Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the Church
- Andrew Avellino, confessor
- Theocrista, virgin
- Aedh Mac Bricc, bishop
- Justus of Canterbury, bishop
Leo: (died 461 A.D.); eminent pastor and preacher; defender of the Roman primacy; combatted Pelagianism and Manichaeism; his Tome on Christ's two natures was adopted by the Council of Chalcedon 451 A.D.; many of his prayers are found in the Sacramentary; saved Rome from marauding Huns and Vandals.
St. Leo was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIV in 1754 A.D. because of his writings and sermons. Chief among the writings was his Tome, a famous letter he wrote to the Archbishop of Constantinople, Flavian, that expressed the Christian doctrine that Christ had two natures in one person: the human and the divine. Aside from the Tome, St. Leo produced also one hundred forty-three letters. It was his sermons that the Church prizes so much that it included them in the Office of Readings for such main feasts as Christmas and Epiphany. Five sermons of Leo on the Beatitudes are also included in the Office of Readings. A total of twenty-six of his sermons are thus excerpted in the Office of Readings - the same number as that of St. Ambrose's, and second only to St. Augustine's eighty-two sermons. Learn more
No comments:
Post a Comment