Saturday, June 3, 2023
Saint Clotilde, Queen of the Franks
White At this Season, in which the Office of the Time is leading us to consider the early developments of Holy Church, Eternal Wisdom so arranges, now as ever, that the Feasts of the Saints should complete the teachings of the movable Cycle. The Paraclete, who has but just down upon us, is to fill […]
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Friday, June 2, 2023
Friday in Whitsun Week
Red Semidouble Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. So far, we have considered the action of the Holy Ghost in the Church; we must now study its workings […]
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Marcellinus, Peter, and Erasmus, Martyrs
Red Simple The glory of Martyrdom illumines this day with a profusion rarely met with on the Cycle; and already we seem to descry the rosy dawn of that glad day, excelling all the rest, on which Peter and Paul will consummate, in their blood, their own splendid confession. Italy and Gaul, Rome and Lyons […]
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
Thursday in Whitsun Week
Red Semidouble Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. The divine Spirit has been sent to secure Unity to the Spouse of Christ; and we have seen how faithfully […]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Wednesday in Whitsun Week
Red Semidouble Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. We have seen with what fidelity the Holy Ghost has fulfilled, during all these past ages, the Mission he received […]
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Saint Angela de Merici, Virgin
White Double [In 1955 Pope Pius XII assigned this date to the new feast of the Queenship of Mary, and moved S. Merici’s feast to 1st June] This last day of May, which is honored by the virginal triumph of Aurelia Petronilla, in the first Age of the Church, is also fragrant with the lilies […]
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Saint Petronilla, Virgin
White Commemoration Though the Church makes but a simple commemoration of this illustrious Virgin in the office of this day, we will not fail to offer her the homage of our devout veneration. On the twelfth of this month, we kept the feast of the noble Virgin and Martyr, Flavia Domitilla; it is probable that […]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Tuesday in Whitsun Week
Red Double of the First Class Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. Yesterday, we were admiring the work of the Holy Ghost, whereby he drew mankind to the […]
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Saint Felix the First, Pope and Martyr
Red Double The holy Popes of the primitive ages of the Church abound during these last days of our Paschal Season. Today, we have Felix the First, a Martyr of the persecution under Aurelian, in the 3rd Century. His Acts have been lost, with the exception of this one detail; that he proclaimed the dogma […]
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Monday, May 29, 2023
Monday in Whitsun Week
Red Double of the First Class Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. Yesterday, the Holy Ghost took possession of the world: his commencement of the mission given him […]
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