“Cast Your Burden Upon The Lord, And He Will Sustain You”. On Cleaving To God. Albert The Great.

This Article is taken from ENLARGING THE HEART

English: Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus).

Deutsch: Albertus Magnus, Tafelgemälde des Joos (Justus) van Gent, Urbino.

Artist: Justus van Gent (circa 1410–1480)

Date: Circa 1475.

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There, in the presence of Jesus Christ, with everything, in general and individually, excluded and wiped out, the mind alone turns in security confidently to The Lord its God with its desire.

In this way, it pours itself forth into Him in full sincerity with its whole heart and the yearning of its love, in the most inward part of all its faculties, and is plunged, enlarged, set on fire and dissolved into Him.

Certainly, anyone who desires and aims to arrive at, and remain in, such a state, must needs above all have eyes and senses closed and not be inwardly involved or worried about anything.

Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus).

Artist: Tommaso da Modena (1326–1379).

Date: 1352.

Current location: Treviso - Chiesa di San Nicolò,

Sala del Capitolo (Seminario di Treviso), Italy.

Source/Photographer: Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen Dominikanerklosters San Niccolò in Treviso.

First uploaded by sv:Användare:Lamré to Swedish Wikipedia as sv:Bild:AlbertusMagnus.jpg.

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He should not be concerned or occupied with anything, but should completely reject all such things as irrelevant, harmful and dangerous.

Then he should withdraw himself totally within himself, and not pay any attention to any object entering the mind except Jesus Christ, The Wounded One, alone.

And so he should turn his attention with care and determination through Him into Him – that is, through the man into God, through the wounds of His humanity into the inmost reality of His Divinity.

Here, he can commit himself and all that he has, individually and as a whole, promptly, securely and without discussion, to God’s unwearying providence, in accordance with the words of Peter, cast all your care upon Him (1 Peter 5.7), Who can do everything.

And again. In nothing be anxious (Philippians 4.6), or what is more, Cast your burden upon The Lord, and He will sustain you (Psalm 55.22).

[…] The bride too in The Song of Songs says, I have found Him Whom my Soul loves, (Canticle 3.4) and again, All good things came to me along with her (Wisdom 7.11).

This, after all, is the hidden Heavenly Treasure, none other than The Pearl of Great Price, which must be sought with resolution, esteeming it in humble faithfulness, eager diligence, and calm silence before all things, and preferring it even above physical comfort, or honour and renown.

For what good does it do a Religious, if he gains the whole World but suffers the loss of his Soul? Or what is the benefit of his state of life, the holiness of his profession, the virtue of his Habit and Tonsure, or the outer circumstances of his way of life, if he is without a life of spiritual humility and truth in which Christ abides through a Faith created by love.

This is what Luke means by, The Kingdom of God (that is, Jesus Christ) is within you (Luke 17.21).

Albert the Great (1193/1206–1280) [attributed]: On Cleaving to God, 1 & 2.

The Presentation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 21 November.

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

The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 21 November.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Presentation of The Virgin Mary (detail).

Titian (1490–1576).

Italiano: Tiziano. Presentazione al Tempio (dettaglio).

Date: 1534 - 1538.

Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.

Source: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.

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After having Solemnised, on 8 September, The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin, and, four days later, The Feast of The Holy Name of Mary, a name given to her a short time before her Birth, The Cycle celebrates on this day The Presentation in the Temple of The Child of Benediction.

These first three Feasts of Mary's Cycle are an echo of The Christological Cycle, which, likewise, celebrates: The Birth of Jesus, 25 December; The Imposition of His Holy Name, 2 January; and His Presentation in the Temple, 2 February.

English: The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple.

Italiano: Presentazione di maria al tempio.

Artist: Alfonso Boschi.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di), 

La chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano, 

Becocci Editore, Firenze 2006.

Author: sailko.

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The Feast of The Presentation of Mary is founded on a pious tradition, originated by two apocryphal Gospels, which relate that The Blessed Virgin was Presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, when three years old, and that she lived there, with other girls and the Holy Women, who had them in their care. Already in the 6th-Century A.D., the event is Commemorated in The East and the Emperor, Michael Comnenus, alludes to it in a Constitution of 1166.

Deutsch: de:Klosterkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Dillingen an der Donau) 

der Dillinger Franziskanerinnen in Dillingen an der Donau, 

Fresko mit der Darstellung des Tempelganges Mariens.

English: Fresco of The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Monastery Church of the Assumption, 

Dillingen-on-the-Danube, Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 26 September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

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A French nobleman, Philippe de Maizières, who was Chancellor at the Court of the King of Cyprus, having been sent in 1372 as Ambassador to Pope Gregory XI, at Avignon, related to the Pope with what magnificence The Feast was Solemnised in Greece, on 21 November. His Holiness introduced The Feast at Avignon and Pope Sixtus V introduced it at Rome in 1585. Pope Clement VIII raised it to the Rank of Greater-Double and re-arranged The Office.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

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Don't Forget To Say Your Night Prayers.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Saint Mary The Virgin Church. Designed By Sir John Ninian Comper (1864 – 1960). Scottish Gothic-Revival Architect.

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unless otherwise stated.

The Interior of Saint Mary The Virgin,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

Sir John Ninian Comper designed this Church.

Image: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

The spectacular Interior of Saint Mary's, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

The Church is little more than a Century old and was designed by the highly-regarded

architect, 

Sir Ninian Comper. The Church is extremely ornate, but never vulgar, and 

the Golds and Blues 

blend in perfectly well with the local Deep-Golden Stone.

The Church is in the Anglo-Catholic Tradition 

of The Church of England.

Photo: 18 August 1997.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: nick macneill.

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Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960) was a Scottish-born architect. He was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, noted for his Churches and their furnishings. He is well known for his Stained Glass, his use of colour and his subtle integration of Classical and Gothic elements, which he described as "unity by inclusion".

Comper was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the eldest of five children of Ellen Taylor, of Hull, and the Reverend John Comper, Rector of St John's, Aberdeen (and, later, St Margaret of Scotland). He was educated at Glenalmond School, in Perthshire, and attended a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. On moving to London, he was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe, and, later, to George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. His fellow-Scot, William Bucknall, took him into partnership in London in 1888 and Ninian was married to Grace Bucknall in 1890. Bucknall and Comper remained in partnership until 1905.

Reredos, in Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, designed by Comper.

Reredos (Altar Screen), with Tester and Rood Figures, designed by Sir Ninian Comper, 1922.

Photographer: Richard Barton-Wood.

Date: 1922 (object created); 27 February 2007 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia; transferred to

Commons using CommonsHelper.

Author: Sir Ninian Comper (creator of the object);

Photographer and Original uploader was Richard Barton-Wood.

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Sir John Ninian Comper's ecclesiastical commissions include:

A line of windows in the North Wall of The Nave of Westminster Abbey;
Saint Peter's Parish Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the Baldachino/Ciborium, High Altar and
East Window, in memory of The Dead of The Great War;
Saint Mary's, Wellingborough;
Saint Michael and All Angels, Inverness;
Lady Chapel at Downside Abbey,Somerset;
The Ciborium, and House Chapel extension, for The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, in Oxford (now Saint Stephen's House, Oxford);
Saint Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London;
Lady Chapel at Saint Matthew's, Westminster;
Lady Chapel and Gilded Paintings in the Chancel of All Saints, Margaret Street, London.

The Sanctuary,

All Saints Church,

Margaret Street, London.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's commissions.

Photo: 3 November 2001.

Source: From geograph.org.uk; transferred by

User:Kurpfalzbilder.de using geograph_org2commons.

Author: John Salmon.

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Comper is noted for re-introducing the "English Altar", an Altar surrounded by Riddel Posts. [Images, and documentary mentions of early examples [of Ciboria], often have Curtains, called tetravela, hung between the Columns; these Altar-Curtains were used to cover, and then reveal, the view of the Altar by the Congregation at points during Services — exactly which points varied, and is often unclear. Altar-Curtains survived the decline of the Ciborium in both East and West, and in English are often called "Riddels" (from French, rideau, a word once also used for ordinary domestic curtains).

Charles Eamer Kempe, (1860).

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a Victorian Stained Glass designer and manufacturer. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for Altars and Altar Frontals, furniture and furnishings, Lichgates and Memorials, that helped to define a later 19th-Century Anglican style. The list of English Cathedrals containing examples of his work includes: Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Wells, Winchester, York.

This File: 21 July 2006.

User: The Wednesday Island.

Source: Found at [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/kempe.htm].

Author: Unknown.

(Wikipedia)

A few Churches have "Riddle Posts", or "Riddel Posts", around The Altar, which supported The Curtain-Rails, and perhaps a Cloth stretched above. Such an arrangement can be seen in Folio 199v of the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. Late-Mediaeval examples in Northern Europe were often topped by Angels, and the Posts, but not the Curtains, were revived in some new or refitted Anglo-Catholic Churches by Ninian Comper and others around 1900.

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

In earlier periods, the Curtains were closed at the most Solemn part of The Mass, a practice that continues to the present day in The Coptic and Armenian Churches. A comparison to the Biblical Veil of The Temple was intended. The small domed structures, usually with Red Curtains, that are often shown near The Writing Saint in early Evangelist portraits, especially in the East, represent a Ciborium, as do the structures surrounding many manuscript portraits of Mediaeval Rulers.]

English: Saint John the Baptist Parish Church, Cardiff, Wales. Stained-Glass Window (1915)

by Ninian Comper: Saint Luke painting Madonna and Child (detail).

Deutsch: Cardiff (Wales). Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer - Buntglasfenster (1915)

von Ninian Comper: Heiliger Lukas malt Madonna mit Kind (Detail).

Photo: 28 July 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Wolfgang Sauber.

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Comper designed a number of remarkable Altar Screens (Reredos), inspired by Mediaeval originals. Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, has one of the finest examples.

Only one major ecclesiastical work of Comper's is in The United States, the Leslie Lindsey Chapel of Boston's Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The work is an all-encompassing product of, and testimony to, Comper's design capability, comprising the entire decorative scheme of the Chapel, designed by the architectural firm of Allen and Collins. Comper designed its Altar, Altar Screen, Pulpit, Lectern, dozens of statues, all its furnishings and appointments, and most notably the Stained-Glass Windows. The Chapel commemorates Leslie Lindsey and Stewart Mason, her husband of ten days, who were married at Emmanuel Church, and perished when the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915.

Detail of Reredos at Saint James Church,

High Melton, England, by Ninian Comper.

Photo: 27 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dearnesman.

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Sir John Ninian Comper's Rood Screen,

Saint John the Baptist Church,

Lound, Nottinghamshire, England.

Photo: 24 September 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: Evelyn Simak.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint John the Baptist's Church 1507412 - 1507426 , in Lound, is widely known as the 'Golden Church', its fame originating from the generosity of Father Booth Lyes, a past Rector, who employed Sir Ninian Comper's genius to restore it. The Round Tower 1507419 - the oldest part of the Church and believed to be Early-Norman - was probably rebuilt at some later time. The Church was extensively restored in 1912/1913. The High Altar 1507434 was raised on new flooring, and richly decorated Posts, surmounted by gilded bronze Angels, support curtains of Spanish silk.

Below the Altar, Ninian Comper's magnificent Rood Screen is adjoined at the South End by The Altar of Our Lady, above which Saint Mary Salome, Saint Mary The Virgin, and Saint Elizabeth, are depicted on boards with richly gilded gesso backgrounds 1507432. By Comper, is also the only modern wall painting in Suffolk depicting a Saint Christopher 1507439 - the Saint is surrounded by a water mill, with a Suffolk Punch horse and its rider, waiting patiently in front of it, and a portrait of Sir Ninian driving his Rolls Royce along the river bank. The airplane, at top right, was added during the 1964 restoration of the painting.

The Organ Case 1507447, at the West End of the Church, was installed in 1913. The Organ was built by Harrison and Harrison Ltd, of Durham. The original Norman Font Bowl now serves as a base for the Pulpit. The present Octagonal Font 1507445 - given in 1389 by Robert Bertelot - is of the Traditional East Anglian type and the inscription at its base, commemorating the donor, is still legible. Saint John the Baptist's Church has a 'Welcome' banner above the South Doorway and is open every day.

Saint Mary The Virgin Church,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's masterpieces of creation.

Illustration: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

From 1912, Ninian and Grace lived in London at The Priory, Beulah Hill, a house designed by Decimus Burton (1800–1881), where he entertained friends such as John Betjeman. He had a studio nearby at Knights Hill, close to the world's first Gothic Cemetery at West Norwood. After the studio was destroyed in World War II, it was relocated to a building in his garden, which had previously been used by his son, Nicholas Comper (1897–1939), to design aircraft. Comper was Knighted by King George VI in 1950.

On 22 December 1960, he died in The Hostel of God (now Trinity Hospice) in Clapham, London. His body was brought back to Norwood for cremation at West Norwood Cemetery. His ashes were then interred beneath the windows he designed in Westminster Abbey.

The Anglican Cathedral In Norwich.

Norwich Cathedral.

Photo: Norwich Cathedral

by C J Paul (chris) on Flickr

Illustration: PINTEREST

The history of Norwich Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

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Anglican Chant:

Psalm 124 (Nisi Quia Dominus).

Choir of Norwich Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/MjHbP3As4tk

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Norwich Cathedral is a Cathedral, located in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Dedicated to The Holy and Undivided Trinity. It is the Cathedral Church for The Church of England Diocese of Norwich and is one of the Norwich 12 Heritage Sites.

The Cathedral was begun in 1096 and constructed out of flint and mortar and faced with a cream-coloured Caen limestone. A Saxon settlement and two Churches were demolished to make room for the buildings. The Cathedral was completed in 1145, with the Norman Tower, still seen today, topped with a wooden Spire, covered with lead. Several episodes of damage necessitated rebuilding of The East End and Spire, but, since the final erection of the Stone Spire in 1480, there have been few fundamental alterations to the fabric.

"Abide With Me".

Sung by The Choir of Norwich Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

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The Dedication Of The Basilicas Of The Holy Apostles Saint Peter And Saint Paul. Feast Day, Today, 18 November.

Text The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 
unless otherwise stated.

The Dedication Of The Basilicas Of The Holy Apostles
      Saint Peter And Saint Paul.
Feast Day 18 November.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: Rene de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Interior of Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome,

by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1731).

Current location: Saint Louis Art Museum.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Basilica of Saint Paul's-without-the-Walls, Rome. 
Italiano: Statua di San Paolo di fronte alla facciata della 

Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura a Roma.
Photo: May 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: Berthold Werner.

 (Wikimedia Commons)

After having celebrated, on 5 August, The Dedication of Saint Mary of The Snow (better known under the name of Saint Mary Major), at Rome, and that of Saint Michael, on 29 September, and that of Saint John Lateran, on 9 November, and, in some Dioceses, a common Dedication Feast of all the consecrated Churches, The Church, today, celebrates that of The Basilicas of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Rome.

Thus, are all these Anniversaries Solemnised in the Season after Pentecost, a time when we give all our thoughts to The Church and to The Saints, of whom our Temples are the living image.

The Basilica of Saint Peter, on The Vatican, and that of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls, both erected by Emperor Constantine on the sites of their Martyrdom, are hardly inferior, owing to their origin and importance, to The Basilica of Saint John Lateran. They were also Consecrated by Saint Sylvester on 18 November.

English: Saint Peter's Basilica,
seen from the River Tiber. 

Magyar: Vatikánváros látképe.

Italiano: Veduta del Vaticano dal Tevere.

Photo: January 2005.

Source: Flickr

Author: Sébastien Bertrand from Paris, France

Reviewer: Andre Engels.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church of Saint Peter is on the site of The Circus of Nero, and, under its High Altar, lie the Sacred Remains of The Head of The Apostles, making it, with Saint John Lateran, the centre of the whole Christian World.

Here is always held The Station of The Saturday in Ember Week, when Holy Orders are conferred; here, also, are held The Stations of The Third Sunday in Advent, and of The Epiphany, and of Passion Sunday, and of Easter Monday, and of Ascension Day, and of Pentecost, and of The Litanies of Saint Mark, and of Rogation Wednesday.

Lastly, it is here that Mass is Solemnly Sung on The Feast of The Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, on 29 June, and on The Feasts of The Chair of Saint Peter at Rome, 18 January, and of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch, 22 February.

English: Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls, Vatican, Italy. 

With its length of 432 feet, this Basilica ranks eleventh among the largest Churches in the World.

Français: Basilique Saint-Paul-hors-les-Murs, Vatican, située à Rome, Latium, Italie. 

Avec sa longueur de 131,66 mètres, cette Basilique se classe au 11è rang 

parmi les plus grandes églises au monde.

Photo: September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174.

(Wikimedia Commons)

This Church, already remarkable in the 4th-Century A.D., was enlarged at a later date and completely rebuilt in the 16th-Century, when it was falling into decay. Pope Julian II and Pope Leo X had recourse to the greatest artists of the age and the combined plans of Bramante and Michael Angelo (sic) raised over the tomb of Saint Peter the greatest and richest Church in the World, which Pope Urban VIII Consecrated on 18 November 1626.

The Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls, situated on the other side of Rome, was also built in the 4th-Century A.D., over the tomb of The Apostle of The Gentiles. On account of the distance, it was only used for The Station four times a year: On The Feast of Holy Innocents; on Sexagesima Sunday; on The Wednesday of The Fourth Week in Lent (or Day of The Greatest Scrutiny); and on Easter Tuesday. Mass is Solemnly Celebrated there on The Day of The Commemoration of Saint Paul, on 30 June, and on The Day of His Conversion, 25 January.

Having been destroyed by fire in 1823, the Church was rebuilt by Pope Gregory XVI and Pope Pius IX, and Consecrated by the latter on 10 December 1854. He maintained, however, today's Feast, joining the Anniversary of the two Dedications under the original date of 18 November.

Mass: Terríbilis.

"Jesus Christ's Gentle Mother". "Jesu Cristes Mildë Moder". 11th-Century Mediaeval English Hymn.

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Jesu Cristes Mildë Moder".

(Jesus Christ's Gentle Mother).

Sung by Sequentia - Ensemble for Mediaeval Music, Cologne.

Available on YouTube at

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The Rock Island Line.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 938 was under steam for the very last time on 16 September 1953, just before proceeding to Chicago's LaSalle Street Station for a Press announcement of Rock Island's attaining its 100% Diesel goal. Locomotive 938 had been specially painted and striped for the event. Later in the day, 938 returned to storage at Blue Island. The accession of 4-6-2 Pacific Type Locomotive 938 marks a significant milestone for the Museum's collection, as it represents one of the most common passenger-service wheel arrangements. Photo by R. W Buhrmaster.

Illustration: ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM

"Rock Island Line".

Sung by Lonnie Donegan (1961).

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/wI4nRD-DRpk

The following Text is from Wikipedia  - the free encyclopaedia.

"Rock Island Line" is an American blues/folk song, first recorded by John Lomaxi n 1934, as sung by inmates in an Arkansas State Prison, and later popularised by Lead Belly. Many versions have been recorded by other artists, most significantly the World-Wide hit version in the Mid-1950s by Lonnie Donegan. The song is ostensibly about The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

The chorus to the old song reads:

The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
The Rock Island Line is the road to ride
The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
If you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line

The verses tell a humorous story about a train operator who smuggled pig iron through a toll gate by claiming all he had on board was livestock.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a Class I Railroad in The United States. It was also known as The Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.

The Gregorian Introit For The End Of The Liturgical Year.

Text is taken from NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT
by GREGORY DIPIPPO.

Illustration: PINTEREST

The Lord sayeth, I think thoughts of peace, and not of affliction; you shall call upon Me, and I will hear you, and I will bring back your captivity from all places. V. Lord, Thou hast Blessed Thy land: Thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. The Lord sayeth. (The Introit for the final Sundays of The Liturgical Year, from the 23rd Sunday After Pentecost to The Last Sunday After Pentecost.)

The Introit for the XXIII Sunday After Pentecost.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/xiAFrs-FKyg

Latin: Dicit Dóminus: Ego cógito cogitatiónes pacis, et non afflictiónis: invocábitis me, et ego exáudiam vos: et redúcam captivitátem vestram de cunctis locis. Vs. Benedixísti, Dómine, terram tuam: avertísti captivitátem Jacob.

English: The Gregorian Introit for the XXIII Sunday After Pentecost 

(Tridentine Latin Mass Liturgy).

Français: 23ème Dimanche après la Pentecôte.

Nederlands: Gregoriaans, drieëntwintigste zondag na Pinksteren Tridentijnse mis.

"To Fast Is To Banquet With Angels . . ." Eighteen Octaves In The Liturgical Year. Twelve Minor Prophets Of The Old Testament. Advent. Christmas. And Epiphany.

Text is taken from BENEDICAMUS DOMINO

Sunday, November 08, 2015

Apparuerunt Vultus Eorum Meliores

Today (8 November), The Octave Day of All Saints, the end of all (eighteen Universally observed) Octaves for The Liturgical Year, is also the Liturgical Third Sunday of November. The Second Sunday and its Week are omitted this year as the onset of Advent, a few weeks hence, determines.

The entire Month of November is devoted, Scripturally, to the Twelve Minor Prophets of The Old Testament: The first two weeks (The Second Week is again omitted this year) to Ezechiel; The Third Week to Daniel; The Fourth Week and The Fifth Week to the rest, each having a day or two devoted to an excerpt of their respective Prophetic Books.

This is the final stretch, as these Prophets all point to not only The First Coming of Christ, but also, more especially, to His Second Coming, The Eschaton: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. It is Eschatide.

Monastic Compline.

Available on YouTube at

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This Third Sunday of November offers the opening Verses of The Book of Daniel, during The First Nocturne of Mattins, in which we read about how the ancient Israelites were taken into captivity in Babylon during the infamous Reign of King Nabuchodonosor.

Daniel and his three young companions (who, later tossed into the fire, gave us the famous Benedicite Canticle, sung at Sunday and Festal Lauds) were given alternative Babylonian names, and were expected to comport themselves and eat and drink as Babylonians.

They refused. They would not eat of the luscious meats and drink the wine of the King's Court; rather, they ate nothing but The Fruits of The Earth, vegetables (legumes to be more precise) for ten days. All expected them to suffer malnourishment, be weakened, and the eunuch in charge feared retribution from the King, for Daniel's and his Companions' refusal to defile themselves. Instead, the Scripture tells us, after ten days apparuerunt vultus eorum meliores, that is, their faces/complexions appeared better.

This beautiful Missal, made from Parchment, originates from East Anglia, England.

It is considered a very important Manuscript as it is one of the earliest

examples 

of a Missal of an English source.

Sarum Missals were books produced by 

The Church

during The Middle Ages for Celebrating Mass throughout the Year.

Date: Circa 1310-1320.

Source: National Library of Wales

(Welsh: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru),

Aberystwyth, Wales.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Second Nocturne at Mattins is from a Sermon of Saint Athanasius on the aforementioned passage from Daniel. Athanasius ties the steadfast resolve of Daniel and Companions with the salutary effects of Fasting, symbolised by their youthful countenance after ten days of hunger.

He says: "Their countenances appeared fairer than all the children which did eat the portion of the King's meat. Seest thou what Fasting doth. It healeth diseases, it drieth up the humours of the body, it scareth away devils, it purgeth forth unclean thoughts, it maketh the intellect clearer, it purifieth the heart, it sanctifieth the body, and, in the end, it leadeth a man unto The Throne of God."

Both body and Soul are refreshed, and, based on personal experience, it is quite true that I feel more refreshed, energetic, and diligent, both corporeally and Spiritually, during periods of Fast such as Lent, Ember Days, and Vigils.

Sergej Rachmaninov.

Vespers (All-Night Vigil).

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It struck me, upon reading this passage early this morning, that it is perfectly timed before Martinmas (11 November). Some older Traditions would have us add some extra (not Liturgically official) days before Advent Proper, to achieve a Forty-Day Fasting period before Christmas.

Hence, there is an old custom of a Martinmas Fast, that, after having Celebrated The Last Octave of The Liturgical Year (All Saints) and The Feast of the great Lyonese Bishop of antiquity (Saint Martin of Tours) with lanterns and duck (or goose), as customary, we divest ourselves, yet again, of the creature comforts of food and drink and both end one Liturgical Year and embark on a New Liturgical Year with a Fast.

The Sherborne Missal.

Date: 15th-Century.

Source: British Library Add. MS 74236.

British Library Online gallery

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Advent is, indeed, too short and is sorely neglected in modern times. Mandatory Fasting, even for the short twenty-two to twenty-eight days of Advent (minus Sundays) was abolished long ago, and, even if it weren't, it's too easy, barely a blip on the Calendar.

Fasting from 12 November 'til 24 December would be entirely and laudably counter-cultural to the materialism, gluttony, drunkenness, and debauchery that is about to kick into high gear with the faux "Holiday Season", which has nothing whatsoever to do with Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. I conclude with the final passage today from Saint Athanasius:

Carthusian Monks at Marienau Monastery,

Bad Wurzach, District of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

It is the only extant Carthusian Monastery in Germany.

Illustration: MIKE'S PASSING THOUGHTS

If any man, therefore, be troubled with an unclean spirit, if he bethink him of this, and have recourse to this remedy, namely, Fasting, the evil spirit will be forthwith compelled to leave him from dread of the power of Fasting. 

Devils take great delight in fulness, and drunkenness, and bodily comfort. There is great power in Fasting, and great and glorious things are wrought thereby. How cometh it that men work such wonders, and that signs are done by them, and that God, through them, giveth health to the sick, unless it be from their ghostly exercises, and the meekness of their Souls, and their Godly conversation. 

To Fast is to banquet with Angels, and he that Fasteth is to be reckoned, so far, among The Angelic Host.

English: Cloisters of The Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the -Walls,

Rome, Italy.

Deutsch: Rom, Sankt Paul vor den Mauern

(San Paolo fuori le mura), Kreuzgang des Klosters.

Photo: 28 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dnalor 01.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Albert The Great. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 15 November.

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

Saint Albert the Great.
Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 15 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus)

Artist: Tommaso da Modena (1326–1379).

Date: 1352.

Current location: Chiesa di San Nicolò, Treviso, Italy.

Source/Photographer: Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen Dominikanerklosters San Niccolò in Treviso.

First uploaded by sv:Användare:Lamré to Swedish Wikipedia as sv:Bild:AlbertusMagnus.jpg.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus)

Illustration: RELEASING THE ARROW

Born in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1200, Albert, even as a child, loved The Blessed Virgin in a special manner. He resolved to enter The Order of Saint Dominic, but, tempted by the devil, he gave up the idea.

Ultimately, however, at the earnest entreaty and through the ardent Prayers of Blessed Jourdan of Saxony, he resolved definitely to enter The Order of Saint Dominic. He studied Philosophy at Cologne, then at Paris, where he became one of the most renowned Professors of the University.

Saint Thomas Aquinas was one of his students. He was made Bishop of Ratisbon (Regensburg) by Pope Urban IV and defended The Church against the errors of Guillaume de Saint-Amour and died at Cologne in 1280.

He was Canonised and proclaimed Doctor of The Church in 1931.

Mass: In médio, from The Common of Doctors.

The Tympanum and Archivolts of Strasbourg Cathedral,

Strasbourg, France, 

with iconography inspired by 

Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great).

Photo: 22 July 1989.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rebecca Kennison.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Albertus Magnus, O.P. (circa 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic Saint. He was a German Dominican Friar and a Catholic Bishop. He was known during his lifetime as "doctor universalis" and "doctor expertus", and, late in his life, the term "magnus" (great) was appended to his name.

Scholars, such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder, have referred to him as the greatest German Philosopher and Theologian of The Middle Ages. The Catholic Church honours him as a Doctor of The Church, one of only thirty-six so honoured.

The Latin Mass Society Launches A Brand-New "Missalette".

This Article is taken from RORATE CAELI

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

Members of The Latin Mass Society are this weekend receiving their copies of the quarterly magazine, Mass of Ages; with this edition, is enclosed a brand-new Booklet Missal, or "Missalette", with Ordinary Prayers of The Mass, Benediction, and other Prayers and Devotions.

This new book has a clear, accurate, and readable new translation of all The Ordinary of The Mass, taking account of the improved ICEL translation of The Novus Ordo, where applicable, but using Traditional language ('Thee' and 'Thou', etc.).

It has new illustrations showing the postures of the Priest at different points during The Mass. It includes variants for High Mass and Pontifical Mass, so the Book won't let you down on special occasions; for example, it gives The Pontifical Blessing at the end of Mass.

It includes the Texts for The Angelus and for Benediction, in both Latin and English; if you want to use the lovely Chant Setting of The Divine Praises in Latin, for example, the Text is there.

It also includes two Chant Mass Ordinaries, those most commonly used on Sundays - Mass XI and Mass XVII (for Advent and Lent) - and The Four Marian Anthems.

It has a number of things particularly useful for Catholics who are attached to The Traditional Mass specific to England and Wales, such as The Prayer for The Queen, The Prayer for England (given to us by Pope Leo XIII and commonly said during Benediction, and The 'Long Prayer for England', a charming Prayer ordered by Cardinal Wiseman to be said in Benediction on The Second Sunday of the month.

It also has the authentic version of The Prayer for Wales, in Welsh. Modern books with The Welsh Prayer for Wales use a variety of edited versions, which exclude the petition that The Welsh return to their ancient Catholic Faith. Our version is that used in The Welsh CTS Simple Prayer Book, issued in the 1950s.

Such a Booklet can't include everything, but we have the modest hope that it will set a new standard for such Aids to Devotion.

You can BUY COPIES HERE; Talk to The LMS Office about bulk discounts.

The Cathedral Of The Resurrection Of Christ. Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

Cathedral of The Resurrection of Christ,

Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Illustration: PINTEREST

English: The Church of The Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Russian: Khram Spasa na Krovi. 

This Cathedral is one of the main sights of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called The Church on Spilt Blood and The Cathedral of The Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова), its official name. The name refers to the

blood of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who was assassinated on that site in 1881.

Русский: Собо́р Воскресе́ния Христо́ва на Крови́, Храм Спа́са-на-Крови́ в Санкт-Петербурге — православный мемориальный однопрестольный храм во имя Воскресения Христова, сооружён в память того, что на этом месте 1 марта 1881 года в результате покушения был смертельно ранен Царь-Освободитель — император Александр II (выражение на крови указывает на кровь царя). Храм был сооружен как памятник Царю-Мученику на средства, собранные по всей России.

Decorated Dome, Ceiling and Walls of

The Church on The Blood

(Church of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ),

Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Photo: 7 June 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ninaras.

The Church of The Saviour on Spilled Blood (Russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi) is one of the main sights of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Other names include The Church on Spilt Blood (Russian:Церковь на Крови, Tserkov’ na Krovi) and The Cathedral of The Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова, Sobor Voskreseniya Khristova).

This Church was built on the site where Emperor Alexander II was fatally wounded in March 1881.The Church was built from 1883 till 1907. The construction was funded by The Imperial Family.

The name of the Church should not be confused with The Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land in Yekaterinburg, where Alexander's grandson, Nicholas II, and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Notre Dame De Paris.

The Cathedral of

Notre Dame de Paris.

Illustration: CRACK TWO

The following Text is from CRACK TWO

Notre Dame de Paris, also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral on the Eastern half of the Île de la Cité, in the Fourth Arrondissement of Paris, France.

It is the Cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris; that is, it is the Church that contains the "Cathedra" (Official Chair) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois. The Cathedral Treasury houses a Reliquary with the purported Crown of Thorns.

Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in France and in Europe, and the naturalism of its sculptures and Stained-Glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.

The first period of construction, from 1163 into the 1240s, coincided with the musical experiments of the Notre Dame School. The Cathedral suffered desecration during the radical phase of The French Revolution, in the 1790s, when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed.

An extensive restoration, supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, removed remaining decoration, returning the Cathedral to an 'original' Gothic state. See more at CRACK TWO