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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200522
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200515
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200514
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200513
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200512
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200511
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200510
DTSTAMP:20260404T194606
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200509
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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?
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-w-iv-7/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200507
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-stanislaus-bishop-martyr-r-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200506
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-w-iv-in-some-places-st-dominic-savio-confessor-w/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200506
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-pius-v-pope-confessor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200504
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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.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-monica-widow-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200503
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200502
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200501
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200501
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200430
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SUMMARY:St. Peter of Verona\, Martyr–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:Also known as Saint Peter Martyr\, was a 13th-century Italian Catholic priest. He was a Dominican friar and a celebrated preacher. He served as Inquisitor in Lombardy\, was killed by an assassin\, and was canonized as a Catholic saint 11 months after his death\, making this the fastest canonization in history.
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CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200429
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SUMMARY:St. Paul of the Cross\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:THE eighty-one years of this Saint’s life were modelled on the Passion of Jesus Christ. In his childhood\, when praying in church\, a heavy bench fell on his foot\, but the boy took no notice of the bleeding wound\, and spoke of it as “a rose sent from God.” A few years later\, the vision of a scourge with “love” written on its lashes assured him that his thirst for penance would be satisfied. In the hope of dying for the faith\, he enlisted in a crusade against the Turks; but a voice from the Tabernacle warned him that he was to serve Christ alone\, and that he should found a congregation in His honor. At the command of his bishop he began while a layman to preach the Passion\, and a series of crosses tried the reality of his vocation. All his first companions\, save his brother\, deserted him; the Sovereign Pontiff refused him an audience; and it was only after a delay of seventeen years that the Papal approbation was obtained\, and the first house of the Passionists was opened on Monte Argentario\, the spot which Our Lady had pointed out. St. Paul chose as the badge of his Order a heart with three nails\, in memory of the sufferings of Jesus\, but for himself he invented a more secret and durable sign. Moved by the same holy impulse as Blessed Henry Suso\, St. Jane Frances\, and other Saints\, he branded on his side the Holy Name\, and its characters were found there after death. His heart beat with a supernatural palpitation\, which was especially vehement on Fridays\, and the heat at times was so intense as to scorch his shirt in the region of his heart. Through fifty years of incessant bodily pain\, and amidst all his trials\, Paul read the love of Jesus everywhere\, and would cry out to the flowers and grass\, “Oh! be quiet\, be quiet\,” as if they were reproaching him with ingratitude. He died whilst the Passion was being read to him\, and so passed with Jesus from the cross to glory.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200427
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SUMMARY:St. Peter Canisius\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Canisius (1521-97) was drawn to the Society of Jesus by the preaching of Bl. Peter Faber\, the first disciple of St. Ignatius. Peter Canisius realized that in the Germany where Luther had recently been preaching heresy\, many Catholics had no clear knowledge of their religion. He wrote a catechism that was of incomparable value to the heroic missioners of the Catholic Counter Reformation. He was a pioneer of the Catholic press\, and founder of many Catholic colleges in Germany\, Austria\, and Bohemia. According to the Catechism of Petrus Canisius\, ‘the veneration of the Virgin Mary\, is the best way to Jesus Christ and His Church.’
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200427
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday after Easter–W (II) - Sts. Cletus and Marcellinus\, Popes\, Martyrs
DESCRIPTION:ST. CLETUS was the third Bishop of Rome\, and succeeded St. Linus\, which circumstance alone shows his eminent virtue among the first disciples of St. Peter in the West. He sat twelve years\, from 76 to 89. The canon of the Roman Mass\, Bede\, and other martyrologists\, style him a martyr. He was buried near St. Linus\, in the Vatican\, and his relics still remain in that church. ST. MARCELLINUS succeeded St. Coins in the bishopric of Rome in 296\, about the time that Diocletian set himself up for a deity\, and impiously claimed divine honors. In those stormy times of persecution Marcellinus acquired great glory. He sat in St. Peter’s chair eight years\, three months\, and twenty-five days\, dying in 304\, a year after the cruel persecution broke out\, in which he gained much honor. He has been styled a martyr\, though his blood was not shed in the cause of religion.\nReflection.—It is a fundamental maxim of the Christian morality\, and a truth which Christ has established in the clearest terms and in innumerable passages of the Gospel\, that the cross or sufferings and mortification are the road to eternal bliss. They\, therefore\, who lead not here a crucified and mortified life are unworthy ever to possess the unspeakable joys of His kingdom. Our Lord Himself\, our model and our head\, walked in this path\, and His great Apostle puts us in mind that He entered into bliss only by His blood and by the cross.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200425
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SUMMARY:Greater Litanies–V (Procession only) - St. Mark\, The Evangelist–R (II)
DESCRIPTION:ST. MARK was converted to the Faith by the Prince of the Apostles\, whom he afterwards accompanied to Rome\, acting there as his secretary or interpreter. When St. Peter was writing his first epistle to the churches of Asia\, he affectionately joins with his own salutation that of his faithful companion\, whom he calls “my son Mark.” The Roman people entreated St. Mark to put in writing for them the substance of St. Peter’s frequent discourses on Our Lord’s life. This the Evangelist did under the eye and with the express sanction of the apostle\, and every page of his brief but graphic gospel so bore the impress of St. Peter’s character\, that the Fathers used to name it “Peter’s Gospel” St. Mark was now sent to Egypt to found the Church of Alexandria. Here his disciples became the wonder of the world for their piety and asceticism\, so that St. Jerome speaks of St. Mark as the father of the anchorites\, who at a later time thronged the Egyptian deserts. Here\, too\, he set up the first Christian school\, the fruitful mother of many illustrious doctors and bishops. After governing his see for many years\, St. Mark was one day seized by the heathen\, dragged by ropes over stones\, and thrown into prison. On the morrow the torture was repeated\, and having been consoled by a vision of angels and the voice of Jesus\, St. Mark went to his reward. It is to St. Mark that we owe the many slight touches which often give such vivid coloring to the Gospel scenes\, and help us to picture to ourselves the very gestures and looks of our blessed Lord. It is he alone who notes that in the temptation Jesus was “with the beasts;” that He slept in the boat “on a pillow;” that He “embraced” the little children. He alone preserves for us the commanding words “Peace\, be still!” by which the storm was quelled; or even the very sounds of His voice\, the “Ephpheta” and “Talitha cumi\,” by which the dumb were made to speak and the dead to rise. So\, too\, the “looking round about with anger\,” and the “sighing deeply\,” long treasured in the memory of the penitent apostle\, who was himself converted by his Saviour’s look\, are here recorded by his faithful interpreter.\nReflection.—Learn from St. Mark to keep the image of the Son of man ever before your mind\, and to ponder every syllable which fell from His lips.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200424
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SUMMARY:St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen\, Martyr–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:FIDELIS was born at Sigmaringen in 1577\, of noble parents. In his youth he frequently approached the sacraments\, visited the sick and the poor\, and spent moreover many hours before the altar. For a time he followed the legal profession\, and was remarkable for his advocacy of the poor and his respectful language towards his opponents. Finding it difficult to become both a rich lawyer and a good Christian\, Fidelis entered the Capuchin. Order\, and embraced a life of austerity and prayer. Hair shirts\, iron-pointed girdles\, and disciplines were penances too light for his fervor; and being filled with a desire of martyrdom\, he rejoiced at being sent to Switzerland by the newly-founded Congregation of Propaganda\, and braved every peril to rescue souls from the diabolical heresy of Calvin. When preaching at Sevis he was fired at by a Calvinist\, but the fear of death could not deter him from proclaiming divine truth. After his sermon he was waylaid by a body of Protestants headed by a minister\, who attacked him and tried to force him to embrace their so-called. reform. But he said\, “I came to refute your errors\, not to embrace them; I will never renounce Catholic doctrine\, which is the truth of all ages\, and I fear not death.” On this they fell upon him with their poignards\, and the first martyr of Propaganda went to receive his palm.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200424
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SUMMARY:Ferial–W (IV) - St. George\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:ST. GEORGE was born in Cappadocia\, at the close of the third century\, of Christian parents. In early youth he chose a soldier’s life\, and soon obtained the favor of Diocletian\, who advanced him to the grade of tribune. When\, however\, the emperor began to persecute the Christians\, George rebuked him at once sternly and openly for his cruelty\, and threw up his commission. He was in consequence subjected to a lengthened series of torments\, and finally beheaded. There was something so inspiriting in the defiant cheerfulness of the young soldier\, that every Christian felt a personal share in this triumph of Christian fortitude; and as years rolled on St. George became a type of successful combat against evil\, the slayer of the dragon\, the darling theme of camp song and story\, until “so thick a shade his very glory round him made” that his real lineaments became hard to trace. Even beyond the circle of Christendom he was held in honor\, and invading Saracens taught themselves to except from desecration the image of him they hailed as the “White-horsed Knight.” The devotion to St. George is one of the most ancient and widely spread in the Church. In the East\, a church of St. George is ascribed to Constantine\, and his name is invoked in the most ancient liturgies; whilst in the West\, Malta\, Barcelona\, Valencia\, Arragon\, Genoa\, and England have chosen him as their patron.
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