Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica Of The Nativity Of Saint Mary, Milan. Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana Di Santi Maria Nascente, Milano. (Part Eleven).

English: Milan Cathedral.

Italiano: Milano - Duomo.

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Duomo of Milan.

The Church That Took 600 Years To Finish.

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Milan Cathedral.

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“The rest of the architecture, among which this curious Flamboyant Style is set, is a Perpendicular Style with horizontal bars across: And, with the most detestable Crocketing, utterly vile. Not a ray of invention in a single form . . . Finally, the Statues are of the worst possible common Stonemasons’ yard species, and look pinned on for show.

“The only redeeming character about the whole, being the frequent use of the sharp gable . . . which gives lightness, and the crowding of the spiry Pinnacles into the sky.” (Notebooks[M.6L]). 

The plastered Ceiling, painted to imitate elaborate tracery carved in stone, particularly aroused his contempt as a “gross degradation”.[19]

While appreciating the force of Ruskin’s criticisms, Henry James was more appreciative: “A structure not supremely interesting, not logical, not commandingly beautiful, but grandly curious and superbly rich. If it had no other distinction, it would still have that of impressive, immeasurable achievement . . . a supreme embodiment of vigorous effort.”[20]

The Web-Site of Milan Cathedral can be found

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THIS CONCLUDES THE ARTICLE ON MILAN CATHEDRAL.

“Not Everyone . . .”

The Feast Day Of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Feast Day 1 July. Red Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Feast Of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
   1 July.

Double of The First Class.

Red Vestments.

The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Artist: René de Cramer.

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The Feast Of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord.

Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church,

Flint, Michigan, United States of America.

Available on YouTube

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A High Mass, in Celebration of The Feast of The Most Precious Blood of Our Lord, was Celebrated on Sunday, 1 July 2018, at Saint Matthew's Catholic Church, which has a Mass every Sunday at 3:00 P.M. Saint Matthew's Church Web-Site can be found at CATHOLIC WEB-SITE

The Liturgy, that admirable summary of The History of The Church, reminds us every Year, that, at this date in 1849, thanks to The French Army, the Revolution which had driven the Pope from Rome was vanquished.

To perpetuate the memory of this triumph, and to show that it was due to The Saviour's Merits, Blessed Pope Pius IX, at the time a refugee at Gaeta, Italy, instituted The Feast of The Precious Blood.

Pope Pius XI, in 1934, raised this Feast to the Rank of Double of the First Class.

The Antiphon

at The Magnificat for Second Vespers on

The Feast of The Most Precious Blood 

of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Habebitis autem*

hunc diem in monumentum:

Et celebrabitis eum solemnem

Domino in generationibus

vestris cultu sempiterno.

Ye shall observe this day for a Memorial:

And ye shall keep it Holy unto The Lord,

Throughout your generations

With an everlasting Worship.

[Exodus, Chapter xii, Verse 14]

The Heart of Jesus has made this adorable Blood circulate in His limbs; wherefore, as on the Feast of The Sacred Heart, the Gospel presents to our view the thrust of the lance which pierced the side of The Divine Crucified, Blood and Water gushing forth. [The Office of Matins speaks of the Blood, which Jesus shed at the Circumcision, in the Garden of Olives, the Flagellation, the Crowning of Thorns and on the Cross.]

Thus become united the two testimonies which The Holy Ghost bore to The Messias, when He was Baptised in the Waters of The River Jordan and when He was Baptised in Blood on the Cross (Gradual). [“The Docetes” taught that Jesus was The Christ at His Baptism, and had thus come by Water, but being no longer Christ on the Cross, He had not come by Blood.]

Let us do homage to The Precious Blood of Our Redeemer, which the Priest offers to God on the Altar.

Mass: Redemísti nos.
Commemoration: Octave Day of Saint John (at Low Masses).
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.

Holy Mass Of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 July 2022. Church Of Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile, Paris, France. Red Vestments.

English: Holy Mass of The Most Precious Blood

of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Church of Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile, France.

Feast Day 1 July 2022, 1800 hrs (GMT).

Français: Sainte messe de la fête du Précieux Sang.

Paroisse Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

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The Booklet for this Divine Mass can be found

HERE

The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Artist: René de Cramer.

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The Feast Of The Most Precious Blood. 1 July. Red Vestments.

Text from SOCIETY OF ST. BEDE - LITURGICAL RESOURCES

Web-Site HERE

From the Roman Antiphonale 1912, Pro aliq. locis.

This Feast is now Celebrated on 1 July.

It is also Celebrated on the Friday after the 4th Sunday of Lent in certain places as one of the Feasts of the Instruments of the Passion.

From The Liturgical Year:

“John the Baptist has pointed out The Lamb, Peter has firmly fixed His Throne, Paul has prepared the Bride; this, their joint work, admirable in its unity, at once suggests the reason for their Feasts occurring almost simultaneously on the Cycle.

“The alliance being now secured, all three fall into shade; whilst the Bride herself, raised up by them to such lofty heights, appears alone before us, holding in her hands the Sacred Cup of the nuptial-feast.

“Nor must we omit to mention here, that this Feast is a monument of one of the most brilliant victories of Holy Church, in our own age. 

“Pope Pius IX [Editor: Blessed Pio Nono] had been driven from Rome in 1848, by the triumphant revolution; but the following year, just about this very season, his power was re-established.

“Under the ægis of the Apostles on 28 June and the two following days, the eldest daughter of The Church, faithful to her past glories, swept the ramparts of the Eternal City; and, on 2 July, Mary’s festival, the victory was completed.

“Not long after this, a twofold decree notified to the City and to the World the Pontiff’s gratitude and the way in which he intended to perpetuate, in the Sacred Liturgy, the memory of these events.

“On 10 August, from Gaeta, itself, the place of his exile in the evil day, Pope Pius IX, before returning to re-assume the government of his States [Editor: “The Papal States”], addressing himself to the invisible Head of The Church, confided her in a special manner to His Divine Care, by the institution of this day’s Festival; reminding Him that it was for His Church that He vouchsafed to shed all His Precious Blood.

“Then, when the Pontiff re-entered his Capital, turning to Mary, just as Pius V and Pius VII had done under other circumstances, he, the Vicar of Christ, solemnly attributed the honour of the recent victory to Her, who is ever “The Help of Christians”, for on the Feast of Her Visitation it had been gained.

“And he now decreed that this said Feast of 2 July should be raised from the Rite of Double-Major to that of Second-Class throughout the whole World.

“This was but a prelude to the definition of the Dogma of The Immaculate Conception, which the immortal Pontiff had already in project, whereby the crushing of the serpent’s head would be completed.”

The Litany Of The Most Precious Blood. Feast Day Of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ On 1 July.

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

THE MISSIVE

The Litany Of The Most Precious Blood.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us. 

Christ, hear us.

Christ, graciously hear us.

God, the Father of Heaven,

have mercy on us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world,

have mercy on us.

God, the Holy Spirit,

have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, One God,

have mercy on us.

Blood of Christ,

only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

Incarnate Word of God,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

of the New and Eternal Testament,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

falling upon the Earth in the Agony,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

shed profusely in the Scourging,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

flowing forth in the Crowning with Thorns,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

poured out on The Cross,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

price of our salvation,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

without which there is no forgiveness,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

Eucharistic drink and refreshment of Souls,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

stream of mercy,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

victor over demons,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

courage of Martyrs,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

strength of Confessors,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

bringing forth Virgins,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

help of those in peril,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

relief of the burdened,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

solace in sorrow,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

hope of the penitent,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

consolation of the dying,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

peace and tenderness of hearts,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

pledge of Eternal Life,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

freeing Souls from Purgatory,

save us.

Blood of Christ,

most worthy of all Glory and Honour,

save us.

Lamb of God,

Who takest away the sins of the World,

Spare us, O Lord. 

Lamb of God,

Who takest away the sins of the World,

Graciously hear us, O Lord.

Lamb of God,

Who takest away the sins of the World,

Have mercy on us.

V. Thou hast redeemed us,

O Lord, in Thy Blood.

R. And made us, for our God, a kingdom.

Let us Pray:

Almighty and Eternal God, Thou hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son The Redeemer of the World and willed to be appeased by His Blood. Grant, we beg of Thee, that we may worthily Adore this price

of our salvation and, through its power,

be safeguarded from the evils of the

present life, so that we may rejoice in

its fruits forever in Heaven.

Through the same Christ our Lord.

Amen.

“By Their Actions, They Will Be Known”.

Absurd Victorian Occupations.

Commemoration Of Saint Paul. Apostle. 30 June. Red Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Commemoration of Saint Paul.

   Apostle.

   30 June.

Greater-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Paul.

Artist: Bartolomeo Montagna (1450–1523).

Date: 1482.

Current location: Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.

Source/Photographer: 

EwEzl9zb0cohpg at Google Cultural Institute

Author: Bartolomeo Montagna (1450–1523).

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Saint Paul.

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“The Tiber, on entering Rome,” writes an ancient poet, “salutes the Basilica of Saint Peter and, on leaving it, that of Saint Paul. The Heavenly Door-Keeper has built His Sacred abode at the Gates of The Eternal City, which is an image of Heaven. On the opposite side, the ramparts of the City are protected by Paul’s Portico: Rome is between the two.”

With Peter, the new Moses, leader of the new Israel, is associated Paul, the new Aaron, more eloquent than the first, chosen in his mother’s womb to announce to the Gentiles the riches of the Grace of Christ (Collect, Gradual, Epistle).

Mass: Scio cui.
Commemoration: Saint Peter.
Commemoration: Saint John the Baptist.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Apostles.

English: Conversion of Saul on the way to Damascus.

Polski: Nawrócenie w drodze do Damaszku.

Artist: Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Date: Circa 1600.

Current location: 

Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.

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Paul the Apostle, commonly known as Saint Paul, and also known by his Hebrew name, Saul of Tarsus (Hebrew: שאול התרסי)‎, was an Apostle (although not one of The Twelve Apostles) who taught The Gospel of Christ to The First-Century A.D. World.

Paul is generally considered to be one of the most important figures of The Apostolic Age and, from the Mid-30s A.D. to the Mid-50s A.D., he founded several Christian Communities in Asia Minor and Europe. He took advantage of his status as both a Jew and a Roman citizen, to minister to both Jewish and Roman audiences.

According to The New Testament Book “Acts of The Apostles” (often simply called “Acts”), Paul persecuted some of the Early Disciples of Jesus, possibly Hellenised Diaspora Jews converted to Christianity, in the area of Jerusalem prior to his conversion [Note 1].

In the narrative of Acts, Paul was travelling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to “arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem”, when the Resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light. He was struck blind, but, after three days, his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus, and Paul began to Preach that Jesus of Nazareth is The Jewish Messiah and The Son of God [Acts 9:20–21]. Approximately half of “Acts of The Apostles” deals with Paul’s Life and Works.

Thirteen of the twenty-seven Books in The New Testament have Traditionally been attributed to Paul. Seven of The Pauline Epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder.

Pauline authorship of The Epistle to The Hebrews is not asserted in The Epistle, itself, and was already doubted in the 2nd- and 3rd-Centuries A.D. [Note 2]. It was almost unquestioningly accepted from the 5th-Century A.D. to the 16th-Centuries that Paul was the author of Hebrews, but that view is now almost universally rejected by scholars.

The other six of The Pauline Epistles are believed by some scholars to have come from followers of Paul, writing in his name, using material from Paul’s surviving Letters and Letters written by him that no longer survive [Note 3]. Other scholars argue that the idea of a pseudonymous author for the disputed Epistles raises many problems.

Today, Paul’s Epistles continue to be vital roots of the Theology, Worship, and Pastoral Life, in the Latin and Protestant Traditions of The West, as well as the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Traditions of The East.

Paul’s influence on Christian thought and practice has been characterised as being as “profound, as it is pervasive”, among that of many other Apostles and Missionaries involved in the spread of the Christian Faith.

The Holy Apostles Peter And Paul. Feast Day, Today, 29 June. Red Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
   Feast Day 29 June.

Double of The First-Class
   with a Common Octave.

Red Vestments.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Illustration: CATHOLICTRADITION.ORG

Liturgy for the Catechumens: 

No. 1, Initial Blessing and Litany.

The Russian Patriarchate Choir: Anatoly Grindenko.

Divine Liturgy: Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Available on YouTube

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Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Artist: El Greco (1541–1614).

Current location: Hermitage Museum, 

Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Source/Photographer; Hermitage Torrent

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Today, the whole Church rejoices, for "God has Consecrated this day by the Martyrdom of The Apostles Peter and Paul" (Collect). In both the Grand Basilicas erected at Rome over the tombs "of these two Princes, who, by The Cross and The Sword, have obtained their seat in The Eternal Senate," [Hymn at Vespers] this double Martyrdom was Celebrated.

Later, on account of the distance which separates the two Churches, the Festival was divided, Saint Peter being more specially honoured on 29 June and Saint Paul on 30 June.

Saint Peter, Bishop of Rome, is the Vicar, that is to say the visible representative of Christ. As is shown in the Preface, Alleluia, Gospel, Offertory and Communion, the Jews had rejected Jesus. They also rejected His successor (Epistle). Displacing the religious centre of the World, Saint Peter then left Jerusalem for Rome, which became The Eternal City and The Seat of The Popes.

Liturgy for the Catechumens: No. 5,

"One and Only Son" (Hymn).

The Russian Patriarchate Choir: Anatoly Grindenko.

Divine Liturgy: Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Available on YouTube

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Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Artist: René de Cramer.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Liturgy for The Catechumens: No. 9.

Troparion of The Dedication of the Church 

of The Resurrection of Christ.

Mode 4.

The Russian Patriarchate Choir: Anatoly Grindenko.

Divine Liturgy: Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Available on YouTube

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Saint Peter, the first Pope, speaks in the name of Christ, Who has communicated to him His Doctrine of Infallibility. He is not guided by flesh and blood, but by the Heavenly Father, Who does not permit The Gates of Hell to prevail against The Church of which he is the foundation (Gospel).

Saint Peter, on receiving The Keys, is placed at the head of the “Kingdom of Heaven” upon Earth, that is to say The Church, and he reigns in the name of Christ, Who has invested him with His Power and Supreme Authority (Gospel).

The names of Saint Peter and Saint Paul head the names of The Apostles in The Canon of The Mass (First List).

With "The Church, which did not cease Praying to God for Saint Peter" (Epistle), let us Pray for his successor “the Servant of God, our Holy Father the Pope” (Canon of The Mass).

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

Mass: Nunc scio.
The Creed is said throughout the Octave.
The Preface of The Apostles is said throughout the Octave.

The Imperial Abbey Of Zwiefalten.

English: Zwiefalten Abbey.

Deutsche: Zwiefalten: Ehemalige Benedektinerabtei, Das Innere des MünstersFresken von Franz Joseph Spiegler, 

Stuck von Johann Michael Feuchtmayer d. J.

Photo: March 2003.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andreas Praefcke.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Minster of Our Lady, Zwiefalten, Germany.

Deutsch: Münster Unserer Lieben Frau in der Benediktinerabtei Zwiefalten.

Photo: 13 August 2021.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dionysos1970.

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English: The Minster of Our Lady, Zwiefalten, Germany.

Deutsch: Münster Unserer Lieben Frau in Zwiefalten, 

Baden-Württemberg.

Photo: 6 February 2020.

Source: Own work.

Author: Olga Ernst.

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unless otherwise stated.

Zwiefalten Abbey (German: Kloster Zwiefalten, Abtei Zwiefalten, or, after 1750, Reichsabtei Zwiefalten) is a former Benedictine Monastery situated at Zwiefalten, near Reutlingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Zwiefalten is on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. The Monastery was Founded in 1089 at the time of the Investiture Controversy by Counts Gero and Kuno of Achalm, advised by Bishop Adalbero of Würzburg and Abbot William of Hirsau.

Side Chapels, Zwiefalten Abbey.

Photo: 10 June 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gregor Kollmorgen.

NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

The first Monks were also from Hirsau Abbey, home of the Hirsau Reforms (under the influence of the Cluniac Reforms), which strongly influenced the new foundation. Noker von Zwiefalten was the first Abbot from 1065 – 1090. Zwiefalten adopted the “Hirsau Reforms” of Abbot William of Hirsau.[1]

Starting around 1100, Zweifalten was, for a time, a Double-Abbey. Gertrude (☩ 1160), daughter of Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland, was a Nun at Zweifalten. Her mother, Salomea of Berg, was a generous patron.[2]

Zwiefalten Abbey,

Baden Württemberg, Germany.

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The Monk, Ortlieb, wrote a history of the Monastery in the Early-12th-Century. Berthold continued it to 1137–1138.[3]

During the 12th-Century, Saint Ernest (☩ 1148)[4] was Abbot. Between 1145 and 1149, he participated in The Second Crusade to regain The Holy Land.[5]

The Pulpit, Zwiefalten Abbey.

Photo: 10 June 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gregor Kollmorgen.

NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

Although Pope Urban VI granted special privileges to it, Zwiefalten Abbey was nevertheless the private Monastery of the Counts of Achalm, later succeeded by the Counts of Württemberg. The Abbey was plundered in 1525 during the German Peasants' War.

Christoph Rassler was Abbot from 1658–1675 and Augustin Stegmüller was Abbot in the 18th-Century. In 1739, work commenced on the Abbey, which continued by Johann Michael Fischer until 1765. It is considered a model of integrated Baroque design. Frescoes in the Church by Franz Joseph Spiegler are considered his best work.[6]

The High Altar in Zwiefalten Münster, combining

a Gothic statue of Mary (1430) with Baroque additions 

by Joseph Christian, circa 1750.

Photo: 3 June 1990.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rebecca Kennison

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 1750, the Abbey was granted the status of Reichsabtei, which meant that it had the status of an Independent Power, subject only to the Imperial Crown, and was free of the rule of Württemberg.

Benedictine Ernest Weinrauch was a highly-respected Organ player and Contrapuntist, who composed an Oratorio at Zwiefalten.

This Confessional in Zwiefalten Abbey, Germany, 

must be the most beautiful Confessional in the World.

Go to Confession in luxury and style !!!

Photo: 10 June 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gregor Kollmorgen.

NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

On 25 November 1802, however, it was secularised and dissolved, and became a lunatic asylum and, later, psychiatric hospital, which it is today, as well as the site of the Württemberg Psychiatry Museum.

The present buildings were constructed in German Baroque Style from 1739 – 1747 under the direction of Johann Michael Fischer (1692 – 1766) of Munich, who began overseeing the work in 1741.

The Nave, Zwiefalten Abbey.

Photo: 10 June 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gregor Kollmorgen.

NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

The Interior, considered a model of Baroque design, is filled with ornate Chapels and gilded Balustrades, dominated by The High Altar, which combines a Gothic statue of The Virgin Mary, dating from 1430, with Baroque additions (dating from about 1750) by Johann Joseph Christian (1706 – 1777). The elaborate frescoes are by Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691 – 1757).[7]

Zwiefalten Abbey.

Photo: March 2003.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andreas Praefcke.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Imperial Abbey of Zwiefalten.

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