Catholic devotions for 19th August

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Saint of the Day/ Feast

Reading of the Martyrology

Dedication of the Month

Dedication of the Day

Rosary

Five Wounds Rosary in Latin

Seven Sorrows Rosary in English

Latin Monastic Office

Reading of the Rule of Saint Benedict

Celebration of Mass
Reading from the School of Jesus Crucified

Feast of Saint John Eudes

Semen est sanguis Christianorum

The blood of Christians is the seed of the Church 

Tertullian, Apologeticum, 50

The Reading from the Martyrology

This Day, the Nineteenth Day of August

At Rome, St. Julius, senator and martyr, who was delivered up to the judge Vitellius, and by him thrown into prison. By order of the emperor Commodus, he was beaten with  rods until he expired. His body was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius on the Aurelian road.

In Cilicia, the birthday of St. Andrew, tribune, and his military companions, who were converted to Christianity through a miraculous victory they had gained over the Persians. Being accused on this account, they were massacred in the defiles of Mount Taurus by the army of the governor Seleueus, under the emperor Maximian.

In Palestine, St. Timothy, a martyr, in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Urbanus. After overcoming many torments, he was consumed with a slow fire.

In the same country suffered also Thecla and Agapius. The former being exposed to the beasts, was torn to pieces by their teeth, and went to her spouse; but Agapius, after enduring many torments, was reserved for greater combats.

At Anagni, St. Magnus, bishop and martyr, who was put to death in the persecution of Decius.

At the castle of Brignoles, in Provence, the demise of St. Louis, bishop of Toulouse, of the Order of Friars Minor, renowned for holiness of life and miracles. His body was taken thence to Marseilles, and buried with due honors in the church of the Friars Minor.

In the neighborhood of Sisteron, in France, blessed Donatus, priest and confessor. Being from his very infancy endowed with the grace of God in an extraordinary manner, he lived the life of an anchoret for many years, and after having been renowned for glorious miracles, went to Christ.

In the territory of Bourges, St. Marian, confessor.

At Mantua, St. Rufinus, confessor.

At Rome, blessed Urban II, Pope, who followed in the footsteps of St. Gregory VII, in his zeal for learning and religion, and fired the crusaders with enthusiasm for the recovery of the holy places in Palestine from the power of the infidels. The veneration paid to him from time immemorial Pope Leo XIII approved and confirmed.

And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.

Omnes sancti Mártyres, oráte pro nobis. 

("All ye Holy Martyrs, pray for us", from the Litaniae Sanctorum, the Litany of the Saints)

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August is the Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Composed by Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, shortly after his reception into the One, True Fold of the Redeemer

Tuesday is the Day dedicated to the Holy Angels

Tuesdays, in addition to honoring the Angels, are the day for honoring the Holy Face and honoring St. Anthony of Padua. On the Tuesday after St. Anthony's death, the day his funeral cortege took his body to the church, many miracles took place, so this day is commemorated in his honor. A special Novena to St. Martha is also made on nine consecutive Tuesdays (or on all Tuesdays) by some Catholics.

Prayers for Every Day of the Week.

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The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary are prayed on Tuesday

"I would like to remind you that the Rosary is a biblical prayer, all filled with the Holy Scriptures." It is a prayer from the heart, in which the repetition of the Ave Maria directs the thought and affection towards Christ, and thus is made a confident prayer to Him and our Mother. It is a prayer that helps to meditate on the Word of God and assimilate the Eucharistic Communion, on the model of Mary who kept in her heart everything Jesus did and said and even His Presence. " Pope Benedict XVI

The Rosary in Latin

Chaplet of the Five Holy Wounds of Christ in Latin

 

Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady in English

 Latin Monastic Office for today from Le Barroux in France     Texts also provided

The Reading of the Rule of Saint Benedict for August 19

LXIII  DE ORDINE CONGREGATIONIS

10 Iuniores igitur priores suos honorent, priores minores suos diligant. 

11 In ipsa appellatione nominum nulli liceat alium puro appellare nomine, 

12 sed priores iuniores suos fratrum nomine, iuniores autem priores suos nonnos vocent, quod intellegitur paterna reverentia. 

13 Abbas autem, quia vices Christi creditur agere, dominus et abbas vocetur, non sua assumptione sed honore et amore Christi; 14 ipse autem cogitet et sic se exhibeat ut dignus sit tali honore.

15 Ubicumque autem sibi obviant fratres, iunior priorem benedictionem petat. 

16 Transeunte maiore minor surgat et det ei locum sedendi, nec praesumat iunior consedere nisi ei praecipiat senior suus, 

17 ut fiat quod scriptum est: Honore invicem praevenientes.

18 Pueri parvi vel adulescentes in oratorio vel ad mensas cum disciplina ordines suos consequantur. 

19 Foris autem vel ubiubi, et custodiam habeant et disciplinam, usque dum ad intellegibilem aetatem perveniant.

CHAPTER 63:  RANK IN THE COMMUNITY

10 The juniors, therefore, are to honor their elders, and the elders love the younger.  

11 In calling each other by name, no one is to address the other by his simple name; 

12 rather, the elders are to call the juniors “brother”, and the younger call their elders nonnus, which means “reverend father”.  

13 But the abbot, since he is believed to represent Christ, is to be called “Lord” and “abbot”; not for his own sake, but out of honor and love for Christ.  

14 Let him ponder this, and behave in such a way as to be worthy of such honor

15 Wherever the brothers meet one another the junior is to ask a blessing of the elder.  

16 And when a superior passes by, the subject is to rise and give him a place to sit;  nor should the junior presume to sit unless his senior bids him: 

17 let it be as it is written, outdo one another in showing honor (Rom 12:10).   

18 Small children and adolescents in the oratory or at table are to keep with discipline to their proper ranks. 

19 But outside or wherever else they may be, they are to receive care and discipline until they reach the age of reason.

Today's Celebration of the Mass

Also today

Feast of the Augustinian Martyrs of Japan

Meditation for the 19th Day of the Month from the School of Jesus Crucified

Jesus condemned to death on the Cross

Jesus XPI Passio sit semper in cordibus nostris

May the Passion of Jesus Christ be always in our hearts

"The Cross is our trophy against the demons, our sword against sin, and the sword Christ used to pierce the serpent. The Cross is the Father's will, the glory of the Only-Begotten, the joy of the Spirit, the pride of the angels, the guarantee of the Church." -St. John Chrysostom