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 […]
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May 1 – Ss Philip & James the Less, Apostles
Two of the favored witnesses of our beloved Jesus’ Resurrection come before us on this first day of May. Philip and James are here, bearing testimony to us, that their […]
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 6 – St Titus, Bishop & Confessor
We are to celebrate today, the Feast of a holy Bishop of the Apostolic Age–a Disciple of the Apostle St. Paul. Little is known of his life; but, by addressing […]
January 26 – St Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr
Amidst the sweetness he is enjoying from the contemplation of the Word made Flesh, John, the Beloved Disciple, beholds coming towards him his dear Polycarp, the Angel of the Church […]
January 14 – St Hilary, Bishop, Confessor, & Doctor of the Church
After having consecrated the joyous Octave of the Epiphany to the glory of the Emmanuel who was manifested to the earth, the Church—incessantly occupied with the Divine Child and his august Mother during […]
January 9 – Fourth Day within the Octave of the Epiphany
The Star foretold by Balaam having risen in the East, the three Magi, whose hearts were full of the expectation of the promised Redeemer, are immediately inflamed with the desire of […]
January 2 – Octave of St Stephen, the First Martyr
Yesterday, we finished the Octave of the Birth of Jesus; today, we shall finish the Octave of St. Stephen; but this, without losing sight, one moment, of the Divine Babe, whose […]
December 11 – St Damasus, Pope & Martyr
This great Pontiff comes before us in the Liturgical Year not to bring us tidings of Peace, as St. Melchiades did, but as one of the most illustrious defenders of the […]
Thursday of the Second Week of Advent
Come, let us adore the King, our Lord, who is to come. From the Prophet Isaias 19:1-2 The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and […]
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