O, Holy Night.

"The Virgin With Angels".
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).

Date: 1900.

Current location: Petit Palais, Paris, France.

Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center image.

Copied from the English Wikipedia to Commons.

Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).

(Wikimedia Commons)

"O, Holy Night".

Sung by Celine Dion.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas Carol, composed by Adolphe Adam, in 1847, to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians), by a wine merchant and poet, Placide Cappeau (1808–1877).

In Roquemaure, France, at the end of 1843, the Church Organ was renovated. To celebrate the event, the Parish Priest asked Cappeau, a native of Roquemaure, to write a Christmas poem. Cappeau did it, although being a professed Anti-Cleric and Atheist.

Soon after, Adam wrote the music. The Carol was premiered in Roquemaure, in 1847, by the Opera Singer Emily Laurey.

Unitarian Minister John Sullivan Dwight, Editor of "Dwight's Journal of Music", created a singing edition, based on Cappeau's French Text, in 1855. In both the French original, and in the two familiar English versions of the Carol, the Text reflects on The Birth of Jesus and of Humanity's Redemption.

Christ. The Light Of The World.

The Light of the World

(Manchester Art Gallery, England).

Date: March 1851.

Source: http://www.bg-blog.ru/comments.php?id=555.

Author: William Holman Hunt (1827–1910).

(Wikimedia Commons)

My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord.

This Article was taken (in December 2012) from ENLARGING THE HEART

Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels,

by Sandro Botticelli.

Date: 1485 - 1490.

Source: [1]

Author: w:Botticelli

(Wikimedia Commons)

And Mary Said: Behold The Handmaid Of The Lord (Luke 1:38) . . .

If a handmaid is she, who, with intent and with complete attention, beholds her Lord, then, again, the Most-Holy Virgin is the first among the handmaids of the Lord.

[...] She did not care to please the world, but only God; nor did she care to justify herself before the world, but only before God. She herself is obedience; she herself is service; she herself is meekness.

The Most-Holy Virgin could in truth say to the angel of God: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord".

The greatest perfection, and the greatest honour that a woman can attain on Earth, is to be a handmaid of the Lord. Eve lost this perfection and honour in Paradise without effort, and the Virgin Mary achieved this perfection and this honour outside Paradise with her efforts.

My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord (Luke 1:46).

Brethren, we have in total only a few words spoken by the Most-Holy Theotokos recorded in the Gospels.

All of her words pertain to the magnification of God. She was silent before men but her soul conversed unceasingly with God. Every day and every hour, she found a new reason and incentive to magnify God.

If only we were able to know and to record all her magnifications of God throughout her whole life, oh, how many books would it take!

But, even by this one magnification, which she spoke before her kinswoman, Elizabeth, the mother of the great Prophet and Forerunner, John, every Christian can evaluate what a fragrant and God-pleasing flower was her most holy soul.

This is but one wonderful canticle of the soul of the Theotokos, which has come down to us through the Gospel. However, such canticles were without number in the course of the life of the Most-Blessed One.

Even before she heard the Gospel from the lips of her Son, she knew how to speak with God and to glorify Him in accordance with the teaching of the Gospel.

This knowledge came to her from the Holy Spirit of God, whose grace constantly poured into her like clear water into a pure vessel.

Her soul magnified God with canticles throughout her whole life, and therefore God magnified her above the Cherubim and the Seraphim.

Likewise, small and sinful as we are, the same Lord will magnify in His Kingdom us who magnify her, if we exert ourselves to fill this brief life with the magnification of God in our deeds, words, thoughts and prayers.

O Most-Holy, Most-Pure and Most-Blessed Theotokos, cover us with the wings of thy prayers.

Nikolai Velimirovich.

Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956; Orthodox Church): 

Prologue from Ohrid, December 26th and 27th OS.

O, Holy Night.

"The Virgin With Angels".
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).

Date: 1900.

Current location: Petit Palais, Paris, France.

Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center image.

Copied from the English Wikipedia to Commons.

Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).

(Wikimedia Commons)

"O, Holy Night".

Sung by Celine Dion.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas Carol, composed by Adolphe Adam, in 1847, to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians), by a wine merchant and poet, Placide Cappeau (1808–1877).

In Roquemaure, France, at the end of 1843, the Church Organ was renovated. To celebrate the event, the Parish Priest asked Cappeau, a native of Roquemaure, to write a Christmas poem. Cappeau did it, although being a professed Anti-Cleric and Atheist.

Soon after, Adam wrote the music. The Carol was premiered in Roquemaure, in 1847, by the Opera Singer Emily Laurey.

Unitarian Minister John Sullivan Dwight, Editor of "Dwight's Journal of Music", created a singing edition, based on Cappeau's French Text, in 1855. In both the French original, and in the two familiar English versions of the Carol, the Text reflects on The Birth of Jesus and of Humanity's Redemption.

Lo ! All Things Are Accomplished That Were Said By The Angel Of The Virgin Mary. Antiphon At Lauds.

This Article was taken (in December 2012) from 

ARS ORANDI THE ART AND BEAUTY OF TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM

The following Text is from
The Liturgical Year, Volume 1; Advent, 23 December,
by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

O Emmanuel ! King of Peace! Thou enterest today the city of Thy predilection, the city in which Thou hast placed Thy Temple - Jerusalem. A few years hence, the same city will give Thee Thy Cross and Thy Sepulchre: nay, the day will come on which Thou wilt set up Thy Judgement-Seat within sight of her walls.

But today Thou enterest the city of David and Solomon unnoticed and unknown. It lies on Thy road to Bethlehem. Thy Blessed Mother and Joseph, her spouse, would not lose the opportunity of visiting the Temple, there to offer to the Lord their prayers and adoration.

They enter; and then, for the first time, is accomplished the prophecy of Aggeus, that great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first; for this second Temple has now standing within it an Ark of the Covenant more precious than was that which Moses built; and within this Ark, which is Mary, is contained the God whose presence makes her the Holiest of Sanctuaries.

The Lawgiver Himself is in this Blessed Ark, and not merely, as in that of old, the Tablet of Stone on which the Law was graven. The visit paid, our living Ark descends the steps of the Temple, and sets out once more for Bethlehem, where other prophecies are to be fulfilled.

We adore Thee, O Emmanuel ! in this Thy journey, and we reverence the fidelity wherewith Thou fulfillest all that the Prophets have written of Thee; for Thou wouldst give to Thy people the certainty of Thy being the Messias, by showing them that all the marks, whereby He was to be known, are to be found in Thee.

And, now, the hour is near; all is ready for Thy Birth; come then, and save us; come, that Thou mayst not only be called our Emmanuel, but our Jesus, that is, He that saves us.

Ero cras!

"Tomorrow I Will Be !"

The Great O Antiphons. 23 December.

Text and Illustrations taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 

unless otherwise stated.

The Adoration of the Shepherds.

Artist: Gerard van Honthorst (1590–1656).

Date: 25 December 1622.

Current location: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum,

Cologne, Germany.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2005-April/012195.html.

(Wikimedia Commons)

O Emmanuel.
The Great O Antiphon
for 23 December.
Available on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/FWGM9bJR2Cs.

 23 December: Isaias vii. 14, xxxiii. 22.

O Emmanuel,

Rex et legifer noster,

exspectatio Gentium,

et Salvator earum:

veni ad salvandum nos,

Domine Deus noster.

O Emmanuel,

our King and Lawgiver,

the expected of the nations 

and their Saviour,

come to save us,

O Lord our God.

V. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."

"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."

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

The Great O Antiphons. 22 December.

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

English: Adoration of the Shepherds (Detail).

Deutsch: Anbetung der Hirten, Detail.

Artist: Guido Reni (1575–1642).

Date: 1630 - 1642.

Current location: Certosa di San Martino, Naples, Italy.

Source/Photographer: http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/product/74265/theadorationoftheshepherds
detailofthegroupsurroundingjesus.

(Wikimedia Commons)

O Rex Gentium.

The Great O Antiphon

for 22 December.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/5GvDvgfLoUo.

 22 December:  Aggeus ii. 8;  Ephesians ii. 14, 20.

O Rex Gentium,

et desideratus earum,

lapisque angularis,

qui facis utraque unum:

veni, et salva hominem,

quem de limo formasti.

O King of the Gentiles,

and the desired of them,

Thou cornerstone that makest both one,

come and deliver man,

whom Thou didst form out of 

      the dust of the earth.

V. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."

"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."

A Little Levity To Get You Through The Day.

The Irish Blessing.

Go n-éirí an bóthar leat

Go raibh an ghaoth go 

brách ag do chúl

Go lonraí an ghrian go te ar 

d'aghaidh

Go dtite an bháisteach go mín ar do 

pháirceanna

Agus go mbuailimid le chéile 

arís,

Go gcoinní Dia i mbos A láimhe 

thú.

The Great O Antiphons. 21 December.

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

English: Madonna and Child with two Angels.
Deutsch: Madonna und zwei Engel
Italiano: Madonna con due angeli.
Artist: Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510).
Date: 1468 - 1469.
Current location: Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. 

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. 

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Permission: [1]
(Wikimedia Commons)

O Oriens.
The Great O Antiphon
for 21 December.
Available on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/1BsZH7e27Dg.

 21 December:  Psalm cvi.  10.

O Oriens,

splendor lucis aeternae,

et sol justitiae;

veni et illumina sedentes in tenebris,

et umbra mortis.

O Dawn of the East,

brightness of the light eternal,

and Sun of Justice;

come and enlighten them that sit in darkness,

and in the shadow of death.

V. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."
"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."

Fourth 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

Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Station at The Church of The Twelve Apostles.

Indulgence of 15 years and 15 Quarantines.

Privileged Sunday of the Second-Class.

Semi-Double.

Violet Vestments.

John, preaching the Baptism of Penance.

Like the whole Liturgy of this Season, the purpose of The Mass for The Fourth Sunday of Advent is to prepare us for the twofold Coming of Christ: His Coming in Mercy at Christmas; and in Justice at the end of the world.

Allusion is made to the First Coming in the Introit; while the Collect, Gradual, and Alleluia, can be applied to either of the two.

In this Mass, we meet once again with the three great figures that are before the mind of The Church throughout Advent: Isaias; Saint John the Baptist; and Our Lady. The Prophet Isaias foretells, of Saint John the Baptist, that he will be: "A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of The Lord, make straight His paths . . . and all flesh shall see the Salvation of God."

English: Basilica of The Twelve Holy Apostles.

View from the Vittoriano, Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Santi XII Apostoli.

Latin: SS. XII Apostolorum.

Photo: 3 December 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Pippo-b.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church of The Twelve Holy Apostles (Italian: Santi Dodici Apostoli, Latin: SS. XII Apostolorum) is a 6th-Century Roman Catholic Parish and Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome, Italy, dedicated originally to Saint James and Saint Philip and, later, to all Apostles.
Today, the Basilica is under the care of the Conventual Franciscans, whose headquarters,
in Rome , are in the adjacent building.

The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus XII Apostolorum is Angelo Scola.
Among the previous Cardinal Priests are Pope Clement XIV, whose tomb, by Canova, is in the Basilica, and Henry Benedict Stuart.

And "the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the Baptism of Penance for the remission of sins" (Gospel).

"John," Saint Gregory explains, "told those who hurried in crowds to be Baptised: "Ye brood of vipers, who hath told you to flee from the wrath to come ?" Now the wrath to come is the final chastisement, which the sinner will not be able to escape, unless he have recourse now to the lamentations of Penance.

The friend of the Bridegroom warns us to bring forth, not fruits merely of Penance, but worthy fruits. These words are a call to each man's conscience, bidding him to lay up, by means of Penance, a treasure of good works, the greater in proportions to the ravage of sin which caused it (Third Nocturn).

The Baroque Ceiling of The Basilica of Santi Apostoli, Rome, Italy.

Photo: 15 August 2005.

Source: http://flickr.com/photos/antmoose/34649457/.

Author: Anthony Majanlahti.

(Wikimedia Commons)

And Saint Leo says: "God Himself teaches us by the Prophet Isaias: I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, and I will turn the darkness before them into light and I will not forsake them."

The Apostle, Saint John, makes clear to us, the way in which this Mystery is fulfilled, when he says: "And we know that The Son of God is Come. And He hath given us understanding, that we may know The True God and may be in His True Son" (Second Nocturn).

The Liturgy continues: Because of the great love that God has manifested towards us, He has sent on Earth His only-begotten Son to be born of The Virgin Mary. Also, in the Communion sentence, the Church recalls to us the Prophecy of Isaias: "Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son: And His Name shall be called Emmanuel."

And, again, in the Offertory, she combines, in a single salutation, the words addressed to Our Lady by the Archangel and by Saint Elizabeth. Saint Gregory writes: "Gabriel, whose name means "Strength of God", is sent to Mary, since he comes to announce The Messias, Whose Will it is, to appear in humiliation and abasement, in order to subdue all the Powers of the Air.

"It was fitting that He should be heralded by Gabriel, the "Strength of God"; He, Who was to come as The Lord of Might, The All-Powerful and Unconquerable in battle, to crush the Powers of the Air in universal defeat" (Sermon 35).

In the Collect, just as we are reminded of the display of Our Lord's "Great Might", which will take place at the time of His Second Coming, when, as Supreme Judge, He will come in the splendour of His Divine Majesty to render to each according to his works, so we find an allusion to this same Great Power manifested in His First Coming. It was as one clothed in His weak and mortal human nature that Our Lord put the Devil to flight.

As we think of Our Lord as nigh at hand, in one or other of His "Comings", let us say, with The Church: "Come, Lord Jesus, and tarry not."

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

The Great O Antiphons. 20 December.

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

English: Workshop of the Della Robbia (early 16th-Century)

Madonna with Child, the Holy Spirit and two cherubims, enamelled terracotta.

Français: Atelier des Della Robbia (début du XVIe siècle.

Vierge à l'Enfant avec le Saint Esprit et deux chérubins, terre cuite émaillée.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Accession Number: Campana 32.

Source/Photographer: Jastrow (2006).

(Wikimedia Commons)

O Clavis David,
The Great O Antiphon
for 20 December.
Available on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/fDg29sswhgQ.

20 December: Isaias xxii. 22; Apocalypse iii. 7; Luke i. 79.

O Clavis David,

et sceptrum domus Israel;

qui aperis, et nemo claudit, 

      claudis, et nemo aperit:

veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris,

sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis.

O Key of David,

and Sceptre of the House of Israel,

who openest and no man shutteth,

who shuttest and no man openeth;

come and bring forth from his prison-house,

the captive that sitteth in darkness and

      in the shadow of death.

V. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."
"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."

"Hold Firmly To The Traditions, Just As I Delivered Them To You."

Fr. Ray Blake has put up a most wonderful Post on FR RAY BLAKE'S BLOG

which beautifully depicts the Liturgy as many of the Faithful remember (and long for, still).

The Post is entitled "1 Corinthians 11:2". [Editor: Saint Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians.]

Zephyrinus urges all Readers to pop over and see how Liturgy should be celebrated, with Profundity and Solemnity, when Adoring and Worshipping God.

No Liturgical Dances. No Dancing Nuns. No Clowns.

Pictures From Before The Revolution.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/JNbF1J6XSXc.

Parce Mihi Domine. Spare Me, O Lord, For My Days Are Nothing.

Herewith, two versions of Parce Mihi Domine (Spare Me, O Lord) [from The Book of Job 7:16-21].

The first version includes the accompaniment by the Norwegian saxophonist, Jan Garbarek. The second version does not.

See which one you prefer.

Parce Mihi Domine

(Cristóbal de Morales, 1500-1553),

by Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/qfodIWqR0II.

Scroll of The Book of Job, in Hebrew.

Photo: 28 October 2009.

Source: Photographed at a Museum.

Author: Pete unseth.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Parce Mihi Domine

(Cristóbal de Morales, 

1500-1553),

by The Hilliard Ensemble.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/Uk1YMS2M0L4.

Parce Mihi Domine (Latin) (Job 7:16-21).

Parce mihi Domine, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum?
Aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
Visitas cum diluculo, et subito probas illum.
Usquequo non parcis michi, nec dimittas me, ut glutiam salivam meam?
Peccavi. Quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum?
Quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum michimet ipsi gravis?
Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam?
Ecce nunc in pulvere dormio; et si mane me quesieris, non subsistam.

Parce Mihi Domine (English) (Job 7:16-21).
Spare me, O Lord, for my days are nothing.
What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that
thou dost set thy mind upon him,
dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.

Parce Mihi Domine (Español) (Job 7:16-21).

Perdóname Señor, porque mis días son un soplo.
¿Qué es el hombre para que le des tanta importancia,
para que pongas en él tu atención,
para que cada mañana lo inspecciones y sin cesar lo pongas a prueba?
¿Hasta cuándo seguirás vigilándome sin darme tregua ni para tragar saliva?
¿Qué daño te hizo mi pecado, guardián de los hombres?
¿Por qué me has convertido en blanco de tus flechas? ¿Por qué he de ser una carga para ti?
¿Por qué no olvidas mi pecado ni pasas por alto mi culpa?
Mira que bien pronto yaceré en la tierra y no me hallarás, aunque me busques.

The Great O Antiphons. 19 December.

Text and Illustrations taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 

unless otherwise stated.

Madonna and Child,

by Michelangelo

(1501-1504).

Brügge Cathedral,

"Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk", Belgium.

Photo: 7 February 2005.

Author: Elke Wetzig (elya).

(Wikimedia Commons)

O Radix Jesse.

The Great O Antiphon

for 19 December.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/VFE7B-DZ8_w.

19 December: Isaias xi. 10.

O Radix Jesse,

qui stas in signum populorum,

super quem continebunt reges os suum,

quem Gentes deprecabuntur:

veni ad liberandum nos,

jam noli tardare.

O Root of Jesse,

who standest for an ensign of the people,

before whom kings shall keep silence,

and unto whom the Gentiles shall make their supplication:

come to deliver us, 

and tarry not.

V. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."
"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."

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

Benedictus.

Illustration: BENEDICTUS

Benedictus Trust, a UK educational charity, is running a two-week residential Summer School in central London in August 2015, entitled “Foundational Aspects of European Culture” which covers philosophy, theology, history, history of art, Latin, literature and geometry. The course is open to 18-25 year olds. Students are taught through classroom-based discussion seminars and visit seminars to some of London’s top cultural sites conducted by expert professors. Students will also experience theatrical and musical performances that link to the subjects that they have been studying. The course introduces students to the thought and culture of Europe from the ancient world to the modern day with a strong focus on the importance of the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Illustration: BENEDICTUS

The Summer School runs from 2nd - 14th August and costs £1,400 for accommodation, tuition and entrance fees.

Spoken and written English to a high standard is required to join this course.

In September 2014,

the Board of Trustees announced that 

HMEH Fra' Matthew Festing,

the Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,

had agreed to be the first Patron of Benedictus Trust.

Illustration: BENEDICTUS

英國「本篤基金」Benedictus Trust是一所慈善教育機構，將於2015年8月在倫敦市，假耶穌會海斯羅珀學院 Heythrop College舉辦「歐洲文化基礎」暑期住院課程，為期兩周，涵蓋哲學、神學、歷史、藝術史、拉丁文、文學及幾何，招收18-25歲學生，由專家教授指導課堂研討及導覽倫敦文化勝地，並讓學員經驗與學科相關之劇藝音樂項目。本課程旨在引導學生認識歐洲古今思想文化，集中了解天主教學術傳統之重要地位。

報讀者英語聽寫需達熟練程度。

暑期課程：8月2日至8月14日
費用，包括住宿，學費及報名費共：£1400 （臺仟肆伯圓英鎊）詳情及報名細節：www.benedictus.org.uk　
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Email: info@benedictus.org.uk

Telephone: +44 0207 976 6072.

Write to us at 84 Cambridge Street, London, SW1V 4QQ,
United Kingdom.