“Abide With Me”.
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“Ashokan Farewell”. Composed By: Jay Ungar. Played By: The Royal Marines Band.
“Ashokan Farewell”.
Played by: The Royal Marines Band.
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“Ashokan Farewell” is a piece of music composed by the American folk musician, Jay Ungar, in 1982. For many years it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camps run by Ungar and his wife, Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name, at the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz (now the Ashokan Center) in Upstate New York.[1]
The tune was used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS Television Mini-Series “The Civil War”.[2] Despite its late date of composition, it was included in the 1991 compilation album Songs of The Civil War.
The composition, though written in 1982, has many similarities to the song “Massa’s In The Cold Cold Ground”, written in 1852 by Stephen C. Foster.
It is unknown if this is the reason why it was included in Ken Burns’ Civil War series. The song itself was written nine years before the beginning of the U.S. Civil War and seems to presage it.
“With The Rising Of The Son, There Is Hope”. The Painting From Jacqueline Hurley Pays Tribute To The People Of Ukraine.
“With The Rising Of The Son, There Is Hope”.
Illustration: JACQUELINE HURLEY
Zephyrinus says:
May The Forthcoming Easter Blessings Be Upon You All.
Thursday In Passion Week. The Lenten Station Is At The Church Of Saint Apollinaris And At The Church Of Saint Mary-The-New. Violet Vestments.
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Thursday in Passion Week.
Station at Saint Apollinaris’s and at Saint Mary-the-New (also called Saint Frances of Rome).
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
The old Lenten Station was at the Church built towards 780 A.D., by Pope Adrian I, on the ruins of an ancient temple, in honour of the Holy Martyr, Apollinaris, the Disciple of Saint Peter and Archbishop of Ravenna. A second Lenten Station was added in 1934.
The second Lenten Station, added by Pope Pius XI in 1934, is at Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova), also known as Santa Francesca Romana. Santa Francesca Romana is situated next to the Roman Forum.
By Apostolic Letters, dated 5 March 1934, and published on 15 October 1935, the Churches of Santa Agatha and Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova) (also called Santa Francesca Romana) were raised to the Title of Lenten Stational Churches.
The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana, on the Third Tuesday in Lent, and Sant’Apollinare, on Passion Thursday.
These two new Stational Churches (Santa Agatha and Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova)) (also called Santa Francesca Romana) are not on the published Map of Lenten Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Sant’Apollinare alle Terme is a Titular Church in Rome, dedicated to Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first Bishop of Ravenna. It is the Station Church for the Thursday in Passion Week in Lent.
The Church was Founded in the Early-Middle Ages, probably in the 7th-Century A.D.
Thursday in Passion Week.
Station at Saint Apollinaris’s and at Saint Mary-the-New (also called Saint Frances of Rome).
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
English: The Church of Saint Apollinaris.
Italiano: Roma Chiesa di S Apollinare.
Photo: November 2012.
User: MGA73bot2
Source: Own work.
Author: Gobbler
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The old Lenten Station was at the Church built towards 780 A.D., by Pope Adrian I, on the ruins of an ancient temple, in honour of the Holy Martyr, Apollinaris, the Disciple of Saint Peter and Archbishop of Ravenna. A second Lenten Station was added in 1934.
The second Lenten Station, added by Pope Pius XI in 1934, is at Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova), also known as Santa Francesca Romana. Santa Francesca Romana is situated next to the Roman Forum.
English: Church of Saint Mary-the-New
(Santa Francesca Romana), Rome.
Italiano: Chiesa di Santa Francesca Romana
nei pressi del Foro Romano, Roma.
Photo: February 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Marcok - it.wikipedia.org
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By Apostolic Letters, dated 5 March 1934, and published on 15 October 1935, the Churches of Santa Agatha and Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova) (also called Santa Francesca Romana) were raised to the Title of Lenten Stational Churches.
The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana, on the Third Tuesday in Lent, and Sant’Apollinare, on Passion Thursday.
These two new Stational Churches (Santa Agatha and Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova)) (also called Santa Francesca Romana) are not on the published Map of Lenten Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
English: View from the Palatine Hill showing
Photo: April 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Karelj
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In The Mass of The Day, Daniel recalls the humiliation of the people of Israel, who were delivered to their enemies “on account of their sins” (Introit and Epistle). The Church also mourns over the bad Christians and the heathen, slaves of Satan and of their passions.
With Azarias, she asks the Lord “that all those who ill-treat His servants may be confounded, for it is with a contrite and humble heart that they return to God” (Epistle). She hopes that, faithful to His ancient and solemn oath, He will multiply His people like the stars in the firmament and the sand on the shore (Epistle).
She already sees with joy the Paschal Night, when, in the Baptismal Font, numerous children are going to be born to her. She excites the Penitents to true repentance and hope by relating the conversion of Magdalen the sinner, who throws herself at the feet of Jesus, shedding tears of repentance, whilst the Jews, represented by Simon the Pharisee, remain unmoved.
The Gospel relates to the second year of the Public Ministry of Jesus, Who was received in Naim, in the house of Simon the Pharisee. Several Fathers of The Latin Church think that the poor sinner was Mary of Magdala, called, for that reason, Magdalen, who was identified as the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
Forming part of the People of God through Baptism, we should humbly, like Magdalen, weep for our sins and generously expiate them. Let us therefore purify our bodies and Souls by mortification and Penance, for it is “by Abstinence that we must heal our wounds made by intemperance” (Collect).
Mass: Omnia, quæ fecisti.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.
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With Azarias, she asks the Lord “that all those who ill-treat His servants may be confounded, for it is with a contrite and humble heart that they return to God” (Epistle). She hopes that, faithful to His ancient and solemn oath, He will multiply His people like the stars in the firmament and the sand on the shore (Epistle).
She already sees with joy the Paschal Night, when, in the Baptismal Font, numerous children are going to be born to her. She excites the Penitents to true repentance and hope by relating the conversion of Magdalen the sinner, who throws herself at the feet of Jesus, shedding tears of repentance, whilst the Jews, represented by Simon the Pharisee, remain unmoved.
English: Saint Apollinaris Church.
Italiano: Roma, Sant'Apollinare.
Photo: February 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
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The Gospel relates to the second year of the Public Ministry of Jesus, Who was received in Naim, in the house of Simon the Pharisee. Several Fathers of The Latin Church think that the poor sinner was Mary of Magdala, called, for that reason, Magdalen, who was identified as the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
Forming part of the People of God through Baptism, we should humbly, like Magdalen, weep for our sins and generously expiate them. Let us therefore purify our bodies and Souls by mortification and Penance, for it is “by Abstinence that we must heal our wounds made by intemperance” (Collect).
Mass: Omnia, quæ fecisti.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.
English: Pope Gregory XIII (1572 - 1585) granted
the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare to the Jesuits in 1574.
He is best known for commissioning, and being the
namesake for, the Gregorian Calendar, which remains
the internationally-accepted Civil Calendar.
Portrait by Lavinia Fontana (1552 - 1614).
Español: Gregorio XIII.
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Sant’Apollinare alle Terme is a Titular Church in Rome, dedicated to Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first Bishop of Ravenna. It is the Station Church for the Thursday in Passion Week in Lent.
The Church was Founded in the Early-Middle Ages, probably in the 7th-Century A.D.
It is first mentioned, in the Liber Pontificalis, under Pope Hadrian I, using spolia from the ruins of an Imperial Building.
The first Priests, who served the Church, were probably Eastern Basilian Monks, who had fled from persecution during the iconoclast period.
The Church is Listed, in the Catalogue of Turin, as a Papal Chapel, with eight Clerics. In 1574, it was granted to the Jesuits by Pope Gregory XIII, and it was used as the Church of the next-door Collegium Germanicum in the Palazzo di Sant’Apollinare (now owned by the Roman Seminary), which was later united with the Hungarian College to form the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum.
This remained a Jesuit institution until the Suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, when this Church passed to the Lazarists.
In the Late-17th-Century, the Church of Saint Apollinaris was in a poor state of repair. Its rebuilding was considered over a long period, but wasn’t carried out, probably due to lack of funds. Despite this, in 1702, a Chapel was re-decorated and dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier, and a statue of the Saint commissioned from Pierre Le Gros, who carved the Marble with extraordinary virtuosity (the statue was preserved when the Church was eventually rebuilt, some forty years later, and is still in situ).
In 1742, Pope Benedict XIV commissioned Ferdinando Fuga to rebuild Saint Apollinaris. Fuga added a new façade in the Late-16th-Century-Style, with Baroque elements. It has two Storeys, with Ionic Columns in the Lower Storey and Corinthian Columns in the Upper Storey.
The Lower Level has a Central Doorway, flanked by windows. Above the door, is a triangular Tympanum. On the Upper Level, is a large central window with a Balcony, and two smaller windows to the sides. The façade is crowned by a Double Tympanum. Fuga also reconstructed the Dome. The Church was re-dedicated in 1748.
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, writer and archæologist, who died in 1795, was buried in the Chapel of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. In 1990, the Church was granted to Opus Dei, and is now part of their Pontifical Institute of Saint Apollinaris.
In the same year, the notorious gangster Enrico De Pedis, boss of the so-called Banda della Magliana, was buried in the Church’s Crypt, by authorisation of Cardinal Ugo Poletti.
Pope Benedict XIV (1740 - 1758) commissioned Ferdinando Fuga to rebuild the Church of Saint Apollinaris in 1742.
The Church is Listed, in the Catalogue of Turin, as a Papal Chapel, with eight Clerics. In 1574, it was granted to the Jesuits by Pope Gregory XIII, and it was used as the Church of the next-door Collegium Germanicum in the Palazzo di Sant’Apollinare (now owned by the Roman Seminary), which was later united with the Hungarian College to form the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum.
This remained a Jesuit institution until the Suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, when this Church passed to the Lazarists.
Pope Pius XI (1922 - 1939).
Who, in 1934, raised Santa Francesca Romana
to the Title of Lenten Stational Church.
Photo: 1930.
Source: Pope Pius XI.
Author:
Politisch Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, 1932.
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English: The Church of Saint Francesca Romana.
Italiano: Chiesa di Santa Francesca Romana, vista dall’area archeologica del Foro Romano, presso l’arco di Tito.
Photo: May 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: MM
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In 1742, Pope Benedict XIV commissioned Ferdinando Fuga to rebuild Saint Apollinaris. Fuga added a new façade in the Late-16th-Century-Style, with Baroque elements. It has two Storeys, with Ionic Columns in the Lower Storey and Corinthian Columns in the Upper Storey.
The Lower Level has a Central Doorway, flanked by windows. Above the door, is a triangular Tympanum. On the Upper Level, is a large central window with a Balcony, and two smaller windows to the sides. The façade is crowned by a Double Tympanum. Fuga also reconstructed the Dome. The Church was re-dedicated in 1748.
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, writer and archæologist, who died in 1795, was buried in the Chapel of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. In 1990, the Church was granted to Opus Dei, and is now part of their Pontifical Institute of Saint Apollinaris.
In the same year, the notorious gangster Enrico De Pedis, boss of the so-called Banda della Magliana, was buried in the Church’s Crypt, by authorisation of Cardinal Ugo Poletti.
The unusual interment has been linked to the case of Emanuela Orlandi’s kidnapping and the tomb was opened for investigation in 2012.
Pope Benedict XIV.
Artist: Pierre Subleyras (1699 - 1749).
Current location: Palace of Versailles, Paris.
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Pope Benedict XIV (1740 - 1758) commissioned Ferdinando Fuga to rebuild the Church of Saint Apollinaris in 1742.
When Elected Pope, in 1740, the Conclave that Elected him had lasted for six months, He is reported to have said to the Cardinals: “If you wish to Elect a Saint, choose Gotti; a Statesman, Aldrovandi; an honest man, me”.
The Church has a single Nave. Along the side are Pilasters with Corinthian Capitals holding the Arches to the Side Chapels. In the Barrel-Vaulted Ceiling, is a fresco of the Glory of Saint Apollinaris, by Stefano Pozzi.
The High Altar was made on the orders of Pope Benedict XIV, with stucco decorations by Bernardino Ludovisi and an Early-17th-Century Altarpiece depicting Saint Apollinaris’ Consecration as Bishop of Ravenna. The Crypt contains Relics.
The elliptical Chapel of Graces, which is outside the Church proper, is accessed through a doorway on the Left. It contains a 1494 fresco of The Virgin, Queen of Apostles, which survived the Sack of Rome, because the Priests covered it with lime. It was then rediscovered in 1645, when two boys and a Soldier took refuge in the Church during an earthquake. A Marble Frame with Golden Stucco Cherubs was added by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt.
The Church has a single Nave. Along the side are Pilasters with Corinthian Capitals holding the Arches to the Side Chapels. In the Barrel-Vaulted Ceiling, is a fresco of the Glory of Saint Apollinaris, by Stefano Pozzi.
The High Altar was made on the orders of Pope Benedict XIV, with stucco decorations by Bernardino Ludovisi and an Early-17th-Century Altarpiece depicting Saint Apollinaris’ Consecration as Bishop of Ravenna. The Crypt contains Relics.
The elliptical Chapel of Graces, which is outside the Church proper, is accessed through a doorway on the Left. It contains a 1494 fresco of The Virgin, Queen of Apostles, which survived the Sack of Rome, because the Priests covered it with lime. It was then rediscovered in 1645, when two boys and a Soldier took refuge in the Church during an earthquake. A Marble Frame with Golden Stucco Cherubs was added by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt.
Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
Baguio, Philippines.
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Wells Cathedral.
Photo: August 2006.
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Thursday In Passion Week. Violet Vestments.
Text from The Liturgical Year.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 6,
Passiontide and Holy Week.
The Station at Rome is in the Church of Saint Apollinaris, who was a disciple of Saint Peter and, afterwards, Bishop of Ravenna and a Martyr.
In today’s Epistle (Daniel the Prophet, Chapter 3), we hear that Juda, when captive in Babylon, did pour forth her Prayers to God, by the mouth of Azarias.
Sion was desolate beyond measure; her people were in exile; her Solemnities were hushed. Her children were to continue in a strange land for seventy years; after which, God would be mindful of them, and lead them, by the hand of Cyrus, back to Jerusalem, when the building of the second Temple would begin; that Temple that was to receive the Messias within its walls.
What crime had Juda committed, that she should be thus severely punished ? The daughter of Sion had fallen into idolatry; she had broken the sacred engagements which made her the bride of her God.
Her crime, however, was expiated by these seventy years of captivity; and when she returned to the land of her fathers, she never relapsed into the worship of false gods.
When the Son of God came to dwell in her, He found her innocent of idolatry. But, scarcely had forty years elapsed after the Ascension of this Divine Redeemer, than Juda was again an exile; not, indeed, led captive into Babylon, but dispersed in every nation under the Sun, after having first seen the massacre of thousands of her children.
This time, it is not merely for seventy years, but for eighteen Centuries, that she is without Prince, or Leader, or Prophet, or Holocaust, or Sacrifice, or Temple.
Her new crime must be greater than idolatry; for, after all these long ages of suffering and humiliation, the justice of The Father is not appeased !
It is, because the Blood that was shed by the Jewish people on Calvary was not the blood of a man — it was the Blood of a God.
The very sight of the chastisement inflicted on the murderers proclaims to the World that they were deicides. Their crime was an unparalleled one; its punishment is to be so, too; it is to last till the end of time, when God, for the sake of Abraham, His beloved, and Isaac, His servant, and Jacob, His holy one, will visit Juda with an extraordinary Grace, and her conversion will console the Church, whose affliction is then to be great by reason of the apostasy of many of her children.
This spectacle of a whole people bearing on itself the curse of God for having crucified The Son of God, should make a Christian tremble for himself.
It teaches him that Divine Justice is terrible, and that The Father demands an account of The Blood of His Son, even to the last drop, from those that shed it.
Let us lose no time, but go at once, and, in this precious Blood, cleanse ourselves from the share we have had in the sin of the Jews; and, throwing off the chains of iniquity, let us imitate those among them whom we see, from time to time, separating themselves from their people and returning to the Messias.
Let us, also, be converts, and turn to that Jesus, Whose Hands are stretched out on The Cross, ever ready to receive the humble penitent.
25 March, 2026
Lay Movement Launches International Campaign For “Total Freedom Of The Traditional Liturgy”.
Illustration: EP.
This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
EDWARD PENTIN
Being a Catholic in 2024 is no easy endeavour. The West is undergoing a massive de-Christianisation, so much so that Catholicism appears to be vanishing from the public sphere.
EDWARD PENTIN
Being a Catholic in 2024 is no easy endeavour. The West is undergoing a massive de-Christianisation, so much so that Catholicism appears to be vanishing from the public sphere.
Elsewhere, the number of Christians being persecuted for their Faith is on the rise. What’s more, The Church has been struck by an internal crisis that manifests itself in a decline in Religious practice, a downswing in Priestly and Religious vocations, a decrease in Sacramental practice, and even a growing dissension between Priests, Bishops and Cardinals which, until very recently, was utterly unthinkable.
Yet, among all the things that can contribute to the internal revival of The Church and to the renewal of her missionary zeal, there is, above all, the worthy and reverent Celebration of her Liturgy, which can be greatly fostered thanks to the example and the presence of the Traditional Roman Liturgy.
Despite all the attempts that have been made to suppress it, especially during the present Pontificate, it lives on, continuing to spread and to sanctify the Christian people who are Blessed to be able to benefit from it.
It bears abundant fruits of piety, as well as an increase of vocations and of conversions. It attracts young people and is the fount of many flourishing works, especially in schools, and is accompanied by a solid catechesis.
No-one can deny that it is a vector for the preservation and transmission of The Faith and Religious practice in the midst of a waning of Religious belief and a dwindling number of believers.
This Mass, due to its venerable antiquity, can boast of having sanctified countless Souls over the Centuries. Among other vital forces still active in The Church, this form of Liturgical life stands out because of the stability given to it by an uninterrupted “Lex Orandi”.
Certainly, some places of Worship have been granted, or rather tolerated, where this Liturgy can be Celebrated, but too often what has been given by one hand is taken back by the other, without, however, ever managing to make it vanish.
Since the massive decline during the period immediately following the Second Vatican Council, every attempt has been made on numerous occasions to revive Religious practice, to increase the number of Priestly and Religious vocations, and to preserve The Faith of the Christian people.
Certainly, some places of Worship have been granted, or rather tolerated, where this Liturgy can be Celebrated, but too often what has been given by one hand is taken back by the other, without, however, ever managing to make it vanish.
Since the massive decline during the period immediately following the Second Vatican Council, every attempt has been made on numerous occasions to revive Religious practice, to increase the number of Priestly and Religious vocations, and to preserve The Faith of the Christian people.
Everything, except letting the people experience the Traditional Liturgy, by giving the Tridentine Liturgy a fair chance. Today, however, common sense urgently demands that all the vital forces in The Church be allowed to live and prosper, and in particular the one which enjoys a Right dating back to over a millennium.
Let there be no mistake: The present appeal is not a petition to obtain a new tolerance as in 1984 and 1988, nor even a restoration of the status granted in 2007 by the Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, which, recognising in principle a Right, has in fact been reduced to a regime of meagrely-granted permissions.
As Lay People, it is not for us to pass judgement on the Second Vatican Council, its continuity or discontinuity with the previous teaching of The Church, the merits, or not, of the reforms that resulted from it, and so on.
Let there be no mistake: The present appeal is not a petition to obtain a new tolerance as in 1984 and 1988, nor even a restoration of the status granted in 2007 by the Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, which, recognising in principle a Right, has in fact been reduced to a regime of meagrely-granted permissions.
As Lay People, it is not for us to pass judgement on the Second Vatican Council, its continuity or discontinuity with the previous teaching of The Church, the merits, or not, of the reforms that resulted from it, and so on.
On the other hand, it is necessary to defend and transmit the means that Providence has employed to enable a growing number of Catholics to preserve The Faith, to grow in it, or to discover it.
The Traditional Liturgy plays an essential role in this process, thanks to its transcendence, its beauty, its timelessness and its doctrinal certainty.
For this reason, we simply ask, for the sake of the true freedom of the children of God in The Church, that the full freedom of the Traditional Liturgy, with the free use of all its Liturgical Books, be granted, so that, without hindrance, in the Latin Rite, all The Faithful may benefit from it and all Clerics may Celebrate it.
Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Managing Director of Renaissance Catholique, Paris, France.
22 April 2024.
For this reason, we simply ask, for the sake of the true freedom of the children of God in The Church, that the full freedom of the Traditional Liturgy, with the free use of all its Liturgical Books, be granted, so that, without hindrance, in the Latin Rite, all The Faithful may benefit from it and all Clerics may Celebrate it.
Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Managing Director of Renaissance Catholique, Paris, France.
22 April 2024.
This appeal is not a petition to be signed, but a message to be disseminated, possibly to be taken up again in any form that may seem appropriate, and to be brought and explained to the Cardinals, Bishops, and Prelates, of The Universal Church.
Si Renaissance catholique a l’initiative de cette campagne, c’est uniquement pour se faire l’interprète d’un large désir en ce sens qui se manifeste dans l’ensemble du monde catholique. Cette campagne n’est pas la sienne, mais celle de tous ceux qui y participeront, la relayeront, l’amplifieront, chacun à leur manière.
Renaissance Catholique is a Paris-based movement of Lay People working to re-establish the social reign of Christ.
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