C.C.S.A. - St. Aloysius at Sevenhill
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Sevenhill, located just south of Clare in The Clare Valley Wine region.
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Explore Sevenhill Cellars, the Clare Valley's first winery
The first winery established in the Clare Valley, by Jesuits in 1851, Sevenhill Cellars is a captivating experience. Visitors can explore Sevenhill's winery museum and underground cellar, visit the stately St Aloysius’ Church and its crypt or take a tour of the vineyards, some of the oldest in the world. Tasting Sevenhill’s elegant wine range in the award-winning cellar door is another drawcard, while outside, many guests enjoy a picnic on the lawn or make the most of the games and sports equipment on offer.
Gore Hill Cemetery.wmv
A video montage of Gore Hill cemetery ( Sydney NSW), filmed during the month of May over a dozen or so lunchtimes.
John-Hoang Nguyen's Profession of First Vows
Profession of First Vows
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney- May 24, 2019- Evening Mass
Video from the Knights of the Southern Cross Australia 8th National Triennial Conference and Knights of the Southern Cross New South Wales Centennial Celebrations, held over the last weekend of May 2019. The Conference was held in the St Mary's Catholic Cathedral Precinct of Sydney, New South Wales, with Masses held in the Cathedral.
This video features the Evening Mass of the Conference, celebrated by KSC Australia National Chaplain and Military Ordinary of Australia Bishop Max Davis, and concelebrated with Fr Anthony Onyirioha, KSC Tasmania State Chaplain, Monsignor Brian O’Loughlin, KSC Western Australia State Chaplain, Fr Tony Kerin, KSC Victoria State Chaplain, and Father Paul Hilder, KSC New South Wales State Chaplain, and served by KSC NSW State Chairman Greg Briscoe-Hough, held on the main altar of St Mary’s Cathedral, on the Feast Day of Our Lady Help of Christians, the Patroness of Australia, and the patroness of the Cathedral proper (it's official designation being the Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians).
Vaxfacts: The Order of the Knights of the Southern Cross (KSC) was formed in New South Wales in 1919 by lay Catholic men (of who Patrick Joseph Minahan (NSW Legislative Council Member) was the first Grand Knight from 1919-1920, and his deputy Joseph Patrick Lynch, who would become the second Grand Knight from 1920-1922), with the approval of the Bishops of Australia, to counter the discrimination, prejudice and sectarianism confronting Catholics in Australia.
Two years prior this, in 1917 in Victoria, the Knights of St Francis Xavier (KSFX) was formed for the same purpose.
Both organisations were modelled on the Knights of Columbus in North America, which was founded by Fr Michael McGivney in New Haven Connecticut in 1882.
In 1921, discussions were held between the two organisations, KSC and KSFX, with the view to amalgamate both organisations as the KSC. This was achieved and Victoria held its first meeting under this banner in March 1922.
Additional references are located at these websites:
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The feast day to Mary (Our Lady) Help of Christians has been celebrated in Australia since 1844 but the history to this day dates back to the start of the 1800’s. Napoleon Bonaparte had jailed Pius VI who died in jail. When Pope Pius VII was elected he too was jailed by Bonaparte, who kept him prisoner at Fontainbleau. The Holy Father vowed to God that if he were restored to the Roman See, he would institute a special feast in honour of Mary. The military eventually forced Bonaparte to release the Pope and on 24 May 1814, Pius VII returned in triumph to Rome. Twelve months later the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians be kept on 24 May.
The infant church in Australia had a special reason for turning to Mary. No priests were sent to the colony in its early days and Mass was not allowed except for one brief year until 1820. It was largely the Rosary in those early days that kept the faith alive. Catholic Australia remained faithful to Mary and was the first nation to choose her under the title Help of Christians, as principal Patroness.
St Mary’s Cathedral was dedicated in her honour by the Irish pioneer priest, Fr John Therry, who arrived in Sydney in 1820 and assumed responsibility for the planning and initial construction of the Cathedral. When Australia became the first country to have Mary Help of Christians as Patroness, it became the first country to have a mother-cathedral under the same title. The altar at St. Mary’s, with its statue of Mary Help of Christians, was erected as a memorial to Fr. Therry’s name. The statue of Mary, Help of Christians, stands in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the Cathedral.
The Church has traditionally focussed on two aspects of Our Lady’s help on this feast day. Firstly, upon the role of Our Lady’s intercession in the fight against sin the life of a believer. Secondly, Our Lady is one who assists Christians as a community, through her intercession, in fighting against anti-Christian forces.
In the Opening Prayer for Our Lady Help of Christians, the Church prays that through Our Lady’s intercession God will “grant wisdom to our leaders and integrity to our citizens”, so that “under her protection Australia may be granted harmony, justice and peace”.
Medieval music - Mariam Matrem (Montserrat Codex)
Mariam Matrem, a piece dedicated to the Virgin Mary from the 14th-century Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (aka Montserrat Codex), a manuscript containing anonymous pilgrim's songs from the famous monastery on the Montserrat mountain near Barcelona in Spain. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, musical director Anna Pope. Recorded in 2007 by Terry Truman in St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, South Australia. Sung by Anna Pope, Bdernard Mageean & Matt Winefield. Images from Montserrat and St Aloysius' Church Sevenhill in South Australia. Photos by Kenneth Pope, Eleanor Pope and Michael Denholm. This is one of a series of pieces which Lumina have recorded from the Montserrat Codex, and is included in their CD 'Mediaeval Magic'. lumina.org.au
Jesuit Ordination Fall 2018
St. Ignatius Loyola Parish Sacramento
Cambodian Dancers
A dance troupe from Cambodia will be performing in Australia in March and April, in a tour to foster friendship and introduce the Jesuit Mission-assisted work that is taking place in a country recovering from decades of war.
Some 13 young dancers, mostly 17 and 18 years of age, accompanied by singers, musicians, dance teachers, chaperones and instructors will visit and perform in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sevenhill in the Clare Valley and Melbourne in March and April 2008 at schools, parish halls and in public arenas.
Dates and venues:
Sydney - 27 March at St Ignatius Riverview
Sydney - 28 March at St Aloysius Milson's Point
Brisbane - 1 April at Stuartholme Girls College
Brisbane - 2 April at St Rita's College
Adelaide - 4 April at St Mary's College
Sevenhill, SA - 5 April at St Michael's Church Hall
Melbourne - 8 April at St Ignatius Parish Hall, Richmond
Melbourne - 9 April at Xavier College
Tickets to these performances may be purchased from the Jesuit Mission Office in Sydney. Contact Tas Rafeeq on (02) 9955 8585, or email tas.rafeeq @ jesuitmission.org.au
Reflections through the looking glass by Rachel Sag
Reflections through the looking glass by Rachel Sag
based on the books by Lewis Carroll and including many of the original illustrations.
Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope
Singers:
Rachel Sag
Angela Randall
Saam Thorne
Anna Pope
Rosemary Byron-Scott
Tim Muecke
Bernard Mageean
Matt Winefield
Clive Conway
Kenneth Pope
Recorded by Ray Thomas
St Aloysius; Church Sevenhill, South Australia, 2008
Text:
Alice, look. Alice. Look. Alice, Look!
Alice! Look! ALICE!
Look into the mirror. What do I see?
Walk into the mirror. Oh how can this be?
Is this real, or is this a dream?
Things are not always quite what they seem.
It's all very strange, though I've talked of chess
I've not encountered
talking chess-men I confess.
There on the table lies a strange foreign book
It talks about the ykcowrebbaJ? But if you look
Hold the pages to the looking glass and all shall be revealed: The poem called the Jabberwocky therein lies concealed.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'......
Snicker snack, snicker-snack!
He went galumphing back
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back (so it seems).
Here in the garden with all that is green
Such lovely flowers I've never seen
Oh pretty Tiger-Lily, I do wish you'd replied
Of course we flowers talk but here the Queen comes, we must hide.
To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said
I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head.
Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, come dine with the Red Queen,
the White Queen and Me!
Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,
And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran:
Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea--
And welcome Queen Alice
with thirty-times-three!
I looked into the mirror.
To see what I could see?
Since I walked into the mirror.
Strange things are happening to me.
Am I real, or just someone's dream?
How did I so suddenly get crowned as the queen? Is this real, or is this a dream?
Things are not always quite what they seem.
I dine with the Red Queen, she is so perplexing
She only speaks in riddles
And I find her very vexing
O Looking-Glass creatures, quoth Alice, draw near! 'Tis an honour to see me, a favour to hear:
'Tis a privilege high to have dinner and tea
Along with the Red Queen,
the White Queen, and Me!
Then fill up the glasses with treacle and ink,
Or anything else that is pleasant to drink:
Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine--
And welcome Queen Alice
with ninety-times-nine!
Wake up, Alice. Wake up. Alice. Wake up, Alice! Wake up! Alice! WAKE UP!
I look into the mirror. My image looks at me.
I walked into the mirror. Oh how could this be?
Is this real, or is this a dream?
Things are not always quite what they seem.
It's not real; Its only a dream?
Things are not always quite what they seem.
(so it seemed).
Lewis Carroll & Rachel Sag
Crucifixus by Lotti
Crucifixus by Lotti (8-part setting). Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope. Recorded by Terry Truman at St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, South Australia, 2007. Rachel Sag, Carolyn Wilkins, Anna Pope, Saam Thorne, Lydia Sharrad, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Tim Muecke, Bernard Mageean, Matt Winefield, Kenneth Pope & James Scott. Images from Sevenhill & Ravenna. Recording available on the 2009 CD 'Lay a garland'. lumina.org.au
Medieval music - Imperayritz de la ciutat ioyosa (Montserrat Codex)
Imperayritz de la cuitat ioyosa, a piece dedicated to the Virgin Mary from the 14th-century Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (aka Montserrat Codex), a manuscript containing anonymous pilgrim's songs from the famous monastery on the Montserrat mountain near Barcelona in Spain. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, musical director Anna Pope. Recorded in 2007 by Terry Truman in St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, South Australia. Sung by Anna Pope & James Scott. Images from Montserrat and St Aloysius' Church Sevenhill in South Australia. Photos by Kenneth Pope, Eleanor Pope and Michael Denholm. This is one of a series of pieces which Lumina have recorded from the Montserrat Codex, and is included in their CD 'Mediaeval Magic'. lumina.org.au
'Parce mihi, Domine' by Morales
'Parce mihi, Domine' by the early 16th-century Spanish composer Cristobal de Morales. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, director Anna Pope. Recorded by Kenneth Pope in St Aloysius; Church Sevenhill, South Australia, 2009. SIngers: Rachel Sag, Raphaela Mazzone, Sarah Bleby, Saam Thorne, Kate Tretheway, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Anna Pope, Tim Muecke, Bernard Mageean, Clive Conway, Evan Sanders & Kenneth Pope. Images from NASA, Kangaroo Island, Florence and the Sevenhill Church in South Australia. Photos by Eleanor Pope, Claire Booth, Martin McClelland & Michael Denholm. lumina.org.au
Text:
Parce mihi, Domine, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum?
Aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
Visitas eum diluculo et subito probas illum.
Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me, ut glutiam salivam meam?
Peccavi, quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum?
Quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimetispsi gravis?
Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam?
Ecce, nunc in pulvere dormiam, et si mane me quaesieris, non subsistam.
English translation:
Spare me, Lord, for my days are as nothing.
What is Man, that you should make so much of us?
Or why should you set your heart upon us?
You visit us at dawn, and put us to the test at any moment.
Will you not spare me and let me be, while I swallow my saliva?
If I have sinned, how have I hurt you,
O guardian of mankind?
Why have you set me up as your target,
so that I am now a burden to myself?
Why do you not forgive my sin
and why do you not take away my guilt?
Behold, I shall now lie down in the dust:
if you come looking for me I shall have ceased to exist.
Every three seconds by Anna Pope
Every three seconds by Anna Pope.
Every Three Seconds was written in 2005-06, inspired by the film The Girl in the Café and the Make Poverty History campaign. It is a meditation on our humanity -- a journey both painful and hopeful. The score is challenging, with layers of meaning and some disjointed harmonies to evoke the pain and confusion of surviving and feeling powerless to help those in need. There are also references to John Donne's wonderful poem 'No man is an island' and reflections on the great potential of humanity and its failings. It is too easy to be apathetic, to be complicit in the casual holocaust of starving millions. This is an entreaty to remember what it is to be human and to care. This is no longer a person dying every three seconds, but its not far off. And the inhumanity to refugees, asylum seekers, and so many other dispossessed and 'inconvenient' groups of people is devastating.
Lumina Vocal Ensemble, musical director Anna Pope
Singers:
Rachel Sag
Angela Randall
Saam Thorne
Anna Pope
Rosemary Byron-Scott
Tim Muecke
Bernard Mageean
Matt Winefield
Clive Conway
Kenneth Pope
Recorded by Ray Thomas
St Aloysius; Church Sevenhill, South Australia, 2008
Images from NASA, Kangaroo Island (Claire Booth) and Robyn Ashworth.
Film by Anna Pope
lumina.org.au
Do you lie still?
Sometimes (we wait), sometimes when I lie still, I feel engulfed by a dark flood of tears
Sometimes, I think of just a fraction of all the pain and it is too much (Keep moving).
Sometimes, I hear the cries of all the lost, all the lonely (Hands to ears and move...)
And the bell it tolleth, distantly, beyond the island.
Do you lie still, sometimes? Or keep moving?
Do you lie hurt sometimes?
Do you hear everything sometimes?
Do you know the darkness of the pain sometimes? Or do you keep moving?
And when you look into the mirror -- who do you see there? A time before? A time to come?
Or passing time, and someone else's eyes... sometimes
When the world spins can you feel the waves? Or is it still?
Motionless, waiting, still -- or moving on relentlessly?
Passengers wait to leave - who can disembark intact? How many people miss the train?
How many end too early? How many clods eroded?
Every three seconds the girl said, the one in the café,
Every three seconds, one person dies -- hungry, needlessly
How many years will pass, how many days before something changes?
How many hours, minutes, seconds? Count them...
Some time - will we realise? Will we cease this casual holocaust -- Every three seconds?
Some time - will we hold our heads higher and hear the brightness of silence in every piece of every continent?
Some time?
Anna Pope (Dec 2006)
With acknowledgements to John Donne 'No man is an island' and the 2005 tele-movie The girl in the café
Planxit autem David (Part 1) by Josquin
Planxit autem David, Part 1 (Planxit autem David) by Josquin des Prez, in a version arranged for SSAA by Anna Pope.
Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, director Anna Pope.
Recorded by James Cowling in St Aloysius; Church Sevenhill, South Australia, April 2009.
Singers: Rachel Sag, Raphaela Mazzone, Sarah Bleby, Saam Thorne, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Anna Pope, Kate Tretheway & Tim Muecke.
Film by Anna Pope
lumina.org.au
Text: (from 2 Samuel 1:17-27 )
Planxit autem David planctum huiusce modi super Saul
et super Ionathan filium eius,
et praecepit ut docerent filios Iuda arcum sicut scriptum
est in libro Iustorum. considera Israel, pro his, qui
mortui sunt super excelsa tua vulnerati.
incliti Israel super montes tuos interfecti sunt quomodo
ceciderunt fortes,
nolite adnuntiare in Geth neque adnuntietis in conpetis
Ascalonis ne: forte laetentur filiae Philisthim ne exultent
filiae incircumcisorum.
English translation:
17. And David made this kind of lamentation over
Saul, and over Jonathan his son.
18. (Also he commanded that they should teach
the children of Juda the use of the bow, as it is
written in the book of the just.) And he said:
Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead,
wounded on thy high places.
19. The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy
mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
20. Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets
of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines
rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
triumph.
The Waiting Game, Anna Pope
The Waiting Game
by Anna Pope
performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, 2009
Music about the Australian drought, set the wrong side of Goyder's line. From Lumina's 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival performance 'Australian Soundscapes'. Recorded by James Cowling in St Aloysius' Church Sevenhill, South Australia. Photos from Adelaide Botanic Gardens and some Australian drought landscapes. Performed by Rachel Sag, Raphaela Mazzone, Sarah Bleby, Saam Thorne, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Anna Pope, Fiona O'Connor and Tim Muecke. Available on Lumina's 2009 CD 'Australian Soundscapes. lumina.org.au
Original text:
The waiting game by Anna Pope, 2008
The smear across my window
Is the rain which comes too late,
The crops which shouldn't be there,
Dry and withered as the face --
Existing through the summers,
Squinting through the haze,
As tired as disappointment
And hope, the waiting game.
Horizons, the smear,
and all who shouldn't be here,
Horizons the dust, the cracks and the faces,
The waiting, the waiting, the waiting.
Halleluyah by Rachel Sag
Halleluyah by Rachel Sag. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope. Recorded by Ray Thomas at St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, South Australia, 2008. Singers Rachel Sag, Angela Randall, Saam Thorne, Anna Pope, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Tim Muecke, Bernard Mageean, Matt Winefield, Kenneth Pope & Clive Conway. Photos by Robyn Ashworth, Rachel Sag and NASA. Photo of Lumina by Michael Denholm. lumina.org.au
Note from the composer (Rachel Sag):
There as so many settings of the popular musically themed psalm 150 that one could argue against writing yet another one. Most of the settings I am familiar with both in Hebrew, Latin and English are reasonably boppy, no doubt to represent communal musical offerings to God. I wanted my setting to be more representative of offering God glimpses of our inner music and harmonies to describe my belief that God resides within us as much as around us.
Psalm 150
Haleluyah! (Praise God)
Praise God in God's sanctuary; Praise God whose power the heavens proclaim.
Praise God for God's mighty acts Praise God for God's surpassing greatness.
Praise God with the shofar blast; Praise God with harp and lute.
Praise God with drum and dance; Praise God with strings and pipe.
Praise God with cymbals sounding; Praise God with cymbals resounding.
Let every soul praise God. Haleluyah! (Praise God)
Ave, Generosa by Anna Pope
Ave, Generosa by Anna Pope. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope. Recorded by Ray Thomas at St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, South Australia, 2008. Soloists Anna Pope, Saam Thorne, Rachel Sag & Kenneth Pope. Additional singers Angela Randall, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Tim Muecke, Bernard Mageean, Matt Winefield & Clive Conway. Photos from NASA, Eleanor Pope and Kenneth Pope. lumina.org.au
Translation
Hail, girl of a noble house, shimmering and unpolluted,
You, pupil in the eye of chastity,
You, essence of sanctity, who were pleasing to God.
For the heavenly potion was poured into you,
In that the heavenly Word received a raiment of flesh in you,
You, the lily that dazzles, Who God knew before all his other creatures.
Now let all Ecclesia glimmer with the dawn of joy
and let it resound in music for the sweetest virgin, Mary, mother of God. Amen.
Hildegard of Bingen
Medieval music - Alleluia - a neue work
Alleluia - a neue work (aka Alleluya: a neue werke), a late mediaeval Christmas piece by a 15th Century Anon composer. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, director Anna Pope. Recorded by Ray Thomas at St Aloysius Church Sevenhill, South Australia, 2008. Available on Lumina's CD 'England vs France'. lumina.org.au
When David Heard by Anon, C17
When David Heard by an anonymous composer (Anon 411) from the time of Weelkes and Tomkins.
Score from the British library in London (MS 33235) edited by John Spilker.
Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope.
Recorded by Kenneth Pope in St Aloysius; Church Sevenhill, South Australia, 2009.
Singers: Rachel Sag, Raphaela Mazzone, Sarah Bleby, Saam Thorne, Kate Tretheway, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Anna Pope, Tim Muecke, Bernard Mageean, Clive Conway, Evan Sanders & Kenneth Pope.
Images from NASA, Kangaroo Island, Florence and the Sevenhill Church in South Australia. Photos by Eleanor Pope, Claire Booth, Martin McClelland & Michael Denholm. lumina.org.au
When David heard that Absalom was slain,
He went up to his chamber and wept:
And thus he said,
O my son, Absalom
Would God I had died for thee,
O Absalom my son.
Medieval music - Ma fin est mon commencement by Machaut
Ma fin est mon commencement by Machaut. This piece is a rare example of a musical pallendrome. Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope. Recorded by Ray Thomas at St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, South Australia, 2008. Rachel Sag, Angela Randall, Anna Pope, Saam Thorne, Rosemary Byron-Scott & Tim Muecke. Available on the 2009 CD 'Lay a garland'. lumina.org.au