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Above: Holy New Martyr Blessed Nykyta Budka XVIII week after Pentecost XXVI Week Tempus Per Annum (aka “Ordinary Time”) MONDAY September 28 · St. Wenceslaus – Martyr, Duke & Patron of Bohemia · St. Lawrence Ruiz, Martyr – Filipino husband & father with Companions, martyred in Japan (1633-1637) · St. Chariton the Confessor · Bl. Nykyta Budka (1877 – October 1, 1949 in Karaganda, USSR) was an Austro-Hungarian-born priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada, Poland, and the Soviet Union. In Canada, he is noted as the first bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, and was the first Eastern Catholic bishop with full jurisdiction ever appointed in the New World. Budka returned to Europe in 1927 and eventually came under the authority of the Soviet Union. He resisted their encroachments against the Ukrainian Church, however, and was worked to death at a gulag in 1949. His cause for canonization was opened after his death and he was beatified as a martyr in 2001 by Pope John Paul II, with feast day fixed for today. TUESDAY September 29 (2:50) · Michaelmas (St. Michael & all Angels) * Originally Holy Day of Obligation * Eat Poultry * Beat a Satan Pinata · Sr. Maria Shved, shot by Soviets in Ukraine in 1982 (Robert Royal, Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, 83-84) WEDNESDAY September 30 (8:27) · St. Gregory the Illuminator, Equal to the Apostles (257-331) (Greek) * Converted Armenia to the Faith, first Christian Nation · St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church (Latin) * Dialogued with Jews to learn Hebrew THURSDAY October 1 (9:32) · Protection of the Theotokos * Great Slavic feast of the Theotokos – reason for Miracle of the Sun on October 13 * When the Theotokos saved the Greeks from Pagan Russians – and the Slavic Christians only celebrate this to this day · St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Doctor of the Church * Birthday into eternal life was St. Jerome’s feast day * October 3 in TLM, October 1 in 1969 Missal FRIDAY October 2nd (11:45) · The Holy Guardian Angels SATURDAY October 3rd (12:43) · St. Dionysius the Areopagite (Greek) - “Christian Plato” * Latin feast: October 9 · Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve (16 February 1916 – 2 October 1989) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who was a professed member of the Xaverian Missionaries of Yarumal and served as the Bishop of Arauca from 1984 until his assassination. Jaramillo was a staunch opponent of the E.L.N. and spoke out against their atrocities in the midst of conflict and a drug war. But this led to him being marked for death and he was killed not long after being kidnapped and tortured. Beatified by Pope Francis in 2017, and given feast day October 3. SUNDAY October 4th (14:02) · “At Assisi in Umbria, the birthday of St Francis, Deacon and Confessor; he was the Founder of three Orders, namely the Friars Minor, the Poor CIares and the Brothers and Sisters of Penance. St Bonaventure wrote his Life, rich in sanctity and miracles” (Roman Martyrology). · Papal Encylicals on St. Francis * Leo XIII — Auspicato Concessum * Pius XI — Rite Expiatis * “It seems necessary for Us to affirm that there has never been anyone in whom the image of Jesus Christ and the evangelical manner of life shone forth more lifelike and strikingly than in St. Francis.” · The Franciscan School of Thought as a Scholastic method
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Above: Titian, The Archangel Raphael and Tobias (c. 1512−1514) XXI Week after Pentecost XXIX Week Tempus per annum (aka “Ordinary Time”) MONDAY October 19 · Holy Prophet St. Joel (East Roman) · North American Martyrs (USA and General new Roman rite calendar) · St. Peter of Alcantara, one of the spiritual directors of St. Teresa of Avila
Painting above: Santa Teresa de Jesús (1868) by Benet Mercadé. * The new Complete Works edition of St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein) from CUA Press. The first volume published is a new translation of St. Teresa Benedicta’s metaphysical magnum opus: * Edith Stein, Finite and Eternal Being An Attempt to Ascend to the Meaning of Being, new translation by Walter Redmond * Edith Stein encountered St. Teresa of Jesus and was immediately converted.[1] * St. Teresa of Jesus, “Doctor of the Council of Trent”[2] * Against the false spirit of Trent, which is an excessive militarism against Protestantism * The true spirit of the Church Militant and of Trent is St. Teresa of Jesus * This is the same spirit which animated Pope St. John XXIII (who was inspired by Tridentine saints) and thus the true spirit of Vatican II, following the Tridentine saints like St. Francis de Sales, St. Philip Neri, St. Peter Canisius * Vatican II: St. Teresa of Jesus was proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1970 * Lumen Gentium sided with the Dominicans on the dubium regarding the interior life for the laity[3] * Every saint practiced the “Three Ages of the Interior Life” * But the Carmelites systematised this and explained it more than any other tradition within the Church * The new Roman rite Collect for St. Teresa is more strict than the old Roman rite (aka the Latin Mass) * St. Edith Stein says that St. Teresa of Jesus “says what is unsayable” about the interior life, creating a “coherent work of art.”[4] * Not even St. Thomas Aquinas could speak about his own mystical life as St. Teresa did * “Is there any tradition more important than the Latin Mass? Yes. And it’s the ‘One Thing Necessary’” * The Avila Institute & Apostoli Viae has changed my life * This institute and confraternity pass down the Christian mystical tradition under the patronage of St. Teresa of Jesus [1] Teresia Renata Posselt, Edith Stein: the Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 2005), 63. [2] Edith Stein, The Hidden Life: Essays, Meditations and Spiritual Texts (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 2014), 13-15. [3] Taylor Patrick O’Neill, “Vatican II and the Lasting Influence of Garrigou-Lagrange’s Mystical Theology,” Church Life Journal (January 31, 2022). [4] Edith Stein, Finite and Eternal Being: an Attempt to Ascend to the Meaning of Being, trans. Walter Redmond (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2023), 471.
XXVIII Week Tempus per Annum (aka “Ordinary Time”) XX Week after Pentecost Romanitas - a new framework for Meaning of Catholic * Romanitas is a note of the Church * The east Roman rite * Against the term “Byzantine” * The old Roman rite is the tradition of Romanitas of the city of Rome * Due to the false spirit of Trent, the entire Latin tradition was suppressed de facto and replaced by the old Roman rite = against Romanitas * The new Roman rite has been judged Roman by six Roman Pontiffs to be the Roman rite celebrated by the city of Rome but this should not mean that the old Roman rite should be suppressed but rather cherished, preserved, promoted and spread more and more among Latin bishops. * The new Roman rite restores Romanitas in relation to the local rites and customs if it is grounded in Tradition, especially the old Roman rite, as envisioned by Pope St. Paul VI. * The new Roman rite (in the context of Lumen Gentium and St. Teresa of Jesus) answers the most pressing dubium of modernity, which is the debate between the OPs and SJs about holiness. * The Collect for St. Teresa of Jesus - compare with the old Roman rite * Doctor of the Church in 1970
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