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“Goodnight”.
Artist: Arthur J. Elsley (1860-1952).
Illustration: MEISTERDRUCKE
Thursday 25 April 2024
Saint Mark The Evangelist. Feast Day 25 April.
English: Saint Mark the Evangelist.
Español: San Marcos.
Artist: Jusepe Leonardo (1601–1653).
Date: Circa 1630.
Current location: Bowes Museum,
Barnard Castle, England.
This File: 7 June 2010.
User: Enrique Cordero
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Mark The Evangelist.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Mark the Evangelist.
Feast Day 25 April.
Double of The Second-Class.
Red Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Mark the Evangelist.
Feast Day 25 April.
Double of The Second-Class.
Red Vestments.
He was one of the seventy-two Disciples (Gospel). He went to Egypt, where he was the first to announce Christ at Alexandria. The Preaching of the Gospel, which his Martyrdom confirmed, made him to enter into Glory (Secret), where Saint John shows him to us as one of the four symbolical animals who attend the Triumph of the Immolated Lamb.
Statue of Saint Mark the Evangelist (Copy).
Artist: Donatello
Location: Orsanmichele, Florence, Italy.
This File: 22 August 2005.
User: Cnelson~commonswiki
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His body was taken to Venice, whose Patron he is since the 9th-Century A.D. Rome possesses a Church Dedicated to Saint Mark, where a Station is held on the Monday of the Third Week in Lent.
Let us profit by the teaching of Saint Mark, who wrote the Gospel of Christ and Preached it, and let us have recourse to his Prayers (Collect).
Mass: Protexisti.
Commemoration: Of the Rogations, should the Rogation Mass not be Celebrated.
Credo: Is said.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
English: Venetian merchants,
with the help of two Greek Monks,
take Mark the Evangelist’s body to Venice
Deutsch: Bergung des Leichnams
des Hl. Markus (vor der Restaurierung).
Artist: Tintoretto
Date: 1562-1566.
Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:
10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202
Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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Procession And Holy Mass Of The Greater Litanies (25 April). Procession Et Sainte Messe Des Litanies Majeures.
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Procession And Holy Mass Of The Greater Litanies (25 April).
Procession Et Sainte Messe Des Litanies Majeures.
The Church of Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile, Paris.
Transmitted Live on YouTube at
1800 hours (British Summer Time),
Tuesday, 25 April 2023.
Available on YouTube
Procession of The Greater Litanies: Pope Saint Gregory the Great has a vision of Saint Michael the Archangel on Castel Sant'Angelo sheathing his sword, marking the end of the plague epidemic in Rome. The Clergy carry in Procession the miraculous icon Salus Populi Romani.
Illustration: SCHOLA SAINT CECILE
The following Text is from SCHOLA SAINT CECILE
“De Jerusalem exeunt” – First Parisian Processional Antiphon for the Procession of The Greater Litanies on 25 April.
In Litaniæ Majores
In Processione, Prima Antiphona
De Jerusalem * exéunt relíquiæ et salvátio de monte Zion; proptérea protectio erit huic civitáti, et salvábitur propter David fámulum ejus.
Alleluia.
From Jerusalem come the relics, and the salvation of Mount Zion; also this city will be protected and saved because of David, his servant.
Alleluia.
Source: Parisian Missal from the old background of Notre-Dame de Paris (c. 1225) – F-Pn lat. 1112 f°250 v° ( CAD n°1543 ).
Source: Parisian Missal from the old background of Notre-Dame de Paris (c. 1225) – F-Pn lat. 1112 f°250 v° ( CAD n°1543 ).
This Antiphon, from “De Jerusalem exeunt”, is part of a large series of Processional Antiphons which were sung in Rome during the Procession of The Greater Litanies, which are held on 26 April.
Not having been recorded in the Missale Romanum of Pope Saint Pius V, they have in fact fallen into disuse, despite their great antiquity.
The custom of Paris has preserved a certain number of them and began the procession of The Greater Litanies with this one, “De Jerusalem exeunt”.
These Antiphons were transcribed both in the Missal and in the Processional, they were used not only for The Greater Litanies, Celebrated on 25 April concomitantly with the Feast of Saint Mark, but also for The Lesser Litanies, that is to say three days of Rogation (Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday, Rogation Wednesday) immediately preceding the Feast Day of The Ascension.
These Antiphons were called in The Middle Ages “Litaniales Antiphons” – “Antiphonæ Lætanialis” or even “Antiphons of Mercy” – “Antiphonæ de Misericordia” . They most likely date back to the time of Pope Saint Gregory the Great (6th-Century A.D. ) or even earlier.
These Antiphons were called in The Middle Ages “Litaniales Antiphons” – “Antiphonæ Lætanialis” or even “Antiphons of Mercy” – “Antiphonæ de Misericordia” . They most likely date back to the time of Pope Saint Gregory the Great (6th-Century A.D. ) or even earlier.
Originally, and before seeing their use specialising in Mediæval manuscripts for The Greater Litanies and The Lesser Litanies, they were used in Rome for all Processions, beginning with those that took place every day of Station between the Collect Church and that of the Station.
The text of our Antiphon “De Jerusalem exeunt” recalls that the Relics of the Saints must be carried to the Processions of The Greater Litanies and The Lesser Litanies (The Rogations Days), as can be seen on all the graphic representations of these Ceremonies.
The text of our Antiphon “De Jerusalem exeunt” recalls that the Relics of the Saints must be carried to the Processions of The Greater Litanies and The Lesser Litanies (The Rogations Days), as can be seen on all the graphic representations of these Ceremonies.
The Greater Litanies On 25 April. The Lesser Litanies (Rogation Days). Chestnut Sunday (Rogation Sunday). The Litany Of The Saints.
Rogation Sunday.
The Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields,
Hever, Kent, England.
Photo: 9 February 1967.
Source: From geograph.org.uk
Author: Ray Trevena
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
The Station is at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome.
Violet Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
The Station is at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome.
Violet Vestments.
In ancient Rome, on 25 April, used to be celebrated the pagan feast of Robigalia. It consisted, principally, of a procession, which, leaving the City by the Flaminian Gate, went to the Milvian Bridge and ended in a suburban Sanctuary situated on the Claudian Way.
All the Faithful in Rome betook themselves to the Church of Saint Laurence-in-Lucina, the nearest to the Flaminian Gate. Leaving by this Gate, the Procession made a Station at Saint Valentine’s, crossed the Milvian Bridge, and branched off to the Left towards the Vatican.
This Litany is recited throughout the Church to keep away calamities, and to draw down the Blessing of God on the Harvest. “Vouchsafe to grant us to preserve the fruits of the Earth, we Pray Thee, hear us”, is sung by the Procession through the Countryside.
If the Feast of Saint Mark is Transferred, the Litanies are not Transferred, unless they fall on Easter Sunday. In which case, they are Transferred to the following Tuesday.
Litany of The Saints.
Available on YouTube at
The Litany Of The Saints.
The Litany of The Saints is used in connection with:
Holy Mass on the Greater Litanies (25 April);
The Lesser Litanies (Rogation Days);
Holy Saturday;
The Vigil of Pentecost;
Masses of Ordination, before the conferring of Major Orders.
If the Procession cannot be held, the Invocations are not repeated.
On the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, the Invocations marked with an asterisk (*) in the Missal are omitted; all the remaining Invocations are repeated, either there be a Font and a Procession from the Baptistry, or not.
At Masses of Ordination, only the first five Invocations are repeated.
The Litany of the Saints at the Funeral of
Pope Saint John Paul II.
Available on YouTube at
The first Rogation, the Greater Litanies, has been compared to the ancient Roman religious festival of the Robigalia, a pagan ritual involving prayer and sacrifice for crops held on 25 April. The first Rogation is also observed on 25 April, and a direct connection has sometimes been asserted, with the “Christian substitute” following the same processional route in Rome. If Easter falls on 24 April, or on this day (25 April) (the latest possible date for Easter), the Rogations are Transferred to the following Tuesday.
The second set of Rogation Days, the Lesser Litanies, or Rogations, introduced about 470 A.D. by Bishop Mamertus of Vienne and eventually adopted elsewhere, are the three days (Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday and Rogation Wednesday) immediately before Ascension Thursday in the Christian Liturgical Calendar.
The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin verb “Rogare”, meaning “to ask”, and was applied to this time of the Liturgical Year because the Gospel reading for the previous Sunday included the passage, “Ask and ye shall receive” (Gospel of John 16:24).
The Sunday itself was often called Rogation Sunday, as a result, and marked the start of a three-week period (ending on Trinity Sunday), when Roman Catholic and Anglican Clergy did not solemnise marriages (two other such periods of marital prohibition also formerly existed, one beginning on the First Sunday in Advent and continuing through the Octave of Epiphany, or 13 January, and the other running from Septuagesima until the Octave of Easter, The Sunday after Easter (Low Sunday)).
In England, Rogation Sunday is called “Chestnut Sunday”.
The Faithful typically observed the Rogation Days by Fasting in preparation to Celebrate Ascension Day, and farmers often had their crops Blessed by a Priest at this time. Violet Vestments are worn at the Rogation Litany and its associated Mass, regardless of what colour was being worn at the ordinary Liturgies of the day.
A common feature of Rogation Days, in former times, was the Ceremony of “Beating the Bounds”, in which a Procession of Parishioners, led by the Minister, Churchwarden, and Choirboys, would proceed around the boundary of their Parish and Pray for its protection in the forthcoming year. This was also known as “Gang-Day”.
The reform of the Liturgical Calendar for Latin Roman Catholics, in 1969, delegated the establishment of Rogation Days, along with Ember Days, to the Episcopal Conferences. Their observance in the Latin Church subsequently declined, but the observance has revived somewhat, since 1988, (when Pope Saint John Paul II issued his Decree “Ecclesia Dei Adflicta”) and especially since 2007 (when Pope Benedict XVI issued his Motu Proprio, “Summorum Pontificum”), when the use of older Rites was encouraged.
Churches of the Anglican Communion reformed their Liturgical Calendar in 1976, but continue to recognise the three days before Ascension [Editor: the Rogation Days (the Lesser Litanies)] as an Optional Observance.
The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin verb “Rogare”, meaning “to ask”, and was applied to this time of the Liturgical Year because the Gospel reading for the previous Sunday included the passage, “Ask and ye shall receive” (Gospel of John 16:24).
The Sunday itself was often called Rogation Sunday, as a result, and marked the start of a three-week period (ending on Trinity Sunday), when Roman Catholic and Anglican Clergy did not solemnise marriages (two other such periods of marital prohibition also formerly existed, one beginning on the First Sunday in Advent and continuing through the Octave of Epiphany, or 13 January, and the other running from Septuagesima until the Octave of Easter, The Sunday after Easter (Low Sunday)).
In England, Rogation Sunday is called “Chestnut Sunday”.
A common feature of Rogation Days, in former times, was the Ceremony of “Beating the Bounds”, in which a Procession of Parishioners, led by the Minister, Churchwarden, and Choirboys, would proceed around the boundary of their Parish and Pray for its protection in the forthcoming year. This was also known as “Gang-Day”.
Churches of the Anglican Communion reformed their Liturgical Calendar in 1976, but continue to recognise the three days before Ascension [Editor: the Rogation Days (the Lesser Litanies)] as an Optional Observance.
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Stephen Travers. Australian Artist.
The Stairs of Montmartre, Paris.
Sketched by Stephen Travers.
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Australian artist Stephen Travers had always desired to paint, but had subdued every day for 25 years. He took up drawing and painting when his daughter won a year’s scholarship at the Julian Ashton Art School. After taking a couple of introductory TAFE Cert IV Fine Arts subjects in drawing and painting in 2006 and 2007, which provided some enforced structure and input, he left classes to focus on the subjects that always captured his imagination.
Australian artist Stephen Travers had always desired to paint, but had subdued every day for 25 years. He took up drawing and painting when his daughter won a year’s scholarship at the Julian Ashton Art School. After taking a couple of introductory TAFE Cert IV Fine Arts subjects in drawing and painting in 2006 and 2007, which provided some enforced structure and input, he left classes to focus on the subjects that always captured his imagination.
He devoted himself in painting the light, colour, shape, and texture, of the Australian natural environment. In 2015 he took the step of leaving regular employment to work full-time at his art.
Today, we share some of his sketches that he drew during his trip to Paris, France. You will love the way he transformed the iconic places of Paris in black and white portraits.
Saint Fidelis Of Sigmaringen.
Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 8.
Paschal Time.
Book II.
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen.
Martyr.
Feast Day 24 April.
Our Risen Lord would have around Him a bright phalanx of Martyrs. Its privileged members belong to the different Centuries of The Church’s existence.
Its ranks open today to give welcome to a brave combatant, who won his Palm, not in a contest with paganism, as those did whose Feasts we have thus far kept, but in defending his mother, The Church, against her own rebellious children.
They were heretics that slew this day’s Martyr, and the Century that was honoured with his triumph was the 17th-Century.
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen.
Feast Day 24 April.
“Standing Up For The Faith.
When You Don't Want To”.
Available on YouTube
Fidelis was worthy of his beautiful name. Neither difficulty nor menace could make him fail in his duty. During his whole life, he had but the glory and the service of his Divine Lord in view: And, when the time came for him to face danger, he did so, calmly but fearlessly, as behoved a disciple of Jesus who went forth to meet his enemies.
Honour, then, be today to the brave son of Saint Francis ! Truly, he is worthy of his seraphic Patriarch, who confronted the Saracens, and was a Martyr in desire !
Protestantism was established and rooted by the shedding of torrents of blood; and yet Protestants count it as a great crime that, here and there, the children of the True Church made an armed resistance against them.
The heresy of the 16th-Century was the cruel and untiring persecutor of men, whose only crime was their adhesion to the old Faith — the Faith that had civilised the World.
The so-called Reformation proclaimed liberty in matters of Religion, and massacred Catholics who exercised this liberty, and Prayed and believed as their ancestors had done for long ages before Luther and Calvin were born.
A Catholic who gives heretics credit for sincerity when they talk about Religious toleration, proves that he knows nothing of either the past or the present. There is a fatal instinct in error, which leads it to hate the Truth; and the True Church, by its unchangeableness, is a perpetual reproach to them that refuse to be her children.
Heresy starts with an attempt to annihilate them that remain Faithful; when it has grown tired of open persecution, it vents its spleen in insults and calumnies; and when these do not produce the desired effect, hypocrisy comes in with its assurance of friendly forbearance.
The history of Protestant Europe, during the last three Centuries [Editor: Guéranger was writing circa 1875], confirms these statements; it also justifies us in honouring those courageous servants of God who, during that same period, have died for the ancient Faith.
Let us now, respectfully, listen to the account given us in today’s Liturgy, of the life and Martyrdom of Saint Fidelis; we shall find that The Church has not grown degenerate in her Saints.
Pray, O, Holy Martyr, for the children of The Church. Obtain for them an appreciation of the value of Faith, and of the favour God bestowed on them when he made them members of the True Church.
May they be on their guard against the many false doctrines which are now current through the World. May they not be shaken by the scandals which abound in this age of effeminacy and pride.
It is Faith that is to bring us to our Risen Jesus: And He urges it upon us by the words he addressed to Thomas: “Blessed are they that have not seen and have believed”.
The Pre-1955 Holy Week: A Liturgical And Spiritual And Cultural Treasure.
The Pre-1955 Holy Week:
A Liturgical, Spiritual, And Cultural, Treasure.
From The Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest.
Available on YouTube at
The Office of Tenebræ and The Holy Triduum. Sung and Celebrated by Members (Canons, Oblates and Candidates) of The Institute of Christ The King Sovereign Priest.
Texts: Dom Guéranger “The Liturgical Year”.
Extracts from The Texts of The Mass
Music: Carolingian Invocations:
Seminary of The Institute of Christ The King.
“Miserere Mei” (1661 Codex Version) -
G. Allegri (Sistine Chapel Choir).
Location: St. Mary Oratory,
Rockford, Illinois. USA.
Prayers Before The Relic Of Blessed Richard Whiting. Prayer For The End Of The Pandemic. From The Monastery Of Our Lady Saint Mary Of Glastonbury.
Meditation and Prayers in front of the Relic of
Blessed Richard Whiting. Prayer for the end of the Pandemic. The Monastery of Our Lady Saint Mary of Glastonbury.
Taken from A CHAPLAIN ABROAD
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Wednesday. The Octave Day Of The Solemnity Of Saint Joseph. Spouse Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Confessor. Patron Of The Universal Church.
unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday, Octave Day of The Solemnity of Saint Joseph.
Spouse of The Blessed Virgin Mary,
Confessor.
Patron of The Universal Church.
Greater-Double.
[Note: An Octave was given to this Solemnity, rather than to The Feast of Saint Joseph on 19 March, because Feasts falling in Lent may not have Octaves.]
White Vestments.
Saint Joseph and The Infant Jesus.
Artist: Guido Reni (1575–1642)
Source: Date: 1620s.
Collection: Hermitage Museum.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Joseph.
Spouse of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Confessor and Patron of The Universal Church.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".
Used with Permission.
Today's Mass might be represented by a Triptych (see, below), showing us that Saint Joseph is the protector, which Divine Providence has chosen for His Church.
1. The Epistle speaks to us of Joseph, who, in The Old Testament, is a figure of Saint Joseph. The dying Jacob prophesies that his son, Joseph, "shall be the Pastor and Strength of Israel, and that The Almighty shall shower Blessings upon him." And Joseph was established by Pharao over the entire land of Egypt, so that the salvation of all depended upon him. [The Lessons and Responses of The First Nocturn of Matins.] The whole Church has recourse to Saint Joseph with confidence.
2. The Gospel, Collect, and Communion, explaining the connection between The Heavenly Trinity and The Holy Family, this Trinity on Earth, show forth the power of Saint Joseph. Jesus is, at the same time, Son of God and Son of man. Mary is The Spouse of The Holy Ghost, and it is the will of God The Father that Saint Joseph should be considered father of Christ and that he should exercise paternal rights over Him (Preface).
3. Lastly, the Introit, Collects, Alleluia, and Offertory, show us Saint Joseph as the guardian of the new Jerusalem, which is The Church, to watch over her in the midst of all her tribulations.
Full of confidence in the patronage of Saint Joseph, let us honour his Title of Protector on Earth, so as to deserve his help from Heaven (Collect).
Mass: Adjútor.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of Saint Joseph.
1. The Epistle speaks to us of Joseph, who, in The Old Testament, is a figure of Saint Joseph. The dying Jacob prophesies that his son, Joseph, "shall be the Pastor and Strength of Israel, and that The Almighty shall shower Blessings upon him." And Joseph was established by Pharao over the entire land of Egypt, so that the salvation of all depended upon him. [The Lessons and Responses of The First Nocturn of Matins.] The whole Church has recourse to Saint Joseph with confidence.
2. The Gospel, Collect, and Communion, explaining the connection between The Heavenly Trinity and The Holy Family, this Trinity on Earth, show forth the power of Saint Joseph. Jesus is, at the same time, Son of God and Son of man. Mary is The Spouse of The Holy Ghost, and it is the will of God The Father that Saint Joseph should be considered father of Christ and that he should exercise paternal rights over Him (Preface).
3. Lastly, the Introit, Collects, Alleluia, and Offertory, show us Saint Joseph as the guardian of the new Jerusalem, which is The Church, to watch over her in the midst of all her tribulations.
Full of confidence in the patronage of Saint Joseph, let us honour his Title of Protector on Earth, so as to deserve his help from Heaven (Collect).
Mass: Adjútor.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of Saint Joseph.
“Te Joseph Celebrent”.
The Hymn (First Tone) of Second Vespers
for The Solemnity of Saint Joseph.
Available on YouTube at
“Schindler’s List”. Composed By: John Williams. Played By: NL Orchestra. Simone Lamsma (Violin) And Davida Scheffers (Cor Anglais). “Lest We Forget”.
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Train tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest Concentration Camp, near Oświęcim, Poland.
Photo Credit: Dinos Michail—iStock Editorial/Getty Images
Illustration: BRITANNICA
“Schindler’s List”.
Composed By: John Williams.
Played By: NL Orchestra.
Simone Lamsma (Violin).
Davida Scheffers (Cor Anglais).
Available on YouTube at
The Entrance Gate to Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
The wording above The Gate means: “Work Sets You Free”.
Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP.
Illustration: THE GUARDIAN
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
It consisted of:
Auschwitz I, the main Camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim;
Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a Concentration and Extermination Camp with Gas Chambers;
Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a Labour Camp for the Chemical Conglomerate, IG Farben;
and dozens of Sub-Camps.[3]
The Camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to The Jewish Question.
After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an Army Barracks, into a Prisoner-of-War Camp for Polish Political Prisoners.[4]
The first inmates, German criminals brought to the Camp in May 1940 as Functionaries, established the Camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed, for the most trivial reasons. The first Gassings — of Soviet and Polish Prisoners — took place in Block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941.
Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and, from 1942 until Late-1944, Freight Trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its Gas Chambers.
Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million died. The Death Toll includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were Gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet Prisoners of War, and up to 15,000 other Europeans.[5]
Those not Gassed, died of Starvation, Exhaustion, Disease, Individual Executions, or Beatings. Others were killed during Medical Experiments.
At least 802 Prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and, on 7 October 1944, two Sonderkommando Units, consisting of Prisoners who staffed the Gas Chambers, launched an unsuccessful Uprising. Only 789 staff (no more than fifteen per cent) ever stood trial;[6] several were Executed, including Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss. The Allies' failure to act on early reports of atrocities by bombing the Camp or its Railways remains controversial.
As The Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of The War, The SS sent most of the Camp's population West on a Death March to Camps inside Germany and Austria.
Soviet Troops entered The Camp on 27 January 1945, a day Commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the decades after The War, survivors, such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel, wrote Memoirs of their experiences, and The Camp became a dominant symbol of The Holocaust.
In 1947, Poland Founded The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, and, in 1979, Auschwitz was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
“Schindler’s List” is a 1993 American epic historical drama film, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.
It is based on the 1982 historical fiction novel “Schindler's Ark”, by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who, together with his wife, Emilie Schindler, saved more than a thousand, mostly Polish-Jewish, refugees from The Holocaust, by employing them in his factories during World War II.
It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
It is based on the 1982 historical fiction novel “Schindler's Ark”, by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
Schindler sees a girl in Red
during The Liquidation of The Kraków Ghetto.
The Red Coat is one of the few instances of colour
used in this predominantly Black and White film.
This File: 18 September 2020.
User: 0m9Ep
(Wikipedia)
It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
Lay Movement Launches International Campaign For “Total Freedom Of The Traditional Liturgy”.
Illustration: EP.
This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
EDWARD PENTIN
Being a Catholic in 2024 is no easy endeavour. The West is undergoing a massive de-Christianisation, so much so that Catholicism appears to be vanishing from the public sphere.
EDWARD PENTIN
Being a Catholic in 2024 is no easy endeavour. The West is undergoing a massive de-Christianisation, so much so that Catholicism appears to be vanishing from the public sphere.
Elsewhere, the number of Christians being persecuted for their Faith is on the rise. What’s more, The Church has been struck by an internal crisis that manifests itself in a decline in Religious practice, a downswing in Priestly and Religious vocations, a decrease in Sacramental practice, and even a growing dissension between Priests, Bishops and Cardinals which, until very recently, was utterly unthinkable.
Yet, among all the things that can contribute to the internal revival of The Church and to the renewal of her missionary zeal, there is, above all, the worthy and reverent Celebration of her Liturgy, which can be greatly fostered thanks to the example and the presence of the Traditional Roman Liturgy.
Despite all the attempts that have been made to suppress it, especially during the present Pontificate, it lives on, continuing to spread and to sanctify the Christian people who are Blessed to be able to benefit from it.
It bears abundant fruits of piety, as well as an increase of vocations and of conversions. It attracts young people and is the fount of many flourishing works, especially in schools, and is accompanied by a solid catechesis.
No-one can deny that it is a vector for the preservation and transmission of The Faith and Religious practice in the midst of a waning of Religious belief and a dwindling number of believers.
This Mass, due to its venerable antiquity, can boast of having sanctified countless Souls over the Centuries. Among other vital forces still active in The Church, this form of Liturgical life stands out because of the stability given to it by an uninterrupted “Lex Orandi”.
Certainly, some places of Worship have been granted, or rather tolerated, where this Liturgy can be Celebrated, but too often what has been given by one hand is taken back by the other, without, however, ever managing to make it vanish.
Since the massive decline during the period immediately following the Second Vatican Council, every attempt has been made on numerous occasions to revive Religious practice, to increase the number of Priestly and Religious vocations, and to preserve The Faith of the Christian people.
Certainly, some places of Worship have been granted, or rather tolerated, where this Liturgy can be Celebrated, but too often what has been given by one hand is taken back by the other, without, however, ever managing to make it vanish.
Since the massive decline during the period immediately following the Second Vatican Council, every attempt has been made on numerous occasions to revive Religious practice, to increase the number of Priestly and Religious vocations, and to preserve The Faith of the Christian people.
Everything, except letting the people experience the Traditional Liturgy, by giving the Tridentine Liturgy a fair chance. Today, however, common sense urgently demands that all the vital forces in The Church be allowed to live and prosper, and in particular the one which enjoys a Right dating back to over a millennium.
Let there be no mistake: The present appeal is not a petition to obtain a new tolerance as in 1984 and 1988, nor even a restoration of the status granted in 2007 by the Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, which, recognising in principle a Right, has in fact been reduced to a regime of meagrely-granted permissions.
As Lay People, it is not for us to pass judgement on the Second Vatican Council, its continuity or discontinuity with the previous teaching of The Church, the merits, or not, of the reforms that resulted from it, and so on.
Let there be no mistake: The present appeal is not a petition to obtain a new tolerance as in 1984 and 1988, nor even a restoration of the status granted in 2007 by the Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, which, recognising in principle a Right, has in fact been reduced to a regime of meagrely-granted permissions.
As Lay People, it is not for us to pass judgement on the Second Vatican Council, its continuity or discontinuity with the previous teaching of The Church, the merits, or not, of the reforms that resulted from it, and so on.
On the other hand, it is necessary to defend and transmit the means that Providence has employed to enable a growing number of Catholics to preserve The Faith, to grow in it, or to discover it.
The Traditional Liturgy plays an essential role in this process, thanks to its transcendence, its beauty, its timelessness and its doctrinal certainty.
For this reason, we simply ask, for the sake of the true freedom of the children of God in The Church, that the full freedom of the Traditional Liturgy, with the free use of all its Liturgical Books, be granted, so that, without hindrance, in the Latin Rite, all The Faithful may benefit from it and all Clerics may Celebrate it.
Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Managing Director of Renaissance Catholique, Paris, France.
22 April 2024.
For this reason, we simply ask, for the sake of the true freedom of the children of God in The Church, that the full freedom of the Traditional Liturgy, with the free use of all its Liturgical Books, be granted, so that, without hindrance, in the Latin Rite, all The Faithful may benefit from it and all Clerics may Celebrate it.
Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Managing Director of Renaissance Catholique, Paris, France.
22 April 2024.
This appeal is not a petition to be signed, but a message to be disseminated, possibly to be taken up again in any form that may seem appropriate, and to be brought and explained to the Cardinals, Bishops, and Prelates, of The Universal Church.
Si Renaissance catholique a l’initiative de cette campagne, c’est uniquement pour se faire l’interprète d’un large désir en ce sens qui se manifeste dans l’ensemble du monde catholique. Cette campagne n’est pas la sienne, mais celle de tous ceux qui y participeront, la relayeront, l’amplifieront, chacun à leur manière.
Renaissance Catholique is a Paris-based movement of Lay People working to re-establish the social reign of Christ.
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