Since I am “on the road” I do not have all the accoutrement one might desire for vesting according to the liturgical calendar. Of course white can substitute other colors in a pinch.
Today in the Vetus Ordo being the Vigil of St. Lawrence, the liturgical color is purple, since vigils have a penitential undertone. We fast before our feasts. I don’t have purple vestments with me, but I have white and red. Public thanks again to the readers who pitched in for my travel vestments. Your names are on the pouches in which they are toted.
That said, there was legislation issued the Holy See, a document called Cum sanctissima, which allows us to celebrate feasts of saints put into the universal calendar after 1962. For example, our 1962 Missals do not have Martin de Porres, Vincent Pallotti, Charles Lwanga, Peter Julian Eymard, John of Avila (Doctor), some English Martyrs like John Ogilvie, Elizabeth Ann Seton, John Neumann, Charbel Makhluf, how many canonized by JP2…? Josemaría Escrivá, Maximilian Kolbe, Mother Teresa, Padre Pio, John Henry Newman, Josephine Bakhita, Damien De Veuster, Mary MacKillop, John Paul II, Gianna Beretta Mola, Hildegard of Bingen, Kateri Tekakwitha, or, upcoming Pier Giorgio Frassati or Carlo Acutis. To name but a few. So long as some specified feasts of the Vetus Ordo calendar are not supplanted, post-Conciliar saints can be celebrated. The list of Vetus Ordo calendar saints or feasts which cannot be supplanted is HERE. For example, in August you cannot supplant these:
Augustus
02 S. Alfonsi Mariae de Ligorio Ep., Conf. et Eccl. Doct.
04 S. Dominici Conf.
05 In Dedicatione S. Mariae ad Nives
08 S. Ioannis Mariae Vianney Conf.
12 S. Clarae Virg.
20 S. Bernardi Abbatis et Eccl. Doct.
28 S. Augustini Ep., Conf. et Eccl. Doct.
29 In Decollatione S. Ioannis Bapt.
And that said, today in the Novus Ordo calendar is the Feast of St. Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross). She was canonized as a virgin martyr.
Since the Vigil of St. Lawrence is NOT one of those days which can’t be bumped, today using the Vetus Ordo, the Usus Antiquior, the Tridentine Rite, I can celebrate St. Edith Stein using the red vestment which I do have, instead of the Vigil. And while I could simply use the Common for a Virgin Martyr as is, I could use the Latin Collect from her proper:
Deus patrum nostrórum,
qui beátam Terésiam Benedíctam mártyrem
ad cognitiónem Fílii tui crucifíxi
eiúsque imitatiónem usque ad mortem perduxísti,
ipsa intercedénte, concéde,
ut omnes hómines Christum Salvatórem agnóscant
et per eum ad perpétuam tui visiónem advéniant.
Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus,
per ómnia s?cula sæculórum.
Would someone like to give this a shot?
Perseid meteors started in mid-July but they will peak on the mornings of August 11, 12 and 13.
