The Ascension Of Our Lord.

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

The Ascension of Our Lord.
   Station at Saint Peter's.
   Plenary Stational Indulgence.

Double of The First-Class.
   Privileged Octave of The Third Order.

White Vestments.

[Editor: The Paschal Candle is extinguished after The Gospel.

It is not lit again except on The Vigil of Pentecost for The Blessing of The Font.]

“While they looked on, He was raised up”.

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It is in the Basilica of Saint Peter's, Rome, Dedicated to one of the chief witnesses of Our Lord's Ascension, that this Mystery, which marks the end of Our Lord's Earthly Life, is "this day" (Collect) kept.

In the forty days, which followed His Resurrection, Our Redeemer laid the foundations of His Church, to which He was going to send The Holy Ghost.

The Introit at The Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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All The Master's teachings are summed up in the Epistle and Gospel for today. Then, He left this Earth and the Introit, Collect, Epistle, Alleluia, Gospel, Offertory, Secret, Preface and Communion, celebrate His Glorious Ascension into Heaven, where the Souls He had freed from Limbo escort Him (Alleluia), and enter in His train into The Heavenly Kingdom, where they share more fully in His Divinity.

The Ascension sets before us the duty of raising our hearts to God. So, in the Collect, we are led to ask that we may dwell with Christ in Spirit in The Heavenly Realms, where we are called one day to dwell in our Risen Bodies.

During The Octave, the Credo is said: "I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God . . . Who ascended into Heaven . . . He sitteth at The Right-Hand of The Father". The Gloria speaks in the same sense: "O, Lord Jesus Christ, The Only-Begotten Son . . . Who sittest at The Right-Hand of The Father, have mercy upon us."

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In the Proper Preface, which is said until Pentecost, we give thanks to God because His Son, The Risen Christ, "after His Resurrection, appeared and showed Himself to all His Disciples; and, while they beheld Him, was lifted up into Heaven".

In the same way, during the whole Octave, a Proper Communicantes of The Feast is said, in which The Church reminds us that she is keeping the day on which The Only-Begotten Son of God set at The Right-Hand of His Glory the substance of our frail human nature, to which He had united Himself in The Mystery of The Incarnation.

The Collect and Epistle at The Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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We are reminded daily in The Liturgy, at the Offertory Suscipe Sancta Trinitas, and in the Canon Unde et memores, that, at Our Lord's command, The Holy Sacrifice is being offered in memory of "The Blessed Passion of the same Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord," and also His Resurrection from Hell and His Glorious Ascension into Heaven.

The truth is that man is saved only by The Mysteries of The Passion and Resurrection united with that of The Ascension. "Through Thy Death and Burial, through Thy Holy Resurrection, through Thy Admirable Ascension, deliver us, O Lord" (Litany of The Saints).

The Credo at The Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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Let us offer The Divine Sacrifice to God in memory of The Glorious Ascension of His Son (Suscipe, Unde et memores); while we nourish within our Souls an ardent desire for Heaven, that "delivered from present dangers," we may "attain to Eternal Life" (Secret).

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

Mass: Viri Galilaéi.

Creed: Is said.
Preface: For The Ascension.
Communicantes: For The Ascension.

On Weekdays throughout The Octave of The Ascension, The Mass for Ascension Day is said together with The Additional Collects from The Monday after Low Sunday to The Friday after The Octave of The Ascension (Page 1715, The Saint Andrew Daily Missal).

The Novena, preparatory to Pentecost, prescribed by Pope Leo XIII, for the return of heretics and schismatics to The Roman Unity, begins on The Friday After Ascension.

The 2021 Third Summorum Pontificum Convention Will Be Held At Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, On 10 June 2021 - 13 June 2021. Traditional Priestly Ordination By Raymond Cardinal Burke.

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About The Summorum Pontificum Convention.

Summorum Pontificum is an event for Catholics who want to learn more about the richness of their Liturgical, Artistic, Theological,

and Spiritual Traditions.

This year the keynote address will be given by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke, Member of The Apostolic Signatura in Rome, who will also Celebrate a Traditional Priestly Ordination – the first in Mexico in many years.

There will be three Pontifical Masses,

and The Sacrament of Confirmation,

and outstanding Conferences.

The Summorum Pontificum Convention will bring together Faithful Catholics from all over Mexico, and abroad, to participate in this historic event.

Translation services will be available

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Vigil Of The Ascension.

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

Vigil of The Ascension.

White Vestments.

The Ascension.

Artist: Benvenuto Tisi (1481–1559).

Date: 1510-1520.

Collection: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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Apart from The Rogations, The Church is filled with joy, and, assuming White Vestments, is preparing for the Solemn Feast of The Ascension by a special kind of Vigil, when the Gloria in Excelsis is sung. No Fasting or Abstinence is observed.

The Mass abounds in outbursts of joy because The Saviour of mankind is about to enter triumphantly in Heaven into the Glory of The Father after delivering us from Satan and sin.

Mass: Fifth Sunday After Easter.

Second Collect: Praesta, quæsumus.

Third Collect: Concéde nos.

Saint Nereus. Saint Achilleus. Saint Domitilla. Saint Pancras. Martyrs. Feast Day 12 May.

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

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 12 May.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Domitilla, with Saints Nereus and Achilleus.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Santa Maria-in-Vallicella, Rome.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/gallery/nerach_rubens.htm

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Nereus and Achilleus, Officers of the household of Flavia Domitilla, a niece of the Emperors Titus and Domitian, were Baptised by Saint Peter. The Gospel praises their Faith when it praises that of the Officer who obtained the cure of his son and believed in Jesus.

These Saints, having inspired Domitilla with the resolution to consecrate her Virginity to God, Aurelianus, her betrothed, accused them, all three, of being Christians. Out of hatred for Christ, they were put to death under the Emperor Trajan, at Terracina, about 100 A.D.

Their bodies rest in Rome in the Church of Saints Nereus and Achilleus. This Church was a Station on The Monday in Holy Week, but the bad state of the building caused The Station to be transferred to Saint Praxedes's in the 13th-Century. Saints Nereus and Achilleus Church was restored in the 16th-Century.

Saint Pancras was arrested in Rome at the age of fourteen and put to death towards 275 A.D., under Emperor Diocletian, for having refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods. His constancy earned him a place among The Saints, whose joy he shares (Epistle, Communion).

Mass: Ecce oculi.

Chauffeur Perkins Gets It Wrong Again !!!

Chauffeur Perkins drives Zephyrinus to Sunday Mass

in the current Charabanc, which Perkins is not enamoured with.

Illustration: PINTEREST

The instructions to Chauffeur Perkins were quite clear:

"Go and purchase a new form of conveyance.

The Old Charabanc needs replacing.

Go and find something new, innovative, and exciting".

And what does he come back with ???

This !!!

Where is Zephyrinus supposed to sit ???

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Ice-Cutter. Rat-Catcher. Lamp-Lighter. Bowling-Alley-Pinsetter. Switch-Board-Operator. Knocker-Upper. Jobs From Yesteryear.

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Ice Cutters: These were men who cut the ice from frozen lakes. Once cut up, they would transfer their product to the ice delivery men. These ice cutters worked in extreme conditions. Most of them were happy when more people started using the refrigerator for keeping their food safe.

Rat-Catchers: Keeping the rat population under control was practised in Europe to prevent the spread of diseases to man, most notoriously

The Black Plague, and to prevent damage to food supplies.

Lamplighter: Was a person who would go around the City, at night,

and light all the Lamps by hand. They usually held out a long Pole,

with a Wick on the end, to light the Street Lamps.

Bowling Alley Pinsetter: Before Bowling Alleys had machines to reset their Pins, there were people who did it, called “Pinsetters”. It was typically

a Teenagers job and paid very little.

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Telephone operators, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 1952.

According to a City archivist, these were probably Seattle City Light employees.Item 24092, City Light Photographic Negatives

(Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.

Date: 18 July 2008.

Source: Telephone operators, 1952

This image comes from the Seattle Municipal Archives, via Flickr.

Seattle Municipal Archives

Author: Seattle Municipal Archives,

Seattle, Washington State, United States of America.

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Switchboard Operator: Up until three decades ago, Switchboard Operators were important players in the Telecommunications industry. They were needed to make Long Distance Calls and to manage Busy Circuits. But, with the advent of Digitised Telecommunications, Switchboard Operators had to find new jobs. These days, making Long Distance Calls can be done on your Mobile Phone.

Knocker-Upper: A Knocker-Upper's job was to rouse sleeping people,

so they could get to work on time. The Knocker-Upper used a Truncheon, or short, heavy Stick, to knock on the clients' doors, or a long, and light, Stick, often made of Bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. At least one of them used a Pea-Shooter. In return, the Knocker-Upper would be paid a few Pence (Cents) a week. The Knocker-Upper would not leave a client's window

until they were sure that the client was awake.

“Time to get up !!!”.

Making sure that the Client gets up in time for work.

“Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme”. “Awake !!! The Voice Is Calling Us”. A Church Cantata Composed By J. S. Bach. 1731.

 

“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”.

1731.

Composed by: J. S. Bach.

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"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" ("Awake, calls the voice to us"), also known as "Sleepers Wake", is a Church Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular Sacred Cantatas. He composed the Chorale Cantata, in Leipzig, for The 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.

Bach composed this Cantata to complete his Second Annual Cycle of Chorale Cantatas, begun in 1724. The Cantata is based on the Hymn, in three Stanzas, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (1599), by Philipp Nicolai, which covers the prescribed reading for The Sunday, "The Parable of The Ten Virgins".

The Text and Tune of the three Stanzas of the Hymn appears unchanged in three of seven Movements (one, four and seven). An unknown author supplied additional poetry for the Inner Movements as sequences of Recitative and Duet, based on the love poetry of The Song of Songs.

Bach structured the Cantata in seven Movements, setting the first Stanza as a Chorale Fantasia, the second Stanza in the Central Movement in the style of a Chorale Prelude, and the third Stanza as a four-part Chorale. He set the new Texts as dramatic Recitatives and Love-Duets, similar to contemporary Opera.

Bach scored the work for three Vocal Soloists (Soprano, Tenor´and Bass), a Four-Part Choir and a Baroque Instrumental Ensemble consisting of a Horn (to reinforce the Soprano), two Oboes, Taille, Violino Piccolo, Strings and Basso Continuo including Bassoon.

Bach used the Central Movement of the Cantata as the basis for the first of his Schübler Chorales, BWV 645. Bach scholar Alfred Dürr notes that the Cantata is an expression of Christian Mysticism in Art, while William G. Whittaker calls it "a Cantata without weakness, without a Dull Bar, technically, emotionally and spiritually of The Highest Order".

“Our Lady Of Grace”. Mediæval Marian Shrine, Cambridge, England. “Our Lady Of Grace” Is The Patron Saint Of Motor-Cyclists.

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The present Chapel at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. The statue of Our Lady of Grace, in Cambridge, was in The Dominican Priory on the Eastern Side of the Town centre. In 1584, Emmanuel College was established on the site of the former Dominican Priory. What had been The Chapel of The Dominican Priory became the Dining Hall of Emmanuel College.

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Steve McQueen's 1934 Indian Sport Scout Motorcycle.

“Our Lady Of Grace” Is The Patron Saint Of Motor-Cyclists.

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“Our Lady of Grace”, in Cambridge.

Fr Hunwicke’s Spiritual Pilgrimage (see FR HUNWICKE'S MUTUAL ENRICHMENT). around the Mediæval Marian shrines of England, today reaches Our Lady of Grace in Cambridge. This is another of those Shrines which is not well known today, but which, before its removal in 1538, attracted considerable Devotion.

In general, the expression “Our Lady of Grace” is of Mediæval origin. It is especially well known in France, and connected there frequently with the Marian Sanctuary of Cambrai, which originated in 1412.

However, the Title appears to be considerably older - the Shrine at Ipswich was also Dedicated to Our Lady of Grace, and that goes back to at least 1152.

The origins of this particular Title are much older still. They are of Biblical origin, where Mary is called “kecharitomene”: “The Fully-Graced One”, “The All-Graced One” (Lk 1:28). The Eastern Tradition calls Mary “Panhagia”: “The All-Holy One”.

The first meaning of Our Lady of Grace refers to her own Holiness. However, very early on, Mary was invoked as “The Uniquely Blessed One” (see the “Sub Tuum Præsidium”, dating to the 4th-Century A.D.) and as “The Mother of Mercy” (see the great Orthodox Acathist Hymn, perhaps originating around 530 A.D., and certainly before 626 A.D.). She is also the one who intercedes for us with God to obtain His Grace.

The statue of Our Lady of Grace in Cambridge was in The Dominican Priory on the Eastern Side of the Town centre. 

On 30 August 1538, Bishop John Hilsey O.P., of Rochester, Kent, the successor of Saint John Fisher, but a reform-minded Dominican who, that same year, publicly derided the Veneration of The Holy Rood, of Boxley, and The Holy Blood, of Hailes, wrote to Thomas Cromwell, from London. 

The bearer of the Letter was The Prior of The Black Friars at Cambridge, Gregory Dod, who was, in the opinion of the Bishop, “a man of good learning and a Preacher of God’s true Gospel”, who wished to be allowed to take away an image of Our Lady in his house, “which has had much Pilgrimage to her, especially at Sturbridge Fair, which is drawing near.” Hilsey continued by asking Cromwell to take the Cambridge house into the King's hands.

From Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, xiii(2) 224. 

This is not quite as the story told in The History of The University of Cambridge (Vol I, P 330, N 119), which has Thomas Cromwell initiating its removal, although he did doubtless happily concur with Prior Dod’s request.

In 1584, Emmanuel College was established on the site of the former Dominican Priory and what had been its Chapel became The Dining Hall.

Stourbridge Fair, at Cambridge, originated with a Charter from King John in 1211 to raise funds for the local Leper Hospital, by granting them a two-day Fair at The Feast of The Exaltation of The Holy Cross.

This was just after The University of Cambridge was begun in 1208. With both the new Academic Foundation, and The Fair, Cambridge, being a focus of routes, meant that both were to become successful.

The Fair became bigger and longer lasting, and, arguably, the largest one in England, if not, indeed, Europe, at one point. In 1538, Hilsey and Dod’s concern was that it was a focus to attract potential Pilgrims to Our Lady of Grace from the surrounding region.

Unfortunately, The Fair declined in the 19th-Century and, when it was last held in 1933, its attractions consisted of merely a youth with an ice-cream barrow. It was abolished in 1934. In 2011, a Commemoration of it was held on its 800th Anniversary and attempts have been made to revive it in some form in recent years.

There is more about Stourbridge Fair from Wikipedia at Stourbridge Fair, from the University of Cambridge at The 800-Year-Old Story Of Stourbridge Fair, and about modern attempts at a revival at Stourbridge Fair.

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Our Lady of Grace is a Title of Mary. The Feast Day associated with this Title is 7 February. The Title of Our Lady of Grace is Venerated in many Countries throughout the World under various aspects. Many Parishes, Churches, and Schools bear this Title.

A major Shrine in Pre-Reformation England was that of "Our Lady of Grace", at Ipswich, also known as "Our Lady of Ipswich". Its first recorded mention is in 1152.[1]

In 1297, the marriage of Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, youngest daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, took place at The Shrine of Our Lady of Grace.[2] During The Middle Ages, The Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Grace was a famous Pilgrimage destination, and attracted many Pilgrims, including King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.[3]

Only Walsingham attracted more Pilgrims. At the Reformation, the Statue was taken away to London to be burned in 1538, though some claim that it survived and is preserved at Nettuno, Italy.[4] Whether it was taken there by Catholic Sailors, according to local legend, or simply sold by associates of Thomas Cromwell, the Nettuno Statue appears to bear an English provenance.[5]

The Poly-Chromed Wooden Statue of Our Lady of Grace is carried in procession every year in Nettuno on The First Saturday of May. The Anglican Church of Saint Mary At The Elms, in Ipswich, England, houses a Copy of the Nettuno Statue.[6] Every year, Parishioners from Saint Mary's and The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Pancras, Ipswich, join in a Pilgrimage to the former site of The Shrine, which was just outside the City's West Gate.

With thanks to the Web-Site of The International Marian Research Institute at Dayton Ohio, HERE.

Saint Gordian And Saint Epimachus. Martyrs. Feast Day 10 May.

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

Saints Gordian and Epimachus.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 10 May.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle

depicting Saint Gordian and Saint Epimachus.

Deutsch: Illustration aus der Schedel'schen Weltchronik.

Date: 1493.

Source: Scan from original book.

Author: Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

(Text: Hartmann Schedel).

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Saint Gordian, a Roman Judge, was Converted by a Holy Priest, whom Julian The Apostate would have liked him to condemn.

Saint Gordian was Martyred towards 360 A.D., and was buried in the Crypt where already lay the remains of the Martyr Saint Epimachus (☩ 250 A.D.), brought from Alexandria.

Mass: Sancti tui.

English: The Martyrdom of Saint Gordian (Gordianus).

Français: Martyre de saint Gordien.

Cote: Français 185, Fol. 231v. Vies de saints,

France, Paris, XIVe siècle, Richard de Montbaston et collaborateurs.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/gallery/gordianus_bnfms.htm

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Saints Gordianus and Epimachus were Roman Martyrs, who are Commemorated on 10 May.

Gordianus was a Roman Judge, who converted to Christianity. He was tortured and finally beheaded. His body was laid in a Crypt on the Via Latina, Rome, beside the body of Saint Epimachus, and the two Saints gave their name to the Cemetery of Gordianus and Epimachus. They are jointly Venerated by The Catholic Church with a Feast Day of 10 May in The Tridentine Calendar.

There are Churches Dedicated to the Saints in:

Aitrach, Germany;
Legau, Germany;
Merazhofen, Germany;
Pleß, Germany;
Stöttwang, Germany;
Unterroth, Germany;
Blevio, Italy.

Relics of both Saints were owned by Kempten Abbey in Bavaria.

Saint Antoninus. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 10 May.

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unless otherwise stated.

Saint Antoninus.
   Bishop and Confessor.
   Feast Day 10 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Church of Saint Antoninus,

Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Français: Façade de l'église paroissiale

Saint Antonin de Levens,

Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Photo: 14 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Eric Coffinet.

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At the age of sixteen, Saint Antoninus entered The Order of Saint Dominic. Having become Archbishop of Florence (Communion), he excelled in his Pastoral Office by the austerity of his life, his Charity, and his Sacerdotal zeal (Introit, Epistle, Alleluia).

His prudence earned for him the Title of "Antoninus of Counsel". He died, rich in merits, in 1459.

Mass: Státuit.
Commemoration: Saint Gordian and Saint Epimachus. Martyrs.

English: Church of Saint Antoninus,

Immensen, Germany.

Deutsch: St. Antoniuskirche in Immensen

Photo: 12 July 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Hydro

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Saint Antoninus of Florence, O.P. (1389 - 1459), was an Italian Dominican Friar, who ruled as an Archbishop of Florence. He is Venerated as a Saint by The Catholic Church.

He was born Antonio Pierozzi (also called de Forciglioni) on 1 March 1389 in the City of Florence, then Capital of an independent Republic, to Niccolò and Tomasina Pierozzi, prominent citizens of the City, Niccolò being a Notary.

The young Anthony was received into The Dominican Order in 1405, at the age of sixteen, at the new Priory of The Order in Fiesole, Florence, and given the Religious Habit by the Blessed John Dominici, Founder of the Community, becoming its first candidate. Soon, in spite of his youth, he was tasked with the administration of various Houses of his Order at Cortona, Naples, as well as Florence, which he laboured zealously to reform.

These Communities had become part of a new Dominican Congregation of Tuscany, established by John Dominici in order to promote a stricter form of life within The Order, which had been devastated through its division in the Western Schism of the preceding Century.

English: Church of Saint Antoninus,

Emilia Romagna, Italy.

Italiano: Chiesa di Sant'Antonino,

Borgo Val di Taro, Emilia Romagna, Italia.

Photo: 11 July 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Davide Papalini.

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From 1433-1446, Antoninus served as Vicar of The Congregation. In this Office, he was involved in the establishment of the Priory of St Mark, in Florence. The Priory's Cells, including one for Cosimo de' Medici, were painted in frescos by Fra Angelico and his assistants.

Antoninus was Consecrated Archbishop of Florence on 13 March 1446, at the Dominican Priory in Fiesole, on the initiative of Pope Eugene IV, who had come to admire him through his participation in the major Church Councils of the period. He came to win the esteem and love of his people, especially by his energy and resource in combating the effects of the plague and earthquake in 1448 and 1453.

It was they who began the use of the diminutive form of his name which has come to prevail. Antoninus lived a life of austerity as Archbishop, continuing to follow The Dominican Rule. His relations with the Medici regime were close, but not always harmonious, with his serving several times as an Ambassador for The Republic to The Holy See during the 1450s.

Antoninus died on 2 May 1459, and Pope Pius II conducted his funeral. The Pope happened to be on his way to The Council of Mantua when he heard of the Archbishop's death. The Archbishop's wish was that he be buried at the Priory which he had Founded in the City.

The Rogation Days. The Lesser Litanies. The Greater Litanies. Chestnut Sunday. The Litany Of The Saints.

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

In 2021, “The Rogation Days” are:

Rogation Sunday (“Chestnut Sunday”), 9 May 2021.

“The Lesser Litanies”.

Rogation Monday, 10 May 2021.
Station: At Saint Mary Major;

Rogation Tuesday, 11 May 2021.
Station: At Saint John Lateran;

Rogation Wednesday, 12 May 2021.
Station: At Saint Peter's.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines each day.

Violet Vestments.

The Rogation Days in 2021 are followed by
Ascension Day on Thursday, 13 May 2021.

The Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields.

“Rogation Sunday”.

Hever, Kent, England.

Photo: 9 February 1967.

Source: From geograph.org.uk

Author: Ray Trevena

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The Greater Litanies.

25 April.

The Station is at Saint Peter's.

Violet Vestments.

The Church Celebrates, on 25 April, two Solemnities, which have nothing in common: “The Greater Litanies”, so called on account of their Roman origin, and “The Feast of Saint Mark”, which is of later date. The word “Litany” means “Supplication”.

In ancient Rome, on 25 April, used to be celebrated the pagan feast of “Robigalia”. It consisted, principally, of a Procession, which, leaving the City by The Flaminian Gate, went to The Milvian Bridge and ended in a suburban Sanctuary situated on The Claudian Way.

There, a ewe was sacrificed in honour of a god or goddess of the name Robigo (god or goddess of frost). “The Greater Litany” was the substitution of a Christian, for a pagan, Ceremony. Its itinerary is known to us by a convocation of Saint Gregory the Great. It is, approximately, the same as that of the pagan Procession.

“Ember Days”

and

“Rogation Days”.

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All The Faithful in Rome betook themselves to the Church of Saint Laurence-in-Lucina, the nearest to The Flaminian Gate. Leaving by this Gate, the Procession made a Station at Saint Valentine's, crossed The Milvian Bridge, and branched off to the Left towards The Vatican.

After halting at a Cross, it entered The Basilica of Saint Peter for the Celebration of The Holy Mysteries.

This Litany is recited throughout The Church to keep away calamities, and to draw down The Blessing of God on the harvest. “Vouchsafe to grant us to preserve the fruits of the Earth, we Pray Thee, hear us”, is sung by the Procession through the Countryside.

The whole Mass shows what assiduous Prayer may obtain, when in the midst of our adversities (Collects, Offertory) we have recourse with confidence to Our Father in Heaven (Epistle, Gospel, Communion).

If The Feast of Saint Mark is Transferred, The Litanies are not Transferred, unless they fall on Easter Sunday. In which case, they are Transferred to the following Tuesday.

Procession.

See “The Litany Of The Saints”, Page 1888, The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, and “The Rogation Mass”, Page 673, The Saint Andrew Daily Missal (see, below).

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“The Lesser Litanies”.

In consequence of the public calamities that afflicted the Diocese of Vienne, Dauphiny, France, in the 5th-Century A.D., Saint Mamertus instituted a Solemn Penitential Procession on The Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, before Ascension Thursday.

Under an Order of The Council of Orleans, in 511 A.D., the Devotion spread to the rest of France. In 816 A.D., Pope Leo III introduced it in Rome and, soon after, it became a general observance throughout The Church.

“The Litany of The Saints”, and The Psalms and Collects sung in Procession, on these days, are Supplications; hence, the term “Rogations” is applied to them. The object of these Devotions is to appease The Anger of God and avert the scourges of His Justice, and to draw down The Blessings of God on the fruits of the Earth.

Violet is used as a token of Penance, and The Paschal Candle is left unlighted. “The Litany of The Saints”, consisting of ejaculations in the form of a dialogue, is an admirable manner of Prayer, which it should be our purpose to cultivate.

The Celebrant wears a Violet Stole and Violet Cope. All in the Choir stand as they sing the first Antiphon “Exsurge, Domine”.

Mass Of Rogation.

Stations:

Rogation Monday. At Saint Mary Major.

Rogation Tuesday. At Saint John Lateran.

Rogation Wednesday. At Saint Peter's.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines each day.

Violet Vestments.

The Mass, throughout, points to the efficacy of The Prayer of The Just Man, when humble, sure, and persistent. Elias, by Prayer, closed and opened the heavens (Epistle), and Our Lord shows us by two Parables that God gives His Holy Spirit to whomever asks Him, because He is good (Gospel, Alleluia). In our afflictions, let us place our trust in God and He will hear our Prayers (Introit, Collect).

The following Mass is said during, or after, the Procession of both “The Greater Litanies” and “The Lesser Litanies”.

Mass of Rogation: Exaudivit de templo.
Gloria: Is not said.
Preface: Of Easter.

“Litany of The Saints”.

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“Litany Of The Saints”.

The “Litany Of The Saints” is used in connection with:

Holy Mass on “The Greater Litanies” (25 April);

“The Lesser Litanies”

   (“Rogation Monday”) and

   (“Rogation Tuesday”) and

   (“Rogation Wednesday”)

   (The Rogation Days)

      immediately before Ascension Thursday;

Holy Saturday;
The Vigil of Pentecost;

Masses of Ordination, before the conferring of Major Orders.

On Saint Mark’s Day (25 April) and “Rogation Days”, if the Procession is held, the Litany is preceded by the Antiphon, “Exurge, Domine”, (Psalm XLIII. 26), and all Invocations are sung by the Cantors and repeated in full by the Choir [i.e., “Doubled”].

If the Procession cannot be held, the Invocations are not repeated.

On The Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, the Invocations marked with an asterisk (*) in The Missal are omitted; all the remaining Invocations are repeated, either there be a Font and a Procession from The Baptistry, or not.

At Masses of Ordination, only The First Five Invocations are repeated.

“Litany of The Saints”

at the Funeral of Pope Saint John Paul II.

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Rogation Days are, in The Calendar of The Western Church, observed on 25 April (“The Major Rogation”) and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday immediately preceding Ascension Thursday (“The Minor Rogations”).

The first Rogation, “The Greater Litanies”, has been compared to the ancient Roman religious festival of The Robigalia, a ritual involving prayer and sacrifice for crops held on 25 April. The first Rogation is also observed on 25 April, and a direct connection has sometimes been asserted, with the “Christian substitute” following the same processional route in Rome. If Easter falls on 24 April or on this day (the latest possible date for Easter), “The Rogations” are transferred to the following Tuesday.

The second set of “Rogation Days”, “The Lesser Litanies”, or, “Rogations”, introduced about 470 A.D. by Bishop Mamertus of Vienne, and eventually adopted elsewhere, are the three days (Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday and Rogation Wednesday) immediately before Ascension Thursday in The Christian Liturgical Calendar.

The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin verb “Rogare”, meaning “to ask”, and was applied to this time of The Liturgical Year because the Gospel Reading for the previous Sunday included the passage: “Ask, and ye shall receive” (Gospel of John 16:24).

The Sunday, itself, was often called Rogation Sunday, as a result, and marked the start of a three-week period (ending on Trinity Sunday), when Roman Catholic and Anglican Clergy did not Solemnise marriages (two other such periods of marital prohibition also formerly existed, one beginning on The First Sunday in Advent and continuing through The Octave of Epiphany, or 13 January, and the other running from Septuagesima until The Octave of Easter, the Sunday after Easter). In England, Rogation Sunday is called “Chestnut Sunday”.

The Faithful typically observed The Rogation Days by Fasting in preparation to Celebrate The Ascension, and farmers often had their crops Blessed by a Priest at this time. Violet Vestments are worn at The Rogation Litany and its associated Mass, regardless of what Colour Vestments were worn at the ordinary Liturgies of The Day.

A common feature of Rogation Days, in former times, was the Ceremony of “Beating The Bounds”, in which a Procession of Parishioners, led by The Minister, Churchwarden, and Choirboys, would proceed around the boundary of their Parish and Pray for its protection in the forthcoming year. This was also known as “Gang-Day”.

The reform of The Liturgical Calendar for Latin Roman Catholics, in 1969, delegated the establishment of Rogation Days, along with Ember Days, to The Episcopal Conferences. Their observance in The Latin Church subsequently declined, but the observance has revived somewhat, since 1988, (when Pope Saint John Paul II issued his Decree Ecclesia Dei Adflicta), and especially since 2007 (when Pope Benedict XVI issued his Motu Proprio, called “Summorum Pontificum”), when the use of older Rites was encouraged.

Churches of The Anglican Communion reformed their Liturgical Calendar in 1976, but continue to recognise The Three Days before Ascension Day as an Optional Observance.

“Vigilate”. Composed By William Byrd. Sung By The Tallis Scholars. “. . . As Near Extra-Terrestrial As You Can Get, Sitting In A Concert Hall . . .” — Fiona Maddocks: The Observer Newspaper.

Interior of King Henry VII's Chapel,

Westminster Abbey, London, England.

Artist: Canaletto (1697–1768).

Date: Early-1750s.

Collection: Private Collection.

Source/Photographer: Unknown.

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“Vigilate”.

[“Watch Over”].

Composed by:William Byrd.

Sung by: The Tallis Scholars.

Musical Director: Peter Phillips.

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From Fiona Maddocks of The Observer Newspaper,

speaking about The Tallis Scholars:

“. . . As near Extra-Terrestrial As You Can Get,

Sitting In A Concert Hall . . .”

William Byrd.

Date: Unknown.

Source: http://www.renaissancemusic.pe.kr/

musician_p/william%20byrd.htm

Author: Gerard van der Guch, d'après une peinture

de Nicola Francesco Haym du British Museum.

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William Byrd (1539 – 4 July 1623), was an English composer of The Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of Sacred and Secular Polyphony, Keyboard (the so-called Virginalist School), and Consort Music.

Although he produced Sacred Music for Anglican Services, sometime during the 1570s he became a Roman Catholic and wrote Catholic Sacred Music later in his life.

Saint Gregory Nazianzen. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 9 May.

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unless otherwise stated.

Saint Gregory Nazianzen.

   Bishop.

   Confessor.
   Doctor of The Church.
   Feast Day 9 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

Icon of Saint Gregory Nazianzen.

Fresco from Kariye Camii, Istanbul, Turkey.

Theologian, Doctor of The Church, Great Hierarch,

Cappadocian Father, Ecumenical Teacher.

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Saint Gregory was born at Nazianzus in Cappadocia (Editor: Modern-day Turkey). He was educated at Athens in all the sciences, at the same time as Saint Basil the Great, with whom he was always united in the bonds of a holy friendship. Brothers in their studies, they remained brothers in their Monastic life and in the Episcopate.

Having become Bishop of Nazianzus, and, later, Patriarch of Constantinople (Communion), he was "the light which, raised on the candlestick, sheds its rays on all those who dwell in the house" (Gospel).

Filled with "the spirit of Wisdom and Intelligence" (Introit, Epistle), his profound knowledge of The Scriptures earned for him the Title of Doctor and Theologian, which The Church has confirmed. Saint Gregory Nazianzen died in 389 A.D.

Mass: In médio.