Focusing on the Traditional Benedictine Office in accordance with the 1963 Benedictine calendar and rubrics, including the Farnborough edition of the Monastic Diurnal.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
SS Placid and Maurus OSB (Ben), Oct 5
From the martyrology:
"At Messina, in Sicily, the birthday of the holy martyrs Placidus, monk, disciple of the blessed abbot Benedict, and of his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus, and Flavia, virgin, their sister; also of Donatus, Firmatus, deacon, Faustus, and thirty other monks, who were murdered for the faith of Christ by the pirate Manuchas."
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
St Remigius (EF); St Terese of the Child Jesus (OF), Oct 1
St Remigius (437-533) baptised King Clovis, resulting in the conversion of the Franks to Christ. From the martyrology:
"At Rheims, in France, St. Remigius, bishop confessor, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated Clovis, their king, in the sacred font of Baptism and instructed him in the mysteries of faith. After he had been many years bishop, and had distinguished himself by his sanctity and the power of working miracles, he departed this life on the 13th of January. His festival, however, is kept on this day, when his sacred body was translated."
St Terese's feast is celebrated on October 3 in the Extraordinary Form and traditional Benedictine calendar, and notes on her will appear here on that day.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Dedication of St Michael the Archangel (Sept 29, Ben/EF); Michael, Gabriel and Raphael (OF)
Jaime Huguet, 1456 |
Instead of retaining separate feasts for each of the Archangels mentioned in the Bible, it groups them all together.
In the older forms of the calendar though, it is the feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St Michael the Archangel, as the martyrology explains:
"On Mount Gargano, the commemoration of the blessed Archangel Michael. This festival is kept in memory of the day, when under his invocation, was consecrated a church, unpretending in its exterior, but endowed with virtue celestial."
Friday, September 28, 2012
St Wenceslaus (EF/OF); St Lawrence Ruiz and companions (OF) Sept 28
From the martyrology:
"In Bohemia, St. Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia and martyr, renowned for holiness and miracles. Being murdered in his brother's house, he went triumphantly to heaven."
St Lawrence Ruiz (1600-1637) is the first Filippino saint, a lay missionary martyred along with a group of Dominican priests for refusing to renounce Christianity in Japan during the Tokogawa Shogunate.
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