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The Web-Site of
“A Day With Mary” can be found
19 October, 2026
“A Murder Is Announced”. By: Agatha Christie. Starring: Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.
“A Murder Is Announced”.
By: Agatha Christie.
Starring: Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.
Available on YouTube
More Stories Of What The Modernist Church Offers. God Help Us.
Toledo, Spain, loses all its Convents.
Available on YouTube
Chairs, Brown’s Hotel, London.
Beautiful Chairs seen at Brown’s Hotel, London.
Zephyrinus wants ten of these beauties for the Summer House at Zephyrinus Mansion, to keep Perkins and Jeeves happy !!!
All Illustrations: BROWN’S HOTEL
Text by Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Brown’s Hotel is a Five-Star Hotel in Mayfair,
London, established in 1832 [1] and owned by
Rocco Forte Hotels since July 2003.
It is London’s oldest Luxury Hotel, never
having been renamed, rebuilt or relocated.[2]
The Web-Site for BROWN’S HOTEL can be found
Recalcitrant “Twitchers” (Bird-Watchers) Are Admonished By The Norfolk Constabulary And Told To “Clear Off”.
Norfolk Police are warning people not to breach
Covid Health and Safety Regulations,
as “Twitchers” (Bird-Watchers) gathered to see
a rare bird (a “Rufous-Tailed Scrub Robin”)
in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, recently.
Eventually, after several days during which the assembled crowd of “Twitchers” (Bird-Watchers) did not move, a very irate Norfolk Policeman shouted out to the large crowd of “Twitchers” (Bird-Watchers) . . .
“It’s Not ’ere !!!”.
“It’s Flown Away !!!”.
“Now, Clear Off !!!”.
Illustration: SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
Prayers And Devotions For Allhallowtide.
ANCILLA PRESS CATHOLIC BOOKS
All Hallows’ Eve Prayers and Devotions.
Available from ANCILLA PRESS
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 ~
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
An Italian Pergola. To Help You Through The Forthcoming Winter.
“In The Shadow Of An Italian Pergola”.
Artist: Peder Mørk Mønsted.
Date: 1895.
Illustration: TWITTER, ACADEMIA AESTHETICS
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 – 20 June 1941) was a Danish Realist Painter.
He is best known for his Landscape Paintings in a Realistic Style. His favourite motifs include Snowy Winter Landscapes, Still Water, and Forests.[1][2]
English: The painter, Peder Mønsted, at the easel.
Dansk: Maleren Peder Mønsted ved staffeliet.
Artist: Sigvard Hansen (1859–1938).
Date: 1895.
Source/Photographer: bruun-rasmussen.dk
(Wikipedia Commons)
From 1875 to 1879, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner.
In 1878, Mønsted studied under the Artist, Peder Severin Krøyer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri, then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the Studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau. He gradually developed a personal style of academic naturalism.[3][2]
Commentary On “The Hail Holy Queen”. Sermon By Reverend Fr. Timothy Finigan.
Commentary On “The Hail Holy Queen”.
Sermon By Reverend Fr. Timothy Finigan.
Available on YouTube
Taken during “A Day With Mary”.
Shrine of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent.
14 May 2016.
All Day With Mary videos at:
Saint Peter Of Alcantara. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 19 October. White Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Peter Of Alcantara.
Confessor.
Feast Day 19 October.
Double.
White Vestments.
English: Saint Peter of Alcantara.
Polski: Witraż przedstawiający św.
Piotra z Alkantary w kościele franciszkanów w
Waszyngtonie. Zdjęcie autora hasła o św.
Piotrze z Alkantary w polskiej Wikipedii. 2006 rok.
Date: 8 October 2006 (original upload date).
Source: Transferred from pl.wikipedia to Commons
by Pjahr using CommonsHelper
Author: Abraham at Polish Wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)
Born at Alcantara, Spain, of noble parents, Peter distributed his fortune in alms (Gospel) and, at the age of sixteen, entered The Seraphic Order of Saint Francis.
A very rigid observer of the primitive Franciscan Rule, he led a most austere life. His great Devotion to The Passion of Jesus inspired him with an extraordinary love of Penance.
He died in 1562, and, appearing to Saint Teresa of Avila, he said to her: “Oh, Blessed Penance, which has earned for me such great glory !”
Mass: Justus.
Saint Peter of Alcantara.
Illustration: MORE LACE, MORE GRACE
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
He was born at Alcántara, Province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. His father, Peter Garavita, was the Governor of Alcántara, and his mother was of the noble family of Sanabia. He decided to join the Franciscans at the age of sixteen. Shortly after, he was sent to University in Salamanca by his stepfather.
Returning home, he became a Franciscan Friar of the Stricter Observance, in the Friary at Manxaretes, Extremadura, Spain, in 1515. At the age of twenty-two, he was sent to Found a new Community of The Stricter Observance at Badajoz.
He was ordained a Priest in 1524, and, the following year, was appointed Guardian of the Friary of Saint Mary of the Angels, at Robredillo, Old Castile.
Saint Peter of Alcantara.
Illustration: TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IN MARYLAND
He was a man of remarkable austerity and poverty, who travelled throughout Spain, Preaching the Gospel to the Poor. He wrote a Treatise on Prayer and Meditation, which was considered a masterpiece by Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Francis de Sales, and Louis of Granada.
While in Prayer and Contemplation, he was often seen in ecstasies and levitation. On his deathbed, he was offered a glass of water, which he refused, saying: “Even my Lord Jesus Christ thirsted on The Cross”. He died while on his knees in Prayer on 18 October 1562 in a Monastery at Arenas (now Arenas de San Pedro, Province of Ávila, Old Castile), Spain.
18 October, 2026
The Archbishop Of Birmingham, England, Approves A Mediæval Sarum Use Mass.
A page from a Sarum Use Missal.
Image: Cheetham’s Library.
Text and Illustrations: ONCE I WAS A CLEVER BOY
The Web-Site of ONCE I WAS A CLEVER BOY can be found
The Advaticanum Web-Site reports that the Archbishop
of Birmingham has agreed in principle to the Celebration
of a Sarum Use Mass within his Diocese.
The story has been picked up by other Catholic websites,
but the original article from Advaticanum can be read at Archbishop of Birmingham, UK, gives approval
The account of recent Celebrations includes two by permission of the then Archbishop in 1996 and 1997 in the glorious Chapel of Merton College in Oxford.
I was able to attend those two offerings of the Mass and
it was a great privilege, and indeed a beautiful experience,
to witness the Liturgy of Mediæval England in a building created for just such a Celebration.
On the basis of those two occasions, I think there can be no doubt that other such Celebrations would be very popular.
Photographs from the video - which can be found Online —
of the second of these Masses, that of Candlemas in 1997, together with some notes about the Sarum Use, can be seen
by scrolling down at Sarum Rite
Properly speaking, Sarum is a Use, variant form of the Roman Rite, rather than a distinct Rite, like Milan, Lyons, or Braga, or the Spanish Mozarabic Rite at Toledo - and akin to the Traditional Dominican form.
At the Council of Constance in 1414-1417, the different “Nations” Celebrated Mass according to their home usage and members of other “Nations” were especially impressed by the beauty of the English Celebration.
Mediæval Sarum Use Mass. (Re-Creation). Salisbury Cathedral, England.
Mediæval Sarum Use Mass.
(Re-Creation).
Salisbury Cathedral, England.
5 May 2011.
Available on YouTube
Joachim Vincent Raphæl Louis Pecci. Who Became Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903). “God’s Prisoner”.
Official portrait of Pope Leo XIII taken on 11 April 1878.
Author: Braun et Compagnie (1868 – 1969).
(Wikimedia Commons)
Published by: “The Desert Will Flower Press”.
Web-Site: PAPA STRONSAY
“Accordingly, he was nominated by the Pope for the dignity of Titular Archbishop of Damietta on 27 January 1843, being then only thirty-three years old.
“He received Episcopal Consecration on 19 February 1843 in the historic Church in Rome of Saint Lawrence, where authentic Tradition locates the heroic Martyrdom of the
Arch-Deacon of The Roman Church.
“This was the second time that Monsignor Pecci had not followed the usual steps through hierarchical advancement.
“He was a Monsignor before he was Ordained a Priest.
“And, now, he was an Archbishop
before he later became a Bishop”.
Zephyrinus’ Quiz. The Answer.
Illustration: DOVER KENT ARCHIVES
ZEPHYRINUS’ QUIZ.
CAN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF A SENTENCE
CONTAINING THE WORD
“AND”
FIVE CONSECUTIVE TIMES ?
THE ANSWER:
THERE WAS A FRESHLY-PAINTED SIGN, OUTSIDE A PUB,
DEPICTING THE PUB’S NAME “COACH AND HORSES”.
THE PUB OWNER, LOOKING AT THE SIGN,
SAID TO THE PAINTER OF THE SIGN:
“THE SPACE BETWEEN ‘COACH AND AND,
AND AND AND HORSES’,
IS TOO BIG.
“PLEASE REDUCE IT”.
Total Restoration Of The Tridentine Rite. Exalting Tradition And Refuting Rupture.
Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT
Peter Kwasniewski announces the launch of his latest book: “The Once And Future Roman Rite. Returning To The Traditional Latin Liturgy After Seventy Years Of Exile”.
Please note: This Article is a reprint from 2022.
The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile (TAN Books, 2022).
Peter Kwasniewski writes:
I am pleased to announce to readers the release of my latest book, The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile (TAN Books, 2022).
Although it was initially conceived as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Novus Ordo (1969-2019), it developed over time into a full-on response to the numerous errors and lies of progressive liturgists as we find them regurgitated in Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying letter.
The fruit of decades of research, experience, reflection, and debate, Once and Future Roman Rite argues that the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy is sacred Tradition, which originates from Christ and is unfolded theologically and liturgically by The Holy Spirit throughout the life of The Church, in each age and across the ages.
The prominent identifying traits of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western—including, of course, the classical Roman Rite—are markedly and designedly absent from or optional in the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman rite” at all.
Paul VI’s new liturgical books, drafted in unseemly haste by an audacious committee of arrogant men, who placed themselves above and outside of the stream of tradition as its jury, judge, and executioner, visited upon the long-suffering Roman Catholic Faithful a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors.
But this much is always true and will always be true: man is not master over divine liturgy; rather, all of us, from the lowest-ranking Layman to the Pope, himself, are called to be stewards of God’s best and choicest gifts. This law, in turn, imposes genuine moral and ecclesial duties upon us and bestows corresponding rights.
The only possible Catholic response to this crisis of rupture is a full return to the Roman rite in its robust perennial richness as codified after The Council of Trent (i.e., the pre-1955 form of the rite: hence “Seventy Years of Exile”).
No special permission is or could ever be needed to embrace this heritage and to hand it down to future generations. Fidelity to the traditional Latin Liturgy is, at its root, fidelity to The Roman Church as such and to Christ, Himself, Who has inspired the growth and perfection of our religious rites for two thousand years.
In addition to its preface, twelve chapters, and epilogue, the book contains a foreword by Martin Mosebach, nine reproduced artworks, several diagrams, an appendix of (highly revealing) texts by Paul VI on the liturgical reform, a topical bibliography, and a detailed index.
Saint Luke. Evangelist. Feast Day 18 October. Red Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Luke.
Evangelist.
Feast Day 18 October.
Double of The Second-Class.
Red Vestments.
Saint Luke.
Evangelist.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
Saint Luke.
Available on YouTube
English: Saint Luke.
Français: Saint Luc.
Artist: James Tissot (1836–1902).
Date: 1886-1894.
Current location: Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Credit line: Purchased by public subscription.
Source/Photographer: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum.
Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2007, 00.159.207_PS2.jpg
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Luke, originally a pagan, was born, according to Eusebius, at Antioch, the Capital of the Kings of Syria. Saint Paul tells us that he exercised the profession of a physician. He accompanied Saint Paul (the Apostle of the Nations) on his travels, and was with him during most of his Missions and when he was twice a prisoner in Rome.
Owing to his connection with this Master and the other Apostles, he was enabled to write the Third Gospel, which Saint Jerome and Saint John Chrysostom describe as “The Gospel of Saint Paul”.
Like the Doctor of the Gentiles (Saint Paul), he addresses himself to pagans to show them that Salvation is brought by Jesus to all men, without exception, who believe in Him.
He is symbolically represented as an Ox, one of the four animals in the Vision of Ezechiel [Third Lesson of the First Nocturn at Matins], because, at the beginning of his Gospel, he mentions the Priesthood of Zacharias, and because the Ox was usually the victim in the sacrifices of the Old Law.
The Mass of Saint Luke, like that of Saint Mark, offers this particular; that its Gospel refers to the instructions given by The Saviour to His seventy-two Disciples, both these Evangelists (Luke and Mark) not having been Apostles, but only Disciples of Our Lord.
Saint Jerome relates that Saint Luke died in Achaia, Greece, at the age of eighty-four.
Mass: Mihi autem.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
The Mass of Saint Luke, like that of Saint Mark, offers this particular; that its Gospel refers to the instructions given by The Saviour to His seventy-two Disciples, both these Evangelists (Luke and Mark) not having been Apostles, but only Disciples of Our Lord.
Saint Jerome relates that Saint Luke died in Achaia, Greece, at the age of eighty-four.
Mass: Mihi autem.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
17 October, 2026
Remembrance Of The Poor Souls In Purgatory.
Illustration: SISTERS OF CARMEL
“If it were but known how great is the power of the good
Souls in Purgatory with the Heart of God, and if we knew
all the Graces we can obtain through their intercession,
they would not be so much forgotten.
“We must, therefore, Pray much for them,
that they may Pray much for us.”
— Saint John Vianney.
“ . . . indeed, the Faithful cannot exercise more
efficacious Charity toward their dear ones than
by having The Divine Mass Celebrated for them . . .”
“The Day Of The Dead”.
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Date: 1859.
Collection:
(Wikimedia Commons)
Holy Souls Remembrance.
Every year we offer you the opportunity to enrol the
names of your loved ones to be remembered at all of our
November Masses, the month Dedicated to Prayer for
The Holy Souls. See details
The Web-Site of the Sisters of Carmel can be found HERE
“Domine Salvum Fac”. The Prayer To Be Chanted At The Main Traditional Mass On Sundays For The Sovereign.
which can be found HERE
Prayer for the King, “Pro Rege in Solemnitátibus” from a Jacobite Manuscript of circa 1740.
From an article on the hymn “Adeste Fideles”, on the excellent Hymnology archive, we find that John Francis Wade (Johannes Franciscus Wade, 1710 – 1786) also wrote a “Domine Salvum Fac”.
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“Domine salvum fac”.
The Prayer for the Sovereign (currently King Charles III)
to be Chanted on Sundays at the end of the main
Traditional Latin Mass.
Available on YouTube
Versicle: Domine, salvum fac Regem nostrum N.
(Where N = the name of the Sovereign).
Response: Et exaudi nos in die, qua invocaverimus te.
Versicle: Domine, exaudi orationem meam.
Response: Et clamor meus ad te veniat.
Versicle: Dominus vobiscum.
Response: Et cum spiritu tuo.
Oremus.
Quaesumus omnipotens Deus, ut famulus tuus N. Rex/Regina noster, qui tua miseratione suscepit regni gubernacula, virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa; quibus decenter ornatus, et vitiorum monstra devitare (in time of War: Hostes superare,) et ad te qui via, veritas, et vita es, cum Regina consorte et prole regia gratiosus valeat pervenire.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.
Versicle: O Lord, save our King/Queen N.
Response: And hear us iin the day we call upon Thee.
Versicle: Lord, hear my Prayer.
Response: And let my cry come unto Thee.
Versicle: The Lord be with you.
Response: And with thy Spirit.
Let us Pray.
We beseech Thee, Almighty God, that Thy servant N. our King/Queen, who has been called by Thy mercy to rule over this Kingdom, may also receive from Thee an increase of all virtues. Fittingly adorned with these, may he/she be able to shun all evildoing (in time of War: To conquer his/her enemies,) and, finally, being well pleasing before Thee, together with the Queen/Consort and the Royal Family, attain unto Thee Who art the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
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This has been scanned from a Jacobite manuscript, and was reproduced in Dom John Stephan, “Adeste Fideles” (1947).
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