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Stir Up Sunday.

Text from FR. Z's BLOG

All Illustrations: FR. Z's BLOG

Today, 22 November, is The Last Sunday of The Church’s Liturgical Year. It is therefore . . .

STIR UP SUNDAY!

The “Stir Up” comes from the first words of the Traditional Collect in The Roman Rite. It also comes from the Tradition of stirring up the ingredients of The Christmas Pudding !

What are your plans for Christmas Pudding ?

The more important question is: What are MY plans for Christmas Pudding.

I must give this some thought.

UPDATE:

Since I will be moving to a new dwelling in the near future, I have been going through things.

I found a Christmas Pudding from TWO YEARS AGO, tucked away for ageing.

I would say that it is sufficiently Seasoned.

QUAERITUR:

Will it be lethal?

If not, maybe I won’t make one.

I invite input, especially from experts in Blighty.

“Cast Your Burden Upon The Lord, And He Will Sustain You”. On Cleaving To God. Albert The Great.

This Article is taken from ENLARGING THE HEART

English: Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus).

Deutsch: Albertus Magnus, Tafelgemälde des Joos (Justus) van Gent, Urbino.

Artist: Justus van Gent (circa 1410–1480)

Date: Circa 1475.

(Wikimedia Commons)

There, in the presence of Jesus Christ, with everything, in general and individually, excluded and wiped out, the mind alone turns in security confidently to The Lord its God with its desire.

In this way, it pours itself forth into Him in full sincerity with its whole heart and the yearning of its love, in the most inward part of all its faculties, and is plunged, enlarged, set on fire and dissolved into Him.

Certainly, anyone who desires and aims to arrive at, and remain in, such a state, must needs above all have eyes and senses closed and not be inwardly involved or worried about anything.

Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus).

Artist: Tommaso da Modena (1326–1379).

Date: 1352.

Current location: Treviso - Chiesa di San Nicolò,

Sala del Capitolo (Seminario di Treviso), Italy.

Source/Photographer: Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen Dominikanerklosters San Niccolò in Treviso.

First uploaded by sv:Användare:Lamré to Swedish Wikipedia as sv:Bild:AlbertusMagnus.jpg.

(Wikimedia Commons)

He should not be concerned or occupied with anything, but should completely reject all such things as irrelevant, harmful and dangerous.

Then he should withdraw himself totally within himself, and not pay any attention to any object entering the mind except Jesus Christ, The Wounded One, alone.

And so he should turn his attention with care and determination through Him into Him – that is, through the man into God, through the wounds of His humanity into the inmost reality of His Divinity.

Here, he can commit himself and all that he has, individually and as a whole, promptly, securely and without discussion, to God’s unwearying providence, in accordance with the words of Peter, cast all your care upon Him (1 Peter 5.7), Who can do everything.

And again. In nothing be anxious (Philippians 4.6), or what is more, Cast your burden upon The Lord, and He will sustain you (Psalm 55.22).

[…] The bride too in The Song of Songs says, I have found Him Whom my Soul loves, (Canticle 3.4) and again, All good things came to me along with her (Wisdom 7.11).

This, after all, is the hidden Heavenly Treasure, none other than The Pearl of Great Price, which must be sought with resolution, esteeming it in humble faithfulness, eager diligence, and calm silence before all things, and preferring it even above physical comfort, or honour and renown.

For what good does it do a Religious, if he gains the whole World but suffers the loss of his Soul? Or what is the benefit of his state of life, the holiness of his profession, the virtue of his Habit and Tonsure, or the outer circumstances of his way of life, if he is without a life of spiritual humility and truth in which Christ abides through a Faith created by love.

This is what Luke means by, The Kingdom of God (that is, Jesus Christ) is within you (Luke 17.21).

Albert the Great (1193/1206–1280) [attributed]: On Cleaving to God, 1 & 2.

The Presentation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 21 November.

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

The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 21 November.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Presentation of The Virgin Mary (detail).

Titian (1490–1576).

Italiano: Tiziano. Presentazione al Tempio (dettaglio).

Date: 1534 - 1538.

Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.

Source: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.

(Wikimedia Commons)

After having Solemnised, on 8 September, The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin, and, four days later, The Feast of The Holy Name of Mary, a name given to her a short time before her Birth, The Cycle celebrates on this day The Presentation in the Temple of The Child of Benediction.

These first three Feasts of Mary's Cycle are an echo of The Christological Cycle, which, likewise, celebrates: The Birth of Jesus, 25 December; The Imposition of His Holy Name, 2 January; and His Presentation in the Temple, 2 February.

English: The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple.

Italiano: Presentazione di maria al tempio.

Artist: Alfonso Boschi.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di), 

La chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano, 

Becocci Editore, Firenze 2006.

Author: sailko.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Feast of The Presentation of Mary is founded on a pious tradition, originated by two apocryphal Gospels, which relate that The Blessed Virgin was Presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, when three years old, and that she lived there, with other girls and the Holy Women, who had them in their care. Already in the 6th-Century A.D., the event is Commemorated in The East and the Emperor, Michael Comnenus, alludes to it in a Constitution of 1166.

Deutsch: de:Klosterkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Dillingen an der Donau) 

der Dillinger Franziskanerinnen in Dillingen an der Donau, 

Fresko mit der Darstellung des Tempelganges Mariens.

English: Fresco of The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Monastery Church of the Assumption, 

Dillingen-on-the-Danube, Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 26 September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

(Wikimedia Commons)

A French nobleman, Philippe de Maizières, who was Chancellor at the Court of the King of Cyprus, having been sent in 1372 as Ambassador to Pope Gregory XI, at Avignon, related to the Pope with what magnificence The Feast was Solemnised in Greece, on 21 November. His Holiness introduced The Feast at Avignon and Pope Sixtus V introduced it at Rome in 1585. Pope Clement VIII raised it to the Rank of Greater-Double and re-arranged The Office.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

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Saint Mary The Virgin Church. Designed By Sir John Ninian Comper (1864 – 1960). Scottish Gothic-Revival Architect.

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

The Interior of Saint Mary The Virgin,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

Sir John Ninian Comper designed this Church.

Image: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

The spectacular Interior of Saint Mary's, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

The Church is little more than a Century old and was designed by the highly-regarded

architect, 

Sir Ninian Comper. The Church is extremely ornate, but never vulgar, and 

the Golds and Blues 

blend in perfectly well with the local Deep-Golden Stone.

The Church is in the Anglo-Catholic Tradition 

of The Church of England.

Photo: 18 August 1997.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: nick macneill.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960) was a Scottish-born architect. He was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, noted for his Churches and their furnishings. He is well known for his Stained Glass, his use of colour and his subtle integration of Classical and Gothic elements, which he described as "unity by inclusion".

Comper was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the eldest of five children of Ellen Taylor, of Hull, and the Reverend John Comper, Rector of St John's, Aberdeen (and, later, St Margaret of Scotland). He was educated at Glenalmond School, in Perthshire, and attended a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. On moving to London, he was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe, and, later, to George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. His fellow-Scot, William Bucknall, took him into partnership in London in 1888 and Ninian was married to Grace Bucknall in 1890. Bucknall and Comper remained in partnership until 1905.

Reredos, in Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, designed by Comper.

Reredos (Altar Screen), with Tester and Rood Figures, designed by Sir Ninian Comper, 1922.

Photographer: Richard Barton-Wood.

Date: 1922 (object created); 27 February 2007 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia; transferred to

Commons using CommonsHelper.

Author: Sir Ninian Comper (creator of the object);

Photographer and Original uploader was Richard Barton-Wood.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Sir John Ninian Comper's ecclesiastical commissions include:

A line of windows in the North Wall of The Nave of Westminster Abbey;
Saint Peter's Parish Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the Baldachino/Ciborium, High Altar and
East Window, in memory of The Dead of The Great War;
Saint Mary's, Wellingborough;
Saint Michael and All Angels, Inverness;
Lady Chapel at Downside Abbey,Somerset;
The Ciborium, and House Chapel extension, for The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, in Oxford (now Saint Stephen's House, Oxford);
Saint Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London;
Lady Chapel at Saint Matthew's, Westminster;
Lady Chapel and Gilded Paintings in the Chancel of All Saints, Margaret Street, London.

The Sanctuary,

All Saints Church,

Margaret Street, London.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's commissions.

Photo: 3 November 2001.

Source: From geograph.org.uk; transferred by

User:Kurpfalzbilder.de using geograph_org2commons.

Author: John Salmon.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Comper is noted for re-introducing the "English Altar", an Altar surrounded by Riddel Posts. [Images, and documentary mentions of early examples [of Ciboria], often have Curtains, called tetravela, hung between the Columns; these Altar-Curtains were used to cover, and then reveal, the view of the Altar by the Congregation at points during Services — exactly which points varied, and is often unclear. Altar-Curtains survived the decline of the Ciborium in both East and West, and in English are often called "Riddels" (from French, rideau, a word once also used for ordinary domestic curtains).

Charles Eamer Kempe, (1860).

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a Victorian Stained Glass designer and manufacturer. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for Altars and Altar Frontals, furniture and furnishings, Lichgates and Memorials, that helped to define a later 19th-Century Anglican style. The list of English Cathedrals containing examples of his work includes: Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Wells, Winchester, York.

This File: 21 July 2006.

User: The Wednesday Island.

Source: Found at [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/kempe.htm].

Author: Unknown.

(Wikipedia)

A few Churches have "Riddle Posts", or "Riddel Posts", around The Altar, which supported The Curtain-Rails, and perhaps a Cloth stretched above. Such an arrangement can be seen in Folio 199v of the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. Late-Mediaeval examples in Northern Europe were often topped by Angels, and the Posts, but not the Curtains, were revived in some new or refitted Anglo-Catholic Churches by Ninian Comper and others around 1900.

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

In earlier periods, the Curtains were closed at the most Solemn part of The Mass, a practice that continues to the present day in The Coptic and Armenian Churches. A comparison to the Biblical Veil of The Temple was intended. The small domed structures, usually with Red Curtains, that are often shown near The Writing Saint in early Evangelist portraits, especially in the East, represent a Ciborium, as do the structures surrounding many manuscript portraits of Mediaeval Rulers.]

English: Saint John the Baptist Parish Church, Cardiff, Wales. Stained-Glass Window (1915)

by Ninian Comper: Saint Luke painting Madonna and Child (detail).

Deutsch: Cardiff (Wales). Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer - Buntglasfenster (1915)

von Ninian Comper: Heiliger Lukas malt Madonna mit Kind (Detail).

Photo: 28 July 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Wolfgang Sauber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Comper designed a number of remarkable Altar Screens (Reredos), inspired by Mediaeval originals. Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, has one of the finest examples.

Only one major ecclesiastical work of Comper's is in The United States, the Leslie Lindsey Chapel of Boston's Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The work is an all-encompassing product of, and testimony to, Comper's design capability, comprising the entire decorative scheme of the Chapel, designed by the architectural firm of Allen and Collins. Comper designed its Altar, Altar Screen, Pulpit, Lectern, dozens of statues, all its furnishings and appointments, and most notably the Stained-Glass Windows. The Chapel commemorates Leslie Lindsey and Stewart Mason, her husband of ten days, who were married at Emmanuel Church, and perished when the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915.

Detail of Reredos at Saint James Church,

High Melton, England, by Ninian Comper.

Photo: 27 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dearnesman.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Sir John Ninian Comper's Rood Screen,

Saint John the Baptist Church,

Lound, Nottinghamshire, England.

Photo: 24 September 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: Evelyn Simak.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint John the Baptist's Church 1507412 - 1507426 , in Lound, is widely known as the 'Golden Church', its fame originating from the generosity of Father Booth Lyes, a past Rector, who employed Sir Ninian Comper's genius to restore it. The Round Tower 1507419 - the oldest part of the Church and believed to be Early-Norman - was probably rebuilt at some later time. The Church was extensively restored in 1912/1913. The High Altar 1507434 was raised on new flooring, and richly decorated Posts, surmounted by gilded bronze Angels, support curtains of Spanish silk.

Below the Altar, Ninian Comper's magnificent Rood Screen is adjoined at the South End by The Altar of Our Lady, above which Saint Mary Salome, Saint Mary The Virgin, and Saint Elizabeth, are depicted on boards with richly gilded gesso backgrounds 1507432. By Comper, is also the only modern wall painting in Suffolk depicting a Saint Christopher 1507439 - the Saint is surrounded by a water mill, with a Suffolk Punch horse and its rider, waiting patiently in front of it, and a portrait of Sir Ninian driving his Rolls Royce along the river bank. The airplane, at top right, was added during the 1964 restoration of the painting.

The Organ Case 1507447, at the West End of the Church, was installed in 1913. The Organ was built by Harrison and Harrison Ltd, of Durham. The original Norman Font Bowl now serves as a base for the Pulpit. The present Octagonal Font 1507445 - given in 1389 by Robert Bertelot - is of the Traditional East Anglian type and the inscription at its base, commemorating the donor, is still legible. Saint John the Baptist's Church has a 'Welcome' banner above the South Doorway and is open every day.

Saint Mary The Virgin Church,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's masterpieces of creation.

Illustration: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

From 1912, Ninian and Grace lived in London at The Priory, Beulah Hill, a house designed by Decimus Burton (1800–1881), where he entertained friends such as John Betjeman. He had a studio nearby at Knights Hill, close to the world's first Gothic Cemetery at West Norwood. After the studio was destroyed in World War II, it was relocated to a building in his garden, which had previously been used by his son, Nicholas Comper (1897–1939), to design aircraft. Comper was Knighted by King George VI in 1950.

On 22 December 1960, he died in The Hostel of God (now Trinity Hospice) in Clapham, London. His body was brought back to Norwood for cremation at West Norwood Cemetery. His ashes were then interred beneath the windows he designed in Westminster Abbey.