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Saint of the Day, Nov. 4
by Gerelyn Hollingsworth on Nov. 04, 2009
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PDF versionFrom 31: "Like the Divine Master 'he went about doing good and healing.' He spared no efforts in suppressing and uprooting the abuses he met everywhere either because of ignorance or neglect of the laws. He checked the rampant perversion of ideas and corruption of morals by founding schools for the children and colleges for youth. After seeing their early beginnings in Rome, he promoted the Marian societies. He founded orphanages for the fatherless, shelters for girls in danger, widows, mendicants, and men and women made destitute by sickness or old age. He opened institutions to protect the poor against tyrannical masters, usurers, and the enslavement of children. He accomplished all these things by completely ignoring the methods of those who think human society can be restored only by utter destruction, revolution, and noisy slogans. Such persons have forgotten the divine words: 'The Lord is not in the earthquake.'"
From II:9: "The Council of Trent initiated a remarkable organization of the Church's catechesis. Thanks to the work of holy bishops and theologians such as St. Peter Canisius, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Turibius of Mongrovejo or St. Robert Bellarmine, it occasioned the publication of numerous catechisms."
Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionToday is the feast of St. Charles Borromeo.
In Editae Saepe, his encyclical on St. Charles Borromeo, St. Pius X wrote:
In 1992, Pope John Paul II presented the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the People of God. This catechism, prepared by "a commission of twelve Cardinals and Bishops, chaired by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger," mentions St. Charles Borromeo in its Prologue:
From II:10: "It is therefore no surprise that catechesis in the Church has again attracted attention in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which Pope Paul VI considered the great catechism of modern times."
Scroll down halfway to see Carolus Cardinal Borromeo's signature on a receipt for twelve books he returned to the Vatican library.
-- Submitted by Gerelyn Hollingsworth
Gerelyn (or is it now Mr
Gerelyn (or is it now Mr Coday?) quotes Saint Pius X recalling: "After seeing their early beginnings in Rome, he promoted the Marian societies. He founded orphanages for the fatherless, shelters for girls in danger, widows, mendicants, and men and women made destitute by sickness or old age. He opened institutions to protect the poor against tyrannical masters, usurers, and the enslavement of children."
And the bloggers upon this website lament an alleged bitter fruit of the Second Vatican Council being that our religious fell into the fault of social workers.
May Saint Charles Borromeo this day renew our eminently Roman Catholic mission of serving the most poor and destitute and abandoned in a manner the find salvific in this world as well as the next. Not mentioned here is his personal, direct health ministry in times of plague. May our commitment to making health care accessible to all be equally self-sacrificing and courageous.
frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco)
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