https://youtu.be/0w-4zV1Gc4E Today the church celebrates The Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas. Let us pray. Grant we pray, Almighty God, that the newness of the Nativity in the flesh of your only begotten Son may set us free, for ancient servitude holds us bound beneath the yoke of sin. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, […]
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The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket
https://youtu.be/L_yY27hITJY Today the church celebrates The Fifth Day of the Octave of Christmas, and also The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket, bishop and martyr. Let us pray. O God, who gave the martyr Saint Thomas Becket the courage to give up his life for the sake of justice, grant with his intercession that renouncing our […]
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https://youtu.be/W5VbmWQqod0 Today the church celebrates Monday within the Octave of Christmas. It is also The Feast of the Holy Innocents, the first martyrs. Let us pray. O God whom the Holy Innocents confessed and proclaimed on this day not by speaking but by dying, grant we pray that the faith in You which we confess […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of the Holy Family: Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
https://youtu.be/FOFZk4r8Fdo Today the church celebrates Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, or The Feast of the Holy Family. The idea of an octave is that the feasts being celebrated, in this case Christmas, or The Nativity of the Lord, is too great a feast to celebrate on just one day, so the celebration is extended […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Stephen
https://youtu.be/IUX6wzlLYd8 Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Stephen, a deacon and the first martyr of the church. “We obviously don’t know the exact date of Saint Stephen’s martyrdom,” says Father Jerry in today’s opening prayer, “but the church is trying to show us that following Jesus has consequences, and some of them demand […]
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