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Post by cato on May 1, 2022 21:39:36 GMT
I attended Mass this morning where St Joseph the patron of workers was the mass celebrated. The choir at the end sang Flowers of the rarest a hymn beloved by some who remember far off more innocent summer days and May altars.
Morris Dancers welcomed the dawn in England I believe this morning. The old USSR had massive military parades today to show the superiority of Marxist society Some say this is the first day of summer.
In Dingle they held a pagan style rave last night. I watched the videos with a terrible sense of foreboding.
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Post by Tomas on May 2, 2022 8:21:31 GMT
I attended Mass this morning where St Joseph the patron of workers was the mass celebrated. The choir at the end sang Flowers of the rarest a hymn beloved by some who remember far off more innocent summer days and May altars. Morris Dancers welcomed the dawn in England I believe this morning. The old USSR had massive military parades today to show the superiority of Marxist society Some say this is the first day of summer. In Dingle they held a pagan style rave last night. I watched the videos with a terrible sense of foreboding. We had a statue of Infant Jesus of Prague installed on the altar and will be given solemn blessing daily after holy Mass from this day onward. Secular sign of this day was the annual broadcast from Lund (with Uppsala our equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge if that halting comparison be allowed) where the students choir sing the "classical" songs of the season. My grandparents used to go back there every year for the event. Grandfather met grandmother there while being at the university in the 1920s. She grew up in this town and helping out in a little shop in her youth. www.svtplay.se/video/35058195/lunds-studentsangare?id=jXy53WD |
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Post by Séamus on May 2, 2022 10:20:33 GMT
I attended Mass this morning where St Joseph the patron of workers was the mass celebrated. The choir at the end sang Flowers of the rarest a hymn beloved by some who remember far off more innocent summer days and May altars. Morris Dancers welcomed the dawn in England I believe this morning. The old USSR had massive military parades today to show the superiority of Marxist society Some say this is the first day of summer. In Dingle they held a pagan style rave last night. I watched the videos with a terrible sense of foreboding. We had a statue of Infant Jesus of Prague installed on the altar and will be given solemn blessing daily after holy Mass from this day onward. Secular sign of this day was the annual broadcast from Lund (with Uppsala our equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge if that halting comparison be allowed) where the students choir sing the "classical" songs of the season. My grandparents used to go back there every year for the event. Grandfather met grandmother there while being at the university in the 1920s. She grew up in this town and helping out in a little shop in her youth. www.svtplay.se/video/35058195/lunds-studentsangare?id=jXy53WDThe feast had a short but glorious reign,from the latter part of PiusXII's time (When St Joseph the Worker superceded the regular Sundays of Easter) during the height of the Cold War until the missal of PaulVI was finalized,when the liturgy became optional (but no doubt still held in solemnity by parishes that deem him a patron). I bought a book of Pre-Raphaelite plates last week. Hunt in particular brings fresh vision to the image of Joseph as a workman. Finding of the Saviour in the Temple is well known and fairly flawless,even if the temple seems more of a synagogue (of course William Holman painted what he observed in 19th century Palestine). Joseph is strikingly different but within the boundaries of veneration for the traditional figure. Sir John Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents,on the other hand, would almost seem to prefigure Dali,with figures that seem either nebulous, improbable or irrelevant. Is the harsh elderly lady a St Anne figure? What would she be doing there at the carpentry shop? The boy Christ receiving a wound on His palm seems a bit too poignant. Is the unconventional and unconcerned Joseph really Joseph? But the interaction of the Holy Family with local village youth as apprentices has a probable ring to it. I hadn't seen The Shadow of Death, another one of Hunt's,before. Joseph is seemingly dead at this stage as Christ stretches in crucifix-shape, surrounded by woodchips. For all the criticism of apocryphal influence in Catholic devotion, the imagination of artists from protestant society would seem even wilder at times. In an era when few Englishmen would have worked shirtless,it's assumed that the influence here was also the Palestine of his time. The female or Marian figure who seems to oddly read the Torah and burn incense in the workshop itself might be typical Pre-Raphaelite boundary-pushing,but,while I'd be more inspired by the riot of colour and mysterious faces in Finding of the Saviour, maybe this turquoise-draped Lady can be made to represent the core message of Mayday and St Joseph's May feast- the newly titled 'Domestic Church' that Rome has focused on in recent decades. |
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Post by Tomas on May 2, 2022 10:49:59 GMT
We had a statue of Infant Jesus of Prague installed on the altar and will be given solemn blessing daily after holy Mass from this day onward. Secular sign of this day was the annual broadcast from Lund (with Uppsala our equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge if that halting comparison be allowed) where the students choir sing the "classical" songs of the season. My grandparents used to go back there every year for the event. Grandfather met grandmother there while being at the university in the 1920s. She grew up in this town and helping out in a little shop in her youth. www.svtplay.se/video/35058195/lunds-studentsangare?id=jXy53WDThe feast had a short but glorious reign,from the latter part of PiusXII's time (When St Joseph the Worker superceded the regular Sunday of Easter) during the height of the Cold War until the missal of PaulVI was finalized,when the liturgy became optional (but no doubt still held in solemnity by parishes that deem him a patron). I bought a book of Pre-Raphaelite plates last week. Hunt in particular brings fresh vision to the image of Joseph as a workman. Finding of the Saviour in the Temple is well known and fairly flawless,even if the temple seems more of a synagogue (of course William Holman painted what he observed in 19th century Palestine). Joseph is strikingly different but within the boundaries of veneration for the traditional figure. Sir John Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents,on the other hand, would almost seem to prefigure Dali,with figures that seem either nebulous, improbable or irrelevant. Is the elderly lady St Anne? What would she be doing there at the carpentry shop? The boy Christ receiving a wound on His palm seems a bit too poignant. Is the unconventional Joseph really Joseph? But the interaction of the Holy Family with local village youth as apprentices has a probable ring to it. I hadn't seen The Shadow of Death, another one of Hunt's,before. Joseph is seemingly dead at this stage as Christ stretches in crucifix-shape, surrounded by woodchips. For all the criticism of apocryphal influence in Catholic devotion, the imagination of artists from protestant society would seem even wilder at times. In an era when few Englishmen would have worked shirtless,it's assumed that the influence here was also the Palestine of his time. The female or Marian figure who seems to oddly read the Torah and burn incense in the workshop itself might be typical Pre-Raphaelite boundary-pushing,but,while I'd be more inspired by the riot of colour and mysterious faces in Finding of the Saviour, maybe this turquoise-draped Lady can be made to represent the core message of Mayday and St Joseph's May feast- the newly titled 'Domestic Church' that Rome has focused on in recent decades. Lovely to have a picture book on their works! Still in keen memory is the grand exhibition held in several countries about a decade or more ago, in Stockholm at the National Museum (of Art). Over a hundred paintings made an exhilarating impression. I vaguely remember the carpent studio Joseph by Holman Hunt bit am unsure if I ever have seen the Millais mentioned. My personal favourite among them overall may be said Millais. Also fond of two associates, namely Ford Madow Brown and Arthur Hughes (one George MacDonald fairy-tale book bought after all the highlightings in C.S. Lewis circles got me curious, had wonderful etchings by Hughes as an extra) especially "The Long Engagement" (but my relation to that is in black and white, when I saw it coloured I still much prefered the black and white copy I have had a personal attachement to since thirty years back). |
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