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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200420
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SUMMARY:Low Sunday–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:This Sunday is called from the first words of the Introit\, the Sunday of Quasimodo\, or Sunday in Albis (deponéndis) because the neophytes on that day put aside their white garments. In English the term Low Sunday is in contrast with Easter or High Sunday. Another Latin name Pascha clausum is preserved in the French Pâques closes and in the Dutch or Flemish Beloken Pasen: close of Easter\, this Sunday ending the Octave.—Let us proclaim our faith in the risen Lord\, and in His divine Presence in the Holy Eucharist.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/low-sunday-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200419
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165940Z
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UID:1558-1587168000-1587254399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Saturday in Octave of Easter–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:Let us drink\, as do the neophytes\, the spiritual and pure milk of true doctrine; the Church asks it\, by the mouth of St. Peter\, her head. St. Peter and St. John\, informed by Mary of Magdala\, go to the sepulcher\, and are witnesses of the Resurrection to the whole Church.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/saturday-in-octave-of-easter-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200418
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165940Z
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UID:1557-1587081600-1587167999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Friday in Octave of Easter–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:The blessings of Christ’s resurrection extend to all times and all places\, through the missionary work of all Christ’s members who bring men of every class and race to the Sacrament of Baptism. Baptism is man’s first resurrection from the death of sin to the grace-quickened life of the soul. The grace of Baptism\, so long as it is preserved\, is the indwelling pledge of the Christian’s final resurrection. In its essential missionary ministry\, the Church is assured of Christ’s continued presence and is therefore guaranteed the final victory\, which is resurrection to eternal life._
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/friday-in-octave-of-easter-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200417
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165940Z
UID:1556-1586995200-1587081599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Thursday in Octave of Easter–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:Jesus in His passion chose to be silent and meek before His enemies and to surrender His life in order to purchase forgiveness and heaven for men of every nation. Jesus in His glorified state\, seemingly absent yet dynamically near\, touches with purchased grace the souls of the eager and loving. In every generation and hour\, He continues sending apostles into every neighborhood and to every land\, with the mission of awakening all peoples to belief and love.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/thursday-in-octave-of-easter-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200416
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165940Z
UID:1555-1586908800-1586995199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Wednesday in Octave of Easter–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:It was partially through ignorance of the true meaning of God’s prophecies that rulers and people misunderstood Christ and put Him to death. They did not know Him; they did not accept Him as the author of all life\, or as the author of the new Christian life that He came to live and to perpetuate among all men to the end of time. As tenderly as Jesus provided a big catch and a cooked meal for His disappointed and hungry Apostles\, so tenderly does He still pursue souls with His insistent appeal: “Repent and be converted\, that your sins may be blotted out.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/wednesday-in-octave-of-easter-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200415
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165939Z
UID:1554-1586822400-1586908799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Tuesday in Octave of Easter–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:By blood-sealed covenant\, by prophetic utterances and figures\, and by prescriptions for sacrificial worship\, God tried to prepare His people to expect a Redeemer who would have to bleed and die. But they wanted only a glorious conqueror with a universal and endless reign. Even when Jesus appeared to the Eleven\, who had received two and one-half years of special training and instruction\, He found them confused and wondering. As a doctrine\, Christ crucified is central to Christian life. In practice\, is there not much insistence on a comfortable Christ\, a Christ without wounds?
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/tuesday-in-octave-of-easter-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200414
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165938Z
UID:1553-1586736000-1586822399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Monday in Octave of Easter–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:The disciples on the way to Emmaus wanted to believe exclusively in a glorious Christ. They were shocked by His seeming defeat and baffled by His seeming disappearance. Like so many\, they misunderstood what God had told them through the prophets. Their hopes were too earthly\, but their desire for Jesus was love seeking light. When these apostles were joined by Jesus\, they believed strongly enough for grace to set their hearts burning as He explained what God had done through hundreds of years to prepare His people to believe in just the kind of Savior He was: that is\, spiritual\, suffering\, risen to glory\, for all mankind. The two disciples\, all unaware\, loved Jesus in a stranger by urging the unknown traveler to spend the night with them. Their faith and charity issued in a revelation and a stronger bond with Jesus.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/monday-in-octave-of-easter-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200413
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165938Z
UID:1552-1586649600-1586735999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:EASTER SUNDAY–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:For He is the true Lamb that hath taken away the sins of the world. Who by dying hath overcome our death\, and by rising again hath restored our life. And therefore with angles and archangels\, with thrones and dominations\, and with all the heavenly hosts\, we sing a hymn to Thy glory
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/easter-sunday-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200412
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165938Z
UID:1551-1586563200-1586649599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) HOLY SATURDAY - VIGIL OF EASTER–V/W (I)
DESCRIPTION:Let us pray O God\, Who hast bestowed on the faithful the fire of Thy brightness by Thy Son\, Who is the Cornerstone\, hallow this new fire produced from a flint that it may be profitable to us: and grant that during this Paschal festival we may be so inflamed with heavenly desires\, that with pure minds we may come to the solemnity of perpetual light. Through the same Christ our Lord.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-holy-saturday-vigil-of-easter-v-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200411
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165938Z
UID:1550-1586476800-1586563199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(Day of fast and abstinence) GOOD FRIDAY–Black (I)
DESCRIPTION:Father\, forgive them\, they know not what they do.” Lk. 23: 34 Pater\, dimitte illis\, quia nesciunt\, quid faciunt.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/day-of-fast-and-abstinence-good-friday-black-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200410
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165937Z
UID:1549-1586390400-1586476799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) HOLY THURSDAY–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:Brethren: When you come therefore together into one place\, it is not now to eat the Lord’s supper. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk. What\, have you no houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-holy-thursday-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200409
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165937Z
UID:1548-1586304000-1586390399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Wednesday of Holy Week–V (I)
DESCRIPTION:Almighty God\, deliver us\, who are continually afflicted by sin because of our self-indulgence\, through the passion of Your only-begotten Son; who lives and rules with You . . .
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-wednesday-of-holy-week-v-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200408
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165936Z
UID:1547-1586217600-1586303999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Tuesday of Holy Week–V (I)
DESCRIPTION:Almighty and Eternal God\, grant that we may celebrate the sacred rites of our Lord’s passion in such a manner that we may be worthy of Your pardon. Through the same Jesus Christ\, our Lord . . .
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-tuesday-of-holy-week-v-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200407
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165936Z
UID:1546-1586131200-1586217599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Monday of Holy Week–V (I)
DESCRIPTION:Almighty God\, may the merits of the passion of Your only-begotten Son give us new strength\, for our own weakness brings nothing but failure in the face of so many difficulties; who lives and rules with You . . .
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-monday-of-holy-week-v-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200406
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165936Z
UID:1545-1586044800-1586131199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Palm Sunday–V (I) - St. Vincent Ferrer\, Confessor
DESCRIPTION:Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! O king of Israel\, hosanna in the highest!
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/palm-sunday-v-i-st-vincent-ferrer-confessor/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200405
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165935Z
UID:1544-1585958400-1586044799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) First Saturday - Ferial–V (III) - St. Isidore\, Bishop\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:St. Isidore succeeded his brother as Archbishop of Seville. He was a master of ecclesiastical learning in Spain and a great Doctor of the Church. He died in 636.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-first-saturday-ferial-v-iii-st-isidore-bishop-confessor-doctor-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200404
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165935Z
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UID:1543-1585872000-1585958399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f/a) First Friday - Ferial–V (III) - The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:ST. RICHARD OF CHICHESTER. RICHARD was born\, 1197\, in the little town of Wyche\, eight miles from Worcester\, England. He and his elder brother were left orphans when young\, and Richard gave up the studies which he loved\, to farm his brother’s impoverished estate. His brother\, in gratitude for Richard’s successful care\, proposed to make over to him all his lands; but he refused both the estate and the offer of a brilliant marriage\, to study for the priesthood at Oxford. In 1235 he was appointed\, for his learning and piety\, chancellor of that University\, and afterwards\, by St. Edmund of Canterbury\, chancellor of his diocese. He stood by that Saint in his long contest with the king\, and accompanied him into exile. After St. Edmund’s death Richard returned to England to toil as a simple curate\, but was soon elected Bishop of Chichester in preference to the worthless nominee of Henry III. The king in revenge refused to recognize the election\, and seized the revenues of the see. Thus Richard found himself fighting the same 1 battle in which St. Edmund had died. He went to Lyons\, was there consecrated by Innocent IV. in 1245\, and returning to England\, in spite of his poverty and the king’s hostility\, exercised fully his episcopal rights\, and thoroughly reformed his see. After two years his revenues were restored. Young and old loved St. Richard. He gave all he had\, and worked miracles\, to feed the poor and heal the sick; but when the rights or purity of the Church were concerned he was inexorable. A priest of noble blood polluted his office by sin; Richard deprived him of his benefice\, and refused the king’s petition in his favor. On the other hand\, when a knight violently put a priest in prison\, Richard compelled the knight to walk round the priest’s church with the same log of wood on his neck to which he had chained the priest; and when the burgesses of Lewes tore a criminal from the church and hanged him\, Richard made them dig up the body from its unconsecrated grave\, and bear it back to the sanctuary they had violated. Richard died in 1253\, while preaching\, at the Pope’s command\, a crusade against the Saracens.\nReflection.—As a brother\, as chancellor\, and as bishop\, St. Richard faithfully performed each duty of his state without a thought of his own interests. Neglect of duty is the first sign of that self-love which ends with the loss of grace.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-a-first-friday-ferial-v-iii-the-seven-sorrows-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200403
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
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UID:1542-1585785600-1585871999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. Francis of Paula\, Confessor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:He founded the Order of Minims\, whose name shows that they wished to be accounted the least in the household of God. Summoned to France\, he died there in 1508.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-st-francis-of-paula-confessor-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200402
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165935Z
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UID:1541-1585699200-1585785599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. HUGH\, Bishop. It was the happiness of this Saint to receive from his cradle the strongest impressions of piety by the example and care of his illustrious and holy parents. He was born at Chateau-neuf\, in the territory of Valence in Dauphiné\, in 1053. His father\, Odilo\, who served his country in an honorable post in the army\, labored by all the means in his power to make his soldiers faithful servants of their Creator\, and by severe punishments to restrain vice. By the advice of his son\, St. Hugh\, he afterwards became a Carthusian monk\, and died at the age of a hundred\, having received Extreme Unction and Viaticum from the hands of his son. Our Saint likewise assisted\, in her last moments\, his mother\, who had for many years\, under his direction\, served God in her own house\, by prayer\, fasting\, and plenteous alms-deeds. Hugh\, from the cradle\, appeared to be a child of benediction. He went through his studies with great applause\, and having chosen to serve God in an ecclesiastical state\, he accepted a canonry in the cathedral of Valence. His great sanctity and learning rendered him an ornament of that church\, and he was finally made Bishop of Grenoble. He set himself at once to reprove vice and to reform abuses\, and so plentiful was the benediction of Heaven upon his labors that he had the comfort to see the face of his diocese in a short time exceedingly changed. After two years he privately resigned his bishopric\, presuming on the tacit consent of the Holy See\, and\, putting on the habit of St. Bennet\, he entered upon a novitiate in the austere abbey of Casa-Dei in Auvergne. There he lived a year\, a perfect model of all virtues to that house of Saints\, till Pope Gregory VII. commanded him\, in virtue of holy obedience\, to resume his pastoral charge. He earnestly solicited Pope Innocent II. for leave to resign his bishopric\, that he might die in solitude\, but was never able to obtain his request. God was pleased to purify his soul by a lingering illness before He called him to Himself. Some time before his death he lost his memory for everything but his prayers. He closed his penitential course on the 1st of April in 1132\, wanting only two months of being Eighty years old\, of which he had been fifty-two years bishop. Miracles attested the sanctity of his happy death\, and he was canonized by Innocent II. in 1134.\nReflection.—Let us learn from the example of the Saints to shun the tumult of the world as much as our circumstances will allow\, and give ourselves up to the exercises of holy solitude\, prayer\, and pious reading.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-13/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200401
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165934Z
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UID:1540-1585612800-1585699199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. BENJAMIN\, Deacon\, Martyr. ISDEGERDES\, Son of Sapor III.\, put a stop to the cruel persecutions against the Christians in Persia\, which had been begun by Sapor II.\, and the Church had enjoyed twelve years’ peace in that kingdom\, when in 420 it was disturbed by the indiscreet zeal of Abdas\, a Christian bishop\, who burned down the Pyræum\, or Temple of Fire\, the great divinity of the Persians. King Isdegerdes thereupon demolished all the Christian churches in Persia\, put to death Abdas\, and raised a general persecution against the Church\, which continued forty years with great fury. Isdegerdes died the year following\, in 421. But his son and successor\, Varanes\, carried on the persecution with greater inhumanity. The very recital of the cruelties he exercised on the Christian strikes us with horror. Among the glorious champions of Christ was St. Benjamin\, a deacon. The tyrant caused him to be beaten and imprisoned. He had lain a year in the dungeon\, when an ambassador from the emperor obtained his release on condition that he should never speak to any of the courtiers about religion. The ambassador passed his word in his behalf that he would not; but Benjamin\, who was a minister of the Gospel\, declared that he should miss no opportunity of announcing Christ. The king\, being informed that he still preached the Faith in his kingdom\, ordered him to be apprehended\, caused reeds to be run in between the nails and the flesh\, both of his hands and feet\, and to be thrust into other most tender parts\, and drawn out again\, and this to be frequently repeated with violence. Lastly\, a knotty stake was thrust into his bowels\, to rend and tear them\, in which torment he expired in the year 424.\nReflection.—We entreat you\, O most holy martyrs\, who cheerfully suffered most cruel torments for God our Saviour and His love\, on which account you are now most intimately and familiarly united to Him\, that you pray to the Lord for us miserable sinners\, covered with filth\, that He infuse into us the grace of Christ\, that it may enlighten our souls that we may love Him.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-12/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200331
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165933Z
UID:1539-1585526400-1585612799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. JOHN CLIMACUS. JOHN made\, while still young\, such progress in learning that he was called the Scholastic. At the age of sixteen he turned from the brilliant future which lay before him\, and retired to Mt. Sinai\, where he put himself under the direction of a holy monk. Never was novice more fervent\, more unrelaxing in his efforts for self-mastery. After four years he took the vows\, and an aged abbot foretold that he would some day be one of the greatest lights of the Church. Nineteen years later\, on the death of his director\, he withdrew into a deeper solitude\, where he studied the lives and writings of the Saints\, and was raised to an unusual height of contemplation. The fame of his holiness and practical wisdom drew crowds around him for advice and consolation. For his greater profit he visited the solitudes of Egypt. At the age of seventy-five he was chosen abbot of Mt. Sinai\, and there “he dwelt in the mount of God\, and drew from the rich treasure of his heart priceless riches of doctrine\, which he poured forth with wondrous abundance and benediction.” He was induced by a brother abbot to write the rules by which he had guided his life; and his book called the Climax\, or Ladder of Perfection\, has been prized in all ages for its wisdom\, its clearness\, and its unction. At the end of four years he would no longer endure the honors and distractions of his office\, and retired to his solitude\, where he died\, in 605.\nReflection.—“Cast not from thee\, my brother\,” says the Imitation of Christ\,” the sure hope of attaining to the spiritual life; still hast thou the time and the means.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-11/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200330
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165933Z
UID:1538-1585440000-1585526399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Passion Sunday–V (I)
DESCRIPTION:Do me justice\, O God\, and fight against a faithless people; from the deceitful and impious man rescue me. For You\, O God\, are my strength.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/passion-sunday-v-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200329
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165933Z
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UID:1537-1585353600-1585439999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. John Capistran\, Confessor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:This Franciscan preached a crusade which delivered Europe from the Mohammedans in the fifteenth century. He died in 1456.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-st-john-capistran-confessor-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200328
DTSTAMP:20260404T005828
CREATED:20200130T165932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165932Z
UID:1536-1585267200-1585353599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f/a) Ferial–V (III) - St. John Damascene\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Filled with divine knowledge\, St. John Damascene wrote his works against the Iconoclasts in defense of holy images. His right hand\, cut off\, was miraculously restored. He died in 754.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-a-ferial-v-iii-st-john-damascene-confessor-doctor-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200327
DTSTAMP:20260404T005829
CREATED:20200130T165932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T165932Z
UID:1535-1585180800-1585267199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. LUDGER\, Bishop. ST. LUDGER was born in Friesland about the year 743. His father\, a nobleman of the first rank\, at the child’s own request\, committed him very young to the care of St. Gregory\, the disciple of St. Boniface\, and his successors in the government of the see of Utrecht. Gregory educated him in his monastery and gave him the clerical tonsure. Ludger\, desirous of further improvement\, passed over into England\, and spent four years and a half under Alcuin\, who was rector of a famous school at York. In 773 he returned home\, and St. Gregory dying in 776\, his successor\, Alberic\, compelled our Saint to receive the holy order of priesthood\, and employed him for several years in preaching the Word of God in Friesland\, where he converted great numbers\, founded several monasteries\, and built many churches. The pagan Saxons ravaging the country\, Ludger travelled to Rome to consult Pope Adrian II\, what course to take\, and what he thought God required of him. He then retired for three years and a half to Monte Casino\, where he wore the habit of the Order and conformed to the practice of the rule during his stay\, but made no religious vows. In 787\, Charlemagne overcame the Saxons and conquered Friesland and the coast of the Germanic Ocean as far as Denmark. Ludger\, hearing this\, returned into East Friesland\, where he converted the Saxons to the Faith\, as he also did the province of Westphalia. He founded the monastery of Werden\, 29 miles from Cologne. In 802\, Hildebald\, Archbishop of Cologne\, not regarding his strenuous resistance\, ordained him Bishop of Munster. He joined in his diocese five cantons of Friesland which he had converted\, and also founded the monastery of Helmstad in the duchy of Brunswick. Being accused to the Emperor Charlemagne of wasting his income and neglecting the embellishment of churches\, this prince ordered him to appear at court. The morning after his arrival the emperor’s chamberlain brought him word that his attendance was required. The Saint\, being then at his prayers\, told the officer that he would follow him as soon as he had finished them. He was sent for three several times before he was ready\, which the courtiers represented as a contempt of his Majesty\, and the emperor\, with some emotion\, asked him why he had made him wait so long\, though he had sent for him so often. The bishop answered that though he had the most profound respect for his Majesty\, yet God was infinitely above him; that whilst we are occupied with Him\, it is our duty to forget everything else. This answer made such an impression on the emperor that he dismissed him with honor and disgraced his accusers. St. Ludger was favored with the gifts of miracles and prophecy. He died on March 26\, 809.
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UID:1534-1585094400-1585180799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY–W (I) - Ferial–V (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Every year this feast recalls anew Mary’s reply to God’s angelic messenger: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord\, be it done unto me according to thy word.”
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UID:1533-1585008000-1585094399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. Gabriel\, Archangel–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:St. Gabriel was chosen by God to announce to Mary that she was to be the Mother of Christ.
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UID:1532-1584921600-1585007999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:STS. VICTORIAN AND OTHERS\, Martyrs. HUNERIC\, the Arian king of the Vandals in Africa\, succeeded his father Genseric in 477. He behaved himself at first with moderation towards the Catholics\, but in 480 he began a grievous persecution of the clergy and holy virgins\, which in 484 became general\, and vast numbers of Catholics were put to death. Victorian\, one of the principal lords of the kingdom\, had been made governor of Carthage\, with the Roman title of Proconsul. He was the wealthiest subject of the king\, who placed great confidence in him\, and he had ever behaved with an inviolable fidelity. The king\, after he had published his cruel edicts\, sent a message to the proconsul\, promising\, if he would conform to his religion\, to heap on him the greatest wealth and the highest honors which it was in the power of a prince to bestow. The proconsul\, who amidst the glittering pomps of the world perfectly understood its emptiness\, made this generous answer: “Tell the king that I trust in Christ. His Majesty may condemn me to any torments\, but I shall never consent to renounce the Catholic Church\, in which I have been baptized. Even if there were no life after this\, I would never be ungrateful and perfidious to God\, Who has granted me the happiness of knowing Him\, and bestowed on me His most precious graces.” The tyrant became furious at this answer\, nor can the tortures be imagined which he caused the Saint to endure. Victorian suffered them with joy\, and amidst them finished his glorious martyrdom. The Roman Martyrology joins with him on this day four others who were crowned in the same persecution. Two brothers\, who were apprehended for the faith\, begged of God\, as a favor\, that they might both suffer the same torments. The persecutors hung them in the air with great weights at their feet. They were then burned with red-hot plates of iron\, and tormented so long that the executioners at last left them\, saying\, “Everybody follows their example! no one now embraces our religion.” This they said chiefly because\, notwithstanding these brothers had been so long and so grievously tormented\, there were no scars or bruises to be seen upon them. Two merchants of Carthage\, who both bore the name of Frumentius\, suffered martyrdom about the same time. Liberatus\, an eminent physician\, was sent into banishment with his wife. He only grieved to see his infant children torn from him. His wife checked his tears by these words: “Think no more of them: Jesus Christ Himself will have care of them and protect their souls.” Whilst in prison she was told that her husband had conformed\, but discovered that a cheat had been put upon her to deceive her into her ruin. Twelve young children\, when dragged away by the persecutors\, held their companions by the knees till they were torn away by violence. They were most cruelly beaten and scourged every day for a long time; yet by God’s grace every one of them persevered in the faith to the end of the persecution.
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UID:1531-1584835200-1584921599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Fourth Sunday of Lent–Rose (I) (Lætare Sunday)
DESCRIPTION:Rejoice\, O Jerusalem\, and come together all you who love her. Rejoice with joy\, you who have been in sorrow\, that you may exalt\, and be filled from the abundance of your consolation. Ps. 121:1. I rejoice at the tidings that were told me\, “We shall go into the house of the Lord.”
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CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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UID:1530-1584748800-1584835199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. Benedict\, Abbot–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:SAINT BENEDICT\, or BENNET\, was a native of Norcia\, formerly an episcopal see in Umbria\, and was descended from a family of note\, and born about the year 480. The name of his father was Eutropius\, and that of his grandfather\, Justinian. When he was fit for the higher studies\, he was sent by his parents to Rome\, and there placed in the public schools. He\, who till that time knew not what vice was\, and trembled at the shadow of sin\, was not a little shocked at the licentiousness which he observed in the conduct of some of the Roman youth\, with whom he was obliged to converse; and he had no sooner come into the world\, but he resolved to bid an eternal farewell to it\, and not to be entangled in its snares.
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