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
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The Basilica of Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs.
Photo: October 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Maros M r a z (Maros)
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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.
We can only imagine what the long stational-church journey of the early Roman catechumens, a journey that we share every year during Lent, that started on Ash Wednesday at Santa Sabina, has processed to its culmination in the baptism ceremony during the intensely powerful Easter Vigil in at first, darkened, then brilliantly illuminated S. John Lateran: we can only imagine what that must have been like. And as Zephyrinus constantly reminds us, a great holy day must have an octave of following days for our weak minds (speaking for this reader at least) to fully absorb.
ReplyDeleteSo here we are, with Easter octave, “Easter Week.” Easter Week’s subsequent 6 stational churches days are each “a teaching in text and stone.” Each stational church according to the great Catholic scholar Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, presents a different great Apostle or martyr as the neophyte’s (and our) teaching guide.)Comment by Dante P, Part I)
(Part II) The catechumens, still dressed in their white robes from Holy Saturday night, first celebrate Mass Monday at St. Peter’s, the Epistle telling of Peter’s witness to the House of Cornelius in Caesarea (Acts 10:37-43); Easter Tuesday, the station is at S. Paul Outside-the-Walls, because S. Paul takes up the discourse, the Epistle telling of Paul preaching of the death and resurrection of Jesus (Acts 13:16, 26-33). Easter Wednesday is set at S. Lawrence Outside-the-Walls, presenting the examination of the martyr and deacon S.. Lawrence before the neophytes. Easter Thursday the station is at the majestic basilica jof the Twelve Apostles, “Dodici Apostoli,” because the Apostle Phillip baptizes the Ethiopian official (Acts 8:26-40), again the Epistle text is emphasized by the architecture of the stational basilica. Easter Friday is set at the Pantheon, “S. Mary of the Martyrs,” reminding the catechumens “Christ died for our sins,” 1Peter 3:18-22, and Dom Lefebvre says the intent is to set the holy Roman martyrs and the Blessed Virgin as examples and sure guides before the catechumens. Each day throughout the week the Gospel passage is a post-resurrection appearance for their meditation. (Dante P, continued)
ReplyDelete(Part III) It is thought-provoking to try to imagine the intense and really inexpressible experience that the newly baptized have passed through, and certainly to vicariously share that experience in Lent and Easter across at least 15 centuries. It is also moving as we journey the stational churches and recall each of us our own profound moments of conversion and spiritual enlightenment of the presence of Christ Our Lord. The Easter Octave readings and corresponding stational churches are exactly set in place to remind us of this. Us So let us ask Our Lord for the grace to renew that resurrection certainty of faith and our personal willingness to participate in His grace: for each one of us to continue that journey across the centuries with these fellow pilgrims. (End, Comment by Dante P)
ReplyDeleteA magnificent discourse by Dante P, our Mediæval, Liturgical, Theological, and Historical, Corresponent, for which we are most grateful.
DeleteDante P has summarised every aspect of the glorious Easter Week that we are currently enjoying. We have journeyed along the Forty Days of Lent. We have encountered The Triduum. We have been lost for words on Easter Sunday at The Resurrection.
Now, we gently experience the beautiful and calming Easter Week, where all previously encountered by us is explained and reinforced.
A beautiful summary, Dante P.
Thank You.
A Very Happy Paschal-Tide to all Readers.