Weekly Traditional Latin Masses In Kent: Maidstone; Ashford; Tenterden; Headcorn; Ramsgate; Margate; Tunbridge Wells; Chislehurst.

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Zephyrinus is delighted to publicise

the Traditional Latin Masses,

which are Celebrated in Kent

on a regular Weekly basis on Sundays.

In addition, Traditional Latin Masses

are Celebrated during the Week,

on Feast Days and Holy Days of Obligation.

Illustration by

Margaret Tarrant.

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There is a vibrant and happy group

who attend these Masses

and meet, after Mass, for a lovely Lunch

in various hostelries and locations.

Do come and join them. You will all be most welcome.

Illustration by

Margaret Tarrant.

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Besides Glorifying God in an edifying,

Holy and Traditional manner,

you will see the wonderful Kent countryside

changing throughout the Seasons,

which, in itself, Glorifies God.

              

MAIDSTONE, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS.

Church of Saint Francis,

Maidstone, Kent.

Photo: © Copyright Chris Whippet

and licensed for reuse under this

Creative Commons Licence.

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated

at the

Church of Saint Francis,

126, Week Street,

Maidstone, Kent ME14 1RH,

(next to Maidstone East Railway Station)

at 1230 hrs,

on the FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON STOCK.

Church of Saint Simon Stock,

Ashford, Kent.

Photo: WIKIMAPI

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated

at the

Church of Saint Simon Stock,

Brookfield Road,

Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1215 hrs,

on the SECOND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

TENTERDEN, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW.

Photo: SAINT ANDREW'S

CATHOLIC CHURCH,

TENTERDEN

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated

at the

Church of Saint Andrew,
47, Ashford Road,
Tenterden, Kent TN30 6LL,

at 1200 hrs,

on the THIRD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

HEADCORN, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT THOMAS OF CANTERBURY.

Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury,

Headcorn, Kent.

Photo © Copyright David Anstiss

and licensed for reuse

under this Creative Commons Licence.

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated

at the

Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury,

Becket Court, 15, Station Road,

Headcorn, Kent TN27 9SB,

(near to Headcorn Railway Station)

at 1200 hrs,

on the FOURTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

WHEN THERE IS A FIFTH SUNDAY IN THE MONTH,

THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IS CELEBRATED AT

ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON STOCK.

Saint Simon Stock Church,

Ashford, Kent.

Photo: WIKIMAPIA

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated

at the

Church of Saint Simon Stock,

Brookfield Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1215 hrs,

on the FIFTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

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for providing information on Usus Antiquior Masses in Ramsgate, Kent.

The Ramsgate Web-Site is THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF RAMSGATE AND MINSTER

Traditional Latin Mass at Saint Augustine's,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Image: SAINT AUGUSTINE'S, RAMSGATE, KENT

Saint Augustine's Shrine,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Image: AUGUSTINE'S SHRINE.

Times of Latin

Usus Antiquior Masses.

RAMSGATE, KENT.

Saint Augustine’s Church,

Saint Augustine’s Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 9PA.

Telephone: 01843 592 071.

Traditional Latin Masses at

1200 hrs. Sunday.

and

0930 hrs. Friday.

Saint Ethelbert and Saint Gertrude Church,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Illustration: THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF RAMSGATE AND MINSTER

RAMSGATE, KENT.

Saint Ethelbert and Saint Gertrude Church,

72, Hereson Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 7DS.

Traditional Latin Mass at

0930 hrs.

on Wednesdays.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Illustration: THE CIVIC SOCIETY

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT.

Saint Augustine’s Church,

Crescent Road,

Royal Tunbridge Wells,

Kent TN1 2LY.

Telephone: 01892 522525.

Traditional Latin Mass at

1900 hrs.

on Wednesdays.

Saint Mary's Church,

Chislehurst, Kent.

Illustration: ARCHDIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK

CHISLEHURST, KENT.

Saint Mary's Church

28 Crown Lane,

Chislehurst,

Kent BR7 5PL.

E-Mail: frcbriggs@stmarysrc.org

Telephone: 020 8467 3215.

Traditional Latin Mass at

1100 hrs.

Every Sunday.

and

1930 hrs.

on Fridays.

Saint Austin and Saint Gregory Church,

Margate, Kent.

Images: SAINT AUSTIN AND SAINT GREGORY WITH SAINT ANNE

MARGATE, KENT.

Saint Austin and Saint Gregory Church,

38 Charlotte Place,

Margate,

Kent CT9 1LP.

Telephone: 01843 220825.

E-Mail: info@margatecatholic.org

Web-Site: SAINT AUSTIN AND SAINT GREGORY WITH SAINT ANNE

Traditional Latin Mass at

1130 hrs.

on Sundays

and

1930 hrs.

on Mondays.

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The Marian Saturdays. The Devotion Of The First Five Saturdays. Plus, The Five Masses In Honour Of Our Lady, According To The Season.

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4 February 2017 was The First Saturday of February. It seems a good time to remind ourselves of this Article about The Devotion of The First Five Saturdays and Communions of Reparation Against Offences And Blasphemies to The Immaculate Heart of Mary:

“I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the Graces necessary for Salvation, all those who, on The First Saturday of five consecutive months, shall Confess, receive Holy Communion, recite Five Decades of The Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while Meditating on The Mysteries of The Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”

It may come as some surprise that this Devotion of The First Five Saturdays, requested by Heaven, through Sister Lucia of Fatima in 1925 at her Convent in Pontevedra, Spain, was not new; in fact, it is an ancient custom in The Church.

It fits precisely into the long Tradition of Catholic piety that, having devoted Fridays to the remembrance of The Passion of Jesus Christ and to honouring His Sacred Heart, found it very natural to devote Saturdays to His Most Holy Mother.

It is sometimes asked why Our Lady asked for Communions of Reparation on Five First Saturdays, instead of some other number. On 29 May 1930, Our Blessed Lord explained to Sister. Lucia, in another apparition to her, that it was because of five kinds of offenses and blasphemies against The Immaculate Heart of Mary, namely: Blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, against her Perpetual Virginity, against The Divine and Spiritual Maternity of Mary, Blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonouring of her images, and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.

“My Soul waits for The Lord more than watchmen for the morning” (Psalm 130:6).

It is also an age-old Tradition that Jesus appeared to Mary on the Saturday, the day after His death, whilst the World lay in hushed waiting for The Resurrection. The great Theologians of the 12th- and 13th-Centuries, Saints. Bernard, Thomas, and Bonaventure, explained The Dedication of Saturdays to Mary by pointing to the time of Christ’s Rest in The Grave. Everyone else had abandoned Christ; only Mary continued to believe, demonstrating her deep Faith by never doubting for a moment her Son’s Promise of Resurrection. This was her day !

THE FIVE MASSES IN HONOUR OF OUR LADY,

ACCORDING TO THE SEASON.

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

The use of Consecrating  the Saturday to Our Lady developed, not only in private, but also in Liturgical Devotion, during the 8th-Century - 12th-Century. The reason for this choice, however, remains unknown.

There are Five Masses in Honour of Our Lady, according to The Season.

They are said as The Mass of The Day on Saturdays when there are no Feasts or Greater Ferias, and can also be said as Votive Masses on other occasions.

Mass: Roráte, caeli.

Second Collect of The Feria of Advent.

Third Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Veneratione.

God has sent us a Saviour (Epistle) and The Votive Mass of The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Proper to The Season of Christmastide, reminds us that it is by Mary that we have had the happiness of receiving The Author of Life (Collect).

The Gospel pictures her beside The Child in The Manger, and The Church declares her "Blessed, because she has borne in her womb The Son of The Eternal Father" (Communion), and truly worthy of all praise, because of her was born Christ Our Lord (Offertory).

The Collect and the Alleluia, in setting forth the Virginity of Mary, make manifest to us, as in all the Liturgy of Christmas, that Jesus has God for Father and that The Virgin, therefore, is, herself, The Mother of God.

Mass: Vultum tuum.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Veneratione.

At this Season, Consecrated to the great work of our Redemption, The Mass of The Blessed Virgin shows us Mary as Mother of Our Saviour.

She was pre-destined from All Eternity for the role of Co-Redemptress (Epistle), for, as Eve was the intermediary chosen by The Angel of Darkness to bring about The Fall of Adam, so, also, is Mary the intermediary to whom The Angel Gabriel (Tract) delivered The Message of Salvation from Heaven. She is also Blessed since she heard The Word of God and obeyed it (Gospel).

Mass: Salve, sancta parens.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Festivitáte.

Mary is Mother of The Risen Lord, Who reigns for ever in Heaven and on Earth (Introit), she has helped to restore peace between our Souls and God (Alleluia). Therefore, the Liturgy proclaims her "happy and Blessed above all women, because she carried in her womb The Son of The Eternal Father" (Alleluia, Offertory, Communion).

Mary is also The Queen of The Church Founded by The Risen Christ. "Her power is established in Jerusalem and her abode is in the fulness of The Saints" (Epistle).

At The Foot of The Cross, Jesus said to Saint John, who personified all Christians: "Behold thy Mother" (Gospel), and Mary "always and everywhere protects our Souls through her patronage (Postcommunion).

Mass: Salve, sancta parens.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Veneratione.

Mass: Salve, sancta parens.

Second Collect of The Holy Ghost.

Third Collect against The Persecutors of The Church or For The Pope.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Et te in Festivitáte.

Saint Romuald. Abbot. Feast Day 7 February.

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

Saint Romuald. 
Abbot. 
Feast Day 7 February.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Romuald.

Abbot.

Painted for the Church of San Romualdo, Ravenna, Italy,

an Angel uses the Abbot's baton to chastise an errant figure.

Artist: Guercino (1591–1666).

Date: 1640.

Current location: Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna, Italy.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art:

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Romuald was born at Ravenna, Italy, and left the World at the age of twenty (Gospel) to give himself up in Prayer and Meditation (Introit) to the work of Penance undertaken by Jesus.

Attacked by Satan, who tried to ensnare him, he always drove him away in terror (Epistle). He enjoyed, over Princes and Kings, a great influence (ibid), which he used for the good of Souls.

Like the Patriarch, Jacob,  he saw in a vision a ladder which reached from Earth to Heaven, on which ascended and descended Monks clothed in White. This happened in Tuscany, Italy, on the field of a certain Maldoli.

Romuald bought this "Campo Maldoli" and Founded there the Monastery of "Camaldoli" and "The Camaldolese" Branch of The Benedictine Order (Communion).

He died  in 1027 at the age of 120 at Val de Castro, Piceno, Italy. His body, found intact five years later, was placed in the Church of the  Monastery at Fabriano. Saint Romuald always showed, in the midst of his austerities, a face so full of joy that those who saw him rejoiced.

Let us imitate him in the Holy Season of Lent.

Mass: Os justi of Abbots.

In Lent, Commemoration and Last Gospel of The Feria.

Saint Dorothy. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 6 February.

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

Saint Dorothy.
Virgin and Martyr.
Feast Day 6 February.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Dorothy.

Artist: The Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553).

Date: Circa 1530.

Current location: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

References: Web Gallery of Art.

Source/Photographer: [2]

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Dorothy, a Virgin of Caesarea, in Cappadocia, was condemned to be beheaded. She received The Double Palm of Virginity and Martyrdom towards the end of the 3rd-Century A.D.

Mass: Me exspectavérunt of The Common of Virgins.

Saint Titus. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 6 February.

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

Saint Titus.
Bishop and Confessor.
Feast Day 6 February.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Titus.

Святой Апостол Тит Критский

Косово, XIV век. Печь Патриаршия. Церковь св. Николая

Date: 14th-Century.

Source: http://www.iconsv.ru/index.php?option=com_

joomgallery&func=detail&id=3523&Itemid=3

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Like The Divine Sower mentioned in the Gospel of Sexagesima Sunday, Titus, the well-beloved disciple of Saint Paul, "endured the fatigues of numerous and distant voyages on land and sea to go and sow The Divine Word among Nations of different Countries speaking different tongues" [Matins: Fifth Lesson].

Wherefore, The Church declares that "God had adorned him with the virtues of an Apostle" (Collect), and that he was one of the "husbandmen whom The Master of The Harvest had sent to gather it in" (Gospel.

Employed by Saint Paul in important circumstances [the name of Titus occurs ten times in the Epistles written by Saint Paul to the Corinthians and to Timothy], he landed with him in Crete and was made, by the Apostle, Bishop of the island (Introit, Epistle, Offertory). It was there that he received from his master a Letter included in The New Testament, of which we find extracts in the Epistle of certain Masses.

In today's Mass, we read, as Christ had already said (Communion), that the Bishop is "God's steward", and that "Jesus is The Saviour Who has given Himself to redeem us".

Saint Titus died at the age of ninety-four, towards the year 105 A.D., and his name is highly-praised by Saint John Chrysostom and by Saint Jerome.

Mass: Státuit, of a Confessor Bishop.

Commemoration: Of Saint Dorothy from Mass: Me exspectavérunt.

Saint Agatha. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 5 February.

Text and Illustrations from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Agatha.

Attended in Prison by Saint Peter and an Angel.

Artist: Alessandro Turchi (1578–1649).

Medium: Oil on Slate.

According to an early Christian legend, when a 3rd-Century A.D. Roman official of Sicily desired

the Christian woman, Agatha, and she refused to yield to his advances, he had her tortured,

and even ordered her breasts cut off. At night, in prison, she was visited by a vision of

Saint Peter and an Angel, and her breasts were miraculously restored. The grey stone of

the prison wall was created by letting the slate show through, and it forms a background

for the night scene, illuminated by a torch. As opposed to canvas and wood, slate gave

a painting almost unlimited durability and the same kind of permanence as sculpture.

Date: 1640-1645 (Baroque).

Current location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore,

Maryland, United States of America.

Credit line: Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909.

Source/Photographer: Walters Art Museum.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Parish Church of Saint Agatha of Sicily,

Bischofstetten, Austria.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche Bischofstetten, Österreich.

Photo: 8 February 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: BSonne.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha of Sicily is a Christian Saint. Feast Day 5 February. Agatha was born at Catania, Sicily, and Martyred circa 251 A.D. She is one of seven women, who, along with The Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in The Canon of The Mass.

She is The Patron Saint of: Catania, Sicily; Molise, Italy; Malta; San Marino; and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia, Spain. She is also The Patron Saint of breast cancer patients, Martyrs, wet nurses, Bell-Founders, bakers, fire, earthquakes, and eruptions of Mount Etna.

Agatha is buried at the Abbey Church of Saint Agatha (Badia di Sant'Agata), Catania. She is listed in the Late-6th-Century A.D. Martyrologium Hieronymianum, associated with Jerome, and the Synaxarion, The Calendar of The Church of Carthage, circa 530 A.D.

English: The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha.

Italiano: Martirio di Sant'Agata.

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

This File: 17 April 2006.

User: Crux. This image was

copied from wikipedia:de.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Agatha also appears in one of the carmina of Venantius Fortunatus. Two early Churches were Dedicated to her in Rome, notably the Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti, in via Mazzarino, a Titular Church with Apse mosaics of circa 460 A.D., and traces of a fresco cycle, over-painted by Gismondo Cerrini, in 1630. In the 6th-Century A.D., the Church was adapted to Arian Christianity, hence its name, "Saint Agatha of Goths" (Sant'Agata dei Goti), and later re-Consecrated by Pope Gregory the Great, who confirmed her traditional Sainthood. 

Agatha is also depicted in the mosaics of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, where she appears, richly dressed, in the procession of female Martyrs along the North Wall. Her image forms an initial "I" in the Sacramentary of Gellone, from the end of the 8th-Century A.D.

English: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702-1768),

was the Architect of The Abbey Church of Saint Agatha,

Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Italiano: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702-1768),

la Chiesa della Badia di Sant'Agata a Catania (1767).

Photo: 4 July 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Giovanni Dall'Orto.

(Wikimedia Commons)

One of the most-highly-Venerated Virgin Martyrs of Christian antiquity, Agatha was put to death during the Persecution of Decius (250 A.D. - 253 A.D.) in Catania, Sicily, for her steadfast profession of Faith.

Her written legend comprises "straightforward accounts of interrogation, torture, resistance, and triumph, which constitute some of the earliest hagiographic literature", and are reflected in later recensions, the earliest surviving one being an illustrated Late-10th-Century passio, bound into a composite volume, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, originating, probably, in Autun, Burgundy; in its margin illustrations, Magdalena Carrasco detected Carolingian or Late-Antique iconographic traditions.

According to Jacobus de Voragine's, Legenda Aurea, of circa 1288, having dedicated her Virginity to God, fifteen-year-old Agatha, from a rich and noble family, rejected the amorous advances of the low-born Roman Prefect, Quintianus, who then persecuted her for her Christian Faith. He sent Agatha to Aphrodisia, the keeper of a brothel.

English: Church of Saint Agatha, Rabat, Malta.

Italiano: Chiesa di Sant'Agata, Rabat, Malta.

Photo: 31 August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Cruccone.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Madam, finding her intractable, Quintianus sends for her, argues, threatens, and finally has her put in prison. Among the tortures she underwent was the cutting off of her breasts. After further dramatic confrontations with Quintianus, represented in a sequence of dialogues in her "Passio" that document her fortitude and steadfast devotion. Saint Agatha was then sentenced to be burned at the stake, but an earthquake saved her from that fate; instead, she was sent to prison where Saint Peter the Apostle appeared to her and healed her wounds.Saint Agatha died in prison, according to the Legenda Aurea, in "The Year of Our Lord two hundred and fifty-three, in the time of Decius, The Emperor of Rome." Osbern Bokenham, A Legend of Holy Women, written in the 1440s, offers some further detail.

English: Interior of Saint Agatha's Chapel, Mdina, Malta.

Italiano: Interno della cappella di Sant'Agata, Mdina, Malta.

Photo: 31 August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Cruccone.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha's Church,

Yorkshire, England.

The Church is next to Easby Abbey.

Photo: 15 June 2008.

Source: Own work by uploader.

Author: Greenjettaguy.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Agatha.
Virgin and Martyr.
Feast Day 5 February.

Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Cathedral of Saint Agatha, Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Deutsch: Italien, Sizilien, Catania, Dom Sant' Agata.

Photo: 6 October 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr (Collect), was born in Sicily of noble parentage, but she estimated that, for her, the highest nobility would be to belong to Jesus, Whom she took as her Spouse (Gospel).

Endowed with remarkable beauty, she had to resist the solicitations of the Roman Governor, Quintianus, who, unable to attain his end by persuasion, had recourse to violence. Her breast was torn by his order, but was healed on the following night, by the Apostle, Saint Peter, who appeared to her in prison (Communion).

Then, the body of the Saint was rolled on pieces of broken pottery and on burning coals, and, when she was brought back to her cell, she expired while Praying.

This happened at Catana (Catania), Sicily, in 251 A.D., during the Persecution of the Emperor, Decius. God Almighty, by granting the victory of Martyrdom to a feeble woman (Collect), wished to show that He alone is our Redeemer, for it is with this "end in view that He chooses what is weak, in the World, to confound with their nothingness those who trust in their own strength" (Epistle).

English: Interior of the Church of Saint Agatha, Hausleiten, Austria. 

Deutsch: Innenansicht der katholischen Pfarrkirche hl. Agatha 

in der niederösterreichischen Gemeinde Hausleiten.

Photo: 29 September 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bwag.

(Wikimedia Commons)

On several occasions, the virginal veil, which covered the tomb of Saint Agatha, held up the torrents of burning lava rushing down from Mount Etna and threatening to ruin the town. God thus honoured the resistance that her very pure Soul had shown to all the assaults of passion.

Her name is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass (Second List). Her Feast was already Celebrated at Rome in the 6th-Century A.D. The Church of Saint Agatha, in Rome, was made a Stational Church by Pope Pius XI in 1934 (Third Tuesday in Lent).

Let us invoke Saint Agatha to preserve our homes from fire and to extinguish, through the Spirit of Penitence, the impure flames that consume our bodies and our Souls.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Domino.

[Editor: The Introit "Gaudeámus", which is used for many Feasts, is taken from The Mass of Saint Agatha.]