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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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COMFORTER

Title of the Holy Spirit in his role of strengthening the faithful against temptation or in time of trial and tribulation. (Etym. Latin comfortare, to strengthen: com, together + fortis, strong.)

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Friday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Finbarr (550-623), bishop (and patron) of Cork, Ireland. He was a native of Connaught, and instituted a monastery or school at Lough Eirc, to which such numbers of disciples flocked, that it changed a desert into a large city. This was the origin of the city…

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