Wed 1st Oct 2008 - FEAST OF ST THERESE OF LISIEUX

[BarbaraTherese]

Probably because the majority of people would not be able to attend her feast day Mass otherwise (than a Sunday) and as a Doctor of the Church with a huge following there would be numerous unhappy people without allowing a Sunday feast day Mass. Just my guess, tho’.

…or another possibility the reason the feastday may vary in some areas is because they have their own local calendar…see this Post

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=4236682&postcount=4

Barb

 

[BarbaraTherese]

The copy I have sitting in front of me (published by TAN Books and Publishers) was $9 at the local Catholic bookstore here…I think I must have got a pretty good deal!

Hi Northstar…I bought my copy many years ago and no longer have it (gave it away intending to buy myself another copy and never have), and hence the online text was a blessing for me.
I estimated the cost of her autobiography by books of similar size that I may buy.
Over and above that, I think you really did get a good deal, as I have never in the recent past years been able to buy any book at all for $9 I dont think:thumbsup: …wish I could! No credit card to buy on Amazon and books here in Australia are very expensive.

Barb

 

[Joysong]

Hello Northstar,

St. Therese’s feast day was originally celebrated on October 3rd, as you mentioned previously. Some of us may have been around when this was on the older Roman Calendar. Pope Paul VI moved many feast days on the calendar, including St. Therese’s, in 1969. I remember that St. Francis de Sales was also changed, since he is one of my favorite saints. He was originally celebrated on January 29th, but moved to Jan. 24.

Her feast day was added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1927, for celebration on October 3. In 1969, 42 years later, Pope Paul VI moved it to 1 October, the day after her dies natalis (birthday to heaven).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux

The Roman Catholic Church today celebrates his feast on 24 January, the day of his burial in Annecy in 1624. From 1666, when his feast day was inserted in the General Roman Calendar, until 1969 it was observed on 29 January.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_de_Sales

Mystery solved.

 

[BarbaraTherese]

Hello Northstar,

St. Therese’s feast day was originally celebrated on October 3rd, as you mentioned previously. Some of us may have been around when this was on the older Roman Calendar. Pope Paul VI moved many feast days on the calendar, including St. Therese’s, in 1969. I remember that St. Francis de Sales was also changed, since he is one of my favorite saints. He was originally celebrated on January 29th, but moved to Jan. 24.

Mystery solved.

Thank Carole! …

…as an aside, I think perhaps to be a good practising Catholic with a sound working knowledge of The Church and all aspects of Catholicism, one needs to be a walking library, a speed reader and of genius intelligence to grasp quickly with insight and understanding and hold in memory what one does read able to reduce complexities to simplicities …this is very sad, I have heard more than once from interesed non Catholics (the spark of interest present) that the problem with Catholicism is that it is too complex - and this is a very sad message to be conveying to others and in an age when we are being called to evangelize…and in an epoch in the history of mankind when mankind is very much in need of spirituality and simplicity in their lives - not only from the religious angle, but also the psychological, emotional and mental…the whole human psyche…

Incidentally some years ago after St. Therese was pronounced a Doctor of The Church, I had the real honour to attend a talk in our Carmel here by a priest theologian whose sole focus in life was St. Therese and her theology and “The Little Way of Spritual Childhood”…

Barb