quinta-feira, 28 de março de 2013

Nobility Newsletter: "Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ" and other posts

Nobility Newsletter: "Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ" and other posts

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Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:13 PM PDT

In 1850, Franz Joseph participated…as emperor in the second of the traditional Habsburg expressions of dynastic piety: the Holy Thursday foot-washing ceremony, part of the four-day court observance of Easter. The master of the staff and the court prelates chose twelve poor elderly men, transported them to the Hofburg, and positioned them in the ceremonial [...]

March 28 – The capture and death of the fearless Charette

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:12 PM PDT

On the 21st February his troop, now reduced to less than two hundred men, was attacked by General Travot, one of the ablest officers of Hoche. The Vendeans behaved with the greatest courage, but they were overwhelmed with numbers. The eldest brother of the general, Charette la Colinière, and several officers fell; and he himself [...]

The sense of the universals

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:11 PM PDT

 (based on a talk by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)   We should seek the universality of things, not just limit ourselves to the immediate thing at hand. If we do not form an idea of the entirety, of the universality, with all its hierarchical values, we will not be able to insert what we [...]

March 28 – Grandson of King Clovis

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:04 PM PDT

St. Gontran, King and Confessor He was son of King Clotaire, and grandson of Clovis I and St. Clotilda. Being the second son, whilst his brothers Charibert reigned at Paris, and Sigebert in Austrasia, residing at Metz, he was crowned King of Orleans and Burgundy in 661, making Challons on the Saone his capital. When [...]

March 29 – Royal Simplicity

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:03 PM PDT

St. Rupert (Alternative forms, RUPRECHT, Hrodperht, Hrodpreht, Roudbertus, Rudbertus, Robert, Ruprecht). First Bishop of Salzburg, contemporary of Childebert III, king of the Franks (695-711), date of birth unknown; died at Salzburg, Easter Sunday, 27 March, 718. According to an old tradition, he was a scion of the Frankish Merovingian family. The assumption of 660 as [...]

March 29 – St. Eustace

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:02 PM PDT

St. Eustace Date of birth unknown, died March 29, 625. He was second abbot of the Irish monastery of Luxeuil in France, and his feast is commemorated in the Celtic martyrologies on the 29th of March. He was one of the first companions of St. Columbanus, a monk of Bangor (Ireland), who with his disciples [...]

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Postcommunio Súmpsimus. Dómine, sacridona mystérii, humíliter deprécantes, ut, quae in tui commemoratiónem nos fácere praecepísti, in nostrae profíciant infirmitátis auxílium: Qui vivis.

"RECUAR DIANTE DO INIMIGO, OU CALAR-SE QUANDO DE TODA PARTE SE ERGUE TANTO ALARIDO CONTRA A VERDADE, É PRÓPRIO DE HOMEM COVARDE OU DE QUEM VACILA NO FUNDAMENTO DE SUA CRENÇA. QUALQUER DESTAS COISAS É VERGONHOSA EM SI; É INJURIOSA A DEUS; É INCOMPATÍVEL COM A SALVAÇÃO TANTO DOS INDIVÍDUOS, COMO DA SOCIEDADE, E SÓ É VANTAJOSA AOS INIMIGOS DA FÉ, PORQUE NADA ESTIMULA TANTO A AUDÁCIA DOS MAUS, COMO A PUSILANIMIDADE DOS BONS" –
[PAPA LEÃO XIII , ENCÍCLICA SAPIENTIAE CHRISTIANAE , DE 10 DE JANEIRO DE 1890]