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Ordinary Time: July 9th
Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs
Saint Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 companions in 1815. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were... More
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Ordinary Time: July 8th
Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Bl. Peter Vigne, priest (GRC)
Bl. Peter Vigne, a French priest, was beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II and proposed to the universal Church as an example of a tireless missionary and apostle of the Most Holy Sacrament. According to the 1962 Missal of... More
Ordinary Time: July 7th
Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Bl. Peter To Rot
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. Their memorial in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on
Ordinary Time: July 6th
Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr
St. Maria Goretti was born near Ancona (Italy). The daughter of a poor peasant family, Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety. When she was twelve she was a victim of assault. She preferred to die rather than... More
Ordinary Time: July 5th
Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Zaccaria, Priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal (USA)
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria was the founder of the Clerks Regular of St. Paul, later called the Barnabites from the name of their principal church in Rome. He also founded a congregation of nuns which now no longer exists. He was a great... More
Ordinary Time: July 4th
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
And on the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him? What mighty works are wrought by his hands! Is not this the... More
Ordinary Time: July 3rd
Feast of St. Thomas, apostle
St. Thomas, the disciple who at first did not believe, has become for the Church one of the first witnesses to her faith. She is fond of appealing to his testimony and frequently puts in our mouths those simple words whereby he expressed... More
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Ordinary Time: July 2nd
Friday of the Thirteenth 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 the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which in the Ordinary Form is celebrated on
Ordinary Time: July 1st
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of Saint Junipero Serra, Priest (USA); St. Oliver Plunket, Bishop and Martyr (some places)
Miguel Jose Serra was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain. He took the name Junipero when he entered the Franciscan Order in 1730. Ordained in 1737, he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Padua for twelve years. At age... More
Ordinary Time: June 30th
Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
This memorial is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.)... More
Ordinary Time: June 29th
Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles
Veneration of the two great Apostles, Peter and Paul, has its roots in the very foundations of the Church. They are the solid rock on which the Church is built. They are at the origin of her faith and will forever remain her protectors... More
