The Way Of The Cross. The Second 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,

unless stated otherwise.

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 Second Station.

Jesus Receives The Cross.

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

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

Priest.

A heavy Cross is laid upon the bruised shoulders of Jesus. He receives it with meekness, nay, with a secret joy, for it is the instrument with which He is to redeem the world.

Prayer.

O, Jesus. Grant us, by virtue of Thy Cross, to embrace with meekness and cheerful submission the difficulties of our state, and to be ever ready to take up our Cross and follow 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:

Cujus ánimam geméntem,

Contristátam, et doléntem,

Pertransívit gládius.

Response:

Sancta Mater, istud agas,

Crucifíxi fige plagas,

Cordi meo válide.

Proceed to The Third Station.

And The Winner Of The Christmas Photo Competition Is . . .

The Skipper of this superb Yacht in Ramsgate Royal Harbour, Kent, wished to enter this belated Christmas photo into Zephyrinus’s recent photo competition.

It’s won !!!

The Skipper and his crew now receive 

a wooden box of Kippers and a Cask of Kentish Ale.

The Tallis Scholars Sing “The Gloria” And “The Credo” From John Taverner’s “Missa Corona Spinea” (The Crown Of Thorns Mass). Director Of Music: Peter Phillips. When You Get To Heaven, You Can Hear This Again.

The Tallis Scholars sing “The Gloria” from John Taverner’s “Missa Corona Spinea” (Crown of Thorns Mass).

Director of Music: Peter Phillips.

Available on YouTube

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The Tallis Scholars sing “The Credo” from John Taverner’s “Missa Corona Spinea” (Crown of Thorns Mass).

Director of Music: Peter Phillips.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The Magnificent 15th-Century Church Of Saint Andrew, Harberton, Devon.

 

The glorious 16th-Century Rood Screen,

Saint Andrew’s Church, Harberton, Devon.

Text and Illustrations: DEVON CHURCH LAND

HERE

The Great East Window in the Chancel.

There is a little microcosm of history around beautifully-towered Harberton Church, with its be-lichened Grey Slate Walls and White Limestone edgings, all to do with . . .

Church Ales were quite a thing back in the day, the 15th- and 16th-Centuries to be exact, and folk built special Church Houses for them, near the Church of course. Harberton Church House still stands, and is now a Pub, reasonably enough.

Church Ales were not just Church Ales, they were festivals of food, sport, music and pageants, and they were not just that either; they raised money for the Parish and the Church (the two pretty much the same), to be spent mainly on the Poor and the Needy, as well as the the actual structure.

Stained-Glass Window of Saint Rose of Lima.

Church of Saint Andrew, Harberton, Devon.

And so to Peru, which is not a phrase normally associated with Devon Parish Churches, but here  we have Saint Rose of Lima, born in 1586 as Isabel Flores d’Olivia, but taking the name “Rose” at her Confirmation.

It is a lovely depiction, especially that head-dress of Roses, 

and was installed soon after 1901 by Sir Robert Harvey as a memorial to his Peruvian wife, who tragically died at the 

age of forty-two.

But the Post-Reformation Religious dudes banned Church Ales, for various reasons, some reasonable and some just plain mean, and when Walter Wotton and Henry Somaston were having a legal barney about a right-of-way running from Harberton down to the Dart Estuary, it culminated in

Lawsuit Number Three, in 1606 . . .

In which Walter was accused of supporting 

an illegal Church Ale.

So, basically, he promised to organise an illegal “rave”, 

with “Cosplay” [Editor: to dress as, and pretend to be, characters from a play, etc].

We do not know the end of Wally’s and Henry’s feud, we do know that there is now a Lane from Harberton Parish to the River Dart, and we also know that Wally’s Church is a “Bonzer Beaut” [Editor: Australian slang for something rather good], with a 14th-Century Chancel, 15th-Century Nave and Aisles, and 16th-Century Tower and Porch.

And is not this Porch a lovely one ? A good Beer Stone-Carved Doorway, nice Window in the Parvise (second floor), 

and those lovely Pinnacles.

The Stonework is a delight, too, for us 21st-Century heathens, Late-Mediæval folk would have looked at it in horror 

and demanded to know who had stripped off 

the Plaster and Lime Wash.

There was an earlier Church or Chapel here for sure; 

records confirm it for the 12th-Century. How much 

further back we know not.

Victorian Angels on the Rood Screen door.

Stained-Glass Window showing Christ with children.

And here, as part of the mourning for Tito, who died aged ten [Editor: Tito was the son of Sir Robert Harvey and his Peruvian wife, Isabel], is a wonderful Clayton and Bell Stained-Glass Window showing Christ welcoming the children, a radical move in Christ’s time, when children, loved as they were, were hardly seen as individuals in their own right, and, as for the 19th-Century . . .

Well, there had been a constant struggle to get children treated with love and respect during the 19th-Century; these windows placed in Churches, along with the teachings of the new breed of Priests, surely helped to see children as having rights and needs of their own.

“Adiemus”. Sung By: Angel City Chorale.

“Adiemus”.

Sung by: Angel City Chorale.

Available on YouTube

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

Durham Cathedral.

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Hereford Cathedral.

Built between 1079 and 1530, with a 19th-Century Great West Front, Hereford Cathedral has a Norman Nave and large Central Tower. Other important features being the unusual style of the North Transept and the North Porch, also of the 13th-Century, but greatly extended in the 16th-Century. Its Early-English Lady Chapel is considered “one of the most beautiful of the 13th-Century”.[4][10][14]

Fan-Vaulted Ceiling in Hereford Cathedral.

Photo: 3 January 2008.

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Author: Mattana

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Lichfield Cathedral.

Although dating from 1195 to about 1400, Lichfield Cathedral has an interior which presents a harmonious appearance, much of which is due to its having undergone extensive restoration and refurnishing in the 19th-Century. 

The Nave is very fine and The Lady Chapel is Apsidal with very tall windows, giving a rather French impression. Lichfield is the only one of the English Cathedrals to have retained three Spires, as distinct from having three Towers.[4][5]

Lincoln Cathedral.

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Lincoln Cathedral.

Dating from 1074 to 1548, Lincoln Cathedral is one of the largest of England’s Cathedrals, and it has been claimed by John Ruskin that, architecturally, it is worth any two of the others put together. 

Edward Freeman described it as “one of the loveliest of human works”.[15] It retains portions of the three massive Arches of the Norman Great West Front and much heavily-restored sculpture around the Central Portal. 

The Central Tower is the tallest in England and is visible for many miles as it rises in spectacular fashion from a high hill. The decagonal Chapter House with its huge Flying Buttresses is the first polygonal Chapter House in England. 

11th-Century South Transept in Hereford Cathedral.

Photo: 3 January 2008.

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Of the Interior, the finest part is considered to be the Late-13th-Century “Angel Choir” with “gorgeous layers of Tracery”[6] and enriched with carved angels.

The Transepts have two Rose Windows; the “Dean’s Eye”, 

on the North side, dating from circa 1200 and retaining its original Stained-Glass, while the Flowing Decorated “Bishop’s Eye”, on the South side, is filled with salvaged Mediæval fragments.[4][10]

PART TWENTY FOLLOWS.

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Thursday After Ash Wednesday. Lenten Station At Saint George’s Basilica (San Giorgio-in-Velabro). Violet Vestments.

Peterborough Cathedral.

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Thursday after Ash Wednesday.

Station at Saint George’s (San Giorgio-in-Velabro).

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro is a Minor Basilica

Church in Rome, dedicated to Saint George.

Photo: April 2006.

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This Station is, since the time of Pope Gregory II (7th-Century A.D.), at Saint George’s-in-Velabro. This Church is in the district called The Velabrum, or Velum aureum, on account of a Relic kept in a Golden Veil.

Saint George’s is one of the twenty-five Parishes of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D., where, under The High Altar, is kept the Head of this Christian warrior, a victim of The Persecution of the Emperor Diocletian, and called by the Greeks “The Great Martyr”.

The Liturgy of today inculcates in us the spirit of Prayer, which forms part of The Forty Days’ Penance. It was by Prayer that Ezechias obtained a prolongation of his life (Epistle of today) and the Centurion the healing of his servant (Gospel), and it is by Prayer that we shall obtain from God the strength to mortify ourselves, in order that we may gain the pardon of our sins, and, with it, the healing of our Souls and Life Eternal.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro.

Photo: August 2012.

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The Gospel, in former times, reminded the Catechumens that, through Baptism, they were about to enter The Kingdom of Heaven.

Remember that, if sin offends God and draws upon us the scourge of His Righteous Anger, Penance, on the contrary, appeases Him and procures for us the effects of His Mercy (Collects).

Mass: Dum clamárem.

Preface: For Lent.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro.

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San Giorgio-in-Velabro is a Minor Basilica Church in Rome, devoted to Saint George.

The Church is located in the ancient Roman Velabrum, near the Arch of Janus, in the rione of Ripa. Sited near the River Tiber, it is within a complex of Republican-era pagan temples associated with the Port of Rome. The ancient Arcus Argentariorum is attached to the side of the Church’s façade.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro is the Station Church for the First Thursday in Lent.

The first religious building attested, in the place of the current Basilica, is a Diaconia, funded by Pope Gregory the Great.

The High Altar,

San Giorgio-in-Velabro.

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The current Basilica was built during the 7th-Century A.D., possibly by Pope Leo II, who Dedicated it to Saint Sebastian. 

A 482 word-inscription in the catacombs of Saint Callixtus probably refers to a Church in the same zone.

Its plan is irregular, indeed slightly trapezoidal, as a result of the frequent additions to the building. The Interior Columns are almost randomly arranged, having been taken from sundry Roman temples.

The Basilica was inside the Greek Quarter of Rome, where Greek-speaking merchants, civil and military officers, and Monks, of the Byzantine Empire lived — the nearby Santa Maria-in-Cosmedin, for example, was known as Schola Græca at the time. Pope Zachary (741 A.D. - 752 A.D.), who was of Greek origin, moved the Relic of Saint George to this Basilica from Cappadocia, so that this Saint had a Basilica Dedicated in the West, well before the spreading of his devotion associated with the return of The Crusaders from the East.

After a restoration by Pope Gregory IV (9th-Century A.D.), the Basilica received the addition of the Portico and the Bell-Tower in the first half of the 13th-Century. The Apsis was decorated with frescoes by Pietro Cavallini in the 13th-Century.

San Giorgio al Velabro e Arco di Giano

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Between 1923 and 1926, the Superintendent of Monuments of Rome, Antonio Muñoz, completed a more radical restoration programme, with the aim of restoring the building’s “Mediæval character” and freeing it from later additions.

This was done by returning the floor to its original level (and so exposing the Column bases), re-opening the ancient windows that gave light to the Central Nave, restoring the Apsis, and generally removing numerous accretions from the other most recent restorations.

During this process, fragments (now displayed on the Basilica’s internal walls) were found, indicating a schola cantorum on the site, attributed to Pope Gregory IV.

The building, as we see it today, is largely a product of the 1920s’ restoration. However, five years’ further restoration followed the explosion of a car bomb, parked close to the Basilica’s facade, at midnight on 27 July 1993.

That explosion caused no fatalities but left the 12th-Century Portico almost totally collapsed and blew a large opening into the wall of the main Basilica, as well as doing serious damage to the residence of The Generalate of The Crosiers (Canons Regular of The Order of The Holy Cross), next door.

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage researched and catalogued what was damaged or destroyed, placing the fragments in 1050 crates, with dates and locational references, before restoring the building with them, although some details, particularly in the Portico, were deliberately left un-restored as a memorial to the bombing.

Gianfranco Ravasi is, since November 2010, Cardinal-Deacon of the Church. Among the previous Titulars are: Oddone Colonna, who later became Pope Martin V; Raffaele Riario; Giacomo Stefaneschi; and John Henry Newman. Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler was Titular of San Giorgio, as a Cardinal Priest, until his death in 2007.

Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,

Baguio, Philippines.

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Wells Cathedral.

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