In this BBC programme, Richard Taylor restores Pugin to his rightful place as one of the giants of The Victorian Age by taking us into his Gothic fantasy land.
From The Houses of Parliament to Alton Towers, from thousands of Churches throughout the Country to the details and furnishings of suburban family houses, Pugin changed the face of Britain with his visionary Gothic architecture.
It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the Late-13th-Century. The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel (more recently used as a school room) vies for importance with The Chancel.
Declared redundant in 1983, Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained by The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.
Travel Directions to Saint Augustine's Church, Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ. By Road. Leave the M20 at Junction 10. Follow the A2070 towards Hastings. After, approx, 9.3 miles, take the Slip Road to the LEFT (signposted "SNAVE"). At the Post-Box (on your LEFT), TURN LEFT, and you have arrived at the Church. (N.B. Google Maps mark the destination as "Manor Farm") By Rail. Frequent Trains from Saint Pancras International Railway Station, London, going to ASHFORD INTERNATIONAL. Then take a Taxi to SNAVE.
Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church,
Snave is one a group of Mediaeval Churches built to serve very small communities
on Romney Marsh, in Kent. Now redundant, they are in the care of The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, who have kindly given permission for us to Celebrate Mass on
Saturday, 24 September 2016 (Feast of Our Lady of Ransom) at 12 noon.
Last year (2015) was the first time Mass had been Celebrated in the Church since Reformation times. We are delighted to be able to return this year. The Celebrant will be Fr Marcus Holden (Rector of The Shrine of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate) and music will be supplied by The Victoria Consort.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless stated otherwise. Saint Basil the Great. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor of The Church. Double. White Vestments.
English: The Fathers of The Church: Saint Basil of Caesarea; Saint John Chrysostom; Saint Gregory of Nazianzen - an icon of the 17th-Century from Lipie, Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland.
Polski: Ojcowie Kościoła: św. Bazyli Wielki, św. Jan Chryzostom, św. Grzegorz z Nazjanzu
– ikona z XVII wieku, pochodząca z Lipia, miejsce ekspozycji - Muzeum Historyczne
Saint Basil was born at Caesarea, in Cappadocia. After having completed his studies at Constantinople and Athens with his intimate friend Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, he renounced the World, left his family (Gospel), and embraced Monastic Life in the Province of Pontus.
Like fully-seasoned salt (Gospel), he gave to his teaching the full flavour of the Gospel and nourished with Holy Truth the people of Caesarea committed to his care (Communion).
He was the author of the famous rule which bears his name; it was praised by Saint Benedict and is still observed by the Monks of The East. The Holy Ghost filled him with His Divine Wisdom and with intelligence (Introit).
When, therefore, he wrote against those who rebelled against the sound Doctrine (Epistle), he attacked the Arians, who denied The Divinity of Jesus Christ, and prepared the triumph of Orthodoxy over the error of the Macedonians by firmly establishing the Catholic Dogma regarding The Holy Ghost.
He is one of the Four Great Doctors of The East. He died in 379 A.D.
Let us ask Saint Basil to fill us with his Faith in The Divinity of The Third Person of The Holy Trinity, and to deliver us from sin (Offertory) which hinders the working of The Holy Ghost in our Souls.
Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a Mediaeval Church in Siena, Italy, Dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian Church, and now Dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta
Santa Maria del Mar is an imposing Church in the Ribera district of Barcelona, Spain, built between 1329 and 1383, at the height of Catalonia's maritime and mercantile pre-eminence. It is an outstanding example of Catalan Gothic Architecture, with a purity and unity of style that is very unusual in large Mediaeval buildings.
The annual Trooping The Colour pageant, to celebrate The Queen's Official Birthday, ended with the RAF Fly Past and The Queen and other Royals appearing on The Balcony of Buckingham Palace.
Dedicated Royal Watchers will have been delighted by the sight of Princess Charlotte and an animated Prince George.
With Prince Charles and Prince William also there, this was the British Monarchy, its present and its future, on display.
As you may remember, Rorate Caeli covered several of the most important events of the largest Liturgical Workshops, of The Traditional Form of The Latin Church, currently in the World, the Ars Celebrandi, in 2015.
The Third Edition of “Ars Celebrandi” Traditional Liturgy Workshops will take place in The Sanctuary of Our Lady in Licheń, Poland, from 4 August 2016 until 11 August 2016. This is the greatest event of its kind in Central - Eastern Europe. Registration of Participants has just started.
Some 150 Participants from Poland and abroad, a few dozens of Priests among them, will achieve or fine-tune their abilities to Celebrate Mass in The Extraordinary Form of The Roman Rite, Serve it, or sing Liturgical Chant (Gregorian and Polyphonic) under direction of experienced practitioners. Furthermore, lectures and encounters with special guests are planned.
Celebrations of Read, Sung or Solemn Masses in Roman or Dominican Rites, as well as Divine Office, will constitute the heart of everyday life during the Workshops. It will enable Participants and Staff to experience Workshops as Times of Retreat and Spiritual Growth. People willing to enter into deeper Retreat are able to take part only in Liturgical Celebrations and dedicate the rest of their time to Private Prayer or Meditation.
Honour Patronage of Liturgy Workshops Ars Celebrandi is taken by His Excellence Bishop Wiesław Mering, Diocese of Włocławek, as well as The 31st World Youth Day, Cracow 2016. Una Voce Polonia Association is in charge of the whole event.
More information, Photo Galleries of previous editions and Registration Forms are at www.arscelebrandi.pl
In the Roman Catholic Tradition, The Sacred Heart has been closely associated with Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ. In his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pope Pius XI stated: “The spirit of expiation, or reparation, has always had the first and foremost place in the Worship given to The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus”.
The Sacred Heart is often depicted in Christian art as a flaming heart, shining with Divine Light, pierced by the lance-wound, encircled by The Crown of Thorns, surmounted by a Cross, and Bleeding.
Sometimes, the image is shown shining within The Bosom of Christ, with His Wounded Hands pointing at The Heart. The Wounds and Crown of Thorns allude to the manner of Jesus’ Death, while the fire represents the Transformative Power of Divine Love.
The Feast of The Sacred Heart has been in The Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar since 1856, and is celebrated nineteen days after Pentecost, always on a Friday.
The Ritz Cinema was built for the Union Cinemas chain and was designed by the architectural firm Verity and Beverley, who were assisted by Union’s ‘in-house’ architect Ernest F. Tulley.
Union opened the Ritz Cinema on 22 March 1937 (the same day as their Ritz Cinema, Chatham, Kent). The opening film was William Powell in “My Man Godfrey”. The facade was of white stone and had a stepped outline. At night, it was quite spectacular as it was covered with many bands of neon tube lighting, as well as having the RITZ name located on a double-sided vertical sign and the name UNION CINEMAS mounted in large illuminated letters on top.
It was a spacious and lavishly-designed Cinema which was well equipped with a large Stage and many Dressing Rooms. It held the distinction of being the 2,000th Cinema in The U.K. to be equipped with the Western Electric Sound System, and a plaque was mounted on the foyer wall to commemorate this.
The Wurlitzer 3Manual/7Rank Theatre Organ was not ready for the opening, and had its own special opening on 26 April 1937, when H. Robinson Cleaver played on the console, which was on a lift, was illuminated, and had a Grand Piano attached. The longest-serving Resident Organist at The Ritz was Trevor Willetts, who played from 1943 until 1962. The Organ was removed in 1969, when it was sold to a private buyer.
In October 1937, Union Cinemas were taken over by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) and The Ritz was later (in 1961) re-named ABC. It closed on 16 March 1974, with Reg Varney, in “Holiday on the Buses”, as the last film. The Cinema was subsequently demolished.
A Wurlitzer Organ, which entertained thousands of patrons at the former Ritz Cinema, has been found - more than half-a-Century after it was last seen in Barnsley.
The Ritz Cinema, on Peel Street, Barnsley, closed in 1974, but the Organ was removed beforehand, in 1965.
Brian Hague, who grew up in Barnsley, but now lives at Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, was invited to become an ABC Monitor, at the Ritz Cinema, when he was a pupil at Barnsley Grammar School in the mid-1940s.
As a 'Monitor', his job was to help control queues of young children at the ABC Minors' Saturday Morning Shows.
Brian Hague, reunited with the Wurlitzer Organ after sixty years.
"It was a great time and my affinity with the Ritz Cinema and the Wurlitzer Organ has remained until today," he said. "What sadness I experienced when, on one of my annual visits to Barnsley, I discovered the Ritz had been demolished."
For many years he tried find out what happened to the Organ, without success, but a chance conversation, with another Organ enthusiast, led to the revelation that the man was actually restoring the same Organ in his back garden in Brentford, South London.
Keen Pianist, Brian, said: "He invited me to go to his house to view the Organ. We had a very happy evening and I was able to play a tune on it.
"It was my birthday and I was able to celebrate a reunion with a very old friend I had not seen, or heard of, for nearly sixty years.
"When I played the Organ, it gave me goose pimples, it was just wonderful."
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"The Untouchables" is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalised Ness' experiences as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed The Untouchables.
Vatican City, 5 June 2016 / 04:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Saint Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, and Saint Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad, are key examples of how to unite oneself to Jesus’ Passion and Death, as well as the power of His Resurrection, Pope Francis said Sunday, 5 June 2016, after Canonising the two.
“In the Passion of Christ, we find God’s response to the desperate and, at times, indignant cry that the experience of pain and death evokes in us,” the Pope said.
At the age of 102, Father Hermann Scheipers has passed away. He was the last surviving Priest of Dachau Concentration Camp.
As prisoner ‘number 24255’, Hermann Scheipers survived Hell in Dachau Concentration Camp. Nevertheless, the Priest and enemy of the Nazis survived, to die now at the age of 102.
Hermann Scheipers had a Mission. He had to tell young people of that time: How he, as a young Priest in 1940, was arrested by the Nazis and taken to Dachau Concentration Camp, how he survived the War and how he was once again oppressed, this time by the Communist dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic. How he survived that time, too, he continuously impressed upon his listeners. On Thursday night, 2 June 2016, Father Scheipers died in Ochtrup, Germany, aged 102. He was the last surviving German Clergyman to have been imprisoned in Dachau.
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Santa María de León Cathedral, also called "The House of Light", or the "Pulchra Leonina", is situated in the City of León, North-West Spain. It was built on the site of previous Roman Baths of the 2nd-Century A.D., which, 800 years later, King Ordoño II converted into a Palace.
León Cathedral, Dedicated to Santa María de la Regla, was declared of Cultural Interest in 1844. It is known as the "Pulchra Leonina" and is a masterpiece of the Gothic Style of architecture of the Mid-13th-Century. The design is attributed to the architect Enrique. By the Late-16th-Century, it was virtually completed.
The main façade has two Towers. The South Tower is known as the 'Clock Tower'. The Renaissance Retro Choir contains alabaster sculptures by Jusquin,Copin of Holland and Juan de Malinas. Particularly noteworthy is the Plateresque Screen or Reja in the wall behind the Sepulchre of King Ordoño.
It has three Portals decorated with sculptures situated in the Pointed Arches between the two Towers. The central section has a large Rose Window. Particularly outstanding is the image of The Virgen Blanca and the Locus Appellatione, where justice was imparted.
English: The Gothic Cathedral of Santa Maria, León Spain.
