The Vigil Of Saint Simon And Saint Jude. Apostles. 27 October.

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unless otherwise stated.

The Vigil of Saint Simon and Saint Jude.
Apostles.
27 October.

Violet Vestments.

Saint Simon and Saint Jude.

Apostles.

By Father Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876.

Illustration: CATHOLIC HARBOR OF FAITH AND MORALS

Simon, whom Saint Peter calls "The Cananean" to distinguish him from Saint Peter, who bore the same name [Editor: "Simon"], was born at Cana, in Galilee. Saint Luke calls him "Zelotes", because had had probably belonged to the Jewish party, thus called for its zeal in defending the Faith.

Jude, surnamed "Thaddeus" or "Lebbe" (The Courageous), was, by Cleophas, his father, and Mary, his mother, a nephew to Saint Joseph and The Blessed Virgin Mary and cousin to Jesus.

Saint James the Less, first Bishop of Jerusalem and the first Apostle Martyred, and Simeon, who succeeded him in this See, were his brothers.

These Apostles of Christ heard from the lips of The Master at The Last Supper the words of the Gospel: "I am the vine, you are the branches. Every branch which bears fruit, My Father shall prune in order that it should bear more."

After having preached the Gospel, at the price of great sufferings, the first in Egypt, the second in Mesopotamia, they were both Martyred in Persia (Introit, Gradual, Communion).

Wherefore, their Feasts are Celebrated on the same day, in the same Office, and their names are mentioned jointly in The Canon of The Mass.

Mass: Intret in conspéctu.

      The Gloria is not said.

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Saint Evaristus. Pope. Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 26 October.

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Saint Evaristus.
Pope and Martyr.
Feast Day 26 October.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Pope Saint Evaristus.

This image is a faithful representation of an icon inside the

Basilica of Saint Paul-outside-the-Walls, Rome, Italy.

The author is unknown and the image is Centuries old.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Evaristus, a Greek by birth, was unanimously elected Pope when The Holy See became vacant at the death of Pope Anacletus  I in 92 A.D.

It was Saint Evaristus who first divided Rome into "Titles", or Parishes, appointing to each a Priest.

He prescribed that seven Deacons should surround the Bishop when he preached, for the greater honour of The Word of God and of the Episcopal dignity.

Pope Saint Evaristus was condemned to death under Emperor Trajan in 109 A.D.

Mass: Státuit, for a Martyr Bishop.

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Sacred Liturgy Conference. Saint Stephen Catholic Church. Portland, Oregon. The Beauty And Spiritual Treasures Of The Liturgy.

Sister Frostina, Indeed !!!

Nuns will be Nuns !!!

Illustration: IMAGINE SISTERS

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

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unless otherwise stated.

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

Double of The First-Class.

White Vestments.

English: Christ The King, a detail from The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck.

Deutsch: Genter Altar, Altar des Mystischen Lammes, obere mittlere

Haupttafel, Szene: Thronender Gottvater.

Artist: Hubert van Eyck (1366–1426).

Date: Before 1426.

Current location: Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.

Notes: Auftraggeber: Joducus und Isabelle Vyd, urspr. für die Johannes dem Täufer gewidmete Seitenkapelle in St.-Bavo in Gent, Wandelaltar, in Zusammenarbeit mit Jan van Eyck entstanden.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.

ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Insignia of The Vendean Insurgents (Royalist Insurgents), during the War in Vendée, 1793, who fought against Suppression of The Church in The French Revolution. Note the French words

" Dieu Le Roi ", beneath the Heart-and-Cross, meaning " God The King ".

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

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

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

The Feast of Christ The King.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/h1I7Zc71IzQ.

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

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

The Magnificat.

First Vespers of The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King.

Composed by Arvo Pärt.

Sung by The Tallis Scholars.

(Thomas Tallis, 1505 - 1585).

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/E5PMQmQDBEY

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass: Dignus est Agnus.

Commmemoration: Of the occurring Sunday.

Last Gospel: Of the occurring Sunday.

The Battle Of Agincourt. 600th Anniversary. Saint Crispin's Day. 25 October 1415.

Morning of The Battle of Agincourt,

25 October 1415.

Artist: Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897).

Date: 1884.

Source: http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/art/97435/

Morning_of_the_Battle_of_Agincourt_25th_October_1415_1884

Author: Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897).

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Thanksgiving Service on The Field of Agincourt.

Date: Pre-1909.

Source: Edmund Bleigh, Leighton (1909) "The Thanksgiving Service on The Field of Agincourt"

in Cassell's History of England (Volume 1. The King's Edition ed.), London, New York,

Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, pp. p. 557 Retrieved on 19 June 2009.

Author: Edmund Leighton (1853–1922).

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Battle of Agincourt:

The Bloodiest Battle of The Mediaeval Age

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/s5C0avWFUjA

                            

The Coats-of-Arms of the Commanders of the English Army at The Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

On the Left: King Henry V of England.

In the Middle: Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York. (Killed at Agincourt).

On the Right: Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester.

Illustration Credits:

King Henry V of England. Date: 20 July 2010. Source: Own work. Author: Sodacan. (Wikimedia Commons).

Edward of Langley, Duke of York. Date: 28 October 2007. Source: Elements from 50px and
[Image: Blason Beaumont sur Sarthe 7]. Author: Ipankonin. (Wikimedia Commons).

Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester. Date: 16 July 2013. Source: Own work. Author: Sodacan. (Wikimedia Commons).

Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of thirty-five in 1422. He was the second English Monarch who came from the House of Lancaster.

After military experience fighting the Welsh during the Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr, and against the powerful aristocratic Percys of Northumberland at the Battle of Shrewsbury, Henry came into political conflict with his father, whose health was increasingly precarious from 1405 onward. After his father's death in 1413, Henry assumed control of the Country and embarked on war with France in the ongoing Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) between the two nations. His military successes culminated in his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) and saw him come close to conquering France.

Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, KG (c.1373 – 25 October 1415), was the eldest son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, by his first wife Isabella of Castile, and the grandson of Edward III. He held significant appointments during the reigns of three monarchs, Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, and was slain at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Pembroke, KG (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447), was "son, brother and uncle of Kings", being the fourth and youngest son of King Henry IV of England by his first wife, Mary de Bohun, brother to King Henry V of England, and uncle to the latter's son, King Henry VI of England.

As a son of The Sovereign, Humphrey bore the Arms of the Kingdom, differenced by a Bordure Argent. [A Bordure Argent is a Silver Border]

Facsimile of The Agincourt Carol (15th-Century).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Manuscript Archives.

Source: English Carols of the 15th-Century.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Battle of Agincourt.

Henry V.

1944.

Sir William Walton.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/WOCMvfLjmVM.

Cry God For Harry, England, and Saint George".

Henry V.

Sir Laurence Olivier.

1944.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/IQqG262EC5A.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our English dead!

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility:

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;

Let pry through the portage of the head

Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it

As fearfully as doth a galled rock

O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,

Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,

Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit

To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof !

Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,

Have in these parts from morn till even fought

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:

Dishonour not your mothers; now attest

That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.

Be copy now to men of grosser blood,

And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,

Whose limbs were made in England, show us here

The mettle of your pasture; let us swear

That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;

For there is none of you so mean and base,

That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,

Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:

Follow your spirit, and upon this charge

Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Saint Crispin's Day Speech.

Henry V.

Sir Laurence Olivier.

1944.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/P9fa3HFR02E.

What's he that wishes so? 

My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow 

To do our country loss; and if to 

The fewer men, the greater share of honour. 

God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. 

Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, 

That he which hath no stomach to this fight, 

Let him depart; his passport shall be made 

And crowns for convoy put into his purse: 

We would not die in that man's company 

That fears his fellowship to die with us. 

This day is called the feast of Crispian: 

He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 

Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, 

And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 

He that shall live this day, and see old age, 

Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, 

And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:' 

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. 

And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' 

Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, 

But he'll remember with advantages 

What feats he did that day: then shall our names. 

Familiar in his mouth as household words 

Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, 

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, 

Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. 

This story shall the good man teach his son; 

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, 

From this day to the ending of the world, 

But we in it shall be remember'd; 

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; 

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me 

Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, 

This day shall gentle his condition: 

And gentlemen in England now a-bed 

Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, 

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks 

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day.

                          

The Coats-of-Arms of the Commanders of the French Army at The Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

On the Left: Charles d'Albret, Constable of France. Co-Commander of Army). (Killed at Agincourt).

In the Middle: Jean II Le Maingre, called Boucicaut. Marshal of France. (Captured at Agincourt).

On the Right: Charles of Orléans. Duke of Orléans. (Captured at Agincourt).

Illustration Credits:

Charles d'Albret, Constable of France. Date: 21 January 2006. Source: Own work. Author: Odejea. (Wikimedia Commons).
Jean II Le Maingre, called Boucicaut. Marshal of France. Date: 24 May 2007. Source: Perso Inkscape. Author: Patrice Panaget. (Wikimedia Commons).
Charles of Orléans. Duke of Orléans. Date: 6 July 2007. Source: Own work. Author:
Syryatsu. (Wikimedia Commons).

Charles d'Albret (died 25 October 1415) was Constable of France from 1402 until 1411, and again from 1413 until 1415. He was also the Co-Commander of the French Army at the Battle of Agincourt, where he was killed by the English Army led by King Henry V.

Jean II Le Maingre (in Old French, Jehan le Meingre), called Boucicaut (1366 — 1421) was Marshal of France and a Knight renowned for his military skill. In the Battle of Agincourt, 1415, he Commanded the French Vanguard, but was captured by the English and died six years later in Yorkshire.

Charles of Orléans (1394 – 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407. Charles was one of the many French noblemen at the Battle of Agincourt. He was discovered unwounded, but trapped under a pile of corpses, incapacitated by the weight of his own armour. He was taken prisoner by the English, and spent the next twenty-four years being moved from one Castle to another in England.

The Agincourt Carol,

by Maddy Prior and June Tabor.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/UK16e-Emrms.

The Agincourt Carol.

Today, is the 600th Anniversary of The Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

Morning of The Battle of Agincourt,

25th October 1415.

Artist: Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897).

Date: 1884.

Source: http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/art/97435/

Morning_of_the_Battle_of_Agincourt_25th_October_1415_1884

Author: Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897).

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Agincourt Carol.

Sung by 

Maddy Prior and June Tabor.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/UK16e-Emrms