Mary, Mother of Grace and of Mercy,
help me against the efforts of my enemies.
Illustration: HOLY CARD HEAVEN
Friday 7 October 2022
The Most Holy Rosary Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day, Today, 7 October.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
The Most Holy Rosary of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 7 October.
Double of The Second-Class.
White Vestments.
The Blessed Virgin Mary
is Crowned in Heaven by her Beloved Son.
Illustration: AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM
The Mysteries of The Holy Rosary:
Joyful Mysteries;
Sorrowful Mysteries;
Glorious Mysteries.
It was the custom in The Middle Ages, as formerly among the Romans, for noble personages to wear Crowns of Flowers, called "Chaplets". These Crowns were offered to persons of distinction, as a Feudal Due.Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".
Used with Permission.
The Blessed Virgin, as Queen of Heaven, and of Souls, has a right to the same homage. Therefore, The Church asks us to recognise the Title of Mary as Queen of The Holy Rosary, and she exhorts us to to offer to her, as Daughter of The Father, Mother of The Son, and Spouse of The Holy Ghost, a Triple Chaplet, or Three Crowns of Roses, of which she shows us all the beauties in today's Office, and to which she has given the name of "Rosary".
The Collect reminds us that the recitation of The Rosary is a mental Prayer, in which we meditate on The Mysteries of The Life, Death, and Resurrection, of Jesus; with these, Mary was intimately associated.
The Gospel, which gives us the chief part of the Angelic Salutation, shows us that The Rosary is a vocal Prayer. The Pater, Credo, and Gloria, which are recited with the Ave Marias, are also found in The Mass or in The Divine Office.
The Rosary, as a private Devotion, consists therefore of elements taken from The Liturgical Cycle, and The Feast of The Rosary forms part of The Cycle.
This Prayer has, in the course of the Centuries, obtained many Graces for Christendom. The Feast of Our Lady of The Rosary was instituted to Commemorate the Victory of Lepanto (Sunday, 7 October 1571), when, thanks to the recitation of The Rosary, the forces of Islam, which threatened to invade Europe, were broken. Pope Gregory XIII, in 1573, prescribed this Feast, replacing very significantly The Feast of Our Lady of Victory, for certain Churches; it was extended to the Catholic World by Pope Clement XI, in thanksgiving for another triumph over the same foes in Hungary in 1716, under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI.
The Feast of The Most Holy Rosary is a summary of The Liturgical Year, as we meditate on The Mysteries, and also of The Breviary, as we recite one hundred and fifty Ave Marias, corresponding to one hundred and fifty Psalms, ending with Gloria Patri.
It shows, in an admirable Triptych, the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious events in the lives of Jesus and Mary, which are recalled in succession in The Catholic Calendar.
In The Christmas Cycle, the Soul, plunged in an atmosphere of Joy, meditates on The Five Joyful Mysteries, on Wednesdays and Fridays of Ember Week in Winter, on Christmas Day, on 2 February (The Purification of The Blessed Virgin Mary) and on The Sunday in The Octave of The Epiphany.
Lastly, she sympathises, amid the Joys of The Paschal Season and Pentecost, with The Five Glorious Mysteries at The Feasts of Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and The Assumption of The Virgin. There is a Plenary Indulgence, similar to that of the Portiuncula, to be gained on The Day of this Feast by all The Faithful, who visit a Church where the Arch-Confraternity of The Rosary is established.
Pope Leo XIII, moved by the sorrowful trials under which The Church groans, raised the Feast to one of The Second Class with a new Mass and Office.
Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino.
Commemoration: At Low Mass of Saint Mark and Saints Sergius and Companions.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in Festivitáte.
Signature of Pope Leo XIII, who raised The Feast of
The Most Holy Rosary Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
to one of The Second Class with a new Mass and Office.
This File: 15 February 2007.
User: Julo
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Thursday 6 October 2022
Saint Bruno. Confessor. Feast Day 6 October. Article By Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Saint Bruno.
Artist: Girolamo Marchesi.
Date: Circa 1525.
Current location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore,
Maryland, United States of America.
Credit line: Acquired by Henry Walters
with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.
Source: Walters Art Museum
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The following Text is from “The Liturgical Year”,
by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.
Among the divers Religious Families, none is held in higher esteem by The Church than The Carthusian Order; the prescriptions of the “corpus juris” determine that a person may pass from any other Order into The Carthusian Order, without deterioration. And, yet, it is of all the least given to Active Works.
Is not this a new, and not the least convincing, proof that outward zeal, how praiseworthy soever, is not the only, or the principal, thing in God’s sight ?
The Church, in her fidelity, values all things according to the preferences of her Divine Spouse. Now, Our Lord esteems His Elect, not so much by the activity of their works, as by the hidden perfection of their lives; that perfection which is measured by the intensity of The Divine Life, and of which it is said: “Be you therefore perfect, as also your Heavenly Father is perfect”.
Again, it is said of this Divine Life: “You are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God”. The Church, then, considering the solitude and silence of The Carthusian, his abstinence even unto death, his freedom to attend to God through complete disengagement from the senses and from the World — sees therein the guarantee of a perfection which may indeed be met with elsewhere, but here appears to be far more secure.
Hence, though the field of labour is ever widening, though the necessity of warfare and struggle grows ever more urgent, she does not hesitate to shield with the protection of her laws, and to encourage with the greatest favours, all who are called by Grace to The Life of The Desert.
The reason is not far to seek. In an age, when every effort to arrest the World in its headlong downward career seems vain, has not man greater need than ever to fall back upon God ? The enemy is aware of it; and, therefore, the first law he imposes upon his votaries is, to forbid all access to the way of the counsels, and to stifle all life of Adoration, Expiation, and Prayer.
For he well knows that, though a Nation may appear to be on the verge of its doom, there is yet hope for it as long as the best of its sons are prostrate before The Majesty of God.
Saint Bruno. Confessor. Feast Day 6 October.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Bruno.
Confessor.
Feast Day 6 October.
Double.
White Vestments.
Saint Bruno.
Artist: Girolamo Marchesi.
Date: Circa 1525.
Current location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore,
Maryland, United States of America.
Credit line: Acquired by Henry Walters
with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.
Source: Walters Art Museum
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The Life of Saint Bruno.
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Saint Bruno was born at Cologne, Germany, in the 11th-Century. With six of his friends, he retired to one of the desert heights of Dauphiny, France, called “Chartreuse”, which had been conceded to them by the Bishop of Grenoble (Gospel).
There, he Founded the first Monastery of The Order of Carthusians, which is held in so high esteem by The Church that, by the prescriptions of Canon Law, The Religious of any other Order may enter it so as to lead a more perfect life. [The Order of Carthusians has given to The Church several Saints, two Cardinals, seventy Archbishops and Bishops, and several famous writers, one of the most distinguished being Dionysius The Carthusian.]
Saint Bruno died, pressing The Crucifix to his lips, on 6 October 1101.
Mass: Os justi.
English: Saint Bruno refuses
Español: San Bruno renuncia ante el papa Urbano II
al arzobispado de Reggio Calabria.
Date: 4 November 2011.
Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Author: Vicente Carducho (1576-1638).
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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Bruno of Cologne (1030 – 1101) was the Founder of The Carthusian Order and personally Founded The Order's first two Communities. He was a celebrated Teacher at Reims, and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope Urban II.
On the verge of being made Bishop, Bruno instead followed a Vow he had made to renounce Secular Concerns and withdrew, along with two of his friends, Raoul and Fulcius, also Canons of Reims.
Bruno’s first thought on leaving Reims seems to have been to place himself and his companions under the direction of an eminent Solitary, Saint Robert, who had recently (1075) settled at Sèche-Fontaine, near Molesme, in the Diocese of Langres, France, together with a band of other Hermits, who were later on (in 1098) to form The Cistercian Order.
But he soon found that this was not his Vocation. After a short stay, he went with six of his companions to Saint Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble. The Bishop, according to the pious legend, had recently had a vision of these men, under a Chaplet of Seven Stars, and he installed them in 1084 in a mountainous and uninhabited spot in The Lower Alps of The Dauphiné, France, in a place named Chartreuse, not far from Grenoble. With Saint Bruno, were Landuin, Stephen of Bourg, and Stephen of Die, Canons of Saint Rufus, and Hugh the Chaplain, and two Laymen, Andrew and Guerin, who afterwards became the first Lay Brothers.
They built an Oratory, with small individual Cells, at a distance from each other, where they lived isolated and in poverty, entirely occupied in Prayer and Study; for these men had a reputation for Learning, and were frequently honoured by the visits of Saint Hugh, who became like one of themselves.
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Tie-Wig. Bob-Wig. Bag-Wig. Periwig. Queue. Chiving Lay. Solitaire. Macaroni. Sunday Buckle. Part Three.
A Gentleman’s Wig.
Text and Illustrations: GERI WALTON
It was applied before hair powder, which was also perfumed. Among the popular scents for powder were “musk, civet, ambergris, bergamot, rose, violet, almond, and orange-flower perfumes, and many more of differing qualities.”[8]
Because everyone was wearing a Wig, the price was high. Costs “sometimes amount[ed] to thirty, forty, and fifty guineas … [but] Wigs could be had at all prices, being worn by every class of the community.”[9]
In fact, Wigs were so popular, Wig stealing became a profitable enterprise in England. To accomplish these thefts, a Wig thief, known as “chiving lay” [Editor: A “chiv” is another name for a knife. Hence, the modern slang term “shiv”, for a knife], would position himself “behind Hackney Coaches, which were generally compelled to go at a slow pace owning to the narrowness of the streets and the absence of proper paving, and [the chiving lay] would cut out the back and snatch a gentleman’s Wig from his head … ladies lost their head-dresses [similarly, and] … sometimes a gentleman would find himself suddenly denuded of his head covering in the street.”[10]
It seems, small boys were also trained to be Wig thieves: They would hide in baskets and snatch Wigs off people’s heads as they passed by.
Darly engraving of Wigs from 1773.
Public domain.
Because everyone was wearing a Wig, the price was high. Costs “sometimes amount[ed] to thirty, forty, and fifty guineas … [but] Wigs could be had at all prices, being worn by every class of the community.”[9]
In fact, Wigs were so popular, Wig stealing became a profitable enterprise in England. To accomplish these thefts, a Wig thief, known as “chiving lay” [Editor: A “chiv” is another name for a knife. Hence, the modern slang term “shiv”, for a knife], would position himself “behind Hackney Coaches, which were generally compelled to go at a slow pace owning to the narrowness of the streets and the absence of proper paving, and [the chiving lay] would cut out the back and snatch a gentleman’s Wig from his head … ladies lost their head-dresses [similarly, and] … sometimes a gentleman would find himself suddenly denuded of his head covering in the street.”[10]
It seems, small boys were also trained to be Wig thieves: They would hide in baskets and snatch Wigs off people’s heads as they passed by.
Various Wigs remained popular throughout the 1700s, and almost every profession had their own peculiar Wig, with “the oddest appellations … given to them.”[11]
Alice More Earle noted that each profession seemed to chose a Periwig that best expressed its function. For instance,
“The caricatures of the period represent[ed by] full-fledged lawyers with a towering frontlet and a long bag at the back tied in the middle; while students of the university … [sported] a Wig flat on the top, to accommodate their stiff cornered hats, and a great bag like a lawyer’s at the back.”[12]
Yet, for all the Wig’s popularity, the French Revolution and England’s 1795 hair powder tax — an annual tax costing one guinea and imposed under William Pitt — put an end to Wig wearing.
French revolutionaries revolted against anything that reminded them of nobility or the Monarchy, and, in England, when the tax was enacted, Whig leaders were said to have cut off their “queues”, thereby heralding in the Wigless and natural hairstyles embraced during the French Directory and Regency era.
THIS CONCLUDES THIS ARTICLE.
References:[1] Hill, Georgiana, A History of English Dress from the Saxon Period to the Present Day, Vol. 2, 1893, p. 9.
[2] Sydney, William Connor, England and the English in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1, 1892, p. 106.
[3] Hill, Georgiana, p. 18.
[4] Ibid, p. 19.
[5] Ibid., p. 25.
[6] Ibid., p. 20.
[7] Ibid., p. 12.
[8] Ibid., p. 13.
[9] Ibid., p. 22.
[10] Ibid., p. 22-23
[11] Ibid., p. 19.
[12] Earle, Alice Morse, Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1, 1903 p. 336-337.
“The Splendours Of The Liturgy Are More Efficacious Than Documents Of The Ecclesiastical Magisterium. And Even More Important” - Pope Pius XI.
English: Pope Pius XI.
Deutsch: Papst Pius XI.
Photo: 1930.
Source: Politisch Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, 1932.
Author: Alberto Felici (1871-1950).
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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
“In instructing the people in The Divine Truths, and raising them to spiritual and interior joys”, said Pope Pius XI, “the splendours of The Liturgy are more efficacious than Documents of The Ecclesiastical Magisterium, and even more important”.
Saint Placid And His Companions. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 5 October.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Placid And His Companions.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 5 October.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
English: Church of Saint Placid, France.
Français: Église Saint-Plaçide sous le soleil.
Photo: 26 May 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Léo Camus
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The Holiness of Saint Benedict in his grotto at Subiaco soon drew around him many Disciples, among whom the two greatest were Saint Maurus, Apostle of The Benedictine Order in France, and Saint Placid. Both were committed to the care of The Holy Patriarch, the former at twelve years of age and the latter when a child of four years old, by their parents, who belonged to the most illustrious Patrician Families of Rome; under the guidance of such a Master, they made rapid progress in Holiness.
Saint Benedict had a special predilection for young Placid, and, just as The Saviour chose certain of His Disciples to be witness of His Miracles, so he liked to be accompanied by the pious child when God gave him Miracles to work.
English: Church of Saint Placid, Catania, Italy.
Italiano: Catania - Chiesa di San Placido.
Photo: 27 September 2014.
Author: giggel
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One occasion, while drawing water from The Lake of Subiaco, Placid fell in, and the waves carried him far from the shore. The Man of God sent Saint Maurus, who, walking miraculously on the water, saved him. Placid and Maurus followed Saint Benedict to Monte Cassino.
Today's Office and Mass Celebrated the memory of several Christians who were put to death in Sicily about 541 A.D., by Saracenic Pirates. According to a pious Tradition, these Martyrs were Saint Placid, his sister, and the Monks which Saint Benedict had sent to Sicily with him.
Mass: Salus autem.
Collects: From The Mass: Sapiéntiam.
Tuesday 4 October 2022
The Divine Holy Mass Of The Solemnity Of The Most Holy Rosary Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Church Of Saint-Eugène - Sainte Cécile, Paris. Sunday, 3 October 2021.
English: Divine Holy Mass of The Solemnity of
The Most Holy Rosary of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Church of Saint-Eugène - Sainte Cécile,
Paris, France.
Sunday, 3 October 2021.
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Français: Sainte messe de la solennité du Très-Saint Rosaire.
Paroisse Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile,
4 bis rue Sainte Cécile FR-75009 Paris, France.
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