November 22 – St Cæcilia, Virgin & Martyr
Cæcilia united in her veins the blood of kings with that of Rome’s greatest heroes. At the time of the first preaching of the Gospel, more than one ancient patrician family […]
November 21 – The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Presentation is one of the minor solemnities of our Lady, and was inscribed at a comparatively late date on the sacred Cycle; it seems to court the homage of our […]
November 20 – St Felix of Valois, Confessor
Felix was called in his youth to dwell in the desert; and he thought to die there, forgotten by the world he had despised. But our Lord had decreed that […]
November 19 – St Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Thuringia
Although the blessed in heaven shine each with his own peculiar glory, God is pleased to group them in families, as he groups the stars in the material firmament. It […]
November 18 – Dedication of the Basilicas of Ss Peter & Paul, Apostles
Quod duce te mundus surrexit in astra triumphans, hanc Constantinus victor tibi condidit aulam. Because the world under thy conduct has risen triumphant to the very heavens, Constantine the conqueror has […]
November 17 – St Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bishop & Confessor
Moses instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, mighty in his words and in his deeds, (Acts 7:22) retired into the desert: Gregory, adorned with the best gifts of […]
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
For the years when the number of the Sundays after Pentecost is only twenty-three, the Mass for today is taken from the twenty-fourth and last Sunday: and the Mass appointed for […]
