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| Chaplet of St. Philomena |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 03:31 PM - Forum: Prayers and Devotionals
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The CHAPLET OF ST. PHILOMENA consist of thirteen small red beads and three large white beads with a crucifix and a medal of St. Philomena attached. The small red beads are symbolic. Thirteen refers to the age of the girl and the red color connotes martyrdom. Three white beads symbolize purity. Three refers to the Blessed Trinity.
The Apostle's Creed is said on the crucifix to beg the gift of faith.
An Our Father is said on each three white beads.
On each of the red small beads, the following prayers are said: Hail, O holy Saint Philomena, whom I acknowledge, after Mary as my advocate with thy Divine Spouse, intercede for me now, and at the hour of my death. Saint Philomena, beloved daughter of Jesus and Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee, Amen.
On the medal say: Hail, O illustrious St. Philomena, thou who courageously shed thy blood for Jesus Christ! I bless the Lord for all the graces He has bestowed upon thee during thy life, and especially at thy death. I praise and glorify Him for the honor and power with which He has crowned thee, and I beg thee to obtain for me, from God the graces I ask through thine intercession. Amen.
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| August 11th - St. Philomena |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 03:11 PM - Forum: August
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St. Philomena
On 25 May, 1802, during the quest for the graves of Roman martyrs in the Catacomb of Priscilla, a tomb was discovered and opened; as it contained a glass vessel it was assumed to be the grave of a martyr. The view, then erroneously entertained in Rome, that the presence of such vessels (supposed to have contained the martyr's blood) in a grave was a symbol of martyrdom, has been rejected in practice since the investigations of De Rossi (cf. Leclercq in "Dict. d.archéol. chrét. et de liturg.", s.v. Ampoules de sang). The remains found in the above-mentioned tomb were shown to be those of a young maiden, and, as the name Filumena was discovered on the earthenware slabs closing the grave, it was assumed that they were those of a virgin martyr named Philumena. On 8 June, 1805, the relics were translated to the church of Mugnano, Diocese of Nola (near Naples), and enshrined under one of its altars. In 1827 Leo XII presented the church with the three earthenware tiles, with the inscription, which may be seen in the church even today. On the basis of alleged revelations to a nun in Naples, and of an entirely fanciful and indefensible explanation of the allegorical paintings, which were found on the slabs beside the inscription, a canon of the church in Mugnano, named Di Lucia, composed a purely fictitious and romantic account of the supposed martyrdom of St. Philomena, who is not mentioned in any of the ancient sources.
In consequence of the wonderful favours received in answer to prayer before the relics of the saint at Mugnano, devotion to them spread rapidly, and, after instituting investigations into the question, Gregory XVI appointed a special feast to be held on 9 September, "in honorem s. Philumenae virginis et martyris" (cf. the lessons of this feast in the Roman Breviary). The earthenware plates were fixed in front of the grave as follows: LUMENA PAX TECUM FI. The plates were evidently inserted in the wrong order, and the inscription should doubtless read PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The letters are painted on the plates with red paint, and the inscription belongs to the primitive class of epigraphical memorials in the Catacomb of Priscilla, thus, dating from about the middle or second half of the second century. The disarrangement of the inscription proves that it must have been completed before the plates were put into position, although in the numerous other examples of this kind in the same catacomb the inscription was added only after the grave had been closed. Consequently, since the disarrangement of the plates can scarcely be explained as arising from an error, Marucchi seems justified in concluding that the inscription and plates originally belonged to an earlier grave, and were later employed (now in the wrong order) to close another. Apart from the letters, the plates contain three arrows, either as a decoration or a punctuation, a leaf as decoration, two anchors, and a palm as the well-known Christian symbols. Neither these signs nor the glass vessel discovered in the grave can be regarded as a proof of martyrdom.
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| UN to Consider Spraying “Sulfate Aerosols” Above the Earth’s Surface to Reduce Global Temperatures |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 08:41 AM - Forum: Global News
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UN to Consider Spraying “Sulfate Aerosols” Above the Earth’s Surface to Reduce Global Temperatures
“Controversial” geoengineering method could cause crop failure in certain regions.
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Summit News | 10 August, 2021
The United Nations is considering the risks of spraying “sulfate aerosols” above the earth’s surface to reduce global temperatures, according to a Reuters report.
Yesterday, a U.N. climate panel released a “code red” report that warned of “deadly heat waves, gargantuan hurricanes and other weather extremes” if drastic action isn’t taken quickly to stop man-made climate change.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), humans are “unequivocally” to blame, with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calling for a total end to the use of coal and fossil fuels.
According to a Reuters report on the issue, “controversial methods” of geoengineering are now being actively considered by the UN to limit and reverse global temperature increases.
“For example, humans could spray sulfate aerosols – tiny reflective particles – into the stratosphere 20 to 25 kilometers (12 to 16 miles) above the earth’s surface to reflect more sunlight back into space, which lowers global temperatures,” states the report.
However, using this method would create “uncertainty, moral issues (and) ethical issues” because “sulfate aerosols have the side effect of also lowering average precipitation.”
While such methods would benefit some countries by creating a cooling effect, other regions “could suffer by, for example, no longer having conditions to grow crops.”
“The side effects of any of the known geoengineering techniques can be very significant,” said physicist Paulo Artaxo. “Society has to consider if these side effects are too big to try any strategy.”
Geoengineering methods such as spraying sulfate aerosols or even parking giant spaceships above the earth to deflect sunlight have long been proposed by globalists to change the earth’s climate.
Much of the lobbying for such measures was funded by people like Bill Gates, who in 2012 joined with scientists to bankroll and publicly advocate “geoengineering methods such as spraying millions of tonnes of reflective particles of sulphur dioxide 30 miles above earth.”
Meanwhile, many of the same people warning us today about the necessity to radically alter our lifestyles to combat global warming were the same voices insisting that ‘global cooling’ was the biggest environmental threat in the 1970’s.
But apparently, we shouldn’t question a word they say.
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| White House Chief Of Staff Admits Pushing Employers To Mandate Vaccines |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 08:34 AM - Forum: COVID Passports
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White House Chief Of Staff Admits Pushing Employers To Mandate Vaccines
“We need to put requirements on people to get vaccinated. That’s how we’re going to get this behind us.”
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Summit News | 11 August, 2021
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain declared Tuesday on CNN that the Biden administration is “working closely with private employers” to get them to mandate coronavirus vaccines for employers, claiming that “That’s how we’re going to be able to go back to normal.”
“We need to put requirements on people to get vaccinated. That’s how we’re going to get this behind us,” Klain said.
Klain referred to the decree for all federal workers to get vaccinated, as well as active duty military.
“Well, you know, two weeks ago, the president announced we were going to require all federal civilian employees to either be vaccinated or to face rigorous testing, limits on their activities, other restrictions to try to really pressure them to get vaccinated,” he said.
“Yesterday, the secretary of defense, joined by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Milley, said that they were going to mandate vaccines for our troops,” Klain added.
So, government workers and soldiers are in the bag, now the question remains, how to force those pesky everyday Americans to take their shots.
“We’re obviously working closely with private employers to try to encourage them to do the same thing,” Klain added.
The comments come after Big Tech companies announced they would mandate the shots, and Joe Biden admitted he would like to be able to mandate the entire country to take vaccines:
Yesterday, Biden also said he was ‘checking’ to see if he has the power to overrule States on banning federal mandates:
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| New York Archdiocese Urges Priests to Not Give Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Vaccine |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 07:28 AM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Spiritual]
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New York Archdiocese Urges Priests to Not Give Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Vaccine
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TH.com | Aug 10, 2021 2:30 PM
The Archdiocese of New York reportedly issued a memorandum urging priests to not issue religious exemptions for Catholics who do not want to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine.
The memo, dated July 30, was obtained and posted on Twitter by Bree Dail from The Epoch Times. Dail shared on Twitter that she received confirmation from the archdiocese that the memo was authentic, however, they declined to comment.
The memo, sent by John P. Cahill, chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York, argues that issuing religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine could pose serious health risks to others as unvaccinated individuals could spread the virus.
“There is no basis for a priest to issue a religious exemption to the vaccine. By doing so, he is acting in contradiction to the directives of the Pope and is participating in an act that could have serious consequences to others,” the memo states.
One example provided in the memo describes a student, unvaccinated due to religious exemption, spreading the virus throughout campus. It also mentions that a COVID-19 outbreak as a result of a religious-exempted unvaccinated individual would be an embarrassment to the archdiocese.
“Imagine a student receiving a religious exemption, contracting the virus and spreading it throughout campus,” the memo states. “Clearly this would be an embarrassment to the archdiocese. Some even argue that it might impose personal liability on the priest.”
In recent months, several Catholic organizations have voiced their support for the COVID-19 vaccine, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). On the other hand, some Catholic leaders have shared their concerns regarding the ethics behind the COVID-19 vaccine and its ties to abortion. The latter could perhaps sway a Catholic into obtaining a religious exemption for the vaccine as vaccine mandates become instated in areas all across the country. New York City, for example, will soon require a “vaccine passport,” dubbed the “Key to NYC Pass,” providing proof of vaccination for individuals to access various indoor facilities.
In regards to the concerns that the COVID-19 has scientific ties to abortion, the USCCB addressed this in a statement published in March. “While we should continue to insist that pharmaceutical companies stop using abortion-derived cell lines, given the world-wide suffering that this pandemic is causing, we affirm again that being vaccinated can be an act of charity that serves the common good,” the statement said. The statement also urged Catholics to opt for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine over Johnson & Johnson due to the development of the J&J vaccine involving “abortion-derived stem cells.” “[I]f one has the ability to choose a vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccines should be chosen over Johnson & Johnson’s,” the statement said.
The Archdiocese of New York’s memo seemed to build off this notion that it’s our moral obligation to be vaccinated to stop the spread of COVID-19.“Pope Francis has made it very clear that it is morally acceptable to take any of the vaccines and said that we have the moral responsibility to get vaccinated,” the memo states.
“Any individual is free to exercise discretion on getting the vaccine based upon his or her own beliefs without seeking the inaccurate portrayal of Church instructions” the memo states. “Our priests should not be active participants to such actions.”
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| The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the French Revolution |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 07:03 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Lyrics for the opening hymn "O Sacred Heart' by F. Stanfield (1835-1914) was written for the conversion of England:
"O Sacred Heart, Our home lies deep in thee. On earth thou art the exile's rest, In heaven the glory of the blest, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, Thou fount of contrite tears; Where'er those living waters flow, New life to sinners they bestow, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred heart, Bless our dear native land; May England's sons in truth e'er stand, With faith's bright banner still in hand, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, Our trust is all in thee; For though earth's night be dark and drear, Thou breathest rest where thou art near, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, When shades of death shall fall, Receive us 'neath thy gentle care, And save us from the tempter's snare, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, Lead exiled children home, Where we may ever rest near thee, In peace and joy eternally, O SACRED HEART!"
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| August 11th - Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 07:00 AM - Forum: August
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August 11 – Second Day Within the Octave of St. Laurence; Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs
Laurence is followed today by the son of Chromatius, prefect of Rome, Tiburtius, who also suffered upon burning coals for the confession of his faith. Though forty years intervened between the two martyrdoms, it was the same Holy Spirit that animated these witnesses of Christ and suggested to them the same answer to their executioners. Tiburtius, walking upon the fire, cried out: “Learn that the God of the Christians is the only God, for these hot coals seem flowers to me.”
Equally near to the great Archdeacon stands an illustrious virgin, so bright herself as not to be eclipsed by him. A relative of both the Emperor Diocletian and the holy Pope Caius, Susanna, it is said, one day beheld the imperial crown at her feet. But she obtained a far great nobility; for, by preferring the wreath of virginity, she won at the same time the palm of martyrdom.
Now, as St. Leo remarks, on the glorious solemnity whose Octave we are keeping, if no one is good for himself alone, if the favors of Divine Wisdom profit not only the recipient, then, no one is more wise than the martyr, no eloquence can instruct the people so well as his. It is by this excellent manner of teaching that, as the Church tells us today, “Laurence enlightened the whole world with the light of his fire, and by the flames which he endured he warmed the hearts of all Christians. By the example of his martyrdom, faith is enkindled and devotion fostered in our souls. The persecutor lays no hot coals for me, but he sets me on fire with desire of my Savior.” If, moreover, and it is not mere theory to repeat it in our days, if, as St. Augustine remarks, “circumstances place a man in the alternative of transgressing a divine precept or losing his life, he too must know how to die for the love of God, rather than live at enmity with him.” Morality does not change, neither does the justice of God, who in all ages rewards the faithful, as in all ages he chastises cowards.
The Mozarabic Missal eloquently expresses the grandeur of St. Laurence’s martyrdom in this beautiful formula which precedes the Consecration on the day of this feast.
Post Sanctus
Hosanna in excelsis: very dignum et justum est, omni quidem tempore, sed præcipue in honorem Sanctorum tuorum, nos tibi gratias, consempiterna Trinitas et consubstantialis et cooperatrix omnium bonorum Deus, et pro beatissimi Martyris tui Laurentii celeberrimodie, laudum hostias immolare. Cujus gloriosum passionis triumphum, anni circulo revolutum, Ecclesia tua læta concelebrat: Apostolis quidem tuis in doctrina supparem: sed in Domini confessione non imparem. Qui niveam illam stolam. Levitaicam, martyrii cruore purpureo decoravit: cujus cor in igne tuo, quem veneras mittere super terram, ita flammasti: ut ignem istum visibilem non sentiret: et appositas corpori flammas mentis intentione superaret: ardentemque globum fide validus non timeret. Hosanna in excelsis.
It is truly meet and just, at all times, but especially in honor of thy saints, to return thanks to thee, O God, co-eternal and consubstantial Trinity, cooperator of all good things, and to offer sacrifice of praise on this illustrious day of thy most blessed martyr Laurence. The glorious triumph of whose passion brought round again by the circle of the year, the Church doth joyfully celebrate: for in teaching he was nearly equal to thine Apostles; but in the confession of Lord not unequal. He adorned the snow-white robe of the Levite with the purple of the blood of martyrdom: thou didst so inflame his heart with thy fire which thou camest to cast on the earth, that he felt not the invisible fire; by the strong purpose of his mind he overcame the flames that surrounded his body; and strong in faith, feared not the burning coal.
Quique craticulæ superpositus, novum sacrificium tibi semetipsum castus minister exhibuit: et veluti super aram holocausti more decoctus, saporem Domino suavitatis ingessit. In quo incomparabilis Martyr prædicordiis pariter ac visceribus medullisque liquescentibus desudavit, ac defluentia membra torreri invicta virtute patientiæ toleravit. In quo extensus ac desuper fixus, subjectis jacuit ac pependit incendiis: et holocaustum pietatis cruda coxit impietas: quæ sudorem liquescentium viscerum bibulis vaporibus suscepit. Supra quam velut super altare corpus suum, novi generis sacrificium celebrandum minister imposuit: et Levita prædicandus ipse sibi Pontifex et hostia fuit. Et qui fuerat minister dominici corporis, in offerendo semetipsum officio functus est sacerdotio.
Placed upon the gridiron, thy chaste minister offered himself a new sacrifice to thee: and burnt as a holocaust upon the altar, sent up a sweet savor to the Lord. There the incomparable Martyr, while his heart and bowels and the marrow of his bones were melting away, suffered his limbs to be roasted, with invincible virtue of patience. There stretched out he lay hanging over the fire: crude impiety broiled the holocaust of piety, and inhaled the hot vapors from the liquefying members. Thy minister laid his own body on the altar, a new kind of sacrifice to be celebrated. The praiseworthy Levite was to himself both pontiff and victim. And he who had been a minister at the offering of the Lord’s Body, in offering himself performed the office of priest.
Tuam igitur Domine in eo virtutem, tuamque potentiam prædicamus. Nam quis crederet corpus fragili compage conglutinatum, tantis sine te sufficere conflictibus potuisse? quis incendiorum æstibus humana æstimaret membra non cedere: nisi flagrantior a te veniens interiorem hominem lampas animasset: cujus potentia factum est, ut læta rore suo anima, coctione proprii corporis exsultaret: dum versari se Martyr præcipit, et vorari: ne et paratam coronam uno moriendi genere sequeretur: et sic lenitate cruciatuum vitalis tardaret interitus, non existeret gloriosus cornatus. Per te Dominum qui es Salvator omnium et Redemptor animarum.
It is therefore, O Lord, thy power and thy might that we praise in him. For who would believe that a body formed of fragile structure could, without thee, endure such torments? Who would not think that human members would yield before the heat of the fire, had not a fiercer flame, coming from thee, fired the interior man? By thy power it was, that the soul, rejoiced with spiritual dew, exulted at the broiling of its own body: the Martyr bade them turn him and devour him: lest he should obtain the crown by only one death; and thus, the mildness of the torments should retard life-giving death, and he should be less gloriously crowned. Through thee, our Lord, who art the Savior and Redeemer of all souls.
The following commemoration is made of SS. Tiburtius and Susanna:
Ant. Istorum est enim regnum cœlorum, qui contempserunt vitam mundi, et pervenerunt ad præmia regni, et laverunt stolas suas in sanguine Agni.
Ant. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven, who despising an earthly life, have obtained heavenly rewards, and washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
℣. Lætamini in Domino, et exsultate justi.
℣. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice ye just.
℟. Et gloriamini omnes recti corde.
℟. And glory all ye right of heart.
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Sanctorum Martyrum tuorum Tiburtii et Susannæ nos, Domine, foveant continuata præsidia: quia non desinis propitius intueri, quos talibus auxiliis concesseris adjuvari. Per Dominum.
May the constant protection of Thy holy martyrs Tiburtius and Susanna, support us, O Lord: for Thou never ceasest mercifully to regard those whom Thou grantest to be assisted by such helps. Through, etc.
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| August 10th – Saint Laurence, Deacon and Martyr |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 06:55 AM - Forum: August
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August 10 – Saint Laurence, Deacon and Martyr
Taken from The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Guéranger (1841-1875)
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“Once the mother of false gods, but now the bride of Christ, O Rome, it is through Laurence thou art victorious! Thou hadst conquered haughty monarchs and subjected nations to thine empire; but though thou hadst overcome barbarism, thy glory was incomplete till thou hadst vanquished the unclean idols. This was Laurence’s victory, a combat bloody yet not tumultuous like those of Camillus or of Cesar; it was the contest of faith, wherein self is immolated, and death is overcome by death. What words, what praises suffice to celebrate such a death? How can I worthily sing so great a martyrdom.”
Thus opens the sublime poem of Prudentius, composed little more than a century after the Saint’s martyrdom. In this work the poet has preserved to us the traditions existing in his own day, whereby the name of the Roman deacon was rendered so illustrious. About the same time St. Ambrose, with his irresistible eloquence, described the meeting of Sixtus and his deacon on the way to martyrdom. But before both Ambrose and Prudentius, Pope St. Damasus chronicled the victory of Laurence’s faith, in his monumental inscriptions, which have such a ring of the days of triumph.
Rome was lavish in her demonstrations of honor towards the champion who had prayed for her deliverance, upon his red-hot gridiron. She inserted his name in the Canon of the Mass, and moreover celebrated the anniversary of his birth to heaven with as much solemnity as those of the glorious Apostles her founders, and with the same privileges of a Vigil and an Octave. She has been dyed with the blood of many other witnesses of Christ, yet, as though Laurence had a special claim upon her gratitude, every spot connected with him has been honored with a Church. Amongst all these sanctuaries dedicated to him, the one which contains the martyr’s body ranks next after the churches of St. John Lateran, St. Mary’s on the Esquiline, St. Peter’s on the Vatican, and St. Paul’s on the Ostian Way. St. Laurence outside the Walls completes the number of her five great basilicas that form the appanage and exclusive possession of the Roman Pontiff. They represent the patriarchates of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, which divide the world between them, and express the universal and immediate jurisdiction of the Bishops of Rome over all the churches. Thus through Laurence the eternal City is completed and is shown to be the center of the world and the source of every grace.
Just as Peter and Paul are the riches, not of Rome alone, but of the whole world, so Laurence is called the honor of the world, for he, as it were, personified the courage of martyrdom. At the beginning of this month, we saw Stephen himself come to blend his dignity of Protomartyr with the glory of Sixtus II’s deacon, by sharing his tomb. In Laurence, it seemed that both the struggle and the victory of martyrdom reached their highest point; persecution, it is true, was renewed during the next half century, and made many victims, yet his triumph was considered as the death-blow to paganism.
“The devil,” says Prudentius, “struggled fiercely with God’s witness, but he was himself wounded and prostrated for ever. The death of Christ’s martyr gave the death-blow to the worship of idols, and from that day Vesta was powerless to prevent her temple from being deserted. All these Roman citizens, brought up in the superstitions taught by Numa, hasten, O Christ, to thy courts, singing hymns to thy martyr. Illustrious senators, flamens and priests of Lupercus venerate the tombs of Apostles and Saints. We see patricians and matrons of the noblest families vowing to God the children in whom their hopes are centered. The Pontiff of the idols, whose brow but yesterday was bound with sacred fillet, now signs himself with the cross, and the Vestal Virgin Claudia visits thy sanctuary, O Laurence.”
It need not surprise us that this day’s solemnity carries its triumphant joy from the city of the seven hills to the entire universe. “As it is impossible for Rome to be concealed,” says St. Augustine, “so it is equally impossible to hide Laurence’s crown.” Everywhere, in both East and West, churches were built in his honor; and in return, as the Bishop of Hippo testifies, “the favors he conferred were innumerable, and prove the greatness of his power with God; who has ever prayed to him and has not been graciously heard?”
Let us then conclude with St. Maximus of Turin that, “in the devotion wherewith the triumph of St. Laurence is being celebrated throughout the entire world, we must recognize that it is both holy and pleasing to God to honor, with all the fervor of our souls, the birth to heaven of the martyr, who by his radiant flames has spread the glory of his victory over the whole Church. Because of the spotless purity of soul which made him a true Levite, and because of that fullness of faith which earned him the martyr’s palm, it is fitting that we should honor him almost equally with the Apostles.”
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The deacon has followed his Pontiff beyond the veil; the faithful Levite is standing beside the ark of the eternal covenant. He now gazes on the splendor of that tabernacle not made with hands, feebly figured by that of Moses, and but partially revealed by the Church herself.
And yet today, though still an exile, Mother Church thrills with a holy pride, for she has added something to the glory of the sanctify of heaven. She triumphantly advances to the altar on earth, which is one with that in heaven. Throughout the night she has had her eyes and her heart fixed on her noble son; and now she dares to sing of the beauty, the holiness, the magnificence of our fatherland, as though they were already hers; for the rays of eternal light seem to have fallen upon her as the veil lifted to admit Laurence into the Holy of Holies.
The Introit and its verse are taken from Psalms 95:
Introit
Confessio et pulchritudo in conspectu ejus: sanctitas et magnificentia in sanctificatione ejus.
Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.
Ps. Cantate Domino canticum novum: cantate Domino omnis terra. Gloria Patri. Confessio.
Ps. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle; sing to the lord all the earth. ℣. Glory, &c. Praise.
No doubt our weakness will not be called upon to endure the ordeal of a red-hot gridiron; nevertheless, we are tried by flames of a different kind, which, if we do not extinguish them in this life, will feed the eternal fire of hell. The Church, therefore, asks on this feast of St. Laurence that we may be gifted with prudence and courage.
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Da nobis, quæsumus omnipotens Deus: vitiorum nostrorum flammas exstinguere; qui beato Laurentio tribuisti tormentorum suorum incendia superare. Per Dominum.
Grant us, we beseech thee, Almighty God, to extinguish the flames of our vices; who didst grant to blessed Laurence to overcome the fire of his torments. Through our Lord, &c.
Epistle
Lesson of the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Ch. ix.
Brethren, he who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings, shall also reap blessings. Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound in you; that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work, As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever. And he that ministereth seed to the sower, will both give you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice.
Quote:He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth forever. The Roman Church loves to repeat these words of Psalm cxi in honor of her great archdeacon. Yesterday she sang them in the Introit and Gradual of the Vigil; again they were heard last night in the Responsories, and this morning in the Versicle of her triumphant Lauds. Indeed, the Epistle we have just read, which also furnishes the Little Chapters for the several Hours was selected for today because of this same text being therein quoted by the Apostle. Evidently the choice graces which won for Laurence his glorious martyrdom were, in the Church’s estimation, the outcome of the brave and cheerful fidelity wherewith he distributed to the poor the treasures in his keeping. He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly; and he who soweth in blessings, shall also reap of blessings; such is the supernatural economy of the Holy Ghost in the distribution of his gifts, as exemplified in the glorious scenes we have witnessed during these three days.
We may add with the Apostle: What touches the heart of God, and moves him to multiply his favors is not so much the work itself as the spirit that prompts it. God loveth a cheerful giver. Noble-hearted, tender, devoted, and self-forgetful, heroic with a heroism born of simplicity no less than of courage, gracious and smiling even on his gridiron: such was Laurence towards God, towards his father Sixtus II, towards the lowly; and the same he was towards the powerful and in the very face of death. The closing of his life did but prove that he was as faithful in great things as he had been in small. Seldom are nature and grace so perfectly in harmony as they were in the young deacon, and though the gift of martyrdom is so great that no one can merit it, yet his particularly glorious martyrdom seems to have been the development, as if by natural evolution, of the precious germs planted by the Holy Ghost in the rich soil of his noble nature.
The words of Psalm 16, which formerly composed the Introit of the Mass of the night, are repeated in the Gradual of the morning Mass. The Alleluia-Verse reminds us of the miracles wrought by St. Laurence upon the blind; let us ask him to cure our spiritual blindness, which is more terrible than that of the body.
Gradual
Probasti, Domine, cor meum, et visitasti nocte.
Thou hast proved my heart, O Lord, and visited it by night.
℣. Igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas. Alleluia, alleluia.
℣. Thou hast tried me by fire, and iniquity hath not been found in me. Alleluia, alleluia.
℣. Levita Laurentius bonum opus operatus est: qui per signum crucis cæcos illuminavit. Alleluia.
℣. The Levite Laurence wrought a good work, who gave sight to the blind by the sign of the cross. Alleluia.
Gospel
Sequel of the holy Gospel according to John. Ch. xii.
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, Itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal. If any man minister to me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.
Quote:The Gospel we have just read was thus commented by St. Augustine on this very feast: “Your faith recognizes the grain that fell into the earth and, having died, was multiplied. Your faith, I say, recognizes this grain, for the same dwelleth in your souls.” That it was concerning himself Christ spoke these words no Christian doubts. But now that that seed is dead and has been multiplied, many grains have been sown in the earth; among them is the blessed Laurence, and this is the day of his sowing. What an abundant harvest has sprung from these grains scattered over all the earth! We see it, we rejoice in it, nay, we ourselves are the harvest; if so be, by his grace, we belong to the granary. For not all that grows in the field belongs to the granary. The same useful, nourishing rain feeds both the wheat and the chaff. God forbid that both should be laid up together in the granary; although they grew together in the field and were threshed together in the threshing floor.
Now is the time to choose. Let us now, before the winnowing, separate ourselves from the wicked by the manner of life, as in the floor the grain is threshed out of the chaff, though not yet separated from it by the final winnowing. Hear me, ye holy grains, who, I doubt not, are here; for if I doubted, I should not be a grain myself: hear me, I say; or rather, hear that first grain speaking by me. Love not your life in this world: love it not if you truly love it, so that by not loving you may preserve it; for by not loving, you love the more. He that loveth his life in this world, shall lose it.
Thus because Laurence was as an enemy to himself and lost his life in this world, he found it in the next. Being a minister of Christ by his very title, for deacon means minister, he followed the Man-God, as the Gospel exhorts; he followed him to the altar, and to the altar of the Cross. Having fallen with him into the earth, he has been multiplied in him. Though separated from St. Laurence by distance of time and place, yet we are, ourselves, as the Bishop of Hippo teaches, a part of the harvest that is ever springing from him. Let this thought excite us to gratitude towards the holy deacon; and let us all the more eagerly unite our homage with the honor bestowed on him by our heavenly Father, for having ministered to his Son.
The Offertory repeats the words of the Introit to a different melody; it is earth’s echo to the music of heaven. The beauty and sanctity that so magnificently enhance the worship of praise around the eternal altar ought to shine by faith in the souls of the Church’s ministers, as the Angels beheld them shining in Laurence’s soul while he was still on earth.
Offertory
Confessio et pulchritudo in conspectu ejus: sanctitas et magnificentia in sanctificatione ejus.
Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.
At this point of the Mysteries it was once Laurence’s duty to present the offerings; the Church, while now presenting them, claims the suffrage of his merits.
Secret
Accipe, quæsumus Domine, munera dignanter oblata, et beati Laurentii suffragantibus meritis, ad nostræ salutis auxilium provenire concede. Per Dominum.
Graciously accept the offerings made to thee, O Lord, we beseech thee; and the merits of blessed Laurence thy martyr, pleading for us, grant them to become a help to our salvation. Through, &c.
Laurence worthily fulfilled his august ministry at the Table of his Lord; and he, to whom he thus devoted himself, keeps his promise made in the Gospel, by calling him to live forever where he is himself.
Communion
Qui mihi ministrat, me, sequatur: et ubi ego sum, illic et minister meus erit.
If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be.
After feasting at the sacred banquet of which Laurence was once the dispenser, we beg that the homage of our own service may draw down upon us, through his intercession, an increase of grace.
Postcommunion
Sacro munere satiati, supplices te, Domine, deprecamur: ut, quod debitæ servitutis celebramus officio, intercedente beato Laurentio Martyre tuo, salvationis tuæ sentiamus augmentum. Per Dominum.
Replenished with thy sacred gifts, we suppliantly beseech thee, O Lord, that what we celebrate with due service, by the intercession of blessed Laurence, thy martyr, we may perceive to contribute towards our salvation. Through our Lord, &c.
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Posted by: Stone - 08-10-2021, 12:13 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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The American Academy of Pediatrics Tells the FDA to Speed Up and Stop Endangering Patients
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Marginal Revolution | August 9, 2021
The American Academy of Pediatrics has written a stunning letter to the FDA:
Quote:We understand that the FDA has recently worked with Pfizer and Moderna to double the number of children ages 5-11 years included in clinical trials of their COVID-19 vaccines. While we appreciate this prudent step to gather more safety data, we urge FDA to carefully consider the impact of this decision on the timeline for authorizing a vaccine for this age group. In our view, the rise of the Delta variant changes the risk-benefit analysis for authorizing vaccines in children. The FDA should strongly consider authorizing these vaccines for children ages 5-11 years based on data from the initial enrolled cohort, which are already available, while continuing to follow safety data from the expanded cohort in the post-market setting. This approach would not slow down the time to authorization of these critically needed vaccines in the 5–11-year age group.
In addition, as FDA continues to evaluate clinical trial requirements for children under 5 years, we similarly urge FDA to carefully consider the impact of its regulatory decisions on further delays in the availability of vaccines for this age group. Based on scientific data currently available on COVID-19 vaccines, as well as on 70 years of vaccinology knowledge in the pediatric population, the Academy believes that clinical trials in these children can be safely conducted with a 2-month safety follow-up for participants. Assuming that the 2-month safety data does not raise any new safety concerns and that immunogenicity data are supportive of use, we believe that this is sufficient for authorization in this and any other age group. Waiting on a 6-month follow-up will significantly hinder the ability to reduce the spread of the hyper infectious COVID-19 Delta variant among this age group, since it would add 4 additional months before an authorization decision can be considered. Based on the evidence from the over 340 million doses of COVID-19 doses administered to adults and adolescents aged 12-17, as well as among adults 18 and older, there is no biological plausibility for serious adverse immunological or inflammatory events to occur more than two months after COVID-19 vaccine administration.
In my many years of writing about the FDA, I can’t recall a single instance in which a major medical organization told the FDA to use a smaller trial and speed up the process because FDA delay was endangering the safety of their patients. Wow.
The invisible graveyard is invisible no more.
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| Second Priest Murdered In France – Murderer Was Received By Francis In 2016 |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-10-2021, 07:51 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Second Priest Murdered In France – Murderer Was Received By Francis In 2016
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gloria.tv | August9, 2021
A 60-year-old priest has been murdered in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, Vendée, Western France, the country's pro-immigration interior minister Gérald Darmanin admitted on August 9.
The victim is Father Olivier Maire, the local superior of the Montfort Fathers. His murderer is Emmanuel Abayisenga, an asylum-seeker from Rwanda who was also the author of a major July 2020 fire that ravaged Nantes cathedral.
Abayisenga went to police in Mortagne sur Sèvre and confessing the crime. At the moment of the crime, he was freed from arrest, under "judicial control, and had been accepted out of charity to live with the Montfort Fathers for several months.
French political leader Marine Le Pen said that in France "you can be an illegal migrant, set fire to a cathedral, not be expelled, and then reoffend by murdering a priest."
Below is a picture of Abayisenga who was received by Francis in 2016 along with a group of "socially excluded" peoples from Nantes.
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