Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Laurence-Without-The-Walls. Easter Wednesday.

Roman Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Italic Text, Illustrations and Captions, are taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.

Indulgence of 30 years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

The spelling of this Saint's name can be either Laurence or Lawrence.

English: Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Italiano: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

Photo: February 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Panairjdde.

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The Lenten Station is at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls. The Church puts before her new-born children, as a model, the illustrious Roman Deacon, to whom this Basilica is dedicated.

Like Saint Paul, yesterday, Saint Peter tells us that the Prophets foretold the death of Jesus and that the Apostles were witnesses of His Resurrection (Epistle). The Alleluia further reminds us that "the Lord hath appeared to Peter"; while the Gospel shows us Saint Peter directing the fishing operations of his companions, in expectation of the hour, now fast approaching, when he will direct their labours as fishers of men. More devoted to Jesus than the others, he cast himself into the sea to rejoin Him, and it was he who drew to land the net, full of one hundred and fifty-three big fishes.

Title: The Cloisters,
San Lorenzo fuori le mura
(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls),
Rome, Italy.

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853).

Date: 1824.

Current location: Art Institute of Chicago,

(Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection).

Photo: April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: user:Rlbberlin

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According to the Fathers, these fishes, brought by Peter to the feet of the Risen Christ, represented the Neophytes, for the Catechumens were born to supernatural life in the Font of Baptism. Called by God to receive His kingdom (Introit), they eat the Bread of Angels, the Bread of Heaven (Offertory, Secret), which transforms them into new creatures (Postcommunion), the "Agni Novelli" or "New-Born Lambs". [The "Agnus Dei", or figures of the Lamb of God, stamped on the wax which remains from the Paschal Candle of the previous year, were formerly blessed by the Pope on this day. Cherished in a spirit of reverence and Faith, they are a protection against sickness and danger.]

Let us celebrate these Festivities of the Resurrection of Our Lord in a spirit of Holy Rejoicing, a foretaste of the joy we shall experience at the eternal Pasch (Collect).

Easter Tuesday. Resurrexit Sicut Dixit, Alleluia.

Taken from ESPADA CATOLICA

Resurrexit Sicut Dixit, Alleluia.

CHRISTUS VINCIT.

CHRISTUS REGNAT.

CHRISTUS IMPERAT.

A Very Happy Eastertide !

Easter Sunday Mass. The Benedictine Monks Of Fontgombault Abbey.

Abbey of Notre-Dame,

Fontgombault, France.

Date: 13 November 2009 (original upload date).

Source: Originally uploaded on en.wikipedia (Transferred by Ayack).

Author: Robindch.

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Easter Sunday Mass Propers.

Performed by the Benedictine Monks

of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault,

France.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/rKcRi6hLaE8.

Fontgombault Abbey,

France.

Image: RIPOSTE CATHOLIQUE

Abbey of Notre-Dame,

Fontgombault, France.

Date: 1960.

Source: Own work.

Author: 

J. P. Sarmant.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The buildings were partly destroyed during the French Revolution, when the Monastery was nationalised and sold off. It was eventually bought back for religious use in 1849, by the Trappists, who re-established it as a viable Community, by redeveloping its agriculture and setting up a kirsch distillery.

In 1905, the Trappists were expelled from France, under the Association Laws, and the Monastery was secularised and sold, a second time. The purchaser was Louis Bonjean, who set up a button factory in the premises. At his death, in 1914, the buildings were put to use as a military hospital for wounded soldiers of the Belgian Army, which it remained until 1918. The expelled Trappists went on to form the Monastery of Our Lady of Jordan, Oregon, in The United States of America.

From 1919 to 1948, the buildings were used as a Diocesan Seminary, which eventually closed for lack of vocations.

In 1948, the empty buildings were restored to the site's original purpose when twenty-two Monks, from Solesmes Abbey, settled it afresh as a Benedictine Community. It is now the most populous of Solesmes' Foundations, with over a hundred Monks, and has, in its turn, made three Foundations in France — Randol Abbey, in 1971, Triors Abbey, in 1984, and Gaussan Priory, in 1994 — as well as Clear Creek Abbey, in the United States, in 1999, which was elevated from a Priory, in 2010. Mass is celebrated in Latin, using the Traditional Pre-Vatican II Rite, as in the 1962 Roman Missal.

As Benedictines of the Solesmes Congregation, Gregorian Chant is at the heart of the Community's Liturgical Practice, and recordings of the Chant at Fontgombault Abbey are available at the Abbey Shop.

The Usus Antiquior Mass

at Fontgombault Abbey,

France.

Image: RIPOSTE CATHOLIQUE

English: Coat-of-Arms (Shield only)

of the French Abbot, Dom Jean Pateau.

Fourth Abbot of The Benedictine Abbey,

Notre-Dame de Fontgombault

(Our Lady of Fontgombault)

since 2011.

Français: Blason (écu seul)

de Dom Jean Pateau,

quatrième abbé de l'abbaye bénédictine

Notre Dame de Fontgombault

depuis 2011.

Date: 21 April 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Barsupilami1512.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Lenten Station At The Papal-Basilica Of Saint Paul-Without-The Walls. Easter Tuesday.

Roman Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Italic Text, Illustrations and Captions, are taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

Indulgence of 30 years and 30 Quarantines.

Double of the First-Class.

White Vestments.

English: Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls,
Rome, Italy.

Deutsch: Rom, Sankt Paul vor den Mauern.

Italiano: Statua di San Paolo di fronte alla facciata
della Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura a Roma.

Photo: May 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner.

(Wikimedia Commons)

After the testimony of Our Lord's Resurrection given by the Angels (Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday), and by the Prince of the Apostles (Easter Monday), today's Liturgy brings before us that of the Apostle of the Gentiles.

So it is in the Papal-Basilica of Saint Paul, on the Via Ostia, that the Church used to gather her new-born children around the tomb of this same Apostle (Collect), there to teach them, out of his mouth, the words of Divine Wisdom ((Introit).

The Epistle consists of a portion of the address in which Saint Paul announced to the Jews of the Synagogue of Antioch, in Pisidia, the Resurrection of Christ, foretold by the Prophets and witnessed by the Apostles.

The Gospel gives us a new proof of Our Lord's Resurrection, telling us of an appearance of Jesus in the Cenacle on the very day that He rose from the dead. Jesus makes his disciples touch Him. He eats in their presence and demonstrates from the Scriptures that it was necessary that Christ should die to save the world.

The Neophytes, "redeemed out of the hand of the enemy and united to God's own people" (Gradual), and all Christians with them, must, continues Saint Paul, henceforth live, like the Risen Christ, none but a heavenly life (Communion), and by their manner of living proclaim their Faith in Christ (Collect).

Let us renew our Faith in the Risen Christ and show it by living, like Jesus, an entirely new life.

Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

English: Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls,
Rome, Italy.

With its length of 432 feet, this Basilica ranks
eleventh among the largest Churches in the world.

Français: Basilique Saint-Paul-hors-les-Murs, Vatican, située à Rome.
Avec sa longueur de 131,66 mètres, cette Basilique
se classe au 11è rang parmi les plus grandes églises au monde.

Photo: September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174.

(Wikimedia Commons)

House Of Discernment For Potential Priests At Shrewsbury Cathedral, Says Bishop Mark Davies.

English: Bishop Mark Davies during Invocation 2011, 17-19 June, Oscott College

Deutsch: Bischof von Shrewsbury, Mark Davies, Juni 2011, Oscott College

© Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk Camera: Nikon D3X. License on Flickr (2011-06-19): Non-Commercial restriction - not compatible with Commons policy

Flickr tags: Invocation 2011, 17-19 June, Oscott College

Photo: 4 July 2010.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/catholicism/5844981309.

Author: Catholic Church (England and Wales).

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Shrewsbury Cathedral

(Cathedral Church of Our Lady, Help of Christians,

and Saint Peter of Alcantara),

Shropshire, England.

Photo: 30 October 2012.

Source: This file was derived from:

Shrewsburycathedral.JPG.

Author: Shrewsburycathedral.JPG: Fountain Posters

derivative work: Rabanus Flavus.

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In 1852, Bertram Arthur Talbot, the 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, offered to build a Cathedral, from which the new Diocese of Shrewsbury would be based. The Cathedral was designed by Edward Pugin (the son of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin). Originally, a larger Cathedral, with a tall Spire, was planned. However, two years into the building of the Cathedral, a stratum of sand was discovered very close to the building's foundations, causing them to be weaker than expected, so the Spire had to be abandoned and the building scaled down.

The Earl of Shrewsbury then agreed to meet the cost of a smaller Church, and this was finished at a cost of £4,000, but he died three months prior to its completion. In 1856, the Cathedral was completed and was opened by Cardinal Wiseman.

The following Text can be found at CNA CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

Manchester, United Kingdom, Apr 16, 2014 / 04:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury, England, has announced plans for a House of Discernment for potential Priests, emphasising the need for “a renewed love for the Priesthood.”

“If we truly open our hearts in Prayer within our families and Parishes, I have no doubt this gift of new vocations will be given us,” the Bishop said in his Homily during the 16 April Chrism Mass at Saint Anthony’s Church, in the Wythenshawe district of Manchester, England.

The new Discernment House will be based at Shrewsbury Cathedral and is set to open in September 2015, the Diocese of Shrewsbury reports.

Bishop Davies said the House will create “a Community at the heart of our Diocese, where the vocation to Priesthood can be actively discerned and supported.” The House will be a year-long programme.

He told the Congregation that Catholics must recognise their role in caring for “the supernatural environment of Faith and Love, within which each new generation grows.”

“Each of us has a part in making an environment where vocations can flourish,” he said.

The Bishop lamented that some young people have told him that they were discouraged from their vocation, not by “hostile influences” outside the Church, but by Catholics.

Bishop Davies compared concerns for the vocations environment to concerns about the natural environment. He noted that problems in the natural environment turn people’s attention to the state of the water, soil and air.

“Likewise, in the supernatural order, if these vital signs of life in the vocations of marriage, consecrated life and the Priesthood die away in a local Church, we also must be alert to the environment,” he said.

“This crisis of vocation is neither inexplicable nor irreversible,” the Bishop continued. He encouraged Prayer and a “renewed love for Priestly vocation” to resolve the vocations crisis.

Bishop Davies noted that Jesus teaches Christians to Pray, “not as a last resort, but as the first and irreplaceable means towards receiving this gift from God.”

He also announced Prayer Cards for vocations, which bear a Prayer he wrote himself. These Cards will be sent to all his Diocese’s Parishes.

The Bishop also voiced gratitude for Priests.

“Today, we give thanks for every Priest who has faithfully accompanied us along the path of our Christian lives, bringing us the Word of Truth, the Grace of the Sacraments, and, above all, the supreme gift of the Holy Eucharist,” he said.

This love for the Priesthood is not “human adulation”, but, rather, “a Faith-filled appreciation of the gift God gives in every man called to share in Christ’s Priesthood.”

The Priesthood is a life and ministry in which a man seeks “to draw all eyes to Christ the Lord,” Bishop Davies explained.

The Diocese of Shrewsbury presently has eight Seminarians and 111 Priests, including 28 Retired Priests, who are serving 98 Parishes with 121 Churches.

A Very Happy Birthday, Your Majesty.

This Article is taken from ONCE I WAS A CLEVER BOY

H.M. The Queen.

A Golden Jubilee photographic portrait.

Image: onelondonone

Happy Birthday, Ma'am.

Today, is the 88th Birthday of Her Majesty, The Queen, and this is a way for me to express loyal greetings and good wishes to her on the occasion.

It is an obvious and well-worn cliché to say that the world has changed much in the years since 1926, but that the Queen has remained a constant in our national life - it is true, but it is a very familiar notion in writings about such anniversaries. One might add that both she and the institution she embodies have over her lifetime shown an adaptability, but also a stamina and an endurance, that is both impressive in an individual and in a ruling mechanism.

Less frequently pointed out is the centrality of that ability to the process of monarchy at all times and in all nations. On occasion that skill has been neglected with serious, even disastrous results. The tragedy of some nations - far too many indeed - has been the abandonment of the system for the failings of an individual or their advisors.

That, happily, has not been the case with Queen Elizabeth II. She continues to display not only skill as a Sovereign, but, seemingly, an enviable zest for life. Long may she reign, happy and glorious.

Easter Monday Morning.

Taken from HOLY CARD HEAVEN

Jesu,

Candor Lucis Aeternae.

Jesus,

The Bright Whiteness Of Light