Don't Forget Jodocus!

Once wildly popular, but now forgotten . . .

Saint Jodocus: Patron Saint against Fire & Shipwrecks

(Feast Dates: January 9 in Winchester, England; July 26 in Amiens, France; December 13 other areas) 

Extract from Saint Jodocus: 

“Seventh century king in Brittany, the son of King Juthael of Amorica. 

Following a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy c.636, he abdicated. 

Ordained at Ponthieu. Hermit at Runiacum, which was later renamed Saint-Josse-sur-Mer. 

Felt a special call to pray for sailors. 

In the early 10th century, refugees from Brittany to England brought some of his relics with them, mainly clippings from his hair and nails which were reported to continue to grow after his death; they were enshrined in Winchester Cathedral.

Joducus, often under the name Josse, was very popular in Middle Ages England, even used in oaths by the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales:”  “I swear by God and Saint Jodocus!” 

Do you know anyone named Joyce, Jocelyn, or Josselin?

Jodocus (from Breton Iodoc,Latin Judocus),sometimes Josse, Joos, Joost, Joest or Jost, is a given name and a family name. Other names such as Jocelyn, Jocelyne, Josselin, Josseline, or also Josquin Jospin, and Joyce derived from it.

The given name Jodocus or its form Josse was popular in the Middle Ages in England.   Why?  Because Saint Jodocus was very popular in the Middle Ages.

Saint Jodocus:

He was a king in the Breton region of France who went on a pilgrimage to Chartres, Paris, and Amiens.

He then abdicated his throne and became a hermit in Runiacum near the ocean which was later renamed in his honor as Saint-Josse-sur-Mer.

He has said to have said many prayers for sailors and those shipwrecked and lost at sea.

For eight years, he fed birds of every kind and fed fishes from his hand.

He built two chapels in the woods to honor Saints Peter and Paul.

He died around the year 668.

When the Normans invaded the Breton area in 902, monks fled from the area with his relics and settled in Winchester, England where his cult spread throughout the country and into Germany and Scandinavia.

His popularity in medieval England is reflected in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in which the Wife of Bath swears "by God and Seint Joce."

Jodocus is often pictured in pilgrim's garb with a crown ast his feet to symbolize his renunciation of the throne.

He is traditionally invoked against storms and shipwrecks.

His feast day is January 9 in Winchester, July 26 in Amiens, and December 12 elsewhere.

Happy Anne & Joachim Day!

Feast of St. Anne & St. Joachim - Parents of Mary

I requested that you and your family be included in the intentions of the

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

In the

Villa Pieta Chapel

Of the

Mission of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

On these dates:

Jul 16  Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

Jul 26  Feast of St. Anne & St. Joachim, parents of Mary

Aug 15 Assumption of Mary

Aug 22 Queenship of Mary

Sep 8   Birth of Mary

Join with us on these days as we pray the

Hail Holy Queen

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope!

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.

To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears!

Turn, then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile,

show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us Pray. O God, whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant,

we beseech Thee, that meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

we may imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise,

through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Linwood, NJ

www.missionofsacredhearts.org

Did you dance a polka with your Anne last night?

Did you dance a polka last night?  You should at least listen to this music!

July 25:  St. Anne’s Eve

The Vigil of St. Anne’s Day was a great celebration for matchmaking and debutante balls.

Both Johann Strausses composed “Anne Polkas” for these festivals.

Following an old saying that “All Annes are beautiful,” these events would be called a “Festival of All Annes” meaning of all beautiful ladies.

Fireworks would light the summer sky, and music and dancing would fill the air.

ANNEN POLKA (Anna Polka) by Johann Strauss

https://youtu.be/RF0BDme0qqQ

Johann Strauss - Annen-Polka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X39reWUE7A4

Drinks of the Day: How to Offer A Toast to St. Anne

Happy Feast of St. Anne – the mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus.

Did you know?

-          The cult of St. Anne developed in the East and came to the West with the Crusaders returning from the Holy Land.

-          Anne and her husband, Joachim, who prayed to God for children and were rewarded with a daughter whom they named Miriam (the Blessed Virgin Mary).

-          The popularity of St. Anne grew as she became the patron of grandmothers, housewives, pregnant women, broom-makers, lace-makers, and miners (to name just a few).

-          She is also invoked by spinsters and maidens to find them a mate.

-          “I beg you, holy mother Anne, Send me a good and loving man.”

-          The vigil of St. Anne’s Day (St. Anne’s Eve) was a great celebration for matchmaking and debutante balls.

-          Both Johann Strausses composed “Anne Polkas” for these festivals.

-          Following an old saying that “All Annes are beautiful,” these events would be called a “Festival of All Annes” meaning of all beautiful ladies.

-          Fireworks would light the summer sky, and music and dancing would fill the air.

Beers of the Day

-          Forchheim, Germany has an annual 10-day “Annafest” that attracts up to 500,000 visitors, and the town breweries make a special Annafest Bier.

-          You can buy Anne beer steins via the Internet for your own Annafest.

-          So, toast today with a beer and say this toast, “We beg you, holy mother Anne, send our Christian maidens a good and loving man” while listening to some Anne Polkas.

Wines of the Day

-          South Africa has a St. Anna wine. 

-          France has a Domaine Saint-Anne wine, a Boise Sainte-Anne, and a Clos Sainte-Anne wine, and a Chartogne-Taillet brut champagne Cuvee Sainte-Anne in a magnum size.

-          Spain has a Monasterio de Santa Ana wine.

-          Argentina makes a Casa de Campo Torrontes wine.

-          Italy makes a Villa Sant’ Anna wine, and a fine Chianti named for St. Anne is produced in Tuscany.

Cocktails of the Day

-          Saint Anne:  rum, lemon juice, orange curacao liqueur

-          Granny Gala:  Midori melon liqueur, Sourz apple liqueur, lemonade

Drinking With The Saints: The Sinner’s Guide To A Holy Happy Hour by Michael P. Foley

Happy St. Anne's Day!

St. Anne’s Feast Day Mass

July  26

at the

 Rosary Shrine of Saint Jude

Washington, DC

I requested that you be included in the intentions of this special Feast Day Mass.

Prayer to St. Anne

O glorious Saint Anne, I beg you, by the passion of my most loving Jesus, the Son of Mary, your most holy daughter, to assist me in all the necessities both of my body and my soul.

Venerable Mother, I beg you to obtain for me the favor I seek …

(State your intention here.)

…and the grace of leading a life perfectly conformable in all things to the Divine Will.

I place my soul in your hands and in those of your kind daughter.

I ask for your favor in order that, appearing under your patronage before the Supreme Judge,

He may find me worthy of enjoying His Divine Presence in your holy companionship in Heaven.

Amen.

 Pray for us, Saint Anne & Saint Joachim, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

www.rosaryshrineofstjude.org

Were James & John cousins of Jesus and nephews of St. Mary?

James and John were brothers and fisherman possibly working with Peter.   Their mother was Salome who may have a sister of the Virgin Mary which makes James and John cousins of Jesus.

James was the first apostle to be killed, but his younger brother, John, who was most favored by Jesus was not martyred.  

John lived to be an old man on the Island of Patmos where he wrote the Book of Revelation.  John’s feast day is December 27.

July 25:   St. James (the Greater)

From uCatholic.com

This James is the brother of John the Evangelist. The two were called by Jesus as they worked with their father in a fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus had already called another pair of brothers from a similar occupation: Peter and Andrew. “He walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him” (Mark 1:19-20).

James was one of the favored three who had the privilege of witnessing the Transfiguration, the raising to life of the daughter of Jairus and the agony in Gethsemani.

Two incidents in the Gospels describe the temperament of this man and his brother. St. Matthew tells that their mother came (Mark says it was the brothers themselves) to ask that they have the seats of honor (one on the right, one on the left of Jesus) in the kingdom. “Jesus said in reply, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?’ They said to him, ‘We can’” (Matthew 20:22). Jesus then told them they would indeed drink the cup and share his baptism of pain and death, but that sitting at his right hand or left was not his to give—it “is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father” (Matthew 20:23b). It remained to be seen how long it would take to realize the implications of their confident “We can!”

The other disciples became indignant at the ambition of James and John. Then Jesus taught them all the lesson of humble service: The purpose of authority is to serve. They are not to impose their will on others, or lord it over them. This is the position of Jesus himself. He was the servant of all; the service imposed on him was the supreme sacrifice of his own life.

On another occasion, James and John gave evidence that the nickname Jesus gave them—“sons of thunder”—was an apt one. The Samaritans would not welcome Jesus because he was on his way to hated Jerusalem. “When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, ‘Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?’ Jesus turned and rebuked them…” (Luke 9:54-55).

James was apparently the first of the apostles to be martyred. “About that time King Herod laid hands upon some members of the church to harm them. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword, and when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he proceeded to arrest Peter also” (Acts 12:1-3a).

This James, sometimes called James the Greater, is not to be confused with James the Lesser (May 3) or with the author of the Letter of James and the leader of the Jerusalem community.

http://ucatholic.com/saints/james-the-greater/