Sunday, October 11, 2015
The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
Green Semidouble The Gospel of last Sunday spoke to us of the nuptials of the Son of God with the human race. The realization of those sacred nuptials is the object which God had in view by the creation of the visible world; it is the only one he intends in his government of society. […]
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Saturday, October 10, 2015
Saint Francis Borgia, Confessor
White Semidouble Vanity of vanities and all is vanity. No argument was needed to impress this truth upon the Saint of today, when the coffin was opened which contained all that Spain had admired of youth and loveliness, and death suddenly revealed to him its awful reality. O ye beauties of all times, death alone […]
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Friday, October 9, 2015
Saint Dionysius, Bishop and Martyr; and Saints Rusticus and Eleutherius, Martyrs
White (for St. Dionysius), Red (for St. Rusticus) Double Ushered in by Bridget the northern prophetess, Dionysius appears as the brightest stare in that constellation of mystics, which illumines the close of the cycle with the first glimmers of eternal union. Soon we shall salute Teresa of Jesus, and her guide Peter of Alcantara; while […]
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Saint Bridget, Widow
White Double “Who, O Lord, has treated Thee thus?” “They that despise Me and forget My love.” This was the first revelation of the Son of God to Bridget of Sweden. Francis of Assisi, raising before the world the standard of the cross, had announced that Christ was about to recommence the dolorous way; not […]
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Feast of the Most Holy Rosary
White Double of the Second Class It is customary with men of the world to balance their accounts at the end of the year, and ascertain their profits. The Church is now preparing to do the same. We shall soon see her solemly numbering her elect, taking an inventory of their holy relics, visiting the […]
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Saint Mark, Pope and Confessor; and Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus, and Apuleius, Martyrs
White (for St. Mark), Red (for St. Sergius) Mark, successor to Sylvester the Pontiff of peace, has been honored on this day from time immemorial. According to the testimony of St. Damasus, his virtues no less than his name recalled St. Mark the Evangelist. He occupied the supreme See only eight months; but in that […]
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Saint Bruno, Confessor
White Double Among the diverse religious families, none is held in higher esteem by the Church than the Carthusian; the prescriptions of the corpus juris determine that a person may pass from any other Order into this, without deterioration. And yet it is of all the least given to active works. Is not this a […]
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Monday, October 5, 2015
Saint Placid and His Companions, Martyrs
Red Simple The protomartyr of the Benedictine Order stands before us today in his strength and his beauty. The empire had fallen, and the yoke of the Arian Goths lay heavy upon Italy. Rome was no longer in the hands of the glorious races, which had made her greatness; these, nevertheless, kept up their honorable […]
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Sunday, October 4, 2015
The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Green Semidouble The divine Leader of God’s people is their salvation and that in all their distress. Did we not last Sunday see him prove himself as such, and in a very telling way—by curing both body and soul of the poor Paralytic, who was a figure of the whole human race? Let us hear […]
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Saint Francis, Confessor
White Greater Double And I saw another Angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the sign of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four Angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying: Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the […]
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