Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional for Monday, May 5th, 2025.

It's the feast of Pope St. Pius the 5th, third class with the color of white.

In this episode, the trials of Pope St. Pius the 5th.

Today's news from the church, bad times for gender ideology.

A preview of today's sermon is the priesthood necessary in today's

world, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev. But first the call act of today's Mass.

O God, who graciously chose blessed pious as supreme pontiff to crush the enemies of your church

and to restore divine worship, grant that we may

be guarded by his help, and remain so steadfast in your service that, having overcome the snares

of all enemies, we may enjoy a lasting peace.

This is an excerpt from an article on angelespress.org about Pope St. Pius V.

We'll take it up towards the end of his life.

Throughout his pontificate, Pope Pius never failed to be present at every prescribed ceremony,

even when he wasn't feeling well.

In addition, though told it wasn't customary for the Pope to do so,

he insisted on attending the funeral

rights of all deceased Vatican prelates and clergy. After the Holy Week ceremonies on Good Friday,

1572, he was obliged to take his bed. But ordering the crucifix to be carried into his room,

he got up and prostrated himself several times before it. He had been

suffering physically for many years, and to these physical pains were added, at the last, a number

of spiritual griefs, mainly caused by the behavior of certain Catholic sovereigns. Philip II's

ambassador was threatening rupture of diplomatic relations between Spain and the Holy See if the Pope granted a dispensation for Henry of Navarre's marriage, which the French ambassador, on the other hand, was seeking to obtain by threatening his own withdrawal from papal obedience.

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