Ember Saturday After Pentecost.

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Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

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Ember Saturday After Pentecost.

Station at Saint Peter's.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Rogation Day.

Circa 1950.

The Vicar and Sunday School Children go out into the fields to Bless The Crops. The little boy is carrying a symbolic Tree of Plenty.

Picture Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

FEAR OF GOD.

“The Gift of Holy Fear, or, The Fear of God, is actually the foundation of all other gifts. It drives sin from the heart, because it fills us with reverence, either for The Justice of God, or, for The Divine Majesty.”

Rev. M. Meschler.

After swelling the ranks of her children during the night of Pentecost, The Holy Ghost today is about to supply The Church with the Priests who are to be her Ministers of Grace all over the World, for He will pour out His Spirit upon her servants, as Joel prophesied He would upon The Apostles (First Lesson).

Very appropriately, therefore, The Church appointed for The Station this day the Basilica of Saint Peter, the Pastor of the Fold, and the Gospel tells us of a cure worked by Jesus in the house of Simon.

The Priest, as the Minister of Christ, devotes himself to the healing of Souls consumed by the fever of sinful passions.

As it has already been pointed out, The Mass on The Saturday in Ember Week has five Lessons, with Collect and Tract between the Introit and the Epistle. The fifth Lesson never varies: It is the record of the miraculous preservation of the three young Hebrew men in the furnace, followed by an extract from their Canticle of Praise and Thanksgiving.

The Collect of The Mass is based upon this Lesson, and beseeches The Divine Goodness that we may not be consumed by the flame of vice.

In The Sacrament of Holy Orders, the Priest receives a large outpouring of The Divine Spirit (Epistle) that will enable him to Preach The Kingdom of God (Gospel).

The Second, Third, and Fourth Lessons, refer to The Harvest, and to the offerings of the first-fruits of the Earth, for Ember Weeks were instituted with the object of obtaining The Divine Blessing on each of the Seasons as they occurred.

Having entered The Promised Land, the Isrælites offered its first-fruits to God.

Let us, having entered The Church by Baptism, offer to Almighty God the first-fruits of all that we do, through the supernatural influx of The Holy Ghost into our Souls.

Let us Pray to God that He may increase our Faith in Christ (Epistle and Gospel), and fill our hearts with His Holy Love (Epistle).

Mass: Cáritas Dei.
   After the Kyrie Eleison, the Tonsure is conferred.
   After The First Lesson, is the Ordination of Door-Keepers.
   After The Second Lesson, is the Ordination of Lectors.
   After The Third Lesson is, the Ordination of Exorcists.
   After The Fourth Lesson, is the Ordination of Acolytes.
   After The Fifth Lesson, is the Ordination of Sub-Deacons.
   After the Epistle, is the Ordination of Deacons.

Sequence: Veni, Sancte Spiritus.
   After the penultimate Verse of The Sequence, is the Ordination of Priests.

Creed.

Preface: For Pentecost.

Communicantes: For Pentecost.

Hanc igitur: For Pentecost.

With the end of this Mass, Paschaltide comes to an end.

Illustration: MATER DEI LATIN MASS PARISH



Ember Day Service.
1950.
Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION



Sunday School Children Celebrate Rogation Day in 1953.
A photo at Market Lavington Museum, Wiltshire, England.
Illustration: MARKET LAVINGTON MUSEUM



Saint Michael's Church, Bunwell, Norfolk, England, has always been the centre of Village Life. In this picture, taken on Rogation Sunday, April 1967, the Rector, Rev. Samuel Collins, followed by the Choir, Parishioners, and The New Buckenham Silver Band, walk The Parish Boundaries and Bless the Stream.
Illustration: BUNWELL HERITAGE GROUP

Saint Norbert (1080-1134). Bishop And Confessor. Founder Of The Norbertines. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 6 June.

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

Saint Norbert.
   Bishop And Confessor.
   Feast Day 6 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Norbert.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

Norbert, born in 1080 at Xanten, near Cologne, Germany, was educated at The Holy Roman Emperor's Court. One day, when he was riding, accompanied by a servant, he was surprised by a hurricane. Like Saint Paul, on the way to Damascus, he heard a voice calling him to the service of The Church. At that moment, a crash of thunder threw him to the ground. He got up again, determined to Consecrate himself to God.

Having been admitted to Holy Orders, he devoted himself entirely to Preaching The Word of God (Collect).

Later on, guided by The Holy Ghost, Who continually Sanctifies The Church through the Centuries, he chose a Retreat in a deserted spot, called Prémontré, not far from Soissons, and Founded there The Order of Premonstratensians (Collect).

At the death of this Holy Founder, this new family numbered, at this place alone, over one thousand Canons Regular. Saint Norbert shared the full Priesthood of Christ, being Anointed Archbishop of Magdeburg, Germany (Introit, Epistle, Gradual, Offertory). He helped Pope Innocent II to triumph over the Anti-Pope, Anacletus, and was the friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. In The Netherlands, he defended Eucharistic Worship against The Heresy of Tanchelmus (see Illustration, above).

Engraving of Prémontré Abbey,

Département Aisne, France.

Founded by Saint Norbert in 1120.

Artist: Tavernier de Jonquières.

Date: 1780s.

Source/Photographer: BNF Richelieu Estampes et photographie Rés.Ve-26j

- Fol. Destailleur Province, t. 5 , n. 1200; Bibliothèque nationale de France

(Wikimedia Commons)

After having put to full profit the talents with which God had entrusted him for the government of his Religious Family and Diocese (Gospel, Communion), "This Man of God," says The Breviary, "full of The Holy Ghost and laden with merits, fell asleep in The Lord, 1134 A.D."

Let us ask of God "to practise what Saint Norbert taught by word and by example" (Collect).

Mass: Státuit.

English: Painting of the triumph of Saint Norbert

over the Heretic, Tanchelmus, in 1124.

Deutsch: Der Triumph des hl. Nobert

über den Irrlehrer Tanchelm im Jahre 1124.

Artist: Joseph Appiani (1706–1785).

Date of painting: 1750.

Current location: Bavarian National Museum.

Source. Own work.

Author: User:FA2010, 2009.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Ember Friday After Pentecost.

Illustration: FR. Z's BLOG

Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Ember Friday After Pentecost.

Station at The Church of The Twelve Apostles.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Rogation Day.

Circa 1950.

The Vicar and Sunday School Children go out into the fields

to Bless The Crops. The little boy is carrying a symbolic Tree of Plenty.

Picture Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

“PIETY”.

“The Gift of Piety awakens in our Souls an inclination and readiness to glorify God as Our Father and to have a filial confidence in Him.”

[Rev. M. Meschler.]

The Station takes place in The Church of The Twelve Apostles, who were the embodiment of the early Church, of which The Holy Ghost was the Soul.

The bountiful harvest of the fruits of the Earth, which The Church now asks of God at the beginning of Summer, is emblematic of the wealth of Spiritual Blessings which The Holy Ghost lavishes on our Souls in these days (Epistle).

And it was for this reason that the Liturgy filled the mouths of the children newly-born into The Church by Baptism with Hymns in praise of God (Introit, Offertory) and of The Spirit of The Lord “so good and sweet within us” (Alleluia).

The Gospel recounts the wonders that Jesus worked, by The Power of The Holy Ghost, in healing the sick, and, more particularly, the man with the palsy, whose sins He remitted at the same time that He restored him to health.

The Church, built up by The Holy Ghost (Collect), follows in a very special way the example of The Divine Master at this Season, for, at Pentecost, she receives in abundance Him, Who is the remission of all sins (Postcommunion for Tuesday), and she exercises the power given her by Our Lord when He said to her in the person of The Apostles: “Receive ye The Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them.”

Let us beseech The Holy Ghost to help us in our weakness (Postcommunion) by protecting us against the attacks of our enemies (Collect).

Mass: Repleátur os meum.

Sequence: Veni, Sancte Spiritus.

Creed.

Preface: For Pentecost.

Communicantes: For Pentecost.

Hanc igitur: For Pentecost.

Illustration: MATER DEI LATIN MASS PARISH

Ember Day Service.
1950.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

Sunday School Children Celebrate Rogation Day in 1953.
A photo at Market Lavington Museum, Wiltshire, England.
Illustration: MARKET LAVINGTON MUSEUM

Saint Michael's Church, Bunwell, Norfolk, England, has always been the centre of Village Life. In this picture, taken on Rogation Sunday, April 1967, the Rector, Rev. Samuel Collins, followed by the Choir, Parishioners, and The New Buckenham Silver Band, walk The Parish Boundaries and Bless the Stream.
Illustration: BUNWELL HERITAGE GROUP

Saint Boniface. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 5 June.

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

Saint Boniface.
   Bishop and Martyr.
   Feast Day 5 June.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Boniface,

by Cornelis Bloemaert, circa 1630.

Date: 26 April 2013.

Source: Het Utrechts Archief

Author: Cornelis Bloemaert (1603-1684).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Boniface was born in England at the end of the 7th-Century. He is one of the great glories of The Order of Saint Benedict. Pope Gregory II sent him to Germany, where, with a chosen band of Monks, he announced The Good News, as Jesus Risen had commanded His Apostles to do, to the people of Hesse, Saxony, and Thuringia (Collect).

Made a Legate of The Apostolic See, by Pope Gregory II, he called together several Synods, among which was the famous Council of Leptines, in the Diocese of Cambrai. Appointed Archbishop of Mainz, by Pope Zachary, he, by his order, anointed Pepin, King of The Franks.

After the death of Saint Willibrord, the Church of Utrecht, in Frisia, was committed to his care. The Frisians massacred him at Dokkum, with thirty of his Monks, in June 755 A.D. His body was buried in the celebrated Abbey of Fulda, which he had Founded.

Mass: Exsultábo.

English: The Imperial Abbey (Prince-Bishopric) of Fulda,

Hesse, Germany. Now, Fulda Cathedral.

Deutsch: Reichskloster (Fürstbistum) Fulda.

Aufnahme des de:Fuldaer Dom

Español: Catedral de Fulda.

Français: Cathédrale de Fulda

Photo: 6 April 2004 (original upload date).

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

Author: Author and original uploader was ThomasSD at de.wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Coat-of-Arms of The Bishops of Fulda.

Deutsch: Wappen des Bistums bzw. des ehemaligen

Fürstbistums und Hochstiftes Fulda.

Date: 29 December 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: David Liuzzo

(Wikimedia Commons)

Statue of Saint Boniface,

by Werner Henschel, (1830), at Fulda, Hesse, Germany.

Photo: 30 July 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Frank Schulenburg

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

The Monastery of Fulda was a Benedictine Abbey, in Fulda, in the present-day German State of Hesse. It was Founded in 744 A.D. by Saint Sturm, a Disciple of Saint Boniface. Through the 8th- and 9th-Centuries A.D., the Fulda Monastery became a prominent centre of learning and culture in Germany, and a site of religious significance and Pilgrimage following the burial of Saint Boniface. The growth in population around Fulda would result in its elevation to a Diocese in the 18th -Century.

English: Boniface chops down a Cult Tree in Hessen, Germany.

Engraving by Bernhard Rode, 1781.

Deutsch: Bonifacius haut in Hessen einen Opferbaum

m Radierung von Bernhard Rode 1781.

Date: artwork: 1781; file: 2009.01.17.

Source: Eigene Fotografie (own photography).

Author: Artwork: Bernhard Rode (1725–1797). File: James Steakley

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifatius) (Circa 675 A.D. – 5 June 754 A.D.), born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth, in the Kingdom of Wessex in Anglo-Saxon England, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of The Frankish Empire during the 8th-Century A.D.

He established the first organised Christianity in many parts of Germany. He is the Patron Saint of Germany, the first Archbishop of Mainz and the "Apostle of the Germans". He was killed in Frisia in 754 A.D., along with fifty-two others. His remains were returned to Fulda, where they rest in a sarcophagus, which became a site of Pilgrimage. Facts about Boniface's life and death as well as his work became widely known, since there is a wealth of material available — a number of "Vitae", especially the near-contemporary "Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi", and legal documents, possibly some Sermons, and, above all, his correspondence.

According to the "Vitae", Boniface felled the Donar Oak, Latinised by Willibald, the "Apostle of the Frisians", as "Jupiter's Oak,", near the present-day Town of Fritzlar, in northern Hesse. According to his early biographer, Willibald, Boniface started to chop the Oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by a Miracle, blew the ancient Oak over.

Saint Boniface Altar,

Fulda Cathedral, Germany.

Photo: 21 October 2006 (original upload date).

Source:Transferred from nl.wikipedia to Commons.

Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here

Author: AJW at Dutch Wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

When the god ("Jupiter") did not strike him down, the people were amazed and converted to Christianity. He built a Chapel, Dedicated to Saint Peter, from its wood at the site — the Chapel was the beginning of the Monastery in Fritzlar.

Through his efforts to re-organise and regulate The Church of The Franks, he helped shape Western Christianity, and many of the Dioceses, that he proposed, remain today. After his Martyrdom, he was quickly hailed as a Saint, in Fulda, and other areas in Germany and England. His cult is still notably strong today. Boniface is celebrated (and criticised) as a Missionary; he is regarded as a Unifier of Europe, and he is seen (mainly by Catholics) as a Germanic national figure.

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A Win For Life !!! Northern Ireland Assembly Rejects ABORTION Regulations And Disability ABORTION.

LIFE INSTITUTE NEWS : 4 June 2020.

A Win For Life !!!

Northern Ireland Assembly

Rejects ABORTION Regulations

And Disability ABORTION.

A light of hope shone out this week as a DUP Motion opposing the ABORTION regulations being imposed by Westminster - and also opposing ABORTION on Disability grounds - was passed in The Northern Ireland Assembly.

While the Motion cannot overturn the Westminster vote, it sends a strong signal that the imposition of ABORTION is unacceptable to the majority of people in the region.

Well done to all the Pro-Life Politicians and Pro-Life Groups, such as “Precious Life” and “Youth For Life”, who worked so hard to make this happen.

And a special thanks to the amazing Heidi Crowther !!!

See more in the Report at LIFE INSTITUTE

God Bless.

Niamh.

Wells Cathedral Choir’s Virtual Contribution For The Feast Of Pentecost: “The Litany To The Holy Ghost”. With So Much Evil Currently In The World, These Little Ones Find The Better Way To Glorify God And Eschew Evil. God Bless Them.

The Choristers of Wells Cathedral.

“Litany to The Holy Spirit”.

The following Text is from WELLS CATHEDRAL’S JUNE NEWSLETTER

For our second Virtual Choir, The Choristers of Wells Cathedral sang Peter Hurford's beautiful Litany to The Holy Spirit, for The feast of Pentecost,

with words by Robert Herrick.

Each of the thirty-one young singers recorded their parts in isolation at home.

Their voices were then combined with a pre-recorded Organ Part, played by Jeremy Cole, The Director of Music, Wells Cathedral.

Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563-1608). Confessor. Feast Day 4 June.

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

Saint Francis Caracciolo.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 4 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563-1608).

Date of Illustration: 1894.

Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Francis, of the noble family of Caracciolo, in The Abruzzi, Southern Italy, determined, during a severe illness, to devote himself to the Service of God, so as to be ready when The Master should come to take him away (Gospel).

A Letter, delivered to him by mistake, apprised him of a Project of two pious men to Found a new Religious Institute. In this, he saw a providential sign and he became one of the Founders of The Order of Minor Clerks Regular.

At his Profession, he took the name of Francis, on account of his Devotion to Saint Francis of Assisi. To the love of Penance, he added a great zeal for Prayer (Collect). Burning with love for The Blessed Sacrament, his heart melted like wax when he was in the presence of The Tabernacle (Introit), for there he felt the overflowing sweetness prepared by God for those who fear Him (Communion).

He died at the age of forty-four, in 1608, on The Vigil of Corpus Christi, and, "although his life was short, he completed a long course, for a spotless life is equivalent to protracted years" (Epistle).

Following Saint Francis Caracciolo's example, let us Pray and reduce our bodies to subjection (Collect), so that, burning like him with the fire of Charity, we may worthily kneel at The Communion Table (Secret).

Mass: Factum est.

What Happened To The Ember Days ?

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
THE MUNIMENT ROOM

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Ember Days, the days of Fasting and Abstinence at the beginning of each of The Seasons, are ancient in origin. According to The Catholic Encyclopædia:

"The "Liber Pontificalis" ascribes to Pope Callistus (217 A.D. - 222 A.D.) a Law ordering The Fast, but probably it is older. Pope Leo the Great (440 A.D. - 461 A.D.) considers it an Apostolic institution.

When The Fourth Season was added, cannot be ascertained, but Pope Gelasius (492 A.D. - 496 A.D.) speaks of all four Seasons. This Pope also permitted the conferring of Priesthood and Deaconship on The Saturdays of Ember Week - these were formerly given only at Easter.

Before Pope Gelasius, The Ember Days were known only in Rome, but, after his time, their observance spread. They were brought into England by Saint Augustine."

Rogation Day.

Circa 1950.

The Vicar and Sunday School Children go out into the fields to Bless The Crops. The little boy is carrying a symbolic Tree of Plenty.

Picture Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

Rogation Days are also an ancient Tradition:

"Days of Prayer, and formerly also of Fasting, instituted by The Church to appease God's anger at man's transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest."

Few Catholics under the age of seventy (other than those who regularly attend The Extraordinary Form of The Mass) will know what these are, as they were done away with. Strange to say, this was not by Bugnini and his colleagues, although they were happy to mess with them.

Illustration: MATER DEI LATIN MASS PARISH

Bugnini writes:

"The Ember Days are to be Celebrated at times and on days to be determined by the Episcopal Conferences, provided that they are in harmony with The Seasons and thus truly correspond to the purposes for which they were established."

Pope Paul told Bugnini that he would insist that any periods, which replaced the then-existing Ember Days, should be carefully determined by the Episcopal Conferences and that should also be Days of Prayer for Vocations to The Priesthood and Religious Life.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

So where are The Ember Days ?

According to The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales:

“Amongst these other Celebrations, from the earliest times have been The Rogation Days and Ember Days; Days of Prayer for particular need, or, in thanksgiving for particular Blessings of The Lord”. Since 1972, The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has preferred to drop all distinction between Ember Days and Rogation Days and to speak simply of Days of Special Prayer.

In 1972, six such Days were introduced, but, in the years which followed, the number of such Days increased to such an extent that they risked intruding on The Celebration of The Liturgical Year, and especially on The Celebration of The Lord’s Day on Sundays.

Sunday School Children Celebrate Rogation Day in 1953.

A photo at Market Lavington Museum, Wiltshire, England.

Illustration: MARKET LAVINGTON MUSEUM

Subsequently, The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales concluded that, from Advent 1996, these Days of Special Prayer be subsumed into, and replaced by, a Cycle of Prayer.

The Cycle of Prayer seeks to preserve the integrity of The Sunday Liturgy, without losing sight of the importance of being united with The Universal Church, or Local Church, in Praying and working for important intentions. It seeks to do this by encouraging The Faithful to Pray for The Intentions set out in The Cycle in their Personal Prayers throughout the period specified, and not only at Mass on a particular day.

Saint Michael's Church, Bunwell, Norfolk, England, has always been the centre of Village Life. In this picture, taken on Rogation Sunday, April 1967, the Rector, Rev. Samuel Collins, followed by the Choir, Parishioners, and The New Buckenham Silver Band, walk The Parish Boundaries and Bless the Stream.

Illustration: BUNWELL HERITAGE GROUP

The Cycle of Prayer is based on a division of The Year into six periods, three of these being the principal Liturgical Seasons of Advent/Christmas, Lent, and Easter, and the other three periods being divisions of "Ordinary Time, namely Winter, Summer, and Autumn."

So, apart from losing their Initial Capital Letters, The Ember Days and Rogation Days were merged, were stripped of their Penitential Character, were separated from their association with The Seasons and Harvests, were moved from their ancient, perhaps even Apostolic, dates, and were then abolished and replaced by a "Cycle of Prayer", which was apparently instituted in 1996, and which is important enough to have a page dedicated to it by The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Liturgy Office (HERE), and which I, for one, have never heard of before.

This is how "Nu-Church" is constructed. Take "Something Venerable" and say how important it is: So important, that it needs to be specially adapted for every Country and Territory; and, if the adaptation kills it off, well, that's how Traditions evolve, isn't it ?

And, if what replaces "The Venerable Something" ends up being neglected and ignored by everybody, it must be that "The Venerable Something" needed to have been abolished anyway.

The following Text is taken from THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC

Ember Days occur four times a year at the start of each Season. In Latin, they are known as the “Quattuor Anni Tempora” (the “Four Seasons Of The Year”).

Traditionally observed by some Christian denominations, each set of Ember Days is three days, kept on a successive Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. These three days are set apart for Fasting, Abstinence, and Prayer.

The first of these "four times a year" comes in Winter, after The Feast of Saint Lucia, on 13 December;

The second set comes with The First Sunday in Lent;

The third set comes after Whitsunday/Pentecost Sunday;

The fourth, and last set, comes after The Feast of The Holy Cross, 14 September.

Their dates can be remembered by this old mnemonic:

“Sant Crux, Lucia, Cineres, Charismata Dia,

Ut sit in angaria quarta sequens feria”.

Which means:

“Holy Cross, Lucy, Ash Wednesday, Pentecost,

are when The Quarter Holidays follow.”

Folklore has it that the weather on each of "The Three Days" foretells the weather for three successive months. As with much folklore, this is grounded in some common sense, since the beginning of The Four Seasons cue the changes in weather, as well as a shift in how we keep harmony with The Earth and respect our stewardship of The Earth, our “Garden of Eden.”

Ember Wednesday After Pentecost.

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Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

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Ember Wednesday After Pentecost.

Station at Saint Mary Major.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Rogation Day.

Circa 1950:

The Vicar and Sunday School Children go out into the fields

to Bless The Crops. The little boy is carrying a symbolic Tree of Plenty.

Picture Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

“FORTITUDE”.

“The Gift of Fortitude is a permanent power which The Holy Ghost communicates to our Will to assist us in overcoming the difficulties which might deter us in the practice of what is right.”

[Rev. M. Meschler.]

The Ember Days always fall during The Octave of Pentecost. The Church then offers up to God the first-fruits of the new Season, and Prays for the Priests who, on the coming Saturday, are about to receive The Holy Ghost in The Sacrament of Holy Orders.

The Station on Ember Wednesday was always held at Saint Mary Major. It was at the feet of The Blessed Virgin, whom The Holy Ghost filled with His Grace in The Cenacle, that the newly-Baptised gathered together.

The Liturgy reminded them of the Miracle of Pentecost (Lesson) and the marvels wrought by The Apostles, as a result of which the number of those who believed in The Lord was greatly increased (Epistle).

Moved by The Holy Ghost, The Catechumens also believed in Jesus: They turned to Him, and Jesus gave them to eat of The Bread that would make them live for ever (Gospel).

Let us implore The Divine Consoler to enlighten us always more and more and to place us in full possession of The Truth (Collect).

Mass: Deus, dum egrederéris.

Sequence: Veni, Sancte Spiritus.

Creed.

Preface: For Pentecost.

Communicantes: For Pentecost.

Hanc igitur: For Pentecost.

Illustration: MATER DEI LATIN MASS PARISH

Ember Day Service.
1950.

Illustration: ABOUT RELIGION

Sunday School Children Celebrate Rogation Day in 1953.
A photo at Market Lavington Museum, Wiltshire, England.
Illustration: MARKET LAVINGTON MUSEUM

Saint Michael's Church, Bunwell, Norfolk, England, has always been the centre of Village Life. In this picture, taken on Rogation Sunday, April 1967, the Rector, Rev. Samuel Collins, followed by the Choir, Parishioners, and The New Buckenham Silver Band, walk The Parish Boundaries and Bless the Stream.
Illustration: BUNWELL HERITAGE GROUP