Musica Sacra Florida 2018. Registration Has Been Extended. There's Still Time.

Text and Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

By: JANET GORBITZ.

There’s still time !!!

The Registration Deadline for

Musica Sacra Florida 2018

has been extended to Tuesday, 24 July 2018.

Musica Sacra Florida 2018.

10th Annual Gregorian Chant Conference

Friday, 27 July 2018

and

Saturday, 28 July 2018 .

“Treasures of The Catholic Church".

Monday, 23 July 2018

to

Friday, 27 July 2018.

at

Royal Palm Academy

and

Saint Agnes Chapel, Naples, Florida.

The Conference will include:

A Special Event.

“Treasures of The Catholic Church”.

23 July 2018

to

28 July 2018.

For young people aged eight to eighteen. Children will receive instruction in Gregorian Chant and Catholic Culture (including Great Art) from an Expert Faculty, including

Father Jonathan Romanoski, FSSP,

Susan Treacy, Ph.D.,

and others.

Musica Sacra Florida 2018.

Workshops

27 July 2018 to 28 July 2018.

“What Came Before The Square Notes ?” (Edward Schaefer, D.M.A.).

Learn the fascinating history

of Pre-Square Note Notation.

“A Plain and Easy Guide to Square Notation”.(Susan Treacy, Ph.D.).

Are you mystified or intimidated by those little Square Notes ? Fear not !!!

In this Workshop, you will receive

basic instruction on how to read

Gregorian Chant Notation. Likewise,

if you need a refresher course, come join us.

“Gregorian Chant as

The Basis for Choral Excellence”.

(Larry Kent, D.M.A.).

This Workshop will examine various ways

that correct Chant Technique.

Participants will work with excerpts of Works by Byrd, Victoria, Tallis, and Palestrina.

Keynote Lecture for

The Musica Sacra Florida 2018

Gregorian Chant Conference.

Dr. Edward Schaefer (University of Florida): "The Place of Gregorian Chant in

Western History and its importance, today”.

Gregorian Chant Conference Faculty.

Larry Kent, D.M.A.,

Director of Florida Pro Musica, Tampa.

Edward Schaefer, D.M.A.,

University of Florida College of Fine Arts.

Susan Treacy, Ph.D., Ave Maria University.

For all the details about Registration, Schedule and Conference Hotel, visit their Web-Site: musicasacraflorida.com

Saint Margaret. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 20 July. And Zephyrinus Shows Off His New Missale Romanum From 1861. (Much Better Than A "Missalette").

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

Saint Margaret. 
   Virgin And Martyr. 
   Feast Day 20 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

The Introit for The Mass for Saint Margaret, Virgin and Martyr, on 20 July, from Zephyrinus's new Missale Romanum (dated 1861), which was very kindly given by a Priest friend. Readers will have to decide, themselves, whether this Liturgical presentation has more Sanctity, Profundity, and Worth, than what is often on offer in today's "Missalettes".

The size of the Missale Romanum is 17 inches tall (43 cm) and 12 inches wide (30 cm).

Not exactly designed to fit into one's pocket. It was probably designed to rest on

an 

Eagle Brass Lectern in a Monastic Sanctuary.

Mass: Me exspectavérunt.

All Illustrations: ZEPHYRINUS

Margaret, who had been taught The Christian Religion by her nurse, perished by the sword in the cruel General Persecution, at Antioch, in Pisidia, towards 255 A.D. - 275 A.D.

From The East, her Veneration was carried to The West, during The Crusades. She is especially invoked by those about to become mothers. Her name is in The List of The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints (see The Post for 28 July 2015).

Mass: Me exspectavérunt.

Saint Jerome Emilian. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 20 July.

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

Saint Jerome Emilian. 
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 20 July.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Jerome Emilian.

Founder of The Somascan Fathers.

Over Five Hundred Years Service to Orphans and The Needy Youth of this World.

Illustration: SOMASCAN FATHERS

Born at Venice, Italy,  of the patrician family of Emiliani, Jerome unreservedly gave himself up to the influence of Divine Grace, "which, on the ruins of the corrupt man, raised him as a new man made in The Image of God" (Secret).

Filled with The Spirit of Adoption, which makes us Children of The Father, he was chosen by Heaven to be The Father of Orphans and of The Poor. (Collect).

As Jesus had asked the young man in the Gospel to do, he left everything and, like his Master, made little Children come unto him (Gospel).

He Founded, at Somascha, between Milan and Bergamo, Italy, a Congregation whose object was to educate youth in Orphanages and Colleges. Wherefore, the Introit, applying to him the words of Jeremias, shows him full of compassion for children, who, thanks to him, learned to praise The Lord.

Dividing his bread with those who were hungry, and covering the naked, he opened asylums for The Poor and gave them abundant alms with the help of The Nobility of Pavia and Milan (Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia).

He died of the plague in 1537, having borne on his shoulders the plague-stricken to their burial place (Offertory).

Let us have recourse to The Father of Mercies, so that we may be filled, like Saint Jerome, with Holy Charity for The Poor and for Children.

Mass: Effusum est.
Commemoration: Of Saint Margaret.

The Dogma Of The Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Promulgated By Blessed Pope Pius IX, In The Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus", On 8 December 1854.

The following Text is taken from, and can be read in full at, the Article in UMBLEPIE
on The Dogma of The Immaculate Conception, and the promulgation of "Ineffabilis Deus".

Zephyrinus heartily commends the Article to all Readers.

The Immaculate Conception.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1628.

English: Work belonging to the Madrid Prado Museum photographed during the exhibition

« Rubens et son Temps » (Rubens and His Times) at the Museum of Louvre-Lens.

Français: Œuvre appartenant au musée du Prado de Madrid photographiée lors de l’exposition temporaire « Rubens et son Temps » au musée du Louvre-Lens.

Deutsch: Arbeiten gehören in der " Rubens et son Temps " (Ausstellung Rubens und seine Zeit)

im Museum von Louvre-Lens fotografiert.

Español: Trabaja perteneciente a fotografiado durante la exposición de

" Rubens et son Temps " (Rubens y su época) en el Museo de Louvre-Lens.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Whilst the re-establishment of the hierarchies 

of England and Holland was being considered, 

requests that the Traditional belief in

"The Immaculate Conception of The Virgin Mary"

be defined as a Dogma of Faith, were being received

at Rome in increasing numbers.

The vision of The Blessed Virgin, seen by the 

Novice Nun, Catherine Labouré, in the Rue du Bac, Paris, in 1830, which included the inscription:

“O Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous” (“O Mary, conceived without sin,

pray for us who have recourse to thee”),

gave significant impetus to the movement.

Pio Nono [Blessed Pope Pius IX] was known to have a special Devotion to The Mother of God, and,

on 1 June 1848,  he appointed a Commission of twenty Theologians, under the Jesuit, Fr. Passaglia, to study the merits and implications of such a proclamation.

For Pio Nono, the proclamation of the Dogma, 

in Saint Peter’s, was certainly one of the supreme moments of his life, and more than once he was overcome with emotion while reading it out.

To commemorate the event, he caused a very tall and graceful column to be erected in the Piazza di Spagna, at Rome, surmounted by a statue of The Virgin as she had appeared to the Novice Nun, Catherine Labouré, at Paris. It is one of the more striking of the many monuments which he left in the City.

Blessed Pope Pius IX.

Source: Originally from hu.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Author: Original uploader was User:Czinitz at hu.wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Vincent De Paul. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 19 July.

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

Saint Vincent De Paul.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 19 July.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Vincent de Paul.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

Providence, ever watching over men with maternal solicitude, in the 17th-Century raised up Saint Vincent de Paul. He was filled with The Holy Spirit, Which had strengthened The Apostles, and he contributed abundantly to the evangelisation of The Poor and to the development of the Priestly virtues which are the glory of The Clergy (Collect).

He was born near Dax, France. When still a young Priest, he fell into the hands of Turkish pirates, who carried him to Africa. Having returned to France, he became, successively, a Parish Priest, and Grand Almoner of The Galley Slaves. Saint Francis de Sales entrusted to him later the Spiritual Direction of The Nuns of The Visitation.

Preaching especially to country people, he bound the Members of The Congregation he had Founded, under the Title of Priests of The Mission, or Lazarists, to undertake this Apostolic Work by a special Vow.

Teaching them to leave everything to follow Christ (Communion), he sent them to work in The Vineyard of God (Gospel) and to establish everywhere Seminaries in order to give good Priests to The People.

In order to help Poor People, Foundlings, Young Girls, whose virtue was exposed to danger, and others insane, invalided or sick, he Founded, in conjunction with Saint Louise de Marillac, The Congregation of The Sisters of Charity, which is now the most numerous and the most diffused throughout the World.

After a life which recalls the Apostolate of Saint Paul (Epistle), and which caused Pope Leo XIII to proclaim him The Special Patron of all Charitable Associations, Saint Vincent died in 1660, in Paris, France, at Saint Lazarus's, which was The Mother-House of his Congregation.

Let us beseech God that, following the example of Saint Vincent, whose pious merits we Venerate on this day (Collect), our hearts, like his, may be filled with Divine Charity.

Mass: Justus.

A Mass Of Thanksgiving Will Be Said For All Benefactors Of This Blog. "Introibo Ad Altáre Dei". "I Will Go In Unto The Altar Of God".

A Mass Of Thanksgiving will be said for all Benefactors of this Blog.

"Introibo Ad Altáre Dei". "I Will Go In Unto To The Altar Of God".

The opening words of The Traditional Latin Mass.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Saint Symphorosa And Her Seven Sons. Martyrs. Feast Day 18 July.

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

Saint Symphorosa And Her Seven Sons. 
   Martyrs. 
   Feast Day 18 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: The Church of Saint Symphorosa, Tivoli, Italy.

Français: L'église San Sinforosa de Tivoli Terme sur la via Tiburtina, Tivoli, Italie.

Photo: 16 May 2010.

Source: Own work.

Permission: LPLT / Wikimedia Commons.

Author: LPLT.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Symphorosa of Tivoli, wife of the Martyr, Saint Getulus, was the mother of seven sons to whom she taught The Faith. Arrested at Tivoli, by order of The Emperor Adrian, she was hung up by the hair and then thrown into The River Teverone, with a stone tied to her neck.

All her children, stretched on stakes by means of pulleys, imitated her constancy and were Martyred about 125 A.D.

Mass: Clamavérunt justi.

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Oh,What A Wonderful Thing The French Revolution Was.

Sacred Heart patch of The Vendean Royalist insurgents.

Insignia of The Royalist insurgents during The War in The Vendée (1793).

The French motto 'Dieu, le Roi' means 'God, the King'.

Illustration: FR. Z's BLOG

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The War in The Vendée (1793; French: Guerre de Vendée) was an uprising in The Vendée region of France during The French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately South of The Loire River in Western France.

Initially, the War was similar to the 14th-Century Jacquerie Peasant Uprising, but quickly acquired themes considered by the government in Paris to be Counter-Revolutionary, and Royalist. The Uprising, headed by the self-styled Catholic and Royal Army was comparable to The Chouannerie, which took place in the area North of The Loire.

The Départments included in the Uprising, called The Vendée Militaire, included the area between The Loire and The Layon Rivers: Vendée (Marais, Bocage Vendéen, Collines Vendéennes), part of Maine-et-Loire, West of The Layon, and the portion of Deux-Sèvres, West of The River Thouet.

The deficiencies of The Vendean army became apparent. Lacking a unified strategy (or army) and fighting a defensive campaign, from April onwards the army lost cohesion and its special advantages. Successes continued for some time: Thouars was taken in early May and Saumur in June; there were victories at Châtillon and Vihiers. After this string of victories, The Vendeans turned to a protracted siege of Nantes, for which they were unprepared and which stalled their momentum, giving the government in Paris sufficient time to send more troops and experienced generals.

Tens of thousands of civilians, Republican prisoners, and sympathisers with The Revolution, were massacred by both armies. Historians such as Reynald Secher have described these events as "genocide", but most scholars reject the use of the word as inaccurate. Ultimately, the Uprising was suppressed using draconian measures. 

The historian François Furet concludes that the repression in The Vendée "not only revealed massacre and destruction on an unprecedented scale, but also a zeal so violent that it has bestowed as its legacy much of the region's identity. The War aptly epitomises the depth of the conflict between Religious Tradition and The Revolutionary foundation of democracy."

"Dialogues des Carmélites".

"Salve Regina".

Available on YouTube at

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English: The Carmelite Nuns of Compiègne face The Guillotine.

Français: Les carmélites de Compiègne face à la guillotine. Illustration extraite

de Louis David (o.s.b.), Les Seize Carmélites de Compiègne, leur martyre

et leur béatification, 17 juillet 1794 - 27 mai 1906, Paris, H. Oudin, [1906].

Date: 6 July 2013.

Source: Louis David osb, Les Seize Carmélites de Compiègne [...], Paris - Poitiers, Oudin, 1906.

Author: "Une" Carmélite.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Yesterday was the Anniversary of The Martyrdom of The Carmelites of Compiègne.

The Martyrs of Compiègne were the sixteen Members of The Carmel of Compiègne, France: Eleven Discalced Carmelite Nuns, three Lay Sisters, and two Externs (Tertiaries of The Order, who would handle the Community's needs outside the Monastery).

During The French Revolution, they refused to obey the Civil Constitution of The Clergy of The Revolutionary government, which mandated the suppression of their Monastery. They were guillotined on 17 July 1794, during The Reign of Terror and buried in a mass grave at Picpus Cemetery.

Saint Camillus De Lellis. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 18 July.

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

Saint Camillus De Lellis.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 18 July.

Double.

White Vestments.

Our Lady of La Paz Parish Church, Bolivia.

(Saint Camillus de Lellis, Archimedes-Flordeliz Streets, Makati City).

List of Barangays of Metro Manila. Legislative districts of Makati, Barangay La Paz, Makati City.

Photo: 24 July 2016.

Source: Own work.

Author: Judgefloro.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Holy Ghost, Who has manifested Himself in all manner of ways in the Souls of The Saints, whose names have appeared in The Cycle since The Feast of Pentecost, proposes to our admiration on this day Saint Camillus, whose Charity towards his neighbour had specially Jesus in view (Communion).

Born in 1550, in The Kingdom of Naples, of the noble Family of Lellis, Saint Camillus entered The Capuchin Order, but twice he had to leave it on account of a sore on his leg. For God intended him to be The Founder of a Congregation of Regular Clerks, Consecrating themselves to the service of the sick.

He obtained from The Apostolic See approbation for his Order. Inspired by the example of Jesus, Who died for us (Epistle) and Who has declared that there is no greater proof of love than to give one's life for others (Introit, Gospel), these Religious promise to tend the sick, even those stricken with the Plague.

Saint Camillus, as well as his Institute, received from God a special Grace to help Souls to emerge victoriously from the death-struggle (Collect, Secret), wherefore the name of this Saint has been included in the Litany for The Agonising,

Saint Camillus died at Rome on 14 July 1614. Pope Leo XIII proclaimed him the Patron Saint hospitals and patients, and Pope Pius XI added "of all those who nurse them".

Mass: Majorem hac.
Commemoration: Saint Symphorosa and her Seven Sons. Martyrs.

"The Grey Friars Are Returning To Walsingham For The First Time Since The Reformation".

The statue of Our Lady of Walsingham is held aloft 

during a

Year of Mercy Pilgrimage attended by Cardinal Nichols (Photo: mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

Illustration: CATHOLIC HERALD

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, CATHOLIC HERALD

The Conventual Franciscans

Are Experiencing A Revival In England.

The only remaining building of the first English Franciscan Friary, built in 1267.

It was a considerable Monastery until The Dissolution of The Monasteries,

by King Henry VIII, in 1538, when The Friars were banished.

Photo: 30 June 2008.

Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/866800

Author: Pam Fray.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encylopaedia.

Grey Friars, or Gray Friars, is a term for The Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, in particular,

The Conventual Franciscans.

Saint Alexius. Confessor. Feast Day 17 July.

Text (unless otherwise stated) from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

Saint Alexius.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 17 July.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Alexius.

Polski: św. Aleksy, Człowiek Boży (XVII w.).

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Images/ii134&393.htm

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Alexius was born at Rome, towards 350 A.D., of a wealthy family; his father being the Senator Euphemian. Guided by The Holy Ghost, he renounced his patrimony and piously visited, as a Pilgrim, the Sanctuaries of The East. He died in the 5th-Century A.D., under the Pontificate of Pope Innocent I.

His body was buried in the Church which bears his name on Mount Aventine, Rome. He is honoured there with Saint Boniface (Feast Day 14 May), to whom the Church had originally been Dedicated.

Mass: Os justi.

English: The Minor Basilica of Saint Alexius, Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio all'Aventino.

Photo: 1 September 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Σπάρτακος.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Saint Alexius, or Alexis of Rome, or Alexis of Edessa, was an Eastern Saint, whose Veneration was later transplanted to Rome. The relocation of the cult, to Rome, was facilitated by the belief that the Saint was a native of Rome and had died there.

This Roman connection stemmed from an earlier Syriac legend, which recounted that, during the Episcopate of Bishop Rabbula (412 A.D. - 435 A.D.), a "Man of God", who lived in Edessa, Mesopotamia as a beggar, and who shared the alms he received with other poor people, was found to be a native of Rome after his death.

The Greek version of his legend made Alexius the only son of Euphemianus, a wealthy Christian Roman of the Senatorial class. Alexius fled his arranged marriage to follow his Holy Vocation. Disguised as a beggar, he lived near Edessa, in Syria, accepting alms even from his own household slaves, who had been sent to look for him, but did not recognise him, until a miraculous vision of The Blessed Virgin Mary singled him out as a "Man of God."

English: Chapel of Saint Alexius, the Minor Basilica of Saint Boniface and Saint Alexius, Rome.

Italiano: Chiesa dei santi Bonifacio e Alessio all'Aventino: cappella di sant'Alessio nel sottoscala.

Photo: 9 January 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Fleeing the resultant notoriety, he returned to Rome, so changed that his parents did not recognise him, but, as good Christians, took him in and sheltered him for seventeen years, which he spent in a dark cubby-hole beneath the stairs, praying and teaching Catechism to children.

After his death, his family found writings on his body, which told them whom he was and how he had lived his life of Penance from the day of his wedding, for the love of God.

Saint Alexius' cult developed in Syria and spread throughout the Eastern Roman Empire by the 9th-Century. Only from the end of the 10th-Century did his name begin to appear in any Liturgical Books in the West.

English: Minor Basilica of Saint Alexius and Saint Boniface, Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Santi Alessio e Bonifacio, Rome. Italia.

Photo: 11 July 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Panarjedde (FlagUploader).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Since before the 8th-Century, there was, on the Aventine, in Rome, a Church that was dedicated to Saint Boniface. In 972 A.D., Pope Benedict VII transferred this almost-abandoned Church to the exiled Greek Metropolitan, Sergius of Damascus. The latter erected, beside the Church, a Monastery for Greek and Latin Monks, soon made famous for the austere life of its inmates. To the name of Saint Boniface, was now added that of Saint Alexius, as Titular Saint of the Church and Monastery, now known as Santi Bonifacio e Alessio.

It is evidently Sergius and his Monks who brought to Rome the Veneration of Saint Alexius. The Eastern Saint, according to his legend a native of Rome, was soon very popular with the folk of that City, and this Church, being associated with the legend, was considered to be built on the site of the home that Alexius returned to from Edessa.

Saint Alexius is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology, under 17 July, in the following terms: "At Rome, in a Church on the Aventine Hill, a man of God is celebrated under the name of Alexius, who, as reported by tradition, abandoned his wealthy home, for the sake of becoming poor, and to beg for alms unrecognised."

English: Minor Basilica of Saint Boniface and Saint Alexius, Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Roma - Chiesa dei Ss. Bonifacio e Alessio.

Photo: October 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: MarkusMark.

(Wikimedia Commons)

While the Roman Catholic Church continues to recognise Saint Alexius as a Saint, his Feast Day was removed from The General Roman Calendar in 1969. The reason given was the legendary character of the written life of the Saint. The Catholic Encyclopedia article, regarding Saint Alexius, remarked: "Perhaps the only basis for the story is the fact that a certain pious ascetic, at Edessa, lived the life of a beggar and was later Venerated as a Saint."

The Tridentine Calendar gave his Feast Day the Rank of "Simple", but, by 1862, it had become a "Semi-Double" and, in Rome itself, a "Double". It was reduced again to the Rank of "Simple", in 1955, and, in 1960, became a "Commemoration".

English: A 1674 theatre programme for Saint Alexis, The Man of God,

presented in Kiev and dedicated to Tsar Alexis of Russia.

Русский: Театральная программка спектакля "Алексей, человек Божий",

поставленного в Киеве в 1674 году в посвящение царю Алексею Михайловичу.

Source: Scanned from И. Л. Бусева-Давыдова. Культура и искусство

в эпоху перемен. - М., Индрик, 2008, ISBN 978-5-85759-439-1 p.109.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

According to the Rules in the present-day Roman Missal, The Saint may now be Celebrated everywhere on his Feast Day, with a "Memorial", unless in some locality an obligatory Celebration is assigned to that day.

The Eastern Orthodox Church Venerate Saint Alexius on 17 March. Five Byzantine Emperors, four Emperors of Trebizond, and numerous other Eastern European and Russian personalities, have borne his name; see Alexius.

Commemoration Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Mount Carmel. Feast Day 16 July.

Text and Illustration, unless stated otherwise, from CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Thou, who, with special mercy,

look upon those clothed in thy beloved Habit,

cast a glance of pity upon me.

Fortify my weakness with thy strength;

enlighten the darkness of my mind with thy wisdom;

increase my Faith, Hope and Charity.

Assist me during life,

console me by thy presence at my death,

and present me to The August Trinity 

as thy devoted child, 

that I may Bless thee for all Eternity in Paradise.

Amen.

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

Commemoration Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Mount Carmel.
   Feast Day 16 July.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

Illustration: TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS

According to a pious Tradition authorised by The Liturgy, on The Day of Pentecost a number of men who walked in the footsteps of The Holy Prophets, Elias and Eliseus, and whom John the Baptist had prepared for The Advent of Jesus, embraced The Christian Faith, and erected the first Church to The Blessed Virgin on Mount Carmel, at the very spot where Elias had seen a cloud rise, a figure of the fecundity of The Mother of God (Lesson of Second Nocturn at Matins).

They were called: Brethren of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel (Collect). These Religious came to Europe in the 13th-Century and, in 1245, Pope Innocent IV gave his approbation to their Rule under the Generalship of Simon Stock, an English Saint.

On 16 July 1251, Mary appeared to this fervent servant [Simon Stock] and placed in his hands the Habit which was to be their distinctive sign. Pope Innocent IV blessed this Habit and attached to it many privileges, not only for The Members of The Order, but also for those who entered The Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

By wearing the Scapular, which is in smaller form than that of The Carmelite Fathers, they participate in all their merits and may hope to obtain through The Virgin a prompt delivery from Purgatory, if they have Faithfully observed Abstinence, Chastity (according to their state), and said the Prayers prescribed by Pope John XXII, in The Sabbatine Bull, published on 3 March 1322.

The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at first Celebrated only in the Churches of The Order, was extended to all Christendom by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726.

Mass: Gaudeamus omnes.