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Juventutem pilgrim's lengthy report on World Youth Day

The Recovering Choir Director, in Another Juventutem/WYD 2005 account, points to the original French and to babelfish's (sometimes mangled) French-to-English translation of Claire's daily accounts of her trip to World Youth Day (abbreviated in French as JMJ).

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The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Matins

From breviary.net, here are Lessons vii, viii and ix from the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, appropriately enough, from a homily by St. Augustine the Bishop (of Hippo).

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The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B., and mp3 recordings of today's propers

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at the the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost.

Today's Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XV. post Pentecosten.

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Locating art and images by Bible verse or subject

For the Golden Legend and Breviary or Divine Office posts here, I've been mainly relying on google's image search and the Web Gallery of Art. Tomorrow's Gospel for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost is the raising of the widow's son in Nain. The google search lead me to Classic Biblical Christian Art, and that page lead me to The Son of the Widow in Nain, a page at Biblical Art on the WWW.

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Our Lady of Częstochowa

Showing up today in my Polish newsfeed from moreover.com, were multiple links to the Associated Press coverage of the new 'dress' for the icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa. One such story is Black Madonna Gets New Covering in Poland, which also has a small image.
Church leaders also placed a 20-pound panel of amber decorated with nearly 1,000 diamonds on the painting. The covering commonly called a "dress" leaves only the faces of Mary and Jesus and their crowns visible beneath the screen.
The ceremonies were on August 26, the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa.

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August 25, King St Louis IX of France,

Today is the feast of St Louis IX. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the St Louis the Ninth, King and Confessor.

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St Louis of France, from The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa

Today being the day on which we remember St Louis IX, King, from the Medieval Sourcebook, Here beginneth the Life of S. Louis, King of France, from Caxton's edition of Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend.

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Another Roman church: S. Gregorio dei Muratori, belonging to the F.S.S.P.

Matthew at the New Liturgical Movement blog provides an image of and links to the Fraternity's church in Rome, S. Gregorio dei Muratori, in Per the request.

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Juventutem resources on the Recovering Choir Director's blog

Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director provides the Juventutem Pilgrim's Choirbook and Juventutem Pilgrim's Hymnal tables of contents.

The Salisbury Project

When I took my 'cathedral tour' of England, I skipped Salisbury for reasons of time. Now, there is the Salisbury Project at the University of Virginia. Despite the frames, the image archive is quite good.

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St Bartholomew, from The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa

Today being the day on which we remember St Bartholomew, from the Medieval Sourcebook, Here beginneth the Life of S. Bartholomew the Apostle, and first the exposition of his name, from Caxton's edition of Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend.

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More Juventutem photos

More photos, unfortunately uncaptioned, are at the Dutch site Fotoreportage Juventutem/WJD2005. They have images from at least two of the churches.

August 24, St Bartholomew, Apostle

Today is the feast of St Bartholomew. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the feast of St Bartholomew and some information on the church of San Bartolomeo all'Isola (on the Tiber).

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August 23, St Philip Benizi, Confessor

Today is the feast of St. Philip Beniti, or Benizi or Benitius, one of the early members of the mendicant Servants of Mary, called the Eighth Founder, who fled from the prospect of being elected pope. The Servites' church in Rome is San Marcello al Corso, from the Baroque period. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the St Philip Beniti and some information on the church in Trevi, one of the tituli, and the stational church for the Wednesday after the fifth Sunday of Lent.

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Juventutem photos of the Düsseldorf Mass with Abp Haas

The Polish news agency has a few images here.

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The Recovering Choir Director is at World Youth Day with Juventutem

and he has one post so far, Brief report from Dusseldorf.

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B., and mp3 recordings of today's propers

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

Today's propers in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XIV. post Pentecosten.

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New Missa brevis, composed by Sir John Tavener, commissioned by Juventutem

Papabile, in Juventutem - JMJ Cologne 2005 points to a "new Missa brevis, composed by Sir John Tavener (google has many search results for this contemporary British classical composer). The premiere, a pontifical Mass, was today at St Antonius church, Düsseldorf, celebrated by His Grace Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop of Vaduz.

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August 19, St John Eudes, Confessor

Today is the feast of St John Eudes (Pope St Pius X named him a blessed and he was proclaimed a saint by Pius XI, so the Catholic Encyclopaedia article refers to him as a blessed), founder of the Society of Jesus and Mary (Eudists, home page here) and of the institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, which has a cloistered branch, Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. With a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Holy Heart of Mary, he composed the Mass and Office of those feasts. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the feast of St John Eudes.

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Virtual tours of 6th century Ravenna, York Minster and Amiens Cathedral

MonkeyFilter notes, in virtual medieval architecture that (with Java properly installed) there are virtual tours of 6th century monuments in Ravenna at Ravenna monuments, fantastic journey. The Amiens Cathedral project and York Minster also have three dimensional tours, some in Java, some in Quicktime.

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August 15 Traditional Latin Mass at Camden's Immaculate Conception Cathedral

Michael E. Lawrence has a nice review at The Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, using the 1962 Missal. This was the fifth such Mass, celebrated annually by Mater Ecclesiæ Roman Catholic Church, a mission church which is hoped to become a non-territorial parish.

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Bicentenary of St Philomena

Devotions as only Italians can do them. Well, maybe the Poles are tied or a close second.

But, the images at Shrine of St Philomena feast days and Shrine of St Philomena sanctuary, from the site of the shrine in Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy, are sumptuous.

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August 17, St Hyacinth (Jacek), Confessor

Today is the feast of St Hyacinth, Dominican, received into the Order of Preachers by St Dominic himself. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the Feast of St Hyacinth.

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August 16, St Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Confessor

Today is the feast of St Joachim. Much of what is said about the Saint comes from apocryphal writings such as the Gospel of James. Rather than excerpting Lessons iv, v and vi from today's breviary reading (found here), I'll link to the Anglo Catholic PODcast for today (Mr O'Sullivan reads the Lessons), and some woodcuts of Albert Durer from Eleonore Weil's site, below.

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Indult in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A., getting their own church

The indult community of Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. announced on or about Sunday, August 14, that the Mass will be moving from Our Lady Of Sorrows church to Old St Patrick's when renovations to Old St Patrick's are completed, and that the community will be served by Fr Denis Buchholz of the Institute of Christ the King. Old St Patrick's will be used exclusively for the sacraments according to the 1962 books.

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Video tour of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel: free download

In the archive.org ourmedia RSS feed today is a narrated Quicktime video tour of the Sistine Chapel. The .mov file is a 14 meg download, and while there's a bit too much motion (panning back and forth, zoming in and out) for my taste, it's worth grabbing. Sistine Chapel Video Tour of Vatican City. I think I was the first to download it.

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An ecumenical gesture to the Anglican Catholic PODcast

One of the RSS feeds to which I subscribe is ourmedia from the Internet Archive. Most of the new uploads are of no interest to me, but once in a while, items such as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe and Some more twelve-part cliffhangers show up. Recently, something called 'ACPC' appeared. I can't locate the first few mentions of the podcast, but I do remember that I was intrigued because the title mentioned a saint and another a holyday perhaps. I found out that ACPC stood for 'Anglican Catholic PODcast'.

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BlogLatin returns

Joshua had been too busy at work to blog back in March and there were no posts since then, but he posts Particle Article last Friday.

'Traditional Latin Mass is given a new lease of life': Juventutem at World Youth Day

The quoted sentence is the headline of Jonathan Petre's article in London's Daily Telegraph on Monday, August 15, 2005. I added the bit after the colon for context.

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The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B., and mp3 recordings of today's propers

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

Today's propers in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XIII. post Pentecosten.

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Cistercians in Yorkshire, and Monmouthshire, and Denbeighshire, and ...

Bill White's post at his Summa minutiae blog, points to a site overflowing with information, though short on images at the moment, of Cistercian abbeys and life in England and Wales: the modestly but inaccurately named The Cistercians in Yorkshire.

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Furnaces of the brickmakers to the Colosseum, Pantheon, Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian located

Via Roman brickmakers identified at cronaca.com comes a story at the Discovery Channel site: Rome's Greatest Brickmakers Identified, the two brothers whose works supplied the bricks used in erecting the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Market of Trajan and the Diocletian and Caracalla Baths.

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August 12, St Clare, Virgin

Today is the feast of St Clare. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the Feast of St Clare.

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Blog posts referencing two Traditional Latin Masses in Singapore

At the beginning of August, 2005, a priest from the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter was passing through Singapore, and he obtained permission to publicly say the Tridentine|Traditional Latin Mass. (I've seen it called the 'Classical Roman Rite', which in my mind conjures up images of triumphal arches, museums, togas, Roman statuary and architecture.)

Some Singaporean and other bloggers have mentioned the Masses, and the laymen involved, whose nicknames show a sense of humor I appreciate. Links to the blog posts, I am aware of are below. Some of these posts include images.

UPDATE: these Masses were public in the sense that they were said at the local Church of the Holy Cross. I don't know whether they were announced to the public at large. It seems as if they were not.

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Public domain scanned images (including abbeys and churches in England and Wales) from old books

Monkeyfilter has a post from At Swim Two Birds (Liam's Pictures from Old Books), linking to fromoldbooks.org. From fromoldbooks.org:
Remains of Ruined Castles, Deserted Abbeys, Old Manor Houses, mansions and stately homes; also engravings, woodcuts and pictures of Old England and Wales; also other subjects mentioned below, including Pictures of old books, scanned, prepared and published by Liam Quin.
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August 10, St Lawrence, Martyr

Today is the feast of St Lawrence. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for the Feast of St Lawrence, a favorite of the people of Rome, and some images of and information on the several Roman churches dedicated to him.

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Holy Ghost Hospital, Rome

In July 18, St Camillus de Lellis, Confessor [where the Red Cross originated], I mentioned Holy Ghost Hospital in Rome, where destitute mothers would drop off their newborns. Here is an image of the wheel and the almsbox next to it.

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Search now works

From time to time, I tried the search feature on the main page, but don't remember it ever working (all searches would return 'nothing found', or something similar).

It turns out that when a new entry is added, the search index is not automatically updated by Pivot. I've rebuilt the search index, and searching now seems to work. It also turns out that I needed to do a 'rebuild all files' for some of the editing I've done to the main page to percolate through the archives and pages for individual posts.

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Edward Yong (Sprezzatura) in Singapore spent the day polishing the base of an altar crucifix thrown out at King's College, London, then in the evening led the scola at his diocese's Tridentine Mass. A Full Evening.

When I read his post, there was one comment, by someone whose name I didn't recognize, so I opened his home page, New Middle Ages, and then did something I almost never do, which is look over the links he's got on his blog. One of the categories is 'what's kool', and it includes Oslo's Munch-museet.

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August 2, St Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, betrayed by his closest associates when Regalism was ascendant

I'm a day late for this Saint, and I'm not going to post the breviary.net's, Lessons for St Alphonsus Liguori, but, instead, give some information about what the Saint faced very late in his life, when he was struggling to establish the Redemptorists, the Congregation he founded, in the Kingdom of Naples.

Fr MacCaffrey's History of the Catholic Church describes the events very briefy.
The opposition of the Neapolitan prime minister, Tanucci, was a source of great trouble to the holy founder. On the fall of Tanucci St. Alphonsus thought that a favourable opportunity had come for securing the approval of the government, but he was betrayed by his friends into accepting a modification of the constitution, the Regolamento (1779-80), which led to a separation between the Redemptorist houses in Naples and those situated in the Papal States. The dispute was, however, healed in 1793.
Oddly, the Saint dedicated his book The History of Heresies and Their Refutation to Tanucci. What follows draws on the Catholic Encyclopaedia's articles on St Alphonsus Liguori, Pope Clement XIV, who reigned 1769 to 1774 and who suppressed the Jesuits, Pope Pius VI, who reigned 1775 to 1799, when he died a prisoner of French revolutionaries, the Neapolitan prime minister Bernardo Tanucci, and on John C. Rao's article Half the Business of Destruction Done, as well as other sources.

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