Sixth Latin “Missa Cantata” In The Last 484 Years In This Mediæval Church (Since 1538). Sung Votive Mass Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

 

Saint Augustine's Church, Snave, Ashford, Kent.

A Latin “Missa Cantata” will be Celebrated here on 

Saturday, 24 September 2022, 1200 hrs.

Travel Directions are given, below.

It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the

Late-13th-Century.

The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel 

(more recently used as a School Room)

vies for importance with The Chancel.

Declared redundant in 1983,

Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained 

by The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.

Text: © 2014 Joan Campbell.

Photograph: © 2014 John Hendy.

Illustration:

THE ROMNEY MARCH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missa Cantata in photo, above, at Saint Augustine's, 

Snave (near Ashford, Kent), September 2015.

The first time in 477 years that a Latin Sung Mass 

(Missa Cantata) had been Celebrated in this beautiful Mediæval Church on Romney Marsh, Kent, England.

On Saturday, 24 September 2022, 1200 hrs, there will be Celebrated another Missa Cantata in this lovely Church.

Illustration: LATIN MASS SOCIETY

The Latin Mass Society returns to Snave

for a Missa Cantata, at 12 Noon,

Saturday, 24 September 2022.

The Celebrant is Fr. Diaz.

Music will be supplied by The Victoria Consort.

For those unfamiliar with the

superb quality of their singing, a CD,

“Mass for Saint Augustine of Canterbury”,

is available to purchase from

The Latin Mass Society

at LMS SHOP.

Saint Augustine's Church is one of

the Mediæval Churches now in the care of

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, who have kindly given permission for us to Celebrate this Divine Mass.

Light refreshments will be served after Mass.

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 24 September 2022,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant: Fr. Diaz.

Music: The Victoria Consort.

Director: Ben Bevan.

Further Details: Mrs. Marygold Turner.

Telephone: 01580 291372.

Travel Directions to Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ.

By Road.

Leave the M20 at Junction 10.

Follow the A2070 towards Hastings.

After, approx, 9.3 miles, take the Slip Road

to the LEFT (signposted "SNAVE").

At the small Post-Box (on a column)

(on your LEFT),

TURN LEFT,

and you have arrived at the Church.

(N.B. Google Maps mark the destination

as "Manor Farm")

By Rail.

Frequent Trains from

Saint Pancras International Railway Station, London,

going to ASHFORD INTERNATIONAL.

Then take a Taxi to SNAVE.

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent,

has been kindly given by

THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missa Cantata,

in Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 24 September 2022,

1200 hrs.

Snave is one of a group of Mediæval Churches built to serve very small communities on Romney Marsh, in Kent. Now redundant, they are in the care of The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, who have kindly given permission for us to Celebrate Mass on Saturday, 24 September 2022, at 12 noon.

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 24 September 2022, 1200 hrs.

Celebrant: Fr. Diaz.

Schola: The Victoria Consort.

Director: Ben Bevan.

Further Details:
Mrs. Marygold Turner 01580 291372.

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church, Snave, Ashford, Kent, has been kindly given by THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Saint Linus. The Second Pope. Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 23 September.

English: The Cupola of the Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome.

Italiano: Città del Vaticano - Cupola della Basilica di S. Pietro.

Photo: January 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: MarkusMark

(Wikimedia Commons)

Pope Linus (♰ 79 A.D.)

Date: Copied from en: to he: by he:User:Ches

Source: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Linus2.jpg

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

Pope Linus (♰ 79 A.D.) was, according to several early sources, the second Bishop of Rome and is listed by The Catholic Church as the second Pope.

His Papacy lasted from circa 67 A.D., to his death, circa

79 A.D. According to other early sources, Pope Clement I was the second Pope; per the Annuario Pontificio, Clement was the fourth Pope. Among those considered by The Catholic Church to have held the position of Pope, only Clement, Linus and Peter are specifically mentioned in The New Testament.

The earliest witness, to Linus’s status as Bishop, was Irenæus, who, about the year 180 A.D., wrote: “The Blessed Apostles, then, having Founded and built up The Church, committed into the hands of Linus, The Office of The Episcopate.”

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes interprets Irenaeus as classifying Linus as the First Bishop of Rome. Linus is presented, by Saint Jerome, as “the first, after Peter, to be in charge of The Roman Church”, and, by Eusebius, as “the first to receive the Episcopate of The Church at Rome, after the Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul”.

Saint John Chrysostom wrote: “This Linus, some say, was second Bishop of The Church of Rome, after Peter”, while The Liberian Catalogue presents Peter as the first Bishop of Rome and Linus as his successor in the same Office.

The Liber Pontificalis also presents a List that makes Linus the second in the Line of Bishops of Rome, after Peter, while also stating that Peter Ordained two Bishops, Linus and Cletus, for the Priestly Service of the Community, devoting himself instead to Prayer and Preaching, and that it was to Clement that he entrusted The Church as a whole, appointing him as his successor.

Tertullian, too, wrote of Clement as the successor of Peter. Jerome classified Clement as “the fourth Bishop of Rome, after Peter” (i.e., fourth in a series that included Peter), adding that, “most of the Latins think that Clement was second after The Apostle.”

The Apostolic Constitutions denote that Linus, who was Ordained by Paul, was the first Bishop of Rome and was succeeded by Clement, who was Ordained by Peter. Cletus is considered Linus's successor by Irenæus, and the others cited above, who present Linus either as the first Bishop of Rome or, if they give Peter as the first, as the second.

The Liberian Catalogue and The Liber Pontificalis date Linus’s Episcopate to 56 A.D. – 67 A.D., during the Reign of Nero, but Jerome dates it to 67 A.D. – 78 A.D., and Eusebius puts the end of his Episcopate at the second year of the Reign of Titus 

(80 A.D.).

Irenæus identifies Linus with the Linus mentioned in

2 Timothy 4:21 as an associate of The Apostle Paul. Others, of the sources mentioned above, say the same.

According to The Liber Pontificalis, Linus was an Italian, born in Volterra, in the Tuscany Region. His father’s name was recorded as Herculanus. The Apostolic Constitutions name his mother as Claudia (immediately after the name “Linus”, in 2 Timothy 4:21, a Claudia is mentioned, but the Apostolic Constitutions do not explicitly identify that Claudia as Linus’s mother).

According to “THE LIBER PONTIFICALIS”, Linus issued a Decree that women should cover their heads in Church, created the first fifteen Bishops, and that he died a Martyr and was buried on The Vatican Hill, next to Peter. It gives the date of his death as 23 September, the date on which his Feast is still Celebrated. His name is included in The Roman Canon of The Mass.

With respect to Linus’s supposed Decree requiring women to cover their heads, J.P. Kirsch commented in The Catholic Encyclopedia: “Without doubt, this Decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of The Liber Pontificalis from The First Epistle of Saint Paul to The Corinthians (11:5) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of The Apostle in Rome. The statement made, in the same source, that Linus suffered Martyrdom, cannot be proved and is improbable. For, between Nero and Domitian, there is no mention of any persecution of The Roman Church; and Irenæus (1. c., III, iv, 3), from among the early Roman Bishops, designates only Telesphorus as a glorious Martyr.”

The Roman Martyrology does not list Linus as a Martyr. The entry about him is as follows: “At Rome, Commemoration of Saint Linus, Pope, who, according to Irenæus, was the person to whom The Blessed Apostles entrusted the Episcopal care of The Church, Founded in the City, and whom Blessed Paul the Apostle mentions as associated with him.”

A tomb, found in Saint Peter’s Basilica, in 1615, by Torrigio, was inscribed with the letters LINVS and was once taken to be Linus’s tomb. However, a note by Torrigio shows that these were merely the last five letters of a longer name (e.g. Aquilinus or Anullinus). A Letter on The Martyrdom of Peter and Paul was once attributed to Linus, but, in fact, dates to the 6th-Century A.D.

The Feast Day of Pope Saint Linus is 23 September.

[Editor: There is a famous Character, in the Strip Cartoon “Peanuts”, named Linus van Pelt, who is Charlie Brown’s blanket-toting best friend and Sally’s love interest. Linus is the most insecure, but the smartest, out of all the Characters.]

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Linus.
   Pope and Martyr.
   Feast Day 23 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

“At Rome,” says The Roman Martyrology, “the triumph of Saint Linus, Pope and Martyr, who immediately succeeded Saint Peter in the government of The Church. He suffered Martyrdom, and was buried on The Vatican Hill, next to The Prince of The Apostles.”

The name of Saint Linus is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, after the names of The Apostles.

Mass: Státuit.
Collects: Of The Mass: Sacerdótes.
Commemoration: Saint Thecla.

Ember Friday In September.

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

Ember Friday in September.

Station at The Twelve Apostles.

Violet Vestments.

Iona Abbey,

Scotland.

Image: SHUTTERSTOCK

As on the other Ember Fridays during the year, The Station is held at the Church of The Holy Apostles, in Rome.

The Epistle reminds us of the words of the Prophet, Osee, to Israel: "Be Converted to The Lord thy God, since thy iniquity has caused thee to fall." And Osee announces that The Almighty, seeing the spirit of Prayer and Penance of the Israelites, will heal their bruises and turn away His anger from them.

Basilica of The Twelve Apostles,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 20 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153.

(Wikimedia Commons)

A fine harvest of olives, wheat, and wine; that is to say, the riches of The Autumnal Season, consecrated to God by The September Ember Days; Blessings from on high are thus promised symbolically to The Chosen People.

What God did for repentant Israel, The Saviour did for Mary Magdalen, who, says the Gospel, "was pardoned many sins because she had loved much" (Gospel). And The Church Ordains her Priests during these days of Penance, so that they may repeat throughout the Centuries their Master's example, and pardon those who repent.

Mass: Laetétur cor.
Second Collect: A cunctis.
Third Collect: At the option of the Priest.
Common Preface.

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Sixth Latin “Missa Cantata” In The Last 484 Years In This Mediæval Church (Since 1538). Sung Votive Mass Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Saint Augustine's Church, Snave, Ashford, Kent.

A Latin “Missa Cantata” will be Celebrated here on 

Saturday, 24 September 2022, 1200 hrs.

Travel Directions are given, below.

It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the

Late-13th-Century.

The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel 

(more recently used as a School Room)

vies for importance with The Chancel.

Declared redundant in 1983,

Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained 

by The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.

Text: © 2014 Joan Campbell.

Photograph: © 2014 John Hendy.

Illustration:

THE ROMNEY MARCH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missa Cantata in photo, above, at Saint Augustine's, 

Snave (near Ashford, Kent), September 2015.

The first time in 477 years that a Latin Sung Mass 

(Missa Cantata) had been Celebrated in this beautiful Mediæval Church on Romney Marsh, Kent, England.

On Saturday, 24 September 2022, 1200 hrs, there will be Celebrated another Missa Cantata in this lovely Church.

Illustration: LATIN MASS SOCIETY

The Latin Mass Society returns to Snave

for a Missa Cantata, at 12 Noon,

Saturday, 24 September 2022.

The Celebrant is Fr. Diaz.

Music will be supplied by The Victoria Consort.

For those unfamiliar with the

superb quality of their singing, a CD,

“Mass for Saint Augustine of Canterbury”,

is available to purchase from

The Latin Mass Society

at LMS SHOP.

Saint Augustine's Church is one of

the Mediæval Churches now in the care of

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, who have kindly given permission for us to Celebrate this Divine Mass.

Light refreshments will be served after Mass.

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 24 September 2022,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant: Fr. Diaz.

Music: The Victoria Consort.

Director: Ben Bevan.

Further Details: Mrs. Marygold Turner.

Telephone: 01580 291372.

Travel Directions to Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ.

By Road.

Leave the M20 at Junction 10.

Follow the A2070 towards Hastings.

After, approx, 9.3 miles, take the Slip Road

to the LEFT (signposted "SNAVE").

At the small Post-Box (on a column)

(on your LEFT),

TURN LEFT,

and you have arrived at the Church.

(N.B. Google Maps mark the destination

as "Manor Farm")

By Rail.

Frequent Trains from

Saint Pancras International Railway Station, London,

going to ASHFORD INTERNATIONAL.

Then take a Taxi to SNAVE.

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent,

has been kindly given by

THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missa Cantata,

in Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 24 September 2022,

1200 hrs.

Snave is one of a group of Mediæval Churches built to serve very small communities on Romney Marsh, in Kent. Now redundant, they are in the care of The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, who have kindly given permission for us to Celebrate Mass on Saturday, 24 September 2022, at 12 noon.

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 24 September 2022, 1200 hrs.

Celebrant: Fr. Diaz.

Schola: The Victoria Consort.

Director: Ben Bevan.

Further Details:
Mrs. Marygold Turner 01580 291372.

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church, Snave, Ashford, Kent, has been kindly given by THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

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“The Angelus”. Artist: Jean-François Millet.

“The Angelus”.

Artist: Jean-François Millet

Illustration: EBAY

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,

unless stated otherwise.

The Angelus (French: L’Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859.

The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field, over a basket of potatoes, to say a Prayer, “The Angelus”.

Millet was commissioned by the American would-be painter and art collector Thomas Gold Appleton, who never came to collect it.

The painting is famous today for driving the prices for artworks of the Barbizon school up to record amounts in the Late-19th-Century.

Saint Maurice And His Companions. Martyrs. Feast Day 22 September.

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

Saint Maurice And His Companions.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 22 September.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Meeting of Saint Erasmus and Saint Maurice.

Artist: Mathias Grünewald.

Date: Circa 1520.

Current location: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project (2002)

10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM),

distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

ISBN: 3936122202.

(Wikimedia Commons)

 

“The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice”.

Artist: Romulo Cincinato (1502–1593).

Cincinnato placed emphasis on the execution scene,

which has been brought into the foreground.

Date: 1583.

Current location: El Escorial, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

(Wikimedia Commons)

When Emperor Maximian led his Army into Gaul, The Theban Legion, composed of 660 Soldiers under the command of Saint Maurice, refused to take part in the ceremonies in honour of the gods.

The Soldiers were massacred out of hatred for the name of Christ, about 286 A.D., at Agaunum, now called Saint Maurice (Valais, Switzerland).

Mass: Intret.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius; Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲣⲓⲥ) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd-Century A.D., and one of the favourite and most-widely Venerated Saints of that group.

He is the Patron Saint of several professions, locales, and Kingdoms. He is also a highly-revered Saint in The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and other Churches of Oriental Orthodoxy.

According to the hagiographical material, Maurice was an Egyptian, born in 250 A.D. in Thebes, an ancient City in Upper Egypt that was the Capital of The New Kingdom of Egypt (1575-1069 B.C.).

Maurice became a Soldier in The Roman Army. He was gradually promoted until he became The Commander of The Theban Legion, thus commanding, approximately, a thousand men. He was an acknowledged Christian at a time when Early Christianity was considered to be a threat to The Roman Empire. Yet, he moved easily within the pagan society of his day.

The Legion, entirely composed of Christians, had been called from Thebes, in Egypt, to Gaul, to assist Emperor Maximian in defeating a revolt by the Bagaudae. The Theban Legion was dispatched with orders to clear The Great Saint Bernard Pass across The Alps.

Before going into battle, they were instructed to offer sacrifices to the pagan gods and pay homage to The Emperor. Saint Maurice pledged his men’s military allegiance to Rome. He stated that service to God superseded all else. He said that to engage in wanton slaughter was inconceivable to Christian Soldiers . He and his men refused to worship Roman deities.

However, when Emperor Maximian ordered them to harass some local Christians, they refused. Ordering The Legion to be punished, Maximian had every tenth Soldier killed, a Military punishment known as Decimation. More orders followed; the men refused, as encouraged by Maurice, and a second Decimation was ordered.

In response to The Theban Christians' refusal to attack fellow Christians, Maximian ordered all the remaining members of his Legion to be executed. The place in Switzerland where this occurred, known as Agaunum, is now Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, site of The Abbey of Saint Maurice.

Saint Thomas Of Villanova. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day 22 September.

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

Saint Thomas Of Villanova.
   Bishop.

   Confessor.
   Feast Day 22 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Thomas of Villanova.

Artist: Simone Cantarini (1612-1648).

Date: First half of the 17th-Century.

Current location: Pinacoteca Civica, Fano, Italy.

Source/Photographer: fondazionecarifano.it/

Progetti/cantarini/fano_per_cantarini_opere.html

(Wikimedia Commons)

Thomas was born in Spain in the 15th-Century. From his earliest childhood he had the tenderest compassion for The Poor. Having entered The Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, he was soon made Superior, and, after having refused the Archbishopric of Granada, he was forced to accept that of Valencia.

He thus shared in the Eternal Priesthood of Christ (Introit, Epistle, Gradual, Offertory). He spent on The Poor the large revenues of his Church, and, on the day of his death, in 1555, he gave away his last Penny, and died on a bed which did not even belong to him.

The Church, therefore, Celebrates especially in this Pontiff “his extraordinary Charity towards The Poor” (Collect, Antiphon of The Benedictus).

Mass: Státuit.
Secret: Sancti Thomæ.
Postcommunion: Deus fidélium.
Commemoration: Saint Maurice and Companions.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Saint Thomas of Villanova O.S.A. (1488–1555) was a Spanish Friar of The Order of Saint Augustine, who was a noted Preacher, Ascetic and Religious Writer of his day. He became an Archbishop, who was famous for the extent of his care for The Poor of his See.