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XV Week after Pentecost XXIII Week Tempus per Annum (“Ordinary Time”)
9.7 - MONDAY · “At Nicomedia, the birthday of blessed John, Martyr, who, being enkindled with zeal for the faith, on seeing the cruel edicts against Christians hanging in the Forum, tore them down with his own hands and scattered them in fragments. When this was related to the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, who were dwelling in that city, they commanded that all kinds of punishments should be inflicted on him; but this noble man endured them with such eagerness of face and mind that he seemed not even to be saddened by them” (Roman Martyrology). · “At Alise-Sainte-Reine in the district of Autun, St Regina, Virgin and Martyr; under Olybrius the proconsul she endured torments by imprisonment, the rack, and burning torches, and at last, being condemned to death, she passed to the Bridegroom” (Roman Martyrology). · Josyf Slipyi (17 February 1892 – 7 September 1984), Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church, Confessor under the Nazis and Soviets. Robert Royal, The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, 79-80. 9.8 TUESDAY – Birthday of the Theotokos (4:22) 9.9 - WEDNESDAY (5:31) · “At Cartagena in South America, St Peter Claver, Priest of the Society of Jesus and Confessor (‘birthday’ September 8). He devoted himself for more than forty years to a life of wonderful self-denial and love for the Negroes who had been enslaved, and with his own hands he baptized almost 300,000 of them. Pope Leo XIII added him to the list of the saints, and then declared him to be the special patron in heaven of the Missions to the Negro races” (Roman Martyrology). · (Byzantine) – Synaxis of Ss. Joachim & Anna 9.10 - THURSDAY (7:22) · St. Nicholas of Tolentino, patron of mariners · “At Constantinople, St Pulcheria, Virgin, Empress, famous for religion and piety” (Roman Martyrology). · 205 Martyrs of Japan (September 10, 1622 – the Great Genna Martyrdom) * One of several large groups of Japanese martyrs martyred by crucifixion, burning at the stake, beheading, and other tortures. * 55 Christians executed on this day * Part of a greater number of 205 beatified by Pius IX in 1867. * After this the Church of Japan went underground and preserved the faith without priests for more than 200 years from 1638-1873. 9.11 - FRIDAY (13:08) · “At Alexandria, St Theodora, who through want of caution fell into sin but, repenting of her deed, persevered in the religious habit, unknown, practising wondrous abstinence and patience, until her death” (Roman Martyrology). · Siege of Vienna (victory the next day) 9.12 - SATURDAY (13:08) · “The Feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which Pope Innocent XI commanded should be celebrated by reason of the famous victory obtained over the Turks at Vienna in Austria by the help of the Blessed Virgin” (Roman Martyrology). · (Byzantine) Saturday Before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 9.13 – SUNDAY - Grandparents’ Day (coincides with Birth of the Theotokos in USA, or the same in July according to Pope Francis’s 4th Sunday in July) (17:08) · St. John Chrysostom (new) – “birthday” September 14
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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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