John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893). The Victorian-Era Artist From Leeds, England.

"Nightfall on The Thames".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1880.

Current location: Leeds City Art Gallery, England.

Source/Photographer: Direct link via Leeds Museum & Galleries.

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his City night-scenes and landscapes.

His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson Grimshaw," though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw."

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born Leeds, England. In 1856, he married his Cousin, Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). In 1861, at the age of twenty-four, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a Clerk for The Great Northern Railway to become a painter.

He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit and blossom, under the patronage of The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home in Scarborough, which became a favourite subject of his paintings.

Several of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937) and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) became painters.

"November".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1879.

This File: 19 September 2013.

User: Austriacus

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"A Moonlit Evening".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1880.

Current location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,

Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: posted to Flickr as John Atkinson Grimshaw -

A Moonlit Evening, 1880 at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid Spain

with a Copy Fraud License by Flickr user mbell1975.

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Octave Day Of The Epiphany. 13 January.

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

Octave Day Of The Epiphany.
   13 January.

Greater-Double.

Privileged Octave Day.

White Vestments.

God manifests Himself to The Magi, by a Star.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

Of the old Office, which Celebrated on this day The Baptism of Jesus and the glorious manifestation that The Heavenly Father gave of His Divinity, we have only preserved the Collects and the Gospel. The rest is taken from The Mass of Epiphany, so that we continue to keep in touch with The Infant of Bethlehem.

The whole World was awaiting The Messiah, and now that "The Sovereign Lord has come, Who holds in His Hand The Kingdom, and Power and Dominion" over all hearts (Introit), it is time that John appeared, "that man sent from God" (Last Gospel), "that Jesus may be made manifest in Israel" (Gospel).

The holiness of The Forerunner is recognised by all the Jews and Gentiles, who come in crowds (Epistle) to receive his Baptism of Penance. He has all the influence over them necessary for the fulfilment of his mission, which is to present, officially, The Bridegroom to The Bride, Christ to the Souls of men.

The Gospel tells us that John saw The Holy Ghost come down upon Jesus, and that He gave "testimony that He was The Son of God", Who "appeared on Earth in the substance of our flesh" (Collect).

The waters are from henceforth sanctified by their contact with The Man-God. It is by Baptism, in fact, that "all Nations shall be made to serve Jesus" (Offertory).

Mass: As on The Feast of The Epiphany (Ecce advénit), except the Proper Collects and Gospel.
Credo: Is said.

The Feast Of The Holy Family. (Sunday Within The Octave Of The Epiphany). “Jesus, Mary And Joseph's Hallowed Family Life”.

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

Feast of The Holy Family.
   Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

[EDITOR: WHEN FAMILY LIFE IS UNDER ATTACK FROM ALL QUARTERS, LET US CONTINUALLY PRAY TO THE HOLY FAMILY FOR SUPPORT, GUIDANCE, AND HELP.]

The Holy Family.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

"Is it not fitting," says Pope Leo XIII, "to Celebrate The Royal Birth of The Son of The Supreme Father, of The House of David and the Glorious Names of that ancient Line ?" Yet, it is more consoling for us to call to memory the little house at Nazareth and the humble life lived there; thus Celebrating The Hidden Life of Our Lord.

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For there, The Divine Child received His training in Joseph's humble trade; there, hidden and sheltered, He grew up and showed Himself ready to share the toil of a Carpenter's life. "Let the moisture," he seemed to say, "trickle over my limbs before they are drenched with the torrent of My Blood, and the pain of this labour shall go to stone for the sins of men."

Close to The Divine Child is His Tender Mother; close to Joseph stands his devoted wife, happy to relieve their toil and suffering by her loving care. O Thou, Who wast not free from toil and care and Who hast known adversity, come to the aid of the unfortunate, crippled by poverty and struggling against the difficulties of life" (Hymn for Matins).

In this lowly dwelling at Nazareth, by practising the domestic virtues of charity, obedience, mutual help and regard, Jesus, Mary and Joseph hallowed family life (Collect, Epistle, and Gospel). There, too, they constantly found joy and peace in Recollection and Prayer in Common.

May The Great Christian Family practise here on Earth The Virtues of The Holy Family, so meriting a life in Their Blessed Company in Heaven (Collect).

Pope Benedict XV, being desirous of securing for Souls The Blessings flowing from Meditation on The Virtues of The Holy Family and from their imitation, extended this Feast to The Universal Church, fixing its observance for The Sunday in The Octave of The Epiphany.

When this Sunday happens to be The Octave Day of The Epiphany, The Feast of The Holy Family is kept on the day before.

When The Feast is observed on a Sunday, every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Exsúltat gáudio.

Gloria: Is said.
Commemoration: Of The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany.
Commemoration: Of The Octave of The Epiphany.
Gospel: Cum factus esset. As on The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany.
The Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Epiphany.
Communicantes: Of The Epiphany.
Last Gospel: The Gospel of Saint John (“In principio”).

The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany being now occupied by The Feast of The Holy Family, The Mass of The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany is Celebrated on a Week-Day.

If The Feast of The Holy Family falls on any date from 7 January to 11 January, The Mass of The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany is Celebrated on the following day, Monday (8 January to 17 January).

If The Feast of The Holy Family falls on 12 January, The Mass of The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany is not Celebrated at all, for want of a free day.

If The Epiphany (6 January) and its Octave Day (13 January) fall on a Sunday, The Mass of The Holy Family (with The Commemoration of The Sunday within The Octave of The Epiphany, and The Commemoration of The Octave) is said "in anticipation" on Saturday, 12 January, and The Mass of The Sunday within The Octave Of The Epiphany is Transferred to Saturday, 19 January, the only free day. In this case, it is said with the Gloria, but without the Credo, with the Preface, but without the Communicantes of The Epiphany, and with the Gospel "Pastores" (from The Second Mass at Christmas), as Last Gospel.

Fr Finigan Started A New Tradition In 2016: “Let’s Sing “Mein Hut, Der Hat Drei Ecken”, Warmly, Every Day, After Reading The Vatican News”. Let Zephyrinus Know If It Took Off In Your Parish.

English: Black Biretta.

Polski: Czarny biret 3-ój rożny.

Italiano: Nero berretta.

Deutsch: Schwarz barett.

Español: Negro birreta.

Photo: 6 September 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: MK777

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In 2016, Fr Timothy Finigan “Tweeted” on his Tweety-Thingy

@FatherTF

“I would like to start a new Tradition.

Let’s sing “Mein Hut, Der Hat Drei Ecken”,

warmly, every day, after reading The Vatican News”.

Fr Finigan also Tweeted on his Tweety-Thingy

@FatherTF

“Papal Decrees getting you down ?

Get some beer, and some German Chappies and Chappesses,

and singalong with Zephyrinus”.

Why not, politely, and respectfully, ask your Parish Priest (Pastor), and/or Director of Music, to include this little number at your next Parish Council Meeting, to indicate your commitment and love of Traditional Catholic Liturgy ?

Don't forget to give your Parish Priest (Pastor) a Biretta (see, above) for his Birthday/Anniversary/Easter Present/Late-Christmas Present, etc, etc.

ALL TOGETHER, NOW !!! 
(WITH FEELING).

“Mein Hut, Der Hat Drei Ecken”.

(My Hat, It Has Three Corners).

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Saint Hyginus (138 A.D. - 142 A.D.). Pope And Martyr. Feast Day 11 January.

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.

Pope Saint Hyginus. (138 A.D. - 142 A.D.)

From an icon inside the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls, Rome.

This File: 14 September 2006.

User: TPM

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Pope Hyginus (died 142 A.D.) was the Bishop of Rome from 138 A.D. to 142 A.D. Tradition holds that during his Papacy he determined the various prerogatives of the Clergy and defined the grades of the Ecclesiastical hierarchy. However, modern scholars tend to doubt this claim and view the governance of The Church of Rome during this period as still more or less collective.

According to The Liber Pontificalis, Hyginus was Greek, born in Athens. The source further states that he previously was a philosopher, probably founded on the similarity of his name with that of two Latin authors.

Irenaeus says that the Gnostic, Valentinus, came to Rome in Hyginus's time, remaining there until Anicetus became Pontiff (Against Heresies, III, iii). Cerdo, another Gnostic, and predecessor of Marcion, also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus; by confessing his errors and recanting, he succeeded in obtaining re-admission into the bosom of The Church, but eventually he fell back into the Heresies and was expelled from The Church. How many of these events took place during the time of Hyginus is not known.

The Liber Pontificalis also relates that this Pope organised the hierarchy and established the order of Ecclesiastical precedence (Hic clerum composuit et distribuit gradus). This general observation recurs also in the biography of Pope Hormisdas; it has no historical value, and, according to Duchesne, the writer probably referred to the Lower Orders of the Clergy.

The ancient sources contain no information as to his having died a Martyr. At his death, he was buried on The Vatican Hill, near the tomb of Saint Peter. His Feast is Celebrated on 11 January. Three Letters, attributed to him, have survived.

According to Eusebius (Church History, IV, xv.), Hyginus succeeded Telesphorus during the first year of the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, i.e. in 138 A.D., or 139 A.D. Eusebius (Church History, IV, xvi) states that Hyginus's Pontificate lasted four years.

The following is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal."At Rome, the holy death of Saint Hyginus, Pope, who generously suffered Martyrdom during the Persecution of Emperor Hadrian" (Roman Martyrology) perhaps about 142 A.D.

Commemoration: In Mass: Of The Octave of The Epiphany, plus Collects from Mass: Státuit, if The Feast of Saint Hyginus is not kept.

If the Feast of Saint Hyginus be kept: Mass: Státuit.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

The Abbey Of San Benedetto, Polirone, Italy. Now, That Is What Zephyrinus Calls A Proper Sacristy !!! Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam.

Text and Illustrations, unless stated otherwise,
are from: LITURGICAL ARTS JOURNAL

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LITURGICAL ARTS JOURNAL

Generally our Sacristy Tour Series is focused on the Contents of Sacristies — Vestments, Liturgical Metalwork, and so forth — but every once in a while it is the Sacristy, itself, that is noteworthy and that is certainly the case in this instance, the monumental Sacristy of The Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone, Italy, designed by the 16th-Century Artist and Architect, Guilio Romano (1499-1546) — a student of Raphael.

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The Abbey of San Benedetto, Polirone, Italy, is a large complex of Benedictine Monastic buildings, including a Church and Cloisters, located in San Benedetto, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy.

The Abbey was Founded in 1007 by Tedald, Count of Canossa, the paternal grandfather of Matilda of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany, with a grant to The Benedictine Monks, of land lying between The Rivers Po and Lirone, prompting the title "in Polirone".

Polirone was the Monastery most closely associated with his grand-daughter, Matilda, who granted estates and dependencies. Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany made further grants and commissioned a larger Church, housing the remains of the Hermit, Simeon of Polirone († 1016).

 In 1077, the Community passed into The Reformed Benedictines under The Abbey of Cluny. At the time of The Gregorian Reforms, the Abbot was one of the principal proponents of The Papacy in The Investiture Conflict.

From 1115 until 1632, the Abbey Church housed the Mausoleum, raised on eight Columns, housing the mortal remains of Matilda of Canossa, who had selected Polirone as her Memorial place, rather than the ancestral Mortuary Church of Canossa.

For Centuries, she was accorded almost the Veneration of a Founding Patron Saint at Polirone. Her body was Transferred to the Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome, in 1632.

Polirone was one of the richest Abbeys of Northern Italy. In the 15th-Century, Guido Gonzaga, Abbot "in commendam", rebuilt the Church in Late-Gothic Style. The Abbey Church was rebuilt, again, to Renaissance Style designs of Giulio Romano, in 1539-1544, but some floor mosaics and sculptural details survive from the earlier Church.

The walls and Vaults were extensively frescoed, by Antonio da Correggio and Antonio Begarelli, among others. Funding for reconstruction was posthumously granted by two main donors: Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola, sister of the humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, greeted by the Monastic Community as a "new Matilda"; and Cesare d'Arsago.

Thirty-one figures, by Antonio Begarelli of Modena, were provided for the Church, and Paolo Veronese painted three Altarpieces in 1562.

In 1797, the Abbey was Secularised by Napoleonic Rulers. Three Cloisters, the free-standing Great Refectory (1478–1479), the "new" Infirmary (1584), and The Abbey Church are still present, and open to visitors. The contents of the Library were added to The Library of Mantua.

The Marian Saturdays And The Devotion Of The First Five Saturdays. Plus, The Five Masses In Honour Of Our Lady, According To The Season.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

Illustration: CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

4 February 2017 was The First Saturday of February 2017. It seemed a good time to remind ourselves of this Article about The Devotion of The First Five Saturdays and Communions of Reparation Against Offences And Blasphemies to The Immaculate Heart of Mary:

“I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the Graces necessary for Salvation, all those who, on The First Saturday of five consecutive months, shall Confess, receive Holy Communion, recite Five Decades of The Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while Meditating on The Mysteries of The Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”

It may come as some surprise that this Devotion of The First Five Saturdays, requested by Heaven, through Sister Lucia of Fatima, in 1925 at her Convent in Pontevedra, Spain, was not new; in fact, it is an ancient custom in The Church.

It fits precisely into the long Tradition of Catholic piety that, having devoted Fridays to the remembrance of The Passion of Jesus Christ and to honouring His Sacred Heart, found it very natural to devote Saturdays to His Most Holy Mother.

It is sometimes asked why Our Lady asked for Communions of Reparation on Five First Saturdays, instead of some other number. On 29 May 1930, Our Blessed Lord explained to Sister Lucia, in another apparition to her, that it was because of five kinds of offences and blasphemies against The Immaculate Heart of Mary, namely: Blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception; against her Perpetual Virginity; against The Divine and Spiritual Maternity of Mary; Blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonouring of her images; and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.

“My Soul waits for The Lord more than watchmen for the morning” (Psalm 130:6).

It is also an age-old Tradition that Jesus appeared to Mary on the Saturday, the day after His death, whilst the World lay in hushed waiting for The Resurrection. The great Theologians of the 12th- and 13th-Centuries, Saints Bernard, Thomas, and Bonaventure, explained The Dedication of Saturdays to Mary by pointing to the time of Christ’s Rest in The Grave. Everyone else had abandoned Christ; only Mary continued to believe, demonstrating her deep Faith by never doubting for a moment her Son’s Promise of Resurrection. This was her day !

THE FIVE MASSES IN HONOUR OF OUR LADY,

ACCORDING TO THE SEASON.

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

The use of Consecrating  the Saturday to Our Lady developed, not only in private, but also in Liturgical Devotion, during the 8th-Century A.D. to the 12th-Century. The reason for this choice, however, remains unknown.

There are Five Masses in Honour of Our Lady, according to The Season.

They are said as The Mass of The Day on Saturdays when there are no Feasts or Greater Ferias, and can also be said as Votive Masses on other occasions.

Mass: Roráte, Caeli.

Second Collect of The Feria of Advent.

Third Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Veneratione.

God has sent us a Saviour (Epistle) and The Votive Mass of The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Proper to The Season of Christmastide, reminds us that it is by Mary that we have had the happiness of receiving The Author of Life (Collect).

The Gospel pictures her beside The Child in The Manger, and The Church declares her "Blessed, because she has borne in her womb The Son of The Eternal Father" (Communion), and truly worthy of all praise, because of her was born Christ Our Lord (Offertory).

The Collect and the Alleluia, in setting forth the Virginity of Mary, make manifest to us, as in all the Liturgy of Christmas, that Jesus has God for Father and that The Virgin, therefore, is, herself, The Mother of God.

Mass: Vultum Tuum.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Veneratione.

At this Season, Consecrated to the great work of our Redemption, The Mass of The Blessed Virgin shows us Mary as Mother of Our Saviour.

She was pre-destined from All Eternity for the role of Co-Redemptress (Epistle), for, as Eve was the intermediary chosen by The Angel of Darkness to bring about The Fall of Adam, so, also, is Mary the intermediary to whom The Angel Gabriel (Tract) delivered The Message of Salvation from Heaven. She is also Blessed since she heard The Word of God and obeyed it (Gospel).

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Festivitáte.

Mary is Mother of The Risen Lord, Who reigns for ever in Heaven and on Earth (Introit), she has helped to restore peace between our Souls and God (Alleluia). Therefore, The Liturgy proclaims her "happy and Blessed above all women, because she carried in her womb The Son of The Eternal Father" (Alleluia, Offertory, Communion).

Mary is also The Queen of The Church Founded by The Risen Christ. "Her power is established in Jerusalem and her abode is in the fulness of The Saints" (Epistle).

At The Foot of The Cross, Jesus said to Saint John, who personified all Christians: "Behold thy Mother" (Gospel), and Mary "always and everywhere protects our Souls through her patronage (Postcommunion).

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Veneratione.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Festivitáte.

Carlisle Cathedral.

The Cathedral Church of The Holy and Undivided Trinity,

otherwise called Carlisle Cathedral, England.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Carlisle Cathedral.

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The Cathedral Church of The Holy and Undivided Trinity, otherwise called Carlisle Cathedral, is the Seat of The Anglican Bishop of Carlisle. It is located in Carlisle, in Cumbria, North West England. It was Founded as an Augustinian Priory and became a Cathedral in 1133.

The Great East Stained-Glass Window of Carlisle Cathedral.

The largest Stained-Glass Window
in The Flowing Decorated Gothic Style in England.

Date: 22 June 2014.

Source: Own work.

Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0"

Author: Diliff

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Carlisle Cathedral, because of heavy losses to its fabric, is the second smallest Cathedral (after Oxford Cathedral), of England's ancient Cathedrals.

Its notable features include some fine figurative stone carving, a set of Mediaeval Choir Stalls, and the largest window in The Flowing Decorated Gothic Style in England.

The Web-Site of Carlisle Cathedral can be found HERE

The Cathedral Church of The Holy and Undivided Trinity,

otherwise called Carlisle Cathedral, England.

Date: 22 June 2014.

Source: Own work.

Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

License: CC-BY-SA 3.0"

Author: Diliff

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The Choir, Carlisle Cathedral, looking East towards The High Altar.

Permission was granted for photography and use of tripod.

Photo: 8 October 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Michael D Beckwith

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Oh, Dear !!! Chauffeur Perkins Has Got Ideas Of Grandeur, Again. This Time, It's A 1934 Packard Twelve Victoria Convertible. Take It Back, Perkins. The Garage Is Too Small !!!

1934 Packard Twelve Victoria Convertible.

Illustration: HEMMINGS

Chauffeur Perkins drives Zephyrinus to Sunday Mass

in the current Charabanc, which Perkins is not enamoured with.

Illustration: PINTEREST

“Sweet Heart Of Jesus”. Sung By Regina Nathan. Faith Of Our Fathers Concert, Dublin.

“Sweet Sacrament Divine”

by Lawrence OP, on Flickr. "When we ingest The Eucharist, in reality we are ingesting The Godhead . . . because His Body and Blood are diffused through our members, we become partakers of The Divine Nature." - Saint Cyril of Alexandria.

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“Sweet Heart of Jesus”.

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Are You Fed Up With Unintelligible, Screeching, Howling, Modern, “So-Called”, Music ? Enjoy A “Blast From The Past”.

Illustration: DREAMLAND ORCHESTRA

Michael Arenella And His Dreamland Orchestra At The Hempstead House.

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Illustration: DREAMLAND ORCHESTRA

Michael Arenella.

Illustration: DREAMLAND ORCHESTRA

MICHAEL ARENELLA.

Michael Arenella grew up in Georgia, United States of America, with parents who were artists from New York City. He sang in the Church Choir and studied music from an early age, working as a professional musician by his teens.

Among his formative influences is his life-long obsession with "Times Past". He has always loved Trains, and jokes that he was a "Brake-Man" in an earlier life. As a boy, he could often be found exploring abandoned Rail-Yards. The story of those Trains' forgotten Routes were illuminated when he heard this old music. Suddenly, he saw new worlds.

The Dreamland Orchestra.

Illustration: DREAMLAND ORCHESTRTA

Michael is also a Composer, with a considerable body of work written for String Quartet, up to large Chamber Orchestra. His style is comprised of elements gleaned from Baroque through to Impressionism. This background helps him to break-down and reassemble the fragile orchestrations of ’20s Dance Music. He knows that Claude Debussy and Bix Beiderbecke would have really "dug" each other.

Like his Jazz-Age avatars, he moved from rural America to New York, where he entered music school. Disenchanted, he shortly made his departure from the gloomy conservatory halls and set out to bring his lost music into the daylight. Though his initial audiences were subway commuters, he eventually made his way above ground and founded his Dreamland Orchestra.

Illustration: DREAMLAND ORCHESTRA

Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra are the World's premier Jazz-Age Dance Orchestra, steeped in the Hot-Dance Band Tradition of the 1920s and Early-1930s. Their size ranges from a full Dance Orchestra to smaller incarnations. They play their "Hot-and-Sweet" music anywhere that fine and eclectic tastes meet.

The Dreamland Orchestra is authentic. Arenella transcribes by hand their entire repertoire from period recordings. Their delivery, as well as their instruments, attire, and equipment — are faithfully accurate. Arenella's strong, yet vulnerable, baritone lacks pretence or sarcasm. He treasures each lyric, and has faith in the songs he sings. Even the most optimistic Tin Pan Alley tune has a disarming quality in his hands.

Though certainly anachronistic, the Orchestra's presence invokes the vibrations of something unmistakably timeless. While authentic to a "T", Michael Arenella prefers not to be labelled a

"Re-Creationalist". He takes an antiquated template and infuses it with the immediacy of the present. Spontaneity is what gave the original music of the era its magic, and it is also the imprimatur of The Dreamland Orchestra.

His men are Dapper Dandies; hair pomaded and shoes shined. They are based in New York, which, with London, were the halcyon Capitals of decadence. All of this allows them to capture the essence of what this music and times were all about; joy, romance, modernity, and possibility.

These are essential themes, just as valid today as eighty years ago. Ask the punk and heavy metal kids who end up liking the Orchestra more than the bands they originally came to hear at the same venue. Truly, this music was the rock ‘n’ roll, or punk, of its day; rebellious, reckless, and, in the eyes of the older generations, dangerous.

The Dreamland Orchestra’s mission is to mine the forgotten, yet vital, beauty of the past, and bring it into the light of today — to be danced and romanced to, by a new generation of Flappers and Sheiks.

Michael Arenella And His Dreamland Orchestra At The Hempstead House.

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Happy Epiphany !!!

The Epiphany Of Our Lord. 6 January.

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

The Epiphany of Our Lord.
   6 January.

Station at Saint Peter's.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Double of The First-Class.

Privileged Octave of The Second Order.

White Vestments.

God manifests Himself to The Magi, by a Star.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

This Feast was kept in The East from the 3rd-Century A.D., and its observance spread to The West towards the end of the 4th-Century A.D. The word "Epiphany" means "Manifestation", and, just as at Christmas, it is the Mystery of God appearing in visible form; only, no longer does He show Himself to the Jews, alone, but, "on this day", it is "to the Gentiles that God reveals His Son (Collect).

In a magnificent vision, Isaias beheld The Church as typified by Jerusalem, whither should flock Kings and Nations, the "multitude of the sea" and the "strength of the Gentiles", coming from afar with countless caravans, singing The Lord's praises and bringing Him Frankincense and Gold (Epistle). "The Kings of the Earth shall Adore Him, all Nations shall Serve Him" (Offertory). In today's Gospel, we see this Prophecy fulfilled.

While at Christmas we extolled the union of Our Lord's Divinity with His Humanity, at The Epiphany we honour the mystic union of Souls with Christ. "This day, a Star led The Wise Men to The Manger; this day, water was turned into wine at the marriage feast; this day, Christ chose to be Baptised by John in The River Jordan for our Salvation, Alleluia." [Antiphon for Second Vespers.]

So we read in today's Liturgy, which thus connects this Feast with that of The Octave Day and of The Second Sunday after The Epiphany.

At Saint Peter's, where are the Relics of The Church's first visible Head, The Liturgical Celebration of the entry of the Gentiles into The Church takes place. "In the Adoring Magi," says Saint Leo, "let us acknowledge the first-fruits of our own Calling and Faith; and let us Commemorate, with hearts full of joy, the foundations of this, our Blessed Hope. For, from this moment, we have begun to enter our Heavenly Patrimony."

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

Mass: Ecce advénit.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For The Epiphany. [Said throughout The Octave.]
Communicantes: For The Epiphany. [Said throughout The Octave.]

Solemnity of The Epiphany.

In Countries where The Epiphany is not a Holiday of Obligation, The Solemn Celebration may be observed (and The Indulgences gained) on the following Sunday.

One Sung Mass may be Celebrated as on The Feast itself, the others being of The Feast of The Holy Family, with Commemoration and Last Gospel of The Sunday. The same Commemoration and Last Gospel are said in The Mass of The Solemnity, unless there be also a Sung Mass of The Holy Family.

Commemoration Of Saint Telesphorus. Pope And Martyr. Feast Day 5 January.

Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Commemoration Of Saint Telesphorus.
   Pope And Martyr.
   Feast Day 5 January.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Portrait of Pope Telesphorus

in the Basilica of Saint Paul-outside-the-Walls, Rome.

Italiano: Retratto di it:Papa Telesforo

nella it:Basilica di San Paolo fuori la Mura, Roma.

Date: 2nd-Century A.D.

Source: Unknown.

Artist: Unknown.

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Saint Telesphorus is Traditionally considered as being the eighth Roman Bishop (hence, Pope) in succession to Saint Peter. The Liber Pontificalis mentions that he had been an Anchorite (or, Hermit) Monk, prior to assuming Office.

According to the testimony of Saint Irenæus (Against Heresies III.3.3), he suffered a "glorious" Martyrdom. Although most early Popes are called Martyrs, by sources such as The Liber Pontificalis, Saint Telesphorus is the first to whom Irenaeus, writing considerably earlier, gives this Title.

Eusebius (Church History iv.7; iv.14) places the beginning of his Pontificate in the twelfth year of the reign of Emperor Hadrian (128 A.D. – 129 A.D.) and gives the date of his death as being in the first year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (138 A.D. – 139 A.D.).

In The Roman Martyrology, his Feast is Celebrated on 5 January; The Greek Church Celebrates it on 22 February.

The Tradition of Christmas Midnight Masses, the Celebration of Easter on Sundays, the keeping of a seven-week Lent before Easter, and the singing of The Gloria, are usually attributed to his Pontificate, but some historians doubt that such attributions are accurate.

A fragment of a Letter from Irenæus to Pope Victor I during the Easter controversy in the Late-2nd-Century A.D., also preserved by Eusebius, testifies that Saint Telesphorus was one of the Roman Bishops who always Celebrated Easter on Sunday, rather than on other days of the week according to the calculation of the Jewish Passover. Unlike Pope Victor, however, Pope Telesphorus remained in communion with those communities that did not follow this custom.

The Carmelites Venerate Saint Telesphorus as a Patron Saint of The Order, since some sources depict him as a Hermit living on Mount Carmel.

The Town of Saint-Télesphore, in The South-West of Canada's Quebec Province, is named after him.

Mass: Sacerdotes Dei. (Second Mass of The Common of Martyrs.)

The Roman Martyrology states that Saint Telesphorus undertook numerous labours to confess The Divinity of Christ, and suffered a glorious Martyrdom at Rome in 138 A.D.