Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Friday 3 April 2020

The Ferial Mass Of The Friday In Passion Week. Lenten Station At Saint Stephen-In-The-Round. On Mount Cœlius.




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

Ferial Mass of The Friday in Passion Week.

Station at Saint Stephen's on Mount Cœlius.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.


English: The Basilica of Saint Stephen-in-the-Round, on Mount Cœlius, Rome.
Italiano: Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome (rione Celio).
Date: Circa 1880.
Source: Scanning of reproduction.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Station is at the Church of Saint Stephen on Mount Coelius, called Saint Stephen-the-Round, on account of its circular form. It was Dedicated in the 5th-Century A.D. to The First of The Martyrs, whose Relics had been brought to Rome.

This Saint was The First Martyr, or Witness, of Christ. Whilst dying, he beheld The Saviour at The Right-Hand of The Father in Heaven. Thus, it was fitting to assemble in this Basilica at this Holy Time, Consecrated to the Memory of The Saviour’s Passion, which prepares us to Celebrate His Triumph at Easter.


English: Basilica of Saint Stephen-in-the-Round, on Mount Cœlius, Rome.
Santo Stefano Rotondo is the most ancient example
of a centrally-planned Church in Rome.
Photo: January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Gospel of today mentions The Sitting of The Sanhedrin, at which The Death of Jesus was irrevocably decreed by the Jewish priests. [Jesus having raised Lazarus from the dead, at the time that the Pilgrims were preparing to come in multitudes to Jerusalem for The Feast of The Passover, the Jewish authorities of The Sanhedrin assembled on The Mount of Evil Counsel, and, under pretext that the Romans, who had conquered Judea, would take umbrage at the influence of Christ and use repressive measures against the Jewish people, the High Priest declares that Jesus must die.]


English: The Basilica of Saint Stephen-in-the-Round on Mount Cœlius, Rome.
Italiano: Roma, Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio: interno dopo il restauro.
Photo: June 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus they say, will excite such popular enthusiasm during the Paschal festivities, when crowds fill Jerusalem, that the Romans, uneasy for their authority, will destroy our City and Nation. It is therefore better, concludes Caiphas, that one man should disappear and that the Nation should be saved.

Jeremias, in the Epistle, and the Psalmist, in the Introit, the Gradual, the Offertory and the Communion, express the sorrows and anguish of Jesus, Who feels Himself surrounded by such treacherous and relentless enemies.

Let us participate in The Feelings of Christ, Who will soon atone for our sins by The Sufferings of His Passion. And may The Fear of Eternal Punishment make us accept the troubles of this life and the holy austerities of Lent (Collect).

Mass: Miserére mihi.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.


Coat-of-Arms of Hungary.
English: Blazon: “Per Pale, the first Barry of eight Gules and Argent, the second Gules, on a Mount Vert, a Crown Or, issuant therefrom a Double Cross Argent. In Crest The Holy Crown of Hungary.”
Magyar: Címer: Magyarország. Címerleírás A Magyar Köztársaság címere hegyes talpú, hasított pajzs. Első mezeje vörössel és ezüsttel hétszer vágott. Második, vörös mezejében zöld hármas halomnak arany koronás kiemelkedő középső részén ezüst kettős kereszt. A pajzson a magyar Szent Korona nyugszik. Hivatkozási A Magyar Köztársaság Alkotmánya - XIV. fejezet - A Magyar Köztársaság fővárosa és nemzeti jelképei.
Date: January 2009.
Author: Thommy
(Wikimedia Commons)



English: Cardinal Mindszenty was a Cardinal Priest
of the Titulus S. Stephani-in-Cœlio-Monte.
Magyar: Mindszenty József szobor (szobrász: Domonkos Béla, 2009). Állíttatta a „Hittel a nemzetért” alapítvány 2009-ben, október 26-án 220 centiméter magas bronzszobor, amely egy 80 centiméteres süttői mészkő alapon áll.
A szobor áldást emelő kézzel ábrázolja Mindszenty Józsefet. Mindszenty József szobor (szobrász: Domonkos Béla, 2009).
Photo: 8 November 2009 (original upload date).
Source: Transferred from hu.wikipedia; transferred to Commons
Author: Original uploader was Misibacsi at hu.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)

The Venerable József Mindszenty (29 March 1892 – 6 May 1975) was a Cardinal and the Head of The Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, as the Archbishop of Esztergom. He became known as a steadfast supporter of Church freedom and opponent of Communism and the brutal Stalinist persecution in his Country. As a result, he was tortured and given a life sentence in a 1949 Show Trial that generated Worldwide condemnation, including a United Nations Resolution. Freed in The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he was granted political asylum and lived in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest for fifteen years. He was finally allowed to leave the Country in 1971. He died in exile in 1975 in Vienna, Austria.



Basilica of San Stefano Rotondo, Rome.
Photo: March 2003.
Author: seier+seier
(Wikimedia Commons)


The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

The Basilica of Saint Stephen-in-the-Round on Mount Cœlius (Italian: Basilica di Santo Stefano al Monte Celio), (Latin: Basilica San Stephani in Cœlio Monte) is an ancient Basilica and Titular Church in Rome. Commonly named Santo Stefano Rotondo, the Church is The National Church in Rome of Hungary, Dedicated to Saint Stephen and, also, Saint Stephen of Hungary. The Minor Basilica is also The Rectory Church of The Pontifical Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum.

The Cardinal Priest, or Titular, of Saint Stephen's is Friedrich Wetter.

The earliest Church was Consecrated by Pope Simplicius between 468 A.D. and 483 A.D. It was Dedicated to The Proto-Martyr, Saint Stephen, whose body had been discovered a few decades before in The Holy Land, and brought to Rome. The Church was the first in Rome to have a Circular Plan, inspired by The Church of The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.


Illustration of Pope Saint John I, (523 A.D. - 526 A.D.), who embellished the Basilica di Santo Stefano-al-Monte-Celio. He is the first Pope known to have visited Constantinople, while in Office.
Author: Artaud de Montor, Alexis François.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Santo Stefano was probably financed by the wealthy Valerius Family, whose estates covered large parts of The Caelian Hill. Their villa stood nearby, on the site of the present-day Hospital of San Giovanni - Addolorata. Saint Melania the Elder, a member of the Family, was a frequent Pilgrim to Jerusalem and died there, so the Family had connections to The Holy Land.

Originally, the Church had three concentric Ambulatories, flanked by twenty-two Ionic Columns, surrounding the central circular space, surmounted by a Tambour (22 m high and 22 m wide). There were twenty-two windows in the Tambour, but most of them were walled up in the 15th-Century restoration. The outermost corridor was later demolished.

The Church was embellished by Pope John I and Pope Felix IV in the 6th-Century A.D. In 1130, Pope Innocent II had three Trans-Versal Arches added to support the Dome.


English: Pope Nicholas V, who Reigned from 6 March 1447 until his death in 1455. Born Tommaso Parentucelli, Nicholas was made a Cardinal for his diplomatic efforts by Pope Eugene IV. In 1454, Pope Nicholas V entrusted the ruined Church to The Pauline Fathers, the only Catholic Order Founded by Hungarians. This is why Santo Stefano Rotondo became the unofficial
Church of Hungarians in Rome.
Nederlands: Paus Nicolas V.
Date of painting: 1612 - 1616.
Author: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
(Wikimedia Commons)



English: The Flag of Hungary, with The Coat-of-Arms, is used on Solemn occasions. In 1454, Pope Nicholas V entrusted the ruined Church of Santo Stefano Rotondo to The Pauline Fathers, the only Catholic Order Founded by Hungarians. This is the reason why Santo Stefano Rotondo became the unofficial Church of Hungarians in Rome.
Magyar: Magyarország ünnepi zászlója (magyar zászló).
Esperanto: maloficiala solena flago de Hungario kun blazono.
Date: 5 July 2009.
Source: User:Thommy9's Works.
Author: User:Orion 8
(Wikimedia Commons)


In The Middle Ages, Santo Stefano Rotondo was in The Charge of The Canons of San Giovanni-in-Laterano, but, as time went on, it fell into disrepair. In the middle of the 15th-Century, Flavio Biondo praised the Marble Columns, Marble-covered-walls and Cosmatesque works-of-art of the Church, but he added that: "Unfortunately, nowadays, Santo Stefano Rotondo has no roof". Blondus claimed that the Church was built on the remains of an ancient Temple of Faunus. Excavations in 1969 to 1975 revealed that the building was never converted from a pagan temple, but was always a Church, erected under Emperor Constantine I in the first half of the 4th-Century A.D.


A model of a Renaissance Church inside San Stefano Rotondo, Rome.
Photo: March 2003.
Author: seier+seier
(Wikimedia Commons)


In 1454, Pope Nicholas V entrusted the ruined Church to The Pauline Fathers, the only Catholic Order founded by Hungarians. This is the reason why Santo Stefano Rotondo later became the unofficial Church of the Hungarians in Rome. The Church was restored by Bernardo Rossellino, it is presumed under the guidance of Leon Battista Alberti.

In 1579, the Hungarian Jesuits followed The Pauline Fathers. The Collegium Hungaricum, established here by István Arator that year, was soon merged with The Collegium Germanicum in 1580, which became The Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum, because very few Hungarian students were able to travel to Rome from the Turkish-occupied Kingdom of Hungary.


English: Coat-of-Arms of Pope Nicholas V.
Français: Armoiries du pape Nicolas V:
De gueules à la clef d'argent posée en bande et à la clef d'or
posée en barre toutes deux liées d'un cordon d'azur.
Date: August 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Odejea
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Stephani in Cœlio Monte has been Friedrich Wetter since 1985. His predecessor, József Mindszenty, was famous as the Persecuted Catholic leader of Hungary under the Communist dictatorship. Although the Interior of the Church is circular, the Exterior is cruciform.

The walls of the Church are decorated with numerous frescoes, including those of Niccolò Circignani (Niccolò Pomarancio) and Antonio Tempesta, portraying thirty-four scenes of Martyrdom, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th-Century. Each painting has a Titulus, or inscription, explaining the scene and giving the name of the Emperor who ordered the execution, as well as a quotation from The Bible. The paintings' naturalistic depictions of torture and execution are somewhat morbid.


English: Cardinal Friedrich Wetter,
Cardinal-Priest of the Titulus S. Stephani-in-Coelio-Monte.
Deutsch: Kardinal Friedrich Wetter bei der Verleihung des Martinsmantels
Photo: November 2008.
Source: Transferred from de.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Kurpfalzbilder.de using CommonsHelper.
(Original text : selbst fotographiert).
Author: Papiermond.
Orignal uploader was Papiermond at de.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Altar was made by the Florentine artist, Bernardo Rossellino, in the 15th-Century. The painting in the Apse shows Christ between two Martyrs. The mosaic/marble decoration is from 523 A.D. - 530 A.D. One mosaic shows the Martyrs, Saint Primus and Saint Felicianus, flanking a Crux Gemmata (Jewelled Cross).

There is a Tablet, recording the burial here, of the Irish King, Donough O'Brien, of Cashel and Thomond, who died in Rome in 1064. An ancient Chair of Pope Gregory The Great, from around 580 A.D., is also preserved here.

The Chapel of Saints Primo e Feliciano has very interesting and rare mosaics from the 7th-Century A.D. The Chapel was built by Pope Theodore I, who brought the Relics of The Martyrs here and buried them (together with the Remains of his father).

Thursday 2 April 2020

Well Said, Mr. President.



Saint Francis Of Paula. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 2 April.


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

Saint Francis Of Paula.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 2 April.

Double.

White Vestments.


English: Saint Michael Abbey Church, Meuse, France. Stained-Glass Window: Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Saint Francis of Paola, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Saintin, Saint Vincent de Paul.
Français: Église abbatiale Saint-Michel, Meuse, France. Vitrail: Saint Pierre, Saint Paul, Saint François de Paule, Saint François de Sales, Saint François Xavier, Saint Charles Borromée, Saint Saintin, Saint Vincent de Paul.
Photo: 3 August 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Fab5669
(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Francis was born at Paola, Calabria, Italy, in 1416.

When, thirteen years of age, “abandoning everything to acquire a treasure in The Kingdom of Heaven” (Gospel), he retired into a desert and led such a holy life there that numerous disciples soon came to place themselves under his guidance.

He then Founded The Order, to which, in his humility, he gave the name of “Minims”, that is to say: “Of The Least In The House Of God”.

“Despising everything to gain Christ, he endeavoured to resemble Him in His sufferings, so as to be able to participate in The Glory of His Resurrection” (Epistle).

God, Who exalts the humble (Collect), made him celebrated by numerous Miracles and by the gift of Prophecy. He died at the age of ninety-one in 1507.

Let us imitate the humility and penitence of Saint Francis, in order that we may attain the rewards promised to humble and mortified Souls (Collect).

Mass: Justus.
Commemoration (in Lent): Of The Feria.
Last Gospel (in Lent): Of The Feria.

Thursday In Passion Week. The Lenten Station Is At The Church Of Saint Apollinaris And At The Church Of Saint Mary-The-New.




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

Thursday in Passion Week.

Station at Saint Apollinaris's and at Saint Mary-the-New (also called Saint Frances of Rome).

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.



English: The Church of Saint Apollinaris, Rome.
Italiano: Roma Chiesa di S Apollinare.
Photo: November 2012.
User: MGA73bot2
Source: Own work.
Author: Gobbler
(Wikimedia Commons)


The old Lenten Station is at the Church built towards 780 A.D., by Pope Adrian I, on the ruins of an ancient temple, in honour of The Holy Martyr, Apollinaris, the Disciple of Saint Peter and Archbishop of Ravenna. A second Lenten Station was added in 1934.

The second Lenten Station, added by Pope Pius XI in 1934, is at Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova), also known as Santa Francesca Romana. Santa Francesca Romana is situated next to the Roman Forum.


English: Church of Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Francesca Romana), Rome.
Italiano: Chiesa di Santa Francesca Romana nei pressi del Foro Romano, Roma.
Photo: February 2008.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)


By Apostolic Letters, dated 5 March 1934, and published on 15 October 1935, the Churches of Santa Agatha and Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova) (also called Santa Francesca Romana) were raised to the Title of Lenten Stational Churches.

The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana, on The Third Tuesday in Lent, and Sant'Apollinare, on Passion Thursday. These two new Stational Churches (Santa Agatha and Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Maria Nuova)) (also called Santa Francesca Romana) are not on the published Map of Lenten Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.


English: The View from The Palatine Hill showing the Basilica of Saint Mary-the-New (Santa Francesca Romana), the Arch of Titus and the Colosseum.
Česky: Pohled z vrchu Palatin směrem na Forum Romanum, baziliku Svaté Františky ŘímskéTitův Vítězný oblouk a Koloseum, Řím, Itálie.
Photo: April 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Karelj
(Wikimedia Commons)


In The Mass of The Day, Daniel recalls the humiliation of the people of Israel, who were delivered to their enemies “on account of their sins” (Introit and Epistle). The Church also mourns over the bad Christians and the heathen, slaves of Satan and of their passions.

With Azarias, she asks the Lord “that all those who ill-treat His servants may be confounded, for it is with a contrite and humble heart that they return to God” (Epistle). She hopes that, faithful to His ancient and solemn oath, He will multiply His people like the stars in the firmament and the sand on the shore (Epistle).

She already sees with joy The Paschal Night, when, in The Baptismal Font, numerous children are going to be born to her. She excites the Penitents to true repentance and hope by relating the conversion of Magdalen the sinner, who throws herself at the feet of Jesus, shedding tears of repentance, whilst the Jews, represented by Simon the Pharisee, remain unmoved.


English: Saint Apollinaris's Church, Rome.
Italiano: Roma, Sant'Apollinare.
Photo: February 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Gospel relates to the second year of the Public Ministry of Jesus, Who was received in Naim, in the house of Simon the Pharisee. Several Fathers of The Latin Church think that the poor sinner was Mary of Magdala, called, for that reason, Magdalen, who was identified as the sister of Lazarus and Martha.

Forming part of the People of God through Baptism, we should humbly, like Magdalen, weep for our sins and generously expiate them. Let us therefore purify our bodies and Souls by mortification and Penance, for it is “by Abstinence that we must heal our wounds made by intemperance” (Collect).

Mass: Omnia, quæ fecisti.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.


English: Pope Gregory XIII (1572 - 1585) granted the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare to The Jesuits in 1574. He is best known for commissioning, and being the namesake for, The Gregorian Calendar, which remains the internationally-accepted Civil Calendar.
Portrait by Lavinia Fontana (1552 - 1614).
Español: Gregorio XIII.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Sant'Apollinare alle Terme is a Titular Church in Rome, Dedicated to Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first Bishop of Ravenna. It is The Station Church for The Thursday in Passion Week in Lent.

The Church was Founded in the Early-Middle Ages, probably in the 7th-Century A.D. It is first mentioned, in The Liber Pontificalis, under Pope Hadrian I, using spolia from the ruins of an Imperial Building. The first Priests, who served the Church, were probably Eastern Basilian Monks, who had fled from persecution during the iconoclast period.

The Church is Listed, in The Catalogue of Turin, as a Papal Chapel, with eight Clerics. In 1574, it was granted to The Jesuits by Pope Gregory XIII, and it was used as the Church of the next-door Collegium Germanicum in the Palazzo di Sant'Apollinare (now owned by The Roman Seminary), which was later united with The Hungarian College to form The Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum. This remained a Jesuit institution until The Suppression of The Jesuits in 1773, when this Church passed to The Lazarists.


Pope Pius XI (1922 - 1939).
Who, in 1934, raised Santa Francesca Romana
to the Title of Lenten Stational Church.
Photo: 1930.
Source: Pope Pius XI.
Author: Politisch Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, 1932.
(Wikimedia Commons)



English: The Church of Saint Francesca Romana, Rome.
Italiano: Roma, chiesa di Santa Francesca Romana,
vista dall'area archeologica del Foro Romano, presso l'arco di Tito.
Photo: May 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: MM
(Wikimedia Commons)


In the Late-17th-Century, the Church of Saint Apollinaris was in a poor state of repair. Its rebuilding was considered over a long period, but wasn't carried out, probably due to lack of funds. Despite this, in 1702, a Chapel was re-decorated and Dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier, and a statue of the Saint commissioned from Pierre Le Gros, who carved the Marble with extraordinary virtuosity (the statue was preserved when the Church was eventually rebuilt, some forty years later, and is still in situ).

In 1742, Pope Benedict XIV commissioned Ferdinando Fuga to rebuild Saint Apollinaris's. Fuga added a new façade in the Late-16th-Century-Style, with Baroque elements. It has two Storeys, with Ionic Columns in the Lower Storey and Corinthian Columns in the Upper Storey. The Lower Level has a Central Doorway, flanked by windows. Above the door, is a triangular Tympanum. On the Upper Level, is a large Central Window with a Balcony, and two smaller windows to the sides. The façade is crowned by a Double Tympanum. Fuga also reconstructed the Dome. The Church was re-Dedicated in 1748.

Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, writer and archaeologist, who died in 1795, was buried in the Chapel of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. In 1990, the Church was granted to Opus Dei, and is now part of their Pontifical Institute of Saint Apollinaris. In the same year, the notorious gangster Enrico De Pedis, boss of the so-called Banda della Magliana, was buried in the Church's Crypt, by authorisation of Cardinal Ugo Poletti. The unusual interment has been linked to the case of Emanuela Orlandi's kidnapping and the tomb was opened for investigation in 2012.


Pope Benedict XIV.
Artist: Pierre Subleyras (1699 - 1749).
Current location: Palace of Versailles, Paris.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Pope Benedict XIV (1740 - 1758) commissioned Ferdinando Fuga to rebuild the Church of Saint Apollinaris in 1742. When Elected Pope, in 1740, the Conclave that Elected him had lasted for six months, He is reported to have said to the Cardinals: "If you wish to Elect a Saint, choose Gotti; a Statesman, Aldrovandi; an honest man, me".

The Church has a single Nave. Along the side are Pilasters with Corinthian Capitals holding the Arches to the Side Chapels. In the Barrel-Vaulted Ceiling, is a fresco of The Glory of Saint Apollinaris, by Stefano Pozzi.

The High Altar was made on the orders of Pope Benedict XIV, with stucco decorations by Bernardino Ludovisi and an Early-17th-Century Altarpiece depicting Saint Apollinaris' Consecration as Bishop of Ravenna. The Crypt contains Relics.

The elliptical Chapel of Graces, which is outside the Church proper, is accessed through a doorway on the Left. It contains a 1494 fresco of The Virgin, Queen of Apostles, which survived The Sack of Rome, because the Priests covered it with lime. It was then rediscovered in 1645, when two boys and a Soldier took refuge in the Church during an earthquake. A Marble Frame with Golden Stucco Cherubs was added by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt.

Wednesday 1 April 2020

Thanksgiving After Mass And Holy Communion.



From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Universal Prayer Of Pope Clement XI.
For All Things Necessary To Salvation.

O my God, I believe in Thee,
but do Thou strengthen my Faith.
All my hopes are in Thee,
do Thou secure them.

I love Thee with my whole heart,
teach me to love Thee daily more and more.

I am sorry for having offended Thee,
do Thou increase my sorrow.


I adore Thee as my first beginning,
I aspire after Thee as my last end.

I give Thee thanks as my constant benefactor;
I call upon Thee as my sovereign protector.

Vouchsafe, O my God,
to conduct me by Thy Wisdom,
to restrain me by Thy Justice,
to comfort me by Thy Mercy,
to defend me by Thy Power.


To Thee,
I desire to consecrate all my
thoughts, words,
actions, and sufferings;
that, henceforward,
I may think of Thee,
speak of Thee,
and willingly refer all my actions
to Thy Greater Glory;
And suffer willingly
whatever Thou shalt appoint.

Lord, I desire
that in all things
Thy Will may be done,
because it is Thy Will,
and in the manner that Thou willest.

I beg of Thee
to enlighten my understanding,
to inflame my will,
to purify my body,
and to Sanctify my Soul.



Give me strength,
O my God,
to expiate my offences,
to overcome my temptations,
to subdue my passions,
and to acquire the virtues proper for my state.

Fill my heart
with tender affection for Thy Goodness,
a hatred for my faults,
a love for my neighbour,
and a contempt of the World.

Let me always remember
to be submissive to my superiors,
charitable to my inferiors,
faithful to my friends,
and indulgent to my enemies.


Assist me to overcome
sensuality by mortification,
avarice by almsgiving,
anger by meekness,
and tepidity by devotion.

O my God,
make my prudent in my understandings,
courageous in dangers,
patient in afflictions,
and humble in prosperity.

Grant,
that I may be ever attentive in my Prayers,
temperate at my meals,
diligent in my employments,
and constant in my resolutions.


Let my conscience
be ever upright and pure,
my exterior modest,
my conversation edifying,
and my comportment regular.

Assist me,
that I may continually labour
to overcome nature,
by corresponding to Thy Grace,
to keep Thy Commandments,
and to work out my Salvation.


Discover to me, O my God,
the nothingness of this World,
the greatness of Heaven,
the shortness of time,
and the length of Eternity.

Grant,
that I may prepare for death,
that I may fear Thy Judgements,
that I may escape Hell,
and, in the end,
obtain Heaven,
through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Amen.

Wednesday In Passion Week. The Lenten Station Is At The Church Of San Marcello-Al-Corso (Saint Marcellus).




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

Wednesday in Passion Week.

Station at Saint Marcellus's.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.



English: The Church of San Marcello-al-Corso, Rome.
Façade by Carlo Fontana
Italiano: San Marcello-al-Corso è una chiesa di Roma.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Church of Saint Marcellus, where today’s Lenten Station is held, was one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. Originally the house of the holy matron, Lucina, where she received Saint Marcellus, it was transformed by her into a Sanctuary and Dedicated to this Holy Pope, whose body rests under The High Altar.

The Mass of today shows us the obstinacy of the Jews in rejecting Jesus, as they had already rejected His Father. The Divine Law, given by Him Whom the Epistle calls six times “The Lord”, “Whose word is stable” declared formally “that one may not shed his neighbour’s blood, nor hate his father in his heart”.

The Members of the Sanhedrin, on the contrary, hated Christ and sought to stone Him (Gospel). Unfaithful to God, “Who orders His laws to be kept” (Epistle), they blamed Jesus “Whom The Father has sent” and Who is The Son of God. “The Father and I are One. The Miracles that I have worked come from My Father.” “Rejecting the legitimate pastor of their Souls, they are no longer His sheep,” and will be replaced by the Gentiles, who, Baptised or reconciled to God at The Easter Festival, are “the sheep who hear His voice and to whom He gives Eternal Life” (Gospel).


The High Altar,
Basilica of San Marcello-al-Corso, Rome.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Let us be faithful to Jesus and Pray God “to Sanctify our Fast and illumine our hearts” (Collect), in order that, delivered from the abyss into which our sins had made us fall (Gradual), we “may wash our hands among the innocent and proclaim the wondrous works of God” (Communion).

Three Feasts called the Jews to Jerusalem:

1. In the Spring, it was The Feast of the Passover, instituted to commemorate the departure from Egypt;

2. In the Autumn, it was The Feast of Tabernacles, in commemoration of the sojourn of the Jews in tents in the desert;

3. In the Winter (middle of December), it was The Feast of the Anniversary of the Dedication of the Temple, which the Machabees had purified after their victory. It was on the occasion of this last Feast, that Jesus, in the third year of His Ministry, spoke the words in today’s Gospel. He was then under Solomon’s Porch, which faces the ravine of Cedron.

Mass: Liberátor meus.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.


The Apse,
Church of Saint Marcellus, Rome.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
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The following Text is from Wikipedia.

San Marcello-al-Corso is a Church in Rome, Dedicated to Pope Marcellus I. It is located in via del Corso, the ancient via Lata, connecting Piazza Venezia to Piazza del Popolo. It stands diagonally from the Church of Santa Maria-in-Via-Lata (see yesterday's Post).

While the Tradition holds that the Church was built over the prison of Pope Marcellus I (who died in 309 A.D.), it is known that the "Titulus Marcelli" was already present in 418 A.D., when Pope Boniface I was Elected here.

Pope Adrian I, in the 8th-Century A.D., built a Church in the same place, which is currently under the modern Church.

The corpse of Cola di Rienzo (an Italian Mediæval politician), was held in the Church for three days after his execution in 1354. In 1519, a fire destroyed the Church. The money collected for its rebuilding was used to bribe the Landsknechts, who were pillaging the City during The Sack of Rome (1527).

The original plan to rebuild the Church was designed by Jacopo Sansovino, who fled the City during The Sack and never returned to finish it. The work was continued by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, who rebuilt the Church, but a Tiber flood damaged it again in 1530. It was only in 1592 that the Church was completed, and, later, Carlo Fontana built the facade.


The Sacristy Ceiling fresco:
"Gloria di San Marcello", by Giovanni Battista Ciocchi.
Church of San Marcello-al-Corso, Roma.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Flickr
Author: antmoose
Reviewer: Mac9
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Under The High Altar, decorated with 12th-Century opus sectile, are the Relics of several Saints, which include those of Pope Marcellus, as well as Digna and Emerita. The last Chapel on the Left is Dedicated to Saint Philip Benizi. The Late-Baroque decoration contains sculptures by Francesco Cavallini and Reliefs by Ercole Ferrata and Antonio Raggi. The first Chapel on the Left has the double tomb of Cardinal Giovanni Michiel and his grandson, Antonio Orso, sculpted by Jacopo Sansovino.

Behind the facade is a Crucifixion (1613) by Giovanni Battista Ricci. Along the first Chapel is an Annunciation by Lazzaro Baldi; in the second Chapel, a Martyrdom of Saints Digna and Emerita (1727) by Pietro Barbieri; in the third Chapel, a Madonna with Child, a fresco of the Late-14th-Century, episodes of The Life of The Virgin by Francesco Salviati, fresco and paintings by Giovan Battista Ricci; in the fourth Chapel, a Creation of Eve and the Evangelists, Mark and John, frescoes by Perin del Vaga, Matthew and Luke, begun by Perin del Vaga and finished by Daniele da Volterra.


"Saint Philip Benizi refuses the Papal Tiara",
by Antonio Raggi (1686).
The Church of Saint Marcellus, Rome.
Photo: October 2005.
Source: Own work.
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Inside, is a Ciborium (1691) designed by Carlo Bizzaccheri; in the fifth Chapel, is a Monument to Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1726) by Pietro Bracci and a Monument to Cardinal Camillo Paolucci by Tommaso Righi (1776) and Wall Paintings by Aureliano Milani. On the Left Nave, in the fifth Chapel, is a San Filippo Benizi (1725) by Pier Leone Ghezzi; in the fourth Chapel, the Conversion of Saint Paul (1560) by Federico Zuccari and his brother, Taddeo, and, on the sides, a History of Saint Paul.

The inside of the Chapel has Busts of Muzio, Roberto, Lelio Frangipane by Alessandro Algardi (1630-1640). In the third Chapel, on the Left, is a "Doloroso" by Pietro Paolo Naldini, Sacrifice of Isaac and discovery of Moses by Domenico Corvi; in the first Chapel, a Madonna and Seven Saints by Agostino Masucci.

The Church has been administered and owned by The Servite Order since 1369.
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