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

Saturday 3 October 2015

The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October (Part Two).


Italic Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Non-Italic Text is taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)
Time After Pentecost, Book V, Fourth Edition, Volume 14. from


The Holy Guardian Angels.
Feast Day 2 October.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.


English: Saint Gemma Galgani,
(The Flower of Lucca),
reported interaction with her Guardian Angel.
Français: Détail d'une photo de Gemma Galgani.
Date: 1901.
Source: Photo d'Enrico Giannini prise en 1901,
et conservée à "la casa Giannini" des Sorelle
missionarie di santa Gemma à Lucques.
Author: Philippe Plet. Reproduction à partir du cliché original,
colorisation et recadrage.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Although the Solemnity of 29 September celebrates the praises of all The Nine Glorious Choirs, yet the piety of The Faithful, in the latter ages, desired to have a special day Consecrated to The Guardian Angels. Several Churches having taken the initiative, and kept the Feast under various Rites and on different days, Pope Paul V (1608) authorised its Celebration ad libitum. Pope Clement X (1670) established it by Precept as a Feast of Double Rite on 2 October [it has been a Greater-Double since 1883], the first free day after Michaelmas, on which it thus remains in some way dependent.

It is of Faith, on the testimony of The Scriptures and unanimous Tradition, that God commits to His Angels the guardianship of men, who are called to contemplate Him, together with these Blessed Spirits, in their common fatherland.

Catholic Theology teaches that this protection is extended to every member of the human race, without any distinction of Just and Sinners, Infidels and Baptised. To ward off dangers; to uphold man in his struggle against the demons; to awaken in him Holy Thoughts; to prevent him from sinning, and even, at times, to chastise him; to Pray for him, and present his Prayers to God. Such is the Office of The Guardian Angel.

So special is his mission, that one Angel does not undertake the guardianship of several persons simultaneously; so diligent is his care, that he follows his Ward from the first day to the last of his mortal existence, receiving the Soul as it quits this life, and bearing it from the Feet of The Sovereign Judge to the place it has merited in Heaven, or to its temporary sojourn in the place of expiation and purification.



English: Guardian Angel, German postcard, 1900.
Deutsch: Schutzengel, deutsche Postkarte um 1900.
Polski: Anioł Stróż, niemiecka pocztówka ok. 1900.
Author: Unknown, similar to works by Fridolin Leiber.
(Wikimedia Commons)


It is from the lowest of The Nine Choirs of Angels, the nearest to ourselves, that The Guardian Angels are, for the most part, selected. God reserves to The Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, the honour of forming His Own Immediate Court.

The Dominations, from the steps of His Throne, preside over the government of the Universe; The Virtues watch over the course of Nature's laws, the preservation of species, and the movements of the heavens.

The Powers hold the Spirits of Wickedness in subjection. The human race, in its entirety, as also its great Social Bodies, the Nations and the Churches, are confided to The Principalities; while The Archangels, who preside over smaller communities, seem also to have the Office of transmitting to the Angels the Commands of God, together with the love and light which come down, even to us, from the first and highest hierarchy.



English: Guardian Angel.
Deutsch: Schutzengel.
Author: Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907).
(Wikimedia Commons)


O, the Depths of The Wisdom of God ! Thus, then, the admirable distribution of Offices, among The Choirs of Heavenly Spirits, terminates in the function committed to the lowest rank, the guardianship of man, for whom The Universe subsists.

Such is the teaching of the School [Suarez. De Angelis, lib. vi. cap. xviii. 5.]; and The Apostle, in like manner, says: "Are they not all ministering Spirits, sent to minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of Salvation ? " [Heb. i. 14.]


PART THREE FOLLOWS

Friday 2 October 2015

The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October (Part One).



Illustration: PICTURES OF ANGELS

“In this, therefore, brethren, let us affectionately love
His Angels as one day our future co-heirs. Meanwhile, however, as Counsellors and Defenders appointed
by The Father and placed over us.

Why should we fear under such Guardians ? 
Those who keep us in all our ways can neither be overcome nor be deceived, much less deceive.

They are faithful; they are prudent;
they are powerful; why do we tremble ?

Let us only follow them,
let us remain close to them,
and, in the protection of The God of Heaven,
let us abide.”

– from a Sermon by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

Text is from FSSP.COM

750th Anniversary Of Saint Simon Stock. Solemn Mass And Pilgrimage To Aylesford Priory, Kent. Saturday, 3 October 2015.



SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2015.
AYLESFORD PRIORY (THE FRIARS),
AYLESFORD, KENT ME20 7BX.

1200 hrs   Arrival with Picnic Lunch in the grounds or café.

1230 hrs.   Confessions.

1330 hrs.   SOLEMN MASS
(Votive Mass of The Blessed Virgin)
Sacred Ministers:
Fr. Marcus Holden; Fr. Timothy Finigan; Fr. Gabriel Diaz Patri.

Music by Cantus Magnus (Director: Matthew Schellhorn):
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame;
Guillaume Dufay; Ave Maria Stella;
Pérotin; Beata Viscera.

1500 hrs.   Spiritual Conference by Fr. Timothy Finigan.

1545 hrs.   Enrolment in The Brown Scapular by Fr. Marcus Holden.


Supported by THE LATIN MASS SOCIETY.

The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales

Thursday 1 October 2015

Saint Remigius. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 1 October.


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

Saint Remigius.
Bishop and Confessor.
Feast Day 1 October.

Simple.

White Vestments.




The Baptism of Clovis
by Saint Remigius.
Date: Circa 1500.
Current location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
United States of America.
Credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection.
(Wikimedia Commons)



"At Reims, in Gaul," says The Roman Martyrology, "the Feast of Saint Remigius, Bishop and Confessor, who converted the Frankish nation to The Faith of Jesus Christ, by Baptising their King, Clovis."

Saint Remigius died 13 January 533 A.D., and his Relics were Solemnly Translated 1 October.

Mass: Státuit.




Saint Remigius Baptises Clovis, King of The Franks.
Illustration: SALVE MARIA REGINA


The following Text is from Wikipedia.

Saint Remigius, Remy or Remi, (French: Saint Rémi or Saint Rémy; Italian: Remigio; Spanish: Remigio; Occitan: Romieg; Polish: Remigiusz; Breton: Remig and Lithuanian: Remigijus), was Bishop of Reims and Apostle of The Franks, (circa 437 A.D. – 13 January 533 A.D.).


On 24 December 496 A.D., he Baptised Clovis I, King of The Franks. This Baptism, leading to the conversion of the entire Frankish people to Nicene Christianity, was a momentous success for The Catholic Church and a seminal event in European history.


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Wow !!! Just A Hint Of Art Deco, Maybe ?



A 200-metre-long, sci-fi-esque, façade in Montpellier, France.
Curtain walls for interplanetary spacecraft. British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, loves complexity, as is borne out by her outstanding creation in Montpellier, France, called ‘Pierres Vives’ (Living Stones).

This impressive ship of a building, measuring 200 metres long and twenty-five metres tall,
and, with its sloping façades, resembling something out of a science fiction film, is
designed to house the archives, a media library and offices, of ‘Hérault Sport’ association
for the Hérault Department (Region), France.

Text and Illustration: RIBAJ 
and REYNAERS

750th Anniversary Of Saint Simon Stock. Solemn Mass And Pilgrimage To Aylesford Priory, Kent. Saturday, 3 October 2015.



SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2015.
AYLESFORD PRIORY (THE FRIARS),
AYLESFORD, KENT ME20 7BX.

1200 hrs   Arrival with Picnic Lunch in the grounds or café.

1230 hrs.   Confessions.

1330 hrs.   SOLEMN MASS
(Votive Mass of The Blessed Virgin)
Sacred Ministers:
Fr. Marcus Holden; Fr. Timothy Finigan; Fr. Gabriel Diaz Patri.

Music by Cantus Magnus (Director: Matthew Schellhorn):
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame;
Guillaume Dufay; Ave Maria Stella;
Pérotin; Beata Viscera.

1500 hrs.   Spiritual Conference by Fr. Timothy Finigan.

1545 hrs.   Enrolment in The Brown Scapular by Fr. Marcus Holden.


Supported by THE LATIN MASS SOCIETY.

The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales

Wednesday 30 September 2015

Saint Jerome. Priest. Confessor And Doctor. Feast Day 30 September.


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

Saint Jerome.
Priest, Confessor and Doctor.
Feast Day 30 September.

Double.

White Vestments.




English: Lowest row of Panels of a Stained-Glass Window, created circa 1520, in the Nave of the Church of Notre-Dame, Carentan, France, displaying four Doctors of The Church.
Français: Église Notre-Dame, Carentan, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France.
Photo: 24 August 2014.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)



Jerome was born at Stridon, in Dalmatia, and was Baptised in Rome. He was educated at a School held by very distinguished Professors. Ordained Priest, he retired into a Monastery Founded by two great Roman ladies, Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium, at Bethlehem, near The Crib in which Our Lord was born.

Mortifying himself by perpetual abstinence, and devoting himself to meditation of The Scriptures (Gradual), he spent days and nights in study and writing. It is he who fixed the Latin Text in The Translation known as The Vulgate, which The Church adopted as the Official Translation of The Bible.

He died in 420 A.D., and his body rests in Rome in the Church of Saint Mary Major.

Mass: In médio.




English: Saint Jerome depicted in the Stained-Glass Window of
The Chapel of The Finding of The Cross, Dillingen, Bavaria, Germany.
Made by Franz Xaver Zettler, Munich, 1911.
Deutsch: Katholische Kreuzauffindungskapelle, Hauskapelle der Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung in Bayern (ehemalige Kapelle des Priesterseminars) in Dillingen an der Donau (Bayern) von 1911, Glasfenster von Franz Xaver Zettler in München (1911), 
Darstellung:hl. Hieronymus; Inschrift: S. HIERONYMUS IN EREMO MEDIATUR;
Photo: 14 May 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: GFreihalter.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The following Text is from Wikipedia.

Saint Jerome (Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; circa 347 A.D. – 30 September 420 A.D.) was a Catholic Priest, Confessor, Theologian and Historian, who also became a Doctor of The Church. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, an Illyrian village on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia.

He is best known for his translation of most of The Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as The Vulgate), and his Commentaries on The Gospels. His list of writings is extensive. Known as the “Protégé” of Pope Damasus I, who died in December of 384 A.D., Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centres such as Rome.

In many cases, he focused his attention on the lives of women and identified how a woman, devoted to Jesus Christ, should live her life. This focus stemmed from his close Patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics, who were members of affluent Roman “Senatorial Families”.

He is recognised as a Saint by The Roman Catholic Church, The Eastern Orthodox Church, The Lutheran Church, and The Church of England (Anglican Communion).

His Feast Day is 30 September.


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