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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200407
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200405
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200404
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200330
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200329
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200328
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200327
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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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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-10/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200325
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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.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/annunciation-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-w-i-ferial-v-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200324
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-st-gabriel-archangel-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200324
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-9/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200323
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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.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/fourth-sunday-of-lent-rose-i-laetare-sunday/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200321
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/f-ferial-v-iii-st-benedict-abbot-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200321
DTSTAMP:20260404T022157
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SUMMARY:(f/a) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. WULFRAN\, Archbishop. His father was an officer in the armies of King Dagobert\, and the Saint spent some years in the court of King Clotaire III. and of his mother\, St. Bathildes\, but occupied his heart only\, on God\, despising worldly greatness as empty and dangerous\, and daily advancing in virtue. His estate of Maurilly he bestowed on the Abbey of Fontenelle\, or St. Vandrille\, in Normandy. He was chosen and consecrated Archbishop of Sens in 682\, which diocese he governed two years and a half with great zeal and sanctity. A tender compassion for the blindness of the idolaters of Friesland\, and the example of the English zealous preachers in those parts\, moved him to resign his bishopric\, with proper advice\, and after a retreat at Fontenelle to enter Friesland in quality of a poor missionary priest. He baptized great multitudes\, among them a son of King Radbod\, and drew the people from the barbarous custom of sacrificing men to idols. On a certain occasion\, one Ovon having been selected as a victim of a sacrifice to the heathen gods\, St. Wulfran earnestly begged his life of King Radbod; but the people ran tumultuously to the palace\, and would not suffer what they called a sacrilege. After many words they consented\, but on condition that Wulfran’s God should save Ovon’s life. The Saint betook himself to prayer; the man\, after hanging on the gibbet two hours\, and being left for dead\, fell to the ground by the breaking of the cord; being found alive he was given to the Saint\, and became a monk and priest at Fontenelle. Wulfran also miraculously rescued two children from being drowned in honor of the idols. Radbod\, who had been an eye-witness to this last miracle\, promised to become a Christian; but as he was going to step into the baptismal font he asked where the great number of his ancestors and nobles were in the next world. The Saint replied that hell is the portion of all who die guilty of idolatry; at which the prince refused to be baptized\, saying he would go with the greater number. This tyrant sent afterwards to St. Willibrord to treat with him about his conversion\, but before the arrival of the Saint was found dead. St. Wulfran retired to Fontenelle that he might prepare himself for death\, and expired there on the 20th of April\, 720.\nReflection.—In every age the Catholic Church is a missionary church. She has received the world for her inheritance\, and in our own days many missioners have watered with their blood the lands in which they labored. Help the propagation of the faith by alms\, and above all by prayers. You will quicken your own faith and gain a part in the merits of the glorious apostolate.
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SUMMARY:ST. JOSEPH - Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary\, Confessor–W (I) - Ferial–V (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:To be convinced how much the intercession of St. Joseph prevails with Jesus Christ\, we have only to consider these words of the Evangelist: “And He was subject to them.” The Son of God employed thirty years assiduously obeying Joseph and Mary! It was sufficient for Joseph\, by the least word or sign\, to show that he wished Him to do anything; Jesus immediately obeyed. This humble obedience of Jesus teaches us that the dignity of Joseph is above that of all the other Saints\, except that of the Queen of Saints. Let us hear what St. Teresa says of the confidence which all should place in the protection of St. Joseph: “To the other Saints\,” she says\, “it appears that the Lord may have granted power to succor us on particular occasions; but to this Saint\, as experience proves\, He has granted power to help us on all occasions. Our Lord would teach us that\, as He was pleased to be subject to Joseph upon the earth\, so He is now pleased to grant whatever this Saint asks for in heaven. Others whom I have recommended to have recourse to Joseph\, have known this from experience. I never knew anyone who was particularly devout to him that did not continually advance more and more in virtue. For the love of God\, let him who believes not this make his own trial. And I do not know how anyone can think of the Queen of Angels\, at the time when she labored so much in the infancy and childhood of Jesus\, and not return thanks to Joseph for the assistance which he rendered both to the Mother and to the Son.” We should be particularly devout to Saint Joseph\, that he may obtain for us a happy death.
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SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. Cyril of Jerusalem\, Bishop\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:When he was a simple priest\, St. Cyril used to instruct the catechumens during Lent. He is still renowned for these admirable homilies\, full of divine wisdom\, precious documents for Catholic theology. The Arians exiled him thrice. He died in 386.
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SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. Patrick\, Bishop\, Confessor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Irish: Pádraig; Welsh: Padrig) was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the “Apostle of Ireland\,” he is the primary patron saint of Ireland\, along with Saints Brigit and Columba. The dates of Patrick’s life cannot be fixed with certainty\, but there is broad agreement that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the fifth century. Nevertheless\, a late fourth-century date for the saint is not impossible. Early medieval tradition credits him with being the first bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland\, and they regard him as the founder of Christianity in Ireland\, converting a society practising a form of Celtic polytheism. He has been generally so regarded ever since\, despite evidence of some earlier Christian presence in Ireland. According to the autobiographical “Confessio” of Patrick\, when he was about 16\, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland\, looking after animals; he lived there for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After becoming a cleric\, he returned to northern and western Ireland. In later life\, he served as a bishop\, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century\, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200316
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SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:STS. ABRAHAM and MARY. ABRAHAM was a rich nobleman of Edessa. At his parents’ desire he married\, but escaped to a cell near the city as soon as the feast was over. He walled up the cell-door\, leaving only a small window through which he received his food. There for fifty years he sang God’s praises and implored mercy for himself and for all men. The wealth which fell to him on his parents’ death he gave to the poor. As many sought him for advice and consolation\, the Bishop of Edessa\, in spite of his humility\, ordained him priest. St. Abraham was sent\, soon after his ordination\, to an idolatrous city which had hitherto been deaf to every messenger. He was insulted\, beaten\, and three times banished\, but he returned each time with fresh zeal. For three years he pleaded with God for those souls\, and in the end prevailed. Every citizen came to him for Baptism. After providing for their spiritual needs he went back to his cell more than ever convinced of the power of prayer. His brother died\, leaving an only daughter\, Mary\, to the Saint’s care. He placed her in a cell near his own\, and devoted himself to training her in perfection. After twenty years of innocence she fell\, and fled in despair to a distant city\, where she drowned the voice of conscience in sin. The Saint and his friend St. Ephrem prayed earnestly for her during two years. Then he went disguised to seek the lost sheep\, and had the joy of bringing her back to the desert a true penitent. She received the gift of miracles\, and her countenance after death shone as the sun. St. Abraham died five years before her\, about 360. All Edessa came for his last blessing and to secure his relics.\nReflection.—Oh\, that we realized the omnipotence of prayer! Every soul was created to glorify God eternally; and it is in the power of every one to add by the salvation of his neighbor to the glory of God. Let us make good use of this talent of prayer\, lest our brother’s blood be required of us at the last.
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SUMMARY:Third Sunday of Lent–V (I)
DESCRIPTION:ST. ZACHARY\, Pope. ST. ZACHARY succeeded Gregory III.\, in 741\, and was a man of singular meekness and goodness. He loved the clergy and people of Rome to that degree that he hazarded his life for them on occasion of the troubles which Italy fell into by the rebellion of the Dukes of Spoleto and Benevento against King Luitprand. Out of respect to his sanctity and dignity\, that king restored to the Church of Rome all the places which belonged to it\, and sent back the captives without ransom. The Lombards were moved to tears at the devotion with which they heard him perform the divine service. The zeal and prudence of this holy Pope appeared in many wholesome regulations which he had made to reform or settle the discipline and peace of several churches. St. Boniface\, the Apostle of Germany\, wrote to him against a certain priest named Virgilius\, that he labored to sow the seeds of discord between him and Odilo\, Duke of Bavaria\, and taught\, besides\, many errors. Zachary ordered that Virgilius should be sent to Rome\, that his doctrine might be examined. It seems that he cleared himself; for we find this same Virgilius soon after made Bishop of Salzburg. Certain Venetian merchants having bought at Rome many slaves to sell to the Moors in Africa\, St. Zachary forbade such an iniquitous traffic\, and\, paying the merchants their price\, gave the slaves their liberty. He adorned Rome with sacred buildings\, and with great foundations in favor of the poor and pilgrims\, and gave every year a considerable sum to furnish oil for the lamps in St. Peter’s Church. He died in 752\, in the month of March.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200314
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SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. MAUD. Queen. THIS princess was daughter of Theodoric\, a powerful Saxon count. Her parents placed her very young in the monastery of Erford\, of which her grandmother Maud was then abbess. Our Saint remained in that house\, an accomplished model of all virtues\, till her parents married her to Henry\, son of Otho\, Duke of Saxony\, in 913\, who was afterwards chosen king of Germany. He was s pious and victorious prince\, and very tender of his subjects. Whilst by his arms he checked the insolence of the Hungarians and Danes\, and enlarged his dominions by adding to them Bavaria\, Maud gained domestic victories over her spiritual enemies more worthy of a Christian and far greater in the eyes of Heaven. She nourished the precious seeds of devotion and humility in her heart by assiduous prayer and meditation. It was her delight to visit\, comfort\, and exhort the sick and the afflicted; to serve and instruct the poor\, and to afford her charitable succor to prisoners. Her husband\, edified by her example\, concurred with her in every pious undertaking which she projected. After twenty-three years’ marriage God was pleased to call the king to himself\, in 936. Maud\, during his sickness\, went to the church to pour forth her soul in prayer for him at the foot of the altar. As soon as she understood\, by the tears and cries of the people\, that he had expired\, she called for a priest that was fasting to offer the holy sacrifice for his soul. She had three sons: Otho\, afterwards emperor; Henry\, Duke of Bavaria; and St. Brunn\, Archbishop of Cologne. Otho was crowned king of Germany in 937\, and emperor at Rome in 962\, after his victories over the Bohemians and Lombards. The two oldest sons conspired to strip Maud of her dowry\, on the unjust pretence that she had squandered the revenues of the state on the poor. The unnatural princes at length repented of their injustice\, and restored to her all that had been taken from her. She then became more liberal in her alms than ever\, and founded many churches\, with five monasteries. In her last sickness she made her confession to her grandson William\, the Archbishop of Mentz\, who yet died twelve days before her\, on his road home. She again made a public confession before the priests and monks of the place\, received a second time the last sacraments\, and\, lying on a sack-cloth\, with ashes on her head\, died on the 14th of March in 968.\nReflection.—The beginning of true virtue is most ardently to desire it\, and to ask it of God with the utmost assiduity and earnestness. Fervent prayer\, holy meditation\, and reading pious books\, are the principal means by which this virtue is to be constantly improved\, and the interior life of the soul to be strengthened.
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SUMMARY:(f/a) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:EUPHRASIA was the daughter of pious and noble parents. After the death of her father his widow withdrew privately with her little daughter into Egypt\, where she was possessed of a very large estate. In that country she fixed her abode near a holy monastery of one hundred and thirty nuns. The young Euphrasia\, at seven years of age\, begged that she might be permitted to serve God in this monastery. The pious mother on hearing this wept for joy\, and not long after presented her child to the abbess\, who\, taking up an image of Christ\, gave it to Euphrasia. The tender virgin kissed it\, saying\, “By vow I consecrate myself to Christ” Then the mother led her before an image of Our Redeemer\, and lifting up her hands to heaven said\, “Lord Jesus Christ\, receive this child under your special protection. You alone doth she love and seek: to you doth she recommend herself.” Then leaving her in the hands of the abbess\, she went out of the monastery weeping. Some time after this the good mother fell sick\, and soon slept in peace. Upon the news of her death the Emperor Theodosius sent for the noble virgin to come to court\, having promised her in marriage to a favorite young senator. But the virgin wrote him refusing the alliance\, repeating her vow of virginity\, and requesting that her estates should be sold and divided among the poor\, and all her slaves set at liberty. The Emperor punctually executed all she desired\, a little before his death in 395. St. Euphrasia was a perfect pattern of humility\, meekness\, and charity. If she found herself assaulted by any temptation\, she immediately sought the advice of the abbess\, who often enjoined her on such occasions some humbling and painful penitential labor\, as sometimes to carry great stones from one place to another; which employment she once\, under an obstinate assault\, continued thirty days together with wonderful simplicity\, till the devil\, being vanquished by her humble obedience and chastisement of her body\, left her it peace. She was favored with miracles both before and after her death\, which happened in the year 410\, the thirtieth of her age.
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SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III) - St. Gregory I\, the Great\, Pope\, Doctor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604)\, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great\,] was Pope from 3 September 590 to his death in 604. Gregory is well known for his writings\, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. [2] He is also known as St. Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Christianity because of his Dialogues. For this reason\, English translations of Eastern texts will sometimes list him as “Gregory Dialogus.”
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SUMMARY:(f) Ferial–V (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. EULOGIUS\, Martyr. ST. EULOGIUS was of a senatorian family of Cordova\, at that time the capital of the Moors in Spain. Our Saint was educated among the clergy of the Church of St. Zoilus\, a martyr who suffered with nineteen others under Diocletian. Here he distinguished himself\, by his virtue and learning\, and\, being made priest\, was placed at the head of the chief ecclesiastical school at Cordova. He joined assiduous watching\, fasting\, and prayer to his studies\, and his humility\, mildness\, and charity gained him the affection and respect of every one. During the persecution raised against the Christians in the year 850\, St. Eulogius was thrown into prison and there wrote his Exhortation to Martyrdom\, addressed to the virgins Flora and Mary\, who were beheaded the 24th of November\, 851. Six days after their death Eulogius was set at liberty. In the year 852 several others suffered the like martyrdom. St. Eulogius encouraged all these martyrs to their triumphs\, and was the support of that distressed flock. The Archbishop of Toledo dying in 858. St. Eulogius was elected to succeed him; but there was some obstacle that hindered him from being consecrated\, though he did not outlive his election two months. A virgin\, by name Leocritia\, of a noble family among the Moors\, had been instructed from her infancy in the Christian religion by one of her relatives\, and privately baptized. Her father and mother used her very ill\, and scourged her day and night to compel her to renounce the Faith. Having made her condition known to St. Eulogius and his sister Anulona\, intimating that she desired to go where she might freely exercise her religion\, they secretly procured her the means of getting away\, and concealed her for some time among faithful friends. But the matter was at length discovered\, and they were all brought before the cadi\, who threatened to have Eulogius scourged to death. The Saint told him that his torments would be of no avail\, for he would never change his religion. Whereupon the cadi gave orders that he should be carried to the palace and be presented before the king’s council. Eulogius began boldly to propose the truths of the Gospel to them. But\, to prevent their hearing him\, the council condemned him immediately to lose his head. As they were leading him to execution\, one of the guards gave him a blow on the face\, for having spoken against Mahomet; he turned the other cheek\, and patiently received a second. He received the stroke of death with great cheerfulness\, on the 11th of March\, 859. St. Leocritia was beheaded four days after him\, and her body thrown into the river Guadalquivir\, but taken out by the Christians.\nReflection.—Beg of God\, through the intercession of these holy martyrs\, the gift of perseverance. Their example will supply you with an admirable rule for obtain.\, ing this crowning gift. Remember that you have renounced the world and the devil once for all at your Baptism. Do not hesitate; do not look back; do not listen to suggestions against faith or virtue; but advance\, day by day\, along the road which you have chosen\, to Gods Who is your portion forever.
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