"Gaudete". "Rejoice". Steeleye Span.

"Gaudete".

Sung by: Steeleye Span.

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Gaudete (English: /ˈɡaʊdeɪteɪ/; Ecclesiastical Latin: [gawˈdetɛ] "rejoice" in Latin) is a Sacred Christmas Carol, which is thought to have been composed in the 16th-Century, but could easily have existed as a monophonic Hymn in the Late-Medieval period, with polyphonic Alto, Tenor, and Bass parts added during the 15th-Century, particularly due to its Mediaeval Latin lyrics. 

The song was published in Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish/Swedish Sacred Songs published in 1582. No music is given for the Verses, but the standard tune comes from older Liturgical Books.

The Latin Text is a typical Mediaeval Song of Praise, which follows the standard pattern for the time – a uniform series of four-line stanzas, each preceded by a two-line refrain (in the Early-English Carol this was known as the Burden). Carols could be on any subject, but typically they were about The Virgin Mary, The Saints or Christmastide themes.

Our Lady Of Ransom, Whose Feast Day Is Today, 24 September.

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

Our Lady of Ransom.
   Feast Day 24 September.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

Our Blessed Lady of Mercy.

Illustration: TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS

The Web-Site of The Mercedarian Friars is at

THE ORDER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY OF MERCY

The Blessed Virgin appeared in the 13th-Century to Saint Peter Nolasco (Feast Day 28 January), to Saint Raymund of Pennafort (Feast Day 23 January), and to James, King of Aragon, requesting them to found a Religious Institute with the object of delivering Christian captives from the barbarous Saracens (Collect), who then held a great part of Spain.

In consequence of this, on 10 August 1218, King James of Aragon established The Royal, Military and Religious Order of Our Lady of Ransom (Editor: The Mercedarian Friars), and granted to its Members the privilege of bearing on their breasts his own Coat-of-Arms.

Most of them were Knights, and while the Clerics recited The Divine Office in The Commanderies, they guarded the coasts and delivered prisoners. This pious work spread everywhere and produced heroes of Sanctity and men of incomparable Charity and Piety, who devoted themselves to the collection of Alms for The Ransom of Christians, and who often gave themselves up as prisoners to deliver captives.

This Feast, originally kept only by The Order, was extended to the whole Church by Pope Innocent XII in the 17th-Century.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.
Creed.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary: "Et te in Festivitáte".

Royal, Celestial and Military Order

of Our Lady of Mercy and The Redemption of Captives.

Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede redemptionis captivorum.

English: Coat-of-Arms of The Mercedarians.

Català: Escut de la Orde de la Mercè.

Español: Escudo de la Orden de la Merced.

Date: 6 April 2011.

Source: [1].

Author: Heralder.

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The Feast of Our Lady of Ransom is a Roman Catholic Liturgical Marian Feast on 24 September, a Double Major Ranking of Liturgical Days in The Roman Rite, commemorating The Foundation of The Mercedarians.

On 10 August 1223, The Mercedarian Order was legally constituted at Barcelona, Spain, by King James of Aragon, and was approved by Pope Gregory IX on 17 January 1235. The Mercedarians Celebrated their Institution on the Sunday nearest to 1 August (on which date, in the year 1233, The Blessed Virgin was believed to have shown Saint Peter Nolasco The White Habit of The Order), and this custom was approved by The Congregation of Rites on 4 April 1615 (Anal. Juris Pont., VII, 136).

But The Calendar of The Spanish Mercedarians of 1644 has it on 1 August as a Double. Proper Lessons were approved on 30 April 1616. The Feast was granted to Spain (The Sunday which was nearest to 1 August) on 15 February 1680; to France, 4 December 1690. On 22 February 1696, it was extended to the entire Latin Church, and the date changed to 24 September.

The Mercedarians keep this Feast as a Double of The First-Class, with a Vigil, Privileged Octave, and Proper Office, under the Title: "Solemnitas Descensionis B. Mariæ V. de Mercede".

Our Lady of Ransom is The Principal Patron of Barcelona: The Proper Office was extended to Barcelona (1868) and to all Spain (Double of The Second-Class, 1883).

Sicily, which had suffered so much from the Saracens, took up the old date of The Feast (Sunday nearest to 1 August) by permission of The Congregation of Rites, since 31 August 1805 (Double Major), Apparition of Our Lady to Saint Peter Nolasco in The Choir of Barcelona, on The Sunday after 24 September.

In England, The Devotion to Our Lady of Ransom was revived in modern times to obtain the rescue of England as Our Lady's Dowry.

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"All Around My Hat".

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Saint Linus. Pope And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 23 September.

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unless otherwise stated.

English: The Cupola of the Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome.

Italiano: Città del Vaticano - Cupola della Basilica di S. Pietro.

Photo: January 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: MarkusMark.

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Pope Linus (+ 79 A.D.)

Date: Copied from en: to he: by he:User:Ches.

Source: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Linus2.jpg

Author: Unknown.

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Pope Linus (+ 79 A.D.) was, according to several early sources, the second Bishop of Rome and is listed by The Catholic Church as the second Pope.

His Papacy lasted from circa 67 A.D., to his death, circa 79 A.D. According to other early sources, Pope Clement I was the second Pope; per the Annuario Pontificio, Clement was the fourth Pope. Among those considered by The Catholic Church to have held the position of Pope, only Clement, Linus and Peter are specifically mentioned in The New Testament.

The earliest witness, to Linus's status as Bishop, was Irenaeus, who, about the year 180 A.D., wrote: "The Blessed Apostles, then, having Founded and built up The Church, committed into the hands of Linus, The Office of The Episcopate."

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes interprets Irenaeus as classifying Linus as the First Bishop of Rome. Linus is presented, by Saint Jerome, as "the first, after Peter, to be in charge of The Roman Church", and, by Eusebius, as "the first to receive the Episcopate of The Church at Rome, after the Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul". Saint John Chrysostom wrote: "This Linus, some say, was second Bishop of The Church of Rome, after Peter", while The Liberian Catalogue presents Peter as the first Bishop of Rome and Linus as his successor in the same Office.

The Liber Pontificalis also presents a List that makes Linus the second in the Line of Bishops of Rome, after Peter, while also stating that Peter Ordained two Bishops, Linus and Cletus, for the Priestly Service of the Community, devoting himself instead to Prayer and Preaching, and that it was to Clement that he entrusted The Church as a whole, appointing him as his successor.

Tertullian, too, wrote of Clement as the successor of Peter. Jerome classified Clement as "the fourth Bishop of Rome, after Peter" (i.e., fourth in a series that included Peter), adding that, "most of the Latins think that Clement was second after The Apostle."

The Apostolic Constitutions denote that Linus, who was Ordained by Paul, was the first Bishop of Rome and was succeeded by Clement, who was Ordained by Peter. Cletus is considered Linus's successor by Irenaeus, and the others cited above, who present Linus either as the first Bishop of Rome or, if they give Peter as the first, as the second.

The Liberian Catalogue and The Liber Pontificalis date Linus's Episcopate to 56 A.D. – 67 A.D., during the Reign of Nero, but Jerome dates it to 67 A.D. – 78 A.D., and Eusebius puts the end of his Episcopate at the second year of the Reign of Titus (80 A.D.).

Irenaeus identifies Linus with the Linus mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21 as an associate of The Apostle Paul. Others, of the sources mentioned above, say the same.

According to The Liber Pontificalis, Linus was an Italian, born in Volterra, in the Tuscany Region. His father's name was recorded as Herculanus. The Apostolic Constitutions name his mother as Claudia (immediately after the name "Linus", in 2 Timothy 4:21, a Claudia is mentioned, but the Apostolic Constitutions do not explicitly identify that Claudia as Linus's mother).

According to Liber Pontificalis, Linus issued a Decree that women should cover their heads in Church, created the first fifteen Bishops, and that he died a Martyr and was buried on The Vatican Hill, next to Peter. It gives the date of his death as 23 September, the date on which his Feast is still Celebrated. His name is included in The Roman Canon of The Mass.

With respect to Linus's supposed Decree requiring women to cover their heads, J.P. Kirsch commented in The Catholic Encyclopedia: "Without doubt, this Decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of The Liber Pontificalis from The First Epistle of Saint Paul to The Corinthians (11:5) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of The Apostle in Rome. The statement made, in the same source, that Linus suffered Martyrdom, cannot be proved and is improbable. For, between Nero and Domitian, there is no mention of any persecution of The Roman Church; and Irenaeus (1. c., III, iv, 3), from among the early Roman Bishops, designates only Telesphorus as a glorious Martyr."

The Roman Martyrology does not list Linus as a Martyr. The entry about him is as follows: "At Rome, Commemoration of Saint Linus, Pope, who, according to Irenaeus, was the person to whom The Blessed Apostles entrusted the Episcopal care of The Church, Founded in the City, and whom Blessed Paul the Apostle mentions as associated with him."

A tomb, found in Saint Peter's Basilica, in 1615, by Torrigio, was inscribed with the letters LINVS and was once taken to be Linus's tomb. However, a note by Torrigio shows that these were merely the last five letters of a longer name (e.g. Aquilinus or Anullinus). A Letter on The Martyrdom of Peter and Paul was once attributed to Linus, but, in fact, dates to the 6th-Century A.D.

The Feast Day of Pope Linus is 23 September.

[Editor: There is a famous Character, in the Strip Cartoon "Peanuts", named Linus van Pelt, who is Charlie Brown's blanket-toting best friend and Sally's love interest. Linus is the most insecure, but the smartest out of all the Characters.]

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Linus.
   Pope and Martyr.

   Feast Day 23 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

"At Rome," says The Roman Martyrology, "the triumph of Saint Linus, Pope and Martyr, who immediately succeeded Saint Peter in the government of The Church. He suffered Martyrdom, and was buried on The Vatican Hill, next to The Prince of The Apostles."

The name of Saint Linus is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, after the names of The Apostles.

Mass: Státuit.

Collects: Of The Mass: Sacerdótes.
Commemoration: Of Saint Thecla.

The Ballad Of Summorum Pontificum. "It Was The 7th July 2007: The Most Beautiful Day This Side Of Heaven . . ."

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Illustration: VATICAN

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THAT THE BONES YOU HAVE CRUSHED MAY THRILL

The Ballad of Summorum Pontificum.

Composed and Sung by "The Bones".

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The Ballad of Summorum Pontificum

It was the 7th July 2007

"The most beautiful day

This side of Heaven"

A treasure was released

The Mass of all Ages

The Missal was closed

Now a Priest turns the pages

So we kneel down and Pray the Confiteor

Now he's facing the right way, towards The Lord

Ad Deum quit laetificat juvemtutem meum

He turns around and the people say give us some more !

For over 50 years

A Mass that lay hidden

Came out of the closet

No moth there had bitten

No dust was upon it

For this Mass is timeless

You can tell when you walk through the door !

You can hear the Bells ring out thrice at The Sanctus

He turns around and he says "Oratre Fratres"

Priest and people pray Domine non sum dignus

And the people say give us some more

Some more

Summorum Pontificum !

Gimme some more, some more

Gimme some more

Some more

Summorum Pontificum !

Gimme some more, some more, give us some more !

Ecce Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi

Now we can hear the words ring out

Every Sunday

The Latin Mass is back

Put your guitars on the floor

We have Communion kneeling and on the tongue

All Ages they pass

All Ages they vary

The Mass of Ages belongs

In our Seminaries

Our Bishops they don't want it

Oh, if only they could

Say " God bless our Pope

The great and the good ! "

Some more

Summorum Pontificum !

Gimme some more, some more

Gimme some more

Some more

Summorum Pontificum !

Gimme some more, some more

Gimme some more !

The Mass that brings sinners

To The Fountain of Grace

The Mass that made Martyrs

Embrace their pains

The Mass that brought hope

To the poor and abandoned

Finding in Jesus (bow head)

The perfect companion

But that Mass is back (back)

To liberal dismay

That Mass is back (back)

To liberal dismay

That Mass is back (back)

To liberal dismay

That Mass is back (back)

You might find one today !

Some more

Summorum Pontificum !

Gimme some more, some more

Gimme some more

Some more

Summorum Pontificum !

Gimme some more, some more

Gimme some more !

(Repeat x 2)

It was the 7th July 2007

"The most beautiful day

This side of Heaven"

This Will Be The Third Time That A Latin Missa Cantata Has Been Celebrated In This Mediaeval Church Since 1538.

Saint Augustine's Church, 

Snave, Ashford, Kent.

A Latin Missa Cantata will be Celebrated here on Saturday, 23 September 2017, 1200 hrs.

Travel Directions are given, below.

It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the Late-13th-Century. The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel

(more recently used as a school room) vies for importance with The Chancel.

Declared redundant in 1983, Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained by

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.

Text: © 2014 Joan Campbell.

Photograph: © 2014 John Hendy.

Illustration: THE ROMNEY MARCH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missa Cantata at Saint Augustine's, Snave (near Ashford, Kent), 

September 2015.

The first time in 477 years that a Latin Sung Mass (Missa Cantata) had been Celebrated

in this beautiful Mediaeval Church on Romney Marsh, Kent, England.

On Saturday, 23 September 2017, 1200 hrs, there will be Celebrated another

Missa Cantata at this lovely Church.

Illustration: LATIN MASS SOCIETY

The Latin Mass Society returns to Snave

for a Missa Cantata, at 12 Noon,

Saturday, 23 September 2017

(Ember Saturday).

Celebrant is Monsignor Antony Conlon.

Music will be supplied by

The Victoria Consort.

For those unfamiliar with the

superb quality of their singing, a CD,

Mass for Saint Augustine of Canterbury,

is available to purchase from the LMS

at LMS SHOP

Saint Augustine's Church is one of the Mediaeval Churches now in the care of

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust (Link is external), who have kindly given permission for us to celebrate The Mass there.

Light refreshments will be served after Mass.

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday,

23 September 2017,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant:

Monsignor Antony Conlon.

Music:

The Victoria Consort.

Director: 

Dominic Bevan.

Further Details:

Mrs. Marygold Turner

01580 291372.

Travel Directions to Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ.

By Road.

Leave the M20 at Junction 10.

Follow the A2070 towards Hastings.

After, approx, 9.3 miles, take the Slip Road

to the LEFT 

(signposted "SNAVE").

At the Post-Box (on your LEFT),

TURN LEFT, and you have arrived

at the Church.

(N.B. Google Maps mark the destination

as "Manor Farm")

By Rail.

Frequent Trains from Saint Pancras International Railway Station, London, going to ASHFORD INTERNATIONAL.

Then take a Taxi to SNAVE.

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church, 

Snave, Ashford, Kent,

has been kindly given by 

THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

 From The Latin Mass Society.

LATIN MASS SOCIETY WEB-SITE

Missa Cantata in Saint Augustine's,

Snave (near Ashford), Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday, 23 September 2017.

1200 hrs.

Snave is one of a group of Mediaeval Churches built to serve very small communities on Romney Marsh, in Kent. Now redundant, they are in the care of The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, who have kindly given permission for us to Celebrate Mass on Saturday, 23 September 2017, Feast of Pope Saint Linus, and, also, Ember Saturday in September) at 12 noon.

Last year (2016) was the second time that a Latin Mass had been Celebrated in the Church since Reformation times. We are delighted to be able to return this year.

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday,

23 September 2017,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant:

Monsignor Antony Conlon.

Music:

The Victoria Consort.

Director: 

Dominic Bevan.

Further Details:

Mrs. Marygold Turner

01580 291372.

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent, has been kindly given by

THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Saint Thomas Of Villanova. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day 22 September.

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

Saint Thomas Of Villanova.
   Bishop And Confessor.
   Feast Day 22 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Thomas of Villanova.

Artist: Simone Cantarini (1612-1648).

Date: First half of the 17th-Century.

Current location: Pinacoteca Civica, Fano, Italy.

Source/Photographer: fondazionecarifano.it/

Progetti/cantarini/fano_per_cantarini_opere.html

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Thomas was born in Spain in the 15th-Century. From his earliest childhood he had the tenderest compassion for The Poor. Having entered The Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, he was soon made Superior, and, after having refused the Archbishopric of Granada, he was forced to accept that of Valencia.

He thus shared in the Eternal Priesthood of Christ (Introit, Epistle, Gradual, Offertory). He spent on The Poor the large revenues of his Church, and, on the day of his death, in 1555, he gave away his last Penny, and died on a bed which did not even belong to him.

The Church, therefore, Celebrates especially in this Pontiff "his extraordinary Charity towards The Poor" (Collect, Antiphon of The Benedictus).

Mass: Státuit.

Secret: Sancti Thomae.

Postcommunion: Deus fidélium.

Commemoration of Saint Maurice and Companions.

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Saint Thomas of Villanova O.S.A. (1488–1555) was a Spanish Friar of The Order of Saint Augustine, who was a noted Preacher, Ascetic and Religious Writer of his day. He became an Archbishop, who was famous for the extent of his care for The Poor of his See.