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Miseremini · « **Reply #50 on:** May 05, 2024, 11:02:50 AM »

Feast of St. Pius V

O God, Who for the overthrow of the enemies of Thy Church and for the restoration of divine worship didst vouchsafe to choose blessed Pius as supreme Pontiff: grant that we may be defended by his patronage and so cleave to Thy service, that overcoming all the wiles of our enemies, we may rejoice in perpetual peace.
~Collect of the Mass of St. Pius V

Miseremini · « **Reply #51 on:** May 07, 2024, 12:04:52 PM »

St. Stanislaus, patron of Poland, reproached king Boleslaus the Cruel for his dissolute life, and while saying Mass, was put to death by him in 1079.

Miseremini · « **Reply #52 on:** May 08, 2024, 01:56:16 PM »

The Blessing of the Rogation Days

CONSIDERATION.

The chief end proposed by the Church in appointing the Rogation Days being the public welfare, she appoints means adapted to its attainment. In former times she imposed on all who were not legitimately dispensed a strict abstinence; she appoints solemn public prayers and processions, to which she invites all the faithful, and during which litanies are chanted. In these public prayers, all the different necessities, both of the state and private individuals, are enumerated.

APPLICATION.

If we cannot join in the public processions, let us at least say the litanies for ourselves in the churches, in the presence of the people. Let us say them with all possible devotion, trying to enter into the spirit of the Church, and uniting ourselves in spirit with those who are singing them so solemnly in procession.

Taken from Practical Meditations, available here>>

Miseremini · « **Reply #53 on:** May 09, 2024, 12:51:12 PM »

The Joyfulness of the Feast of the Ascension

CONSIDERATION.

It is said that the disciples returned to Jerusalem "with great joy" and yet they had just suffered the pain of a most bitter parting. Whence, then, came this joy? Because their Divine Master has returned to His kingdom as a Conqueror. On His entrance into heaven, He opened its gates, which the sin of our first parents had closed to all believers. By thus exalting His human nature, He ennobled ours, and made it capable of contemplating the divine nature, because He had promised to prepare a place for them also in heaven, and to intercede for them with His Father: "I go to prepare a place for you."

APPLICATION.

Let these be also the motives of our joy. Let us meditate devoutly on them, and engrave them deeply on our hearts, that nothing may ever efface them, and, as our Lord promised His disciples, "your joy no man shall take from you." In the midst of what ever tribulations, we will exclaim with the Apostle, "I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulations"; and again: "Knowing that as you are partakers of His sufferings, so shall you be also of His consolations."

Taken from Practical Meditations, available here>>

Miseremini · « **Reply #54 on:** May 14, 2024, 12:13:37 PM »

After a stormy youth, Boniface of Tarsus was converted to the Catholic faith, suffered numerous tortures, and was beheaded in 307.
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]Saint Boniface went from Rome, where Saint Paul was beheaded, to Tarsus in Cilicia, where Saint Paul was born. He went there to recover the relics of some precious Catholic martyrs. He was seized by pagans, condemned as a Catholic, and beheaded. His relics were brought back to Rome and are still kept on the Aventine Hill, together with the relics of a courageous Catholic woman whose name is Saint Aglae.
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