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XII Dom. post Pent. XX Dom. tempus Per Annum Octave of the Assumption - climaxes with the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary / Queenship of Mary * St. Michael’s Lent, a Franciscan custom of fasting from Assumption to Michaelmas, was the time when St. Francis received the stigmata. * Devotions to the Holy Angels * Devotion to the Holy Angels by Boudon MONDAY (8/17) - (4:14) * Octave Day of St. Lawrence * St. Hyacinth, patron of weightlifting TUESDAY (8/18) - (5:21) * Empress St. Helena, patroness of converts & difficult marriages * “At Palestrina, the birthday of St Agapitus, Martyr, who was arrested by command of the Emperor Aurelian at the age of fifteen, being fervent in love for Christ. He was first of all scourged for a long time with thongs of raw hide, and then, under Antiochus the prefect, suffered more severe punishments; finally, when by the Emperor’s command he was thrown to the lions, and yet not hurt, he was struck with the sword by the Emperor’s hirelings, and crowned with martyrdom.” (Roman Martyrology) WEDNESDAY (8/19) - (6:42) * “At Caen in France, St John Eudes, Confessor, Missionary Apostolic, Founder of the Congregation of Priests of Jesus and Mary and of the Order of Nuns of Our Lady of Charity, and the promoter of the liturgical cult of the Most Sacred Hearts of Christ and his Mother. Pope Pius XI added him to the number of the saints.” (Roman Martyrology) THURSDAY (8/20) - (8:14) * St. Bernard (Marian Hymn for Assumption Octave Jam Regína discúbuit) “glorious in his life, teaching and miracles, whom Pope Pius VIII declared and confirmed a Doctor of the Universal Church” (Roman Martyrology) * “The Lactation of Bernard” * “Birthday” of Pope St. Pius X - “In the district of Langres, the death of St Bernard, first Abbot of Clairvaux, At Rome, the death of St Pius X, Pope and Confessor, unconquerable defender of the integrity of the faith and the liberty of the Church, and distinguished by his zeal for the spread of the faith. His feast is kept on September 3.” (Roman Martyrology) * (Universal Feast, Greek and Latin) In Judaea, St Samuel, Prophet, whose holy bones (as blessed Jerome relates) the Emperor Arcadius translated to Constantinople and buried near Septimum.” (Roman Martyrology) * “At Cordova, Spain, the holy martyrs Leovigild and Christopher, monks, who were cast into prison for their belief in Christ during the Arab persecution, at once had their necks broken and were then burned and so obtained the crown of martyrdom.” (Roman Martyrology) FRIDAY 8/21 (12:54) * Pope St. Pius X (new) * St. Jane Frances de Chantal (widow), Co-founder of the Visitation Order * St. Thaddeus, Apostle (Byzantine) SATURDAY (8/22) - Octave Day of the Assumption - (13:42) * Immaculate Heart of Mary (history going back to St. John Eudes c. 1643, and indeed St. Luke’s Gospel) - instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1944 for the Octave Day of the Assumption * “The liturgical worship, through which due honor is given to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, and for which many holy men and women have prepared the way, the Apostolic See itself first approved in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Pope Pius VII instituted the feast of the Most Pure Heart of the Virgin Mary, to be piously and reverently celebrated by all the dioceses and religious families who had asked for it. Afterwards Pope Pius IX added an Office and a proper Mass to it. But an ardent desire and longing, which had arisen in the seventeenth century, grew day by day, that namely, the same Feast, given greater solemnity, might be spread to the entire Church. In 1942, Pope Pius XII, graciously acceding to this wish, and during the terrible war then ravaging almost the entire world, pitying the infinite hardships of men, and because of his devotion and confidence in our heavenly Mother, in solemn supplication earnestly entrusted the entire human race to her most generous Heart, and in honor of the same Immaculate Heart he ordered a Feast to be kept forever
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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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