Today is the ninth day before Pentecost. Hence, today is the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Notice that today is THURSDAY.
However, in the traditional Roman calendar, used with the 1962 Missale Romanum, today is the feast of St. Pope Pius V (+1572).
I made a PODCAzT about him some years ago, and about his famous document Quo primum.
084 09-04-30 St. Pius V and Quo primum.
A friend sent me a list of some of the accomplishments of St. Pius, who reigned for only a bit more than 6 years, but in tumultuous times.
1) began his pontificate by giving large alms to the poor (he did not just talked about them)
2) as Pope, continued the life of penance and virtue he had lived as a mendicant friar
3) made two meditations during the day ON BEENDED KNEES in the presence of the Bl. Sacrament
4) visited hospitals and sat by the bedside of the sick
5) washed the feet of the poor and embraced the lepers
6) always opposed Protestantism and the Turks
2) as Pope, continued the life of penance and virtue he had lived as a mendicant friar
3) made two meditations during the day ON BEENDED KNEES in the presence of the Bl. Sacrament
4) visited hospitals and sat by the bedside of the sick
5) washed the feet of the poor and embraced the lepers
6) always opposed Protestantism and the Turks
7) excommunicated Elizabeth I
8) instituted the Feast of the Holy Rosary
9) reformed the curia and the Church, leaving, after he died, “the memory of a rare virtue and an unfailing and inflexible integrity”
9) reformed the curia and the Church, leaving, after he died, “the memory of a rare virtue and an unfailing and inflexible integrity”
Deus, qui, ad conterendos Ecclesiae tuae hostes et ad divinum cultum reparandum, beatum Pium Pontificem maximum eligere dignatus es: fac nos ipsius defendi praesidiis et ita tuis inhaerere obsequiis; ut, omnium hostium superatis insidiis, perpetua pace laetemur.Contero is, “to grind, bruise, pound, to crumble, separate into small pieces”. That word alone is a hint that this is a great prayer. Obsequium, in the plural here, is a little tricky to get into English just right. First, it has to do with God: it’s with tuis. It has to do with how God is indulgent, toward us. I want to say “cleave to your indulgences”, but that sounds like the use of the indulgences the Church grants from the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints. So, we have to put it another way.
Slavishly Literal Attempt:
O God, who deigned to choose blessed Pius
to be Pontifex Maximus in order to smash the enemies of your Church to
bits and to renew the divine worship, cause us to be defended by his
protections and to cleave with obedience to what you will in such
way that, once the plots of all our enemies are overcome, we may rejoice
in perpetual peace.
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