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Ordinary Time: June 8th
Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
The 1962 Missal commemorates Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces. Pope Leo XIII declared in his Encyclical Octobri Mense (On The... More
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Ordinary Time: June 7th
Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Robert of Newminster (1100-1159). He was born at Gargrave in Yorkshire. He spent the early years of his priesthood as rector of his hometown but later joined the Benedictine... More
Ordinary Time: June 6th
Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, Bishop
Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Norbert (1080-1134). Norbert was born at Xanten near Cologne about the year 1080. As a young cleric he resided at the court of the Archbishop of Cologne and then at that of the emperor where... More
Ordinary Time: June 5th
Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
The Church celebrates the Memorial St. Boniface (c. 673-680-754). Boniface was a monk of Exeter in England. Boniface is one of the great figures of the Benedictine Order and of the monastic apostolate in the Middle Ages. Gregory... More
Ordinary Time: June 4th
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
The fundamental dogma, on which everything in Christianity is based, is that of the Blessed Trinity in whose name all Christians are baptized. The feast of the Blessed Trinity needs to be understood and celebrated as a prolongation of... More
Ordinary Time: June 3rd
Memorial of Sts. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs; Ember Saturday after Pentecost
Today is the Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions (d. 1886), the companions numbering twenty-one other Ugandan martyrs. They are the first martyrs of Sub-Saharan Africa and true witnesses of the Christian faith. Charles... More
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Ordinary Time: June 2nd
Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs; Ember Friday after Pentecost
Today is the Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter (d. 304) who were two Roman martyrs who suffered under the Diocletian persecution. The first was an exorcist, the second a priest. Their cultus was so important that... More
Ordinary Time: June 1st
Memorial of St. Justin, Martyr
Today is the Memorial of St. Justin, apologist and martyr (c. 100-165), who was one of the most important Christian writers of the second century. Justin himself tells how his study of all the schools of philosophy led him to... More
Ordinary Time: May 31st
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Ember Wednesday after Pentecost
The Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary recalls to us the following great truths and events: The visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth shortly after the Annunciation; the cleansing of John the... More
Ordinary Time: May 30th
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the patron saint of France. In her day, the English were allied with the Burgundians in a war against the rest of France. Joan was compelled by voices of... More
Ordinary Time: May 29th
Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church; Optional Memorial of St. Paul VI, Pope
In 2018 Pope Francis decreed that the ancient devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Mother of the Church, be inserted into the Roman Calendar. The liturgical celebration, B. Mariæ Virginis, Ecclesiæ... More
