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Ordinary Time: August 7th
Friday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of Sts. Sixtus II, pope and martyr and companions, martyrs and Optional Memorial of St. Cajetan, priest
With the future Pope Paul IV, St. Cajetan founded the first congregation of Clerks Regular, a new form of institute which corresponded with the needs of the time. Trust in God was its principal rule; its members were forbidden to ask for... More
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Ordinary Time: August 6th
Feast of the Transfiguration
This feast became widespread in the West in the 11th century and was introduced into the Roman calendar in 1457 to commemorate the victory over Islam in Belgrade. Before that, the Transfiguration of the Lord was celebrated in the Syrian,... More
Ordinary Time: August 5th
Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major
We celebrate today the dedication of one of the four most illustrious churches of Rome. While each diocese and parish keeps its own dedication anniversary, the Church universal commemorates the consecration of the four great Roman... More
Ordinary Time: August 4th
Memorial of St. John Vianney, priest; Blessed Frédéric Janssoone OFM (Canada)
St. John Baptist Mary Vianney (1786-1859) was born in Dardilly and died in Ars, France. Although his talents were limited and his education meager, he was ordained a priest in 1815. After three years at Ecully, he was appointed parish... More
Ordinary Time: August 3rd
Monday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Historically today is the feast of the Finding of the Body of St. Stephen, the first martyr. His body was discovered in 415 just outside Jerusalem. It was translated to Constantinople in 439 by the Empress Eudoxia, but part of the remains... More
Ordinary Time: August 2nd
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
But they said to him, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have here." Then he said, "Bring them here to me," and He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He said... More
Ordinary Time: August 1st
Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop & doctor
St. Alphonsus de Liguori was a great preacher of the Gospel to the poor. His charity and apostolic spirit led him to found the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer to carry on this work. He sent his Redemptorists, as our Lord did the... More
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Ordinary Time: July 31st
Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest
In the year 1521 a cannon ball fractured the left leg of Captain Ignatius Loyola, the future founder of the Jesuits. While he was convalescing, Ignatius read about Christ and His saints and thus turned wholly to God. He then undertook to... More
Ordinary Time: July 30th
Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor; Bl. Solanus Casey, priest
St. Peter Chrysologus ("the man of golden speech") earned the title of Doctor of the Church for his eloquent sermons, of which some two hundred remain. Made Archbishop of Ravenna by miraculous intervention of St. Peter in 433, he rooted... More
Ordinary Time: July 29th
Memorial of St. Martha, virgin
Jesus liked to stay at the house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus, his friends at Bethany, when he was in Judea. One of these visits has ever remained dear to Christian memory. On that occasion Martha, busily serving the Master, asked Him to... More
Ordinary Time: July 28th
Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of Sts. Nazarius and Celsus, first century martyrs, whose bodies were found by St. Ambrose in 395. It is also the feast of Sts.... More
