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1 de Julho, 2021

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✓O Caminho dos Santos: Os Santos e festas da Dia 1 de Julho

✓Boas festas do Preciosíssimo Sangue de Nosso Senhor Jesu Cristo e de Nossa Senhora do Precioso Sangue de Jesu Cristo! Happy Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and of Our Lady of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ!

✓ MAJOR FEAST: Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus ChriSt 

The Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a feast included in the General Roman Calendar in 1849. The feast, celebrated in Spain in the 16th century, was later introduced to Italy by St Gaspar del Bufalo. When Pope Pius IX went into exile at Gaeta in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1849), he had as his companion Fr John Merlini, third superior general of the Fathers of the Most Precious Blood. After they had arrived at Gaeta, Don Merlini suggested that the pope make a vow to extend the feast of the Precious Blood to the entire Church, if he would again recover possession of the Papal States. The Pope took the matter under consideration, but a few days later, on June 30, 1849, the day the French army liberated Rome in the name of the Pope-King (Papa-Re) and the 

traitors of the Roman Republic surrendered, he sent his domestic prelate Joseph Stella to Fr Merlini with this message, "The pope does not deem it expedient to bind himself by a vow; instead His Holiness is pleased to extend the feast immediately to all Christendom." On August 10 of the same year, he officially included the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the General Roman Calendar for celebration on the first Sunday in July, the first Sunday after 30 June, the anniversary of the liberation of the city of Rome from the rebels. In reducing the number of feasts fixed for Sundays, Pope St Pius X assigned the date of 1 July to this feast. In 1933, Pope Pius XI raised the feast to the rank of Double of the 1st Class to mark the 1,900th anniversary of Jesus' Passion. 

"The devotion to the Blood of Jesus has the wonderful distinction of dispelling the fear of death, and the dread of meeting our Judge. 'Having, therefore, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of ChriSt' (Heb. x, 19)." — Fr Max Walz, The Glories of the Precious Blood

"It is from the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ alone that our salvation comes. Out of the immensity of Its merits, out of the inexhaustible treasures of Its satisfactions, because of the resistless power of Its beauty over the justice and the wrath of God, because of that dear combination of Its priceless worth and Its benignant prodigality, we miserable sinners are raised out of the depths of our wretchedness, and restored to the peace and favor of our Heavenly Father." — St Frederick Faber, in his book, The Precious Blood: The Price of Our Salvation. 

OREMUS: "O God, Who by the Precious Blood of Thine Only Begotten Son hast redeemed the whole world, preserve in us the work of Thy mercy, so that, ever honoring the mystery of our salvation, we may merit to obtain its fruits. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who lives and reigns with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

✓July 1: Our Lady, or the Madonna, of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus ChriSt 

«Every supernatural grace coming to mankind after the Fall of Adam, flows from the bloody sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. Almighty God could have made some other arrangement, but as a matter of fact, He did require the sacrificial shedding of the Blood of Christ for the restoration of fallen man to the order of grace. The Bloody Sacrifice is the price which God demanded; it is the price which the Redeemer paid. To this Bloody Sacrifice, the Blessed Virgin has a most intimate and singular relationship because of which we may rightly call her the Madonna of the Precious Blood. For a sacrifice in the strict sense, there must be a priest who offers and a victim which is offered. In the Sacrifice of Redemption, Christ Himself is both the priest and the victim. The very coming of the Redeemer as Priest and Victim and therefore also the fruits of His Sacrifice, were dependent upon Mary's consent and cooperation. She could not have refused. At the time of the Annunciation she gave her consent to become the Mother of Jesus, that is, of Him who "should save His people from their sins." He was to save them in the manner in which God had predetermined, namely, by His whole lifework, but especially by His Bloody Sacrifice. "Be it done to me according to Thy Word," is the reply of Mary to the Angel. Thus she gave her consent to all the events of His life, including the Bloody Sacrifice, at least implicitly at the Annunciation and explicitly as the plan of God unfolded itself. She is not the Mother of a Son who became a Priest independently of her after His birth, for Jesus was conceived as a prieSt As a Priest He was born and was nourished and clothed and sheltered by Mary. But this Priest is also the Victim. Thus, as only His Mother could, Mary prepared the Priest and Victim for the Bloody Sacrifice of Redemption. With Him she also offered the Sacrifice by sharing His sorrow and suffering by perfectly uniting her intention with His and by resigning herself perfectly to the will of the Father.

Furthermore, as God called Mary to be most intimately and uniquely associated with her Priestly Son in the acquiring of grace, He also associated her with Him in the dispensing of grace. This fact is succinctly expressed by the Holy Father when he writes, "By reason of this communion of sorrow and purpose between Mary and Christ, she merited to be called most rightly the Restorer of a lost world and therefore the Almoner of all the gifts which Jesus earned for us by His death and by His Blood.... She administers the treasures of His merits as by a mother's right." (Pope St Pius X, Ad Diem Illum). Since, then, Mary prepared the Priest and Victim for the bloody Sacrifice of Redemption; since with Him she offered this bloody Sacrifice; and since with Him she dispenses the graces merited by this Bloody Sacrifice, we may very appropriately call her the Madonna of the Precious Blood.»

OREMUS (Memorare to Our Lady of the Precious Blood): «Remember, O Lady of the Precious Blood, the sorrowful sheddings of the Blood of thy Jesus and the most bitter tears thou didst mingle with His Redeeming Blood. In the name of the Blood of the Victim of Reparation and of thy holy tears; in the name of the seven swords which pierced thy heart, by which thou didst become the Mediatrix of all graces for the human race and the Queen of Martyrs, have pity on my soul and on all its miseries; have pity on sinners and on the innocent souls they seek to pervert; have pity on the poor, the sick, the infirm, on all their sufferings, both physical and moral; have pity on the agonizing, especially upon those who, except for thine intercession, would leave this world without being purified in the Blood of the Lamb. It is by the Blood of thy Dying Son, by His inexpressible Sufferings, by His last plea to His Father in favor of mankind, by His ignominious Death and by the perpetuation of His Sacrifice on Catholic Altars, that I beg thee not to reject my supplications, but graciously to hear them. Amen.»

✓Nuestra Señora da Guia in Spanish or Nossa Senhora da Guia in Portuguese or Our Lady of Guidance in English, is the name under which Our Lady is invoked and celebrated mainly in the Spanish and Portuguese cultural spheres, today, July 1. 

✓July 1: Dedication of the Church of Jumieges in Normandy, France 1067

«The Benedictine abbey of Jumieges in Normandy has an ancient and remarkable history. Founded in the year 654 by St Philibert, it was once one of the magnificent Benedictine monasteries in France, and the home of some 700 monks with over twice that number of lay brothers. Sadly, it is now nothing more than a tourist attraction, and the vestiges of the surviving structures, though vacant, scarred, and exposed to the elements, are celebrated as a magnificent example of Romanesque art. All that remains standing today are the church of Notre Dame with its impressive twin towers soaring to a height of 150 feet, the western façade, and sections of what were once the cloisters and library. The rest is but a pile of rubble, though it is proudly proclaimed the largest medieval ruin in France. Victor Hugo notably christened it "the most beautiful ruin in France," but one is left to wonder how it once appeared when the Catholic faith was still vibrant and alive in France. Located a little west of Rouen along a bend in the Lower Seine, it was vulnerable to the attacks of the Vikings in the ninth and tenth centuries. During one invasion it was set on fire and pillaged of its wealth. It was soon lovingly rebuilt, however, by the Duke of Normandy, and the Church of Jumieges was consecrated by Maurice, the Archbishop of Rouen, in the year 1067. William the Conqueror attended the dedication of the Church of Jumieges and the subsequent celebrations. Larger and more beautiful than ever before, the abbey once again became wealthy and influential. A center of learning, it was famed for its Scriptorium where monks worked diligently coping and illustrating manuscripts by hand. The errors of Martin Luther came to France, as they did to all of Christendom, followed by the usual looting of churches. The destruction was widespread and the abbey of Jumieges was not spared. When the French Revolution came along the monastery was finished, and only the imposing ruins of what had once been a thriving community was left in its wake. In 1793 the whole was sold at auction and mined as a stone quarry. The chancel, with its marble altar, and the lantern tower were intentionally blown up, and the rest was subject to the deprivations of vandals. What remained was rescued in the year 1852 by the Lepel-Cointet family. A lodge was built, and the rest landscaped and made into a park before being sold to the State in the year 1946. The church is not open, but one can walk about the ruins and imagine the glory that once was.»

✓Our Lady of the Poison Ivy or Nettles (Ortiga or Urtiga), Nossa Senhora da Urtiga. July 1, 1758 

«The Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Ortiga is a Marian sanctuary located in Lugar da Ortiga, in the parish of Fátima, municipality of Ourém, in the province of Beira Litoral, in Portugal. A small chapel was built on the site of an  apparition of Our Lady, which was later enlarged to give way to the present sanctuary. In 1801, Pope Pius VII granted a plenary indulgence (on the occasion of the close of the Jubilee Year 1800) to all pilgrims who visited the aforementioned Marian shrine on the first Sunday of July and the following two days, and the faithful were to observe the prescribed conditions: confession in advance, receive Holy Communion (in a state of grace) and pray for the Supreme Pontiff. This indulgence can be profited from every year. The festival in honor of Nossa Senhora da Ortiga is held annually on the first Sunday in July. On this date, and on the following two days, the population of the parish of Fátima , in addition to fulfilling some promises and attending religious ceremonies, share a communal meal.»

Another narrative:

«One day a deaf and dumb shepherd girl was watching her sheep, from Casal de Santa Maria, a hamlet about a mile and a half from Fatima in the parish of Fátima in Portugal, when Our Lady appeared to her. Mary smiled and made an odd request. She asked the girl, who could suddenly hear, for one of her lambs. It was a test of obedience. Suddenly the girl spoke as if deafness had never afflicted her. "I would have to have permission from my father," she said. And Mary smiled as the girl scurried off to do just that. Naturally, her father was flabbergasted, awestruck and overjoyed at her ability to speak. He told his daughter that the Blessed Woman could have the lamb and anything else she wanted. We can only imagine his joy. Happy as a lark, the shepherd girl ran to the place where she had seen the Lady, who asked her to build a chapel in her honor. News of the miracle swept the village and everywhere else word could spread in the era before mass communication. Numerous townsfolk went to see the "mute"child and after hearing her account followed her to the site of appearance. There to their further astonishment they found a wooden statue in the midst of the ortigas. Mary was holding the Christ Child, this time in her right arm, her cheeks rosy, her stare intent and straightforward. The good father said that place was not a good one for the building of a chapel. "Our Lady certainly would not mind if the place was on a hill or in a sheltered valley: it would be even better for her and for the faithful. It is so windy here..." So he picked up the image and went home. He called his carpenter friends and chose a good place at Casal de Santa Maria. And he left the image in a temporary niche. But, on the following day the image was gone. They looked everywhere and found that the image had returned to its place, wild and windy, in the middle of the poison ivy, the spot Mary had chosen for a chapel. The Chapel of Ortiga has been a place of pilgrimage since then. On the first day of July, and on the next 2 days, the population of the parish of Fatima share a communal meal and attends religious ceremonies in honor of Our Lady of Ortiga.»

✓Our Lady of Good Deliverance

«Neuilly sur Seine borders the city of Paris. Although the statue of Our Lady of Good Deliverance (also known as the Black Madonna of Paris) here dates from the 14th Century, it is actually a replica of one from several centuries earlier. Originally housed in the Church of St Étienne des Grès, it was a focus of prayers by many notable pilgrims, including Saints Vincent de Paul and Francis de Sales. When the Church was destroyed during the "Revolution" and all its belongings sold off, a pious woman named Madame de Carignan obtained the statue for safekeeping. She herself was arrested during the Reign of Terror, but was able to keep the statue with her during her imprisonment. She was released from prison in 1806 and gave the statue to the Church. The statue is still located in the chapel of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Thomas of Villeneuve in Neuilly-sur-Seine at 52 Boulevard d'Arenson.» 

✓Our Lady of Calvary of Calvary Zebrzydowska Monastery in Poland: «The history of the town of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska started in 1602 when Nicholas Zebrzydowski founded the monastery. It was accompanied by chapels of Jesus Christ's Passion on Zarek Hill that were to depict Mount Calvary in Jerusalem (The Stations of the Way of the Cross). Soon it appeared that the sanctuary needed a nearby city that would host the pilgrims who visited the sanctuary in order to obtain indulgences. The town got the name after its founder. In 1641 the Bernardine Fathers, who managed the monastery, were given the holy picture of the 'Weeping Icon of Mother Mary,' called from now on 'Calvary Holy Mary.' A Stanislaus Paszkowski from Brzez, while praying, noticed tears going down the cheek of Holy Mary. The owner of the painting was asked to present it to the church in Marcyporebie. Paszkowski took the painting to deliver it to the Marcyporebie church, but on the way he felt a strong power that made him go into a different direction. This is how he reached the Monastery of Zebrzydowska Calvary and decided that it was a sign that the holy picture belongs to that place. This is also how the cult of Calvary Holy Mary began. As 15 years later the miracacles of the holy painting were accepted by the church, a seperate chapel was built to hold the Holy Icon of Mother Mary. Zebrzydowska Calvary is now one of the most important and known places of pilgrimages in Poland, visited by numerous visitors that come there especially during Holy Week to attend special theatre-like events that depict passion of Jesus Christ. The sanctuary consists of a Baroque church, the one that hold the holy picture of the Weeping Mary, the monastery, sets of churches and chapels (also in Baroque style) situated on a hill and incorporated in a beautiful landscape of the Beskid Mountains. They are designed to remind the worshipper of the stops of Christ on the way to Mount Calvary in Jerusalem, where he was crucified. The chapels give a unique opportunity to give a deep thought over the passion of Christ and mystery of the life of Holy Mary. The origin of such Calvaries dates back to 1420, when the first one of this kind was founded in Spain. Its popularity was influenced by the fact that Jerusalem was taken over by the Turks who restricted access there for Christians. As there were some publications encouraging people to found such Calvaries, Nicholas Zebrzydowski was inspired by one of them. The Sanctuary in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is taken care of by Bernardine Fathers, as its founder wished.»

PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE SAINTS OF THE DAY (RM is Roman Martyrology of St Caesar Baronius, 2nd General of the Oratorians, after their founder St Philip Neri). 

✓The Octave of St John the Baptist.

•  The Holy Martyrs of Roman Brittania in the cities of Verulamium in Roman Brittania now England and CaerLeon in Wales, Saints Julius and Aaron, who suffered after St Alban, in the persecution of Diocletian. With them, a great number being at that time tortured in different manners and barbarously lacerated, ended their combat, and attained to the joys of the Heavenly city.

•  The Holy Martyrs of Las Cruces St Atilano Cruz-Alvarado and St Justinus Orona Madrigal, Mexican priests, martyred July 1, 1928 in Las Cruces, Cuquío, Jalisco, Mexico by the Traitors, Apostates, Infidels and Satanists, the Maranos and Freemasons of the Cleptarchy of Mexico (New Spain), July 1, 1928 in Las Cruces, Cuquío, Jalisco, Mexico, not yet canonized by a Catholic pope. 

•  The Holy Martyrs of Rochefort in France St John Baptist Duverneuil and St Peter Yrieix Labrouhe de Laborderie, martyred by the Traitors, Apostates, Infidels and Satanists, the Maranos and Freemasons of the Cleptarchy of France illegally usurping government, at Rochefort, July 1, 1794. 

•  The Holy Martyrs of Sinuessa, Saints Castus and Secundinus, bishops.

•  St Aaron, the first priest of the Levitical Order. His death on Mount Hor. 

•  St Ailill of Cloonown, Irish saint. 

•  St Arnulf or Arnold of Selenhofen, bishop of Mainz, martyr. 

•  St Carilefus of Anisole. Also called Calais of Anisole. 

•  St Cewydd of Anglesey in Wales. 

•  St Concordius, bishop of Toledo.

•  St Domitian, abbot in the diocese of Lyons, who was the first to lead there an eremitical life. After having assembled in that place many servants of God, and gained great renown for virtues and miracles, he was gathered to his fathers at an advanced age.

•  St Eckhart of Scheda, Premonstratensian monk. 

•  St Elisabeth de Vans, nun in the low countries. 

•  St Eparchius, duke of Perigord, became a hermit at Angouleme, as numbers of disciples settled near him, he was ordained, and organized the community into a monastery, serving as its first abbot. 

•  St Eutychius, martyred in Umbria under Julian the Apostate. 

•  St Esther the Queen of Persia. 

•  St Fleuret of Estaing, bishop of Auvergne. 

•  St Galus or Gal, bishop of Clermont in Auvergne. 

•  St Golvinus of Leon. 

•  St Gwenyth of Cornwall. 

•  St John Nepomucene Chrzan, murdered by the German Nazi Infidels, July 1, 1942 at Dachau, not yet canonized by a Catholic pope. 

•  St Leonorius, bishop-abbot of Pontual.

•  St Leontius, bishop of Autun.

•  St Lughaidh MacLughaidh.

•  St Martin, 3rd bishop of Vienne in France, a disciple of the Apostles.

•  St Nicasius Camuto de Burgio, martyred by Muslim Infidels July 1, 1187 at Acre in Palaestina. 

•  St Oliver Plunkett, bishop of Armagh, murdered by the Traitors, Apostates, Infidels and Satanists, the Maranos and Freemasons of the Cleptarchy of England illegally occupying Ireland, July 1, 1681 at Tyburn, England, not yet canonized by a Catholic pope. 

•  St Regina of Denain, widow of Count St Adalbert of Hainault, mother of St Renfrida, or Reginfreda, she founded the abbey of Denain, Renfrida was the 1st abbess. 

•  St Rumold, son of an Irish king, and bishop of Dublin, martyred at Mechlin or Malines. 

• St Ruzo or Rugo, hermit in Kempten.  

•  St Servan, bishop of Culross in Scotland. 

•  St Shenoute, abbot of the White Monastery in Egypt, collaborator of St Cyril of Alexandria against Nestorius and Nestorianism, died July 1, 465. 

•  St Simeon, surnamed Salus, at Emesa in Syria, confessor, who feigned to be an idiot for Christ; but God manifested his high wisdom by great miracles.

•  St Theobald, of the Counts of Campania, hermit at Vicenza, who was added to the number of the saints by Alexander III on account of his holiness and miracles.

•  St Theodoric or Thierry, priest at Rheims, and disciple of St Remigius.

•  St Thomas Macclesfield, English priest, murdered by the Traitors, Apostates, Infidels and Satanists, the Maranos and Freemasons of the Cleptarchy of England, July 1, 1616 at Tyburn, England. 

•  St Veep, Scottish or Welsh princess, settled in Cornwall. 

ALSO

• Ignatius Falzon, died at Malta, July 1, 1865. 

OREMUS

Most Holy Mary, Mother of God, and our Mother, and all you Saints, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Popes, Archbishops, Bishops, Hermits, Monks, Martyrs, Virgins, Champions and Heroes of Jesus Christ, whose feasts is today, named and unnamed, we pray to you for your intercession and guidance, lead us away from error and evil and into the Grace and Love of God, that with your assistance, we may join you in Eternity with the Living God, we make this prayer through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who Lives and Reigns, in the Unity of the Godhead, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, forever and ever, Amen.

Lúcío Mascarenhas.