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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200529
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SUMMARY:St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzi\, Virgin–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:It is said that Sr. Mary Magdalene could read the thoughts of others and predict future events. During her lifetime\, she appeared to several persons in distant places and cured a number of sick people. She was able\, even while in ecstasy\, to perform the routine duties of the monastery conscientiously and well. She served terms as Mistress of Professed\, Mistress of Novices\, and Sub-Prioress. She also\, and this is perhaps the most important part of her relevancy\, had a deep longing for the reform of the Church.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-mary-magdalen-of-pazzi-virgin-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200529
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UID:1599-1590624000-1590710399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Augustine of Canterbury\, Archbishop\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Augustine was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the “Apostle to the English” and a founder of the English Church.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-augustine-of-canterbury-archbishop-confessor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200528
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1598-1590537600-1590623999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Bede\, the Venerable\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (III) - St. John I\, Pope\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Bede was an English monk at the monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and its companion monastery\, Saint Paul’s\, in modern Jarrow (see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow)\, County Durham\, both of which were then in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is well known as an author and scholar\, and his most famous work\, “Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum” (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title “The Father of English History.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-bede-the-venerable-confessor-doctor-w-iii-st-john-i-pope-martyr-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200527
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1597-1590451200-1590537599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Philip Neri\, Confessor–W (III) - St. Eleutherius\, Pope\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:St. Philip founded the Oratorian Congregation. Inflamed with divine love\, he brought thousands of souls back to God. He died in 1595.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-philip-neri-confessor-w-iii-st-eleutherius-pope-martyr-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200526
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1596-1590364800-1590451199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Gregory VII\, Pope\, Confessor–W (III) - St. Urban I\, Pope\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Hildebrand\, monk of Cluny and later Abbot and Cardinal\, succeeded Alexander II as Pope Gregory VII. He displayed wonderful energy and constancy in defense of the liberty of the Church. He died in 1085. St. Urban suffered martyrdom in 230.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-gregory-vii-pope-confessor-w-iii-st-urban-i-pope-martyr-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200525
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1595-1590278400-1590364799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Sunday after the Ascension–W (II)
DESCRIPTION:The feast of Our Lady\, Help of Christians\, was instituted by Pius VII to give thanks to God and Our Lady for his first return to Rome. St. Don Bosco\, founder of the Salesian Congregation\, June 9\, 1868\, dedicated to Our Lady\, Help of Christians the mother church of his congregation at Turin. The Salesian Fathers have carried the devotion to their numerous establishments.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/sunday-after-the-ascension-w-ii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200524
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1594-1590192000-1590278399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Our Lady on Saturdays–W (IV)
DESCRIPTION:ST. JULIA\, Virgin\, Martyr. JULIA was a noble virgin of Carthage\, who\, when the city was token by Genseric in 439\, was sold for a slave to a pagan merchant of Syria named Eusebius. Under the most mortifying employments of her station\, by cheerfulness and patience she found a happiness and comfort which the world could not have afforded. All the time she was not employed in her master’s business was devoted to prayer and reading books of piety. Her master\, who was charmed with her fidelity and other virtues\, thought proper to carry her with him on one of his voyages to Gaul. Having reached the northern part of Corsica\, he cast anchor\, and went on shore to join the pagans of the place in an idolatrous festival. Julia was left at some distance\, because she would not be defiled by the superstitious ceremonies which she openly reviled. Felix\, the governor of the island\, who was a bigoted pagan\, asked who this woman was who dared to insult the gods. Eusebius informed him that she was a Christian\, and that all his authority over her was too weak to prevail with her to renounce her religion\, but that he found her so diligent and faithful he could not part with her. The governor offered him four of his best female slaves in exchange for her. But the merchant replied\, “No; all you are worth will not purchase her; for I would freely lose the most valuable thing I have in the world rather than be deprived of her.” However\, the governor\, while Eusebius was drunk and asleep\, took upon him to compel her to sacrifice to his gods. He offered to procure her liberty if she would comply. The Saint made answer that she was as free as she desired to be as long as she was allowed to serve Jesus Christ. Felix\, thinking himself derided by her undaunted and resolute air\, in a transport of rage caused her to be struck on the face\, and the hair of her head to be torn off\, and\, lastly\, ordered her to be hanged on a cross till she expired. Certain monks of the isle of Gorgon carried off her body; but in 763 Desiderius\, King of Lombardy\, removed her relics to Brescia\, where her memory is celebrated with great devotion.\nReflection.—St. Julia\, whether free or a slave\, whether in prosperity or in adversity\, was equally fervent and devout. She adored all the sweet designs of Providence; and far from complaining\, she never ceased to praise and thank God under all His holy appointments\, making them always the means of her virtue and sanctification. God\, by an admirable chain of events\, raised her by her fidelity to the honor of the saints\, and to the dignity of a virgin and martyr.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/our-lady-on-saturdays-w-iv/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200523
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UID:1593-1590105600-1590191999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Ferial–W (IV)
DESCRIPTION:ST. YVO\, Confessor. ST. YVO HELORI\, descended from a noble and virtuous family near Treguier\, in Brittany\, was born in 1253. At fourteen years of age he went to Paris\, and afterwards to Orleans\, to pursue his studies. His mother was won frequently to say to him that he ought so to live as became a Saint\, to which his answer always was\, that he hoped to be one. This resolution took deep root in his soul\, and was a continual spur to virtue\, and a check against the least shadow of any dangerous course. His time was chiefly divided between study and prayer; for his recreation he visited the hospitals\, where he attended the sick with great charity\, and comforted them under the severe trials of their suffering condition. He made a private vow of perpetual chastity; but this not being known\, many honorable matches were proposed to him\, which he modestly rejected as incompatible with his studious life. He long deliberated whether to embrace a religious or a clerical state; but the desire of serving his neighbor determined him at length in favor of the latter. He wished\, out of humility\, to remain in the lesser orders; but his bishop compelled him to receive the priesthood\,—a step which cost him many tears\, though he had qualified himself for that sacred dignity by the most perfect purity of mind and body\, and by a long and fervent preparation. He was appointed ecclesiastical judge for the diocese of Rennes. St. Yvo protected the orphans and widows\, defended the poor\, and administered justice to all with an impartiality\, application\, and tenderness which gained him the good-will even of those who lost their causes. He was surnamed the advocate and lawyer of the poor. He built a house near his own for a hospital of the poor and sick; he washed their feet\, cleansed their ulcers\, served them at table\, and ate himself only the scraps which they had left. He distributed his corn\, or the price for which he sold it\, among the poor immediately after the harvest. When a certain person endeavored to persuade him to keep it some months\, that he might sell it at a better price\, he answered\, “I know not whether I shall be then alive to give it.” Another time the same person said to him\, “I have gained a fifth by keeping my corn.” “But I\,” replied the Saint\, “a hundredfold by giving it immediately away.” During the Lent of 1303 he felt his strength failing him; yet\, far from abating anything in his austerities\, he thought himself obliged to redouble his fervor in proportion as he advanced nearer to eternity. On the eve of the Ascension he preached to his people\, said Mass\, being upheld by two persons\, and gave advice to all who addressed themselves to him. After this he lay down on his bed\, which was a hurdle of twigs plaited together\, and received the last sacraments. From that moment he entertained himself with God alone\, till his soul went to possess Him in His glory. His death happened on the 19th of May\, 1303\, in the fiftieth year of his age.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-w-iv-8/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200522
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1592-1590019200-1590105599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Holy Day of Obligation: THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:Forty days after the Resurrection\, our Lord Jesus Christ\, attended by Angels\, ascended into heaven\, in the sight of His most holy Mother\, His Apostles\, and disciples\, to the great wonder of them all. He entered into possession of the Kingdom of Heaven which He had gained by His sufferings\, and St. Paul declares that God “hath made us sit together in the heavenly places\, through Christ Jesus.” “There where the Head has gone\, the Body is called to follow!”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/holy-day-of-obligation-the-ascension-of-our-lord-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200521
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UID:1591-1589932800-1590019199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Vigil of the Ascension–W (II) - St. Bernardine of Siena\, Confessor–W (Comm.) - Rogation Day–V
DESCRIPTION:St. Bernardine\, born of noble parentage\, left all and entered the Franciscan Order and became one of its chief glories. He preached everywhere devotion to the name of Jesus\, and died in 1444.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/vigil-of-the-ascension-w-ii-st-bernardine-of-siena-confessor-w-comm-rogation-day-v/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200520
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1590-1589846400-1589932799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Peter Celestine\, Pope\, Confessor–W (III) - St. Pudentiana\, Virgin–W (Comm.) - Rogation Day–V
DESCRIPTION:AS a child\, Peter had visions of our blessed Lady\, and of the angels and saints. They encouraged him in his prayer\, and chided him when he fell into any fault. His mother\, though only a poor widow\, put him to school\, feeling sure that he would one day be a Saint. At the age of twenty\, he left his home in Apulia to live in a mountain solitude. Here he passed three years\, assaulted by the evil spirits and beset with temptations of the flesh\, but consoled by angels’ visits. After this his seclusion was invaded by disciples\, who refused to be sent away; and the rule of life which he gave them formed the foundation of the Celestine Order. Angels assisted in the church which Peter built; unseen bells rang peals of surpassing sweetness\, and heavenly music filled the sanctuary when he offered the Holy Sacrifice. Suddenly he found himself torn from his loved solitude by his election to the Papal throne. Resistance was of no avail. He took the name of Celestine\, to remind him of the heaven he was leaving and for which he sighed\, and was consecrated at Aquila. After a reign of four months\, Peter summoned the cardinals to his presence\, and solemnly resigned his trust. St. Peter built himself a boarded cell in his palace\, and there continued his hermit’s life; and when\, lest his simplicity might be taken advantage of to distract the peace of the Church\, he was put under guard\, he said\, “I desired nothing but a cell\, and a cell they have given me.” There he enjoyed his former loving intimacy with the saints and angels\, and sang the Divine praises almost continually. At length\, on Whit-Sunday\, he told his guards he should die within the week\, and immediately fell ill. He received the last sacraments; and the following Saturday\, as he finished the concluding verse of Lauds\, “Let every spirit bless the Lord!” he closed his eyes to this world and opened them to the vision of God.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-peter-celestine-pope-confessor-w-iii-st-pudentiana-virgin-w-comm-rogation-day-v/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200519
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1589-1589760000-1589846399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Venantius\, Martyr–R (III) - Rogation Day–V
DESCRIPTION:Venantius was born at Camerino in Italy. In the year 250\, when he was 15 years of age\, he was arrested because of his Christian faith and was condemned by a Roman judge to suffer cruel torments. The steadfastness of the young saint touched even hardened hearts\, and many pagans were converted. On hearing of this the governor had Venantius beheaded.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-venantius-martyr-r-iii-rogation-day-v/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200518
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
CREATED:20200130T165954Z
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UID:1588-1589673600-1589759999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Fifth Sunday after Easter–W (II) - St. Pascal Baylon\, Confessor
DESCRIPTION:Until the age of 20\, Paschal (1540-92) tended flocks on the hills of Aragon. He then became a Franciscan Brother and spent the rest of his years mainly as doorkeeper in various friaries of Spain. All through his life he was animated with a burning love for the Holy Eucharist\, a love so intense that it enabled him to speak triumphantly to heretics about the most obscure mysteries of the Faith. Pope Leo XIII declared him patron of all Eucharistic confraternities and congresses.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/fifth-sunday-after-easter-w-ii-st-pascal-baylon-confessor/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200517
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1587-1589587200-1589673599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Ubald\, Bishop\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:After being consecrated bishop of Gubbio\, Italy\, in 1129\, Ubaldus Baldassini served his flock for more than 30 years with the firm justice\, the mildness\, and the patience of a true father in Christ. He was revered especially as a peacemaker. On an occasion when rival factions were rioting in the streets of Gubbio\, Ubaldus threw himself between the combatants and they laid down their arms at once\, for fear of wounding their bishop. At another time\, when Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was about to sack Gubbio\, Bishop Ubaldus met the Emperor on the road and persuaded him to spare the city.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-ubald-bishop-confessor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200516
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1586-1589500800-1589587199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. John Baptist de la Salle\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:John Baptist de la Salle (1651-1719) was born of a titled family in Rheims. Although a private fortune and a high order of talent promised a brilliant secular career\, John Baptist studied for the priesthood (at St. Sulpice)\, offering his first Mass with an intensity of devotion that never afterward left him. Gradually the heretical mood of the times and the abysmal ignorance of the poor disclosed a special vocation to him” “to teach the poor and to lead the young in the path of truth” (Collect).Weathering the reverses and heartbreaks that beleaguer every creative spirit\, John Baptist established the Brothers of the Christian Schools\, whose vocation would be to teach and only to teach. Although good teaching was important to John Baptist\, spiritual formation was more so; and\, in the face of a rampant Jansenism\, he was advocating frequent and even daily Communion. When his foundation was firmly rooted and oriented\, he resigned as superior\, living thereafter as the humblest of his subjects. He died two years later\, on Good Friday.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-john-baptist-de-la-salle-confessor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200515
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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UID:1585-1589414400-1589500799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Ferial–W (IV) - St. Boniface of Tarsus\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Owing to the importance of Tarsus many martyrs were put to death there\, among them being St. Pelagia\, St. Boniface\, St. Marinus\, St. Diomedus\, and Sts. Cerycus and Julitta; several Roman emperors were interred there — namely\, Tacitus\, Maximinus Daza\, and Julian the Apostate. The Arabs took possession of Tarsus from the seventh century and kept it until 965\, when Nicephorus Phocas annexed it again to the Byzantine Empire. The union continued for nearly a century. The crusaders captured it again from the Turks in 1097\, and then it was disputed between Latins\, Greeks\, and Armenians of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia; these last became definitively masters until about 1350\, when it was sold to the Egyptians. Since then Tarsus has belonged to the Mussulmans.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-w-iv-st-boniface-of-tarsus-martyr-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200514
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
CREATED:20200130T165952Z
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UID:1584-1589328000-1589414399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Robert Bellarmine\, Bishop\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE (Italian: Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation. He was canonized in 1930 and named a Doctor of the Church. Bellarmine is also widely remembered for his role in the Giordano Bruno affair and the Galileo affair.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-robert-bellarmine-bishop-confessor-doctor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200513
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
CREATED:20200130T165952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165952Z
UID:1583-1589241600-1589327999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Sts. Nereus\, Achilleus\, Domitilla & Pancratius\, Martyrs–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:NEREUS and ACHILLEUS were servants of FLAVIA DOMITILLA\, who was martyred with them in 98. PANCRATIUS was a Roman citizen who converted to Christianity\, and was beheaded for his faith at the age of fourteen\, around the year 304. His name is Greek and literally means “the one that holds everything.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/sts-nereus-achilleus-domitilla-pancratius-martyrs-r-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200512
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
CREATED:20200130T165951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165951Z
UID:1582-1589155200-1589241599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Sts. Philip & James\, Apostles–R (II)
DESCRIPTION:ST. PHILIP\, like Peter and Andrew\, was of Bethsaida. He was crucified in Phrygia where he preached the Gospel in 87. ST. JAMES THE LESS was of Cana and a kinsman of our Lord. He wrote one of the Epistles of the New Testament. He was thrown from the terrace of the temple in 93.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/sts-philip-james-apostles-r-ii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200511
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
CREATED:20200130T165951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165951Z
UID:1581-1589068800-1589155199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Fourth Sunday after Easter–W (II) - St. Antoninus\, Bishop\, Confessor
DESCRIPTION:A Friar of the Dominican Order\, St. Antoninus became Archbishop of Florence. He was famous for his austere life\, charity and episcopal zeal. He died in 1459. The Roman Judge\, St. Gordian\, was martyred at Rome in 360. St. Epimachus suffered martyrdom at Alexandria in 250.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/fourth-sunday-after-easter-w-ii-st-antoninus-bishop-confessor/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200510
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
CREATED:20200130T165950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165950Z
UID:1580-1588982400-1589068799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Gregory Nazianzen\, Bishop\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Gregory of Nazianzus also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen\, was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-gregory-nazianzen-bishop-confessor-doctor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200509
DTSTAMP:20260403T183340
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SUMMARY:Ferial–W (IV)
DESCRIPTION:THE APPARITION OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL. It is manifest\, from the Holy Scriptures\, that God is pleased to make frequent use of the ministry of the heavenly spirits in the dispensations of His providence in this world\, and especially towards man. Hence the name of Angel (which is not properly a denomination of nature\, but office) has been appropriated to them. The angels are all pure spirits; they are\, by a property of their nature\, immortal\, as every spirit is. They have the power of moving or conveying themselves from place to place\, and such is their activity that it is not easy for us to conceive it. Among the holy archangels\, there are particularly distinguished in Holy Writ Sts. Michael\, Gabriel\, and Raphael. St. Michael\, whom the Church honors this day\, was the prince of the faithful angels who opposed Lucifer and his associates in their revolt against Gad. As the devil is the sworn enemy of God’s holy Church\, St. Michael is its special protector against his assaults and stratagems. This holy archangel has ever been honored in the Christian Church as her guardian under God\, and as the protector of the faithful; for God is pleased to employ the zeal and charity of the good angels and their leader against the malice of the devil. To thank His adorable goodness for this benefit of His merciful providence is this festival instituted by the Church in honor of the good angels\, in which devotion she has been encouraged by several apparitions of this glorious archangel. Among others\, it is recorded that St. Michael\, in a vision\, admonished the Bishop of Siponto to build a church in his honor on Mount Gargano\, near Manfredonia\, in the kingdom of Naples. When the Emperor Otho III. had\, contrary to his word\, put to death\, for rebellion\, Crescentius\, a Roman senator\, being touched with remorse he cast himself at the feet of St. Romuald\, who\, in satisfaction for his crime\, enjoined him to walk barefoot\, on a penitential pilgrimage\, to St. Michael’s on Mount Gargano\, which penance he performed in 1002. It is mentioned in particular of this special guardian and protector of the Church that\, in the persecution of Antichrist\, he will powerfully stand up in her defence: “At that time shall Michael rise up\, the great prince\, who standeth for the children of thy people.”\nReflection.—St. Michael is not only the protector of the Church\, but of every faithful soul. He defeated the devil by humility: we are enlisted in the same warfare. His arms were humility and ardent love of God: the same must be our weapons. We ought to regard this archangel as our leader under God: and\, courageously resisting the devil in all his assaults\, to cry out\, Who can be compared to God?
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SUMMARY:St. Stanislaus\, Bishop\, Martyr–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:STANISLAUS was born in answer to prayer when his parents were advanced in age. Out of gratitude they educated him for the Church\, and from a holy priest he became in time Bishop of Cracow. Boleslas II was then King of Poland–a prince of good disposition\, but spoilt by a long course of victory and success. After many acts of lust and cruelty\, he outraged the whole kingdom by carrying off the wife of one of his nobles. Against this public scandal the chaste and gentle bishop alone raised his voice. Having commended the matter to God\, he went down to the palace and openly rebuked the king for his crime against God and his subjects\, and threatened to excommunicate him if he persisted in his sin. To slander the Saint’s character\, Boleslas suborned the nephews of one Paul\, lately dead\, to swear that their uncle had never been paid for land bought by the bishop for the Church. The Saint stood fearlessly before the king’s tribunal\, though all his witnesses forsook him\, and guaranteed to bring the dead man to witness for him within three days. On the third day\, after many prayers and tears\, he raised Paul to life\, and led him in his grave-clothes before the king. Boleslas made a show for a while of a better life. Soon\, however\, he relapsed into the most scandalous excesses\, and the bishop\, finding all remonstrance useless\, pronounced the sentence of excommunication. In defiance of the censure\, on May 8\, 1079\, the king went down to a chapel where the bishop himself was saying Mass\, and sent in three companies of soldiers to dispatch him at the altar. Each in turn came out\, saying they had been scared by a light from heaven. Then the king rushed in and slew the Saint at the altar with his own hand.
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SUMMARY:Ferial–W (IV) - In some places: St. Dominic Savio\, Confessor–W
DESCRIPTION:DOMINIC SAVIO (Italian: Domenico Savio; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14\, possibly from pleurisy. He was noted for his piety and devotion to the Catholic faith\, and was eventually canonized. Bosco regarded Savio very highly\, and wrote a biography of his young student\, “The Life of Dominic Savio.” This volume\, along with other accounts of him\, were critical factors in his cause for sainthood. Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age – fourteen – to be considered for sainthood\, he was considered eligible for such singular honor on the basis of his having displayed “heroic virtue” in his everyday life. He is the only person of his age group who was declared a saint not on the basis of his having been a martyr\, but on the basis of having lived what was seen as a holy life. Savio was canonized a saint on 12 June 1954\, by Pope Pius XII\, making him the youngest non-martyr to be canonized in the Catholic Church until the canonizations of Francisco and Jacinta Marto\, the pious visionaries of Fatima\, in 2017.
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SUMMARY:St. Pius V\, Pope\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:A DOMINICAN friar from his fifteenth year\, Michael Ghislieri\, as a simple religious\, as inquisitor\, as bishop\, and as cardinal\, was famous for his intrepid defense of the Church’s faith and discipline\, and for the spotless purity of his own life. His first care as Pope was to reform the Roman court and capital by the strict example of his household and the severe punishment of all offenders. He next endeavored to obtain from the Catholic powers the recognition of the Tridentine decrees\, two of which he urgently enforced–the residence of bishops\, and the establishment of diocesan seminaries. He revised the Missal and Breviary\, and reformed the ecclesiastical music. Nor was he less active in protecting the Church without. We see him at the same time supporting the Catholic King of France against the Huguenot rebels\, encouraging Mary Queen of Scots\, in the bitterness of her captivity\, and excommunicating her rival the usurper Elizabeth\, when the best blood of England had flowed upon the scaffold\, and the measure of her crimes was full. But it was at Lepanto that the Saint’s power was most manifest; there\, in October\, 1571\, by the holy league which he had formed\, but still more by his prayers to the great Mother of God\, the aged Pontiff crushed the Ottoman forces\, and saved Christendom from the Turk. Six months later\, St. Pius died\, having reigned but six years. St. Pius was accustomed to kiss the feet of his crucifix on leaving or entering his room. One day the feet moved away from his lips. Sorrow filled his heart\, and he made acts of contrition\, fearing that he must have committed some secret offence\, but still he could not kiss the feet. It was afterwards found that they had been poisoned by an enemy.
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SUMMARY:St. Monica\, Widow–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:MONICA\, the mother of St. Augustine\, was born in 332. A\, a girlhood of singular innocence and piety\, she was given in marriage to Patritius\, a pagan. She at once devoted herself to his conversion\, praying for him always\, and winning his reverence and love by the holiness of her life and her affectionate forbearance. She was rewarded by seeing him baptized a year before his death. When her son Augustine went astray in faith and manners her prayers and tears were incessant. She was once very urgent with a learned bishop that he would talk to her son in order to bring him to a better mind\, but he declined\, despairing of success with one at once so able and so headstrong. However\, on witnessing her prayers and tears\, he bade her be of good courage; for it might not be that the child of those tears should perish. By going to Italy\, Augustine could for a time free himself from his mother’s importunities; but he could not escape from her prayers\, which encompassed him like the providence of God. She followed him to Italy\, and there by his marvelous conversion her sorrow was turned into joy. At Ostia\, on their homeward journey\, as Augustine and his mother sat at a window conversing of the life of the blessed\, she turned to him and said\, “Son\, there is nothing now I care for in this life. What I shall now do or why I am here\, I know not. The one reason I had for wishing to linger in this life a little longer was that I might see you a Catholic Christian before I died. This has God granted me superabundantly in seeing you reject earthly happiness to become His servant. What do I here?” A few days afterwards she had an attack of fever\, and died in the year 387.
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CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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SUMMARY:Third Sunday after Easter–W (II) - St. Alexander I\, Eventius & Theodulus\, Martyrs\, and Juvenal\, Confessor\, Bishop
DESCRIPTION:POPE ALEXANDER I. His pontificate is variously dated by critics\, e.g. 106-115 (Duchesne) or 109-116 (Lightfoot). In Christian antiquity he was credited with a pontificate of about ten years (Eusebius\, Church History IV.1) and there is no reason to doubt that he was on the “catalogue of bishops” drawn up at Rome by Hegesippus (Eusebius\, IV\, xxii\, 3) before the death of Pope Eleutherius (c. 189). According to a tradition extant in the Roman Church at the end of the fifth century\, and recorded in the Liber Pontificalis he suffered a martyr’s death by decapitation on the Via Nomentana in Rome\, 3 May.
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SUMMARY:First Saturday - St. Athanasius\, Bishop\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:While he was still a deacon\, Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 298-373) was present at the Council of Nicaea\, during which the true doctrine of the Church concerning the divinity of Christ was defined; and the rest of his life was a heroic testimony to the profession of the Nicene Fathers. After Athanasius had become bishop of Alexandria\, he resisted during long years the pressure put upon him to compromise in essentials of the Faith. Five times he endured exile\, and in consequence composed most of his great writings from his see city.
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SUMMARY:First Friday - ST. JOSEPH the Worker\, Confessor–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:Apparently in response to the “May Day” celebrations for workers sponsored by Communists\, Pius XII instituted the feast of St. Joseph the Worker in 1955. But the relationship between Joseph and the cause of workers has a much longer history. In a constantly necessary effort to keep Jesus from being removed from ordinary human life\, the Church has from the beginning proudly emphasized that Jesus was a carpenter\, obviously trained by Joseph in both the satisfactions and the drudgery of that vocation. Humanity is like God not only in thinking and loving\, but also in creating. Whether we make a table or a cathedral\, we are called to bear fruit with our hands and mind\, ultimately for the building up of the Body of Christ.
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CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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SUMMARY:St. Catherine of Siena\, Virgin–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:The seraphic St. Catherine willingly sacrificed the delights of contemplation to labor for the Church and the Apostolic See. How deeply do the troubles of the Church and the consequent loss of souls afflict us? How often do we pray for the Church and the Pope?
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