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Tag Archives: St. Augustine
WDTPRS 11th Ordinary Sunday: God begins and completes the meritorious things we do
This week’s Collect is effectively the same as one in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and the prayer in the 1962 Missale Romanum used during the week after Trinity Sunday.
Deus, in te sperantium fortitudo, invocantibus nostris adesto propitius, et, quia sine … Continue reading
St. Golden Girl
Today is the feast of St. Aurea (in Greek Chryse, “Golden Girl”) of Ostia. She is an ancient martyr. You can read about here in these ancient Acta, HERE.
There is on the edge of Ostia Antica, the fascinating ruins of … Continue reading
Posted in Patristiblogging, Saints: Stories & Symbols
Tagged Ostia, St. Augustine, St. Aurea, St. Monnica
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4 May: Monnica!
In the older, traditional Roman calendar today is the feast of the mother of St. Augustine, St. Monnica, widow.
(Yes, you can spell her name “Monnica”, more consistent with her Punic origins.)
In the chapel of the Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 14: Tuesday 2nd Week of Lent – tiny drops can sink your boat unless you empty it
Today is Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Lent.
Today we hear about the Station, listen to Pope Benedict’s reflection on the Transfiguration, and hear St. Augustine’s sound warning to take care of our little boats.
A taste of Augustine from the … Continue reading
Posted in Benedict XVI, LENTCAzT, Patristiblogging, PODCAzT
Tagged Benedict XVI, LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT, St. Augustine
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COLLECT Tuesday in the 1st Week of Lent – “mortify” yes, “torment” no.
COLLECT (Usus Recentior)
Respice, Domine, familiam tuam, et praesta,
ut apud te mens nostra tuo desiderio fulgeat,
quae se corporalium moderatione castigat.
Today’s prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and, long before that, in the so-called ancient “Gregorian Sacramentary“. This has been “adapted” … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged Ecdicia, maceratio, mens, moderatio, moderation, St. Augustine
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LENTCAzT 04: Saturday after Ash Wednesday – “Ask me for something better”
Today is Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Lent is underway but this is still our last day within its Lent’s narthex.
GO TO CONFESSION!
Today we hear about basketball hoops, epitaphs, wealth and wickedness and better requests.
Augustine of Hippo:
My child, why do you … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, Patristiblogging, PODCAzT
Tagged LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT, St. Augustine
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LENTCAzT 03: Friday after Ash Wednesday – getting ready for short trips but not the long trip
Today is Friday after Ash Wednesday. Lent is underway but we are still within its narthex.
GO TO CONFESSION!
Today we hear about packing for short trips, illegal burials, and renewing filial abandonment.
Augustine of Hippo:
We prepare ourselves spectacularly for a short trip, … Continue reading
Sodality of St. Augustine – to pray for the conversion of loved ones
My friends of the Latin Mass Society in England have a new and worthy initiative.
The Sodality of St Augustine of Hippo
From the website:
The purpose of the Sodality is to unite the prayers of members for the conversion of those dear to … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged fallen away Catholics, lapsed Catholics, Latin Mass Society, LMS, New Evangelization, Sodality of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Year of Faith
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Happy Birthday St. Augustine!
Today is the birthday of St. Augustine of Hippo (354). We actually know his birthday because he tells us in one of his Cassiciacum dialogues (De beata vita 6).
It is therefore also the feast of all the saints of the Augustinian … Continue reading
Posted in Saints: Stories & Symbols
Tagged beata u. 6, Cassiciacum, St. Augustine, St. Monica
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Reflection on the election.
The Roman historian Livy wrote about the terminal decline of the Roman Republic that “Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus… We can bear neither our vices nor the remedies.”
Alas, I fear that our vices have called forth precisely the … Continue reading
Posted in The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged election, Four Last Things, Livy, Pres. Obama, St. Augustine
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