The Foundling Museum. Would You Like To Help Children ?

Illustration: THE VICTORIANIST

Engraving of The Foundling Hospital,

Holborn, London, circa 1750.

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“Applicants For Admission To A Casual Ward”.

Artist: Luke Fildes.

Date: 1874.

Illustration from THE VICTORIANIST

This Article first appeared in December 2020.

Museum News.

1 December 2020.

Welcome back to the Museum

The Covid Letters exhibition is extended until 

Sunday 11 April 2021.

We are delighted to be able to welcome back visitors to the Museum this December to enjoy The Covid Letters. The exhibition's new closing date of 11 April 2021 will give more visitors the opportunity to view over 200 posters made by young people expressing their lockdown feelings.

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Online | 36th Annual Conference on Music in 18th-Century Britain.

Catch up with presentations from this year's annual conference from the comfort of your own home.

Enjoy a special YouTube playlist of talks on music in eighteenth-century Britain, including subjects such as small flutes in English music and charitable benefits.

Watch now

Visitor Safety l Plan ahead.

With the reopening of the Museum on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, we'd like to assure the public that we're adhering to the highest levels of precautions to keep all of our visitors, volunteers and staff safe. To find out what we're doing, visit our website to learn about our procedures and facilities.

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Shopping | Portraying Pregnancy.

Looking for Christmas present ideas ? 

Portraying Pregnancy, the book written by curator Karen Hearn to accompany our exhibition, is still available to buy. If you're unable to visit the Museum shop, email your name and number to enquiries@foundlingmuseum.org.uk, and someone will get back to you to arrange p & p.

Online | Zoom Backgrounds.

Liven up your video calls with our Zoom backgrounds and bring the Foundling Museum into your own home. View the images, which we've made available to download and learn some fun facts about each of them.

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From Our Friends | Italian Threads: MITA Textile Design 1926-1976

Until 3 April 2021 | Estorick Collection.

Founded in Genoa in 1926, MITA (Manifattura Italiana Tappeti Artistici) was a celebrated Italian textile firm that earned its reputation by collaborating with some of Italy’s most talented artists and designers. This exhibition reveals the company’s characteristically Italian approach to design.

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From Our Friends | The Postal Museum Re-opening.

From 5 December | The Postal Museum.

The Postal Museum are re-opening their doors on Saturday 5 December 2020. Enjoy Mail Rail Christmas Ride and other festivities for all the family, and don't miss the last chance to see The Great Train Robbery exhibition.

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From Our Friends | Dub London: Bassline of a City.

Until 31 January 2021 | Museum of London.

From its roots in Jamaican reggae to how it shaped communities over the last 50 years, the Museum of London’s exciting new display celebrates dub music and its influence on the capital. Entry included with a free museum ticket.

Image credit: ‘A man standing in front of a bank of loud speakers in All Saints Road, Notting Hill, during the Notting Hill Carnival, 21st August 1994’ © Peter Marshall

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Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. Sacred Heart Of Jesus.

English: True Bodily and Spiritual Enlightenment

of The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Picture, dated to 1630, in The Church of

Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais, Paris.

Français: Photographie d'un des panneaux de la chapelle dorée de l'église Saint Gervais-Saint Protais à Paris, représentant le coeur rayonnant de Jésus Christ, 1630.

Photo: 16 September 2017.

Source: Own work.

Author: Châtillon

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Cor Iesu Sacratissimum adveniat regnum tuum.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,

unless stated otherwise.

The Sacred Heart, also known as The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Latin: Sacratissimum Cor Iesu), is one of the most-widely-practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein The Heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of “God’s boundless and passionate love for mankind”.[1]

This devotion to Christ is predominantly used in The Catholic Church, followed by High-Church Anglicans, Lutherans and some Western Rite Orthodox. In The Latin Church, the Liturgical Solemnity of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is Celebrated on The Third Friday After Pentecost.[2] The Twelve promises of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are also extremely popular.

The devotion is especially concerned with what The Catholic Church deems to be the long-suffering love and compassion of The Heart of Christ towards humanity.

The popularisation of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a Roman Catholic Nun from France, Margaret Mary Alacoque, who said she learned the devotion from Jesus during a series of apparitions to her between 1673 and 1675,[3] and, later, in the 19th-Century, from the mystical revelations of another Catholic Nun in Portugal, Mary of The Divine Heart, a Religious Sister of The Congregation of The Good Shepherd, who requested in the name of Christ that Pope Leo XIII Consecrate the entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Predecessors to the modern devotion arose unmistakably in The Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic Mysticism, particularly with Saint Gertrude the Great.[4]

Catholic Holy Card depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Date: Circa 1880.

Auguste Martin Collection, 

University of Dayton Libraries.

Source: Own work.

Author: Turgis

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Cor Iesu Sacratissimum adveniat regnum tuum.

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“Streets Of London”. Sung By: Ralph McTell.

“Streets Of London”.

Sung By: Ralph McTell.

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HERE

Saint Edmund Campion. Feast Day 1 December.

English: Portrait of Edmund Campion

(labelled Thomas Campion in error).

Español: Retrato de Edmund Campion.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: National Portrait Gallery, London

Author: Unknown.

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unless stated otherwise.

Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit Priest and Martyr. 

While conducting an underground ministry in officially-Anglican England, Campion was arrested by Priest Hunters. 

Coat-of-Arms of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England.

The actual ropes used in Saint Edmund Campion’s execution are now kept in glass display tubes at Stonyhurst College[25].

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Convicted of High Treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.

Campion was Beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and Canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

His Feast Day is Celebrated on 1 December, the day of his Martyrdom.

The actual ropes used in his execution are now kept in glass display tubes at Stonyhurst College[25] in Lancashire; each year, they are placed on the Altar of Saint Peter’s Church, at Stonyhurst College, for Mass to Celebrate Campion’s Feast Day — which is always a holiday for the school.

The First Day Of December.

Salisbury Cathedral.

Illustration: PINTEREST

The following Text is from “The Liturgical Year”,
by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

Volume 1.
   Advent.

The Church of Rome does not keep this day as a Feast Day of any Saint; she simply recites the Office of the Feria, unless it happens that the First Sunday of Advent falls on this first day of the month, in which case the Office of that Sunday is Celebrated.

But, should this first day of December be a simple Feria of Advent, we shall do well to begin at once our considerations upon the preparations which were made for the merciful coming of The Saviour of the World.

Four thousand years of expectation preceded that coming, and they are expressed by the four weeks of Advent, which we must spend before we come to the glorious festivity of Our Lord’s Nativity.

Durham Cathedral.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Let us reflect upon the holy impatience of the Saints of the Old Testament, and how they handed down, from age to age, the grand hope, which was to be but hope to them, since they were not to see it realised. Let us follow, in thought, the long succession of the witnesses of the promise: Adam, and the first Patriarchs, who lived before the Deluge; then, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve Patriarchs of the Hebrew People; then Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon; then, the Prophets and the Machabees; and, at last, John the Baptist and his disciples.

Saint Fin Barre Cathedral,

Cork, Ireland.

Illustration: REDDIT

These are the holy ancestors of whom the Book of Ecclesiasticus speaks, where it says: “Let us praise men of renown, and our Fathers in their generation”; and of whom the Apostle thus speaks to the Hebrews: “All these being approved by the testimony of Faith, received not the Promise; God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us”: Their Faith was tried and approved, and yet they received not the object of the Promises made to them. It is for us that God had reserved the stupendous gift, and, therefore, He did not permit them to attain the object of their desires.

Let us honour them for their Faith; let us honour them as our veritable Fathers, since it is in reward of their Faith, that Our Lord remembered and fulfilled His Merciful Promise; let us honour them, too, as the ancestors of The Messias in the flesh.

Lincoln Cathedral.

Illustration: PINTEREST

We may imagine each of them saying, as he lay on his dying bed, this Solemn Prayer to Him, Who, alone, could conquer death: “I will look for Thy Salvation, Oh, Lord !” It was the exclamation of Jacob, at his last hour, when he was pronouncing his prophetic blessings on his children: “And then,” says the Scripture, “he drew up his feet upon his bed, and died, and he was gathered unto his people.”

Thus, did all these holy men, on quitting this life, go to await, far from the abode of Eternal Light, Him, Who was to come in due time and re-open the Gate of Heaven. Let us contemplate them in this place of expectation, and give our grateful thanks to God, Who has brought us to His Admirable Light, without requiring us to pass through a Limbo of Darkness.

Chichester Cathedral.

Illustration: WEST SUSSEX

It is our duty to Pray ardently for the coming of the Deliverer, Who will break down, by His Cross, the Gates of the Prison, and will fill it with the Brightness of His Glory. During this Holy Season, The Church is continually borrowing the fervent expressions of these Fathers of the Christian People, making them her own Prayer for The Messias to come.

Greek Orthodox Chant.

“Agni Parthene”.

“Αγνή Παρθένε”.

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(See the reference to Greek Orthodox Hymn, below).

“Agni Parthene”, rendered “O, Virgin Pure”, is a Greek Marian Hymn composed by Saint Nectarios of Aegina in the Late-19th-Century, first published in Print in his “Theotokarion”.

In Orthodox Churches, it is considered “Para-Liturgical”, and, therefore, only to be used outside of Liturgical Services. Though it is often performed by some Choirs as a Recessional, after the conclusion of The Divine Liturgy during the Veneration of The Cross and receiving of Anti-Doron.

Performed by: Petros Gaitanos/ Πέτρος Γαϊτάνος.

Ely Cathedral.

Illustration: KATEY JANE PHOTOGRAPHY

Let us turn to those great Saints, and beg of them to Pray, that our work of preparation for Jesus’ coming to our hearts may be Blessed by God.

We will make use, for this end, of the beautiful Hymn (“Avorum hodie, fideles”) wherein the Greek Church celebrates the memory of all the Saints of the Old Testament, on the Sunday immediately preceding the Feast of Christmas.

Lichfield Cathedral.

Illustration: FRIENDS OF THE HOLY LAND

The Divine Holy Mass Of The First Sunday Of Advent. Church Of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

Text and Illustrations: 

SCHOOL OF SAINT CECILE

The Divine Holy Mass Of The First Sunday Of Advent.

Church Of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, Paris.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Saint-Eugène:

Saturday, 30 November 2024,

Vespers 1745 hrs (Paris Time),

1645 hrs (London Time);

 

Sunday, 1 December 2024, 

High Mass 1100 hrs (Paris Time),

1000 hrs (London Time);

Sunday, 1 December 2024,

Second Vespers and Benediction of 

The Most Holy Sacrament 1745 hrs (Paris Time),

1645 hrs (London Time).

The time of Advent – ​​from the Latin “Adventus”, 

which means “Coming” – is the Liturgical time 

in preparation for Christmas. 

This period was instituted in the West during the 

5th-Century A.D., probably in echo of the Councils of 

Ephesus and Chalcedon, which oriented Preachers 

towards the Mystery of the Incarnation. 

In Rome, the Stational Mass of this first day of the 

Liturgical Year is Celebrated in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, rebuilt in 432 A.D., after the Council of Ephesus, 

in honour of the Mother of God. 

Moreover, the Sermon of Saint Gregory the Great, 

which is read tonight at the Nocturnal Office, 

was pronounced in this Basilica.

Advent And Christmas. 2024.

Advent 2024 begins on

Sunday, 1 December.

York Minster.

Photo: 31 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diliff

Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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The York Minster Web-Site is HERE.

York Minster.

Illustration: THE PRESS

York Minster

Advent and Christmas 2018.

Available on You Tube at

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Advent And Christmas. 2024.

Advent 2024 begins on

Sunday, 1 December.

Gloucester Cathedral

Advent and Christmas Services.

Details available at

GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

“Advent”.

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The Gloucester Cathedral Web-Site

is HERE.

English: The Cloisters, Gloucester Cathedral, with Fan-Vaulted Roof, were used as a location in The Harry Potter films.

Deutsch: Der Kreuzgang der Kathedrale von Gloucester.

Esperanto: Klostro de Katedralo Gloucester.

Українська: Крита галерея Глостерського собору, Глостер, Англія.

Photo: 17 January 2018.

Source: Own work.

Author: Christopher JT Cherrington

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“In The Bleak Mid-Winter”.

Sung by: Gloucester Cathedral Choir.

Available on YouTube at

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Gloucester Cathedral.

The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and The Holy and Indivisible Trinity. Foundation work began in 1089.

Photo: 4 June 2011.

Source: Own work.

Attribution: 

Saffron Blaze, via http://www.mackenzie.co

Author: Saffron Blaze

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Gloucester Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

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Advent And Christmas. 2024.

Advent 2024 begins on

Sunday, 1 December.

Chester Cathedral.

The building of The Nave, begun in 1323, was 

halted by The Plague, and completed 150 years later.

Photo: 22 May 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Michael Beckwith

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“Advent”.

Available on YouTube at

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The Chester Cathedral Web-Site

is HERE.

Chester Cathedral Choir.

Available on YouTube at

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Chester Cathedral.

Available on YouTube at

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