Battle Of The Somme, July-November 1916. Requiescant In Pace. We Will Remember.

This Cross, from 1720,

bears the complete Latin phrase

in its plural form, "Requiescant in pace".

Ainhoa, croix recto de.

This File: 25 April 2008.

User: Harrieta171.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Battle of the Somme.

Actual Footage.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/-Tv5gBa9DQs.

Illustration: Zephyrinus.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Plenary Indulgences For Particular Days.

English: Plenary Indulgence inscription on the Left Transept

of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome, Italy.

"Indulgentia plenaria perpetua quotidiana toties quoties pro vivis et defunctis."

"Perpetual everyday plenary indulgence on every occasion for the living and the dead."

Français: Indulgence plénière. Incription sur le transept gauche

de la basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran (Rome).

This File: 6 October 2007.

User: Jastrow.

Source: Own work.

Author: Marie-Lan Nguyen (user:Jastrow).

(Wikimedia Commons)

HOW TO GAIN A PLENARY INDULGENCE.

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING VIDEO

available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/t-rGKAGEgHM

The Video, above, features Fr Thomas Morrow, whose Biography and Contact Details appear on CATHOLIC FAITH ALIVE!, Inc.

The following List of Plenary Indulgences for particular days was composed by Fr Finigan, Parish Priest at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, Kent, England.

The following is a non-exhaustive List of Plenary Indulgences, focussing on those Indulgences which Priests might promote in their Parishes, and those which the Faithful can easily obtain.

The numbers, alongside each occasion when a Plenary Indulgence may be gained, refer to The Enchiridion Indulgentiarum (Editio Quarta) 2004, which should be consulted for the definitive description of each work.

Particular Days.

1 January.

Join in the Solemn Singing or Recitation, in Church, of the Veni Creator.      26.1.1.

Unity Week.
Assist at some functions in the week and at the concluding function.      11.1.

Fridays in Lent.
After Holy Communion, say the En ego before a Crucifix.      8.1.2.

Maundy Thursday.
Join in the singing of the Tantum Ergo at the Reposition of The Blessed Sacrament.      7.1.2.

Good Friday.
Take part in the Solemn Liturgy.      13.1.
Take part in the Stations of the Cross.      13.2.
Follow the Pope's Stations on radio or television.      13.2.

Holy Saturday.
Renew your Baptismal Vows at the Easter Vigil.      28.1.

Pentecost.
Join in the Solemn Singing or Recitation, in Church, of the Veni Creator.      26.1.1.

Sacred Heart.
Join in the Public Recitation of the Act of Reparation Iesu Dulcissime.      3.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Devoutly use a pious object Blessed by the Pope or any Bishop, adding a legitimate profession of Faith
(e.g., the Creed).      14.1.

2 August.
Visit a Parish Church and say the Pater and Credo.      33.1.5.

1 November - 8 November.
Visit a Cemetery and Pray for the Dead.      29.1.1.

All Souls.
Visit a Church and say the Pater and Credo.      29.1.2.

Christ The King.
Join in the Public Recitation of the Act of Dedication Iesu Dulcissime Redemptor.      2.

31 December.
Join in the Solemn Singing or Recitation, in Church, of the Te Deum.      26.1.2.

Other Occasions.

Anniversary of Baptism.
Renew your Baptismal Vows.      28.1.

Titular Feast of Parish Church.
Visit the Parish Church and say the Pater and Credo.      33.1.5.

Anniversary of Dedication of a Church or Altar.
Visit a Parish Church and say the Pater and Credo.      33.1.6.

Pilgrimage to International, National, or Diocesan Shrine.
a.      On the Titular Feast.      33.1.4.
b.      Once a year at the choice of the individual member of the Faithful.      33.1.4.
c.      Whenever participating in a group Pilgrimage.      33.1.4.
(N.B.  This only applies to Shrines constituted as such by the competent Ecclesiastical authority.)

First Communion.
Assist at the First Communion Mass.      8.1.1.

Pastoral Visitation.
Assist at the Sacred Function at which the Visitor presides.      32.

Blessed Sacrament Procession.
Take part in the Procession of The Blessed Sacrament.      7.1.3.


Fr. Finigan has also Posted a most interesting Article, headlined "PLENARY INDULGENCES NOT IMPOSSIBLE", at THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY

Ettal Abbey, Bavaria, Germany.

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unless otherwise stated.

English: Ettal Abbey, Bavaria, Germany.

Español: Monasterio de Ettal, Baviera, Alemania.

Photo: 22 March 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diego Delso.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Ettal Abbey (Kloster Ettal) is a Benedictine Monastery in the village of Ettal, close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. With a Community (as of 2005) of more than fifty Monks, with another five Monks at Wechselburg, Saxony, the Abbey is one of the largest Benedictine Houses and is a major attraction for visitors.

Ettal Abbey was founded on 28 April 1330, Saint Vitalis of Milan's Feast Day, by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian, in the Graswang Valley, in fulfilment of an oath on his return from Italy, on a site of strategic importance on the primary trade route between Italy and Augsburg.

The Foundation legend is that Ludwig's horse genuflected three times on the site of the original Church, where a statuette of The Virgin Mary ("Frau Stifterin" or the "Ettal Madonna"), of the Pisano School, now stands, a gift from Ludwig to his new Foundation. This statue soon became an object of Pilgrimage. The Church is dedicated to the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin.

English: Wechselburg Priory, formerly Wechselburg Abbey (Kloster Wechselburg) is a Benedictine Priory, in Wechselburg, Saxony, Germany, dissolved in the 16th-Century

and re-founded in 1993. Five Monks from Ettal Abbey are located here.

Deutsch: Klosteranlage Wechselburg mit romanischer Basilika.

Photo: 24 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Kolossos.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Foundation originally consisted of a Benedictine Double Monastery – a Community for men and another for women – and also a House of The Teutonic Knights.

The original Gothic Abbey Church, built between 1330 and 1370, was a modest structure in comparison to the great Churches of Mediaeval Bavaria.

The Abbey suffered great damage during the Reformation at the hands of the troops of Maurice of Saxony, but survived the troubles of The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).

Ettal Abbey Side-Altars,

Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 1709, under Abbot Placidus II Seiz, the golden age of Ettal Abbey began with the establishment of the "Knights' Academy" ("Ritterakademie"), which developed into a highly successful School and began the educational tradition of the Abbey. In 1744, the Abbey and the Abbey Church were largely destroyed in a fire. The subsequent spectacular re-building in the Baroque Style, with a double-shelled Dome, was to the plans of Enrico Zuccalli, a Swiss-Italian architect working in Munich, who had studied with Bernini. The decoration was primarily carried out by Josef Schmutzer, of the Wessobrunn School of Stucco-ists, and Johann Baptist Straub, who was responsible for the Altars and the Chancel.

Ettal Abbey's importance, as a place of Pilgrimage, grew with the new buildings and it became one of the most important Monasteries in the Alpine Region.

The Abbey was Dissolved in 1803, during the Secularisation of Church property in Bavaria. The site was acquired, in 1809, by Josef von Elbing and sold by his descendants in 1856 to Count Pappenheim. Some small building works were completed during the 19th-Century, principally the renovation of the façade and the twin Bell-Towers.

Ettal Abbey in Winter.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 1898, the buildings were acquired by Baron Theodor von Cramer-Klett and, in 1900, given to the Benedictines of Scheyern Abbey, who re-founded the Monastery. It had been a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation since 1900. The Abbey Church was declared a Minor Basilica in 1920.

During the Winter of 1940 – 1941, the German Pastor and Theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), spent some months at the Monastery as the friend and guest of the Abbot. Like Bonhoeffer, a number of those in the Ettal Community were involved in the Conspiracy against Hitler. While at Ettal Abbey, Bonhoeffer also worked on his book "Ethics". Catholic Priest, Rupert Mayer, was kept at the Abbey, from 1939 to 1945, by the Nazis, to prevent him from further Anti-Nazi Preaching.

In 1993, Ettal Abbey re-Founded the former Wechselburg Abbey, in Saxony, an old Monastery of the Augustinian Canons, as a Benedictine Priory.

Interior of the Dome,

Ettal Abbey.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Organ,

Ettal Abbey.

Photo: 31 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Ettal Abbey maintains a Byzantine Institute. The Abbot of Ettal Abbey, Joannes Hoeck, made a significant contribution, on the role of Patriarchs in Church government, at the Second Vatican Council.

The Monastery runs a brewery, a distillery, a bookstore, an Art Publishing House, an hotel, a cheese factory joint venture, and several smaller companies. The distillery produces Ettaler Kloster Liqueur, a herbal liqueur which, like that of the Carthusian Monks, comes in sweeter yellow, and more herbal green, varieties.

Three New Priests For The Canons Regular Of Saint John Cantius.

Three New Priests for the Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit and the imposition of hands, Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, ordained Fr. Joshua Caswell, Fr. Nathan Caswell, and Fr. Kevin Mann

to the Holy Order of the Priesthood, for the Archdiocese of Chicago, as members of the

Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius. The Mass of Ordination was offered on

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at St. John Cantius Church, Chicago.

DEO GRATIAS.

Photo Credit from, and Full Report available at,

CANONS REGULAR OF SAINT JOHN CANTIUS

Flowers Of The Earth.

FLEURS DE LA TERRE.

J'ai respiré le parfum de leurs vertus et je les ai attirées a moi pour en former la cour de ma Mère.

FLOWERS OF THE EARTH.

I breathed the fragrance of their virtue and drew them to myself to form the courtyard of my Mother.

Illustration: HOLY CARD HEAVEN

Westminster Abbey. (Part Five).

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unless otherwise stated.

Westminster Abbey,

with a procession of Knights of the Bath.

Artist: Canaletto,

Date: 1749.

Source: English Wikipedia.

Original Upload 9 May 2005

by en:User: Gillian Tipso.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Inner and Outer Vestibules lead to the Octagonal Chapter House, which is of exceptional architectural purity. It is built in a Geometrical Gothic Style, with an Octagonal Crypt, below. A Pier of eight Shafts carries the Vaulted Ceiling. To the sides, are Blind Arcading, remains of 14th-Century paintings and numerous stone benches, above which are innovatory large Four-Light Quatre-Foiled Windows. These are virtually contemporary with Sainte-Chapelle, Paris.

The Chapter House has an original Mid-13th-Century tiled Pavement. A door within the Vestibule dates from around 1050 and is believed to be the oldest in England. The exterior includes Flying Buttresses, added in the 14th-Century, and a Leaded Tent-Lantern Roof, on an iron frame, designed by Scott. The Chapter House was originally used in the 13th-Century by Benedictine Monks for daily meetings. It later became a meeting place of the King's Great Council and the Commons, predecessors of Parliament.

The Pyx Chamber formed the Undercroft of the Monks' Dormitory. It dates to the Late-11th-Century and was used as a Monastic and Royal Treasury. The outer walls and Circular Piers are 11th-Century, several of the Capitals were enriched in the 12th-Century and the stone Altar added in the 13th-Century. The term "Pyx" refers to the Boxwood Chest, in which coins were held, and presented to a Jury during the Trial of the Pyx, in which newly-minted coins were presented to ensure they conformed to the required standards.

The Flag of Westminster Abbey,

featuring the Tudor Arms, between Tudor Roses,

above the supposed Arms of Edward the Confessor.

Date: 16 February 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Oren neu dag.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber, at Westminster Abbey, are in the guardianship of English Heritage, but under the care and management of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. English Heritage have funded a major programme of work on the Chapter House, comprising repairs to the roof, gutters, stonework on the elevations and Flying Buttresses, as well as repairs to the Lead Lights.

The Westminster Abbey Museum is located in the 11th-century Vaulted Undercroft, beneath the former Monks' Dormitory in Westminster Abbey. This is one of the oldest areas of the Abbey, dating back almost to the Foundation of the Norman Church by Edward the Confessor in 1065. This space has been used as a Museum since 1908.

The exhibits include a collection of Royal and other Funeral Effigies (Funeral Saddle, Helm and Shield of King Henry V), together with other treasures, including some panels of Mediaeval Glass, 12th-Century sculpture fragments, Queen Mary II's Coronation Chair and replicas of the Coronation Regalia, and historic effigies of King Edward III, Henry VII and his Queen, Elizabeth of York, Charles II, William III, Mary II and Queen Anne.

English: The Cloister and Garth of Westminster Abbey, London, England.

Français: Le cloître de l'Abbaye de Westminster, Londres, Angleterre.

Español: El claustro de la Abadía de Westminster, Londres.

Photo: 28 August 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bernard Gagnon.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Later wax effigies include a likeness of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, wearing some of his own clothes and another of Prime Minister William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, modelled by the American-born sculptor, Patience Wright. During recent conservation of Elizabeth I's effigy, a unique corset, dating from 1603, was found on the figure and is now displayed separately.

A recent addition to the exhibition is the Late-13th-Century Westminster Retable, England's oldest Altarpiece, which was most probably designed for the High Altar of the Abbey. Although it has been damaged in past Centuries, the Altar Panel has been expertly cleaned and conserved.

Westminster Abbey.

Date: 1810.

Source: File:Microcosm of London Plate 093 - Westminster Abbey.jpg.

Author: Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers)[1]

(Wikimedia Commons)

In June 2009, the first major building work at the Abbey for 250 years was proposed. A Corona — a Crown-like architectural feature — was intended to be built around the Lantern, over the Central Crossing, replacing an existing pyramidal structure dating from the 1950s. This was part of a wider £23m development of the Abbey, expected to be completed in 2013.

On 4 August 2010, the Dean and Chapter announced that, "after a considerable amount of preliminary and exploratory work", efforts toward the construction of a Corona would not be continued. In 2012, architects Panter Hudspith completed refurbishment of the 14th-Century food store, originally used by the Abbey's Monks, converting it into a Restaurant, with English Oak furniture by Covent Garden-based furniture makers Luke Hughes and Company.

THIS CONCLUDES THE ARTICLE ON WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

Westminster Abbey. (Part Four).

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unless otherwise stated.

Four of the ten Christian Martyrs,

depicted in statues above the Great West Door, Westminster Abbey:

Mother Elizabeth of Russia; Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr;

Archbishop Oscar Romero; and Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Photo: 19 June 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: TTaylor.

(Wikimedia Commons)

King Henry III rebuilt the Abbey, in honour of a Royal Saint, King Edward the Confessor, whose Relics were placed in a Shrine in the Sanctuary. Henry III was interred, nearby, as were many of the Plantagenet Kings of England, their wives and other relatives. Until the death of King George II of Great Britain, in 1760, most Kings and Queens were buried in the Abbey, some notable exceptions being Edward IV, Henry VIII and Charles I, who are buried in Saint George's Chapel, at Windsor Castle. Other exceptions include Richard III and Lady Jane Grey. Most Monarchs and Royals who died after 1760 are buried either in Saint George's Chapel or at Frogmore, to the East of Windsor Castle.

From the Middle Ages, aristocrats were buried inside Chapels, while Monks, and other people associated with the Abbey, were buried in the Cloisters and other areas. One of these was Geoffrey Chaucer, who was buried here, as he had apartments in the Abbey, where he was employed as Master of the King's Works. Other poets, writers and musicians were buried, or memorialised, around Chaucer, in what became known as Poets' Corner. Abbey musicians, such as Henry Purcell, were also buried in their place of work.

Subsequently, it became one of Britain's most significant honours to be buried or commemorated in the Abbey. The practice of burying national figures in the Abbey began under Oliver Cromwell with the burial of Admiral Robert Blake in 1657. The practice spread to include Generals, Admirals, Politicians, Doctors and Scientists, such as Isaac Newton, buried on 4 April 1727, and Charles Darwin, buried 26 April 1882. Another was William Wilberforce, the man who abolished slavery in the United Kingdom and the Plantations, who was buried on 3 August 1833. Wilberforce was buried in the North Transept, close to his friend, the former Prime Minister, William Pitt.

English: Ten Martyrs of the Twentieth-Century,

The Great West Door, Westminster Abbey.

The Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster, London.

Polski: Opactwo Westminsterskie w Londynie (Kolegiata św. Piotra w Westminsterze).

Italiano: La collegiata di San Pietro in Westminster (Abbazia di Westminster, Londra).

Date: July 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Fczarnowski.

(Wikimedia Commons)

During the Early-20th-Century, it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains, rather than coffins, in the Abbey. In 1905, the actor Sir Henry Irving was cremated and his ashes buried in Westminster Abbey, thereby becoming the first person ever to be cremated prior to interment at the Abbey.

Since 1936, no individual has been buried in a coffin in Westminster Abbey or its Cloisters.The only exceptions to this rule are members of the Percy Family, who have a Family Vault, The Northumberland Vault, in Saint Nicholas's Chapel, within the Abbey.

In the floor, just inside the Great West Door, in the centre of the Nave, is the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior, an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in the Abbey on 11 November 1920. This grave is the only one in the Abbey on which it is forbidden to walk.

In 1998, ten vacant Statue Niches, at the Great West Door, were filled with representative 20th-Century Martyrs.

Westminster Abbey.

Photo: 26 May 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Σπάρτακος.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School are also in the precincts of the Abbey. It was natural for the learned and literate Monks to be entrusted with education, and Benedictine Monks were required by the Pope to maintain a Charity School in 1179.

The Organ was built by Harrison & Harrison in 1937, then with four Manuals and eighty-four Speaking Stops, and was used for the first time at the Coronation of King George VI. Some pipework from the previous Hill Organ, of 1848, was re-voiced and incorporated in the new scheme. The two Organ Cases, designed in the Late-19th-Century, by John Loughborough Pearson, were re-instated and coloured in 1959.

In 1982 and 1987, Harrison and Harrison enlarged the Organ, under the direction of the, then, Abbey Organist, Simon Preston, to include an additional Lower Choir Organ and a Bombarde Organ; the current instrument now has five Manuals and 109 Speaking Stops. In 2006, the console of the Organ was refurbished by Harrison and Harrison, and space was prepared for two additional sixteen feet Stops on the Lower Choir Organ and the Bombarde Organ. One part of the instrument, the Celestial Organ, is currently not connected or playable. As of 2013, the Organist and Master of the Choristers is James O'Donnell.

The Nave, Westminster Abbey.

Photo: 27 September 2006.

Source: Westminster Abbey

Author: Herry Lawford from London, UK.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Bells at the Abbey were overhauled in 1971. The Ring is now made up of ten Bells, hung for Change Ringing, cast in 1971, by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, tuned to the notes: F#, E, D, C#, B, A, G, F#, E and D. The Tenor Bell in D (588.5 Hz) has a weight of 30 cwt, 1 qtr, 15 lb (3,403 lb or 1,544 kg).

In addition, there are two Service Bells, cast by Robert Mot, in 1585 and 1598, respectively, a Sanctus Bell, cast in 1738, by Richard Phelps and Thomas Lester, and two unused Bells — one cast about 1320, by the successor to R de Wymbish, and a second Bell, cast in 1742, by Thomas Lester. The two Service Bells and the 1320 Bell, along with a fourth, small, silver "Dish Bell", kept in the Refectory, have been noted as being of historical importance by the Church Buildings Council of the Church of England.

The Chapter House was built concurrently with the Eastern parts of the Abbey, under Henry III, between about 1245 and 1253. It was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1872. The entrance is approached from the East Cloister Walk and includes a Double Doorway with a large Tympanum, above.

PART FIVE FOLLOWS

Toponymy. Or Not Toponymy. That Is The Question. Them's Fighting Words ! The Politics Of Place Names.

Image: THE RAD TRAD

Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit ?

An interesting debate has begun on the excellent Blog THE RAD TRAD

as to whether or not it is more correct, or otherwise, to say Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit. You will find the Article, headlined "Spiritus vel Spiritus", on the Post for Thursday, 7 August 2014.

Why not pop over and say your "four penny worth" ?

In addition, and on the same point, should it be:

Myanmar or Burma ?

Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf ?

Persia or Iran ?

Is one politically correct and the other politically incorrect ?

Is one BBC-speak and one not ?

Is it important ?

Does it matter ?

Deutsch: "Betende Hände" (Studie zu einer Apostelfigur des "Heller"-Altars).

English: "Praying Hands" (study for an Apostle figure of the "Heller" Altar).

Artist: Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).

Date: Circa 1508.

Current location: Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

Source/Photographer: gallery.euroweb.hu

(Wikimedia Commons)

Zephyrinus read a most interesting Article, recently, in STARS AND STRIPES

which majored on the same theme as above.

It included the observation that some geographic names don't just tell us where we live, or where we're going.

It went on: They are also a political statement, or, in the eyes of some, a politically incorrect one.

They may not spark a war of the worlds, but they can cause a war of words.

It would appear that, last week, Japan slapped monikers on 158 previously un-named islands off its shores. Five of them are part of a cluster that both China and Japan claim and is itself the subject of a name dispute: Is it the Senkaku Islands (Japanese term) or the Diaoyu Islands (Chinese term) ?

Perhaps we all should just Pray more than we do for Peace around the world ?

Westminster Abbey. (Part Three.)

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

King Edward's Chair,

Westminster Abbey,

London, England.

Date: 2002.

Source: Own work.

Author: Kjetil Bjørnsrud.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Royal Weddings at Westminster Abbey:

11 November 1100: King Henry I of England was married to Matilda of Scotland;

4 January 1243: Richard, Earl of Cornwall (later King of Germany), brother of King Henry III of England, to Sanchia of Provence (his second wife). Sanchia was sister of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III’s Queen.

9 April 1269: Edmund of Crouchback, 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster, son of King Henry III was married to Lady Aveline de Forz;

30 April 1290: Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I was married to the 7th Earl of Gloucester;

8 July 1290: Margaret of England, daughter of King Edward I was married to John II, son of Duke of Brabant;

20 January 1382: King Richard II of England was married to Anne of Bohemia;

27 February 1919: Princess Patricia of Connaught was married to Capt the Hon Alexander Ramsay;

28 February 1922: The Princess Mary, daughter of King George V was married to Viscount Lascelles;

26 April 1923: The Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), second son of King George V, was married to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later to become Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother);

29 November 1934: The Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V was married to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark;

English: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Photo taken during a visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) was married to His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh (then Lt Philip Mountbatten, RN), in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947.

Afrikaans: Koningin Elizabeth II van die Verenigde Koninkryk. Die foto is geneem tydens 'n besoek deur haar aan die NASA se Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, VSA.

Photo: 8 May 2007.

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/queen_egress_8.html

Author: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

(Wikimedia Commons)

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II), elder daughter of King George VI, was married to the Duke of Edinburgh (who was Lt Philip Mountbatten, until that morning);

6 May 1960: Princess Margaret, second daughter of King George VI was married to Antony Armstrong-Jones (later Earl of Snowdon);

24 April 1963: Princess Alexandra of Kent was married to the Hon Angus Ogilvy;

14 November 1973: Princess Anne, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II was married to Captain Mark Phillips;

23 July 1986: Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II was married to Miss Sarah Ferguson;

29 April 2011: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, was married to Miss Catherine Middleton.

The Duke of Cambridge at the wedding of Lady Melissa Percy.

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, married Miss Catherine Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge) in Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011.

Photo: 22 June 2013.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thematthewslack/9114449529/

Author: TheMatthewSlack

(Wikimedia Commons)

The British Royal Family, on Buckingham Palace balcony,

after Prince William and Kate Middleton were married.

Kate Middleton wears a wedding gown by Sarah Burton.

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, married Miss Catherine Middleton

(now the Duchess of Cambridge) in Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011.

Photo: 29 April 2011.

Source: The_royal_family_on_the_balcony.jpg

Author: The_royal_family_on_the_balcony.jpg: Magnus D

derivative work: Blofeld Dr.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Westminster Abbey is a Collegiate Church, governed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as established by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1560, which created it as the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster, and a Royal Peculiar under the personal jurisdiction of the Sovereign. The members of the Chapter are the Dean and four Canons Residentiary, assisted by the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk. One of the Canons is also Rector of Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster, and often also holds the Post of Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

In addition to the Dean and Canons, there are. at present, two full-time Minor Canons, one is Precentor, and the other is Sacrist. The Office of Priest Vicar was created in the 1970s for those who assist the Minor Canons. Together with the Clergy and Receiver General and Chapter Clerk, various Lay Officers constitute the College, including the Organist and Master of the Choristers, the Registrar, the Auditor, the Legal Secretary, the Surveyor of the Fabric, the Head Master of the Choir School, the Keeper of the Muniments and the Clerk of the Works, as well as twelve Lay Vicars, ten Choristers and the High Steward and High Bailiff.

The forty Queen's Scholars, who are pupils at Westminster School (the School has its own Governing Body), are also members of the Collegiate.

The two Minor Canons, as well as the Organist and Master of the Choristers, are most directly concerned with Liturgical and Ceremonial matters.

PART FOUR FOLLOWS

Pray For The Suffering Peoples (Christian And Non-Christian) Of The Middle East.

Deutsch: "Betende Hände" (Studie zu einer Apostelfigur des "Heller"-Altars).

English: "Praying Hands" (study for an Apostle figure of the "Heller" Altar).

Artist: Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).

Date: Circa 1508.

Current location: Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

Source/Photographer: gallery.euroweb.hu

(Wikimedia Commons)

Allegri : Miserere (Psalm 50). Tallis Scholars.

Allegri: Miserere.
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Psalm 51 (Greek/Catholic numbering: Psalm 50), traditionally referred to as the Miserere, its Latin incipit, is one of the Penitential Psalms.

It begins: "Have mercy on me, O God". The Psalm's opening words in Latin, Miserere mei, Deus, have led to its being called the Miserere Mei or even just Miserere. It is often known by this name in musical settings. The Psalm is frequently used in various Liturgical traditions because of its spirit of humility and repentance.