Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Tuesday 1 November 2022

Allhallowtide.



The Church Triumphant.
The Church Militant.
The Church Suffering.
Illustration taken from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
1952 Edition, with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



“Allhallowtide”.
Available on YouTube at



All Hallows’ Eve (31 October), All Saints’ Day (also known as All Hallow’s Day) (1 November), and All Souls’ Day
(2 November) are referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time of honouring The Saints and Praying for all departed Souls.

The term “Hallow” means “Holy”. It is recited in 
The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name” (Mt 6:9).

Indulgences for The Holy Souls In Purgatory: The month of November is dedicated to The Holy Souls in Purgatory and is a privileged time to Pray for them. The Church Commemorates all her Faithful children, who have departed from this life, but have not yet attained the joys of Heaven.

Saint Paul warns us that we must not be ignorant concerning the dead, nor sorrowful, “even as others who have no hope . . . The Lord, Himself, shall come down from Heaven . . .
and The Dead, who are in Christ, shall rise.”


The Church has always taught us to Pray for those who have gone into Eternity. Even in The Old Testament, Prayers and Alms were offered for The Souls of The Dead by those who thought "well and Religiously concerning The Resurrection." It was believed that "they, who had fallen asleep with Godliness, had great Grace laid up for them", and that "it is, therefore, a Holy and wholesome thought to Pray for The Dead, that they may be loosed from sins."

We know that a defiled Soul cannot enter into Heaven. God, Lord of Mercies, grant to the Souls of Your servants and handmaids, the place of refreshment, the bliss of Eternal Rest, and the splendour of Your Light.
Amen.

From 1 November through to 8 November,
if we visit a Cemetery in a spirit of piety and devotion, and Pray, even just mentally, for The Dead, we may gain a Plenary Indulgence for one Holy Soul on each Day of The Octave (on the usual conditions). This special Indulgence is only applicable to The Dead. 

We can Pray any of The Raccolta Prayers: Numbered 582-600, [Editor: From Wikipedia: The Raccolta (literally, "collection" in Italian) is a book, published from 1807 to 1950, that listed Roman Catholic Prayers and other Acts of Piety, such as Novenas, for which specific Indulgences were granted by PopesIn 1968, it was replaced by the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, listing fewer specific Prayers, but including new general grants that apply to a wide range of
Prayerful actions. The Text was in Italian, with the Prayers given in Latin.] to accomplish this end, and especially
The Dies Iræ Sequence
(Raccolta: Number 587).


Using a Traditional Missal, one can Pray a number of the Prayers from the 2 November Mass or a Requiem Mass.

In The Catholic Bible (Douay Rheims), it is ideal to Pray
Psalm 129 “The De Profundis”. Also, on 2 November, we can gain a Plenary Indulgence for The Holy Souls by visiting a Church and piously Praying for The Dead, (One “Our Father” and “Creed” suffice), and fulfilling all the usual conditions
for a Plenary Indulgence.

The usual conditions for a Plenary Indulgence are:

1) Pray for the Pope (usually one Our Father one Hail Mary);

2) Worthily receive Holy Communion
on the day of the Indulgence;

3) Make a Sacramental Confession
within a week (before or after);

4) Be free from all attachment to Sin, even Venial Sin. A sincere and devout act of the Will to this end suffices. * If we fail in the usual conditions, there is still merit in our good Pious Act, but usually only amounts to a Partial Indulgence.

It should be noted that, according to Traditional Church Discipline and Practice, Fasting and Partial Abstinence are OBLIGATORY on The Vigil of Pentecost and ALL SAINTS DAY. To read more about what The Catholic Church Traditionally teaches on Fasting and Abstinence, visit this
Web-Site: http://www.fisheaters.com/fasting.html

NOVEMBER: DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS.

From Fr. Schouppe’s book, entitled “Purgatory”: “There is in Purgatory, as in Hell, a double pain - the pain of loss and the pain of sense. The pain of loss consists in being deprived from a time of the sight of God. It is a moral thirst which torments our Soul. The pain of sense, of sensible suffering, is the same as that which we experience in our flesh.” (p.32).


"Speaking in general, The Doctors [of The Church] agree
in saying that the pains are most excruciating. The same fire, says Saint Gregory, torments The Damned and purifies The Elect. “Almost all Theologians”, says Saint Robert Bellarmine, “teach that The Reprobate and The Souls in Purgatory suffer the action of the same fire.” It must be held as certain, writes the same Bellarmine, that there is no proportion between the sufferings of this life and those of Purgatory.

Saint Augustine declares precisely the same. They will be saved, no doubt, after The Trial of Fire, but that Trial will be terrible, that torment will be more intolerable than all the most excruciating sufferings in this World. Behold what Saint Augustine says, and what Saint Gregory, Venerable Bede, Saint Anselm, and Saint Bernard, have said, after him. Saint Thomas Aquinas goes even further; he maintains that the least pain of Purgatory surpasses all the sufferings of this life, whatsoever they may be.” (pp 33-34).

 Let us, therefore, offer fervent Prayers for The Holy Souls in Purgatory. Monthly Tridentine Masses are offered for all our Benefactors, who are also remembered in our Daily Prayers.
Deo grátias ! / Thank you !

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The Feast Of All Saints. Feast Day 1 November.



“The Church Triumphant”.
“The Church Militant”.
“The Church Suffering”.
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 1952 Edition,
with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



All Saints’ Day.
Featuring “Your Heart”,
by Chris Tomlin.
Available on YouTube at


All Saints’ Day.
Featuring “Lifesong”,
by Casting Crowns.
Available on YouTube at


“Te Deum”,
by Domenico Scarlatti,
for The Feast of All Saints.
Available on YouTube at


“Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino . . .”
(“Let us all rejoice in The Lord . . .”)
(Introit for The Feast of All Saints).
Available on YouTube at

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

The Feast of All Saints.
   Feast Day 1 November.

Double of The First-Class
   with an Octave.

White Vestments.

The temple of Agrippa was dedicated, under Augustus, to all the pagan gods, hence its name of "Pantheon". Under Emperor Phocas, between 607 A.D. and 610 A.D., Pope Boniface IV Translated hither numerous remains of Martyrs taken from The Catacombs.

On 13 May 610 A.D., he Dedicated this new Christian Basilica to Saint Mary and The Martyrs. The Feast of this Dedication later took a more Universal character, and the temple was Consecrated to Saint Mary And All The Saints.


English: Basilica of Saint Mary And All The Saints
(The Pantheon (27 B.C.) - Piazza della Rotonda, Rome
Français: Le Panthéon (27 av. J.C.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Rome).
Deutsch: Das Pantheon (27 v.Chr.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Rom).
Español: El Panteón (27 aC.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Roma).
Italiano: Il Pantheon (27 aC.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Roma).
Photo: 3 October 2011.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)


English: Basilica of Saint Mary And All The Saints,
Rome.
Русский: Внутреннее убранство Пантеона.
Photo: 22 May 2011.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)


As there was already a Feast in Commemoration of All The Saints, Celebrated at first on various dates in various Churches, then fixed by Pope Gregory IV in 835 A.D., on
1 November, Pope Gregory VII transferred to this date the Anniversary of The Dedication of the Pantheon as a Church. The Feast of All Saints, therefore, recalls The Triumph of Christ over the false pagan deities. In this Church is held The Station on The Friday in The Octave of Easter.

As The Saints, Commemorated during the first three Centuries of The Church were Martyrs, and the Pantheon was at first Dedicated by The Church to them, The Mass of All Saints is made up of extracts from The Liturgy of Martyrs. The Introit is that of The Mass of Saint Agatha, used later for other Feasts; the Gospel, Offertory and Communion are taken from The Common of Martyrs.

The Church gives us on this day a wonderful vision of Heaven, showing us, with Saint John, the twelve thousand signed (twelve is considered a perfect number) of each tribe of Israel, and a great multitude, which no-one can count, of every nation and tribe, of every people and tongue, standing before the Throne and before The Lamb, clothed in White Robes and with Palms in their hands (Epistle).


Christ and Our Lady; The Blessed Battalions distributed in Nine Choirs; The Apostles and Prophets; The Martyrs, crimsoned in their blood; The Confessors, adorned in White Garments; and the chaste Choir of Virgins, form, as The Hymn of Vespers sings, The Majestic Court.

It is composed of all those, who, here below, were detached from Worldly riches, Gentle, Suffering, Just, Merciful, Pure, Peaceful, and Persecuted for The Name of Jesus. "Rejoice," The Master had foretold them, "for a great reward is prepared for you in Heaven" (Gospel, Communion).

Among those millions of The Just, who were faithful Disciples of Jesus, on Earth, are several of our own family, relations, friends, members of our Parochial Family, now enjoying the fruit of their Piety, adoring The Lord, King of Kings, and Crown of All Saints (Invitatory at Matins) and obtaining for us the wished-for abundance of His mercies (Collect).

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

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino.
Creed. Is said.


All Saints’ Day.
Featuring "Your Heart",
by Chris Tomlin.
Available on YouTube at

Monday 31 October 2022

Reminder: All Saints’ Day Is Tuesday, 1 November And Is A Holy Day Of Obligation. All Souls’ Day Is On Wednesday, 2 November.

 


Text and Illustrations: OFFERIMUS TIBI DOMINE

ALL SAINTS’ DAY AND ALL SOULS’ DAY: A reminder that Tuesday is All Saints’ Day - a Holyday of Obligation.

While the obligation was suspended during the pandemic, we should remember that it has now been re-instated.

According to The Code of Canon Law, Sunday, the day we celebrate The Resurrection of Our Lord, is always observed as the foremost Holy Day of Obligation for the universal Church.


The obligation involved is simply the duty to attend Mass on that day. We should not forget the importance of these Holy Days.

The Constitution on The Sacred Liturgy of The Second Vatican Council stated: “Thus recalling the mysteries of the redemption, The Church opens up to the Faithful, the riches of her Lord’s powers and merits, so that these are in some way made present for all time; the Faithful lay hold of them and are filled with saving grace” (#102).

Therefore, the importance of attending Mass on Sunday or any other Holy Day is not simply because of an obligation, but why it is an obligation.


Our lives are so busy, and we face so many distractions. We could lose sight of God or become numb to His presence. Maybe we do have to sacrifice to attend Mass by re-arranging our schedule or suffering some inconvenience to the normal course of life.

So what ?

Our cherishing the mysteries of our salvation should take precedence over the exigencies of living in this world.


Remember at The Last Supper, Jesus reminded the Apostles that while they live in the world, they are not of this world (John 17:13-19).

The Holy Days help us to remember the same.

Therefore, we must pause to ponder, celebrate, and live the mystery of salvation by marking each Sunday, these special Holy Events, and the lives of those who are exemplars of Faith, with the offering of The Holy Mass.


Wednesday is All Souls’ Day. Whilst not a Holy Day of Obligation, it is indeed a very Holy Day, set aside to Pray for those who have died and may need the benefit of our Prayers to help them on their way through Purgatory (the preparation or purification to enable them to be ready and able to see God face to face in all His glory).

The Mass here [Editor: At Fr. Simon Henry’s Church in Farington, Leyland, Lancashire] is offered in particular for all those on our Pious List (including deceased members and friends of The Order of Saint Lazarus).

It initiates a whole month - November - when we are encouraged to Pray for “The Holy Souls” each day.


It is an ancient tradition that people visit cemeteries to Pray for the dead on 2 November or during the month of November.

This is the Catholic reality and origin of Halloween. A far cry from the corrupted secular celebration of “Halloween” (All Hallow’s (Saint’s) Eve) that we will see around us this week, which is a conflation and misunderstanding of these two Holy Feasts.

The “ghosts and ghoulies” originate from the tradition of visiting a graveyard to Pray for our loved ones.

So, if you are going to the trouble of carving out pumpkins and giving out treats to random children who ring your doorbell with threats to egg your front door, don’t forget to come and Pray for your deceased loved ones.

An effort with rather better fruits, surely ?

Reverend Fr. Timothy Finigan. Sermon On “The Mother Of Divine Grace”. A Day With Mary.

 


“The Mother of Divine Grace”.
Sermon by Fr. Timothy Finigan.
A Day With Mary.
Available on YouTube

Allhallowtide.



The Church Triumphant.
The Church Militant.
The Church Suffering.
Illustration taken from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
1952 Edition, with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



“Allhallowtide”.
Available on YouTube at



All Hallows’ Eve (31 October), All Saints’ Day (also known as All Hallow’s Day) (1 November), and All Souls’ Day
(2 November) are referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time of honouring The Saints and Praying for all departed Souls.

The term “Hallow” means “Holy”. It is recited in 
The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name” (Mt 6:9).

Indulgences for The Holy Souls In Purgatory: The month of November is dedicated to The Holy Souls in Purgatory and is a privileged time to Pray for them. The Church Commemorates all her Faithful children, who have departed from this life, but have not yet attained the joys of Heaven.

Saint Paul warns us that we must not be ignorant concerning the dead, nor sorrowful, “even as others who have no hope . . . The Lord, Himself, shall come down from Heaven . . .
and The Dead, who are in Christ, shall rise.”


The Church has always taught us to Pray for those who have gone into Eternity. Even in The Old Testament, Prayers and Alms were offered for The Souls of The Dead by those who thought "well and Religiously concerning The Resurrection." It was believed that "they, who had fallen asleep with Godliness, had great Grace laid up for them", and that "it is, therefore, a Holy and wholesome thought to Pray for The Dead, that they may be loosed from sins."

We know that a defiled Soul cannot enter into Heaven. God, Lord of Mercies, grant to the Souls of Your servants and handmaids, the place of refreshment, the bliss of Eternal Rest, and the splendour of Your Light.
Amen.

From 1 November through to 8 November,
if we visit a Cemetery in a spirit of piety and devotion, and Pray, even just mentally, for The Dead, we may gain a Plenary Indulgence for one Holy Soul on each Day of The Octave (on the usual conditions). This special Indulgence is only applicable to The Dead. 

We can Pray any of The Raccolta Prayers: Numbered 582-600, [Editor: From Wikipedia: The Raccolta (literally, "collection" in Italian) is a book, published from 1807 to 1950, that listed Roman Catholic Prayers and other Acts of Piety, such as Novenas, for which specific Indulgences were granted by PopesIn 1968, it was replaced by the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, listing fewer specific Prayers, but including new general grants that apply to a wide range of
Prayerful actions. The Text was in Italian, with the Prayers given in Latin.] to accomplish this end, and especially
The Dies Iræ Sequence
(Raccolta: Number 587).


Using a Traditional Missal, one can Pray a number of the Prayers from the 2 November Mass or a Requiem Mass.

In The Catholic Bible (Douay Rheims), it is ideal to Pray
Psalm 129 “The De Profundis”. Also, on 2 November, we can gain a Plenary Indulgence for The Holy Souls by visiting a Church and piously Praying for The Dead, (One “Our Father” and “Creed” suffice), and fulfilling all the usual conditions
for a Plenary Indulgence.

The usual conditions for a Plenary Indulgence are:

1) Pray for the Pope (usually one Our Father one Hail Mary);

2) Worthily receive Holy Communion
on the day of the Indulgence;

3) Make a Sacramental Confession
within a week (before or after);

4) Be free from all attachment to Sin, even Venial Sin. A sincere and devout act of the Will to this end suffices. * If we fail in the usual conditions, there is still merit in our good Pious Act, but usually only amounts to a Partial Indulgence.

It should be noted that, according to Traditional Church Discipline and Practice, Fasting and Partial Abstinence are OBLIGATORY on The Vigil of Pentecost and ALL SAINTS DAY. To read more about what The Catholic Church Traditionally teaches on Fasting and Abstinence, visit this
Web-Site: http://www.fisheaters.com/fasting.html

NOVEMBER: DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS.

From Fr. Schouppe’s book, entitled “Purgatory”: “There is in Purgatory, as in Hell, a double pain - the pain of loss and the pain of sense. The pain of loss consists in being deprived from a time of the sight of God. It is a moral thirst which torments our Soul. The pain of sense, of sensible suffering, is the same as that which we experience in our flesh.” (p.32).


"Speaking in general, The Doctors [of The Church] agree
in saying that the pains are most excruciating. The same fire, says Saint Gregory, torments The Damned and purifies The Elect. “Almost all Theologians”, says Saint Robert Bellarmine, “teach that The Reprobate and The Souls in Purgatory suffer the action of the same fire.” It must be held as certain, writes the same Bellarmine, that there is no proportion between the sufferings of this life and those of Purgatory.

Saint Augustine declares precisely the same. They will be saved, no doubt, after The Trial of Fire, but that Trial will be terrible, that torment will be more intolerable than all the most excruciating sufferings in this World. Behold what Saint Augustine says, and what Saint Gregory, Venerable Bede, Saint Anselm, and Saint Bernard, have said, after him. Saint Thomas Aquinas goes even further; he maintains that the least pain of Purgatory surpasses all the sufferings of this life, whatsoever they may be.” (pp 33-34).

 Let us, therefore, offer fervent Prayers for The Holy Souls in Purgatory. Monthly Tridentine Masses are offered for all our Benefactors, who are also remembered in our Daily Prayers.
Deo grátias ! / Thank you !

Please visit our GoFundMe page; http://www.gofundme.com/bpq7mo

The Vigil Of All Saints.



Iona Abbey, Scotland.
Image: SHUTTERSTOCK


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

The Vigil of All Saints.

Simple.

Violet Vestments.

The most illustrious Martyrs had at Rome, from the 4th-Century A.D., their Basilicas, where was Celebrated each Year the Anniversary of their death, or, rather, their birth in Heaven.

At that time, a number of Masses were prescribed without any fixed day in honour of those who had no public recognition. When, later, the names of Saints, who were not Martyrs, were introduced into The Ecclesiastical Calendar, a more Universal character was given to such Masses.

It is thus that, in the 8th-Century A.D., The Gregorian Sacramentary indicates among The Common Masses without a date: The Mass in Honour of All Saints.

Fixed in the following Century on 1 November, it became The Mass of All Saints' Day, for which we are this day prepared by a Vigil.

This explains why The Mass of The Vigil, as well as that of The Feast, contains extracts from The Masses of The Common of Martyrs.

Mass: Judicant sancti gentes.
Gloria: Is not said.


The Church Triumphant.
The Church Militant.
The Church Suffering.
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal
with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.


The following Text is taken from

The Vigil of All Saints is of Simple Rite and its Liturgical Colour is Violet. As with all Simple Rite Vigils, The Office runs from Mattins to None.

At Mattins, The Invitatory, Hymn, Antiphons, Psalms, Versicle and Response are from The Psalter for Friday. The Lessons, Proper to The Vigil, in The Nocturn, are a Homily of Saint Ambrose from The Common of Several Martyrs.

The Responsories are from The Friday of The Fifth Week of October. The Te Deum is not sung. The Second Scheme of Lauds for Friday is sung with Psalms 50, 142, 84, “Domine, audivi auditionem tuam”, and 147.



The Office Hymn is “Aeterna cæli gloria”. After the Antiphon on the Benedictus has been repeated, the Ferial Preces are sung, with the Choir kneeling. After The Collect of The Vigil, The Suffrage of The Saints is omitted (c.f. pre-1911-1913 praxis, when The Suffrages were sung).

At Prime, the Psalm displaced from Lauds by The Miserere is added to The Psalmody of The Day: Pss. 21(i), 21(ii), 21(iii), and 98. Both The Dominical and Ferial Preces are sung, with the Choir kneeling. At the other Hours, the short series of Ferial Preces are sung, again with the Choir kneeling, before The Collect of The Vigil.

Mass is sung after None. Following the normal rules for Vigils, four Candles are placed on the Altar, in contrast with two on ordinary Ferial Days. The Deacon and Sub-Deacon wear Violet Dalmatic and Tunicle, not Folded Chasubles. The Ferial Tone is used for The Orations and for The Preface and Pater Noster.



There is no Gloria. The Second Collect is of The Holy Ghost, “Deus, qui corda”, The Third Collect is “Ecclesiæ”. As it is a “Kneeling Day”, the Choir kneels for the Prayers and from the Sanctus until “Pax Domini”. As the Gloria is not sung, the dismissal is “Benedicamus Domino”.

Vespers are First Vespers of The Feast of All Saints, with a corresponding Colour change to Festive White. The Office is Proper and the Antiphons “Vidi turbam magnam”, etc, are sung, Doubled, with Pss. 109, 110, 111, 112 and 116. The Office Hymn is “Placare, Christe, servulis”. At Compline, The Dominical Psalms are sung.

In the “Liturgical Books of 1962”, The Vigil of All Saints has been abolished.


Sunday 30 October 2022

Reminder: All Saints’ Day Is Tuesday, 1 November And Is A Holy Day Of Obligation. All Souls’ Day Is On Wednesday, 2 November.



Text and Illustrations: OFFERIMUS TIBI DOMINE

ALL SAINTS’ DAY AND ALL SOULS’ DAY: A reminder that Tuesday is All Saints’ Day - a Holyday of Obligation.

While the obligation was suspended during the pandemic, we should remember that it has now been re-instated.

According to The Code of Canon Law, Sunday, the day we celebrate The Resurrection of Our Lord, is always observed as the foremost Holy Day of Obligation for the universal Church.


The obligation involved is simply the duty to attend Mass on that day. We should not forget the importance of these Holy Days.

The Constitution on The Sacred Liturgy of The Second Vatican Council stated: “Thus recalling the mysteries of the redemption, The Church opens up to the Faithful, the riches of her Lord’s powers and merits, so that these are in some way made present for all time; the Faithful lay hold of them and are filled with saving grace” (#102).

Therefore, the importance of attending Mass on Sunday or any other Holy Day is not simply because of an obligation, but why it is an obligation.


Our lives are so busy, and we face so many distractions. We could lose sight of God or become numb to His presence. Maybe we do have to sacrifice to attend Mass by re-arranging our schedule or suffering some inconvenience to the normal course of life.

So what ?

Our cherishing the mysteries of our salvation should take precedence over the exigencies of living in this world.


Remember at The Last Supper, Jesus reminded the Apostles that while they live in the world, they are not of this world (John 17:13-19).

The Holy Days help us to remember the same.

Therefore, we must pause to ponder, celebrate, and live the mystery of salvation by marking each Sunday, these special Holy Events, and the lives of those who are exemplars of Faith, with the offering of The Holy Mass.


Wednesday is All Souls’ Day. Whilst not a Holy Day of Obligation, it is indeed a very Holy Day, set aside to Pray for those who have died and may need the benefit of our Prayers to help them on their way through Purgatory (the preparation or purification to enable them to be ready and able to see God face to face in all His glory).

The Mass here [Editor: At Fr. Simon Henry’s Church in Farington, Leyland, Lancashire] is offered in particular for all those on our Pious List (including deceased members and friends of The Order of Saint Lazarus).

It initiates a whole month - November - when we are encouraged to Pray for “The Holy Souls” each day.


It is an ancient tradition that people visit cemeteries to Pray for the dead on 2 November or during the month of November.

This is the Catholic reality and origin of Halloween. A far cry from the corrupted secular celebration of “Halloween” (All Hallow’s (Saint’s) Eve) that we will see around us this week, which is a conflation and misunderstanding of these two Holy Feasts.

The “ghosts and ghoulies” originate from the tradition of visiting a graveyard to Pray for our loved ones.

So, if you are going to the trouble of carving out pumpkins and giving out treats to random children who ring your doorbell with threats to egg your front door, don’t forget to come and Pray for your deceased loved ones.

An effort with rather better fruits, surely ?

Feast Of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, The Last Sunday Of October.


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

Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King.
   The Last Sunday of October.

Double of The First-Class.

White Vestments.


English: Christ The King.
Detail from The Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan van Eyck.
Deutsch: Genter Altar, Altar des Mystischen Lammes,
obere mittlere Haupttafel, Szene: Thronender Gottvater.
Artist: Hubert van Eyck (1366–1426).
Date: Before 1426.
Current location: Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
Notes: Auftraggeber: Joducus und Isabelle Vyd, urspr.
für die Johannes dem Täufer gewidmete Seitenkapelle
in St.-Bavo in Gent, Wandelaltar, in Zusammenarbeit
mit Jan van Eyck entstanden.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Insignia of The Vendean Insurgents (Royalist Insurgents),
during The War in Vendée, 1793, who fought against Suppression of The Church in The French Revolution.
Note the French words “Dieu Le Roi”, beneath The Heart-and-Cross, meaning “God The King”.
(Wikimedia Commons)

In his Encyclical of 11 December 1925, His Holiness Pope Pius XI denounced the great modern Heresy of Laicism. This Heresy refuses to recognise The Rights of God and His Christ, over persons and peoples, and organises the lives of individuals, families, and of Society itself, as though God did not exist.

This Laicism ruins Society, because, in place of The Love of God and one's neighbour, it substitutes pride and egoism. It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between classes and rivalry between nations.

The World denies Christ, because it ignores His Royal Prerogatives. The World must be instructed on this subject. Now, "a yearly Feast can attain this end, more effectively than the weightiest documents issued by Ecclesiastical authority".


“The Feast of Christ The King”.
Available on YouTube at

The Holy Father has instituted this new Feast to be a public, social, and official declaration of The Royal Rights of Jesus, as God The Creator, as The Word Incarnate, and as Redeemer.

This Feast makes these Rights to be known and recognised, in a way most suitable to Man and to Society by the Sublimest Acts of Religion - particularly by Holy Mass.


“The Magnificat”.
First Vespers.
Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King.
Composed by: Arvo Pärt.
Sung by: The Tallis Scholars.
Director of Music: Peter Phillips.
Available on YouTube at

In fact, the end of The Holy Sacrifice is the acknowledgement of God's complete Dominion over us, and our complete dependence on Him.

And this Act is accomplished, not only on Calvary, but also through The Royal Priesthood of Jesus, which never ceases in His Kingdom, which is Heaven. The great reality of Christianity is not a corpse hanging from a Cross, but The Risen Christ Reigning in all the Glory of His Triumph in the midst of His Elect, who are His Conquest (Epistle).


And that is why The Mass begins with the finest vision of The Apocalypse, where The Lamb of God is acclaimed by Angels and Saints (Introit).

The Holy Father has expressed his wish that this Feast should be Celebrated towards the end of The Liturgical Year, on The Last Sunday of October, as The Consummation of all The Mysteries by which Jesus has established His Royal Powers and nearly on the Eve of All Saints, where He already realises them in part, in being "The King of Kings and The Crown of All Saints " (Invitatory at Matins); until He shall be The Crown of all those on Earth whom He saves, especially by The Mass.


It is, indeed, principally by The Eucharist, which is both a Sacrifice and a Sacrament, that Christ, now in Glory, assures the results of the Victorious Sacrifice of Calvary, by taking possession of Souls through the application of the Merits of His Passion (Secret) and thereby unites them as Members to their Head.

The end of The Eucharist, says the Catechism of The Council of Trent, is "to form one sole Mystic Body of all The Faithful" and so to draw them in the cult, which Christ, King-Adorer, as Priest and Victim, rendered in a bloody manner on The Cross and now renders, in an un-bloody manner, on the Stone Altar of our Churches and on the Golden Altar in Heaven, to Christ, King-Adored, as Son of God, and to His Father, to Whom He offers these Souls (Preface).

Mass: Dignus est Agnus.
Commemoration: Of the occurring Sunday.
Creed.
Preface: Of Christ The King.
Last Gospel: Of the occurring Sunday.

The Feast Day Of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King. The Last Sunday In October.




The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King.
Te sæculorum principem-Vêpres de la fête de Jésus Christ Roi.
Chœur des séminaristes de Gricigliano.
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Te sæculórum Príncipem, te, Christe, Regem géntium,
te méntium, te córdium unum fatémur árbitrum.
C’est toi, Prince des siècles, c’est toi,
Christ, roi des Nations,
c’est toi que nous reconnaissons
pour l’unique arbitre des esprits et des cœurs.

Scelésta turba clámitat: regnáre Christum nólumus;
te nos ovántes ómnium Regem suprémum dícimus.
Une foule criminelle crie:
Nous ne voulons pas que le Christ règne;
c’est toi que nous, avec transport,
nous proclamons Roi suprême de tous.


O Christe, Princeps Pácifer, mentes rebélles súbice,
tuóque amóre dévios ovíle in unum cóngrega.
O Christ, Prince qui portes la paix,
soumets les esprits rebelles,
et ceux qui loin de ton amour
s’égarent, rassemble-les dans l’unique bercail.

Ad hoc cruénta ab árbore pendes apértis brácchiis,
diráque fossum cúspide cor igne flagrans éxhibes.
C’est pour cela que, bras ouverts,
Tu pends à l’arbre sanglant,
et que tu montres ton cœur brûlant
d’amour transpercé par la lance cruelle.


Ad hoc in aris ábderis vini dapísque imágine,
fundens salútem fíliis transverberáto péctore.
C’est pour cela que sur les autels
tu te caches sous la figure du vin et du pain,
versant, de ton cœur transpercé, le salut à tes fils.

Te natiónum prǽsides honóre tollant público,
colant magístri, iúdices, leges et artes éxprimant.
A toi, que les chefs des nations
rendent les honneurs publics;
que te confessent maîtres et juges,
que lois et arts portent ton empreinte.


Submíssa regum fúlgeant tibi dicáta insígnia:
mitíque sceptro pátriam domósque subde cívium.
Que, soumis, les insignes des rois
brillent, à toi consacrés;
à ton doux sceptre soumets
la patrie et les demeures des citoyens.

Jesu tibi sit gloria, Qui sceptra mundi temperas
 Cum Patre et almo Spiritu, In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.
O Jésus à vous soit la gloire,
qui gouvernez les sceptres du monde,
Comme au Père et à l'Esprit Saint,
dans les siècles éternels. Ainsi soit-il.
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