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Easter: May 5th
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. John 15 According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman... More
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Easter: May 4th
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. John 14 According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman... More
Easter: May 3rd
Feast of Sts. Philip and James, apostles
Today's Mass tells us that the example of the Apostles is the most certain and direct path to heaven. They suffered and were persecuted, but they placed their confidence in God and now they rejoice in heaven. We too must have confidence... More
Easter: May 2nd
Fifth Sunday of Easter
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and... More
Easter: May 1st
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker
The feast of St. Joseph the Worker was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to Christianize the concept of labor and give to all workmen a model and a protector. By the daily labor in his shop, offered to God with patience and... More
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Easter: April 30th
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Optional Memorial of St. Pius V, pope; Optional Memorial St. Marie de l'Incarnacion, religious (Can)
St. Pius V, who was born in 1504, joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had... More
Easter: April 29th
Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor
Catherine Benincasa, born in Siena at a date that remains uncertain, was favored with visions from the age of seven. Becoming a tertiary of the Dominican Order, she acquired great influence by her life of prayer and extraordinary... More
Easter: April 28th
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr (NZ, Feast); Optional Memorial of St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest; Gianna Molla, mother (Italy)
St. Peter Chanel was born in France in 1802. He was ordained a priest in 1827, and engaged in the parochial ministry for a few years; but the reading of letters of missionaries in far-away lands inflamed his heart with zeal, and he... More
Easter: April 27th
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Peter Canisius. His feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on
Easter: April 26th
Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Can); St. Raphael Arnaiz Baron, monk (Spain)
The devotion to our Lady of Good Counsel originated at Gennazzano, a village in the neighborhood of Rome, where an Augustinian church, in which is enshrined a miraculous picture of our Lady, had been for centuries a place of popular... More
Easter: April 25th
Fourth Sunday of Easter; Good Shepherd Sunday
I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them.... More
