This week in the Church Triumphant

MONDAY (8/17) - (4:14)
Octave Day of St. Lawrence

St. Hyacinth, patron of weightlifting

TUESDAY (8/18) - (5:21)
Empress St. Helena, patroness of converts & difficult marriages

“At Palestrina, the birthday of St Agapitus, Martyr, who was arrested by command of the Emperor Aurelian at the age of fifteen, being fervent in love for Christ. He was first of all scourged for a long time with thongs of raw hide, and then, under Antiochus the prefect, suffered more severe punishments; finally, when by the Emperor’s command he was thrown to the lions, and yet not hurt, he was struck with the sword by the Emperor’s hirelings, and crowned with martyrdom.” (Roman Martyrology)

WEDNESDAY (8/19) - (6:42)
“At Caen in France, St John Eudes, Confessor, Missionary Apostolic, Founder of the Congregation of Priests of Jesus and Mary and of the Order of Nuns of Our Lady of Charity, and the promoter of the liturgical cult of the Most Sacred Hearts of Christ and his Mother. Pope Pius XI added him to the number of the saints.” (Roman Martyrology)

THURSDAY (8/20) - (8:14)
St. Bernard (Marian Hymn for Assumption Octave Jam Regína discúbuit) “glorious in his life, teaching and miracles, whom Pope Pius VIII declared and confirmed a Doctor of the Universal Church” (Roman Martyrology)

“The Lactation of Bernard”

“Birthday” of Pope St. Pius X - “In the district of Langres, the death of St Bernard, first Abbot of Clairvaux, At Rome, the death of St Pius X, Pope and Confessor, unconquerable defender of the integrity of the faith and the liberty of the Church, and distinguished by his zeal for the spread of the faith. His feast is kept on September 3.” (Roman Martyrology)

(Universal Feast, Greek and Latin) In Judaea, St Samuel, Prophet, whose holy bones (as blessed Jerome relates) the Emperor Arcadius translated to Constantinople and buried near Septimum.” (Roman Martyrology)

“At Cordova, Spain, the holy martyrs Leovigild and Christopher, monks, who were cast into prison for their belief in Christ during the Arab persecution, at once had their necks broken and were then burned and so obtained the crown of martyrdom.” (Roman Martyrology)

FRIDAY 8/21 (12:54)
Pope St. Pius X (new)

St. Jane Frances de Chantal (widow), Co-founder of the Visitation Order

St. Thaddeus, Apostle (Byzantine)

SATURDAY (8/22) - Octave Day of the Assumption - (13:42)
Immaculate Heart of Mary (history going back to St. John Eudes c. 1643, and indeed St. Luke’s Gospel) - instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1944 for the Octave Day of the Assumption

“The liturgical worship, through which due honor is given to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, and for which many holy men and women have prepared the way, the Apostolic See itself first approved in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Pope Pius VII instituted the feast of the Most Pure Heart of the Virgin Mary, to be piously and reverently celebrated by all the dioceses and religious families who had asked for it. Afterwards Pope Pius IX added an Office and a proper Mass to it. But an ardent desire and longing, which had arisen in the seventeenth century, grew day by day, that namely, the same Feast, given greater solemnity, might be spread to the entire Church. In 1942, Pope Pius XII, graciously acceding to this wish, and during the terrible war then ravaging almost the entire world, pitying the infinite hardships of men, and because of his devotion and confidence in our heavenly Mother, in solemn supplication earnestly entrusted the entire human race to her most generous Heart, and in honor of the same Immaculate Heart he ordered a Feast to be kept forever with its proper Office and Mass” (from the Office of the Day in the 1955 reformed Office).

Moved in the new rite to the day after Sacred Heart of Jesus

Queenship of Mary (new) (switched from May 31, which became the Visitation for Chronology between the Annunciation and the Birth of St. John the Baptist)

SUNDAY - XIII POST. PENT / XXI TEMPUS PER ANNUM - (18:03)
St. Rose of Lima (new)

St. Philip Benizi