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XVI Week post Pentecost XXIV Week Tempus per Annum (“Ordinary Time”) MONDAY 9.14 the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (1:50) · Pre-55 feast of the Finding is May 3 (the date Mehmet II was struck dead after he was proceeding to invade Italy in 1481) · An instance of truly “breathing with both lungs” vs. Latinisations/Hellenisations (Condemned implicitly by Vatican II) · The tragic saga of Heraclius (City of God vs. City of Man, 158-161) · Read the story in Matins (use https://www.divinumofficium.com/ —> select desktop or mobile —> select “matutinum” —> scroll down to “Reading 4” and then read “Reading 5” and “Reading 6”) TUESDAY 9/15 – Our Lady of Sorrows (14:57) · The Mystery of Her Sorrowful Heart cuts us to the heart and brings us self-knowledge WEDNESDAY 9/16 (16:22) · St. Cornelius & Cyprian – beautiful reconciliation between Bishop of Rome and a “Recognize and Resist” Saint THURSDAY 9/17 (17:31) · The Stigmata of St. Francis * Read the story in Matins (use https://www.divinumofficium.com/ —> select desktop or mobile —> select “Tridentine 1888” from the drop down—> select “matutinum” —> scroll down to “Reading 4” and then read “Reading 5” and “Reading 6”) · St. Robert Bellarmine (new - Doctor) · St. Hildegard of Bingen (new – Doctor) FRIDAY 9/18 (19:30) · St. Joseph of Cupertino – the Flying Franciscan – patron of aviators and those who fly SATURDAY 9/19 (19:50) · St. Januarius – the dried blood liquifies on this day publicly, and has done so since 1389 – or it might not (for example in 1939 when World War II was breaking out that very September) · Our Lady of La Salette “Rome will lose the faith and become the Seat of the Antichrist” – fulfilled in the fall of 1870 when the forces of Antichrist took Rome SUNDAY 9/20 (22:35) · The New Korean Martyrs (1791-1888) canonised by Pope St. John Paul II in 1984 * Great reading in the new Liturgy of the Hours - last exhortation before Martyrdom
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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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