GENERAL CURIA OF THE PASSIONISTS
CALENDARIUM PROPRIUM
OCTOBER 2026
| 3 | Alb. | Missa et officium votivum Beatae Mariae Virginis Perdolentis. L 1. Rom 8, 31-39; Ps 17, 2-3.5-6-7; Ev. Io 19,25-27 vel: Lc 2,33-35. |
| 6 | Alb. | B. Isidori de Loor a S. Ioseph, Rel. Off. ut in Prop. C.P., vel Comm. Sanct. (Relig.) et feriae. Missa ut in Proprio vel Comm. Sanct. (Relig.). L 1. 1 Io 4, 7-16; Ps 132, 1-2. 3. Ev. Io 15, 1-8. |
| 9 | Rub | S. Innocentii Canoura ab Immaculata, Presb. et Mart. Missa et officium un in Proprio et comm. mart. et feriae. L 1. Iac 1,2–4.12. Ps. 125, 1-2a.2b-3.4-5.6. Ev. Mt 10, 28-33. |
| 18 | Transitus S.P.N. Pauli a Cruce, Romae ad Ss. Ioannis et Pauli, a. 1775, feria quarta, hora circiter 16.45. A meridie diei 18 usque ad mediam noctem diei 19 octobris, Indulgentia plenaria acquiri potest. (Ench. Ind., n. 68). I Vesperae seq. |
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| 19 | Alb. | S. PATRIS NOSTRI, PAULI A CRUCE, sollemnitas. Officium totum ut in Proprio C.P. Ad Horas min. Antt. pr. cum Psalmis dom. hebd. I. Missa ut in Proprio, Gloria, Credo, pf. pr. L 1. Is 61,1-3 vel Ier 1,4-9; Ps. 95, 1-2a.2b-3.7-8a.10. L 2. 1Cor 1,1725. Ev. Mc 6,7-13 vel Mt 9,35-38.10,1. |
| 20 | Alb. | In America septentr.: S. PATRIS NOSTRI, PAULI A CRUCE, sollemnitas. |
| 30 | Rub. | Missa et officium votivum Passionis (V). “Christus cruci affigitur”. L 1. Gen 3,9-15 vel Rom 5,1-2.5-11; Ps 21,2-3.7-8.17c.18-19.20.23. Ev. Mt 27,34-50. |
THE PASSION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Guarding the flesh, disarming power, rebuilding the human
Theological commentary on the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas by Leo XIV
di Maurizio Buioni, CP
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas offers one of the most incisive theological interpretations of the digital
age, revealing how technological transformation reaches the core of Christian anthropology. Far from demonizing
technology, the Pope exposes its idolatrous distortions: the logic of power, new invisible forms of slavery, data
colonialism, and the transhumanist temptation to transcend the flesh. In the light of the Incarnation, technology becomes
a spiritual test that may lead either to Babel or to Jerusalem, to disembodiment or to communion. The Magnificat emerges
as the hermeneutical key of evangelical reversal: against the culture of performance, it proclaims the dignity of the lowly
and the primacy of mercy. Passionist spirituality finds in this text a unique resonance: guarding wounded flesh,
recognizing the new digital crucified, and disarming power through the logic of kenosis. Magnifica Humanitas thus stands
as the programmatic manifesto of a renewed Christian humanism capable of inhabiting the digital era without being
colonized by it.
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