March 19 SOLEMNITY OF ST. JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY & PATRON OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH Summary AV + full text On March 19 the Universal Church will celebrate the Solemnity of Her Patron, St. Joseph, the Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Guardian of Our Lord Jesus Christ. St Joseph was…
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MEMORARE PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH. Ite ad Ioseph (Go to Joseph!)
March 19 PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH. Ite ad Ioseph (Go to Joseph!) As we approach the Solemnity of St. Joseph, which is transferred to March 20 this year, we could prepare ourselves by having recourse to him praying the “Memorare (Remember)” to St. Joseph. After the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph is the greatest saint…
March 8: ST. JOHN OF GOD, RELIGIOUS. “Christ is faithful and provides all things.”
March 8 ST. JOHN OF GOD, RELIGIOUS Prayer vid + Divine office 2nd reading St. John (1495-1550) heeded the word of God when he was already forty years old and from then on lived at the service of the sick in Granada (Spain). Before that, he was successively a farmer, soldier, and merchant. He founded…
March 7: STS. PERPETUA AND FELICITY, MARTYRS.
March 7 STS. PERPETUA AND FELICITY, MARTYRS St. Perpetua was a 22-year old married noble and a nursing mother. Her co-martyr St. Felicity, an expectant mother, was her slave. They suffered together at Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. The Passion of Sts. Perpetua, Felicitas, and their Companions in 203 is said to preserve…
Feb. 23: ST. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA, BISHOP & MARTYR. Divine Office reading on his martyrdom.
Feb. 23 ST. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA, BISHOP & MARTYR. Divine Office reading on his martyrdom.
Feb. 14: ST. VALENTINE
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Feb. 10. ST. SCHOLASTICA, Founder of the Order of Benedictine Nuns. “She who loved more could do more.”
February 10: ST. SCHOLASTICA, VIRGIN, FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF BENEDICTINE NUNS Born in Italy, St. Scholastica (480-547) was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia. Saint Gregory the Great, in his Dialogues, tells us that she was a nun and leader of a community for women at Plombariola, about five miles from Benedict’s…
February 6: Sts. PAUL MIKI AND COMPANIONS, Martyrs of Nagasaki (Japan). Prayer vid + Martyrdom account
February 6: Sts. PAUL MIKI AND COMPANIONS, Martyrs of Nagasaki (Japan). Prayer vid + Martyrdom account Paul Miki, a Japanese Jesuit, and his twenty five companions were martyred in Nagasaki, Japan (1597). They were the first martyrs of East Asia to be canonized. They were killed simultaneously by being raised on crosses and then…
Jan. 31: ST. JOHN BOSCO, PRIEST. Prayer vid + 2nd Reading (Divine Office)
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Jan. 26: Sts. Timothy and Titus, Bishops AV+ Divine Office Reading.
January 26 Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops AV+ Divine Office Reading St. Timothy (d.97) was the son of a pagan father and a Hebrew-Christian mother, Eunice. He was a disciple of St. Paul. St. Paul consecrated him Bishop of Ephesus. According to a fourth century story, he was beaten to death by a mob when…
Jan. 25: THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL AV summary + text.
January 25 THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL AV summary + text. The conversion of Saul of Tarsus, while he was on his way to Damascus to arrest more Christians (c. 33 to 36), is one of the most touching miracles of the history of the early Church: Paul ceased persecuting the Church and became a…
