The Dome Of Home. The Church Of Saints Peter And Paul And Saint Philomena, New Brighton, England.

An excellent Video about the revitalisation of The Dome of Home can be found

at OFFERIMUS TIBI DOMINE

Image: DOME OF HOME

Image: DOME OF HOME

Catholic Church of Ss. Peter, Paul and St.Philomena

Institute Christ the King Sovereign Priest

7 Atherton Street

Wallasey

New Brighton CH45 9LT
England.

The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October (Part Two).

Italic Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Non-Italic Text is taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)

Time After Pentecost, Book V, Fourth Edition, Volume 14. from

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Illustrations taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

The Holy Guardian Angels.

Feast Day 2 October.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Gemma Galgani,

(The Flower of Lucca),

reported interaction with her Guardian Angel.

Français: Détail d'une photo de Gemma Galgani.

Date: 1901.

Source: Photo d'Enrico Giannini prise en 1901,

et conservée à "la casa Giannini" des Sorelle

missionarie di santa Gemma à Lucques.

Author: Philippe Plet. Reproduction à partir du cliché original,

colorisation et recadrage.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Although the Solemnity of 29 September celebrates the praises of all The Nine Glorious Choirs, yet the piety of the Faithful, in the latter ages, desired to have a special day Consecrated to The Guardian Angels. Several Churches having taken the initiative, and kept the Feast under various Rites and on different days, Pope Paul V (1608) authorised its Celebration ad libitum. Pope Clement X (1670) established it by Precept as a Feast of Double Rite on 2 October [it has been a Greater-Double since 1883], the first free day after Michaelmas, on which it thus remains in some way dependent.

It is of Faith, on the testimony of the Scriptures and unanimous Tradition, that God commits to His Angels the guardianship of men, who are called to contemplate Him, together with these Blessed Spirits, in their common fatherland.

Catholic Theology teaches that this protection is extended to every member of the human race, without any distinction of Just and Sinners, Infidels and Baptised. To ward off dangers; to uphold man in his struggle against the demons; to awaken in him Holy Thoughts; to prevent him from sinning, and even, at times, to chastise him; to Pray for him, and present his Prayers to God. Such is the Office of The Guardian Angel.

So special is his mission, that one Angel does not undertake the guardianship of several persons simultaneously; so diligent is his care, that he follows his Ward from the first day to the last of his mortal existence, receiving the Soul as it quits this life, and bearing it from the Feet of the Sovereign Judge to the place it has merited in Heaven, or to its temporary sojourn in the place of expiation and purification.

English: Guardian Angel, German postcard, 1900.

Deutsch: Schutzengel, deutsche Postkarte um 1900.

Polski: Anioł Stróż, niemiecka pocztówka ok. 1900.

Author: Unknown, similar to works by Fridolin Leiber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

It is from the lowest of The Nine Choirs, the nearest to ourselves, that The Guardian Angels are, for the most part, selected. God reserves to The Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, the honour of forming His Own Immediate Court.

The Dominations, from the steps of His Throne, preside over the government of the Universe; The Virtues watch over the course of Nature's laws, the preservation of species, and the movements of the heavens.

The Powers hold the Spirits of Wickedness in subjection. The human race, in its entirety, as also its great Social Bodies, the Nations and the Churches, are confided to The Principalities; while The Archangels, who preside over smaller communities, seem also to have the Office of transmitting to the Angels the Commands of God, together with the love and light which come down, even to us, from the first and highest hierarchy.

English: Guardian Angel.

Deutsch: Schutzengel.

Author: Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907).

(Wikimedia Commons)

O, the Depths of the Wisdom of God ! Thus, then, the admirable distribution of Offices, among the Choirs of Heavenly Spirits, terminates in the function committed to the lowest rank, the guardianship of man, for whom the Universe subsists.

Such is the teaching of the School [Suarez. De Angelis, lib. vi. cap. xviii. 5.]; and The Apostle, in like manner, says: "Are they not all ministering Spirits, sent to minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of Salvation ? " [Heb. i. 14.]

PART THREE FOLLOWS

The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October (Part One).

Italic Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Non-Italic Text is taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)
Time After Pentecost, Book V, Fourth Edition, Volume 14. from
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Illustrations taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.

The Holy Guardian Angels.
Feast Day 2 October.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Archangel Michael reaching to save Souls in Purgatory,
by Jacopo Vignali, 17th-Century.

Italiano: Jacopo Vignali, San Michele Arcangelo libera le anime
del Purgatorio, (17th-Century).

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di), 

La Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano, Becocci Editore, Firenze, 2006.

Author: sailko.

(Wikimedia Commons)

This Feast, Solemnised by the Spaniards in the 16th-Century, was extended to the whole Church by Pope Paul V in 1608.

Pope Clement X, in 1670, appointed it to be kept on the first free day after the Feast of Saint Michael, namely 2 October. 

The Angels, already in Glory, have for their mission to adore The Divinity (Introit, Offertory, Communion). Wherefore, in the Preface, the Church makes us ask God to permit our voices to join with theirs in praising God. ["I have seen the Seraphim," says Isaias, "they stood near the Sublime Throne, where Jehovah was seated: Their faces veiled, they cried out to one another: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God of Hosts, the whole Earth is full of His glory." (Isaias vi, 1-3.)]

But, as their name indicates, the Angels are also Messengers of Divine Commands (Offertory). The holy Fathers teach that they preside over all created things, and Saint Paul declares "that their mission is to serve the future heirs of Salvation".

Guardian Angel,
by Pietro da Cortona (1656).

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art: 

(Wikimedia Commons).

This is why they are called Guardian Angels (Collect). It is generally thought that Kingdoms, Provinces, Families, Dioceses, Churches, Religious Communities, each have their protecting Angel. 

[In some Countries, they celebrate the Feast of the Angel of the nation. Saint Francis de Sales says that the Bishop, as such, has another Guardian Angel. Ezechiel says that the Angel of the Temple of Jerusalem had a writing case hanging down from his girdle (Ezech. 11). These Angels of the Churches, adds Saint Basil, write down our irreverences.]

English: Statue of a Guardian Angel
in the Parish Church of Saint Oswald,
Oberdrauburg, Austria.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St Oswald,
Oberdrauburg, Osterreiche: Schutzengel.
Photo: July 2008.

Author: JJ55.

(Wikimedia Commons).

That there is one Guardian Angel for each Just Man, there can be no doubt, and the Church applies to the Souls, that are under the New Law, what is written about the people under the Old Law: "I shall send My Angel to march before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you into the land which I have prepared for you" (Epistle). [Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Sixth Lesson at Matins.]

Our Guardian Angel has, for his mission, to protect us and defend us, in order that, under his protection, safe from the snares of the enemies of our Souls and from all adversities, we may reach the promised land of eternal life (Collect, Secret, Postcommunion).

This faithful companion deserves our gratitude, and the Veneration, due to one who already enjoys The Beatific Vision (Gospel).

It is to encourage us, to the habitual practice of this Devotion, that the Church instituted The Feast of The Guardian Angels.

PART TWO FOLLOWS

Your Guardian Angel. Feast Day 2 October.

Have you said "Thank You" to your Guardian Angel, lately ?

English: Guardian Angel, German postcard 1900.

Deutsch: Schutzengel, deutsche Postkarte um 1900.

Polski: Anioł Stróż, niemiecka pocztówka ok. 1900.

Date: 1900.

Source: German postcard 1900.

Author: Unknown, similar to works by Fridolin Leiber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

"Dear Angel, Ever At My Side".
Words by Fr. F. W. Faber
("The Mass
Is The Most Beautiful Thing
This Side of Heaven").

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/Jgfr3BuvwW8.

Weekly Traditional Latin Masses In Kent. Maidstone, Ashford, Tenterden, Headcorn.

The current hiatus at Blackfen, Kent, England, where the new Parish Priest has banned the Celebration of Traditional Latin Masses, on the grounds that "they are DIVISIVE", encourages Zephyrinus 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.

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.

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.

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 1200 hrs,

on the FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON  STOCK.

Photo: WIKIMAPIA

  Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated at the

Church of Saint Simon Stock,

Brookfield Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1200 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.

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,

(next 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.

Photo: WIKIMAPIA

  Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated at the

Church of Saint Simon Stock,

Brookfield Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1200 hrs,

on the FIFTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

October. Month Of The Holy Rosary. "Adiutricem". Encyclical On The Holy Rosary, By Blessed Pope Leo XIII, 5 September 1895.

The Text of this Article can be found on CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

Our Lady of The Rosary.

Image: MOUNT CARMEL

Excerpts from

"Adiutricem."

An Encyclical on The Holy Rosary, 

by Pope Leo XIII, September 5, 1895.

In Mary, God has given us the most zealous guardian of Christian unity. There are, of course, more ways than one to win her protection by Prayer, but, as for Us, We think that the best and most effective way to her favour lies in The Rosary. 

We have elsewhere brought it to the attention of the devout Christian, and not least among the advantages of The Rosary is the ready and easy means it puts in his hands to nurture his Faith, and to keep him from ignorance of his Religion and the danger of error.

The very origin of The Rosary makes that plain. When such Faith is exercised by vocally repeating The Our Father and Hail Mary of the Rosary Prayers, or, better still, in the contemplation of The Mysteries, it is evident how close we are brought to Mary.

For, every time we devoutly say The Rosary in supplication before her, we are once more brought face to face with the marvel of our Salvation; We watch the Mysteries of our Redemption as though they were unfolding before our eyes; and, as one follows another, Mary stands revealed at once as God’s Mother and our Mother.

The sublimity of that double dignity, the fruits of her twofold ministry, appear in vivid light when, in devout Meditation, we think of Mary’s share in The Joyful, The Sorrowful, The Glorious Mysteries, of her Son. The heart is inflamed by these Reflections with a feeling of grateful love toward her and, esteeming everything beneath her as so much worthless chaff, strives with manful purpose to prove worthy of such a Mother and the gifts she bestows. 

Meditation on the Mysteries of The Rosary, often repeated in the Spirit of Faith, cannot help but please her and move her, the fondest of Mothers, to show mercy to her children.

For that reason, We say that The Rosary is by far the best Prayer by which to plead before her the cause of our separated brethren. To grant a favourable hearing belongs properly to her Office of Spiritual Mother. 

For Mary has not brought forth, nor could she, those who are of Christ except in the One Same Faith and in the One Same Love; for: “Can Christ be divided ?” All must live the Life of Christ in an organic unity, in order to “bring forth fruit to God” in the One Same Body. 

Every one of the multitudes, therefore, whom the mischief of calamitous events has stolen away from that unity, must be born again to Christ, of that same Mother whom God has endowed with a never-failing fertility to bring forth a Holy People.

And this Mary, for her part, longs to do. Adorned by us with garlands of her favourite Prayer, she will obtain, by her entreaties, help in abundance from the Spirit that quickeneth. God grant that they refuse not to comply with the burning desire of their merciful Mother, but, on the contrary, give ear, like men of goodwill, with a proper regard for their eternal salvation, to the voice, gently persuasive, which calls to them: “My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.”

May the peoples of the East and West, and all the others, wherever they may be, profit by the suppliant voice of Catholics united in Prayer, and by our voice, which will cry to our last breath: Show thyself a Mother.

Blessed Pope Leo XIII.

Photogram of the 1896 film "Sua Santitá Papa Leone XIII",

the first time a Pope appeared on film.

This image was copied from wikipedia:de.

The original description was: Papst_Leo_XIII. um ca. 1898.

Public Domain. Library of Congress

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a00543.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, to an Italian Comital family, reigned from 20 February 1878 to his death in 1903. He was the oldest Pope (reigning until the age of ninety-three), and had the third longest Pontificate, behind that of Pope Pius IX (his immediate predecessor) and Pope Saint John Paul II. He is the most recent Pontiff, to date, to take the Pontifical name of "Leo" upon being elected to the Pontificate.

He is well known for his intellectualism, the development of social teachings with his famous Papal Encyclical "Rerum Novarum", and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking.

He influenced Roman Catholic Mariology and promoted both The Rosary and The Scapular. He issued a record eleven Encyclicals on The Rosary, earning the moniker "The Rosary Pope", approved two new Marian Scapulars, and was the first Pope to fully embrace the concept of Mary as Mediatrix. He was the first Pope to never have held any control over The Papal States, after they were dissolved by 1870.

Blessed Pope Leo XIII died on 20 July 1903, at the age of ninety-three, and was briefly buried in Saint Peter's Basilica, before his remains were later Transferred to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

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