10 Things to Sing the Song of the Church with St. Pius X

Last updated on: August 21, 2015 at 10:15 am by Kathryn Jean Lopez

10 Things to Sing the Song of the Church with St. Pius X 2015-08-21T10:15:23-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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St. Pope Pius X, humble of heart, zealous champion of the faith, inspire us to deepen our faith. pic.twitter.com/5oIN9Z8o9l

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) August 21, 2015

2. One of my favorite spots at The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., is a little chapel dedicated to St. Pius X, with a prayer imploring his intercession:

3. And there is this:

Sculpture @MarysShrine of Pope St Pius X whose feast is today https://t.co/BFeYJExBF4

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) August 21, 2015

4. From him in the Liturgy of the Hours today:

The collection of psalms found in Scripture, composed as it was under divine inspiration, has, from the very beginnings of the Church, shown a wonderful power of fostering devotion among Christians as they offer to God a continuous sacrifice of praise, the harvest of lips blessing his name. Following a custom already established in the Old Law, the psalms have played a conspicuous part in the sacred liturgy itself, and in the divine office. Thus was born what Basil calls the voice of the Church, that singing of psalms, which is the daughter of that hymn of praise (to use the words of our predecessor, Urban VIII) which goes up unceasingly before the throne of God and of the Lamb, and which teaches those especially charged with the duty of divine worship, as Athanasius says, the way to praise God, and the fitting words in which to bless him. Augustine expresses this well when he says: God praised himself so that man might give him fitting praise; because God chose to praise himself man found the way in which to bless God.

The psalms have also a wonderful power to awaken in our hearts the desire for every virtue. Athanasius says: Though all Scripture, both old and new, is divinely inspired and has its use in teaching, as we read in Scripture itself, yet the Book of Psalms, like a garden enclosing the fruits of all the other books, produces its fruits in song, and in the process of singing brings forth its own special fruits to take their place beside them. In the same place Athanasius rightly adds: The psalms seem to me to be like a mirror, in which the person using them can see himself, and the stirrings of his own heart; he can recite them against the background of his own emotions. Augustine says in his Confessions: How I wept when I heard your hymns and canticles, being deeply moved by the sweet singing of your Church. Those voices flowed into my ears, truth filtered into my heart, and from my heart surged waves of devotion. Tears ran down, and I was happy in my tears.

Indeed, who could fail to be moved by those many passages in the psalms which set forth so profoundly the infinite majesty of God, his omnipotence, his justice and goodness and clemency, too deep for words, and all the other infinite qualities of his that deserve our praise? Who could fail to be roused to the same emotions by the prayers of thanksgiving to God for blessings received, by the petitions, so humble and confident, for blessings still awaited, by the cries of a soul in sorrow for sin committed? Who would not be fired with love as he looks on the likeness of Christ, the redeemer, here so lovingly foretold? His was the voice Augustine heard in every psalm, the voice of praise, of suffering, of joyful expectation, of present distress.

After Pope Pius X was beatified, a Toronto parish was first in the world to be named after him http://t.co/KU3MaNqwja pic.twitter.com/1Is0KWN9UI

— Archdiocese of TO (@archtoronto) August 21, 2015

St. Pius X and the Church's Missionary Vocation http://t.co/4CTOD0tm0y pic.twitter.com/4FMk3H58c9

— Word On Fire (@WordOnFire) August 21, 2015

Memorial of St.Pius X,Pope, a man of God who knew the unhappiness of the world & in the greatness of his heart wanted to comfort everyone.

— Bishop Steib (@bishop_steib) August 21, 2015

"Holy Communion is the shortest and surest way to Heaven" (Pope Saint Pius X).

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) August 21, 2015

The motto of Saint Pius X: "To renew all things in Christ." It reminds us that only in Jesus can our Church, world and lives be transformed.

— Bishop Burbidge (@BishopBurbidge) August 21, 2015

10.

St. Pius X, intercede for us that our Eucharistic amazement may grow deeper and stronger.

— Bishop Barres (@BishopBarres) August 21, 2015

And: Today’s Mass readings.

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