{"id":109283,"date":"2024-12-30T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=109283"},"modified":"2024-12-31T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:31:46","slug":"not-no-saints-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/not-no-saints-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth Day of Christmas: Not No Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

H<\/span>appy sixth day of Christmas! Today is the first day of the Christmas Octave that is not otherwise also a solemnity, feast, or memorial. That does not mean, however, that there aren’t other saints we could<\/em> celebrate today in the midst of our Christmas joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today might be a good time to talk about the Roman Martyrology<\/a><\/em>. This is one of those liturgical books that you don’t really hear much about – probably because the most recent edition of 2005 has never been translated from Latin into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, no version of this book has been translated, even quasi-officially, into English since 1963 as far as I can determine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s a shame because it provides an extensive (but not exhaustive) list of the saints recognized by the Church. It’s organized day by day throughout the year so that saints whose memorials are otherwise not on the calendar may be celebrated or commemorated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, when I say it’s not been translated, I must give one caveat: the Third Edition of the Roman Missal <\/em>does provide a single entry from the Martyrology in Appendix 1. You may have heard it at the Christmas Vigil Mass: the announcement of the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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