Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Friday 20 January 2017

Pope Saint Fabian And Saint Sebastian. Feast Day 20 January. Martyrs.


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

Saint Fabian, Pope,
   and Saint Sebastian.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 20 January.

Double.

Red Vestments.




Pope Saint Fabian (236 A.D. - 250 A.D.)
wears an anachronistic Papal Tiara.
Artist: Giovanni di Paolo (1403–1482).
Date: Mid-15th-Century.
Current location: National Gallery, London.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
(Wikimedia Commons)




Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
Saint Sebastian of Avla.
Captain of The Praetorian Guard.
Roman Soldier, Healer and Martyr.
Artist: Il Sodoma (1477–1549).
Date: 1525.
Current location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
(Wikimedia Commons)

The two great Roman Martyrs, Fabian and Sebastian, made manifest, the first in 250 A.D. in the Persecution of Decius, the second in 284 A.D. in that of Diocletian, The Divine Power of Christ "Who operated wonders in them" (Gradual). The ancient Martyrologies unite their names.

The appearance of The Holy Ghost, in the form of a Dove, had attested The Divinity of Jesus on the day of His Baptism. It was also a Dove, hovering above Fabian, that pointed him out to The Church as Vicar of Jesus Christ.

Saint Sebastian, an Officer of The Imperial Household and Commander of a Cohort, encouraged his brothers-in-arms, subjected to torments on account of their Faith. Diocletian ordered him to be pierced with arrows. Sebastian, having escaped death, reappeared before the Emperor and reproached him with his crimes. He was condemned to be flogged to death.

Like the Martyrs mentioned in the Epistle, these two Saints "were found perfect in the testimony they bore of their Faith in Jesus Christ," for "it is for the cause of The Son of Man that they suffered persecution" (Gospel), Numerous cures were wrought by Saint Sebastian or, rather, by the virtue of Christ which was in him (Gospel and Communion).

Let us in our weakness have recourse (Collect) to the powerful protection of these glorious Martyrs.

Mass: Intret in conspéctu.


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Hurrah !!! Wonderful News !!! Thank God !!! Deo Gratias !!! Hopefully, Thousands Of Little Ones Will Now Be Able To Say The Same Thing, If Her Policy Is Reversed !!!


The following Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, 
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF UNBORN CHILDREN


Cathy Warwick.
Chief Executive of The Royal College of Midwives.

Pro-ABORTION Midwives' Chief resigns.

Cathy Warwick, the Chief Executive of The Royal College of Midwives (RCM), will step down from the role and retire at the end of August 2017, it has been announced.

Prof Warwick is also Chairman of Trustees for The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), and came under fire when she signed the RCM up to their "We Trust Women Campaign", which advocates for full decriminalisation of ABORTION on demand up to birth.

This means that the RCM, which is Britain's biggest Maternity Union, representing nearly 30,000 Midwives and Health Workers, is calling for women to be allowed to terminate an unborn child at any stage of pregnancy, for any reason, with no criminal sanctions.

"Not In Our Name".

This caused outrage among RCM Members, and thousands of Midwives and members of the public signed a "Not In Our Name" petition. The Society For The Protection Of Unborn Children (SPUC) also collected tens of thousands of signatures calling on Prof Warwick to resign.

FSSP Celebrate Mass In The Charterhouse Of Buxheim, Germany.




Both Illustrations: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

The FSSP’s German Seminary Celebrated Mass on 8 December 2016, Feast Day of The Immaculate Conception, at The Charterhouse of Buxheim, whose Early-18th-Century Church is famous for its incredibly elaborate Baroque Choir Stalls.

Buxheim is located in Memmingen, about thirty-three miles to the North-East of Wigratzbad, the home of the Priesterseminar St Petrus, both within the Bavarian Diocese of Augsburg.


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