FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: Saints Cosmas and Damian

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Saints Cosmas and Damian

"Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplant the black leg of the Ethiopian onto the white body of the patient."

September 27 is the designated feast of St. Cosmas and Damian. Catholics who are familar with the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite will also be familiar with the names of Cosmas and Damian. Both are mentioned in the Roman Canon along the roster of Saints invoked for intecession. The two sains are very popular in the ancient Roman Church. Their names are invoked in the Communicantes just before the consecration. These two brothers were famous healers and often they would not demand money or payment for their services. Their philantrophic activities served as a means for them to convert many people to Christianity. Thier names are involked in the litany of the Saints too and they are considered as patron saints of Physicians. The brothers were born in Arabia and later moved to the Roman Province of Syria. They suffered martyrdom in the hands of Emperor Diocletian. They died the martyrs death on A.D. 283. Sts. Cosmas and Damian pray for us. Pray for the unborn who died because of abortion. Pray also for those who kill the unborn either directly or indirectly. May they be enlightened and learn to value life. Amen.

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A 13 years old boy............. in 1983, but now I am a golden boy, gaining weight and wiser, but younger at heart. I consider myself as a “novus ordo baby” because I was born in the late 60s after the 2nd Vatican Council introduced the novus ordo missae and grew up confronted by the confusions as a result. Like my generation I never saw what the church was like prior to Vatican II, but I am a living witness to the gradual disappearance of religious traditions we hold dear. Young as I was then I could not understand what was going on. But I suffered the sense of loss as I saw how the modernizing influence in the church disfigured the liturgy and clouded the way we believe and practice our faith. But then being a child, powerless, not knowing what it was, and why it happened, I simply drifted into the sea of confusion, too young to understand. With a glimmer of faith in my heart, planted by baptism and confirmation, strengthened by the sound teachings of my parents and grandparents, I sailed into the sea of life, day after day, seeing the changes happen, feeling the sense of abandonment, yet God was merciful to me. In 2005 I discovered the Traditional Latin Mass or commonly known in the post-conciliar period as the Tridentine Mass. I began to love the rite of mass that has nourished my ancestors, the saints and the martyrs. I am eternally grateful to His Holiness Pope John Paul II for recognizing the rightful aspirations of Catholics attached to the ancient forms of the Roman Rite through his apostolic letter ECCLESIA DEI DI AFFLICTA. I am also eternally grateful to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for liberating the Traditional Latin Mass through his apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum. I fully agree with the program of his pontificate regarding the Hermeneutics of Continuity and disdain the hermeneutics of rupture. Today I consider myself a Traditional Roman Catholic attached to the liturgical discipline of 1962 as outlined in the Motu Proprio SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM of his Holiness. I believe that there is only one Roman Rite, the Ordinary and the Extraordinary and that the Mass in whatever form should be celebrated with dignity. My voyage is on. Join me in this quest.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Saints Cosmas and Damian

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