Wednesday 21 June 2017
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 21 June.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
Confessor.
Feast Day 21 June.
Double.
White Vestments.
The Vocation of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
Artist: Guercino (1591–1666).
Date: Circa 1650.
Source/Photographer: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/european
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Holy Ghost, "distributor of Heavenly Gifts" (Collect), made of Aloysius, a young Prince of the noble family of Gonzaga, an Angel on Earth, uniting in him all the marvels of innocence and mortification (Ibid.). Wherefore, The Church applies to him the Verse of the Psalm, where the humanity of Adam, before The Fall, and that of Christ, are declared hardly inferior to Angelic nature (Introit).
His birth to a Heavenly Life preceded in a certain manner his natural birth, for he was born at the Castle of Castiglione, in Italy, in such perilous circumstances, that they hastened his Baptism (Gradual). As an infant, all those who carried him in their arms thought they held an Angel.
At the age of nine, at Florence, Italy, he made a Vow of Virginity before the Altar of The Blessed Virgin, and practised during his whole life the strictest modesty in his looks. Amid the seductions of the Princely Courts, to which his father sent him, he kept his first innocence so faithfully that he seemed confirmed in Grace (Epistle).
Towards the age of eleven, he received for the first time The Bread of Angels from the hands of Saint Charles Borromeo (Communion). At sixteen, he entered at Rome The Company of Jesus, of which he is one of the glories. He so distinguished himself, by his mortification and love of God, that he is compared to The Elect in Heaven. "They live like Angels," says Jesus, because the Soul will exercise full command over the body, which will participate in its Spiritual nature.
At the age of twenty-two (1591), wearing his innocence like a nuptial robe, on which shone the pearls of his continual tears, he died a victim to his devotion to the plague-stricken and ascended The Holy Mountain to take part in The Heavenly Banquet to which God invites The Pure of Heart (Secret, Offertory, Gradual).
Let us have recourse to the merits and intercession of Saint Aloysius.
Pope Benedict XIII (reigned 1724-1730) gave him as a pattern to young people, in order that, not always having imitated him in his innocence, they may at least imitate him by doing Penance (Collect).
Mass: Minuisti eum.
Priestly Ordinations In Saint Mary's Church, Warrington. Deo Gratias.
Text and Illustration: JOSEPH SHAW (FLICKR)
Holy Orders were conferred, and Mass Celebrated, by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP, in Saint Mary's Church, Warrington. The Ordinands were Alex Stewart, FSSP, and Krzysztof Sanetra FSSP. Bishop Mark Davies, of Shrewsbury, was in Choro (in Choir).
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Saint Silverius. Pope And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 20 June.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Silverius.
Pope And Martyr.
Feast Day 20 June.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
Pope Silverius.
(Wikimedia Commons)
A son of Pope Hormisdas, who was married before receiving Holy Orders, Silverius was invested with full Sacerdotal powers on succeeding Pope Agapitus on The Pontifical Throne (Introit, Alleluia). Theodora, Empress of Constantinople, entreated him to restore to The Pontifical Throne, of that City, a heresiarch [Editor: The founder of a heresy or the leader of a heretical sect], who, "living a slave to his impious wishes and not having The Spirit of God" (Epistle), had been deposed by Pope Agapitus. When Pope Silverius refused Theodora's demands, she caused him to be exiled to the Island of Ponza, Italy.
As a Disciple of Christ, The Holy Pontiff, Silverius, followed Him bearing His Heavy Cross (Gospel), and, from there (Ponza), governed The Church, "taking for his food," as he is reported to have said, "the bread of affliction and the water of anguish".
A short time after, Silverius, worn out by privations and sufferings, fell asleep in The Lord in 538 A.D. His body, carried to Rome and buried in the Vatican Basilica, was made famous by numerous Miracles.
Guided by The Holy Ghost, let us beseech God to help our weakness (Collect), and to fill us with the courage shown by Blessed Silverius in the defence of Truth.
Mass: Státuit.
Dominican Rite Solemn High Mass. The Feast Of The Sacred Heart. Saint Dominic Church, Youngstown, Ohio. Friday, 23 June. 1900 hrs.
Text and Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT
By GREGORY DIPIPPO.
Saint Dominic’s Church, in Youngstown, Ohio, will have a Solemn High Mass in The Dominican Rite, followed by a Procession, on The Feast of The Sacred Heart, Friday, 23 June, starting at 7 p.m. The Church is located at 77 E. Lucius Avenue.
Monday 19 June 2017
Oh, Dear. One's Library Is Full !!! More Weeding Required.
Zephyrinus really must cancel some of his Book Clubs and Magazine Subscriptions.
Illustration: PINTEREST
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