Tuesday after Trinity Sunday
The history of the blessed Eucharist is one with that of the Church herself: the liturgical usages, which have varied in the celebration of the most august of all the Sacraments, […]
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WHIT SUNDAY: PENTECOST
Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. The great day, which consummates the work that God had undertaken […]
May 27 – St Bede the Venerable, Confessor & Doctor of the Church
The blessing given by our Lord as he ascended into heaven has revealed its power in the most distant pagan lands, and during these days the liturgical cycle bears witness to […]
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 […]
Thursday of the Fifth Week after Easter
℣. In thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia. ℟. Let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia. By the first four Sacraments, our Savior provided for the several spiritual necessities of man during this […]
May 4 – St Monica, Widow
In the company of our Risen Lord there are two women, two mothers, of whom we have often had to speak during the last few weeks: they are Mary, mother […]
EASTER SUNDAY
(Easter is the Anglo-Saxon word for April, and was derived, as Venerable Bede tells us, (in his Book De ratione Tempore, Ch. 13,) from Eostre, a Goddess of our pagan […]
Good Friday
The scepter is taken from Juda, and Jerusalem is cast off, and the Messias is come! THE MORNING The sun has risen upon Jerusalem. But the priests and scribes have […]
March 12 – St Gregory the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church
We are weak and timid, and this makes us count as harsh the laws of the Church, which oblige us to fasting and abstinence; get us brave hearts, brave with the spirit of […]
March 7 – St Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
The Saint we are to honor today, is one of the sublimest and most lucid interpreters of Divine Truth. He rose up in the Church many centuries after the Apostolic […]
February 22 – St Peter’s Chair at Antioch
We are called upon, a second time, to honor St. Peter’s Chair: first, it was his Pontificate in Rome; today it is his Episcopate at Antioch. The seven years spent by […]
Tuesday of Quinquagesima Week
…almost every page of the Gospel tells us, that we should live out of the world, separate ourselves from the world, hate the world…this World is everywhere, and holds a […]
†The Ecu-Men† 