May 25 – St Gregory VII, Pope & Confessor
Our Easter Calendar has already given us the two great Popes, Leo the Great and Pius V; it bids us, today, pay honor to the glorious memory of Gregory VII. These […]
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Rogation Days: Wednesday (Ascension Eve)
For the third time, holy Church marshals her children in procession, and makes a solemn appeal to the divine mercy. Let us follow her sacred standard, and join her in invoking […]
February 8 – St John of Matha, Confessor
We were celebrating, not many days ago, the memory of Peter Nolasco, who was inspired, by the Holy Mother of God, to found an Order for the ransoming of Christian […]
February 1 – St Ignatius, Bishop & Martyr
Two days more, and the happy season of Christmas will be over! This is the vigil of its termination, and lo! there comes to gladden us one of the grandest […]
January 30 – St Martina, Virgin & Martyr
A THIRD Roman Virgin, wearing on her brow a Martyr’s crown, comes to-day to share the honors given to Agnes and Emerentiana, and offer her palm to the Lamb. Her […]
January 28 – The Blessed Charlemagne, Emperor
In many Churches, especially in Germany, there is kept, on this second Feast of the Martyr Agnes, the Feast of the pious Emperor Charlemagne. The Emmanuel, who is come into […]
January 28 – St Agnes, Her Second Feast
Five days after the martyrdom of the Virgin Emerentiana, the parents of the glorious Saint Agnes visited the tomb of their child, during the night, there to weep and pray. […]
January 23 – St Raymond of Penafort, Confessor
The glorious choir of Martyrs, that stands round our Emmanuel, till the day of his Presentation in the Temple, opens its ranks, from time to time, to give admission to […]
January 21 – St Agnes, Virgin & Martyr
How rich is the constellation of Martyrs, which shines in this portion of the sacred Cycle. Yesterday, we had St. Sebastian; tomorrow, we shall be singing the name which means […]
January 18 – Commemoration of St Prisca, Virgin & Martyr
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/ecu-men/january-18-st-prisca-virgin Four Virgins grace the Christmas cycle with their presence; the brightness they cast around is interspersed with rays of a darker hue denoting that the aureola of martyrdom […]
December 13 – St Lucy, Virgin & Martyr
There comes to us today the fourth of our Wise Virgins, the valiant Martyr Lucy. Her glorious name shines on the sacred Dyptich of the Canon of the Mass together with […]
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 […]
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