The 0815 hrs Margate To Charing Cross Is Now Arriving At Platform Three. (The Second-Largest Steam Locomotive In The World).

Union Pacific 3985,

Westbound at Sloat, California,

2 September 2005.

Source: UP 39859-02-05 022xxx4rp sloat

Uploaded by PDTillman.

Author: Drew Jacksich

from San Jose, California.

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Union Pacific 3985

returns to Cheyenne, Wyoming,

1999.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Union Pacific 3985, or UP 3985, is a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-6-6-4 Challenger-type Steam Locomotive, owned by Union Pacific Railroad.

It was built in 1943 by The American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York. The Locomotive is one of only two of the original 105 Union Pacific Challengers in existence, the other being UP 3977 on static display in North Platte, Nebraska. Before it was stored, it was the largest and heaviest operational preserved Steam Locomotive in the World.

English: Union Pacific Challenger 3985 steams past our front yard

in Alton, Iowa, United States of America.

Deutsch: Dampflok Challenger 3985 in Alton, Iowa, USA.

Photo: 1 October 2008.

Source: originally posted to Flickr as Challenger 01

Author: Mark Evans

(Wikimedia Commons)

Union Pacific Senior Manager of Heritage Operations, Ed Dickens Jr., announced in February 2016 about UP 3985 possibly returning to Excursion Service after the restoration of Union Pacific 4014 is completed.

If the Locomotive is restored and does return to Service, it will become the World's second-largest operating Steam Locomotive after UP 4014.

From First Vespers In Advent (Today) To Second Vespers Of 2 February (Feast Of The Purification Of Our Blessed Lady), The Marian Anthem Is "Alma Redemptoris Mater".

"Love's Pure Light".

The Blessed Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.

Artist: Kathy Lawrence.

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

For Six Voices.

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Cantar Lontano.

Director: Marco Mencoboni.

Available on YouTube at

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ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER

Alma Redemptoris Mater,

quæ pervia cæli Porta manes,

et stella maris, succurre cadenti,

Surgere qui curat, populo:

tu quæ genuisti,

Natura mirante,

tuum sanctum Genitorem,

Virgo prius ac posterius,

Gabrielis ab ore,

Sumens illud Ave,

peccatorum miserere.

Mother of Christ ! Hear thou thy people's cry,

Star of the Deep, and Portal of the Sky !

Mother of Him Who thee from nothing made,

Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid;

Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee,

Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.

"Alma Redemptoris Mater"

(Simple Tone).

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Alma Redemptoris Mater (English: Loving Mother of our Saviour) is a Marian Hymn, written in Latin hexameter, and one of four Seasonal Liturgical Marian Antiphons sung at the end of The Office of Compline (the other three Antiphons being Ave Regina Cælorum, Regina Cœli and Salve Regina).

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

(Ávila, Spain, 1548 - Madrid, Spain, 1611).

Sung by:

Ensemble Plus Ultra.

Director: Michael Noone.

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Hermannus Contractus (also called Herman the Cripple, 1013–1054) is said to have composed the Hymn, based on the writings of Saints Fulgentius, Epiphanius, and Irenaeus of Lyon.

The Alma Redemptoris Mater is mentioned in The Prioress's Tale, one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

It is sung at The Divine Office of Compline, from First Vespers of Advent, until Second Vespers of The Feast of the Purification of The Blessed Virgin Mary (2 February).

"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

For Four Voices.

Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

(1525 – 1594).

Sung by:

The Choir of Merton College, Oxford.

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Saint Sylvester. Abbot. Feast Day 26 November.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Saint Sylvester.

Abbot.

Feast Day 26 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Sylvester receives Holy Communion from The Hand of Our Lady

(see, below).

Artist: Claudio Ridolfi.

Date: 1632.

Illustration: VULTUS CHRISTI

Saint Sylvester was born of noble parentage at Osimo, in The Marches of Ancona, Italy. Owing to his rare merit, The Canons of the Cathedral of Osimo admitted him to share their dignity. When present, one day, at the funeral of an illustrious man, a relative of his, he was struck by the hideous appearance of the body of  a man who had been so handsome, and exclaimed: "I am, today, what he was, and one day I shall be what he is" (Collect).

He immediately gave up everything (Gospel) and retired into a desert, where he devoted himself to Penance and Meditation (Introit). "Later, he built at Monte Fano," says The Roman Breviary, "a Church in honour of The Holy Father, Benedict, who advised him in a vision to Found a Religious Order, whose Rule and Habit he described to him. It was The Order of The Sylvestrines."

This Branch of The Benedictine Order spread in a short time and already numbered twenty-five Houses in Italy when its Founder died in 1267, at the age of ninety.

Mass: Os justi. Of Abbots.

Commemoration: Saint Peter of Alexandria.

The following Text is from VULTUS CHRISTI

Communion from The Hands of Our Lady.

The most famous Marian prodigy in his life took place when, of a night, The Blessed Virgin appeared to him in a dream and said, “Silvester, dost thou desire to receive The Body of my Son ?”

With trepidation, he answered, “My heart is ready, O Lady; let it be done unto me according to thy word.”

What I find most extraordinary is that Saint Silvester, being a Monk already steeped in The Word of God through the familiar repetition of it in The Sacred Liturgy, answered Our Blessed Lady in two phrases already held and pondered within her Immaculate Heart.

The first phrase, taken from Psalm 107:2  — Paratum cor meum Deus paratum cor meum — “My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready” is the perfect act of preparation for Holy Communion.

The second phrase is Our Blessed Lady’s own acquiescence to The Mystery of The Incarnation, as recorded in Luke 1:30  — Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum — “Be it done to me according to thy word”. Receiving her very own words from the lips of her servant Silvester, The Mother of God gave him Holy Communion.

Claudio Ridolfi painted the episode in 1632.

"I Don't Mind If You Don't Like My Manners. I Don't Like Them Myself. They're Pretty Bad. I Grieve Over Them On Long Winter Evenings."

TAKE A PACKARD . . .

1949 Packard Station Sedan.

Illustration; HEMMINGS DAILY

PLAY BACKGROUND MUSIC . . .

"Nightmare".

by Artie Shaw.

[The perfect Intro to . . .

you know whom.]

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ADD A DAME . . .

Lauren Bacall.

American Actress.

Illustration: THE NEW YORK TIMES

ADD A DASH OF RYE . . .

   

Straight Rye Whiskey.
Date: 2 September 2005 (original upload date). Source:

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Whisky Tumblers Picture. Illustration: LUXDECO

PUT ON A TRENCH COAT

Illustration: THE BOGIE FILM BLOG

AND WHAT D'YER GET ?

Screenshot of Humphrey Bogart

from the trailer for the film Invisible Stripes.

Date:1939.

This File: 15 February 2008.

User: Rossrs~commonswiki.

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"The Big Sleep".

Philip Marlowe meets Vivian Rutledge (Lauren Bacall).

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners . . ."

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"Nightmare".

by Artie Shaw.

[The perfect Finale to . . .

you know whom.]

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Illustration: BUZZQUOTES

Beata Es Virgo (Blessed Is The Virgin). Composer: Diego Ortiz. Sung By: Cantar Lontano. Director: Marco Mencoboni.

Photo: Our Lady of Lourdes

by Lawrence OP

on Flickr

Illustration: PINTEREST

"Beata Es Virgo"

(Blessed Is The Virgin).

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Marco Mencoboni and Cantar Lontano.

Available on YouTube at

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"Alma Redemptoris Mater".

For Six Voices.

Composed by Diego Ortiz.

Sung by: Marco Mencoboni and Cantar Lontano.

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Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers (1610).

"Lauda Jerusalem".

Sung by: Marco Mencoboni and Cantar Lontano.

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Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam (AMDG). To The Greater Glory Of God.

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam

or

ad majorem Dei gloriam,

also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG,

is the Latin motto of The Society of Jesus (Jesuits),

a Religious Order of The Catholic Church.

It means "To the greater glory of God".

(Wikipedia)

Illustration: PINTEREST

Don't Chatter During Mass. Consider This Illustration, Instead.

Instead of talking during Mass,

why not give deep consideration

to this image during The Consecration ?

Illustration: PINTEREST