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

Wednesday 24 June 2020

El Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador (The Mosque-Church Of The Saviour), Toledo, Spain. Completed In 1159 On The Site Of A Previous Mosque and A Visigoth Religious Building.



English: The High Altar,
El Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador
(The Mosque-Church Of The Saviour),
Toledo, Spain.
Português: Iglesia del Salvador.
Photo: 1 February 2013.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 3.0
Author: José Luiz
(Wikimedia Commons)



“Cor Iesu Sacratissimum
adveniat regnum tuum”.
The Benediction Hymn sung at
El Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador
(The Mosque-Church Of The Saviour),
Toledo, Spain.
Available on YouTube at

Este vídeo ha sido grabado en la Santa Misa Cantada celebrada en la Iglesia del Salvador de Toledo. Este Comunidad Sacerdotal en formación tiene como uso propio en el Oficio y la Santa Misa la Forma Extraordinaria del Rito Romano:


The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

The Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador is a Church in Toledo, Spain, completed in 1159. The Priestly Order only Celebrate The Divine Mass in The Extraordinary Form.

Although the Church is small, it is an exceptional building, because it is the site of four successive constructions, one on other and so on. It's a 12th-Century Church, built on an 11th-Century Taifa Mosque, which was an expansion of a 9th-Century A.D. Umayyad Mosque, and, in turn, on a Visigoth religious building.[2][1] Also, these civilisations re-used 2nd-Century A.D. Roman elements of the buildings.

It is most unusual, in Andalusia, Spain, that Muslims were happy to build on top of Visigoth buildings.


The Arcade of the former Mosque blended in the Church.
Its Horseshoe Arches rest on six re-used Roman Capitals and Columns
and one Visigoth Pilaster[1]
Photo: 18 June 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: PMRMaeyaert
(Wikimedia Commons)

The large number of Visigoth Decorative Reliefs, forming Friezes, and Roman Cornices embedded in the Walls, is surprising.[3]

The current Church is oriented South-East, in the direction of Mecca. It survived the conquest of Toledo by Christian Armies in 1085, to be subsequently turned into a Church in 1159. One of the most characteristic elements of the Church is a Visigoth Pilaster, with intricate Relief Carvings.[4]

As a Christian Church, from around 1180 to the Late-15th-Century, it began to be used as a Cemetery with anthropomorphic Tombs, above which were placed more burials, in which some Grave Goods have been found.


The Divine Mass for
The Feast Day of Saint Paulinus of Nola,
22 June 2020.
Followed by The Holy Rosary.
Celebrated at El Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador
(The Mosque-Church Of The Saviour),
Toledo, Spain.
Available on YouTube at

Este vídeo ha sido grabado en la Iglesia del Salvador de Toledo, iglesia dedicada a la celebración de la sagrada Liturgia según la Forma Extraordinaria del Rito Romano (misa tridentina o misal de 1962) en la Archidiócesis primada de Toledo (España). VISITE NUESTROS SITES: http://misagregorianatoledo.blogspot.... http://annussacerdotalis.blogspot.com... http://rinconliturgico.blogspot.com.es/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iglesi... https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...


English: El Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador
(The Mosque-Church Of The Saviour),
Toledo, Spain.
Photo: 14 March 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Antonio.velez
(Wikimedia Commons)



The 8th-Century A.D. Visigoth Pilaster beside The Lady Altar,
El Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador
(The Mosque-Church Of The Saviour),
Toledo, Spain.
Photo: 29 May 2016.
Source: Own work.
Author: Ziegler175
(Wikimedia Commons)

June Is The Month Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus. “Cor Jesu Sacratissimum” (“Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus”). Benediction Hymn.



Monstrance.
Photo: 18 October 2004 (original upload date).
Source: Own work.
Originally from nl.wikipedia; description page is/was HERE
Author: Original uploader was Broederhugo at nl.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)


“Cor Jesu Sacratissimum”.
“Sacred Heart of Jesus”.
Benediction Hymn.
Available on YouTube at

Cor Jesu Sacratissimum
advéniat regnum tuum
regnum veritátis et vitæ
regnum caritatis et grátiæ
regnum justitiæ, amóris et pacis.


Catholic Holy Card depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus, circa 1880.
Auguste Martin collection, University of Dayton Libraries.
Source: Turgis.
Author: Turgis.
(Wikimedia Commons)


English: The Carillon-Sacré-Coeur:
Flag waved by French Canadian Roman Catholics until the 1950s.
Français: Le Carillon-Sacré-Cœur est un drapeau
qui fut arboré par les Canadiens-français, et adopté par
la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste au Québec.
Date: 27 September 2007.
Author: uploaded by C.P. Champion
(Wikimedia Commons)

Este vídeo ha sido grabado en la Santa Misa Cantada celebrada en la Iglesia del Salvador de Toledo por los Hermanos de la Fraternidad de Cristo Sacerdote y Santa María Reina, asociación pública clerical con aprobación eclesiástica en la Archidiócesis primada de Toledo (España). Este Instituto Religioso en formación tiene como uso propio en el Oficio y la Santa Misa la Forma Extraordinaria del Rito Romano, como establecen sus Reglas y Constituciones. Para más información pueden visitar nuestro site y blogs:



The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

The Devotion to The Sacred Heart (also known as The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, “Sacratissimum Cor Iesu”, in Latin) is one of the most widely-practised and well-known Catholic Devotions, wherein The Sacred Heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of “God's boundless and passionate love for mankind”.[1]

This Devotion is predominantly used in The Catholic Church, followed by High-Church AnglicansLutherans, and some Western Rite Orthodox. In The Latin Church, the Liturgical Solemnities of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are Celebrated on The First Friday after Corpus Christi, or nineteen days after Pentecost Sunday.[2] The twelve Promises of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are also devoutly remembered and followed.

The Devotion is especially concerned with what The Church teaches
to be the long-suffering love and compassion of The Most Sacred Heart of Christ towards humanity.

The popularisation of this Devotion, in its modern form, is
derived from a Roman Catholic Nun from France, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, who said she learned the Devotion from Jesus during a series of Apparitions between 1673 and 1675,[3] and, later, in the 19th-Century, from the mystical revelations of another Catholic Nun, in Portugal, Blessed Mary of The Divine Heart Droste zu Vischering, a Religious of The Good Shepherd, who requested, In The Name Of Christ, that Pope Leo XIII Consecrate the entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Predecessors to the modern Devotion arose unmistakably in
The Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic mysticism, particularly
with Saint Gertrude the Great.[4]

The Nativity Of Saint John The Baptist. Feast Day, Today, 24 June.


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

The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.
   Feast Day 24 June.

Double of The First Class
   with an Octave.

White Vestments.



English: The "Voice in the Desert".
Français: La voix dans le désert.
Artist: James Tissot (1836-1902).
Date: Between 1886 and 1894.
Current location: Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Credit line: Purchased by public subscription.
Source/Photographer: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum
Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2007, 00.159.44_PS1.jpg
(Wikimedia Commons)


“Ut Queant Laxis”.
The Hymn to Saint John the Baptist.
Available on YouTube at


Saint John the Baptist.
Illustration: PINTEREST


English: Saint John the Baptist Church, Konigsberg. Königsberg is the historical name for the present-day City of Kaliningrad, Russia. Originally a Sambian, or Old Prussian City, it later belonged to the Monastic State of The Teutonic Knights, The Duchy of Prussia, The Kingdom of Prussia, The Russian Empire, and Germany, until 1946. After being largely destroyed in World War II by Soviet forces and annexed by The Soviet Union, thereafter, the City was re-named Kaliningrad. Few traces of the former Königsberg remain today.
Deutsch: Im Innern der Probsteikirche in Königsberg.
Date: 1904.
Source: http://www.bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/index.html
Author: Herausgeber: Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e.V. Parkallee 84/86 20144
Hamburg HRA VR4551 Ust-ID-Nr.: DE118718969Bundesgeschäftsführer:
Dr. Sebastian Husen.
(Wikimedia Commons)

“A Prophet of The Most High” (Alleluia), Saint John is pre-figured by Isaias and Jeremias (Introit, Epistle, Gospel); moreover, he was Consecrated before birth to announce Jesus (Secret) and to prepare Souls for His coming.

The Gospel narrates the prodigies which accompanied his birth. Zachary gives his child the name which Saint Gabriel has brought him from Heaven, which signifies: “The Lord has pardoned”. He immediately recovers his speech and, filled with The Holy Ghost, he foretells the greatness of his son: “He shall walk before The Face of The Lord, to give unto the people the knowledge of Salvation.”


The Virgin and Child, with The Infant Saint John,
appearing to Saint Jerome and Saint Anthony.
Artist: Andrea Celesti (1637-1712).
Date: Circa 1700.
Current location: Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Venice, Italy.
Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Angel Gabriel had announced to Zachary that "many would rejoice in the birth of Saint John the Baptist". Indeed, not only "the neighbours and relations of Elizabeth" Solemnised the event, but every year, on its Anniversary, the whole Church invites her children to share in this Holy Joy. She knows that The Nativity "of this Prophet of The Most High", at this "Summer Christmas", is intimately connected with The Advent of The Messias.

After The Feast of The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the days become shorter, while, on the contrary, after The Nativity of The Saviour, of which this Feast is the prelude, the days become longer. The Precursor must efface himself before Jesus, Who is The True Light of Faith. "He must increase," says Saint John, "and I must decrease."

The Solstices were the occasion of pagan feasts, when fires were lighted to honour the orb which gives us light. The Church Christianised the Rites, seeing in them a symbol of Saint John, who was "a burning and brilliant lamp".


Artist: Caravaggio (1573-1610).
Date: 1608.
Current location: Saint John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.
Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Indeed, “she encouraged this kind of manifestation, which corresponds so well with the character of the Feast. The Saint John bonfires happily completed The Liturgical Solemnity: They showed The Church and the Earthly City united in one thought.” [“The Liturgical Year” by Dom Guéranger: The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.]

The name of The Precursor is inscribed in The Canon of The Mass at The Head of The Second List.

Formerly, on his Feast Day, three Masses were Celebrated in his honour, and numerous Churches were Dedicated to him. Parents loved to give his name to their children.


Gregorian Chant.
The Life of Saint John the Baptist.
Available on YouTube at

Paul the Deacon, a Monk of Monte Cassino, Italy, and a friend of Charlemagne, had composed, in honour of Saint John the Baptist, the Hymn: "Ut queant laxis." In the 13th-Century, the Benedictine Monk, Guy of Arezzo, noticed that the notes, sung on the first syllables, formed the sequence of the first six degrees of The Scale. He named each degree by the corresponding syllable: "Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si" and thereby greatly facilitated the study of musical intervals.

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris [Do - Re]
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum [Mi - Fa]
Solve polluti labii reatum [Sol - La]
Sancte Johannes [Si] (S J makes Si)

“Unloose, great Baptist, our sin-fettered lips; That with enfranchis’d voice we may proclaim, The Miracles of thy transcendent life, Thy deeds of matchless fame.” “That thy servants may sing with full voice the marvels of thy works, purify their sullied lips, O Saint John.”

Immediately, Zachary made signs that he wished to call his son “John”, he recovered his speech; and Lo !, a Hymn composed in honour of The Prophet, whose voice resounds in the desert, becomes the occasion of a new progress in music.

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

Mass: De ventre.
Creed: Is Sung.


English: The Chapel of Saint John and Saint Paul in Szekszárd, Hungary.
Magyar: A barokk stílusú Szent János és Pál kápolna Szekszárdon
Esperanto: Kapelo Sanktaj Johano kaj Paŭlo en Szekszárd, Hungario.
Photo: 4 October 2010.
Source: Hungarian Wikipedia, file hu:file:SzentJanos esPal.jpg
Author: Pásztörperc
(Wikimedia Commons)

Tuesday 23 June 2020

A New Blog Is Launched: “Ius & Iustitium”.



Illustration: THE JOSIAS

Text is taken from, and can be read in full at, THE JOSIAS

We are happy to announce “Ius & Iustitium”, a new Blog associated with The Josias. It will focus on jurisprudence, discussing both theoretical matters and current events from an integralist perspective. The Title is meant to evoke both the more general and the more particular.

June Is The Month Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus. “Cor Jesu Sacratissimum” (“Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus”). Benediction Hymn.



Monstrance.
Photo: 18 October 2004 (original upload date).
Source: Own work.
Originally from nl.wikipedia; description page is/was HERE
Author: Original uploader was Broederhugo at nl.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)


“Cor Jesu Sacratissimum”.
“Sacred Heart of Jesus”.
Benediction Hymn.
Available on YouTube at

Cor Jesu Sacratissimum
advéniat regnum tuum
regnum veritátis et vitæ
regnum caritatis et grátiæ
regnum justitiæ, amóris et pacis.


Catholic Holy Card depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus, circa 1880.
Auguste Martin collection, University of Dayton Libraries.
Source: Turgis.
Author: Turgis.
(Wikimedia Commons)


English: The Carillon-Sacré-Coeur:
Flag waved by French Canadian Roman Catholics until the 1950s.
Français: Le Carillon-Sacré-Cœur est un drapeau
qui fut arboré par les Canadiens-français, et adopté par
la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste au Québec.
Date: 27 September 2007.
Author: uploaded by C.P. Champion
(Wikimedia Commons)

Este vídeo ha sido grabado en la Santa Misa Cantada celebrada en la Iglesia del Salvador de Toledo por los Hermanos de la Fraternidad de Cristo Sacerdote y Santa María Reina, asociación pública clerical con aprobación eclesiástica en la Archidiócesis primada de Toledo (España). Este Instituto Religioso en formación tiene como uso propio en el Oficio y la Santa Misa la Forma Extraordinaria del Rito Romano, como establecen sus Reglas y Constituciones. Para más información pueden visitar nuestro site y blogs:



The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

The Devotion to The Sacred Heart (also known as The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, “Sacratissimum Cor Iesu”, in Latin) is one of the most widely-practised and well-known Catholic Devotions, wherein The Sacred Heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of “God's boundless and passionate love for mankind”.[1]

This Devotion is predominantly used in The Catholic Church, followed by High-Church Anglicans, Lutherans, and some Western Rite Orthodox. In The Latin Church, the Liturgical Solemnities of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are Celebrated on The First Friday after Corpus Christi, or nineteen days after Pentecost Sunday.[2] The twelve Promises of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are also devoutly remembered and followed.

The Devotion is especially concerned with what The Church teaches
to be the long-suffering love and compassion of The Most Sacred Heart of Christ towards humanity.

The popularisation of this Devotion, in its modern form, is
derived from a Roman Catholic Nun from France, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, who said she learned the Devotion from Jesus during a series of Apparitions between 1673 and 1675,[3] and, later, in the 19th-Century, from the mystical revelations of another Catholic Nun, in Portugal, Blessed Mary of The Divine Heart Droste zu Vischering, a Religious of The Good Shepherd, who requested, In The Name Of Christ, that Pope Leo XIII Consecrate the entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Predecessors to the modern Devotion arose unmistakably in
The Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic mysticism, particularly

The Vigil Of Saint John The Baptist. 23 June.


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

The Vigil of Saint John the Baptist.
   23 June.

Simple.

Violet Vestments.




The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist (detail).
Artist: Pieter Breughel the Elder (1526-1569).
Date: 1566.
Photo: 20 July 2013.
Current location: Szépművészeti Múzeum
(Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary.
Source: Own work.
Author: Yelkrokoyade
(Wikimedia Commons)



Feast Day Procession of Saint John the Baptist,
Patron Saint of Florence, June 2017.
Available on YouTube at


The Infant Jesus and John the Baptist.
Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682).
Date: 1600s.
(Wikimedia Commons)


In the Gospel of 25 March, we read that The Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that, three months later, Elizabeth, in virtue of a Divine Miracle, would have a son. This is why The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist is Celebrated towards the end of June.

This important Feast is preceded by a Vigil.

Mass: Ne tímias.



Fresco of The Birth of Saint John the Baptist.
Date: 1486-1490.
Current location: Tornabuoni Chapel,
Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.
(Wikimedia Commons)

The Tornabuoni Chapel (Italian: Cappella Tornabuoni) is the main Chapel (or Chancel) in the Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. It is famous for the extensive and well-preserved fresco cycle on its walls, one of the most complete in the City, which was created by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his workshop between 1485 and 1490.


The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

At The Annunciation, when The Angel Gabriel appeared to The Virgin Mary to inform her that she would conceive of The Holy Ghost, he also informed her that Elizabeth, her cousin, was already six months pregnant (Luke 1:36). Mary then journeyed to visit Elizabeth. Luke’s Gospel recounts that the baby “leapt” in Elizabeth’s womb at the greeting of Mary (Luke 1:44).

The Nativity of John the Baptist, on 24 June, comes three months after the Celebration on 25 March of The Annunciation, when The Angel Gabriel told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy, and six months before the Christmas Celebration of The Birth of Jesus. The Nativity of John the Baptist Anticipates The Feast of Christmas.


Vespers for The Feast of Saint John the Baptist.
Recorded on 19 June 2014 at the Church of Saint Jean Baptiste,
New York City, by Tom Durack, Michael McGuinnes, and
video editing by Anthony Indelicato.
Available on YouTube at


The Nativity of John the Baptist is one of the oldest Festivals of The Christian Church, being listed by The Council of Agde, in 506 A.D., as one of that region's principal Festivals, where it was a Day of Rest and, like Christmas, was Celebrated with three Masses: A Vigil Mass; a Dawn Mass; and a Mid-Day Mass. This Feast of The Nativity of Saint John is one of The Patronal Feasts of The Order of Malta.

Ordinarily, the day of a Saint's death is usually Celebrated as his or her Feast Day, because that day marks their entrance into Heaven. To this rule there are two notable exceptions: The Birthday (Nativity) of The Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September); and The Birthday (Nativity) of Saint John the Baptist (24 June).

According to Catholic Tradition and teaching, Mary, already, in the first moment of her existence, was free from Original Sin (her Conception, itself, is Commemorated by a separate Feast (8 December)), while Saint John the Baptist was cleansed of Original Sin in the womb of his mother.

The Nativity of John the Baptist, though not a widespread public holiday outside of Quebec, is a high-ranking Liturgical Feast, kept in The Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran Churches. In the Roman Rite it is Celebrated, since 1970, as a Solemnity. In the 1962 Missal, it is a Feast of The First-Class and, in still-earlier Missals, as a Double of The First-Class with a Common Octave.

Like The Birth of The Virgin Mary, the subject is often shown in art, especially from Florence, whose Patron Saint is John the Baptist.

Monday 22 June 2020

“Regina Cæli” (Queen Of Heaven). By: Marco Frisina.


 


The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Illustration: WALLPAPER CAVE




The Blessed Virgin Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven by Her Beloved Son.
Illustration: CALEFACTORY.ORG


“Regina Cæli”
(Queen of Heaven).
By Marco Frisina.
Available on YouTube at

Saint Paulinus. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 22 June.


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

Saint Paulinus.
   Bishop And Confessor.
   Feast Day 22 June.

Double.

White Vestments.



Saint Paulinus of Nola.
English: Gothic-Revival Stained-Glass Window, Linz Cathedral, Austria.
Deutsch: Linzer Dom ( Oberösterreich ). Neogotisches
Buntglasfenster mit Darstellung des heiligen Paulinus von Nola.
Photo: 14 March 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Wolfgang Sauber.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Paulinus, born in 353 A.D. of a very distinguished Roman family at Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, distinguished himself in his studies and became a Senator at the age of twenty-five.

Elected a Consul, he established his residence at Nola, Campania, Italy, near the tomb of Saint Felix, the Martyred Priest, whose Feast The Church Celebrates on 14 January, where he was suddenly touched by Grace and, soon after, Baptised.

Following the example of Christ, "Who, being Rich, made Himself Poor" (Epistle), and Who counselled the practice of The Virtue of Poverty (Gospel), he abandoned his great riches and, at this price, bought The Kingdom of Heaven.

Having separated from his wife, who also gave herself to God, he became a Priest. Later, he was Bishop of Nola (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion).

His former friends blamed him: " He is content with the approval of Jesus". Soon afterwards, The Goths ravaged Campania and utterly despoiled The Rich of Rome, who gained no merit thereby, whereas Saint Paulinus, who had abandoned his riches voluntarily for Christ's sake, is rewarded a hundredfold hereafter in Eternal Life.

He died in 431 A.D., at the age of seventy-eight, and was buried near Saint Felix at Nola.

Mass: Sacerdotes tui.

Sunday 21 June 2020

A Little Levity To Lighten Your Day . . .



Saved from: GoComics
Illustration: PINTEREST

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 21 June.


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

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 21 June.

Double.

White Vestments.



The Vocation of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
Artist: Guercino (1591–1666).
Date: Circa 1650.
Source/Photographer: THE MET MUSEUM
(Wikimedia Commons)

The Holy Ghost, "distributor of Heavenly Gifts" (Collect), made of Aloysius, a young Prince of the noble family of Gonzaga, an Angel on Earth, uniting in him all the marvels of innocence and mortification (Ibid.). Wherefore, The Church applies to him the Verse of the Psalm, where the humanity of Adam, before The Fall, and that of Christ, are declared hardly inferior to Angelic nature (Introit).

His birth to a Heavenly Life preceded in a certain manner his natural birth, for he was born at the Castle of Castiglione, in Italy, in such perilous circumstances, that they hastened his Baptism (Gradual). As an infant, all those who carried him in their arms thought they held an Angel.

At the age of nine, at Florence, Italy, he made a Vow of Virginity before the Altar of The Blessed Virgin, and practised during his whole life the strictest modesty in his looks. Amid the seductions of the Princely Courts, to which his father sent him, he kept his first innocence so faithfully that he seemed confirmed in Grace (Epistle).


Towards the age of eleven, he received for the first time The Bread of Angels from the hands of Saint Charles Borromeo (Communion). At sixteen, he entered at Rome The Company of Jesus, of which he is one of the glories. He so distinguished himself, by his mortification and love of God, that he is compared to The Elect in Heaven. "They live like Angels," says Jesus, because the Soul will exercise full command over the body, which will participate in its Spiritual nature.

At the age of twenty-two (1591), wearing his innocence like a nuptial robe, on which shone the pearls of his continual tears, he died a victim to his devotion to the plague-stricken and ascended The Holy Mountain to take part in The Heavenly Banquet to which God invites The Pure of Heart (Secret, Offertory, Gradual).

Let us have recourse to the merits and intercession of Saint Aloysius.

Pope Benedict XIII (reigned 1724-1730) gave him as a pattern to young people, in order that, not always having imitated him in his innocence, they may at least imitate him by doing Penance (Collect).

Mass: Minuisti eum.

Saturday 20 June 2020

Yesterday Was The Feast Day Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus. Herewith Is An Act Of Consecration Of The Human Race To The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus.



Catholic Holy Card depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus, circa 1880.
Auguste Martin Collection, University of Dayton Libraries.
Date: 1880.
Source: Turgis.
Author: Turgis.
(Wikimedia Commons)


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

Act Of Consecration
Of The Human Race
To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus.

Indulgence of 300 days each time.
On The Feast of Christ The King, to be Solemnly Read with
The Litany of The Sacred Heart before The Blessed Sacrament exposed: Then, Seven Years and Seven Quarantines, and a Plenary Indulgence, supposing Confession and Communion.


Most Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of The Human Race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thy Altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely Consecrates himself today to Thy Most Sacred Heart.

Many, indeed, have never known Thee; many, too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart.

Be Thou King, Oh, Lord, not only of The Faithful who have
never forsaken Thee, but, also, of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house, lest they
die of wretchedness and hunger.


Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbour of Truth and Unity of Faith, so that, soon, there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.

Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of that race, once Thy chosen people: Of old, they called down upon themselves The Blood of The Saviour; may It now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.

Grant, Oh, Lord, to Thy Church, assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all Nations, and make the Earth resound from Pole to Pole with one cry: Praise be to The Divine Heart that wrought our Salvation; to It be glory and honour for ever.

Amen.

The Gradual Of Eleanor Of Brittany. “The Kyrie”. From The Mass: “Orbis Factor”. Sung By: Ensemble Organum. Director: Marcel Pérès.



The 13th-Century ruins of Whitby Abbey,
Yorkshire, England.
Illustration: ENGLISH HERITAGE


The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany.
“Kyrie”.
From The Mass: “Orbis Factor”.
Sung by: Ensemble Organum.
Available on YouTube at

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Ensemble Organum is a group performing Early Music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne , Antoine Sicot , Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos and are influenced by Orthodox Music. [1] [2]

The group mainly focuses on the performance of Music from The Middle Ages, including Beneventan, Old Roman, Gallican, Carolingian, and Mozarabic Chants. However, the repertoire includes Renaissance polyphony, as well as more recent works.

The Ensemble was formerly based at Sénanque Abbey and Royaumont Abbey, France. Since 2001, it has shared facilities in the precinct of Moissac Abbey with the Itinerant Research Center on Ancient Music (Centre for Itinerant Research of Mediæval and Early Music).

In addition to musical performance, the Ensemble also works with musicologists and historians on musical research from this period.

Saint Silverius. Pope And Martyr. Reigned From 536 A.D. - 537 A.D. Feast Day 20 June.


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

Saint Silverius.
   Pope And Martyr.
   Feast Day 20 June.

Simple.

Red Vestments.




Pope Silverius.
(Wikimedia Commons)


A son of Pope Hormisdas, who was married before receiving Holy Orders, Silverius was invested with full Sacerdotal powers on succeeding Pope Agapitus on The Pontifical Throne (Introit, Alleluia). Theodora, Empress of Constantinople, entreated him to restore to The Pontifical Throne, of that City, a heresiarch [Editor: The founder of a heresy or the leader of a heretical sect], who, "living a slave to his impious wishes and not having The Spirit of God" (Epistle), had been deposed by Pope Agapitus. When Pope Silverius refused Theodora's demands, she caused him to be exiled to the Island of Ponza, Italy.

As a Disciple of Christ, The Holy Pontiff, Silverius, followed Him bearing His Heavy Cross (Gospel), and, from there (Ponza), governed The Church, "taking for his food," as he is reported to have said, "the bread of affliction and the water of anguish".

Later, Saint Silverius, worn out by privations and sufferings, fell asleep in The Lord in 537 A.D. His body, carried to Rome and buried in the Vatican Basilica, was made famous by numerous Miracles.

Guided by The Holy Ghost, let us beseech God to help our weakness (Collect), and to fill us with the courage shown by Saint Silverius in the defence of Truth.

Mass: Státuit.
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