POPE ST PIUS X - FEAST DAY 3rd SEPTEMBER

 



POPE SAINT PIUS X

FEAST DAY 3rd SEPTEMBER
Pope Pius X, elected Pope in 1903, came from a poor background. His childhood was impoverished, he had to walk to school, and he was known throughout his pontificate as a simple man who eschewed luxury, both for himself and his immediate family. When asked by Roman social leaders why he had not made his peasant sisters papal countesses, he replied, “I have made them sisters of the Pope; what more can I do for them?”
He was renowned for his piety and after his death a strong cult of devotion arose as a result of his holiness. He was canonised by Pope Pius XII in 1954. He was unrelenting in his opposition to modernism, and fought against theological liberalism, opposing philosophers whom he viewed as importing secular errors incompatible with Catholic dogma.
He sought to revive the philosophical inheritance of St Thomas Aquinas, the marriage of reason and revelation, as a response to the “Enlightenment” movements of Modernism and relativism. Such movements were a strong and persistent force in the Church, coming to a head in the Second Vatican Council in 1963. Endeavouring to effect an evolutionary application to Catholic theology, a body of Catholic philosophy, termed collectively by Pius X as "Modernist", attempted to incorporate the ideas of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and concepts based in rationalism into Catholic theology. Pope Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis (“Feeding the Lord’s Flock”) characterised Modernism as the ‘synthesis of all heresies.”
Pius X looked to the traditions of the Church for the weapons to counter the world: He established reforms to the liturgy by which the Gregorian chant was elevated, leading to the official adoption of the Solesmes edition of Gregorian chant. He worked to increase devotion in the daily lives of the clergy and the laity – reforming the Breviary and the Mass, stating in his 1903 motu proprio, “the primary and indispensable source of the true Christian spirit is participation in the most holy mysteries and in the public, official prayer of the Church”
He fell ill on the feast of the assumption 1914 and his condition worsened following the outbreak of World War I which reportedly sent him into a state of melancholy. He died on the day the German forces marched into Brussels. Devotion to him remained high in the era between the two world wars.
Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope St Pius X (author), Amazon.

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