ZEPHYRINUS.

01 March, 2026

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

“O, Beloved Wood”.

“O, Blessed Nails”.

“O, Sweet Burden”.

Illustration: PINTEREST

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 Twelfth Station.

Jesus Dies Upon The Cross.

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

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

Priest.

For three hours has Jesus hung upon His transfixed hands; His blood has run in streams down His body, and bedewed the ground.

And, in the midst of excruciating sufferings, He has pardoned His murderers, promised the bliss of Paradise to the good thief, and committed His Blessed Mother and beloved disciple to each other's care.

All is now consummated.

And, meekly bowing down His head, He gives up the ghost.

Prayer.

O, Jesus ! We devoutly embrace that honoured Cross where Thou didst love us even unto death. In that death, we place all our confidence.

Henceforth, let us live only for Thee; and, in dying for Thee, let us die loving Thee, and in Thy sacred arms.

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:

Tui nati vulneráti,

Tam dignáti pro me pati,

Poenas mecum dívide.

Response:

Sancta Mater, istud agas,

Crucifíxi fige plagas,

Cordi meo válide.

Proceed to The Thirteenth Station.

The Second Sunday In Lent. Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Mary’s-In-Dominica. Violet Vestments.

Peterborough Cathedral.
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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

The Second Sunday in Lent.

Station at Saint Mary’s-in-Dominica.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Privilege of The First-Class.

Violet Vestments.

“This is My Beloved Son . . . hear ye Him”.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.

English: Basilica of Saint Mary’s-in-Dominica, Rome.
Français: Basilique Santa Maria-in-Domnica.
Photo: May 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: LPLT
(Wikimedia Commons)

The Station at Rome is in the Church of Saint Mary’s-in-Dominica, because, in former times, the Christians gathered there on Sundays in The House of The Lord (Dominicum). It is said to have been here that Saint Laurence distributed the goods of The Church to The Poor. It is one of the twenty-five 5th-Century A.D. Parishes of Rome.

Just as on Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays, the subject matter of The Divine Office forms the texture of The Masses for The Second, Third and Fourth Sundays of Lent, in such a way, that past ages still carry on their work of illustrating The Paschal Mystery and so preparing us for it. And, indeed, Our Lord's ancestors, according to the flesh, are types of both Him and His Church.

Today, in The Breviary, we read of The Patriarch, Jacob, model of the most complete trust in God in the midst of all adversities. The Holy Scriptures often call Jehovah The God of Jacob, or Israel, when He is referred to as The Protector of His people. In the Introit, we say “O God of Israel, deliver us from all our tribulations”.

It is, then, to The God of Jacob, The God of those who serve Him, that The Church addresses herself, today. In the Introit, we read that he who puts his trust in God will never be ashamed. In the Collect, we ask Almighty God to keep us, both inwardly and outwardly, that we may be preserved from all adversities.

English: Basilica of Saint Mary’s-in-Dominica, Rome.
Italiano: Roma - Chiesa di S. Maria-in-Domnica.
Photo: October 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: MarkusMark
(Wikimedia Commons)

In the Gradual and Tract, we beseech Our Lord that He will deliver us from our troubles and adversities and “visit us with His Salvation”. The life of The Patriarch, Jacob, could not be summed up in a better way; he whom God always helped in the midst of his trouble and, in whom, as Saint Ambrose says, “we must acknowledge singular courage and great patience in labours and trials”.

Jacob was chosen by Almighty God to be the heir of His Promises, just as, formerly, He had selected Isaac, Abraham, Sem and Noah. The name “Jacob” really means “Supplanter”, and he fulfilled the meaning of his name when he bought the first birthright of his brother, Esau, from him for a mess of pottage, and obtained, by a trick, that Blessing of the elder son which his father meant to give to Esau. His father, Isaac (whose sight was impaired), Blessed, indeed, his younger son, Jacob, after having touched his hands, which Rebecca (Jacob’s mother) had covered with goatskins. Isaac said to Jacob: “Let peoples serve thee . . . and be thou Lord of thy Brethren”.

Further, when Jacob had to flee, to escape Esau’s vengeance, he saw, in a dream, a ladder, reaching to Heaven, upon which the Angels ascended and descended. At the head of the ladder was The Lord, Who told him: “In thee and thy seed, all the Nations of the Earth shall be Blessed. And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.”

After twenty years, Jacob returned to his own land; then an Angel wrestled with him all night, without overpowering him, and, in the morning, told him: “Thy name shall not be called “Jacob”, but “Israel”; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shall thou prevail against men ?” Jacob gained his brother’s confidence and they were reconciled.

Santa Maria-in-Domnica, Rome.
A product of the Carolingian Renaissance of the Mid-9th-Century A.D., this mosaic was sponsored by Pope Paschal II, who can be seen kneeling before The Virgin.
Photo: February 2006.
Source: apse mosaic, s. maria in domnica
Author: Anthony M. from Rome.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Every feature of the history of this Patriarch is typical of Christ and The Church in The Paschal Mystery. Saint Augustine writes: “The Blessing, which Isaac gave Jacob, has a symbolic meaning in which the goatskins represent sins, while Jacob, clothed in these skins, is the figure of Him, Who, having no sins of His own, bore those of others.” In somewhat the same way, a Bishop uses Gloves at a Pontifical Mass and says, in effect, that Jesus was offered for us in the likeness of the flesh of sin.

Saint Leo, in his exposition, says: “That for the Restoration of the human race, His Unchangeable Divinity stooped to take the form of a slave and that this is why Our Lord promised, in formal and precise terms, that some of His Disciples should not “taste of death till they see The Son of Man coming in His Kingdom,” that is, in the Royal Glory which belongs spiritually to His adopted human nature, a Glory which The Lord willed to reveal to His three Disciples; since “although they were aware of The Divine Majesty, which lay hidden within Him, they were ignorant of the possibilities of the very Body which clothed The Divinity” ”.

Again, on the Holy Mountain, where Our Lord was Transfigured, a voice was heard saying: “This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased. Hear ye Him.” So, God The Father Blesses His Son, clothed with our sinful flesh, as Isaac Blessed Jacob, clothed with the goatskins, which Blessing given to Christ is given also to the Gentiles, just as Jacob was Blessed in preference to his elder brother.

When the Bishop puts on his Pontifical Gloves, he addresses the following Prayer to Almighty God: “Encompass my hands, O God, with the purity of the New Man come down from Heaven, that, as Jacob, who had covered himself with goatskins, obtained his father’s Blessing, having offered him meats and good wine, so also may I, offering to Thee The Victim of Salvation at my hands, obtain the Blessing of Thy Grace. Through Our Lord.”

It is in Christ that we are Blessed by The Father. He is our elder brother and our Head. To Him must we listen, for He has chosen us for His people. “We Pray and beseech you in The Lord Jesus,” says Saint Paul, “that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. For you know what precepts I have given you by The Lord Jesus . . . For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto Sanctification in Christ Jesus Our Lord” (Epistle).

English: Saint Mary’s-in-Dominica, Rome.
Italiano: Roma, Santa Maria in Domnica: soffitto.
Photo: September 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)

In Saint John’s Gospel, Our Lord applies the vision of Jacob’s ladder to Himself, to show that in the midst of the persecutions, of which He was the object, He was constantly under the protection of Almighty God and His Angels. So, Saint Hippolytus says: “As Esau planned his brother’s death, so the Jews plotted against Christ and The Church. Jacob must needs fly into a far Country; in the same way, Christ, thrust out by the unbelief of His own Nation, had to depart into Galilee, where The Church, sprung from the Race of Gentiles, is given to Him as His Spouse.” Moreover, at the end of time, these two peoples will be reconciled, as were Esau and Jacob.

Today’s Mass, then, taken in connection with The Breviary Lessons for this week, acquires its full sense and helps us to understand the true meaning for us of The Paschal Mystery which we are about to Celebrate. Jacob beheld The God of Glory; The Apostles saw Jesus Transfigured; soon, The Church will show us The Risen Saviour.

Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Reminíscere miseratiónum.
Preface: Of Lent.

Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
Baguio, Philippines.
Photo: 29 March 2024.
Source: Own work.
This file is made available under the
Creative Commons CC0 1.0
Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Author: Galaxiaria
(Wikimedia Commons)

Wells Cathedral.
Photo: August 2006.
Source: Own work.
This file is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-
Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
Author: Steinsky
(Wikimedia Commons)

Wells Cathedral (Part Fifteen).

The Great West Front,
Wells Cathedral.
Photo: 30 April 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

Many of the figures survive and many have been identified in the light of their various attributes. There is a hierarchy of size, with the more significant figures larger and enthroned in their Niches rather than standing.[109]

Immediately beneath the upper course are a series of small Niches containing dynamic sculptures of the dead coming forth from their tombs on the Day of Judgement.

The Niches in the lowest zone of the Gable contain nine Angels, of which Cockerell identifies Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel.[111]

The Great Organ, Wells Cathedral.
Toccata from Suite, Op.5.
Composer: Maurice Duruflé.
Played by: Jeremy Cole,
Director of Music, Wells Cathedral.
Available on YouTube
HERE

In the next zone, are the taller figures of the twelve Apostles, some, such as John, Andrew, and Bartholomew, clearly identifiable by the attributes that they carry.[112]

The uppermost Niches of the Gable contain the figure of Christ the Judge at the centre, with The Virgin Mary on his Right and John the Baptist on his Left.

The figures all suffered from iconoclasm.[112] A new statue of Jesus was carved for the Central Niche, but the two Side Niches now contain Cherubim. Christ and The Virgin Mary are also represented by now headless figures in a Coronation of The Virgin in a Niche above the Central Portal. A damaged figure of The Virgin and Christ Child occupies a Quatrefoil in the Spandrel of the door.[113]

The stairs leading from the North Transept
of Wells Cathedral to the Chapter House.
Photo: 9 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)

PART SIXTEEN FOLLOWS.

“The Most Beautiful Thing This Side Of Heaven” (Fr. Faber). Watch The Daily Mass In The Divine Latin Form From Saint Mary's, Warrington, England.

Watch the Daily Latin Mass at

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New Book By Dr. Joseph Shaw: An Irrefutable Apologia For The Traditional Liturgy.

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

This Article is a reprint from 2023.

“The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity” is available either directly from Os Justi Press (shipping within the USA) or from any Amazon outlet around the world.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,

RORATE CAELI

In a time like ours, when ignorance, half-truths, and outright lies, seem to dominate the airwaves, classrooms, halls of power, and even church pulpits, Catholics need access to the unvarnished truth of the Faith as it powerfully confronts the errors and mis-directions of the modern age. But where are we to find such help ?

Dr. Joseph Shaw, president of the International Federation Una Voce and Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, has distinguished himself as one of the finest writers today on a host of difficult and controversial questions.

Os Justi Press is pleased to announce the release of Dr. Shaw’s latest book: The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity.

The book divides into three parts, as suggested by the title.

The first part examines the place of the ancient Catholic liturgy in modernity, defending it, against the misunderstandings of modernists, as something supremely suited to engage our deepest instincts towards the worship of God.

Chapter One tells what Shaw discovered about The Church along the path of discovering the ancient Roman rite;

Chapter Two looks at the purpose of liturgy;

Chapter Three gives an account of the history of liturgy, explaining how it is conceptually and practically possible for a heritage to be both received as a “changeless given” and also enhanced and developed over time;

Chapter Four develops the role of Latin in fostering participation (yes, you read that correctly !);

Chapters Five and Six delve into the ways in which rituality, contrary to a standard narrative, is a cause of freedom rather than of confinement.

The second part turns to the aftermath of The Second Vatican Council and addresses a series of lines of attack on those Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass — notably the attempt to link them to the crisis of clerical abuse.

Here, Dr. Shaw fearlessly probes what Vatican II actually accomplished “on the ground”; the intimate link between orthodoxy in doctrine and tradition in liturgy (and the contrary); true and false notions of diversity; the Freudian origins of the discourse about the “rigidity” of conservatives or backwardists; the need to assess rightly the meaning of “clericalism” and how it relates to abuse; and the damage done by means of so-called “sex education,” which has been allowed to take over unresisted by the post-conciliar hierarchy.

In the third part, Dr. Shaw addresses one of the most contested issues of our times, sexuality and gender roles, and asks what, if anything, The Church can still say about them.

Partly agreeing with and partly correcting the theory of Leon Podles, Shaw explains the sense in which there has been a “feminisation” of Christianity — yet one that was to a large extent resisted in the Catholic Church by a patriarchal theology, liturgy, and structures until after the Council.

He offers what is certainly one of the best expositions of male headship, natural and supernatural, in any available literature, and offers a powerful critique of the sexual revolution as a betrayal of women.

Lastly, he looks at the family as the locus of culture and transmission of The Faith, especially in an era when the hierarchy have largely abandoned both.

Your gut feeling that something has gone badly wrong in The Catholic Church is, in fact, correct; your intuition that it has something to do with our divine worship is right on target; your instinct that the response must come from deep within the family and deep within our bi-millenial tradition is entirely accurate.

Dr. Shaw’s book explains just how all this is true; how we ought to evaluate the secularising path The Church has trodden in recent decades; and what we, who wish to live The Faith, can do, here and now, to restore a healthy and sacred culture.

“The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity” is available either directly from Os Justi Press (shipping within the USA) or from any Amazon outlet around the world.

Here is a video about this book:

“Restoration”:
Introducing Dr. Shaw’s Formidable New Book.
Available on YouTube
HERE

“Shaw doesn’t propose that we turn back the clock, but reveals a path ahead out of the current crisis through a mature dialectic with those modern ecclesiastical developments that allow for a recovery of the tradition that belongs to all Catholics by a claim of right.” — Dr. Sebastian Morello, “European Conservative”.

“I commend it very enthusiastically.” — Fr. John Hunwicke, “Mutual Enrichment” Blog.

“With this book, Joseph Shaw provides Traditionalist Catholics with an antidote to such madness when dealing with our own deepest concerns, showing how the problems of the liturgy, the family, and the crises brought about by Modernity’s Original Sins must be tackled as a unit, and with respect for historical mistakes.” — Dr. John Rao, “Roman Forum”.

“For after all these years, it is rare to find something as fresh, as thought-provoking, as original as the exploration of the crisis in these pages — one that marries acute, up-to-the-minute observation of unfolding secular trends with a striking inquest into the deep, underlying reasons for these trends (or rather tragedies).” — Roger Buck, author of “The Gentle Traditionalist”.

“These essays are marked not only by clarity of style and breadth of knowledge, but also by something even more welcome: Fresh thinking.” — Fr. Thomas Crean, author of “The Mass and The Saints”.

“Hapus Dydd Gwyl Dewi”. A Very Happy Saint David’s Day To All Readers. Feast Day 1 March.

The Welsh National Anthem.
Available on YouTube
HERE

The Welsh Dragon.

Flag of Wales.
Illustration: DINO

Paragraph from:

DAFFODIL CAPITAL OF WALES -

PRIFDDINAS CENNIN PEDR CYMRU

In Wales, the Daffodil is a symbol of the Patron Saint
of Wales, David (Welsh: Dewi Sant), and of rebirth and faithfulness, because they bloom every year,
even after the harshest Winters.
Illustration: PINTEREST

Welsh National Anthem.
Available on YouTube
HERE

And here . . .

“Mae hen wlad fy nhadau”
(Welsh National Anthem).
Available on YouTube
HERE

The Welsh National Anthem.

Available on YouTube
HERE

“Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”

is the Welsh National Anthem.

The tune and words were the work of
the father and son team of Evan James (1809 - 1878)
and James James (1833 - 1902).

Cymraeg:

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol ryfelwr, gwlad garwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.

Gwlad Gwlad,
Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
Tra mor yn fur i'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau

English:

Land of my Fathers, O land of the free,

A land of poets and minstrels, famed men.

Her brave warriors, patriots much blessed,
It was for freedom that they lost their blood.

Wales ! Wales !,
I am devoted to my Country.
So long as the sea is a wall to this fair beautiful land,
May the ancient language remain.

Cymraeg: Baner Dewi Sant

English: Flag of Saint David
Image: August 2006.
Source: Altered from Image:Flag of Cornwall.svg
Author: User:Stemonitis
(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint David’s Day.

Available on YouTube
HERE

Saint David’s Day is on 1 March. He brought Christianity to Wales in the 6th-Century A.D. Saint David (Dewi Sant) is the Patron Saint of Wales and 1 March is the Welsh National Day. This is an edited version of “Songs of Praise” from 2013. The final Hymn is sung by Rhys Meirion, in Welsh, accompanied by a Traditional Welsh Harp. The Welsh

name for the City of Saint David is Tyddewi.

Cymraeg: Darlun o Ddewi Sant ar ffenestr lliw yng

Nghapel Coleg yr Iesu, Rhydychen. 19eg ganrif hwyr.
English: Late-19th-Century Stained-Glass Window in
Jesus College Chapel, Oxford, depicting Saint David.
Photo: June 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Casper Gutman.
(Wikimedia Commons)