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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
4 July – Feast of Sts. Hosea and Haggai, Old Testament Prophets, et al.
Many figures of the Old Testament are honored as saints. Today, for example, in the older Roman Martyrology, is the Feast day of the prophets Hosea and Haggai. Haggai was a prophet during the building of the Second Temple in … Read More →
UPDATED – Novus Ordo – 22 June – St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More – NB: HARD TO FIND Mass Texts for their Feast in the Traditional Latin Mass (9 July)
UPDATE 25 June: I received this note. We met many years ago at Fr. Finigan’s Parish in Blackfen. I was one of the regular visiting choir. You kindly link to the Society of St. Bede’s Propers sheet that I made … Read More →
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Saints: Stories & Symbols
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Tagged St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More
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25 July 2023 – Card. Burke – Pontifical Mass for China in honor of Our Lady of SheShan
On Tuesday, 25 July, His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will celebrate a Pontifical Mass in honor of Our Lady of SheShan and to pray for China. The Mass will be celebrated at 6PM at the Basilica of St. John … Read More →
“I’ll see your ‘Wakanda!’ and raise you a ‘KATONDA!'” The Feast of St Charles Lwanga, Martyr – A saint we can all take pride in!
“Katonda!” This year today is in the Vetus Ordo calendar Ember Friday in the Octave of Penance. However, it is also the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga. That said, because of the decree Cum sanctissima we can now celebrate St. … Read More →
Posted in Modern Martyrs, Saints: Stories & Symbols, Sin That Cries To Heaven
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Tagged St. Charles Lwanga
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23 May 2023 – Reinstallation of St. Philip Neri’s altarpiece – VIDEO
St. Philip is home again. The painting for the altar in the chapel dedicated to him at the parish has been restored and put back in its place. Music from Musica Al Tempo Di Guido Reni
20 May – The “Golden Girl” of Ostia, St. Aurea and a link with St. Augustine’s mom, Monnica
Today is the feast of St. Aurea of Ostia, a martyr from the 2nd century about whom we know nothing for sure, except that she worked miracles, refused to sacrifice to the gods and was murdered in the 3rd c. … Read More →
A Pope in hell? The curious case of Pope SAINT Peter Celestine V
Today is the feast of St. Peter Celestine, Pope Celestine V, who famously resigned the papacy. This is one of the fascinating people in our Catholic family history. Pietro da Morrone, born c. 1215, in the Molise area of central … Read More →
St. John in Oil
Today is, along with being the day of the Swearing of the new Swiss Guards, the Feast of St. John at the Latin Gate. The Romans call it San Giovanni “sott’olio… St. John in oil”, which sounds like how you … Read More →
30 April (Vetus Ordo): St. Catherine of Siena, Doctrix. She has an immensely important message for our time.
Today is 30 April and in the traditional calendar it is the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Doctrix of the Church. In the Novus Ordo her feast falls on 29 April (her dies natalis). She was canonized by a … Read More →
New online course on “St. Edith Stein as Modern Witness”
The great folks at The Catholic Thing have been holding online courses. For example, there were courses with Robert Royal on Dante’s Divine Comedy, on Augustine’s City of God and on Thomas More’s Utopia. They are now going to have … Read More →
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johntenor on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “The same people who gave us the Snoopy prayer during Mass are uncomfortable with the St Michael Prayer after Mass.”
