ORDO MMXVI. Now Available. Order, Today, From The Saint Lawrence Press.

The ORDO MMXVI is now available.

Order, today, from THE SAINT LAWRENCE PRESS LTD

Zephyrinus heartily recommends this splendid ORDO MMXVI to all Readers.
It is a must addition to your Library, otherwise you simply don't know what Feast Day it is, whether it's a Double or Semi-Double, and how many Commemorations there are.
No "Missalette" can compare.

If you're still not sure, why not read the excellent summation by THE RAD TRAD
who also urges you to get your Copy, now.

From First Vespers In Advent (Today) To Second Vespers (Inclusive) of 2 February (Feast Of The Purification Of Our Blessed Lady), The Marian Anthem is Alma Redemptoris Mater.

"Love's Pure Light".

The Blessed Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.

Artist: Kathy Lawrence.

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

For Six Voices.

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Cantar Lontano.

Director: Marco 

Mencoboni.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/iVT9sxyr2I0

ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER

Alma Redemptoris Mater, 

quæ pervia cæli

Porta manes, et stella maris, 

 succurre cadenti,

Surgere qui curat, populo: 

tu quæ genuisti,

Natura mirante, tuum sanctum 

Genitorem

Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore

Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

Mother of Christ ! Hear thou thy people's cry,

Star of the deep, and portal of the sky !

Mother of Him Who thee from nothing made,

Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid;

Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee,

Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.

"Alma Redemptoris Mater"

(Simple Tone).

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/iq5CKlOyeMk

The Song Of Songs.

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

Head-piece to The Song of Solomon. Canticles 1:4. Vignette with a winged heart with flowers

and a halo of stars standing upon a skull with snake coiling around it and an orb, a glowing Hebrew inscription in sky above; letterpress in two columns below and on verso. 1796. Inscriptions: Lettered below image, "P J de Loutherbourg", "J. Landseer Fec" and publication line: "Published Jany. 1796/ by T. M[ ] Fleet St London". Print made by John Landseer.

Date: 1 January 1796.

Source: Photos by Harry Kossuth.

Author: Phillip Medhurst.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Joshua 1:1 in the Aleppo Codex.

Source: http://www.aleppocodex.org

Author: see en:Aleppo Codex;

scanned by http://www.aleppocodex.org

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Song of Songs, also known as The Song of Solomon, The Canticle of Canticles, or, simply, Canticles (Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים  Šîr HašŠîrîm; Greek: ᾎσμα ᾈσμάτων asma asmaton, both meaning "Song of Songs"), is one of the Megillot (Scrolls) of The Ketuvim ("The Writings", the last section of The Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), and the Fifth of the "Wisdom" Books of The Christian Old Testament.

The only piece of erotic literature in The Bible,

this book was regarded by earlier devotees as an allegory of God's love

for His people. The Text is introduced by A.S. Byatt. 

Canongate Books.

1 Jan 1999. 

Bibles - 48 pages.

GOOGLE BOOKS

Scripturally, The Song of Songs is unique in its celebration of sexual love. It gives "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy". The two are in harmony, each desiring the other and rejoicing in sexual intimacy; the women (or "daughters") of Jerusalem form a chorus to the lovers, functioning as an audience, whose participation in the lovers' erotic encounters facilitates the participation of the reader.

The following Song of Songs Text is from

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/

Song of Songs Chapter 2 שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים

א  אֲנִי חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן, שׁוֹשַׁנַּת הָעֲמָקִים.	1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
ב  כְּשׁוֹשַׁנָּה בֵּין הַחוֹחִים, כֵּן רַעְיָתִי בֵּין הַבָּנוֹת.	2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
ג  כְּתַפּוּחַ בַּעֲצֵי הַיַּעַר, כֵּן דּוֹדִי בֵּין הַבָּנִים; בְּצִלּוֹ חִמַּדְתִּי וְיָשַׁבְתִּי, וּפִרְיוֹ מָתוֹק לְחִכִּי.	3 As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.
ד  הֱבִיאַנִי אֶל-בֵּית הַיָּיִן, וְדִגְלוֹ עָלַי אַהֲבָה.	4 He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.
ה  סַמְּכוּנִי, בָּאֲשִׁישׁוֹת--רַפְּדוּנִי, בַּתַּפּוּחִים:  כִּי-חוֹלַת אַהֲבָה, אָנִי.	5 'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'

In modern Judaism, the Song is read on The Sabbath during The Passover, which marks the beginning of the grain harvest as well as commemorating The Exodus from Egypt. Jewish Tradition reads it as an allegory of the relationship between God and Israel. Christian Tradition, in addition to appreciating the literal meaning of a romantic song between Man and Woman, has read the poem as an allegory of Christ (The Bridegroom) and His Church (The Bride).

English: Church of Santa Caterina del Sasso, Varese, Italy. Fresco showing a Lily among Thorns, symbolising The Virgin Mary, according to a quotation from The Song of Solomon.

Deutsch: Santa Caterina del Sasso ( Varese ). Kirche - Fresko: Lilie unter Dornen als Symbol der Jungfrau Maria nach einem Zitat aus dem Hohen Lied Salomos.

Date: 1 August 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Wolfgang Sauber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Song of Songs.

Artist: Gustave Moreau (1826–1898).

Date: 1863.

Current location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France.

Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center

(Wikimedia Commons)

Beata Es Virgo (Blessed Is The Virgin). Diego Ortiz. Cantar Lontano. Marco Mencoboni.

Photo: Our Lady of Lourdes

by Lawrence OP

on Flickr

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Beata Es Virgo"

(Blessed Is The Virgin).

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Marco Mencoboni and Cantar Lontano.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/7O2WGAQBkAo

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

For Six Voices.

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Marco Mencoboni and Cantar Lontano.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/iVT9sxyr2I0

Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers (1610).

"Lauda Jerusalem".

Sung by: Marco Mencoboni and Cantar Lontano.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/j-9jXMrTlXY

"A License To Sin . . .To Prove Otherwise Rests On Doctrinal And Disciplinary Interpretations So Tortured They Would Make A Pharisee Blush."

Text in this Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
IN THE LIGHT OF THE LAW A CANON LAWYER'S BLOG

[Note: The original Article uses the American spelling of "License", when the English spelling of "Licence" would be used in England. For this Post, the American spelling has been retained.]

Dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees.

Artist: Gustave Doré.

Date: 1866.

Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/

files/8710/8710-h/p7.htm#077

Author: Gustave Doré (1832–1883).

(Wikimedia Commons)

A License To Sin

There is, I fear, no end in sight of the nonsensical nonsense being unleashed in the wake of various high-level Ecclesiastic dalliances with doctrinal ambiguity and disciplinary confusion in regard to Holy Communion for divorced-and-remarried Catholics.

Call it Life in this Valley of Tears. Anyway, Pope Francis is going to do about this whatever he is going to about it and The Church will respond to whatever he does in due course. For now, I simply write to urge caution about some proposals to facilitate irregular reception of The Sacrament in these cases even if such proposals are couched in apparently sophisticated scholarly terms.

For example, an Australian Theologian has proposed a rescript to be issued by a Bishop in accord with norms supposedly to be devised by Pope Francis, granting permission for divorced-and-remarried Catholics to take Holy Communion.

The proposal includes impressive vocabulary such as “juridical” and “administrative” and “canons”; it sports footnotes to “assessors” and “salus animarum” and warns about “anomalies”; it underscores Church teaching on the permanence of marriage and assures readers that it offers no Doctrinal or Canonical changes to this teaching.

Balderdash. Pure, unadulterated, balderdash.

This proposed rescript is really a License To Sin.

Read the full, original, Article, at

IN THE LIGHT OF THE LAW A CANON LAWYER'S BLOG

New Hot-Tub Arrives.

The New Hot-Tub arrived, today.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Studebaker.

1917 Studebaker Logo.

Source: Automotive Industries, Vol. 37.

Author: Studebaker.

(Wikimedia Commons)

1925 Studebaker Sedan.

Illustration: HEMMINGS

Studebaker (1852–1967) was an American wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1852, and incorporated in 1868 under the name of The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the company was originally a producer of wagons for farmers, miners, and the military.

Studebaker entered the automotive business in 1902 with electric vehicles and, in 1904, with gasoline vehicles, all sold under the name "Studebaker Automobile Company". Until 1911, its automotive division operated in partnership with the Garford Company of Elyria, Ohio, and, after 1909, with The E-M-F Company.

The first gasoline automobiles to be fully manufactured by Studebaker were marketed in August 1912. Over the next fifty years, the company established a reputation for quality and reliability. After years of financial problems, in 1954 the company merged with luxury car-maker Packard to form Studebaker-Packard Corporation. However, Studebaker's financial problems were worse than the Packard executives thought. The Packard marque was phased out and the company returned to the Studebaker Corporation name in 1962.

The South Bend plant ceased production on 20 December 1963, and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assembly line on 16 March 1966.

1947 Studebaker Champion

Three-Passenger Coupé.

Illustration: HEMMINGS

1908 Studebaker Brothers Model G Limousine, built by Garford. This Limousine had an open driver's compartment for the chauffeur and a closed cabin with two windows per side for the passengers, as typical in Edwardian Limousines.

Source: Commercial photo for Studebaker advertisement,

published circa 

1908. Via URL: lib.utah.edu

Author: Harry Shipler.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Studebaker brothers — Founders of what would become The Studebaker Corporation.

From left to right, (standing) Peter and Jacob; (seated) Clem, Henry and John M.

The five brothers were, in order of birth: Henry (1826-1895), Clement (1831-1901), John Mohler (1833-1917), Peter Everst (1836-1897), Jacob Franklin (1844-1887). Their father was named John (1799-1877), their mother Rebecca (née Mohler). They had five sisters. http://www.fritziinc.com/tree/pafg262.htm

Date: 27 March 2006 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBot

Author: Stude62 at en.wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

A UK-imported right-hand-drive

1936 Studebaker four-door Sedan.

Date: 11 June 2009.

Source: This is a cropped derivative from

file:Studebaker Sedan 1936.jpg

Author: Orig creator was Welkinridge.

Cropped by Bjenks.

(Wikimedia Commons)

1938 Studebaker Bus.

This File: 31 March 2007.

User: Lglswe

Author: Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden.

(Wikimedia Commons)

1940 Studebaker Champion.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/jSvfC0yEFcg