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Litaniae Sanctorum contra morbum coronaviri-MMXIX

Severinus Conversus

℣. Kyrie, eléison. — ℟. Christe, eléison.

℣. Kyrie, eléison.

℣. Christe, — ℟. audi nos.

℣. Christe, — ℟. exaudi nos.

℣. Pater de caelis Deus, — ℟. Miserere nobis.

℣. Fili Redemptor mundi Deus,

℣. Spiritus Sancte Deus,

℣. Sancta Trinitas unus Deus,

℣. Sancta Maria, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Mater Misericordiae,

℣. Salus Populi Romani,

℣. Salus Infirmorum,

℣. Domina Nostra Salutis,

℣. Sancte Michael Archangele, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Sancte Raphael Archangele,                                                                 

℣. Sancte Eustachi, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Sancte Christophore,

℣. Sancte Dionysi,

℣. Sancte Acaci Centurio,

℣. Sancte Cyriace,

℣. Sancte Georgi,

℣. Sancte Vite,

℣. Sancte Pantaleon,

℣. Sancte Blasi,

℣. Sancte Erasme,

℣. Sancte Aegidi,

℣. Sancta Barbara, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Sancta Katharina,

℣. Sancta Margarita,

℣. Quattuordecim Auxiliatores, — ℟. orate pro nobis.

℣. Sancte Quirine, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Sancte Corneli,

℣. Sancte Antoni Magne,

℣. Sancte Huberte,

℣. Quattuor Mariscalci Dei, — ℟. orate pro nobis.

℣. Sancte Apollinaris Ravennas, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Sancte Petre Apostole,

℣. Sancte Luca Apostole,

℣. Sancte Sixte II,

℣. Sancte Sebastiane,

℣. Sancte Cosma,

℣. Sancte Damiane,

℣. Sancte Cypriane,

℣. Sancte Valentine,

℣. Sancte Quintine,

℣. Sancte Adriane,

℣. Sancte Nicola Myrensis,

℣. Sancte Remigi,

℣. Sancte Leonarde Lemovicensis,

℣. Sancte Deodate,

℣. Sancte Gregori Magne,

℣. Sancte Agricola Avenionensis,

℣. Sancte Winoce,

℣. Sancte Edmunde Martyr,

℣. Sancte Colomanne,

℣. Sancte Hugo Cluniacensis,

℣. Sancte Alberte Magne,

℣. Sancte Nicola Tolentinensis,

℣. Sancte Roche,

℣. Sancte Bernarde Ptolemaee,

℣. Sancte Ioannes Nepomucene,

℣. Sancte Bernardine,

℣. Sancte Casimire,

℣. Sancte Francisce de Paula

℣. Sancte Carole Borromee,

℣. Sancte Aloysi Gonzaga,

℣. Sancte Ioannes Francisce,

℣. Sancte Henrice Morse,

℣. Sancte Iohannes Southworthe,

℣. Sancte Andrea Bobola

℣. Sancte Francisce Fatimensis,

℣. Sancte Iosephe Moscati,

℣. Sancte Andrea Marianopolitane,

℣. Sancta Thecla, — ℟. ora pro nobis.

℣. Sancta Corona,

℣. Sancta Natalia,

℣. Sancta Genovefa,

℣. Sancta Godeberta,

℣. Sancta Walpurga,

℣. Sancta Rosalia,

℣. Sancta Francisca,

℣. Sancta Teresia Abulensis,

℣. Sancta Virginia,

℣. Sancta Hyacintha Fatimensis,

℣. Omnes Sancti et Sanctae Dei, — ℟. Orate pro nobis.

℣. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, — ℟. Parce nobis Domine.

℣. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, — ℟. Exaudi nos Domine,

℣. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, — ℟. Miserere nobis.

Oremus: Deus, qui non mortem, sed paenitentiam desideras peccatorum: populum tuum ad te revertentem propitius respice; ut, dum tibi devotus exsistit, iracundiae tuae flagella ab eo clementer amoveas. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

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Coronavirus and Public Masses: An Integralist Perspective

by Felix de St. Vincent

The local executive of the civil authority invokes emergency powers to ban public assemblies of more than ten people and urges residents to “shelter in place.” The local ordinary not only dispenses Catholics from the obligation to attend Mass, but also cancels public Mass through Eastertide. In a matter of hours, the unthinkable becomes the new normal. All of a sudden, in dioceses across the world, Catholics are encountering acts of civil and ecclesiastic authority that are unprecedented, at least in the memory of the living. Continue reading “Coronavirus and Public Masses: An Integralist Perspective”

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXII: Love, Hope, and Integralism in the New Testament

The encyclicals Deus caritas est and Spe salvi raise two opposite objections against Christianity:  Christian love seems too altruistic, opposed to one’s own happiness; while  Christian hope seems too egoistic, opposed to proper concern for temporal society. The editors discuss these objections with New Testament scholar John Kincaid. They argue that a true understanding of the New Testament demands a full understanding of the common good (showing that love is neither altruism nor egoism, but communion in the good), and a deep understanding of the relation of the temporal and the eternal (showing that hope for  eternal happiness and peace does not make us indifferent to the temporal happiness and peace, which are a participated likeness of the eternal). Integralism provides precisely the account of the common good, and of the relation of temporal and eternal that is necessary.

Bibliography

Music: “Là ci darem la mano,” from W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sung by Barbara Bonney and Thomas Hampson, accompanied by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Header Image: Max Slevogt, Don Giovannis Be­geg­nung mit dem steinernen Gast, 1906.

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXI: We Live in a Society

We live in a society in which the few live in excess, while the many live in miserable and wretched conditions. We live in a society in which the poor are defenseless against the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors. We live in a society in which these evils are compounded by a devouring usury practiced by avaricious and grasping men. We live in a society in which innocent children are murdered in abortion clinics. We live in a society in which the sin of Sodom is paraded with open pride and enjoys the favor of the laws. We live in a society in which depravity exults; science is impudent; liberty, dissolute. We live in a society in which the holiness of the sacred is despised; sound doctrine is perverted; and errors of all kinds spread boldly. We live in a society in which the divine authority of the Church is opposed and her rights shorn off. We live in a society in which by institutions and by the example of teachers, the minds of the youth are corrupted. We live in a society… We live in a society? Do we actually live in a society? What sense does it make to call the clownish chaos of our lamentable times a “society”? The editors are joined by P.J. Smith of southern Indiana to discuss these and related questions.

Bibliography and Filmography

Music: “Vesti la Giubba” from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, sung by Luciano Pavarotti.

Header Image: Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019)

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XX: Eric Voegelin

Continuing a series of reflections on important 20th century critiques of modernity and liberalism that has included episodes on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, the editors are joined again by Gabriel Sanchez to discuss Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics. They discuss Voegelin’s critique of positivism, the problem of representation, and the thesis that modernity is “gnostic”.

Bibliography

Music: Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss.

Header Image: Photograph of a Tree in the Mist, by Pater Edmund

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XIX: Justice

Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all.

Bibliography

Music: “An die Musik“, by Franz Schubert, performed by Matthias Goerne (baritone) and Helmut Deutsch (piano).

Header Image: Circles in a Circle (1923), by Wassily Kandinsky (detail).

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVIII: Revenge

The Josias Editors discuss punishment and the good of order in a teleological universe.

Bibliography

Music: “Bin ich nun frei Wirklich frei,” Das Rheingold, Richard Wagner. Vienna Philharmonic, George Solti, Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich.

Header Image: Alberich, by Arthur Rackham.

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Ang Integrismo sa Tatlong Pangungusap

Ang Integrismo Catolico ay isang tradisyon ng kaisipan na itinatanggi ang paghihiwalay ng liberalismo ng politika mula sa pakikialam sa huling layunin ng buhay ng tao, at naniniwala naman na dapat patnubayan ng pamamahalang politikal ang tao patungo sa huling layuning niya. Ngunit dahil nahahati sa dalawa ang layunin ng buhay ng tao – isang pansamantala o temporal, at isang walang-hanggan – naniniwala ang integrismo na may dalawa ring kapangyarihan na namamahala sa tao: ang kapangyarihang temporal, at ang kapangyarihang espiritwal. At dahil naman ang layuning pansamantala ay nakapasailalim sa layuning walang-hanggan, nararapat lamang na ang kapangyarihang temporal ay ipasailalim rin sa kapangyarihang espiritwal.

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVII: Empire

Does natural law demand a world government?

Bibliography

Music: Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Berlin Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel.

Header Image: The Spanish Riding School in Vienna.

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Integralism at Church Life Journal

Timothy Troutner recently published a thought-provoking essay in Church Life Journal, a publication of the the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, in which he argues against Catholic Integralism. Our own Pater Edmund Waldstein responded in the same publication, defending integralism. Another response was posted by the integralist blog Abrenuntio. The responses take the opportunity to make some clarifications of the integralist position.