Pope Pius V

The clock has gone past midnight and the new day brings the feast of Pope St Pius V, Dominican and champion of the Tridentine mass.

The text for today from Words of Life in the Margins of a Missal reads:
Divine worship is at once a homage rendered to the perfections of God in union with Christ Jesus, and also a conversation, an exchange; man being full of needs, asks at the same time that he adores; and God gives more than he receives.
It is impossible indeed for a soul to come near to God, to come before Him in name of His Son Jesus, and, finding strength in the infinite merits of this supreme High Priest, to offer unceasing homage to God, without the Father delighting in this soul and pouring special graces upon it.
God, being the first Author of our sanctification, the daily and repeated contact that we have with Him in the Divine Praise veritably constitutes for us an inexhaustible principle of union and holiness.
This principle is for every soul. The faithful who, although in a more restricted manner, take part in Divine worship with faith and devotion, imbibe the Christian spirit as from its fount. This is what Pius X has so explicitly said: "The active participation of the faithful in the sacred mysteries and in the public and solemn prayer of the Church is the first and indispensable source whence is drawn the true Christian spirit."

Quem nos in hoc discrimine

Coelestium de sedibus

Praesentiorem vindicem,

Quam te, Pie, invocabimus?