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AUGUST 28, FEAST OF SAINT AUGUSTINE

Saint Augustine was born in 354 at Tagaste in Africa. He was brought up in the Christian faith but did not receive baptism, result of the practice, common in the first centuries, of deferring it until adulthood. An ambitious schoolboy of brilliant talents and violent passions, he early lost both his faith and his innocence. He pursued with ardor the study of philosophy. He taught grammar, rhetoric and literature for nine years in his native town of Tagaste, and in Carthage. He persisted in his irregular life and doctrinal errors until he was thirty-two. Then one day, stung to the heart by the account of some sudden conversions, he cried out, "The unlearned rise and storm heaven, and we, with all our learning, for lack of courage lie inert!" The great heart of this future bishop was already evident.

Christianists

SEPTEMBER 3, FEAST OF ST PIUS X

He saw with perfect perspicacity that the Church was falling ever more deeply into the disastrous errors of modernism, that "crossroads of every heresy." The teachings of his predecessors had entered into deaf ears; everywhere defenders of the Catholic heritage in all domains were becoming sparse. Nonetheless there remained a group of them to second their Head, and strive with him to arrest the rising tide. Saint Pius X absolutely supported all that the great encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius IX had proclaimed or enjoined upon the authorities of the Church. He brought about the resignation of a considerable number who resisted that authority and who in ambiguous language continued to promulgate the subtle errors propagated by the manifold isms, the false doctrines of the modern world separated from Christ.

Christianists

“Mary was a martyr, not by the sword of the executioner, but by bitter sorrow of heart.”

- St Bernard of Clairvaux ☩

Requesting prayers: Medchad

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Remember Lepanto.

The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement  that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholoc States (comprising Spain and most of Italy) arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire  in the Gulf of Patras.

Happy Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary!

Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais has died.

Do say a prayer for the repose of his soul.

He was known as the most solid of the SSPX's three remaining bishops. Everyone said he was sympathetic to Bp Williamson in his rejection of the SSPX's six sell-out points in 2012, albeit he nevertheless remained with the SSPX. I had even heard rumours he was privately a sedevacantist. Whatever the truth of that, he has a soul that probably needs prayers.

Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine,
Et lux perpetua luceat ei,
Requiescat in pace.
Amen.

Saint Thomas More