Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Monday 29 February 2016

Weekly Traditional Latin Masses In Kent: Maidstone; Ashford; Tenterden; Headcorn; Ramsgate; Margate; Chislehurst; Tunbridge Wells.



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Zephyrinus is delighted to publicise the Traditional Latin Masses, which
are Celebrated in Kent on a regular Weekly basis on Sundays.

In addition, Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated during the Week,
on Feast Days and Holy Days of Obligation.



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There is a vibrant and happy group who attend these Masses and meet, after Mass,
for a lovely Lunch in various hostelries and locations.

Do come and join them. You will all be most welcome.




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Besides Glorifying God in an edifying, Holy and Traditional manner,
you will see the wonderful Kent countryside changing throughout the Seasons,
which, in itself, Glorifies God.


              


MAIDSTONE, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS.


Photo: © Copyright Chris Whippet
and licensed for reuse under this

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated
at the
Church of Saint Francis,
126, Week Street, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1RH,
(next to Maidstone East Railway Station)

at 1230 hrs,

on the FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.


ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON  STOCK.


Photo: WIKIMAPIA

  Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated
at the
Church of Saint Simon Stock,
Brookfield Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1215 hrs,

on the SECOND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.


TENTERDEN, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW.



Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated
at the
Church of Saint Andrew,
47, Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6LL,

at 1200 hrs,

on the THIRD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.


HEADCORN, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT THOMAS OF CANTERBURY.


Photo © Copyright David Anstiss
and licensed for reuse

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated
at the
Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury,
Becket Court, 15, Station Road, Headcorn, Kent TN27 9SB,
(near to Headcorn Railway Station)

at 1200 hrs,

on the FOURTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH

and at

0930 hrs

on every Friday morning.


WHEN THERE IS A FIFTH SUNDAY IN THE MONTH,
THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IS CELEBRATED AT

ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON  STOCK.


Photo: WIKIMAPIA

  Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated
at the
Church of Saint Simon Stock,
Brookfield Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1215 hrs,

on the FIFTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.


Zephyrinus is grateful to Tony V at PRAY TELL UNCHAINED
for providing information on Usus Antiquior Masses in Ramsgate, Kent.




Traditional Latin Mass at Saint Augustine's,
Ramsgate, Kent.





Times of Latin Usus Antiquior Masses.



RAMSGATE, KENT

Saint Augustine’s Church,
Saint Augustine’s Road,
Ramsgate,
Kent CT11 9PA.
Telephone: 01843 592 071.

Traditional Latin Masses at

1200 hrs. Sunday.

and

0930 hrs. Friday.



RAMSGATE, KENT

Saint Ethelbert and Saint Gertrude Church,
72, Hereson Road,
Ramsgate,
Kent CT11 7DS.

Traditional Latin Mass at

0930 hrs.

on Wednesdays.



TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Saint Augustine’s Church,
Crescent Road,
Royal Tunbridge Wells,
Kent TN1 2LY.
Telephone: 01892 522525.

Monthly Traditional Latin Mass at

1930 hrs.

on The First Wednesday of The Month.




Illustration: ARCHDIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK

CHISLEHURST, KENT

Saint Mary's Church
28 Crown Lane,
Chislehurst,
Kent BR7 5PL.
Telephone: 020 8467 3215.

Traditional Latin Mass at

1100 hrs.

Every Sunday.

and

1930 hrs.

on Fridays.



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Images: SAINT AUSTIN AND SAINT GREGORY, WITH SAINT ANNE

MARGATE, KENT

Saint Austin and Saint Gregory Church,
38 Charlotte Place,
Margate,
Kent CT9 1LP.
Telephone: 01843 220825.
E-Mail: info@margatecatholic.org

Traditional Latin Mass at

1130 hrs.

on Sundays

and

1930 hrs.

on Mondays.




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Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Mark's. Monday Of The Third Week In Lent.


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

Italic Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia, 
unless otherwise stated.

Monday of The Third Week in Lent.
      Station at Saint Mark's.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.


File:Basilica di San Marco (Roma) - facciata.jpg

English: Façade of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.
To the Right, is the Palazzo Venezia, the former See of The Embassy 
of The Republic of Venicewhose Protector was Saint Mark.
Italian: Facciata della basilica di San Marco a Roma. 
Photo: January 2006.
Author: Panairjdde.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Station is at Saint Mark’s, an ancient Parish Church of Rome, built in the 4th-Century A.D. by Pope Saint Mark in honour of his Patron, The Evangelist. Under the Altar lie the Remains of this Pope, with the bodies of The Holy Martyrs, Abdon and Sennen.

One cannot choose a better spot wherein to read this account of The Syrian, Naaman, than in this Sanctuary, so clearly Oriental, since Saint Mark is the Founder of The Patriarchal Seat of Alexandria, and Abdon and Sennen are Persians. This account of Naaman seems to make allusion to the Egyptians of Alexandria, whom Saint Mark healed from the leprosy of unbelief by Baptism.


File:Bartolomeo Cavarozzi - St Ursula and Her Companions with Pope Ciriacus and St Catherine of Alexandria - WGA04608.jpg

Saint Ursula and her Companions,
with Pope Ciriacus and Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
Artist: Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1590–1625).
Date: 1608.
Current location: Basilica di San Marco, Rome
(Basilica of Saint Mark, Rome).
Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Epistle and the Gospel speak to us of Naaman, the valiant General of the King of Syria’s Army. He was cured by bathing in The Jordan, although he did not belong to the Race of Israel. Later on, Jesus was to plunge Himself into the same River and to communicate a Sanctifying Virtue to its waters.


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The Nave, San Marco, Rome.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
(Wikimedia Commons)


Naaman, therefore, is a figure of the heathen whom The Church, by Baptism, cures of the leprosy of sin. Peter, says Tertullian, has Baptised in The Tiber, and those that he has cleansed, from the leprosy of sin, have abandoned the waters of Damascus, by which is meant their sensual life.

Let us renew ourselves, in the spirit of our Baptism, by purifying our hearts in the salutary bath of Penitence. This will cure them of the leprosy of the Soul called sin.

Mass: In Deo.


File:SanMarco-Altare01-SteO153.JPG

The High Altar, 
Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5
(Wikimedia Commons)


File:Pigna - s Marco controfacciata e organo 1190061.JPG

English: The Organ of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.
Italiano: Roma, basilica di san Marco, controfacciata e organo.
Photo: October 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa.
(Wikimedia Commons)



The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

In 336 A.D., Pope Saint Mark built a Church devoted to one of The Evangelists, his name-bearer Saint Mark, in a place called ad Pallacinas. The Church is recorded as Titulus Marci in The 499 A.D. Synod of Pope Symmachus. [At that time, it became one of The Stational Churches of The City (Monday of The Third Week in Lent)].

After Restoration, 792 A.D., by Pope Adrian I, the Church was rebuilt by Pope Gregory IV, 833 A.D.

Besides the addition of a Romanesque Bell-Tower in 1154, the major change in the architecture of the Church was ordered by Pope Paul II in 1465-1470, when the Interior and Exterior were re-styled according to the Renaissance taste. On that occasion, the Church was assigned to the Venetian people living in Rome, Pope Paul II being a Venetian by birth.





Pope Paul II (1464 - 1471), who ordered the re-styling
of the Basilica in the Renaissance Style.
Artist: Cristofano dell'Altissimo (1525–1605).
Picture title: Pietrobarbo.
Source/Photographer: Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Original uploader was Savidan at en.wikipedia, 2007-06-29 (original upload date).
(Wikimedia Commons)



The last major re-working of the Basilica was started in 1654-1657 and completed by Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini in 1735-1750. With these Restorations, the Church received its current Baroque decoration.

The façade (1466) was built with Marble taken from The Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus, and is attributed to Leon Battista Alberti.



File:RomaTeatroMarcello01.JPG

English: The Theatre of Marcellus, from which Marble was taken to build 
the façade of the Basilica di San Marco a Roma. 
Italiano: Il teatro di Marcello accanto al tempio di Apollo Sosiano (in Circo) a Roma, ripreso dai piedi del Campidoglio, oltre la moderna via del Teatro di Marcello. 
Foto ripresa personalmente maggio 2005.
Photo: 2005.
Author: MM, uploaded to Italian wikipedia 09.05.2005.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The inside is clearly Baroque. However, the Basilica shows noteworthy elements of all its history.

The Apse mosaics, dating back to Pope Gregory IV, show the Pope, with the squared halo of a living person, offering a model of the Church to Christ, in the presence of Saint Mark The EvangelistPope Saint Mark and other Saints.

The wooden Ceiling, with the emblem of Pope Paul II, is one of only two original 15th-Century wooden Ceilings in Rome, together with the one at Santa Maria Maggiore.


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Sunday 28 February 2016

Monthly Missa Cantata. The First Sunday Of Every Month. 4 p.m. Our Lady of Lourdes And Saint Joseph Church. Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.


architects sketch of church and hall

Monthly Missa Cantata.
First Sunday of every Month.
4 p.m.
Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Joseph Church,
161-181 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 1NG.
Telephone: 01702 478078.
See Photos HERE.
Parish Web-Site HERE.

Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Laurence-Without-The-Walls. The Third Sunday In Lent.


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

Italic Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.


Third Sunday in Lent.
      Station at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.
      Privilege of The First Class.

Violet Vestments.

(The spelling of this Saint's name can be either Laurence or Lawrence.)




Jesus casts out an unclean spirit.
Whereupon a woman, lifting up her voice cries:
Blessed is the womb that bore Thee.
Artist: Rene de Cramer.
"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".
Used with Permission.



File:San Lorenzo fuori le mura - facade.jpg

English: Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.
Italian: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.
Photo: February 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: User:Panairjdde
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Station, today, is made at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls, one of the first Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome, where are buried the bodies of the two Deacons, Laurence and Stephen. In the Collect for Saint Laurence's Feast (10 August), we Pray that the flame of our sins may be quenched within us, as the Saint overcame the fire of his torments; while, in that for Saint Stephen's Day, we undertake to love our enemies, like this Saint who Prayed for his persecutors.

Here are two virtues, Chastity and Charity, which were especially practised by the Patriarch Joseph, whose history The Church gives us this week in The Breviary. For Joseph resisted the evil solicitation of Potiphar's wife, while, on the other hand, he loved his brethren to the extent of rendering them good for evil.

When Joseph told his brethren the dreams, which foreshadowed his future greatness, they became filled with hatred against him, and at the first opportunity got rid of him by throwing him into a disused pit. After which, they sold him to some Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt and, after, sold him to an Egyptian noble named Potiphar. It was in this man's house that Joseph strenuously resisted the advances of his wife, thus becoming a great model of purity.


File:Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg - The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura.jpg

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853).
Title: The Cloisters,
San Lorenzo fuori le mura
(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).
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)

Saint Ambrose says: "Today, it is the history of the pious Joseph which invites our attention. He possessed many virtues, yet he shone especially by his conspicuous Chastity. Rightly, therefore, is this holy Patriarch set before us as a Mirror of Chastity" (Matins).

When Joseph was cast into prison, having been unjustly accused by Potiphar's wife, turning to God in Prayer, he asked to be freed from his bonds. In similar terms, we say in the Introit: "My eyes are ever towards The Lord; for He shall pluck my feet out of the snare." And the Tract continues: "Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, so are our eyes unto The Lord our God, until He have mercy on us." 

And, in the Collect, we speak of Almighty God, Who regards the desires of those who humble themselves, as stretching forth in our defence the Right-Hand of His Majesty. In this event, Pharao took Joseph from his prison, made him sit on his Right-Hand, and entrusted to him the government of his whole Kingdom; and when, through his gift of foreknowledge he predicted the famine which should last seven years, Pharao gave him the title "Saviour of the people." [Only once in the Gospels is this title given to Our Lord, namely, when He was speaking to the Samaritan woman, at Jacob's Well. The incident is recorded in the Gospel for Friday of this week, devoted, Liturgically-speaking, to the history of Joseph.]



Interior of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).

Then, Joseph's brethren came to Egypt and he told them: "I am Joseph, whom you sold. Be not afraid. God has brought everything to pass that I may be the means of preserving you from death." Jacob's happiness, at seeing his son again, was unbounded; and he came and lived with his sons in The Land of Gessen, which Joseph gave them.

Saint Ambrose says: "The jealousy of Joseph's brethren is at the bottom of all the facts which make up his history. Besides, it is recorded to teach us that a perfect man does not give the rein to his desire to avenge an outrage or to render evil for evil" (Matins).


File:Anderson, Roma - n. 0110 - S. Lorenzo Fuori le Mura - Roma.jpg

English: Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.
Fotografia Anderson, Rome - Catalogue # 110.
Italiano: Fotografia Anderson, Roma -
"Roma - S. Lorenzo Fuori le Mura". 
Numero di catalogo: 110.
Date: 1938.
Source: Own work (scan).
Author: Either James Anderson (1813-1877) 
or his son Domenico Anderson (1854-1938).
(Wikimedia Commons)


Surely, in all this, we can recognise a type of Christ and His Church. Jesus, The Blessed Virgin's Son, is, in the highest degree, the model of Virginal Purity. And, in today's Gospel, we see Him contending in a special way with the unclean spirit. For so do Saint Matthew and Saint Luke describe the Devil, whom Our Lord cast out of The Dumb Man by The Finger of God, that is, by The Holy Ghost. 

So does The Church drive out the same unclean spirit from the Souls of the Newly-Baptised. Lent was a time of Preparation for Baptism and, in administering this Sacrament, the Priest breathes three times on the person to be Baptised with the words: "Go out of the child, unclean spirit, and give place to The Holy Ghost." 

Saint Bede, in his Commentary on this Gospel, says: "What then took place, visibly, is every day accomplished, invisibly, in the conversion of those who become Believers. First, the Devil is driven out of their Soul, then they perceive The Light of Faith; and, finally, their mouth, until then dumb, opens to Praise God" (Matins).


File:Pius X.jpg

Pope Saint Pius X 
is buried at the Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).
Date: between 1880 and 1900.
Source: Library of Congress, U.S.A.
Author: Tryphosa Bates Batcheller.
(Wikimedia Commons)


In the same sense, in today's Epistle, Saint Paul says: "No fornicator or unclean or covetous person . .. hath inheritance in The Kingdom of Christ and of God. Fornication and all uncleanness, let it not so much as be named among you." 

And it is especially at this Season of Combat against Satan that we must imitate Christ, of Whom Joseph was only the type.

With regard to the Virtue of Charity, of which this Patriarch has set us an example, the likeness to Christ and His Church is obvious enough. Our Lord, too, was hated by His own people and sold by one of His Apostles, and, when He was Dying on The Cross, He Prayed for His enemies.

He had recourse to God and God Glorified Him, making Him sit on His Right-Hand in His Kingdom. As Joseph distributed the corn of nature, so, at Easter, Jesus will distribute The Wheat of The Eucharist. We know that, as a condition of receiving Holy Communion, The Church requires that Charity, of which an example was set by Saint Stephen when he pardoned his enemies, and whose Relics are kept in the Church where today's Station is held, the same Charity above all, which Our Lord practised in an heroic degree when He "delivered Himself for us" on The Cross, of which The Eucharist is the Constant Memorial.

Thus, Joseph, as a type of Our Lord, and today's Station, perfectly illustrate The Paschal Mystery for which The Liturgy prepares us at this Season.

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

Mass: Oculi mei.


Pope Pelagius II (579 A.D. - 590 A.D.) ordered the enlargement
of the Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.



The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura) is a Roman Catholic Parish Church and Minor Basilica, located in RomeItaly

The Basilica is one of The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and one of The Five Patriarchal Basilicas, each of which is assigned to a Patriarchate. Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls is assigned to The Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The Papal Basilica is the Shrine Tomb of the Church's namesake, Saint Laurence, one of the first Seven Deacons of Rome, Martyred in 258 A.D. Blessed Pope Pius IX, awaiting Canonisation into Sainthood, is also buried at the Basilica.



Basilica of  Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls,
Rome, Italy.
(pre-1943 bombing raid of Rome).


The following three paragraphs are taken from TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS

The Laurentian Basilica owes its Foundation to Emperor Constantine, but, being considered too small, a large Upper Aula was added to it by Pope Pelagius II (578 A.D. - 590 A.D.) and Dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.

For this reason, Pope Leo IV (847 A.D. - 855 A.D.) decreed that The Station for The Octave of The Assumption should be held here.

The Gospel of today alludes to this Dedication by Praising The Great Mother of God, who, not only gave Her Own Substance to form The Sacred Humanity of The Lord's Anointed, but was, on her part, nourished Spiritually by The Divine Word and lived thereby.


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