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It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "The Trial of the Angels", today's news from the Church: "Leo XIV Wanted to Rediscover the "Ecumenical Potential" of the Augsburg Confession", a preview of the Sermon: "Pray the Rosary Every Day", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "The Trial of the Angels" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "Leo XIV Wanted to Rediscover the "Ecumenical Potential" of the Augsburg Confession" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/leo-xiv-wanted-rediscover-ecumenical-potential-augsburg-confession-61516
  
  
• "Pray the Rosary Every Day" (SSPX Sermons)
  • SSPX YouTube: Sermons Playlist
  • Listen & Subscribe: SSPX Sermons Podcast
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Wilfrid of York was one of the most influential bishops in early English history, but he also had an extraordinary talent for getting into arguments.

With kings.

With bishops.

And occasionally with almost everyone at once.

He was born around 634 in Northumbria, in northern England, when Christianity was still taking root among the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. As a young man, Wilfrid spent time at the monastery of Lindisfarne before traveling to Rome, something that was still quite an adventure in the seventh century.

That journey changed his life.

Wilfrid became convinced that the English Church needed to follow the liturgical customs of Rome more closely. At the time, Christians in northern England followed traditions inherited from Irish missionaries, including a different method of calculating the date of Easter.

That might sound like a small disagreement.

It wasn't.

In 664, the famous Synod of Whitby gathered to settle the question. Wilfrid argued passionately for the Roman calculation of Easter, pointing to the authority of Saint Peter and the practice of the Roman Church.

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