Days of prayer, and formerly also of fasting, instituted by the Church to appease God's anger at man's transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest...

The Rogation Days are the 25th of April, called Major, and the three days before the feast of the Ascension, called Minor.

The order to be observed in the procession of the Major and Minor Rogation is given in the Roman Ritual, title X, ch. iv. After the antiphon "Exurge Domine", the Litany of the Saints is chanted and each verse and response is said twice. After the verse "Sancta Maria" the procession begins to move. If necessary, the litany may be repeated, or some of the Penitential or Gradual Psalms added.

Catholic encyclopedia on "Rogation Days": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13110b.htm

Based on this, I've sometimes thought people might observe the days at times by fasting, and by praying a Litany of the Saints and / or the Penitential Psalms.

Litany of the Saints: https:

My favorite portion - from the end:

Three Hail Marys is a traditional Roman Catholic devotional practice of reciting three Hail Marys as a petition for purity and other virtues. Believers recommended that it be prayed after waking in the morning, and before going to bed, following the examination of conscience at night. This devotion has been recommended by St. Anthony of Padua, St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. John Bosco and St. Leonard of Port Maurice.

A short and simple religious practice for those interested.

I'd like to do a longer post about the history of papal elections as I think their principles could be relevant to consider for the present or future, but I only have time to post this tonight.

For example, some questions come up about how Catholics would elect if the cardinals all died in a war for example or something; a little research indicates for example that cardinals were not always the exclusive electors of the pope, and that a "general imperfect council of bishops" might elect a pope if cardinals cannot, or a papal election might occur in some other way so long as it gains a kind of "universal acceptance by Catholics".

The election of a pope exclusively by cardinals is only from 1059 onward I believe:

The selection of the pope, the bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, prior to the promulgation of In nomine Domini in 1059 varied throughout history.

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The absence of an institutionalized procedure of papal succession facilitated religious s

Considered by a growing minority as a non-Catholic antipope who continued the "Vatican 2" revolt against Catholicism, the late "Francis" in our view continually pushed heterodox ideology at odds with traditional Catholic belief and practice.

While I do not necessarily agree with the all these critiques of him or how they're delivered, here's a laundry list of articles that viewed him in the most negative light, from a "traditional Catholic" (sedevacantist) perspective: https://novusordowatch.org/francis/

It would be nice to see at this point before a new "pope" is elected to continue the confusion, of there being a global rejection of Vatican 2's "reforms" and of there then being a conclave to elect an unquestionably Catholic pope.

http://infogalactic.com/info/Doctor_of_the_Church#List_of_Doctors

(note that we recognize the doctors listed up to 1958; not that some of the others listed may not be holy people)

So I had this idea to compile sermon collections of the Doctors of the Church (and theology writings). Does something like this exist, an organized collection of links to such sermons, or is there an interest in such a list?

I guess it was an attempt to curate a list of some of the most edifying spiritual sermons, for education and inspiration.

Has this already been done in the discipline of homiletics, or are there compilation books from some of the writings of the Doctors of the Church?

(Another approach to this might be to find some compilations of "sermons for every Sunday of the year" and to compile some sermons for certain holidays, like this compilation by St. Alphonsus Liguori - https://archive.org/details/sermonsforallsun00liguuoft)

For example, for Easter (sermons by Church Doctors; note that

I personally had to experience, through the example of our family, what it means to pray together for the deceased. After my grandmother passed away, she began to appear in the dreams of relatives in a very distressed state, asking for help and support. We organised ourselves and began to pray simultaneously for her repose every day for forty days, each in our own home.

Time passed, and she appeared in a dream to her daughter. When asked how things were, my grandmother replied, "At first, it was very bad, dark, cold, scary, and drowsily, but now it is very good."

We are not ascetics, saints, or great men of prayer. We are ordibnary, sinful people, without any hint of anything special. And we prayed most simply, reading prayers from the prayer book, and I served the Litia – just as usual. But, as some would say today, "it works". And all of us need to know this! God hears even us – common, sinful, imperfect people, very far from true holiness. And not only does He hear, but He also ac

Letter 148: To A blacksmith, Radosav I

By Saint Nikolai Velimirovich

You would like for God to pardon all sinners of His Terrible Judgement. Are you again tempting Christ just like that enemy of God tempted Him on the mountain? "If you are the all-merciful Son of God, have mercy on Judas and Cain and all serious sinners, and I will worship you!" This is how you could phrase your tempting of Christ. And the Lord Himself could respond to you and say, "Was I not merciful enough when I descended from my eternal glory into human darkness and gave my whole self as a sacrifice for mankind? How shall I pardon those who never asked me for it; who despised my offered mercy to their last breath; who spilled the blood of my faithful disciples like water; who remained servants of Satan to the end?"

And how is it now that mortal men compare their mercifulness to God's and even think themselves to be more merciful than God? Examine yourself thoroughly and see how limited and vain human mercy is. S