Sunday, July 31, 2016
The Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Green Semidouble With the Greeks, this Sunday—their eleventh of Saint Matthew—is called The Kings Parable, who calls his servants to account. In the Western Church, it has gone under the name of Sunday of the deaf and dumb, ever since the Gospel of the Pharisee and Publican has been assigned to the tenth. Today’s Mass, […]
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Saint Ignatius, Confessor
White Double Although the cycle of the time after Pentecost has shown us many times already the solicitude of the Holy Spirit for the defense of the Church, yet today the teaching shines forth with a new luster. In the sixteen century Satan made a formidable attack upon the holy city by means of a […]
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Saints Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs
Red Simple The decrees of Eternal Wisdom ordained that the West should be honored before the East with the glory of martyrdom. Yet when the hour had come, Jesus was to have, beyond the Tigris, millions of witnesses by no means inferior to their forerunners, astonishing heaven and earth by new forms of heroism. Impatient […]
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Saint Martha, Virgin; Ss. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus, & Beatrice, Martyrs
White Semidouble Magdalene this time was the first to meet our Lord. Scarcely a week had elapsed since her glorious passage, when she repaid her sister’s former kind office and came in her turn saying: “The Beloved is here and calleth for thee.” And Jesus preventing her, appeared himself and said: “Come, my hostess; come […]
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
Ss. Nazarius, Celsus, and Victor, Mm., and Saint Innocent, Pope and Confessor
Red Semidouble Nazarius and Celsus bring glory to the Church of Milan, by appearing on the cycle today. After lying forgotten for three centuries in the obscure tomb that had received their precious remains in the time of Nero, they now receive the united homage of East and West. It was nine years since the […]
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Saint Pantaleon, Martyr
Red Simple The East celebrates today one of her greater martyrs, who was both a healer of bodies and a conqueror of souls. His name, which recalls the strength of the lion, was changed by heaven at the time of his death into Panteleemon, or all-merciful; a happy presage of the gracious blessings our Lord […]
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Saint Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
White Double of the Second Class Uniting the blood of kings with that of pontiffs, the glory of Anne’s illustrious origin is far surpassed by that of her offspring, without compare among the daughters of Eve. The noblest of all, who have ever conceived by virtue of the command to “increase and multiply,” beholds the […]
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Monday, July 25, 2016
Saint James the Great, Apostle; Commemoration of Saint Christopher, Martyr
Red Double of the Second Class Let us today hail the bright star which once made Compostella so resplendent with its rays that the obscure town became, like Jerusalem and Rome, a center of attraction to the piety of the whole world. As long as the Christian empire lasted, the sepulcher of St. James the […]
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Green Semidouble The destruction of Jerusalem has closed that portion of the prophetic Scriptures which were based on the institutions and history of the figurative period. The Altar of the true God, built by Solomon on the the summit of Moriah, was the authenticated evidence of the true religion, to those who were then living […]
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Saint Christina, Virgin and Martyr
Red Commemoration Christina, whose very name fills the Church with the fragrance of the Spouse, comes as a graceful harbinger to the feast of the elder son of thunder. The ancient Vulsinium, seated by its lake with basalt shores and calm clear waters, was the scene of a triumph over Estruscan paganism, when this child […]
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