Calendar for the Traditional Roman Rite

Saint Pope Pius X (1903-14)

Motto “renew all things in Christ”

An 11 year period where Luisa “The Divine Mirror”
completed the very important book “The Hours of the Passion”,
which was soon followed by WWI.

In the year of 1903, Luisa completed the 1st volume of her life, up to the point on February 28, 1899, when she was given the obedience to write.

“Several witnesses relate that one day Father Annibale came to the house of Luisa more content than ever, and said that
he had brought this book to the Holy Father, Saint Pious X, who had received him several times in private audience.

Father Annibale was reading him one of the Hours (that of the Crucifixion), when the Pope interrupted, saying:

“Not this way, Father, but kneeling one must read.
It is Jesus Christ that is speaking.”

Finally, Father Annibale, as Censor of the writings, obtained the Imprimatur from His Excellency the Archbishop of
Trani for the volumes written by Luisa (at that time there were already nineteen)

Book of Heaven
9/4/00 – Vol. 3

. . . After this, Blessed Jesus placed His Arm behind my neck, and leaning His Head on my shoulder, He placed Himself in the Act of wanting to take Rest.  While He was Resting, I felt I was in a place in which there were many movable tiles, and underneath them, the abyss.  Fearing I might fall, I woke Him up, Invoking His Help, and He said to me:  “Do not fear, this is the path that All cover.  It takes nothing but All of one’s Attention; and since the majority walk carelessly, this is why many fall into the abyss and few are those who reach the Harbor of Salvation.” 

Volume 12; February 12, 1918
Churches deserted and without ministers.  

Continuing in my usual state, my Always Lovable Jesus made Himself seen so very afflicted, and I said to Him:  “My Love, what’s wrong that You are so afflicted?”  And He:  “Ah! My daughter, when I allow that Churches remain deserted, ministers dispersed, Masses reduced, it means that the Sacrifices are offenses to Me, the prayers insults, the adorations irreverences, the confessions amusements, and without fruits.  Therefore, no longer finding My Glory, but rather, offenses, nor any Good for them, since they are of no use to Me any more, I remove them.  However, this snatching ministers away from My Sanctuary means also that things have reached the ugliest point, and that the variety of Scourges shall multiply.  How hard man is – how hard!”

Passion of St. John the Baptist

Having solemnized on June 24th the joyous birth of St. John the Baptist, the Church today honors his glorious birth in Heaven.  Excepting the Blessed Virgin, he is the only Saint whose temporal birthday is observed.

John the Precursor, who had passed thirty years in the desert where he had flourished like the palm-tree and grown like the cedar of Lebanon, had the courage to openly reproach Herod which the scandal of his illegitimate union with Herodias, his sister-in-law, whose husband Philip, was still alive.  “It is against the law,” he said to the king, “for you to take the wife of your brother.”  Herodias forced Herod to imprison him, and used an unexpected opportunity to obtain through her daughter Salome the beheading of the Saint who thwarted her criminal passion.

On this day St. John completes his mission, adding the testimony of his martyrdom to the testimony he gave to Christ at His Baptism.  St. John was put to death towards the Passover, one year before the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but the anniversary is solemnized on the day when St. John’s venerable head was found at Emesa, in Syria, in 453 AD.

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6/5/05 – Vol. 6

This morning, on coming, blessed Jesus told me:  “My daughter, crosses, mortifications, are as many baptismal founts, and any kind of cross which is dipped in the thought of my Passion loses half of its bitterness and its weight decreases by half.”  And He disappeared like a flash.

St. Augustine

St. Augustine was born in 354 at Tagasta near Algiers.  His mother, St. Monica, taught him early to pray.  Although he had received with delight her holy teaching, he went headlong into the gravest disorders.  Carthage not offering him a theatre worthy of his genius, he went to Rome and obtained the post of master of rhetoric at Milan.  “My iniquities,” he confesses, “were like a snowball growing in size as it rolls.” His desolate mother prayed to God incessantly with tears, still following the steps of her son.  St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, received him kindly and enlightened him in Divine knowledge. One day, inspired by Heaven, he opened the Espistles of St. Paul and read;  “Wallow not in debauchery and impurity; but chothe yourselves in Our Lord Jesus Christ.”  His irresolution immediately ceased and at 33 years of age, on Easter Eve, 387, he was baptized.

Seven months after this great happiness, St. Monica died asking her son to “remember her at the Altar of God”.  Augustine, becoming a Priest, offered the Holy Sacrifice for her.  “Lord,” he often said, “have mercy on my mother; she was good, she pardoned easily, pardon her also her sins.”

Made Bishop of Hippo, at the age of 41, he began from that moment to live Canonically, that is to say, in common with his Clerks.  This Community gave Bishops and Priests to many Churches, and thus the Institute of St. Augustine spread little by little in Africa and more specially in Gaul. The Rule of St. Augustine, which makes him one of the four Great Founders of Religious Orders, is drawn from the 211th epistle which he wrote for nuns, and which later on was adapted for men.

Owing to the sublimity of his knowledge and the ardor of his vow, this Saint is also one of the great Doctors of the West.

He died in 430 A.D, after an Episcopate of 36 years, reciting the Penitential Psalms.

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4/4/02 – Vol. 4

Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta:  At the end I said to Him (Our Lord Jesus Christ): “Lord, I repent of the offenses given by me and by all creatures of the earth, and I repent and I am sorry for the sole reason that we have offended You, Highest Good, who deserve love, while we have dared to give You offenses.’”

St Joseph Calasanctius

The Church, having just celebrated the Feast of the Assumption (August 15th), venerates on this day a Saint who had a special devotion to Our Lady.  St. Joseph Calasanctius was born in Aragon, of a noble family, and from his youth showed his charity towards children.  While studying theology at Valencia, he had to defend himself against the enticements of a powerful noble lady and made a vow to enter into Holy Orders.  Having become a Priest, he was apprised by Divine Revelation that he was destined to teach and to train children, especially those of the poor.  He founded, in consequence, the Order of the Poor Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools of the Mother of God.  Like Jesus, he let little children come to him and taught them to fear God (fear as in not wanting to offend someone you love).

As per the consoling words of Our Lord Jesus Christ:  “Whosoever shall receive one of these little ones in My Name, receiveth Me.” Matthew 18:5

St. Joseph Calasanctius died in 1648 at the age of 92.

Book of Heaven
8/26/22 – Vol. 14

Out of obedience, I was reviewing, in my writings, that which I had to mark so that it might be copied; and I thought to myself: ‘What is the purpose of so many sacrifices? What good will come from them?’ And while I was thinking and doing this, blessed Jesus took my hand in His, and squeezing it tightly told me: “My daughter, just as the flower, when touched, gives off its fragrance with greater intensity – so much so that, if it is not touched, it seems that it does not contain so much fragrance, and the air does not receive the balm by that scent – the same for my truths: the more one thinks about them, reads them, writes them, talks about them, and diffuses them, the more fragrance they give off, in such a way as to perfume everything and reach even into Heaven. And I smell the fragrance of my truths, and I feel like manifesting more truths, in seeing that the truths I manifested spread the light and the fragrance which they contain. On the other hand, if my truths are not touched, the fragrance and the light remain as though compressed and do not spread; the good and the utility which my truths contain remain without effect, and I feel defrauded of the purpose for which I manifested my truths. Therefore, if only to let Me smell the fragrance of my words and make Me content, you should be happy to make the sacrifice.”