Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Easter Monday.
Station at Saint Peter's.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Double of The First-Class.
White Vestments.
English: Saint Peter's Basilica.
The iconic Dome dominates the skyline of Rome.
Christianity became the dominant Religion of Western Civilisation
when The Roman Empire converted to Christianity.
Italiano: Basilica Papale di San Pietro-in-Vaticano.
Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri.
Magyar: Vatikánváros látképe.
Photo: January 2005.
Source: Flickr
Reviewer: Andre Engels
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome.
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Panini (1692–1765).
Date: 1731.
Current location: Saint Louis Art Museum,
Missouri, United States of America.
Source/Photographer: Saint Louis Art Museum official site
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Octave of Easter, during which, formerly, no servile work was done, was one continual Feast. Each day, the Neophytes attended Mass at a Station, at which they received Holy Communion. In the evening, they went to Saint John Lateran for The Office of Vespers.
On the first day of the week, The Station was at Saint Peter's, which contains the tomb of The Temporal Head of The Church. We hear his voice in the Epistle. He proclaims to the World The Resurrection of Christ, of which he was a witness.
Likewise, the Gospel, after describing the appearance of The Risen Christ to The Disciples at Emmaus, mentions His apparition to Peter on the very day of His Resurrection.
Receiving, as we do during these Easter Festivities, one and the same Sacrament, the milk of our Souls, which were born to The Life of God and brought into the promised land by Baptism (Introit), let us all be one in heart and Soul (Postcommunion) in proclaiming together our Faith in The Risen Christ.
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Introdúxit.
Sequence: Victimæ pascháli laudes.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.
It wasn’t until Zephyrinus and Dom Gasper Lefebvre OSB (“St Andrew’s Missal” author) That I realized that, in particular, the stational churches of Rome have particularly significant relationship for the newly baptized Roman neophytes in Easter Week, each day each church been specifically selected for a relationship to the Gospel or Epistle readings of the day. So, today, Easter Monday, Saint peters is chosen because he speaks across the centuries in the Epistle reading.from Acts 10, Peter pronouncing the resurrection narrative.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing that after 15 centuries, the stational churches of Rome (It is said that the Roman stational churches were established around 500 AD) and the Easter week readings in particular (as well as the readings throughout Lent) speak to us and we can re-live the exhilarating experience of the newly baptized Christians.
Happy Easter, Zephyrinus!
Thank You, Dante Peregrinus, for your valued Comments. It is, indeed, wonderful that, after fifteen Centuries, we can re-live the experience, through the Easter Week readings, of the newly-Baptised Christians.
DeleteThank You for your kind Easter Greetings, which are, of course, now extended to all Readers.