"Dies Irae": In Flanders Fields.

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"Dies Irae": In Flanders Fields.

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Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath") is a Latin Hymn attributed to either Thomas of Celano of The Franciscans (1200 – 1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (+ 1294), Lector at The Dominican Studium, at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.

The Hymn dates from at least the 13th-Century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to Saint Gregory the Great (+ 604 A.D.), Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or Saint Bonaventure (1221–1274).

It is a Medieval Latin Poem characterised by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The Poem describes The Last Judgment Trumpet summoning Souls before The Throne of God, where The Saved will be delivered and The Unsaved cast into Eternal Flames.

The Hymn is best known from its use as a Sequence in The Requiem (Mass for The Dead, or Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion Service Books. The melody is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers.

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The following Poem is from

POETRY FOUNDATION

In Flanders Fields.

By: JOHN MCCRAE

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.

There Is A Mass Of Reparation For The Irish Referendum. At The Church Of The Holy Child And Saint Joseph, Bedford, England.

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A Mass Of Reparation For The Irish Referendum.

Saturday, 10 November 2018.

Noon.

The Church Of The Holy Child And Saint Joseph,

2, Brereton Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire MK40 1HU.

Telephone: 01234 352569.

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"Lift Up Your Hearts".

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Perkins Finally Finds A Car That He Approves Of. Nothing Too Ostentatious. Sufficient To Go To Mass In And To Pop Down The Shops In.

Chauffeur Perkins drives Zephyrinus to Sunday's Missa Cantata in the local village Church.

As can be seen, the current Zephyrinus Charabanc needed replacing.

Perkins evidently got carried away with the new purchase (see photo, below).

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1931 Stutz DV-32 LeBaron Convertible Victoria.

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The Unknown Soldier. Rest In Peace.

The Coffin of The Unknown Soldier.

Westminster Abbey, November 1920.

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On 7 November 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British Soldiers' bodies were exhumed from Temporary Battlefield Cemeteries, at Ypres, Arras, The Aisne, and The Somme, all in France.

None of the Soldiers, who did the digging,

were told why they were digging.

The bodies were taken by Field Ambulance to 

General Headquarters, at St-Pol-Sur-Ternoise, 

near Calais, France. Once there,

the bodies were draped with The Union Flag.

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Sentries were posted, and Brigadier-General Wyatt,

and Colonel Gell, selected one body at random. 

The other three bodies were reburied.

A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the Coffin of the chosen Unknown Soldier overnight. 

On the morning of 8 November 1920, a specially-designed Coffin, made of Oak from the grounds of Hampton Court, London, arrived, and The Unknown Soldier was placed inside. 

On top of the Coffin was placed a Crusader's Sword and a Shield, on which was inscribed:

"A British Warrior,
who fell in The Great War 1914-1918,
for King and Country".

On 9 November 1920,
The Unknown Soldier was taken by Horse-Drawn Carriage, through Guards of Honour and the sound of Tolling Bells and Bugle Calls, to the Quayside. 

There, The Unknown Soldier was Saluted by Marechal Foche, and loaded onto HMS Vernon, bound for Dover.

The Coffin stood on The Deck, covered in Wreaths, surrounded by The French Honour Guard.

Upon arrival at Dover, The Unknown Soldier was met with a Nineteen-Gun Salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals. 

A Special Train had been arranged,

and The Unknown Soldier was conveyed to 

Victoria Railway Station, London.

The Unknown Soldier remained there, overnight, and, on the morning of 11 November 1920, the Coffin was finally taken to Westminster Abbey, London.

The idea of The Unknown Soldier was thought of by a Padre, called David Railton, who had served on The Front Line during The Great War. The Union Flag he had used as an Altar Cloth, whilst at The Front, was the one that had been draped over the Coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 Combatants, whose bodies had not been identified, could believe that The Unknown Soldier could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son . . .

THIS is the reason we wear Poppies.

We do not glorify War.

We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this War, but in every War and Conflict where our Service Personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, at

The Eleventh Hour,

of The Eleventh Day,

of The Eleventh Month,

we remember The Unknown Soldier.

At The Going Down Of The Sun,

And In The Morning,

We Will Remember Them.

We Will Remember Them.

Solemn High Mass. Elchingen Abbey Church, Oberelchingen, Germany. Former Imperial Abbey Of The Holy Roman Empire.

Elchingen Abbey Church, Oberelchingen, Germany.

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Solemn High Mass in Elchingen Abbey Church, Oberelchingen, Germany.

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This Article, above, was taken from SEMINAIRE SAINT-PIERRE WIGRATZBAD

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Elchingen Abbey was a Benedictine Monastery in Oberelchingen, Germany. For much of its history, Elchingen Abbey was one of the forty-odd, self-ruling, Imperial Abbeys of The Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually Independent State that contained several villages, aside from the Monastery, itself. At the time of its Secularisation in 1802, the Abbey covered 112 square kilometers and had 4,000-4,200 subjects.

Dedicated to The Virgin Mary and Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the Monastery was Founded by The Counts of Dillingen in 1128. The Abbey was one of the very few Abbeys that enjoyed Imperial Immediacy (Independent of the Jurisdiction of any Lord and answering directly to The Holy Roman Emperor, and, thus, a Territorial Principality in its own right). The Abbot sat in The Reichstag of The Holy Roman Empire.

Like all the other Imperial Abbeys, Elchingen Abby lost its independence in the course of the Secularisation process in 1802-1803, and the Monastery was Dissolved. By 1840, the buildings had been almost entirely demolished. In 1921, The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate settled on the site. Today, the Abbey Church remains.

References: Wikipedia.

Traditional Requiem Mass. Holy Name Of Jesus Roman Catholic Church. Brooklyn. New York. Thursday, 8 November 2018.