Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Read 1467 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** July 30, 2012, 10:18:34 PM »

Happy Feast Day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola!

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May Our Lord Jesus and His Blessed Mother, by the patronage of the great St. Ignatius, overwhelm everyone in the Catholic world with the plenitude of every heavenly grace and blessing, and may the Jesuit Order be restored as the glorious bulwark of the Catholic Faith.

From the tome Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944), here is a Litany in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola:[/b][/color][/size][/font]

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2012, 10:22:07 PM »

Here is a commentary upon the Mass for the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, taken from the late Cardinal Schuster's The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal (vol. IV, trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1929).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2012, 10:26:04 PM »

From the tome Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944), here is a Litany in honor of the Saints of the Society of Jesus:[/size][/font]

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2012, 02:48:32 AM »

San Ignacio, ruega por nosotros!

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2012, 02:49:14 AM »

Gracias, Hobbledehoy!

roscoe · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2012, 02:55:36 PM »

Some of the better Jesuit histories are written by

JC Aveling
Fulop-Miller
Barthel
Broderick( but beware his opinion of St Francis )
Harney

Sigismund · « **Reply #6 on:** July 31, 2012, 07:58:07 PM »

I remember once flipping through a book in a bookstore that contained all the saints observed in the Episcopal Church. I was astonished to see that St. Ignatius was one of them. Why would any religious group celebrate as a saint someone dedicated to their destruction? It would be like us celebrating the feast of St. Martin Luther.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2012, 08:49:31 PM »

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I remember once flipping through a book in a bookstore that contained all the saints observed in the Episcopal Church. I was astonished to see that St. Ignatius was one of them.

Maybe it was St. Ignatius of Antioch, but if it was the St. Ignatius whom Holy Mother Church honored today, there may be an explanation.

Despite the Anglican Schism, the early generations of British Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries still read the great spiritual works of the Saints. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius being one of them. This was because the Anglican polemicists focused too much on theological and political disputes (against the Church and amongst themselves) and the learned amongst them were too busy butchering up the Holy Scriptures and the Sarum Missal (which they degraded and deformed into the Book of Common Prayer), for them to develop some form of spirituality. Therefore, a great need for spiritually edifying literature existed amongst the early Anglican schismatics, and the "high church" Anglicans tended to read Catholic works.

An example is the 17th century Anglican Welsh poet and writer, Henry Vaughn, who read the Saints and praised their example, and even wrote a biography of St. Paulinus of Nola. During the time of Cromwell's tyranny, he especially became radicalized to the point of even writing like a Catholic, though he never embraced the faith.

It is a historical curiosity, which remains memorialized in some circles of "High Church" Anglicans and Episcopalians, though they themselves may not know the etiology thereof.

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Why would any religious group celebrate as a saint someone dedicated to their destruction? It would be like us celebrating the feast of St. Martin Luther.

Ask John Paul II, :D

Sigismund · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2012, 09:28:08 PM »

The Book is called "Holy Women, Holy Men", It contains the lessons and collect for each saints day, as well as a biography. It is interesting to see who they include. I was surprised that they included SS. Joachim and Anne, since they are never mentioned in the Bible. I was also surprised that they only Marian feast day they observe is August 15, which they call the feast of St. Mary the Virgin. I was surprised that September 8, the Nativity of Mary was absent.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2012, 09:43:10 PM »

Del tomo Misal completo latino-español para uso de los fieles, editado por los sacerdotes Jesuitas Valentín M. Sánchez Ruiz y Eduardo Espert (Madrid: Editorial Apostolado de la Prensa, S. A., 1958), he aquí la Misa para el día festivo de San Ignacio de Loyola:[/size][/font]