Christmastide Masses At Saint Mary's, Chislehurst, Kent.

ST MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH,
28, CROWN LANE,
CHISLEHURST, KENT BR7 5PL.

CHRISTMAS 2014

SUNDAY, 21 DECEMBER 2014
(FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT)

 MASS at 9.30 A.M.
 and
MASS at 1100 A.M.
(Extraordinary Form Sung Mass).

4.00 P.M. CANDLELIT CAROL SERVICE
and
CHILDREN’S NATIVITY TABLEAU.

WEDNESDAY, 24 DECEMBER
(CHRISTMAS EVE)

6.00 P.M:   VIGIL MASS OF CHRISTMAS
(WITH CAROLS).

11.30 P.M.   CAROLS; BLESSING OF THE CRIB
and
SOLEMN MIDNIGHT MASS.

THURSDAY, 25 DECEMBER
(CHRISTMAS DAY)

9.30 A.M: SUNG MASS
(WITH CAROLS).

11.00 A.M: SOLEMN HIGH MASS
(Extraordinary Form)
(WITH CAROLS).

SUNDAY, 28 DECEMBER
(HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH)

MASS at 9.30 A.M.
and
MASS at 11.00 A.M. (SUNG),

THURSDAY, 1 JANUARY 2015
(OUR BLESSED LADY, MOTHER OF GOD)

10.00 A.M: LOW MASS.

SUNDAY, 4 JANUARY 2015
(THE EPIPHANY)
(Transferred)

MASS at 9.30 A.M.
and
MASS at 11.00 A.M.
(Extraordinary Form Sung Mass).

              

Saint Mary's Catholic Church,

28 Crown Lane,

Chislehurst,

Kent BR7 5PL.

Tel: 020 8467 3215.

Fax: 020 8325 9627.

Email: office@stmarysrc.org

Website: www.stmarysrc.org

"Ornat Kmity" ("Kmita's Chasuble").

This Article is taken from KRAKOW INFO

unless otherwise stated.

"Ornat Kmity"

("Kmita's Chasuble").

Illustration: KRAKOW INFO

The Wonder of Medieval Needlework.

"Kmita's Chasuble" in Krakow's Cathedral Museum.

Wawel Cathedral’s 500-year-old Chasuble ranks with the world’s top masterpieces of Gothic Needlework. Its relief-like three-dimensional scenes from the life of Saint Stanislav, Krakow’s 11th-Century Bishop-Martyr and Poland’s Patron Saint, embroidered with unbelievable precision and realism, match the best sculpture of the Late-15th-Century.

Naturalistic features of tiny heads and detailed faithfulness of depiction (complete with open wound on the Saint’s skull, where the Sword struck) are truly stunning. The Chasuble was donated in 1503, by Piotr Kmita, then Governor of Krakow Province, to Commemorate the 250th-Anniversary of Saint Stanislav’s Canonisation (the Donor’s Coat-of-Arms take up the bottom picture on the Chasuble). Now the amazing Robe, known as "Ornat Kmity" ("Kmita's Chasuble") is the pride of the Cathedral Museum on the Wawel Hill, displayed permanently alongside its other treasures of Church Art.

English: Wawel Cathedral, Poland.

Sigismund's Chapel (right, with a Gold Dome)

and Vasa Dynasty Chapel (to the left).

Polski: Kraków, katedra p.w. śś. Wacława i

Stanisława Biskupa, XI/XII, XIV, XIX.

Photo: 7 September 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jar.ciurus.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

The Royal Arch-Cathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus on the Wawel Hill (Polish:królewska bazylika archikatedralna śś. Stanisława i Wacława na Wawelu), also known as the Wawel Cathedral(Polish: katedra wawelska), is a Roman Catholic Church, located on Wawel Hill, in Kraków, Poland.

More than 900 years old, it is the Polish National Sanctuary and traditionally has served as the Coronation Site of Polish Monarchs, as well as the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Kraków.

Karol Wojtyla, who, in 1978, became Pope John Paul II, was Ordained to the Priesthood here on All Saints Day, 1 November 1946, and offered his first Mass as a Priest in the Crypt of the Cathedral on 2 November 1946 and was Ordained Kraków's Auxiliary Bishop on 28 September 1958. Both of these pre-Pontificate events were depicted in the first half of the 2005 U.S. TV Mini-Series, Pope John Paul II, in which Cary Elwes played the younger Wojtyla.

The current, Gothic Cathedral, is the third edifice on this site: the first was constructed and destroyed in the 11th-Century; the second one, constructed in the 12th-Century, was destroyed by a fire in 1305. The construction of the current one began in the 14th-Century, on the orders of Bishop Nanker.

A Little Levity To Lighten Your Day.

Modernism.

Christkindelsmärik. Strasbourg's Famous Christmas Market.

English: Strasbourg's Christmas Market.

Français: Portail d’entrée lumineux du marché de Noël de Strasbourg, place de Broglie.

En alsacien, Christkindelmarik / marché de l’enfant Jésus.

Photo: 30 November 2014.

Source: Own work.

Attribution: © Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons

Author: Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC

(Wikimedia Commons)

Christkindelsmärik is a Christmas Market (French: Marché de Noël) held annually in Strasbourg, France, near Strasbourg Cathedral. It draws in approximately two million visitors each year and, since the implementation of the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) (High Speed Train) in 2007, the number of visitors has been on the rise.

Hotels are booked a year in advance, and some receive between fifteen-seventeen per cent of their yearly income, thanks to the Christkindelsmärik's visitors. It is considered one of the most famous Christmas Markets throughout Europe. It is thus a considerable source of income for the town of Strasbourg, a small city of approximately 250,000 inhabitants.

English: A Christmas Market Stall in front of Strasbourg Cathedral.

The Cathedral is not for sale.

Français: Façade de la cathédrale de Strasbourg.

Photo: 27 November 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Loïc LLH

(Wikimedia Commons)

It is estimated that the city benefits by a sixteen million Euros profit from this thirty-eight-day-long tradition. It is mostly famous for its fragrance of warm wine and spices which travels throughout the cold Winter streets.

Strasbourg has been holding Christkindelsmärik around its Cathedral since 1570, making it one of the oldest Christmas Markets in Europe. The name "Christkindelsmärik" is Alsatian in origin. A Low Alemannic German dialect, which was the mainly-spoken language in Alsace until the 20th-Century. In many parts of South Germany and Austria, Christmas Markets (German: Weihnachtsmärkte) are also called Christkind(e)l(s)markt (the spelling depends on the local dialect).

The Market takes place annually, from 29 November to 31 December. It mainly takes place on Place Kléber, Place Broglie, Place du Marché aux cochons de lait and around the Cathedral.

English: The Portal of Strasbourg's Christmas Market in Place de Broglie, Strasbourg.

In the local language, Christkindelsmärik means "Market of the Jesus Child".

Français: Portail lumineux du marché de Noël de Strasbourg (place de Broglie).

En alsacien, Christkindelsmärik = marché de l'enfant Jésus.

Photo: 6 December 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tangopaso

(Wikimedia Commons)

Third Sunday Of Advent.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Illustrations, unless otherwise stated, from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
(from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 1952 Edition), who reproduce them 
with the kind permission of ST. BONAVENTURE PRESS

Third Sunday of Advent.

Station at Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome.

Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines.

Privileged Sunday of the Second-Class.

Semi-Double.

Rose, or Violet, Vestments.

Interior of Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome.

Artist: Giovanni Paolo Panini (1692–1765).

Date: 1731.

Current location: Saint Louis Art Museum,

Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.

Source/Photographer: Saint Louis Art Museum official site.

(Wikimedia Commons)

"The Lord is now at hand, come let us adore Him."

THE FIRST COMING:

It is Mary who gives us Jesus: "Blessed art thou, Mary . . . those things shall be accomplished in thee, which were spoken to thee by The Lord" (Antiphon at the Magnificat).

It is from Bethlehem [Editor: Literally, "the House of Bread"] that the King, the Ruler, shall go forth, Who is to bring Peace to all the Nations (Second Responsory) and Who will deliver His people from the power of their enemies (Fourth Responsory).

In a special way, our Souls will share in this deliverance during the Christmas Celebrations, which mark the Anniversary of the entrance into the world of Christ, the Vanquisher of Satan."Grant, we beseech Thee," The Church Prays, "that the new Birth of Thine only-begotten Son may set us free, whom the old bondage doth hold under the yoke of sin" (Third Mass, Christmas Day).

I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of The Lord.

In the same way that Saint John the Baptist prepared the Jews for the coming of The Messias, so he prepares us for the union, closer every year, which Our Lord forms with our Souls at Christmas. "Make straight the way of The Lord," cried the forerunner of Christ. So, let us make straight the way into our hearts, that Our Saviour may enter and give us His Graces of Life and Freedom.

THE SECOND COMING:

It is to Our Lord's Coming, at the end of the world, that Saint Gregory alludes in his explanation of the Gospel: "John," he says, "the forerunner of The Redeemer, goes before Our Lord in the spirit and power of Elias, who will be the forerunner of Christ as Judge" (Ninth Lesson).

So also in the Introit and Epistle, taken literally, the allusion is Our Lord's Coming for the Judgement. If we feel great joy at the approach of the Christmas Feast, reminding us once more of the Lowly Infant in The Manger, how much more should the thought of His Coming, in all the splendour of His Power and Majesty, fill us with a Holy Sense of Triumph, since, only then, will our Redemption be fully accomplished.

Receive, O merciful Father, these Holy Sacrifices (Te igitur).

Saint Paul writes to his Christians: "Rejoice in The Lord always: Again, I say, Rejoice . . . The Lord is nigh." As on Mid-Lent Sunday, the Priest may Celebrate in Rose-Coloured Vestments. [Permission for this practice, in use at Rome for the Blessing of the Golden Rose on Laetare Sunday (or Mid-Lent Sunday), is granted to all Priests who desire it for the Celebration of Mass and Office on that day: Whence the custom has extended to Gaudete Sunday, or Mid-Advent Sunday, since, on both days, The Church sings of our deliverance by Christ from the bondage of sin.]

Rose is a paler kind of Violet; it expresses some relaxation in Penance, owing to the Joy of the Heavenly Jerusalem, into which Our Lord will lead us when Time shall be no more.

"Rejoice, O Jerusalem, with great Joy, for there shall come unto thee a Saviour" (Second Antiphon of Vespers). Let us greatly desire this Coming, which the Apostle tells us is near. We should long, with a Holy Impatience, that it may quickly come to pass. "Stir up, O Lord, Thy Might, [the Apocalypse tells us that The Lord will appear, and, with Him, millions of Saints, and on His garment He will bear the words: King of Kings and Lord of Lords (First Responsory). The Lord of Hosts will come with Great Might (Fourth Responsory). His Kingdom will be without end and all Nations shall serve Him (Sixth Responsory)], and come to save us." (Alleluia). "Come, Lord, and tarry not." "Per Adventum tuum, libera nos, Domine."

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

Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia). Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day 13 December.

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

Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia).
Virgin. Martyr.
Feast Day 13 December.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Lucy Before The Judge.

Artist: Lorenzo Lotto (1523–1532).

Source: Scanned from book.

This File: 26 February 2011.

User: Sailko.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Lucia Di Siracusa

(Lucy of Syracuse).

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/qw-wNdsxSac

English: Procession of Light,

on the Feast Day of Saint Lucy

(Santa Lucia) in Sweden.

Deutsch: Luciafeier in einer schwedischen Kirche.

Photo: 13 December 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Claudia Gründer.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Born in Sicily towards the end of the 3rd-Century, of noble origin, Saint Lucy, as the Gospel twice reminds us, gave away all her riches to the poor and, when she had nothing more, she gave herself to Jesus (Epistle).

Whilst the Foolish Virgins neglected to fill their lamps with the "Oil of Gladness", of which the Introit speaks, Lucy, whose name signifies "Light", waited with her lighted lamp in hand, that is with her Soul filled with Grace, the coming of her Spouse.

Feast Day of Saint Lucy

(Santa Lucia).

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/HInfSb2gYG4

The Choir of Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia),

at Uppsala, Sweden, sing on Saint Lucy's Feast Day.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/XRA2blPHDw0.

"Pure hearts are the temples of The Holy Ghost," she declared to her judge. It is this Spirit, also symbolised by the "Oil of Gladness", as we are told in the Ceremonies of Maundy Thursday, an Oil that gave suppleness and strength to her Soul in such a miraculous way, that Saint Lucy resisted her executioners unto death rather than lose the treasure of her Virginity.

Wherefore, her name occurs in the Canon of The Mass (Second List), and is repeated every day by thousands of Priests, who glorify God in her. She died in 303 A.D.

The lighted lamp in hand is the Soul in a state of Grace; let us, in this Season of Advent, wait for the Spouse who will soon come.

Mass: Dilexisti.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Lucia of Syracuse (283 A.D. - 304 A.D.), known as Saint Lucy, or Saint Lucia (Italian : Santa Lucia), was a young Christian Martyr, who died during The Diocletian Persecution . She is Venerated as a Saint by the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Orthodox Churches.

She is one of eight women, who, along with The Blessed Virgin Mary, are Commemorated by name in The Canon of The Mass . Her Feast Day, known as Saint Lucy's Day, is Celebrated in the West on 13 December. Saint Lucia of Syracuse, was honoured in The Middle Ages and remains a well-known Saint in modern England.

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