“Thou Hast Not Known The Time Of Thy Visitation”.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Artist: René de Cramer.

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The Gospel for the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost.

(Luke xix. 41 - 47).

At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, 

seeing the City, He wept over it, saying: 

“If thou also hadst known, and that in this day, 

the things that are to thy peace:

“But now, they are hidden from thy eyes. 

“For the days shall come upon thee, 

and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, 

and compass thee round, 

and straiten thee on every side;

“And beat thee flat to the ground, 

and thy children who are in thee; 

and they shall not leave in thee 

a stone upon a stone . . .

“. . . because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation”.

Saint Anne. Mother Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 26 July. White Vestments.

English: Virgin and Child with Saint Anne.

Deutsch: Anna selbdritt.

Date: 1883.

Source: Das Leben der Heiligen Gottes

Author: Otto Bitschnau.

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
      Volume 13.
      Time After Pentecost.
      Book IV.

Uniting the blood of Kings with that of Pontiffs, the glory of Saint Anne’s illustrious origin is far surpassed by that of her offspring, without compare among the daughters of Eve.

The noblest of all who have ever conceived by virtue of the command to “increase and multiply”, beholds the law of human generation pause before her as having arrived at its summit, at the threshold of God; for, from her fruit, God Himself is to come forth , the fatherless Son of The Blessed Virgin, and the grand-son of Anne and Joachim.

Before being favoured with the greatest Blessing ever bestowed on an Earthly union, the two holy grand-parents of The Word Made Flesh had to pass through the purification of suffering.

Traditions which, though mingled with details of less authenticity, have come down to us from the very beginning of Christianity, tells us of these noble spouses subjected to the trial of prolonged sterility, and on that account despised by their people; of Joachim cast out of the Temple and going to hide his sorrow in the desert; of Anne, left alone to mourn her widowhood and humiliation.

For exquisite sentiment, this narrative might be compared with the most beautiful histories in Holy Scripture.

The Feast of Saint Joachim, which The Church Celebrates on the day following the Feast Day of his Blessed Daughter’s Assumption, will give us an occasion of completing the account of these trials and joys in which he shared.

Warned from Heaven to leave the desert, he met his spouse at The Golden Gate, which leads to the Temple on The East Side. Not far from here now stands the restored Basilica of Saint Anne, originally called Saint Mary of the Nativity.

Here, as in a peaceful Paradise, The Rod of Jesse produced that Blessed Branch which the Prophet hailed as about to bear the flower that had blossomed from eternity in the bosom of The Father.

It is true that Sepphoris, Anne’s native City [Editor: Sepphoris, about four miles from Nazareth, was known as “The Jewel of Galilee”], and Nazareth, where Mary lived, dispute with the Holy City of Jerusalem the honour which ancient and constant tradition assigns to Jerusalem.

But our homage will not be misdirected if we offer it today to Blessed Saint Anne, in whom were wrought the prodigies, the very thought of which brings new joy to Heaven, rage to Satan, and triumph to the World.

Saint Christopher (“Who Bears Christ”). Martyr. Feast Day 25 July. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Christopher.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 25 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Christopher bearing The Christ Child.

Illustration: 

SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH

Saint Christopher was a native of Chanaan. His name (“Who Bears Christ”) expresses his love of Jesus. A generous Soul, he walked like a giant in The Way of Virtue.

The Piety of our Fathers, inspired by this grand allegory, caused them to place a colossal statue of Saint Christopher at the entrance to Cathedrals. He was Martyred 250 A.D.

He is one of “The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints”.

Mass: In virtúte.

The following Text is from 

SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH

English: Saint Christopher.
Greek: Christos, Christ; Pherein, to bear.
Latin: Christophorus, Christbearer.

Canonised: Pre-Congregation.[Editor: A Pre-Congregation Saint is a Christian Saint whose Beatification and/or Canonisation occurred before the institution of the modern investigations performed by The Congregation For The Causes Of Saints (i.e. pre-11th-Century)].

Patron Saint of: Bookbinders; Epilepsy; Gardeners; Mariners; Pestilence; Thunderstorms; Travellers.

A Martyr, probably of the 3rd-Century A.D. Although Saint Christopher is one of the most popular Saints in The East and in The West, almost nothing certain is known about his life or death.

The legend says: A heathen King (in Canaan or Arabia), through the Prayers of his wife to The Blessed Virgin, had a son, whom he called Offerus (Offro, Adokimus, or Reprebus) and dedicated him to the gods Machmet and Apollo.

Acquiring in time extraordinary size and strength, Offerus resolved to serve only the strongest and the bravest. He bound himself successively to a mighty King and to Satan, but he found both lacking in courage; the former dreading even the name of the devil, and the latter frightened by the sight of a Cross at the roadside.

For a time, his search for a new master was in vain, but at last he found a Hermit (Babylas ?), who told him to offer his allegiance to Christ, instructed him in The Faith, and Baptised him.

Christopher, as he was now called, would not promise to do any Fasting or Praying, but willingly accepted the task of carrying people, for God’s sake, across a raging stream.

One day, he was carrying a child, who continually grew heavier, so that it seemed to him as if he had the whole World on his shoulders. The child, on inquiry, made himself known as The Creator and Redeemer of the World.

To prove his statement, the child ordered Christopher to fix his staff in the ground. The next morning, it had grown into a Palm-Tree bearing fruit. The miracle converted many. This excited the rage of the King (Prefect) of that region (Dagnus of Samos in Lycia ?). Christopher was put into prison and, after many cruel torments, beheaded.

The Greek legend may belong to the 6th-Century A.D.; about the middle of the 9th-Century A.D., we find it had spread through France. Originally, Saint Christopher was only a Martyr, and, as such, is recorded in the old Martyrologies.

The simple form of the Greek and Latin “Passio“ soon gave way to more elaborate legends. We have the Latin edition in prose and verse of 983 A.D., by the Sub-Deacon, Walter of Speyer, "Thesaurus anecdotorum novissimus" (Augsburg, 1721-1723), II, 27-142, and Harster, "Walter von Speyer" (1878).

An edition of the 11th-Century is found in The Acta SS., and another in The Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine. The idea conveyed in the name, Christopher, at first understood in the Spiritual sense of bearing Christ in the heart, was, in the 12th- or 13th-Centuries, taken in the realistic meaning and became the characteristic of the Saint.

The fact that he was frequently called a great Martyr may have given rise to the story of his enormous size. The stream and the weight of the child may have been intended to denote the trials and struggles of a Soul taking upon itself The Yoke of Christ in this World.

The existence of a Martyr, named Saint Christopher, cannot be denied, as was sufficiently shown by the Jesuit, Nicholas Serarius, in his Treatise on Litanies, "Litaneutici" (Cologne, 1609), and by Molanus. in his history of Sacred Pictures, "De picturis et imaginibus sacris" (Louvain, 1570).

In a small Church, Dedicated to the Martyr Saint Christopher, the body of Saint Remigius of Reims was buried, 532 A.D., (Acta SS., 1 Oct., 161).

Saint Gregory the Great (☩ 604 A.D.) speaks of a Monastery of Saint Christopher (Epp., x., 33).

The Mozarabic Breviary and Missal, has ascribed to Saint Isidore of Seville (☩ 636 A.D.), a special Office in Saint Christopher's honour.

In 1386, a Brotherhood was Founded, under the Patronage of Saint Christopher, in Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Austria, to guide Travellers over The Arlberg mountain range.

In 1517, a Saint Christopher Temperance Society existed in Carinthia, Styria, in Saxony, and at Munich, Germany. Great Veneration was shown to the Saint in Venice, Italy, and along the shores of The River Danube, The River Rhine, and other rivers where floods or ice-jams caused frequent damage.

The oldest picture of the Saint, in the Monastery on Mount Sinai, dates from the time of Emperor Justinian (527 A.D. - 565 A.D.). Coins with his image were cast at Würzburg, in Würtermberg, Germany, and in Bohemia. His statues were placed at the entrances of Churches and dwellings, and frequently at bridges; these statues and his pictures often bore the inscription: "Whoever shall behold the image of Saint Christopher shall not faint or fall on that day."

Painting of The Fourteen Holy Helpers 

(The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints).

From Left to Right:

Saint Blaise (Blase, Blasius);

Saint Denis (Dionysius);

Saint Erasmus (Elmo);

Saint Pantaleon (Panteleimon);

Saint Vitus (Guy);

Saint Cyriacus;

Saint Christopher (Christophorus);

Saint Agathius (Acacius);

Saint Eustace (Eustachius, Eustathius);

Saint Giles (Aegidius);

Saint George (Georgius);

Saint Barbara;

Saint Catherine of Alexandria;

Saint Margaret of Antioch.

Date: 1800s.

Source: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/

denkmalschutz-knatsch-in-dobl-1.2679391 

(abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2015).

Author: Not stated.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Saint, who is one of The Fourteen Holy Helpers (or The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints), HERE, has been chosen as Patron by many Cities, including: Baden; Brunswick; Mecklenburg; as well as by Bookbinders, Gardeners, Mariners.

He is Invoked against lightning, storms, epilepsy, pestilence. His Feast Day is 25 July; and, among the Greeks, on 9 March; and his emblems are the Tree, The Christ Child, and a Staff. Saint Christopher's Island (commonly called Saint Kitts), lies West of Antigua in The Lesser Antilles.

[Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia.]

Saint Christopher carrying The Christ Child.

Artist: Hieronymus Bosch

Date: 1480-1490.

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 

Rotterdam, Netherlands

This File: 22 January 2007.

User: Alekjds

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Supplement For The Dioceses Of England And Wales In The Saint Andrew Daily Missal Of 1936.

Such beautiful typographical design work in

Zephyrinus’s 1936 Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

You don’t get such a beautiful aid

to one’s Prayer Life in a Missalette !!!

Illustration: Zephyrinus.

Supplement For The Dioceses Of England 

And Wales In The Saint Andrew Daily Missal Of 1936.

(This Supplement contains the Masses Proper to the 

Dioceses of England and Wales, except some for those 

of Hexham and Newcastle, Brentwood, and Cardiff, which 

are awaiting approval in Rome. When approved, the 

Proper Calendar and Masses of these Dioceses will be added 

to those of the other Dioceses, and in future editions 

embodied in the English Supplement.)

29 November.

In the Dioceses of 

Westminster, Liverpool, Northampton, and Plymouth.

Blessed Cuthbert Mayne.

Martyr.

Blessed Cuthbert Mayne, born at Youlston, in Devon, 

was converted to the True Faith when an Anglican Minister.

He studied for the Priesthood at Douai, and was 

the first of the Seminary Priests to suffer Martyrdom.

After a year of Missionary work in Cornwall, he was arrested and tried, and, on refusing to take the unlawful oath of Royal Superemacy, was hanged at Launceston, 29 November 1577, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Mass: In Virtúte.

From: The Common of One Martyr.

A Commemoration is made of the 

Vigil of Saint Andrew and of Saint Saturninus 

and of the Feria, in Advent.

1 December.

In the Diocese of Westminster.

Blessed Richard Whiting and his Companions.

Martyrs.

Blessed Richard Whiting, thirty-first and last Abbot of Glastonbury, suffered under King Henry VIII, for his loyalty to The Church, and strenuous defence of the Apostolic See.

He was hanged on Tor Hill, Glastonbury, with two of his Monks, and his head was placed over the principal gate 

of his Abbey on 14 November 1539.

Mass: Víneam De.

A Commemoration is made, in Advent, of the Feria.

1 December.

In the Dioceses of Northampton and Portsmouth.

Blessed Edmund Campion and Companions.

Martyrs.

Blessed Edmund Campion, of the Society of Jesus, 

was born in London and gained favour by his 

brilliant gifts at the Court of Queen Elizabeth.

He was converted to The Faith, and having been Ordained 

a Priest at Prague, was sent on the English Mission, where 

he laboured with great zeal for the conversion of Souls.

He was arraigned in London, together with the 

Priests Thomas Forde, William Filby, and seven others, 

and condemned to death for The Catholic Faith.

The Holy Martyrs suffered at Tyburn; 

Blessed Edmund Campion with two companions on 

1 December 1581, and the others on 28 May 1582 

and 29 May 1582.

Mass: Intret.

From: The Common.

1 December.

In the Diocese of Nottingham.

Blessed Ralph Sherwin.

Martyr.

Blessed Ralph Sherwin was born in Derbyshire, 

and became a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

He was received into The Church at Douai, 

and there Ordained a Priest.

He was arrested in London shortly after his return 

to England, and hanged at Tyburn on 1 December 1581.

Mass: In Virtúte.

From: The Common of One Martyr.

1 December.

In the Arch-Diocese of Birmingham.

Blessed Martyrs of Oxford University.

This Feast Celebrates the Martyrdom of fourteen students 

of Oxford University, who, in the 16th-Century, laid down 

their lives for the Rights of the Apostolic See, in the reign of King Henry VIII, and those who suffered in defence of 

The Catholic Faith under Queen Elizabeth.

The Martyrs of the first group are:

Saint Thomas More, 

sometime High Chancellor of England.

And three Priests: 

Blessed John Forest, 

Minister of the English Province of the Franciscans, 

and Confessor of Queen Catherine;

Fr. Thomas Abel, 

also Chaplain to the Queen;

Fr. Edward Powel, 

Fellow of Oriel College.

The Martyrs of the second group are:

Ten Priests.

Namely:

Blessed Cuthbert Mayne, 

first Martyr of the English College, Douai;

Blessed Edmund Campion, S.J;

Blessed Ralph Sherwin, 

first Martyr of the Venerable English College, Rome;

Fr. Alexander Briant, S.J;

Fr. Thomas Forde;

Fr. John Shert;

Fr. William Filby;

Fr. Laurence Richardson;

Fr. Thomas Cottam;

Fr. William Hart;

John Story, a Layman.

They were all declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.

Mass: 

As for the Feast of Blessed Edmund Campion and Companions.

1 December.

In the Diocese of Brentwood.

Blessed John Beche.

Martyr.

Blessed John Beche, the thirty-eighth and last Abbot of Saint John’s Abbey, Colchester, was attained of High Treason for refusing to surrender his Abbey into the hands of King Henry VIII, and acknowledge his supremacy in “Things Spiritual”.

He suffered death at Colchester, 1 December 1539, within a month after the glorious Martyrdom of his Brethren, the Abbots of Glastonbury and Reading.

Mass: Vineam de Aegypto, as on the Feast of Blessed Richard Whiting and Companions.

A Commemoration is made of the Feria in Advent.

Saint James The Greater. Apostle. Feast Day, Today, 25 July. Red Vestments.

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

Saint James The Greater.
   Apostle.
   Feast Day 25 July.

Double of The Second-Class.

Red Vestments.

Saint James the Greater.

Clothed as a Pilgrim. Note the Scallop Shell on his 

shoulder, and his Staff and Pilgrim's Hat, beside him.

Artist: Rembrandt (1606–1669).

Date: 1661.

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Saint James the Greater.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Saint James, brother of Saint John, and son of Zebedee, was a native of Bethsaida, in Galilee. He is surnamed "the Greater", i.e., the Elder.

One day, his mother, approaching The Saviour, asked of Him "the favour for her two sons to be seated, one at His Right-Hand and the other at His Left-Hand, in His Kingdom" (Gospel). Christ then foretold their Martyrdom. Saint James "shall sit on a Throne to judge The Twelve Tribes of Israel" (Communion), but he will first have to mix his blood with that of Jesus (Gospel) and undergo, like all The Apostles, a life of suffering and persecution, such as the Epistle describes.

After the Ascension of Jesus Christ to Heaven, says The Office of today, James preached His Divinity in Judea and Samaria. He soon betook himself to Spain. When he returned to Jerusalem, Herod Agrippa, desiring to please the Jews, condemned him to death and he was beheaded towards the year 42 A.D., a short time before The Feast of Easter.

It would seem that, for fear of the Arabs, who were masters of Jerusalem, the body of The Saint was later carried to Compostella, in Spain, where he is greatly honoured. 25 July recalls the date of this Translation.

His name is inscribed in The Canon of The Mass, with that of Saint John, his brother (First List).

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

Mass: Mihi autem.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
Commemoration (Low Masses): Saint Christopher.
(Collects of Mass: In virtúte).

Saint James the Greater.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Saint Christina. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 24 July. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Christina.
   Virgin.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 24 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Christina giving her father’s idols of gold to The Poor.

17th-Century Painting. National Museum, Warsaw, Poland.

Artist: Anonymous. Follower of Massimo Stanzione

(1586–1656).

Current location: National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

Source/Photographer: cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl

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English: Statue of Saint Christina.

Church of Saint Christina, Ravensburg, Germany.

Deutsch: Hl. Christina von Bolsena.

Skulptur von Moriz Schlachter.

Pfarrkirche St. Christina, Ravensburg, Germany.

Photo: 20 January 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: AndreasPraefcke

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Christina was born in Tuscany, Italy. At the age of ten, she took away the silver idols, in her father's house, and broke them up. On this account, she was delivered up to the persecutors, tied to a post, and pierced with arrows.

She thus added, to the merit of her Virginity, that of Christian Fortitude (Collect). This was under the Persecutions of Emperor Diocletian in 300 A.D.

Mass: Me exspectavérunt.

English: The Parish Church of Saint Christina,

Ravensburg, Germany.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St. Christina, Ravensburg

Photo: 20 January 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: AndreasPraefcke

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Saint Christina of Bolsena, Italy, also known as Christina of Tyre, or, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, as Christina the Great Martyr, is Venerated as a Christian Martyr of the 3rd-Century A.D. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery, constructed at her tomb, have shown that she was Venerated at Bolsena by the 4th-Century A.D.

The existence of Christina is relatively well attested. Although some versions of her legend place her in Tyre (Phoenicia), the most credible evidence points to Bolsena, Italy: An ancient town in central Italy, near an Etruscan site called Volsinium, with catacombs, in which archaeologists have found the remains of an Early-Christian Church and the tomb of a female Martyr.

Inscriptions, found on the site, confirm that this Martyr had a name like Christina and that the local community was Venerating her as a Saint by the end of the 4th-Century. Some corroborating evidence is provided by a 6th-Century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinare Nuovo, at Ravenna, Italy, which includes, in its Procession of Virgins, a Saint named Christina, wearing a Martyr's Crown.

The Mass at Bolsena.

Artist: Raphael (1483–1520).

Date: 1512.

This File: 30 March 2007.

User: David Sneek

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The Mass at Bolsena is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist, Raphael. It was painted between 1512 and 1514 as part of Raphael’s commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Raphael Rooms, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It is located in the Stanza di Eliodoro, which is named after The Expulsion Of Heliodorus From The Temple.

The Mass at Bolsena shows an incident that is said to have taken place in 1263. A Bohemian Priest, who doubted the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, Celebrated Mass at Bolsena, Italy, where the Bread of The Eucharist began to Bleed. The following year, in 1264, Pope Urban IV instituted the Feast of Corpus Christi, to Celebrate this miraculous event.

The Priest was saying Mass, and, when he doubted the Transubstantiation, Blood spouted from the Host and fell onto the Altar Cloth, in the shape of a Cross, and he was re-converted.

Present in this painting, is a self-portrait of the artist, Raphael, as one of the Swiss Guard in the lower right of the fresco, facing out with bound-up hair. This is one of several instances in which Raphael has placed himself in his paintings. 

Also shown in the work is Pope Julius II (1443-1513), kneeling at the right, and his daughter, Felice della Rovere, shown on the left at the bottom of the steps, in profile, in dark clothes. The four Cardinals, to the right, have also been identified as Leonardo Grosso della Rovere, Raffaello Riario, Tommaso Riario and Agostino Spinola, relatives of Julius.

The Martyr, Christina, lived in the 3rd-Century A.D. She was born into a rich family, and her father was Governor of Tyre. By the age of 11, the girl was exceptionally beautiful, and many wanted to marry her. Christina’s father, however, envisioned that his daughter should become a pagan priestess.

To this end, he placed her in a special dwelling, where he had set up many gold and silver idols, and he commanded his daughter to burn incense before them. Two servants attended Christina.

According to legend, on one occasion, Christina was visited by an Angel, who instructed her in the True Faith. The Angel called her a Bride of Christ, and told her about her future suffering. Christina smashed all the idols in her room and threw them out the window.

In visiting his daughter, Christina’s father, Urban, asked her where all the idols had disappeared. Christina was silent. Then, having summoned the servants, Urban learned the truth from them.

A second legend is connected to Saint Christina. The Miracle of Bolsena, often considered to be the catalyst for the Feast of Corpus Christi, recalls an event in the Umbrian region of Italy in 1263. A Priest, named Peter, from the City of Prague, nurtured doubts regarding the Transubstantiation of The Host during Mass, and, during his Pilgrimage toward Rome, Prayed to be relieved of his questions.

While saying the Words of Consecration, in the Church of Saint Christina, in Bolsena, Italy, the Host dripped Blood on his hands and on the Altar Cloth. The Miracle of Bolsena is depicted on the walls of the Vatican, in a painting by Raphael.