{"id":87335,"date":"2016-06-10T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=87335"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:13:58","slug":"a-new-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-new-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">V<\/span>atican Radio is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2016\/06\/10\/commemoration_of_st_mary_magdalene_raised_to_a_feast\/1236157\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that Pope Francis has raised the Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene to the rank of a Feast. This puts the celebration of the &#8220;Apostle to the Apostles&#8221; on par with those of the men to whom she announced the Resurrection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87336\" style=\"width: 789px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-new-feast\/apostorum-apostola\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87336\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87336\" data-attachment-id=\"87336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-new-feast\/apostorum-apostola\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"779,696\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Saint Mary Magdalene announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Saint Mary Magdalene announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles&lt;br \/&gt;\n(Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:9, Luke 24, John 20:1)&lt;br \/&gt;\n(St. Alban&amp;#8217;s Psalter circa 1123)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?resize=779%2C696\" alt=\"Saint Mary Magdalene announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles  (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:9, Luke 24, John 20:1) (St. Alban&#039;s Psalter circa 1123)\" width=\"779\" height=\"696\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?w=779&amp;ssl=1 779w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?resize=150%2C134&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?resize=240%2C214&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?resize=768%2C686&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Mary Magdalene announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles<br \/>(Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:9, Luke 24, John 20:1)<br \/>(St. Alban&#8217;s Psalter circa 1123)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n a <a href=\"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/2016\/06\/10\/mary-magdalene-apostle-to-the-apostles-given-equal-dignity-in-feast\/\" target=\"_blank\">letter announcing the change<\/a>, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Arthur Roche, writes the decision means one \u201cshould reflect more deeply on the dignity of women, the New Evangelization, and the greatness of the mystery of Divine Mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Roche drew attention to the fact Mary Magdalene was the first witness to the Resurrection, and is the one who announced the event to the Apostles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaint Mary Magdalene is an example of true and authentic evangelization; she is an evangelist who announces the joyful central message of Easter,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holy Father Francis took this decision precisely in the context of the Jubilee of Mercy to signify the importance of this woman who showed a great love for Christ and was much loved by Christ,\u201d writes Archbishop Roche.<\/p>\n<p>He also notes Saint Magdalene was referred to as the &#8220;Apostle of the Apostles&#8221; (Apostolorum Apostola) by Thomas Aquinas, since she announced to them the Resurrection, and they, in turn, announced it to the whole world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2016\/06\/10\/commemoration_of_st_mary_magdalene_raised_to_a_feast\/1236157\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aleteia provides an <a href=\"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/2016\/06\/10\/mary-magdalene-apostle-to-the-apostles-given-equal-dignity-in-feast\/\" target=\"_blank\">English translation<\/a> in full of the letter explaining the decree. <\/p>\n<p>The <del datetime=\"2016-06-10T15:13:34+00:00\">Memorial<\/del> <em>Feast <\/em>of Saint Mary Magdalene is July 22. Time to get out your pens and update your Roman Missals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican Radio is reporting that Pope Francis has raised the Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene to the rank of a Feast. This puts the celebration of the &#8220;Apostle to the Apostles&#8221; on par with those of the men to whom she announced the Resurrection. In a letter announcing the change, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,32,3,52,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robert-cardinal-sarah","category-inside-baseball","category-moments-in-time","category-pope-francis-i","category-saint","category-sacred-liturgy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-mID","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108792,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/saint-mary-magdalen-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":87335,"position":0},"title":"Saint Mary Magdalen: Apostle to the Apostles","author":"Thom","date":"22 July 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"we celebrate the feast of Saint Mary Magdalen. In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, this is indeed a feast again, rather than merely a memorial, thanks to a change made by Pope Francis back in 2016. In the Extraordinary Form and in my Monastic Breviary, it is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Annual&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Annual","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/annual\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":107970,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/saint-mary-magdalen-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":87335,"position":1},"title":"Saint Mary Magdalen","author":"Thom","date":"22 July 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"we celebrate the feast of Saint Mary Magdalen. In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, this is indeed a feast again, rather than merely a memorial, thanks to a change made by Pope Francis. In the Extraordinary Form and in my Monastic Breviary, it is a Class III feast,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Annual&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Annual","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/annual\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":106174,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/changes-to-the-roman-missal\/","url_meta":{"origin":87335,"position":2},"title":"Changes to the Roman Missal","author":"Thom","date":"06 February 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Pope Saint Pius V promulgated the revised Missale Romanum in the Apostolic Constitution Quo Primum in 1570, he famously wrote that it applied \"henceforth, now, and forever, throughout all the provinces of the Christian world\". Yet, just a year later the Pope himself issued the first changes to the Missal,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Holy Days&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Holy Days","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/holy-days\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/13_06_17_Joseph_decree_lr.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/13_06_17_Joseph_decree_lr.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/13_06_17_Joseph_decree_lr.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":106875,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/aurora-lucis-rutilat-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":87335,"position":3},"title":"Aurora Lucis Rutilat","author":"Thom","date":"21 April 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"glittering morn bedecks the sky;Heaven thunders forth its victor cry;The glad earth shouts its triumph high,And groaning hell makes wild reply: While He, the King of glorious might,Treads down death's strength in death's despite,And, trampling hell by victor's right,Brings forth His sleeping Saints to light. Fast barred beneath the stone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Annual&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Annual","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/annual\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":108469,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/aurora-lucis-rutilat-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":87335,"position":4},"title":"Aurora Lucis Rutilat","author":"Thom","date":"16 April 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"one of the groups I follow on Facebook asked the question, \"what's your favourite hymn for the Easter Season?\" I have several. One, as I mentioned the other day, is \u201cO Filii et Fili\u00e6\u201d (O Sons and Daughters). This is another; it's the hymn for Easter Lauds in my Benedictine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Annual&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Annual","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/annual\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/apostorum-apostola.jpg?fit=779%2C696&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":106478,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/saint-mary-magdalen\/","url_meta":{"origin":87335,"position":5},"title":"Saint Mary Magdalen","author":"Thom","date":"22 July 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"today's feast of Saint Mary Magdalen, I thought it fitting to take some excerpts from Gu\u00e9ranger's The Liturgical Year on the saint and her feast. His essay is some 11 pages long, so this is perhaps the briefest whiff of an excerpt. Saint Mary Magdalen, c. 1395\u20131400 (Spinello di Luca\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Meditations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Meditations","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/meditations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StMaryMagdalen-scaled.jpg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87342,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335\/revisions\/87342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}