"Bring hither thy hand and put it into My Side,
and be not Faithless, but believing".
and be not Faithless, but believing".
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Artist: René de Cramer.
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English: Basilica of Saint Pancras.
Italiano: Chiesa di San Pancrazio, a Roma,
nel quartiere Gianicolense.
Photo: June 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Croberto68
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Low Sunday
(Octave of Easter).
Station at Saint Pancras’s.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Privileged Sunday of The First-Class.
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Low Sunday
(Octave of Easter).
Station at Saint Pancras’s.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.
Privileged Sunday of The First-Class.
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
This Sunday is called Quasimodo Sunday, from the first words of the Introit, or Dominica-in-Albis (post Albas Depositas), from the fact that, on this day, the newly-Baptised had laid aside their White Vestments, or Pascha Clausum, because it finishes The Easter Octave, or, again, Low Sunday, perhaps in contrast to The Great Feast of the week before.
To teach those, who, in Baptism, have just been born to The Life of God, the generosity with which they ought to bear testimony to Christ, The Church leads them to the Basilica of The Martyr, Saint Pancras, who, when only twelve years old, offered to Christ the Testimony of his blood.
Entrance avenue.
Basilica of Saint Pancras.
Basilica of Saint Pancras.
Photo: January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
Christians must stand firm, resting on their Faith in Christ, The Risen Son of God. Saint John tells us that this is The Faith that overcomes the World, for it enables us to resist all efforts to make us fall (Epistle). Thus, it is important that it should have a firm foundation, which The Church gives us in today's Mass.
Saint John says, in the Epistle, that this Faith is founded upon The Witness of The Father, Who, at Our Lord's Baptism (with water), proclaimed Him His Son; of The Son, Who, on The Cross (by His Blood), showed Himself as The Son of God; and of The Holy Ghost, descending on The Apostles on The Day of Pentecost, according to Our Lord's promise, confirmed what Christ had said about His Resurrection and His Divinity; Dogmas, which The Church, guided by The Holy Ghost, never ceases to proclaim.
Basilica of Saint Pancras.
Photo: January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
Our Faith rests, also, on The Testimony of Angels, who announced Our Lord's Rising from The Dead (Offertory), but it is based, chiefly, on His appearances to His Apostles. Further, the Gospel shows us how Christ, appearing twice in The Cenacle, overcame the unbelief of Saint Thomas, praising those who, not having seen, should yet believe.
Let us believe in Jesus, Risen from The Dead, and, in the presence of The Blessed Sacrament, let us repeat Saint Thomas's cry of Faith and humility: "My Lord and my God."
Basilica of Saint Pancras.
Photo: August 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Luc
(Wikimedia Commons)
By our steadfast Faith, and our blameless conduct, let us bear witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ, before an indifferent World.
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Quasi modo.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Easter (In hoc potissimum).
When this Mass is repeated during the week, the Second and Third Collects, Secrets, and Postcommunions are those for Paschaltide.
English: Saint Pancras before the Emperor,
Church of Saint Pancras, Griesheim, Alsace, France.
Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Griesheim-sur-Souffel, Eglise St Pancrace, Maître-autel (XIXe), tableau de St Pancrace (1855).
Date: 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Ralph Hammann
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Church of San Pancrazio (English: S. Pancras; Latin:
S. Pancratii) is a Roman Catholic ancient Basilica and Titular Church, Founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th-Century A.D., in Rome. It stands in Via S. Pancrazio, beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum.
Among the previous Titulars are Pope Paul IV (15 January -
Among the previous Titulars are Pope Paul IV (15 January -
24 September 1537) and Pope Clement VIII (18 December 1585 - 30 January 1592).
The Basilica of Saint Pancras was built by Pope Symmachus (498 A.D. - 514 A.D.), on the place where the body of the young Martyr, Saint Pancras of Rome, or Pancratius, had been buried. In the 17th-Century, it was given to the Discalced Carmelites, who completely remodelled it. The Church underwent further rebuilding in the 19th-Century, but it retains its plain brick facade of the Late-15th-Century, with the Arms of Pope Innocent VIII.
Below the Church, there are huge Catacombs, the Catacombe di S. Pancrazio, or di Ottavilla. The entrance is next to the small Museo di S. Pancrazio, with fragments of sculpture and pagan and Early-Christian inscriptions.
The Basilica of Saint Pancras was built by Pope Symmachus (498 A.D. - 514 A.D.), on the place where the body of the young Martyr, Saint Pancras of Rome, or Pancratius, had been buried. In the 17th-Century, it was given to the Discalced Carmelites, who completely remodelled it. The Church underwent further rebuilding in the 19th-Century, but it retains its plain brick facade of the Late-15th-Century, with the Arms of Pope Innocent VIII.
Below the Church, there are huge Catacombs, the Catacombe di S. Pancrazio, or di Ottavilla. The entrance is next to the small Museo di S. Pancrazio, with fragments of sculpture and pagan and Early-Christian inscriptions.
This reader finds it worthy of many profound levels of contemplation, that the newly baptized neophytes, after the spiritually and physically arduous journey through Lent to their Baptism on Holy Saturday night at San Giovanni Laterano, now conclude their intense spiritual travel of 40 Lenten fast days and plus 1 week of high celebration.
ReplyDeleteThis journey started only about 5 1/2 km away, on Ash Wednesday, at the great Dominican church of Santa Sabina, across the Tiber from San Pancrazio, where overlooking the city and the Vatican: and now perhaps understandably wistful, the catechumens must surrender their white robes (“Dominica in Albis,” “1st Sunday after Easter”) and become “ordinary Christians” like the rest of us. -Note by Dante P.
(cont, part II) One must try to imagine the intense swings of emotion and of spiritual challenge that these 40 days of scrutiny (“The Scrutinies”)
ReplyDeleteand testing had involved. Also, imagine the time that had to be set aside from one’s life to go each day to each of the pilgrim stational churches, from Santa Sabina as we have said, starting on Ash Wednesday, on the Aventine Hill, to the great basilicas of S. Mary Major, S. Paul-Outside-the-Walls, the Lateran and S. Peter’s, to all the outlying basilicas like S. Agnese and S. Lorenzo, now finally ending in the quiet peace of the park-like setting of what is now the Discalced Carmelite church of S. Pancrazio on the outer slopes of the Janiculum Hill and the Villa Dora Pamphilij park. Now those memories and experiences have to be set aside, just like this day with the white alb of the neophyte, and the ordinary daily Christian challenges of life must be faced. (Note by Dante P.) (cont.)
(cont., part III) Quasi modo géniti infántes, allelúja: rationábiles, sine dolo lac concupíscite, allelúja, allelúja, allelúja. (1 Pet. 2:2)
ReplyDelete“Like newborn babes desire the rational milk without guile..”. So like the “newborn babe catechumens”, we might imagine ourselves at the end of the long annual journey of Lent with Zephyrinus now on this Quasimodo Sunday, reminding ourselves of our own conversion experience, which we must renew every day, and like the neophytes, thinking of our own white alb of re-dedication to Our Lord so we can be spiritually be re-born (John 3:3: “Verily, truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”). And now we await Pentecost. (Note by Dante P)
The Readers of this Blog will be extremely grateful for this outstanding summary from Our Liturgical Correspondent, Dante P, on the journey we have travelled together during Lent.
DeleteExquisitely written, it encapsulates perfectly the whole raison d'être of Lent: The mortification; the commitment; the arduousness; the dedication; the resolution.
Congratulations, respectfully, to all who have travelled this route with us. And, as Dante P, correctly points out, let us now begin our fresh journey of travelling as new, or rejuvenated, Christians.
We look forward to the same journey next year.
Deo Volente.
Deo Gratias.
Ah, you have graciously “one-upped me,” Dom Zephyrinus, with your description of the early Catholic neophyte journey through the Roman stational churches, describing their Lenten journey: “..The mortification; the commitment; the arduousness; the dedication; the resolution..”
ReplyDeleteGod bless them for their whole-hearted dedication: they have the indeed “built”spiritually the Church we have inherited through the centuries today, and which some day, God willing, “Deo volente,” will be fully restored. -Note by Dante P
Grazie Mille, Dante P, for your kind Comment. You are quite correct, of course, in pointing out that we owe so much to those early neophytes. They endured for their Faith. They worked hard for their Faith. They taught us so much when it comes down to combating the vicissitudes of this Earthy life.
DeleteLikewise, we must go through the same processes, from time to time. Much like a soldier going through training. He has to battle through the arduousness of his training. But, eventually, after much grit and determination, he “Passes Out”, he wins his “Spurs”, he earns his Cap Badge.
And we know that, whatever the World throws at us or The Church, Christ is with us all the way: “I will not leave you orphans. And the Gates of Hell will not prevail against My Church”.
Stand By The Colours !!! Deo Gratias.