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XIX Dom. Tempus per AnnumXI Dom. post. Pent. MONDAY 8/10 (0:20) * St. Lawrence (universal, Greek and Latin feast) “At Rome, on the Via Tiburtina, the birthday of blessed Laurence, Archdeacon, who fulfilled martyrdom in the persecution of Valerian, after many torments – imprisonment, various stripes, scorpions, rods and scourges and burning torches – being last of all roasted on a gridiron, his body was buried by blessed Hippolytus and Justin the Priest in the cemetery of Cyriac in the Campo Verano.” * The history of the spiritual life in Latin Christendom is the HEART of the Vatican II debate - On the new and old Collects for the feast (23:00) * See the video below for more on this most important tradition restored by Vatican II: * In Spain the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Ransom, Institutress of the Order for the Redemption of Captives under that title. Her festival is observed on September 24. TUESDAY 8/11 (4:35) * August 11 is the feast of Blessed Maurice Tornay: Swiss-French Augustinian canon regular, missionary to Yunnan and Tibet, and martyr of the Tibetan persecutions—murdered by Buddhist lamas on this day in 1949, aged 38. * St. Clare (new) WEDNESDAY 8/12 (5:02) * St. Clare (old) * Feast of Blessed Bonaventura Garcìa Paredes: Asturian Dominican friar, Professor of Political and Administrative Law, Provincial of the Philippines, Master of the Order, and martyr of the Spanish Civil War—murdered by the Reds on this day in 1936, aged 70. THURSDAY 8/13 (6:31) * Fatima Day because of the Latin-Russian & Miraculous Icons of Our Lady of Sorrows (“The Miraculous, Russian Icons of Our Lady of Sorrows, Part 1: the Seven Arrows Icon”) * St. Maximus the Confessor - great Byzantine saint and defender of the Papacy * “At Rome, blessed Hippolytus, Martyr, who for his glorious confession, under the Emperor Valerian, after other torments, was tied by the feet to the necks of wild horses and cruelly dragged through thistles and thorns, and, his whole body being torn, gave up the ghost. There suffered also on the same day blessed Concordia, his nurse, who passed to the Lord before him, being beaten with rods, and nineteen others of his house, who were beheaded outside the Tiburtine Gate, and buried together with him in the Campo Verano.” * “At Rome, the birthday of St John Berchmans, a scholastic of the Society of Jesus, Confessor, famous for his innocence of life and careful observance of religious discipline. To him Pope Leo XIII decreed the honours of the saints in heaven.” FRIDAY 8/14 (10:36) * St. Maximilian Kolbe - glorious New Martyr * Translation of the incorrupt Relics of Venerable Theodosius of the Cave (1091) SATURDAY 8/15 (14:22) * Dormition of the Theotokos (that she died is Sent. Communior according to Ludwig Ott) * At Cracow in Poland, St Hyacinth, Confessor, of the Order of Preachers, whom Pope Clement VII set in the number of the Saints. His feast, however, is kept on August 17. * At Rome, St Stanislaus Kostka, a Pole, Confessor, of the Society of Jesus. Made perfect in a short time by the angelic innocence of his life, early achievement counted for long apprenticeship. He was numbered among the saints by Pope Benedict XIII. * At Rome, on the Appian Way, St Tharsicius, an acolyte, whom the heathen found bearing the Sacrament of the Body of Christ, and asked what it was that he bore; but he deemed it unbecoming to cast pearls before swine, and was therefore attacked by them for a long time with sticks and stones, until he gave up the ghost. When his body was moved, the sacrilegious assailants could find nothing of Christ’s Sacrament in his hands or among his clothing; but the Christians gathered up the body of the martyr and buried it with honour in the cemetery of Callistus. * The first Martyrs of the Cristero War (Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century by Robert Royal, p. 31). SUNDAY 8/16 (21:09) * Beginning of St. Michael’s Lent * Translation of the Icon of Our Lord “Not-Made-by-Hands” * St. Joachim (old
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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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