in illo tempore

In Brief... over at Zadok the Roman points to the
First chance to see 'lost' Donatello masterpiece in The Daily Telegraph of London, which has this tantalizing tidbit: 'all trace of [the Donatello] was lost after the tomb [of St Catherine of Siena in Rome's Santa Maria Sopra Minerva] was dismantled in the 1570s.'

This will be an abbreviated post, since I haven't the time to look into the subjects as deeply and carefully as I normally would, because of time constraints. I hope to return to the questions raised after Father's Day tomorrow. This is a fascinating church (basilica, actually), and deserves more effort than I can dedicate at this time.

Here's another source for line art: Archive of POD Missal Art (black-and-white pencil drawings and engravings).

The reopening of Rome's Villa Torlonia, Mussolini's residence, (Guardian article June 14: Mussolini villa opens to public as art museum) was an occasion for cronaca.com's entry mentioning the Jewish catacombs below (Villa Torlonia reopens), and to link to The Jewish catacomb of Torlonia Hill at Roma Sotterranea.

Don't like Listening to old 78 rpms? Does Adam Curry bore you or the Gillmor Gang put you to sleep (oops, they're now here)? Pining for a Romanian Folk Dance by Bartók, a Polonaise by the Heroic Chopin or do you fantasize while polishing your car's chrome? (Do cars even have chrome nowadays?)

Browse Classic Cat, a directory of free classical music downloads, in mp3 format.

A friend asked me via email last week how I find the sites, posts and the like that I do. I didn't have an immediate answer, and my attention was drawn to other things. I neglected to reply and apologized at church on Sunday. I think there's a Firefox extension which will track the steps by which one reaches a particular site (Slogger?), but if there is, I don't have it installed. (I'm still disappointed that scrapbook won't install into my profile: on the author's advice, I created another profile and installed it there.) I may post about scrapbook in my other blog, chattr +a -V.

At (so far) two posts on Traditio in radice blog, Nicholas D. C. Wansbutter is posting images from his wedding to Monika Zajac. The first shows the couple leaving the church, the second, the 'Admonition Before Marriage', which takes place before the Mass begins, and more are to come.

Spectacular Mosaic in Libya gains kudos at Mary Harrsch's blog, links to a Times of London story, Roman mosaic 'worthy of Botticelli'. Five mosaics were discovered in A.D. 2000, and kept secret until now, to forestall looters. The works are 'one of the finest examples of representational mosaic art [British scholars] have seen — a masterpiece comparable in quality with the Alexander mosaic in Pompeii. ... "I have never seen such a vibrantly realistic depiction of a human"' according to Mark Merrony.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Anthony of Padua, first a member of the Canons Regular of St Augustine, then a Franciscan (no link, only the Almighty knows how many Franciscan web sites there are), confessor and doctor of the Church, and some information about this Saint, whose cult has survived for over seven hundred years.

A seminarian in Maryland, who blogs at Quodlibeta, posts that he has converted Ut sive sollicite, the 1969 Vatican document reforming rules for clerical vesture, to html and pdf files.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at The Third Sunday after Pentecost.

Hortense, in The Illuminated Middle Ages database presents, at MetaFilter, has a wondeful find.

The restoration of St Paul's cathedral, London, has been twelve years in the planning and execution.

Holy Trinity Church in Boston, is the ethnic German parish and location for the only indult Latin Mass (1962 Missal) in the archdiocese. In Reprieve for Boston indult Latin Mass? Archdiocese: Holy Trinity to remain open to Dec 15, 2005, I posted that the June 30, 2005, Church closing date was extended to December 15, 2005. Other postings were Boston Latin Mass ordered to move to St. James the Greater: "It will effectively destroy the Latin community." and Holy Trinity parish, Archdiocese of Boston.

Suspicion that the archdiocese may close Holy Trinity without warning arise because the archdiocese padlocked the doors of Our Lady of the Presentation School in Brighton, Massachusetts, two days before graduation ceremonies, fearing the school might be occupied.

From Cacciaguida: Yesterday, in A group of workmen laying water pipes near to a Worcestershire church have uncovered the remains of about 20 people dating back to the Middle Ages., points to a BBC Hereford/Worcs (Worcestershire) article, Ancient bones found near church.

Though changes in the early 1960s suppressed the Octave of the Sacred Heart, breviary.net has the pre-1960s Daily Office. Here is part of an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Lessons iv, v and vi for Thursday in the Octave of the Sacred Heart. I've searched, trying to determine which encyclical or other dicument of Pius XI this is from, without success. None of the encyclicals of Pius XI on the Vatican's web site contain these words, as far as I can tell.

Yesterday, in Nummian reformata ouianumauam deformata, and a Carthusian monk's garden restored, I had some information about St Bruno and the Carthusians. June 6 was the feastday of St Norbert, who likewise withdrew for a while from the world, in the founding of the Canons Regular of Prémontré, the 'White Canons', the Norbertines or Premonstratensians, so called after their first abbey, located in the diocese of Laon, at the place in the wilderness called Prémontré. Bruno had been Master of the Cathedral School and chancellor to the archbishop before he withdrew. Norbert withdrew, then returned and became Archbishop of Magdeburg.

Here are parts of Lessons iv, v and vi from the breviary.net page for June 6, St Norbert, followed by some information on St Norbert and the Norbertines.

... sometimes said to be the motto of the Carthusians, or, as Pope Innocent XI put it 'Cartusia numquam reformata, quia numquam deformata.' The motto actually is 'Stat Crux dum volvitur orbis' ('Stands the cross, still point of the turning world'). The Carthusians never reformed, since they never became deformed.

Previously blogged about at Solemn High Mass (Tridentine), Dunn, N.C., Friday, June 3, 6:30 p.m., images of Fr Paul Parkerson's Solemn High Mass are available here.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at The Third Sunday after Pentecost.

There are perhaps a dozen paintings in the entire world identified as by Georges de La Tour. The first I remember seeing was The Education of the Virgin



Now The Scotsman reports that another, on loan by the Prado to the Palacio de la Trinidad, headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid, has been conclusively identified. Unsigned Painting by La Tour Discovered in Madrid. I found the link to The Scotsman's article via De La Tour discovery in Spain, a post by David Nishimura at cronaca.com.

This essay, from the Homiletic & Pastoral Review of June, 1977, is from the Catholic Culture site.

The South End News, a local Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. newspaper, reports in its June 2, 2005, edition, that the 'Archdiocese of Boston announced Wednesday that the Holy Trinity Catholic Church ... will be allowed to remain open until Dec. 15, 2005, a reprieve from its original closure date of June 30'.

In his encyclical of May 8, 1928, Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pius XI 'decree[d] and command[ed] that every year on the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, ... in all churches throughout the whole world, the same expiatory prayer or protestation as it is called, to Our most loving Savior, set forth in the same words according to the copy subjoined to this letter shall be solemnly recited, so that all our faults may be washed away with tears, and reparation may be made for the violated rights of Christ the supreme King and Our most loving Lord.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Commemoration of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

This past May 1, a Solemn High Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Following on the Solemn High Mass celebrated May 1, 2005, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a Solemn High Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church in Dunn, N.C., on Friday, June 3, at 6:30 p.m.