ZEPHYRINUS.

Sunday 14 May 2017

Act Of Reparation, From The Angel Of Peace, At Fatima.

An Act of Reparation

From The Angel of Peace at Fatima:

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

I adore You profoundly and I offer You

The Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity

of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of The World, in Reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He Himself is offended.

And by The Infinite Merits of His Most Sacred Heart

and The Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You

the conversion of poor sinners.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, FR. Z's BLOG

Saint Boniface Of Tarsus. Martyr. One Of "The Ice Saints". Feast Day 14 May.

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

Saint Boniface.
Martyr.
Feast Day 14 May.

[Not to be confused with Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr. Feast Day 5 June.]

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Icon of Saint Boniface of Tarsus.

Deutsch: Ikone heilige Bonifatius aus Tarsus.

Russian: икона святого мученика Вонифатия Римского (Тарского).

Date: Unknown.

Source: http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Images/im343.htm%7Cpravoslavie.ru%5D

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Arrested at Tarsus, Boniface "bore himself with much fortitude in presence of his torturers" (Epistle). They tore his body with iron hooks, they thrust pointed reeds under his nails, and poured molten lead into his mouth.

He was beheaded at Tarsus on 14 May, towards 275 A.D., under the Emperor Galerius. His remains were brought to Rome and deposited on Mount Aventine, in the Church which took first his name and, later on, that of Saint Alexius.

[Editor: This Saint is not to be confused with Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr. Feast Day 5 June.]

Mass: Protexisti.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

In the 12th-Century, the name of Boniface was included on 14 May in The General Roman Calendar, with the lowest Rank of Feast ("Simple"). In 1955, Pope Pius XII reduced the Celebration to a Commemoration within The Ferial Mass (see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII).

Because of the date of his Feast, Boniface of Tarsus was one of three Saints, who, because a cold spell was believed to be common on 12 May – 14 May, were called The Ice Saints, in Poland, Bohemia and Eastern Germany.

The Ice Saints.

The Ice Saints is a name given to Saint Mamertus (or, in some countries, Saint Boniface of Tarsus), Saint Pancras, and Saint Servatius in Austrian, Belgian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, North-Italian, Polish, Slovene and Swiss folklore. They are so named because their Feast Days fall on 11 May, 12 May, and 13 May, days which are known as "the Black-Thorn Winter".

The period from 12 May to 15 May was noted to bring a brief spell of colder weather in many years, including the last nightly frosts of the Spring, in the Northern Hemisphere, under the Julian Calendar. The introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582 involved skipping ten days in the Calendar, so that the equivalent days from the climatic point of view became 22 May – 25 May.

Saturday 13 May 2017

Something Quintessentially English: London Pride; Noël Coward; Rupert The Bear; Steam Trains; The Beano; "Bangers And Mash".

Rupert Bear on his Toboggan.

Illustration: PINTEREST

The Streamlined 20th-Century Limited Train, in 1938.

(Wikipedia).

Illustration: PINTEREST

Illustration: CHRIS HALLAM'S WORLD VIEW

English: "London Pride".

Latin: Saxifraga x urbium ‘Variegatum’.

Latvian: Lietuvių: dekoratyvinė apvalialapė uolaskėlė.

Photo: 2007.06.02.

Source: Own work.

Author: Hugo.arg.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Fr Timothy Finigan ("His Hermeneuticalness") has previously Posted a very witty, funny, and extremely "British", Post on his Blog, THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY, entitled "Weather almost reaches "Rather Tiring" level".

Here it is: The Hermeneutic of Continuity: Weather almost reaches "Rather Tiring" level.

Fr's Post put Zephyrinus in mind of this Noël Coward 1941 composition, "London Pride" (see, below).

"London Pride",

sung by Noël Coward.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

See if you agree whether the two things match up.

Portrait for Noël Coward's last Christmas Card.

Photograph by Allan Warren.

Date: 1972.

Source: Own work / allanwarren.com

Author: Allan Warren.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Coward wrote "London Pride" in the Spring of 1941, during The Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform of a damaged Railway Station in London, and was "overwhelmed by a wave of sentimental pride". The song started in his head, there and then, and was finished in a few days.

The song compares the pride of War-Time Londoners to the flower, "London Pride", which can grow anywhere, and was often found growing on bomb sites.

Coward gave many morale boosting broadcasts to people in War-Time London, via the BBC.

"Bangers and Mash, with Peas".

Photo: 28 January 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Qwerty Binary.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Robert Bellarmine. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 13 May.

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

Saint Robert Bellarmine.
Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 13 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Robert Bellarmine.

Jesuit, and Doctor of The Church (4 October 1542 - 17 September 1621).

Beatified 13 May 1923. Canonised 29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI.

Date: 16th-Century.

Source: istitutoaveta.it

Author: Anonymous.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Born at Montepulciano, Italy, died in Rome. Proclaimed Doctor of The Church on 15 August 1931.

Successively, Professor of Theology and Preacher at Louvain (1569 - 1576), Director of the Course of Controversy in Rome, where Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was his Penitent, Provincial of The Jesuits at Naples, sent by Pope Sixtus V on a Diplomatic Mission to France, Bellarmine was raised to the Cardinalate in spite of his unwillingness in 1599.

Pope Clement VIII alleged as motive for this promotion that his (Editor: Bellarmine's) equal in learning was not at that time to be found in The Church.

Saint Robert Bellarmine Church,

Burbank, California, United States of America.

Photo: April 2008.

Source: Own work: Transferred from en.wikipedia

Author: Cbl62.

Attribution: Cbl62 at en.wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

Apart from the three years he spent in Capua as its Archbishop, he passed his life in Rome, where he rendered signal services to Pope Clement VIII, Pope Paul V, and Pope Gregory XV.

By his controversial books, he dealt formidable blows to Protestantism, while, by his Catechism, translated into forty languages, he spread the knowledge of Christian Doctrine in all Countries of the World.

As a Religious, he shone by his Angelic purity, humility, and obedience, and, as Bishop, he was a model of watchful care and Charity to the Poor.

Towards the end of his life, he obtained leave of the Pope to retire to the Noviciate of Saint Andrew, the cradle of his Religious Life, where he prepared for a happy and holy death.

Mass: In médio, from The Common of Doctors.

The Dignity Of The Office. And The Humility Of The Man. His Eminence Cardinal Burke.

His Eminence Cardinal Burke.

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

Friday 12 May 2017

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, And Pancras. Martyrs. Feast Day 12 May.

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

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla,
and Pancras.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 12 May.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Domitilla, with Saints Nereus and Achilleus.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Santa Maria-in-Vallicella, Rome, Italy.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/gallery/nerach_rubens.htm

(Wikimedia Commons)

Nereus and Achilleus, Officers of the household of Flavia Domitilla, a niece of the Emperors Titus and Domitian, were Baptised by Saint Peter. The Gospel praises their Faith when it praises that of the Officer who obtained the cure of his son and believed in Jesus.

These Saints, having inspired Domitilla with the resolution to consecrate her Virginity to God, Aurelianus, her betrothed, accused them, all three, of being Christians. Out of hatred for Christ, they were put to death under the Emperor Trajan, at Terracina, about 100 A.D.

Their bodies rest in Rome in the Church of Saints Nereus and Achilleus. This Church was Stational on Monday in Holy Week, but the bad state of the building caused the Station to be transferred to Saint Praxedes's in the 13th-Century. Saints Nereus and Achilleus Church was restored in the 16th-Century.

Saint Pancras was arrested in Rome at the age of fourteen and put to death towards 275 A.D., under Emperor Diocletian, for having refused to sacrifice to the Roman Gods. His constancy earned him a place among The Saints, whose joy he shares (Epistle, Communion).

Mass: Ecce oculi.