The Ascension Of Our Lord. White Vestments.

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

The Ascension of Our Lord.
   Station at Saint Peter’s.
   Plenary Stational Indulgence.

Double of The First-Class.
   Privileged Octave of The Third Order.

White Vestments.

[Editor: The Paschal Candle is extinguished after The Gospel. It is not lit again except on The Vigil of Pentecost for The Blessing of The Font.]

“While they looked on, He was raised up”.

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It is in the Basilica of Saint Peter’s, Rome, dedicated to one of the chief witnesses of Our Lord’s Ascension, that this Mystery, which marks the end of Our Lord’s Earthly Life, is “this day” (Collect) kept.

In the forty days, which followed His Resurrection, Our Redeemer laid the foundations of His Church, to which He was going to send The Holy Ghost.

The Introit at The Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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All The Master’s teachings are summed up in the Epistle and Gospel for today. Then, He left this Earth and the Introit, Collect, Epistle, Alleluia, Gospel, Offertory, Secret, Preface and Communion, celebrate His Glorious Ascension into Heaven, where the Souls He had freed from Limbo escort Him (Alleluia), and enter in His train into The Heavenly Kingdom, where they share more fully in His Divinity.

The Ascension sets before us the duty of raising our hearts to God. So, in the Collect, we are led to ask that we may dwell with Christ in Spirit in The Heavenly Realms, where we are called one day to dwell in our Risen Bodies.

During the Octave, the Credo is said: “I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God . . . Who ascended into Heaven . . . He sitteth at the Right-Hand of The Father”. The Gloria speaks in the same sense: “O, Lord Jesus Christ, The Only-Begotten Son . . . Who sittest at the Right-Hand of The Father, have mercy upon us.”

The Gloria at the Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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In the Proper Preface, which is said until Pentecost, we give thanks to God because His Son, The Risen Christ, “after His Resurrection, appeared and showed Himself to all His Disciples; and, while they beheld Him, was lifted up into Heaven”.

In the same way, during the whole Octave, a Proper Communicantes of the Feast is said, in which The Church reminds us that she is keeping the day on which The Only-Begotten Son of God set at the Right-Hand of His Glory the substance of our frail human nature, to which He had united Himself in the Mystery of The Incarnation.

The Collect and Epistle at the Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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We are reminded daily in the Liturgy, at the Offertory “Suscipe Sancta Trinitas”, and in the Canon “Unde et memores”, that, at Our Lord’s command, the Holy Sacrifice is being offered in memory of “The Blessed Passion of the same Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord,” and also His Resurrection from Hell and His Glorious Ascension into Heaven.

The truth is that man is saved only by the Mysteries of the Passion and Resurrection united with that of the Ascension. “Through Thy Death and Burial, through Thy Holy Resurrection, through Thy Admirable Ascension, deliver us, O Lord” (Litany of The Saints).

The Credo at the Ascension Day Latin Mass.

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Let us offer the Divine Sacrifice to God in memory of the Glorious Ascension of His Son (“Suscipe, Unde et memores”); while we nourish within our Souls an ardent desire for Heaven, that “delivered from present dangers,” we may “attain to Eternal Life” (Secret).

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

Mass: Viri Galilaéi.

Creed: Is said.
Preface: For the Ascension.
Communicantes: For the Ascension.

On Weekdays throughout the Octave of the Ascension, The Mass for Ascension Day is said together with the Additional Collects from the Monday after Low Sunday to the Friday after the Octave of the Ascension (Page 1715, The Saint Andrew Daily Missal).

The Novena, preparatory to Pentecost, prescribed by Pope Leo XIII, for the return of heretics and schismatics to The Roman Unity, begins on The Friday After Ascension.

“When England Returns To Walsingham, Our Lady Will Return To England.” — Pope Leo XIII.

Pope Leo XIII.

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Pope Leo XIII (Italian: Leone XIII; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci;[a] 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. 

He had the fourth-longest reign of any Pope, behind those of Saint Peter, Blessed Pius IX (his predecessor), and Saint John Paul II.

Rev. Fr. Timothy Finigan Gives A Short Talk On Fatima, And The Rosary, And Saint Joseph. Plus, The Complete Gregorian Chant Rosary.

Fr. Timothy Finigan

gives a short talk, dated 13 May 2020, on

Fatima, The Rosary, and Saint Joseph.

Available on YouTube

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Complete Gregorian Chant Rosary.

Available on YouTube

HERE

“Songs My Mother Taught Me”. Composer: Antonin Dvořák.

“Songs My Mother Taught Me”.

Composer: Antonin Dvořák.

Available On YouTube

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Fontgombault Sermon For The Ascension Of The Lord, 2024: “Each Man Is Called To Kindle His Own Lamp.”

Fontgombault Abbey, France.

Illustration: FONTGOMBAULT ABBEY

Text from RORATE CÆLI

Sermon of the Right Reverend Dom Jean Pateau.

Father Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault Abbey.

9 May 2024.

“Et eritis mihi testes”.

You shall be witnesses unto Me.

(Acts 1:8)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

My dearly beloved Sons,

After encountering Christ risen and victorious over death during the first apparitions to the disciples, The Church invited us a few weeks ago to ponder on the figure of The Good Shepherd. (Cf. Jn 10.) The Good Shepherd is He who leads His sheep so that “they may have life, and have it abundantly.” (Jn 10:10.) He is for them the door: If any one enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and find pasture. (v. 9.)

Unlike the hireling, The Good Shepherd gives his life for His sheep. He knows His own sheep and His own sheep know Him. As the parable of the lost sheep attests, He doesn’t hesitate to leave the fold to go after the one which is lost (Lk 15:3-7). The vocation of The Good Shepherd is expressed by the words he utters: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” (Jn 14:6.)

On this Ascension morning, as we have just snuffed out the Paschal candle that symbolised the victory of light over darkness, and the presence of the glorious Christ among His own, shouldn’t sorrow fill men’s hearts, our own hearts ? These forty days during which Christ had presented Himself alive after His passion, giving many proofs of His resurrection, and speaking of the kingdom of God, had been such a joy for the disciples !

How then can we understand that, according to Saint Luke, these same disciples after The Lord had Blessed them while He was carried up into Heaven, “returned to Jerusalem with great joy, continually in the temple Blessing God” (Lk 24:52-53) ? What a contrast with Good Friday evening, when Christ, up on a Cross, had seemed to forsake His disciples, who, for that matter, had already been scattered, or rather had Himself first been forsaken by them. Joy was missing.

Assuredly, today’s joy does not stem from the liberation of the Master’s oppressive presence. No indeed, for the disciples fully know that His presence is a loving presence. Besides, they remember His first words on Easter morning, “Pax vobis, Peace be unto you.” (Lk 20:19) Maybe we should consider that this so unexpected joy stems from the mission the disciples have just received:

Go into all the World and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned. (Mk 16:15-16.)

Maybe also from the gift of charisms, and the prospect of conversions due to the convincing power of miracles:

And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover. (v. 17-18)

However, we should not forget that these verses have been preceded by a particularly severe reproach:

He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw Him after He had risen. (v. 14)

It was precisely Faith that was lacking on Good Friday evening. Basically, the disciples’ joy is probably due mostly to a renewal of their Faith. Wouldn’t that be for us an indication, an invitation ? We, too, are called to the joy of Faith. The apostles are waiting for a promise to be accomplished, the Father’s promise, they are waiting for The Spirit Paraclete to be sent:

But when the Counsellor comes, Whom I shall send to you from The Father, even The Spirit of Truth, Who proceeds from The Father, He will bear witness to Me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with Me from the beginning. (Jn 15:26-27)

The snuffed-out Paschal candle is therefore not so much a witness to the disappearance of a visible Christ, as the announcement of a new light, shed into the hearts of those who accept to receive it and become its witnesses before the World. In His death and resurrection, Christ begets billions of human beings in whom He now dwells, billions of small lights, more or less flickering, more or less luminous to enlighten the World.

To these small lights, each man is called to kindle his own lamp, or to rekindle it if perchance it has been snuffed out. The Lord had foretold it:

And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed My voice. So there shall be one flock, one Shepherd. (Jn 10:16)

On this Ascension day, as we listen to the call to mission the Good Shepherd addresses to the disciples, we remember our duty to Pray for Priestly and Religious vocations. Assuredly, each man, each woman, is called to be a witness of Christ; but the most beautiful of all testimonies should be that of the men and women who have forsaken everything so as to consecrate themselves to Christ by becoming either a Priest, or a Religious, or a Nun.

The testimony of faithfulness to a radical and irrevocable gift of their own life, either in an apostolic life or in the silence of the cloister, is self-sufficient. The holy Pope Paul VI affirmed: Contemporary man listens more willingly to witnesses than to masters, or rather, if he listens to masters, that is because they are themselves witnesses. (Audience, October 2, 1974)

Holiness is also a way to lead men and women to an encounter with Christ’s true face. “Go into all the world . . . Be My witnesses.” These words have given rise to so many holy figures, so many messengers of the risen Christ: Saint Anthony, fleeing to the desert; Saint Francis, the poor of Assisi; Saint Francis de Sales, so meek. Among these figures, how could we fail to mention Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the Mother of Priests and Religious, the Mother of all the friends of Jesus, and of all men, whom she wants to lead to her Son ?

With her and a few other women, the apostles are going to gather in Prayer in the Upper Room, waiting for the gift of The Spirit. We too, let us prepare to receive this gift by pondering on the Sequence or the Hymn of Pentecost. He, Whom we received in abundance on the day of our confirmation, wishes to keep working in us. He is Fons vivus, Ignis, Caritas: “Live Fount, Fire, Love.” From Him we receive life, and we receive life in abundance. May we remain witnesses to this life.

Veni, Sancte Spiritus !

Amen, Alleluia.

The Feast Day Of Our Lady Of Fatima. 13 May.

Our Lady of Fatima.

“Putting up with any sacrifices, that are asked of us in our day-to-day lives, becomes a slow Martyrdom, which purifies us and raises us up to the level of the Supernatural, through the encounter of our Soul with God, in the atmosphere of the presence of The Most Holy Trinity within us.

We have here an incomparable Spiritual Richness !!!”

Words of The Servant of God, Sister Lucia. 1997.

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OFFERIMUS TIBI DOMINE

Wednesday, 13 May 2020, is

The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.

Her words, quoted above, might be particularly appropriate for these days, if we are finding things difficult, to be away from loved ones, to be struggling at home, to be in financial difficulties and, of course, to be unable to attend

The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass.

Whatever befalls us in life can be offered to Almighty God 

for His Grace, to transform it by bringing forth good

out of adversity, or by raising up

the merely human to the Supernatural.

The Daily Offering.

O, Jesus, through The Immaculate Heart of Mary, 

I offer you all the Prayers, Works, Sufferings and Joys

of this day, in union with The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass

offered throughout the World.

I offer them for all the intentions of

Your Most Sacred Heart:

For the Salvation of Souls;

Reparation for sin;

And the Reunion of all Christians.

Amen.

Saint Robert Bellarmine. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 13 May. White Vestments.

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

Saint Robert Bellarmine.
   Bishop,
   Confessor,
   Doctor of The Church.
   Feast Day 13 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Robert Bellarmine.

Jesuit, and Doctor of The Church

(4 October 1542 - 17 September 1621).

Beatified 13 May 1923.

Canonised 29 June 1930

by Pope Pius XI.

Date: 16th-Century.

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Author: Anonymous.

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Born at Montepulciano, Italy, died in Rome. Proclaimed Doctor of The Church on 15 August 1931.

Successively, Professor of Theology and Preacher at Louvain (1569 - 1576), Director of the Course of Controversy in Rome, where Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was his Penitent, Provincial of The Jesuits at Naples, sent by Pope Sixtus V on a Diplomatic Mission to France, Bellarmine was raised to the Cardinalate in spite of his unwillingness in 1599.

Pope Clement VIII alleged as motive for this promotion that his (Editor: Bellarmine's) equal in learning was not at that time to be found in The Church.

Saint Robert Bellarmine Church

Burbank, California, United States of America.

Photo: April 2008.

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Apart from three years he spent in Capua as Archbishop, he passed his life in Rome, where he rendered signal services to Pope Clement VIII, Pope Paul V, and Pope Gregory XV.

By his controversial books, he dealt formidable blows to Protestantism, while, by his Catechism, translated into forty languages, he spread the knowledge of Christian Doctrine in all Countries of the World.

As a Religious, he shone by his Angelic purity, humility, and obedience, and, as Bishop, he was a model of watchful care and Charity to the Poor.

Towards the end of his life, he obtained leave of the Pope to retire to the Novitiate of Saint Andrew, the cradle of his Religious Life, where he prepared for a happy and holy death.

Mass: In médio. From the Common of Doctors.

Vigil Of The Ascension. White Vestments.

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

Vigil of The Ascension.

White Vestments.

The Ascension.

Artist: Benvenuto Tisi (1481–1559).

Date: 1510-1520.

Collection: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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Apart from The Rogations, The Church is filled with joy, and, assuming White Vestments, is preparing for the Solemn Feast of The Ascension by a special kind of Vigil, when the Gloria in Excelsis is sung. No Fasting or Abstinence is observed.

The Mass abounds in outbursts of joy because The Saviour of mankind is about to enter triumphantly in Heaven into the Glory of The Father after delivering us from Satan and sin.

Mass: Fifth Sunday After Easter.

Second Collect: Praesta, quæsumus.

Third Collect: Concéde nos.

How To Assist At Mass. The Holy Sacrifice Is Offered To The Holy Trinity.

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

First of all, we must never forget that The Mass is a Sacrifice, an act, by which The Church gives to Almighty God, officially and in the name of all, Worship of the highest kind, Adoration, or Latria (Editor: Supreme Worship allowed to God, alone), which is due to Him alone, in virtue of the supreme excellence of His Divine Being, from which everything comes and to which everything must return.

Therefore, The Mass is offered only to The Three Persons of The Blessed Trinity.

What the Priest offers to God, as an acknowledgement of His Sovereign Dominion over all creatures, is none other than Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, by His Sacrifice on The Cross, has rendered to His Father an infinite Act of Worship, consisting of Adoration, Thanksgiving, Expiation, and Impetration (Editor: The action of requesting something fervently).

The Sacrifice of The Mass, by placing on the Altar The Victim of Calvary, enables us, through Him, to Adore God in a suitable manner, to thank Him worthily for all His favours, to render Him full satisfaction by the offering of The Blood of Jesus, and to address to Him requests which are always heard because they are made in His name, Who, by the very act of showing His Glorious Wounds to His Father, intercedes unceasingly for us in Heaven and in The Eucharist on Earth.

Moreover, since all the Mysteries of Our Saviour's life have helped, in union with Calvary, to bring about our Salvation, The Church Commemorates them in The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass by the different Feasts of The Temporal Cycle or The Cycle of Christ.

At Christmas, she offers to God The Divine Child of The Manger, with all that stage in Our Lord's life that has specially contributed to The Father's Glory; and, by that means, ensures to us the application, quite special, also, of the Graces which Christ merited for us, and which will enable us to practise each year, more and more, the Virtues of which The Son of God and Mary then gave us an example.

The Holy Sacrifice is offered in honour of The Saints.

But The Mass is offered, also, in honour of The Saints, as The Sanctoral Cycle shows. In this way, is emphasised the fact, that it is to the Sacrifice of Calvary and to The Eucharist, that The Saints owe the Graces which God gave them in such abundance. And The Saints, themselves, are honoured when the work of The Most High is glorified in them.

We offer to The Saints, also, a fitting homage when we unite their memory with Our Lord's at the Altar. This is done on the Anniversary of their death and every day in The Canon of The Mass. As Members of The Mystical Body of Christ, it is right to associate them with The Sacrifice of their Head, since, by their sufferings, and often by their Martyrdom, they have mingled their blood with that of this Divine Victim.

Moreover, The Church encloses The Relics of The Saints, especially those of The Martyrs, in the Altar-Stone at the very spot where the Priest places The Sacred Host. "It is the whole City of The Redeemed," says Saint Augustine, "the assembly and company of The Saints, which is the universal sacrifice and which is offered to God by The High Priest, Who offers Himself for us in His Passion."

 

We render to The Saints the greatest honour we can give them when we offer to God, in their name, The Blood of Jesus to Adore The Most High and to thank Him for His favours to them. The Saints, full of zeal for The Glory of The Holy Trinity, are beholden to us if we honour God in union with their intention, for this increases their joy.

The efficacy of their merits in the past, and their Prayers in the present, is, in a special way, increased, when these are offered to God closely united with the Merits and Prayers of Christ Jesus, The Universal Mediator, and this happens especially on their Feast Day, when Holy Mass is Celebrated in their honour.

"Most humbly we Pray," says The Church in The Collect for The Feast of All Saints, "that, since so great is the number of Thine Elect pleading for us, we may partake, in all their fulness, of Thy abounding mercies."

Most willingly does God accept the offering of The Blood of Christ, made through The Saints as intermediaries.

How The Faithful can take an active part in this Sacrifice.

Assisting at Mass, we should do four things:

1. Reconstruct the historic setting in which took place the event in Our Lord's life, or in that of one of His Saints, which is being Commemorated on the appointed day. In doing this, much help may be gained from The Mass of The Catechumens with its different features: The Vestments; The Chant; The Introit, Epistle, Gospel, etc.

2. Offer to God, for His greater glory, The Mystery of Our Redeemer's Life which is being Commemorated, the Acts of Virtue which have been practised by the Saint whose Feast it is. This is done in The Canon of The Mass; it is not fitting to Communicate (Editor: To go to Communion] before having made this offering which appeases The Most High and brings us Divine Grace.

3. Ask of God (this is done in the Pater Noster) and receive from Him, by the Merits and Intercession of Our Lord and His Saints, the Graces which they, themselves, received when they were living on Earth. (This is the fruit of the Communion and Postcommunion.)

 

4. To these three ways of Interior or Spiritual Participation, which can be practised at every Mass, we should, as far as circumstances allow, add Exterior or Material Participation, which may consist:

In reading Liturgical Prayers with the Priest;

In singing Congregational and Gregorian Chant at High Mass;

In responding at Low Mass, and best of all,

In receiving Holy Communion with the Priest during Mass.

In this way, we shall draw plentiful fresh draughts of the True Christian Spirit at its primary source, as Pope Saint Pius X wished.

Certain Texts of The Mass are reserved to the Priest, and should never be said aloud by The Faithful: We can still make these parts our own, not by a mechanical repetition, but by reverent and serious reflection, corresponding to the thoughts expressed by these Prayers.

Other parts of The Mass were originally, and are still meant to be, said by the people. They are of two kinds: Those that are to be Chanted by The Congregation at High Mass, and those that are responded by the Ministers, or by the Server at Low Mass, on our behalf.

Before Holy Communion, we should say not only the Confiteor, with the Server, but the Domine non dignus, which the Priest says at that moment on our behalf, may also be said three times with him.

In The Ordinary of The Mass, all sentences that may be said by The Faithful are printed in heavier type (Editor: Bold Type).

This assistance at The Holy Sacrifice is the ideal preparation for Holy Communion, since it is the same that The Church imposes on The Pope, the Bishops, and all Priests, whenever they Celebrate Mass.

It develops in the Soul those sentiments of contrition (from the Introit to the Collects), of Faith (from the Collects to the Credo), of hope (at The Canon of The Mass), of love (at the Communion), and of gratitude (from the Ablutions to the end of Mass), which are indispensable if The Eucharist is to be received with fruit.

By means of this preparation, the highest Act of Participation in The Mass is Holy Communion. It obtains all its fruits, because it is one of the most perfect applications of the conditions required by the Decree of the Saintly Pope Pius X, when he said: "A most abundant attainment of the effects of Holy Communion is, by a careful preparation and a thanksgiving, proper to the reception of this Divine Sacrament".

Monstrance.

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Saint Nereus. Saint Achilleus. Saint Domitilla. Saint Pancras. Martyrs. Feast Day 12 May. Red Vestments.

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

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 12 May.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Domitilla, with Saints Nereus and Achilleus.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Santa Maria-in-Vallicella, Rome.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/

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Nereus and Achilleus, Officers of the household of Flavia Domitilla, a niece of the Emperors Titus and Domitian, were Baptised by Saint Peter. The Gospel praises their Faith when it praises that of the Officer who obtained the cure of his son and believed in Jesus.

These Saints, having inspired Domitilla with the resolution to consecrate her Virginity to God, Aurelianus, her betrothed, accused them, all three, of being Christians. Out of hatred for Christ, they were put to death under the Emperor Trajan, at Terracina, about 100 A.D.

Their bodies rest in Rome in the Church of Saints Nereus and Achilleus. This Church was a Station on The Monday in Holy Week, but the bad state of the building caused The Station to be transferred to Saint Praxedes’s in the 13th-Century. Saints Nereus and Achilleus Church was restored in the 16th-Century.

Saint Pancras was arrested in Rome at the age of fourteen and put to death towards 275 A.D., under Emperor Diocletian, for having refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods. His constancy earned him a place among the Saints, whose joy he shares (Epistle, Communion).

Mass: Ecce oculi.

Exeter Cathedral (Cathedral Church Of Saint Peter). The Longest Uninterrupted Mediæval Vaulted Ceiling In The World. (Part Three).

The Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral.

The previous Library was located here.

Photo: 30 April 2014.

Source: Own work.

Attribution:

Photo by David Iliff. 

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

Author: Diliff

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The precious effigy of Walter Branscombe had been protected by sandbags.[6] Subsequent repairs and the clearance of the area around the Western End of the building uncovered portions of earlier structures, including remains of the Roman City and of the original Norman Cathedral.

The Norman Cathedral construction began (1112), presumably at the East End, and was Consecrated in 1133, by which date the Choir, Transept and first two Bays of the Nave were probably complete.

As detailed above, remains of the Norman building can be seen in the massive Transept Towers. By 1160, the Nave and West Front were complete, and a Cloister and Chapter House were added between 1180 and 1244.

“The College of Vicars’ Choral, Exeter”.

19th-Century English School townscape. Oil on canvas. 

In the background stands the Cathedral. The College of Vicars was constructed during the 14th-Century. It educated and 

saw over the appointments of the Clergy in the Parishes around Exeter. The many daily Masses sung in the Chapels of the Cathedral required a back-up team of Vicars Choral. 

In 1387, the College was built behind the Deanery in Kalenderhay. It had a gatehouse, row of houses, one for 

each member, and a common kitchen and dining hall 

at the far end. It was demolished between 1850-1900 

and the hall ruined in an air raid in 1942.

Artist: Anonymous.

Date: Circa 1850.

Collection: Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Source/Photographer: Royal Albert Memorial Museum

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During the 1270s, a new project began to replace the entire East End, starting with the East End Chapels. This work is documented by a very extensive series of fabric rolls.[7]

Work advanced slowly, with the Retro-Choir, Presbytery, and Choir, being built in the 1290s. The original Choir elevation had two storeys, but was later modified to three storeys, presumably after the arrival of Master Roger in 1297.

Master Thomas of Witney was engaged in 1316 to design the Choir furnishings, then became Master Mason and stayed at Exeter until 1342.

English: Exeter Cathedral in 1830.

Русский: Вид с северо-запада

на Эксетерский собор в 1830 году.

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Author:

English: Engraving by W. Deeble,

based on a drawing by R. Browne.

Русский: Гравюра W. Deeble 

по рисунку R. Browne.

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By 1328, the Church was complete to the first two Bays of the Nave, where a design change in the Vaults is visible. During Master Thomas of Witney’s time, the East Cloister walk was begun (1318–1325) and the Nave, West Front and North Cloister walk, were probably completed (1328-1342).

That the present West Front is on the same site as the Norman predecessor is indicated by the narrowing of the Nave Bays towards the West, squeezed to meet an existing feature.

The Image Screen across the West Facade and the Chantry Chapel of Bishop Grandisson, located within the West Front, were probably designed by William Joy, who succeeded Witney as Master Mason in 1342, but seems to have died in 1347, possibly from The Black Death.

PART FOUR FOLLOWS.