This third edition for September covers Ember Week during the time of Pentecost. Though the feasts this week supersede the Ember day liturgies, still Wednesday and Saturday are days of partial abstinence while Friday is always full abstinence from meat. Those between the ages of 21 and 59 years are bound to observe the laws of fast on these three days where only one full meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength may be taken according to each one's need, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted, but liquids are allowed. Of course, when health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige. The reasons for Ember Days are to remind us of our need to fast and do penance, to deprive ourselves of gratifications so that we can keep our eye on the eternal prize and make reparation for our sins and those of others while disciplining ourselves spiritually to tame the human beast and fortify the armor of God as St. Paul describes in Ephesians.     As you can see from the title above, we are truly in autumn embers with embassies ablaze as the Arab Spring heats to an inferno of Arab Summer that, to the victims, is an Arab Winter. Make no mistake, Mohammedans are NOT a peace-loving people, but intent on destroying Christianity in the same vicious, violent manner their founder envisioned around the year 666. Diabolic? No doubt, and political correctness has only played into the malaise of both nations and the Church, eclipsed by the feckless apostate counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Francis of Assisi foresaw the chaos that would come and is now upon us and warned his followers as we share on the feast of the Impression of his Stigmata. Once we realize the warnings are true, we ask what are the answers? First of all, begin the process of acknowledging Jesus Christ as Sovereign King of all and His loving Mother Mary as Immaculate Queen. Outside of a tremendous miracle from above, this can only be done through our prayers and sacrifices and next week we strongly urge all to participate in 40-Days of Prayer, Penance and Fasting leading to election day for the very soul of a nation is at stake. We should recall the Lord's promise to Solomon in 2 Paralipomenon 7: 14: "And My people, upon whom My Name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to Me, and seek out My face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. My eyes also shall be open, and My ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place."     "This place" today can only found where the True Presence resides and that is in our traditional Catholic tabernacles. And there only! That is why we must continue to urge the true Bishops - our traditional shepherds - to do what God expects of them through their divinely ordained mandate as true successors of the Apostles. Griff Ruby nails it in his fifth installment of "Accepting Responsibility" with "The Key to Restoring the Keys of the Kingdom." Once again John Gregory bookends the week by providing the Haydock Commentary for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost on how The last shall be first and vice versa, and John's reflections on the Third Glorious Mystery as we continue to observe the 15 Saturday Rosary Crusade first introduced several years ago by now-retired Bishop Robert McKenna, O.P. with the 12th Saturday, focusing on zeal for the salvation of souls. That is what St. Matthew had in mind as he left behind his tax collecting duties to build dividends by saving souls in following Our Lord as Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey relates in his article on the Apostle. Speaking of St. Matthew, John Gregory presents part two on the commentary of St. Matthew's 25th Chapter, verses 13-30 and the consequences and reality of hell with The Hell There Is Another Apostle, St. Paul speaks to St. Bridget of Sweden in Chapter Six of Book Four in which he gives credit to St. Stephen, whom he had killed, for praying for Saul's soul. Finally, this year we find a rare occurence for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost falls on the 16th. This will play out again next month when the 21st Sunday falls on October 21.     Below you can click on each day and features in this third edition for September. We encourage you to sign up for our twitter feeds so you'll be on top of anything that breaks and keep up with news, features, events, devotions and the liturgy for each day. We also urgently ask if you can contribute anything in these tight times, we would be so appreciative for the coffers are truly bare. Thank you and God bless you for whatever you can give.

The Last shall be First Mocked Haydock/John Gregory The Omens of St. Francis of Assisi for Our Times Woe to those who believe the lie The Key to Restoring the Keys of the Kingdom Part Five by Griff Ruby St. Stephen's Saving Grace St. Bridget of Sweden The Hell There Is Part Two John Gregory on St. Matthew 25: 13-30 The "Tax Man" Cometh for souls Dr. Thomas Droleskey Meditation on the Third Glorious Mystery John Gregory Rosary Crusade: 13th Saturday Zeal for souls Prayer in Perilous Times Tom Gallegos Our Mother of Sorrows Edition for second week of September St. Pius X Edition for first week of September Holy Martyrs Edition for fifth week of August IHM Edition for fourth week of August Assumption Edition for third week of August Transfiguration Edition for first and second week of August July Edition for month of the Most Precious Blood June Edition for month of the Sacred Heart May Issues Archive for May 2012 Stand firm; and hold the traditions... We need your help		Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Propers Time after Pentecost Preparation for Holy Mass Meditation & Asperges Me Mass of the Catechumens Introibo to the Gloria Mass of the Catechumens Collect to the Credo Mass of the Faithful Offertory to Sanctus Mass of the Faithful Canon of the Holy Mass Mass of the Faithful Communion Mass of the Faithful Conclusion The Holy Rosary in Latin, English and Spanish September 16 SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian, Mm September 16 Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian, Mm Commemoration for Sunday September 17 Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi Double Feast September 18 St. Joseph of Cupertino Double Feast September 19 St. Januarius and Companion Martyrs Double Feast September 20 St. Eustace and Companion Martyrs Double Feast - Also Vigil of St. Matthew Commemoration September 21 St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist Double of the Second Class September 22 St. Thomas of Villanova, Bishop and Confessor Double Feast

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or you can send your tax-deductible contribution (check, cash or M.0.) by mail to: SANCTUS/DailyCatholic 2750 Wheatstone #111 San Diego, CA 92111 The supernatural life of our souls requires that the grace of God should always go before us and accompany ...More Commememoration of the holy martyrs Pope St. Cornelius and the holy Bishop St. Cyprian as well as more holy martyrs in the persons of Sts. Eupehmia, Lucy and Gemianus ...More To enhance each Sunday's Epistle and Gospel we present this special feature provided by John Gregory with the Haydock Commentary found at the bottom of each page of the Douay-Rheims Bible. We publish it here in conjunction with the Epistle and Gospel for the Sunday Mass, with the cogent comprehensive Catholic Commentary penned by Father George Leo Haydock. For the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost we have first St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians in which he expands on a measure that cannot be measured, the breadth and width and length and depth of Christ's Love, true Charity for man. In the Gospel recorded by St. Luke, Our Lord provides the parable of the wedding feast to show that whomever exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself before God, shall be exalted. The Last shall be First for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Last Shall Be First While Saint Francis of Assisi, in September 1224, was rapt in meditation on Mount Alvernia, Almighty God as a mark of His special favor deigned to impress on his hands, feet, and side the likeness of the sacred wounds of Christ. Until the day of the saint's death blood flowed from these wounds at at intervals. Pope Sixtus V ordered this feast to be observed by the whole Church. Clement VIII suppressed it, because the Church ...More While many eschew the possibility of sedevacantism, none other than the respected founder of the Franciscans begs to differ from his prognostication given shortly before his death in the thirteenth century. Thus on this feast of the holy friar's being imprinted with the visible Stigmata of our Savior's wounds, we bring you the essence of what he said and the rational to look at the facts as they stand today and ask yourself if you still believe that those men who so many consider 'popes' during this time of the Great Apostasy were or are not Destroyers rather than true Pastors for true shepherds would obey Christ and not veer one iota from the holy Faith. Truly the saint of Assisi saw into the future through Heaven's permission and through discernment of the Scriptures to know that this time was coming. He may not have known when exactly, but now we have the advantage of knowing we are living in that very time and it is up to us the faithful to do something about it and pass on to others The Omens of St. Francis of Assisi for Our Times Saint Joseph of Cupertino, a Franciscan friar in Italy, was born June 17, 1603. The feast of this glorious Son of the Seraph of Assisi was made universal throughout the Church by a Pope of the same Order, Pope Clement XIV. St. Joseph is famous for his evangelical simplicity and for his ecstasies. The whole of the Mass assigned to him brings out the mystical side of his sanctity when he was seen my many levitating above the altar. He worked many miracles, and died a happy death at ...More Griff Ruby files his fifth installment of his on-going series "Accepting Responsibility" in his valiant efforts to unlock the solution to resolving the Sede Vacante state in the Church. And what might that solution be? Simple, begin walking rightly in the authority imparted by our Lord Jesus Christ. That can only be done by the truly traditional Bishops and Priests as have publicly proven their hierarchical status in the Roman Catholic Church through the grace-giving works that they do. Our Lord was no less the long-prophesized Messiah, despite His continued refusal to declare it publicly or accept the role of king. Likewise, our traditional clerics are no less the fully regular and apostolic Catholic hierarchy, despite their reticence on this topic. "See the works that I do; what do they say of me?" The works they do say it all, though the direct lawful basis also exists for all that they do and must yet do, even to include calling a Conclave to elect a successor to the last truly Catholic Pope - His Holiness Pope Pius XII. While the latter's encyclical Mystici Corporis has been posited to deny the clerics' right to do this, you will see below the surface what it really pertains to and why it does not apply to the traditional Bishops and Priests today for there is not a cardinal within their ranks. But just as a clock needs the right gears and connections to work effectively as one effective timepiece, so also our clergy need to calibrate their consciences and commit to coming together for the good of souls everywhere before it's too late. It is important in this polemic in persuading our prelates of their need to heed its significance for if they do not, the faith will slow down because of the rust that ruins the rubrics and a failure to rein in resisters rebelling against commons sense and the sensus Catholicus. This then is a layman's sincere effort to motivate our traditional Bishops to begin setting things in gear as Griff pulls the right levers with The Key to Restoring the Keys of the Kingdom St. Januarius and companion martyrs were martyred during the persecution under Diocletian. St. Januarius, patron of the city of Naples and bishop of Beneventum, was beheaded with his deacons and some others. In the great church at Naples are preserved some of the blood of St. Januarius (also called St. Gennaro) in two glass phials, and also...More It is also Throughout the last two books recorded by St. Bridget of Sweden, this mystical saint has been blessed by God with heavenly visits by various saints. In Chapter Six of Book Four she is addressed by the Apostle of the Gentiles St. Paul who tells the bride the noble story about how he was called by God through the prayers of Saint Stephen, the proto-martyr of the Church whom Paul himself made the order for Stephen's execution. Yet, as Paul tells it, it was through Stephen's prayers for Paul and Paul's own heart in having a sort of pity for Stephen and the Christians that was the spark that allowed God to make this wolf of a man, persecutor of His disciples, into a lamb and one of the fiercest defenders of Christ and the Church He established. Paul became a lamb whose evangelistic roar in spreading the truth was similar to a lion. St. Stephen's Saving Grace Saint Eustachius, or Eustace, was an officer of the Roman army under Emperor Trajan. He was burned at the stake for the Faith, with his wife and children, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. We pray to him to preserve us from fire, eternal or temporal. In art he is depicted with a stag and hunting equipment. Today is also the Vigil of Saint Matthew. If this is celebrated the vestments are violet. In accordance with her usual ...More John Gregory brings us the second part of his short series on Hell. This time he focuses on verses 13 through 30 of the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25 where we see that each man is blessed with God-given talents, some more than others, but it is not so much as to what talents have been received, but to how they are used. Christ made it clear about those who have been given much, much more will be expected of them and to those who have been given talents God expects each to use these talents to further His holy Will and to store up graces. Those who waste their talents and do not invest in storing up dividends for their eternal welfare, will find their account empty and not only out on the street, but in the worst prison ever possible to imagine: Hell - where there is no way of making good no matter how much one regrets or claims they would do better. They had their chance and blew it. Think about the talents God has given you. Is it worth taking that risk that you would waste those on things that would lead to eternal damnation? Think about that as you read The Hell There Is Part Two Saint Matthew was a Galilean by birth. In the Gospel he humbly relates the story of his own conversion. To the glory of an apostle he adds that of an evangelist. He wrote his Gospel in Aramaic, and it was afterwards translated into Greek. The Aramaic text has perished. This Gospel is ...More It is also On this Double of the Second Class Feast of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey shares some insight into this former tax collector who abandoned the world for a higher reward. You had better believe most were quite wary of this man for they had come to know him as an exactor of their hard-earned wages and resented him for what he did. Matthew realized this and set about to write his Gospel on the accounts he saw up close and personal on the life of this amazing man Who he realized was indeed the promised Messias. Tom points out the accuracy of Matthew's account and how the Modernists have tried to twist the formere tax man's words to tax souls with doubt. If one fully understands what this holy Apostle intended and wrote, there is no doubt that what He recorded is not in sync with the conciliar church of these times. Tom explains in his piece, From Caesar's Collector of Tribute to God's Collector of Souls Saint Thomas of Villanova, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain, was a Religious of the Order of St. Augustine, He was distinguished by his perfect humility and his charity to the poor, to whom he gave all he possessed. When he died the very bed on which he lay no longer belonged to him. He had given it away a few days before to a poor man, who in his turn allowed him to keep it for the short time that it would still be of use to him. He died September 8, 1555. There is also a commemoration of Saint Maurice was an officer of the Theban ...More It is also John Gregory presents a reflection on the Third Glorious Mystery as he shares how Our Lord fulfilled His promise that He would send His Spirit for fifty days after He conquered death and ten days after He bodily ascended into Heaven, the Holy Ghost came with a rush of grace and inspiration, transforming the formerly apprehensive Apostles into men of virtuous courage who were now ready to fully take up the command Christ had given them. The charism of the Church was born that day and the Faith spread rapidly with three thousand on the first day. A glorious day it was! The Third Glorious Mystery: Pentecost We urge you to click the Rosary banner below for the Thirteenth Saturday in the 15-week Rosary Crusade organized by Bishop Robert McKenna, O.P. to do our part for the salvation of souls by bringing souls to the true Catholic Faith and Sacraments, for the welfare of our country, and for our own special intentions as we all strive for holiness in our role as members of the Church Militant. On this Thirteenth Saturday of the Fifteen Week Rosary Crusade, we focus on zeal for the salvation of souls.

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