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...Christ's Passion. A change occurs on Laetare ("Rejoice") or Rose Sunday, when the Church bids her faithful for a day to look beyond the sorrows of Lent to the rejoicings of the coming Easter and when rose vestments and draperies are substituted for purple. To Pope Pius XI in Vatican City, Laetare Sunday last week was especially a day for rejoicing. With use of his varicose-veined legs partially restored, the Holy Father performed the ancient Laetare ceremony of Blessing the Golden Rose...
...mark of favor, Popes once bestowed finely-wrought golden roses upon churches, cities, monarchs. Since the 17th Century only Catholic queens, princesses and eminent noblemen have been given such honors. Pius XI has blessed a Golden Rose every year since 1922, but so scarce were Catholic Majesties that he bestowed only two: upon Spain's Queen Victoria in 1923, upon Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians...
...first time as Empress of Ethiopia, announced that Elena would receive this year's Golden Rose. Last Sunday a sheaf of gold blooms in a silver vase was brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...
...Town Hall to sing publicly the music they have been singing all year in church. When this happens, Town Hall is invariably packed to the doors. Students, critics, laymen and churchmen well know that no other organization in the U. S. can sing plain song so perfectly as the Pius X School Choir. Last week Manhattanites were marveling again that any choir could get such feeling out of archaic melodies and Latin texts...
...Wiener Sängerknaben are one of the oldest Christian choirs still singing, the choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music is one of the newest. The school was founded by a stylish little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan...