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Miseremini · « **Reply #155 on:** May 02, 2025, 02:06:09 PM »

Letter of St. Athanasius

St. Athanasius lived in the 4th century and was the bishop of Alexandria in Egypt for 46 years. Banned from his diocese at least five times, he spent a total of 17 years in exile. The famous convert to the Church, Cardinal John Henry Newman, described him as a "principal instrument after the Apostles by which the sacred truths of Christianity have been conveyed and secured to the world."
Often referred to as the Champion of Orthodoxy, St. Athanasius was undoubtedly one of the most courageous defenders of the Faith in the entire history of the Church. If anyone can be singled out as a saint for our times, surely it is St. Athanasius. The following letter of his could, almost word for word, have been written yesterday.

Letter of St. Athanasius to his flock
May God console you! ...What saddens you ...is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises─but you have the apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle--the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?

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Miseremini · « **Reply #156 on:** May 04, 2025, 09:23:32 PM »

The Good Shepherd

This Sunday goes under the name of Good Shepherd Sunday, because in the Mass, there is read the Gospel of St. John, wherein our Lord calls Himself by this name. How very appropriate is this passage of the Gospel to this present season, when our Divine Master began his work of establishing and consolidating the Church, by giving it the Pastor, or Shepherd, who was to govern it to the end of time!

In accordance with the eternal decree, the Man-God, on the fortieth day after his Resurrection, is to withdraw his visible presence from the world. He is not to be again seen upon the earth until the Last Day, when he will come again to judge the living and the dead. And yet, He could never abandon mankind, for which He offered himself on the Cross, and which He delivered from death and hell by rising triumphantly from the Grave. He will continue to be its Head after his Ascension into heaven: but what shall we have, on earth, to supply His place? We shall have his Church. It is to the Church that He will leave all his own authority to rule us; it is into the hands of the Church that he will entrust all the truths he has taught; it is the Church that He will make the dispenser of all those means of salvation which he has destined for the world.

Source: sspx.au/adapted from The Liturgical Year

Miseremini · « **Reply #157 on:** May 05, 2025, 03:31:57 PM »

Feast of Pope St. Pius V

The active life is concerned with men and things; the contemplative is in the realm of supreme truth and has to do with the very principle of life, Almighty God. Christianity’s chief business "officium principalissimumae” St. Thomas Aquinas says, is the union of these two lives; but the contemplative is better than the active. Vita contemplativa simpliciter melior est . . .et potior quam activa.
What else but this constant uniting of spiritual contemplation and active works, with preference given to the former, so marvelously maintained by Michael Ghislieri throughout his life as monk, Prior, Bishop, Cardinal and Pontiff, was the source of the radical and far-reaching spiritual and temporal reforms Pius V was able to bring about, in but six years of pontificate, for the Church and Christian civilization? Whether fighting heresy within, or enemies without, dealing with the disloyal Emperor and wayward sovereigns abroad on vice and lawlessness in his own States and Rome, he was all the while by his own self-denial, penances and piety drawing more and more people back to the faith and practice of true religion.
“In long vigils of silent, interior communion,” wrote Evelyn Waugh in his classic biography of St. Edmund Campion, “Pius contemplated only the abiding, abstract principles that lay behind the phantasmagoric changes of human affairs . . .This it was that enabled him to see things and situations with such complete clarity.”

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Miseremini · « **Reply #158 on:** July 19, 2025, 03:14:28 PM »

"Do not overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have: your daily actions, your duty of state; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing."

~St. Vincent de Paul

Miseremini · « **Reply #159 on:** July 22, 2025, 12:28:58 PM »

St. Mary Magdalen: The Penitent

Saint Mary Magdalene, Penitent, was born to a Syrian father, Theophile, and a Jєωιѕн mother, Eucharie, in the house at Bethany, later so honored by Our Savior's resort there to repose a little from the heat of the day's' toils. She was richly endowed with all the talents of nature, mental and physical. Yet, as often occurs, her beauty, talent, and family fortune, proved a source of temptation beyond her defenses, and she spiraled downwards: so far down that Our Lord subsequently exorcised her of seven devils, desiring that she “be converted and live” (Ez. 18:23). This event is described in St. John's Gospel, when Our Lord takes his meal with Simon the Pharisee. As St. Paul tells the Romans, “As hitherto you have used your bodies to serve sin, so now use them unto sanctification” (Romans 6:19). Mary Magdalene used her lips, her hair, and her perfumes to obtain the cure of her soul. And she is the only person in the whole of the bible to ask for such a cure, according to many patriarchal writers.
Having left her sins behind her, Mary Magdalene became Our Lord's most devoted follower. The family were already known to Our Lord and He would spend increasingly more time under their roof. As the Passion drew closer, Our Lord would raise Lazarus from his grave, a further proof of His great love for this family. What he had done for Mary's soul, buried in sin, he would do for her brother's body too.
Struck at heart by what she saw: Jesus dead to this world, and Lazarus' and her resurrection from death, she came to find Our Lord at the house of another Simon, just cured of leprosy, and there anticipated the embalming of Jesus that she would attempt to complete after His death just a week later. “As the king was at his repose, the spikenard sent forth its sweet perfume” (Cant 1:11).
Simon the Pharisee and Judas respectively, on these separate occasions, would deny her the reward promised by Our Lord for every little charitable act. And on the first Sunday, on her way to the tomb to embalm the Body of Jesus, the Resurrection would obviate this charity too. But Our Lord Himself paid His dues by granting her His first recorded apparition in glory.

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