The calendar is jam pack today. In the VO, it is a “dies non” but there is a commemoration of the Impression of the Stigmata on St. Francis. However, it is also the Feast St. Hildegard von Bingen (+1179). Her “equivalent canonization” was in 2021 by Benedict XVI and in that same year he named her Doctor of the Church. She wrote amazing things and composed music. She also invented a language and alphabet. Here is her Collect:
COLLECTA
Deus, fons vitae, qui sanctam Hildegardem, virginem, prophetico spiritu imbuisti, fac nos, quaesumus, eius exemplo et intercessione, vias tuas scire et in huius saeculi caligine lucis tuae claritatem cognoscere. Per Dominum.
There’s a pun in there. Can you find it?
It’s also the NO feast of St. Robert Bellarmine (+1621), also a Doctor of the Church. His body is in the Church of St Ignatius in Rome.
St. Robert Bellarmine was a prolific writer, but a great deal of his work has not yet been translated into English. In recent years there have been good efforts to do just that. One of those efforts has left me a bit in awe. Behold Controversies of the Christian Faith translated by the erst-while of Homiletic and Pastoral Review Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ. US HERE Also, Doctrina Christiana: The Timeless Catechism of St. Robert Bellarmine translated by Ryan Grant with an introduction by the great Bp. Athanasius Schneider. US HERE – UK HERE There is no equivocating in these works about paths to God.
It is also the feast of St. Columba, virgin and martyr in Cordoba in 853.
In chessy news… HERE
BTW… someone remind me when I am in Rome to get a new red cincture.
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India is the sole leader in Budapest. India beat Hungary. Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem took down struggling world champ Ding Liren. Iran beat Norway, Parham drew against Magnus! Wesley drew with Shevchenko.
White to move. Mate in two.
This is interesting…
Have any of St. Robert’s works against Calvinism and Lutheranism been translated in to English?
1. Qc2 bxc2 2. Be5#
Hard to believe Bellarmine and Francis are both Jesuits. Jesuits with different paths I guess.
If all paths are equal, could someone explain to me Traditiones Custodes? Why has one path been deemed not equal?
Do we all have different paths of morality? Is abortion and contraception a forbidden path for certain faiths who have condemned it? Is polygamy a path to God?
September 13th. Fatima.
We need to pray for our leaders, we have all been blinded by the great lie of Satan.
“Fons” and “imbuisti?” “Inebria me” vibes? Either that or the contrast of “caligine” with “lucis.”
Qc2, Pxc2 (the only move possible)
Be5# (check by Rook and Bishop)
Et Cetera… nope, keep looking!
SCIVIAS! That is brilliant!
I wonder who composed it.
During a talk Fr. Malichi Martin told us that the Pope at that time, told Him to question the USCCCB on using the words ALL in the Novus Ordo, instead of the correct MANY. The Bishops told Fr. Martin,You would need to be a Scholar in Latin, Greek and Aramaic to understand this. He replied, I am a Scholar in those three and if I say ALL of you stand up, I don’t mean many. When Christ said, MANY are going to Hell, he didn’t mean ALL were going to hell.
After some private discussion the USCCB said, It says All when We say it means All.
Why should Francis’s comments suprise us.
The pun is in “vias tuas scire”.
St. Hildegard’s most famous work is titled Scivias (> Sci vias Eius, Known His Ways).
Yup… Scivias! It’s clever.
No, you cannot checkmate with 1. Qc2 bxc2 2. Be5+ because of 2. … fxe5.
I don’t see a mate in two. I do see a straightforward mate in 3 by 1. Be5+ forcing fxe5, then 2. Qh7 (let not the king escape via c7,c6). What follows is either 2. … b2 3. Rxb2++ or 2. e4/exf4 3. Rxb3++.