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The Bookstore / Re: RULE/MARTYROLOGY THREAD

Last post by OmniaInstaurareInChristo - Today at 08:21:04 PM

The reading appointed from the Rule of St. Benedict for May 4:

PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE (cont.)

And the Lord, seeking His own workman in the multitude of the people to whom He thus crieth out, saith again: "Who is the man that will have life, and desireth to see good days. And if thou, hearing Him, answer, "I am he," God saith to thee: "If thou wilt have true and everlasting life, keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips that they speak no guile. Turn from evil, and do good: seek peace and pursue it. And when you have done these things, My eyes will be upon you, and My ears will be open to your prayers; and before you call upon Me, I will say unto you, "Behold, I am here." What can be sweeter to us, dearest brethren, than this voice of the Lord inviting us? Behold in His loving-kindness the Lord sheweth unto us the way of life.


Martyrology-May 5th
Roman Martyrology-May 5th- on this date in various years-

Pope St. Pius V, confessor of the Order of Preachers, who went to sleep in the Lord on the 1st of May.

At Rome, the martyr St. Silvanus.

Also at Rome, St. Crescentia, martyr.

At Leocata in Sicily, St. Angelus, priest of the Order of Carmelites, who was murdered by the heretics because of his defence of the Catholic faith.

At Alexandria, St. Euthymius, deacon, who died in prison for the sake of Christ.

At Auxerre, the martyrdom of St. Jovinian, lector.

At Thessalonica, the birthday of the holy martyrs Irenæus, Peregrinus, and Irene, who were burned alive.

At Jerusalem, St. Maximus, bishop, whom Maximian Galerius Caesar condemned to the mines, after having plucked out one of his eyes and branded him on the foot with a hot iron. He was afterwards freed, and allowed to rule the church at Jerusalem, where he died in peace, renowned for the glory of his confession.

At Edessa in Syria, St. Eulogius, bishop and confessor.

At Arles in France, the bishop St. Hilary, noted for his learning and sanctity.

At Vienne in France, the bishop St. Nicetus, a man venerable for his piety.

At Bologna, St. Theodore, a bishop who was eminent for merits.

At Milan, the bishop St. Geruntius.

On the same day, St. Sacerdos, bishop of Saguntum.

And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.

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The Bookstore / Re: RULE/MARTYROLOGY THREAD

Last post by OmniaInstaurareInChristo - Today at 08:09:11 PM

The reading appointed from the Rule of St. Benedict for May 3:

PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE (cont.)

Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture stirreth us up, saying: It is time now for us to rise from sleep." And our eyes being open to the deifying light, let us hear with wondering ears what the Divine Voice admonisheth us, daily crying out: "To-day if ye shall hear His voice, harden not your hearts." And again, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches." And what saith He? "Come, my children, hearken to Me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Run while ye have the light of life, lest the darkness of death seize hold of you."


Martyrology-May 4th
Roman Martyrology-May 4th- on this date in various years-

At Ostia, the birthday of St. Monica, mother of blessed Augustine. He has left us in the ninth book of his Confessions a beautiful sketch of her life.

At the metal mines of Phennes in Palestine, the birthday of blessed Silvanus, bishop of Gaza, who was crowned with martyrdom with many of his clerics by the command of Caesar Galerius Maximian, in the persecution of Diocletian.

At Jerusalem, in the reign of Julian the Apostate, St. Cyriacus, bishop, who was murdered while visiting the holy places.

At Camerinum, St. Porphyry, priest and martyr. Because he converted many to the faith (among them Venantius), he was beheaded during the reign of Emperor Decius and the governor Antiochus.

Also in the mines of Phennes, thirty-nine holy martyrs, who were condemned to work there, to be branded with hot irons, to undergo other torments, and finally all to be beheaded at the same time.

At Lorch in Austria, under Emperor Diocletian and the governor Aquilinus, the martyr St. Florian, who was thrown into the River Enns, with a stone tied about his neck.

At Cologne, the martyr St. Paulinus.

At Tarsus, St. Pelagia, virgin, who endured martyrdom under Diocletian by being shut up inside an ox made of brass that had been heated to redness.

At Nicomedia, the birthday of St. Antonia, martyr, who was cruelly tortured, subjected to various torments, suspended by one arm for three days, kept two years in prison, and finally delivered to the flames for the confession of Christ by the governor Priscillian.

At Milan, St. Venerius, a bishop whose virtues are attested to by St. John Chrysostom in the epistle which he had written to him.

In the province of Perigord, St. Sacerdos, bishop of Limoges.

At Hildesheim in Saxony, St. Gothard, bishop and confessor, who was ranked among the saints by Innocent II.

At Auxerre, St. Curcodomus, deacon.

And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.

[Last year, my husband deserted me and my children and left us with nothing. I have managed to keep us going for 9 months but it is quite a struggle emotionally and financially.]

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General Catholic Discussion / Help for Mother of 3 - Abandon...

Last post by Kempis - Today at 07:42:23 PM

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General News and Discussion / Re: More Jewish Terror in the ...

Last post by josh987654321 - Today at 07:29:41 PM

So then the Jews are no more responsible for killing Christ than anyone else is.

Umm, yes and no. It depends.

13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, 14 Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head, and let all the people stone him.

So they still hold that Jesus Christ was a liar and therefore a blasphemer for saying He was God?

I don't know how the modern Jew reconciles the Mosaic law when it comes to the death penalty for things like Adultery and Blasphemy etc which they can't do in many modern states.

We Christians have -

7 When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

God Bless

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General News and Discussion / Re: More Jewish Terror in the ...

Last post by josh987654321 - Today at 07:13:41 PM

In any case, we should certainly pray for the Jews, especially that they would one day recognise and see the incredible fulfilment of all the promises made to them in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

It's a very difficult situation in the Middle East right now with both sides, I could never support either side of that whole conflict, what HAMAS did was absolutely reprehensible and Israel have the right to defend themselves, but the lapse in security for such an advanced modern state of Israel is incredibly suspicious and I cannot rule out ulterior motives either, also that not everyone there is HAMAS and yet things like cutting the water supply and putting the whole place under siege is very immoral.

Israel's beginnings are questionable, but they are there now and have been for a long time, thus they should not be taken off the map so to speak as some in that region would like, but at the same time, we should be wary of efforts by Israel at expansionism too.

Given the wests support of Israel in terms of military and technology, more should be required of them IMO, there are other ways to defend oneself that prevents the killing of innocent civilians and like the whole WMD's in Iraq, they should be finding out how October 7 was allowed to happen first, not after the fact when those responsible have already got what they wanted.

God Bless

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Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Engaging with the Eastern ...

Last post by Bonaventure - Today at 06:52:06 PM

Absolutely; but you have to realize that the current situation in the Church is something that has not happened in  its history; there is no "blueprint" for getting out of it, except waiting for a true Pope to occupy the See of Peter. Meanwhile the situation in Orthodoxy i.e. disunity, is the very essence of their rejection of a central supreme authority. There is a cure for our situation in the very constitution of the Church; their only solution is to convert to the Faith.

Indeed.

As Erick Ybarra tells people who feel tempted to go 'Dox, do it. Be a catechumen for a year.

You'll soon see it doesn't solve the "problem."

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General News and Discussion / Re: More Jewish Terror in the ...

Last post by Bernadette - Today at 06:32:57 PM

Sin crucified Jesus. All men are sinners. All jews are men. Basic philosophy. Bernadette's statement resonates with a modernist understanding of the JQ. Any Talmudic adherent at any time in history is a legacy of deicide. Yes, perfidious.

So then the Jews are no more responsible for killing Christ than anyone else is.

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General News and Discussion / Re: More Jewish Terror in the ...

Last post by Heinrich - Today at 06:11:39 PM

I don't see the problem with not blaming all Jews for the crucifixion of Christ.

Some jews are sinless?

Bernadette did not state that some Jews are sinless.
There are two situations or realities here, which the Church teaches.  One is that the Jewish hierarchy of the First Century was certainly responsible, as were those Jews who had the opportunity to make a choice for Our Lord instead of Barabbas. Undoubtedly, there were many Jews not in the upper levels of power who were also not invincibly ignorant and might have been culpable before God for rejecting His Son. How many -- or whether the entire Jewish population of the time -- are to be condemned is not our concern, because here's the other truth the Church teaches:

We are all responsible for the Crucifixion.  Our sins, collectively, resulted in His death, but God's power alone resulted in His resurrection.  He chose to redeem all of us, Jew and Gentile -- that is, to make that redemption operative for all who choose to renounce any other idol or false religion for Him alone.

The Jewish Diaspora resulted in a variety of outcomes, including children born to Jews, children born to ex-Jews, as it were, adopting a Catholic or other Christian religion of a different region than what was operative in the Mediterranean basin of the First Century.  We have no access to the Mind of God to know which Jews-by-ancestry after the birth of the Church converted and those who will convert in the future.  The idea that God has absolutely condemned every single Jew-by-birth who ever lived or will live is not something the Church teaches, even though it is also true that the Church condemns Judaism, as a religion, as antithetical to Christ's Church. The degree of personal blame of individuals is not something we have access to.

That said, I affirm the earlier Holy Week liturgical language regarding the perfidy of the Jews. That's a general statement.

Parenthetically, I have studied Judaism quite a bit, including its history.  Proselytizing believers of other religions is not part of any game plan, publicly or privately.  Contrast that with the [cough] Religion of "Peace." A significant portion of modern Islam embraces publicly the aim of forcibly converting Christians to Islam.  Jews are not a threat to Catholics -- and I am not talking about the Anti-Christ to come; Muslims, OTOH, are.

Sin crucified Jesus. All men are sinners. All jews are men. Basic philosophy. Bernadette's statement resonates with a modernist understanding of the JQ. Any Talmudic adherent at any time in history is a legacy of deicide. Yes, perfidious.

[Russian saints approved during the pontificate of Pius XII had to be in communion with Rome]

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Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Engaging with the Eastern ...

Last post by Wenceslav - Today at 05:47:41 PM

Michael Wilson is absolutely correct that only Catholics can be recognized as Saints. That schismatics like the heretic Palamas are recognized today (even by the Ukrainian Catholics) is a post Vatican-II novelty.

The following quote is from Professor Michael Petrowycz's (presently at Ukrainian Catholic University, L'viv Ukraine] dissertation "Bringing Back the Saints: The Contribution of the Roman Edition of the Ruthenian Liturgical Books (Recensio Ruthena, 1940-1952) to the Commemoration of Slavic Saints in the Ukrainian Catholic Church, p.363.

URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OKxWD8l4mTnnpPQtyBp-cOsULWh_DvKY/view?usp=drivesdk

...As mentioned above, even when the moral evaluation of a candidate was positive (even eminently so, as in the case of Metropolitan Phillip), the candidate was nonetheless disqualified when it was accepted beyond doubt that he or she had been out of communion with Rome. This means that the Commission accepted into the RR only saints that it believed to be, or presumed to be, in communion with Rome. The category of a "material schismatic, who did not provoke, but inherited the schism in good faith, and therefore, according to Jugie and St. Augustine, carried no responsibility for the schism, was not considered by the Commissions as a candidate for the RR and RV sanctorale.

RR = Recensio Ruthena (Ukrainian Catholic sanctorale)
RV = Recensio Vulgata (Russian Catholic sanctorale)

The above quote from Petrowycz's dissertation is quite clear. The Russian saints approved during the pontificate of Pius XII had to be in communion with Rome. Even hose who inherited the schism and were of good faith were not considered for sainthood in either the Russian or Ukrainian Catholic Churches.

[but only since Vatican II]

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Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Engaging with the Eastern ...

Last post by Michael Wilson - Today at 04:40:45 PM

Then he states (in support of the foregoing) that "we are allowed to venerate a number of post schism Orthodox saints": Yes, this is true, but only since Vatican II;

Wrong again.

Ven. Sheptytsky petitioned Rome in the early 20th century (I think 1905 but could be mistaken) to have all Orthodox saints included on their calendar. This was granted by the Vatican with some exceptions (St Mark of Ephesus being one of them).

This is impossible; as only Catholics can be canonized as saints.

On top of that, Pius XII approved the liturgical calendar for Russian Catholics (still trying to get my hands on one) that included numerous post-schism saints, including St Sergius of Radonezh (A personal favourite of mine).

See above.

It's no wonder the Orthodox have no interest in swimming the river when you have people who wax lyrical about the papacy but also think it's been vacant for 60 years, then start making stuff up about the praxis of those Easterns who've decided to stay loyal to Rome.

The Eastern schism has been going on for about 1000 years; their reluctance to cross the Tiber has nothing to do with yours truly posting on a small trad forum with only a few readers. 

It's also hardly surprising as to why so many Eastern Catholics feel abused and abandoned by Romans and would love to return home, as it were.

How about the numberless Easterners that preferred martyrdom, to embracing Orthodoxy? Were they crazy? Or did they know their faith better than many modern Catholics?

Latins should get their own shitty house in order first and foremost.

Absolutely; but you have to realize that the current situation in the Church is something that has not happened in  its history; there is no "blueprint" for getting out of it, except waiting for a true Pope to occupy the See of Peter. Meanwhile the situation in Orthodoxy i.e. disunity, is the very essence of their rejection of a central supreme authority. There is a cure for our situation in the very constitution of the Church; their only solution is to convert to the Faith.