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XII Dom. post Pent. / XXI Dom. Tempus per Annum MONDAY (8/24) * (Latin) St. Bartholomew, Apostle (Greek - tomorrow) * Preached in India * Converted King of Armenia, then that King’s brother had him martyred “when he had converted many folk there to the faith, he was flayed alive by the barbarians, and by command of King Astyages fulfilled his martyrdom by beheading” (Roman Martyrology). * Relics miraculously washed up on Island of Lipari, later transferred to Rome * St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre & the False Spirit of Trent * Novus Ordo Collect “better” than the TLM - but the liturgy is deeper than texts * “Likewise, St George Limniota, a monk, who reproved the wicked Emperor Leo for breaking the holy images and burning the relics of the saints. At the latter’s command his hands were cut off and his head set on fire, and he passed as a martyr to the Lord” (Roman Martyrology). * “Maria Goretti of Romania”, Blessed Veronica Antal, Virgin: 22-year-old Csángó peasant girl, lay Franciscan, member of the Militia Immaculatae, and martyr of chastity—stabbed to death on this day in 1958, for refusing to submit to rape. * Blessed Miroslav Bulešić: Croatian Catholic priest, Pastor of Baderna and Kanfanar, Professor and Vice-Rector at the Seminary of Pazin, anti-communist dissident, and martyr—stabbed to death by communists on this day in 1947, aged 27. * Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, Virgin: French peasant, Vincentian nun, educator, and foundress of the Sisters of Charity—who died at Naples on this day in 1826. During the French Revolution, she was beaten and exiled for refusing to forsake her vows. TUESDAY (8/25) - (15:01) * Miraculous Finding of the Relics of St. Bartholomew (Greek) * King St. Louis IX * Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX * New Martyr Igor Aleksandrovich Akulov * Born in 1897 in Tver Province to a family of Orthodox peasants. In 1918 he was graduated from the regular high school. Since 1920 he was a postulant at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, and at the same time he studied at the Petrograd Theological Institute. He was tonsured as a monk with the name of Epiphany on 2nd July 1921. After that he met Blessed Leonid Feodorov he joined the Catholic Church. In summer of 1922 he was ordained as priest. Since August, 1922 he was vicar of the Byzantine rite parish of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Petrograd. He was arrested in 1923, and in 1924 he was sentenced to prison for 10 years. In 1927 he was freed before his sentence was up and sent to an exile. After the liberation he served in various churches in Leningrad. In 1935 he was arrested again for a short time. In 1937 he was arrested, condemned to be shot, and then shot on 25th August 1937. He was buried in the Levashov desolate area near the city of Leningrad. The faithful of St. Petersburg cherish the memory of the martyrdom of Fr. Epiphany and they are convinced of his sanctity. * “The endless grace of God didn’t forsake us at this point and sent to us a young hero monk Epiphanies. He found himself among us when the struggle for the Church was in full swing, but he wasn’t frightened and didn’t withdraw from it. Protestantism and rationalism had no influence on him. He was an excellent priest.” - Blessed Leonid Fiodorov (1922). WEDNESDAY (8/26) - (21:01) * Black Madonna of Częstochowa * Transverberation of St. Teresa (Carmelite) THURDSAY (8/27) - (23:21) * St. Monica (new) FRIDAY (8/28) - (24:23) * St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church (Greek: June 15) * St. Mark of Ephesus venerated St. Augustine more than the “Orthobros” * This is why Georges Florovsky said, for instance, that Augustine is “the greatest Father of the Church universal” (Brandon Gallaher and John Chryssavgis, eds. The Living Christ: the Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky (Bloomsbury: 2021), 198.) * St. Augustine is the Doctor of the Church for the 20th Century as well * “On the Significance of an Augustinian Pope” * (Greek & Latin) St. Mose
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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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