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FEBRUARY 2018 DATES TO REMEMBER expensive to keep everything clean and tidy. I am not satisUied with the landscaping company that 2 February : was working with us in the past years, and I will taking of the cassock in our northern look for another one, but at the same time I will THE CLOISTER have to simplify the landscape in order to reduce seminaries. the cost and time of the maintenance. SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X Saint Saviour’s House, Saint Agnes avenue 14 February : Roofs and gutters: Ash Wednesday Almost all the roofs of the house and chapel have BRISTOL BS4 2DU lost some tiles mostly because of the very strong winds of the last six months. Then the majority of Email:[email protected] Telephone: 01179775863 19 to 24 February : the gutters have lost the proper inclination to Priests Retreat evacuate the water. They are overUlowing in wrong places, provoking water iniltration inside the buildings. It is certainly a long term project but it person" (Mansi, "Concilia", IV, 465). In the East it 19 to 24 March: has to be done to avoid more damage. THE CASSOCK Passion Retreat (Men and Women) would seem to have been the custom for ascetics and philosophers, whether Christian or not to affect a Car Park Catholic Encyclopedia special habit, but the Christian clergy generally did I would like to have some white lines 29 June: not profess asceticism in this distinctive way, and painted on the car park to keep a little more order To discuss the question of ecclesiastical Priestly Ordinations at Ecône Seminary; were content to wear the birrus (byros) like the laity and save space on Sunday. Please, NEVER park on costume in any detail would be impossible in about them. This usage a canon of the Council of 25th anniversary of Ordination of Fr. the drive way in front of Saint Saviour’s to the an article like the present. No topic has formed Gangra (340), especially when it is taken in John McLaughlin main door as this access should be ALWAYS the subject of so many synodal enactments, conjunction with other facts (cf. Sozomen, III, 14), available for an emergency. and in almost every country and every order of 40th anniversary of Ordination of Fr. distinctly approves. "If any man", says the council, the clergy we find distinctive features which Philippe Pazat "uses the pallium [cloak] upon might call for special treatment. Only account of an ascetic life, and, as if the broad outlines can therefore be QUESTIONS BOX LUNCH there be some holiness in that, 3 to 21 July: dealt with here. It may be noted, condemns those who with reverence General Chapter of the Society of Saint COME BACK !!! however, that the more prominent use the birrus and other garments that Pius X items of clerical attire, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 4TH are commonly worn, let him be SUNDAY MARCH 4TH anathema" (Hefele-Leclercq, "Hist. History AFTER 10:00 AM MASS des Conc.", I, 1037). At the other It seems that in the early centuries of (AROUND 11:45 AM) extremity of Christendom the Christianity no distinctive dress was documents that survive concerning PROJECTS adopted by ecclesiastics. Many BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH St. Patrick and other early Celtic indications point to this conclusion, Drive way in front of the chaplaincy: bishops present them to us as e.g. the lacerna, or birrus, and (civil) This drive way is used for wheelchair access and WE WILL PROVIDE AS USUAL TEA AND COFFEE habitually dressed in the casula dalmatic, associated with the for the sisters car. It is not wide enough and it is in (chasuble), which was at that time THE EVENT WILL BE IN THE LARGE REFECTORY martyrdom of St. Cyprian. The most very bad condition, some of the Ulat stones having not a distinctively liturgical attire, but explicit testimony is that afforded by a moved or sank in the mud. simply an outer garment commonly EVERYONE IS WELCOME. letter of Pope Celestine in 428 to The project consists in redoing it, eventually with worn by the humbler classes. In the certain bishops of Gaul, in which he rebukes a large concrete slab, connected to the chaplaincy sixth and following centuries we find that in Rome PUT YOUR QUESTIONS IN THE BOX. QUESTIONS them for wearing attire which made them door with a wider wheelchair ramp. and in countries near Rome the civil dress of the SHOULD BE ANONYMOUS AND LEGIBLE. conspicuous, and lays down the rule that "we clergy began markedly to differ from that of the laity, [the bishops and clergy] should be Landscape: QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ABOUT DOCTRINAL, the reason probably being that the former adhered to distinguished from the common people [plebe] First I would like to thank Mr Nigel Mills who MORAL OR HISTORICAL ISSUES. ANY QUESTIONS the old Roman type of costume with its long tunic by our learning, not by our clothes; by our came so often to help in this matter. But our ABOUT THE SSPX ADMINISTRATIONS OR and voluminous cloak, representing the toga, property is big, the landscaping was not done for conduct, not by our dress; by cleanness of INTERNAL ORDER WILL BE REFUSED. whereas the laity were increasingly inclined to adopt low maintenance. As a consequence, it is very mind, not by the care we spend upon our FEBRUARY 2018 the short tunic, with breeches and mantle, of the gens cuculla was forbidden them, as being distinctive of numerous other decrees on the same subject England and abroad, is the "almuce", a fur-lined braccata, i.e. the Northern barbarians, who were now monks. On the other hand, at Metz, in 888, the laity were passed in England at a later date, notably tippet and hood, still retained at Rome and elsewhere the masters of Italy. Probably this Roman influence were forbidden to wear the copes (cappas) belonging in 1281 and in 1342. The proper dress of the by the canons of cathedral and collegiate churches, made itself felt to some extent throughout Western to the clergy, while in another synod presbyters were medieval clergy was therefore the vestis and now practically confined to them. Formerly the Christendom. enjoined to wear their stoles always, as an indication talaris, and over this priests and dignitaries almuce was worn by university graduates, and many The canons of the Council of Braga in Portugal (572) of their priesthood. Such a bishop as St. Hugh of were bidden to wear the cappa clausa. The other orders of the clergy. It is probably only a required the clergy to wear a vestis talaris, or tunic, Lincoln still complied with this rule in the twelfth former of these must have been a sort of warmer variant of the hood, which almost reaching to the feet, and even in far-off Britain we century but at the present day the practice is peculiar cassock, but made like a tunic, i.e. not opening, everywhere survives as part of a university find indications, both among the Celts and Anglo- to the Holy Father alone. and buttoning down the front. The wearing of academical costume, and which is the familiar Saxons, that undraped lower limbs were not regarded In the later Middle Ages the dress of the clergy was the closed cope was no doubt often evaded by adjunct of the surplice for Anglican clergymen when, as seemly in the clergy, at any rate during their regulated by the canon law, the jus commune of the the secular clergy. Such writers as Chaucer and officiating in the sanctuary. It will be readily service at the altar. During the same period synodal Church at large, but with many supplementary Langland seem to lay so much emphasis upon understood that the indescribably cold and draughty decrees became gradually more frequent, restraining enactments passed by local synods. The Fourth the copes of the friars that it is difficult to condition of our old cathedrals rendered some such in various ways the tendency of the clergy to adopt Lateran Council (1215) laid down the principle that believe that this mantle, resembling a liturgical furred protection for the head and neck almost a the current fashion of worldly attire. By a German clerics must wear garments closed in front and free cope, but partly at least sewn up in front, was necessity during the long hours of the night Offices. council of 742, priests and deacons are bidden to from extravagance as to length (Clausa deferant as commonly worn by secular priests. That the Naturally, the richness and amplitude of the fur lining wear habitually not the sagum, or short military desuper indumenta nimiâ brevitate vel longitudine cope was often of considerable length may be varied in some measure with the dignity of the cloak, but the casula (chasuble), which even then had non notanda. — Mansi, XXII, 1006). Ornamental gathered from a passage in "Piers Plowman's wearer. In funeral monuments the almuce is found not become an exclusively liturgical dress. Perhaps appendages, cloth of red or green colour, brooches Crede": — constantly associated with the cope, also primarily a the most interesting and significant enactment of this (fibulœ) to fasten their cloaks, and the wearing of His cope that biclypped him, wel clene was it choir vestment. period is a letter of Pope John VIII (c. 875) sleeved copes (cappœ manicatœ), either at Office or folden, Modern usage admonishing the Archbishops of Canterbury and at other times, are all forbidden by the same Of double-worstede y-dyght, doun to the hele. The modern and more centralized legislation York to see that their clergy wore due ecclesiastical enactment.