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September 29th ~ Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel
LAUDS
Christe, sanctorum decus angelorum
Angel of Strength ! thou, Gabriel, cast out
Thine ancient foes, usurpers of thy reign ;
The temples of thy triumph round the globe
Revisit once again.
And Raphael, Physician of the soul,—
Let him descend from his pure halls of light,
To heal the sick, and guide each doubtful course
Through all our life aright.
Thou too, O Virgin, with the angel choirs,
Mother of Light, and Queen of Peace! descend ;
And bring with thee the radiant Court of Heav'n,
Thy children to befriend.
This grace on us bestow, O Father blest ;
And thou, O Son by an eternal birth ;
With Thee, from both proceeding, Holy Ghost,
Whose glory fills the earth.
Lyra Catholica: Containing All the Breviary and Missal Hymns. Rev. Fr. Edward Caswall, M.A., translator. (1849)
| 2 |  September 29th ~ Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel
LAUDS
Christe, sanctorum decus angelorum
O CHRIST ! the beauty of the angel worlds !
Of man the Maker and Redeemer blest !
Grant us one day to mount the path of light,
And in thy glory rest.
Angel of Peace ! thou, Michael, from above,
Come down, amid the homes of man to dwell ;
And banish wars, with all their tears and blood,
Back to their native Hell.
(continued) | 1 |
| 3 |  The anniversary of the dedication of the Basilica of St. Michael is used by the Church to honor not only St. Michael the Archangel, but also all the angels who persevered in fidelity to God. With St. Michael as their leader, they cast out Lucifer and his accomplices from Heaven.
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September 29th ~ FEAST of the DEDICATION of ST. MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL
O GOD, Who hast constituted the services of Angels and of men in a wonderful order, mercifully grant that they who always stand before Thy face ministering to Thee in heaven, may also defend our life upon earth.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Collect, September 29, Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel
~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 29th
In consequence, when a man under the motion of grace suffers for justice he becomes, if we consider the motion of grace, worthy to receive eternal salvation; and if we consider the consent of his free will it is fitting that God, by a condescension of friendship, should grant him his just desires, for example the conversion of those he loves, provided these do not offer resistance to divine grace.
Thus when Our Lady, under the impulse of love, suffered with Christ, she became, if we consider the impulse that came from heaven, worthy to receive the salvation that came from heaven; and if we consider the consent of her free will, it was further fitting that God, by His liberality, should grant her profoundest desire which was the desire of her Son, namely the salvation of the world. Thus the Virgin merited de condigno her own salvation, de congruo the world’s salvation. It is accurate to say in this sense that she laboured to merit for us the grace of redemption.
Yet Christ merited for us in a manner altogether higher. He was constituted head of the great body formed by the human race. All that He did under the permanent impulsion of love rendered Him worthy in justice to obtain salvation for all those who are called to become members of His body — that is for all men. Thus He merited eternal life for us, not simply by a merit of congruity but by condign merit: that this merit may be applied to us, it only needs that we should not resist the grace that God sends us for our incorporation with Christ. Christ, and only Christ, has thus merited redemptive grace for us de condigno.
Thus we see how Our Lady can be called Co-Redemptress, but only Christ can be called Redeemer.
This glorious title of Co-Redemptress, and that of Mediatrix of all graces, which it implies, have been given her by the latest popes. On February 2nd, 1904, Pius X wrote in the encyclical Ad diem: ‘In virtue of the communion of sorrows and of will which attached her to Christ, Mary wanted to become the worthy Reparatrix of the fallen world, and in consequence the Dispenser of all the graces Jesus acquired for us by His bloody death . . . Because she surpasses all other creatures by her sanctity and by her union with Christ, and because she was called by Christ to participate in the work of our salvation, she merits for us de congruo, as the expression is, what Christ has merited for us de condigno , and she is the first steward in the dispensing of graces.’
Benedict XV writes similarly, March 22nd, 1918: ‘When her Son suffered and died, she so to say suffered and died with Him, renouncing for the salvation of men and the appeasement of the justice of God her maternal rights over her Son — and immolating her Son, as much as in her lay, so that we are entitled to say that she, with Christ, has redeemed the human race.’
And Pius XI writes, February 2nd, 1923: ‘The Virgin of Sorrows participated with Christ in the work of the Redemption.’ The actual word Co-Redemptrix appears in two decrees of the Holy Office, dated June 26th, 1913, and January 22nd, 1914.
The consent Our Lady gave to the mystery of the Cross was already contained in the Fiat she had uttered to the angel.
Speaking of this totally free acceptance Leo XIII quotes the great sentence of St. Thomas Aquinas according to which at the instant of the Annunciation, God waited for the Virgin to utter the consent of the human race in its entirety; and he adds that in consequence none of that immense treasure of grace and truth which the Lord has brought us is communicated to us apart from Mary. He calls her our Mediatrix with the Mediator.
As we may see, the mystery of the Redemption stands in the Church like a great tree of doctrine which never ceases to flower.
~ Charles Journet, Our Lady of Sorrows. Tr. F.J. Sheed. (1939) | 1 |
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 29th
3. Nor is that all. The Compassion of Our Lady is united to the Passion of Our Lord to merit the salvation of the whole world. Remember what merit is.
When man, acting freely under the divine motion, achieves that towards which God, in pure goodness, had destined him, we say there is merit. Then if one considers the divine motion which proportions man to his goal, the merit is due in justice — it is called strict merit, condign merit; if one considers the consent of the free will moved by grace, it will be seen as suitable that God should grant his favours to the man who accepts the divine motion; this is the merit of congruity, not due in strict justice but founded upon the divine generosity and friendship.
(continued) | 7 |
| 6 |  Sayings of the Saints
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. | 78 |
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PRAYER
To Saint Jude Thaddeus
Make use I implore thee, of that particular privilege given to thee, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly— (Here make your request) and that I may praise God with thee and all the saints forever. I promise, O Blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor thee as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to thee. Amen.
~ National Shrine of St. Jude (Holy Card)
Chicago, Illinois | 65 |
| 8 |  PRAYER
To Saint Jude Thaddeus ~ To be said when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help, or for cases almost despaired of.
Most holy Apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered thy beloved Master into the hands of His enemies has caused thee to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes thee universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone.
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| 9 |  The CROWN of TWELVE STARS
ALL praise and thanksgiving be to the ever-blessed Trinity, who hath shown unto us Mary, ever-Virgin, clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a mystic crown of twelve stars.
℟. For ever and ever. Amen.
Let us praise and give thanks to God the Father, who elected her for his daughter.
℟. Amen. Pater noster.
Praise be to God the Father, who predestined her to be the Mother of his Son.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria.
Praise be to God the Father, who preserved her from all stain in her conception.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria.
Praise be to God the Father, who on her birthday adorned her with his choicest gifts.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria.
Praise be to God the Father, who gave her Joseph for her pure spouse and companion.
℟. Amen. Ave Maria and Gloria Patri.
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PRAYER for a Husband or Wife
(continued)
Preserve my love undefiled, according to thy divine command, and let the duty of love help to conduct me with comfort through all the obligations and difficulties of my state. Grant me discretion to manage all circumstances for the best, a true love for peace, and such a discreet compliance, as to resign my thoughts and inclinations for preserving it. Inspire me with true humility and patience,that I may submit to, and bear with all crosses, in the manner thy apostle requires. Furnish me with all other helps, that whatever difficulties may occur, I may persevere with cheerfulness in discharging the duties of my state, and never yield so far to any weakness, ill humour, or impatience, as to weaken, much less, to break the bond which thou hast sanctified, and which cannot be dissolved but by death. May I always be faithful and indefatigable in the discharge of the duties of my state; doing and suffering whatever falls to my lot, with such absolute submission to thy will, that both in peace and trouble, in prosperity and adversity, I may ever remember to resign myself cheerfully, O God, to thy pleasure or permission; and under all difficulties,still labour to work out my salvation. Amen.
The Key of Heaven or A Manual of Prayers, Dublin, 1839
Prayers for Different States of Life | 45 |
| 11 |  PRAYER for a Husband or Wife
Prayers for Different States of Life
O God, who has ordained the holy state of matrimony, wherein I am engaged, grant me grace to comply with all its obligations, and to perform them in such a manner as is becoming a Christian, not an unbeliever.
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ACT of Consecration to ST. MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL
I entreat thee not to look at how little, I, as thy servant have to offer, being only a wretched sinner, but to gaze, rather, with favorable eye at the heartfelt affection with which this offering is made, and remember that if from this day onward I am under thy patronage, thou must during all my life assist me, and procure for me the pardon of my many grievous offenses, and sins, the grace to love with all my heart my God, my dear Savior Jesus, and my Sweet Mother Mary, and to obtain for me all the help necessary to arrive to my crown of glory.
Defend me always from my spiritual enemies, particularly in the last moments of my life.
Come then, o Glorious Prince, and succor me in my last struggle, and with thy powerful weapon cast far from me into the infernal abysses that prevaricator and proud angel that one day thou prostrated in the celestial battle.
Saint Michael, defend us in our daily battle so that we may not perish in the last Judgment.
Amen.
St. Michael, the Archangel, ora pro nobis. | 45 |
| 13 |  St. Michael, the Archangel, pray for us.
ACT of Consecration to ST. MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL
O most noble Prince of the Angelic Hierarchies, valorous warrior of Almighty God and zealous lover of His glory, terror of the rebellious angels, and love and delight of all the just angels, my beloved Archangel SAINT MICHAEL, desiring to be numbered among thy devoted servants, I, today offer and consecrate myself to thee, and place myself, my family, and all I possess under thy most powerful protection.
(continued) | 50 |
| 14 |  Gospel-lessons to be pondered at Leisure by every Christian soul
One thing is necessary, St. Luke x. 42.
~ Richard Challoner, The Garden of the Soul. (1775) | 58 |
| 15 |  September 28th ~ St. Wenceslaus, Martyr
St. Wenceslaus, duke of Bohemia, ruled that country during its period of conversion to Christianity. His devotion to the Holy Eucharist is mentioned by St. Alphonsus in his book, Visits to the Blessed. Sacrament.
Wenceslaus was in the habit of sowing and reaping with his own hands the wheat from which the hosts were to be made, and he used to rise in the night even during the coldest seasons to visit the Blessed Sacrament. His virtue was the cause of his death, for it aroused the antagonism of his evil-minded mother and brother, who caused him to be assassinated September 28, 938.
~ The New Roman Missal (1937)
St. Wenceslaus, pray for us. | 60 |
| 16 |  St. Wenceslaus was Duke of Bohemia during the conversion of that country to Christianity. He suffered martyrdom at the hands of his own brother, Boleslas, in 938
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September 28th ~ FEAST of ST. WECESLAUS, Martyr
O GOD, Who, by the palm of martyrdom, didst remove Blessed Wenceslas from an earthly kingdom to the glory of heaven, keep us, by his prayers from all adversity, and grant that we may rejoice in everlasting companionship with him.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Collect, September 28, St. Wenceslaus, Martyr
~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956
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| 17 |  Month of the the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 28th
MOTHER OF OUR SAVIOUR
MARY THE CO-REDEMPTRESS OF THE HUMAN RACE
(continued)
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Since Mary did cooperate with Jesus in the work of our salvation, it is our bounden duty to render to her our most heartfelt thanks.
~ Very Rev. Alexis M. Lepicier, O.S.M., The Fairest Flower of Paradise (1922) | 47 |
| 18 |  September 29th ~ Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel
VESPERS AND MATINS
Te splendor et virtus Patris
O JESU ! life-spring of the soul !
The Father’s Pow’r, and Glory bright !
Thee with the Angels we extol ;
From Thee they draw their life and light.
Thy thousand thousand hosts are spread,
Embattled o’er the azure sky ;
But Michael bears thy standard dread,
And lifts the mighty Cross on high.
He in that Sign the rebel powers
Did with their Dragon Prince expel ;
And hurl’d them from the Heaven’s high towers,
Down like a thunderbolt to hell.
Grant us with Michael still, O Lord,
Against the Prince of Pride to fight ;
So may a crown be our reward,
Before the Lamb’s pure throne of light.
Now to the Father, and the Son,
Who rose from death, all glory be ;
With Thee, O holy Comforter,
Henceforth through all eternity.
Lyra Catholica: Containing All the Breviary and Missal Hymns. Rev. Fr. Edward Caswall, M.A., translator. (1849) | 34 |
| 19 | St. Wenceslaus was Duke of Bohemia during the conversion of that country to Christianity. He suffeed martyrdom at the hands of his own brother, Boleslas, in 938
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September 28th ~ FEAST of ST. WECESLAUS, Martyr
O GOD, Who, by the palm of martyrdom, didst remove Blessed Wenceslas from an earthly kingdom to the glory of heaven, keep us, by his prayers from all adversity, and grant that we may rejoice in everlasting companionship with him.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Collect, September 28, St. Wenceslaus, Martyr
~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956
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Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~
September 28th
They bear upon the element of self that may be mingled with filial affection. We must keep no corner of our heart for ourselves. We must give our heart to God without reserve.
Then God Himself, master of our dearest feelings, will make us love our kinsfolk as we ought. The first uprooting of affection would be merely inhuman; the uprooting God wants of us is superhuman.
The blessed Virgin had from the first moment given every movement of her heart to God. In the very instant of the Incarnation she had renounced without reserve every possible element of self in her love for her Child. The ever more agonizing sacrifices demanded of her were not with the object of purifying her from the imperfections of her love, for there was in her no shadow of imperfection. Their sole end was to associate her with the redemptive suffering of her Son. The suffering of Jesus was not directed to His purification but to the redemption of the world. The sufferings of the Immaculate Virgin likewise were not for her purification: she could unite them with the sufferings that Jesus bore for the salvation of men. In this sense they were co-redemptive.
2. We must see both the likeness and the difference between the sufferings of Jesus and Mary.
First, note that Jesus’ sufferings could not increase grace in His soul, whereas Mary’s sufferings merited for her a progressive elevation in charity. But above all, note that His sufferings and hers were not redemptive in the same sense.
The sufferings of Jesus were the sufferings of One whom God had constituted the unique head of all humanity. Because of this, they were primarily and of themselves redemptive. Further, by reason of the infinite dignity of the person of Jesus, they had an infinite value; they constituted a superabundant atonement for the sins of all men and all ages.
The sufferings of Our Lady, needless to say, had only a finite value. Further, all their redemptive efficacy comes to them from the sufferings of Jesus. They are redemptive only secondarily and by participation. Jesus so loved the Virgin, made her so like to Himself, that He willed to communicate to her material sufferings something of the worth of His own; He willed that hers should be mingled with His and reckoned with His in compensation for the iniquity of men. God acts in a similar fashion, though to a lesser degree, in regard to very great saints whom He calls to suffer for the sins of others. St. Paul says that he rejoiced in his sufferings for the Colossians, adding the mysterious words, ‘And fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church’ (Col. i, 24).
The Compassion of Our Lady is thus united to the Passion of Our Lord in reparation for the sins of the whole world.
~ Charles Journet, Our Lady of Sorrows. Tr. F.J. Sheed. (1939) | 37 |
