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Art in thumbnail: Hans Memling - The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin
High Calling program for vocational discernment at the Avila Institute
Contemplating the Seven Sorrows of Mary A Chaplet with St. Alphonsus Liguori


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XVI Week post Pentecost
XXIV Week Tempus per Annum (“Ordinary Time”)
MONDAY 9.14 the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (1:50)
· Pre-55 feast of the Finding is May 3 (the date Mehmet II was struck dead after he was proceeding to invade Italy in 1481)
· An instance of truly “breathing with both lungs” vs. Latinisations/Hellenisations (Condemned implicitly by Vatican II)
· The tragic saga of Heraclius (City of God vs. City of Man, 158-161)
· Read the story in Matins (use https://www.divinumofficium.com/ —> select desktop or mobile —> select “matutinum” —> scroll down to “Reading 4” and then read “Reading 5” and “Reading 6”)
TUESDAY 9/15 – Our Lady of Sorrows (14:57)
· The Mystery of Her Sorrowful Heart cuts us to the heart and brings us self-knowledge
WEDNESDAY 9/16 (16:22)
· St. Cornelius & Cyprian – beautiful reconciliation between Bishop of Rome and a “Recognize and Resist” Saint
THURSDAY 9/17 (17:31)
· The Stigmata of St. Francis
* Read the story in Matins (use https://www.divinumofficium.com/ —> select desktop or mobile —> select “Tridentine 1888” from the drop down—> select “matutinum” —> scroll down to “Reading 4” and then read “Reading 5” and “Reading 6”)
· St. Robert Bellarmine (new - Doctor)
· St. Hildegard of Bingen (new – Doctor)
FRIDAY 9/18 (19:30)
· St. Joseph of Cupertino – the Flying Franciscan – patron of aviators and those who fly
SATURDAY 9/19 (19:50)
· St. Januarius – the dried blood liquifies on this day publicly, and has done so since 1389 – or it might not (for example in 1939 when World War II was breaking out that very September)
· Our Lady of La Salette “Rome will lose the faith and become the Seat of the Antichrist” – fulfilled in the fall of 1870 when the forces of Antichrist took Rome
SUNDAY 9/20 (22:35)
· The New Korean Martyrs (1791-1888) canonised by Pope St. John Paul II in 1984
* Great reading in the new Liturgy of the Hours - last exhortation before Martyrdom


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* Feminism must be understood as an overreaction to sexual tyranny in the post-Tridentine period (1517-1773)
* The Protestant revolt was a sexual revolution (City of God vs. City of Man: the Battles of the Church from Antiquity to the Present, 217ff).
* The real reason the Protestant revolt sought to destroy the cult of Mary
* Toxic Masculinity is the psychologic…

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* Orthodox Jews call upon Mary as Queen of the Jews in their own rituals, but they do not know that yet
* The Patristic witness of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
* Mary vs. Anti-Mary
* The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue imbedded in the whole foundation of Christendom
* “Jews and the Christian Problem” by Vladimir Solovyov (see the SL Frank edition for this text)
* Modern Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
* Dr. John Bergsma’s use of the dialogue for the exegesis of Matthew 16
30+ HOURS of Content on the JEWISH QUESTION:

XV Week after Pentecost
XXIII Week Tempus per Annum (“Ordinary Time”)

9.7 - MONDAY
· “At Nicomedia, the birthday of blessed John, Martyr, who, being enkindled with zeal for the faith, on seeing the cruel edicts against Christians hanging in the Forum, tore them down with his own hands and scattered them in fragments. When this was related to the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, who were dwelling in that city, they commanded that all kinds of punishments should be inflicted on him; but this noble man endured them with such eagerness of face and mind that he seemed not even to be saddened by them” (Roman Martyrology).
· “At Alise-Sainte-Reine in the district of Autun, St Regina, Virgin and Martyr; under Olybrius the proconsul she endured torments by imprisonment, the rack, and burning torches, and at last, being condemned to death, she passed to the Bridegroom” (Roman Martyrology).
· Josyf Slipyi (17 February 1892 – 7 September 1984), Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church, Confessor under the Nazis and Soviets. Robert Royal, The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, 79-80.
9.8 TUESDAY – Birthday of the Theotokos (4:22)
9.9 - WEDNESDAY (5:31)
· “At Cartagena in South America, St Peter Claver, Priest of the Society of Jesus and Confessor (‘birthday’ September 8). He devoted himself for more than forty years to a life of wonderful self-denial and love for the Negroes who had been enslaved, and with his own hands he baptized almost 300,000 of them. Pope Leo XIII added him to the list of the saints, and then declared him to be the special patron in heaven of the Missions to the Negro races” (Roman Martyrology).
· (Byzantine) – Synaxis of Ss. Joachim & Anna
9.10 - THURSDAY (7:22)
· St. Nicholas of Tolentino, patron of mariners
· “At Constantinople, St Pulcheria, Virgin, Empress, famous for religion and piety” (Roman Martyrology).
· 205 Martyrs of Japan (September 10, 1622 – the Great Genna Martyrdom)
* One of several large groups of Japanese martyrs martyred by crucifixion, burning at the stake, beheading, and other tortures.
* 55 Christians executed on this day
* Part of a greater number of 205 beatified by Pius IX in 1867.
* After this the Church of Japan went underground and preserved the faith without priests for more than 200 years from 1638-1873.
9.11 - FRIDAY (13:08)
· “At Alexandria, St Theodora, who through want of caution fell into sin but, repenting of her deed, persevered in the religious habit, unknown, practising wondrous abstinence and patience, until her death” (Roman Martyrology).
· Siege of Vienna (victory the next day)
9.12 - SATURDAY (13:08)
· “The Feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which Pope Innocent XI commanded should be celebrated by reason of the famous victory obtained over the Turks at Vienna in Austria by the help of the Blessed Virgin” (Roman Martyrology).
· (Byzantine) Saturday Before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
9.13 – SUNDAY - Grandparents’ Day (coincides with Birth of the Theotokos in USA, or the same in July according to Pope Francis’s 4th Sunday in July) (17:08)
· St. John Chrysostom (new) – “birthday” September 14



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