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Miseremini · « **Reply #165 on:** August 22, 2025, 11:40:21 AM »

On the octave of the feast of the Assumption, the Church celebrates the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

This liturgical cult was associated with that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by St. John Eudes in the 17th century. Two centuries later, Popes Pius VII and Pius IX established a feast in the calendar of the universal Church with a proper Mass and Office.

On October 31 and December 8, 1942, Pope Pius XII consecrated the human race to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two years later, he established a new office for the Immaculate Heart for the octave day of the Assumption of the Mother of God, August 22.

The Spirit of the Liturgy

Ever since her entry into Heaven, the Heart of Mary continues to intercede for us. The love of her heart is directed first and foremost to God and her Son Jesus, but it also reaches out with motherly solicitude to the entire human race that Jesus entrusted to her during His agony on the Cross.

We therefore praise her for the sublime sanctity of her Immaculate Heart, begging her to obtain for us “the peace of nations, the liberty of the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtues” (decree May 4, 1944).

The following psalm can be attributed most fittingly to the Heart of Mary:

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My heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the Most High.

This canticle is the Magnificat, in which the Immaculate Virgin glorified the Lord and exulted with joy in God her Savior.

Miseremini · « **Reply #166 on:** September 03, 2025, 11:31:44 AM »

Of Thorough Papal Sanctity: St. Pius X

On May 29, Pope Pius XII canonized Pope Pius X in the presence of an innumerable crowd. This canonization seemed extraordinary to everyone, because it was necessary to go back to 1712—the year in which Clement XVI enrolled among the saints Pius V, the Pope of the Rosary, Lepanto and the Mass—to find the figure of a Supreme Pontiff exalted in that way.
Through the canonization of St. Pius X, who reigned as pope from 1903 to 1914, Pius XII intended to give the whole Church, as an example, the sanctity of a leader, a “thoroughly papal sanctity” capable of guiding the flock in difficult times.
In the brief of beatification (June 3, 1951), Pius XII lists the chief traits deserving the attention and the admiration of the crowds:

His concern about the sanctity of the clergy, the key to renewing all things in Christ, according to his sublime motto.
The renewal of ecclesiastical studies. Pius X exhorts Christian philosophers to defend the truth under the banner of St. Thomas Aquinas. He founds in Rome the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and encourages the theological sciences, inspired exegesis and carefully prepared preaching on the part of the clergy.
His preoccupation with the eternal salvation of souls. If Pius X desired a holy clergy, it was with a view to the instruction of the faithful, to whom he gave a catechism designed for both adults and children. To the latter he would forever remain the Pope of the Eucharist, promoting Communion at an early age, but also—and for everyone—frequent and even daily Communion.
The defense of the Faith in its fullness and purity. The false teachings that recycled a compendium of errors were unmasked, labeled as Modernism, and wisely repressed (Encyclical Pascendi, September 8, 1907). In these circuмstances, as well as in his battle against anticlerical laws and the secularist separation of Church and State, St. Pius X was, in the words of the Angelic Pastor, an “infallible teacher of the Faith”, the “fearless avenger of religion” and the “guardian of the Church’s liberty”.
His love of the liturgy. The initiator of an authentic liturgical movement, Pius X renewed sacred music, but also the breviary and the calendar of feast days, so as to orient the Church decisively “toward a liturgical life that is thoroughly imbued with traditional piety, sacramental grace and inspired beauty”.

These are chief traits of the sanctity of Pius X, the sanctity of a reign that was thoroughly imbued with the grandeurs and the supernatural riches that are the Church’s treasure.

Miseremini · « **Reply #167 on:** September 26, 2025, 02:44:02 PM »

Feast of the North American Martyrs

The eight North American martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs, the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, or the Martyrs of France, included six priests and two lay brothers. They were heroic members of the Society of Jesus who were martyred in North America in order to bring the Faith that is necessary for salvation to the Huron, the Iroquois and the Mohawk Indians. Five of the eight North American martyrs were put to death in what is now Canada, and three of them in New York State. There is a shrine to the United States' martyrs at Auriesville in New York, and there is a shrine to the Canadian martyrs at Fort Saint Mary near Midland, Ontario. (Source: Catholic News Agency)

“You must love these Hurons, ransomed by the blood of the Son of God, as brothers… Try to eat the food they offer you, and eat all you can, for you may not eat again for hours… Be prompt in embarking and disembarking and do not carry any water or sand into the canoe… Do not ask questions. Silence is golden. Bear with their imperfections, and you must try always to be and to appear cheerful…” (St. Jean de Brébeuf)

Read an article here on the life of St. Jean de Brébeuf

Miseremini · « **Reply #168 on:** September 29, 2025, 11:48:07 AM »

Feast of St. Michael the Archangel - Who is Like God?

Of those who are always with God as spirits, He sometimes makes use as Messengers. Those who announce tidings of lesser import are called Angels; those who bring more important messages are called Archangels.
Hence it is that unto the Virgin Mary was sent no common Angel, but the Archangel Gabriel. For the delivery of this, the highest message, it was fitting that there should be sent the highest Angel. Their individual names also are so given as to signify the kind of ministry wherein each is powerful.
Whenever any work requiring great power is to be done, Michael comes forth. Thus from his act and his name we are to understand that no one can do what God alone has the power to do. Hence the old enemy who through pride aspired to be like God saying, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of heaven, I will be like unto the Most High” (Is. 14: 13-14), at the consummation of the world when he shall be left as prey of his own conceit in everlasting punishment, is presented to us as about to engage in combat with Michael the Archangel, according to the words of St. John, “There was a battle with Michael the Archangel” (Apoc. 12:7). Similarly, Gabriel, whose name means Strength of God, is sent to Mary. He came to announce him who although he deigned to assume the appearance of humility, came that he might vanquish the ethereal spirits. Raphael’s name is interpreted to mean Medicine of God, because he touched the eyes of Tobias to heal them and dispelled the darkness of his blindness.
O most glorious Prince, St. Michael the Archangel, be mindful of us: here and everywhere pray to the Son of God for us, alleluia, alleluia.

Source: St. Gregory the Great, Sermon 34 on the Gospel, adapted and abridged, and the Magnificat antiphon.

Miseremini · « **Reply #169 on:** September 30, 2025, 11:20:25 AM »

Feast of St. Jerome

St. Jerome, born in Dalmatia, in 329, was sent to school at Rome. His boyhood was not free from fault. His thirst for knowledge was excessive, and his love of books a passion. He had studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities, and devoted himself to the pursuit of science. But Christ had need of his strong will and active intellect for the service of His Church. St. Jerome felt and obeyed the call, made a vow of celibacy, fled from Rome to the wild Syrian desert, and there for four years learnt in solitude, penance, and prayer a new lesson of divine wisdom. This was his novitiate. The Pope soon summoned him to Rome, and there put upon the now famous Hebrew scholar the task of revising the Latin Bible, which was to be his noblest work. Retiring thence to his beloved Bethlehem, the eloquent hermit poured forth from his solitary cell for thirty years a stream of luminous writings upon the Christian world.
Reflection.—"To know," says St. Basil, "how to submit thyself with thy whole soul, is to know how to imitate Christ."

Source: Butler's Lives of the Saints

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