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17 Feb: 7 Founders of the Servites
EXCERPT:
Kindly pour into us, O Lord,
the dutiful love of the blessed brethren,
by which they most devotedly venerated the Mother of God
and they guided to You Your people. Read More
15 Feb: St. Onesimus
In the Martyrologium Romanum on this day we find that this is the commemoration of St. Onesimus: 1. Commemoratio beati Onesimi, quem sanctus Paulus Apostolus servum fugitivium excepit et in vinculis utpote Christi in fide filium genuit, sicut ipse domino … Read More
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion
EXCERPT:
Captain Pearson, seeing the flag fall, called out to Captain Jones, “Have you struck your Colors, Sir?†Resoundingly, John Paul Jones exclaimed, “Struck Sir? I have not yet begun to fight!” Emboldened, the dying Bonhomme Richard delivered decisive blows from all sides and aloft: Jones had sent 40 marines into the rigging with grenades and muskets. Her crew decimated, Serapis struck her own Colors at 2300h. Sadly, the badly holed Bonhomme Richard went to her watery rest at 1100h on 24 September 1779. Jones commandeered Serapis and repaired to The Texel in Holland for repairs. Read More
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)
EXCERPT:
We can do all sorts of wonderful things and not be in the state of grace. But if, as Paul says in 1 Cor 13, we lack charity, the sacrificial love of God that makes our works pleasing to Him, what we do is as nothing. There is no interior reference in the ICEL version. Read More
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super oblata (2)
EXCERPT:
Our Blessed Lord during His earthly life instituted the seven sacraments we enjoy today. Knowing that we are human creatures and not angelic creatures, he gave us outward signs with these sacraments so that we could understand when the invisible and interior reality was being conferred. He thus took simple, but vastly important created things from our ordinary lives and raised them to a new sacramental reality. Even the need to tell our troubles to a friend, so common but so important for our well-being, he raised to a sacrament. The longing of a man and woman to be together, instituted as a holy union from the beginning of our race, was elevated making of the very bodies of the spouse something new and holy. The struggle at the end of life or when we are in mortal peril was taken by Christ and given back to us as a sacrament and the daily and common yet life-supporting substance oil was his vehicle for giving us grace. Read More
10 Feb: St. Scholastica
EXCERPT:
Benedict asked her what she had done and she replied, “I asked you and you would not listen; so I asked my God and he did listen. So now go off, if you can, leave me and return to your monastery.” Read More
9 Feb: St. Apollonia, virgin and martyr
EXCERPT:
“These men seized her also and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death.” Read More
6 Feb: St. Paul Miki and companions
EXCERPT:
Miki and the those imprisoned with him were then marched 600 miles to their death. Along the way they were terribly abused. As they marched they they sang the Te Deum. Read More
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion
EXCERPT:
Immediately you will see the importance of this passage for the Church’s proper efforts in a real process of dialog with non-Catholic Christians in an authentic ecumenism. This was the phrase used to identify one of the Holy Father’s most important encyclical letters on this matter, Ut unum sint. Please note that last phrase is the passage I quote: “that they may be completely one†or as the Vulgate puts it: ut sint consummati in unum. The late Latin verb consummo means “to sum up†and “to make perfect, to complete, bring to the highest perfection.†Read More
5ht Sunday of Ordinary Time: COLLECT (1)
EXCERPT:
What we get after all this digging are seemingly contrasting images: on the one hand family and on the other a group of dutiful soldiers leaning on their shields or spears (our shield or spear here being “the sole hope of heavenly graceâ€Â!). In fact, we children of a common Father, marching in this earthly life towards our heavenly fatherland (patria or “fatherland†was often used to describe heaven, where we really belong) comprise what for so long was described as the Church Militant. Read More
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