ZEPHYRINUS.

12 June, 2026

Solemn Mass Within The Octave Of Corpus Christi. Saint Mary’s Church, Norwalk, Connecticut. Fr. Falciano’s First Mass In His Former Parish. White Vestments.

Fr. Joseph Marie Falciano, FSSP, Celebrated

a Traditional Solemn Mass recently at

Saint Mary’s Church, Norwalk, Connecticut.

Ordained to the Priesthood on 28 May 2026,

Fr. Falciano Celebrated his First Mass in his former Parish.

After Mass, he offered his First Blessing to each of the Faithful.

Many more beautiful photos of this First Mass are available at

THE SOCIETY OF SAINT HUGH OF CLUNY

This Mass and Sacred Music was sponsored by

The Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny.

Illustration: THE SOCIETY OF SAINT HUGH OF CLUNY

Saint John Of San Facondo (Saint John of Sahagún). Confessor. Feast Day 12 June. White Vestments.

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

Saint John Of San Facondo.
Confessor.
Feast Day 12 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint John of Sahagún (or San Facondo),
The Order of Saint Augustine (O.E.S.A.) (Spanish: Juan de Sahagún), (24 June 1419 – 11 June 1479) was a Spanish Augustinian Friar and Priest. He was a leading Preacher regarding social behavior of his day. He has been
declared a Saint by The Catholic Church.
Español: San Juan de Sahagún. Retablo cerámico
del siglo XVII, del convento de Santa María del Pópulo
de Sevilla, hoy en el Museo de Bellas Artes.
Source: www.retabloceramico.net/ articulo055.htm
Author: Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint John was born at San Facondo, Spain, and his youth was spent in a Benedictine Monastery. Favoured by The Holy Ghost with a marvellous gift for Peace-Making (Collect), from childhood he exhorted other children to concord.

During the Civil War, he preached Peace in Salamanca and succeeded in putting an end to factions there.

He distributed his rich revenues among the Poor (Epistle) and devoted his time to Works of Charity, to Prayer, and to the Contemplation of Divine Wisdom (Introit).

Saint John of San Facondo.
Confessor.
Available on YouTube
HERE

In order to be ready when The Master came to fetch him (Gospel), he entered The Order of Saint Augustine, where he was distinguished for his extraordinary devotion during Holy Mass. He died in 1479, crying out: “Lord, I place all my confidence in Thee at this last hour, and into Thy hands I commit my Soul.”

Let us ask The Holy Ghost, author of Peace and source of Divine Charity, to fill us with the love and spirit of Reconciliation, of which Saint John gave us the example, so that we may never be separated from Jesus (Collect).

Mass: Os Justi.
Commemoration: Saint Basilides and Companions.

Feast Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus. The Friday After The Octave Of Corpus Christi. White Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
or, where indicated, from
Abbot Guéranger's “The Liturgical Year”.

Feast of The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Friday after The Octave of Corpus Christi.

Double of The First Class
with Privileged Octave of The Third Order.

White Vestments.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus
with Saint Ignatius of Loyola
and Saint Louis Gonzaga (circa 1770).
Artist: José de Páez, Mexico, 1727-1790.
Source: http://arttattler.com/
archivelatinamerica.html
(Wikimedia Commons)

Annum Sacrum.

“Annum Sacrum” (meaning “Holy Year”) is an Encyclical by Pope Leo XIII on The Consecration of the entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was delivered in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome on 25 May 1899, the twenty-second year of his Pontificate.

The Consecration in the Encyclical entered new Theological territory by Consecrating non-Christians. The Encyclical, and the Consecration, were influenced by two Letters written to the Pope by Sister Mary of The Divine Heart, who stated that, in visions of Jesus Christ, she had been told to request the Consecration.

The Encyclical includes the Prayer of Consecration to The Sacred Heart, composed by Pope Leo XIII.

English: Coat-of-Arms of Pope Leo XIII.
Français: Armoiries du pape Léon XIII : D'azur au cyprès de sinople planté sur une plaine de même accompagné au francs quartier d'une comête d'or et en pointe de deux flaurs de lys d'argent, à la fasce d'argent brochant sur le tout.
Date: 11 August 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Odejea
(Wikimedia Commons)

Protestantism, in the 16th-Century, and Jansenism, in the 17th-Century, had attempted to spoil one of the essential Dogmas of Christianity, namely, the love of God for all men.

It became necessary that the Spirit of Love, which directs The Church, should, by some new means, counteract the spreading heresy, in order that The Spouse of Christ, far from seeing her love for Jesus diminish, should feel it always increasing.

This was made manifest in Catholic Worship, which is the sure rule of our Faith, by the institution of The Feast of The Sacred Heart.

Yet, in Early-Middle-Ages, The Doctors of The Church, and The Saints, used to see, in The Wound of Jesus's Side, The Source of All Graces. Saint Bonaventure invites us "to enter this Wound and to dwell in the quiet of this Heart" (Third Nocturn).

English: Saint John Eudes, 1673.
Nederlands: Portret Jean Eudes ca. 1673 -
publiek domein, ouderdom.
Source: Transferred from nl.wikipedia
Author: Original uploader was
Besednjak at nl.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)

Jean Eudes (14 November 1601 - 19 August 1680) was a French Missionary, Founder of The Congregation of Jesus and Mary and of The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of The Refuge, and author of The Propers for Mass and The Divine Office of The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

The two Benedictine Virgins, Saint Gertrude and Saint Mechtilde, in the 13th-Century, had a clear vision of the grandeur of the devotion to The Sacred Heart. Saint John the Evangelist, appearing to Saint Gertrude, announced to her that "the meaning of the blessed beating of The Heart of Jesus, which he had heard whilst his head rested on His breast, was reserved for the latter times, when the World, grown old and cold in Divine Love, would require to have its fervour renewed by means of this Mystery of Burning Love".

English: Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
contemplating The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Italiano: Santa Margherita Maria Alacoque
Contempla il Sacro Cuore di Gesù.
Polski: Św. Małgorzata Maria Alacoque
adoruje Najświętsze Serce Jezusa.
Artist: Giaquito Corrado.
Date: 1765.
Source: Lib-Art.com
(Wikimedia Commons)

This Heart, say these two Saints, is an Altar on which Christ offers Himself to The Father as a perfect and most acceptable victim. It is a golden censer from which rise, towards The Father, as many clouds of incense as there are kinds of men for whom Christ suffered.

In this Heart, the praise and thanks we give to God and all our good works are ennobled and become acceptable to The Father.

But, in order to make this Worship public and recognised, Providence first raised up Saint John Eudes, who, in 1670, composed an Office and a Mass of The Sacred Heart for the so-called Congregation of The Eudists.

Providence then chose one of the spiritual daughters of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Margaret-Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus showed His Heart at Paray-le-Monial, on 16 June 1675, The Sunday after Corpus Christi, and asked her to institute a Feast of The Sacred Heart on The Friday following The Octave of Corpus Christi.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus, (Sacro cuore di Jesu),
painting on the Altar in the Northern Side Chapel of
Il Gesu, in Rome, circa 1767, by Pompeo Batoni.
Source: http://www.enid.uib.no/texts/achen_l.htm
(Wikimedia Commons)

Lastly, God employed, for the propagation of this Devotion, Blessed Claude de la Colombiere. He belonged to The Company of Jesus, "the whole of which inherited his zeal in the propagation of the Devotion to The Sacred Heart" [the quoted portion is from Dom Guéranger's "The Liturgical Year, Volume 10, Book 1: The Feast of The Sacred Heart"].

[Dom Guéranger writes, in the above tome, on The Feast of The Sacred Heart of Jesus: “A new ray of light shines today in the Heaven of Holy Church, and its light brings warmth. The Divine Master given to us by our Redeemer, that is, the Paraclete Spirit, who has come into this world, continues His teachings to us in the Sacred Liturgy. The earliest of these, His Divine Teachings, was the Mystery of the Trinity; and we have worshipped the Blessed Three: We have been taught Whom God is, we know Him in His own nature, we have been admitted, by Faith, into the sanctuary of the infinite Essence.

Image of Prosper Guéranger
by Claude-Ferdinand Gaillard (1874).
Date: 2007-05-07 (original upload date).
Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia

Author: Original uploader was

Ikanreed at en.wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

“Then, this Spirit, the mighty wind of Pentecost, opened to our Souls new aspects of the truth, which it is His mission to make the World remember; and His revelation left us prostrate before The Sacred Host, The Memorial which God, Himself, has left us of all His wonderful works.

“Today, It is The Sacred Heart of The Word Made Flesh that this Holy Spirit puts before us, that we may know and love and adore It.”]

In 1765, Pope Clement XIII, gave his approbation to The Feast and The Office of The Sacred Heart, and, in 1856, Blessed Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono), extended it to The Universal Church. In 1929, Pope Pius XI composed a new Mass and Office for this Feast and gave it a Privileged Octave of The Third Order.

The Solemnity of The Sacred Heart sums up all the phases of The Life of Jesus, recalled in The Liturgy from Advent to The Feast of Corpus Christi.

It constitutes an admirable Triptych, giving us, in abridgement, all The Mysteries (Joyous, Sorrowful and Glorious) of The Saviour's Life devoted to The Love of God and Men. This Feast is, indeed, placed on a height from which may be contemplated the redeeming labours of The Saviour on Earth and The Glorious Victories He will, by the working of The Holy Ghost, achieve in Souls until the end of the World.

Pope Leo XIII in 1880.
Source: 1880 book on Pope Leo XIII.
Author: Karl Benzinger.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Pope Leo XIII wrote the Encyclical “Annum Sacrum” on the Consecration of the entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was delivered in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome on 25 May 1899.

Coming after the Feasts of Christ, this Feast completes them, concentrating them in one object, which is materially Jesus’s Heart of Flesh, and formally the unbounded charity symbolised by this Heart. This Solemnity, therefore, does not relate to a particular Mystery of The Saviour’s Life, but embraces them all; indeed, the Devotion to The Sacred Heart Celebrates all the favours we have received from Divine Charity during the year (Collect), and all the marvellous things that Jesus has done for us (Introit, Tract, Alleluia).

It is the Feast of the Love of God for Men, a love which has made Jesus come down on Earth for all by His Incarnation (Epistle), which has raised Him on The Cross for the Redemption of all and which brings Him down every day on our Altars by Transubstantiation, in order to make us benefit by the merits of His Death on Calvary.

English: Mary of The Divine Heart.
Deutsch: Schwester Maria Droste zu Vischering.
Español: Beata María del Divino Corazón.
Portrait of Blessed Sister Mary of The Divine Heart,
Countess of Droste zu Vischering,
Mother Superior, The Good Shepherd Convent,
Porto, Portugal.
Date: Circa 1890.
Source: KIRCHENSITE.DE
Author: Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Blessed Mary of The Divine Heart (1863 - 1899).

Born Maria Droste zu Vischering, she was a German Roman Catholic Nun, who was best known for influencing Pope Leo XIII’s Consecration of the World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Pope Leo XIII called this Consecration “the greatest act of my Pontificate”.

These three Mysteries, which manifest to us The Divine Charity in a more special way, sum up the spirit of the Feast of The Sacred Heart. It is “His love which forced Him to put on a mortal body” (Hymn at Matins).

It is His love which willed that The Sacred Heart should be pierced on The Cross (Gospel and Communion), in order that, from the wound, should flow a spring (Preface) we might draw from, joyfully (Versicle at Second Vespers), Whose Water cleanses us from our sins in Baptism and Whose Blood nourishes our Souls in The Eucharist.

And, as The Eucharist is the continuation of The Incarnation and The Sacrifice of Calvary, Jesus asked that the Feast should be placed immediately after the Octave of Corpus Christi.

As these manifestations of Christ’s Love only show the more the ingratitude of men, who only answer by coldness and indifference (Offertory), this Solemnity has a character of reparation (Collect) demanded of us by the Wounded Heart of Jesus and by His Immolation in the Crib, on The Cross and on the Altar.

Let us learn from the Heart of Jesus, Whose gentle and humble Love turns no-one away, and in it we shall find rest for our Souls (Alleluia).

The King Of Love Made Himself

The Victim of His Own Sacrifice.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is arrayed in

Sacerdotal Vestments because, in The Mystery of The Incarnation, He was anointed Priest by the anointing of The Divinity, Itself. He is, therefore, The Pontiff, The Mediator, between God and man, The King of All Hearts.

Of this, the Centurion bears witness, who exclaims: "He is really The Son of God." The Sacred Heart of Jesus is represented on His Cross, for it is out of love for us that He made Himself The Victim of His Sacrifice.

He is, thereby, our Deliverer, our King of Love by right of conquest. Of this, Mary Magdalen and Longinus bear witness, holding in their hands The Nails, which attached Christ to The Cross, The Chalice of The Blood, which He shed, and The Spear, with which His Heart was pierced.

Therefore, raised as on a Throne, covered with The Purple of His Blood, He is Crowned as Pontiff, as well as Victim, with a Diadem of The Royalty of Love, by which He reigns over all men and He holds out His Arms to draw them to Him, and to offer them to God in union with His Sacrifice.

Illustration: CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

11 June, 2026

Saint William (☩ 8 June 1154). Archbishop Of York (Twice). Confessor. Feast Day 8 June. White Vestments. A Tale Of Mayhem, Political Intrigue, Suspicion Of Murder, Plotting, Envy, Hate. Good Job We Don't Have That Now. (Part Seven).

Mediæval carved plaque showing Saint William of York crossing the River Ouse. The Bridge collapses, but no-one dies.
Photo: 20 February 2010.
Source:
Originally posted to Flickr as
Saved from the Ouse.
This File is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution
2.0 Generic Licence.
Author: Katy Stuart.
(Wikimedia Commons)

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

It remained as a functional Chapel until 1550. The Chapel was removed during the renovation of the Bridge between 1810 and 1818.[30]

The earliest Shrine to Saint William in York Minster dates to the 1220s, in which William’s Sarcophagus was buried ten inches (twenty-five centimetres) into the floor and a Shrine structure erected above it — this left the lid of the Sarcophagus proud of the structure to be accessible to Pilgrims.

In 1284, Bishop Bek paid for the Translation of William’s body to a new Shrine in the Choir behind the High Altar: No trace of the Shrine has been recorded.[31]

Saint William of York:

Crafting a Legacy.

Available on YouTube

HERE

A Tomb Shrine was built around 1330 on the site of William’s original burial place in the Eastern-most Bay of the Nave.

The latest, principal, Shrine, located near the Minster’s High Altar, was built in 1471 — 1472.[32]

There is no evidence of large scale Pilgrimage to William’s Shrines.[32] However, numerous Panels from the Stained-Glass Windows in the Minster depict Petitioners and Worshippers at the Shrines.[33]

The upper face of William’s Sarcophagus has been worn smooth, probably from the hands of Pilgrims touching it.[31]

In 1541, the Privy Council ordered the demolishing of all of the Shrines in York Diocese. William’s Shrines were taken apart and buried at Precentor's Court.

Fragments of the Shrines were discovered during the 18th-Century and onwards. The Sarcophagus containing William’s remains was rediscovered in 1732 and again in 1968.[32]

His remains are now held in a Shrine in the Crypt of York Minster.[34] Parts of the Shrines are in the Yorkshire Museum.[35]

During celebrations of the 800th Anniversary of William’s Canonisation in 2026, these Shrine pieces were put on display at York Minster alongside a digital recreation of the Shrine.[36]

This concludes the Article on Saint William of York.

The Octave Day Of Corpus Christi.

Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 10.
Time After Pentecost.
Book 1.

Christum regem adoremus dominantem gentibus, qui se manducantibus dat spiritus pinguedinem.

Let us adore Christ, The King, Who ruleth the Nations; Who giveth fatness of spirit to them that eat Him.

The bright Octave, Consecrated to the glory of The Blessed Sacrament, closes today, and, although we began the subject three days before the Feast, itself, we have been able to do little more than slightly touch upon the sublime subject proposed for our consideration and love by The Church.

The Memorial left us by Our Lord of all His wondrous mercies [Psalm cx. 4] far exceeds the measure of our poor thoughts, and the capabilities of human language; such is the extremity of the infinite love, which God bears to His own creatures, that no possibility of ours could make it a return such as it deserves.

Eternal Wisdom was, even from His Father’s bosom, betrothed to human nature. He came down into this world, which sin had marred, and there He found man, who had become the slave of sin.

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Saint Barnabas. Apostle. Feast Day 11 June. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Barnabas.
Apostle.
Feast Day 11 June.

Greater-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Barnabas healing The Sick.
Artist: Paolo Veronese (1528–1588).
Date: Circa 1566.
Current location:
Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, France.
Source/Photographer:
Oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church, Founded by Jesus and filled with The Holy Ghost at Pentecost, was to spread throughout the World. When Saint Paul, after his long Retreat in Arabia, came to Jerusalem for the first time after his Conversion, and wished to submit to the approval of Saint Peter the Mission to The Gentiles, committed to him by The Master Himself, it was Saint Barnabas who presented him to The Apostles.

“A good man and full of zeal of The Holy Ghost” (Epistle), Saint Barnabas evangelised, during twelve years, with Saint Paul, the pagans in the island of Cyprus and in a great number of Towns and Countries (Gradual).

Wherefore, The Church honours him as an Apostle and The Liturgy applies to him The Words of Jesus announcing to The Twelve that, having been established as Princes over the whole Earth (Offertory), they would be seated on Thrones to judge The Twelve Tribes of Israel (Communion).

Having separated from Saint Paul, he returned to Cyprus, where the Jews of Salamis plotted against him. Remembering then The Words of The Master, Who sent His Apostles like sheep in the midst of wolves (Gospel), he said to The Faithful: "The wolf only attacks the shepherd first, to throw himself next upon the flock. Be firm in The Faith." The Holy Ghost dictated to him the words he had to say to the Jews (Gospel): But they stoned him as a blasphemer.

He was buried with The Gospel of Saint Matthew, which he had copied with his own hand. His name is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, immediately after that of Saint Matthias (Second List).

[In the "Communicantes", there figures eleven of The Apostles chosen by Our Lord Himself, and Saint Paul, whom The Church does not separate from Saint Peter.

[Saint Matthias and Saint Barnabas are mentioned at the “Nobis quoque peccatoribus”, because they were called to The Apostleship after The Death of The Saviour.

[There are then, altogether, fourteen Apostles mentioned in the two places [Editor: Communicantes and Nobis quoque peccatoribus], just as, during The Liturgical Year, there are Feasts of fourteen Apostles.]

Let us imitate the Apostolic Spirit of Saint Barnabas, whose Soul was all inflamed with The Holy Ghost.

Mass (In Paschaltide): Protexísti.

Mass (Out of Paschaltide): Mihi autem.

Creed: Is said.

Preface: Of The Apostles.

SUB UMBRA ALARUM SUARUM
has a worthy tribute to Saint Barnabas. It is highly recommended to Readers to pop over and see.

10 June, 2026

The Divine Praises.

The Divine Praises.

Available on YouTube

HERE

London Bus Routes 213 and 293. Free Rides On Heritage Buses. Saturday, 13 June 2026.

Preserved TD at Worcester Park © David Bowker.

Ride
on Heritage Buses on London Bus Route 213
between Kingston and Sutton ~ 13 June 2026 !!!

All Illustrations, unless stated otherwise:
THE LONDON BUS MUSEUM

Bus Route 213 has been running between Kingston and Sutton since 1921 – that’s 105 years – serving Norbiton Station, Coombe Lane, Traps Lane, New Malden, Worcester Park, North Cheam and Cheam .

On Saturday, 13 June 2026, between 1000 hrs and 1700 hrs, the London Bus Museum will be running
Heritage Buses, dating from the 1950s to 1970s,
alongside the normal Daily Service, on Route 213.

Open-Platform Buses with Conductors will run
between Kingston and Sutton Garage. Buses serve all
Route 213 Bus Stops — no need to book, just turn up at
a Route 213 Bus Stop and put out your hand !!!

Buses being used will mostly be the iconic
Routemaster, dating from the Late-1950s and 1960s,
and their predecessor, the RT-type, which, in the 1950s,
formed the largest standardised Bus Fleet in the World, together with some special Buses.

Some Buses are from the Museum’s collection,
other Buses are provided by their owners.

And it’s all

Please Note: All these Buses pre-date the low-floor,
easy access Buses that we take for granted today,
and there are steps at the entrance and inside.

Most modern buggies cannot be carried, as they are too large to fit under the stairs; nor can wheelchairs be accommodated.

However Conductors will make every effort to help the less able and those with small children to enjoy a ride back in time.

Well-behaved dogs are welcome, but are carried
at the conductor’s discretion, and must be on a lead
and not occupy seats.

LONDON BUS MUSEUM
Web-Site can be accessed
HERE