English: Queen of the Angels.
Latin: Regina Angelorum.
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Date: 1900.
Collection: Petit Palais, Paris.
Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Rosary in Latin.
Available on YouTube
16 October, 2026
“Five Years’ Mind”. Sir David Amess MP. Faithful Pro-Life Catholic. First-Class MP Who Worked For Everybody In His Constituency. May He Rest In Peace. “Requiescat In Pace”.
Sir David Amess MP.
Illustration: TWITTER/FR TIMOTHY FINIGAN
Please Pray
for the repose of the Soul of David Amess MP,
a faithful Catholic Pro-Lifer.
Please Pray
for the ending of the Evil that walks in our Society.
He was murdered in 2021 while serving his Constituents
at a Constituency Meeting in Essex.
Requiescat in pace.
Prayers And Devotions For Allhallowtide.
ANCILLA PRESS CATHOLIC BOOKS
All Hallows’ Eve Prayers and Devotions.
Available from ANCILLA PRESS
Price: $3.00.
All Hallows’ Eve Prayers and Devotions.
Traditional Catholic Devotions for Halloween ?
Yes, you read that right !!!
As neo-pagans try to co-opt this Vigil Day for themselves, we’re taking All Hallows’ Eve back for Holy Mother Church with this fantastic collection.
As neo-pagans try to co-opt this Vigil Day for themselves, we’re taking All Hallows’ Eve back for Holy Mother Church with this fantastic collection.
It features Liturgical Propers of The Mass
and The Divine Office for All Hallows’ Eve, including the full version of “Black Vespers”, an old Breton Tradition for the afternoon of Halloween.
Combat the occult worship of the secular holiday with three powerful Prayers against evil spirits, witchcraft, and spells. And transform your children’s Halloween, or All Saints’ “Trick-or-Treating”, from mere indulgence to a Spiritual Work of Mercy with the venerable practice of “Souling” — Praying for The Dear Departed.
Combining Celtic, English, and Latin Traditions, this unique booklet provides adults and children with an unashamedly Catholic, and historically authentic, way to celebrate the beginning of Hallowtide.
~ 26 pages ~ booklet ~ 5.5 inches x 4 inches ~ $3.00.
All Hallows’ Eve Prayers and Devotions.
Available from ANCILLA PRESS
Price: $3.00.
Features:
* Traditional Mass Propers for All Hallows’ Eve;
* Black Vespers (Vespers of The Dead);
* Little Vespers of All Saints’ Day;
* Saint Patrick’s Breastplate;
* Long form of The Saint Michael Prayer by Pope Leo XIII;
* A Deliverance Prayer;
* Prayer for those for whom we are bound to Pray;
* Prayer for those who repose in a Cemetery;
* Chaplet for The Souls in Purgatory,
adapted for Halloween;
Souling;
* Traditional Soul-Cake Recipe;
* Cheshire Souling Song (music and lyrics);
* Another Souling Song (lyrics).
All Hallows’ Eve Prayers and Devotions.
Available from ANCILLA PRESS
Price: $3.00.
“Requiem”. “Missa Pro Defunctis”. Composer: Tomás Luis Victoria. Sung By: The Tallis Scholars. Director Of Music: Peter Phillips.
“Requiem”. “Missa Pro Defunctis”.
Composer: Tomás Luis Victoria.
Sung By: The Tallis Scholars.
Director Of Music: Peter Phillips.
Available on YouTube
Man Thinks He’s So Clever, But . . .
Christ’s Sermon On The Mount.
The Parable Of The Lilies.
Date: 1866.
Source: Library of Congress.
Author: Currier & Ives.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Hedwig. Widow. Patroness of Silesia, Poland. Feast Day 16 October. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Hedwig.
Widow.
Feast Day 16 October.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
The State Flag of Poland with Coat-of-Arms.
Symbolic version. Based on Image: Flag of Poland.svg
Date: 26 June 2007.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Basilica of Saint Hedwig,
Trzebnica, Poland.
This File: 25 May 2007.
User: Merlin.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Having married Henry, Duke of Poland, she fulfilled her duties as wife in so holy a fashion that The Church compares her to the strong woman, whose portrait is drawn for us by The Holy Ghost in today’s Epistle.
She had three sons and three daughters. She macerated her body, both by Fasting and Watching [Editor: Prayer before The Blessed Sacrament], and by the roughness of her clothes. She was very charitable to the Poor, whom she served at table.
Her husband, the Duke, having died, Hedwig, like the merchant mentioned in the Gospel, gave away all her riches to acquire the Precious Pearl of Eternal Life.
After Praying earnestly, and under Divine inspiration, she generously exchanged Worldly pomp for the Life of The Cross (Collect), entering the Cistercian Monastery of Trebnitz, where her daughter was Abbess.
She died on 15 October 1243, and Poland honours her with special Veneration as her Patroness.
Mass: Cognóvi.
English: The Church of Saint Hedwig, in Legnickie Pole,
used to be part of The Benedictine Monastery, and, therefore, it shares the inscription in The Cultural Monuments Registry with the buildings of the former Monastery. Today, it is an ordinary Parish Church.
Polski: Kościół św. Jadwigi w Legnickim Polu pierwotnie stanowił kościół przyklasztorny benedyktynów, stąd jest wpisany na listę zabytków wspólnie z dawnym zespołem klasztornym. Obecnie jest zwykłym kościołem parafialnym.
Source: http://www.poczta-polska.pl/mw/
Author: Marek i Ewa Wojciechowscy.
Permission: GFDL.
Attribution: © Marek and Ewa Wojciechowscy /
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Basilica of Saint Jadwiga (English: Hedwig), in Trzebnica, Poland, is a Convent for Cistercian Nuns, situated in Trzebnica (German: Trebnitz), North of Wrocław, in Silesia, Poland, Founded in 1203.
After a few decades of abandonment in the 19th-Century, it is now an Abbey of The Sisters of Mercy of Saint Borromeo, since 1889.
The Abbey was established by the Silesian Piast, Duke Henry I (The Bearded), and his wife, Saint Hedwig of Andechs (Polish: Święta Jadwiga Śląska), confirmed by Pope Innocent III.
The image of Saint Hedwig is taken from the Web-Site of
Saint Hedwig Parish, 872, Brunswick Avenue, Trenton,
New Jersey NJ 08638, United States of America www.sainthedwigparish.com
The first Abbess was Petrussa, from Kitzingen Abbey; she was followed by Gertrude, the daughter of Hedwig. The Abbey was richly endowed with lands by Duke Henry. When Hedwig became a Widow, in 1238, she went to live at Trzebnica and was finally buried there.
The Church of Saint Hedwig,
Legnickie Pole, Poland.
Source: http://www.poczta-polska.pl/mw/
Photo: 2007.
Author: Marek i Ewa Wojciechowscy.
Permission: GFDL
Attribution: © Marek and Ewa Wojciechowscy /
(Wikimedia Commons)
Up to 1515, the Abbesses were First Princesses of the Piast Dynasty, and. afterwards, members of the nobility.
It is said that, towards the end of the 13th-Century, the Nuns numbered 120. The Abbey also became a mausoleum of many Rulers of the fragmented Silesian Piasts.
In 1672, there were thirty-two Nuns and six Lay Sisters; in 1805, there were twenty-three Nuns and six Lay Sisters. At the Protestant Reformation, most of the Nuns were Poles, as were the majority until the 18th-Century.
The Abbey of Trebnitz suffered so greatly, during the Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648), that the Nuns fled across the Border onto the territory of the mostly-unaffected Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, as they did again in 1663, when the Turks threatened Silesia.
In 1742, in the aftermath of the First Silesian War and the Treaty of Breslau, Trebnitz found itself under the governance of Protestant Prussia and started to suffer from political discrimination.
The last Abbess, Dominica von Giller, died on 17 August 1810, and, on 11 November 1810, the Abbey was suppressed and Secularised, by Order of King Frederick William III. The building, which was extensive, was sold later and turned into a cloth factory.
In the 19th-Century, the ruined Abbey was bought by The Knights Hospitaller and, later, by the Order of Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo, as a hospital.
The Church, a Basilica, has Pillars in the Late-Romanesque Style, to which Baroque additions were made from 1741.
It features several paintings with scenes from the life of Saint Hedwig by Michael Willmann. After the Secularisation of the Abbey, it became the Trebnitz Parish Church.
The grave of Saint Hedwig is located in a Chapel, to the Right of the High Altar, donated by her grandson, Archbishop Ladislaus of Salzburg, in 1267. The grave of Duke Henry I, her husband, is in front of the High Altar.
Among those buried in the Church, are: Henry I (The Bearded), Duke of Silesia-Wrocław, 1238; Saint Hedwig of Andechs, Widow, 1243; Konrad von Feuchtwangen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, 1296; Karolina of Legnica-Brieg, last scion of the Silesian Piasts, 1707.
English: Saint Hedwig of Andechs Church,
Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland.
Polski: Zabytkowy kościół parafialny p.w. św.
Jadwigi w dawnym Sadlnie,
obecnie części Ząbkowic Śląskich.
Photo: July 2011.
Source: Own Work.
Author: 99kerob (Paweł Borkowski)
(Wikimedia Commons)
In 1742, in the aftermath of the First Silesian War and the Treaty of Breslau, Trebnitz found itself under the governance of Protestant Prussia and started to suffer from political discrimination.
The last Abbess, Dominica von Giller, died on 17 August 1810, and, on 11 November 1810, the Abbey was suppressed and Secularised, by Order of King Frederick William III. The building, which was extensive, was sold later and turned into a cloth factory.
English: Saint Hedwig of Andechs Church,
Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland.
Polski: Wnętrze zabytkowego kościoła parafialnego
p.w. św. Jadwigi w dawnym Sadlnie,
obecnie części Ząbkowic Śląskich.
Photo: July 2011.
Source: Own Work.
Author: 99kerob (Paweł Borkowski)
(Wikimedia Commons)
In the 19th-Century, the ruined Abbey was bought by The Knights Hospitaller and, later, by the Order of Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo, as a hospital.
The Church, a Basilica, has Pillars in the Late-Romanesque Style, to which Baroque additions were made from 1741.
It features several paintings with scenes from the life of Saint Hedwig by Michael Willmann. After the Secularisation of the Abbey, it became the Trebnitz Parish Church.
English: The Basilica of Saint Hedwig,
Trzebnica, Poland.
Polski: Trzebnica, kościół,
ob. par. p.w. śś. Bartłomieja i Jadwigi, 2 poł. XIII.
Photo: 29 June 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Barbara Maliszewska
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: The Basilica of Saint Hedwig,
Trzebnica, Poland.
Polski: Trzebnica, kościół,
ob. par. p.w. śś. Bartłomieja i Jadwigi, 2 poł. XIII.
Photo: 8 April 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Barbara Maliszewska
(Wikimedia Commons)
The grave of Saint Hedwig is located in a Chapel, to the Right of the High Altar, donated by her grandson, Archbishop Ladislaus of Salzburg, in 1267. The grave of Duke Henry I, her husband, is in front of the High Altar.
Among those buried in the Church, are: Henry I (The Bearded), Duke of Silesia-Wrocław, 1238; Saint Hedwig of Andechs, Widow, 1243; Konrad von Feuchtwangen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, 1296; Karolina of Legnica-Brieg, last scion of the Silesian Piasts, 1707.
15 October, 2026
Perkins And Jeeves Are Up To Something. Yet, Once Again !!!
Perkins and Jeeves gave this Pencil-Sketch to Zephyrinus
for their projected new Summer House Apartments in the grounds of Zephyrinus Mansion.
Zephyrinus thinks he’s seen this somewhere before.
It does seem somewhat large for two Senior Staff Members !!!
Illustration: BING
“The Murder At The Vicarage”. By: Agatha Christie. Starring: Joan Hickson As Miss Marple.
“The Murder At The Vicarage”.
By: Agatha Christie.
Starring: Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.
Available On YouTube
Miss Marple is a British television series based on the
Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie.
It starred Joan Hickson in the title role,
and aired from 1984 to 1992.
All twelve original Miss Marple novels were dramatised.
The screenplays were written by T. R. Bowen,
Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem,
and the series was produced by George Gallaccio.
“You Are A Priest, Forever”. Sung By: Annie Karto.
“My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord”.
The Canticle of Mary.
Available on YouTube
The Magnificat (Latin for “[My Soul] magnifies [The Lord]”)
is a Canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle
of Mary, and, in the Byzantine Tradition, the Ode of The Theotokos (Greek: Ἡ ᾨδὴ τῆς Θεοτόκου).
It is Traditionally incorporated into the Liturgical Services of the Catholic Church and of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.[1] Its name comes from the Incipit of the Latin version of the Text.
The Text of the Canticle is taken directly from the Gospel of Luke (1:46–55) where it is spoken by Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth.[2]
The Text of the Canticle is taken directly from the Gospel of Luke (1:46–55) where it is spoken by Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth.[2]
In the narrative, after Mary greets Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist, the latter moves within Elizabeth’s womb. Elizabeth praises Mary for her Faith (using words partially reflected in the Hail Mary), and Mary responds with what is now known as “The Magnificat”.
The Magnificat is one of the eight most ancient Christian Hymns and perhaps the earliest Marian Hymn.[2][3] Within the whole of Christianity, the Canticle is most frequently recited within the Liturgy of The Hours.
In Western Christianity, The Magnificat is most often sung or recited during the main Evening Prayer Service: Vespers[1] in the Catholic and Lutheran Churches, and Evening Prayer (or Evensong) in Anglicanism.
In Eastern Christianity, The Magnificat is usually sung at Sunday Matins. Among Protestant groups, The Magnificat may also be sung during Worship Services, especially in the Advent Season, during which these Verses are traditionally read.
The Magnificat is one of the eight most ancient Christian Hymns and perhaps the earliest Marian Hymn.[2][3] Within the whole of Christianity, the Canticle is most frequently recited within the Liturgy of The Hours.
In Western Christianity, The Magnificat is most often sung or recited during the main Evening Prayer Service: Vespers[1] in the Catholic and Lutheran Churches, and Evening Prayer (or Evensong) in Anglicanism.
In Eastern Christianity, The Magnificat is usually sung at Sunday Matins. Among Protestant groups, The Magnificat may also be sung during Worship Services, especially in the Advent Season, during which these Verses are traditionally read.
Saint Teresa Of Ávila. Virgin. One Of The Four Female Doctors Of The Church. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 15 October. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Teresa.
Virgin.
Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 15 October.
Double.
White Vestments.
Saint Teresa of Ávila (Saint Teresa of Jesus)
(1515-1582).
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
Saint Teresa was born at Ávila, Spain. From her earliest childhood, she ardently desired to die a Martyr. At the age of eighteen, she entered The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Consecrated herself to Christ, whom she chose for her spouse (Epistle).
[The Order of Mount Carmel, which spread over The East in Apostolic times, penetrated into The West in the 13th-Century. Illustrious Members of this Order, much by their Sanctity, rank, or writings, are very numerous. Several have filled the greatest dignities in The Church.]
Her heart was so inflamed with Divine Love that she wrote: "How the enraptured Soul feels in this body its captivity and the misery of life ! It considers itself a slave sold in a foreign land; and, what is most bitter, is to see everywhere men's passionate love for this life, and so few banished ones who sigh like itself and Pray for the end of their exile." [Her autobiography, Chapter XXI.]
English: Saint Teresa Of Ávila (Saint Teresa Of Jesus).
One of four female Doctors of The Church.
[Editor: The four female Doctors of The Church are:
Saint Teresa of Avila;
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux;
Saint Catherine of Siena;
Saint Hildegard von Bingen.]
Deutsch: Hl. Therese von Avila.
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
Date: 1615.
Current location:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Source/Photographer: https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/1617
(Wikimedia Commons)
Counselled by Jesus, she made the difficult Vow of always doing what she judged most perfect.
She attained through Prayer the highest degree of Mystical Life, and there found such enlightenment concerning Divine Things (Collect), that her works earned for her, from Popes Gregory XV and Urban VII, the august Title of Doctor of The Church, which has been given to no other woman.
[Editor: This last comment was dated 1945 in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal. Since then, three other women have gained the Title of Doctor of The Church. They are: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Thérèse de Lisieux (Saint Therese of The Child Jesus and of The Holy Face)); Saint Catherine of Siena; Saint Hildegard von Bingen. Wikipedia states that Saint Teresa of Ávila was given the Title of Doctor of The Church, by Pope Paul VI, in 1970.]
“The best Prayer,” she wrote, “and the most pleasing to God, is that which brings on improvement, showing itself in good works, and not the enjoyment which only serves for our own satisfaction.” [Letter to The Bishop of Ávila.]
The influence of this humble Virgin, who converted thousands of Souls, manifestly proves the supreme importance of The Contemplative Life, addressing itself, directly, as it does, to God, The Author of All Good.
Saint Catherine of Siena.
One of the four female Doctors of The Church.
Current location:
Church of Santa Maria del Rosario. Prati, Rome.
Source: http://www.tanogabo.it/
Author: Anonymous.
(Wikimedia Commons)
“The best Prayer,” she wrote, “and the most pleasing to God, is that which brings on improvement, showing itself in good works, and not the enjoyment which only serves for our own satisfaction.” [Letter to The Bishop of Ávila.]
The influence of this humble Virgin, who converted thousands of Souls, manifestly proves the supreme importance of The Contemplative Life, addressing itself, directly, as it does, to God, The Author of All Good.
She died of Divine Love on 5-15 October. 1582. [Pope Gregory XIII, in order to reform The Roman Calendar, had ordered
the suppression of ten days of the year 1582; the day after
4 October was to be called the 15th of the same month. It was during this historic night, of the 4th to the 15th, that Saint Teresa died.]
Mass: Dilexísti.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptised
“Voices of Angels”,
Composed by: Hildegard von Bingen.
One of The Four Female Doctors of The Catholic Church.
Available on YouTube
English: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
One of the four female Doctors of The Church.
Saint Therese of The Child Jesus in the photograph
taken in the courtyard of the Monastery of Lisieux,
Easter Monday, 15 April 1894.
Español: Detalle de Santa Teresa del Niño Jesús en la fotografía tomada en el patio del monasterio de Lisieux el Lunes de Pascua, 15 de abril de 1894.
Français: Détail de Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus dans la photographie prise dans la cour du monastère de Lisieux lundi de Pâques, 15 Avril, 1894.
Italiano: Particolare di Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù nella fotografia scattata nel cortile del monastero di Lisieux Lunedi di Pasqua, April 15, 1894.
Date: 3 September 2014.
Source: Archivos del Carmelo de Lisieux.
Author: Celine Martin (Sor Genoveva de la Santa Faz).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptised
as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 –
4 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish Mystic, Roman Catholic Saint, Carmelite Nun, author during the Counter Reformation, and Theologian of Contemplative Life through Mental Prayer.
She was a Reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be a Founder of the Discalced Carmelites along with Saint John of The Cross.
In 1622, forty years after her death, she was Canonised by Pope Gregory XV, and, on 27 September 1970, was named a Doctor of The Church by Pope Paul VI.
In 1622, forty years after her death, she was Canonised by Pope Gregory XV, and, on 27 September 1970, was named a Doctor of The Church by Pope Paul VI.
Her books, which include her autobiography (The Life of Teresa of Jesus) and her seminal work El Castillo Interior (The Interior Castle), are an integral part of Spanish Renaissance Literature as well as Christian Mysticism and Christian Meditation practices. She also wrote Camino de Perfección (The Way of Perfection).
After her death, Saint Teresa’s cult was known in Spain during the 1620s, and for a time she was considered a candidate to become a National Patron Saint.
After her death, Saint Teresa’s cult was known in Spain during the 1620s, and for a time she was considered a candidate to become a National Patron Saint.
A Santero image of Our Lady of The Conception, said to have been sent by Saint Teresa with one of her brothers to Nicaragua, is now Venerated as the Country’s National Patroness at the Shrine of El Viejo.
Pious Catholic beliefs also associate Saint Teresa with the esteemed Religious image called The Infant Jesus of Prague, with claims of former ownership and devotion.
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