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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
25 March: Feast of St Dismas – So good a thief that he “stole heaven”
If it were not Monday of Holy Week, today would be Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, the instant of the Incarnation. However, 25 March is also the Feast of the Good Thief, St. Dismas! Fulton Sheen famously quipped … Read More →
7 March – Two Prayers of St. Thomas Aquinas (podcast) and a 1st class relic – 750th Anniversary of his death
Today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor (+7 March 1274 – 750 years ago at 49 years of age), the only saint mentioned in Canon Law apart from feasts. Canon Law requires that seminarians be formed … Read More →
ANNUS BISEXTILIS – Leap Year and You
The other day I had a text exchange with a priest friend asking about why, because it is a leap year, we didn’t celebrate St. Matthias. He wasn’t sure about why the leap year changed the date. I responded that … Read More →
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Saints: Stories & Symbols
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20 Feb – Feast of Sts Francisco and Jacinta of Fatima – We need their intercession now more than ever.
Young Jacinta and Francisco, the seers of Fatima were canonized in 2017. They are, I believe, the youngest canonized non-martyr saints on the calendar. “On the calendar…”. They aren’t on the traditional Roman calendar. However, perhaps there is a way … Read More →
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Happy Eleutherii Day in Prime Time!
It’s 19 February and time again – indeed prime time – to recall the three Eleutherii. In the Vetus Ordo office of Prime – straight up cancelled, like a priest, in the Novus Ordo – there are on this date … Read More →
News of the Church 09 – 12 February 2024
Welcome to the 9th edition of News of the Church. It’s 12 February 2024 and it is a Monday, the the day after Quinquagesima Sunday and two days before Ash Wednesday. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News … Read More →
7 February: Bl. Pius IX, Pope – and a ramble
The Martyrologium Romanum has this entry for 7 February: 16*. Romae, beati Pii papae Noni, qui, veritatem Christi, cui ab imo adhaesit, plane proclamans, multas instituit sedes episcopales, cultum beatae Mariae Virginis promovit et Concilium OEcumenicum Vaticanum Primum ascivit. You … Read More →
5 February: St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr
Today is the feast of St. Agatha, a virgin martyr and saint of the Roman Canon. Agatha was martyred in Sicily in about 251 during the time of the Emperor Decius and her tomb is at Catania. In Rome there … Read More →
Hearts and Vinegar – A sweet and sour taste of St. Francis de Sales in Benedict XVI’s Spe salvi
In the traditional Roman calendar, today is the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor. He was a great warrior for the Church in the face of the Protestant Revolt. According to the Louis de la Rivière in … Read More →
22 January – St. Vincent Pallotti. God’s finger moves you around, digitus Dei.
Today, in addition to being the Feast of Sts. Vincent of Saragossa and Athanasius the Persian, it is the feast of another Vincent, St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pious Society of Missions (the Pallottine Fathers). I have a connection … Read More →
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