The Ritz Cinema was built for the Union Cinemas chain and was designed by the architectural firm Verity and Beverley, who were assisted by Union’s ‘in-house’ architect Ernest F. Tulley.
Union opened the Ritz Cinema on 22 March 1937 (the same day as their Ritz Cinema, Chatham, Kent). The opening film was William Powell in “My Man Godfrey”. The facade was of white stone and had a stepped outline. At night, it was quite spectacular as it was covered with many bands of neon tube lighting, as well as having the RITZ name located on a double-sided vertical sign and the name UNION CINEMAS mounted in large illuminated letters on top.
It was a spacious and lavishly-designed Cinema which was well equipped with a large Stage and many Dressing Rooms. It held the distinction of being the 2,000th Cinema in The U.K. to be equipped with the Western Electric Sound System, and a plaque was mounted on the foyer wall to commemorate this.
The Wurlitzer 3Manual/7Rank Theatre Organ was not ready for the opening, and had its own special opening on 26 April 1937, when H. Robinson Cleaver played on the console, which was on a lift, was illuminated, and had a Grand Piano attached. The longest-serving Resident Organist at The Ritz was Trevor Willetts, who played from 1943 until 1962. The Organ was removed in 1969, when it was sold to a private buyer.
In October 1937, Union Cinemas were taken over by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) and The Ritz was later (in 1961) re-named ABC. It closed on 16 March 1974, with Reg Varney, in “Holiday on the Buses”, as the last film. The Cinema was subsequently demolished.
A Wurlitzer Organ, which entertained thousands of patrons at the former Ritz Cinema, has been found - more than half-a-Century after it was last seen in Barnsley.
The Ritz Cinema, on Peel Street, Barnsley, closed in 1974, but the Organ was removed beforehand, in 1965.
Brian Hague, who grew up in Barnsley, but now lives at Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, was invited to become an ABC Monitor, at the Ritz Cinema, when he was a pupil at Barnsley Grammar School in the mid-1940s.
As a 'Monitor', his job was to help control queues of young children at the ABC Minors' Saturday Morning Shows.
Brian Hague, reunited with the Wurlitzer Organ after sixty years.
"It was a great time and my affinity with the Ritz Cinema and the Wurlitzer Organ has remained until today," he said. "What sadness I experienced when, on one of my annual visits to Barnsley, I discovered the Ritz had been demolished."
For many years he tried find out what happened to the Organ, without success, but a chance conversation, with another Organ enthusiast, led to the revelation that the man was actually restoring the same Organ in his back garden in Brentford, South London.
Keen Pianist, Brian, said: "He invited me to go to his house to view the Organ. We had a very happy evening and I was able to play a tune on it.
"It was my birthday and I was able to celebrate a reunion with a very old friend I had not seen, or heard of, for nearly sixty years.
"When I played the Organ, it gave me goose pimples, it was just wonderful."
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"The Untouchables" is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalised Ness' experiences as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed The Untouchables.
Vatican City, 5 June 2016 / 04:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Saint Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, and Saint Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad, are key examples of how to unite oneself to Jesus’ Passion and Death, as well as the power of His Resurrection, Pope Francis said Sunday, 5 June 2016, after Canonising the two.
“In the Passion of Christ, we find God’s response to the desperate and, at times, indignant cry that the experience of pain and death evokes in us,” the Pope said.
At the age of 102, Father Hermann Scheipers has passed away. He was the last surviving Priest of Dachau Concentration Camp.
As prisoner ‘number 24255’, Hermann Scheipers survived Hell in Dachau Concentration Camp. Nevertheless, the Priest and enemy of the Nazis survived, to die now at the age of 102.
Hermann Scheipers had a Mission. He had to tell young people of that time: How he, as a young Priest in 1940, was arrested by the Nazis and taken to Dachau Concentration Camp, how he survived the War and how he was once again oppressed, this time by the Communist dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic. How he survived that time, too, he continuously impressed upon his listeners. On Thursday night, 2 June 2016, Father Scheipers died in Ochtrup, Germany, aged 102. He was the last surviving German Clergyman to have been imprisoned in Dachau.
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Santa María de León Cathedral, also called "The House of Light", or the "Pulchra Leonina", is situated in the City of León, North-West Spain. It was built on the site of previous Roman Baths of the 2nd-Century A.D., which, 800 years later, King Ordoño II converted into a Palace.
León Cathedral, Dedicated to Santa María de la Regla, was declared of Cultural Interest in 1844. It is known as the "Pulchra Leonina" and is a masterpiece of the Gothic Style of architecture of the Mid-13th-Century. The design is attributed to the architect Enrique. By the Late-16th-Century, it was virtually completed.
The main façade has two Towers. The South Tower is known as the 'Clock Tower'. The Renaissance Retro Choir contains alabaster sculptures by Jusquin,Copin of Holland and Juan de Malinas. Particularly noteworthy is the Plateresque Screen or Reja in the wall behind the Sepulchre of King Ordoño.
It has three Portals decorated with sculptures situated in the Pointed Arches between the two Towers. The central section has a large Rose Window. Particularly outstanding is the image of The Virgen Blanca and the Locus Appellatione, where justice was imparted.
English: The Gothic Cathedral of Santa Maria, León Spain.
Sunday 12 June 2016 will mark the 400th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church of The Most Holy Trinity of The Pilgrims (Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini), which has been, since 2009, the Roman Parish of The Fraternity of Saint Peter.
To mark the occasion, the Parish will welcome Archbishop Guido Pozzo, Secretary of The Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, for the Celebration of a Solemn Pontifical Mass at 1100 hrs, followed, as usual, by refreshments in the Parish Hall.
Rome, Italy, 1 Jun 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Irene Bertoni was eighteen-years-old during World War II. And it was at this tumultuous time that she discovered God's vocational call for her to be a mother.
She adopted two abandoned children, and, with the Blessing of her Bishop, Founded the Catholic Charitable Work Nomadelfia, along with a Priest, named Father Zeno Saltini.
WASHINGTON, 3 June 2016 (C-Fam). President Horacio Cartes of Paraguay has vowed to fight any threat, from The Organisation of American States, to impose ABORTION, or redefine The Family to include Homosexual Couples.
“Here we will stand, defending The Rights of Life and Family, as we always did,” stated President Cartes.
He acted immediately after Paraguay’s Parliament approved a Declaration, asking its President to Defend Life and Family from serious and repeated attacks by The Organisation of American States (OAS).
The OAS has a history of undermining the fundamental Right to Life and The Family. But the most recent steps taken by The Organisation were so troublesome that Paraguay’s President was compelled to intervene.
INTERNATIONAL STEVEN ERTELT 31 MAY 2016 | 11:23AM WARSAW, POLAND
A hospital in Poland has stopped doing ABORTIONS, after every single Physician there signed a pledge refusing to do them.
This good news is a lesson for The United States and other Countries where ABORTION is legal — that getting Doctors to stand up for Life and The Hippocratic Oath is a method of protecting Women and unborn Children, even within the confines of legalised ABORTION.
Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. Indulgenced Prayer of 300 days, each time. When said on The Feast of The Sacred Heart, to be Solemnly read with The Litany of The Sacred Heart before The Blessed Sacrament exposed: Then, Seven Years and Seven Quarantines, and a Plenary Indulgence, supposing Confession and Communion.
English: Stained-Glass Window of The Sacred Heart,
Church of Saint Konrad and Vincent, Ravensburg, Germany.
Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St. Konrad und Vinzenz, Fronhofen,
Gemeinde Fronreute, Landkreis Ravensburg, Deutschland.
O Sweet Jesus, Whose overflowing Charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence, and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thy Altar, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries, to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject.
Mindful, alas !, that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offences, but also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of Salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the Vows of their Baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law.
We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behaviour, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violation of Sundays and holidays, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints.
We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on Earth and Thy Priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love; and, lastly, for the public crimes of nations, who resist the rights and the teaching authority of The Church which Thou hast founded.
Would, O Divine Jesus, we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood. We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy Divine Honour, the satisfaction Thou didst once make to Thy Eternal Father on The Cross, and which Thou dost continue to renew daily on our Altars; we offer it in union with The Acts of Atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and All The Saints and of the pious Faithful on Earth; and we sincerely promise to make reparation, as far as we can with the help of Thy Grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past.
Henceforth, we will live a life of unwavering Faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and, especially, that of Charity. We promise, to the best of our power, to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee.
O Loving Jesus, through the intercession of The Blessed Virgin Mary, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this Act of Expiation; and, by the crowning gift of perseverance, keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where Thou, with The Father and The Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, God, World without end.
English: The Estrela Basilica was built by order of Queen Maria I of Portugal,
as a fulfilled promise for giving birth to a son (José, Prince of Brazil).
Français: La basilique Estrela (en portugais: Basilica da Estrela) est une basilique de Lisbonne, au Portugal. Elle fut construite sous les ordres de la reine Maria I du Portugal, pour remplir la promesse de donner naissance à un fils (José, prinde du Brésil).
Heart of Jesus, formed in The Womb of The Virgin Mother by The Holy Ghost,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, united hypostatically to The Eternal Word,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of Infinite Majesty,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Holy Temple of God,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Tabernacle of The Most High,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, House of God and Gate of Heaven,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Burning Furnace of Charity,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Vessel of Justice and Love,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Full of Goodness and Love,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Abyss of all Virtues,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Worthy of All Praise,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, King and Centre of All Hearts,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in Which are All The Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in Which dwelleth All The Fullness of The Divinity,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in Which The Father is Well Pleased,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of Whose Fullness we have all Received,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Desire of Eternal Hills,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Patient and Abounding in Mercy,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Rich unto all that Call upon Thee,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Fount of Life and Holiness,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Propitiation for our Offenses,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Overwhelmed with Reproaches,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Bruised for our Iniquities,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Obedient even unto Death,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Pierced with a Lance,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Source of all Consolation,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Our Life and Resurrection,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Our Peace and Reconciliation,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Victim for Our Sins,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who hope in Thee,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, delight of all saints,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who Takest Away The Sins of The World,
spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who Takest Away The Sins of The World,
graciously Hear Us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who Takest Away The Sins of The World,
have mercy on us.
Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart,
make our hearts like unto Thine.
Let us Pray.
Almighty and Eternal God, consider The Heart of Thy Well-Beloved Son and the Praises and Satisfaction He offers Thee in the name of sinners; appeased by worthy homage, pardon those who implore Thy mercy, in the name of the same Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee, World Without End.
The Consecration in The Encyclical entered new Theological territory by Consecrating non-Christians. The Encyclical, and The Consecration, were influenced by two Letters written to the Pope by Sister Mary of The Divine Heart, who stated that, in Visions of Jesus Christ, she had been told to request The Consecration.
Protestantism, in the 16th-Century, and Jansenism, in the 17th-Century, had attempted to spoil one of the essential Dogmas of Christianity, namely, The Love of God for all men.
It became necessary that The Spirit of Love, which directs The Church, should, by some new means, counteract the spreading Heresy, in order that The Spouse of Christ, far from seeing her love for Jesus diminish, should feel it always increasing.
This was made manifest in Catholic worship, which is The Sure Rule of Our Faith, by the institution of The Feast of The Sacred Heart.
Yet, in the Early-Middle-Ages, the Doctors and Saints used to see, in The Wound of Jesus' Side, The Source of All Graces. Saint Bonaventure invites us "to enter this Wound and to dwell in the quiet of this Heart" (Third Nocturn).
English: Saint John Eudes, 1673.
Nederlands: Portret Jean Eudes ca. 1673 -
publiek domein, ouderdom.
Source: Transferred from nl.wikipedia
Author: Original uploader was Besednjak at nl.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Jean Eudes (14 November 1601 - 19 August 1680) was a French Missionary, Founder of The Congregation of Jesus and Mary, and of The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of The Refuge, and author of The Propers for Mass and The Divine Office of The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The two Benedictine Virgins, Saint Gertrude and Saint Mechtilde, in the 13th-Century, had a clear vision of the grandeur of The Devotion to The Sacred Heart. Saint John the Evangelist, appearing to Saint Gertrude, announced to her that "the meaning of The Blessed Beating of The Heart of Jesus, which he had heard whilst his head rested on His Breast, was reserved for The Latter Times, when the World, grown old and cold in Divine Love, would require to have its fervour renewed by means of this Mystery of Burning Love".
This Heart, say these two Saints, is an Altar on which Christ offers Himself to The Father as a perfect and most acceptable victim. It is a Golden Censer from which rise, towards The Father, as many Clouds of Incense as there are kinds of men for whom Christ suffered.
In this Heart, the Praise and Thanks we give to God, and all our good works, are ennobled and become acceptable to The Father.
But, in order to make this worship public and recognised, Providence first raised up Saint John Eudes, who, in 1670, composed an Office and a Mass of The Sacred Heart for the so-called Congregation of The Eudists.
Providence then chose one of The Spiritual Daughters of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Margaret-Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus showed His Heart at Paray-le-Monial, on 16 June 1675, the Sunday after Corpus Christi, and asked her to institute a Feast of The Sacred Heart on The Friday following The Octave of Corpus Christi.
Lastly, God employed, for the propagation of this Devotion, Blessed Claude de la Colombiere. He belonged to The Company of Jesus, "the whole of which inherited his zeal in the propagation of The Devotion to The Sacred Heart" [the quoted portion is from Dom Guéranger's "The Liturgical Year, Volume 10, Book 1: The Feast of The Sacred Heart"].
[Dom Guéranger writes, in the above tome, on The Feast of The Sacred Heart of Jesus: "A new ray of light shines today in the heaven of Holy Church, and its light brings warmth. The Divine Master given to us by Our Redeemer, that is, The Paraclete Spirit, Who has come down
into this World, continues His teachings to us in The Sacred Liturgy. The earliest of these,
His Divine Teachings, was The Mystery of The Trinity; and we have worshipped The Blessed Three: We have been taught Whom God is, we know Him in His Own Nature, we have been admitted,
by Faith, into the Sanctuary of The Infinite Essence.
"Then, this Spirit, The Mighty Wind of Pentecost, opened to our Souls new aspects of The Truth, which it is His Mission to make the World remember; and His Revelation left us prostrate before The Sacred Host, The Memorial which God Himself has left us of all His Wonderful Works.
"Today, it is The Sacred Heart of The Word Made Flesh that this Holy Spirit puts before us,
that we may know and love and adore It."]
In 1765, Pope Clement XIII, gave his approbation to The Feast and The Office of The Sacred Heart, and, in 1856, Blessed Pope Pius IX, extended it to The Universal Church. In 1929, Pope Pius XI composed a new Mass and Office for this Feast and gave it a Privileged Octave of The Third Order.
The Solemnity of The Sacred Heart sums up all the phases of The Life of Jesus, recalled in The Liturgy from Advent to The Feast of Corpus Christi.
It constitutes an admirable Triptych, giving us, in abridgment, all The Mysteries (Joyous, Sorrowful, and Glorious) of The Saviour's Life devoted to The Love of God and men. This Feast is, indeed, placed on a height from which may be contemplated The Redeeming Labours of The Saviour on Earth and The Glorious Victories He will, by The Working of The Holy Ghost, achieve in Souls until the end of the world.
Pope Leo XIII
in 1880.
Source: 1880 book on Pope Leo XIII.
Author: Karl Benzinger.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Pope Leo XIII wrote the Encyclical, "Annum Sacrum", on The Consecration of The Entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was delivered in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome on 25 May 1899.
Coming after The Feasts of Christ (Ascension and Corpus Christi), this Feast completes them, concentrating them in one object, which is, materially, Jesus' Heart of Flesh, and, formally, the Unbounded Charity symbolised by this Heart. This Solemnity, therefore, does not relate to a particular Mystery of The Saviour's Life, but embraces them all; indeed, The Devotion to The Sacred Heart Celebrates all the Favours we have received from Divine Charity during the year (Collect), and all the marvellous things that Jesus has done for us (Introit, Tract, Alleluia).
It is The Feast of The Love of God for men, a Love which has made Jesus come down on Earth for all, by His Incarnation (Epistle), which has raised Him on The Cross for The Redemption of all and which brings Him down every day on our Altars by Transubstantiation, in order to make us benefit by The Merits of His Death on Calvary.
Born Maria Droste zu Vischering, she was a German Roman Catholic Nun, who was best known for influencing Pope Leo XIII's Consecration of The World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Pope Leo XII called this Consecration "the greatest act of my Pontificate".
These three Mysteries, which manifest to us The Divine Charity in a more special way, sum up the spirit of The Feast of The Sacred Heart. It is "His Love which forced Him to put on a mortal body" (Hymn at Matins). It is His Love which willed that The Sacred Heart should be pierced on The Cross (Gospel and Communion), in order that from the Wound should flow a Spring (Preface) we might draw from, joyfully (Versicle at Second Vespers), whose Water cleanses us from our sins in Baptism and whose Blood nourishes our Souls in The Eucharist.
And, as The Eucharist is the continuation of The Incarnation and The Sacrifice of Calvary, Jesus asked that The Feast should be placed immediately after The Octave of Corpus Christi.
As these manifestations of Christ's Love only show the more the ingratitude of men, who only answer by coldness and indifference (Offertory), this Solemnity has a character of Reparation (Collect) demanded of us by The Wounded Heart of Jesus and by His Immolation in The Crib, on The Cross and on The Altar.
Let us learn from The Heart of Jesus, Whose Gentle and Humble Love turns no-one away, and in it we shall find rest for our Souls (Alleluia).
A mum, expecting her second child, has captured the adorable moment when her two-year-old daughter first saw an ultrasound scan of her little sister.
The home video shows young Myla I'Anson, kissing and hugging the TV screen as she watches her unborn sibling wriggling around in her mother's womb.
And then things get really emotional as Myla bursts into tears and mum Carly tries to comfort her.
Myla mumbles that she "loves" her baby sister and "misses" her.
"'Oh, darling, it's OK . . . you're going to see her soon," Myla's mother says from behind the camera in a bid to comfort the toddler.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Myla sobs:"But I love her so much."
The heartwarming video has gone viral since it was uploaded last week, amassing more than 55,000 views on Facebook and nearly 40,000 on YouTube.
Carly went to have her sixteen-week scan last week, and was filming the video on her phone to show it to her family when Myla started hugging the screen and crying.
Carly's second baby is due on 4 November 2016 and the expectant mother said Myla is "very excited" to meet her sister.
She continued: "She’s already decided she's going to give up her dummies to give them to her. She's keeping and saving lots of things and toys to give to her when she's born.
"She's also decided we have to call her Snow White. It was Aurora last week, so we’ll probably have to name her Ariel or Elsa next week."
He added: "We did have a chat about how she'd react if we were having a boy but it just would’ve meant that he'd have to play princesses with her at some point in his life."
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