Saint Bridget. Widow. Feast Day 8 October.

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

Saint Bridget.
Widow.
Feast Day 8 October.

Double.

White Vestments.

The Vision of Saint Bridget.

The Risen Christ, displaying his wound from Longinus, inspires the writing of Saint Bridget.
Detail of Initial Letter "T", miniature, dated 1530, probably made at Syon Monastery, England,

a Bridgettine House. (BL Harley MS 4640,f.15).

This File: 23 October 2010.

User: Lobsterthermidor.

(Wikipedia)

Saint Bridget was a descendant of the Kings of Sweden. She was married to the Prince of Mercia, and brought up her eight children in a holy way; one of them was Saint Catherine of Sweden. She led her husband to such a virtuous life that he renounced the World to submit himself to The Cistercian Rule, in the Monastery of Alvastra, Sweden; he died there in the odour of Sanctity (1344), and is known as Blessed Ulpho.

Bridget became still more fervent in her holy widowhood "devoting herself to all manner of good works and persevering day and night in Prayer" (Epistle). Like a man who has discovered a treasure and who sells all he possesses to acquire it (Gospel), she divided her riches among her children, and, detached from everything, she sought only the Kingdom of Heaven.

Saint Bridget, in the Religious Habit and the Crown of a Bridgettine Nun,

in a 1476 Breviary of the form of The Divine Office unique to her Order.

Source: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/

dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?imageID=427746

Author: Anonymous.

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Filled with The Fear of God, she subjected her body to the severest penance (Introit), and Jesus, Whom she thus imitated in His Passion, rewarded her by revealing Heavenly Secrets to her (Collect). He gave her the Constitution of The Order  which she Founded under the Rule of Saint Augustine. She died in Rome in 1373.

Mass: Cognóvi.

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Is Your Priest Properly Vested ?

Antique Chasuble with Goldwork Embroidery

Illustration: PINTEREST

Illustration: PINTEREST

A beautiful new Embroidered Silk Chasuble,

by LUZAR VESTMENTS

of Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Dutch Cope.

Produced by F. Stoltzenberg, Roermond.

Date: 1847.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Dutch Cope.

German fabrics.

Producer unknown.

Date: Circa 1900-1920.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Italian Chasuble

(detail).

18th-Century.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Illustration: LUZAR VESTMENTS

Chasuble.

Circa 1330–1350.

This splendid Chasuble is a beautiful example of Opus Anglicanum.

The principal Vestment worn by a Priest, Bishop, or Archbishop, in the celebration of Mass.

A Chasuble was usually made of the richest materials possible.

(www.metmuseum.org).

Illustration: PINTEREST

Stole.

Part of the Vestment collection at the Anglo-Catholic Saint Mary's Church, Upper Froyle, Hampshire, England. The majority of the items were collected by Sir Hubert Miller (a past Lord of the Manor), whilst he stayed in Italy. The collection numbers over three hundred items of Vestments and Church Furnishings, large portions of which date from the 18th-Century or earlier.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Maniple.

Photo: 10 September 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Design: Pietro Siffi.

Copyright: Ars Regia - www.ars-regia.com

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Cardinal Angelo Scola,

wearing a Scarlet, Watered-Silk, Biretta.

Photo: 22 March 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Louis14.

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One wonders when this magnificent Tiara will be worn again.

It is the oldest surviving Papal Tiara and dates from the 16th-Century.

It has not been worn for Centuries by Popes,

but is used to Crown a Statue of Saint Peter, annually.

Illustration: PINTEREST

AND REMEMBER . . .

Thou Art A Priest For Ever.

Illustration: PINTEREST

The Most Holy Rosary Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Fontgombault Sermon - Feast Of The Rosary: "Surround The Synod With The Beads Of The Rosary". "We Can't Give Up The Gospel Truth On The Family".

"Say The Rosary".

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

801st Anniversary Of The Revelation Of The Holy Rosary, By Our Lady Mary, To Saint Dominic, In 1214.

This year marks the 801st Anniversary of the Revelation of The Holy Rosary, by Our Lady Mary, to Saint Dominic, in 1214.

English: The Madonna giving The Holy Rosary to Saint Dominic.

Deutsch: Rosenkranz madonna, Szene: Maria mit Hl. Dominikus, zwei Engeln

sowie Medaillons mit Darstellung zu Szenen aus dem Leben Jesu und der Passion.

Artist: Guido Reni (1575–1642).

Date: 1596-1598.

Current location: Basilica di San Luca, Bologna, Italy.

Source: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.

ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

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

There are differing views on the history of The Rosary. According to Tradition, the concept of The Rosary was given to Saint Dominic in an apparition by The Virgin Mary, in 1214, in the Church of Prouille.

This Marian apparition received the Title of Our Lady of The Rosary. In the 15th-Century, it was promoted by Alanus de Rupe (also known as Alain de la Roche or Saint Alan of the Rock), a learned Dominican Priest and Theologian, who established the "Fifteen Rosary Promises" and started many Rosary Confraternities. However, most scholarly research suggests a more gradual and organic development of The Rosary.

The practice of Meditation, during the Praying of The Hail Marys, is attributed to Dominic of Prussia (1382–1460), a Carthusian Monk, who called it the "Life of Jesus Rosary". The German Monk, from Trier, added a sentence to each of the fifty Hail Marys, using quotes from Scriptures. In 1569, the Papal Bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices, by the Dominican Pope Pius V, officially established the Devotion to The Rosary in The Catholic Church.

From the 16th- to the Early-20th-Century, the structure of The Rosary remained essentially unchanged. There were fifteen Mysteries, one for each of the fifteen Decades of The Rosary. In the 20th-Century, the addition of The Fatima Prayer, to the end of each Decade, became more common. There were no other changes until 2002, when Pope Saint John Paul II instituted five optional new Luminous Mysteries. 

[Editor: The Fatima Prayer: "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, and
lead all Souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Your Mercy". (Our Lady at Fatima, 13 July 1917)]

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Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus And Apuleius. Martyrs. Feast Day 7 October.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus and Apuleius. 

Martyrs.
Feast Day 7 October.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Illustration: IN CAELO ET IN TERRA

"In Lower Syria,", says The Martyrology, "The Holy Martyrs, Sergius, and Bacchus, noble Romans, who lived under the Emperor Maximian. 

Bacchus was scourged with thongs that tore his flesh; he died, in his torments, Confessing The Name of Jesus.

Sergius, forced to wear shoes with nails piercing his feet, remained strong in The Faith and was then beheaded.

At Rome, The Holy Martyrs, Marcellus and Apuleius, abandoned Simon the Magician, whose disciples they had been, to follow the teaching of Saint Peter. After The Martyrdom of The Apostles, they themselves obtained the same Crown under the ex-Consul, Aurelian, and were buried near Rome.

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

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Saint Mark. Pope And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 7 October.

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Pope Saint Mark.
Pope and Confessor.
Feast Day 7 October.

Simple.

White Vestments.

Pope Saint Mark (336 A.D.).

Source: http://cckswong.tripod.com/pope1_50.htm
("Pope's Photo Gallery").

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Pope Mark (Latin: Marcus) was the Head of The Catholic Church from 18 January 336 A.D., to 7 October 336 A.D.

Little is known of his early life. According to The Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman, and his father's name was Priscus. Some evidence suggests that the Early Lists of Bishops and Martyrs, known as The Depositio episcoporum and Depositio martyrum, were begun during his Pontificate.

Per The Liber Pontificalis, Pope Mark issued a Constitution investing the Bishop of Ostia with a Pallium and confirming his power to Consecrate newly-elected Popes. Also per The Liber Pontificalis, Pope Mark is credited with the Foundation of the Basilica of San Marco, in Rome, and a Cemetery Church over the Catacomb of Balbina, just outside the City, on lands obtained as a donation from Emperor Constantine.

Mark died of natural causes and was buried in the Catacomb of Balbina. In 1048, his remains were removed to the Town of Velletri, and, from 1145, were relocated to the Basilica of San Marco, in Rome, where they are kept in an urn under the Altar. His Feast Day is celebrated on 7 October.

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Mark, a Roman, occupied The Holy See for eight months during the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great.

He succeeded Pope Saint Sylvester and continued, with great zeal, the organisation of The Church that had been commenced by his predecessor, Pope Sylvester I, thanks to the long era of peace inaugurated by the Emperor. He died in 336 A.D.

Mass: Sacerdótes.

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The Most Holy Rosary Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 7 October.

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The Most Holy Rosary of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 7 October.

Double of The Second-Class.

White Vestments.

The Mysteries of The Holy Rosary: Joyful; Sorrowful; Glorious.

It was the custom in The Middle Ages, as formerly among the Romans, for noble personages to wear Crowns of Flowers, called "Chaplets". These Crowns were offered to persons of distinction, as a Feudal Due.

The Blessed Virgin, as Queen of Heaven, and of Souls, has a right to the same homage. Therefore, The Church asks us to recognise the Title of Mary as Queen of The Holy Rosary, and she exhorts us to to offer to her, as Daughter of The Father, Mother of The Son, and Spouse of The Holy Ghost, a Triple Chaplet, or Three Crowns of Roses, of which she shows us all the beauties in today's Office, and to which she has given the name of "Rosary".

The Collect reminds us that the recitation of The Rosary is a mental Prayer, in which we meditate on The Mysteries of The Life, Death, and Resurrection, of Jesus; with these, Mary was intimately associated.

The Gospel, which gives us the chief part of the Angelic Salutation, shows us that The Rosary is a vocal Prayer. The Pater, Credo, and Gloria, which are recited with the Ave Marias, are also found in The Mass or in The Divine Office.

The Rosary, as a private Devotion, consists therefore of elements taken from The Liturgical Cycle, and The Feast of The Rosary forms part of The Cycle.

This Prayer has, in the course of the Centuries, obtained many Graces for Christendom. The Feast of Our Lady of The Rosary was instituted to Commemorate the Victory of Lepanto (Sunday, 7 October 1571), when, thanks to the recitation of The Rosary, the forces of Islam, which threatened to invade Europe, were broken. Pope Gregory XIII, in 1573, prescribed this Feast, replacing very significantly The Feast of Our Lady of Victory, for certain Churches; it was extended to the Catholic World by Pope Clement XI, in thanksgiving for another triumph over the same foes in Hungary in 1716, under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI.

The Feast of The Most Holy Rosary is a summary of The Liturgical Year, as we meditate on The Mysteries, and also of The Breviary, as we recite one hundred and fifty Ave Marias, corresponding to one hundred and fifty Psalms, ending with Gloria Patri.

It shows, in an admirable Triptych, the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious events in the lives of Jesus and Mary, which are recalled in succession in The Catholic Calendar.

In The Christmas Cycle, the Soul, plunged in an atmosphere of Joy, meditates on The Five Joyful Mysteries, on Wednesdays and Fridays of Ember Week in Winter, on Christmas Day, on 2 February (The Purification of The Blessed Virgin Mary) and on The Sunday in The Octave of The Epiphany.

Again, she Contemplates, during The Season of The Passion, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries, on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

Lastly, she sympathises, amid the Joys of The Paschal Season and Pentecost, with The Five Glorious Mysteries at The Feasts of Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and The Assumption of The Virgin. There is a Plenary Indulgence, similar to that of the Portiuncula, to be gained on The Day of this Feast by all The Faithful, who visit a Church where the Arch-Confraternity of The Rosary is established.

Blessed Pope Leo XIII, moved by the sorrowful trials under which The Church groans, raised the Feast to one of The Second Class, with a new Mass and Office.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino.
Commemoration at Low Mass of Saint Mark and Saints Sergius and Companions.

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