Saint Albert The Great. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 15 November.

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

Saint Albert the Great.
Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 15 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus)

Artist: Tommaso da Modena (1326–1379).

Date: 1352.

Current location: Chiesa di San Nicolò, Treviso, Italy.

Source/Photographer: Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen Dominikanerklosters San Niccolò in Treviso.

First uploaded by sv:Användare:Lamré to Swedish Wikipedia as sv:Bild:AlbertusMagnus.jpg.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus)

Illustration: RELEASING THE ARROW

Born in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1200, Albert, even as a child, loved The Blessed Virgin in a special manner. He resolved to enter The Order of Saint Dominic, but, tempted by the devil, he gave up the idea.

Ultimately, however, at the earnest entreaty and through the ardent Prayers of Blessed Jourdan of Saxony, he resolved definitely to enter The Order of Saint Dominic. He studied Philosophy at Cologne, then at Paris, where he became one of the most renowned Professors of the University.

Saint Thomas Aquinas was one of his students. He was made Bishop of Ratisbon (Regensburg) by Pope Urban IV and defended The Church against the errors of Guillaume de Saint-Amour and died at Cologne in 1280.

He was Canonised and proclaimed Doctor of The Church in 1931.

Mass: In médio, from The Common of Doctors.

The Tympanum and Archivolts of Strasbourg Cathedral,

Strasbourg, France, 

with iconography inspired by 

Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great).

Photo: 22 July 1989.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rebecca Kennison.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Albertus Magnus, O.P. (circa 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic Saint. He was a German Dominican Friar and a Catholic Bishop. He was known during his lifetime as "doctor universalis" and "doctor expertus", and, late in his life, the term "magnus" (great) was appended to his name.

Scholars, such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder, have referred to him as the greatest German Philosopher and Theologian of The Middle Ages. The Catholic Church honours him as a Doctor of The Church, one of only thirty-six so honoured.

The Latin Mass Society Launches A Brand-New "Missalette".

This Article is taken from RORATE CAELI

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

Members of The Latin Mass Society are this weekend receiving their copies of the quarterly magazine, Mass of Ages; with this edition, is enclosed a brand-new Booklet Missal, or "Missalette", with Ordinary Prayers of The Mass, Benediction, and other Prayers and Devotions.

This new book has a clear, accurate, and readable new translation of all The Ordinary of The Mass, taking account of the improved ICEL translation of The Novus Ordo, where applicable, but using Traditional language ('Thee' and 'Thou', etc.).

It has new illustrations showing the postures of the Priest at different points during The Mass. It includes variants for High Mass and Pontifical Mass, so the Book won't let you down on special occasions; for example, it gives The Pontifical Blessing at the end of Mass.

It includes the Texts for The Angelus and for Benediction, in both Latin and English; if you want to use the lovely Chant Setting of The Divine Praises in Latin, for example, the Text is there.

It also includes two Chant Mass Ordinaries, those most commonly used on Sundays - Mass XI and Mass XVII (for Advent and Lent) - and The Four Marian Anthems.

It has a number of things particularly useful for Catholics who are attached to The Traditional Mass specific to England and Wales, such as The Prayer for The Queen, The Prayer for England (given to us by Pope Leo XIII and commonly said during Benediction, and The 'Long Prayer for England', a charming Prayer ordered by Cardinal Wiseman to be said in Benediction on The Second Sunday of the month.

It also has the authentic version of The Prayer for Wales, in Welsh. Modern books with The Welsh Prayer for Wales use a variety of edited versions, which exclude the petition that The Welsh return to their ancient Catholic Faith. Our version is that used in The Welsh CTS Simple Prayer Book, issued in the 1950s.

Such a Booklet can't include everything, but we have the modest hope that it will set a new standard for such Aids to Devotion.

You can BUY COPIES HERE; Talk to The LMS Office about bulk discounts.

The Cathedral Of The Resurrection Of Christ. Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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unless otherwise stated.

Cathedral of The Resurrection of Christ,

Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Illustration: PINTEREST

English: The Church of The Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Russian: Khram Spasa na Krovi. 

This Cathedral is one of the main sights of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called The Church on Spilt Blood and The Cathedral of The Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова), its official name. The name refers to the

blood of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who was assassinated on that site in 1881.

Русский: Собо́р Воскресе́ния Христо́ва на Крови́, Храм Спа́са-на-Крови́ в Санкт-Петербурге — православный мемориальный однопрестольный храм во имя Воскресения Христова, сооружён в память того, что на этом месте 1 марта 1881 года в результате покушения был смертельно ранен Царь-Освободитель — император Александр II (выражение на крови указывает на кровь царя). Храм был сооружен как памятник Царю-Мученику на средства, собранные по всей России.

Decorated Dome, Ceiling and Walls of

The Church on The Blood

(Church of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ),

Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Photo: 7 June 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ninaras.

The Church of The Saviour on Spilled Blood (Russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi) is one of the main sights of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Other names include The Church on Spilt Blood (Russian:Церковь на Крови, Tserkov’ na Krovi) and The Cathedral of The Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова, Sobor Voskreseniya Khristova).

This Church was built on the site where Emperor Alexander II was fatally wounded in March 1881.The Church was built from 1883 till 1907. The construction was funded by The Imperial Family.

The name of the Church should not be confused with The Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land in Yekaterinburg, where Alexander's grandson, Nicholas II, and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Notre Dame De Paris.

The Cathedral of

Notre Dame de Paris.

Illustration: CRACK TWO

The following Text is from CRACK TWO

Notre Dame de Paris, also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral on the Eastern half of the Île de la Cité, in the Fourth Arrondissement of Paris, France.

It is the Cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris; that is, it is the Church that contains the "Cathedra" (Official Chair) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois. The Cathedral Treasury houses a Reliquary with the purported Crown of Thorns.

Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in France and in Europe, and the naturalism of its sculptures and Stained-Glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.

The first period of construction, from 1163 into the 1240s, coincided with the musical experiments of the Notre Dame School. The Cathedral suffered desecration during the radical phase of The French Revolution, in the 1790s, when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed.

An extensive restoration, supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, removed remaining decoration, returning the Cathedral to an 'original' Gothic state. See more at CRACK TWO

Two Ordo Or Not Two Ordo ? That Is The Question. Whether 'Tis Nobler In The Mind To Suffer The Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous "Missalettes".

               

Available soon !!!

From THE SAINT LAWRENCE PRESS LTD

The ORDO 2017

for The Extraordinary Form of The Mass.

ORDO 2017 will be available for despatch very soon.

Please watch this space on THE SAINT LAWRENCE PRESS LTD

A new Cart for ORDO 2017 will be set up when it is available.

It would be much appreciated if people did not order the 2016 Edition, hoping to get 2017. 

It is gratifying and pleasing to see so many enquiries already about the 2017 edition.

ORDO 2016 sold very well, with many new customers from around the World, as a new

generation starts to understand the richness of The Roman Liturgy and to follow

the Praxis of previous generations, now gone to The LORD. 

November is, of course, a most suitable time to remember them.

In addition, Fr Hunwicke comments on HIS Ordo (see, below),

for The Ordinary Form of The Mass,

at FR HUNWICKE'S MUTUAL ENRICHMENT

"For those who are Ordinary Form chaps and chappesses, but would enjoy something which somewhat elevates bog-standard Bugnini, I commend the ORDO which I still compile,

Order for the Eucharist and for Morning and Evening prayer in the Church of England 2016. It gives full information both for the Novus Ordo Roman Rite (Third Typical Edition of the Roman Missal) and for the Church of England (Common Worship). Tufton Books. (By the way, it starts with Advent.)"

Please NOTE: The above text for Fr Hunwicke is taken from 2015.

No doubt, Fr Hunwicke's 2017 Ordo will be available soon.

Please keep an eye on his Blog

FR HUNWICKE'S MUTUAL ENRICHMENT

For those who are Ordinary Form chaps and chappesses,

but would enjoy something which somewhat elevates bog-standard Bugnini,

Fr Hunwicke commends this ORDO.

Please NOTE: The 2017 Edition will be available very soon.

Illustration: TUFTON BOOKS

Two Ordo, or not Two Ordo: That is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous "Missalettes",

Or to give arms against a sea of troubles,

And, by opposing, end them. To know what Feast it is.

And have a damn good read.

Shakespeare.

Hamlet.

(With Apologies)

Embroidery Training Day. 12 December 2015. Oxford. 1000 hrs - 1600 hrs.

Illustration: GUILD OF ST CLARE

The Guild of St Clare, was set up in 2010 to provide

a network of Needlewomen able to maintain, repair and create Vestments.

The following Text is from GUILD OF ST CLARE

On Saturday, 12th December 2015, Jacqui Macdonald, the RSN tutor. will be coming to Oxford to teach. She is happy to teach any of a wide range of embroidery techniques including crewelwork, goldwork, whitework, stumpwork and surface embroidery techniques.

The following Text is from LMS CHAIRMAN

I'm delighted to promote something genuinely useful and enjoyable: Training in the techniques of Embroidery, taking place in Oxford on 12 December 2015, 1000 hrs - 1600 hrs, and open to all.

'This is a very unusual opportunity to study techniques not often taught in day courses. Please email me at lucyashaw@gmail.com if you would like to know more, or to book a place on the course.

The price is £80 plus materials, and the course runs from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.

Space is limited so please don't delay !'

The details are HERE.

Remembrance Day. At The Eleventh Hour. Of The Eleventh Day. Of The Eleventh Month. The Guns Fell Silent. Lest We Forget.

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

LEST WE FORGET

HYMN TO THE FALLEN

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/qda__aFhR6I

VISIT TO THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/KhmWgCaiF7w

IN FLANDERS FIELDS.

LEST WE FORGET.

Remembrance Day at the John McCrae House (birthplace, museum, and Memorial) in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A detail shot of the "Altar" of the Memorial, with the complete poem 

"In Flanders Fields"and the line "LEST WE FORGET" inscribed on it.

Photo: 11 November 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lx 121.

Note: Part of a series of photographs taken at the John McCrae site 

in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, on 11 November 2009 (Remembrance Day).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustration: LANDSCAPES

Portrait photo of John Alexander McCrae (1872–1918).

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a soldier, physician and poet.

Date: 1918 or earlier.

Image from In Flanders Fields, and other poems, by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, M.D.,
with an essay in character, by Sir Andrew Macphail (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919): http://www.archive.org/details/inflandersfields00mccr.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

An autographed copy of the poem "In Flanders Fields". Unlike the printed copy in the same book, McCrae's handwritten version ends the first line with "grow".

Facsimile of handwritten version of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields", in a volume of his poetry where an acknowledgement is given "The reproduction of the autograph poem is from a copy belonging to Carleton Noyes, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., who kindly permitted its use."

Date: 1919.

Source: Scan of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields And Other Poems", 

obtained from archive.org, converted to PNG and Black and White, slight rotation.

Author: John McCrae.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustrated page by Ernest Clegg.

Note that the first line ends with "grow".

Page 1 of the main content from a limited edition book

containing an illustrated poem, "In Flanders Fields".

Date: 1921.

Source: JP2 zip data at fieldsinflanders00mccrrich archive.org.

Author: John McCrae and Ernest Clegg.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The first chapter of "In Flanders Fields and Other Poems", a 1919 collection of McCrae's works, gives the text of the poem as follows:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Bleuet de France.

Circa 1950.

Source: Own work.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates the Armistice, signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 a.m. in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."

Illustration: LABOUR UNCUT

Armistice Day is one the most important military celebrations in France, since it was a major French victory and the French paid a heavy price in blood to achieve it. The First World War was considered in France as the "Great Patriotic War". Almost all French villages feature Memorials dedicated to the Fallen. In France, the blue Cornflower (Bleuet de France) is used symbolically, rather than the Poppy.

"Ghosts of Vimy Ridge" 
depicts ghosts of the Canadian Corps on Vimy Ridge, 
surrounding the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

Date: 1931.

Source: Canadian House of Commons Collection, (AN: O-4714) [1].

Author: William Longstaff.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France.

Français: Villers-Bretonneux (Somme, France).

La croix du cimetière militaire et la tour du Mémorial National Australien.

Photo: April 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Australian Remembrance Day.
Image: STITCHERS CORNER

De Profundis.

Psalm 129 

(Douay–Rheims Bible)

By Orlando de Lassus.

Taken from the

Prayers for the Dead.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/bHVnrvEalJw.

Psalm CXXIX

De Profundis

Out of the depths I have cried unto Thee, O Lord !

Lord, hear my voice.

Let Thine ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplication.

If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark iniquities,

Lord, who shall endureth ?

For with the Lord there is merciful forgiveness,

And by reason of Thy law I have waited upon Thee, O Lord.

My Soul doth rely on His word:

My Soul doth hope in the Lord.

From the Morning Watch, even unto night,

Let Israel hope in the Lord.

For with the Lord there is mercy,

And with Him plentiful redemption.

And He shall redeem Israel,

From all his iniquities.

V. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord.

R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.

De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine:

Domine, exaudi vocem meam.

Fiant aures tuae intendentes:

In vocem deprecationis meae.

Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine:

Domine, quis sustinebit ?

Quia apud te propitiatio est:

Et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.

Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus:

Speravit anima mea in Domino.

A custodia matutina usque ad noctem:

Speret Israel in Domino.

Quia apud Dominum misericordia:

Et copiosa apud eum redemptio.

Et ipse redimet Israel,

Ex omnibus iniquitatibus ejus.

V. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.

R. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

. . . "If ye break faith,

With us who die,

We shall not sleep,

Though Poppies grow,

In Flanders fields."

Photo: 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Zephyrinus.

South African Infantry Soldier stands guard

at the Johannesburg Memorial

on the 90th Remembrance Day Ceremony.

Image: DIGITAL JOURNAL

Delville Wood,
near Longueval,
The Somme,
France.
Image: WORLD WAR ONE BATTLEFIELDS

Delville Wood was sometimes known as Devil's Wood, and the fighting there during the Battle of the Somme was particularly ferocious. The majority of the wood was eventually taken by South African soldiers on 15 July 1916, and they held on grimly during numerous German counter-attacks for six days, until they were relieved.

After the War, South Africa purchased the site in 1920,
and it serves as a Memorial to those of that Nation who fell,
not just there, but elsewhere.

The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in Confederation Square in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 
immediately following the Remembrance Day ceremonies on 11 November, 2006. 

Since its installation, it has become traditional to place Poppies 

on the Tomb, after the formal ceremony has concluded.

Photo: 11 November 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mikkel Paulson.

(Wikimedia Commons)

New Zealand 

Remembrance Day Ceremony.

NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE WEB-SITE

Armistice Day (also referred to as Remembrance Day) marks the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War One and commemorates the sacrifice of those who died serving New Zealand in this War, and all Wars and armed conflict.

The Great War of 1914 to 1918 was one of the most devastating events in human history. New Zealand, with a population of 1.1 million in 1914, sent 100,000 men and women abroad. 16,700 died and over 40,000 were wounded – a higher per capita casualty rate than any other country involved.

The coming of Peace, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, brought Blessed Relief for all involved.

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun,
and in the morning.

We will remember them.

We will remember them.

(Fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's Poem 'For the Fallen')

Illustration from

IN CAELO ET IN TERRA