Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Saint Clement I, Pope and Martyr
Red Double The memory of St. Clement has been surrounded with a peculiar glory from the very beginning of the Roman Church. After the death of the Apostles, he seems to eclipse Linus and Cletus, although these preceded him in the Pontificate. We pass as it were naturally from Peter to Clement; and the East […]
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Monday, November 22, 2021
Saint Cæcilia, Virgin and Martyr
Red Double Cæcilia united in her veins the blood of kings with that of Rome’s greatest heroes. At the time of the first preaching of the Gospel, more than one ancient patrician family had seen its direct line become extinct. But the adoptions and alliances, which under the Republic had knit more closely the great […]
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Sunday, November 21, 2021
Twenty-Sixth and Last Sunday After Pentecost
Green Semidouble The number of the Sundays after Pentecost may exceed twenty-four, and go up as far as twenty-eight, according as Easter is each Year, more or less near to the vernal equinox. But the Mass here given is always reserved for the last; and the intervening ones, be their number what it may, are […]
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The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
White Greater Double The Presentation is one of the minor solemnities of our Lady, and was inscribed at a comparatively late date on the sacred Cycle; it seems to court the homage of our silent contemplation. The world, unknown to itself, is ruled by the secret prayers of the just; and the Queen of saints, […]
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Saturday, November 20, 2021
Saint Felix of Valois, Confessor
White Double Felix was called in his youth to dwell in the desert; and he thought to die there, forgotten by the world he had despised. But our Lord had decreed that his old age should yield fruit before men. It was one of those epochs which may be called turning points in history. The […]
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Friday, November 19, 2021
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Thuringia
White Double Although the blessed in heaven shine each with his own peculiar glory, God is pleased to group them in families, as he groups the stars in the material firmament. It is grace that presides over the arrangement of these constellations in the heaven of the Saints; but sometimes it seems as if God […]
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
White Greater Double quod duce te mundus surrexit in astra triumphans, hanc Constantinus victor tibi condidit aulam. Because the world under thy conduct has risen triumphant to the very heavens, Constantine the conqueror has built this temple in thy honor. This inscription stood in letters of gold over the triumphal arch in the ancient Vatican […]
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bishop and Confessor
White Semi-double Moses instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, mighty in his words and in his deeds, retired into the desert: Gregory, adorned with the best gifts of birth and nature, brilliant in rhetoric, rich in every science, hid himself from men in the flower of his youth, and hastened to offer to […]
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Monday, November 15, 2021
Saint Gertrude, Virgin
White Double The school which is founded upon the rule of the great Patriarch of the Monks of the West began with St. Gregory the Great. Such was the independent action of the Holy Spirit who guided it that in it women have prophesied as well as men. It is enough to mention St. Hildegarde […]
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Sunday, November 14, 2021
Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Green Semidouble Mass is that of the Sixth Sunday After Epiphany, reprinted here for the reader’s convenience. Introit Adorate Deum omnes angeli ejus: audivit et lætata est Sion: et exsultaverunt filiæ Judæ. Adore God, all ye his angels: Sion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. Ps. Dominus regnavit: exsultet terra, lætentur […]
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