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Happy Pope Pius X Feast Day, all!
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LilyM
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Great saint, great Pope.
Dear St Pius X, we pray that all those who acclaim you as a saint, whether within or outside of the Society that bears your name, may soon be reunited in complete faithfulness to and support of our one true earthly shepherd, your successor, Benedict XVI.
Dear St Pius X, we pray that all those who acclaim you as a saint, whether within or outside of the Society that bears your name, may soon be reunited in complete faithfulness to and support of our one true earthly shepherd, your successor, Benedict XVI.
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Happy feast day, to a Holy Father and humble farm boy.
Thank you for making First Holy Communion available to little children.
If I tell my children it’s his feast day, they’ll want to know what’s for dessert…
Thank you for making First Holy Communion available to little children.
If I tell my children it’s his feast day, they’ll want to know what’s for dessert…
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Feast day according to the new calendar, the '62 Rite feast is next month IIRC on the 3rd. Either way you look at it, St. Pie decime, ora pro nobis!
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Dauphin
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Sancti Pii X, Ora pro nobis.
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Miles_Mariae
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Saint Pius X, pray for us!
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preV2tradcath
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Saint Pius X, pray for us.
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Prague
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Happy Feast Day Pius X. Even more special is that is the name of the High School I gradutated from.
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Sorry I missed that. The Franciscans don’t observe the feast of St. Pius X. On this date we observe one of our own, St. Lawrence of Brindisi. We have a different calendar from that of the Roman calendar.
But hope all had a blessed day and that the prayers of St. Pius X will bring renewed hope and faith to all.
Fraternally,
JR
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RATS! I missed it! I only have the trad calendar. I need to get a copy of the new calendar of feast days. Oh well!
God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ did fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Though our Lord Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen
God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ did fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Though our Lord Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen
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You can do what I do. I keep a copy of the Calendar of the Universal Church and the Franciscan Calendar. This way I know which feast to celebrate. In the case of religious communities, their feast days take precesedence over thos the the general calendar, except the solemnities of the Universal Church.
You may want to keep a Traditional Calendar and the Calendar of the Universal Church or better yet, the Calendar of the Church in the United States. This way you’ll also have the American saints and their feasts on it.
Catholics are bound to liturgical calendars depending on their affiliations. If you are in the United States, you follow the calendar for the United States, unless you are part of a religioius family. In that case you follow their calendar. You don’t have to worry, because their liturgists have already included those feast and solemnities that must be observed by all.
For example, in September the Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is celebrated as a Franciscan solemnity, because it was introduced by St. Francis. However, for the United States it is a mandatory solemnity, because Franciscans were the first to bring Catholicism to the USA. They brought this solemnity with them. You’ll find in the general calendar that it bumps a Sunday this year. This is what I mean that the religious and the Roman calendars are coordinated.
Unfortuantely the Traditional Calendar and the Roman Calendar have yet to be coordinated. I understand that there is work being done on it so as to have only one Roman Calendar for the Universal Church with its addendums for each country, diocese and religious community. A lot of work going on behind the scenes. Let’s keep these people in prayer. We all know that no matter how hard they try, someone is going to complain that they got it wrong.
Fraternally,
JR
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I believe St. Pius was a third order Franciscan and his personal spirituality was very Franciscan in humility and poverty–in fact, there is a church near me named after him and run by Franciscans (I think they may be Capuchins) named after him for that reason.
I always loved this passage from his first encyclical “E Supremi” outlining his programme:
I always loved this passage from his first encyclical “E Supremi” outlining his programme:
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St. Pius X was not a Franciscan, though he was very devouted to St. Francis of Assisi. Bl. John XXIII was a Franciscan. We celebrate his feastday.I believe St. Pius was a third order Franciscan and his personal spirituality was very Franciscan in humility and poverty–in fact, there is a church near me named after him and run by Franciscans (I think they may be Capuchins) named after him for that reason.
I always loved this passage from his first encyclical “E Supremi” outlining his programme:
Franciscans loved St. Pius X, as did many people, because of his simplicity and humility.
Fraternally,
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I think though, that this new place is not entirely illogical. September 3rd became the feast fo St. Gregory because they wanted to transfer it out of Lent and he became Pope on that day. St. Pius X was only assigned the 3rd because the other days from August 20 were occupied in the Traditional calendar. His “heavenly birthday” is August 20 (as noted in the martyrology) but because that is also the date of the death of St. Bernard, he is moved to the 21st.
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Isn’t it a Feast?For example, in September the Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is celebrated as a Franciscan solemnity, because it was introduced by St. Francis.
However, for the United States it is a mandatory solemnity, because Franciscans were the first to bring Catholicism to the USA. They brought this solemnity with them.
Fraternally,
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It seems he may have been a secular Franciscan:St. Pius X was not a Franciscan, though he was very devouted to St. Francis of Assisi. Bl. John XXIII was a Franciscan. We celebrate his feastday.
Franciscans loved St. Pius X, as did many people, because of his simplicity and humility.
Fraternally,
JR
Article: 12 Pope St. Pius X 1835-1914 feast day: August 21
Joseph Sarto joined the Secular Franciscans while he was a pastor. He devoted himself to the poor and helped promote the Catholic press. He was elected Pope in 1903. He lowered the age of First Communion, encouraged daily Communion, and established the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He died August 20, 1914 and was canonized in 1954.
sfo-fraternities.org/56130/Saints.html
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It’s a solemnity. This year it falls on a the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, so it trumps the 24th Sunday. It’s on Sept 14. This was at the request of the Superiors General of the three branches of the Friars Minor.
There are many feasts and solemnities that were moved, but they were not arbitrary. They were moved for historical reasons or at the requests of Epsicopal Conferences of different countries to include the national saints. Also, the five Religious Orders made specific requests.
For example, the Franciscans had to move the Solemnity of St. Francis from October 3, which is when he actually died to October 4, because the Carmelites had requested October 3 for Teresa of Avila. Since Francis died in the evening, the Solemnity of St. Francis begins at dawn. The Solemnity of St. Teresa begins at dawn on Oct 2 and ends at dawn Oct 3.
The Exultation of the Holy Cross was renamed to the Triumph of the Holy Cross and moved to September so that it would not fall within the Franciscan’s Little Lent which takes place in September from the feast of St. Michael to the Solemnity of St. Francis.
In the USA several feasts were moved to accomodate Saints Elizabeth Ann Seton, Francis Cabrini, John Neumann, Blessed Takeri Takewitha (sp?), St. Katherine Drexel and Our Lady of the Americas (formerly Our Lady of Guadalupe).
The Octave of Easter became the Season of Easter to include Divine Mercy Sunday.
In many dioceses where there are shortages of priests or where celebrating Ascension Thursday was inconvenient because people could not get to mass, it was moved to the Sunday after the Thursday. Also, in places where there is a shortage of priests it had to be moved, because it was too demanding to have priests in every place on the two Sundays on either side of the Thursday and on Thursday.
With the decline of secular priests, many dioceses depend more and more on the services that they can purchase from religious orders and religious congregations. But they had to make arrangements with some of the feasts, because they coincide with feasts that are particular to the religious. By Constitution of the religious institutes (Orders or Congregations) their feasts take precedenc except over those that are mandated by the Universal Church, which are few (i.e. Christmas, Jan 1 in the western Church, Easter, Mercy Sunday, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, Triumph of the Cross and always one of the Marian holy days (Assumption or Immaculate Conception). The Bishops Conferences of each country choose which one they want to make a holy day of obligation.
There are solemnities that are holy days of obligation for certain countries or members of certain religious communities. In other jurisdictions they are usually feasts or memorials.
There was also the problem of too many saints and not enough days in the year. The Church had to move some memorials, feasts and solemnities and remove others from the calendar.
People often get confused and believe that the saint was fired or disposed of, because they don’t know that it’s a problem of number of saints vs. number of days in the liturgical year that you can commemorate saints.
The other problem was that the number of days dedicated to saints had to be trimmed back to allow for a smooth flow of the reading of the gospels. Otherwise, the four gospels would never get read in their entirety, because every saint’s day has its own gospel. The same was true for the Divine Office. Every staint’s day has its own office. The Psalms would never get said in their entirety if you had too many saints days. They had to use a mathematical formula to calculate how many days they needed to get through the gospels and the psalter.
Despite all of this, religious and secular orders don’t always get through the psalter or the gospels, because they have their own calendars that don’t always coincide with the national or universal calendar.
Another thing that happened was that the current calendar with 365.25 days was introduced less than 150 years ago. This shifted some holy days around. Some holy days, such as Easter depend on the full moon after the winter salstice. That moved when we added days to the calendar and the leap year. The liturgical calendar had not be adjusted to the new calendar. It was out whack.
It was not a whimsical decision to move things around. All of these factors played into the decisions.
The 365.25 day calendar, the religioius orders and the new saints of the Americas, Asia and Africa played the biggest roles in the changes.
JR
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