Thanksgiving After Mass And Holy Communion.

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Renewal Of Baptismal Vows.

O, Adorable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in Whose name I was Baptised, may thanks be rendered unto Thee for this ineffable gift that Thou hast, in Thy great mercy, bestowed on me rather than on so many others.

In sin did my mother conceive me, and I was born a child of wrath, but, by water and The Holy Ghost, hast Thou made me to be born anew, O, my God, and, in that same second, did I become Thy child, brother of Jesus, Thy Son, Co-Heir with Him in Thy Glory.

But, alas, I have not lived in accordance with the exalted precepts laid upon me. O, my Father, if I may still call Thee by this name after having offended Thee so gravely, forget the ignorance of my youth, forget the sins of my life.

I sincerely desire to serve Thee, all the rest of my days, in the way that Thou art worthy of my service.

This firm resolution do I take, today, in renewing before Thee the promises made for me at Baptism.

With all my heart, O, God, do I renounce Satan and all his deceits, the World with all its vanities, sin, and all desires of the flesh; I renounce myself and all the corruption of my heart, that I may adore Thee, love Thee, serve Thee, and fulfil all Thy Commandments; this is the promise I make at Thy feet, before Heaven and Earth.

O, Eternal Father, revive in me The Grace of Divine Adoption, which marked the early moments of my life, that I live no longer but for Thee. O, Jesus, my Saviour, by The Blood in Which I was purified, renew in me The Image of Thee, Which I have disfigured so frequently by sin.

Holy Ghost, Principle of All Good, be Thou also The Principle of all my thoughts, all my desires, all my actions, that, henceforth, there may be found nothing in me unworthy of a Child of God, a Member of Jesus Christ, and a Temple Consecrated by Thee.

Queen of Heaven, Blessed Spirits encompassing The Throne of The Almighty, Guardian Angel, under whose care I have been placed, Holy Saints, whose names I bear, and ye pre-destined Souls of all ages who compose The Celestial Court, bear witness of the promise I have made.

Assist me with your Prayers, that I may obtain, from God, The Grace of being Faithful to it, even unto death.

Amen.

Easter Saturday. The Station Is At The Papal Arch-Basilica Of Saint John Lateran.

English: Papal Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

The Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome.

Latin: Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris et Sanctorum Iohannes Baptistæ et Evangelistæ in Laterano Omnium

urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput.

Español: Basílica de San Juan de Letrán, catedral

del Obispo de Roma, Italia

Italiano: Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Roma

Polski: Bazylika św. Jana na Lateranie (znana jako.

Bazylika Laterańska), katedra biskupa Rzymu, Włochy

Português: Basílica de São João de Latrão,

catedral do Bispo de Roma, Itália

Photo: September 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Stefan Bauer, http://www.ferras.at

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

Easter Saturday.

Station at Saint John Lateran.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

On coming out of The Baptismal Font, The Neophytes were given a White Garment (a White Veil is now placed over the newly-Baptised during The Baptismal Ceremonies) as a symbol of the effects of Baptism on their Souls: "All you who have been Baptised have put on Christ" (Communion). They continued to wear it until the day known as "sabbatum in albis depositis" ("The Saturday on which White Vestments are laid aside"), because, on that day, at Saint John Lateran, their Baptismal Robes were taken from them.

The Church, seeing "those New-Born Babes" (Epistle) gathered around her, asks them, by the mouth of Saint Peter, her Head, ever to drink The Spiritual and Pure Milk of The True Doctrine.

And in that Basilica, dedicated to The Holy Redeemer, she reminds them that their Souls are The Living Stones of a Spiritual House, of which Christ is The Corner-Stone. The Gospel also shows us The Prince of The Apostles, who, even before Saint John, realised The Resurrection of Christ, of which he is to be Witness to The Whole Church.

Mass: Edúxit Dóminus.
From this day, until The Feast of The Blessed Trinity, the Gradual is replaced by two Versicles with four Alleluias.
Sequence: Victimæ pascháli laudes.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.

English: The Lateran Palace (on the Left)

besides the Papal Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

Deutsch: Das Bild zeigt den Lateranspalast

und das Seitenportal der Lateransbasilika

von der Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano aus.

Italiano: Facciata laterale della Basilica di San Giovanni

in Laterano, con a sinistra il Palazzo Laterano

Photo: September 2004.

Source: Own work.

Author: Maus-Trauden

(Wikimedia Commons)

Easter Friday. The Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Mary-Of-The-Martyrs (The Pantheon).

The Pantheon is a Roman Catholic Church,

Dedicated to “Saint Mary of The Martyrs”,

informally known as “Santa Maria della Rotonda”.

Photo: January 2007.

Vatican Museum photo by: Roberta Dragan.

User: Droberta

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

Easter Friday.

Station at Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs (The Pantheon).

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

After bringing her Neophytes together on successive days at Saint John Lateran, Saint Mary Major, Saint Peter's, Saint Paul's, Saint Laurence's, and The Twelve Apostles, The Church, today, made a Lenten Station at the Basilica Dedicated to all The Martyrs and to their Queen, where was made most manifest The Triumph of Christ over paganism.

For the Pantheon, the temple consecrated to the worship of all the gods, was, in the 7th-Century A.D., Dedicated to Mary and to The Martyrs of The Catacombs, a large number of whose bones Pope Boniface IV caused to be Transferred to this Basilica.

The High Altar,

Saint Mary-Of-The-Martyrs.

Photo: February 2013.

Source: Flickr: DSC_0931

Author: Bengt Nyman

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Pantheon and the Piazza della Rotunda.

1835 view of the Pantheon by Rudolf von Alt, showing 

The Bell Towers, often incorrectly attributed to Bernini.

Deutsch: Das Pantheon und die Piazza della Rotonda in Rom.

Artist: Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905).

Current location: Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

Source: Repro from artbook.

This File: April 2010.

User: Mefusbren69

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Basilica of Saint Mary-of-The-Martyrs.

Photo: October 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Maros M r a z (Maros)

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Feast of the Dedication of this Church afterwards became known as the Feast of All Saints (Feast Day 1 November).

The Introit, the Collect and the Epistle remind us that the Covenant established by God with Noe and his seed, after their escape from The Flood, and later renewed with Moses and his people after their Passage through The Red Sea, is a figure of The New Covenant, under which The Neophytes were brought from The Baptismal Font unto the adoption of Children of God.

Jesus on The Cross virtually killed sin (Alleluia, Epistle), and, by His Resurrection, of which The Apostles were Witnesses, (Gospel), He gave us The Life of Grace. Baptism brought home to our Souls this twofold effect of Life and Death. Let us ever remain faithful to it.

Mass: Edúxit eos.
Sequence: Victimæ paschali laudes.
Creed: Is Said.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.

“Media Vita In Morte Sumus”. Gregorian Chant From The Monks Of Silverstream Priory, County Meath, Ireland. They Need Your Support. Please Consider Making A Small Donation (See, Below).

“Media Vita”.

Sung by the Monks of Silverstream Priory,

County Meath, Ireland.

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Translation of The Responsory “Media Vita”,

sung by The Benedictine Monks of Silverstream Priory,

County Meath, Ireland:

“In the midst of life, we are in death;

from whom shall we seek help, save Thee, O Lord ?

Who, for our sins, art justly angered.

* Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Merciful Saviour,

do not hand us over to the bitterness of death.

(Verse 1):

In Thee, our fathers hoped;

they hoped, and Thou hast liberated them.

* Holy God . . .

(Verse 2):

To Thee, our fathers cried;

they cried, and were not confounded.

*Holy God . . . 

Gloria Patri . . .

* Holy God . . .

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The Schola of Silverstream Priory recorded the poignant Responsory “Media vita in morte sumus”, trusting that it will, in some way, bring comfort and hope to those who listen to it, while looking at the images that accompany

The Gregorian Chant.

“Dickens’s Dream”.

“Dickens's Dream”.

Artist: Robert William Buss (1804–1875)

Photo credit: Charles Dickens Museum, London.

Text and Illustration from ART UK

This painting by Robert William Buss, an enthusiastic admirer of Charles Dickens’s writings, was painted five years after the author’s death in 1870.

The posthumous painting of Dickens celebrates his vivid imagination and illustrates characters from all his books, spanning 'Pickwick Papers' to 'Edwin Drood', surrounding Dickens in his Library at Gad’s Hill, Rochester, Kent, England.

The setting was modelled on Luke Filde's engraving, 'The Empty Chair', and the figure of Dickens was copied from a well-known photograph by John Watkins (from 1863).

Zephyrinus has visited Dickens's home, Gad's Hill, Rochester, Kent, and has stood in Dickens's Library (see picture, above). He can vouch that the picture exactly captures how the Library was, in Dickens's time, and how it is, today.

Listen to one of Charles Dickens's greatest stories, “Oliver Twist”, HERE

The Charles Dickens Museum Web-Site can be found HERE

Saint Vincent Ferrer. Confessor. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 5 April.

English: Church of Saint Peter and Saint Vincent Ferrer, Ploudalmézeau, Brittany, France.

Français: L'église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Vincent-Ferrier 

à Ploudalmézeau Finistère, Brittany, France.

Photo: 15 November 2017.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mairie Ploudalmézeau

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: “The Procession of The Saints” from the Church 

of Saint Peter and Saint Vincent Ferrer, Ploudalmézeau, Brittany, France, in 1908.

Compare with the photograph (above).

Français: Ploudalmézeau la procession des saints 

en 1908 probablement 2 (anonyme, musée des arts 

et traditions populaires).

Date: 4 October 2011.

Source: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/

joconde/carpo/0002/m500201_020279_p.jpg

Author: Anonymous.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: “The Procession of The Saints” from the Church 

of Saint Peter and Saint Vincent Ferrer, Ploudalmézeau, Brittany, France, in 1908.

Compare with the photographs (above).

Français: Français : Ploudalmézeau La procession 

des saints en 1908 (photo anonyme, musée des arts 

et traditions populaires)

Source: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/

joconde/carpo/0002/m500201_020280_p.jpg

Author: Anonymous.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Saint Vincent Ferrer.

   Confessor.

   Feast Day 5 April.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Vincent Ferrer, born in Spain in 1350, entered, at the age of eighteen, in The Order of Preachers and gave lustre to The Church by his virtues and his Preaching (Collect).

He was called “The Angel of The Judgement” and he went over the whole of Europe, warning sinners “to be ready for The Son of Man, Who will come at an unexpected hour” (Gospel).

The words of the Prophet: “Arise, ye dead, and come to Judgement,”, which he constantly repeated, caused the many miraculous conversions of which his life is full (Epistle). He put forth the proposal to end The Western Schism by deposing The Three Popes, who all claimed The Papal Tiara, and declared himself in favour of Martin V.

He died at Vannes, Brittany, France, in 1419.

Let us deserve by Penance to escape being condemned by The God Who is to judge us.

Mass: Os justi.

Commemoration (in Lent): Of The Feria.

Last Gospel (in Lent): Of The Feria.

Such Devotion !!!

 

Such Devotion !!!

Corpus Christi Procession 2022.

Saint Agnes Church, Minnesota.

Illustration: CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES

The Seven Sorrows Of Mary. Lenten Lectures Now Available From Saint Agnes, Minnesota.

 

To listen, go to the Web-Site at

CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES, MINNESOTA

and click on the relevant Lecture you wish to listen to.

“Miserere”. Sung By: Voces8. Composed By: Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 1652).

 

“Miserere”.

Composer: Gregorio Allegri. 

Sung By: Voces8.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Mass: “Requiem - Missa Pro Defunctis”. Composer: Tomás Luis Victoria (1548 – 1611). Sung By: The Tallis Scholars. Director Of Music: Peter Phillips.

Composer: Tomás Luis Victoria.

“Requiem - Missa Pro Defunctis”.

Sung By: The Tallis Scholars.

Director Of Music: Peter Phillips.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Easter Thursday. The Station Is The Basilica Of The Twelve Apostles.

The Apse.

Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.

Photo: August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Luc

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

Easter Thursday.

Station at the Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

On this day, The Church used to gather together in the Church of The Twelve Apostles, witnesses of The Risen Christ, her New-Born Children, in order that they might Sing The Praises of The Lord, Who had associated them with His Triumph (Introit, Communion). In this Lenten Stational Basilica, are the bodies of Saint Philip and Saint James.

The Gospel tells of the appearance of Jesus to Magdalen, who was the first to inform The Apostles of the disappearance of Our Lord's Body, and who, after seeing The Risen Christ, was deputed by Him to proclaim to them The Double Mystery of The Resurrection and The Ascension.

The Epistle tells of one of the first seven Deacons, called Philip. [This Deacon must not be confused with Saint Philip, the Apostle.] He Baptises a heathen eunuch, who, in a transport of joy, Preaches everywhere the Gospel of Jesus.

The Baroque Ceiling.

Basilica Church of The Twelve Apostles.

Photo: August 2005.

Source: http://flickr.com/photos/antmoose/34649457/

Author: Anthony Majanlahti

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Basilica of The Twelve Apostles.

Photo: January 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa

(Wikimedia Commons)

This is what The Church has done for The Catechumens, "who have just been born again in The Font of Baptism" (Collect). "God hath made the tongues of those infants eloquent" (Introit), and, by their Faith and their good actions (Collect), they sing The Triumph of Jesus over death (Alleluia) and over their own Souls (Communion).

Let us remember that, by Baptism, we have become united in one and the same Faith to The Risen Christ (Collect), Whose Father is now Our Father.

Mass: Victrícem manum.
Sequence: Victimæ pascháli laudes.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.

Basilica Santi Apostoli.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153

(Wikimedia Commons)

“Sweet Thames Flow Softly”. Sung by: Maddy Prior & The Girls.

“Sweet Thames Flow Softly”.

Sung by: Maddy Prior & The Girls.

Available on YouTube

HERE

“Canny Glasgow”.

“Canny Glasgow”.

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw

(1836–1893).

Date: 1887.

Current location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,

Madrid, Spain.

This File: 19 February 2011.

User: Donan.raven

Source/Photographer:

Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza

en depósito en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Isidore. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 4 April.

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

Saint Isidore.
   Bishop.
   Confessor.
   Doctor Of The Church.
   Feast Day 4 April.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Isidor of Sevilla.

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682).

Date: 1655.

Collection: Seville Cathedral.

Source/Photographer: [2]

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Isidore, brother of Saint Leander, succeeded him in 601 A.D. as Archbishop of Seville (Communion). In his Sermon on The Gospel of The Day, where Jesus compares The Apostles and their successors “to The Salt of The Earth and to The Light that sheds its rays on all those within the house,” the Saint lays down the duties of a Bishop.

“Above all, a Bishop, to accomplish his Office, must read The Scriptures, study The Canons, imitate the examples of The Saints, devote himself to watching, Fasting, and Prayer, unite humility with authority, and place his Chastity under the guard of Charity, a Virtue without which all the others are nothing.”

He realised this ideal. Versed in all knowledge, he was considered the most learned man of his Century. An indefatigable Preacher of the Gospel, he opposed The Arians and other heretics “who closed their ears to Truth and opened them to fables” (Epistle).

Wherefore, hardly sixteen years after his death in 636 A,D,, The Synod of Toledo, composed of fifty-two Bishops, proclaimed him “excellent Doctor (Collect) and the most recent glory of The Catholic Church”.

Saint Isidore was, for us here below, a Doctor of Life: May he now intercede for us in Heaven (Collect).

Mass: In médio.
Commemoration (in Lent): Of The Feria.
Last Gospel (in Lent): Of The Feria.

Jonas Kaufmann And Julia Kleiter. Erich Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt”.

Jonas Kaufmann and Julia Kleiter.

Sing from Erich Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt”.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Paschal Time. Wednesday In Easter Week.

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 7.
   Paschal Time.
   Book 1.

“Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus:

Exsultemus et lætemur in ea”.

“This is the day which The Lord hath made:

Let us be glad and rejoice therein”.

The Hebrew word “Pasch” signifies passage, and we explained yesterday how this great day first became Sacred by reason of The Lord’s Passover.

But there is another meaning which attaches to the word, as we learn from the early Fathers and the Jewish Rabbins.

The Pasch is, moreover, the passage of the Israelites from Egypt to The Promised Land. These three great facts really happened on one and the same night:

The banquet of the lamb;

The death of the first-born of the Egyptians;

The departure from Egypt.

Let us, today, consider how this third figure is a further development of our Easter mystery.

The day of Israel’s setting forth from Egypt for its pre-destined Country of The Promised Land is the most important in its whole history; but, both the departure itself, and the circumstances that attended it, were types of future realities to be fulfilled in the Christian Pasch.

The people of God were delivered from an idolatrous and tyrannical Country: In our Pasch, they, who are now our neophytes, have courageously emancipated themselves from the slavish sway of Satan, and have solemnly renounced the pomps and works of this haughty Pharoah.

On their road to The Promised Land, the Israelites had to pass through a sea of water; their doing so was a necessity, both for their protection against Pharoah’s army, which was pursuing them, and for their entrance into the land of milk and honey.

Our neophytes, too, after renouncing the tyrant who had enslaved them, had to go through that same saving element of water, in order to escape their fierce enemies; it carried them safe into the land of their hopes, and stood as a rampart to defend them against invasion.

By the goodness of God, that water, which is an obstacle to man’s pursuing his way, was turned into an ally for Israel’s march; the laws it had from nature were suspended, and it became the saviour of God’s people.

In like manner, the Sacred font, which, as The Church told us on the Feast of The Epiphany, is made an instrument of Divine Grace, has become the refuge and fortress of our happy neophytes; their passing through its waters has put them out of reach of the tyrant’s grasp.

Having reached the opposite shore, the Israelites see Pharaoh and his army, their shields and their chariots, buried in the sea. When our neophytes looked at the holy font, from which they had risen to the life of grace, they rejoiced to see the tomb where their sins, enemies worse than Pharaoh and his minions, lay buried for ever.

Then did the Israelites march cheerfully on towards the land that God had promised to give them. During the journey, they will have God as their teacher and law-giver; they will have their thirst quenched by fountains springing up from a rock in the desert; they will be fed on manna sent each day from Heaven.

Our neophytes, too, will run on unfettered to the heavenly country, their Promised Land. They will go through the desert of this world, uninjured by its miseries and dangers, for the Divine Law-Giver will teach them, not amidst thunder and lightning, as He did when He gave His law to the Israelites, but with persuasive words of gentlest love, spoken with that sweet manner which set on fire the hearts of the two disciples of Emmaus.

Springs of water shall refresh them at every turn, yea, of that living water which Jesus, a few weeks back, told the Samaritan woman should be given to them that adore Him in spirit and in truth. And, lastly, a Heavenly Manna shall be their food, strengthening and delighting them, a Manna far better than that of old, for it will give them immortality.

So that our Pasch means all this: It is a passing through water to the Land of Promise, but with a reality and truth which the Israelites had only under the veil of types, sublime indeed and Divine, but mere types.

Let us then our Passover from the death of Original Sin to the Life of Grace, by Holy Baptism, be a great Feast Day with us. This may not be the anniversary of our Baptism; it matters not; let us fervently celebrate our “exodus” from the Egypt of the World into the Christian Church; let us, with glad and grateful hearts, renew our Baptismal Vows, which made our God so liberal in His gifts to us; let us renounce Satan, and all his works, and all his pomps.

The Apostle of the Gentiles [Editor: Saint Paul] tells us of another mystery of the waters of Baptism; it gives completion to all we have been saying, and equally forms part of our Pasch. He teaches us that we were hidden beneath this water, as was Christ in His tomb; and that we then died, and were buried, together with Him.

It was the death of our life of sin; that we might live to God, we had to die to sin. When we think of the holy font where we were regenerated, let us call it the tomb, wherein we buried the “Old Man”, who was to have no resurrection.

Baptism by immersion, which was the ancient mode of administering the Sacrament, and is still used in some Countries, was expressive of this spiritual burial: The neophyte was made to disappear beneath the water; he was dead to his former life, as our buried Jesus was to His mortal life.

But, as Our Redeemer did not remain in the tomb, but rose again to a new life, so, likewise, says the Apostle, they who are Baptised, rise again with Him when they come from the font; they bear on them the pledges of immortality and glory, and are the true and living members of that Head, Who dieth now no more. Here again is our Pasch, our passage from death to life.

At Rome, the Station is in the Basilica of Saint Laurence-outside-the-Walls. It is looked upon as the most important of the many Churches built by Rome in honour of her favourite Martyr, whose body lies under The High Altar..

Hither were the neophytes led, today, that they might learn from the example of so brave and generous a soldier of Christ, how courageous they should be in confessing their Faith, and how faithful in living up to their Baptismal vows.

For several centuries, the reception of Baptism was a preparation for Martyrdom; but, at all times, it is an enlisting in the service of Christ, which we cannot leave without incurring the guilt and penalty of traitors.

MASS.

The Introit is composed of those words, which The Son of God will speak to His Elect, at The Last Judgement, when calling them into His Kingdom.

The Church applies them to the neophytes, and thus raises up their thoughts to that eternal happiness, the remembrance of which supported the Martyrs in their sufferings.

INTROIT.

Venite, benedicti Patris mei;

Percipite regnum, alleluia;

Quod vobis paratum est ab origine mundi.

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Psalm.

Cantate Domino canticum novum:

Cantate Domino omnis terra.

Versicle.

Gloria Patri . . .

Venite . . .

INTROIT.

Come, ye blessed of My Father,

possess the Kingdom, Alleluia,

which hath been prepared for you

from the beginning of the World.

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Psalm.

Sing to the Lord a new song:

Sing to the Lord all the Earth.

Versicle.

Glory be . . .

Come, ye blessed of . . .

Easter Wednesday. The Station Is The Basilica Of Saint Laurence-Without-The-Walls.

English: Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Italiano: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori-le-Mura.

Photo: February 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Panairjdde

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

Easter Wednesday.

Station at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

[The spelling of this Saint's name can be either Laurence or Lawrence.]

The Lenten Station is at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls. The Church puts before her New-Born Children, as a model, the illustrious Roman Deacon, to whom this Basilica is Dedicated.

Like Saint Paul, yesterday, Saint Peter tells us that The Prophets foretold the Death of Jesus and that The Apostles were witnesses of His Resurrection (Epistle). The Alleluia further reminds us that "The Lord hath appeared to Peter"; while the Gospel shows us Saint Peter directing the fishing operations of his companions, in expectation of the hour, now fast approaching, when he will direct their labours as fishers of men. More devoted to Jesus than the others, he cast himself into the sea to rejoin Him, and it was he who drew to land the net, full of one hundred and fifty-three big fishes.

The Cloisters.

San Lorenzo fuori-le-mura

(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853).

Date: 1824.

Current location: Art Institute of Chicago,

(Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection).

Photo: April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: user:Rlbberlin

(Wikimedia Commons)

According to The Fathers, these fishes, brought by Peter to The Feet of The Risen Christ, represented the Neophytes, for The Catechumens were born to Supernatural Life in The Font of Baptism. Called by God to receive His Kingdom (Introit), they eat The Bread of Angels, The Bread of Heaven (Offertory, Secret), which transforms them into New Creatures (Postcommunion), the "Agni Novelli" or "New-Born Lambs".

[The "Agnus Dei", or figures of The Lamb of God, stamped on the wax which remains from The Paschal Candle of the previous year, were formerly Blessed by the Pope on this day. Cherished in a spirit of Reverence and Faith, they are a protection against sickness and danger.]

Let us Celebrate these Festivities of The Resurrection of Our Lord in a Spirit of Holy Rejoicing, a foretaste of the joy we shall experience at The Eternal Pasch (Collect).

Mass: Veníte, benedícti.
Sequence: Victimæ paschali laudes.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Easter.
Commemoration: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.

“Missa Papæ Marcelli”. Composer: Palestrina. Sung By: The Tallis Scholars. Director Of Music: Peter Phillips. Illustrations: Caravaggio.

“Missa Papæ Marcelli”.

Composer: Palestrina.

Sung by: The Tallis Scholars.

Director of Music: Peter Phillips.

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Listen to the unbelievably beautiful polyphonic singing by The Tallis Scholars of Palestrina's “Missa Papæ Marcelli”.

In addition, you will see the magnificent paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610).

This outstanding Painter made great use of the art of “Chiaroscuro”.

“Chiaroscuro”, in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.[1] Similar effects in cinema, and black and white and low-key photography, are also called chiaroscuro.

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Saint Francis Of Paola. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 2 April.

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

Saint Francis Of Paola.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 2 April.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: (Detail. See, below): The Immaculate Conception 

with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola.

French: La Vierge en gloire avec saint Laurent 

et à saint François de Paule.

Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804).

Date: Circa 1775.

Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.

Source/Photographer: Own work, Ji-Elle, 2012-08-20.

(Wikimedia Commons)

 

English: Saint Michael Abbey Church, Meuse, France. Stained-Glass Window: Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Saint Francis of Paola, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Saintin, Saint Vincent de Paul.

Français: Église abbatiale Saint-Michel, Meuse, France. Vitrail: Saint Pierre, Saint Paul, Saint François de Paule, Saint François de Sales, Saint François Xavier, Saint Charles Borromée, Saint Saintin, Saint Vincent de Paul.

Photo: 3 August 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Fab5669

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Francis was born at Paola, Calabria, Italy, in 1416.

When, thirteen years of age, “abandoning everything to acquire a treasure in the Kingdom of Heaven” (Gospel), he retired into a desert and led such a holy life there that numerous disciples soon came to place themselves under his guidance.

He then Founded the Order, to which, in his humility, he gave the name of “Minims”, that is to say: “Of The Least In The House Of God”.

“Despising everything to gain Christ, he endeavoured to resemble Him in His sufferings, so as to be able to participate in the Glory of His Resurrection” (Epistle).

God, Who exalts the humble (Collect), made him celebrated by numerous Miracles and by the gift of Prophecy. He died at the age of ninety-one in 1507.

Let us imitate the humility and penitence of Saint Francis, in order that we may attain the rewards promised to humble and mortified Souls (Collect).

Mass: Justus.
Commemoration (in Lent): Of the Feria.
Last Gospel (in Lent): Of the Feria.