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Ordinary Time: July 24th
Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhluf, Priest
St. Sharbel was a Lebanese monk, born in a small mountain village and ordained in 1858. Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he spent the last twenty-three years of his life as a hermit. Despite temptations to wealth and comfort, Saint... More
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Ordinary Time: July 23rd
Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Bridget, Religious
Patron saint of Sweden, Bridget married a young prince and lived happily with him for 28 years, bearing him eight children. St. Catherine of Sweden was their daughter. After her husband died, Bridget founded the Order of the Most Holy... More
Ordinary Time: July 22nd
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
On June 10, 2016, the liturgical celebration honoring St. Mary Magdalene was raised from a memorial to a feast, putting her on par with the Apostles. "On the one hand, she has the honour of being the 'prima testis' to the resurrection... More
Ordinary Time: July 21st
Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest and Doctor of the Church
St. Lawrence, the first Capuchin Franciscan to be honored as a Doctor, was born in 1559 at Brindisi, a town located on the Adriatic coast of the heel of Italy. Educated from his youth by the Conventual Franciscan Friars, he acquired great... More
Ordinary Time: July 20th
Tuesday in the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr
Early accounts report that Saint Apollinaris was ordained Bishop by Saint Peter himself and sent as a missionary bishop to Ravenna during the reign of the emperor Claudius. Renowned for his powers to heal in the name of Christ, he was... More
Ordinary Time: July 19th
Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. His feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on
Ordinary Time: July 18th
Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
And they went away in the boat to a lonely place by themselves. Now many saw them going, and knew them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns, and got there ahead of them. As he went ashore he saw a great throng, and he had... More
Ordinary Time: July 17th
Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
St. Alexius was an Eastern saint whose veneration was transplanted from the Byzantine empire to Rome, whence it spread rapidly throughout western Christendom. Together with the name and veneration of the Saint, his legend was made known... More
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Ordinary Time: July 16th
Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Sacred Scripture celebrated the beauty of Carmel where the prophet Elijah defended the purity of Israel's faith in the living God. In the twelfth century, hermits withdrew to that mountain and later founded the Carmelite order devoted to... More
Ordinary Time: July 15th
Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
St. Bonaventure was born in Italy in 1221. He joined the Franciscan Order and went to Paris for his studies. He was made General of his Order and deserves to be reckoned its second founder for his work in consolidating an institution that... More
Ordinary Time: July 14th
Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin (USA)
Kateri was born in 1656 near the town of Auriesville, New York, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was baptized by Jesuit missionary Fr. Jacques de Lambertville on Easter of 1676 at the age of twenty. She devoted her life to prayer,... More
