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| Stabat Mater, the Hymn of the Virgin of Sorrows |
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Posted by: Stone - 7 hours ago - Forum: Marian Hymns
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Stabat Mater, the Hymn of the Virgin of Sorrows
NLM | September 15, 2025
Devotion to the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary originated in German-speaking lands in the early 15th-century, partly as a response to the iconoclasm of the Hussites, and partly out of the universal popular devotion to every aspect of Christ’s Passion, including the presence of His Mother, and thence to Her grief over the Passion. The feast that emerged as its formal liturgical expression of this devotion was known by several different titles, and kept on a wide variety of dates, but usually in Passiontide, or just after Easter. Before the name “Seven Sorrows” became common, it was most often called “the feast of the Virgin’s Compassion”, which is to say, of Her suffering together with Christ as She beheld the Passion. This title was retained well into the 20th century by the Dominicans, who also had an Office for it which was quite different from the Roman one, although the Mass was the same. It also appears in many missals of the 15th to 17th centuries only as a votive Mass, with no corresponding feast; this was the case at Sarum, where it is called “Compassionis sive Lamentationis B.M.V.” Its popularity continued to grow in the Tridentine period, until Pope Benedict XIII finally extended it to the whole of the Roman Rite in 1727.
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The Virgin of Sorrows; the central panel of the Van Belle triptych by Pieter Poubus (1523 ca. - 1580); in the church of St James in Bruges, Belgium. There were different traditions as to which events in Our Lady’s life counted as Her Seven Sorrows; here they are (clockwise from lower left) the Circumcision, the Flight into Egypt, losing the Child Jesus, meeting Christ on the road to Calvary, the Crucifixion, the deposition from the Cross, and the entombment. The Roman version of the Passiontide feast contains no specific list. (Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons.)
A second feast of the Seven Sorrows was promulgated in 1668 as the Patronal feast of the Servite Order, which was founded in the mid-13th century by seven Florentine noblemen, and soon spread all over Europe. (St Philip Benizi, who stands in their history as St Bernard does in that of the Cistercians, not their founder, but their most famous member, was almost elected Pope in 1271.) This order had always nourished a strong devotion to the Mother of Sorrows, and has its own rosary of the Seven Sorrows, and its own Marian stations of the Cross. Pope Pius VII added their version of the feast to the general calendar in 1814, after he returned from the exile in France shamefully visited upon him by Napoleon. Part of his reason for doing would certainly have been to ask the Virgin’s intercession and protection for the Church in the midst of the many horrors visited upon it by the French revolution and the subsequent wars. It was originally kept on the Third Sunday of September, as it had been first by the Servites, but when Pope St Pius X abolished the custom of fixing feasts to Sundays, it was placed on September 15th, the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.
As is often the case with later feasts, there was a considerable variety in the liturgical texts of the earlier version of the feast from one place to another, and between the traditions of the various religious orders. But of course, one of the most widespread was the hymn Stabat Mater Dolorosa, which is universally regarded as one of the great masterpieces of later medieval devotional poetry. The author of this hymn is unknown, and has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly conjecture. For a long time, many attributed it to a Franciscan friar name Jacopone da Todi (‘Big James from Todi’, about 80 miles north of Rome in Umbria; 1230 ca. – 1306); however, a fairly recent manuscript discovery has made this attribution untenable. Others have ascribed it to Pope Innocent III, who reigned from 1198-1216, and was certainly a very prolific writer in various genres, but this remains no more than a plausible conjecture.
In the Roman liturgical tradition, it is sung as a hymn in the Divine Office in one melody of the sixth Gregorian mode, and in another of the second mode as a Sequence at Mass, between the Alleluia and the Gospel.
Many great composers have also put their hand to setting it polyphonically, such as Josquin des Prez.
Palestrina’s version, composed shortly before his death in 1594, was traditionally sung in Rome on Palm Sunday.
One of the best known versions is by the Baroque composer Giovanni Battista Draghi (1710-36), who is generally known by the last name “Pergolesi”, after Pergola, the small town in the Italian Marches from which his family came. This was also composed very shortly before the author’s death, of tuberculosis at the age of only 26. This became the single most frequently printed work of sacred music in the 18th century, and, in the common fashion of the Baroque era, was reused by several other composers, including JS Bach, who turned the music into one of his German cantatas, albeit with a completely different text based on Psalm 50.
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| Bishop Schneider: Vatican ‘LGBTQ pilgrimage’ an ‘abomination,’ Pope Leo must make public reparation |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-11-2025, 06:56 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Bishop Schneider: Vatican ‘LGBTQ pilgrimage’ an ‘abomination,’ Pope Leo must make ‘public reparation’
Pope Leo must ‘urgently’ make reparation after the Vatican endorsed an LGBT Jubilee ‘pilgrimage’ and allowed unrepentant homosexuals to pass the Holy Doors at St. Peter’s, Bishop Schneider said.
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Bishop Schneider
LifeSiteNews
Sep 10, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below, emphasis The Catacombs]) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider expressed “horror” at the Vatican’s endorsement of the “LGBTQ Jubilee pilgrimage,” rebuking priests who support homosexuality as “spiritual criminals” and “murderers of souls.”
“My reaction was a silent cry of horror, indignation, and sorrow,” the auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, said regarding the Vatican’s approval of an LGBTQ-themed “pilgrimage” on its Jubilee website, in an interview with Diane Montagna, a journalist in Rome.
Montagna had highlighted the fact that photos captured an array of rainbow paraphernalia in St. Peter’s Basilica, as well homosexual male couple “brazenly holding hands there, one with a backpack saying F*** the Rules,” at the conclusion of their “pilgrimage.”
What took place there could be described as an “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place,” in the words of Christ (cf. Mt. 24:15), said Bishop Schneider.
He pointed out that the embrace of homosexuality by these “pilgrims” contradicted one of the very key meanings of the Jubilee Year and the Holy Door: “Leading man to conversion and penance,” as Pope John Paul II explained in the Bull of Indiction of the Holy Year 2000.
“There were no signs of repentance and renunciation of objectively grave homosexual sins … on the part of the organizers and participants in this pilgrimage,” noted Bishop Schneider. “To pass through the Holy Door and participate in the Jubilee without repentance, while promoting an ideology that openly rejects God’s Sixth Commandment, constitutes a kind of desecration of the Holy Door and a mockery of God and the gift of an indulgence.”
The bishop had strong words for the Vatican authorities who “collaborated de facto” in this open rejection of God’s commandment, expressed aptly in the “f*** the rules” message.
“They stood by and allowed God to be mocked and His commandments to be scornfully cast aside,” said Bishop Schneider.
When asked to compare it to the Pachamama scandal, he noted that while direct transgression of the First Commandment is even more grave, the endorsement of sodomy – a sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance – “amounts to a form of indirect idolatry.”
“Both events must be publicly repaired by the Pope himself. This is urgently needed, before it is too late, for God will not be mocked,” said the bishop.
Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops Conference, welcomed “everyone” to receive Holy Communion at a Mass for the “pilgrims,” Montagna then pointed out. Bishop Schneider affirmed that assent to “all of the Church’s teaching” is a precondition for receiving Christ in the Eucharist, as was expressed by St. Paul: “Anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. (1 Cor. 11:29).
He added that this has been clearly stated by the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive Communion without having received absolution in the sacrament of penance” (n. 1415).
Furthermore, it notes, “Sacred Scripture ‘presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, [and] tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. … Under no circumstances can they be approved’ (n. 2357).”
Thus, by granting these LGBTQ groups passage through the Holy Door and approving their “pilgrimage,” Vatican authorities in effect rejected “the very doctrine they are bound to uphold.”
Bishop Schneider said his message for participants in the LGBTQ “pilgrimage” is one of compassion, and he called for all Christians to show compassion towards not just those living homosexual lifestyles, but those who support its legitimization and “persist in it unrepentant and even proudly.”
“For when a person consciously rejects God’s explicit commandment prohibiting any sexual activity outside a valid marriage, he places himself in the gravest danger—that of losing eternal life and being eternally condemned to Hell,” said the prelate.
“True love for such persons consists in calling them, gently yet persistently, to genuine conversion to God’s revealed will,” he continued, adding that such people are “ultimately unhappy” even when they have suppressed their conscience.
“We must be filled with great zeal to save these souls, to free them from poisonous deceits. Those priests who confirm them in their homosexual activity or in a homosexual lifestyle are spiritual criminals, murderers of souls, and God will demand a strict account from them,” Bishop Schneider declared.
To those who defend Pope Leo XIV amid the Vatican’s approval of the LGBTQ scandalous “pilgrimage” because he did not receive a delegation from them or send them a message, Bishop Schneider said that “one cannot reasonably presume naivety on his part,” because it was “entirely foreseeable” that an LGBTQ activist group would take advantage of the Holy Door to promote their sinful lifestyle.
Furthermore, by meeting with Father James Martin, SJ, a heretical pro-LGBT priest, as well as pro-homosexual “marriage” Sister Lucia Caram, Pope Leo XIV has expressed that he is not opposed to their “heterodox and scandalous teaching and behavior—particularly since the Holy See offered no clarification afterward and did not correct Fr. James Martin’s triumphant messages circulated on social media,” noted Bishop Schneider.
He pointed out that in doing so, Pope Leo XIV broke with the precedent of all popes before Francis, who “neither received officially nor posed for photographs with those who, by word or deed, openly rejected the doctrinal and moral teaching of the Church.”
“There is a common saying that goes: ‘Qui tacet consentire videtur’—’He who is silent is taken to agree,’” Bishop Schneider added.
The prelate called upon all Catholics to “make a collective act of reparation for the outrage committed against the sanctity of God’s house and the holiness of His commandments,” and implored Pope Leo XIV to follow in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II, who Montagna noted had denounced the first “World Pride” event in Rome during the Great Jubilee of 2000.
“Should Pope Leo XIV make public acts of regret and even reparation, he will lose nothing; should he fail to do so, he will forfeit something before the eyes of God—and God alone matters,” said Bishop Schneider.
“May Our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV take to heart the following words of Our Lord which He once spoke through St. Bridget of Sweden to one of his predecessors (Pope Gregory XI)”:
Quote:Uproot, pluck out and destroy all the vices of your court! Separate yourself from the counsel of carnal-minded and worldly friends and follow humbly the spiritual counsel of My friends. Get up like a man and clothe yourself confidently in strength! Start to reform the Church that I purchased with My Own Blood in order that it may be reformed and led back spiritually to its pristine state of holiness, for nowadays more veneration is shown to a brothel than to My Holy Church. My son, heed My counsel. If you obey Me in what I told you, I will welcome you mercifully like a loving father. Bravely approach the way of justice and you shall prosper. Do not despise the One Who loves you. If you obey, I will show you mercy and bless and dress you and adorn you with the precious pontifical regalia of a holy pope. I shall clothe you with Myself in such a way that you will be in Me and I in you, and you shall be glorified in eternity (The Book of Revelations, Book IV, chap. 149).
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| The Catholic Trumpet War-Room Has Begun! |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-11-2025, 06:51 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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The Catholic Trumpet War-Room Has Begun!
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | September 10, 2025
A secure discussion group has been launched for faithful Catholics who follow The Catholic Trumpet. Here, we unite to resist error, strengthen one another, and continue the fight for the Faith in these times of crisis. This is a space to reject the errors of the conciliar Church, the compromises of the Neo-SSPX, the fake resistance established by Bishop Williamson, and sedevacantism, while standing firmly with +Archbishop Lefebvre’s uncompromised defense of Tradition.
New members of good will and those committed to the true resistance are encouraged to join, ask questions, and learn from experienced members, so that all may grow in knowledge, courage, and fidelity to Tradition.
Join the fight here!
The trumpet has sounded. The Faith is under siege. Together, we hold fast to Tradition, reject every compromise, and fight on until Rome returns fully to the Catholic Faith.
Viva Cristo Rey!
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| Queen Emma Asks for the Ordeal by Fire |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-10-2025, 08:35 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Queen Emma Asks for the Ordeal by Fire
Hugh O'Reilly | September 6, 2025
Queen Emma of Normandy [Ælfgifu] was the wife of two Kings, Aethelred II the Unready of England (1001-1016), and then Canute the Great of Denmark (1017-1018) and Norway (1028-1035). She was also the mother of two Kings, King Harthacunt and St. Edward the Confessor.
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Queen Emma with her two sons, Harthacunt & Edward, both of whom became kings
Looking for an excuse to diminish her influence at court and increase his own, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, persuaded the King that Emma had been guilty of too close an intimacy with Aelfwine, Bishop of Winchester, who had been dead for three years. This was 48 years after her first marriage and 15 years after the death of her second husband. Her son, Edward, despoiled his mother Queen Emma of her properties and title.
The Queen wrote to Bishops whom she trusted, saying she was far more shocked at the scandal against the good Bishop Aelfwine than at the scandal against herself. She stated that she was ready to submit to the order of burning iron in order to prove the innocence of the deceased Bishop. Those Bishops advised the King to allow the trial.
The accuser Archbishop of Canterbury used strong language against Emma, and said she would have to walk over nine hot ploughshares, four for herself and five for the Bishop, in order for her innocence to be accepted.
Queen Emma agreed, and preparations were made for the trial.
Queen Emma passed the night before the ordeal in prayer at St. Swithun’s shrine. [St. Swithun was Bishop of Winchester in the 9th century; after his death many miracles were worked at his gravesite and the Cathedral became a popular pilgrimage site. During the Protestant Revolution the soldiers of Henry VIII entered the Cathedral in the early morning and destroyed his shrines and scattered his relics.]
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St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester in the 9th century, became famous for his miracles
In answer to her supplications, the Saint appeared to her and said: “I am St. Swithun whom you have invoked. Fear not, the fire shall do you no hurt.”
On the morrow, King Edward the Confessor with his attendant courtiers assembled. Nine plowshares were made red-hot, and placed upon the pavement in the nave of Winchester Cathedral. Emma entered plainly dressed, feet and legs bare to the knee, and made a long prayer, which commenced: “O God, who didst save Susannah from the malice of the wicked elders, save me.”
The Queen was blindfolded and led through the cathedral to the irons. Then, guided by the two Bishops, she tread with her bare feet upon the glowing metal, but she felt nothing, neither the metal nor the heat. Then, turning to one of the Bishops, Emma asked: “When shall we come to the ploughshares?”
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The Ordeal of Queen Emma, by William Blacke, 1779
Then they showed her that she had already passed over them. Upon examination, her feet were found to be uninjured.
The King, thoroughly convinced of her innocence and repenting of his cruelty, cast himself at his mother’s feet, exclaiming: “Mother I have sinned before Heaven and before you.” King Edward asked for a penance and received stripes both from the good Bishop and from his mother. Further her ranks and property were restored to her.
The King banished the wicked Archbishop. And Queen Emma made an offering of thanksgiving to St. Swithun for his intercession that cleared the name of Bishop Aelfwine and restored her own good reputation.
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Queen Emma influenced King Canute to give a large golden cross to the Church of Winchester |
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