Saturday 31 October 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 1 November. ALL SAINTS, summum. Commemoration of the Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 2. Feria II in Oct. All Ss. Commemoration of the Souls. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 3. Feria III in Oct. All Ss. Com. St Eustachius and his companions, martyrs. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 4. Feria IV in Oct. All Ss. Rogamus te.
Thursday 5. Feria V in Oct. All Ss. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 6. St Leonard, abbot, nine lessons. Com. Oct. All Ss. Mundi domina.
Saturday 7. Sabbath in Oct. All Ss. Com. St Willead, bishop and confessor. Salve regina.

Willead (properly Willehad) was a Northumbrian missionary, bishop of Bremen, friend of Alcuin.

Saturday 24 October 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 25 October. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity. Commemoration of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, martyrs. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 26. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 27. Feria III. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 28. SS SIMON AND JUDE, apostles, double. Rogamus te.
Thursday 29. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 30. St Quintin, martyr, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 31. VIGIL OF ALL SAINTS. Alma redemptoris.

Saturday 17 October 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 18 October. Saint Luke, evangelist, semidouble. Com. Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 19. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 20. Feria III. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 21. Eleven thousand virgins, three lessons. Rogamus te.
Thursday 22. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 23. St Severinus, bishop and confessor, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 24. Sabbath. Salve regina.

The 11,000 were the supposed companions of St Ursula, celebrated thusly by St Hildegard:

Saturday 10 October 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 11 October. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 12. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 13. FEAST OF RELICS, major double. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 14. Saint Calixtus, pope and martyr, three lessons. Rogamus te.
Thursday 15. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 16. Feria VI. Mundi domina.
Saturday 17. St Martha, virgin not a martyr, three lessons. Com. St Justus, martyr. Salve regina.


Wednesday 7 October 2015

Nelly Gasparyan sings Armenian Chant

... in the former cathedral of the Holy Cross, Akdamar Island, Lake Van. The church was abandoned after the genocide of 1915, saved from demolition in 1951, and restored as a museum in 2005. For four minutes, it was once again the house of God and the gate of heaven.

Saturday 3 October 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 4 October. SAINT FRANCIS, confessor, double. Commemoration of the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 5. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 6. St Faith, virgin martyr, three lessons. Com. St Eskill, bishop and martyr. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 7. St Birgitta, widow, semidouble. Com. St Mark, pope, Ss Marcellus & Apuleius. Rogamus te.
Thursday 8. St Demetrius, martyr, three lessons. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 9. St Denis and his companions, martyrs, single. Mundi domina.
Saturday 10. St Gereon and his companions, martyrs, three lessons. Salve regina.

Twa-three items of local interest here. St Eskill was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to Sweden; in most places his feast is observed on 12 June - why not here? St Bridget of Sweden is rather grudgingly categorised as a vidua in the Breviary calendar; in the body of the book she is a sponsa christi.