of the most illustrious and Venerable Churches of Southern Gaul, The Church of Vienne, France.

The second half of the 5th-Century A.D. had but just commenced, when the Country around Vienne, which had 

been recently conquered by the Burgundians, was visited by calamities of every kind. 

The people were struck with fear at these indications of God’s anger. Saint Mamertus, who, at the time, was Bishop of Vienne, prescribed three days’ Public Expiation, during which the Faithful were to devote themselves to Penance, and walk in Procession chanting appropriate Psalms.

The three days preceding the Ascension were the ones chosen. Unknown to himself, the Holy Bishop was thus initiating a practice, which was afterwards to form part of the Liturgy of the Universal Church.

The Churches of Gaul, as might naturally be expected, were the first to adopt the devotion. Saint Alcimus Avitus, who was one of the earliest successors of Saint Mamertus in the See of Vienne, informs us that the custom of keeping the Rogation Days was, at that time, firmly established in his Diocese.

Saint Cæsarius of Arles, who lived in the early part of the 6th-Century A.D., speaks of them as being observed in Countries afar off; by which he meant, at the very least, to designate all that portion of Gaul which was under the Visigoths.

That the whole of Gaul soon adopted the custom, is evident from the Canons drawn up at the First Council of Orleans, held in 511 A.D., which represented all the Provinces that were in allegiance to Clovis.

The regulations, made by the Council regarding the Rogation Days, give us a great idea of the importance attached to their observance.

Not only Abstinence from flesh-meat, but even Fasting, is made of obligation. Masters are also required to dispense their servants from work, in order that they may assist at the long functions which fill up almost the whole of these three days [Editor: Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday, and Rogation Wednesday].

In 567 A.D., the Council of Tours, likewise, imposed the precept of Fasting during the Rogation Days; and, as to the obligation of resting from servile work, we find it recognised in the “Capitularia” of Charlemagne Charles the Bald.

The main part of the Rogation Rite originally consisted, at least in Gaul, in singing Canticles of Supplication while passing from place to place; and, hence, the word “Procession”. We learn, from Saint Cæsarius of Arles, that each day’s Procession lasted six hours; and that, when the Clergy became tired, the women took up the chanting.

The Faithful of those days had not made the discovery, which was reserved for modern times, that one requisite for Religious Processions is that they be as short as possible.

The Procession for the Rogation Days was preceded by the Faithful receiving the Ashes upon their heads, as now at the beginning of Lent; they were then sprinkled with Holy Water, and the Procession began. 

It was made up of the Clergy and people of several of the smaller Parishes, who were headed by The Cross of the principal Church, which conducted the whole Ceremony.

All walked bare-foot, singing the Litany, Psalms, and Antiphons, until they reached the Church appointed for the Station, where the Holy Sacrifice was offered. 

They entered the Churches that lay on their route, and sang an Antiphon or Responsory appropriate to each.

The remainder of this Article can be read in full at

“The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

   Volume 9.

   Paschal Time - Book III.