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All in 8-10 minutes: Start each day with the Collect of the Mass, asking for God's graces. Then we'll give a short consideration of today's saint or feast, and a reflection of the day from Scripture. Then we'll keep you up to date on Church news, or give a preview of one of our podcasts or sermons. Finally, we close with a thought from Archbishop Lefebvre.
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- Yesterday10 min
Nov 6 – Feria / S Leonard of Noblac
It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: today in Church History: "The Emperor Who Put a Pope on Trial - 963", the meditation: "The Silence of the Souls in Purgatory", today's news from the Church: "Lost Sheep", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "The Silence of the Souls in Purgatory" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent "Lost Sheep" (FSSPX.news) https://fsspx.news/en/news/lost-sheep-61925 Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> If you wanted to thank a saint for getting you out of prison, what would you leave at his shrine? For medieval pilgrims devoted to Saint Leonard, chains were an obvious choice. November sixth is a feria on the traditional calendar, but the Roman Martyrology remembers this hermit of Noblac, near Limoges in France. His memory connects prison cells, difficult childbirths, and some beautifully decorated horses. Leonard is traditionally placed in the sixth century. His surviving biography, however, was written centuries later, so its stories need to be introduced as traditions. According to that account, he belonged to a noble Frankish family and could have enjoyed a comfortable position near the royal court. Instead, he chose religious life. He obtained the release of prisoners and eventually settled in solitude near Limoges. Another story tells of his prayers helping a queen through a dangerous delivery. Grateful for her recovery, the king gave Leonard land for his monastery. That tradition helps explain why women in childbirth joined prisoners in seeking his intercession. His reputation spread remarkably far. During the Crusades, captives called upon him for deliverance. Bohemond of Antioch, himself a former prisoner, visited Leonard’s shrine in 1106 and offered silver chains in thanksgiving for his freedom. Then the story takes a turn toward the farmyard. In Bavaria, Leonard became a beloved protector of horses and cattle. One explanation connects this patronage with the chains he carries in religious art: people associated them with the chains used for livestock. Whatever the precise route, the devotion became deeply rooted in farming communities. At Bad Tölz, his feast brings a pilgrimage called the . Horses pull elaborately decorated wagons carrying pilgrims in traditional dress. Church bells ring as the procession climbs to the chapel on Calvary Hill, where horses and people receive a blessing. This isn’t simply a parade with a religious name attached. The town explicitly describes it as living popular devotion. Families preserve the wagons, clothing, and customs, and younger generations continue taking their places in the procession. There’s something very Catholic about that scene. The animals that help sustain a household, the work of the fields, the anxiety of a prisoner’s family, and a mother’s dangerous labor all find room in the Church’s prayer. Leonard’s chains became signs of hope: reminders that suffering people could ask heaven for help. Saint Leonard, friend of captives and helper of those in distress, pray for us. - - - - - - Explore more: Subscribe to the email version of this Devotional- it's a perfect companion!Subscribe to this Podcastto receive this and all our audio episodesSubscribe to the SSPX YouTube channelfor video versions of our podcast series and SermonsFSSPX News Website:https://fsspx.newsVisit the US District website:https://sspx.org/ What is the SSPX Podcast? The SSPX Podcast is produced by <a href="https://angeluspress.org/pages/our-apostolate" target="_blank" rel
- 2 days ago12 min
Nov 5 – Feria / Ss Zachary & Elizabeth
It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: today in Church History: "Three Popes and a Church Divided - 1414", the meditation: "The Glorious Return of Jesus", today's news from the Church: "“The Virgin Mary versus the Spirit of Assisi” - Letter from the Superior General to friends and benefactors No. 95", a preview of the Sermon: "Holiness Is for Everyone", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> Every morning, the Church borrows the words of a man who once couldn’t speak. Every day, Catholics repeat the greeting of his wife. Today is a feria on the traditional calendar, but the Roman Martyrology remembers Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, the parents of Saint John the Baptist. And this couple has left quite a mark on our prayer lives. There’s a detail about Zachary’s Temple service that’s easy to miss. Offering incense was an extraordinary privilege. The Jewish Mishnah describes the lottery as open to priests who had never performed that service before. For Zachary, this was a moment a priest might await his whole life. And he wasn’t the high priest entering the Holy of Holies. He was an ordinary priest serving at the incense altar in the Holy Place, outside the inner sanctuary. Beyond him, the people prayed while the incense rose. That makes Gabriel’s appearance especially striking. God met Zachary in the middle of the worship entrusted to him. Elizabeth, meanwhile, belonged to the priestly family of Aaron herself. Luke introduces both spouses as righteous before God, before telling us they were childless. Their sorrow wasn’t evidence that God had rejected them. They were already pleasing to Him during those long, unanswered years. Their memory has become part of the landscape around Ein Karem, near Jerusalem. Pilgrims visit churches commemorating John’s birth and Our Lady’s visit to Elizabeth. At the Visitation shrine, another tradition remembers Elizabeth fleeing with her little son from Herod’s soldiers. An ancient apocryphal account describes a mountain opening to shelter them. That episode isn’t in Scripture, but a stone preserved at the shrine keeps the tradition visible. Their most familiar memorial, though, requires no pilgrimage. Elizabeth’s greeting to Our Lady gave us the words about Mary being blessed among women and the fruit of her womb being blessed. We repeat them in the Hail Mary, often without picturing the elderly woman who first spoke them, filled with the Holy Ghost. Zachary’s canticle, the Benedictus, became the Church’s daily morning prayer at Lauds. Its promise of light for those sitting in darkness fits the rising sun beautifully. One spouse welcomes the Mother of God. The other announces the approaching dawn of salvation. Across the centuries, this husband and wife still teach the Church how to pray. Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, faithful spouses whose words still shape the prayer of the Church, pray for us. - - - - - - Explore more: Subscribe to the email version of this Devotional- it's a perfect companion!Subscribe to this Podcastto receive this and all our audio episodesSubscribe to the SSPX YouTube channelfor video versions of our podcast series and SermonsFSSPX News Website:https://fsspx.newsVisit the US District website:https://sspx.org/ What is the SSPX Podcast? The SSPX Podcast is produced by Angelus Press, which has as its mission the fortification of traditional Catholics so that they can defend the Faith, and reaching out to those who have not yet found Tradition. What is the SSPX? The main goal of the Society of Saint Pius X is to preserve the Catholic Faith in its fullness and purity, to teach its truths, and to diffuse its virtues, especially through the Roman Catholic priesthood. Authentic spiritual life, the sacraments, and the traditional liturgy are
- 3 days ago10 min
Nov 4 – S Charles Borromeo
It's the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, 3rd Class, with the color of White, and a commemoration of Sts. Vitalis and Agricola, Martyrs. In this episode: today in Church History: "A New Seminary for Catholic Tradition - 2016", the meditation: "The General Resurrection", today's news from the Church: "Great Is the Confusion Under Heaven", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "The General Resurrection" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent "Great Is the Confusion Under Heaven" (FSSPX.news) https://fsspx.news/en/news/great-confusion-under-heaven-61847 Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> The cardinal was kneeling at prayer when someone shot him in the back. While his household panicked, he motioned for them to finish their prayers. That was Saint Charles Borromeo, whose feast the traditional calendar celebrates on November fourth. His determination to reform the Church had made him enemies, including members of a religious order who arranged that assassination attempt. He survived with only a slight injury, then tried to obtain mercy for the conspirators. Charles had begun life with every advantage. Born into an aristocratic family in 1538, he was a young man when his uncle became Pope Pius IV and made him a cardinal. A comfortable ecclesiastical career lay open before him. Then his older brother died unexpectedly. Charles could have stepped into leadership of the family. Instead, the loss deepened his determination to give himself completely to God. He helped bring the Council of Trent to its conclusion, then devoted himself to putting its reforms into practice. In Milan, that meant establishing seminaries, teaching the faith, correcting abuses, and visiting remote mountain communities. He expected priests to take their vocation seriously, and held himself to an exacting standard of prayer and penance. But the clearest picture of Charles comes during the plague of 1576. He stayed among his people, visiting the sick and organizing relief. As hunger followed disease, he poured his resources into feeding families and incurred debts to keep assistance coming. Even household tapestries and church hangings became material for clothing the needy. Imagine looking around an archbishop’s residence and deciding the furnishings would be more useful on somebody’s back. He also worked to sustain worship during quarantine. Altars were erected at crossroads so that people confined to their homes could follow Mass from their windows. The streets themselves became places of prayer. Another pilgrimage left a lasting mark. In 1578, Charles wanted to venerate the Holy Shroud. To shorten his journey, the Duke of Savoy brought it from Chambéry to Turin. Charles traveled there on foot, praying and fasting. The Shroud remained in Turin afterward. Charles died in 1584, aged just forty-six. His body is venerated beneath Milan Cathedral, where pilgrims still encounter the memory of a shepherd who spent himself for his flock. His motto was one word: Humilitas, humility. His life showed how much courage that virtue can require. Saint Charles Borromeo, courageous shepherd and father of the poor, pray for us. • • • • Today in Church History: A New Seminary for Catholic Tradition - 2016 On November 4, 2016, more than a thousand Catholics gathered in the Virginia countryside to celebrate an extraordinary milestone for the Society of St. Pius X: the inauguration of its new St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary. For nearly three decades, the Society's American seminarians had studied in Winona, Minnesota. But with growing numbers of vocations, the old facilities were becoming increasingly crowded. Now, after years of planning, construction, fundraising, and countless sacrifices, an enormous new seminary had risen in Dillwyn, Virginia. Bishop Bernard Fellay, then Superior General of the SSPX, celebrated a Pontifical Mass and blessed the new buildings, surrounded by priests, seminarians, and faithful from across the country. The occasion fell on the feast of St. Charles Borromeo, the great reforming bishop
- 4 days ago9 min
Nov 3 – Feria / S Malachy of Armagh
It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: today in Church History: "1867 - The Pope's Soldiers Defeat Garibaldi", the meditation: "The School of the Saints", today's news from the Church: "SALUS ANIMARUM – The Documentary Is Now Available", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "The School of the Saints" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent "SALUS ANIMARUM – The Documentary Is Now Available" (FSSPX.news) https://fsspx.news/en/news/salus-animarum-documentary-now-available-61928 Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> When Saint Malachy visited the monastery of Clairvaux in France, he found something he badly wanted: a place where he could finally settle down and be a monk. He even asked the pope’s permission to stay. The pope sent him back to Ireland with more responsibilities. You can imagine how that felt. Malachy had already spent years trying to untangle problems that powerful people preferred to leave tangled. Born at Armagh around 1094, he became a priest, an abbot, and a bishop in an Irish Church with a magnificent spiritual inheritance, but also some deeply entrenched abuses. At Armagh, control of ecclesiastical office had become the possession of a powerful family, passed along almost like inherited property. Malachy’s predecessor, Saint Celsus, had begun breaking that arrangement. Malachy had to carry the work forward. Opposition delayed his taking possession of Armagh, and the struggle involved rival claimants, political pressure, and competing claims to the ancient symbols of authority. There was nothing comfortable about this assignment. Malachy persevered, restoring ecclesiastical discipline and strengthening the Church’s connection with Rome. Eventually, he relinquished Armagh and continued his work as Bishop of Down. His friendship with Saint Bernard gave him encouragement. Malachy loved the prayerful life at Clairvaux, and although he couldn’t remain there, he arranged for Irish companions to receive formation among its monks. That friendship helped bring the Cistercians to Ireland, with the foundation of Mellifont Abbey in 1142. Something fruitful grew from the quiet life he had wanted for himself. Bernard’s account also gives us a wonderfully human glimpse of their affection. When Malachy returned in 1148, Bernard, despite his own weakness, hurried out to meet him, embracing and kissing his friend. The whole monastery rejoiced. Then Malachy developed a fever. He died there on November second, surrounded by the monks, with Bernard beside him. His Irish labors had ended, but he had reached the place where he had longed to rest. An especially touching detail survives in the accounts of their burial: Malachy was buried wearing Bernard’s habit. Five years later, Bernard was buried wearing Malachy’s. Centuries afterward, in 1982, a portion of Malachy’s relics returned to Armagh and was placed in the cathedral’s new altar. Centuries afterward, in 1982, a portion of Malachy’s relics returned to Armagh and was placed in the cathedral’s new altar. The bishop who had worked so hard for his people had, in that tangible way, come home. Saint Malachy, pray for us. - - - - - - Explore more: Subscribe to the email version of this Devotional- it's a perfect companion!Subscribe to this Podcastto receive this and all our audio episodesSubscribe to the SSPX YouTube channelfor video versions of our podcast series and SermonsFSSPX News Website:https://fsspx.newsVisit the US District website:https://sspx.org/ What i
- 5 days ago10 min
Nov 2 – Commemoration of All Souls
It's the Feast of Commemoration of All Souls, 1st Class, with the color of Black. In this episode: today in Church History: "Priests Given Permission to Say Three Masses", the meditation: "The Existence of Purgatory", a preview of the Sermon: "Help the Poor Souls in Purgatory", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "The Existence of Purgatory" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent "Help the Poor Souls in Purgatory" (SSPX Sermons) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5SfIAAFWgsSSPX YouTube: Sermons PlaylistListen & Subscribe: SSPX Sermons Podcast Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> Yesterday, the Church celebrated the saints in heaven. Today, she asks us to remember those still waiting to enter its fullness. All Souls’ Day carries a very personal invitation: someone you love may still need your prayers. Christians prayed for the dead long before this commemoration appeared on the calendar. But its familiar November date took shape in the monasteries of medieval France. In 998, Saint Odilo, abbot of Cluny, directed the monasteries under his authority to remember all the faithful departed on the day after All Saints. The observance gradually spread through the Western Church. The placement makes sense. First, we rejoice with the Church triumphant. Then we help the souls in purgatory, who have died in God’s friendship but still need purification. Their salvation is assured. Their suffering is real. And through prayer, almsgiving, and especially the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we can help them. One remarkable development came during the First World War. In 1915, Pope Benedict XV extended to priests throughout the Church the privilege of offering three Masses on All Souls’ Day. Amid so much death, the Church multiplied her greatest prayer for the departed. Around that prayer grew some memorable local customs. In England, people went “souling” around All Saints and All Souls. Poor neighbors and children visited houses asking for food, receiving small “soul cakes.” In return, they offered prayers for the household’s departed relatives. Charity reached in both directions: food for the hungry, prayers for the dead. In Sicily, November second became a day children eagerly anticipated. Families prepared gifts and baskets of sweets, traditionally described as presents from deceased relatives. Among the treats were painted sugar figures and frutta martorana, almond sweets shaped and colored to resemble real fruit. This was family folklore, rather than Church teaching, but it helped keep departed grandparents and other relatives present in children’s memories. Underneath the cakes, flowers, and family customs lies something wonderfully practical. Love still has work to do after a funeral. We can have Masses offered, visit a cemetery, give alms, or pause over a name and say a prayer. And the Church remembers beyond our own family circle, asking mercy for all the faithful departed, including those whom nobody else remembers. <p class="blue" style="margin-bot
- 6 days ago8 min
Nov 1 – Feast of All Saints / Comm of XXIII Sun. Pent.
It's the Feast of All Saints, 1st Class, with the color of White, and a commemoration of XXIII Sun. of Pentecost. In this episode: today in Church History: "The Day the Society of St. Pius X Was Born", the meditation: "The Feast of All Saints", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "The Feast of All Saints" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> If you walked into a Polish cemetery on the evening of November first, you might find it glowing with thousands of candles. Families gather around graves, bringing flowers and remembering those who have gone before them. It’s one of the most striking sights of All Saints’ Day, a feast whose history reaches back to the early Church. Christians were celebrating the martyrs together by the fourth century. There were simply too many to give each one a separate feast. In Rome, the celebration gained a remarkable home: the Pantheon. In 609 or 610, Pope Boniface IV dedicated that former pagan temple to Our Lady and all the martyrs. Imagine the statement that made. A building once associated with Rome’s gods now honored Christians who had refused to worship them. That dedication was celebrated on May thirteenth. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III dedicated a chapel at Saint Peter’s to all the saints, with an anniversary on November first. Under Gregory IV in the following century, the November celebration spread throughout the Western Church. And the feast embraces far more people than those whose names appear in our missals. It honors everyone in heaven, including saints whose lives passed almost entirely unnoticed. Over the centuries, Catholics gave this celebration some wonderfully local expressions. In parts of Portugal, children go from house to house on November first asking for Pão por Deus, “bread for God’s sake.” Carrying bags and reciting little verses, they traditionally receive bread, cakes, nuts, or fruit. The details vary from village to village, but sharing food is at the heart of it. In Spain, bakery counters fill with huesos de santo, “saints’ bones.” These little sweets traditionally have a marzipan exterior and a sweet egg-yolk filling. Apparently, even bones can become an occasion for good Catholic baking. Families also bring flowers to the cemetery, linking the feast with the remembrance of their dead. Those cemetery customs overlap with All Souls’ Day on November second, but the Church makes a beautiful distinction. On All Saints, we rejoice with the blessed in heaven and ask their prayers. On All Souls, we pray for the faithful departed still being purified. Together, the days remind us that our family in Christ reaches beyond the people we can see. Some are already home. Others still need our prayers. And we are walking toward the same heavenly homeland. - - - - - - Explore more: Subscribe to the email version of this Devotional- it's a perfect companion!Subscribe to this Podcastto receive this and a
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Oct 31 – Feria / BVM on Sat / S Alphonsus Rodriguez
It's the Feast of Our Lady on Saturday, 4th Class, with the color of White. In this episode: today in Church History: "Pius XII Consecrates the World to Mary", the meditation: "Jesus, Our King", today's news from the Church: "Access to St. Peter's Denied to the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "Jesus, Our King" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent "Access to St. Peter's Denied to the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage" (FSSPX.news) https://fsspx.news/en/news/access-st-peters-denied-summorum-pontificum-pilgrimage-61822 Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> Saint Alphonsus Rodríguez spent much of his life answering a door. But before he ever picked up the college keys, he had buried his wife, lost all three of his children, and watched his livelihood fall apart. He had been a cloth merchant in Segovia, Spain. Marriage and fatherhood were his life, until a succession of deaths left him a grieving widower. When he turned toward religious life, even that door seemed closed. The Jesuits considered him too old, too poorly educated, and too frail. He tried again. Eventually, a superior recognized something the entrance requirements couldn’t measure, and Alphonsus entered as a brother in 1571. His assignment brought him to the Jesuit college in Palma, on the island of Majorca. There he became the porter, welcoming visitors, carrying messages, finding people, and giving assistance to the poor. You can imagine the interruptions. Just when you’ve settled down, somebody needs something. Again. Alphonsus made those interruptions part of his prayer. When the bell rang, he would turn toward Christ with the words, “Here I am, Lord!” The person outside might need directions, food, or someone willing to listen. Alphonsus tried to receive each one as he would receive Our Lord. One person who sought him out was a young Jesuit named Peter Claver. Peter had plenty of zeal, but wasn’t sure where to direct it. The elderly brother befriended him, talked with him about prayer, and encouraged him toward the missions in Spanish America. Peter eventually devoted his life to enslaved Africans arriving in Cartagena. The college doorkeeper had helped a future saint find his calling across the ocean. There was also much more happening within Alphonsus than visitors could see. At his spiritual director’s urging, he recorded his interior life. His writings eventually filled eight published volumes. Behind the familiar face at the entrance was a man of profound prayer, penance, and extraordinary mystical graces. He hadn’t written to build a reputation. He was obeying his director and keeping account of God’s work in his soul. Alphonsus died on October 31, 1617. In 1888, he and Peter Claver were canonized together. Their friendship had borne fruit in two very different places: among the suffering people of Cartagena, and at a college entrance where, day after day, someone rang the bell. Saint Alphonsus Rodríguez, pray for us. - - - - - - Explore more: <a href="https://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c98bae64255bbd7d863e838ec&id=7e99fe6
- 1 weeks ago12 min
Oct 30 – Feria / S Germanus of Capua
It's the Feria VI after XXII Sunday after Pentecost, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: today in Church History: "Vatican II's Battle Over Papal Authority", the meditation: "Jesus, Our Model", today's news from the Church: "Bishop de Sivry in Écône: Be Proud of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King", a preview of this week's episode of The SSPX Podcast: "Why Catholics Confess to a Priest", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "Jesus, Our Model" — From the Assumption to Adventhttps://angeluspress.org/products/assumption-to-advent "Bishop de Sivry in Écône: Be Proud of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King" (FSSPX.news) https://fsspx.news/en/news/bishop-sivry-econe-be-proud-our-lord-jesus-christ-king-61811 The SSPX Podcast: "Why Catholics Confess to a Priest" (SSPX Podcast) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqcg0eQF2yEListen & Subscribe on SSPXpodcast.com Spiritual Journey — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-journey Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >> Saint Germanus of Capua is one of those early Italian bishops whose life is remembered largely because of an extraordinary friendship with another saint. And that friend was none other than Saint Benedict. Germanus lived during the late fifth and early sixth centuries, when Italy was going through enormous changes. The Western Roman Empire had collapsed, barbarian kingdoms were taking its place, and the Church was often the one institution holding communities together. Germanus came from a distinguished family in Capua, near Naples. According to tradition, after his father's death, he gave much of his inheritance to the poor and entered the clergy. He eventually became Bishop of Capua around the year 516. And almost immediately, he found himself involved in one of the biggest controversies in the Church. For decades, Rome and Constantinople had been divided by the Acacian Schism, a dispute involving the teaching of the Council of Chalcedon and the authority of the pope. In 519, Pope Hormisdas sent a delegation to Constantinople to negotiate an end to the division. Germanus was one of the bishops chosen for the mission. Think about that assignment. Traveling from Italy to Constantinople in the sixth century was no small undertaking. Germanus had to deal with imperial officials, Eastern bishops, and decades of theological and political resentment. But the mission succeeded. The schism ended in 519, restoring communion between Rome and Constantinople after thirty-five years of division. Germanus had helped accomplish something that generations of churchmen had struggled to achieve. But the most famous story about Germanus comes from the en
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