Today the church celebrates The Fourth and Final Sunday of Advent. Let us pray. Pour forth we beseech you, O Lord, Your grace into our hearts, that we to whom the incarnation of Christ Your Son was made known by the message of an angel, made by His passion and cross, be brought to the […]
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The Feast of Saint John of the Cross
Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint John of the Cross. John was born in Spain in the 16th century and was known as a mystic and poet. He was a friend an ally of Saint Teresa of Jesus of Avila in founding the reformed or Discalced Carmelite Friars. Because of this, he suffered […]
Continue ReadingThe Third Sunday of Advent
Today the church celebrates the third Sunday of Advent. In the common parlance of our society, this would be the equivalent of ‘hump Sunday’ for the church during the season of Advent. In other words, we’re closer to the celebration of Christmas than we were when we began the season of Advent. To demonstrate this, […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today the church celebrates The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mary does not appear to the Indian Juan Diego in a blue mantle of heavenly light, but in a peasant’s frock decorated with symbols of the Aztec culture. She is not a European beauty, but a woman of dark skin and Mestiza features. She […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Damasus I, Pope
Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Damasus I, a Pope. He is known for his preservation of the papal archives. Devoted to the relics and resting places of the martyrs, he was the one who convinced Saint Jerome to produce the new translation of the Latin Bible, later to form the main part […]
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