From what I heard today - Saint of Today is: "St. Joan of Arc" whereas In my Logos it's Pope Saint Felix. why is the difference? Is there something wrong in my Logos?
There are several "lists" for bringing to mind a Saint of the Day. It would depend on what you are looking at. In the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church Pope Saint Felix is listed in the old calendar on May 30. I think that is the note you see in Verbum. He died on December 30 which most times (not always) is the memorial for a person considered a Saint. In this case, it appears there is no option in the current Latin Rite calendar (for English speaking countries anyway) for either Joan of Arc or Felix on this date nor for December 30 for Felix. Both dates are open on the current calendar.
I don't think anything is wrong. Verbum is showing you some interesting additional information. It should show an asterisk on the home page for you.
Joan of Arc is definitely today, but not celebrated everywhere. And she seems completely missing from Logos' Saints resource, in spite of the timely shipping of the Joan of Arc Collection (2 vols.) earlier this week.
Is there something wrong in my Logos?
I believe Logos Saints are based primarily on Bulters Lives of the Saints, which was primarily written by a man who died 15th of May, 1773... I believe Logos version is slightly updated, as it's printing is from 1903, but most (or at least many) Canonizations after 1770's are going to be missing. Joan as you see from the quip below was not considered a saint officially till 1920.
A revision of her trial by an appellate court appointed by Pope *Callistus III in 1456 declared her to have been unjustly condemned. Canonized on 9 May 1920 by *Benedict XV as a holy maiden, she is the second patron of France. Feast day, 30 May. --F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 884.
So in the end what is wrong with Logos is it is based on some out dated works. Liturgical Press has offered an updated lives of the saints starting in the late 1990s but even this is out of date because Pope John Paul II Canonized such a large number.
-Dan
Joan of Arc is definitely today ...
Can you post a reference? I'm not seeing it in the Ordo or in the Liturgical Calendar on the USCCB website for today. Perhaps a different ecclesial jurisdiction?
I believe Logos Saints are based primarily on Bulters Lives of the Saints
Disappointing.
Can you post a reference?
Wikipedia.[:D]
Can you post a reference? Wikipedia.
Wikipedia.
I was trying to respond to the OP on why Felix was displayed in Verbum and not Joan of Arc. I understand the history of Joan and her death on May 30. However, Wikipedia is not the source of the official church calendar. The references to the General Roman Calendars in the US that I provided do not have Joan of Arc for any day of the year currently. This is probably why it is not showing in Verbum. Felix was officially listed on the old calendar.
I was hoping a reference to a Church Calendar could be listed. Then many of us would be more knowledgeable about the variations in Church liturgical celebrations.
Can you post a calendar reference? Perhaps France (if there is one available on-line)? Another jurisdiction?
I suppose you expect me to answer?[;)]
Traditional Franciscan Calendar30. St. Joan of Arc, Virgin, Franciscan Third Order Secular, d. 1431, King Saint Fernando III, Confessor, Franciscan Third Order Secular, d. 1252 Traditional General Latin calendar30. St. Felix I, Pope, Martyrhttp://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/saint-calendars.html
Wikipedia is not the source of the official church calendar
No, but the official church calendar is hopefully the source for Wikipedia. All saints have a date, whether or not any particular diocese actually officially celebrates them. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints and several Swedish books on saints all list her for May 30, as does my 1928 Diario Romano (bought for the steep price of about 30 cents.[:D]).
You are mixing up two different things: the Lectionary part of the Home Page, which should show the US calendar (as long as that is the only one we've got), and the Saints part of the Home Page, which ought to show all saints celebrated on that date. For now, Wikipedia is probably a far better source for the latter.
Is there something wrong in my Logos? I believe Logos Saints are based primarily on Bulters Lives of the Saints
It's based on all the resources you see linked in the "Further Reading" lists. This includes what's on the modern General Roman and U.S. calendars (via the lectionary), but we haven't yet succeeded in acquiring and aligning a good modern collection of lives that covers the entire year (like Liturgical Press's). This would get us much closer to covering at least the most well-known saints (though we'd be still be a long way from "completeness" as MJ has pointed out).
Hope to see Current and Updated Saints of the Day in My Logos home page. Currently it's lost my trust. Hope to see an easy fixed.
Currently it's lost my trust.
Why? The lectionary correctly shows that no saint is celebrated in the USA version of the Universal Calendar. The Saints section shows a major saint who may be celebrated on the day - in this case from the traditional calendar. An asterisk indicates that it is an added entry. That seems logical to me.
Hope to see an easy fixed.
I don't think there is anything to fix now that we understand what the asterisk means. What do you think the "fix" should be?
Thanks for the clarification...
-dan
