It’s Holy Trinity Sunday, y’all!
https://community-new.goactuary.com/t/for-my-fellow-catholics/2120/138?u=meep
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LOL that’s pretty much what our pastor said yesterday.
Ok, tell me about “Ordinary Time”.
What’s great about Ordinary Time is we get the weird stuff during daily Mass.
today’s reading was Jezebel getting Naboth stoned to death because he wouldn’t sell his vineyard to Ahab: (also, it’s St. Anthony of Padua’s memorial day)
Summary
Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Lectionary: 365
Reading I
Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel
next to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.
Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden,
since it is close by, next to my house.
I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or,
if you prefer, I will give you its value in money.”
Naboth answered him, “The LORD forbid
that I should give you my ancestral heritage.”
Ahab went home disturbed and angry at the answer
Naboth the Jezreelite had made to him:
“I will not give you my ancestral heritage.”
Lying down on his bed, he turned away from food and would not eat.
His wife Jezebel came to him and said to him,
“Why are you so angry that you will not eat?”
He answered her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite
and said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard, or,
if you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in exchange.’
But he refused to let me have his vineyard.”
His wife Jezebel said to him,
“A fine ruler over Israel you are indeed!
Get up.
Eat and be cheerful.
I will obtain the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and,
having sealed them with his seal,
sent them to the elders and to the nobles
who lived in the same city with Naboth.
This is what she wrote in the letters:
“Proclaim a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.
Next, get two scoundrels to face him
and accuse him of having cursed God and king.
Then take him out and stone him to death.”
His fellow citizens—the elders and nobles who dwelt in his city—
did as Jezebel had ordered them in writing,
through the letters she had sent them.
They proclaimed a fast and placed Naboth at the head of the people.
Two scoundrels came in and confronted him with the accusation,
“Naboth has cursed God and king.”
And they led him out of the city and stoned him to death.
Then they sent the information to Jezebel
that Naboth had been stoned to death.
When Jezebel learned that Naboth had been stoned to death,
she said to Ahab,
“Go on, take possession of the vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you,
because Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
On hearing that Naboth was dead, Ahab started off on his way
down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite,
to take possession of it.
I don’t think this Jezebel person is very nice. I wonder how it will end for her?
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I need to dig out my book with the daily readings. I wish I could find an audio version.
Yeah, the daily readings have a whole thing going on, no matter the bit during the liturgical year, because they are usually consecutive over several days (though a saint’s feast can interrupt, depending on how important the saint is… it depends on the saint & the parish/diocese whether they’ll replace the usual readings w/ the ones for the type of saint it is…)
I think the Laudate App links to an audio version of the daily readings, but I’ve never used it.
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Something nifty – first recorded voice of a Pope – Pope Leo XIII reciting Ave Maria
I don’t know when it was recorded, but it had to be before he died on July 20, 1903. He was Pope from 1878-1903.
more on him here:
He was also the first Pope to be filmed, and this seems to be the film (with the Ave Maria at the end):
the Ave Maria recording and the film were separate recordings, of course.
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Feast of the Assumption tomorrow… but as it is a Monday, it’s generally not a Holy Day of Obligation anywhere. (booooo)
That said, I have a friend in Toronto who does handmade Japanese chainmail jewelry, and she makes single decade rosaries (and other stuff), and in light of the Feast of the Assumption, she has some of her rosaries on sale.
Given we’re actuaries, here’s the Memento Mori fidget rosary link: (this is the one I bought for myself)
I know I linked this earlier in the thread, but I’m too lazy to find the post:
the links from the video, updated to now:
links within the spoiler
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EWTN Holy Land Rosary
The Holy Land Rosary | EWTN
Holy Rosary w/ Mother Angelica:
The Holy Rosary With Mother Angelica | EWTN
the “credit card” rosary at Catholic Supply of St. Louis
https://shop.catholicsupply.com/store/p/25135-Credit-Card-Rosary.aspx
Scriptural Rosary book:
Scriptural Rosary - Christianica Center Publication - [Consumer]Catholic Gifts & More
You can also find copies at Amazon and other book sellers
It says 20 mysteries, but I just looked at Stu’s, and no, there’s no Luminous mysteries in there. That’s okay - go old school w/ the original 15 mysteries, still legit
Laudate app – two links for this
Apple link: [I use this daily - does have Luminous mysteries, but you can switch to whatever set you want]
Laudate - #1 Catholic App on the App Store
Google play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aycka.apps.MassReadings&hl=en_US&gl=US
and the Iron Lace Design rosaries can be found here:
https://www.ironlacedesign.com/shop?Jewelry+Lines=Religious+Jewelry
(plus other religious items, such as St. Benedict Medal necklaces and crucifix pendants)
Wow. This author needs to step off the ledge. And don’t send him the link to MP’s friend’s website. Those things are made out of Japanese chainmail.
Yes, I was kind of deliberately not linking that piece, which I did see yesterday.
I had a little fun on twitter afterwards…
https://twitter.com/OCatholicMedia/status/1558973616959721472
I’ll delete my post/link. I was too surprised by that article and forgot I was wasn’t in a political thread. Let me know how you want to handle.
Eh leave it in.
In my rosary this morning (see spoiler), I dedicated one decade to the author and to the editors of The Atlantic. They definitely need more joy in their lives.
here be the spoiler
https://twitter.com/meepbobeep/status/1558944958693969920
I don’t always do a rosary every day, but I do one most days.
And for a day with the joyful mysteries (Mondays & Saturdays), I generally dedicate the prayers to people who seem like they need joy.
So, not being Catholic, is this for real or a joke? Or both?
You can get all sorts of things blessed.
A BLESSING TO WARD OFF
DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS
AND OTHER SMALL ANIMALS.
Summary
(The priest delegated by the Bishop, vested in surplice and violet stole, comes to the fields infested by grasshoppers, locusts, or other pests, and says:)
(Antiphon)
Rise up, O Lord, and come to our aid;
and free us for Your name’s sake.
(Psalm 43)
O God, our ears have heard,
our fathers have declared to us.
V. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
R. As it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end,
Amen.
(Antiphon)
Rise up, O Lord, and come to our aid;
and free us for Your name’s sake.
V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who has made heaven and earth.
V. Lord, hear our prayer.
R. And let our cry reach up to You.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with your spirit.
Let us pray.
O Lord, we beg of You kindly to hear our prayers,
so that we, who in just punishment for our sins
bear the affliction of this plague of (name it)
may mercifully be freed from it for the glory of Your name.
By Your power may these injurious pests be driven off,
doing no injury to anyone,
and leaving our fields and plains unharmed,
so that the plants sprouting and growing in these fields
may do honor to Your majesty and serve our needs,
through Christ our Lord.
R. Amen.
Let us pray
Almighty, everlasting God,
You reward the good and have great mercy on the sinner.
In Your name, every knee is bent,
in heaven, and on earth,
and under the earth.
By Your power grant to us sinners
that what we have begun in reliance on Your mercy,
we may, through Your favor and help,
successfully complete.
Let us act as Your servants in our efforts to control these pests,
to free our farms of them,
and to exterminate them.
And so, delivered from them by Your mercy,
we may freely give thanks to Your majesty,
through Christ our Lord.
R. Amen.
Let us pray.
I bid you depart, animals of destruction,
through God the Father almighty,
through Jesus Christ, His only Son,
through the Holy Spirit proceeding from them both.
Leave our fields and plains immediately;
live no longer in them,
but pass over into places where you can harm no one.
In the name of the almighty God,
and of the whole heavenly court,
and of the Holy Church of God,
I call God’s wrath upon you, so that,
wherever you may go,
you bear it with you, and,
diminishing from day to day, you may disappear;
except where you serve the health and good purposes of mankind,
may no trace of you be found.
All this may He be so good as to grant us,
who is to come to judge the living and the dead,
and the world by fire.
R. Amen.
(Then the afflicted fields are sprinkled with holy water.)
These are intended to be serious.
I’ve seen group blessings of motorcycles, etc.
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Yeah we Catholics can be a bit nutty with our prayers.
We’ve got prayers and saints for everything!
And yes, I used this prayer when I studied for actuarial exams:
Summary
St. Thomas Aquinas: Prayer before Study
Creator of all things,
true Source of light and wisdom,
lofty origin of all being,
graciously let a ray of Your brilliance
penetrate into the darkness of my understanding
and take from me the double darkness
in which I have been born,
an obscurity of both sin and ignorance.
Give me a sharp sense of understanding,
a retentive memory,
and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally.
Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations,
and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm.
Point out the beginning,
direct the progress,
and help in completion;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
—St. Thomas Aquinas
I still have it in nice calligraphy on a card at home. I had it up in my cube. I’ve had it since I was a grad student.
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My parish growing up had a blessing of cars each year at the beginning of summer, presumably for start of vacation season. Priests would line up at the parking lot exits after Mass and sprinkle your car with Holy Water as you left.