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Offline Miseremini

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« Reply #105 on: August 23, 2024, 10:50:06 AM »
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    • From the noble family of the Benizi, Philip was called by the most Blessed Virgin, in an extraordinary vision, to enter the recently established Order of her Servants. First he withdrew to a cave on Monte Senario, where he led a life made hard by continual castigation of the body, but sweetened by meditation on the sufferings of Christ the Lord. Then he established sodalities of the Seven Sorrows of the Mother of God throughout almost all Europe and a great part of Asia. He was named General of his Order against his will and, burning eagerly with the ardor of divine love, he traveled about through many of the cities of Italy, settling the disputes which flared up among the citizens, calling back many men to the obedience of the Roman Pontiff and leading even the most abandoned men to repentance. Finally at Todi in the year 1285, embracing the image of Christ the Lord hanging on the Cross, which he used to call his "book," he died a most holy death. Pope Clement X added him to the number of Saints. - Third Reading of Matins

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    Re: Saint of the day
    « Reply #106 on: August 23, 2024, 03:05:00 PM »
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    Re: Saint of the day
    « Reply #107 on: August 24, 2024, 12:46:34 PM »
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    • From the Readings of Nocturn II of Matins

    The Apostle Bartholomew was a Galilean. In the division of the world among the Apostles it fell to his lot to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in hither India. He went thither and preached to those nations the coming of the Lord Jesus, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew. When he had turned many in that province to Jesus Christ, and had endured many toils and woes, he came into the Greater Armenia.

    There he brought to the Christian faith Polymius the King, and his wife, and likewise the inhabitants of twelve cities. This stirred up a great hatred against him among the priests of that nation. They so inflamed against the Apostle Astyages the brother of King Polymius, that he savagely ordered Bartholomew to be flayed alive and beheaded; under the which martyrdom he gave up his soul to God.

    His body was buried at the town of Albanopolis in the Greater Armenia, where he had suffered. It was afterwards taken to the Island of Lipari, and thence carried to Benevento. Lastly, the Emperor Otto III brought it to Rome, where it was laid in the Church dedicated to God in his name on the Island in the Tiber.

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    « Reply #108 on: August 26, 2024, 12:05:09 PM »
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    • St. Zephyrinus, a native of Rome, succeeded Victor I in the pontificate in the year 198. In 202 Septimus Severus, a military despot, raised the fifth and most bloody persecution against the Church, which continued for nine years until the death of the emperor in 211. Until this furious storm ended, the holy pastor remained concealed for the sake of his flock, supporting and comforting the distressed disciples of Christ. He suffered by charity and compassion what every confessor underwent. The triumphs of the martyrs were indeed his joy, but his heart received many deep wounds from the fall of apostates and heretics. Nor did this latter affliction cease when peace was restored to the Church. The holy Pope had the affliction of witnessing the fall of Tertullian. He saw to his joy, however, the conversion of Natalis, who had become a heretical bishop when he lapsed into the Theodotian heresy. God, wishing to bring him back to the Church, sent him a solid correction which opened his eyes, and he came to kneel at the feet of the Vicar of Christ, wearing a hair shirt and humbly asking pardon for his revolt.
    Eusebius tells us that this holy Pope exerted his zeal so strenuously against the blasphemies of the heretics, that they treated him with the utmost contempt. To his glory, however, they also called him the principal defender of Christ's divinity. Saint Zephyrinus governed the Church for nineteen years, dying in 217 as a martyr under Antoninus Caracalla. He was buried in his own cemetery on the 26th of August.
    God has always raised up holy pastors zealous to maintain inviolable the faith of His Church, and to watch over the purity of its morals and the sanctity of its discipline. We enjoy the greatest advantages of divine grace through their labors, and owe to God a tribute of perpetual thanksgiving and immortal praise for all the mercies He has accorded His Church.

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    « Reply #109 on: August 28, 2024, 11:18:50 AM »
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    • “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” -Confessions

    Augustine, born at Tagaste (Africa) in 354, was the son of St. Monica and of a pagan father, Patricius. His mind was ensnared by errors and his soul and body corrupted by debauchery and impurity. Converted by the prayers of his mother, he became on of the most famous Doctors of the West and a Father of the Church. He died after an episcopate of 36 years at Hippo (Africa) in 430.

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    « Reply #110 on: August 29, 2024, 11:22:21 AM »
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    • St. John reproached Herod with his unlawful union. The adulterous Herodias and her shameless daughter Salome forced Herod to behead the Precursor. The Gospel of the Mass today describes his martyrdom. 

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    « Reply #111 on: August 30, 2024, 10:38:10 AM »
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    • St. Rose was the first flower of holiness which bloomed in South America. She was born at Lima in Peru. Too feeble for the monastic life, she lived a life of severe mortification as a Tertiary of St. Dominic and died at the age of thirty years in 1617.  Patron saint of South America.

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    « Reply #112 on: August 31, 2024, 03:51:42 PM »
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    • With SS. Peter Nolasco and Raymond of Penafort, the Founders of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy, St. Raymond Nonnatus is the glory of his Congregation. He gave himself up to the Mohammedans in order to random a Christian. The Pope Gregory IX created him a cardinal: he died on his return in 1240.

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    « Reply #113 on: September 01, 2024, 09:38:12 PM »
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    • St. Giles, an Athenian, fled to the south of France, where he lived as a hermit in a vast forest. Discovered by king Theodoric, he founded a renowned monastery and was so famous on account of his miracles that a great number of churches were dedicated to him. He died in the 6th century.

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    « Reply #114 on: September 02, 2024, 11:24:10 AM »
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    • St. Stephen consecrated his kingdom, Hungary, to our Blessed Lady. This apostolic king won over his enemies and converted his people to Christianity. He died famous for his justice and his boundless charity in 1038.

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    Re: Saint of the day
    « Reply #115 on: September 03, 2024, 09:59:17 AM »
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    • Joseph Sarto was born at Riese in Venetia on June 2, 1835. He was successively curate, parish priest, bishop of Mantua, patriarch of Venice. He was elected Pope on August 4, 1903. As chief pastor of the Church he realized to the full the value of the liturgy as the prayer of the Church and spared no effort to propagate the practice of frequent and daily Communion. In his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, he exposed and condemned the modernist heresy with force and clarity (1907). He died on August 20, 1914, and was canonized on May 29, 1954.

    Prayer of St. Pius X to the Immaculate Virgin Mary
    O most Holy Virgin, who didst find favor in God’s sight and hast become His Mother; O Virgin, immaculate in body and soul, in thy faith and in thy love, look down with pity on the wretched who in our need seek thy powerful protection.
    The evil serpent on whom was cast the primal curse continues, alas, to attack and ensnare the poor children of Eve. But thou, our Blessed Mother, our Queen and our Advocate, thou who from the first instant of thy conception didst crush the head of this cruel enemy, receive our prayers. United to thee with one heart, we beseech thee to present them before the throne of God.
    May we never be caught in the snares around us, but rather may we all reach the harbor of salvation. Despite the awesome perils which threaten, may God’s Church and all Christian society sing out once again the hymn of deliverance, of victory and of peace. Amen.

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    Re: Saint of the day
    « Reply #116 on: September 03, 2024, 10:59:55 AM »
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    Re: Saint of the day
    « Reply #117 on: September 03, 2024, 11:59:37 AM »
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    • Quote from: nraheston on September 03, 2024, 10:59:55 AM
    Happy Saint Gregory the Great's Day:
    St Gregory the Great's feast day is March 12 on the traditional calendar.
    You obviously adhere to the Novus Ordo.

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    « Reply #118 on: September 03, 2024, 12:17:03 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miseremini on September 03, 2024, 11:59:37 AM
    St Gregory the Great's feast day is March 12 on the traditional calendar.
    You obviously adhere to the Novus Ordo.
    Copy, I've learned about it. Thanks for the correction :)
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    Re: Saint of the day
    « Reply #119 on: September 08, 2024, 10:02:30 AM »
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    •  The Nativity of Mary as the Subject of Our Joy
    CONSIDERATION.

    One of the brightest days in the his­tory of the world is the birthday of her who should change the face of the earth, who should change the curse into a blessing. She it was who was promised to our first parents when they repented of their sin, as the only hope of salvation for themselves and their posterity; she it was who should bring into the world the Savior so long desired. This great, this glorious day we now commemorate; today we celebrate the birth of the Virgin-Mother Mary. The Church invites us to cele­brate it with a great joy, a great solemnity. Her birth has been a cause of joy and blessing to the whole universe - to the angels in heaven, whose queen she was to be - to the holy souls, whose liberator she would become - to the whole race of Adam, whose restorer and mother she would prove. 
     
    APPLICATION.

    How can we best comply with the in­vitation of the Church to rejoice as Mary would have us to do? By saluting her as the Dawn of the Sun of Justice - as our Queen, our Deliverer, our Mother, wishing ever to be in the number of her most devoted subjects, her most loving children. By congratulating her on the extraordinary favors, both natural and supernatural, which God lavished upon her from the moment of her birth - favors far higher than any which the greatest saints will ever receive. By promising to do our utmost to spread devotion to her, and to imitate the purity and holiness of her life.

    Taken and adapted from Practical Meditations, available here>>

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