The Meaning of Catholic

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“Unite with me in prayer.” The Marian element - Mater Ecclesiae - in the Meaning of Catholic - Mary is Lady Wisdom.
All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren (Acts i. 14).
* Aristotle rejected Lady Wisdom (“woman is a misbegotten man” - I q92 a1) and hence ahistorical, Aristo-Thomism can be led into subtle intellectual idols
* “Catholic Patriarchy and the Traditional View of Women”
* Garrigou-Lagrange is true Thomism - deeply Marian and deep in the interior life.
* Jewish Wisom is לב חָכָ֣ם וְנָב֔וֹן - leb ha-kam wenbown
* καρδίαν φρονίμην καὶ σοφήν
* cor sapiens et intelligens
* Wisdom is a Woman
* “In Proverbs, Solomon attains wisdom that leads to temporal success
* “In Ecclesiastes, he despairs of temporal success because death renders it vain.
* “In the Song, he discovers that love is stronger than death (Cant. viii. 6).
* “In Wisdom, he falls in love with Lady Wisdom and so attains immortality.”
* Lady wisdom (created wisdom) gives birth to Eternal Wisdom
* Union of the “one and many”
* Man and woman
* Logos and Sophia
* Christ is Logos (uncreated) and Sophia (“God’s Body”)
* The Seraphic Doctor vs. the Angelic (Common) Doctor
* Plato vs. Aristotle
* Bonaventure vs. Thomas
* Woman vs. Man
* “Jewish” despair
* Young Edith becomes an Atheist - foreshadows the passion of Elie Wiesel “God died at Auschwitz”
* Is the Holocaust the cross for Jews and Gentiles?
* The mystery of Vatican II and the restoration of Jewish-Catholic dialogos
* Jewish Realism founded by Edmund Husserl
* But Fr. Franz Brentano had two students
* Edith Stein was converted to the Messiah by Jewish Realism
* Augustinian Phenomenology lifted the “Jewish” veil from her heart
* The manifestation of the cross by her Protestant friend Anna Reinach
* Protestant (future Godmother) Hedwig Conrad-Martius gives St. Teresa Benedicta her namesake
* St. Teresa of Jesus, who grandfather was a “true Jew,” converted Edith Stein in one sitting
* St. Teresa Benedicta, under obedience, continues her Augustinian practice of wisdom
* Jewish Husserl to St. Thomas: “We are both convinced that a logos is the force behind all that is.”
* She provides the Metaphysical basis for the synthesis between Vatican I and Vatican II for the Modern World
* Vatican I is Aristotle and Vatican II is Augustine
* The Nοῦς of head and heart
* The life-giving union of Husband and Wife
* The Family is the “final battle” with Antichrist
* Universal call to holiness: climax of her magnum opus: St. Teresa of Jesus and true humanism
* “It is altogether foreign to [St. Teresa of Jesus] to wonder whether the structure of the soul has any meaning apart from God’s indwelling.” The metaphysics of God’s indwelling in the heart.
* The Science of the Cross - completed in the year before her martyrdom
For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness: But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men (I Cor. i. 22-25).
* “Hearts Unquiet” - St. Monica’s tears are her birth pains for Western civilisation
* The Novus Ordo Missae reunites them
* Collect for St. Monica
* (New) Collect for St. Augustine
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Against the SSPX Schism, episode 3
The SSPX: More than Separated Brethren
Archbishop Lefebvre, St. John Paul II… may we all meet merrily hereafter in heaven.
* The relationship of Schism and Heresy - heresy means to choose
* Dialogos is necessary for the symphonic Catholic truth - this follows from “Wisdom is a Woman” and “Being is Communion”
* The first Greek sc…

XII Dom. post Pent. / XXI Dom. Tempus per Annum
MONDAY (8/24)
* (Latin) St. Bartholomew, Apostle (Greek - tomorrow)
* Preached in India
* Converted King of Armenia, then that King’s brother had him martyred “when he had converted many folk there to the faith, he was flayed alive by the barbarians, and by command of King Astyages fulfilled his martyrdom by beheading” (Roman Martyrology).
* Relics miraculously washed up on Island of Lipari, later transferred to Rome
* St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre & the False Spirit of Trent
* Novus Ordo Collect “better” than the TLM - but the liturgy is deeper than texts
* “Likewise, St George Limniota, a monk, who reproved the wicked Emperor Leo for breaking the holy images and burning the relics of the saints. At the latter’s command his hands were cut off and his head set on fire, and he passed as a martyr to the Lord” (Roman Martyrology).
* “Maria Goretti of Romania”, Blessed Veronica Antal, Virgin: 22-year-old Csángó peasant girl, lay Franciscan, member of the Militia Immaculatae, and martyr of chastity—stabbed to death on this day in 1958, for refusing to submit to rape.
* Blessed Miroslav Bulešić: Croatian Catholic priest, Pastor of Baderna and Kanfanar, Professor and Vice-Rector at the Seminary of Pazin, anti-communist dissident, and martyr—stabbed to death by communists on this day in 1947, aged 27.
* Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, Virgin: French peasant, Vincentian nun, educator, and foundress of the Sisters of Charity—who died at Naples on this day in 1826. During the French Revolution, she was beaten and exiled for refusing to forsake her vows.
TUESDAY (8/25) - (15:01)
* Miraculous Finding of the Relics of St. Bartholomew (Greek)
* King St. Louis IX
* Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX
* New Martyr Igor Aleksandrovich Akulov
* Born in 1897 in Tver Province to a family of Orthodox peasants. In 1918 he was graduated from the regular high school. Since 1920 he was a postulant at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, and at the same time he studied at the Petrograd Theological Institute. He was tonsured as a monk with the name of Epiphany on 2nd July 1921. After that he met Blessed Leonid Feodorov he joined the Catholic Church. In summer of 1922 he was ordained as priest. Since August, 1922 he was vicar of the Byzantine rite parish of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Petrograd. He was arrested in 1923, and in 1924 he was sentenced to prison for 10 years. In 1927 he was freed before his sentence was up and sent to an exile. After the liberation he served in various churches in Leningrad. In 1935 he was arrested again for a short time. In 1937 he was arrested, condemned to be shot, and then shot on 25th August 1937. He was buried in the Levashov desolate area near the city of Leningrad. The faithful of St. Petersburg cherish the memory of the martyrdom of Fr. Epiphany and they are convinced of his sanctity.
* “The endless grace of God didn’t forsake us at this point and sent to us a young hero monk Epiphanies. He found himself among us when the struggle for the Church was in full swing, but he wasn’t frightened and didn’t withdraw from it. Protestantism and rationalism had no influence on him. He was an excellent priest.” - Blessed Leonid Fiodorov (1922).
WEDNESDAY (8/26) - (21:01)
* Black Madonna of Częstochowa
* Transverberation of St. Teresa (Carmelite)
THURDSAY (8/27) - (23:21)
* St. Monica (new)
FRIDAY (8/28) - (24:23)
* St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church (Greek: June 15)
* St. Mark of Ephesus venerated St. Augustine more than the “Orthobros”
* This is why Georges Florovsky said, for instance, that Augustine is “the greatest Father of the Church universal” (Brandon Gallaher and John Chryssavgis, eds. The Living Christ: the Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky (Bloomsbury: 2021), 198.)
* St. Augustine is the Doctor of the Church for the 20th Century as well
* “On the Significance of an Augustinian Pope”
* (Greek & Latin) St. Moses “the Black”
* King St. Hezekiah (Greek)
SATURDAY (8/29) - (31:33)
* Blessed Teresa Bracco, Virgin: 20-year-old Ligurian peasant, pious Catholic, and martyr of chastity—murdered by a German soldier in 1944, for refusing to submit to rape.
* Blessed Flavianus Michael Melki: Syriac Catholic convert (from Oriental Orthodoxy), priest-monk, Bishop of Gazarta, and martyr of the Assyrian Genocide—tortured and beheaded by Ottoman authorities on this day in 1915, after refusing conversion to Islam.
* Blessed Pedro Asúa Mendía: Spanish-Basque architect, engineer, Catholic priest, and martyr of the Spanish Civil War—murdered by the Reds at Liendo on this day in 1936, aged 45.
* (Greek & Latin) Beheading of St. John the Baptist
* Fast
* Part of traditional fasting is sexual abstinence in marriage
* Don’t eat on a circular plate
* Be man enough to pray the Novus Ordo Missae and lay your head on the chopping block for Marriage like St. John the Baptist & St. John Fisher
SUNDAY (8/30) - XIV post Pent / XXII tempus per annum - (32:49)
* St. Rose of Lima (old)
* Saint Anne Line (née Alice Higham): Essex-born English gentlewoman, convert to Catholicism (from Calvinism), widow, and martyr of the Elizabethan persecution—hanged at Tyburn in 1601, for harbouring a Catholic priest.
* The “Pearl of York”, Saint Margaret Clitherow, an Anglican convert to Catholicism and mother of three arrested for harbouring Catholic priests and crushed to death—while pregnant—in 1586, during the Elizabethan persecution.
* The “Pearl of Tyburn”, Saint Margaret Ward, Virgin: Cheshire-born English gentlewoman, Catholic recusant, and martyr of the Elizabethan persecution—hanged on this day in 1588, for helping a priest escape Bridewell Prison.
* Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster: Italian Benedictine monk, Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan, and Cardinal-Priest of San Martino ai Monti, who died on this day in 1954.



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Jews, Judaism & Israel, History of a People: Episode 33
* The Industrial Revolution deracinates the Latin rite
* Laity are left uncatechised and ignorant of their fathers’ liturgical piety
* The philosophical question at the heart of the debate
* What is “the prayer of the Church”? Is it “the prayer of the clergy” at the liturgy?
* Guéranger: a clericalist conception?
* Fatima taught Eucharistic Reparation in 1916 (“The Liturgical Problem is Much Deeper than the Novus Ordo”)
* St. Teresa Benedicta embodies the prayer of the Church
* St. Teresa Benedicta on “The Prayer of the Church”
* The Authentic Teaching of Vatican II on the Mystical Life
* Joseph Ratzinger on “active participation”
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“Against the SSPX” or “The SSPX: More than Separated Brethren” episode 02
* My own sins with Ahistorical, Aristo-Thomism vs. True Thomism
* Solomon asks for an understanding heart (לב, Cor)
* Wisdom is feminine - intellect, will and heart.
* AI and the Technocracy is heartless and feeds on heartlessness like fuel
* All Female Typoi are the Mother of God, the True Ark
* W…