Les Quarante-Heures a Saint-Eugene et Sainte-Cecile, Paris, France.
The Reposition Mass of The Blessed Sacrament is
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 0730 hrs (Paris time),
0630 hrs (London time),
0130 hrs (New York Time).
Available on YouTube at
Monday, 15 February 2021
The Parish Liturgy Committee Recently Held Their Annual General Meeting.
The Parish Liturgy Committee
held their Annual General Meeting, recently.
Afterwards, a most enjoyable game of Bingo ensued.
Illustration: UNOFFICIAL ROYALTY
Please Stand By Our Babies. “ If I Do Not Speak For These Little Ones, Who Will ? ”
This Article is a reprint from 2019.
The gravity of the subject is such that it warrants repetition, now.
Please consider what you can do to aid The Little Ones.
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Saint Faustinus And Saint Jovita. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 15 February.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Faustinus and Saint Jovita.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 15 February.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
English: The Virgin Mary and Christ Child
with Saint Jovita and Saint Faustinus.
Italiano: Vincenzo Foppa, Pala della Mercanzia.
Opera esposta nella Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo a Brescia
Artist: Vincenzo Foppa (1427-1515).
Photo: 3 November 2011.
Current location: Tosio Martinengo Gallery
Source/Photographer: Bruno Passamani, "Guida della
Pinacoteca Tosio-Martinengo di Brescia", Grafo, Brescia 1988.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Faustinus and Saint Jovita, both born at Brescia, Italy, were brothers and of noble origin. During "The Persecution", "they stood the assault of sufferings, disgrace, and tribulations" (Epistle) in several Towns in Italy.
"They were tortured to death" (Gospel) at Brescia, Italy, at the beginning of Emperor Hadrian's reign in 117 A.D.
"Following the example of The Holy Martyrs Faustinus and Jovita, let us apply ourselves with ardour to Penance, so that we may enjoy the fruits of the redemption."
Mass: Salus autem.
Secret: From “The First Mass Of Several Martyrs”.
Postcommunion: From “The First Mass Of Several Martyrs”.
Sunday, 14 February 2021
Puccini. “Vissi d'Arte”. Be Still My Heart.
English: The Title Page of The First Edition
of the Piano Score to Puccini's Opera “Tosca”, published by
G. Ricordi. Stylised drawing showing Tosca standing over
Scarpia's body, about to lay a Crucifix on his chest.
The Text reads: “Tosca: libretto di V Sardou, L Illica, G Giacosa.
Musica di G Puccini. Riccardi & C. editori”.
Čeština: Titulní strana prvního vydání klavírního
výtahu k Pucciniho opeře Tosca, vydání G. Ricordi.
Date: 1899.
Author: Adolfo Hohenstein (1854–1928).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Tosca is an Opera in Three Acts by Giacomo Puccini, to an Italian Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at The Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The Work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic Play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with The Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's Invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical Arias.
Puccini saw Sardou's Play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained The Rights to turn the Work into an Opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French Play into a succinct Italian Opera took four years, during which the Composer repeatedly argued with his Librettists and Publisher.
Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the Opera was an immediate success with the public.
Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed Work, with Arias, Recitative, Choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian Leitmotifs to identify characters, objects and ideas.
While critics have often dismissed this Opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot —musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a “shabby little shocker”—the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.
The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the Work remains one of the most frequently performed Operas. Many recordings of the Work have been issued, both of studio and live performances.
While critics have often dismissed this Opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot —musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a “shabby little shocker”—the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.
The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the Work remains one of the most frequently performed Operas. Many recordings of the Work have been issued, both of studio and live performances.
“Vissi d'Arte”.
Composer: Puccini.
Opera: “Tosca”.
Sung by: Mirella Freni.
Available on YouTube at
“Vissi d'Arte”.
Composer: Puccini.
Opera: “Tosca”.
Sung by: Renée Fleming.
Available on YouTube at
“Vissi d'Arte”.
Composer: Puccini.
Opera: “Tosca”.
Sung by: Maria Callas
at Covent Garden, London, 1964.
Available on YouTube at
“Pur Ti Miro”. Sung By Núria Rial And Philippe Jaroussky. From Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppæa”.
“Pur ti miro”.
From Monteverdi's “L'incoronazione di Poppæa”.
Available on YouTube at
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
“L'incoronazione di Poppea” (SV 308, “The Coronation of Poppæa”) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1643 carnival season.
One of the first operas to use historical events and people, it describes how Poppæa, mistress of the Roman emperor Nero, is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress. The opera was revived in Naples in 1651, but was then neglected until the rediscovery of the Score in 1888, after which it became the subject of scholarly attention in the late-19th and Early-20th Centuries. Since the 1960s, the opera has been performed and recorded many times.
One of the first operas to use historical events and people, it describes how Poppæa, mistress of the Roman emperor Nero, is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress. The opera was revived in Naples in 1651, but was then neglected until the rediscovery of the Score in 1888, after which it became the subject of scholarly attention in the late-19th and Early-20th Centuries. Since the 1960s, the opera has been performed and recorded many times.
Saint Valentine. Priest And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 14 February.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Valentine.
Priest and Martyr.
Feast Day 14 February.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
Stained-Glass Window depicting Saint Valentine.
Illustration: GREG GARRISON
Saint Valentine.
Available on YouTube at
Saint Valentine was a Holy Priest of Rome, who was Martyred under The Roman Emperor, Aurelian, in 270 A.D.
He co-operated in The Saviour's Redemption "by bearing The Cross after Him" (Gospel). "Having made the sacrifice of his life for Him, he finds it again" (Ibid.), for, "victorious in his terrible fight" (Epistle), God "Crowns him in Heaven with glory and honour" (Offertory).
Sharing, in a spirit of penitence, The Redeeming Sufferings of The Saviour, let us ask Him, "through the Intercession of Saint Valentine, to be delivered from all the ills that threaten us" (Collect).
Mass: In virtúte.
Saint Valentine receives a Rosary from The Virgin Mary,
Artist: David Teniers III
Date: 1600s.
Source: http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/David-III-Teniers/
St-Valentine-Kneeling-In-Supplication.html
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Saint Valentine (Latin: Valentinius) is a widely-recognised 3rd-Century A.D. Roman Saint, Commemorated on 14 February and associated, since The High Middle Ages, with a Tradition of Courtly Love.
All that is reliably known of the Saint is his name, and that he was Martyred and buried at a cemetery on the Via Flaminia, Rome, close to the Milvian Bridge, to the North of Rome, on 14 February. It is uncertain whether Saint Valentine is to be identified as one Saint or the conflation of two Saints of the same name. Several different Martyrologies have been added to later hagiographies that are unreliable.
Saint Valentine Baptising Saint Lucilla.
Artist: Jacopo Bassano
Date: 1500s.
Source: http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/
(Wikimedia Commons)
Because so little is known of him, in 1969 The Roman Catholic Church removed his name from The General Roman Calendar, leaving his Liturgical Celebration to Local Calendars. The Roman Catholic Church continues to recognise him as a Saint, listing him as such in the 14 February entry in The Roman Martyrology, and authorising Liturgical Veneration of him on 14 February in any place where that day is not devoted to some other obligatory Celebration.
English: Altar of Saint Valentine,
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, Dublin, Ireland.
Polski: Ołtarz z relikwiami św. Walentego w Kościele
Karmelitów przy Whitefriar Street w Dublinie.
Photo: 27 August 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: blackfish
(Wikimedia Commons)
Use of The Pre-1970 Liturgical Calendar is also authorised under the conditions indicated in The Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum" of 2007. Saint Valentine's Church in Rome, built in 1960 for the needs of The Olympic Village, continues as a modern, well-visited, Parish Church.
Saint Valentine's Day, The Feast of Saint Valentine, is an official Feast Day in The Anglican Communion, as well as in The Lutheran Church. In The Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Valentine, The Presbyter of Rome, is Celebrated on 6 July, and Hieromartyr Valentine (Bishop of Interamna, Terni, Italy) is Celebrated on 30 July.
Notwithstanding, because of the obscurity of these two Saints in The East, Members of The Greek Orthodox Church named Valentinos (male) or Valentina (female) may observe their "Name Day" on The Western Ecclesiastical Calendar date of 14 February.
Quinquagesima Sunday.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Quinquagesima Sunday.
Station at Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome.
Semi-Double.
Privileged Sunday of The Second Class.
Violet Vestments.
Jesus said to him:
“Receive thy sight, thy Faith hath made thee whole”.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".
Used with Permission.
In the same way that the first three Prophecies of Holy Saturday, with their accompanying Prayers, are concerned with Adam, Noah and Abraham, so, during The Septuagesima Season, our attention is called in Missal and Breviary to these same Patriarchs, known respectively by The Church as The Father of The Human Race, The Father of Future Generations and The Father of Those Who Believe.
Adam, Noah and Abraham were types of Christ in The Paschal Mystery, a fact which we have already shown to be true in the case of the first two, in our notes on Septuagesima Sunday and Sexagesima Sunday. That it is true of Abraham, also, we shall see today.
In The Ambrosian Liturgy, Passion Sunday was called "Abraham's Sunday" and the "Response of Abraham" was read in The Office for that day; in The Roman Liturgy, also, he is still the subject of the Gospel for Passion Sunday.
Traditional Latin Mass
for Quinquagesima Sunday.
Available on YouTube at
"Abraham, your father", says Our Lord, "rejoiced that he might see My Day, he saw it and was glad . . . Amen, Amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM". God had indeed promised Abraham that The Messias should descend from him, and he was overwhelmed with great joy, when, by Faith, he contemplated beforehand The Day of The Redeemer's Coming.
Again, when this was fulfilled, he still contemplated it with a fresh joy in Limbo, where he was waiting, with the Just Men of The Old Law, for Jesus to come and deliver them after His Passion. When The Three Weeks of The Septuagesima Season were added to Lent, Quinquagesima became the Sunday on which the Liturgy is devoted to Abraham, so that, in the Lessons and Responses for today, the whole history of the Patriarch is described.
Quinquagesima Sunday.
Available on YouTube at
With the desire of forming a people, who should be specially His own in the midst of the idolatrous Nations of the World (Gradual and Tract), Almighty God chose Abraham as its Head and gave him his name, which means Father of Many Nations. "And He took him from Ur, in Chaldee, and kept him from harm in all his wanderings" [Prayers taken from The Rituale Romanum for the Recommendation of a Soul, and before a journey].
The Communion for Quinquagesima Sunday.
Available on YouTube at
Psalm LXXVII. 29-30.
Manducaverunt, et saturati sunt nimis,
et desiderium eorum attulit eis Dominus:
non sunt fraudati a desidero suo.
A man is not saved by being a son of Abraham, according to the flesh, but by being Abraham's son by means of a Faith like his. So, Saint Paul writes: "In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision (to be a Jew) availeth anything, nor uncircumcision (to be a Gentile), but a new creature". "Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered Himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness".
If the custom of allowing ourselves a little relaxation of spirit, before undertaking The Lenten Penance which binds us all, is of Liturgical origin, let us not forget that The Church condemns all excess. To atone, therefore, for those sins that are committed, let us make a Solemn Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament, besides saying this Prayer of Reconciliation, known as The Forty Hours' Prayer, which was instituted, either, by Saint Anthony-Mary Zaccaria (†1539), or by the Capuchin Father, Joseph Piantanida da Fermo (about 1636), a Prayer richly Indulgenced by Pope Clement XIII (1765).
The Forty Hours' Devotion originated from The Forty Hours that Jesus passed in the tomb. Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament was included, but at a later date, and regulated by Pope Clement XI, in 1705.
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Esto mihi.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Most Holy Trinity.
Common Preface: On weekdays.
Preface: Of The Most Holy Trinity.
Common Preface: On weekdays.
Saturday, 13 February 2021
British Indian Army Regiments: 4th Bengal Cavalry; 2nd Bengal Lancers; 7th Bombay Lancers.
Officer.
British Indian Army,
4th Bengal Cavalry.
1897.
Illustration: FRONTISPIECE
Officer.
British Indian Army.
2nd Bengal Lancers.
1897.
Illustration: FRONTISPIECE
Officer.
British Indian Army.
7th Bombay Lancers.
1897. Pencil note identifies him as
Risaldar Mir Haider Shah Khan.
Illustration: FRONTISPIECE
This Article is one of an occasional series
on Uniforms of The British Indian Army.
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