Thinking caps on!

Many traditional Catholic blogs and Facebook pages have details of live-stream Masses and other articles of interest and discussion threads.

As a regular pub quizzer I decided to put out something else - specially as our league has now been suspended.

So Catholic Quiz 1.   Hymns of our Blessed Lady.  Answers in a couple of days with Quiz 2.

1. Which Catholic priest and historian wrote the very popular hymn - "Hail, Queen of Heaven"?

   

2. The hymn "Mary from thy Sacred Image" is dedicated to Our Lady of  a) Ransom. b) Perpetual Succour/Unfailing Help or c) Czestochowa?

    

3. The composers Jean-Paul Lecot and l'Abbe Paul Decha (RIP) are associated with which Marian Shrine?

    

4. At the close of Compline otherwise The Night Prayer of the Church, which Marian antiphon is sung/said during Eastertide?i

   

5. The hymn "O Mother blest" is attributed to which saint, is it a) St Joan of Arc b) St Alphonsus Liguori or c) St Maximilian Kolbe?

   

6. The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould (1834-1924) translated the Basque Carol "Gabriel's Message" also known as "The Angel Gabriel from heaven came" but what is the title of his best known hymn, now rarely sung?

   

7. "None had ever owned thee, dear Mother but He" is taken from which beloved Marian hymn?

    

8. Which hymn to Our Blessed Lady, written in 1873 by the French priest Jean Gaignet originally contained 8 verses but the good abbé apparently expanded it to 120?

   

9.  Complete - "Magnificat ----- --- Dominum"

10. Which Eucharistic hymn contains these words: " Had I but Mary's sinless heart...…"?

    

11. The tune often called the Sicilian Mariners’ Hymn is a tune to which Marian hymn?

     

12. The Reverend Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles (1845-1929), an Anglican Divine, wrote a well known hymn to Our Lady (except stanza 4), the last line to every verse being " Hail Mary, Hail Mary, Hail Mary full of Grace". Name the hymn.

     

13. Which Marian hymn by St Bernard of Cluny was found beneath the right temple of St Casimir's (or Kazimierz) incorrupt body when his grave was opened?

     

14. The above mentioned hymn is better known in English as...……?

     

15. Which hymn sees the sweet flow'rets we have culled?

A prayer to our guardian Angel

O holy angel, at my side,
Go to church for me,
Kneel in my place at Holy Mass
Where I desire to be.
At Offertory, in my stead,
Take all I am and own,
And place it as a sacrifice
Upon the Altar Throne.
At Holy Consecrations bell,
Adore with Seraph's love.
My Jesus hidden in the Host,
Come down from Heaven above.
And when the Priest, communion takes,
Oh, bring my Lord to me,
That His sweet heart may rest on mine,
And I His temple be.

Oremus pro invicem

The wonders of electronic communication allow us to transmit pictures of live and recorded Masses at the touch of a few buttons. I often watch the live Mass from Warrington courtesy of the FSSP, which is accessible from the sidebar.  

Since the closure of churches across the world for reasons of pandemic the number of "livestreamed" Masses has proliferated. 

This one is from my personal favourite church in the world. Its beauty is humbling. The stations of the cross are represented in the windows of the church.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIz1_vK-gfwd26Q3cIvDxPg/playlists

Last public Masses

Tomorrow is the feast of St. Joseph - the patron saint of the Universal Church - and there will be Mass at St. Anthony's, Clayton at 9.30 a.m. and at Broughton Hall at 10.00 a.m. Mass again on Friday at Broughton at 10.00 a.m.
After this there will be no more public EF Masses until further notice.

There will be no Sacred Triduum this year.

O God, who willest not the death of the sinner but that he should repent: welcome with pardon Thy people's return to Thee: and so long as they are faithful in Thy service, do Thou in Thy clemency withdraw the scourge of Thy wrath. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Collect of the Mass for deliverance from death in time of pestilence.

Dominica III in Quadragesima

This weekend is the third Sunday in Lent and we have three Masses:

8.00 a.m. Leeds Cathedral, Cookridge Street, Leeds
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

O God, who willest not the death of the sinner but that he should repent: welcome with pardon Thy people's return to Thee: and so long as they are faithful in Thy service, do Thou in Thy clemency withdraw the scourge of Thy wrath. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect of the Mass for deliverance from death in time of pestilence.

Masses this week -update

Monday to Friday, 10.00 a.m.  Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
Tuesday,   8.30 a.m. St Ignatius, Ossett
                 12.00 p.m. St. Winefride's, St. Paul's Avenue, Wibsey, Bradford
                 7.15 p.m. St. Joseph's, Martin Street, Brighouse
Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Back Street, Pontefract
Thursday, 9.30 a.m. St. Anthony's, Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford

Dominica II in Quadragesima

This weekend is the second Sunday of Lent and we have two Masses:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.