Tuesday Of The First Week In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Anastasia.

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

Tuesday Of The First Week In Lent.

Station at Saint Anastasia's.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino, Rome, Italy.

Česky: Bazilika sv. Anastázie na Palatinu, Řím, Itálie.

Photo: April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Karelj

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The Station is at the old Church, which, in the 4th-Century A.D., was the only Parish in the Centre of Rome and in its wealthy Quarter. Built at the foot of The Palatine Hill, this Church, which owes its name to The Chapel of The Resurrection (Anastasis) at Jerusalem, was also Consecrated to Saint Anastasia.

Saint Anastasia was put to death, under Emperor Diocletian, at Sirmium, in Illyria (now Mitrowitz). Tradition seems to say that this "Title", mentioned in a Synod in 499 A.D., recalls the house of this Holy Martyr in Rome (?). It is more than likely, however, that it concerns but a simple identity of name between the Roman Foundress of this Basilica and the Titular Saint.

Lent is the time when "God is near to us and eager to forgive us, if we put aside our evil thoughts and forsake the way of sin" (Epistle). To do so, we must cast sin out from our hearts, as Jesus cast out the sellers from the Temple (Gospel), and receive the teaching of Christ with the simplicity of Children of God. Then, He will be able to cure our Souls, as He healed the lame and the blind who came nigh unto Him.

Casting out the vainglorious wisdom of the World, let us profit by The Holy Season of Lent, so that, "chastening our bodies by mortification, our Souls may be filled with Holy Desires" (Collect).

Mass: Dómine, refúgium.
Preface: For Lent.

The Basilica of Saint Anastasia, Rome.

Photo: June 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa

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The Church of Santa Anastasia is a Minor Basilica Church in Rome.

Santa Anastasia Church was built in the Late-3rd-Century A.D. - Early-4th-Century A.D., possibly by a Roman woman named Anastasia. The Church is Listed under the Titulus "Anastasiae" in The Acts of The 499 A.D. Synod. Later, the Church was entitled to The Martyr with the same name, Anastasia of Sirmium.

The Church was restored several times: Pope Damasus I (366 A.D. - 383 A.D.); and Pope Hilarius (461 A.D. - 468 A.D.); Pope John VII (705 A.D. - 707 A.D.); Pope Leo III (795 A.D. - 816 A.D.); Pope Gregory IV (827 A.D. - 844 A.D.). The current Church dates back to the 17th-Century Restoration commissioned by Pope Urban VII.

Traditionally, the Church is connected to the cult of Saint Jerome, who possibly Celebrated Mass here. The Saint is depicted over the Altar, by Domenichino.

Ceiling of The Basilica Sant'Anastasia, Rome.

Photo: July 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Mattes

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The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Anastasiae is Godfried Danneels. Past holders have included John Morton, an Archbishop of Canterbury.

Art and Architecture.

The last Restoration, after the Restoration during the Papacy of Pope Sixtus IV, occurred in 1636, when the facade, with, Lower, Doric, and, Upper, Ionic order, was reconstructed in 1636, after the cyclone of 1634. The Nave recycles antique Columns. The Ceiling is frescoed with a Martyrdom of The Saints (1722) by Michelangelo Cerruti.

English: Madonna and Child

in the Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino, Rome, Italy.

Česky: Socha v Bazilice sv. Anastázie na Palatinu, Řím, Itálie.

Photo: April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Karelj

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The Chapel, to the Right, has a painting of Saint John the Baptist by Pier Francesco Mola. While the last Chapel on the Right has a fresco of Scenes of the Life of Saints Carlo Borromeo and Filippo Neri by Lazzaro Baldi. 

The Right Transept has a painting of Saint Toribio (1726) by Francesco Trevisani. The High Altar has a Nativity, by Lazzaro Baldi, and, below the Altar, is a statue of Saint Anastasia, by Ercole Ferrata. It clearly shows the influence of Bernini's Beata Ludovica Albertoni. The Left Transept has a Madonna of The Rosary, by Baldi. The last Chapel, to the Left, by Domenichino, depicts Saint Jerome. The other Chapel has Ss.Giorgio e Publio, by Etienne Parrocel.

“Dies Iræ”. The Sequence In A Requiem Mass (Mass For The Dead).

“Dies Iræ”.

The Sequence In A Requiem Mass

(Mass For The Dead).

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“Dies Irae” (“The Day of Wrath”) is a Latin Sequence, attributed to either Thomas of Celano of The Franciscans (1200 – circa 1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (☩ 1294), Lector at The Dominican Studium, at Santa Sabina, Rome, the forerunner of The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, in Rome.

The Sequence dates from at least the 13th-Century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to Saint Gregory the Great (☩ 604 A.D.), Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or, Saint Bonaventure (1221–1274).

The Last Judgement.

Artist: Hans Memling (circa 1433 –1494).

Collection: National Museum, Gdansk, Poland.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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It is a Mediæval Latin Poem, characterised by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The Poem describes The Last Judgment, a trumpet summoning Souls before The Throne of God, where The Saved will be delivered, and The Unsaved cast into Eternal Flames.

It is best known from its use in The Requiem (Mass for The Dead, or, Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion Service Books.

The first melody set to these words, a Gregorian Chant, is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers. The final couplet “Pie Jesu” has been often re-used as an independent Hymn.

The Chair Of Saint Peter At Antioch. Feast Day, Today, 22 February.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.
   Feast Day 22 February.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Peter as Pope — shown with The Pallium

and The Keys to The Kingdom of Heaven

Magyar: Szent Péter, portréfestménye a szentről, mint pápáról –

a festményen pápai köntösben a mennyország kulcsaival látható.

Français: Saint Pierre. Elle représente le saint en tant que Pape -

vu ici avec le pallium et les clés du Paradis.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1610-1612.

Current location: Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: Originally from en.wikipedia

description page is (was) HERE.

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"Tu Es Petrus" [Thou Art Peter].

By Robert Pearsall (1795 - 1856).

Sung on The Feast Day of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.

At The Church of Saint Peter, Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America.

Sung by Schola Cantorum Sanctorum Angelorum

and Students from The Franciscan University.

Conductor: Andrew Leung.

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"Asperges Me".

on The Feast Day of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.

At The Church of Saint Peter, Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America.

Sung by Schola Cantorum Sanctorum Angelorum

and Students from The Franciscan University.

Conductor: Andrew Leung.

Cantor: John Brodeur.

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To honour the dignity of "The Prince" (Introit), to whom Jesus committed The Power of The Keys (Collect), The Church instituted The Feast of "The Chair of Saint Peter", which is found in The Roman Calendar on this date since 354 A.D.

[The Cathedra (Chair) is The Throne established where the Bishop resides, hence the name Cathedral, given to the Church where the Bishop's Seat is placed. Metaphorically, it represents the Episcopal authority itself. "The Chair of Saint Peter" means, therefore, a memory of Saint Peter's Episcopate, and his Primacy as Head of The Whole Church.]

As it often falls in Lent, certain Churches Celebrated it at an earlier date, in January. Hence, the two Feasts of "The Chair of Saint Peter", which The Church distinguished by connecting the more ancient Feast [Rome, until the 16th-Century, only Celebrated this Feast and not the other Feast] on 22 February, with "The Chair at Antioch", and the other Feast, on 18 January, with "The Chair of Rome". Saint Peter resided, indeed for some time, at Antioch about the years 51 A.D. - 52 A.D.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

A Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately follows The Collects of The Feast,

today, for The Liturgy does not separate those who have so justly been called

"The Two Pillars of The Church".

Artist: René de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

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Illustration UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

It is to Saint Peter, who proclaimed that Jesus was "The Christ, Son of The Living God" (Gospel), when all Palestine rejected Him, that The Master commits The Power to Bind Satan by Closing The Gates of Hell, to Open for us The Gates of Heaven (Gospel). And The Head of The Church teaches us in his first Epistle that it is "by Faith, in the sprinkling of The Blood of Jesus Christ, that The Holy Ghost Sanctifies us and reconciles us to The Father."

The Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately follows The Collect of The Feast, for The Liturgy does not separate those who have so justly been called "The Two Pillars of The Church".

Let us today honour The Head of The Church, who continues here below the redeeming work of Jesus.

Mass: Státuit ei Dóminus.
Commemoration: Of Saint Paul.
Commemoration: Of The Feria (with Last Gospel), in Lent.

Creed: Is said.

Preface: Of The Apostles.

Monday Of The First Week In Lent. Lenten Station At Saint Peter-ad-Vincula (Saint Peter's Chains).

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

Monday of The First Week in Lent.

Station at Saint Peter's Chains.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Church of Saint Peter's Chains, Rome.

Italiano: San Pietro-in-Vincoli.

Latin: San Pietro-ad-Vincula.

Photo: December 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa

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San Pietro-in-Vincoli (Italian) (Saint Peter-in-Chains) is a Roman Catholic Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome. It is also known as the home of Michelangelo's Statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II. Two Popes were elected in this Church: His Holiness Pope John II (533 A.D.) and His Holiness Pope Gregory VII (1073).

English: The Chains of Saint Peter, in the

"Basilica di San Pietro-in-Vincoli", Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Le catene di San Pietro,

conservate nella Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli a Roma.

Photo: August 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Original photo by Raja Patnaik,

post-processed and uploaded by Alessio Damato

(with permission of the author).

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The Station is in one of the most ancient Roman Basilicas, built by the Empress Eudocia, where The Chains worn by The Prince of The Apostles, to whom Jesus confided His Flock, are kept. In the 5th-Century A.D., it was one of the twenty-five Parishes of Rome.

English: San Pietro-in-Vincoli's Apse.

Italiano: Abside di San Pietro-in-Vincoli a Roma.

Photo: March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Goldmund100

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The Epistle (of The Day), alluding to the Penitents about to be reconciled at Easter and to the Catechumens preparing for Baptism, says that The Lord is The Shepherd Who comes to seek His Lost Sheep. And the Gospel tells of the separation that this Shepherd will make for ever between the sheep and the goats, or between the good, who repent and give themselves up to Works of Charity, and the sinners (this Prophecy was spoken by Jesus to His Apostles on the Mount of Olives, on the evening of the Tuesday preceding His Death).

Let us ask God to prepare us by “this Lenten Fast” (Collect) “to be loosened from the bonds of our sins” (The Prayer Over The People) by virtue of The Power of Peter, who was delivered from his Chains.

Mass: Sicut óculi.
Preface: For Lent.

English: Basilica of Saint Peter's Chains, Rome, Italy.

Italiano: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Roma, Italy.

Photo: 3 April 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: sailko

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San Pietro-in-Vincoli (Saint Peter-in-Chains) is a Roman Catholic Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome, Italy, best known for being the home of Michelangelo's statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.

Also known as the Basilica Eudoxiana, it was first rebuilt on the much older foundations in 432 A.D. – 440 A.D., to house The Relic of The Chains that bound Saint Peter, when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem, the episode called The Liberation of Saint Peter.

The Empress Eudoxia (wife of Emperor Valentinian III), who received them as a gift from her mother, Aelia Eudocia, consort of Valentinian II, presented The Chains to Pope Leo I. Aelia Eudocia had received these Chains as a gift from Iuvenalis, Bishop of Jerusalem.

According to legend, when Pope Leo, while comparing them to The Chains of Saint Peter's final imprisonment in The Mamertine Prison in Rome, the two Chains miraculously fused together. The Chains are kept in a Reliquary under The High Altar in the Basilica.

English: The Interior of San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Rome.

Deutsch: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Gesamtansicht des Innenraums.

Photo: 20 May 2012.

Source: This file was derived from: SPIV_small.jpg

Author: SPIV_small.jpg: Philippos. Derivative work: Rabanus Flavus

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The Basilica, consecrated in 439 A.D., by Pope Sixtus III, has undergone several restorations, among them a restoration by Pope Adrian I, and further work in the 11th-Century. From 1471 to 1503, in which year he was elected Pope Julius II, Cardinal Della Rovere, the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, effected notable rebuilding.

The front Portico, attributed to Baccio Pontelli, was added in 1475. The Cloister (1493–1503) has been attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo. Further work was done at the beginning of the 18th-Century, under Francesco Fontana, and there was also a renovation in 1875.

English: The Internal Courtyard of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula

(Saint Peter's Chains), Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Vista di parte del cortile interno.

Photo: 21 June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Costanza spaggiari

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The Titulus S. Petri ad Vincula was assigned on 20 November 2010, to Donald Wuerl. The previous Cardinal Priest of the Basilica was Pío Laghi, who died on 11 January 2009.

Two Popes were Elected in this Church: Pope John II in 533 A.D., and Pope Gregory VII in 1073.

Basilica of San Pietro-in-Vincoli.

18th-Century Lacunar Ceiling, frescoed in the centre by

Giovanni Battista Parodi, portraying The Miracle of The Chains (1706).

Photo: 26 December 2009.

Source: San_Pietro_in_Vincoli_-_ceiling,_Rome.jpg

Author: San_Pietro_in_Vincoli_-_ceiling,_Rome.jpg: Maros M r a z (Maros).

Derivative work: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez

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The Interior has a Nave and two Aisles, with three Apses, divided by antique Doric Columns. The Aisles are surmounted by Cross-Vaults, while the Nave has an 18th-Century Coffered Ceiling, frescoed in the centre by Giovanni Battista Parodi, portraying The Miracle of The Chains (1706).

Michelangelo's Moses (completed in 1515), while originally intended as part of a massive forty-seven-statue, free-standing funeral monument for Pope Julius II, became the Center-Piece of the Pope's funeral monument and tomb in this, the Church of The Della Rovere Family. Moses is depicted with horns, connotating "the radiance of The Lord", due to the similarity in the Hebrew words for "beams of light" and "horns". This kind of iconographic symbolism was common in early Sacred Art, and, for an artist, horns are easier to sculpt than rays of light.

Other works of art include two canvasses of Saint Augustine and Saint Margaret by Guercino, the monument of Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi, designed by Domenichino, who is also the painter of a Sacristy fresco depicting the Liberation of Saint Peter (1604).

The Altarpiece on the first Chapel to the Left is a Deposition by Cristoforo Roncalli. The tomb of Cardinal Nicholas of Kues (died 1464), with its Relief, Cardinal Nicholas before Saint Peter, is by Andrea Bregno. Painter and sculptor Antonio Pollaiuolo is buried at the Left Side of the entrance. He is the Florentine sculptor who added the figures of Romulus and Remus to the sculpture of The Capitoline Wolf on the Capitol. The tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, decorated with imagery of The Grim Reaper, is also in the Church.

Moses.

Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564).

Date: 1513-1515.

Current location: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Rome.

Source/Photographer: Prasenberg

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In 1876, archaeologists discovered the tombs of those once believed to be The Seven Maccabean Martyrs, depicted in 2 Maccabees 7–41. It is highly unlikely that these are, in fact, the Jewish Martyrs that had offered their lives in Jerusalem. They are remembered each year on 1 August, the same day as The Miracle of The Fusing of The Two Chains.

The third Altar, in the Left Aisle, holds a mosaic of Saint Sebastian from the 7th-Century A.D. This mosaic is related to an outbreak of plague in Pavia, in Northern Italy. It would only stop if an Altar was built for Saint Sebastian in The Church of S. Pietro-in-Vincoli in that City. Somehow, this story also became accepted in Rome. Hence the Altar.

“Dixit Dominus” (Psalm 109). Composed By: Diego Ortiz. Sung By: Cantar Lontano. Director Of Music: Marco Mencoboni.

“Dixit Dominus”

(Psalm 109).

Composed by: Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Cantar Lontano.

Director of Music: Marco Mencoboni.

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Diego Ortiz (circa 1510 – circa 1576) was a Spanish composer and music theorist in service to The Viceroy of Naples ruled by the Spanish monarchs Charles V and Philip II.

Ortiz published the first manual on ornamentation for bowed string instruments, and a large collection of Sacred vocal compositions (Stevenson 2001).

“The Fields of Athenry”. The Dubliners and Paddy Reilly. Plus, Many More Irish Ballads.

“The Fields of Athenry”.

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Athenry (Irish: Baile Átha an Rí, meaning "Town of the Ford of the King") is a Town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 kilometres (16 miles) East of Galway City.

Some of the attractions of the Mediaeval Town are its Town Wall, Athenry Castle, its Priory and its 13th-Century Anglo-Norman Street-Plan. The Town is also well known by virtue of the song "The Fields of Athenry".

The Fields of Athenry”.

The Dubliners

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“The Town I Loved So Well”.

The Dubliners

and Paddy Reilly.

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The Dubliners.

Live from The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.

40 Years (2003).

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“Beata Es Virgo”. Composer: Diego Ortiz. Sung By: Cantar Lontano. Director Of Music: Marco Mencoboni.

 

“Beata Es Virgo”.

Composer: Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Cantar Lontano.

Director of Music: Marco Mencoboni.

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Diego Ortiz (circa 1510 – circa 1576) was a Spanish composer and music theorist in service to The Viceroy of Naples, ruled by the Spanish Monarchs Charles V and Philip II.

Ortiz published the first manual on ornamentation for bowed string instruments, and a large collection of Sacred vocal compositions (Stevenson 2001).

Quadragesima Sunday. The First Sunday Of Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Papal Arch-Basilica Of Saint John Lateran.

 

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

Quadragesima Sunday.
   First Sunday of Lent.
   Station at Saint John Lateran.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Privileged Sunday of The First Class.

Violet Vestments.

"And behold, Angels came and ministered to Him".

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

English: Papal Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

Main façade of the Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran,

Rome, Italy, by Alessandro Galilei, 1735.

Latin: Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris et Sanctorum Iohannes Baptistæ

et Evangelistæ in Laterano. Omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput.

Italiano: Facciata principale della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano,

progettata da Alessandro Galilei (1735).

Français: Façade principale de la basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran

(Rome) par Alessandro Galilei, 1735.

Photo: 2006/09/07.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jastrow

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Originally, The Forty Days of Lent were counted from this Sunday. The Liturgical gathering of "The Station" takes place today, as it has since the 4th-Century A.D., at Saint John Lateran, which is The Patriarchal Basilica of The Bishops of Rome. At its first Consecration, it was Dedicated to "Saint Saviour", a name which calls to mind the Redemption accomplished by Our Blessed Lord.

Immediately after His Baptism, Our Lord began to prepare for His Public Life by a Fast of Forty Days in the mountainous desert which stretches between Jericho and the mountains of Judea. [Tradition tells us that Our Lord took shelter in the grotto on the highest peak of all, known as Mount of the Quarantine.] It was there that He was tempted by Satan, who wished to discover whether The Son of Mary was, in reality, The Son of God (Gospel of The Mass of The Day).

As in the case of Adam, Satan addresses his first attack to the senses. Our Lord is hungry and the tempter suggests to Him that He should turn stones into bread. In the same way, he tries, during these Forty Days, to make us give up on our Fasting and mortification. This is the concupiscence of the flesh.

English: Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Vatican.

With its length of 400 feet, this Basilica ranks fifteenth

among the largest Churches in the World.

Français: Basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran, Vatican, située à Rome.

Avec sa longueur de 121,84 mètres, cette Basilique se classe

au 15è rang parmi les plus grandes églises au monde.

Photo: September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174

(Wikimedia Commons)

The devil had promised our first parent that he should be as God. Now, he takes Our Lord to the pinnacle of the Temple and tries to induce Him to let Himself be carried by the Angels through the air, amidst the applause of the crowds below. Satan tempts us by Pride, which is opposed to the spirit of Prayer and meditation on God's Word. This is the Pride of Life.

Finally, just as he had promised Adam a knowledge which, like that of God Himself, should enable him to know all things, so Satan assures Jesus that he will make Him Ruler over all Created Things, if He will fall at his feet and worship him. In the same way, the devil seeks to attach us to Temporal goods, when we ought, by Alms and Works of Charity, to be doing good to our neighbour. This is the concupiscence of the eyes, or Avarice.

Since the Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God, Our Lord made use of the Psalm XC against Satan, and this is the theme of the whole Mass and is found again and again in The Office of The Day. "His Truth shall cover thee with a shield," says the Psalmist. This Psalm is, therefore, the ideal Psalm for Lent as a special time of warfare against the devil.

English: Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Vatican.

The Choir and Apse. The mosaics in the Dome are a 19th-Century

rebuilding of Jacopo Torriti's works, dating to the 13th-Century.

Français: Basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran, située à Rome.

Chœur et abside. La mosaïque du dôme est une réfection du XIXè siècle

de l'œuvre de Jacopo Torriti remontant au XIIIè siècle.

Photo: September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174

(Wikimedia Commons)

Again, The Eleventh Verse: "He hath given His Angels charge over Thee, to keep Thee in all Thy ways," recurs in Vespers-like refrain during the whole Season. We find the entire Psalm in the Tract, which reminds us of the old custom of singing Psalms during certain parts of The Mass.

Some of its Verses make up the Introit, with its Verse, the Gradual, the Communion and the Offertory, which last was formerly composed, in today's Mass, of three Verses instead of one, following the order of the threefold temptation as recorded in the Gospel.

Side-by-side with this Psalm, the Epistle, certainly dating from the time of Pope Saint Leo, sounds one of the characteristic notes of Lent. There, Saint Paul borrows a Text of Isaias: "In an accepted time, have I heard thee, and in the Day of Salvation have I helped thee." "Behold," says the Apostle, "now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the Day of Salvation" (Epistle and First Nocturn).

The Decorated Ceiling,

Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome.

Photo: March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Grenouille vert

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On this, Saint Leo comments: "Although there is no Season of the Year which is not rich in Divine Gifts and in which we, by God's Grace, do not find immediate access to His Mercy; nevertheless, at this time, when the return of the day on which we are redeemed summons us to fulfil all the duties of Christian piety, the Souls of Christians must be stirred with more zeal for spiritual progress, and possessed of a very great confidence in Almighty God.

In this manner, with pure Souls and bodies, shall we celebrate this Mystery of The Lord's Passion, Sublime beyond all others. True, we ought always to be in The Divine Presence, just as much as on The Easter Feast. But, because this spiritual vigour is the possession of only a few, while, on the other hand, the weakness of the flesh leads to any very severe observance being relaxed, and on the other, the varied occupations of this life share and divide our interest, it necessarily happens that the dust of the world soils the hearts, even of Religious themselves.

The Cloisters at Saint John Lateran.

Photo: August 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Kodiak

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This Divine Institution has been planned with great profit to our Salvation, in a manner that the exercises of these Forty Days may help us to regain the Purity of our Souls, making up, in a way, for the faults of the rest of the Year, by Fasting and pious deeds.

However, we must be careful to give no-one the least cause of complaint or scandal, so that our general behaviour may not be inconsistent with our Fasting and Penance. For it is useless to reduce the nourishment of the body unless the Soul departs from sin" (Second Nocturn).

In this "acceptable time" and in these "Days of Salvation", let us purify ourselves with The Church (Collect), "in Fastings, in Chastity," by zeal in hearing and meditating on The Word of God and by Charity unfeigned (Epistle).

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

Mass: Invocábit me.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Lent.

Melk Abbey, Austria.

English: Melk Abbey, Austria.

Български: Двореца във Вахау, Австрия.

Date: 2005-04-07 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia.

Author: Original uploader was HochauerW at en.wikipedia

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English: Melk Abbey above Melk Old Town.

Deutsch: Stift Melk über der Melker Altstadt.

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Melk Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine Abbey in Austria, and among the world's most famous Monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk, on a rocky outcrop overlooking The Danube River, in Lower Austria, adjoining The Wachau Valley. The Abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and the remains of several members of The House of Babenberg, Austria's first ruling dynasty.

Melk Abbey Library, Austria.

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The Abbey was founded in 1089, when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria, gave one of his Castles to Benedictine Monks from Lambach Abbey. A Monastic School, the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, was founded in the 12th-Century, and the Monastic Library soon became renowned for its extensive Manuscript collection. The Monastery's Scriptorium was also a major site for the production of Manuscripts. In the 15th-Century, the Abbey became the centre of the Melk Reform Movement, which re-invigorated the Monastic life of Austria and Southern Germany.

English: Benedictine Abbey of Melk,

Lower Austria.

Deutsch: Stift Melk, Niederösterreich.

Français: Abbaye bénédictine de Melk, Basse-Autriche.

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Today's impressive Baroque Abbey was built between 1702 and 1736 to designs by Jakob Prandtauer. Particularly noteworthy, is the Abbey Church, with frescoes by Johann Michael Rottmayr, and the impressive Library with countless Mediæval Manuscripts, including a famed collection of Musical Manuscripts and frescoes by Paul Troger.

English: Melk Abbey,

Lower Austria

Deutsch: Stift Melk, Niederösterreich

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English: Melk Abbey, Austria.

Deutsch: Stift Melk, Melk.

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Due to its fame and academic stature, Melk Abbey managed to escape Dissolution, under Emperor Joseph II , when many other Austrian Abbeys were seized and Dissolved between 1780 and 1790. The Abbey managed to survive other threats to its existence, during The Napoleonic Wars, and also in the period following the Nazi Anschluss that took control of Austria in 1938, when the School and a large part of the Abbey were confiscated by the State.

The school was returned to the Abbey after The Second World War and now caters for nearly 900 pupils of both sexes.

English: The High Altar,

Melk Abbey, Austria.

Deutsch: Hochaltar der Stiftskirche Melk.

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Since 1625, the Abbey has been a member of The Austrian Congregation, now within The Benedictine Confederation.

In his well-known novel "The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco named one of the protagonists "Adson von Melk" as a tribute to the Abbey and its famous Library.

Melk Abbey, Austria.

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English: Choir Stalls,

Melk Abbey, Austria.

Deutsch: Das Chorgestühl in der Kirche des Stifts Melk.

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Melk Abbey was selected as the main motif of a very high value Collectors' Coin: The Austrian Melk Abbey Commemorative Coin, minted on 18 April 2007. The obverse shows a view up to the façade of the Abbey Church and its two side wings from a low level.

The twin Baroque Towers and the great Dome of the Church behind them can be seen. In the lower-right corner, the Coat-of-Arms of the Abbey of Melk (The Crossed Keys of Saint Peter) can be seen.

Painting on the Ceiling of the Marble Hall, Melk Abbey, Austria.

The painting shows Pallas Athena on a chariot, drawn by lions, as a symbol of wisdom and moderation. Hercules is to her Left, symbolising the force necessary to conquer the three-headed Hound of Hell, night, and sin. Both Pallas Athena and Hercules are disguised references to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.

Author: Paul Troger (1698–1762) (Ceiling painting)

and Creator:Gaetano Fanti (architectural painting).

Date: 1731.

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English: Melk Abbey, Lower Austria

Deutsch: Stift Melk, Niederösterreich

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English: The Pulpit,

Melk Abbey, Austria.

Deutsch: Die Kanzel in der Kirche des Stifts Melk.

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English: Melk Abbey, Austria.

Deutsch: Die Kirche des Stifts Melk.

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