Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless stated otherwise.
Saint John Of San Facondo. Confessor. Feast Day 12 June.
Double.
White Vestments.
English: Saint John of Sahagún (or San Facondo), The Order of Saint Augustine (O.E.S.A.) (Spanish: Juan de Sahagún), (24 June 1419 – 11 June 1479) was a SpanishAugustinian Friar and Priest. He was a leading Preacher regarding social behavior of his day. He has been declared a Saint by The Catholic Church.
Español: San Juan de Sahagún. Retablo cerámico del siglo XVII, del convento de Santa María del Pópulo de Sevilla, hoy en el Museo de Bellas Artes.
Source: www.retabloceramico.net/ articulo055.htm
Author: Unknown.
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Saint John was born at San Facondo, Spain, and his youth was spent in a Benedictine Monastery. Favoured by The Holy Ghost with a marvellous gift for Peace-Making (Collect), from childhood he exhorted other children to concord. During the Civil War, he Preached Peace in Salamanca and succeeded in putting an end to factions there.
He distributed his rich revenues among the Poor (Epistle) and devoted his time to Works of Charity, to Prayer, and to the Contemplation of Divine Wisdom (Introit).
In order to be ready when The Master came to fetch him (Gospel), he entered The Order of Saint Augustine, where he was distinguished for his extraordinary devotion during Holy Mass. He died in 1479, crying out: "Lord, I place all my confidence in Thee at this last hour, and into Thy hands I commit my Soul."
Let us ask The Holy Ghost, author of Peace and source of Divine Charity, to fill us with the love and spirit of Reconciliation, of which Saint John gave us the example, so that we may never be separated from Jesus (Collect).
Mass: Os Justi. Commemoration: Saint Basilides and Companions.
This Post is to express Loyal Greetings and Good Wishes to His Royal Highness.
A life that covers ninety-nine years, and one in so prominent a position, is one full of experiences of all kinds.
It has often been difficult times from his earliest years, and bereavement and uncertainty have been significant events along the journey. It has also been a life of duty to his wife, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and her family, in support of Crown and Commonwealth - and at times there have been those too quick to find fault or display pettiness about him.
In that, he shares much with Prince Albert in the 19th-Century, and, indeed, virtually all male Consorts of Queens Regnant here and abroad.
To have achieved so much in initiatives alongside his formal role, and to have done it with his distinctive dry humour, is no inconsiderable achievement in the historical long term, let alone in the immediacy of one life.
Many Happy Returns and here’s to the Centenary Birthday next year !!!
Source/Photographer: Oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
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The Church, Founded by Jesus and filled with The Holy Ghost at Pentecost, was to spread throughout the World. When Saint Paul, after his long Retreat in Arabia, came to Jerusalem for the first time after his Conversion, and wished to submit to the approval of Saint Peter the Mission to The Gentiles, committed to him by The Master Himself, it was Saint Barnabas who presented him to The Apostles.
“A good man and full of zeal of The Holy Ghost” (Epistle), Saint Barnabas evangelised, during twelve years, with Saint Paul, the pagans in the island of Cyprus and in a great number of Towns and Countries (Gradual).
Wherefore, The Church honours him as an Apostle and The Liturgy applies to him The Words of Jesus announcing to The Twelve that, having been established as Princes over the whole Earth (Offertory), they would be seated on Thrones to judge The Twelve Tribes of Israel (Communion).
Having separated from Saint Paul, he returned to Cyprus, where the Jews of Salamis plotted against him. Remembering then The Words of The Master, Who sent His Apostles like sheep in the midst of wolves (Gospel), he said to The Faithful: "The wolf only attacks the shepherd first, to throw himself next upon the flock. Be firm in The Faith." The Holy Ghost dictated to him the words he had to say to the Jews (Gospel): But they stoned him as a blasphemer.
He was buried with The Gospel of Saint Matthew, which he had copied with his own hand. His name is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, immediately after that of Saint Matthias (Second List).
[In the "Communicantes", there figures eleven of The Apostles chosen by Our Lord Himself, and Saint Paul, whom The Church does not separate from Saint Peter.
[Saint Matthias and Saint Barnabas are mentioned at the “Nobis quoque peccatoribus”, because they were called to The Apostleship after The Death of The Saviour.
[There are then, altogether, fourteen Apostles mentioned in the two places [Editor: Communicantes and Nobis quoque peccatoribus], just as, during The Liturgical Year, there are Feasts of fourteen Apostles.]
Let us imitate the Apostolic Spirit of Saint Barnabas, whose Soul was all inflamed with The Holy Ghost.
Mass (In Paschaltide): Protexísti.
Mass (Out of Paschaltide): Mihi autem.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
SUB UMBRA ALARUM SUARUM
has a worthy tribute to Saint Barnabas. It is highly recommended to Readers to pop over and see.
The Solemn Celebration of this Feast is, in some places, observed on the following Sunday.
After the Dogma of The Holy Trinity, The Holy Ghost reminds us of the Dogma of The Incarnation of Our Lord, in Celebrating with The Church the greatest of all Sacraments, summing up the whole Life of The Redeemer, giving Infinite Glory to God and applying The Fruits of The Redemption at all times to ourselves (Collect).
It was on The Cross that Our Lord redeemed us, and The Holy Eucharist, instituted on the night before Our Lord's Passion, remains its Memorial (Collect). The Altar is the extension of Calvary ["The Celebration of The Mass has the same value as The Death of Jesus Christ on The Cross", Saint John Chrysostom.]; The Mass "shows The Death of The Lord" (Epistle).
Jesus is there in the State of a Victim, for the words of the Double Consecration mean only that the Bread is changed into The Body of Christ and the Wine into His Blood. On account of this double action with different effects, which constitutes The Sacrifice of The Mass, we are entitled to speak of Our Lord's Presence, under the appearance of Bread, as that of The Body of Christ, although, since He can die no more, the whole Christ is there contained; similarly, we may speak of the Presence under the appearance of Wine as that of His Blood, although He is contained there whole and entire.
“The Eucharist in a Fruit Wreath”.
By: Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1648.
From the Blog: "Ars Orandi:
The Art and Beauty of Traditional Catholicism".
Through His Priests, Our Lord, Himself, The Principal Priest of The Mass, offers in an unbloody manner His Body and Blood, Which were really separated on The Cross, but, on the Altar only in a representative or Sacramental sense, the matter and words used and the effect produced being different in the two Consecrations.
Besides, The Eucharist was instituted under the form of food (Alleluia), that we may be united with The Victim of Calvary, so that The Sacred Host becomes the "wheat" which feeds our Souls (Introit).
THE SEQUENCE FOR CORPUS CHRISTI.
Solemnity of The Body and Blood of Christ. Holy Mass, Procession to Saint Mary Major and Eucharistic Blessing. Basilica of Saint John Lateran, 23 June 2011. Solennità del Santissimo Corpo e Sangue di Cristo. Santa Messa, Processione a Santa Maria Maggiore e Benedizione Eucaristica. Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, 23 Giugno 2011.
Moreover, Christ, as The Son of God, receives The Eternal Life of The Father; in the same way, Christians share in that Eternal Life by uniting themselves to Christ, through The Sacrament, which is the symbol of unity (Secret), and this possession of The Divine Life, already realised on Earth through The Eucharist, is the pledge and the beginning of that in which we shall fully rejoice in Heaven (Postcommunion). As The Council of Trent puts it: "That same Heavenly Bread that we eat now, under the Sacred Veils, we shall feed upon in Heaven without Veil."
We should regard The Mass as The Centre of all Eucharistic Worship, seeing in Holy Communion the means instituted by Our Lord to enable us to share more fully in this Divine Sacrifice. In this way, our Devotion to Our Lord's Body and Blood will effectively obtain for us The Fruits of His Redemption (Collect).
(1824 Warszawa or Schnepfental - 1905 Berlin): Fronleichnamsprozession.
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Concerning the Procession, which regularly should follow The Mass, we remember how the Israelites revered The Ark of The Covenant, which was the Presence of God among them. When they carried on their victorious marches, the Ark went before, borne by the Levites in the midst of a cloud of incense, accompanied by the sound of musical instruments and of the songs and shouts of the multitude.
We Christians have a treasure far more precious, for, in The Eucharist, we possess God Himself. Let us feel a holy pride in forming His Escort and extolling His Triumphs, while He is in our midst.
Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Cibávit eos. Sequence: Lauda Sion. Creed: Is said. Preface: Of Christmas. Also, throughout The Octave.
(Indulgences are granted to those who take part in The Procession.)
Regularly, The Sacred Host, carried in The Procession, has been Consecrated in The Mass and exposed in The Monstrance immediately after The Communion of the Priest.
Sometimes, however, The Procession is a separate function in the afternoon.
When the Priest leaves the Altar, the Choristers intone the Vesper Hymn “Pange Lingua”. If time allows, other Eucharistic Hymns are also sung, to be found among The Benediction Hymns, e.g: “Sacris Solemniis” and “Verbum Supernum”. Also, the Hymns for The Ascension, “Salutis Humanæ”, the Canticles “Benedictus”, or, “Magnificat”. On the return of The Procession, the “Te Deum” is usually sung.
When the Celebrant is arrived at the Altar, the Choristers intone the “Tantum Ergo” and Benediction is given.
Thursday, 11 June 2020, is The Feast of Corpus Christi.
There are many opportunities to follow Mass on Live-Streaming.
The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Peter Chanel, in Hull, have their Thursday Latin Mass at 7.30 p.m. It may be preceded by Benediction.
I like to follow The Divine Mass from The Sacred Heart Church, in Limerick, Ireland. It is at 7 p.m., and can be found via The Institute Of Christ The King's Irish Web-Site at WEB-SITE
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, was descended from The English Kings by her father and from The Cæsars by her mother. Like the prudent woman, mentioned in the Epistle, she was made still more illustrious by the practice of Christian virtue.
Filled with The Fear of God (Introit), she subjected herself to fearful mortifications and, by her example, she brought the King, her husband, to a better life and her subjects to more Christian morals.
She brought up her eight children with such piety that several of them led a life of high perfection. Nothing, however, was more admirable in her than her ardent Charity towards her neighbour (Collect).
Site of The Shrine of Saint Margaret, Queen of Scots,
She was called The Mother of Orphans and The Treasurer of The Poor of Jesus Christ. Such was the price at which she bought the precious Pearl of The Kingdom of Heaven (Gospel).
Purified by six months of bodily suffering, she gave up her Soul to God in 1093 at Edinburgh, Scotland. The Holiness of her life and numerous Miracles, wrought after her death, have made her Venerated in the whole World.
She was chosen by Pope Clement X as Patron of The Scottish Nation, over which she had reigned for thirty years.
Let us admire the work of The Holy Ghost in the Soul of the Holy Queen, whom He chose for the furtherance of Christ's Kingdom in Scotland and let us invoke her for the return of Scotland to Roman unity.
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Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scots: Saunt Magret, circa 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English Princess and a Scottish Queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in exile in The Kingdom of Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the shortly-reigned and un-crowned Anglo-SaxonKing of England.
Margaret was the mother of three Kings of Scotland, or four, if Edmund of Scotland (who Ruled with his uncle, Donald III) is counted, and of a Queen Consort of England. According to The Vita S. Margaritæ (Scotorum) Reginae (Life of Saint Margaret, Queen (of The Scots)), attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1093, merely days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle.
Saint Primus and Saint Felician were Romans. Brothers by blood, they became brothers still more when, having been called to bear much fruit (Offertory), they confessed their Faith in Jesus Christ. Accused and arrested under Emperor Diocletian and Emperor Maximian, they were, in spite of their great age, cast into prison.
The Holy Ghost filled them “with His Virtue and His Strength” (Offertory). Giving them the breast-plate of justice and the impenetrable shield of equity (Epistle), He made them experience how sweet is the yoke of The Lord, which they had taken upon themselves, and how light is His burden (Gospel).
The constancy of Saint Felician was first put to the test. Nailed by his hands and his feet to the trunk of a tree, he remained hanging there for three days, without eating or drinking. They then tried to make his brother believe that he had sacrificed to the idols, but Saint Primus declared that he knew Felician was happy in the midst of his sufferings and that he would remain united to him in Martyrdom.
“This is,” as the Alleluia sings, “the true brotherhood which has triumphed over the criminal world.” The Prætor [Editor: Roman Official] then ordered that molten lead should be poured into his mouth, in the presence of his brother.
They were led to the amphitheatre, but the lions, who were to devour them, crouched at their feet. Finally, in 286 A.D., they were beheaded.
Their names live as Centuries roll on (Introit), for they have received in Heaven, from the hand of The Lord, a Kingdom of Glory and a Crown of Sparkling Beauty (Epistle).
Let us join in heart, The Faithful of Rome who, on this day, honour the precious remains of these two Martyrs at the Church of Saint Stephen on Mount Cœlius.
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It traditionally accompanies The Asperges, the ritual sprinkling of the Congregation by the Celebrant with Holy Water, as part of an Entrance Ritual, symbolising the cleansing of the people. Its words are taken from Psalm 50, “The Miserere”.
Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor,
Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.
Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.
Thou wilt sprinkle me, O Lord, with hyssop and I shall be cleansed
Thou wilt wash me, and I shall be washed whiter than snow.
Music credit: Vivaldi. La Cetra, Op 9. Concerto 1 in C Major. Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester. Source: Baroque Music Library. www.baroquemusic.org (Public domain).
Picture credit: Descent of The Holy Spirit. 12th-Century.
In the second part of the year, the six months from Trinity to Advent, The Holy Ghost, Whose Reign begins at Pentecost, comes to repeat to us what Our Lord, Himself, has taught us in the first part, the six months from Advent to Trinity Sunday.
The fundamental Truth, on which everything in The Christian Religion rests, is The Dogma of The Holy Trinity, from Whom all comes (Epistle), and to Whom, all Baptised in His Name must return (Gospel). In the course of The Cycle, having called to our minds, in order, God The Father, Author of Creation, God The Son, Author of Redemption, and God The Holy Ghost, Author of our Sanctification, The Church, today, before all else, recapitulates The Great Mystery by which we acknowledge and adore The Unity of Nature and Trinity of Persons in Almighty God (Collect).
"As soon as we have Celebrated The Coming of The Holy Ghost," says Abbot Rupert, in the 12th-Century, "we hail in song The Feast of The Holy Trinity, the following Sunday, a place in The Calendar well chosen, for immediately after The Descent of The Holy Ghost, Preaching and Conversion began, and Faith through Baptism and Confession, in the Name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Ghost."
The Dogma of The Holy Trinity is affirmed, in The Liturgy, on every hand. It is in The Name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Ghost that we begin and end The Mass and The Divine Office, and that we confer The Sacraments. All The Psalms end with the Gloria, the Hymns with The Doxology, and the Prayers by a Conclusion, in honour of The Three Divine Persons. Twice during The Mass, we are reminded that it is to The Holy Trinity that The Mass is being offered.
The Dogma of The Trinity is expressed in the very fabric of our Churches. Our fathers delighted to find a symbol of it in the admirably-proportioned height, breadth, and length of these buildings, in their primary and secondary divisions; the Sanctuary, the Choir and the Nave; the Ground-Floor, the Triforium and the Clerestory; the three Entrances, three Doors, three Bays, three Gables, and, often, three Towers.
On every hand, even to the smallest detail of decoration, the number three, repeated frequently, denotes a well-conceived Plan and a profound Faith in The Blessed Trinity.
The same thought is expressed in Christian iconography, in various ways. Up to the 12th-Century, God The Father is represented by a hand, emerging from the clouds, in Blessing, and often surrounded by a Nimbus [Editor: Halo] containing a Cross. By this hand, is symbolised Divine Omnipotence. In 13th- and 14th-Century work, one sees The Face and, then, The Figure of The Father. From the 15th-Century, The Father is represented as an old man in the garb of a Pontiff.
Up to the 12th-Century, God The Son was at first represented by a Cross, by a Lamb, or, again, by a gracious youth, in the same way that Apollo was represented in the pagan world. From the 11th- to the 16th-Century, Christ appears bearded and in the prime of life. From the 13th-Century, He is seen carrying The Cross and often He is depicted as The Lamb.
The Holy Ghost was, at first, represented under the form of a dove, whose outspread wings often touched the mouths of both Father and Son to show that He proceeds from both. For the same reason, from the 11th-Century He is depicted as a little child. In the 13th-Century, He is a youth, in the 15th-Century, He is a man of ripe age, like The Father and The Son, but with a dove above His head, or in His hand, to distinguish Him from the other Two Persons.
Since the 16th-Century, the dove and the fiery tongues are the only representations of The Holy Ghost. Quite recently, it was expressly forbidden to represent Him under a human form. Since 1628, was also forbidden the monstrous picture of three faces on one body.
As a symbol of The Trinity, the triangle has been borrowed from geometry, depicting by its form The Divine Unity in which are inscribed three angles, expressing The Three Persons in God. Trefoil plants, as Shamrock and Clover, serve to represent this Great Mystery, as also do three circles interwoven, with the word "Unity" inscribed in the central space belonging to all three.
A Miniature of the 16th-Century represents The Father and Son as like each other, with the same Nimbus, the same Triple Crown, the hair worn in the same way and a single cloak drawing them close together. Further, they are united by the same Book of Divine Wisdom as well as by The Holy Ghost, Who joins one to the other by the ends of His wings. But The Father is older than The Son, and the beard of the one is pointed, while that of the other is round.
The Father wears a Robe, without a Girdle, and carries the globe of the Earth in His hand, while The Son, as a Priest, wears an Alb, with Cincture and Stole.
The Feast of The Holy Trinity owes its origin to the fact that the Ordinations of The Ember Saturday, which took place in the evening, were prolonged to the next day, which was Sunday, and which had no Proper Liturgy.
As this day is Consecrated throughout the year to The Most Holy Trinity, The Votive Mass, composed in the 7th-Century A.D., to Celebrate this Mystery, was said on The First Sunday after Pentecost; and, since it occupied a fixed place in The Liturgical Calendar, this Mass was considered as establishing this Sunday as a special Feast of The Blessed Trinity.
Stephen, Bishop of Liége, who was born about 850 A.D., composed, in the 10th-Century, its Office, which was revised later on by The Franciscans.
The Feast was, in 1334, extended to The Universal Church by Pope John XXII and made a Double of The First-Class by Pope Saint Pius X.
That we may ever be armed against all adversity, let us, today, with The Liturgy, make our Solemn Profession of Faith in The Holy and Eternal Trinity and His indivisible Unity.
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Benedícta sit sancta. Commemoration: The First Sunday After Pentecost.
Creed. Preface: Of The Holy Trinity. Last Gospel: The Gospel of The Sunday After Pentecost.
