Saint Mary Bernard Soubirous. Virgin. Feast Day, Today, 18 February.

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

Saint Mary Bernard Soubirous.
Virgin.
Feast Day 18 February.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.

Date: Circa 1858.

Source: Weltwoche 8/08.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Bernadette Soubirous was born at Lourdes in 1844. Our Blessed Lady appeared eighteen times to her in The Grotto of Massabielle at the beginning of 1858 (Collect).

On 25 March 1858, The Blessed Virgin Mary said to her: "I am The Immaculate Conception", thereby confirming The Dogma officially proclaimed by Blessed Pope Pius IX in 1854.

Leaving everything to purchase at such a price The Kingdom of Heaven (Gospel), she entered the Convent of The Sisters of Charity, at Nevers, France, in 1868. Here, she was given the name of Sister Mary Bernard, and died on 16 April 1879, after a hidden life of Prayer and Penance (Secret).

She was Canonised by Pope Pius XI on 8 December 1933 [Editor: The Feast Day of The Immaculate Conception]; in 1936, her Feast Day was ordered to be Celebrated by The Universal Church eight days after The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Mass: Vultum tuum.

Commemoration: In Lent of The Feria and of Saint Simeon.

The First Traditional Latin Mass In Waterford Cathedral, Ireland, In Fifty Years. Deo Gratias.

Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

From The Latin Mass Society of Ireland comes this report of the first Traditional Latin Mass held in the Cathedral of Waterford in fifty years. The next Traditional Latin Mass in Waterford Cathedral is scheduled for 26 February 2017, Quinquagesima Sunday, at 10 a.m.

After a fifty-year absence, The Traditional Latin Mass returned to the oldest Cathedral Seat of the oldest City in Ireland. With the kind permission of Very Rev. Canon Edmund Cullinan, Administrator., The Traditional Roman Catholic Mass was offered in Waterford Cathedral on Sunday, 22 January 2017, at 10 a.m.

The Celebrant, Polish Priest Fr Andrzej Komorowski, processed in a rather fitting Green Cope through a respectably-filled Cathedral of over 250 people, all eagerly awaiting The Traditional Mass.

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Waterford, Ireland.

The Waterford Architect, John Roberts, 

was invited to build

Holy Trinity Cathedral for Waterford’s Roman Catholic community.

Founded in 1793, it was the first post-Reformation Catholic Cathedral

to be built in Ireland. Roberts was still working on it when he died

on 23 May 1796 at the age of eighty-two.

Illustration: WATERFORD VIKING TRIANGLE

Prayer. It's A Wonderful Thing.

Illustration: PINTEREST

All Aboard, Please. The Union Pacific Railroad's Streamliner, "City Of Los Angeles", Is About To Leave.

The Recent Guild Of Saint Clare Sewing Retreat Was A Huge Success.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, GUILD OF SAINT CLARE

Illustration: JOSEPH SHAW (FLICKR)

Guild of Saint Clare Sewing Retreat: Report.

Our first ever Sewing Retreat finished, recently, and I,. for one (writes a Founding Member), enjoyed myself enormously. With snow falling outside over the panoramic views of the Oxfordshire countryside, an infinite supply of tea and biscuits, and good company, what could be more agreeable than a weekend of sewing, punctuated by Traditional Liturgy ?

Fr Richard Biggerstaff set the tone with his delightful and perceptive talks on Service (represented by the Amice), Authority (represented by the Stole), and the Distraction of the Laity (represented by the Chasuble).

He Celebrated Mass each day, as well as Compline and Benediction. He brought his own Vestments, including a beautiful Humeral Veil, with the Pelican in her Piety embroidered on it.

Illustration: GUILD OF SAINT CLARE

"As you sew,

sew will you . . ."

Illustration: GUILD OF SAINT CLARE

LINKS:

THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF NEEDLEWORK

THE SAINT CATHERINE'S TRUST FOR TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC EDUCATION

THE LATIN MASS SOCIETY OF ENGLAND AND WALES

ZELIE'S ROSES

A Little Levity To Lighten Your Day.

" What's For Tea, Mum ? "

Illustration: PINTEREST

How The Night-Office Is To Be Said On Sundays.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, VULTUS CHRISTI

Illustration: VULTUS CHRISTI

"Te Deum".

Fifth-Century A.D. Monastic Chant (Solemn).

In The Night Office, it is The Abbot who intones "The Te Deum".

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

From Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Te Deum (also known as Ambrosian Hymn or A Song of the Church) is an

Early-Christian Hymn of Praise. The Title is taken from its opening Latin words,

Te Deum laudamus, rendered as "Thee, O God, we praise".

The Hymn remains in regular use in The Catholic Church in The Office of Readings found in The Liturgy of The Hours (The Divine Office), and in Thanksgiving to God for a special Blessing such as the Election of a Pope, the Consecration of a Bishop, the Canonisation of a Saint, a Religious Profession, the publication of a Treaty of Peace, a Royal Coronation, etc.

It is sung either after Mass or The Divine Office or as a separate Religious Ceremony. The Hymn also remains in use in The Anglican Communion and some Lutheran Churches in similar settings.

In The Traditional Office, The Te Deum is sung at the end of Matins on all days when the Gloria is said at Mass; those days are all Sundays outside Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide; on all Feasts (except The Triduum) and on all Ferias during Eastertide.

Before the 1961 Reforms of Pope John XXIII, neither the Gloria nor the Te Deum were said on The Feast of The Holy Innocents, unless it fell on Sunday, as they were Martyred before The Death of Christ and, therefore, could not immediately attain The Beatific Vision.

A Plenary Indulgence is granted, under the usual conditions,

to those who recite it in public on New Year's Eve.

CHAPTER XI.

How The Night-Office Is To Be Said On Sundays.

On Sunday, let The Brethren rise earlier for The Night-Office, which is to be arranged as follows.

When six Psalms and a Versicle have been sung (as already prescribed), all being seated in order in their Stalls, let four Lessons, with their Responsories, be read from The Book, as before; and to the last Responsory, only, let The Reader add a Gloria, all reverently rising as soon as he begins it.

After The Lessons, let six more Psalms follow in order, with their Antiphons and Versicle as before; and then let four more Lessons, with their Responsories, be read in the same way as the former.

Next, let three Canticles from the Prophets be said, as the Abbot shall appoint, which Canticles are to be sung with an Alleluia. After the Versicle, and the Blessing given by the Abbot, let four more Lessons from The New Testament be read as before; and, at the end of the fourth Responsory, let the Abbot begin the Hymn, Te Deum laudamus.

The "Te Deum" Stained-Glass Window,

by Christopher Whall,

at Saint Mary's Church, Ware, Hertfordshire.

Date: 2009.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/

barkingtigs/3263493149/

Author: Barking Tigs.

(Wikimedia Commons)

After the Hymn, let the Abbot read the Lesson from the Gospel, while all stand in awe and reverence.

The Gospel, being ended, let all answer Amen. Then, let the Abbot go on with the Hymn, Te decet laus; and, after the Blessing hath been given, let them begin Lauds. This order for The Night-Office is always to be observed on Sunday, alike in Summer and in Winter, unless per chance (which, God forbid) they rise too late, in which case the Lessons or Responsories must be somewhat shortened. Let all care, however, be taken that this do not happen; but, if it should, let him,, through whose neglect it hath come to pass, make satisfaction for it in the Oratory.

The Chanting of The Holy Gospel constitutes the summit of Sunday Matins; it is the moment that all anticipate after three long Nocturns (Night Watches) of Psalmody, Lessons, and Responsories. It is the παρουσία (Arrival and Presence) of “The Lord Christ, our True King” (Prologue: 3). At the Chanting of The Holy Gospel, all stand cum honore et timore (with honour and fear); it is The Voice of The Lord, the Vox Domini of Psalm 28.