“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”.
By: Crystal Gayle.
Available On YouTube
11 March, 2026
“Parce Mihi, Domine”. Composer: Cristóbal de Morales. Sublime.
“Parce Mihi, Domine”.
Composer: Cristóbal de Morales.
His Majesty’s Men perform “Parce Mihi, Domine” by the 16th-Century Spanish Composer, Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553).
Toward the end of his life, Morales was Maestro de Capilla
at Toledo Cathedral, Spain, with many of his works
contained in the Cathedral Library’s collection of
huge, bound, Choir-Books.
“St Peter”, by El Greco,
hangs in the Sacristy of the Cathedral.
His Majesty’s Men:
Richard Childress, Counter-Tenor;
Matthew Dean, Tenor;
Joe Labozetta, Baritone;
Jay Tuttle, Baritone;
Michael Hawes, Bass.
Audio recorded in Concert at
Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago, by Hudson Fair.
Video by oxy63n www.hismajestysmen.com
The Text, Job 7:16b-21, is from
The Office of The Dead
(Officium Defunctorum).
English translation from the Latin:
Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him,
and that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him ?
And that Thou shouldest visit him every morning,
and try him every moment ?
How long wilt Thou not depart from me,
nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle ?
I have sinned; what shall I do unto Thee,
O Thou preserver of men ?
Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee,
so that I am a burden to myself ?
And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression,
and take away my iniquity ?
For now shall I sleep in the dust;
and Thou shalt seek me in the morning,
but I shall not be.
Available on YouTube
A tribute to Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble by Gavino Murgia, Cantar Lontano and Marco Mencoboni.
“Parce Mihi, Domine”, composed by Cristòbal de Morales,
was recorded in Cagliari on 18 December 2015.
The Concert was performed in Sant’Anna Church.
Available on YouTube
Such Devotion !!!
Such Devotion !!!
Corpus Christi Procession 2022.
Saint Agnes Church, Minnesota.
Illustration: CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES
Wednesday Of The Third Week In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Sixtus. Violet Vestments.
Peterborough Cathedral.
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www.sweetbriardreams.blogspot.co.uk
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday of The Third Week in Lent.
Station at Saint Sixtus.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
English: Basilica of Saint Sixtus, Rome.
Italiano: San Sisto (Santi Nereo e Achilleo)
(Terme di Caracalla).
Photo: June 2006.
Source: nereo-achilleo2
Uploaded by Kurpfalzbilder.de
Author: Hengist Decius
(Wikimedia Commons)
After the Collect, and before the Lessons, they proceeded to the Rites of Exsufflation, of the Sign of The Cross, of the Imposition of Hands, and of that of the Salt, which are still to be found in the first part of the Ceremonies of Baptism.
The Station is at Saint Sixtus’s, on the Appian Way, a Parish Church of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. It was of this Holy Pontiff, and, according to several authors, in this very place, that Saint Laurence begged to be permitted to accompany him as his Minister in the sacrifice of himself which he was about to make. Saint Sixtus is buried in this Church.
God, on Sinai, had commanded men, the Epistle and Gospel tell us, to honour their parents and to love their neighbours. The Pharisees added to these Commandments human traditions, which consisted of formalities wholly external, to which they attached more importance than they did to the Law of Moses.
Basilica of Saint Sixtus, Rome.
Photo: November 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: LPLT
(Wikimedia Commons)
For, in order to obtain the approval of Heaven, our Penance must come from a heart overflowing with Love of God and our neighbour, for it is from the heart that the holiness and malice of man proceeds.
To bodily mortifications, let us take great care to add the practice of Virtues: Sincerity; Justice; Patience; Charity; or, as the Collect expresses it, let us impose upon ourselves Fasting of Soul and body.
Mass: Ego autem.
Preface: Of Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Insufflation and Exsufflation.
In Religious and magical practice, Insufflation and Exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing, that signify, variously, expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the Devil (the Evil One), or infilling or Blessing with good (especially, in Religious use, with the Spirit or Grace of God).
In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most prominently in the Liturgy, and is connected almost exclusively with Baptism and other Ceremonies of Christian Initiation, achieving its greatest popularity during periods in which such Ceremonies were given a prophylactic or Exorcistic significance, and were viewed as essential to the defeat of the Devil or to the removal of the taint of Original Sin.
Ritual blowing occurs in the Liturgies of Catechumenate and Baptism from a very Early Period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic Rites.
Catholic Liturgy, post-Vatican II (the so-called Novus Ordo 1969), has largely done away with Insufflation, except in a Special Rite for the Consecration of Chrism on Maundy Thursday.
To bodily mortifications, let us take great care to add the practice of Virtues: Sincerity; Justice; Patience; Charity; or, as the Collect expresses it, let us impose upon ourselves Fasting of Soul and body.
Mass: Ego autem.
Preface: Of Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Insufflation and Exsufflation.
In Religious and magical practice, Insufflation and Exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing, that signify, variously, expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the Devil (the Evil One), or infilling or Blessing with good (especially, in Religious use, with the Spirit or Grace of God).
Pope Leo III (795 A.D. - 816 A.D.)
rebuilt the old “Titulus” in 814 A.D.
Mosaics in the Hall (Triclinium) of Pope Leo III
of the Lateran Palace (798 A.D. - 799 A.D.).
(Wikimedia Commons)
In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most prominently in the Liturgy, and is connected almost exclusively with Baptism and other Ceremonies of Christian Initiation, achieving its greatest popularity during periods in which such Ceremonies were given a prophylactic or Exorcistic significance, and were viewed as essential to the defeat of the Devil or to the removal of the taint of Original Sin.
Ritual blowing occurs in the Liturgies of Catechumenate and Baptism from a very Early Period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic Rites.
Catholic Liturgy, post-Vatican II (the so-called Novus Ordo 1969), has largely done away with Insufflation, except in a Special Rite for the Consecration of Chrism on Maundy Thursday.
Protestant liturgies typically abandoned it very early on. Muslims include the practice to a certain degree, following the Biblical Rites to a lesser extent.
The Tridentine Catholic Liturgy retained both an Insufflation of the Baptismal Water and (like the present-day Orthodox and Maronite Rites) an Exsufflation of the Candidate for Baptism, right up to the 1960s.
THE INSUFFLATION. The Priest breathes thrice upon the waters in the form of a Cross, saying: “Do you with your mouth Bless these pure waters: That besides their natural virtue of cleansing the body, they may also be effectual for purifying the Soul”.
THE EXSUFFLATION. The Priest breathes three times on the Child in the form of a Cross, saying: “Go out of him . . . you unclean spirit and give place to The Holy Spirit, the Paraclete”.
Santi Nereo e Achilleo is a 4th-Century A.D. Basilica Church in Rome, located in Via delle Termi di Caracalla, in the rione Celio, facing the main entrance to the Baths of Caracalla. The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus Ss. Nerei et Achillei is Cardinal Celestino Aós Braco [Editor: As of 2020].
A 337 A.D., epitaph inscription in the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura celebrates the Late Cinnamius Opas, Lector of a Church known as Titulus Fasciolæ; the name has traditionally been explained as the place where Saint Peter lost the foot bandage (fasciola) that wrapped the wounds caused by his chains, on his way to escape the Mamertine Prison.
In the Acts of the Synod of Pope Symmachus, 499 A.D., the Titulus Fasciolæ is recorded as Served by five Priests. This same building is recorded as Titulus Sanctorum Nerei et Achillei in 595 A.D; therefore, the dedications to Saints Nereus and Achilleus, two Soldiers and Martyrs of the 4th-Century A.D., must date to the 6th-Century A.D.
In 814 A.D., Pope Leo III rebuilt the old Titulus. In the 13th-Century, the Relics of the two Martyrs (Santi Nereo e Achilleo) were Transferred from the Catacomb of Domitilla to the Sant’Adriano, whence they were Transferred to this Church by Cardinal Baronius.
The Church degraded with time, and, in 1320, according to the Catalogue of Turin, it was a Presbyterial Title with no Priest serving. So, Pope Sixtus IV restored the Church on occasion of the Jubilee of 1475, while the Jubilee of 1600 was the occasion for the last major Restoration, funded by the scholarly antiquarian, Cardinal Cesare Baronio, who commissioned the frescoes.
Behind its unassuming facade, the Church is built according to the typical Basilica Plan, with a single Nave and two Side Aisles.
THE INSUFFLATION. The Priest breathes thrice upon the waters in the form of a Cross, saying: “Do you with your mouth Bless these pure waters: That besides their natural virtue of cleansing the body, they may also be effectual for purifying the Soul”.
THE EXSUFFLATION. The Priest breathes three times on the Child in the form of a Cross, saying: “Go out of him . . . you unclean spirit and give place to The Holy Spirit, the Paraclete”.
Pope Sixtus IV (1414-1484).
Artist: Justus van Gent and Pedro Berruguete
Date: Circa 1473.
Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris.
Source/Photographer: cartelen.louvre.fr
[Pope Sixtus IV restored the Basilica in 1475].
(Wikimedia Commons)
A 337 A.D., epitaph inscription in the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura celebrates the Late Cinnamius Opas, Lector of a Church known as Titulus Fasciolæ; the name has traditionally been explained as the place where Saint Peter lost the foot bandage (fasciola) that wrapped the wounds caused by his chains, on his way to escape the Mamertine Prison.
In the Acts of the Synod of Pope Symmachus, 499 A.D., the Titulus Fasciolæ is recorded as Served by five Priests. This same building is recorded as Titulus Sanctorum Nerei et Achillei in 595 A.D; therefore, the dedications to Saints Nereus and Achilleus, two Soldiers and Martyrs of the 4th-Century A.D., must date to the 6th-Century A.D.
Basilica of Saint Sixtus (San Sisto)
(Santi Nereo e Achilleo), Rome.
Photo: June 2006.
Source: DSCN0317
Uploaded by Kurpfalzbilder.de
Author: Hengist Decius
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Church degraded with time, and, in 1320, according to the Catalogue of Turin, it was a Presbyterial Title with no Priest serving. So, Pope Sixtus IV restored the Church on occasion of the Jubilee of 1475, while the Jubilee of 1600 was the occasion for the last major Restoration, funded by the scholarly antiquarian, Cardinal Cesare Baronio, who commissioned the frescoes.
Saint Domitilla, with Saints Nereus and Achilleus.
Artist: Cristoforo Roncalli
Date: 1598 -1599.
Current location:
Chiesa dei Santi Nereo e Achilleo, Rome.
Source/Photographer:
(Wikimedia Commons)
The original Columns were replaced in the 15th-Century by Octagonal Pillars, and the Nave is characterised by the large fresco decorations commissioned by Cardinal Baronio.
The Cardinal, in his iconographic scheme timed for the 1600 Jubilee, emphasised the role of the Roman Martyrs during the early Centuries of Christianity. The execution of the frescoes was entrusted to a minor painter, generally thought to be Niccolò Circignani, called “Pomarancio”. There are a lot of gruesome details and blood all over the walls, but the pastel colours soften somewhat a fearsome effect of the pictures.
The Mediæval Ambo is set on a large porphyry Urn taken from the nearby Baths of Caracalla. The low Screen, separating the Choir, is faced with 13th-Century Cosmatesque-Style inlays. A White Marble Candelabra was brought here from San Paolo fuori-le-Mura. The Ciborium, dating from the 16th-Century, is raised on African Marble Columns.
The Spandrels of the Arch, at the end of the Nave, retain some of the former mosaics of the time of Pope Leo III, with a central Transfiguration in a Mandorla.
In the Apse, behind the High Altar, is the Episcopal Throne, assembled under the direction of the Antiquary, Cardinal Baronius, re-using Lions in the Cosmatesque Style, that is associated with the Vassalletto School, which support the arm-rests; on the back-rest, is inscribed the opening and closing words of the twenty-eighth Homily of Saint Gregory The Great, inscribed under the mistaken Tradition that he preached them here, in front of the Relics of Saints Nereus and Achilleus on their Feast Day.
When Cardinal Baronio ordered the inscription, he did not know that the Relics were originally buried in the underground Basilica of the Catacomb of Domitilla, so thought that this was the place where Saint Gregory Preached.
The Arch of the Apse has mosaics of the 9th-Century A.D., with the Annunciation, the Transfiguration, and the Theotokos (Mother of God).
The Cardinal, in his iconographic scheme timed for the 1600 Jubilee, emphasised the role of the Roman Martyrs during the early Centuries of Christianity. The execution of the frescoes was entrusted to a minor painter, generally thought to be Niccolò Circignani, called “Pomarancio”. There are a lot of gruesome details and blood all over the walls, but the pastel colours soften somewhat a fearsome effect of the pictures.
The Ciborium and High Altar,
Basilica of Saint Sixtus (San Sisto)
(Santi Nereo e Achilleo), Rome.
Photo: June 2006.
Source: DSCN0316
Uploaded by Kurpfalzbilder.de
Artist: Hengist Decius
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Spandrels of the Arch, at the end of the Nave, retain some of the former mosaics of the time of Pope Leo III, with a central Transfiguration in a Mandorla.
The High Altar, made of three Cosmatesque panels, houses the Relics of Nereus, Achilleus, and Saint Flavia Domitilla, all three of whom were brought here from the Catacomb of Domitilla.
Next to the Altar, there are two pagan stones, depicting two winged spirits, taken from a nearby temple.
When Cardinal Baronio ordered the inscription, he did not know that the Relics were originally buried in the underground Basilica of the Catacomb of Domitilla, so thought that this was the place where Saint Gregory Preached.
The Arch of the Apse has mosaics of the 9th-Century A.D., with the Annunciation, the Transfiguration, and the Theotokos (Mother of God).
Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
Baguio, Philippines.
Photo: 29 March 2024.
Source: Own work.
This file is made available under the
Author: Galaxiaria
(Wikimedia Commons)
Wells Cathedral.
Photo: August 2006.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the
Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
Author: Steinsky
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest To Take Over The Holy Angels Church, Torquay, Devon. Traditional Latin Masses And Traditional Devotions And The Divine Office To Be Offered.
This Article, dated 2021, is from,
and can be read in full at,
It is with great delight and thankfulness that Zephyrinus has had the privilege and pleasure to be able to donate two sets of Vestments (Red Set and Rose Set) to this Parish Priest.
Readers may wish to consider making a small donation, themselves, to enable this new Church in Devon to flourish.
The Bishop of Plymouth, Mark O’Toole, has announced that The Institute of Christ The King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) is to take over a Church in Torquay, Devon.
Unlike the large Churches of the ICKSP in Preston and New Brighton, in the Dioceses of Lancaster and Shrewsbury, the Holy Angels Church was built to a modest budget and is not a great piece of Architecture.
The Bishop of Plymouth, Mark O’Toole, has announced that The Institute of Christ The King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) is to take over a Church in Torquay, Devon.
It is the Church of The Holy Angels, a relatively modest-sized Church, that was built in the 1930s and located in a residential area of Chelston. The existing Parish Priest will be retiring shortly and the Parish will be merged with the much larger Church of the Assumption, which is located in another part of Torquay.
Although there will continue to be some provision for Novus Ordo Masses at the Holy Angels Church, The Institute of Christ The King Sovereign Priest will offer daily Traditional Latin Masses, as well as the Divine Office and other Traditional Devotions.
Neither is it a conspicuous building, being in a side street in a residential area. Nevertheless, the Interior is quite attractive, with a Romanesque Sanctuary Arch flanked by two smaller Arches. These are supported on Round Classical Columns.
The Web-Site of The Holy Angels Church can be found HERE
Silverstream Priory, County Meath, Ireland, Now Has The Following In Stock: The Saint Andrew Daily Missal; The Liturgical Year (Author: Dom Guéranger); The Divine Office.
Silverstream Priory, County Meath, Ireland,
Now Has The Following In Stock:
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal;
The Liturgical Year
(Author: Dom Guéranger);
The Divine Office.
All Available From
The Priory Shop At
10 March, 2026
“Talking In Your Sleep”. By: Crystal Gayle.
“Talking In Your Sleep”.
By: Crystal Gayle.
Available on YouTube
“Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart”. And “Only Love Can Break A Heart”. Sung By: Gene Pitney.
“Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart”.
Sung By: Gene Pitney.
Available on YouTube
Gene Pitney (17 February 1940 – 5 April 2006)
was an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Pitney charted sixteen Top 40 Hits in the
United States and four Hits in the Top 10.
In the United Kingdom, he had twenty-two
Top 40 Hits, and eleven Singles in the Top Ten.
He also wrote the Early-1960s’ Hits:
“Rubber Ball”, by Bobby Vee;
“Hello Mary Lou”, by Ricky Nelson;
“He’s a Rebel”, by The Crystals.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“Only Love Can Break A Heart”.
Sung By: Gene Pitney.
Available on YouTube
Tuesday Of The Third Week In Lent. The Lenten Stations Are At The Basilica Of Saint Pudentiana And The Basilica Of Saint Agatha.
Peterborough Cathedral.
© Chel@SweetbriarDreams
www.sweetbriardreams.blogspot.co.uk
Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Tuesday of The Third Week in Lent.
Stations at Saint Pudentiana’s and Saint Agatha’s.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
Basilica of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: May 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Welleschik
(Wikimedia Commons)
By Apostolic Letters, dated 5 March 1934, and published on
15 October 1935, the Churches of Santa Agatha and Santa Maria Nova (also called Santa Francisca Romana) were raised to the Title of Stational Churches.
The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana on The Third Tuesday in Lent and San Apollinare on Passion Thursday. These two Churches are not on the published Map of Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Stational Indulgences.
Indulgences are mentioned in The Missal at some Stational Days. These Indulgences may be gained in Rome by taking part in The Stational Procession and Mass or by visiting The Stational Church on that day.
All Regulars [Editor: Regular Clergy, as opposed to Secular Clergy] may gain the same by attending Conventual Mass and Praying for the Pope's intentions in their own Convent Church (Pope Paul V, 23 May 1606).
This Privilege may have been extended to some Confraternities affiliated to these Orders.
The Station is at the very ancient Sanctuary of Saint Pudentiana, erected on the site of the house of her father, the Senator Pudens, mentioned by Saint Paul in his Epistles. Saint Pudentiana lived here with her sister, Saint Praxedes. Here, Saint Peter received hospitality and the first Christians often assembled.
In the 2nd-Century A.D., this house seems to have been the Residence of The Roman Pontiffs. For such reasons, it became one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. It was quite fitting to read there the Gospel in which Saint Peter asks Our Lord about the use of the Power of The Keys.
The clemency of the Jews was content to forgive three times. Jesus, in the Gospel, says we are to forgive "seventy times seven times", that is to say, always. Mercy, with the sacrifices which accompany it, forms part of The Lenten Penance.
Wherefore, the Epistle shows us, in the miraculous increase of a small quantity of oil at the word of Eliseus (by the sale of which a poor widow was enabled to pay a pitiless creditor), a figure of The Mercy of The Saviour, whose infinite merits supply the ransom for our sins.
The following paragraph is from THE FAR SIGHT
The first Archbishop of Westminster, and also the first Cardinal resident in England since The Reformation, was Blessed Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman.
In order to participate in the effects of this Charity of Christ, we should, in our turn, exercise the same Virtue. Then will The Church, in The Name of Jesus, make use in our favour of the Power of Remission which she holds from her Head.
Let us atone for our sins and forgive our neighbour his sins against us. And then let us implore The God of Mercy to grant us, by His Almighty Power, the pardon for our sins (Postcommunion).
Mass: Ego clamávi.
Preface: Of Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Church of Santa Pudenziana (Pudentiana) is recognised as the oldest place of Christian worship in Rome. It was built over a 2nd-Century A.D. house (probably during the Pontificate of Pope Pius I (140 A.D. – 155 A.D.)) and re-uses part of a Baths facility, still visible in the structure of the Apse.
This Church was the Residence of the Popes until 313 A.D., when Emperor Constantine offered them the Lateran Palace.
In the 4th-Century A.D., during the Pontificate of Pope Siricius, the building was transformed into a Three-Naved Church. In the Acts of the Synod of 499 A.D., the Church bears the Titulus “Pudentis”, indicating that the administration of the Sacraments was allowed.
The Saint Peter Chapel, on the Left-Side of the Apse, contains a part of the table at which Saint Peter would have held the Celebration of the Eucharist in the house of Saint Pudens. The rest of the table is embedded in the Papal Altar of Saint John Lateran.
In the same Chapel, there are two bronze slabs in the wall, explaining that here Saint Peter was given hospitality and that he offered, for the first time in Rome, Bread and Wine as a Consecration of the Eucharist. The Pavement is ancient. A door opens into a Cortile (Courtyard) with a small Chapel that contains frescoes from the 11th-Century.
Cætani Chapel: This Chapel for the Cætani family (family of Pope Boniface VIII) was designed by Capriano da Volterra, in 1588, and, after his death in 1601, was completed by Carlo Maderno. The mosaics on the floor are notable. The Columns are of Lumachella Marble.
The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana on The Third Tuesday in Lent and San Apollinare on Passion Thursday. These two Churches are not on the published Map of Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
English: Basilica of Saint Agatha, Rome.
Deutsch: Innenraum von Sant' Agata dei Goti.
Photo: September 2006.
Source: Photo taken by Th1979
Author: Th1979
(Wikimedia Commons)
Stational Indulgences.
Indulgences are mentioned in The Missal at some Stational Days. These Indulgences may be gained in Rome by taking part in The Stational Procession and Mass or by visiting The Stational Church on that day.
All Regulars [Editor: Regular Clergy, as opposed to Secular Clergy] may gain the same by attending Conventual Mass and Praying for the Pope's intentions in their own Convent Church (Pope Paul V, 23 May 1606).
This Privilege may have been extended to some Confraternities affiliated to these Orders.
The same Interior of Sant’Agata dei Goti (Saint Agatha
of The Goths), Rome, as the previous photo, above.
But the photo, here, was taken circa 1899.
Taken from the Web-site of University College, Cork, Ireland, at UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK, IRELAND.
The Station is at the very ancient Sanctuary of Saint Pudentiana, erected on the site of the house of her father, the Senator Pudens, mentioned by Saint Paul in his Epistles. Saint Pudentiana lived here with her sister, Saint Praxedes. Here, Saint Peter received hospitality and the first Christians often assembled.
In the 2nd-Century A.D., this house seems to have been the Residence of The Roman Pontiffs. For such reasons, it became one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. It was quite fitting to read there the Gospel in which Saint Peter asks Our Lord about the use of the Power of The Keys.
Basilica of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: August 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Luc
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: Basilica of Saint Agatha, Rome.
Deutsch: Roma, Sant'Agata dei Goti (rione Monti).
Photo: 25 May 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pippo-b
(Wikimedia Commons)
The clemency of the Jews was content to forgive three times. Jesus, in the Gospel, says we are to forgive "seventy times seven times", that is to say, always. Mercy, with the sacrifices which accompany it, forms part of The Lenten Penance.
Wherefore, the Epistle shows us, in the miraculous increase of a small quantity of oil at the word of Eliseus (by the sale of which a poor widow was enabled to pay a pitiless creditor), a figure of The Mercy of The Saviour, whose infinite merits supply the ransom for our sins.
Blessed Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.
One-time Cardinal Priest of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Artist: Eduardo Cano de la Peña (1823–1897).
Date: 1865.
Current location: University of Seville, Spain.
Source/Photographer: [2]
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following paragraph is from THE FAR SIGHT
The first Archbishop of Westminster, and also the first Cardinal resident in England since The Reformation, was Blessed Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman.
In order to participate in the effects of this Charity of Christ, we should, in our turn, exercise the same Virtue. Then will The Church, in The Name of Jesus, make use in our favour of the Power of Remission which she holds from her Head.
Let us atone for our sins and forgive our neighbour his sins against us. And then let us implore The God of Mercy to grant us, by His Almighty Power, the pardon for our sins (Postcommunion).
Mass: Ego clamávi.
Preface: Of Lent.
“Saint Pudentiana being received into Heaven”.
Artist: Bernardino Nocchi.
The High Altar of Santa Pudentiana.
Photo: April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Church of Santa Pudenziana (Pudentiana) is recognised as the oldest place of Christian worship in Rome. It was built over a 2nd-Century A.D. house (probably during the Pontificate of Pope Pius I (140 A.D. – 155 A.D.)) and re-uses part of a Baths facility, still visible in the structure of the Apse.
This Church was the Residence of the Popes until 313 A.D., when Emperor Constantine offered them the Lateran Palace.
In the 4th-Century A.D., during the Pontificate of Pope Siricius, the building was transformed into a Three-Naved Church. In the Acts of the Synod of 499 A.D., the Church bears the Titulus “Pudentis”, indicating that the administration of the Sacraments was allowed.
“Christ delivering the Keys Of Heaven to Saint Peter”.
Architect Giacomo della Porta.
Date: 1594.
Saint Peter Chapel,
Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Photo: April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Saint Peter Chapel, on the Left-Side of the Apse, contains a part of the table at which Saint Peter would have held the Celebration of the Eucharist in the house of Saint Pudens. The rest of the table is embedded in the Papal Altar of Saint John Lateran.
In the same Chapel, there are two bronze slabs in the wall, explaining that here Saint Peter was given hospitality and that he offered, for the first time in Rome, Bread and Wine as a Consecration of the Eucharist. The Pavement is ancient. A door opens into a Cortile (Courtyard) with a small Chapel that contains frescoes from the 11th-Century.
Main entrance to Saint Pudentiana’s, Rome.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: Panairjdde
(Wikimedia Commons)
Cætani Chapel: This Chapel for the Cætani family (family of Pope Boniface VIII) was designed by Capriano da Volterra, in 1588, and, after his death in 1601, was completed by Carlo Maderno. The mosaics on the floor are notable. The Columns are of Lumachella Marble.
The Relief (1599), above the Altar, is by Pier Paolo Olivieri and depicts The Adoration of The Magi. Giovanni Paolo Rossetti painted Saint Praxedes and Saint Pudentiana collecting The Blood of The Martyrs, in 1621. He also painted the fresco of The Evangelist, in the Ceiling, to a design by Federico Zuccari.
The statue of Saint Pudentiana, in a Niche, is by Claude Adam, dating from 1650. The Sisters’ Well stands just outside the Caetani Chapel, in the Left-Aisle, and is said to contain the Relics of 3,000 early Martyrs, many of which were brought here and hidden by Saints Pudentiana and Praxedes. This is marked by a square porphyry slab in the floor.
The Cardinal Priest, of the Titulus S. Pudentianæ, was Joachim Meisner. From the death on 5 July 2017 of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the Titulus S. Pudentianæ was vacant until 28 June 2018, when Pope Francis assigned the Title to Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Mæda.
One of the former Cardinal-Priests of this Basilica was Cardinal Luciano Bonaparte, great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon I.
The following three paragraphs are from THE CATHOLIC TRAVELER
The Station Churches of Rome.
Pilgrims who travel to Rome, during Lent, can participate in a beautiful custom that dates back to the 4th-Century A.D. It’s a custom that began as a way to strengthen the sense of community in the City, while honouring The Holy Martyrs of Rome.
The Faithful would journey through the streets to visit various Churches. As they walked, they would Pray The Litany of The Saints. The Bishop of Rome, that is The Holy Father (The Pope), would join them, lead them in Prayer and Celebrate Mass at the Church.
Though this practice was around for years, Pope Saint Gregory the Great established the order of the Churches to be visited, the Prayers to be recited, and designated this as a Lenten Practice. The Tradition continued until 1309, when the Papacy moved to Avignon, France. Pope Leo XIII revived the Tradition and it was fully restored by Pope Saint John XXIII in 1959.
Saints Praxedes and Pudentiana
collecting the Blood of the Martyrs.
Date: 1621.
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Rossetti.
Current location: The Caetani Chapel,
Church of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
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The Cardinal Priest, of the Titulus S. Pudentianæ, was Joachim Meisner. From the death on 5 July 2017 of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the Titulus S. Pudentianæ was vacant until 28 June 2018, when Pope Francis assigned the Title to Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Mæda.
One of the former Cardinal-Priests of this Basilica was Cardinal Luciano Bonaparte, great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon I.
The following three paragraphs are from THE CATHOLIC TRAVELER
The Station Churches of Rome.
Pilgrims who travel to Rome, during Lent, can participate in a beautiful custom that dates back to the 4th-Century A.D. It’s a custom that began as a way to strengthen the sense of community in the City, while honouring The Holy Martyrs of Rome.
The Faithful would journey through the streets to visit various Churches. As they walked, they would Pray The Litany of The Saints. The Bishop of Rome, that is The Holy Father (The Pope), would join them, lead them in Prayer and Celebrate Mass at the Church.
Though this practice was around for years, Pope Saint Gregory the Great established the order of the Churches to be visited, the Prayers to be recited, and designated this as a Lenten Practice. The Tradition continued until 1309, when the Papacy moved to Avignon, France. Pope Leo XIII revived the Tradition and it was fully restored by Pope Saint John XXIII in 1959.
Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
Baguio, Philippines.
Photo: 29 March 2024.
Source: Own work.
This file is made available under the
Author: Galaxiaria
(Wikimedia Commons)
Wells Cathedral.
Photo: August 2006.
Source: Own work.
This file is licensed under the
Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
Author: Steinsky
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