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Feast
Day: August 21
Also known as
Giuseppe
Sarto; Joseph Sarto; Pope of the Blessed Sacrament
Profile
Impoverished childhood as one of
eight
children of a village
cobbler. Felt a calling to the
priesthood from his youth. Studied at
Padua, and was known as an exceptional student. Parish
priest, ordained by Blessed
Giovanni Antonio Farina on 18 September 1858.
Bishop of
Mantua. Patriarch of
Venice.
Cardinal.
Pope.
Issued decrees on early (age 7 instead of 12 or 14 as previously) and
frequent communion. Destroyed the last vestiges of Jansenism by advocating
frequent and even daily communion. Reformed the liturgy, promoted clear
and simple homilies, and brought Gregorian chant back to services. Revised
the Breviary, and teaching of the Catechism. Fought Modernism, which he
denounced as "the summation of all heresies". Reorganized the Roman curia,
the administrative elements of the Church. Worked against the modern
antagonism of the state against the Church. Initiated the codification of
canon law. Promoting Bible reading by all the faithful. Supported foreign
missions. His will read: "I was born poor; I lived poor; I wish to die
poor."
Born
1835 as Giuseppe Sarto at Riese, Treviso, Venice, Austria (now Italy)
Papal Ascension
1903
Papal
Beatifications
1906: Blessed
Marie Genevieve Meunier
1906: Blessed
Rose Chretien
1907: Blessed
Clarus
1907: Blessed
Zedislava Berka
1908: Blessed
John van Ruysbroeck
1909: Blessed
Andrew Nam Thung
1909: Saint
Agatha Lin
1909: Saint
Agnes De
1909: Saint
Joan of Arc
1909: Saint
John Eudes
Papal Canonizations
1904: Saint
Alexander Sauli
1904: Saint
Gerard Majella
1909: Saint
Clement Mary Hofbauer
1909: Saint
Joseph Oriol
Died
20 August
1914; natural causes aggravated by worries over the beginning of World
War I
Canonized
1954 by
Pope
Pius XII
Patronage
archdiocese
of
Atlanta Georgia USA, diocese of
Des Moines Iowa USA,
first communicants, diocese of
Great Falls-Billings Montana,
pilgrims, diocese of
Springfield-Cape Girardeau Missouri
Prayers
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Images
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Writings
·
E Supremi: On the Restoration of All Things in Christ,
4 October 1903
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Ad Diem Illum Laetissiumum: On the Immaculate Conception,
2 February 1904
·
Iucunda Sane: On Pope Saint
Gregory the GreatL,
12 March 1904
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Acerbo Nimis: On Teaching Christian Doctine,
15 April 1905
·
Il Fermo Proposito: On Catholic Action in Italy,
11 June 1905
·
Vehementer Nos: On the French Law of Separation,
11 February 1906
·
Tribus Circiter: On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland,
5 April 1906
·
Pieni L'Animo: On the Clergy in Italy,
28 July 1906
·
Gravissimo Officii Munere: On French Associations of Worship,
10 August 1906
·
Une Fois Encore: On the Separation of Church and State,
6 January 1907
·
Lamentabili Sane,
3 July 1907
·
Pascendi Dominici Gregis: On the Doctrine of the Modernists,
8 September 1907
·
Communium Rerum: On Saint Anselm of
Aosta,
21 April 1909
·
Editae Saepe: On Saint
Charles Borromeo,
26 May 1910
·
Iamdudum: On the Law of Separation in Portugal,
24 May 1911
·
Lacrimabili Statu: On the Indians of South America,
7 June 1912
·
Singulari Quadam: On Labor Organizations,
24 September 1912
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Haerent animo
·
Lamentabili sine exitu
·
Sacra tridentina Synodus
· Tra
le sollecitudini
Readings
Truly we
are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the
lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and
there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of
this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a
rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.
Pope Saint Pius X
God could
have given us the Redeemer of the human race, and the Founder of the
Faiths in another way than through the Virgin, but since Divine Providence
has been pleased that we should have the Man-God through Mary, who
conceived Him by the Holy Spirit and bore Him in her womb, it only remains
for us to receive Christ from the hands of Mary.
Pope Saint Pius X
My hope is
in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in
Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it
will be mine. His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I
shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed
in Him, I shall not be abandoned.
Pope Saint Pius X
Let the
storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we
trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most
Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent."
Pope Saint Pius X
Holy
Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven.
Pope Saint Pius X
The
collection of psalms found in Scripture, composed as it was under divine
inspiration, has, from the very beginnings of the Church, shown a
wonderful power of fostering devotion among Christians as they offer "to
God a continuous sacrifice of praise, the harvest of lips blessing his
name." Following a custom already established in the Old Law, the psalms
have played a conspicuous part in the sacred liturgy itself, and in the
divine office. Augustine expresses this well when he says: "God praised
himself so that man might give him fitting praise; because God chose to
praise himself man found the way in which to bless God."
The psalms have also a wonderful power to awaken in our hearts the desire
for every virtue. Athanasius says: "The psalms seem to me to be like a
mirror, in which the person using them can see himself, and the stirrings
of his own heart; he can recite them against the background of his own
emotions." Augustine says in his Confessions: "How I wept when I heard you
hymns and canticles, being deeply moved by the sweet singing of your
Church. Those voices flowed into my earts, truth filtered into my heart,
and from my heart surged waves of devotion."
Indeed, who could fail to be moved by those many passages in the psalms
which set forth so profoundly the infinite majesty of God, his
omnipotence, his justice and goodness and clemency, too deep for words,
and all the other infinite qualities of his that deserve our praise? Who
could fail to be roused to the same emotions by the prayers of
thanksgiving to God for blessings received by the petitions, so humble and
confident, for blessings still awaited, by the cries of a soul in sorrow
for sin committed? Who would not be fired wiht love as he looks on the
likeness of Christ, the redeemer, here so lovingly foretold? His was "the
voice" Augustine heard in every psalm, the voice of praise, of suffering,
of joyful expectation, of present distress."
from the apostolic consititution of Pope Saint Pius X on Sacred
Scripture
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