Holy Mass of Easter Saturday.
Saturday, 11 April 2026.
0830 hrs (London Time).
Sainte messe du Samedi de Pâques in Albis.
Samedi, 11 April 2026.
0930 hrs (Paris Time).
Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, Paris.
Available on YouTube
Mass Booklet is available
10 April, 2026
Most Wonderful Traditional Palm Sunday Songs. Just Like In Childhood . . . Die Wunderbarsten Traditionellen Lieder Zum Palmsonntag. Wie Früher In Der Kindheit . . .
Most Wonderful Traditional
Palm Sunday Songs.
Just Like In Childhood . . .
Die wunderbarsten traditionellen
Lieder zum Palmsonntag.
Wie früher in der Kindheit . . .
Available on YouTube
“Schindler’s List”. Composed By: John Williams. Played By: NL Orchestra. Simone Lamsma (Violin) And Davida Scheffers (Cor Anglais). “Lest We Forget”.
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Train tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest Concentration Camp, near Oświęcim, Poland.
Photo Credit: Dinos Michail—iStock Editorial/Getty Images
Illustration: BRITANNICA
“Schindler’s List”.
Composed By: John Williams.
Played By: NL Orchestra.
Simone Lamsma (Violin).
Davida Scheffers (Cor Anglais).
Available on YouTube
The Entrance Gate to Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
The wording above The Gate means: “Work Sets You Free”.
Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP.
Illustration: THE GUARDIAN
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Auschwitz Camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was a complex of over forty Concentration and Extermination Camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.
It consisted of:
Auschwitz I, the main Camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim;
Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a Concentration and Extermination Camp with Gas Chambers;
Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a Labour Camp for the Chemical Conglomerate, IG Farben;
and dozens of Sub-Camps.[3]
The Camps became a major site of the Nazis’ Final Solution to The Jewish Question.
After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an Army Barracks, into a Prisoner-of-War Camp for Polish Political Prisoners.[4]
Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and, from 1942 until Late-1944, Freight Trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its Gas Chambers.
Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million died. The Death Toll includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were Gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet Prisoners of War, and up to 15,000 other Europeans.[5]
Those not Gassed, died of Starvation, Exhaustion, Disease, Individual Executions, or Beatings. Others were killed during Medical Experiments.
At least 802 Prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and, on 7 October 1944, two Sonderkommando Units, consisting of Prisoners who staffed the Gas Chambers, launched an unsuccessful Uprising.
Only 789 staff (no more than fifteen per cent) ever stood trial;[6] several were Executed, including Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss.
The Allies’ failure to act on early reports of atrocities by bombing the Camp or its Railways remains controversial.
As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the War, the SS sent most of the Camp’s population West on a Death March to Camps inside Germany and Austria.
Soviet Troops entered The Camp on 27 January 1945, a day Commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the War, the SS sent most of the Camp’s population West on a Death March to Camps inside Germany and Austria.
Soviet Troops entered The Camp on 27 January 1945, a day Commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In the decades after the War, survivors, such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel, wrote Memoirs of their experiences, and the Camp became a dominant symbol of The Holocaust.
In 1947, Poland Founded The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, and, in 1979, Auschwitz was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
“Schindler’s List” is a 1993 American epic historical drama film, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.
It is based on the 1982 historical fiction novel “Schindler's Ark”, by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
Schindler sees a girl in Red
during the Liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto.
The Red Coat is one of the few instances of colour
used in this predominantly Black and White film.
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The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who, together with his wife, Emilie Schindler, saved more than a thousand, mostly Polish-Jewish, refugees from The Holocaust, by employing them in his factories during World War II.
It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
A Little Levity To Lighten Your Day: “So, That’s A No, Sir, Is It ?”
“ So, That’s A “No”, Sir, Is It ? ”
Easter Friday. The Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Mary-Of-The-Martyrs (The Pantheon). White Vestments.
The Pantheon is a Roman Catholic Church,
Dedicated to “Saint Mary of The Martyrs”,
informally known as “Santa Maria della Rotonda”.
Photo: January 2007.
Vatican Museum photo by: Roberta Dragan.
User: Droberta
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Easter Friday.
Station at Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs (The Pantheon).
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Easter Friday.
Station at Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs (The Pantheon).
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
After bringing her Neophytes together on successive days at Saint John Lateran, Saint Mary Major, Saint Peter’s, Saint Paul’s, Saint Laurence’s, and The Twelve Apostles, The Church, today, made a Lenten Station at the Basilica dedicated to all the Martyrs and to their Queen, where was made most manifest the Triumph of Christ over paganism.
For the Pantheon, the temple consecrated to the worship of all the Roman gods, was, in the 7th-Century A.D., dedicated to Mary and to the Martyrs of the Catacombs, a large number of whose bones Pope Boniface IV caused to be Transferred to this Basilica.
The High Altar,
Saint Mary-Of-The-Martyrs.
Photo: February 2013.
Author: Bengt Nyman
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: The Pantheon and the Piazza della Rotunda.
1835 view of the Pantheon by Rudolf von Alt, showing
The Bell Towers, often incorrectly attributed to Bernini.
Deutsch: Das Pantheon und die Piazza della Rotonda in Rom.
Artist: Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905).
Current location: Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
Source: Repro from artbook.
This File: April 2010.
User: Mefusbren69
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Basilica of Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs.
Photo: October 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Maros M r a z (Maros)
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Feast of the Dedication of this Church afterwards became known as the Feast of All Saints (Feast Day 1 November).
The Introit, the Collect and the Epistle remind us that the Covenant established by God with Noe and his seed, after their escape from the Flood, and later renewed with Moses and his people after their Passage through the Red Sea, is a figure of the New Covenant, under which the Neophytes were brought from the Baptismal Font unto the adoption of Children of God.
Jesus on The Cross virtually killed sin (Alleluia, Epistle), and, by His Resurrection, of which the Apostles were witnesses, (Gospel), He gave us the Life of Grace.
Baptism brought home to our Souls this twofold effect of Life and Death. Let us ever remain faithful to it.
Mass: Edúxit eos.
Sequence: Victimæ paschali laudes.
Creed: Is Said.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.
Mass: Edúxit eos.
Sequence: Victimæ paschali laudes.
Creed: Is Said.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.
Tympanum. Archivolt. Trumeau.
Archivolts surrounding a Tympanum.
The Great West Door, Strasbourg Cathedral, France.
Français: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg,
mittleres Portal.
Photo: August 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Welleschik
(Wikimedia Commons)
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unless stated otherwise.
In Architecture, a Tympanum (plural, Tympana; from Latin and Greek words meaning “Drum”) is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a Lintel and an Arch. It often contains sculpture or other imagery or ornaments. Most architectural styles include this element.
In Ancient Greek, Roman and Christian Architecture, Tympana of Religious buildings usually contain Religious imagery. A Tympanum over a doorway is very often the most important, or only, location for monumental sculpture on the outside of a building.
English: Late-Romanesque Tympanum of Vézelay Abbey,
Burgundy, France, dating from the 1130s.
Français : Vézelay (Yonne - France), Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine - Tympan central du narthex (1140-1150).
Photo: 17 June 2002.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT
(Wikimedia Commons)
Bands of moulding, surrounding the Tympanum, are referred to as the Archivolt.
In Mediæval French Architecture, the Tympanum is often supported by a decorated Pillar, called a Trumeau.
English: The three Tympana on the lower part of the
main façade of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
On the upper part, the twenty-eight Kings of Judea and Israel.
On the lower part, from Left to Right, are:
The Portal of The Virgin; The Portal of The Last Judgement; The Portal of Saint-Anne.
Français: Partie basse de la façade ouest de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris.
La rangée du haut représente les 28 rois d’Israël et Judée ayant précédé le Christ.
En dessous, et de gauche à droite, le portail de la Vierge, le portail du Jugement Dernier et le portail Saint-Anne.
Photo: 28 October 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: Benh LIEU SONG
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Last Judgement Tympanum,
Cathedral of Saint Lazare, Autun, France.
Available on YouTube
A Romanesque Trumeau,
Tarragona Cathedral, Spain.
Photo: 13 September 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Zarateman
(Wikimedia Commons)
English:
A Trumeau at The Great West Door,
Aix Cathedral, France.
Français:
Détail du Portail de la Cathédrale Saint Sauveur,
Aix-en-Provence, France.
Photo: 23 August 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Marianne Casamance
(Wikimedia Commons)
09 April, 2026
Wonderful Traditional Songs For Palm Sunday. Just Like In Childhood . . . Die Wunderbarsten Traditionellen Lieder Zum Palmsonntag .
Wonderful Traditional Songs For Palm
Sunday. Just Like In Childhood . . .
Die wunderbarsten traditionellen
Lieder zum Palmsonntag.
Available on YouTube
Welcome to this special Palm Sunday playlist.
This collection brings together the most beautiful
old religious and traditional songs that many people
have known and cherished since childhood.
Herzlich willkommen zu dieser besonderen Palmsonntag-Playlist. Diese Sammlung vereint die schönsten alten geistlichen und traditionellen Lieder, die viele Menschen seit ihrer Kindheit kennen und im Herzen tragen. Mögen diese Melodien Ihnen Frieden, Hoffnung und eine gesegnete Einstimmung auf die Karwoche schenken.
“Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs”. Composer: Henryk Górecki. Symphony No. 3.
“Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs”.
Composer: Henryk Górecki.
London Sinfonietta Orchestra.
Conductor: David Zinman.
Soprano: Dawn Upshaw.
Available On YouTube
“Crux Fidelis” (“Faithful Cross”). Sung By: Neumes And Tunes. Good Friday Hymn.
“Crux Fidelis”
(“Faithful Cross”).
Good Friday Hymn.
Sung By: Neumes And Tunes.
Available On YouTube
Arranged by:
Caitlin Foster.
Sung By:
Caitlin Foster, Emma Nwobilor,
Tim Sauser, Michael Foster.
Translation By:
Edward Caswall.
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Crux Fidelis is a Traditional Good Friday Hymn
attributed to Venantius Fortunatus (530 A.D. — 610 A.D.).
Chanted during the Adoration of The Cross
on Good Friday in the Roman Rite.
This version follows the Gregorian Chant
Tradition and is arranged for Choral Use.
We are now traversing Easter Week at the various final Stational Basilicas, thanking God for our wonderful deliverance, and awiting Low Sunday (Dominica in Albis), when the “Neophytes” discard their new White Garments
and become a valued member of the Catholic Community.
To all Readers:
Easter Blessings and Easter Peace.
May God Bless us all.
In Domino.
Just as one Tree was the downfall of Man,
another Tree was the Salvation of Man.
We are most grateful to our Mediæval Liturgical Chant Correspondent, Dante P, for bringing this outstanding Hymn to our attention and suggesting sharing with all our Readers.
“Media Vita In Morte Sumus”. Gregorian Chant From The Monks Of Silverstream Priory, County Meath, Ireland. They Need Your Support. Please Consider Making A Small Donation (See, Below).
“Media Vita”.
Sung by the Monks of Silverstream Priory,
County Meath, Ireland.
Available on YouTube
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should you be able to make a small donation,
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Translation of The Responsory “Media Vita”,
sung by The Benedictine Monks of Silverstream Priory,
County Meath, Ireland:
“In the midst of life, we are in death;
from whom shall we seek help, save Thee, O Lord ?
Who, for our sins, art justly angered.
* Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Merciful Saviour,
do not hand us over to the bitterness of death.
(Verse 1):
In Thee, our fathers hoped;
they hoped, and Thou hast liberated them.
* Holy God . . .
(Verse 2):
To Thee, our fathers cried;
they cried, and were not confounded.
*Holy God . . .
Gloria Patri . . .
* Holy God . . .
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The Schola of Silverstream Priory recorded the poignant Responsory “Media vita in morte sumus”, trusting that it will, in some way, bring comfort and hope to those who listen to it, while looking at the images that accompany
the Gregorian Chant.
A Little Light-Hearted Celebration Of The Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”.
A Little Light-Hearted Celebration
Of The Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”.
By Reverend Fr. Timothy Finigan.
Available on YouTube
This Article was originally Posted
by Reverend Fr. Timothy Finigan in July 2007.
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.
Easter Thursday. The Station Is At The Basilica Of The Twelve Apostles. White Vestments.
The Apse.
Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.
Photo: August 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Luc
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Easter Thursday.
Station at the Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Easter Thursday.
Station at the Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
The Gospel tells of the appearance of Jesus to Magdalen, who was the first to inform The Apostles of the disappearance of Our Lord's Body, and who, after seeing The Risen Christ, was deputed by Him to proclaim to them The Double Mystery of The Resurrection and The Ascension.
The Epistle tells of one of the first seven Deacons, called Philip. [This Deacon must not be confused with Saint Philip, the Apostle.] He Baptises a heathen eunuch, who, in a transport of joy, Preaches everywhere the Gospel of Jesus.
The Baroque Ceiling.
Basilica Church of The Twelve Apostles.
Photo: August 2005.
Source:
Author: Anthony Majanlahti
(Wikimedia Commons)
Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.
Photo: January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
This is what The Church has done for The Catechumens, "who have just been born again in The Font of Baptism" (Collect). "God hath made the tongues of those infants eloquent" (Introit), and, by their Faith and their good actions (Collect), they sing The Triumph of Jesus over death (Alleluia) and over their own Souls (Communion).
Let us remember that, by Baptism, we have become united in one and the same Faith to The Risen Christ (Collect), Whose Father is now Our Father.
Mass: Victrícem manum.
Sequence: Victimæ pascháli laudes.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.
Basilica Santi Apostoli.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
(Wikimedia Commons)
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