" . . . And A Great Sign Appeared In Heaven: A Woman Clothed With The Sun, And The Moon Under Her Feet, And On Her Head A Crown Of Twelve Stars . . ." Ave Regina Caeli.

The Blessed Virgin Mary

is Crowned Queen of Heaven

by Her Beloved Son,

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"Regina Caeli".

Composed by

Marco Frisina.

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Regina Caeli Laetare, alleluia:

Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.

Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.

Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

Gaude et Laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia.

Surrexit quia Dominus vere, alleluia.

Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.

The Son Whom do you merited to bear, alleluia.

He has risen, as He said, alleluia.

Pray for us to God, alleluia.

Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.

For The Lord has truly risen, alleluia.

The Virgin and Infant Jesus

with Angels.

Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).

Date: 1900.

Current location: Petit Palais, Paris, France.

Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center – description

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The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 15 August.

English: The Assumption of The Virgin Mary.

Deutsch: Maria Himmelfahrt, Hochaltar für

St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venedig.

Français: L'Assomption de la Vierge.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1516-1518.

Current location: Institution:Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

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The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 15 August.

Double of The First-Class
   with a Common Octave.

White Vestments.

On this Feast, the most ancient (6th-Century A.D.) and Solemn of The Cycle of Mary, The Church invites all her children in The Catholic World to unite their joy (Introit) and their gratitude (Preface) with those of The Angels, who praise The Son of God because of that day His Mother, Bodily and Spiritually, entered Heaven (Alleluia).

Admitted to the enjoyment of the delights of Eternal Contemplation, She chose at The Feet of The Master the better part, which shall not be taken away from Her (Gospel, Communion).

The Gospel of The Vigil was, indeed, formerly read after today's Gospel, in order to show that The Mother of Christ is happy among all others, because, better than all others: "She listened to The Word of God". This Word, The Word, The Divine Wisdom, which, under The Old Law, dwelt among the people of Israel (Epistle), dwelt in Mary, under The New Law.

"Mater Dolorosa"

(Mother of Sorrows).

Artist: Carlo Dolci (1616–1686).

Date: Circa 1650.

Current location: National Museum of Western Art,

Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Unknown.

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Artist: Rene de Cramer.

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The Word became Incarnate in the womb of The Virgin, and now, amid the splendour of the Heavenly Sion, He fills Her with the delights of The Beatific Vision.

The Church on Earth, like Martha, has to care for the necessities of this present life, but she also, like her, invokes the help of Mary (Collect, Secret, Postcommunion).

A Procession has always been a part of The Feast of The Assumption. At Jerusalem, it was formed by the numerous Pilgrims who came to Pray at the tomb of The Blessed Virgin and who, thus, contributed to the Institution of this Solemnity.

The Clergy of Constantinople also held a Procession on The Feast of The Rest, or Assumption, of Mary. At Rome, from the 7th-Century A.D., to the 16th-Century, the Papal Cortege, in which the representatives of The Senate and people took part, went on this day from The Church of Saint John Lateran to that of Saint Mary Major. This Ceremony was called The Litany.

[On this occasion, they used to recite over the people, assembled for the Procession, the Collect for Assumption Day, which is first in The Sacramentary and mentions this Mystery, whilst our Collect of The Mass on 15 August was only The Second Collect and has no direct relation to The Feast.

This is The First Collect: "It is our duty to honour The Solemnity of this day, O Lord; The Holy Mother of God did, indeed, suffer temporal death, although the bonds of this death could not hold back Her, whose flesh formed The Body of Thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth . . ."]

It is in The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome, that The Station is held at Christmas to Solemnise the Mystery from which flowed all the Glories of The Virgin, and it is also there that was Solemnised The Assumption, in which they culminate. Mary received Jesus, when He came into this World, and it is Jesus Who receives Mary into Heaven.

Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

The Introit for The Feast of The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino . . . (Let us all rejoice in The Lord, . . .) is that of The Feast of Saint Agatha (5 February).

From the 11th-Century, this Introit was also used in seven other Masses which are in The Missal, among which are 15 August (today's Feast) and 1 November (Feast of All Saints).

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes.
Creed.
Preface: Of Our Blessed Lady: Et te in Assumptióne.

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The Vigil Of The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. 14 August.

English: The Assumption of The Virgin Mary.

Deutsch: Maria Himmelfahrt, Hochaltar für

St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venedig.

Français: L'Assomption de la Vierge.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1516-1518.

Current location: Institution:Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

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The Vigil of The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

14 August.

Violet Vestments.

The Epistle, for The Vigil Of The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary, is "Ego quasi vitis",

(taken from The Book of Wisdom) from The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (16 July).

As the vine, I have brought forth a pleasant odour,

And my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.

I am the mother of fair love,

And of fear,

And of knowledge,

And of Holy hope.

In me is all Grace of the way and of the truth,

In me is all hope of life and virtue.

Come over to me,

All ye that desire me,

And be filled with my fruits;

For my spirit is sweet above honey,

And my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.

My memory is unto everlasting generations.

They that eat me, shall yet hunger;

And they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

He that hearkeneth to me shall not be confounded,

And they that work by me shall not sin.

They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

Christ, after having lain for only three days in the tomb, rose again and ascended into Heaven.

Likewise, the death of The Virgin resembled, rather, a short sleep. Hence, it was called "Dormitio" (Dormition), and before corruption could defile her body.

God restored her to life and Glorified her in Heaven.

These three privileges are celebrated by The Feast of The Assumption, which follows logically from the privilege of The Immaculate Conception and the privilege of The Mystery of The Incarnation.

For sin never having defiled the Soul of Mary, it was right that her body, in which The Word had become Incarnate, should not be tainted by the corruption of the tomb.

Manibus Mariae Virginis.

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Salve Sancta Parens.

Our Lady of Ushaw and The Infant Jesus.

Ushaw Seminary, 

Durham, England. 

Photo: April, 2011. 

Source: Own work. 

Author: Zephyrinus.

"Salve Sancta Parens." 

Sung by 

The Schola Cantorum Minorum Chosoviensis

at Saint Mary's Basilica, Cracow, Poland.

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Mediaeval Liturgical Celebrations. Collected here is a wide range of Ceremonies,

encompassing The Seven Sacraments, the major Feasts of the Year (such as Christmas,

Easter, Corpus Christi), and special Liturgical Rites. Treasures from Mediaeval Manuscripts,

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Pope Pius XI On The Importance Of The Liturgy.

This Article is from A FORETASTE OF WISDOM

Pope Pius XI.

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People are instructed in The Truths of Faith, and brought to appreciate the inner joys of Religion, far more effectually by the Annual Celebration of Our Sacred Mysteries than by any official pronouncement of The Teaching of The Church.

Such pronouncements usually reach only a few, and the more learned among the Faithful; Feasts reach them all; the former speak but once, the latter speak every year — in fact, forever. 

The Church's Teaching affects the mind, primarily; her Feasts affect both mind and heart, and have a salutary effect upon the whole of man's nature.

Man is composed of body and Soul, and he needs these External Festivities so that The Sacred Rites, in all their beauty and variety, may stimulate him to drink more deeply of The Fountain of God's Teaching, that he may make it a part of himself, and use it with profit for his Spiritual Life.

-- Pope Pius XI, Encyclical "Quas Primas", on The Kingship of Christ.

Pope Pius XI certainly recognised the superior experiential and mystical approach of The Liturgy, over a merely Doctrinal approach.

This squares nicely with the Patristic, Thomistic, and all-around Traditional Catholic understanding of the relationship between Liturgy and Doctrine.

Liturgy is, indeed, at the centre of The Christian Life, more so than Doctrine, inasmuch as it allows The Faithful to participate actually in the realities themselves, which are the subject of Doctrinal Teaching.

Liturgy enables a real encounter with The God that Doctrine merely talks about.

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"This Will Be The First Time That Mass Has Been Celebrated In This Mediaeval Church Since Pre-Reformation Times."

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent.

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.

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Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday,

26 September 2015,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant:

Fr. Marcus Holden,

Rector of The Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Music:

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Director:

Dominic Bevan.

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Saints Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus. Martyrs. Feast Day 8 August.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saints Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 8 August.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Stained-Glass Window, depicting Saint Cyriacus (Right) and Saint Pantaleon (Left),

in the Parish Church of Saint Pelagius, Weitnau, Bavaria, Germany.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St. Pelagius, Weitnau, Nothelferfenster, St. Pantaleon und St. Cyriacus.

Photo: September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: AndreasPraefcke.

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Saint Cyriacus, a Deacon of The Roman Church under Popes Marcellinus and Marcellus, was put to death in 303 A.D., during the Persecution of Diocletian.

He had twenty-two Christian companions, who were killed with him, among whom were Largus and Smaragdus.

Saint Cyriacus is one of "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints". [See the Post for 28 July.]

Church of Saint Cyriacus,

Domduderstadt, North Saxony, Germany.

Photo: 1 April 2004.

Source: Own work.

Author: Christoph73.

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English: The Interior of the Church of Saint Cyriacus, Duderstadt, North Saxony, Germany.

Deutsch: St.-Cyriakus-Kirche in Duderstadt, Niedersachsen, Deutschland.

Blick auf den Flügelaltar im Hochchor.

Photo: 28 December 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andreas Hentrich.

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Saint Cyriacus, together with Saints Largus and Smaragdus and others (of whom Crescentianus, Memmia and Juliana are mentioned in The Roman Martyrology), is Venerated on 8 August. All that is known with certaint, apart from their names and the fact of their Martyrdom, is that they were buried at the seventh Milestone of the Via Ostiensis on that date.

Saint Cyriacus is one of

"The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints".

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Artist: Rene de Cramer.

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Ettal Abbey, Bavaria, Germany.

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unless otherwise stated.

Ettal Abbey in Winter.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

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English: Ettal Abbey, Bavaria, Germany.

Español: Monasterio de Ettal, Baviera, Alemania.

Photo: 22 March 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diego Delso.

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Ettal Abbey (Kloster Ettal) is a Benedictine Monastery in the village of Ettal, close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. With a Community (as of 2005) of more than fifty Monks, with another five Monks at Wechselburg, Saxony, the Abbey is one of the largest Benedictine Houses and is a major attraction for visitors.

Ettal Abbey was founded on 28 April 1330, Saint Vitalis of Milan's Feast Day, by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian, in the Graswang Valley, in fulfilment of an oath on his return from Italy, on a site of strategic importance on the primary trade route between Italy and Augsburg.

The Foundation legend is that Ludwig's horse genuflected three times on the site of the original Church, where a statuette of The Virgin Mary ("Frau Stifterin" or the "Ettal Madonna"), of the Pisano School, now stands, a gift from Ludwig to his new Foundation. This statue soon became an object of Pilgrimage. The Church is dedicated to the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin.

English: Wechselburg Priory, formerly Wechselburg Abbey (Kloster Wechselburg)

is a Benedictine Priory, in Wechselburg, Saxony, Germany, dissolved in the 16th-Century

and re-Founded in 1993. Five Monks from Ettal Abbey are located here.

Deutsch: Klosteranlage Wechselburg mit romanischer Basilika.

Photo: 24 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Kolossos.

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The Foundation originally consisted of a Benedictine Double Monastery – a Community for men and another for women – and also a House of The Teutonic Knights.

The original Gothic Abbey Church, built between 1330 and 1370, was a modest structure in comparison to the great Churches of Mediaeval Bavaria.

The Abbey suffered great damage during the Reformation at the hands of the troops of Maurice of Saxony, but survived the troubles of The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).

Ettal Abbey Side-Altars,

Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

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In 1709, under Abbot Placidus II Seiz, the golden age of Ettal Abbey began with the establishment of the "Knights' Academy" ("Ritterakademie"), which developed into a highly successful School and began the educational tradition of the Abbey. In 1744, the Abbey and the Abbey Church were largely destroyed in a fire. The subsequent spectacular re-building in the Baroque Style, with a double-shelled Dome, was to the plans of Enrico Zuccalli, a Swiss-Italian architect working in Munich, who had studied with Bernini. The decoration was primarily carried out by Josef Schmutzer, of the Wessobrunn School of Stucco-ists, and Johann Baptist Straub, who was responsible for the Altars and the Chancel.

Ettal Abbey's importance, as a place of Pilgrimage, grew with the new buildings and it became one of the most important Monasteries in the Alpine Region.

The Abbey was Dissolved in 1803, during the Secularisation of Church property in Bavaria. The site was acquired, in 1809, by Josef von Elbing and sold by his descendants in 1856 to Count Pappenheim. Some small building works were completed during the 19th-Century, principally the renovation of the façade and the twin Bell-Towers.

English: Ettal Abbey, Bavaria, Germany.

Español: Monasterio de Ettal, Baviera, Alemania.

Photo: 22 March 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diego Delso.

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The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary,

Ettal Abbey. 

Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

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In 1898, the buildings were acquired by Baron Theodor von Cramer-Klett and, in 1900, given to The Benedictines of Scheyern Abbey, who re-Founded the Monastery. It had been a member of The Bavarian Congregation of The Benedictine Confederation since 1900. The Abbey Church was declared a Minor Basilica in 1920.

During the Winter of 1940 – 1941, the German Pastor and Theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), spent some months at the Monastery as the friend and guest of the Abbot. Like Bonhoeffer, a number of those in the Ettal Community were involved in the Conspiracy against Hitler. While at Ettal Abbey, Bonhoeffer also worked on his book "Ethics". Catholic Priest, Rupert Mayer, was kept at the Abbey, from 1939 to 1945, by the Nazis, to prevent him from further Anti-Nazi Preaching.

In 1993, Ettal Abbey re-Founded the former Wechselburg Abbey, in Saxony, an old Monastery of The Augustinian Canons, as a Benedictine Priory.

Interior of the Dome,

Ettal Abbey.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

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The Organ,

Ettal Abbey.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

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Ettal Abbey maintains a Byzantine Institute. The Abbot of Ettal Abbey, Joannes Hoeck, made a significant contribution, on the role of Patriarchs in Church government, at the Second Vatican Council.

The Monastery runs a brewery, a distillery, a bookstore, an Art Publishing House, an hotel, a cheese factory joint venture, and several smaller companies. The distillery produces Ettaler Kloster Liqueur, a herbal liqueur which, like that of the Carthusian Monks, comes in sweeter yellow, and more herbal green, varieties.

Saint Donatus. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 7 August.

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unless otherwise stated.

Saint Donatus.
Bishop and Martyr.
Feast Day 7 August.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

The Miracle of Saint Donatus.

Artist: José de Ribera (1591–1652).

Amiens, Museum of Picardy.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: http://santiebeati.it/immagini/?mode=view&album=33900&pic=

33900B.JPG&dispsize=Original&start=0

Author: José de Ribera (1591–1652).

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Saint Donatus, Bishop of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, was arrested under the Emperor Julian the Apostate and was beheaded in 362 A.D.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Donatus was Ordained a Deacon and Priest by Saint Satyrus of Arezzo, Bishop of that City, and continued to Preach in the City and in the surrounding region. At the death of Satyrus, Donatus was appointed a Bishop by Pope Julius I. A man named Anthimus was Donatus' Deacon.

During a Celebration of Mass, at the moment of the giving of Communion, in which a glass Chalice was being administered, some pagans entered the Church and shattered the Chalice in question. Donatus, after intense Prayer, collected all of the fragments and joined them together. There was a piece missing from the bottom of the Chalice; miraculously, however, nothing spilled from it. Astounded, seventy-nine pagans converted to Christianity.

A month after this episode, the Prefect of Arezzo, Quadratian, arrested Hilarian the Monk and Donatus. Hilarian was Martyred on 16 July 362 A.D., and Donatus was beheaded on 7 August at Arezzo.

Saint Donatus Catholic Church,

Bellevue, Iowa,

United States of America.

Photo: 1 January 1970.

Photographer: 

Gary Schekel.

Illustration: GOOGLE+

Church of Santa Maria e San Donato a Murano,

Venice, Italy.

Photo: 30 December 2003.

Source: Own work.

Author: Blorg.

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Saint Cajetan. Confessor. Feast Day 7 August.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Cajetan.
Confessor.
Feast Day 7 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Cajetan.

Italian: San Gaetano di Thiene.

Latin: Sanctus Caietanus.

Artist: Francesco Solimena (1657–1747).

This File: 22 February 2006.

User: Mathiasrex.

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Saint Cajetan Founded the first Congregation of Clerks Regular, who endeavour to imitate the manner of life of the Apostles (Collect). Trust in God, which the Gospel recalls, was their great law; they therefore refrained from begging alms and waited until the Faithful brought them help of their own accord. They are also called Theatines.

This Saint's zeal for others' Salvation caused him to be called The Hunter of Souls. It was said that he was an Angel at the Altar and an Apostle in the Pulpit. He died at Naples on 7 August 1547.

Mass: Os justi.
Commemoration of Saint Donatus.