XII Dom. post Pent. / XXI Dom. Tempus per Annum
MONDAY (8/24)
* (Latin) St. Bartholomew, Apostle (Greek - tomorrow)
* Preached in India
* Converted King of Armenia, then that King’s brother had him martyred “when he had converted many folk there to the faith, he was flayed alive by the barbarians, and by command of King Astyages fulfilled his martyrdom by beheading” (Roman Martyrology).
* Relics miraculously washed up on Island of Lipari, later transferred to Rome
* St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre & the False Spirit of Trent
* Novus Ordo Collect “better” than the TLM - but the liturgy is deeper than texts
* “Likewise, St George Limniota, a monk, who reproved the wicked Emperor Leo for breaking the holy images and burning the relics of the saints. At the latter’s command his hands were cut off and his head set on fire, and he passed as a martyr to the Lord” (Roman Martyrology).
* “Maria Goretti of Romania”, Blessed Veronica Antal, Virgin: 22-year-old Csángó peasant girl, lay Franciscan, member of the Militia Immaculatae, and martyr of chastity—stabbed to death on this day in 1958, for refusing to submit to rape.
* Blessed Miroslav Bulešić: Croatian Catholic priest, Pastor of Baderna and Kanfanar, Professor and Vice-Rector at the Seminary of Pazin, anti-communist dissident, and martyr—stabbed to death by communists on this day in 1947, aged 27.
* Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, Virgin: French peasant, Vincentian nun, educator, and foundress of the Sisters of Charity—who died at Naples on this day in 1826. During the French Revolution, she was beaten and exiled for refusing to forsake her vows.
TUESDAY (8/25) - (15:01)
* Miraculous Finding of the Relics of St. Bartholomew (Greek)
* King St. Louis IX
* Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX
* New Martyr Igor Aleksandrovich Akulov
* Born in 1897 in Tver Province to a family of Orthodox peasants. In 1918 he was graduated from the regular high school. Since 1920 he was a postulant at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, and at the same time he studied at the Petrograd Theological Institute. He was tonsured as a monk with the name of Epiphany on 2nd July 1921. After that he met Blessed Leonid Feodorov he joined the Catholic Church. In summer of 1922 he was ordained as priest. Since August, 1922 he was vicar of the Byzantine rite parish of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Petrograd. He was arrested in 1923, and in 1924 he was sentenced to prison for 10 years. In 1927 he was freed before his sentence was up and sent to an exile. After the liberation he served in various churches in Leningrad. In 1935 he was arrested again for a short time. In 1937 he was arrested, condemned to be shot, and then shot on 25th August 1937. He was buried in the Levashov desolate area near the city of Leningrad. The faithful of St. Petersburg cherish the memory of the martyrdom of Fr. Epiphany and they are convinced of his sanctity.
* “The endless grace of God didn’t forsake us at this point and sent to us a young hero monk Epiphanies. He found himself among us when the struggle for the Church was in full swing, but he wasn’t frightened and didn’t withdraw from it. Protestantism and rationalism had no influence on him. He was an excellent priest.” - Blessed Leonid Fiodorov (1922).
WEDNESDAY (8/26) - (21:01)
* Black Madonna of Częstochowa
* Transverberation of St. Teresa (Carmelite)
THURDSAY (8/27) - (23:21)
* St. Monica (new)
FRIDAY (8/28) - (24:23)
* St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church (Greek: June 15)
* St. Mark of Ephesus venerated St. Augustine more than the “Orthobros”
* This is why Georges Florovsky said, for instance, that Augustine is “the greatest Father of the Church universal” (Brandon Gallaher and John Chryssavgis, eds. The Living Christ: the Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky (Bloomsbury: 2021), 198.)
* St. Augustine is the Doctor of the Church for the 20th Century as well
* “On the Significance of an Augustinian Pope”
* (Greek & Latin) St. Moses “the Black”
* King St. Hezekiah (Greek)
SATURDAY (8/29) - (31:33)
* Blessed Teresa Bracco, Virgin: 20-year-old Ligurian peasant, pious Catholic, and martyr of chastity—murdered by a German soldier in 1944, for refusing to submit to rape.
* Blessed Flavianus Michael Melki: Syriac Catholic convert (from Oriental Orthodoxy), priest-monk, Bishop of Gazarta, and martyr of the Assyrian Genocide—tortured and beheaded by Ottoman authorities on this day in 1915, after refusing conversion to Islam.
* Blessed Pedro Asúa Mendía: Spanish-Basque architect, engineer, Catholic priest, and martyr of the Spanish Civil War—murdered by the Reds at Liendo on this day in 1936, aged 45.
* (Greek & Latin) Beheading of St. John the Baptist
* Fast
* Part of traditional fasting is sexual abstinence in marriage
* Don’t eat on a circular plate
* Be man enough to pray the Novus Ordo Missae and lay your head on the chopping block for Marriage like St. John the Baptist & St. John Fisher
SUNDAY (8/30) - XIV post Pent / XXII tempus per annum - (32:49)
* St. Rose of Lima (old)
* Saint Anne Line (née Alice Higham): Essex-born English gentlewoman, convert to Catholicism (from Calvinism), widow, and martyr of the Elizabethan persecution—hanged at Tyburn in 1601, for harbouring a Catholic priest.
* The “Pearl of York”, Saint Margaret Clitherow, an Anglican convert to Catholicism and mother of three arrested for harbouring Catholic priests and crushed to death—while pregnant—in 1586, during the Elizabethan persecution.
* The “Pearl of Tyburn”, Saint Margaret Ward, Virgin: Cheshire-born English gentlewoman, Catholic recusant, and martyr of the Elizabethan persecution—hanged on this day in 1588, for helping a priest escape Bridewell Prison.
* Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster: Italian Benedictine monk, Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan, and Cardinal-Priest of San Martino ai Monti, who died on this day in 1954.
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