St. Joan of Arc, FSSP, 4772 E Poleline Avenue, Post Falls, ID (2026)

09/07/2026

In Catholic tradition, Mondays are traditionally dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The Church encourages prayers, sacrifices, and Mass intentions on Mondays for the faithful departed, especially those who have no one to pray for them. This custom flows from the Church’s deep belief in the Communion of Saints and the power of intercessory prayer to assist souls being purified on their way to Heaven.
Common Monday devotions include:
+ Prayers for the dead
+ Offering Mass intentions for the Holy Souls
+ The De Profundis (Psalm 130)
+ Acts of charity offered for their relief
+ The Holy Rosary offered for the Holy Souls, especially the Sorrowful Mysteries
+ The Chaplet of the Holy Souls
+ Short ejaculatory prayers such as “Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord…”

09/06/2026

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
♰ It's Sunday!!! Go to Holy Mass!!! ♰

⚜️ EPISTLE
Galatians 5:25-26, 6:1-10
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
1 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. 5 For every one shall bear his own burden. 6 And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. 7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked. 8 For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. 9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. 10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

⚜️GOSPEL
Luke 7:11-16
11 And it came to pass afterwards that he went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. 12 And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. 13 Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. 14 And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. 15 And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. 16 And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.

09/05/2026

FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

The First Saturdays Devotion is a Catholic practice of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary requested by Our Lady of Fatima. To complete the devotion, you must practice the following four steps on the first Saturday of five consecutive months: [
⚜️ Confession: Go to sacramental confession with the intention of reparation. You can receive confession up to eight days before or after the first Saturday, provided you are in a state of grace when receiving communion.
⚜️ Holy Communion: Receive Holy Communion on the first Saturday (at a daily mass or anticipatory evening mass).
⚜️ The Rosary: Recite five decades of the Rosary.
⚜️ Meditation: Keep Mary company for 15 minutes by meditating on one or more mysteries of the Rosary, in addition to praying the Rosary itself.

Purpose and Promise ~ All actions must be offered with the specific intention of making reparation for the sins, blasphemies, and ingratitude against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The Promise: Our Lady promised to assist those who complete the five-month devotion at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation.

⚜️ Act of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

O Most Holy Virgin, and Our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of thy Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns placed therein at every moment by the blasphemies and ingratitude of ungrateful humanity. We are moved by the ardent desire of loving thee as Our Mother and of promising a true devotion to Thy Immaculate Heart.

We therefore kneel before thee to manifest the sorrow we feel for the grievances that people cause thee, and to atone by our prayers and sacrifices for the offenses with which they return thy love. Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. Hasten the conversion of sinners that they may love Jesus Christ and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended. Turn thy eyes of mercy toward us, that we may love God with all our heart on earth and enjoy Him forever in Heaven.

⚜️ Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

O Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, and tender Mother of men, in accordance with thy ardent wish made known at Fatima, I consecrate to thy Immaculate Heart myself, my brethren, my country and the whole human race. Reign over us, Most Holy Mother of God, and teach us how to make the Heart of Thy Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ reign and triumph in us even as It has reigned and triumphed in thee. Reign over us, dearest Mother, that we may be thine in prosperity and in adversity; in joy and in sorrow; in health and in sickness; in life and in death. O most compassionate Heart of Mary, Queen of Virgins, watch over our minds and our hearts and preserve them from the deluge of impurity which thou didst lament so sorrowfully at Fatima. We want to be pure like thee. We want to atone for the many sins committed against Jesus and thee. We want to call down upon our country and the whole world the peace of God in justice and charity.

Therefore, we now promise to imitate thy virtues by the practice of a Christian life without regard to human respect. We resolve to receive Holy Communion on the First Saturday of every month and to offer thee five decades of the rosary each day together with our sacrifices in a spirit of reparation and penance. Amen.

09/04/2026

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 ~ FIRST FRIDAY

⚜️ The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

1 → I will give them all the graces necessary for their state in life.

2 → I will establish peace in their families.

3 → I will console them in all their afflictions.

4 → I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all, at the hour of death.

5→ I will bestow abundant blessings upon all their undertakings.

6 → Sinners shall find in My Heart an infinite ocean of mercy.

7 → Lukewarm souls shall become fervent.

8 → Fervent souls shall quickly rise to great perfection.

9 → I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart is exposed and honored.

10 → I will give priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.

11 → Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be erased.

12 → The Great Promise:
I promise you, in the excessive mercy of My Heart, that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months, the grace of final perseverance. They shall not die in My displeasure nor without receiving the sacraments. My Heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour.

09/03/2026

THE DEATH OF POPE PIUS X ~ August 20, 1914.

In his last months Saint Pius became increasingly preoccupied with the thought of the impending cataclysm. While walking one day with Monsignor Bressan in the Vatican Gardens, he stopped before a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and exclaimed in words that seemed cryptic to his confused guest: “I feel pity for my successor. I shall not be here. Truly ‘devastated religion’ is upon us.” (Giordani notes that religio depopulato was the prophecy of Saint Malachy for the reign of Pope Benedict XV.)

When in July of 1914 the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated, the great Pontiff knew that the time of the inestimable human suffering which he had long anticipated had finally arrived. Pius lapsed into a state of such aching sadness that it could only be compared to Our Lord’s agony in the garden of Gethsemane.

Within a few weeks, on the Feast of the Assumption, Saint Pius became ill. It did not seem serious — a mild inflammation of the throat that settled into his chest. But on the nineteenth of August the meek, white-robed figure collapsed. In a few hours the great bell of St. Peter’s was tolling the Pro pontifice agonizante. “Holy Viaticum and Extreme Unction,” Cardinal Merry del Val records, “were administered to him…in the simplest form possible. On a little table by the bedside, covered with a white cloth, a crucifix and two lighted candles were the only evidence of ceremony. I could not help thinking that after all Pope Pius X was receiving the rights of the Church in the way most congenial to him…. It was not unlike the scene one might have witnessed in the humblest cottage of a dying laborer, without pomp or splendor of any kind.”

In this modest disposition the quiet little Saint, who had courageously and firmly stood up against Satan’s soldiery like a colossal warrior, happily was to depart from this world, clutching a small crucifix, in the same poverty and simplicity in which he was born. At about one o’clock on the morning of August 20th, 1914, in the gentle peace of sleep, the magnificent fatherly heart that had loved and suffered so much was stilled by the Finger of God and beat no more. The glorious and beautiful soul of Pope Saint Pius X at last was blissfully where it had always longed to be — with the Heavenly Father. And his body was left perfectly incorrupt till this day as relic and testimony of his exceptional sanctity.

One cardinal announced, “The Holy Father has died of a broken heart.” That was very true. But Cardinal Merry de Val also reported that the saintly Pontiff possessed an “extraordinary serenity” in his last moments of life. And we are certain that this was because Saint Pius was immeasurable happy, knowing that in Heaven he could now interceded for us ever more powerfully against the wiles of the devil.”

09/03/2026

SEPTEMBER 3 ~ POPE ST. PIUS X (1835 - 1914)

Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, nicknamed “Bepi” by his family, was born on June 2, 1835 in Riese, Italy, a farming village near Venice. He was the oldest of nine children. We know him today as Pope Saint Pius X. His father, Giovanni Battista Sarto, was a mailman and he died before Giuseppe was ordained a priest. His mother, Margarita, was a dressmaker and lived to see her son become the Cardinal of Venice. Two of his sisters became religious nuns and served under him in the Archdiocese of Venice.

Giuseppe was first in his grammar school class. When he was 11 years old, he told his father that he wanted to become a priest. His father, with the help of their local parish priest, sent Giuseppe to a well-known Catholic high school about six miles outside of town. Giuseppe graduated first in his high school class at the age of 15 and immediately entered the seminary in Padua. He graduated from the seminary first in his class in 1858 and was ordained a priest, Don (Father) Sarto. He was assigned to Tombolo, a farming village, as an assistant pastor for nine years. Don Sarto flourished with the help of his pastor. He was devoted to the Eucharist, enjoyed preaching and loved young people. His Masses were reverent, his sermons were carefully crafted and moving and, as the oldest boy from a large, poor family, he was able to relate to the poor youth in his parish. He began an after school program in Tombolo to help children learn more about their faith and develop their reading and writing skills. He also began a similar program in the evening for adults because his daytime program was so popular. Pius X is often credited with developing the foundations of modern catechism and adult education still held in parishes today.

Don Sarto was named pastor of Salzano at the age of 32 and he remained there for nine years until 1876. He was well known for helping poor farmers and cattle ranchers. He helped to fund schools and supported the local hospital when a cholera epidemic affected his parishioners. He rarely slept and so he earned the nickname, “Perpetuun Mobile”—a machine in perpetual motion. The Bishop of Treviso realized Don Sarto’s talent and energy so he promoted him to Monsignor and other important positions including the spiritual director of the local seminary and chancellor of the Diocese of Treviso. Monsignor Sarto was known for his quick wit and humility and his love of people. He enjoyed teaching, preaching and administering.

Monsignor Sarto was elevated to Bishop of Mantua on November 10, 1884 despite his protestations over not wanting to leave the seminary. He asked the Vatican to reconsider his elevation but the Pope responded with one word, “obey!”

As Bishop, he encouraged educated and energetic priests. Bishop Sarto adopted St. Thomas Aquinas’ teaching methodologies and instituted the Gregorian Chant for Mass. Within six years, the troubled Diocese of Mantua was turned into a vibrant diocese with spirit-filled masses and enlightening preaching.

Pope Leo XIII elevated Giuseppe Sarto to Cardinal on June 12, 1893. Upon hearing the news of his appointment, Cardinal Sarto told a local newspaper that he was “anxious, terrified and humiliated.” He immediately returned to his hometown of Riese to celebrate Mass for his elderly mother, family and friends. His mother passed away soon after he left for Venice. While Cardinal, Giuseppe continued to encourage education for priests and improved Catholic schools. He also raised money for the sick.

Pope Leo XIII died and Cardinal Sarto reluctantly accepted the position of Pope after a four-day conclave during which he won 55 out of 60 votes. He chose the name Pius because he said, “As I shall suffer, I shall take the name of those Popes who also suffered.” His coronation took place on August 9, 1903. During his papacy, Pope Pius was less formal and more approachable than his predecessors. He invited priests to dinner in the Vatican each evening and often snuck out of the Vatican through the garden passageways to visit the sick in local hospitals. He improved priestly formation, instituted improved liturgies and music and insisted on quality preaching from his priests and bishops. He modernized Canon law and introduced progressive scholarship through the biblical institute of Rome under the direction of the Jesuits. Pope Pius X also lowered the age for young people to first receive the Eucharist and fought against “modernism,” a theological teaching that he viewed as heresy and atheism. He preached forcefully against war and violence and had visions that a war would break out in 1914 killing many innocent people that turned out to accurately describe World War I. He did not live to see the long-term effects of the war but his prophecies live on. Pope Pius X supported immigrants from Europe who fled to North and South America. He created many new dioceses and appointed new bishops in the Americas.

In the last year of his life, he granted many private audiences with the poor and sick. Rumors of miraculous cures began to spread throughout Rome after people visited him. Two religious sisters who were cured through his prayers confirmed the healings after his death and endorsed his canonization to sainthood.

Pope Pius X died on August 20, 1914. The Italian press wrote, “Saint is Dead.” His tombstone is engraved with the words; “Pope Pius X, poor and yet rich, gentle and humble of heart, unconquerable champion of the Catholic Faith, whose constant endeavor it was to renew all things in Christ …”

09/03/2026

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER is traditionally dedicated to the Seven Sorrows (or Dolors) of Mary, and the main Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on September 15th. This devotion invites people to reflect on the deep pain and heartbreak that Mary experienced throughout the life and death of Jesus.

⚜️ The Seven Sorrows of Mary
🗡️ The Prophecy of Simeon: Simeon tells Mary that a sharp sword will pierce her soul.
🗡️ The Flight into Egypt: Mary and Joseph escape into Egypt to save baby Jesus from King Herod.
🗡️ The Loss of Jesus in the Temple: Mary and Joseph search for young Jesus in Jerusalem for three anxious days.
🗡️ Mary Meets Jesus on the Way to Calvary: Mary sees her son carrying his heavy cross to his crucifixion.
🗡️ Standing at the Foot of the Cross: Mary watches Jesus suffer and die on the cross.
🗡️ Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross: Mary holds the lifeless body of her son.
🗡️ The Burial of Jesus: Mary places Jesus into the tomb and says goodbye

⚜️ Traditional Graces Attached to the Devotion
According to Catholic tradition, Saint Bridget of Sweden received a revelation stating that Mary grants seven unique spiritual graces to those who honor her daily by praying and meditating on these seven sorrows:
* Bring peace to their families.
* Give enlightenment about divine mysteries.
* Provide consolation in their personal pains.
* Offer assistance in their daily work.
* Defend them in their spiritual battles.
* Grant protection at every instant of their lives.
* Ensure help at the moment of death, visually seeing their Mother's face.

⚜️ Ways to Practice This Devotion in September
* Pray the Seven Sorrows Rosary: Also known as the Servite Chaplet, this prayer uses a unique set of beads to recite seven sets of seven Hail Marys, with each set dedicated to a specific sorrow.
* Offer up daily sacrifices: Intentionally offer up minor inconveniences, discomforts, or acts of self-denial for the intentions of those who are suffering.
* Perform acts of mercy: Visit someone who is lonely, homebound, or grieving to bring comfort to Christ hidden in the poor and suffering.

09/02/2026

The Three Hearts Pilgrimage is a 35-mile walking pilgrimage to Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert Oklahoma; dedicated to the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Heart, and the Most Chaste Heart.

09/02/2026

September 2 ~ ST. STEPHEN, King

GEYSA, fourth Duke of Hungary, was, with his wife, converted to the Faith, and saw in a vision the martyr St. Stephen, who told him that he should have a son who would perfect the work he had begun. This son was born in 977, and received the name of Stephen. He was most carefully educated, and succeeded his father at an early age. He began to root out idolatry, suppressed a rebellion of his pagan subjects, and founded monasteries and churches all over the land. He sent to Pope Sylvester, begging him to appoint bishops to the eleven sees he had endowed, and to bestow on him, for the greater success of his work, the title of king. The Pope granted his requests, and sent him a cross to be borne before him, saying that he regarded him as the true apostle of his people.

His devotion was fervent. He placed his realms under the protection of our blessed Lady, and kept the feast of her Assumption with peculiar affection. He gave good laws, and saw to their ex*****on. Throughout his life, we are told, he had Christ on his lips, Christ in his heart, and Christ in all he did. His only wars were wars of defence, and he was always successful.

God sent him many and sore trials. One by one his children died, but he bore all with perfect submission to the will of God. When St. Stephen was about to die, he summoned the bishops and nobles, and gave them charge concerning the choice of a successor. Then he urged them to nurture and cherish the Catholic Church, which was still as a tender plant in Hungary, to follow justice, humility, and charity, to be obedient to the laws, and to show ever a reverent submission to the Holy See.

Then, raising his eyes towards heaven, he said, “O Queen of Heaven, august restorer of a prostrate world, to thy care I commend the Holy Church, my people, and my realm, and my own departing soul.” And then, on his favorite feast of the Assumption, in 1038, he died in peace.

⚜️ Reflection
“Our duty,” says Father Newman, “is to follow the Vicar of Christ whither he goeth, and never to desert him, however we may be tried; but to defend him at all hazards and against all corners, as a son would a father, and as a wife a husband, knowing that his cause is the cause of God.”

St. Joan of Arc, FSSP

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