The Feast Of Corpus Christi Is Celebrated, Today, Thursday, 15 June 2017, In The Extraordinary Form Of The Mass.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

The Feast of Corpus Christ.

Double of The First-Class
   with Privileged Octave of The Second Order.

White Vestments.

Indulgence of 400 days for those who attend Mass or Vespers.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: Rene de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

"Pange Lingua".

Sung during the Corpus Christi Procession.

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The Solemn Celebration of this Feast is, in some places, observed on the following Sunday.

After the Dogma of The Holy Trinity, The Holy Ghost reminds us of the Dogma of The Incarnation of Our Lord, in celebrating with The Church the greatest of all Sacraments, summing up the whole Life of The Redeemer, giving Infinite Glory to God and applying The Fruits of The Redemption at all times to ourselves (Collect).

It was on The Cross that Our Lord redeemed us, and The Holy Eucharist, instituted on the night before Our Lord's Passion, remains its Memorial (Collect). The Altar is the extension of Calvary ["The Celebration of The Mass has the same value as The Death of Jesus Christ on The Cross", Saint John Chrysostom.]; The Mass "shows The Death of The Lord" (Epistle).

Jesus is there in the State of a Victim, for the words of the Double Consecration mean only that the Bread is changed into The Body of Christ and the Wine into His Blood. On account of this double action with different effects, which constitutes The Sacrifice of The Mass, we are entitled to speak of Our Lord's Presence, under the appearance of Bread, as that of The Body of Christ, although, since He can die no more, the whole Christ is there contained; similarly, we may speak of the Presence under the appearance of Wine as that of His Blood, although He is contained there whole and entire.

"The Eucharist in a Fruit Wreath ",

by Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1648,

(from the Blog "Ars Orandi: The Art and Beauty

of Traditional Catholicism")

Illustration: ARS ORANDI

Through His Priests, Our Lord Himself, the principal Priest of The Mass, offers in an unbloody manner His Body and Blood, Which were really separated on The Cross, but, on the Altar only in a representative or Sacramental sense, the matter and words used and the effect produced being different in the two Consecrations.

Besides, The Eucharist was instituted under the form of food (Alleluia), that we may be united with The Victim of Calvary, so that The Sacred Host becomes the "wheat" which feeds our Souls (Introit).

THE SEQUENCE FOR CORPUS CHRISTI.

The Solemnity of The Body and Blood of Christ.

Holy Mass, Procession to Saint Mary Major 

and Eucharistic Blessing.

Basilica of Saint John Lateran, 23 June 2011.

Solennità del Santissimo Corpo e Sangue di Cristo.

Santa Messa, Processione a Santa Maria Maggiore 

e Benedizione Eucaristica.

Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, 23 Giugno 2011.

Sequentia: 

Lauda Sion Salvatorem.

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Moreover, Christ, as The Son of God, receives The Eternal Life of The Father; in the same way, Christians share in that Eternal Life by uniting themselves to Christ, through The Sacrament, which is the symbol of unity (Secret), and this possession of The Divine Life, already realised on Earth through The Eucharist, is the pledge and the beginning of that in which we shall fully rejoice in Heaven (Postcommunion). As The Council of Trent puts it: "That same Heavenly Bread that we eat now, under the Sacred Veils, we shall feed upon in Heaven without Veil."

We should regard The Mass as The Centre of all Eucharistic Worship, seeing in Holy Communion the means instituted by Our Lord to enable us to share more fully in this Divine Sacrifice. In this way, our Devotion to Our Lord's Body and Blood will effectively obtain for us The Fruits of His Redemption (Collect).

English: Corpus Christi Procession.

Artist: Carl Emil Doepler.

Deutsch: Carl Emil Doepler the Elder

(1824 Warszawa or Schnepfental -

1905 Berlin): Fronleichnamsprozession.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Concerning the Procession, which regularly should follow The Mass, we remember how the Israelites revered The Ark of The Covenant, which was the Presence of God among them. When they carried on their victorious marches, the Ark went before, borne by the Levites in the midst of a cloud of incense, accompanied by the sound of musical instruments and of the songs and shouts of the multitude.

We Christians have a treasure far more precious, for, in The Eucharist, we possess God Himself. Let us feel a holy pride in forming His Escort and extolling His Triumphs, while He is in our midst.

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

"Lauda Sion Salvatorem"

(The Sequence for Corpus Christi).

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THE PROCESSION.

Regularly, The Sacred Host, carried in The Procession, has been Consecrated in The Mass and exposed in The Monstrance immediately after The Communion of the Priest.

Sometimes, however, The Procession is a separate Function in the afternoon.

Capilla de Música de la Catedral de Pamplona: "Sacris Solemnis".

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When the Priest leaves the Altar, the Choristers intone the Vesper Hymn Pange Lingua. If time allows, other Eucharistic Hymns are also sung, to be found among The Benediction Hymns, e.g: Sacris Solemniis and Verbum Supernum. Also the Hymns for The Ascension, Salutis Humanae, the Canticles Benedictus or Magnificat. On the return of The Procession, The Te Deum is usually sung.

When the Celebrant is arrived at the Altar, the Choristers intone the Tantum Ergo and Benediction is given.

"Verbum Supernum".

Sung during The Corpus Christi Procession.

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"Magnificat".

The Canticle of Mary.

Sung during The Corpus Christi Procession.

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"Magnificat".

The Canticle of Mary.

Sung during The Corpus Christi Procession.

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The Solemn "Te Deum"

(5th-Century Monastic Chant).

Sung when The Corpus Christ Procession 

has returned to The Church.

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Saint Basil The Great. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 14 June.

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

Saint Basil the Great.
   Bishop. Confessor.
   Doctor of The Church.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: The Fathers of The Church: Saint Basil of Caesarea; Saint John Chrysostom; Saint Gregory of Nazianzen - an icon of the 17th-Century from Lipie, Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland.

Polski: Ojcowie Kościoła: św. Bazyli Wielki, św. Jan Chryzostom, św. Grzegorz z Nazjanzu

– ikona z XVII wieku, pochodząca z Lipia, miejsce ekspozycji -

Muzeum Historyczne 

w Sanoku, nr inw. MHS/S/3423.

Date: August 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Przykuta.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Basil was born at Caesarea, in Cappadocia. After having completed his studies at Constantinople and Athens with his intimate friend Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, he renounced the World, left his family (Gospel), and embraced Monastic Life in the Province of Pontus.

Like fully-seasoned salt (Gospel), he gave to his teaching the full flavour of the Gospel and nourished with Holy Truth the people of Caesarea committed to his care (Communion).

He was the author of the famous rule which bears his name; it was praised by Saint Benedict and is still observed by the Monks of The East. The Holy Ghost filled him with His Divine Wisdom and with intelligence (Introit).

When, therefore, he wrote against those who rebelled against the sound Doctrine (Epistle), he attacked the Arians, who denied The Divinity of Jesus Christ, and prepared the triumph of Orthodoxy over the error of the Macedonians by firmly establishing the Catholic Dogma regarding The Holy Ghost.

The Life of Saint Basil the Great.

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He is one of the Four Great Doctors of The East. He died in 379 A.D.

Let us ask Saint Basil to fill us with his Faith in The Divinity of The Third Person of The Holy Trinity, and to deliver us from sin (Offertory) which hinders the working of The Holy Ghost in our Souls.

Mass: In médio.

Creed.

The following Text is from NEW ADVENT

There are Four Great Doctors of The East: Saint Basil the Great; Saint John Chrysostom; Saint Gregory of Nazianzen; Saint Athanasius.

There are Four Great Doctors of The West: Saint Ambrose; Saint Augustine; Saint Jerome; Saint Gregory the Great.

The Sacred Heart Of Jesus. Feast Day Is The Friday After The Octave Of Corpus Christi. Solemn High Mass At The Holy Name Of Jesus Church, Brooklyn.

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

Solemn High Mass: Solemnity Of Corpus Christi. Thursday, 15 June 2017. 1900 hrs. Our Lady Of Peace Church, Fords, New Jersey.

Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

"The Lord Of Misrule".

"Lord of Misrule" Shower Gel.

Illustration: LUSH

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless stated otherwise.

In England, "The Lord of Misrule"  –  known in Scotland as "The Abbot of Unreason", and, in France , as "The Prince des Sots"  –  was an officer appointed by lot, during Christmastide, to preside over The Feast of Fools.

"The Lord of Misrule" was generally a peasant or Sub-Deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying.

The Church held a similar Festival involving a Boy Bishop. This custom was abolished by King Henry VIII in 1541, restored by the Catholic Queen Mary I and again abolished by Protestant Elizabeth I, though here and there it lingered on for some time longer.

On The Continent, it was suppressed by The Council of Basle in 1431, but was revived in some places, from time to time, even as late as the 18th-Century. In The Tudor Period, "The Lord of Misrule" (sometimes called "The Abbot of Misrule", or, "The King of Misrule") is mentioned a number of times by contemporary documents referring to revels both at Court and among the ordinary people.

In "The Spirit of Misrule", identified by the grinning masks in the corners.

Mediaeval floor tiles, 

from the Derby Black Friary,

show a triumphant Hunting Hare mounted on a Dog.

Date: Circa 13th-Century.

Source: http://books.google.de/books?id=n6Q1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92-IA3

(Wikimedia Commons)

While mostly known as a British holiday custom, some folk-lorists, such as James Frazer and Mikhail Bakhtin (who is said to have plagiarised the novel idea from Frazer), have claimed that the appointment of a "Lord of Misrule" comes from a similar custom practiced during the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.

In ancient Rome, from the 17th to the 23rd of December (in The Julian Calendar), a man, chosen to be a mock king, was appointed for the feast of Saturnalia, in the guise of the Roman deity Saturn; at the end of the festival, the man was sacrificed.

This hypothesis has been heavily criticised by William Warde Fowler and, as such, the Christmas custom of "The Lord of Misrule" during the Christian era and the Saturnalian custom of antiquity, may have completely separate origins; the two separate customs, however, can be compared and contrasted.

With the rise of The Puritan Party in the 17th-Century Church of England, the custom of "The Lord of Misrule" was outlawed, as it was deemed "disruptive"; even after The Restoration, the custom remained banned and soon became forgotten.

In the Early-19th-Century, The Oxford Movement in The Anglican Church ushered in "the development of richer and more symbolic forms of Worship, the building of Neo-Gothic Churches, and the revival and increasing centrality of the keeping of Christmas itself as a Christian Festival", as well as "special Charities for The Poor", in addition to "special Services and musical events".

Charles Dickens, and other writers, helped in this revival of the Holiday, by "changing consciousness of Christmas and the way in which it was celebrated", as they emphasised Family, Religion, Gift-Giving, and Social Reconciliation, as opposed to the historic revelry common in some places.

The following Text is from PYRRHIC VICTORIES

"The Lord of Misrule", in "Twelfth Night", by William Shakespeare.

Many aspects of this Play are associated with the concept of "The Lord of Misrule". The Title refers to the closing night of The Christmas Season, when the Celebration would be at its most riotous. The dislocation of the setting, a far-off land called Illyria, gives the Play a tone of a "topsy-turvy world"; the kind that "The Lord of Misrule" sends everyone to, on celebrations like the one the Play is named after. Illyria is the perfect place for "Misrule" to take over: Women become men; Servants trick Nobles; and logic becomes madness, et cetera.

Solemn Mass Of Corpus Christi. At The Cathedral-Basilica Of Saints Peter And Paul, Philadelphia.

Illustration: MODERN MEDIEVALISM

Illustration: CATHEDRAL-BASILICA OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, PHILADELPHIA

18th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway,

Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Mailing address:

1723 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Telephone: 215-561-1313.

Mass For The First Sunday After Pentecost.

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

Mass For The First Sunday After Pentecost.

Semi-Double.

Green Vestments.

Illustration: PINTEREST

Formerly, this Sunday was a Vacant Sunday because the Liturgy, of the Ordinations on The Ember Saturday of Pentecost, went on through the night and served as The Mass for Sunday. The Epistle reminds us that The Love of God, which is The Holy Ghost, was given to us on Pentecost. God has loved us, sending us His Son, when we were His enemies through sin, and His love is in us if, like Him, we love those who hate us.

The Gospel tells us that we must be merciful, as Our Father also has been merciful, Who has pardoned us and given us His Son and The Holy Ghost.

Standing at the gate of this great and powerful Father of His household, Who is God Himself, we groan in our supplications," says Saint Augustine, "and wish to receive  a gift, and this gift is God Himself" (Matins).

"O, Lord," says the Introit, "I have hoped in Thy mercy," and the Alleluia adds: "Give ear, O, Lord, to my words." "Hearken to the voice of my Prayer," continues the Offertory and the Gradual concludes: "I said, O. Lord . . . heal my Soul, for I have sinned against Thee. Blessed is He that understandeth concerning the Needy and the Poor; The Lord will deliver Him in the evil day."

The truth is, if we would receive God, we must be prepared to give. "A beggar asks alms of you," says Saint Augustine, "and you are yourself a beggar from God. For we are all beggars from God when we Pray. What does the beggar ask ? Bread. And you ? What do you ask of God, if not Christ, Who said: "I am The Bread of Life" (Matins). If God loves us enough to give us His Son, and, through Him, His Holy Spirit, Who is the gift of The Most High", we also ought to love one another unsparingly.

Since The Mass for The First Sunday After Pentecost has been displaced everywhere by that of The Most Holy Trinity, it is only said, without Gloria or Creed, on the free Week-days preceding Corpus Christi. On those days, we can take it together with The Breviary Lessons. In The Office of The Monday of The First Week After The Octave of Pentecost, The Reading of The First Book of Kings is begun with the history of Anna, the wife of Elcana.

Stricken with childlessness, she sought out Heli, The High Priest, and made a Vow to Jehovah, in The Temple, promising that, if, regarding the affliction of His servant, He did not forget her, but gave her a son, she would Consecrate him to The Lord, forever. God, "Who is love" (Epistle), and Who has said "give and you shall receive" (Gospel), looked on Anna's gift and gave her a son, whom she called Samuel, because she had asked Him of The Lord.

And Anna, full of joy and gratitude (Introit, Communion) offered her son in The Temple to serve The Lord, forever.

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

Mass: Domine, in tua.

Preface: Of The Holy Trinity.

Common Preface: During the Week.