Today, in addition to being the Feast of Sts. Vincent of Saragossa and Athanasius the Persian, it is the feast of another Vincent, St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pious Society of Missions (the Pallottine Fathers).
I have a connection to this saint, along with San Filippo Neri and Francesca Romana. The first time I was in Rome, before my conversion, I was studying ancient history and archeology. The place where we were lodged was called the Casa Pallotti in the Via Pettinari, the street that aims directly into the Ponte Sisto across the Tiber. It was across the street from the “flank” of what years later would become, and still is, my adoptive Roman home parish, Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini, which Providence decreed would be the personal parish for the Traditional Roman Rite in Rome.
It is amazing how these things connect together over the decades. We need hindsight and perspective to see how God works His plans for us, how the digitus Dei moves us around. Another reason why this is “my neighborhood” more than any I had growing up.
Anyway, the Casa Pallotti, was run down when I was there, part of the Pallottine complex (their Rome HQ). It has since been transformed into a swanky hotel.
The Casa Pallotti, now Hotel Ponte Sisto, is next to a little church, San Salvatore in Onda, where you find the body of… St. Vincent Pallotti.
He was canonized by John XXIII in 1963, so he didn’t make it into the 1962 Missale Romanum. However, according to the CDF Decree Cum sanctissima, we could honor him through a celebration of Holy Mass, with the Common of Confessors, perhaps even – being flexible – with the Latin orations of the subsequent missal.
In the same church is the tomb of Bl. Elisabetta Sanna.
Meanwhile, it is also the Feast of Sts. Vincent and Athanasius, whose church is across from the Trevi Fountain. It is distinguished for having the innards – yes, you read that right – of various Popes. More on that HERE.
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Thanks for the reminder about St. Vincent Pallotti and his Feast Day! I have a devotion to him since the late 60’s when We went many times to the Pallottine Retreat House in Bayshore, L.I., N.Y. Good memories for this old man!
Thank you for remembering St. Vincent Pallotti, Father! Some 18 years ago I was fortunate to have been a novice with the Pallottine Fathers in my native Poland. It was a happy year, even if I ended up pursuing a different way of life. To this day, I have a strong admiration for St Vincent and for how down-to-earth and practical he was even as he fixed his gaze on heaven. I remember reading his Letters, in which he mentions, among others, of course, the churches from your post.
One thing that has struck me is that the Trinita dei Pellegrini was (if I recall correctly) the place where St. Vincent had organized a really elaborate Epiphany liturgies and celebrations.
The other two pieces of “trivia” about the Saint that I recall from my formation in the novitiate is that 1) one of his friends/proteges was another Saint, Gaspar del Buffalo and 2) I remember reading about a conversation between St. Vincent and one Bartolomeo Capellari. When Capellari told Vincent that he had been denied admission to the Swiss guards, the Saint looked at him and said: “A day will come when others will stand guard for you”. Capellari later became cardinal, and, of course, Pope Gregory XVI. Of course, as a born Pole I have my beef with the Pope for having condemned the Polish national uprising against the Russian Tsar Alexander in 1830 but that’s an entirely different matter!
Feast of St. Charbel Mackhlouf
24 January 2024 A. D.
Thanks, St. Vincent is a great saint! One can do better than the collective Mass; he has his own propers, courtesy of the Pallottine Fathers.
From our parish in East Harlem ministered to by the S. A. C.’s.
Die 22 ianuarii
S. VINCENTII PALLOTTI
CONFESSORIS I classis
Antiphona ad Introitum
Isai. 40,9
Super montem excélsum ascénde, tu, qui evangelízas Sion; exálta in fortitúdine vocem tuam, qui evangelízas Ierúsalem. (Tempore Paschali Allelúia, allelúia.)
Ps. 23, 1 Dómini est terra et plenitúdo eius; orbis terrárum et univérsi qui habitant in eo.
V. Glória Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Super montem. excélsum ascénde, tu, qui evangelízas Sion; exálta in fortitúdine vocem tuam, qui evangelízas Ierúsalem.
Oratio
Oremus. Deus, qui in Ecclésia tua beátum Vincéntium Confessórem, ad fidem tuéndam et caritátem fovéndam suscitásti, concede propítius; ut eiúsdem secrántes exempla, consequámur et præmia.
Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.
I Cor 13, 1 – 8, 13
Fratres: Si linguis hóminum loquar et Angelórum, caritátem autem non hábeam, factus sum velut æs sonans aut cýmbalum tínniens. Et si habúero prophétiam, et nóverim mystéria ómnia et omnem sciéntiam: et si habúero omnem fidem, ita ut montes tránsferam, caritátem autem non habúero, nihil sum. Et si distribúero in cibos páuperum omnes facultátes meas, et si tradídero corpus meum, ita ut árdeam, caritátem autem non habuero, nihil mihi prodest. Cáritas patiens est, benígna est: cáritas non æmulátur, non agit pérperam, non inflátur, non est ambitiósa,
non quærit quæ sua sunt, non irritátur, non cógitat malum, non gaudet super iniquitáte, congáudet autem veritáti: ómnia suffert, ómnia credit, ómnia sperat, ómnia sústinet. Cáritas numquam éxcidit: sive prophétiæ evacuabúntur, sive linguæ cessábunt, sive sciéntia destruétur. Nunc autem manent fides, spes, cáritas, tria hæc:
maior autem horum est caritas.
I * CARITAS CHRISTI URGET NOS * I
Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli
Apóstoli ad Corinthios.
Die 22 ianuarii Graduale
S. VINCENTII PALLOTTI CONFESSORIS I classis Ps 116,1-2
Sequéntia sancti Evangélii
secúndum Lucam.
Laudáte Dóminum, omnes gentes:
laudáte eum, omnes pópuli:
V. Quóniam confirmáta est super nos misericórdia ejus: et véritas Dómini
manet in ætérnum.
Allelúia, allelúia. Ps. 23,1 Narrábo
nomen tuum frátribus meis: in médio
ecclésiæ laudábo te. Alleluia.
Post Septuagesimam, omisso Allelúia
cum suo verso, dicitur
Tractus
Ps. 134,1 et 3-4
Luc. 10,1-9
In illo témpore, designavit Dominus et alios septuaginta duos et misit illos binos ante faciem suam in omnem civitatem et locum quo erat ipse venturus. et dicebat illis messis quidem multa operarii autem pauci rogate ergo Dominum messis ut mittat operarios in messem ite ecce ego mitto vos sicut agnos inter lupos nolite portare sacculum neque peram neque calciamenta et neminem per viam salutaveritis in quamcumque domum intraveritis primum dicite pax huic domui. et si ibi fuerit filius pacis requiescet super illam pax vestra sin autem ad vos revertetur in eadem autem domo manete edentes et bibentes quae apud illos sunt dignus enim est operarius mercede sua nolite transire de domo in domum et in quamcumque civitatem intraveritis et susceperint vos manducate quae adponuntur vobis et curate infirmos qui in illa sunt et dicite illis adpropinquavit in vos regnum Dei. Credo.
Laudáte nomen Dómini: laudáte servi Dóminum. V. Laudáte Dóminum, quia bonus Dóminus: psállite nómini eius quoniam suáve. V. Quoniam Iacob elegit sibi Dóminus: Israël in
possesiónem sibi.
In Missis votivis tempore paschali
omittitur graduale, et eius loco
dicitur:
Allelúia, allelúia. Ps. 21,23 Narrábo nomen tuum frátribus meis: in médio ecclésiæ laudábo te. Allelúia. V. Rom. 10,15 Quam speciósi pedes
evangelizántium bona. Allelúia.
II * CARITAS CHRISTI URGET NOS * II
Die 22 ianuarii S. VINCENTII PALLOTTI CONFESSORIS I classis Antiphona ad Offertorium
1 Cor. 9,22-23
Antiphona ad Communionem
Philip. 1, 20-21
Magnificábitur Christus in córpore meo sive per vitam sive per mortem mihi enim vívere Christus est et mori lucrum.
(Tempore Paschali Allelúia) Post Communio
Oremus. Refécti sacraménto Córporus et Sánguinis Fílii tui, Dómine, súpplices exorámus: ut, beáto Vincéntio Confessóre tuo intercedénte, contémptis s?culi fluxis, ætérna iúgiter appetámus. Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.
Omnibus ómnia factus sum, ut omnes fácerem salvos:
ómnia autem fácio propter evangélium, ut párticeps eius
effíciar. (Tempore Paschali Allelúia)
Secreta
Obláta múnera, qu?sumus, Dómine, propítius réespice: ut, sicut per hæc mystéeria beátum Vincéntium eximium tuae misericórdiæ minístrum effecísti; ita nos caritáte in fratres per éadem inflammémur. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus,
Dominicis: Praefatio Sanctissima Trinitate Feria II – VII: Praefatio de Omnibus Sanctis et SS. Patronis alia Praefatio Communis
Concordat cum originali approbato. In fidem, etc. Ex Secretaria S. R. C., die 18 novembris 1963.
L. ? S. Henricus DANTE, Archiep. Carpasien., S. R. C. a Secretis. TYPIS POLYGLOTTIS VATICANIS MCMLXIII Reprint Teddy Thongratnachat III * CARITAS CHRISTI URGET NOS * III
IV * MATER DIVINI AMORIS ORA PRO NOBIS * IV